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#1, Gingrich has a point. You'd think that if the FBI really knows who dunnit then a big, powerful, world class operation like the CIA could arrange some wet work in the, uh, "Eastern European" country where the attack supposedly originated.
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The Russian economy and government budget is dependent on the Siberian oil and gas pipelines. What sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
But I bet Putin knows better than to let critical infrastructure operators connect their computers to the internet.
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Doing. nothing meaningful about a series of gas shortages serves their climate change agenda perfectly. The Bidet/Kalorama Central Committee people see themselves as revolutionary rulers not public servants. Anything that drives people to abandon private vehicles for the workers paradise of the hive cities is a glorious revolutionary victory for the proletariat. In a sane world, this would just be humorous sarcasm
North Augusta Murphy at Wally World went dry for Regular about 1 1/2 hr. ago.
Price was at $2.89 up 40cents from last Thursday.
Augusta Ga. is Selling at $2.99+ for 87 octane.
Like the TP Panic with every idiot buying more than needed and filling a number of just purchased Red plastic Gas containers.
Wait for it
NEWS at 6 "Crash with 50 Gal in the car".
NOW FOR A QUESTION.
Any one hear the comments made by the Sec. Energy and Deputy Cyber security advisor yesterday on Bloomberg's "Balance of Power"
May 10th, at the 25 mark to 50 mins area.
Did it sound like they were hinting at greater Government oversight / control / Monitoring SPYING of the INet for the US-Gov and the Private sector?
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One might wonder if this was allowed to happen in order to setup the battlefield for 'BidenCare' of our Oil Industry (meaning the nationalization of our Oil Industry - you know to insure it's safe from Harm!).
They did it with Healthcare. Setup a crisis, then use it to take over the industry.
Never let a crisis go to waste!
#18
I agree with Newt. The question is just exactly 'who' hates America quite that much. Or more colloquially, is the cal coming from inside the house?
However, I don't understand why Colonial Pipeline didn't have multiple buffers between their critical information and the internet.
As I understand it, others who operate critical facilities, e.g., nuclear power plants, keep the operating system of the plants walled off (actually two and three walls off) from the employees email.
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Shutting down the construction of the XL pipeline has got to be one of the worst strategic policy decisions ever made.
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In other pipeline news, Gretchen "Lizard Queen" Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, is shutting down the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline that runs thru Michigan. The Canadians are miffed and residents of the Upper Peninsula are wondering where their propane will come from. Line 5 carries ~500,000 barrels of fuel per day.
[NYPOST] The suspected gunman who allegedly maimed three people in Times Square — including a 4-year-old girl — is a career criminal with a lengthy rap sheet, sources familiar with the cases told The Post.
Farrakhan Muhammad, 31, who remains on the loose, has a criminal record dating to 2007, including two felony robbery arrests and a 2012 bust where cops seized a 12-gauge shotgun, a 22-caliber handgun, and body armor, according to sources.
According to the sources, Muhammad’s first arrest was in January 2007, when he was picked up on a robbery charge for allegedly stealing a victim’s cellphone in Brooklyn.
In November 2009, Muhammad was hit with another robbery charge for allegedly grabbing a woman’s bag while she was loading up a car — with him and a second suspect fleeing the scene, sources said.
His other busts include turnstile jumping and aggravated harassment, the sources said.
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St Floyd was a blessed martyr.
This guy's an Apostle. His rap sheet is like his Stations of the Cross.
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{Farrakhan} Muhammad is believed to be a resident at 500 West 42nd Street.
Upon Googling this address, it appears to be an upscale part of NYC. How does a street thug like this afford such digs? Does the name Farrakhan imply any Nation of Islam ties?
[NYPOST] A tourist visiting Manhattan with his family was stabbed with a screwdriver while riding a train Sunday night, police and sources said.
The 43-year-old victim from Ecuador was on the southbound 2 train when he was randomly attacked by a 26-year-old man at about 7:50 p.m., according to cops and sources.
Using a screwdriver, the suspect, Peterson Merant, stabbed the man in his chest and left arm as the train was approaching the Chambers Street station, police and sources said.
When the train arrived at the station, the victim’s wife pointed out the suspect to responding transit officers, sources said.
Cops nabbed Merant on the platform and he confessed to the stabbing, sources said.
Merant was charged with attempted murder, second-degree assault and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.
The victim was taken by EMS to Bellevue Hospital, where he is expected to survive, police said.
Related: CBS NY points out that Mr. Merant hails from the Bronx and had filed down his screwdriver before the attack.
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criminal possession of a weapon
Why aren't these dangerous weapons licensed and ownership restricted?
And why did the moron hang around on the platform waiting to be arrested?
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Sharpened screwdrivers on a train... reminds me of that Bernhard Goetz movie.
BLUF:
[Townhall] "Growing up gay in a small Southern town, I always struggled with the idea that I may not be able to discuss my personal life at work. Imagine my surprise when I noticed a rainbow on CIA Director Brennan’s lanyard." "Small Southern Towns" really are the problem.
#2
An analyst lacking in brass
Came out! But what brought this to pass?
A rainbow, by feck,
On a leprechaun's neck
From the sun shining out of its ass
Off the dew on the emerald grass!
#3
Using an unconfirmed assumption based on a minor bit of decoration to make a major decision seems to my ignorant self to be lacking the basic outlook for the spy biz — but then, I am abysmally ignorant of such things
#9
On balance, I suppose sitting in one's cubicle or the library playing video games is much preferred to sitting in a cubicle playing with one's self.
Don't sell them short, Besoeker - they can do both
#10
Dump the "woke" stuff as a hiring criterion. Hire people who are willing to build up the country rather than tear it down. The former Ambo to Germany, Richard Grenell is an example of such a person.
[ZH] Bloomberg is out with a Monday report chronicling the sad state of affairs the US military has found itself in - notably trying to lure eligible recruits from Generation Z with a cartoon series dubbed "The Calling," which will run on YouTube during May and June.
As Bloomberg notes, "The Army—the U.S. military’s largest service—faces a complex set of problems: the eligible recruiting pool into all military services is small; and the newest generation of prospects, Gen Z, has had almost no contact or knowledge of the military, which has largely fought wars abroad since 2001. The Gen Z cohort grew up with technology, the internet, and social media."
The videos feature Emma, the self-proclaimed spoiled kid; David, the Hawaiian kid who at first didn’t let himself dream about becoming a pilot; Rickie, who grew up in a religious Haitian family in Florida; Janeen, a singer performing on cruise ships who joined the Reserves with the help of her Vietnam-veteran father; and Jennifer, born to first-generation Dominican immigrants, who worked long hours to make ends meet. -Bloomberg
It gets worse.
According to the report, almost 71% of those aged 17 to 24 - roughly 24 million out of 34 million people - are ineligible to join the military because of "obesity, lack of high school diploma, or a criminal record," according to Pentagon data.
In order to lure the eligible Gen-Z'ers, the Army will be spending $425 million on marketing, with the goal of recruiting 60,000 to 70,000 active-duty soldiers, along with 40,000-45,000 National Guardsmen, and 13,000 to 17,000 members of the reserve. To do this, prospective recruits will be served content on YouTube via 15-second trailer. If a person watches at least 10 seconds of the ad, they will see a two-to-three minute episode of the recruiting cartoon, followed by an invitation to hop over to the Army's website.
"Gen Z flips through social media like it is an Olympic sport, and in order to get them to stop their thumbs for a few seconds, you’ve got to surprise them," said Maj. Gen. Alex Fink, the Army’s chief of enterprise marketing. "The Calling has got a much more different look and feel than anything else than not only the Army has done—but nobody in the military has done something like this."
America's foreign adversaries must be laughing their asses off.
Only 29% of Generation Z eligible for military service because of obesity, lack of high school diploma, or a criminal record: Pentagon pic.twitter.com/BZHV9xnoG0
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 10, 2021
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Only 29% of Generation Z eligible for military service because of obesity, lack of high school diploma, or a criminal record...
Clickbait. If the Government wants more warm bodies most of those are ignored. Obesity? One to three weeks of more exercise. No High School diploma? Criminal Record? Both are waived at the government's pleasure.
During NAM these issues did not bother the DOD.
In fact many a judge offered a thug the ARMY/MARINES/NAVY as an alternative to prison.
Sure there were a bunch of 365/200's. But my father and older brothers (both CSM's) also saw a lot of Duty Hut Supply types that performed support and Admin duties very well.
For those that screwed up again in service while in NAM, it was the LBJ. In the US it was a collection of Camps & Forts that used converted WWII wooden buildings w/o AC surrounded by Razor Wire for a Prison.
#3
....DOD knew thirty years ago that this was going to happen. At that time, I was recruiting for the USAF in Akron, OH, and at least 60-75% of the people I talked to were DQ right off the bat.
And it's going to get worse. As we wokify the US military, they will find that a great many people they want to put in will be unable to read/comprehend their training (which, by the way, is set at a 6th grade comprehension level)or will be of a sufficiently criminal mindset that arming them would be the worst mistake we can make.
Mike
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The 70s show! drugs, race riots, AWOL, all coming for a new season. Notice any general officer types resigning/retiring in protest to the developments in DoD? I didn't either.
#7
So after reading this I went to our cafeteria to eat. As I looked around I was shocked, mainly because I had not been paying attention, at the levels of obesity. I'm over 60 and I consider myself fat. But once I looked around at the 20 to 35 year olds I realized I was the only one in any kind of fitness. There were a couple of small groups of vets that were in shape, but the rest were not just fat, they were 60 plus pounds heavy. We have a couple generations that wont live to 65. I think it safe to assume that investments into obese treatments will be a sound investment.
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who joined the Reserves with the help of her Vietnam-veteran father
Ummm....not doing the maths, or is the ol' dog gettin' some?
#9
What's really sad is when I see youngsters, such as six- or seven-year-olds chubby.
But would a Gen-Z'er really consider the military as a career outside of just "needing a job", "paying for college", or "getting away from a miserable home environment"?
Back in the late 1980's, I remember one teenager who was overweight by plenty but wanted to be a Marine. Well, he was a success story. When he came back home on furlough, he was a lean, mean machine.
#11
He said, "Kid, we only got
One question. Have you ever been arrested?"
hen he said "You to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W ... NOW kid!!"
And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's
Where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
Committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
Looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
Rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me!"
#14
If you ask me the military needs its particular moral vacuums. As long as they're healthy there's a role for everyone.
The kind who go 'kill kill kill... guts and veins in my teeth' are the rarest and most valuable assets. Maybe they can't crochet or help vaccinate villages, but they are the shaft you use to shaft with.
Direct Translation of the article
[RUSVESNA] On the morning of Monday, May 10, near the Stanitsa Luganskaya checkpoint, border guards found two men who were trying to move more than two thousand foils for fencing from the territory of the LPR.
This is reported by the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
“Two 'swordsmen' who were trying to get to the contact line through minefields were discovered today at dawn by members of the Joint Forces. Thanks to the information received in advance from the border guards of the Luhansk detachment, the servicemen of the Sever OTG and the Ukrainian 80th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade on the outskirts of the village of Stanytsia Luhanska, 500 meters from the checkpoint, found two men who were handed over to the border guards of the Stanitsa Luhanska department,” says in the message.
“As it turned out, citizens were heading to the contact line in order to pick up the goods and then move them to the village of Stanytsia Luhanska for a fee. 2200 foils for fencing in the agreed place were left for them by the inhabitants of Lugansk, ”the department noted.
“It is worth noting that rapiers belong to the group of inventory items that are prohibited from moving across the contact line. This is the third time that law enforcement officers stopped trying to deliver such goods from the temporarily occupied territory, ”the border guards said.
With regard to men, administrative protocols were drawn up under part 1 of article 204-3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for moving goods to or from the area of the anti-terrorist operation). The sanction of the article provides for the confiscation of the seized goods.
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[REGNUM] The Minister of Health of the Omsk Region, Alexander Murakhovsky, is currently at the base in the village of Pospelovo, but in the near future he will go to Omsk. IA REGNUM was informed about this on May 10 in the regional Ministry of Health.
The press service of the ministry assured that Murakhovsky is feeling well. He did not need medical attention and hospitalization.
The minister thanked everyone who took part in his search. He plans to return to work on May 11th.
As reported by IA REGNUM , the head of the Omsk Ministry of Health Alexander Murakhovsky on May 7 left on a quad bike from the hunting base to the forest and stopped communicating. Large-scale searches were organized in the region. On May 10, the minister went out to people in the area of the Basly village.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Rev Megan Rohrer was elected bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Sierra Pacific synod on Saturday
Rohrer is now the first transgender person to serve as bishop in the denomination or in any of the major Christian faiths in the United States
'It's an honor to be called to serve the Sierra Pacific Synod,' Rohrer, who will be installed as bishop on July 1, said in a statement after the vote
He/she/it know anything about theology? Know any of the 95 Theses?
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Not really NN2N1. The Lutheran Church has a lot of gay/gender issues. Splits in the Church have resulted. My family left because of pro-gay decisions in our synod.
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Our Family and extend family groups quit the UNITED Methodist for similar reasons.
My Uncles literately built our original local Methodist church in 1940's and help build the New Brick one in 1970's also. Back then the preachers actually worked a real job for income and the Wed & Sunday donations were for only Church related issues.
The family as a group cease attendance when it went UNITED Methodist, after learning UM decided to avoid selective bible passages and church norms to go New Age for wider attendance collection($$$).
In other words, The UM went Business P&L, instead of GOD'S word for 2000+ years. The preachers no longer work real jobs and now have a UM retirement.
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Procopius2k: Yep, they changed the sign from "BBQ" to "Tabernacle"
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Yo, Hanna-Barberian Bach!
They played in a pushup and jock,
And sometimes they twerked
At the organ (which worked...
Just ask Hans Magdalena and flock:
Thirteen crumb-crunchers, all named "Barack").
#2
A whole lot of correlation without a lot of causation. Some warnings were signs you've already had a minor stroke.
Lightheaded, dizzy, or nearly fainting are sure signs your brain isn't getting enough oxygen. Could be Joan Blondell, or could be clogged carotid arteries,
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Yup...could point to a number of things but stroke awareness is a good thing. If you do have these, best to get evaluated by a doctor. Really liked the background music tho..
#1
As a person who has age-related macular deneration, the article is interesting. AMD has genetic origins. Possibly, this technique may hold promise for MAD. As it is now, the treatment is one of control by injections into the eye every 1-2 months of anti-VEGF drugs such as Lucentis, Eylea or Beovu.
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.
[NYPOST] The suspected gunman who allegedly 
[NYPOST] A tourist visiting Manhattan with his family was stabbed with a screwdriver while riding a train Sunday night, police and sources said.
