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Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza ceasefire after 11 days of fighting
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
James Clifford Credit has been arrested and charged in Seattle. He’s accused of robbing exclusively Asian women across the city
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Posted by: Fred || 05/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm sure there's an interesting story behind that surname. Perhaps involving a private maternity clinic and a maxed-out card?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/20/2021 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  accused of robbing exclusively Asian

Where's the diversity?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/20/2021 14:42 Comments || Top||


Five black suspects carried out five robberies in an Asian area of SE Portland. @PortlandPolice made no arrests
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


House Intel Republicans say 'significant circumstantial evidence' of COVID Wuhan lab leak
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1 

WOW!!
That must be some type of NEW DC record.

Because, it only took them 1 year, 4 months and 6 days to finally agree with what a majority of the US knew as far back as Jan. 14th, 2020.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/20/2021 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, Paul... the guano is coming through in the sponge quite nicely.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/20/2021 7:54 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
California Radicals Say Math Is Racist, Set Out to Cancel It in Public Schools
PJ Media
The teaching of mathematics is part of the white supremacist culture and must be purged of all racist influences, says the California school board.
Only the irrational numbers
What kind of racist influences? To begin with, there is no right or wrong answer in math. Any answer is equally valid. Princeton Professor Sergiu Klainerman, a refugee from Ceausescu’s Romania, likens the woke culture to a "soft" kind of Marxism that "enforces its ideology not by jailing dissenters or physically eliminating them, but by social shaming, mob punishment, guilt by association, and coerced speech."

Klainerman, a professor of mathematics, is very angry.

"The idea that focusing on getting the ’right answer’ is now considered among some self-described progressives a form of bias or racism is offensive and extraordinarily dangerous. The entire study of mathematics is based on clearly formulated definitions and statements of fact. If this were not so, bridges would collapse, planes would fall from the sky, and bank transactions would be impossible."

Yes, but that’s a small price to pay if we’re going to get rid of all racism everywhere, right?
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house." Lazarus Long
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/20/2021 03:53 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ooops.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/20/2021 3:59 Comments || Top||

#2  "Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house." Lazarus Long

...And even some of those are questionable.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 05/20/2021 6:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Are they implying that the average negroid brain is not capable of what almost everyone else on the planet can do?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/20/2021 6:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Hard to sell drugs without math
Posted by: Chris || 05/20/2021 7:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Huh?
Posted by: Wren || 05/20/2021 7:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Go ahead. California barely teaches it anyway. Might as well complete the collapse.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/20/2021 8:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Quit funding schools, start funding students. The state can be a landlord, maintain and rent facilities, but not a provider of services.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/20/2021 8:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Wren, you have to weigh them, keep up with how much you have, count the money. You don't just buy them by the handful.
Posted by: Chris || 05/20/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#9  ^That's not math. That's arithmetic - you can do it on calculator in your phone.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/20/2021 9:43 Comments || Top||

#10  So, lets have a law that any outfit making a product that may harm its user (cars, aircraft, power tools, etc.) must disclose if its hiring practices include engineers who have been spared exposure to rayciss maff in the course of their edumacation.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/20/2021 9:54 Comments || Top||

#11  Guess the Brown Aquaduct is racist.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/20/2021 10:55 Comments || Top||

#12  The number 'one' is a bigot.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/20/2021 10:58 Comments || Top||

#13  Differentiation is genocide!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/20/2021 11:14 Comments || Top||

#14  Anti-derivatives, uh uh nah! Black Lives Matter, Anti-Fa!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/20/2021 11:25 Comments || Top||

#15  pi is oppression! We demand that it be equal to the number of genders at the time otherwise it's GENDERIST!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/20/2021 11:49 Comments || Top||

#16  There are three kinds of people in this world; those who can count, and those who can't.
Posted by: AuburnTom || 05/20/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#17  Against California’s Ethnic-Studies Curriculum
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/20/2021 13:29 Comments || Top||

#18  Calling pi irrational is so not inclusive. Body shaming is wrong H8R!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/20/2021 13:32 Comments || Top||


#20  May they all live in houses, work in high rises, fly in airplanes, drive cars and drink water from objects designed and built by imbeciles.
Posted by: Whains Speatch8051 || 05/20/2021 16:14 Comments || Top||

#21  Worth noting is that all this math be racis' BS in our universities is coming not out of the math and engineering departments, but from math and engineering EDUCATION departments.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/20/2021 21:50 Comments || Top||


'It's become an outdoor psychiatric ward!' How California's scenic Venice Beach has become a homeless hotspot with tent cities, violent crime and rampant drug use pushing families and tourists out
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's been an outdoor psychiatric ward for a long as I can remember, and that' a long time.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/20/2021 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/20/2021 3:06 Comments || Top||

#3 

#1 & #2- Ditto
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/20/2021 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4  You get what you tolerate
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/20/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis
Whomever spares the bad men harms (the rest of us)
Rome’s wisdom is written throughout our justice system, but we have forgotten it needs to be implemented to be effective.
We need t return to the values of the 20th century if we still have a hope of keeping our country, its values and our way of life.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/20/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Curious wondering who Paul Hogan supported in the local elections...

You get more of what you subsidies.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/20/2021 12:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Me, I always get more of what I don't want.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/20/2021 12:35 Comments || Top||

#8  You can never get enough of what you don't need.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 05/20/2021 13:12 Comments || Top||

#9  It's hard for me to get worked up about stuff like this in Venice CA or Austin TX or wherever...

They really think they can vote to shut down entire industries but keep their fake little Bourgeoisie lifestyles?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/20/2021 13:32 Comments || Top||

#10  It was quaint back when the weirdness was confined to localized patches - Haight-Ashbury, Berkeley, Venice Beach, Oakland, San Francisco - but now the nuttiness has spread like mold and you can't get away from it.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/20/2021 19:50 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
'Do you move forward when you fart in space?' Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is calling on the public to suggest activities for him to try on his space flight this December - and the sillier the better
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/20/2021 12:01 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This was the first thing I learned at UNH - Durham; don't know if it'd work in space, though.
Posted by: Raj || 05/20/2021 13:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Only if your pants / space suit is pulled down to expose your asshole...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/20/2021 14:19 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 05/20/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Very Japanese.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/20/2021 14:37 Comments || Top||


Bodycam captures moment cop single-handedly LIFTS overturned car off Virginia mother thrown outside vehicle after crash
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wow!
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/20/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott signs law banning all abortions at just SIX WEEKS with no exceptions for rape or incest
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I do admire how US conservatives are capable on focusing on what's important and ignoring insignificant irritations.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/20/2021 4:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Yupp. So important.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/20/2021 5:29 Comments || Top||

#3  The law would certainly fail a court challenge based on Casey vs Planned Parenthood, etc.

Texas specifically excluded public agencies from being able to enforce the law thus eliminating them from entities having standing to sue.

The law becomes effective 1 Sept. The goal of that is, I think, to get the Supreme Court to overturn Casey.. before then. The Supreme Court has already agreed to hear the case of the Mississippi law which has a 15 week limitation so there is a possibility. However, a complete overturn of Casey.. is a long shot.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/20/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Dron, g(r)omgoru: This comes from a single state out of fifty — plus some territories and such, like Puerto Rico and Guam. Since January, more than twenty of the Republican-controlled states have been passing laws tightening up election laws, gun rights laws, education laws, laws covering government actions during an epidemic, and unemployment compensation laws, all to limit the changes the Democrats are trying to push through at the federal level.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/20/2021 9:51 Comments || Top||

#5  You've kids of your own TW - you know how much work it's to raise a kid to be a human being.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/20/2021 11:06 Comments || Top||

#6  you know how much work it's to raise a kid to be a human being.

I have an idea how hard it can be, g(r)omgoru — but the trailing daughters were easy and mostly a lot of fun to rear. What trailing daughter #1 is dealing with now only showed up later, poor thing. How did I misunderstand you and Dron?
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/20/2021 11:27 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 Dron can speak for himself. To me there are two aspects to abortion: individual & societal.
On individual level, it's no kindness to bring an unwonted child into the world.
On societal level: Are you people crazy? 30 million of what I call "Your homegrown Palestinians" is not enough for you? You want more BLM?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/20/2021 11:38 Comments || Top||

#8  It's part of what I call a Reality vs. ideology conundrum. We know something's irrational and won't work right in the real world, yet we defend it because if we don't the greater evil comes in. Today, sets of principles borrowed from religion and hollow doctrines are the pipes and timbrels of both left and right. And the narrow minded demands of constituents and supporters become the banners. The fight is no more about doing the right thing that alleviates human suffering, safeguards quality and dignity of life, or protecting the parts of us that are vital. Ideology is everything, and policy that stems from it. The real issues are seen as resulting from policy, not individual malice and frailty; and thus somehow fixable by broad policy. Both sides think like this, everywhere, I guess. And we defend policies of our side with zeal.

Everybody knows for example, that there are a lot of people out there who can't be trusted with a firearm [some even with other basic rights like free speech] but because the right of the rational too is threatened by Dems we defend it all. Can't be helped because it is survival.

When it comes to sacrosanct things, things that are essential to our humanity though, like childhood, motherhood, the parental instinct... the consideration arises that who and how will they raise the child? What is its lot in the world and has our adamance cursed him/her with a life we cannot wish on our own? Are these even pondered by the self righteous fools when they make such demands of the State and cheer when the State gives in? A woman's rape may be incomplete in fact until you bring the entire government into it and force her to bear to term the fruit of her violation. I don't have answers, and the State cannot either. If some TV preacher says he does, he's a goddamn liar. All I believe is the battle for primacy of ideology can leave out some things.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/20/2021 12:15 Comments || Top||

#9  What is your TD dealing with? Do share in the O club. We're all family here.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/20/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||

#10  religion and other hollow doctrines
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/20/2021 13:38 Comments || Top||

#11  I think at this point the idea is to get the perfect case up to the supremes and hope for the best.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Thererong7228 || 05/20/2021 21:01 Comments || Top||

#12  Do share in the O club. We're all family here.

Go take a look, Dron.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/20/2021 22:03 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Tunisia’s financial situation is critical, but the government has no intention of requesting a rescheduling of its foreign debt
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Britain
Britishers asked to drink 124 pints of beer per adult to help ailing pub sector
[LiveMint] According to the Bank of England’s Chief Economist, the UK economy is ready to spring up once the restrictions are lifted completely

The British economy, similar to many other countries, has taken a direct hit due to the numerous lockdowns since last year, that helped the nation tide over the raging Covid-19 pandemic. Now, as the nation is planning to open up again, various sectors will get a chance to make up for the losses.

One of the most affected industries in UK is the pub sector, which often saw a complete halt in business during lockdowns. A British website called Company Debt has figured out the exact amount which the sector will need in order to revive from the slump. Taking a step further, it informed British citizens that they will have to step up their drinking game this summer in order to revive the pub sector. According to the site that provides financial advice, every adult in the country will have chug down 124 pints of beer this year to help the sector stand on its feet again
Posted by: Beavis || 05/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  3 months, no problem
Posted by: 746 || 05/20/2021 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Per month?
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/20/2021 0:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Let's get the government involved. There is no way they can eff up beer-drinking.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/20/2021 1:00 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/20/2021 2:52 Comments || Top||

#5  I could do that in a week
Posted by: Chris || 05/20/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||

#6  That's my total in 8 days, freakin' amateurs...
Posted by: Raj || 05/20/2021 8:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Rookie numbers. Invite some Irish in to help for a few months.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/20/2021 9:21 Comments || Top||

#8  To bad Andre the Giant isn't still alive. Didn't he drink like 150 on a flight 1 time.
Posted by: Chris || 05/20/2021 9:39 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Ha, perhaps we know that big Frenchman is no longer with us? He would have been 74 yesterday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/20/2021 9:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Let's get the government involved. There is no way they can eff up beer-drinking.

The Portable Ice Container (PIC) regulations are an important concept in our efforts to improve California's air quality. PICs, also known as "Beer Coolers"…
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/20/2021 10:49 Comments || Top||

#11  Buy me a ticket to the UK, put me up for a month and I'll double the 124 tiny pints, and I'll bring my German buddy Frank with me, he'll do 62 pints in a week, he does 9 pints a day here, no BS his doctor is amazed he is still alive. Shakes his head every time he sees him...mutters 'not possible' but Frank, the Concrete Foreman, does it nightly, and gets up for work @4:30 AM - Like its nothing.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Juth1172 || 05/20/2021 21:22 Comments || Top||


Economy
US jobless claims decline to 444,000
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to 444,000, a new pandemic low and a sign that the job market keeps strengthening as consumers spend freely again, viral infections drop and business restrictions ease.

Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that applications declined 34,000 from a revised 478,000 a week earlier. The number of weekly jobless claims — a rough measure of the pace of layoffs — has declined steadily since the year began.

The data release coincides with rapid moves by nearly all the nation’s Republican governors to cut off a $300-a-week federal unemployment benefit that they and many business executives blame for discouraging the unemployed from seeking jobs. Those cutoffs of federal jobless aid will begin in June.

Twenty-two states, from Texas and Georgia to Ohio and Iowa, have acted to block the federal government’s $300 weekly payment for the unemployed, according to an Associated Press analysis. Two more states, Florida and Kansas, are considering doing so. Those 24 states all have Republican governors and state legislatures.

Unemployed Americans have been able to receive the federal benefit, which was included in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion financial rescue package, on top of their state jobless aid.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/20/2021 09:53 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In just over 100 days, who can argue the extraordinary genius of Biden-Harris administration ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/20/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||

#2  typical AP spinning

the 'new jobless claims' peaked in April 2020 at about 6 million, when much of the economy shut down; since then, almost every month has seen a decline
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/20/2021 11:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Those 24 states all have Republican governors and state legislatures.

Not true. Our governor (Kansas) is a democrat machine cog nominated because of who she slept with. She has a nice collection of cats, loves short walks, parroting authoritarian policies two weeks after the leaders, and accessorizing her sign language model.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/20/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#4  This is genuinely good news on the employment front.

Now if we can just avoid the inflation monster...
Posted by: Tom || 05/20/2021 12:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Right. Last week we saw new jobs were created at 25% of the expected rate. What I see is an anemic economy where the employed are afraid to take risks.
Posted by: Whains Speatch8051 || 05/20/2021 16:06 Comments || Top||


Europe
71% of French Say ‘We're Full': No More Immigration
[Summit] A new poll has found that 71 per cent of French people think the country has had enough immigration and that it can’t take any more.

The 2021 Fraternity Barometer, a joint effort by the polling firm Ifop and le Labo de la Fraternité, found that almost three quarters of respondents desired to see no more immigration, while a clear majority of 64 per cent said France should no longer accept refugees because of the threat of terrorism.

France has suffered numerous terror attacks carried out by jihadists who were let into the country as "refugees," including the majority of the Paris massacre terrorists.

As we previously highlighted, even so-called "moderate" Michel Barnier, who was the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, is calling for a 3-5 year total ban on all immigration into the EU.

Perhaps reflecting the doublethink that still plagues people’s views on migration, although 74 per cent acknowledged that "diversity" creates problems and conflicts in society, 85 per cent of respondents still said it was a "good thing."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/20/2021 06:46 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's an old joke: "What do you call a hooker with a runny nose?" In the interest of tastefullness, I'll leave off the punchline...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/20/2021 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  The French have a reputation for being obnoxious to foreign visitors -- but this time they do have a point
Posted by: magpie || 05/20/2021 21:51 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Ever wish you had a third THUMB? Scientists develop a robotic digit that is controlled using pressure sensors on the underside of your big toes
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/20/2021 12:34 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Worn on the side of the hand, eh? Is that a third "thumb" or are you just glad to see me?
Posted by: SteveS || 05/20/2021 13:35 Comments || Top||

#2  "I really hate this Spice Girl song."

-thumb starts grooving-

Damn it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/20/2021 13:45 Comments || Top||

#3  I'd rather have an eye on my fore finger...you can look around corners, behind your back etc.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 05/20/2021 14:18 Comments || Top||

#4  The sex toy industry could definitely use it.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/20/2021 14:27 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 05/20/2021 14:33 Comments || Top||

#6  I'd rather have an eye on my fore finger..
Picking your nose would be a whole new experience.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/20/2021 14:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Go ahead and increase your chances of hitching a ride; hook me up to that Gundam Suit in Yokohama.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/20/2021 20:04 Comments || Top||


US Space Force launches missile-detecting satellite into orbit
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:



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Thu 2021-05-20
  Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza ceasefire after 11 days of fighting
Wed 2021-05-19
  Biden pressing Israel's Netanyahu for end to military campaign
Tue 2021-05-18
  Israel Eliminates Terror Tunnel 163 Football Fields Long,
Kills Top PIJ Terror Commander
Mon 2021-05-17
  Palestinians report more than 100 strikes on Gaza City: houses collapse, Phase C attacks on underground ‘Metro’ tunnel network
Sun 2021-05-16
  IDF launches massive strike against Gaza,
bombs Hamas chief's home
Sat 2021-05-15
  Afghanistan: Ceasefire Violations Reported on 2nd Day of Truce
Fri 2021-05-14
  Israel Begins Ground Operations Against Hamas in Gaza
Thu 2021-05-13
  Israel rejects Hamas truce offer; ministers vote to intensify Gaza strikes
Wed 2021-05-12
  US fuel pipeline hackers 'didn't mean to create problems'
Tue 2021-05-11
  IDF confirms it attacked a tunnel in northern Gaza, multiple Hamas militants inside it dead
Mon 2021-05-10
  Scores More Wounded in New Jerusalem Clashes
Sun 2021-05-09
  Bomb kills at least 30 near girls' school in Afghan capital
Sat 2021-05-08
  Top U.S. pipeline operator shuts major fuel line after cyber attack
Fri 2021-05-07
  400 suspects to be arraigned for funding Boko Haram, bandits
Thu 2021-05-06
  Iran Diplomat's 20-year Sentence for France Bomb Plot Confirmed


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