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I drove through Buffalo the 2nd week of February 1977 one sunny afternoon & marveled at the parking lots still full of buried cars, with only their antennas sticking out of the massive snow drifts. The snow had accumulated over the preceding 2-3 months of a really bad winter.
#5
^ I can laugh at that because I don't have to fly anywhere.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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I saw on the television at the gym this morning that he is asking people for suggestions and said that he is open to anything.
It is hard to imagine a worse declaration of complete incompetence by the "Secretary of Transportation."
Posted by: Tom ||
12/28/2022 14:35 Comments ||
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#7
Tom, his most important qualification is that he is gay.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
12/28/2022 16:47 Comments ||
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#8
Pete is an icon more so than a leader. The media personalities venerate him. We profane him. The real issue is that they probably let him chose his own staff. Alternatively, competent people identified that he was unqualified and uninterested and stayed away. Regardless, he will not be well served by soliciting ideas from the entirety of the American populace as workable suggestions will be less than 1% and more than half of the submissions will be crazy of malicious.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
12/28/2022 17:10 Comments ||
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#9
My suggestion: Bend over. Grab your ankles. Now, squeal like a pig, boy...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/28/2022 17:26 Comments ||
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#10
What, Buttplug isn't on maternity leave or just on leave?
What transports as, gaily, that man
With that name showed us, daily, his plan...
And his can, to distract us!
The endgame? He packed us
In! Why? "To Move Man." Cue the banned.
[Garowe] The current payroll of Somalia is full of ghost workers, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has made the admission, noting that people have been defrauding the government by earning unjustifiably from some of the money which is being sent by international donors key among them World Bank.
According to him, almost two-thirds of the country's 5000 civil servants do not report to work and cannot be traced but they earn from taxpayers. He said the government will soon carry out an audit and expose the gaps which have led to the loss of millions of dollars annually.
The president said that only 1,500 civil servants report to work every day and added that the rest do not exist or they live out of the country and while abroad and never came to work, they are still paid monthly.
"They are thieves and their superiors who accepted this scheme are also thieves. They are simply stealing public money," he said. "We call them..Democrats"
Recently, the Auditor General exposed vulnerabilities within various departments which could not account for their budgets. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... several reports previously warned that lack of transparency and limited supervision could lead to donor funding ending up in private individuals' pockets.
In his own admission, the president, for instance, said a number of public officials have been travelling to Mecca for Hajj using taxpayers' money contrary to provisions of the Public Financial Management Act which lays down the foundation of government spending.
"These officials who stole the public money got dressed and went to the mosque with a robe and a turban on their shoulders. Others bought plane tickets with the money they stole from the government and travelled to perform Umrah or Hajj. It is not possible," Mohamud said.
Somalia, along with Syria, ranked next-to-last, scoring 13 on the CPI on a scale from 0 ["highly corrupt"] to 100 ["highly clean"] in Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index, which measures the perception of public sector corruption of 180 countries around the world.
There are weak systems in terms of the management of public resources and in many instances, public officials do not account for money allocated to their offices. The president insisted that his administration will try to fix the gaps for the sake of positive growth in public service.
[YouTube] China building Bio Weapon that can target people based on race. China has been amassing a disturbing amount of genetic data from the rest of the world, and it's been doing it for something nightmarish.
WASHINGTON - Iraq's bioweapons program that President Bush wants to eradicate got its start with help from the United States two decades ago, according to government records getting new scrutiny in light of the discussion of war against Iraq.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent samples directly to several Iraqi sites that United Nations weapons inspectors determined were part of Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program, CDC and congressional records from the early 1990s show.
Iraq had ordered the samples, claiming it needed them for legitimate medical research.
The CDC and a biological sample company, American Type Culture Collection, sent strains of all the germs Iraq used to make weapons, including anthrax, the bacteria that make botulinum toxin and the germs that cause gas gangrene, the records show. Iraq also got samples of other deadly pathogens, including West Nile virus.
The transfers came in the 1980s, when the United States supported Iraq in its war with Iran. They were detailed in a 1994 Senate Banking Committee report and a 1995 follow-up letter from the CDC to the Senate.
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Like modifying a coronavirus, Ebola, Sickle Cell, AIDS, or any race focused genetic disease to be < 1/5 deadly swift and easily spread transmitted like a cold. Then focusing on threat areas, areas for take over and planned colonization.
So would the CCP target be the Middle East or Africa?
#4
The future: "Remember when there was lots of cheap labor?
Good times..."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/28/2022 8:53 Comments ||
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#3 ^
Why would the CCP attack the USA, a major customer/consumer/supporter of their produced items and a country they hold $2+TRILLION of the USA National debt on?
Then ask how likely is this USA Admin to retaliate.
If the CCP had "another lab-bat accident" and the population of the lower half of Africa started to die off due to a "new" strain of something getting loose that primarily targets that population?
#6
Seems kinda stupid when the core Chinese are from one ethnic group.
Posted by: Herb Unereng9917 ||
12/28/2022 13:10 Comments ||
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aside from the scientific challenge of constructing a race specific virus there is the problem of virus mutating
given how China has handled the problem of Covid within its border, you have to wonder how many standard deviations of insane they would have to be to build this out
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
12/28/2022 13:49 Comments ||
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China building Bio Weapon that can target people based on race.
I'll make it easy for 'em to target French Canadians like myself - fentanyl-laced Labatt's and sheet rock.
#9
Why would the CCP attack the USA, a major customer/consumer/supporter of their produced items and a country they hold $2+TRILLION of the USA National debt on?
You think so because you grew up in a more or less capitalist society, where win-win is the ultimate goal. They think themselves the inevitable successor to the decadent American state, making a short, sharp war that they naturally win the necessary in-between stage.
Surely not. We were definitively assured, when President Trump proposed exactly that, that it would be disgustingly racist.
[Bloomberg via Gateway] The US government is considering imposing new Covid restriction on travelers from China.
China recently ended its Draconian ’zero Covid’ policy following violent protests.
According to reports, China is experiencing a new wave of Covid infections.
The US may impose new Covid restrictions on travelers from China such as requiring a negative Covid test upon arrival. What about the Chinese anal probe? Turnabout is fair play
Bloomberg News reported:
The US is considering taking new coronavirus precautions for people traveling from China, which has seen a rapid rise in infections as officials lift Covid Zero restrictions.
US officials said the government is concerned about the surge of cases in China, and has raised questions about the transparency of data the country is reporting about the spread of the virus. The officials requested anonymity to discuss internal thinking.
Japan is now requiring a negative Covid-19 test upon arrival for travelers from China, while Malaysia has imposed new tracking and surveillance measures. The US is weighing similar steps, the officials said, as a way to prevent further spread.
Discontent with Covid Zero sparked protests in China, leading authorities to move rapidly toward ending those policies and three years of self-isolation from the rest of the world. Yet the speed of those changes has seen infections surge.
US officials said they were considering new travel precautions based on consultations with public health experts and international partners. They said the talks have been prompted in part by concerns over the lack of genomic sequencing data that could help identify the emergence of a new variant.
#2
Yes, and the gummint is still working around the clock to make sure you can lose your job over the jab but anyone who wants to come over the southern border unvaccinated can do so.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/28/2022 7:57 Comments ||
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Why this is so completely different from President Trump's embargo is completely beyond me. Except that, of course, the media are corrupt and short-sighted above all else.
Posted by: Tom ||
12/28/2022 14:37 Comments ||
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Isn't there some kind of a saying about a horse and a barn door?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
12/28/2022 16:45 Comments ||
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Why would anyone trust Covid negative tests administered by the CCP? Remember when they sent the Covid missile flights to Tuscany while they were internally locked down and Nancy was hugging folks in China Town?
Posted by: Super Hose ||
12/28/2022 23:15 Comments ||
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[ZERO] China had made clear its biological weapons ambitions long before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Wenstrup together with Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) released a report (pdf) on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic on Dec. 14.
"Our State Department has put things out over the past, even going back to 2005, that China is interested in offensive bioweapons," Wenstrup told the "Capitol Report" program on NTD, the sister media outlet of the Epoch Times, on Dec. 16.
The lawmaker singled out the work of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)’s Fifth Institute of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS), the military’s top medical research body.
"In 2005, the U.S. State Department publicly stated the U.S. assessment that China also operates an offensive biological weapons program, specifically identifying two Chinese entities as likely involved, one of which is the Fifth Institute. In a 2006 declaration of compliance with the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, China acknowledged that the Fifth Institute specifically conducts research on SARS coronaviruses," the report reads.
#6
I worked at a dairy foods plant years ago and they were already reaching the limits of the local electrical grid. They had an on-site diesel fuelling station for their local delivery trucks and semi-trailers ...how would they 'quick charge' all of their New and Improved™ electric trucks?
#1
Given the record of what happened to aboriginal people exposed to outsiders who've been through countless pathogens of 'civilization', I suspect its just as likely what they find dies.
[NYPOST] These ancient crustaceans are meager in size but mighty in history.
A colony of prehistoric triops, a tadpole shrimp that’s existed for hundreds of millions of years, was beautifully captured by tourist Adar Leibovitch in Arizona recently.
The 29-year-old computer engineer from Israel spotted the so-called “living fossil” at the landmark rock formation the Wave, which spans the border of Utah and the Grand Canyon State.
Fossil records show that triops evolved when earth was dominated by the former supercontinent Gondwana, which formed during the late Neoproterozoic era, about 550 million years ago — and now incorporates present-day South America, Africa, East Asia, Australia and Antarctica.
[USNInews] The following is the Dec. 21, 2022, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Constellation (FFG-62) Class Frigate (Previously FFG[X]) Program: Background and Issues for Congress.
From the report
The Navy began procuring Constellation (FFG-62) class frigates (FFGs) in FY2020, and wants to procure a total of 20 FFG-62s. Congress funded the first FFG-62 in FY2020, the second in FY2021, and the third in FY2022. The Navy’s proposed FY2023 budget requests the procurement of the fourth FFG-62.
The Navy’s FY2023 budget submission estimates the procurement cost of the fourth FFG-62 at $1,091.2 (i.e., about $1.1 billion). The ship has received $6.0 million in prior-year advance procurement (AP) funding. The Navy’s proposed FY2023 budget requests the remaining $1,085.2 million needed to complete the ship’s estimated procurement cost. The Navy’s proposed FY2023 budget also requests $74.9 million in AP funding for FFG-62s to be procured in future fiscal years.
Four industry teams competed for the FFG-62 program. On April 30, 2020, the Navy announced that it had awarded the FFG-62 contract to the team led by Fincantieri/Marinette Marine (F/MM) of Marinette, WI. F/MM was awarded a fixed-price incentive (firm target) contract for Detail Design and Construction (DD&C) for up to 10 ships in the program—the lead ship plus nine option ships. The other three industry teams reportedly competing for the program were led by Austal USA of Mobile, AL; General Dynamics/Bath Iron Works (GD/BIW) of Bath, ME; and Huntington Ingalls Industries/Ingalls Shipbuilding (HII/Ingalls) of Pascagoula, MS.
As part of its action on the Navy’s FY2020-FY2022 budgets, Congress has passed provisions relating to U.S. content requirements for certain components of each FFG-62 class ship, as well as a provision requiring the Navy to conduct a land-based test program for the FFG-62’s engineering plant (i.e., its propulsion plant and associated machinery).
The FFG-62 program presents several potential oversight issues for Congress, including the following:
the Navy’s emerging force-level goal for frigates and other small surface combatants;the reduction in the FFG-62 program’s programmed procurement rate under the Navy’s FY2023 five-year (FY2023-FY2027) shipbuilding plan;
the accuracy of the Navy’s estimated unit procurement cost for FFG-62s, particularly when compared to the known unit procurement costs of other recent U.S. surface combatants;
whether to build FFG-62s at a single shipyard at any one time (the Navy’s baseline plan), or at two shipyards;
whether the Navy has appropriately defined the required capabilities and growth margin for FFG-62s;
whether to take any further legislative action regarding U.S. content requirements for the FFG-62 program;
technical risk in the FFG-62 program;
and the potential industrial-base impacts of the FFG-62 program for shipyards and supplier firms in the context of other Navy and Coast Guard shipbuilding programs.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bloomberg via Gateway] The US government is considering imposing new Covid restriction on travelers from China.
