Seth Meyers: Hur Hearing Backfires on GOP, Witness in Trump Case Gives Bombshell Interview
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From downstairs:
Having Neighbors Who Vote for Donald Trump Is Dangerous to Your Health
The greater the percentage of people in a county that voted for Trump, the more that have died of Covid.
So, the number of deaths in a county that voted heavily for Trump (70% Red line) was about the same as a county where less than 30% supported Trump (blue line). Until vaccines became available. But the lines have diverged substantially since vaccinations,
There are now twice as many total deaths in the most Trump-supporting counties than those that do not.
This works out to, on average, an “additional 67 excess Trump voters in a county to kill one additional person from the Covid Plague.” Trump is killing thousands every month.
So, Trumpers are already killing Americans, especially if you live in a county that really supports Trump. We’d really like to believe that these are all Trump voters but there are probably some Biden supprters in the excess deaths. Make sure you are fully vaccinated.
And Trump actually supports the vaccine. How many people would an RFK Jr kill?
This Closer Look reminds me that when Swalwell asked Hur if he had said Biden had a “photographic memory” for the House, Hur was such a chickenshit pettifogger he would only say it was in the transcript, not admit to having said it.
Betelgeuse, a boiling star the size of the orbit of Jupiter:
I wish I could post video over here, because this new animation of Betelgeuse is just spectacular. There is a seething cauldron of red-hot gas in the shoulder of Orion.
(Blade Runner almost got it right.)Video & info at link:
“…the surface of Betelgeuse is a vibrant world, governed by a physical process called convection. We can observe convection in our daily life when we boil water, but in Betelgeuse, this process is much more violent: The boiling bubbles can be as large as Earth’s orbit around the Sun, covering a large fraction of Betelgeuse’s surface. They rise and fall at a speed of up to 30 km/s, faster than any crewed spacecraft.”mpa-garching.mpg.de
‘Fundie Baby Voice’ Seems To Be Everywhere Now. Here’s What You Should Know.
Thus is Britt’s voice explained. It is a vocal Gilead.
re: #3 jaunte
Betelgeuse, a boiling star the size of the orbit of Jupiter:
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Is printing it 5 times in your post effectively the same as saying it three times out loud? Just wondering.
Not that he relied on advice of counsel. That he had a lawyer in the room when he committed the crime and since they did not stop him it must be legal. Novel.
re: #3 jaunte
Betelgeuse, a boiling star the size of the orbit of Jupiter:
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Astronomers believe that Betelgeuse will go supernova within 100,000 years. Or, it has already but we won’t know for up to 600 years. When it does, and being so close, it will outshine everything but the Sun. At least until the radiation sweeps across the solar system, killing all life forms except cockroaches and Keith Richards.
re: #4 silverdolphin
My wife was raised in the Southern Baptist tradition and was an idealist ultimately disappointed by the hypocrisy she saw, but our kids all swore her command voice came from the Bene Gesserit.
re: #3 jaunte
Betelgeuse, a boiling star the size of the orbit of Jupiter:
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And could have supernova’d long enough ago that the light wave is still in transit. I actually hope to see it before I move on 💖
re: #8 jaunte
My wife was raised in the Southern Baptist tradition and was an idealist ultimately disappointed by the hypocrisy she saw, but our kids all swore her command voice came from the Bene Gesserit.
Nah, that’s just simple brown round. Anyone one can learn it from a good NCO.
re: #7 sizzzzlerz
Astronomers believe that Betelgeuse will go supernova within 100,000 years. Or, it has already but we won’t know for up to 600 years. When it does, and being so close, it will outshine everything but the Sun. At least until the radiation sweeps across the solar system, killing all life forms except cockroaches and Keith Richards.
Nah, it’s not that close, despite what some wankers might squeal. Oh, it’ll be really bright and it will probably cause a shit ton of skin cancers among the stupid but that’s about it.
re: #7 sizzzzlerz
Astronomers believe that Betelgeuse will go supernova within 100,000 years. Or, it has already but we won’t know for up to 600 years. When it does, and being so close, it will outshine everything but the Sun. At least until the radiation sweeps across the solar system, killing all life forms except cockroaches and Keith Richards.
Fortunately it’s too far to have serious effects on earth.
Whenever Betelgeuse does blow up, our planet Earth is too far away for this explosion to harm, much less destroy, life on Earth. Studies indicate we’d have to be within 160 light-years of a supernova for it to harm us. And Betelgeuse is perhaps four times this distance.
One thing we do know when Betelgeuse goes supernova it’s going to be an awesome sight!
DHS officials’ texts show unfiltered reaction to January 6
The texts must be read to be believed…
re: #6 silverdolphin
Not that he relied on advice of counsel. That he had a lawyer in the room when he committed the crime and since they did not stop him it must be legal. Novel.
Basically the plan of Trump’s lawyers is to step up after the prosecution gets done asking Cohen to explain how his former boss is a lying crook and ask him “Did you prepare the documents? Were you in the room when he signed them? And did you explicitly say ‘This is totally illegal’? No? Then how was my client to know that his lawyer was handing him totally illegal documents to sign?!”
re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅
As part of ongoing litigation brought by CREW, officials from the Secret Service, DHS, Department of Defense and the Army claimed, under penalty of perjury, that certain January 6th text messages were deleted and are now unrecoverable.
I don’t believe that part.
Tonight’s other science lesson comes from my son. This moth is called Creatonotos gangis. This is what it looks like normally:
This is what it looks like during mating season:
Obviously, it’s from Australia, but:
IF YOU’VE never heard of ‘hair pencils’ before, feast your eyes on the bizarre Creatonotos gangis. This moth takes courtship so seriously, it spreads its pheromones using enormous, inflatable appendages that unfurl from deep inside its abdomen.
What’s also wild is how it produces those pheremones:
In its caterpillar form, C. gangis feeds on plants that produce pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) - a bitter chemical that usually deters insects and other animals from eating the leaves.
It’s so reviled in nature that damaged plants will often increase their production of PAs as an extra precaution while they repair their leaves, and this can actually cause poisoning in unsuspecting sheep and cattle.
But somehow C. gangis evolved to love the taste of PAs, and during its caterpillar stage, the males consume enough PAs to produce pheromones by modifying the chemicals once they’ve been ingested.
Here’s how US artillery production is faring:
Now: 28,000 rounds/month
Sept 2024: 57,000 rounds/month
Sept 2025: 72,000 rounds/month
* Dec 2025: 100,000 rounds/month
* without supplemental, US artillery production would plateau at 72,000 rounds/month
Image: US Army budget pic.twitter.com/FL29TRIDew— Jack Detsch (@JackDetsch) March 13, 2024
re: #19 Captain Ron
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Keep in mind that at the same time this is coming out, Repubs are losing their shit over “woke” being the cause of the DoD missing recruiting quotas and screaming bloody murder that Biden is “cutting” the DoD budget because it only allows a 1% increase over last year’s budget…thus keeping in line with the debt deal they approved last year.
re: #19 Captain Ron
Well, Tuberville fucked the military for months by holding up promotions, I’m sure the GOP doesn’t give a shit about the army having to make do with fewer bullets.
So basically, Trump’s lawyers in the hush money case are going to argue that their client cannot be trusted when signing legal documents. That you could put a document in front of him certifying that he’s a eunuch who can only get sexually aroused by being spanked and he’ll sign it without ever asking what it actually says. Because really, few things instill confidence in banks and loan providers as much as learning that the guy they’re giving money to will sign anything so long as you slip his lawyer enough money under the table not to explain the document to him in detail.
re: #23 Targetpractice
So basically, Trump’s lawyers in the hush money case are going to argue that their client cannot be trusted when signing legal documents. That you could put a document in front of him certifying that he’s a eunuch who can only get sexually aroused by being spanked and he’ll sign it without ever asking what it actually says. Because really, few things instill confidence in banks and loan providers as much as learning that the guy they’re giving money to will sign anything so long as you slip his lawyer enough money under the table not to explain the document to him in detail.
They’re down to the “incompetent or criminal” decision stage. So Trump will claim that he is incompetent and simply signs things put in front of him by lawyers. My guess is they are trying to get it into a “one said this and the other said that” about whatever Cohen might have said about the legality of the decision. Then again, by that time in the relationship I doubt they had that sort of discussion about such things since Cohen had already been acting as a fixer for a while.
So…I’m kinda stoned and I’m still catching up from a politics-free cruise with mrs coin and I’m still catching parodies of Katie Britt and the latest one is her SOTU response with Tubular Bells (theme from Exorcist) dubbed in and I think I need to go purchase some wood stakes…y’know…just in case for November.
re: #4 silverdolphin
‘Fundie Baby Voice’ Seems To Be Everywhere Now. Here’s What You Should Know.
Thus is Britt’s voice explained. It is a vocal Gilead.
This is why I couldn’t be a fundie. Because I can be VERY demanding and I can’t do fundie baby voice.
I’m so glad I got a nap this afternoon, because I got paged back in at 7:25 pm for a network issue. Which affected my ability to get anywhere, so I was pretty much useless for the first 30 minutes. I’m going to read in bed now, and if I fall asleep, so much the better.
re: #4 silverdolphin
‘Fundie Baby Voice’ Seems To Be Everywhere Now. Here’s What You Should Know.
Thus is Britt’s voice explained. It is a vocal Gilead.
IOW, Satan as personified in a breathy feminine voice. Evil personified.
Has anyone actually watched the “Lucifer” series? I’ve noticed a few shorts on youtube that look good. Is it as good as they make it look?
re: #27 mmmirele
This is why I couldn’t be a fundie. Because I can be VERY demanding and I can’t do fundie baby voice.
Fundamentalism is the antithesis of Christianity. So many do not understand that.
An evangelical can still remain a Christian, though in America it is extremely difficult, but I have never seen a fundamentalist who has threaded the needle of the contradictions of their heresies and what the Christ taught. If they seem to have, I find they have left fundamentalism behind… 😉
The single most important lesson remains that in the Gospel of John we are reminded that there can be new teachings. We have to leave ourselves open to the Spirit. To not do so? Now _THAT_ is a sin against the Spirit…
re: #30 William Lewis
IOW, Satan as personified in a breathy feminine voice. Evil personified.
Has anyone actually watched the “Lucifer” series? I’ve noticed a few shorts on youtube that look good. Is it as good as they make it look?
I really enjoyed it; but maybe that’s just ‘cause I have a crush on the guys who play Lucifer and Amenadiel. There’s some interesting philosophy/theology, but not until later seasons. The first couple of years, it’s run-of-the-mill police procedural with likable characters.
re: #25 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
They’re down to the “incompetent or criminal” decision stage. So Trump will claim that he is incompetent and simply signs things put in front of him by lawyers. My guess is they are trying to get it into a “one said this and the other said that” about whatever Cohen might have said about the legality of the decision. Then again, by that time in the relationship I doubt they had that sort of discussion about such things since Cohen had already been acting as a fixer for a while.
Charles Pierce over at Esquire has opined in the past that Reagan’s defenders boiled down all of his defenses in Iran-Contra to one of three things: Incompetent, Oblivious, or Senile. That either he was too stupid to know that what was going on was wrong, he was too focused on other things to pay attention to the criming his closest advisors were getting up to, or he was so far gone mentally that they could tell him anything and be believed.
And they’ve been recycling that script for every Repub in the White House since. For Reagan, most defaulted to “Senile,” arguing that as an elderly guy it wasn’t impossible to believe that wasn’t as sharp as he’d once been and might even believe things that weren’t true. With Dubya, it was “Oblivious,” saying that he was “so focused” on the “War on Terror” that he let other things fall to his advisors who were all varying degrees of crooked. And now with Trump, they’re going with “Incompetent,” arguing that a man who has boasted about being “smarter” than the experts and responsible for all his business success is actually a total buffoon that has to be led around by the hand lest he drop his drawers and start flinging shit at passers-by.
Summary of recent stuff happening in Ukraine -
There are approximately 20 major refineries in Russia. Ukraine has reportedly hit 5 so far this year. Drone strikes are unlikely to knock out all capacity, but can reduce production numbers significantly. Additionally, some refineries produce necessary specialty products. It also speaks well of the Ukrainian efforts to degrade Russian air defense capabilities over the past two years.
January 21 - Baltic LNG - Ust Luga Terminal (18mln tons/year, 3rd largest)
January 24 - Tuapse Oil Refinery (9mln tons/year, 12th largest)
February 3 - Lukoil Volgograd Oil Refinery (14.5mln tons/year, 6th largest)
March 12 - Kstovo Refinery - 17 mln tons of oil products per year, 4th largest in Russia
March 13 - Ryazan Refinery - 17 mln tons per year, 3th largest in Russia.
March 12th several groups of Russian insurgents invaded Russia along the Ukrainian border. Some may still be fighting. I suspect that it was essentially a suicide mission. But it likely got the Russian Leadership’s attention.
Russia caught 3 Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters while they were refueling and re-arming. Two were destroyed and one was damaged, but was able to escape.
This implies that Russia has finally gotten around to forming a team to identify, assign and coordinate attacks on Ukrainian targets of opportunity. In the Russian Army, this requires Field Grade and higher officers. (Major and above). To find enough competent and trustworthy senior officers in the corrupt Russian officer corps probably was quite an effort. It will likely be a tough target to take out. And threatens to cause Ukraine a lot of damage. (Several Himars have recently been hit. probably by the same Russian team.)
— akaCurt (@akaCurt) March 13, 2024
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Guess who faceplanted walking to the railway station and looks like he lost a bar fight.
re: #4 silverdolphin
‘Fundie Baby Voice’ Seems To Be Everywhere Now. Here’s What You Should Know.
Thus is Britt’s voice explained. It is a vocal Gilead.
I was in Flagstaff in 1985, walking through the parking lot of the Skydome stadium, which was hosting a Mormon youth convention. The parking lot was packed full of SUV’s, driven there by Mormon moms.
One of them was trying to pull out and managed to rip her tire open on the bumper of the car next to it.
I heard her get out, sigh deeply and say to herself in that Gilead voice: “I guess I should just lock it up and go get my Bishop!”
re: #8 jaunte
My wife was raised in the Southern Baptist tradition and was an idealist ultimately disappointed by the hypocrisy she saw, but our kids all swore her command voice came from the Bene Gesserit.
I learned a lot about parenting from Pushkin’s Boris Godunov in which the Tsar explains to his son that “The voice of the Tsar must ring out like a great bell and not dissipate like a thousand lesser ones!”.
So yes, I saved that voice only for when it really counted. And it generally worked.
re: #30 William Lewis
IOW, Satan as personified in a breathy feminine voice. Evil personified.
Has anyone actually watched the “Lucifer” series? I’ve noticed a few shorts on youtube that look good. Is it as good as they make it look?
It is well written, witty and entertaining.
The Voice of the Tsar has rung
re: #39 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is well written, witty and entertaining.
Good to know. It’s all too easy to build fake shit in THOSE little videos…
re: #42 ericblair
In the great tradition of Rush Limbaugh, who never had guests on his show but simply argued with the words that he put into other people’s mouths.
re: #42 ericblair
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Creating some enemy out of complete fantasy to be mad at is the root of conservative culture right now, but you’re not supposed to give the game away like that.
There’s three important reasons that guys like Bret rely upon hypothetical “critics”:
1. Those imaginary people are only ever as smart and can be way dumber that he is, so he never has to worry about getting cornered and forced to acknowledge the limits of his knowledge. No need to worry about cutting the mic or going to commercial because the other party in your “debate” kept pressing you for an answer to an uncomfortable question.
2. Because the “debate” is happening purely within Bret’s head, of course he controls the course of it and thus can only talk about things he wants to talk about. If he wants to present Biden as “wrong” or even “evil” for endangering US/Israel relations, the imaginary “critic” will not suddenly bring up all the times that Bibi deliberately shat all over those same relations to boost his own career. He can bitch all he likes about a comment made during the SOTU without worry that the “critic” will counter with the Joint Session that Repubs allowed Bibi to attend in order to bitch about Obama’s refusal to go to war with Iran.
3. The most important reason they prefer to “debate” with imaginary people: Imaginary people can’t sue them for slander. So they can disparage, insult, belittle, and beat upon those “critics” as much as they like because there will never be harsher consequences than their living and breathing critics calling them out of their self-serving BS.
re: #23 Targetpractice
So basically, Trump’s lawyers in the hush money case are going to argue that their client ….
Is so stupid he’ll sign anything and he still should be president
re: #25 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
They’re down to the “incompetent or criminal” decision stage. So Trump will claim that he is incompetent and simply signs things put in front of him by lawyers. My guess is they are trying to get it into a “one said this and the other said that” about whatever Cohen might have said about the legality of the decision. Then again, by that time in the relationship I doubt they had that sort of discussion about such things since Cohen had already been acting as a fixer for a while.
Tfg: yeah I hired him and paid him a lot but i have no idea what a fixer does.
re: #30 William Lewis
IOW, Satan as personified in a breathy feminine voice. Evil personified.
Has anyone actually watched the “Lucifer” series? I’ve noticed a few shorts on youtube that look good. Is it as good as they make it look?
We watched it
Pretty good
Light entertainment
Somewhat predictable and repetitive but not too
It ended well
Federal rules changes will prevent “judge shopping.” Rightwing activists wanting to block Biden Administration policies or make radical changes to federal law could file suit in a Texas division and be guaranteed their case would be heard by radical Christian Nationalist Judge Mathew Kacsmaryk, the only judge in that division. A new rule now ensures that cases seeking to bar or mandate a state or federal action will be randomly assigned to one of the judges in the district, regardless of which division of the district the suit is filed in.
re: #51 No Malarkey!
Good!! This is how you push back on MAGAts.
re: #24 William Lewis
My Mother was an artist and art teacher. And not a bad watercolorist. She instilled in me an appreciation of the classics…..
After Nex Benedict’s death in Oklahoma, an Oklahoma politician described trans kids as “filth” to be eliminated from Oklahoma, which has passed some of the most anti-trans legislation in the country.
Today we’re gonna party like it’s Wordle #999…
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re: #1 silverdolphin
re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg
It wasn’t just water and toilet paper. I remember going to a local Wal-Mart around 3/16/20 and many of the shelves were picked clean.
About eight days after the pandemic declaration, Ms. Cyborg and I had to go to a small market 45 mins away to find, of all things, ground beef…and lucky for us the store had three one pound packs left.
For reference we have 7 grocery stores less than 10 miles from us and a couple of local butcher shops within that same radius.
Finding beef is usually not a problem.
In the early days I was as fearful of everyone losing their fucking minds as I was of the virus itself.
I was coming back from a bar mitzvah in PA when covid was starting to spread in NYC metro (and one of the first identified clusters was from a bar mitzvah). We stopped at a supermarket to pick up food, since we were already hearing about stores being short of some items. The supermarket - a Shop Rite - was nearly picked clean of *everything*.
I mean everything. You could barely find packaged goods, let alone toilet paper, paper towels, sanitizers, wipes, etc. It was Armageddon.
It was never that bad, even after Sandy, when supermarkets and stores in the area had power issues.
And Trump was busy waving this off as something that will be gone within a few days or weeks, even as the body count was starting to mount - and whoever contracted it seemed to die or face seriously and lengthy hospitalizations with uncertain outcomes.
That’s the kind of awful leadership Trump brings. He is even more unhinged and unwilling to listen to anyone who tells him what he needs to hear; he assumes that anyone who tells him differently isn’t a loyalist, so he will boot them. That means he’s surrounded solely by sycophantic suckups and yes-men - all of whom are there to loot and fleece the nation to benefit themselves and Trump personally and directly.
This year’s retreat for House GOP is Wednesday and Thursday in the Allegheny Mountains of WV. But no one wants to go. “Everybody’s tired.” one House Republican says. “I’d rather sit down with Hannibal Lecter and eat my own liver.” (Axios) pic.twitter.com/UFIrvofUpj
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) March 13, 2024
re: #48 Dangerman
Tfg: yeah I hired him and paid him a lot but i have no idea what a fixer does.
Only the best people!
I dun ok.
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— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) March 11, 2024
His core beliefs are still in tact though:
If they ever establish a Grifting Hall of Fame, Shaun’s easily a first-ballot choice. https://t.co/ACWWYWYpDu
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) March 12, 2024
re: #64 Belafon
Why is this asshole even a thing? It’s like Andrew Tate. I just don’t see the appeal.
re: #65 Nerdy Fish
He first emerged in the wake of Ferguson. He got a high profile for “fundraising” and criticizing the police in the STL region.
And almost as quickly questions arose about where the money was going - it wasn’t going to where it was promised.
And it’s gotten worse from there, as his profile kept rising, despite the questions about his background and conduct growing almost daily. He managed to get himself a spot writing for the Daily News, and that’s even as the questions about his financial conduct re: fundraising grew.
So yeah, failing upwards. And he still manages to get coverage of his crapulence.
re: #64 Belafon
Shaun King….ain’t this the guy people referred to as “Talcum X”?
re: #67 Dr Lizardo
Shaun King….ain’t this the guy people referred to as “Talcum X”?
One of the new nicknames is Cream Abdul-Jabbar.
I normally wouldn’t wonder off into that for reasons, but he’s such a grifter that people need to know his grift as possible.
Well, what do you know. Aaron Rodgers is a fully fledged Alex Jones Sandy Hook troofer who has pushed this crap for more than a decade.
No one noticed? Why was this withheld from the public for more than a decade?
CNN knows of two people with whom Rodgers has enthusiastically shared these stories, including with Pamela Brown, one of the journalists writing this piece.
Brown was covering the Kentucky Derby for CNN in 2013 when she was introduced to Rodgers, then with the Green Bay Packers, at a post-Derby party. Hearing that she was a journalist with CNN, Rodgers immediately began attacking the news media for covering up important stories. Rodgers brought up the tragic killing of 20 children and 6 adults by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School, claiming it was actually a government inside job and the media was intentionally ignoring it.
When Brown questioned him on the evidence to show this very real shooting was staged, Rodgers began sharing various theories that have been disproven numerous times. Such conspiracy theories were also later at the center of lawsuits brought by victims’ families when they sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the matter.
Jones baselessly repeating lies that the 2012 mass shooting was staged, and that the families and first responders were “crisis actors,” spawned multiple lawsuits and a trial was held in 2022 over lawsuits that were filed in Connecticut.
Family members throughout that trial described in poignant terms how the lies had prompted unrelenting harassment against them and compounded the emotional agony of losing their loved ones.
This is who RFK Jr is considering to be a running mate. This is likely to make it more likely RFK Jr. picks him. Just you watch.
re: #59 lawhawk
In the early days I was as fearful of everyone losing their fucking minds as I was of the virus itself.
It wasn’t just hamstering, it was people buying things out in the hopes of being able to hawk them later on at gouging prices. Because that is the Spirit of Free Enterprise manifesting itself.
In case you wanted to keep up with the latest trends. No word as of yet if the silk screening contains lead.
Trader Joe’s mini tote bags are the new Stanley cups. Not in the sense that they’re a thing you should put water in, which obviously would not work great with a canvas bag, but in the sense that they’re the latest mundane item to suddenly become all the rage. They are the “must have” accessory of the season that is in no way even close to a “must,” even if our hyperaccelerated consumer trend cycle makes it feel that way.
re: #69 lawhawk
Well, what do you know. Aaron Rodgers is a fully fledged Alex Jones Sandy Hook troofer who has pushed this crap for more than a decade.
No one noticed? Why was this withheld from the public for more than a decade?
It was withheld because, in the sports community, who a person is is generally less important than how good of a player they are. (Exceptions apply for Black people; see, e.g., Kaepernick, Colin.) There is an unspoken convention in sports reporting that there are certain things that you just don’t talk about. The same conventions don’t apply to political reporting; now that Aaron Rodgers is in the conversation as a potential VP candidate, all the ugly shit that sports writers kept under wraps is suddenly fair game.
re: #68 Belafon
One of the new nicknames is Cream Abdul-Jabbar.
I normally wouldn’t wonder off into that for reasons, but he’s such a grifter that people need to know his grift as possible.
Now look what you made me do! I gotta get some paper towelage……
re: #69 lawhawk
Well, what do you know. Aaron Rodgers is a fully fledged Alex Jones Sandy Hook troofer who has pushed this crap for more than a decade.
No one noticed? Why was this withheld from the public for more than a decade?
This is who RFK Jr is considering to be a running mate. This is likely to make it more likely RFK Jr. picks him. Just you watch.
Birds of as feather.
Been a while since I got the first and last right on the start and it didn’t end in utter failure amidst a small sea of possibilities…
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re: #67 Dr Lizardo
The list of Shaun King nicknames is legend… wait for it… dary:
A full list (and yeah, it’s xT):
THREAD: Here’s the definitive list of over 40 names you can call Shaun King that are spot on.
1) Talcolm X
2) Thurgood Partial
3) W.E.B. Du Blanc
4) Martin Luther Cream
5) Hueless P. Newton
6) Fraudrick Douglass
7) Mayo Angelou
8) Stevia Wonder— Ernest Owens (@MrErnestOwens) June 23, 2021
re: #75 (((Archangel1)))
Been a while since I got the first and last right on the start and it didn’t end in utter failure amidst a small sea of possibilities…
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What The F?
John Hinckley, 68, who shot and wounded president in 1981, hoped to play first gig as folk musician after previous show promoters pulled out
After he says a number of his concerts have been canceled at the last minute by the venues that planned to host them, the man who shot Ronald Reagan in 1981 is telling the public: “I stand for peace now.”
“I want people to know that I’m coming in peace,” John Hinckley said, according to the Connecticut news station WTNH.
The comments from Hinckley, 68, come as his attempt at a second act as a folk musician and painter has apparently run into hitches. Shows he was scheduled to perform in New York, in Chicago, in Virginia and in Hamden, Connecticut, had all reportedly been canceled late in their planning, with organizers citing security concerns and in one instance a threat against organizers.
A promoter, who says he was willing to give Hinckley a second chance despite his attempt to assassinate a US president, had booked him to play Hotel Huxley in Naugatuck, Connecticut, on 30 March - the 43rd anniversary of Reagan’s shooting.
If the show went ahead as scheduled, it would have marked Hinckley’s first ever live performance. And tickets were being sold as of Monday
re: #72 Nerdy Fish
But it was withheld despite his increasingly public persona outside football - hosting Jeopardy, doing stints on ESPN, etc.
Those media outlets didn’t manage due diligence, because if they had - I doubt they would have given him a platform.
CNBC is reporting that Former Treasury Secretary Mnuchin is putting together an investor group to buy TikTok.
re: #79 lawhawk
But it was withheld despite his increasingly public persona outside football - hosting Jeopardy, doing stints on ESPN, etc.
Those media outlets didn’t manage due diligence, because if they had - I doubt they would have given him a platform.
It should have barred him from going anywhere near Jeopardy!
re: #80 lawhawk
Oh great letting MANURECHIN get his hands on TikTok and turn it into another Xitter….
re: #80 lawhawk
CNBC is reporting that Former Treasury Secretary Mnuchin is putting together an investor group to buy TikTok.
Oy.
re: #76 lawhawk
The list of Shaun King nicknames is legend… wait for it… dary:
A full list (and yeah, it’s xT):
Paul Robesonofabitch
George Washington Beaver Cleaver
Alex Hayseed
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Hueless P. Newton,
Martin Luther Cream
W.E.B. Defraud
Tupac Sugar
Alexander Scamilton
Chaka Con
Snow J Simpson
Crooker T Washington
Lames Baldwin
Chalkus Garvey
Al-Bino Sharpton
oh the list goes on…the list goes on…
Online video platform Rumble (NASDAQ:RUM) generated business headlines earlier Tuesday morning as it stated it was ready — along with a group of other entities — to buy and operate TikTok in the U.S., which faces a legislative overhang. Subsequently, RUM stock popped sharply higher, gaining about 15% in early afternoon trading.
Lauren Boebert Opts Out of Special Election in New Congressional District
Despite Rep. Ken Buck’s decision to leave office early, the congresswoman said she wouldn’t leave her constituents to fight for his seat before the regular primary.
Her constituents reply “Aw shit…”
Are we surprised?
US firm that paid indicted FBI informant tied to Trump associates, records reveal
Alexander Smirnov was paid $600,000 in 2020 - the same year he allegedly began lying to FBI about Bidens’ role in Ukraine business
The credibility of House Republicans’ “star witness” against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, suffered a major blow when he was arrested for allegedly lying to the FBI and reports showed that he was getting information from Russian intelligence.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) and countless right-wing media pundits touted Smirnov as the person who could prove that President Biden was involved in a bribery scheme involving the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. But Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland — the Oversight Committee’s leading Democrat — told ABC News, “I think the Smirnov revelations destroy the entire case. Smirnov was the foundation of the whole thing. He was the one who came forward to say that Burisma had given Joe Biden $5 million, and that was just concocted in thin air.”
According to a report published by The Guardian on March 14, business filings and court documents show that Smirnov is “connected to a UK company owned by (Donald) Trump business associates in Dubai.”
re: #90 Joe Bacon ✅
The key graf:
According to a report published by The Guardian on March 14, business filings and court documents show that Smirnov is “connected to a UK company owned by (Donald) Trump business associates in Dubai.”
This was Trump dirty trick from start to end, and should result in more criminal charges.
re: #91 lawhawk
The key graf:
This was Trump dirty trick from start to end, and should result in more criminal charges.
Nobody could have predicted following the money would lead back to Trump…
Successful launch! Made it to orbit, no problems. Main engines shut down.
Good work.
re: #91 lawhawk
If there are tapes of Trump commissioning the Hunter scandal it would make for a hell of a lawsuit. And there are always tapes.
Anti-vax Pulpit Pimp who defied California masking orders shoots his mouth off again.
Preacher John MacArthur faces backlash after saying MLK was “not a Christian at all”
The conservative pastor doesn’t think Christianity used for social justice is real Christianity at all.
uh but his Xtianity that embraces Ayn Rand and Trump does…
A few weeks ago, on February 19 during Black History Month, fundamentalist Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church in California was asked how he felt about conservative Christian groups like The Gospel Coalition and Together for the Gospel.
MacArthur called The Gospel Coalition “woke”—which just shows you how unhelpful that word is since TGC routinely spreads decidedly right-wing, anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-sex propaganda—and he condemned Together for the Gospel (also an extremely conservative group) for honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. in 2018.
MacArthur told the audience that MLK was “not a Christian at all” and that the late civil rights leader was “a nonbeliever who misrepresented everything about Christ and the gospel.”
Consider a bigger lie MacArthur has told about MLK: He previously said, on multiple occasions, that he (MacArthur) was preaching in Mississippi with Black church leaders, including Medgar Evers’ brother Charlie, the night MLK was assassinated. MacArthur said, “literally within hours after Dr. King was assassinated, we were at the Lorraine Motel, standing on the balcony where he was shot.” But that account has been thoroughly discredited by many of the people who would have been there.
MacArthur has also argued that the “Curse of Ham” was justification for slavery. (In Genesis, Ham curses his son Canaan by saying all his descendants would be slaves.) Other Christians in the past have used this story to justify racism against people with dark skin.
Beyond all this, MacArthur has a long history of lying in the name of Jesus to gullible Christians who just accept it as truth. He has previously denied climate change, saying “God intended us to use this planet” and that “it is a disposable planet.” He openly celebrated the lack of social distancing and face masks in his congregation during the height of COVID, once telling a packed house, “the good news is you’re here, you’re not distancing, and you’re not wearing masks.” In August of 2020, he falsely claimed, “There is no pandemic.” (That October, there was an outbreak at his church.) He has also said “no one is gay.”
The point is: He’s a conspiracy theorist who regurgitates lies and tells ignorant people they are actually facts.
re: #91 lawhawk
The key graf:
This was Trump dirty trick from start to end, and should result in more criminal charges.
Except that it would take forever to prove Trump was aware of and contributed to it. I could easily see that the people who wanted Trump elected because he’s stupid and easily controlled would just do it themselves without even telling him.
re: #45 Nerdy Fish
Smooth sailing the whole way.
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Hey Aaron, not sure if you’ll see this, but I figure the best chance is to put it here on Twitter, where it will hopefully be sandwiched between a tweet claiming the measles vaccine makes children gay and an ad for a cryptocurrency scam.
— Mark Bankston (@BankstonAtLaw) March 14, 2024
Being a poor schmuck who latches onto claptrap maybe isn’t the biggest sin in this day and age, but I can’t fathom how on earth you manufactured the confidence to think you have something useful to offer to any of these discussions.
— Mark Bankston (@BankstonAtLaw) March 14, 2024
4/6 played on my tablet today
Wordle 999 4/6
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re: #106 Vicious Babushka
American leaders calling for regime change in the Middle East. This never works.
re: #109 Vicious Babushka
Wow, she’s busting at the seams.
re: #36 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿
Your next Wordle left a manhole cover off on the Via Appia.
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3 here too.
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re: #109 Vicious Babushka
And a happy Pi day to you too. And that pie looks great.
She has a primary coming up and this is good for her to say. https://t.co/rrN4AugQoT
— Candidly Tiff (@tify330) March 13, 2024
But y’all keep assuring us Black people are gonna vote for Trump. https://t.co/5SIUkFXBni
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) March 13, 2024
NEW: The Biden administration is imposing sanctions on two illegal outposts in the occupied West Bank that were used as a base for attacks by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians.
https://t.co/teEpYC2yDa— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) March 14, 2024
Speaker Jesusbot starting to waffle on Ukraine aid…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told Republican senators Wednesday to expect the House to send them legislation to help Ukraine, but cautioned that what comes out of the House will look substantially different than the $95 billion foreign aid package the Senate passed last month.
Johnson tried to reassure frustrated GOP senators who asked him about funding for Ukraine during a question-and-answer session at the annual Senate Republican retreat, which was held at the Library of Congress.
Johnson told senators that the House will send a Ukraine aid package to the Senate but floated the idea of making it a loan or lend-lease program so U.S. taxpayers would not be shelling out tens of billions of dollars without any expectation of getting a return, according to senators who participated in the discussion.
The Speaker also talked about including something similar to the REPO for Ukrainians Act, sponsored by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), which would authorize the confiscation of Russian sovereign assets and deposit the proceeds of liquidated property into a Ukraine support fund, senators said.
Notably, Johnson did not say whether such a Ukraine aid package would include tough border security reforms, such as “Remain in Mexico” language, which would face opposition from Senate Democrats.
Johnson gave Republican senators a pathway for helping Ukraine a day after he came under pressure from Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to bring the Senate-passed package funding Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to the House floor.
re: #95 darthstar
If there are tapes of Trump commissioning the Hunter scandal it would make for a hell of a lawsuit. And there are always tapes.
There would not be anything direct, just “Will novody remove this meddlesome Biden?”
re: #116 BlueSpotinAL ✅
There would not be anything direct, just “Will novody remove this meddlesome Biden?”
and it was later discovered that TFG demanded to use a paper check and sign it personally
re: #116 BlueSpotinAL ✅
There would not be anything direct, just “Will novody remove this meddlesome Biden?”
You’re talking about Nixon. We’re talking about Trump. Of course he’s directly said it.
A lot has changed in the time since Gerald Ford was president and Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple. But here’s something that hasn’t changed much: the pace at which car insurance rates are rising.Car insurance rates are up almost 21% for the 12 months ended in February, according to new Consumer Price Index data released Tuesday. The last time car insurance rates rose that much on an annual basis was 1976, not counting January, which saw the same annual rate increases.
The rise in car insurance rates alone contributed half a percentage point to the overall 3.2% inflation rate last month. It represents one of many obstacles standing in the way of the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation goal and continues to be a pain point for Americans struggling with some of the highest prices in decades.
re: #120 Shropshire Slasher
Along with that, and part of the reason for that, is GM has been selling OnStar data to insurance companies who have been using it to figure out the rate to set on owners of GM cars. You have to opt out of that feature.
re: #125 Belafon
Along with that, and part of the reason for that, is GM has been selling OnStar data to insurance companies who have been using it to figure out the rate to set on owners of GM cars. You have to opt out of that feature.
I look at it as new car owners are underwriting older vehicle owners that don’t have this technology.
re: #121 jeffreyw
That looks good! (the food picture). What is it? Looks like a curry.
re: #98 darthstar
After far right party in Netherlands won in Nov, their leader won’t become PM. Coalition still in formation 4 months after election
They didn’t “win”, they just got the most votes of any party, but not even 25% of the total. And nobody wants to coalition with Wilders as the leader.
re: #122 darthstar
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re: #106 Vicious Babushka
ETA- Thank you for posting this! And please understand that none of the blunt critique below is addressed at our esteemed VB! With whom I find myself in agreement.
(Plus that picture of the cherry pie is absolutely mouth-watering!)
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The unspoken part is US Domestic politics.
It seems to me that Biden is trying to wind down this mess before it adversely affects the November US elections. Certainly, Putin, Iran and Trump would be happy to see the US mired in a bloody mess just before the elections.
There is likely concern that Netanyahu, firmly in the authoritarian camp with Trump, is fine with that as well.
The Biden administration certainly remembers how Netanyahu insulted Obama in January, 2015 and again in May, 2016. Unlike the country of Israel, Netanyahu has few, if any, friends in the Biden Administration. Or among Democrats in general.
One observation… It is generally considered a very bad idea to burn bridges with major sections of your supporting major power. And worse, to participate in the internal politics of that state.
re: #129 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Kneel on the floor and back the cat between your legs when you need to give it a pill. Cats are dangerously sharp on five out of six ends, but they’re pretty easy to safely restrain if you’re not just using your arms.
This was so she’s slightly sedated for her mani pedi in a half hour.
I felt really bad about letting the lawn and back yard go to shit, until the Internet told me I could save the planet through “wilding”.
re: #132 Decatur Deb
I felt really bad about letting the lawn and back yard go to shit, until the Internet told me I could save the planet through “wilding”.
You get fined for that by the village where I used to have a house.
re: #132 Decatur Deb
I felt really bad about letting the lawn and back yard go to shit, until the Internet told me I could save the planet through “wilding”.
One of my neighbors decided to try that by filling his pool with lawn debris. I don’t know if it helped the local ecology. But it certainly gave some of the neighbors lots of stuff to talk about.
And there was a University professor who lived on Murray Ave in Pittsburgh way back in the 1970s who, one year, decided to remove the front yard grass and plant corn/maize. Great conversational topic. But I think that raccoons and passersby got the entire harvest.
re: #82 Joe Bacon ✅
Oh great letting MANURECHIN get his hands on TikTok and turn it into another Xitter….
The guy who produced The Accountant would not do that. He’s a capitalist with no morals or ethics, not an ideologue or RW conspiracist. A man more akin to Zuck than Elon. It’s the bottomline that attracts him. Now, that might not be true of his investors, but we will have to see.
re: #133 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
You get fined for that by the village where I used to have a house.
It takes a village to raise complete assholes.
re: #137 Decatur Deb
It takes a village to raise complete assholes.
Used to. Now it just takes an HOA.
re: #132 Decatur Deb
I felt really bad about letting the lawn and back yard go to shit, until the Internet told me I could save the planet through “wilding”.
essentially what we’ve done here
(no HOA)
still mow the front in deference to the neighbors
it costs us almost nothing to maintain it
gas for an hour to mow, no fertilizers or chemicals
havent watered lawn grass in 20 years
it’s florida. shit just grows
ripping it out would be more expensive and damaging to ‘the environment’ than leaving it alone.
re: #132 Decatur Deb
I felt really bad about letting the lawn and back yard go to shit, until the Internet told me I could save the planet through “wilding”.
I refer to my yard as “biodiverse”.
I live in Arizona, my front yard is rocks and cactuses.
re: #134 darthstar
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The price begins at 1.5 million rubles ($16,400). Average Russian wage is 700 rubles per month.
Something there isn’t right?
The average Russian makes around $7.65 per month? The know how to stretch a ruble, if that is the case.
re: #139 Dangerman
I stopped mowing when my mower threw a belt and I was too beat up to fix it. Wife found a local guy who does minimal mowing/weed whacking for 75/wk, and we’ve never ditched him. Getting back to it would be a recovery goal.
re: #141 IngisKahn
I live in Arizona, my front yard is rocks and cactuses.
“Xeroculture”, if you want make a virtue of it.
re: #121 jeffreyw
Looks about right. Cats gets space, let the dogs pile
re: #144 Decatur Deb
“Xeroculture”, if you want make a virtue of it.
Now my backyard is all vice: palm trees and fruit trees. No grass though.
We have no mow May here in upstate NY, 79 of my 80 acres I follow that year round.
I will never understand how and why Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists continue to torture the parents who suffered the worst tragedy imaginable. It’s just unconscionable. https://t.co/3zhHPtRvBw
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) March 14, 2024
re: #148 DodgerFan1988
It is. In their minds “My Gun > Your Kid”.
Heh.
Justin Trudeau’s ex-wife has said women ‘shouldn’t expect the minimum’ in what may have been a veiled swipe at the Canadian prime minister.
Sophie Gregoire, 48, spoke about love, trauma and her battle with bulimia on the Know Your Value podcast earlier this week.
Her appearance on the pod came as she found love with an Ottowa pediatric surgeon towards the end of her 18-year marriage with Trudeau in August 2023.
re: #149 Belafon
It is. In their minds “My Gun > Your Kid”.
And then if you ask them, “Well, what about ‘My Gun > My Kid’,” they’d say, “Well, it’ll never be my kid, so that doesn’t matter.”
re: #132 Decatur Deb
I felt really bad about letting the lawn and back yard go to shit, until the Internet told me I could save the planet through “wilding”.
My backyard really is the shit yard, but I keep the front up for appearances… *
*the neighborhood HOA demands picture perfect lawns in front, so I do the regular trim, pre emergent and feed routine out there, while in back I have two Aussies so it really is literally the shit yard… you don’t go out there without wearing shoes that can be hosed off. I do a regular poop patrol, but at my age it’s not frequent enough.
re: #142 b.d.
The price begins at 1.5 million rubles ($16,400). Average Russian wage is 700 rubles per month.
Something there isn’t right?
The average Russian makes around $7.65 per month? The know how to stretch a ruble, if that is the case.
I think you got your decimals misplaced, it’s closer to $765 per month
Trump campaign blames faulty ‘algorithms’ for placing ads on Nazi videoshttps://t.co/YJu1l4xanF
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 14, 2024
re: #154 Vicious Babushka
Ottawa’s new restrictions on kosher slaughter violate Canadian Jews’ Charter rights: lawsuit
New conditions smothering Canada’s kosher meat industry, says claim, while regular slaughter avoids the same scrutiny
Gemany had similar issues with Halal meats
re: #146 IngisKahn
same here, no grass, but drought tolerant trees and shrubs here. We’re out in the foothills and have some acreage, so we try and set up run-off pools for the wildlife and be creative with the landscape. As rocky as it is, we’ve considered using wire cages construction (gambion?) with handling erosion and water channeling. We’ve backed off of the cholla close to the house and general traffic areas but allowed the jojoba to run amok. Still, the desert has its own beauty.
re: #32 sagehen
I really enjoyed it; but maybe that’s just ‘cause I have a crush on the guys who play Lucifer and Amenadiel. There’s some interesting philosophy/theology, but not until later seasons. The first couple of years, it’s run-of-the-mill police procedural with likable characters.
I’d tell someone thinking about watching it to invest 10 minutes to watch the beginning of the first episode. I that one scene got my attention so well I couldn’t not keep watching.
re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
16400/1.5e6*700 = 7.65
Ripping it out to put it back in. Just a different box with different ends.
re: #158 Oblongatis
I’d tell someone thinking about watching it to invest 10 minutes to watch the beginning of the first episode. I that one scene got my attention so well I couldn’t not keep watching.
I remember going bonkers over him starting to play a song on the piano which I recognized but could not name…it was right on the tip of my tongue for some days until I managed to recall enough fits and snatches of the lyrics to identify it as King of Pain by the Police.
re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Gemany had similar issues with Halal meats
It is possible to be a 100% religious Jew while also being a vegetarian or vegan. This is a personal choice that many people have made for themselves. However I believe that veganism or vegetarianism should not be forced on people who don’t want it.
What evidence is there that the animal does not suffer more from having a bolt shot between the eyes as opposed to the stroke of a super-sharp knife.
re: #155 Captain Ron
Trump campaign blames faulty ‘algorithms’ for placing ads on Nazi videos
and thou shalt know them by their algorithms…
re: #32 sagehen
I really enjoyed it; but maybe that’s just ‘cause I have a crush on the guys who play Lucifer and Amenadiel. There’s some interesting philosophy/theology, but not until later seasons. The first couple of years, it’s run-of-the-mill police procedural with likable characters.
The one thing to me that made it worth it is Lucifer admonishing people over and over for saying “The Devil made me do it.” “No, I didn’t.”
re: #127 Vicious Babushka
That looks good! (the food picture). What is it? Looks like a curry.
Yep, it’s a curry that has been living with us for a couple of weeks. When the pot gets low I toss in some more stuff. Latest additions were small red potatoes that were starting to leaf out.
This is where it started.
re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and thou shalt know them by their algorithms…
The faulty algorithms are in MAGA brainstems.
re: #166 Decatur Deb
The faulty algorithms are in MAGA brainstems.
It also shows that they are opting for the cheapest possible solutions because they have other more pressing expenses to cover
I like meat, I don’t like thinking about how it ends up in my crock pot.
St. Patrick’s day is this Sunday, get your corned beef while you can!!!!
re: #169 Vicious Babushka
That is absolutely ridiculous and yet there are going to be a lot of people who believe it.
re: #142 b.d.
The price begins at 1.5 million rubles ($16,400). Average Russian wage is 700 rubles per month.
Something there isn’t right?
The average Russian makes around $7.65 per month? The know how to stretch a ruble, if that is the case.
Read online that the average annual Russian salary is 1,240,000 rubles. Seems more in line with price of car.
re: #169 Vicious Babushka
Hillary Clinton is actually a Chinese man
what nonsense, everyone knows she is a lizardoid alien changeling
re: #170 PhillyPretzel ✅
That is absolutely ridiculous and yet there are going to be a lot of people who believe it.
It’s a joke.
re: #151 Nerdy Fish
And then if you ask them, “Well, what about ‘My Gun > My Kid’,” they’d say, “Well, it’ll never be my kid, so that doesn’t matter.”
But when their kid accidentally kills themselves or another, it’s always “God’s” will and does not lead to a re-examination of their gun worship.
re: #173 Vicious Babushka
Good. I could use a good laugh.
An 80-year-old man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two felony wildlife crimes connected to his years-long efforts to create giant hybrid sheep using cloning and illegal insemination, federal prosecutors said.Arthur “Jack” Schubarth was creating the hybrid sheep as a target for hunters at private facilities, officials said. He violated both international and federal law, Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division said.
“This was an audacious scheme to create massive hybrid sheep species to be sold and hunted as trophies,” Kim said in a statement.
Schubarth, who owns a 215-acre alternative livestock ranch in Montana, conspired with several others starting in 2013, officials said. They were working to create a large hybrid species of sheep to sell to game ranches.
The Montana man brought parts of the Marco Polo argali sheep, which can weigh more than 300 pounds, into the U.S. from Kyrgyzstan without declaring the importation, authorities said. The sheep species is protected internationally by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and protected domestically by the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The species, which is the largest type of sheep in the world, is prohibited in Montana as a way of protecting native sheep from disease and hybridization.
photos:
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You can be Arnold and have Total Recall when you get into a Jonny Cab!
Google’s Waymo starting test rides in Los Angeles
re: #30 William Lewis
IOW, Satan as personified in a breathy feminine voice. Evil personified.
Has anyone actually watched the “Lucifer” series? I’ve noticed a few shorts on youtube that look good. Is it as good as they make it look?
It was derived from the Neil Gaiman comic book of the same name, which in itself was from a character from Sandman. The first season toyed with the concepts of the devil abandoning Hell for Los Angeles, with Mazikeen as a sidekick (without the missing half of her face), but turned into the familiar-since-Moonlighting trope of the whole will they/won’t they romance tension.
Still, there’s some good stuff, particularly the episode that shows what Hell really is: re-living the worst day of your life, over and over again.
Neil Gaiman does a cameo as the literal Voice Of God. So there’s that as well.
re: #182 Joe Bacon ✅
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re: #177 Joe Bacon ✅
You can be Arnold and have Total Recall when you get into a Jonny Cab!
Google’s Waymo starting test rides in Los Angeles
And again, this is why Uber and Lyft don’t care a fig about their drivers, they are merely placeholders until they can get their system of driverless cabs up and running full time.
re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And again, this is why Uber and Lyft don’t care a fig about their drivers, they are merely placeholders until they can get their system of driverless cabs up and running full time.
Driverless cabs may still be a long way off. A lot of people want them to be perfect, rather than better than human drivers, and that’s not possible.
Trump’s RNC officially kills the GOP’s mail-in voter effort
In a victory for the extremist wing of the Republican Party, it looks like Donald Trump’s hand-picked leadership team at the Republican National Committee has officially scrapped the GOP’s plan to encourage early voting this election cycle. Instead, the party is taking steps to prioritize legal challenges to voting systems ahead of November.
msnbc.com
re: #185 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Driverless cabs may still be a long way off. A lot of people want them to be perfect, rather than better than human drivers, and that’s not possible.
Perfectly safe in any case.
re: #154 Vicious Babushka
I understand both means of slaughter and consider both humane, but if a psycho-killer were to ask me to pick my death, either death through cutting my throat vs death by bolt gun, Ima gonna pick…
re: #186 jaunte
the [GOP] is taking steps to prioritize legal challenges to voting systems ahead of November.
that is their strategy, get so many votes disqualified or disrupted so that neither candidate has an EC majority: then it goes to the House delegations where the GOP holds a majority.
It is their only path to victory.
re: #185 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Driverless cabs may still be a long way off. A lot of people want them to be perfect, rather than better than human drivers, and that’s not possible.
Since when has a technology company ever waited for a product to be perfect before putting it out to the market? The whole idea is to get your customers to do the testing and quality control. They fix the problems in V 2.0
re: #188 Randall Gross
I understand both means of slaughter and consider both humane, but if a psycho-killer were to ask me to pick my death, either death through cutting my throat vs death by bolt gun, Ima gonna pick…
falling out of an airplane
Space-X has lost Starship.
Just now on CNN
re: #193 Dave In Austin
Space-X has lost Starship.
Just now on CNN
If this were a NASA project I would feel sad. But this is just Elon Musk so fuck him.
re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It fell in a lake and locked up…
re: #158 Oblongatis
I’d tell someone thinking about watching it to invest 10 minutes to watch the beginning of the first episode. I that one scene got my attention so well I couldn’t not keep watching.
Just did. Oh, boy. Yeah, I’m hooked.
re: #179 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Neil Gaiman does a cameo as the literal Voice Of God. So there’s that as well.
Many years ago (around 1999?) I suddenly noticed that someone had built The Grand Lux Cafe into the southeast corner of the Beverly Center right on the border of Beverly Hills/mid-city LA. I lived a block from there for a while; actually was there for the famous Depeche Mode riots back in 1990.
In the comics (and in the series), Lucifer runs the Lux - a clear reference to Lucifer as the “Lightbringer” in the cosmology. I’m almost certain that some big fan of the Gaiman book built out the Grand Lux as a kind of inside joke for all us Vertigo comics nerds.
It was quite nice inside. A little overpriced. But the Devil’s Food cake on the menu was spectacular, as well it should be.
Close a few years ago.
re: #150 Shropshire Slasher
So you’re in favor of Canada’s trump, Poilievre, the asshole who hates immigrants, inspires hate, another right-wing populist asshole.
Why am I not surprised?
re: #188 Randall Gross
I understand both means of slaughter and consider both humane, but if a psycho-killer were to ask me to pick my death, either death through cutting my throat vs death by bolt gun, Ima gonna pick…
..Anton Chigurh?
re: #197 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Grand Lux was a Cheesecake Factory concept restaurant. Oh yeah that devil’s food cake with vanilla bean ice cream…memories of Hamburger Hamlet’s Hot Fudge Cake!!!!!!
As the saying goes, if you’re having to explain your “I will eat your ass” post, you’re losing. pic.twitter.com/b8yyxGmwzU
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re: #185 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Driverless cabs may still be a long way off. A lot of people want them to be perfect, rather than better than human drivers, and that’s not possible.
I dunno: to me, that use of technology is inherently flawed. I can’t ever read about “driverless cabs” without thinking of the episode of the (short-lived, but decent) series Extant where they killed off Goran Visnjic’s character: when the Sinister Conspiracy locked him into a driverless cab, then stalled it on a railroad crossing in front of an oncoming train. Angela Chao might understand….
re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that is their strategy, get so many votes disqualified or disrupted so that neither candidate has an EC majority: then it goes to the House delegations where the GOP holds a majority.
It is their only path to victory.
A friend from high school — so have known her for over 60 years — is a rabid anti-Biden fanatic, which I know only from subtle hints and not from our conversations which tend to be nonpolitical. It was not from her FB page — which, again, is non political — but because FB will also show you comments that friends make on public facing sites. For example, she thinks that John Kass has insight into issues and doesn’t understand why Biden supporters just don’t share that perspective.
Hated John Kass for decades — He is a former columnist for the Chicago Tribune, who thought he’d be the next Mike Royko, a task at which he failed spectacularly. Only the family type columns were entertaining (like how his children refused to eat anything that wasn’t beige) but when he ventured into politics it was clear that he was always hard right.
re: #190 sizzzzlerz
Since when has a technology company ever waited for a product to be perfect before putting it out to the market? The whole idea is to get your customers to do the testing and quality control. They fix the problems in V 2.0
When deploying to public roads, you need government approval.
re: #205 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
When deploying to public roads, you need government approval.
If the product actually kills people in spectacular ways, you may find your company in serious and perhaps terminal trouble.
re: #203 Jay C
I dunno: to me, that use of technology is inherently flawed. I can’t ever read about “driverless cabs” without thinking of the episode of the (short-lived, but decent) series Extant where they killed off Goran Visnjic’s character: when the Sinister Conspiracy locked him into a driverless cab, then stalled it on a railroad crossing in front of an oncoming train. Angela Chao might understand….
schwarzenegger did that in Eraser with much lower tech.
he drove a limo onto the tracks, locked the back doors so the passengers couldnt get out, and he walked away
re: #207 Hecuba’s daughter
If the product actually kills people in spectacular ways, you may find your company in serious and perhaps terminal trouble.
lawn darts //
re: #207 Hecuba’s daughter
If the product actually kills people in spectacular ways, you may find your company in serious and perhaps terminal trouble.
Not if you make guns. The government could enable deployment of self-driving cabs by giving them the same immunity. They shouldn’t, but they could.
re: #210 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Not if you make guns. The government could enable deployment of self-driving cabs by giving them the same immunity. They shouldn’t, but they could.
But they use the 2nd Amendment to protect guns. Cars don’t have the same Constitutional rights.
re: #209 Dangerman
lawn darts //
When I bought a house about 20 years ago, I found lawn darts and a tiny bit of ancient weed hidden above a suspended ceiling. Someone left their illicit stash behind.
The CNN piece on Rodgers and Sandy Hook has him saying both that the shootings were “a government inside job” and that they “never happened.” He denies claiming they “never happened” but doesn’t deny saying they were an “inside job.”
Yes, it’s smug, but it’s also very careful. https://t.co/bm2Yr0ZnXq— Mike Rothschild (no relation) (@rothschildmd) March 14, 2024
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