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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Moment girl, 11, fights off knife-wielding Florida 'sex offender' who tried to abduct her: Suspect, 30, is arrested hours later
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • An 11-year-old girl playing with a 'blue slime' toy at a bus stop in West Pensacola, Florida, was attacked by a man with a knife who leapt from a van

  • Surveillance footage shows the would-be kidnapper grab the girl in a headlock and try to drag her into his white Dodge Journey

  • But the girl was able to free herself from his clutches and flee to safety, as the leaving the man to run back to his car and drive off at speed

  • Fifty deputies from the Escambia County Sheriff's Office flooded the area and arrested 30-year-old Jared Paul Stanga, a convicted sex offender, eight hours later

  • Officials said he painted his van to try to disguise it after local media published a description, but still had 'blue slime' on his clothes from wrestling the child

  • Sheriff Chip Simmons paid tribute to the girl's bravery at a press conference on Tuesday night

  • 'That is my hero, she did not give up,' Simmons said
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2021 09:54 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  easy fix...put him in with the general pop..
Posted by: Warthog || 05/19/2021 13:14 Comments || Top||


8 NYC suspects accused of stealing $2M in COVID relief, flaunting cash online
[NY Post] The Nigerians and other foreign criminals stole billions just from California. Though they are not stupid enough to pose for Instagram.
A group of young men allegedly ripped off $2 million in COVID-19 relief funds by stealing personal information from people in the assistance program, funneling their money to personal bank accounts, and withdrawing the cash at banks in Brooklyn and Queens.

Many of the young men flaunted their ill-gotten fortunes on social media, posting pictures of themselves with large piles of cash, court documents show.

Six of the eight defendants — ranging in age from 18 to 25 — were charged Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court, documents show. Two suspects — Armani Miller, 24, and Johan Santos, 19 — are still at large, prosecutors said.
Posted by: Whains Speatch8051 || 05/19/2021 00:58 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Man with Hunting Rifle Foils Attempted Mass Shooting at Apartment Complex
[BREITBART] A man armed with a hunting rifle shot and killed an alleged mass shooter at a Fort Smith, Arkansas, apartment complex Saturday morning.

5 News Online reports the incident occurred just before 7:30 a.m. when 26-year-old Zachary Arnold allegedly tried to lure residents out of their apartments in order to shoot them.

One apartment resident claimed Arnold was screaming, "You guys get out here, come out here, everyone get out of this building right now."

Eighty-seven-year-old apartment resident Lois Hicks came out to try to calm Arnold down then fled back into her apartment after seeing the rifle he was allegedly holding. Arnold allegedly followed her and shot her dead inside her residence.

Arnold was apparently shooting at other apartments too, and one of the other residents grabbed a hunting rifle and killed Arnold.

40/29 News notes that no injuries to additional residents were reported.

Posted by: Fred || 05/19/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Who then is my neighbour, lord?"

"Why, the one with the Savage Arms 110."

"Whaaa?"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/19/2021 4:46 Comments || Top||

#2 
Pierced ears and nose jewel
Willing to bet a Socialist-Democrat and not a Pro-USA Trumper

Like I have said before...
We need a "GO RE-AMMO ME" fund to reload such heroes.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/19/2021 7:58 Comments || Top||


Florida woman allegedly crashes children's birthday party, rapes teen
[NYPOST] A Florida woman crashed a children’s birthday party and allegedly raped a 17-year-old boy — in front of another child, authorities said.

Jessica Rae Good, 43, was arrested Wednesday after the teen told a staffer at his high school that he was sexually assaulted over the weekend at a home in Port Charlotte after a birthday bash, according to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office.

Good had been out drinking with a friend before crashing the celebration for another teen on May 9 when her buddy went to bed, authorities said.

"After returning home intoxicated, Good continued to ’hang out’ with the juveniles while allegedly making extremely inappropriate sexual comments and providing the 17-year-old victim with alcohol," sheriff officials said in a statement.

A 12-year-old girl at the party told deputies she was asleep on a bean bag in the home when she was awoken by sounds of two people having sex.

The girl, who was just a foot away from Good and the 17-year-old, said the teen whispered to her to help him, according to an arrest report obtained by the Port Charlotte Sun.

The boy later told deputies that Good forced herself on him after he fell asleep, claiming he was unable to push the woman off him due to her size, the arrest report states. Good is listed at 250 pounds in jail records.
"I thought we were having a threesome!"
At one point, the boy got up to use the bathroom, where he vomited, the 12-year-old girl told deputies. The pair continued having sex and Good then got her belongings and left the home, according to the report.

Good told Sherlocks she had "blacked out" and claimed to not remember most of the illicit sexual contact, the arrest report states.

It’s illegal in Florida for an adult to have sex with a minor, even if the activity is consensual — although some exceptions exist, sheriff officials said.

Posted by: Fred || 05/19/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the boy got up to use the bathroom, where he vomited,

You will too. Just saw her pic. Yupp, that's rape of the worst sort.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/19/2021 4:20 Comments || Top||

#2  — although some exceptions exist

You mean when the parents sign off authorizing the 17 year old to wed? Sort of like signing off to allow junior to enlist.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2021 7:48 Comments || Top||

#3  whoa fuck, I would say it was rape too
Posted by: Chris || 05/19/2021 8:59 Comments || Top||

#4  ...and iaw 'established' law, if she got preggy, he'd be liable for child support. Some old laws need serious reform.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2021 9:27 Comments || Top||

#5  #4 - "Annals of Animal Husbandry"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/19/2021 12:34 Comments || Top||


Just another Myrtle Beach Monday
Kanica and Kenesha tree the town.
[WMBF News] MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) — Police have identified the two woman charged in connection with a shooting Monday afternoon in Myrtle Beach.

According to information from the Myrtle Beach Police Department, 27-year-old Kanica Ashton was charged with discharging a firearm within the city, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

Also arrested was 26-year-old Kenesha Sanders, who was charged with giving a false name and address, according to the MBPD.

The charges stem from shots being fired Monday in the area of Yaupon Drive and 12th Avenue South around 12 p.m.

A police report states that officers were called to the area outside of the Seat Mist Conference Center where they said suspects were driving a red-colored vehicle and "shooting a gun out of the sunroof."

The report shows that while officers were detaining one of the suspects, they were very irate and used "multiple fighting words, vulgar and racist statements in front of the public walking by."

No injuries were reported.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Nothing to see here, just a couple of Wakanda Queens out for a 'good time'...

Posted by: Thrineling Omasing2716 || 05/19/2021 3:58 Comments || Top||


On-duty police officer sexually assaulted by gas station manager, Georgia cops say
Well, it is the Quickie Mart.
[Yahoo News] The manager of a Georgia gas station is accused of sexually assaulting a police officer who was on duty and in uniform.

According to the Hogansville Police Department, Prilesh Navinchandra Thakkar "attempted to forcefully commit an indecent act on an on duty female police officer."

The officer was conducting a business check on May 11 at the Hop In service station along state Highway 54 when the 300-pound manager grabbed her and pulled her behind the counter, WAGA reported.

She was able to get away from Thakkar and immediately reported what happened.
Posted by: Whains Speatch8051 || 05/19/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Women in uniform are HOT!
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2021 11:29 Comments || Top||

#2  We'll take Ethyl, if she's pumpin'...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/19/2021 15:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, it is the Quickie Mart.

Snark of the day.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/19/2021 16:03 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Nike, American Airlines and Coca-Cola are slammed by Consumers' Research for using 'woke politics' and support of BLM to 'distract from their hypocritical failings'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2021 09:52 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Current top management are not the original founders of these businesses. Current corporate management are degreed from useless leftist indoctrination centers that were once upon a time universities.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 05/19/2021 11:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Project involved with went woke.

Large numbers going WTF? refund me.

Banhammer came out to smash those people.

Stay Safe is not the driving plot behind any adventure story, ever.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2021 18:03 Comments || Top||


Transgender women allowed to play women's rugby in France
Horrific injuries on the horizon
[CNN] The French rugby federation (FFR) has voted unanimously in favor of allowing transgender women to play women's rugby as of next season.

The decision goes against advice given by World Rugby, who last year said it did not recommend that transgender women play women's contact rugby "on safety grounds at the international level of the game."

However, the governing body's advice was not binding and allowed national federations to implement their own grassroots policy.

"Rugby is an inclusive sport of sharing, without distinction of sex, gender, origin or religion," Serge Simon, Vice President of FFR, said in a statement on Monday.

"The FFR is steadfast against all forms of discrimination and works daily in order to allow everyone to practice, without constraint, their free will in rugby.

"In fact, it is very important to allow each one of our players to practice their passions while respecting the rights of everyone."

FFR's statement clarified that in order to compete domestically, transgender women transitioning from male to female must certify that they have been on hormonal treatment for at least 12 months and must not exceed the testosterone threshold of five nanomoles per liter.

Those players who have already transitioned and have changed their civil record can play without preconditions.

The FFR is the first national federation in France to allow transgender women to compete in top level sport.
Posted by: Beavis || 05/19/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  link text">am I bad person for wanting to see Sebastian Chabal tuck his?
Posted by: Beavis || 05/19/2021 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Beavis, please try again with your link.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/19/2021 0:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Recruiting in East Germany predicted to skyrocket.
Posted by: Whains Speatch8051 || 05/19/2021 0:43 Comments || Top||

#4  The simple, logical solution is to create two new leagues for fake women and fake men. Won't happen, of course. Too simple and logical.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/19/2021 1:12 Comments || Top||

#5  ^-- Where's the graft in that??
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/19/2021 1:48 Comments || Top||

#6  We could start raising some capital in Hollywood for The Finocchio League. All the jerseys would have to be blue, of course.
Posted by: Fred || 05/19/2021 2:23 Comments || Top||

#7  sorry TW. Chabal
Posted by: Beavis || 05/19/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Make it Cervix vs Prostate leagues. Quit calling them women and men and the whole pronoun issue goes away.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2021 7:45 Comments || Top||

#9  The simple, logical solution is to create two new leagues for fake women and fake men.

Let's go all in Barnum and Bailey and have them both face The Florida Womans.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#10  that they have been on hormonal treatment for at least 12 months and must not exceed the testosterone threshold of five nanomoles per liter.

Ted Wheeler, looks like we found you a hobby.
Posted by: Slappy || 05/19/2021 21:56 Comments || Top||

#11  Which lanes do muppets like Plugz and depraved berserkers like Lil' Crackhead compete in?
Posted by: One Eyed Glavick6535 || 05/19/2021 22:46 Comments || Top||


OK Gov. Stitt has cookout in front of PETA billboard mocking him
[TheOklahoman] Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday fanned the flames in his feud with an animal rights group.

After People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals put up in a billboard in southeast Oklahoma City calling the governor a "meathead," Stitt hosted a cookout under the billboard.

PETA paid for the billboard after Stitt declared a week in March "Meat All Week" as a nod to Oklahoma's cattle and agriculture industries. On Wednesday, in between posing for photos in front of the critical billboard, Stitt tossed some hamburgers and ribeye steaks on the grill.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 05/19/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

I was told PETA stood for:

People Eating Tasty Animals

Posted by: Cleart Glavimble2798 || 05/19/2021 7:46 Comments || Top||

#2  I like him
Posted by: Chris || 05/19/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
‘Insane': Olympian Torah Bright's Breastfeeding Photo Sparks Backlash, Bold Reply
[Breitbart] A photo depicting Olympic snowboarder Torah Bright standing on her head while breastfeeding her child has whipped up a firestorm of criticism.

Bright reposted the image on May 9 on Instagram. In the photo, the Olympian is seen wearing nothing but a pair of underwear as her little boy suckles her on his hands and knees. Though, not all fans thought the odd expression of motherhood was appropriate.

Some accused the 2010 halfpipe gold medal winner of being an attention seeker.

Bright responded to the wave of criticism, saying that the comments "made her sad," the New York Post said.

"Reading some of these comments made me sad," she wrote.

The 34-year-old athlete added, "In my world, mothers should be each other’s cheerleaders (it’s hard enough). Embrace our quirkiness and finding the joy in every sh—y thing that is motherhood.

"We all do it differently. It is not wrong or right. Motherhood is pure. I only now consider myself a Wonder Woman because I have joined the sacred MOTHERS club with you. Nothing but respect to all mothers," she continued.

"Love to all mothers who need it right now. I got your back. Every mother has been there. You are not alone. I’m not looking for praise. I never need strangers’ praises. I walk this earth to the beat of my own drum, led by my nutrition and search for love and joy ... obviously," she concluded.

In 2014, Bright became the first athlete to qualify for all three Olympic snowboarding disciplines.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2021 01:41 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Women who Bathe" may suddenly have some competition.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2021 2:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Add instagram to fame and multiply by postpartum lunacy.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/19/2021 2:58 Comments || Top||

#3 
I walk this earth to the beat of my own drum

A sample of what she constantly hears in her mind, over and over again...



She became a 'mother' because of Moby D.
Posted by: Thrineling Omasing2716 || 05/19/2021 3:16 Comments || Top||

#4 

It got exactly what she wanted....
ATTENTION.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/19/2021 7:17 Comments || Top||

#5  I think anyone on instagram or tik tok just wants attention.
Posted by: Chris || 05/19/2021 8:56 Comments || Top||

#6  And people thought the Nirvana cover art was weird.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2021 10:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Perky.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2021 10:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Yup, odd, but man she's in good shape!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/19/2021 12:48 Comments || Top||

#9  I give her points for athleticism and style. Also, that kinda looks like fun. Move over, kid! Lemme give that a try.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/19/2021 14:19 Comments || Top||

#10  I'd like to know what kind of lawn seed she uses.
Posted by: Slappy || 05/19/2021 21:53 Comments || Top||


'We don't know what they are and can't explain how they move': Obama confirms UFO sightings by military are real and says they 'must take them seriously'
I seen dis movie.
If the photos are indeed real, how many are of trash bags filled with helium and draped with lights?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'don't know what they are and can't explain how they move'

Rubbish. He was talking about people at MacDonald's.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/19/2021 3:02 Comments || Top||

#2 
They just want to borrow a cup of sugar, they'll pay it back, honest...

Posted by: Thrineling Omasing2716 || 05/19/2021 3:40 Comments || Top||

#3 

Alien Disco Sugar... just for you... groove baby.
Posted by: Thrineling Omasing2716 || 05/19/2021 3:47 Comments || Top||

#4  it's gonna be a stretch, new victims and voters.
Posted by: jack salami || 05/19/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes.
That is why they are called Unidentified Flying Objects.

I saw one from my backyard yesterday. Might have been a Differential Grasshopper.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2021 10:27 Comments || Top||

#6  And if you can't believe Barak "If you like your doctor, you can keep your Doctor" Obama - who can you believe?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/19/2021 11:06 Comments || Top||

#7  The fact that Barack Obama, our first female President, has chosen to weigh in on this topic is extremely weird.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/19/2021 13:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Speaking of beings not of this Earth.

It appears that after Xiden's car presser, he is seen driving off in an E-150 or whatever. Except, there are two steering wheels and 'the passenger' is driving. Xiden's just spins like those quarter rides at Chucky Cheese.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2021 17:44 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Fauci: I kept wearing a mask indoors after being vaccinated because I didn't want to give 'mixed signals'
[Hot Air] Golly, isn’t that what Rand Paul’s been accusing him of for months, wearing a mask after gaining immunity for show rather than for some valid scientific reason? "If you have immunity, they’re theater," Paul said to him about masks during testimony in March. "If you already have immunity you’re wearing a mask to give comfort to others." To which Fauci replied, "I totally disagree with you."

Did he, though? Or did he lie under oath?

Based on this clip from this morning, it sounds like he didn’t totally disagree with Paul after all.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2021 02:12 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fauci is deeply implicated in the origins of this ChiCom virus, and past advice is abundantly
flawed with contradictions.
Many Americans are no longer listening to his glistening advice, as for me, Sir please, v and drop any further 'advice', leave the stage.

Posted by: Thrineling Omasing2716 || 05/19/2021 3:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Lying to us so that they can get what they want. Standard elite behavior. And then acting angry when we call them on it.
Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 || 05/19/2021 3:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Fauxi's credibility is long gone, never to return. Vaccine diplomat shill Bill Gates should maybe check in with Grrrreta about life post 15 minutes of fame.

The rest of us should just move on.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/19/2021 8:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Old Ferret Face has done nothing but give 'mixed signals' since COVID-19 got started. Why stop now?
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 05/19/2021 8:30 Comments || Top||

#5  I moved on over a year ago
Posted by: Chris || 05/19/2021 8:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Fauxi's moved the goal posts so many times he might as well be a shill for Two Men and a Truck
Posted by: Warthog || 05/19/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#7  When you have lost allahpundit?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2021 9:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Groucho: “Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”
Posted by: Matt || 05/19/2021 11:17 Comments || Top||

#9  I was informed today that Kroger grocery stores no longer require vaccinated customers to wear masks — and will not demand proof. Customer-facing staff continue to be required to wear masks until further notice.

I shopped with a naked face, and it was lovely.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/19/2021 19:29 Comments || Top||

#10  I shopped with a naked face, and it was lovely.

I'm sure it was. And not wearing a stupid mask must have felt great.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/19/2021 19:37 Comments || Top||


Britain
London Sticks It To Classic Car Owners
[Motoriois] And thus the shakedown continues on the other side of the pond...

A report out of the UK details out how London is squeezing classic car owners for extra cash. In a move which seems like something out of a dystopian novel, vehicle owners will need to pay up to £650 just to drive their classic car once a week in the city. It’s all part of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone charges which come into effect in late October

Beware, America isn't immune to these kinds of anti-classic car ideas, as you can see here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2021 09:51 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, let's start with all those soot chucking diesel trucks hauling commodities into and about the city. Only electric haulers allowed! (talk about empty shelves) Of course they can go full organic and bring back horses (then figure out what to do with tons of droppings everyday and their swarm of flies).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2021 10:20 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Putin's military base in the far North revealed: Moscow tells the West 'this is our land' and reveals huge complex that can operate nuclear bombers and bristles with missiles and radar
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The Nagurskoye airbase in the Franz Josef Land archipelago was built in the Cold War as a weather station

  • It has now been heavily militarised with missiles, a radar system and a runway handling nuclear bombers

  • It comes amid increasing tensions in the Arctic with global competition for the oil and gas rich area
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "What news, Ivanoff,
of our cold cold base
in the thistles?
Does it now get enough
cat calls and whistles?"

"Да, Comrade Colonel Ljubov.
14000 km² of Russian metal,
concrete, asphalt, potatoes
and the choicest frizzle.
And it bristles with huge missiles."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/19/2021 3:54 Comments || Top||

#2  What? The pic with the door behind the man labeled both in Russian and English??? Or is "EXIT" just a glyph/icon for the Russians?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2021 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Meanwhile, China is trying to decide if they want Taiwan or Siberia more...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/19/2021 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Note the many analog, binary switches.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2021 19:20 Comments || Top||

#5  I bet that place has quite the night life.
Posted by: Slappy || 05/19/2021 22:04 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Panic in China as 980ft skyscraper mysteriously begins to shake despite NO earthquakes in the area - sending pedestrians fleeing
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The SEG Plaza started to sway at 1pm on Tuesday in Shenzhen, China, causing panicked shoppers to flee

  • Authorities remain baffled after no earthquakes were recorded in the region and wind speed was 27mph

  • The 79-storey building was built in 2000 and is home to a major electronics market and various offices
Too much fly ash in the concrete mix again, or is this a different kind of corner cutting?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Neglected to drill foundation pillars all the way to bedrock?
Posted by: Whains Speatch8051 || 05/19/2021 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Vibrating at a resonant frequency, maybe driven by the wind?
Posted by: SteveS || 05/19/2021 1:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Realised where it was built, wants to leave?
Posted by: Bunyip || 05/19/2021 2:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Baffled?
Of course not,
Godzilla was merely strolling by on an adjacent street.


Good enough explanation for the next few months.
Posted by: Vortigern the Full Bosomed9363 || 05/19/2021 5:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Someone playing with one of Tesla's machines?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/19/2021 8:00 Comments || Top||

#6 

What I noticed.
Common Sense People running for safety and still the usual IDIOTS standing there with cameras whipped out wanting to get that ultimate YOUTUBE VIDEO to fall or hit them square in the face.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/19/2021 8:10 Comments || Top||

#7  The area has aquifer issues already. See here.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/19/2021 9:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Yes, #2 - cornering winds are tricky.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/19/2021 9:58 Comments || Top||

#9  #8, so what the have is some kind of a vertical 'Galloping Gertie?'
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/19/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||

#10  the wind can put an enormous load on tall buildings

some of them relieve this by swaying, e.g., the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/19/2021 15:31 Comments || Top||


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Twitter Bans Spanish Politician for Saying Men Can't Get Pregnant


[Breitbart] Twitter refused to comment on its 12-hour ban of the Spanish politician Francisco José Contrera, deputy leader of Vox, the leading populist conservative party in the country. Why did Twitter ban Contrera? Because he said men can’t become pregnant.

In the tweet that got him suspended, Contrera said "a man cannot get pregnant. A man has no uterus or eggs."

In its automated message informing him of the suspension, Twitter told Contrera that "No threatening, harassing or fostering violence against other people on the basis of their race, ethnic origin, nationality, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religion, age, disability or disease is permitted."

In a post on Facebook, Contrera condemned Twitter as "fascist" for its suppression of his speech.

"I’ve been blocked from Twitter for 12 hours for ’hate speech,’ said the Spanish politician. "The hateful tweet (which I was forced to delete) was one that said: ’A man cannot get pregnant. A man has no womb or eggs.’ You can see this is already fascist biology. Next time I’ll try 2 + 2 = 4."

Twitter’s policy on speech regarding transgenderism has grown increasingly draconian over the years. In January, the platform suspended a conservative organization for stating the transgender assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Service’s biological sex.

It also suspended the account of Lauren Witzke, who ran for the U.S. Senate in Delaware last year as the Republican candidate, after she condemned a comment from a "gender nonconforming" left-wing activist, Alok Vaid-Menon, who appeared to defend the sexualization of minors. Witzke condemned the comment as "demonic."

Breitbart News reached out to Twitter so the company could explain its decision, but it refused to comment.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 05/19/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, just because he never heard of Thomas Beatie, that shouldn't make him a social media outcast.

Beatie was the first pregnant man legally recognized by the United States government, which made those headlines technically true (at least, true enough for the tabloids). What was really happening was a social breakthrough: People with non-traditional genders were starting to come forward.
Posted by: Thrineling Omasing2716 || 05/19/2021 3:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Shouldn't, by (il)logical extension, have to identify as birthing gender first?

This is so dumb.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2021 10:38 Comments || Top||

#3  You just know that one day the CEO will come out as @Jacqueline.
Posted by: Whains Speatch8051 || 05/19/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||


How Tim Cook agreed to hand over the data of all Chinese Apple users to the Communist government and allow its servers to be run by state officials in return for being able to do business with Beijing
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The state employees are said to manage servers at its data center in Guiyang and another in the Inner Mongolia region, The New York Times reports

  • That means the government is able to access personal data of Chinese residents

  • Encryption technology used by Apple has also been banned, the report says

  • Apps said to have disappeared include foreign news site and gay dating services

  • Topics banned include Tiananmen Square, independence for Tibet and Taiwan

  • This is all despite Tim Cook's vow to protect civil liberties which saw the release of a controversial new privacy controls in April

  • They require iPhone users to give permission for apps to track their activity
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Good. Best way to treat these companies. Keep their influence controlled and their noses to the floor. Every nation state should learn.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/19/2021 3:15 Comments || Top||

#2  So China got the same deal as the US GIVERnment.
Posted by: Airandee || 05/19/2021 6:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, Lenin said the capitalists would sell the commies the rope they would hang us with. Guys like Cook will sell everyone around them and cut and run.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/19/2021 6:58 Comments || Top||

#4  cut and run where?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/19/2021 7:08 Comments || Top||

#5  cut and run where?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/19/2021 7:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Pete and repeat
Effectiveness in getting a point across.
Posted by: Cleart Glavimble2798 || 05/19/2021 7:16 Comments || Top||

#7  So, Apple is now an unregistered foreign lobbyist?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2021 7:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe cut and run to Mexico. It worked for Trotsky, after all, until the mountain climbing accident.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/19/2021 16:31 Comments || Top||

#9  This woosy is no Steve Jobs.
Posted by: Anginetle Jolutle2646 || 05/19/2021 18:50 Comments || Top||

#10  Steve Jobs wasn't Steve Jobs. He was in charge when they moved everything to China.

If Steve Jobs was running Silicon Valley in 1975 Steve Jobs wouldn't have been able to get his foot in the door. No assembly line to get that first job with.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/19/2021 20:27 Comments || Top||


Economy
Home Depot tops Wall Street expectations
[NYPOST] Home Depot on Tuesday reported first-quarter earnings that demolished Wall Street’s expectations, as demand for the retailer’s products remained robust as the pandemic eased.

CEO Craig Menear said the company benefitted from "unprecedented demand" in the fiscal first quarter, which ended May 2.

The company reported net sales of $37.5 billion — up a staggering 32.7 percent compared with the same time last year, when the pandemic first hit corporate earnings. Wall Street analysts expected $34.96 billion in net sales.

Same-store sales rose 31 percent from a year ago, beating Wall Street expectations of a 19.9 percent increase, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

And the company reported net income of $4.15 billion, or $3.86 per share, up from $2.25 billion, or $2.08 per share, a year earlier. Analysts were expecting earnings per share of $3.08.

Posted by: Fred || 05/19/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Their location local to me down here never seemed to slow down during the scamdemic.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/19/2021 6:54 Comments || Top||

#2 


I was initially surprised noting the GA HD's in my area don't seems to have the same Customer numbers as LOWE'S.

But given Lowe's is more of a Homeowner update/basic repair store and HD is more of a Contractor Warehouse so I adjusted my thinking.


Pre-Inflation cost vs. Inflation Retail pricing.

What would the reported first-quarter earnings look like adjusted for the scamdemic costs of 2020 vs. the 2021 INFLATIONARY prices they were selling for in the 1st qt.

Whatever the reason. We'll know if its a Industry wide great 1st Qtr., when Lowe's announces its numbers on its Earnings Conference Call at 9am today or on 5-28-21 at the share holders meeting.

☺ Disclaimer ☺: I Do Not own any Stock or business interest in either Home Depot or Lowe's. In the last 30+ year, as a customer of both, I have been screwed or had issues with each several times.☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/19/2021 7:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Given the price of wood in the first quarter....
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2021 9:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Home prices SKYROCKET. Guess what else 'skyrockets'.... next years property assessments.

Just remember, taxes on the middle-class are not going up under plugs.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2021 9:49 Comments || Top||

#5  I go to Lowe's first for the service, but sometimes it seems I can only find something at Home Depot. YMMV, I guess.
Posted by: magpie || 05/19/2021 19:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Amazon's Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen
Britain’s vast CCTV network is government owned, so it’s apples to Amazon’s oranges, right?
[TheGuardian] One in 10 US police departments can now access videos from millions of privately owned home security cameras without a warrant.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's the Grauniad: "Big Government Good, Big Business Bad!"
Posted by: magpie || 05/19/2021 11:25 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
COVID victims' bodies litter the Ganges as hundreds wash up in just a few days exposing the 'massive discrepancy' between real death toll and official count of 283,000 - as tests show TWO THIRDS of Indians have antibodies
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2021 10:11 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  India daily coronavirus deaths hit global record high
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2021 10:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Was India the actual PLA target ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||

#3  India's cumulative case rate (cases per million) is slightly below the world average and just 20% of the US rate. Reported death rate is half the world average 1nd 12% of the US rate. Inconsistent reporting? In a 'catch-up' wave? New variant? All of the above?
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/19/2021 10:24 Comments || Top||


#5  This was brought up in 2020 in a Newsweek article (not exactly "conspiracy" stuff). Only now for some reason have the crickets stopped chirping.
Posted by: Clem || 05/19/2021 11:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Only ashes of the dead are sent downriver. And Covid patients' bodies are burnt, as per government directive and the Indian custom that necessitates victims of disease to be fully incinerated. Mostly tribals or the dirt poor or criminals throw in bodies [for whatever reason]. A dozen or so bodies get caught in the nets every week anyway.

People have been littering the Ganges with their dead since forever. European foreign writers assisted by interns hired for their ideology just don't know how shit works here; they misreport on every little thing and their correspondents are all crazy marxists. They're camped out there like vultures in crematoriums and mortuaries these days, trying to report on 'the Modi Govt's lies and failures against Covid!' to their liberal masters. They think it worked with Trump so it'll work here too. Idiots.

I wouldn't worry about India. We absorb and move on. But it's okay if it gives people some vicarious thrill or feeling of being better off. And it brings in the oxygen and vaccines faster.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/19/2021 11:39 Comments || Top||



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