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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Hodge Twins: City Funded Grocery Store FAILS in Black Neighborhood because of the Usual Suspects
[YouTube] Sun Fresh in East Kansas City.



Related: Sun Fresh Market on Kansas City, Missouri's eastside in decline, with rotten odors, empty shelves

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Posted by: badanov || 07/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [181 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
How about, ONLY allowing those citizens actually paying taxes to vote on what and how their taxes can be spent?

Not some collection of Government supported persons or tax and spend politicians filling their pockets.

Just hold Tax-Elections for all taxes, spending and increases. Let the "Taxpaying" Voters decide what they want to pay taxes on and what government to live with or live without.

Because naturally districts, politicians owned by the elite, and metros overpopulated with Government supported person will vote themselves more $$$$, since someone else is paying for it.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/25/2025 6:39 Comments || Top||

#2  For that part of socialism to work, there can’t be any other viable alternatives. State owned grocery doesn’t work in an Amazon world.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/25/2025 6:50 Comments || Top||

#3  You can only have 'nice' things in a civilized world.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/25/2025 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Lawlessness breeds destruction. I thought this generally understood. Evidently not.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/25/2025 7:27 Comments || Top||

#5  What you tolerate is what you get. What you get may not be compatible with other things you need and they will be swept away.

I have no sympathy for these idiots. Let them starve.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/25/2025 11:54 Comments || Top||

#6  The Rule of the Bottom Quintile:

Maybe the most important thing you learn by attending public school is that we are all at the mercy of the bottom quintile. The rules you follow in life will be based on the behavior of the bottom quintile, the taxes you pay are to support the bottom quintile, the greatest risks to your life and property will come from the bottom quintile, the dearth of comfortable public spaces is because you have to allow the bottom quintile to be there, our zoning laws are developed for fear of the bottom quintile.
Probably best to learn and accept this early.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/25/2025 15:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Sadly, the above is a bit more than theory.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/25/2025 16:33 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
The legendary general's jacket, captured from the Ukrainian forces, cannot be passed on to his descendants
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Stolen valor, Russian style:

by Denis Davydov

[REGNUM] During the assault on the Avdeevka fortified area in the DPR, fighters from one of the brigades operating in this direction made an unexpected discovery in a Ukrainian dugout. The Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen decorated the premises with a Soviet Army lieutenant general's jacket with award bars - obviously taken from somewhere.

It so happened that among those who got the uniform item were former searchers, people passionate about history, who were interested in its belonging. And out of habit, they showed the find to their colleagues.

The next few days were devoted to deciphering the pads, in which the correspondent of the IA Regnum also took part. And in the end we managed to determine that the owner of the uniform was awarded two military orders - the Red Banner and the Red Star, which was awarded to "military personnel, employees of state security agencies and other citizens of the USSR for services in the defense of the country, ensuring state security and strengthening defense capability, both in wartime and in peacetime."

The general received another order for length of service - "For Service to the Motherland in the USSR Armed Forces" 3rd degree. In addition, he was a full Cavalier of the medal "For Impeccable Service" and had a number of anniversary awards.

Based on this combination, it can be stated with a high degree of probability that the uniform of the legendary commander of the Dzerzhinsky Division (OMON), Igor Rubtsov, a native of Avdeevka, who died in 2023, was found in the Ukrainian dugout.

That is, Igor Nikolaevich was still alive when his jacket ended up in the hands of Ukrainian soldiers who most likely robbed a local museum - transferring such things to museums in the hero's birthplace (including school museums) has always been a common practice.

On April 6, the day of the general’s funeral, the press service of the Russian National Guard reported that “he belonged to that bright galaxy of military leaders of the internal troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs and the internal troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, whose lot it was to defend the territorial integrity and sovereignty of our state during the collapse of the USSR, interethnic conflicts and the repulse of terrorist threats.”

His authority was always reflected in the phrase of one of his senior officers: "The situation is heating up? We need to send Rubtsov..." In the 90s, he held the position of deputy commander of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for emergency situations.

His service began in 1963 at the Ordzhonikidze Military School of the Ministry of Public Order of the RSFSR, which trained personnel for the internal troops. Having become a platoon commander in the 2nd Regiment of the Separate Motorized Rifle Division of Special Purpose named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, he eventually became its commander; the longest part of Rubtsov's officer service is associated with the division.
F.E. Dzerzhinsky refers to Felix Dzerzhinsky AKA Iron Felix, a Polish noble who helped establish the original Soviet secret police, Cheka.
Under his leadership, a special purpose training company was formed, which later grew into the Vityaz detachment.

Since 1988, he and his subordinates have visited all the hot spots of the USSR and Russia: during the conflicts in Armenia and Azerbaijan, during the Ossetian-Ingush conflict, and in military operations on the territory of the Chechen Republic.

In 1997, in an interview for the magazine of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “On duty”, the general shared memorable events:

Baku, Yerevan, Fergana, Nagorno-Karabakh are one thing. Chechnya is different. And we had to endure a lot everywhere. In May 1995, we conducted a special operation in Old Bakayurt. The result was stunning for me as the head of the VOG (military operational group. - Ed.) and for my subordinates. Having routed the militants, we managed to capture several anti-aircraft missile launchers, hundreds of small arms and more than 200 thousand rounds of ammunition. Such things are not forgotten."

In general, he is a legendary man.

However, attempts to find his descendants (it is known that Rubtsov has a son, also a veteran of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) have not been successful. Since the end of May of this year, we have been trying to get help from the All-Russian Public Organization of Veterans of Internal Affairs Bodies, but nothing has happened in the past two months. The last thing we managed to find out is that the Chairman of the Council of Veterans of Law Enforcement Troops, Pyotr Rovensky, left on business.

The army men who keep the general's jacket also reported that "everything has died down" along the veterans' line.

As Alexey Yasinsky, a representative of the 68th Army Corps, told Regnum, the artifact is in his custody and is currently an exhibit of the closed SVO museum. At the same time, the officer expressed his willingness to hand over the item to his relatives if they are found, and declined to comment further.

So we sincerely hope that at least this publication will help the difficult task of finding members of Lieutenant General Rubtsov's family and making a decision about the future fate of the item, which has already received its own interesting biography.

Well, the search is not limited to the jacket.

As the well-known Donetsk searcher Alexander Maltsev, former head of the RPO "Donbass", told the agency, in the same area, in Avdeevka, fighters found a set of awards and documents of junior sergeant Fyodor Doronin. Also stolen by the VSSU in his son's apartment.

A fighter of the 24th Border Regiment of the NKVD troops, a fellow countryman of Rubtsov, was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" for "personally killing three enemy soldiers with his own weapon. Being in a group for the liquidation of small armed groups of the enemy that had left the Iasi-Kishinev encirclement, he also acted bravely to destroy them. While serving in the rear guard of the active Red Army, he demonstrated the ability to detain hostile criminal elements, as a result of which he has a number of valuable detentions to his credit."

The second military award is the medal "For the Capture of Vienna".

As has already been established, the hero's son Alexander remained in Avdeevka and was wounded in August 2022 after stepping on a "Lepestok" mine. His further fate is still unknown, but we really hope that in this case we will be able to find the veteran's relatives and give them what is rightfully theirs.


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Posted by: badanov || 07/25/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [85 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Battle fashion
Eisenhower jacket
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/25/2025 6:17 Comments || Top||


Economy
BofA Raises NVIDIA (NVDA) Price Target on China Sales Outlook
[Insider Monkey] NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) ranks among the best magic formula stocks to invest in. BofA Securities kept its Buy rating on NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) while increasing its price target from $180 to $220. The adjustment reflects BofA’s scenario analysis of potential additional sales and earnings potential, namely concerning Nvidia’s shipments of H20 chips and Blackwell counterparts to China.
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Posted by: Besoeker || 07/25/2025 10:07 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
The worldwide frenzy against Israel
[IsraelNationalNews] Over the past few days, anti-Israel and anti-Jewish feeling has been ratcheted up into an absolute frenzy. Every few hours seems to bring a fresh outrage.

In London, a prominent Jewish broadcaster was chased down the street by a man screaming, "fascist Zionist scum." A woman dining at a Jewish restaurant in the city was asked if she was a Jew and then had food thrown over her.

On the Greek island of Rhodes, a mob armed with knives attacked a group of Jewish teenagers. About 50 French Jewish children, returning from a summer camp in Spain, were thrown off a flight at Valencia airport after the children sang Hebrew songs, and their tour leader was arrested and thrown to the ground.

The BBC’s obsession with demonizing and delegitimizing Israel has reached pathological proportions. This week, it gave pride of place on its flagship radio show Today to ever-more twisted accusations and blood libels casting Israel as an evil and murderous state, including the insane claim by a British surgeon working in Gaza that the Israel Defense Forces were playing a game in shooting Gazan boys in the food queues by targeting a different part of their body every day.

The broadcasting behemoth could scarcely contain its excitement as reporters and interviewees joined in chorusing that "a reckoning was coming" with the imminent end of the war in Gaza, after which Israel’s "war crimes" would be revealed, and the case for declaring a Palestine state was therefore now overwhelming.

This propaganda onslaught consists of three major libels: that the IDF is deliberately killing Gazans queueing for food, that Israel is starving Gazans to death, and that "settler violence" against Arabs is increasing in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria.

All three claims seek to turn Israel from being the target and victim of genocidal attack into a murderous criminal entity that doesn’t deserve to survive. It’s a propaganda onslaught mounted by Hamas acting in concert with its allies in the United Nations and the entire global "humanitarian" establishment, pumped out through a media megaphone and parroted by politicians who are either malevolent or clueless.
Nobody ever said that being a Jew is easy.

About the summer camp kids:
50 Jewish kids removed from flight in Spain amid conflicting accounts of clash

[IsraelTimes] Reports say group sang in Hebrew aboard aircraft; their summer camp and an Israeli minister blame antisemitic attitude; airline says they were unruly and uncompliant.

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Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/25/2025 02:07 || Comments || Link || [98 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  ...Here in Columbia, we've not had any incidents like this - we're a comfortably red state; SC has one of the oldest if not the oldest) Jewish populations in the country, and everybody is pretty much live and let live.

We do, however, have a close friend who is Jewish.

And I am advising him to start carrying. Someday it's going to get here, and I want him to be ready.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/25/2025 6:37 Comments || Top||

#2  In my mind's eye I can see an aging Rabbi graphic with the phrase.....

"See I toldja so."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/25/2025 7:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Mike K, hope your friend follows your good advice.
Posted by: alanc || 07/25/2025 9:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Israel was so nice back in the 80's, esp Ben Shen
Posted by: 746 || 07/25/2025 21:42 Comments || Top||



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