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Pakistan Attacks TTP in Kunar, Khost Causing Dozens of Casualties
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Amazon Dating
Someone put a lot of work into this.

See the FAQs
Posted by: badanov || 04/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I get a lot of "Can you answer this question" emails about Amazon stuff I have bought. That would be a whole spin-off gold mine from this.

Thanks, badanov, this is hilarious.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/17/2022 3:50 Comments || Top||

#2  This is awesome. Great work by the makers. Got that old true comedy feel to it. Especially if you read the reviews.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/17/2022 7:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Great, Some of the comments are hilarious.

Bought this as a gift and it turned out to have $10 inside.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/17/2022 7:32 Comments || Top||

#4  I gave it a <3
Posted by: Frank G || 04/17/2022 7:54 Comments || Top||

#5  It is not *that* kind of Amazon dating, so if you are into death by snoo-snoo, don't bother.
It is well done funny, though.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/17/2022 8:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Some people had a lot of fun making this. Outstanding!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/17/2022 9:11 Comments || Top||

#7  The reviews are hilarious! I'll never view Amazon the same way again!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 04/17/2022 19:25 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Greenfield: A Shooter Puts Critical Race Theory into Practice
[FrontPage] Mayor Eric Adams, who had called white people “crackers”, claimed that he needed his brother to head his security because of an "increase in white supremacy" in New York City.

The New York City Board of Health falsely claimed that racism was a "public health crisis" and a public school told parents to abolish their “whiteness”.

After all that time battling white supremacy, which is as easy to find in the city as good manners and parking spaces, the black supremacist subway terror attack came out of the blue.

29 people were wounded, including a pregnant woman and a 12-year-old, when Frank James, a racist gunman, opened fire on a Brooklyn subway train. James was a racial supremacist, but not the one that New York City’s political establishment had spent so much time searching for.

James was just “abolishing whiteness” by putting critical race theory into practice.

The black supremacist mass shooter has been charged with terrorism for a carefully planned terror attack, that included dressing up as a construction worker, deploying a smoke bomb and then opening fire. The racist terrorist’s victims included a pregnant woman, and a number of children and teenagers, some of whom were shot several times by the black supremacist.

Like the black supremacist Jersey City terrorists, James used a U-Haul as a base and was convinced that black people were being victimized.

“These white motherf—--s, this is what they do,” James had ranted in his YouTube videos while claiming that white people were plotting to kill all black people. “It’s just a matter of time before these white motherf—--s decide, ‘Hey listen. Enough is enough. These n—ers got to go.'”
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 04/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Meanwhile in Grand Rapids, aremed BLM protesters block streets, threaten to kill a motorist then tried to break into venue of an ongoing Kid Rock concert. Kid Rock starts each show with a video message from POTUS Trump. Imagine 20,000 revved up n pissed off Kid Rock fans getting their hands on 100 BLM drooltards - it would have been a bloodbath.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/17/2022 10:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Youf house party
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/17/2022 10:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Out on $100 bail
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/17/2022 10:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Ten years later people are gonna look back and wish they'd proved him right.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/17/2022 14:35 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Briefly about Ukraine. 04/16/2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.

[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol.
Plant them. Ilyich is released. In addition to prisoners, trophies were taken. The plant was seriously damaged during the fighting, but it could well be restored. Fighting continues in the Azovmash area. Most of the Primorsky region has been liberated, but resistance still continues there.

The enemy concentrated the remaining forces on the defense of Azovstal, holding the very territory of Azovstal, as well as the houses of the Levoberezhny district adjacent to it, where forces are now concentrated to storm the plant. Azovstal is heavily bombed. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have not had the opportunity to release the remnants of the Mariupol group for a long time, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refused these plans back in mid-March for military reasons.

2. Zaporozhye.
The front line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole remains unchanged. Intensive hostilities are not conducted here, although the parties are actively using artillery and MLRS. The Russian Federation is actively engaged in the establishment of railway communication, which will facilitate the supply of the group in this direction.

To the east of Gulyaipole, there are sluggish battles for individual villages. Serious progress has not yet been noted. Ukrainian flags are being actively removed in the region and the work of new authorities is being established to the best of their ability.

3. Nikolaev.
The sides are not yet conducting active offensive operations, being mainly engaged in the exchange of strikes (artillery and MLRS). Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to advance towards Kherson led to heavy losses, and here, for the time being, tendencies towards positionalism triumph.

The RF Armed Forces are methodically working on targets in Nikolaev itself, inflicting heavy damage on the enemy. Also, strikes were made in the direction of Krivoy Rog and Nikopol to stop the enemy's activity. The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to advance in the Novorontsovka area, traditionally fired at Chernobaevka from the MLRS and OTRK. The grouping of forces on both sides has grown here in recent weeks. It is impossible to exclude the activation of this direction in the coming weeks.

4. Odessa.
No major changes. Landing operations or "breakthroughs" from Transnistria are not expected. Part of the forces of the Odessa Volkssturm and one of the brigades were transferred to the Nikolaev direction. The use of NATO-supported anti-ship missiles will make it more difficult for the Black Sea Fleet to carry out missions in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, but it is unlikely to affect the intensity of missile launches against targets in Ukraine.

5. LPR.
In Popasnaya, the troops are moving forward, controlling part of the city center, the enemy is stubbornly defending. The pace of progress is generally low. Heavy fighting continues in the southern part of Rubizhne.

6. Severodonetsk .
There is no big progress in these settlements yet.

7. Avdievka.
There are no changes in Avdievka itself. Ordinary positional battles in the prom. To the north of Avdievka, fighting took place in the area of ​​Novobakhmutovka, Novoselka-2, and Troitsky.

8. Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
The enemy is preparing for a long-term defense, being subjected to systematic missile, air and artillery strikes. The emphasis is on the tough defense of cities with the support of the reserve concentrated in the area of ​​Artemovsk, Soledar and Krasnoarmeysk.

9. Kharkov.
No big changes. Battles - to the north and east of the city. Settlements north of Kharkov, as well as the northern outskirts of Kharkov, are gradually turning into an analogue of Mariupol. The enemy is accumulating forces near Kharkov in order to interfere with possible operations of the RF Armed Forces to encircle the city. Chuguev's garrison is also reinforced.

10. Izyum.
The offensive of the RF Armed Forces continues in the direction of Slavyansk and Barvenkovo. The enemy throws here the main reserves, which are gradually crushed here in fierce battles. As before, the RF Armed Forces have three routes here - to Slavyansk, to Barvenkovo ​​and to Pavlograd through Lozovoye. The expected big offensive will show exactly where they are going to reach the Donetsk-Pavlograd highway.

In general, we can talk about the continuation of the operational pause in anticipation of the start of a large-scale offensive by the RF Armed Forces in the Donbass.

Plus according to Zelensky's statement about Ilovaisk.

"Yes, maybe Ilovaisk" (c) Zelensky

In fact, Ilovaisk has already happened.

Near Ilovaisk, according to Ukrainian data, the losses amounted to up to 1000 people killed + wounded + prisoners. And this was considered the biggest defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2014.

In Mariupol, according to Ukrainian data, up to 14,500 people were surrounded.

Of these, 3-3,500 are still defending. All the rest are killed, wounded, captured, missing, deserted or leaked in small groups to the Zaporozhye region.

Even now, the scale of the defeat of the Mariupol grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is several times greater than the scale of the defeat near Ilovaisk.

But no one officially recognizes this, since this would mean that even under Poroshenko, the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not suffer such a defeat as under Zelensky.

Posted by: badanov || 04/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah yeah Mariupol is such a major victory. Let's see how the Donbass offensive goes.
Posted by: Percy Flotle3938 || 04/17/2022 21:10 Comments || Top||


Economy
Summers: We're Closer to 70s-Level Inflation Than Most Realize
[Breitbart] During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of Bloomberg’s "Wall Street Week," economist, Harvard Professor, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers argued that "we’re actually closer to being back" to the inflation levels of the 1970s than most realize.

Summers stated, "Look, there’s been an effort, as there always is when you have inflation, to dismiss it as due to specific or temporary factors. That is much more wrong than right. You can see it when you take out all the extreme observations in both directions...you can see it, as I’ve emphasized, by looking at the wages, which are the ultimate source of costs in the economy. We’ve got a pretty fundamental inflation problem in our country. You know, David, I saw something recently that brought this home to me. People think of us as having had 13%, 14% inflation in the 1970s. But that’s only because of the way it was calculated then. If you use the same way we calculate inflation now, it got just above 10% in the 1970s. So, getting to 8.5%, we’re actually closer to being back there than I think most people realize."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2022 04:14 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
I remember car loans during Nixon/Carter Years, for 9+% with above avg credit.

A new 1978 Mobile Home, on our owned land, $14,500 at 14% for 144 months was $208 a month.

Try that on a $210 per a week Husband & Wife total net income with kid.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/17/2022 9:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Heck, with a 1.2% MOM CPI inflation and 1.4% PPI inflation, we are there already.
Posted by: Tom || 04/17/2022 14:40 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
More on COVID brain changes
[ET via ZERO] For some, it’s just a sniffle. But for others, COVID-19 can hit hard. Either way, some people who get COVID-19 will suffer from long-term effects. This is known as "long COVID," and its sufferers are often referred to as "long haulers." Chances are you already know about long COVID and you may even have been affected by it or have friends or family who are. What is less well known, however, is that neurological issues are common in long COVID.

Broken Brains

Brain inflammation, stroke, chronic headache, disturbed consciousness, cognitive impairment, and "brain fog" (an all-encompassing phrase to describe a condition that usually manifests as slow thinking, memory lapses, and difficulty concentrating) can all result after infection with the virus known as SARS-CoV-2.

Even the illness’s unusual hallmarks, hyposmia, and hypogeusia—better known to us non-scientists as loss of smell and taste—are thought to be due to changes in nervous system function.

But while both clinicians and patients have noticed a myriad of brain issues post infection, scientists don’t know very much about how SARS-CoV-2 infections can lead to impaired brain function.

That may be changing.

A study published on Feb. 3 in Alzheimer’s & Dementia sheds light on a potential physiological mechanism behind the neurological problems COVID-19 survivors experience.

While the deeper insight into what is going on is good news, unfortunately, there’s bad news, too.

The new study, "Alzheimer’s-Like Signaling in Brains of COVID-19 Patients," includes some disturbing findings.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2022 04:31 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The evolution of Science™. Stuff that was happening anyway now has a cause! It's COVID! This is like gerbil worming, where drought, flood, heatwave and snowstorm are all caused by the same thing. A Thing™ which more privation, central control and political demagoguery can alleviate. For sure. Maybe...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/17/2022 5:41 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ A Thing™ which more privation, central control and political demagoguery can alleviate.

A valid Democratic talking point and the reason I will be voting for Stacey Abrams for Governor of Ga.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2022 5:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Stacey's campaign slogan: I don't need a dacha. I'm bigger than one that..."

Snark O'The Day
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/17/2022 5:54 Comments || Top||

#4 

So, a dumbing down virus for the US Voter population.

Does that mean LSD Voter roles will be overflowing soon? Or does that just mean LSD's voters will just be even more liberal and gullible?

ON A SERIOUS NOTE:
A German Health Ins. Company published findings, based on claims, show infected persons have additional serious health issues for months afterwards.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/17/2022 8:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Vote Murcek for Snark of the Day
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/17/2022 8:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Stacey Abrams - Governor of Georgia(tm)
Package is sold by weight and not by volume
Contents may be unsettling
Posted by: SteveS || 04/17/2022 9:02 Comments || Top||

#7  "Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said his company is developing an annual Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine to ensure “greater compliance” among populations". Comply with medical or suffer fines or jail time.
Posted by: Dale || 04/17/2022 15:17 Comments || Top||


Does the Western Lifestyle Put Societies on the Path to Extinction?
BLUF:
[PJ] Naghdi concluded: "Human society is heading towards extinction. Nobody is willing to get married anymore. They live with dogs, crocodiles, and cats. Nobody is willing to give birth to children, raise them, and build a life. This lifestyle they created... In England, they presented a new cabinet member for loneliness affairs." Yes, human society is heading for self-destruction, unless there is a massive rejection of the Left’s worldview, and a renewal of traditional values. It’s already happening, and not just in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. History is full of surprises. The increasing resistance to the global Left could indicate that even the decline of the West is not irreversible.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2022 04:21 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The way I see it is, people who have absolutely nothing, are literally starving, still seem to procreate. I'm not worried if the Ikea shoppers and XBox generation self-select themselves out of the gene pool.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/17/2022 5:10 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ I'm not worried if the Ikea shoppers and XBox generation self-select themselves out of the gene pool.

Is there a GoFundMe link for this effort ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2022 5:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Funny you should ask. From meth addicts to "trans," self-extinction is becoming very expensive.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/17/2022 5:56 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ It doesn't have to be, of course. But all the trendy ways take time and require a trust fund or similar.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/17/2022 5:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Looks like Socialism/Communism does.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/17/2022 9:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Nobody is willing to get married anymore. They live with dogs, crocodiles, and cats.

They're raping Komodo dragons now, Allan have mercy!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/17/2022 16:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Look at the people having kids verses those that don't. It is the left not breeding their future and the future will be one without them.

Good fucking riddance.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/17/2022 17:56 Comments || Top||



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  Pakistan Attacks TTP in Kunar, Khost Causing Dozens of Casualties
Sat 2022-04-16
  Fugitive drugs lord wanted in 200 countries is CAUGHT after his model girlfriend posted a photo of them together on Facebook
Fri 2022-04-15
  Plateau Attacks: 106 People Buried, More Bodies Still Being Found, Says Council Chairman
Thu 2022-04-14
  Ukraine sinks Black Sea Fleet flagship Moskva
Wed 2022-04-13
  Lebanese queue for bread amid wheat shortages
Tue 2022-04-12
  ShehbazSharif elected as new Prime Minister of Pakistan
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  Eight-mile long Russian convoy snakes towards Ukrainian east
Sun 2022-04-10
  Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan ousted in assembly no-confidence vote
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  Stash of assault rifles, body armor, passports with multiple visas, and sham uniforms found in penthouse of 'fake' Homeland agents
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  Day 43 Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Big Battle About to start in East
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  High Seas: US and Netherlands authorities intercept 8,500 pounds of cocaine worth $245m and arrest 13 drug smugglers during 45-day sting operation in the Caribbean Sea
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  Orban scores crushing victory as Ukraine war solidifies support
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  At least six dead in Sacramento shooting


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