Closet jihadist?
[DailyVoice] John Tibbles, 20, was arrested and charged with sexual misconduct following a complaint that was filed in his hometown, according to the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office.
It is alleged that Tibbles had sexual contact with the goat approximately 40 miles north of Syracuse in Richland.
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I think there may be a breed of folks who think if you can eat it or milk it, you can't logically be guilty of sexually abusing it. These are not people from Italy who use Water Buffalo milk to make Mozzarella ... it's those other guys.
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Old joke from British india: two old army blokes are talking.
I say, old boy, did you hear about Carstairs?
No, what about him?
He's left his wife and run off with a goat.
No, never.
It's true old boy.
What, a male goat or a female?
Female, of course. There's nothing queer about old Carstairs.
Guinea-Bissau's historic ruling party appealed to the Supreme Court after its champion lost in the volatile West African country's presidential elections https://t.co/zmvDtSRg5m
Let's call this one 'no one loves me, either'...
[Politico, via Drudge] - The Hill’s owner seeks potential buyers, investors
Under fire for its role in promoting alleged Ukraine conspiracy theories, the D.C.-based publication faces new questions about its future. Fake news doesn't seem to affect the NYT much, does it?
Jimmy Finkelstein, owner of The Hill, is shopping his publication, whose op-eds alleging various conspiracy theories about Ukraine have been at the center of Donald Trump’s impeachment scandal, to various media owners, either as investors or potential buyers, according to six people familiar with the matter.
The asking price for The Hill, which was co-founded by Finkelstein’s father over 25 years ago, is $100 million, according to two of the people. Finkelstein told another person that he ideally wants much more ‐ up to $300 million.
"If somebody wants to pay it, he’ll sell it, but it’s not going to sell for nickels and dimes," said the person, who discussed the $300 million figure with Finkelstein within the past year. "If it’s a big number, I’m sure he’ll be interested." It's a pretty big spread between $100 and $300 million, isn't it?
And now for the fun part:
Finkelstein, in an interview, called the premise of the story "not true" but would not elaborate. He acknowledged having hired the boutique investment firm Methuselah Advisors, which specializes in large media transactions and has made inquiries to several large media companies. He said he has had Methuselah "on retainer for quite some time to evaluate media opportunities and evaluate incoming offers that we get regularly."
Either Finkelstein or his representatives approached James Murdoch about The Hill, according to a person familiar with the matter, who declined to comment on whether Murdoch was interested in buying the publication. What that tells me is this - The Hill's been on sale 'for quite some time' and they still haven't found any buyers even at the low range of $100 million, and not even the Murdoch family's got any interest in it. Farewell to thee, Spanish lady...
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At least when John Henry bought the Boston Globe six years ago ($70 million) he had some sweet real estate on Morrisey Boulevard (which is being developed as we speak), which has a market value approximate to the purchase price of $70 million.
What do these other companies have to offer besides a constantly overdrawn bank account?
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In recent months, The Hill has been cast in a critical spotlight because of columns by the conservative journalist and former Hill TV executive John Solomon, including one alleging that a former U.S. ambassador had improperly demanded that Ukrainian officials halt an investigation into a company affiliated with Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden.
But wait! I thought that was real news!
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^ These SS clowns are so deluded-- their heads are so far up they're arses-- that they think real reporting is fake and vice-versa
[Keystone Sporting Arms] A miniature .22lr version of the classic Mosin-Nagant 91/30 Rifle used by the Russians in WWII. It is the first of a series of "Mini Mil-Surp™" rifles, a collection of five WWI and WWII rifles scaled down for Youth shooters and chambered in America’s sweetheart, the .22lr cartridge. Now kids can shoot their own version of Mom and Dad’s cool military firearms!
The KSA 91/30 has a 20″ barrel, precision-machined to ensure the durability and accuracy that is normally reserved for the "big guns". The action is based on the proven, safe, single-shot Crickett® design and has a straight-handled bolt, just like the original Mosins. The sights are also copies of the originals (scaled down, of course) and the walnut stock and barrel even have "proof" stamps and markings. The first 500 pre-orders will come with a custom wooden crate with matching serial numbers, a sling, a certificate of authenticity, selection of your own serial number and more.
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I handled one of these at the NRA convention last year. Very cool.
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That's just the cutest lil' thing!
Don't know where I saw it (badanov, maybe?), but somebody snarked that the Mosin-Nagant has been on the losing side of more battles than any rifle in history.
[WeaselZipper] The 14th Air Force, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, has been renamed. It will now live long and prosper as Space Operations Command, or SPOC, according to a recent service announcement.
The change was made in accordance with the transition from Air Force Space Command to the U.S. Space Force, effective Dec. 20 when President Donald Trump signed the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), establishing Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. military.
“Every day, all around the planet, people count on us to make a difference — to provide a space-enabled combat edge to the warfighters that keep our country, our allies, and our partners safe. We will not let them down,” Maj. Gen. John E. Shaw, commander of the newly redesignated SPOC, said in the release.
Does this make them a 'non-profit' organization?
[WSJ] - BuzzFeed Edges Closer to Profitability After Tough Year
BuzzFeed has worked to stabilize itself after a tumultuous period last year in which it laid off 250 people following an annual loss that people familiar with the matter said was greater than $50 million. "Learn to code...or mine coal"
Now, the onetime digital-media darling is edging closer to profitability thanks to staff cuts and efforts in recent years to generate new revenue streams, such as launching its own line of kitchenware and investing in a chain of stores selling quirky toys.
"There has been this idea that digital media companies have been forced to diversify their revenue because times have been tough," BuzzFeed founder and Chief Executive Jonah Peretti said in an interview. "But the other side of the story is that the internet has really allowed for the creation of a new kind of media company that wasn’t entirely possible in the past." Ignore for now the sympathetic tone of the article and let's cut to the chase, as there are only two numbers I need - 2019's gross revenue of $320 million and an unstated loss amount that I'll generously say was cut in half from the 2018 loss, so that's $25 million. That's still an 8% loss. If those 250 layoffs involved an annual salary of $40,000, BuzzFeed saved all of $10 million from that cut, on an annual basis (the shitcanning happened mid-year). A lot more shitcannings than 250 will be required to close that gap.
I think it's safe to conclude BuzzFeed is now just another media company enjoying the same trajectory as most other media companies - straight into the shitter.
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.