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All the boring stuff out of the way… let’s do links!
Texas Governor pardons man who killed armed BLM protester.
Only Trump could be lucky enough to have a show trial hinge on the credibility of a man more narcissistic and less able to shut up.
This is some weird Ludlum-style story. Chinese couple by Swiss lodge near Air Force base, US accused them of being spies
After begging all week, I too feel like I serve under the flag of the greenback dollar.
Woah!
Fist fights?
What have I missed?
Repeated, cuz no one reads the links…
>.>
Wut?
You clearly haven’t been reading the links.
Shocked! Shocked, I am!
They were confident that they could just lurk…. just goes to show you – Don’t get khaki.
This pun makes me glow with delight.
Swiss is going to get Fed up with these puns.
He’s gonna Ray-ban us all.
what bare you some lurkerphile?
How can the lurkers read this if they have been banned, dropped, excluded, deleted?
You don’t need to log in to read the comments, just to add to them. Some people apparently feel the need to not see the Log In to Reply link, but don’t want to ever click on the Reply button.
The NSA daily traffic summary, of course!
Non-registered lurkers are a threat to Democracy. We need a national lurker registration list.
“Texas Governor pardons man who killed armed BLM protester.”
This is not justice…
The DA that brought these charges should also pay restitution or be the one to go to jail….
This guys life remains ruined and there is no substitution for that (which is why the evil left does this shit).
I do not have sufficient information as to who was in the right here. All the sources of info on this are clearly pushing an agenda.
I remember. His car was surrounded and a guy with a rifle started walking up to the window.
Yes – the video sure looked like the most justified shooting ever.
I don’t know if walking up to someone while armed is a justification for lethal self defense. I would say no. The original story was that the dude *pointed* his rifle at the other dude, but IIRC, the video did NOT show that.
Now impeding the guys right to travel was obviously a NAP violation. And making things worse are (can’t remember if confirmed) social media posts by Glock guy looking forward for an excuse to shoot someone. Obviously AK guy was not there with pure intentions either. So… mutual combat? That lets me bypass the whole “justification” issue and just say both parties agreed to FAFO, one didn’t make it through the process, no crime.
both parties agreed to FAFO
Make dueling great again!
Have to admit this has a certain appeal….
Isn’t that what the people sucker punching women in New York City claim they are doing to the judge?
Criminal mob armed with and displaying weapons.
Context matters. When you are surrounded by a mob who won’t let you leave, and a guy walks up with a rifle (barely) in low ready, just not quite pointing at you, that’s a little different than encountering, say, another hunter in the field.
Not letting someone leave is a crime. I don’t recall if they were banging on his car, but I’m pretty sure they were. If so, that’s a crime. It’s fair to say violence was, at a minimum, imminent and perhaps actually occurring.
There is also a difference between going armed while peacefully going about your business, and going armed as part of an organized mob intent on, and actually committing, crimes.
I’m comfortable with his pardon, and would have been comfortable with an acquittal.
“Not letting someone leave is a crime. I don’t recall if they were banging on his car, but I’m pretty sure they were. If so, that’s a crime. It’s fair to say violence was, at a minimum, imminent and perhaps actually occurring.”
Correct.
They had him cornered were not just banging on his car while preventing him from leaving, but were trying to get him out of the car, for whatever reason (remember this is an angry mob looting & burning shit, and beating up people)., and this guy with the weapon at the ready comes at him. How would any sane person that realizes what likely comes next from such a mob, react?
Correct, but it needs to be the full context. If you’re going to a protest in an open-carry state, you should expect to encounter angry people open-carrying.
Protest is overused. These are, like the pro-Hamas event, demonstrations.
This one is really, really questionable.
For one thing, the video evidence indicates that Foster didn’t have his rifle at the ready, or even pointed anywhere near Perry.
There were also the statements that Perry made to friends before the event, about wanting to kill some BLM protestors. While I understand the sentiment, it’s still not a great look if it ends up happening.
Best I can say either way, it’s an edge case, and a good reminder of the virtue of minding your own business…
I haven’t seen the video or pics in awhile, but I thought I recalled Foster had his rifle at the low ready when he approached the car. Could be misremembering.
Agree with your last point.
Foster had also made comments about not having a problem intimidating people with his gun because they were pussies.
Yeah, TOS’s hagiography of AK guy was eye-rolling.
“fatally shooting 28-year-old Air Force veteran”
So an Army vet shoots an AF vet. Sounds like a WW2 movie plot at a USO club dance.
Sigh. Site keeps eating my posts. Someone link the 1941 dance hall fight scene.
I think this is the one you’re thinking of
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=blDj_E0X9xI&pp=ygUXMTk0MSBtb3ZpZSBmaWdodCBzY2VuZSA%3D
Not this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar3wkC8U6LA
Uber driver turned down a street taken over by protesters. Protesters surrounded car and began threatening driver, the protester who was shot was armed with an AK (according to the media, may have been another type then). The protester who was shot had also been filmed earlier that day stating something to the effect that he was comfortable intimidating people at protests with his gun because they never push back and were “pussies”. The Uber driver then shot the protester as the protester raised his gun. The uber driver then sped away as the crowd dispersed. He called 911 as he got to what he felt was a safer location and waited for police about 1/2 mile away. There are other gunshots or fireworks heard in the video prior to the shooting. The cops should exercise this much restraint.
All you Fed lurkers will need to at least login to continue to lurk as a registered user.
I thought Feds were more instigators than lurkers.
Also, all hail the sidebar!
Hey there fellow glibertarian! Would you like to commit crimes and treason with me?
I missed the text about the next insurrection planning meeting. When is it again?
Tuesday, 88 o’clock, like always.
The code phrase is “Sick simper trannies”
The chair is against the wall.
Sloper has a long mustache.
Remember, grab the gavel next time.
BY CRIMES AND TREASON MEAN…
Drink on the Zoom call?
We’re patriots here bub, and while you’re up get me another beer wouldya?
Alright here you go.
**grumbles about swearing I turned it off**
16-D chess — Trump picks people so worthless, egotistical and depraved for key roles because they’d be useless in a prosecution against him. (sarc off)
Trump should use the “I am not a crook, just a horribly inept and stupid fuckwad.” the left always uses to hide behind…
Accurate characterization of the left in action, but not in their words.
“Only Trump could be lucky enough to have a show trial hinge on the credibility of a man more narcissistic and less able to shut up.”
Your error is to believe these crooks care about credibility. The left is never about hypocrisy but about hierarchy. When they have power they use it and they don’t care what you say about them or otherwise. What they want here is a conviction from a rigged trial/jury, and credibility or the entire legal system be damned. These are the people that make our elite “expert” class……
Do you now realize why everything is fucking falling apart?
Wait… ALL of their teeth?
This is why I dropped my dream of being a gynecologist…
Afraid it would take quite the bite out of you?
Gives new means to “is there something stuck in my teeth?”
For the defense, Greg Hupp, a forensic psychologist who examined Perry twice in 2023, testified during his sentencing he diagnosed him with complex post-traumatic stress disorder and autism spectrum disorder.
Nothing like a pardon to cure that right quick.
In today’s “Time sucks” moment — realize that we’re almost as far from that song’s singing as they were from World War 1 and Pancho Villa’s being hunted by Pershing.
It really makes you think
I’m feeling my age today. My daughter graduated high school last night.
Congratulations!
You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
Congrats to your daughter and to the Fronks’ family
Nice!
Congratulations! Now she can REALLY start spending your money.
Tell me about it. College bound and my wallet sobs.
At least that LGBETC Studies degree will be license to print money.
I never knew what money really was until my son graduated from college, and I got to keep all of my paycheck.
You’d think that this would be a slam-dunk littering conviction:
https://apnews.com/article/university-of-michigan-officials-home-protest-cf94f3aeef10e2ca5299dae9f64760b9
Whatever happened to TPing the trees, ring the door bell and run like hell?
Of course, it took the police a week to decide that joo-killing was an arrestable crime:
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/05/16/new-medical-examiner-in-paul-kessler-murder-testifies-that-bullhorn-blow-to-the-head-caused-death-n2174258
Are any of those CSI shows still on? It would be a great episode for one of those bodies to turn out to be real.
Not CSI, but Bones. They always find bodies at rock shows, motorcycle races or bowling tournaments, etc..
Meh, the trustees tolerated and cheered this shit on until the chickens came home to roost. Maybe they can go have a beer and commiserate with the Evergreen prof.
The article is so biased I can’t come to any conclusions.
TOS was all-in on the shootee being a righteous dude. Which of course makes me think the opposite.
That’s my main problem with the NAP– deciding exactly which violation is worthy of escalation.
Yeah, the dude had already used his gun to stop other cars so protestors could swarm and bang on their vehicles. He wasn’t exactly the good guy in this scenario. OTOH, neither was the shooter. This was a tough one for sure, not anything like the Kyle Rittenhouse situation which it’s sometimes compared to.
Also, the TOS quickly jumped to repeat some lies in their coverage, such as the shooter driving aggressively (he was not),
Interesting bit of trivia about Kyle Rittenhouse – he and his friends were actively working with the BLM protestors in Kenosha, against the Antifa crews (who were mostly brought in from out of the area, and were attacking mostly working-class black neighborhoods.)
Wait, whoa, I could have been getting the feds to pay me to lurk? I really STEVE SMITH’d myself on this arrangement.
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U2? BUTT NOT INXS.
RUN FOREST, RUN!
Ship that caused Baltimore bridge to collapse had 4 blackouts before deadly crash
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/francis-scott-key-baltimore-bridge-investigation
The attempts by the other boats to hold an intervention didn’t work.
How dry I am
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap4MMn7LpzA&pp=ygUMaG93IGRyeSBpIGFt
I am gonna go out on a limb here and make a call that eventually we will find out this shit was not an accident and done on purpose by bad actors, but the people in charge will try to hide it from us.
Hanlon’s Razor always applies.
The crew has been confined to the vessel since the crash. No chance of coming up with a common narrative at all, no sir.
Popcorn!
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/05/16/48000-california-student-workers-vote-to-strike-due-to-protest-crackdowns-n4929098
The insanity of college students being UAW members never fails to impress me.
Could the UAW do anything that screams “we have no relevance” louder than this?
I doubt this. An insignificant number of commies are their masters? No.
Great idea Mick – how about you start with your own party?
Ultimately it comes down to voters and who they send to Congress, and that is why we have so few serious people in Congress.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler
Reading/seeing the destruction of last night’s storm in Houston is a reminder why EVs may not be the vehicle of choice.
The horror
For the past three years, the Sunshine Skyway bridge has had a vibrant rainbow light display for one week in June to honor Pride Month. But that won’t be the case this year due to a single Manatee County commissioner who has expressed disapproval of requests for light displays honoring Pride and Gun Violence Awareness Day.
No empty pandering symbolism this year… go long on fainting couches.
I’m sure they’re rioting on Central Avenue, where the gay community is so oppressed, you can walk 3 blocks to find a bar that isn’t gay forward.
Never change, Florida. So racist and hatey.
Why are they wasting electricity on fancy lighting when GAIA IS DYING!
The horror. How will someone know which day they’re supposed to celebrate left handed pacific islanders?
No empty pandering symbolism this year
“Pride and Gun Violence Awareness Day”
WT everloving F is that?
Two different events?
I take a great deal of pride in both my awareness and my ability at gun violence.
Probably not what they mean though…
Put your money where your mouth is Pridesters! This could easily be used to create your own personal Pride Light Show.
An actual spotting of this product in the wild
Scottie Scheffler had a cop jump on his car and cuff him this morning.
How many PGA pros had to go in on that?
Holy cow. He was charged with felony assault for the cop jumping on his car.
The guy is unflappable on the course, but if he can pull off a decent round today that is off the charts.
Um…. “The crow flies south at midnight?”
“My sheep’s bladder is empty of haggis?”
Is that an African or European swallow?
Reading between the lines.
Scottie decides he needs to get to the event and will just cut the line. Cop doesn’t take kindly to that. Both egos need to be satisfied and therefore “fun times”.
48 hours and all but they were waving players through traffic to get in because it’s such a CF. There are playing now parking a mile away and walking.
*Players.
Report I heard on the radio this morning was there was a fatal crash where a guy was hit by a bus early this morning and the only people being let through were golfers. Not sure what Scottie did to wind up being cuffed.
Maybe he told the cop to go play with his putter and short stroke it?
Respect My Authority!
Correct!
This is why you hire a helicopter to take you to the event.
Whatever you do don’t let Tiger drive you.
Kobe nods in agreement.
You really stuck that landing.
😣
The power company says I can opt out of the evil Smart meter but they’ll still rip out the existing meter, but install an even dumber meter that requires physical reading and charge $20/month to send someone out to read it. Probably more because the gas meter is in the basement, behind a locked door.
The power companies used to have dozens of guys who did nothing except walk around scanning meters all day.
And the phone company had people who collected change from pay phones.
In Dayton, Ohio, the meter readers were immortalized in song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VysnV0S8mH8
Even in the woods we don’t have the monthly trespassers looking in the bedroom windows.
You can’t read it yourself? I remember doing that back in the day.
We live in a low-trust society.
When I had the option for self read, it was always treated as “estimated” and there would be a real read every quarter or so. Now they estimate it most months, and someone comes out to read it maybe twice a year (and I usually get a very cheap month those months).
We recently had the gas meter in the basement (which I thought was fairly new and could be read remotely) replaced with one in front of the house… but they didn’t start using it for billing for several months. The “settling up” bill they finally sent was outrageously – and obviously inaccurately – high. It took two meter reader visits and a report to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (appropriately known as PUCO) to correct the several months’ reading from 900-some units to the much more likely 500-some units.
Sounds like a reasonable demand from “student protestors”.
That is remarkably entertaining.
So over the top you almost suspect Titania McGrath had a hand in it.
That gibberish is far too high-quality to have come from a student. They copy-pasted that from one of the outside
agitatorsorganizers.LLM?
Good point.
Artificial still strives to be intelligent, this is the opposite direction.
Zionist state?
Utah?
Can we all finally stop taking these r-tards seriously now?
JFC.
Hah! They are just going to stop misinformation, malinformation, hate speech, and they get to say what is any of those things…
So you have freedem of speech to say the things they want you to…
We are ruled by a cabal of true absolutely evil and fucking stupid credentialed assholes.
Anything they disagree with is hurtful to them, therefore you must hate them (and their feelings), therefore you should SHUT UP, BIGOT!
It isn’t like they’ve been subtle about any of this over the years.
When Lobsterman Peterson warned us more than a decade ago the speech police had a real dangerous agenda, most people ignored or made fun of him…
Now here we are….
lol bullshit
“Trust us!”
Econ 101 vs political economy 101
https://x.com/Valen10Francois/status/1790676862173151733
This is gaslighting’s best example: “Who do you believe? What your credentialed elite betters tell you is happening, or what you are experiencing every single fucking day?”
That’s Bidenomics. Instead of some good and some stupidity, you get stupidity on all fronts.
“‘Oh girl, baby, girl… don’t even play!’ AOC unleashes on MTG in fiery debate over intelligence, fake eyelashes and ‘bleach blonde butch bodies’ as all hell breaks loose in committee hearing”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13428751/AOC-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-Committee-Argument.html
The adults in the room.
CHICK FIGHT!
I’m picturing this. Don’t ruin it for me.
MOAR!
One of my favorite all time movies. Pretty sure I’m the opposite of the producer’s target demographic.
Two… ninja bitches… trying to kill each other
can’t find the clip 🙁
Tapeheads?
Yup.
Body shaming and homophobic? Nice.
A new Glib acronym?
BBBBBB
Let the Feds try and decipher that one in 6 months.
Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo.
Now I want hot wings.
Thanks. 🙁
Build Back Better Beets Bears Bodies?
Crockett is no Boone to congress.
“‘Oh girl, baby, girl… don’t even play!’”
AOC is so street.
Had a discussion with some kids at work the other day. Was pointing out to them that nations always brainwash their people. You can’t have a nation without instilling your people with values and beliefs that your nation, culture, and history are important, because when people lack a common vision, they are not a people. Those in the know tolerated this shit, because the programming was necessary to keep a national identity. In general I got them to agree that made sense, even if none of them could believe it (and most felt that was actually wrong). I then pointed out that today we have programming to make people hate their own nation, the things that made it successful, and the very people behind making that success happen, and it comes from their own government and learning institutions. They all looked like deer caught in the headlights. But the coup de grace came when I asked them why that would be happening. Specifically what would the people doing this hope to gain from destroying a successful country that despite all its flaws gave us a world where the common man no longer was just a serf to the masters….
back to feudalism…
It’s what’s on the map, baby!
“…this is called ‘bad luck’.”
“…go according to plan, even if the plan is horrifying.”
“Whatever, as long as I get my piece of the pie.”
Schoolmarm fired over social media posts — now taxpayers are on the hook
Days before the end of the 2021-2022 school year, the lawsuit says Tapia was put on administrative leave after posts on her personal Instagram account were “brought to the District’s attention.”
“The District claimed … Ms. Tapia’s social media posts were racist, offensive, disrespectful, and mocking towards individuals based upon their sexual orientation,” the lawsuit says.
The citizens of that jurisdiction put these morons in charge of the school and thus the school decisions. If the people now paying for this shit want to prevent this from happening again, they should make better choices…
this lawsuit is kinda gay tbh
“her refusal to call students by their preferred pronouns” is none of that.
Good – hit the taxpayers where it hurts. This shit doesn’t end any other way.
Mac: Get ready to feel it where it hurts!
Charlie: Your dick!
Mac: No, not his dick! His wallet!
Apparently there’s no way to hold whoever in the District office that instigated this nonsense responsible. Fiscally and/or otherwise. More’s the pity. It’d put an end to the foolishness.
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Sean- no EHT. Thankfully. WA liquor tax is obscenely punitive on what I did purchase.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Kid’s a show off
Some of us are jump disadvantaged. Thanks Jimbo, you know what I mean.
Some?
You should see the old fat guys I play hoops with. We have trouble getting over the painted timeline. (I swear the put 2 or 3 coats on it).
“One of Biden’s debate conditions was not having an audience. So that explains why it’s on CNN.” — Jimmy Fallon
H
The talking points have gone out! Another story about how racial segregation is back and in full force in schools.
All the huffing and puffing about how this segregation is causing bad test scores doesn’t address the fact that only 30% of a school’s funding comes from local taxes. Given that Mpls/St. Paul have enormous clout in the state legislature, I can’t believe the Minneapolis and St. Paul school districts aren’t getting some extra gravy from the state budget.
I also wonder how progressives – who 100% believe kids can only learn when they see “people like them” teaching – can complain about white kids moving out of the Minneapolis district to a school where there are white teachers? Minneapolis is hell bent on hiring every black teacher available because they believe that is what is holding down test scores.
Or do white kids have some magical ability to learn from black, asian and white teachers?
I have repeatedly been told white privilege is basically that white people have the power/ability to do things other races should never be expected to do….
Work hard? Learn skills? Don’t be an ass? Get a voter ID? Know what a computer is?
Think about that…
Keep telling yourself that, the left.
Well, we are seeing race-segregated safe spaces and graduation ceremonies. Oh that’s not what they mean?
Left unstated, demographic changes in MN over the past 30-40 years.
I’m so happy that the guvt is managing our transition to clean energy! Who else could come up with such a cunning plan?
Seriously, I would normally blame the journalo for being unable to make any sense of the underlying reasons for some issue, but in this case I’m pretty sure the rules around the various subsidies and kickbacks for solar power are supposed to be undecipherable. If they were simple, it would be easy to spot the enormous grift.
There is some kerfuffle at the state legislature regarding a few bills concerning solar power subsidies. I can’t quite figure out what is going on. Seems like the main utility wants to pay less grift and there is a lot of concern about that.
Obviously a market failure that only my favorite carpet bagger governor can correct.
Did I ever tell how Walz retired rather than go to the ME with his troops?
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/final-episode-of-beverly-hills-90210-airs
24 years ago today the last episode of 90210 aired.
Neither Mark nor Jenny had their phone on them. Huh.
Go ahead and make fun of STEVE SMITH, but he apparently is morally superior to DC Swamp Critters in that he did not molest the kid.
Which one of you is this?
Willow Springs Police Department shuts down phone lines after hundreds of calls from First Amendment group
“We have a lot of personnel that are upset about it and actually are worried that something might happen,” said Chief Ellison.
Roh-roh. Sounds like there is gonna be “feared for my life” type of shooting soon. The proles are scaring the big tough cops by calling them.
2 calls an hour is too many?
Those are rookie numbers.
/pats wardialer
My record for calls answered in an hour on a helpdesk was 90.
One of our applications went down and all we could do was tell the callers that.
Could Belgium’s historic labour law for sex workers usher change across Europe?
The law is the first in Europe — and the world — to provide sex workers with social security provisions such as pensions and maternity leave, as well as an official employment contract.
When Emily first heard about Belgium’s decision to create Europe’s first labour law for sex workers in Europe, she was excited that her working conditions would finally improve.
“In this way, we will get a wider choice of safe places where we can offer our services in a self-determined way because, at the moment, that’s not really the case,” Emily, who lives in a major city in Belgium, told Euronews.
The change gives sex workers access to social security provisions such as pensions, health insurance and annual vacation. It also gives sex workers protection from work-related risks, including implementing standards on who can become an employer.
https://www.euronews.com/2024/05/13/could-belgiums-historic-labour-law-for-sex-workers-usher-a-changed-approach-across-europe
Different strokes, different folks
Belgium keeps being an outlier in the European context when it comes to answering the demands of sex workers’ unions.
Just two years ago, it became the first country in Europe to decriminalise sex work in Europe.
Other countries in Europe have roughly either legalised sex work to some extent or followed the so-called “Nordic model”, which criminalises the procuring and purchasing of sex work.
the first country in Europe
Hmm, did the Netherlands move?
BUSTED!
I am not sure netherlands give maternity leave.
Shit, I heard they give it to guys.
They never provided a whore01K.
This is pretty funny: Pro-Trump artist releases 100 penis-shaped balloons with faces of Alvin Bragg, Judge Merchan on them
Remember when the Baby Trump Blimp got wall-to-wall media coverage?
Neena Spring/Summer 2024 Miami Swim Week Priscilla Ricart in slow motion Full Show 4K Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgK69EwIJ0
Bookmarked for research.
Shouldn’t this be a response to the previous 99 balloons story?
My kid made it safely to Washington late last night. Her husband waited patiently sitting on the floor of their new apartment. She sent us a photo of them holding their keys.
One worry gone. Now for the new set of worries!
It’s worries all the way down, Sensei. But yes, it is one worry gone.
Her husband – see this where ypu lost me 🙂
And for Boeing the hits keep coming!
Spirit AeroSystems to lay off hundreds of hourly employees in Wichita
Former Boeing and now key supplier (thank Wall St and the union for making them spin this out) seems to have its business well in hand!
This is why Boeing should be nationalized although it probably somewhat is already… hmmm I know socialism would solve the problems the workers should run the company democratically.
They do have their own Senator.
Some commie bimbo advocated for that — but exanpded that in repurposing Boeing’s facilities to build busses and other eco-friendly public transit vehicles instead of planes.
Buses which run on solar power, love and a little magic. For a happier earth.
You forgot sparkles and unicorn farts.
Shocking revelation
An upside-down American flag – a symbol used by some supporters of former President Donald Trump who challenged the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s 2020 victory – hung outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after the election, The New York Times reported Thursday.
The revelation is almost certain to prompt calls for Alito, a member of the court’s conservative wing, to recuse himself from several high-profile cases pending before the court this year involving the election and subsequent attack on the US Capitol, including the blockbuster question of whether Trump may claim immunity from federal election subversion charges.
The Times published a photo of the inverted flag, which it said was seen at the justice’s home in Alexandria, Virginia, on January 17, 2021.
Impeach him.
Give me a break.
That’s his house? He needs a new fence.
Begun the
clonechicken wars has.India’s butter chicken battle heats up with new court evidence
“Neither chef invented it, they stole it from the British.”
Butter makes you fat.
Lies! Bigotry! Communism!
Yes, but blood makes you thinner!
It does no such thing.
Ghee, I don’t know about that.
I think we have margarinely improved, but we keep churning out these threads trying to butter up Swiss.
“I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” Alito said in an emailed statement to the Times. “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”
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“Two scenarios are plausible and neither one of them is attractive: Either the gesture was trivial pettiness and ought to be beneath the dignity of the court or it is was intended as meaningful symbolism in which case it is a real problem,” said James Sample, a Hofstra Law School professor who has studied judicial ethics.
Combined with the earlier Thomas revelations, Sample said, “The scenarios amplify the need for Congress to impose meaningful ethics enforcement on a court that steadfastly refuses to police itself.”
Okay, you pompous blowhard.
I’m really getting tired of these stories about an “expert” reading someone’s mind.
An expert who weighs in to let everyone know that having a disagreement with a neighbor is an ethical violation at the Supreme Court level.
Heartless cruelty
Republican senators in North Carolina passed a bill Wednesday revoking a pandemic-era law allowing for masks to be worn in public for health concerns.
The legislative proposal, dubbed the “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals” bill, was passed along party lines 30-15, despite outcries from some Senate Democrats to tweak it, allowing for the exception of using masks in public for anyone who feels their health or the health of their loved ones is compromised without them.
No more emotional support masks for the mentally ill?
I remember when Nancy told us that wearing masks was to protect other people, not themselves.
“Anti Asian bigots pass law”
The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina opposes the bill, which it called “deeply troubling, un-democratic, and, unconstitutional.” The organization said the bill is a response to “pro-Palestine protests on college campuses.”
“When we look at the conduct the legislators point to in support of the bill — trespass, assault on law enforcement, and damage to public property — we know that those things are already illegal. Since that is the case, what is this bill really about?” the statement said, adding that it is “about suppressing dissent.”
Suppressing the wrong category of dissent, anyway.
Pro-Hamas faction are wearing N95s in the south during summer? Problem will rectify itself shortly.
I remember when these were called “anti-Klan laws.”
Where would we be without them?
The stakes of this case were enormous. Had the Supreme Court ruled the other way, all of the agency’s work on behalf of consumers could have been erased. The CFPB said in a statement that “for years, lawbreaking companies and Wall Street lobbyists have been scheming to defund essential consumer protection enforcement. The Supreme Court has rejected their radical theory that would have devastated the American financial markets. The Court repudiated the arguments of the payday loan lobby and made it clear that the CFPB is here to stay.” The agency says its enforcement work has saved consumers more than $20 billion.
At an even broader level, the argument against how Congress funds the CFPB could also have been used to go after the constitutionality of the Federal Reserve itself — with potentially cataclysmic financial consequences.
Turning the clock back to 2010 would unleash unimagineable rapacity and chaos.
RIP Dabney Coleman
Leave it in the ground
In a pair of controversial environmental decisions, the Biden administration is moving to end all new coal leasing in the country’s largest producing coal region, the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana.
The announcement Thursday by the federal Bureau of Land Management is in response to a lawsuit by environmental groups and is expected to face protests from the industry and coal producing states including Wyoming. In the agency’s final environmental study, the BLM’s Buffalo, Wyoming field office ruled that new coal leasing would have significant impacts on human health and the climate, due to the coal being burned at power plants.
Environmentalists called the decision a victory, estimating that it would keep six billion tons of “highly polluting coal in the ground.”
“The BLM released a common sense plan that reflects the reality of today’s coal markets,” said Mark Fix of the Montana-based Northern Plains Resource council, in a statement.
Nobody wants it, anyway.
Look, it’s a common sense plan. They are being more than fair. What more do you want? You’re not one of those people that lacks common sense are you?
After civilization collapses, humanity WILL need a fossil fuel supply to have a second Industrial Revolution. Think of it as prepping.
Today, in supply chain disruption
The program is trying to quash bugs that force pilots to reboot in midair, GAO says.
The Pentagon has refused delivery of so many F-35s that Lockheed Martin is running out of places to put them, according to a new report from a government watchdog agency.
Last July, the government stopped accepting new F-35s because of hardware and software delays with Technology Refresh-3, a $1.8-billion effort to enable new capabilities for the jet.
The number of jets accumulating outside Lockheed’s plant is “grossly delinquent,” Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., chairman of the House Armed Services tactical air and land forces subcommittee, told reporters Wednesday.
“We know one thing for certain: it’s going to be at least over 100 aircraft stacked up on the tarmac,” Wittman said.
The GAO report did not say how many aircraft are currently parked, saying the Defense Department deemed that figure “unsuitable for public release.”
But the report said that Lockheed would need to rethink its plans.
“If TR-3 software is delayed past April 2024, Lockheed Martin is projected to exceed its maximum parking capacity and will need to develop a plan to accommodate more parked planes,” it said.
Just shut it off and restart it. It’ll be fine.
No worries, though. Because even sitting in a parking lot, those F-35s are still accomplishing their primary mission – simultaneous pork delivery to 435 Congressional districts.
They just need to find the right spot on the dashboard to pound your fist, then they won’t have to reboot.
The password is “Ayyyyyy!”
The government as well will face “significant liability” if any of the parked aircraft get damaged or lost while sitting at Lockheed’s facilities, according to the report.
Lost?
“They’ve gotta be around here somewhere.”
Have you checked the Swiss airfield noted today’s AM links?
Wasn’t there a recent article about a Swiss runway next door to a CCP-owned property where it was common for pilots to leave fighters with the keys in them?
Yeah, I noted it yesterday too. It’s a bizarre story, I can see it being BS or I can see it being a legitimate concern.
After civilization collapses, humanity WILL need a fossil fuel supply to have a second Industrial Revolution. Think of it as prepping.
That’s what I was thinking. That coal will come in handy when somebody reinvents the steam locomotive.