Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Lousy Lovers

by | Sep 7, 2022 | Daily Links | 164 comments

Univ. of South Carolina Women’s Basketball Team Refuses to Play Against BYU After Racial Slur

After a Brigham Young University (BYU) fan allegedly yelled racial slurs at a Duke volleyball player during an August match, the University of South Carolina women’s basketball team is backing out of a home-and-home series with BYU scheduled to take place over the ‘22-’23 and ‘23-’24 seasons. The first game was supposed to open this season. South Carolina’s women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley and the school’s athletics director Ray Tanner released statements explaining their decision to skip facing off against the Utah university.

“As a head coach, my job is to do what’s best for my players and staff,” Staley said. “The incident at BYU has led me to reevaluate our home-and-home, and I don’t feel that this is the right time for us to engage in this series.” Tanner added, “Dawn and I have discussed her thoughts on the situation. I support Dawn and all of our coaches in their right to schedule games and opponents that are best for their teams.”

BRAVE

I mean, who cares if it happened or not? It feels like it happened, so it might as well have happened.


 

Woman, 19, gives birth to twins by TWO fathers after having sex with both of them on same day

This can happen in two ways.

The first is if a woman has sex with two different men prior to her ovulation and the sperm are present in the fallopian tubes when two eggs are released.

It can also happen if a woman has sex with two different men after ovulating and the sperm are then able to fertilise two eggs.

The unnamed woman from southwest Goiás gave birth to twin boys.

“I was surprised by the results. I didn’t know this could happen. They are very similar,” she added.

While the two boys are similar, she said doubts had arisen about their paternity.

Because of this, when they were eight months old, she took paternity tests for them – with the result being positive for just one child.

It was then that she remembered she’d had sex with two men on the same day.

The mum now says one of the fathers acts as dad to both boys – and had made this official on record.

She said he takes care of them both and gives her all the support she needs.

The rare medical phenomenon is also common in other animals, like dogs, cats and cows.

She should be given a honorary PhD in Ho Studies.


 

Ghost story as an emergent function of AI Art. Very inventive and well done.


 

The Hold Steady
“Stuck Between Stations”
Boys and Girls in America (2006)

There are nights when I think Sal Paradise was right.
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together.
Sucking off each other at the demonstrations
Making sure their makeup’s straight
Crushing one another with colossal expectations.
Dependent, undisciplined, and sleeping late.

She was a really cool kisser and she wasn’t all that strict of a Christian.
She was a damn good dancer but she wasn’t all that great of a girlfriend.
She likes the warm feeling but she’s tired of all the dehydration.
Most nights are crystal clear
But tonight it’s like it’s stuck between stations
On the radio.

The devil and John Berryman
Took a walk together.
They ended up on Washington
Talking to the river.
He said ‘I’ve surrounded myself with doctors
And deep thinkers.
But big heads with soft bodies
Make for lousy lovers.’
There was that night that we thought John Berryman could fly.
But he didn’t
So he died.

She said ‘You’re pretty good with words
But words won’t save your life.’
And they didn’t.
So he died.

He was drunk and exhausted but he was critically acclaimed and respected.
He loved the Golden Gophers but he hated all the drawn out winters.
He likes the warm feeling but he’s tired of all the dehydration
Most nights were kind of fuzzy
But that last night he had total retention.

These Twin Cities kisses
Sound like clicks and hisses.
We all tumbled down and
Drowned in the Mississippi River.

We drink, we dry up,
Then we crumble into dust

We go out and we corrode
And now we’re covered up in rust.

About The Author

SugarFree

SugarFree

Your Resident Narcissistic Misogynist Rape-Culture Apologist

164 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “I mean, who cares if it happened or not? It feels like it happened, so it might as well have happened.”

    This has been going on for decades.

    • SugarFree

      You just feel like it has.

      • EvilSheldon

        Cowardice is the new bravery?

    • Count Potato

      I mean you would figure after first thousand or so hate hoaxes they would stop working. “Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.”

      • Ted S.

        That’s not the point. You’ve got a class of people who don’t care whether it’s a hoax, because they can use the story to demonize the part of the population they hate.

      • MikeS

        Yup. Because even if it didn’t happen in this particular case, it certainly happened somewhere, sometime, and that’s bad, m’kay?

      • Count Potato

        How can they can use the story to demonize the part of the population they hate if the normies aren’t buying it anymore?

      • Ted S.

        A lot of low-information types are still buying it.

      • Tundra

        I’d like to see numbers on that.

        I think most normies just tune out and keep their heads down.

      • Shpip

        A lot of low-information types are still buying it.

        The WaPo reported the naked allegations of a teenager as fact.

        Wade into the comments at your peril, where the most intelligent, informed readers out there (just ask them) think that the BYU campus is something like the Bumblefuck, Mississippi chapter of the KKK when it comes to colored people.

      • grrizzly

        The WaPo comments have always been extremely unhinged. Much more so than, say, in the NYT. At least the WaPo typically has a comment section open.

    • rhywun

      Of course it happened. I mean, Utah. MAGA country.

      • Mojeaux

        I mean, unless you discount the campus culture of welcoming all black students as if they are the second coming of Christ. Yeah, black students are exoticized, which is its own problem, but they are not unwelcome.

      • DrOtto

        Evan McMuffin has a sad…

  2. Shpip

    “As a head coach, my job is to do what’s best for my players and staff,” Staley said. “The incident at BYU has led me to reevaluate our home-and-home, and I don’t feel that this is the right time for us to engage in this series.” Tanner added

    Just imagine if the Duke volleyballer had bleach thrown on her and a noose put around her neck during the match. Those USC chick basketballers would just refuse to even.

    • Tonio

      So, we have established a principle whereby a player can gin-up an incident of racism and stop their team from playing other teams they don’t like? I’m sure nobody would ever abuse this to avoid games they were sure to lose.

      • rhywun

        Well, nobody with any sense of honor. (Look it up, kids.)

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      They certainly should stay away from any of the Chicago area schools. It’s MAGA Country after all.

      • Chafed

        You’re only unsafe if you carry a Subway sandwich.

  3. Drake

    Which kid gets named “Sloppy Seconds”?

    • Tonio

      I wonder if they’ll invite the other sperm donor over for an occasional cuck-night. I understand some guys are into that.

      • grrizzly

        Of course. What else could they do if they wanted more children?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      That would be worse than my dad’s nickname for me, which was Woops.

  4. Mojeaux

    When I worked in the county prosecutor’s deadbeat dad office, I had a case where this happened, but the father of the one twin was also the father of the father of the other twin. To simplify: the woman was fucking her boyfriend and her boyfriend’s father.

    • Count Potato

      Classy.

    • Drake

      Your brother’s uncle – classy.

    • SugarFree

      “Honey, why do you taste so familiar?”

      “Uh, because you were sexually abused as a child?”

    • Gender Traitor

      So…one twin was…the other twin’s… uncle?

      My brain hurts.

    • MikeS

      And one twin was the other’s uncle.

    • grrizzly

      All in the family.

    • Nephilium

      They need to get some marriages involved to get really complicated.

    • Shpip

      To simplify: the woman was fucking her boyfriend and her boyfriend’s father.

      Ten percent for the big guy, same as downtown D.C.

  5. Count Potato

    Twitter needs to knock it off with the “Age-restricted adult content” crap.

    • EvilSheldon

      Seriously. I don’t feel like creating a dummy Twitter account just to look at porn.

      • Count Potato

        Most of the time it isn’t anything pornographic.

      • EvilSheldon

        Well, what good is it, then?

      • Count Potato

        It’s bullshit to get you to log in .

      • EvilSheldon

        No, no, no, what good is this non-smut that Twitter is hiding behind their identity-theftwall?

        I assume you’re not browsing Twitter for the intellectual stimulation…

      • Count Potato

        Much of it is just funny shitposting.

  6. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Doesn’t matter whether the racial slur happened or not as long as it starts a conversation and by conversation I mean a one sided accusatory dialogue that gets shoved down your throat. Have mercy is all of this tedious.

  7. Count Potato

    Should there be laws against noise pollution? Or should it be legal to shoot poison darts at people making too much noise?

  8. DEG

    She likes the warm feeling but she’s tired of all the dehydration.

    Extacy?

    • DEG

      I spel gud.

    • Count Potato

      Sure, I’ll take five for a hundred.

      • MikeS

        Just like downtown.

  9. MikeS

    He loved the Golden Gophers

    He was obviously also a terrible fucking person.

    • pistoffnick

      …a terrible fucking person.

      His sexual prowess should be in question…

      Also REAL studs love the Duloot Bulldogs

      • pistoffnick

        shouldn’t

    • Tundra

      I like all the Twin Cities references in their (especially early) stuff.

      Little Hoodrat Friend

  10. DEG

    Too Local News: GOP Establishment goes after a NH state rep candidate

    If I had to come up with a short list of highly effective freshman Republican legislators in the New Hampshire House, Melissa Blasek would be not just on the list but high on the list. She’s been so effective a Bedford-based pro-Sununu PAC is attacking her.

    Granite PAC sent a glossy mailer attacking Blasek. It accuses her of failing to live up to NH ideals. It claims she does not represent New Hampshire values. Why? She supported an effort to impeach Governor Sununu.

    It doesn’,t say why just that Meliss kicked freedom and Liberty to the curb.

    That’s an interesting point of focus I think needs fisking.

  11. Lackadaisical

    ‘This can happen in two ways.’

    I thought they were going to explain the relative merits of sloppy seconds vs dvp…

    • UnCivilServant

      They left off “IVP mixup” and “Sperm Bank shenanigans”

  12. UnCivilServant

    Afternoon, Glibs. I strongly dislike yard work, and I probably should have waited to see if the grass was going to dry out some before cutting. But, I wanted to be sure I didn’t forget. So now it’s cut and I’ll probably get a littering citation for all the clippings on the sidewalk.

    • MikeS

      You don’t own a broom?

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m not going to go sweep up wet grass clippings.

      • Mojeaux

        Why not?

      • UnCivilServant

        Because I’m tired and irritable and I’m going to let them dry out.

      • MikeS

        Sweep them into the lawn. What am I missing here?

      • MikeS

        I’m tired and irritable

        There it is

      • DEG

        Leaf blower.

      • DrOtto

        Carnac the Magnificent pulls the envelope from his forehead, opens and reads it – what do you call a Scandinavian prostitute?

      • Mojeaux

        Or a rake?

      • Fourscore

        Use a hose or forget about it and don’t worry or get a leaf blower.

      • Mojeaux

        Thinking about getting a flamethrower for snow and ice.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I used a propane-powered Tiger torch (100,000BTU output) one winter. It was . . . surprisingly ineffective.

        There’s a lotta cold in ice and snow.

    • Lackadaisical

      I’ve literally never bothered to do this, though I am careful during mowing.

  13. MikeS

    Too local news: North Dakota Dem-NPL torchbearers urged party’s endorsed House candidate to quit race

    When Mark Haugen volunteered to run for the U.S. House of Representatives at the Democratic-NPL state convention in March, party leaders commended his willingness to carry the party’s flag into a challenging battle against Republican incumbent Kelly Armstrong.

    But after the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and to allow states to ban abortion, some Democrats became uncomfortable with Haugen’s firmly established anti-abortion stance.

    The late entrance of independent pro-abortion rights candidate (and former Miss America) Cara Mund into the race last month shifted the support of some Democrats away from the party’s endorsed candidate.

    • Shpip

      According to Ballotpedia, Haugen dropped out.

      Not that it matters. Armstrong carried NoDak with 69% of the vote in the 2020 general election.

      • MikeS

        Well, I doubt Bollotpedia has a option for “Forced out by lefty zealots”

        “They did Mark dirty,” one person in a leadership position of the Democratic-NPL told me over the weekend, speaking on condition of anonymity.

        Others are speaking more publicly.

        “I’m disgusted,” Shelley Lenz told me. “I’m a little angry. I love that Mark set his piece out loud. It wasn’t his decision. They’re trying to make it look like his decision, but they forced him out.”

        Lenz was the Democratic-NPL’s gubernatorial candidate in 2020, and she also ran for chair of the party earlier this cycle, receiving nearly 50 percent of the vote.

      • MikeS

        And just because Haugen (like all statewide-DEM-NPL candidates) was a sacrificial lamb (he volunteered during the convention) doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter. He was the definition of devoted to the party, but the big names (who didn’t even bother to attend the convention) jumped at a chance to push him out all over abortion.

        Hell, knowing that Mund can’t possibly win anyway makes it even more baffling.

      • Q Continuum

        It just means that NoDak is a racist hinterland that’s electorally irrelevant because Darth Brandon is going to nuke it anyway.

      • MikeS

        Well, I mean, yeah.

  14. Shpip

    Medics in Portugal said this would be the twentieth known case of heteroparental superfecundation.

    The only other case of this that I had heard of was in the former West Germany, where a lady of negotiable virtue had relations with two GIs stationed over there — one white and one black. You can imagine the surprise on the face of the delivering OB.

    • Tundra
    • The Other Kevin

      Sounds like it could be a joke or two I’ve heard at bars.

  15. Tundra

    Ah, I do love me some Hold Steady.

    The best part is that Craig looks just like a lawyer I knew!

    Thanks, Sug – great choice!

    • Old Man With Candy

      The prof I work for told me that he was voting for a guy I would never have heard of.

      Larry Sharpe.

      • Sensei

        Me neither!

    • rhywun

      I haven’t ridden a bus or train in months but when they pass me on the street I see almost nobody who isn’t an old lady or of East Asian extraction that is muzzled up any more. Obviously nobody is enforcing it, and I suspect even the mask-shaming that was common a year or two ago is gone.

      • Sensei

        After FedGov stopped enforcement in April I became a rule breaker on both subway and PATH. I was waiting for the some Karen to freak out on me, but it never happened.

        Oddly more middle aged people maskless than younger initially. However, as of last week, it was like 50% of the train was randomly unmasked.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I do see a lot of young people still doing it. Like groups of teens walking around. Baffles the hell out of me. I can only guess that their brains are permanently broken.

      • Ted S.

        That, of course, was the point.

  16. rhywun

    It was then that she remembered she’d had sex with two men on the same day.

    L
    O
    L

    “Keeping track of sex partners is hard.”
    /Busy Barbie

      • rhywun

        Heinous. And therefore popular.

      • rhywun

        Hm, also heinous. I’m sensing a pattern.

  17. Warty

    lol we’re fucked

    “The next 7.5 years are scheduled to be a bloodbath of reliable capacity retirements. There are 93 GW of announced coal plant retirements, plus up to 92 more GW are at risk retiring early due to new Environmental Protection Agency rules. That’s almost ⅕ of our already-scarce reliable capacity shut down.”

    • Tonio

      But, but, rEnEwAbLeS!!1!

    • Tundra

      Alex is terrific. Too bad he’s fighting a well funded and massive cult.

    • Bobarian LMD

      What’s more reliable than the sun?

      Starvation and hypothermia.

    • Chafed

      What’s the over/under on when the average person realizes this is due to government policies?

  18. Mustang

    That Loab thing…

    What.

    The.

    Heck.

    Even more disconcerting is how realistic it is. No wonder people are going crazy, it’s impossible to tell what might be real in the digital world. You can make up anything you want to. Combine that with the push for a Metaverse, VR, AR, XR, and there’s going to be some seriously warped issues. Imagine the political implications.

    Actually don’t, that’s even more disturbing than the Loab images.

    • Warty

      Remember when your crazy relatives told you 30 years ago that demons live inside those computer machines? Bet you don’t feel so smart now, beep-boop boy.

      • Mustang

        Only thing I recall is belts and getting poked with a cane. I don’t think they ever thought about computers…

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m surprised you guys haven’t figured out I’m a computer.

      • Mustang

        That does explain a few things…but why would a computer need driving gloves?

      • R C Dean

        To get a good grip on the steering wheel?

    • Seguin

      I don’t know but it’s pretty freaking awesome, no matter how creepy.

      Gives me that horror movie tingle.

  19. DEG

    Project Veritas latest

    • Krystle Matthews, South Carolina Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate: “Let me tell you one thing. You ought to know who you’re dealing with. You gotta treat them [white people] like sh*t. I mean, that’s the only way they’ll respect you. I keep them right here — like under my thumbs. That’s where I keep – like, you have to. Otherwise, they get out of control — like kids.”

    • Chafed

      She seems nice.

    • EvilSheldon

      She seems nice.

    • MikeS

      CWAC

      • Don escaped Texas

        nice

    • rhywun

      “Yass, queen!”

    • Drake

      I was wondering why Tim Scott hasn’t bothered to campaign.

      • Drake

        Would still vote for her over Lindsey Graham.

    • Homple

      You gots to make ’em know they place.

  20. R C Dean

    It was then that she remembered she’d had sex with two men on the same day.

    Sounds like this was not an uncommon occurrence for her.

    The mum now says one of the fathers acts as dad to both boys – and had made this official on record.

    What a cuck. I would insist on the other baby daddy ponying up.

  21. Sensei

    Japan cracks me up. As is typical the amounts by US standards are ridiculously low. Probably because prosecution is so rare…

    Tokyo Olympics sponsorship scandal widens with more arrests
    https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/tokyo-olympics-sponsorship-scandal-widens-arrests-89389730

    The latest allegations center on 76 million yen ($540,000) Takahashi received from Tokyo-based publishing company Kadokawa, according to Tokyo District prosecutors. The sponsorship allowed Kadokawa, which also makes films and games, to publish programs and other books related to the Tokyo Olympics…

    Takahashi has been in detention since being arrested last month on suspicion of receiving bribes from clothing manufacturer Aoki Holdings. He was formally charged Tuesday with receiving 51 million yen ($360,000) in bribes from Aoki.

    Three Aoki officials were also charged with paying bribes… Aoki, which produces “recruit suits” that high school graduates wear for job interviews, was a surprise pick to dress the Japanese Olympic team when other nations had top fashion brands designing uniforms.

  22. Sensei

    Coming soon to the US of A.

    Prosecutors alleged the children’s books depicted the authorities as wolves and Hong Kong people as sheep, implying a vulnerable populace at the mercy of a brutal regime. In written submissions, they said the books alluded to political unrest and painted China as “ruled by a cruel dictator.” The cartoons “indoctrinated” readers with separatist ideology, they told the court.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/07/hong-kong-childrens-book-sedition-cartoon/

    • rhywun

      Psst, Hong Kongers: get out!

    • Ted S.

      The government certainly thinks the people should be treated like sheep.

      • Plinker762

        Like all the other governments?

  23. The Late P Brooks

    To simplify: the woman was fucking her boyfriend and her boyfriend’s father.

    I’ll bet the pornhub channel for that isn’t as big as mother-daughter.

    • Mojeaux

      I wouldn’t know. *haughty sniff*

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        The lady doth protest too much, methinks

      • Mojeaux

        No, just a snob.

      • Tres Cool

        To find my channel just search SSBBW+creampie

  24. Don escaped Texas

    FavoriteCat killed a hummingbird

    I feel this besmirches my citizenship

    • Mojeaux

      Mine killed a cardinal once. I had to give him a firm talking-to about killing the cardinals. Like, dude, go for the squirrels, whydontcha?

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Thin fucking gruel

    Mar-a-Lago – the Palm Beach resort and residence where Donald Trump reportedly stored nuclear secrets among a trove of highly classified documents for 18 months since leaving the White House – is a magnet for foreign spies, former intelligence officials have warned.

    The Washington Post reported that a document describing an unspecified foreign government’s defences, including its nuclear capabilities, was one of the many highly secret papers Trump took away from the White House when he left office in January 2021.

    There were also documents marked SAP, for Special-Access Programmes, which are often about US intelligence operations and whose circulation is severely restricted, even among administration officials with top security clearance.

    Potentially most disturbing of all, there were papers stamped HCS, Humint Control Systems, involving human intelligence gathered from agents in enemy countries, whose lives would be in danger if their identities were compromised.

    ——-

    The guests, invited or otherwise, are not the only security concern. In 2021, the Trump Organization sought 87 foreign workers for positions at Mar-a-Lago, with wages starting at $11.96 an hour.

    “Any competent foreign intelligence service, whether those belonging to China, those belonging to Iran, to Cuba, certainly including Russia are … and were interested in gaining access to Mar-a-Lago,” Peter Strzok, former deputy assistant director of counter-intelligence at the FBI, told MSNBC.

    It’s a regular Rick’s Cafe Americain down there. Spies, smugglers, agents of intrigue, jammed in there like sardines. We don’t really have any proof, but we know they’re lurking in the bushes, waiting for Bad Orange Turncoat to spill the beans.

    • Grummun

      former intelligence officials

      So everything here can safely be assumed to be base lies, including “and” and “the”.

      Peter Strzok

      This miserable pig fucker is now an authoritative source for quotes?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Insert smirking mug here.

  26. Evan from Evansville

    Well, I’ve technically got today and tomorrow off. That isn’t true, as I don’t have front page art for Sat’s edition. Hrm. Maybe an idea or two about how to get it tomorrow. Messages sent but not much I can do now. Will come up with a backup plan. Have some network folk I should hit up. Note: Ev–do that.

    I’ve got one more week booked in my little condo–>apartment. Might be getting another week. I kinda hope so and kinda hope not. Not having my own spot is bad, but distractions from work also are. All things considering, I think i’m in remarkably solid footing. I fear TOO solid, but that part of my brain has is always barking (and it’s good that It does).

    This is the hardest it will ever get at this job. And other realms, as well. Onward, upward, always. So it goes. As ever, ev’s quietly confident.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Last month, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reported that a Russian-speaking immigrant from Ukraine was able to mingle with the former president’s family and friends at Mar-a-Lago, posing as Anna de Rothschild, presenting herself as being an heiress of the banking dynasty.

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    Inna Yashchyshyn, the daughter of a truck driver who emigrated to Canada, regaled those around her with tales of vineyards and estates and growing up in Monaco, and even met the former president in person, getting herself photographed with him on a golfing green.

    There is no evidence that Yashchyshyn was a spy, but the episode underlined how easy it is to get into Mar-a-Lago.

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    What was she charged with? Impersonating a deadbeat?

  28. grrizzly

    a Russian-speaking immigrant from Ukraine

    We need at least some Russian connection.

  29. KSuellington

    Goias has some hot women. They really like to let loose when they hit the beach towns on the coast for summer break.

    Back in the 80’s there was a radiology clinic there that was abandoned and they left a machine with Cesium in it. After a while squatters and looters broke in and they started tearing up everything they could to sell. Eventually they took out the glowing blue cesium salts and thought they were magic. They brought it back to the favela and spread it around. Ended up killing a bunch of people and sickening many more. One of the biggest radioactivity disasters in modern times.

    • Sensei

      Damn.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Things like that happen fairly often, well not often but they’re not unheard of either. People break into old hospitals or research facilities and steal machines, radiography or radiotherapy stuff usually, for scrap and end up frying themselves. I’m in the nuclear biz and I’ve seen so many pictures and videos of radiation burned people during the course of my training that it doesn’t effect me any more. Gotta be careful with that stuff.
      http://www.nuclear-risks.org/en/hibakusha-worldwide/goiania.html

      • Don escaped Texas

        see also soil moisture gauge

      • Tres Cool

        -1 Troxler AmBe gauge

        When I worked for the steel mill, we (at the time) were the largest recyclers of scrap stainless in the world. Our monitoring program to prevent contaminated scrap from entering the plant was insane. Since I was RSO for the facility, any time an alarm would sound Id have to go check it out. Once our supplier sent us a load with an intact fill-gauge from some bottling plant, source intact.

      • Timeloose

        I remember a bunch of radioactive sources used for well tracing got dumped in a scrap yard. Someone found them and used them for various purposes. They contaminated and burned themselves.

    • KSuellington

      A buddy of mine from there told me the story once. It’s a crazy tale. The cesium got spread around the favela and three scrapyards. People were rubbing it on their houses thinking it was supernatural. Hundreds of people were exposed to high radiation and four died immediately.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

    • Tundra

      LOL!

      “Above all, [Abe] cared deeply about the Japanese people and dedicated his life to their service. Even at the moment he was attacked, he was engaged in the work of democracy,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House.

      No, he wasn’t, Joe.

      • Gustave Lytton

        He dedicated his life to serving the Japanese public just like Biden dedicated his to serving the American public.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Losing traction?

    According to The Times, Democrats in Georgia have grown “increasingly pessimistic” about Abrams’ chances of defeating Kemp, citing “her struggles to rally key parts of her party’s coalition and her inability to appeal to a slice of moderate Republican voters who can decide the state’s elections,” as shown comparing her polling to a fellow Democrat running for re-election in the state, Sen. Raphael Warnock.

    More than two dozen Democratic officials reportedly spoke to The Times, but asked to remain anonymous as they shared that multiple Democrat county officials and community leaders had privately expressed their concern to Abrams’ campaign that it was underestimating Kemp’s strength and hadn’t reached out to key constituencies.

    “I guess they don’t want to get canceled or get pressured, I mean that’s what Stacey Abrams is known for,” Kemp said when asked why he thought those concerned Democrats wished to remain anonymous.

    “She did that with Major League Baseball when we passed the Election Integrity Act and got them to move the all-star game, she’s done it to corporate CEOs,” he added, referencing the MLB’s decision to move the all-star game from Atlanta after the state passed a law aimed at combating voter fraud. Abrams had rallied Democrats nationwide against the bill, calling it an attempt at voter suppression and labeling it “Jim Crow 2.0.”

    Four years of hectoring from that? No thanks.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    He went on to predict that nontraditional Republican voters would look at his record on the economy, specifically keeping it open throughout the coronavirus pandemic, and would opt to support him over Abrams, whom he said stood with those seeking to keep schools and businesses closed.

    “I think those voters are looking for another option. They’re looking for somebody that’s fought for them over the last two or three years. And they’ve seen that in myself, whether it’s standing up and doing something about violent crime and street racing, and supporting men and women in law enforcement versus her view and ideas and her own words of wanting to defund the police,” Kemp said.

    “I just don’t think, even for a lot of African Americans and minority voters in our state, that’s not where they are, and I think she’s lost touch with that,” he added.

    Not even the dependable black base can be relied on to vote for her.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    The Enemy Within

    The names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that’s accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to a report released Wednesday.

    The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism pored over more than 38,000 names on leaked Oath Keepers membership lists and identified more than 370 people it believes currently work in law enforcement agencies — including as police chiefs and sheriffs — and more than 100 people who are currently members of the military.

    It also identified more than 80 people who were running for or served in public office as of early August. The membership information was compiled into a database published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets.

    The data raises fresh concerns about the presence of extremists in law enforcement and the military who are tasked with enforcing laws and protecting the U.S. It’s especially problematic for public servants to be associated with extremists at a time when lies about the 2020 election are fueling threats of violence against lawmakers and institutions.

    You can’t let people who pledge a private oath to the Constitution work for the government! That’s institutional suicide.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      private oath to the Constitution

      There was nothing private about the oath that I took to protect and preserve the Constitution on 8 Oct 1972.

      I have never broken that oath.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    “Even for those who claimed to have left the organization when it began to employ more aggressive tactics in 2014, it is important to remember that the Oath Keepers have espoused extremism since their founding, and this fact was not enough to deter these individuals from signing up,” the report says.

    An indelible stain which you cannot wash away.

    There can be no redemption.

  34. Grummun

    “… it is important to remember that the Oath Keepers ACLU have espoused extremism socialism since their founding … “