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-Lurid Crime Tales-
It Happened Again: Suspect in Memphis Shooting Rampage Was Released From Prison Early After Murder Charge
[PJMEDIA] According to the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect wrecked the vehicle he was driving and is in police custody. Fox News 13 in Memphis reports that an ambulance is responding to the scene of the car crash. Police are asking people to avoid the area of Whitehaven near Ivan Road and Hodge Road. The shelter-in-place orders and lockdowns have been lifted. Police say Kelly shot and killed four people.

According to court records, Kelly was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault, employment of a firearm with intent to commit a dangerous felony, and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon for an incident on Feb. 3, 2020. He pled guilty to an aggravated assault charge and was sentenced to three years in prison. He was released early, in March of this year, after serving only 11 months. An arrest warrant had been issued for him earlier on Wednesday on a first-degree murder charge.
Posted by: Fred || 09/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:


Female Louisiana state official, 37, is busted for buying drugs from face-tattooed meth dealer outside fast food restaurant while he was under surveillance
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"See I got my face tattooed so no one recognises me! But you, Missy. You stick out like a sore thumb, har har."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/09/2022 1:54 Comments || Top||

#2  I got my face tattooed so no one recognises me!

Impact of facial tattoos and paintings on face recognition systems
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 6:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Judging from her pinpoint stare, she's been doing this for a while.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/09/2022 8:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Didn't we used to have a 'War on Drugs'?

Way back in the last century?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/09/2022 10:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Look. If you drug tested everyone inside the beltway, three out of four test dirty.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/09/2022 10:27 Comments || Top||

#6  I would put the percentage higher that that.
Posted by: Chris || 09/09/2022 12:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Ref #5: The 25 percent who tested clean were frequent "dancing boy" festival attendees.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2022 12:54 Comments || Top||

#8  If you drug tested everyone inside the beltway

Tyson's corner train station hand railings.
A solution of DMSO and Fentanyl in the night crew cleaner's spray bottle.

The place was a nightmare for me.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 13:05 Comments || Top||

#9  You would kill the night crew off, what did they do?
Posted by: Chris || 09/09/2022 15:18 Comments || Top||


Anti-Gun Democrat Stabs Reporter to Death
At least he's true to his principles.
[NYPost] A public official who was the focus of stories written by slain Las Vegas investigative reporter Jeff German was arrested in the case Wednesday on suspicion of murder, according to a report.

Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was taken into custody after authorities searched his home for hours earlier Wednesday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, citing county Sheriff Joe Lombardo.

Before his arrest, Telles was questioned by police as they conducted the search. When he returned to his home Wednesday evening, he refused to answer questions from reporters as he made his way inside, according to video posted to Twitter by Review-Journal reporter Brett Clarkson.

Soon after, around 6 p.m., his home was surrounded by police officers in tactical gear while he remained inside, according to the Review-Journal, where German worked before he was killed Friday. The news outlet reported 30 minutes later that Telles was wheeled out on a stretcher and dumped into an ambulance.

Telles lost a Democratic primary in June, due in part to German’s investigative stories about his conduct in office, the report said. Some of the allegations against Telles included "emotional stress, bullying, and favoritism," according to the outlet.

German was reportedly also working on a possible follow-up story about Telles before he was stabbed to death.

Telles tweeted multiple times about the reporter and his articles, writing in a June 18 Twitter post: "Looking forward to lying smear piece #4 by @JGermanRJ. #onetrickpony I think he’s mad that I haven’t crawled into a hole and died."

Posted by: Deacon Blues and 746 || 09/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
HAAA HA HAAA HA HA HA HA HA

I can't believe this ain't the bee oh ho ho ho ha ha ha ha haaaa ahhhh [coughs]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/09/2022 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  But he didn't use gun.
Posted by: Sgt. D.T. || 09/09/2022 1:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Cutting humor.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 7:00 Comments || Top||

#4  From Hell's heart I stab at thee...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/09/2022 7:02 Comments || Top||


#6  At the Sheriff's press conference a female "reporter" actually asked if Trump was responsible for this. The sheriff disabused her of that notion. That shows me just how much people in the media hate Trump and are willing to believe anything Big Media says about him. Did you hear anything about this on any of the major media programs?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/09/2022 7:23 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ More like the media is grabbing at any straw now. The insiders' memo has probably gone out that the Mar a Lago fiasco is a fizzle.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/09/2022 7:30 Comments || Top||

#8  This article has a much more accurate photo
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/09/2022 8:41 Comments || Top||

#9  sorry - link failed try this
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/09/2022 8:45 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ busted link, Mercutio
Posted by: Frank G || 09/09/2022 8:47 Comments || Top||

#11  wheeled out on a stretcher and dumped into an ambulance.

Picturing a Zucker bros gag.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/09/2022 10:22 Comments || Top||

#12  He was just performing an abortion. Nothing to see here.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/09/2022 11:17 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Actress Jennifer Lawrence says she has 'nightmares' about Tucker Carlson, Tucker responds
by Harris Rigby

The most annoying and unbearable personality in all of Hollywood, Jennifer Lawrence, made headlines recently due to her nocturnal fantasies.

The X-Men and Hunger Games star recently told Vogue that she has strained relationships with her family because they're normal Kentucky conservatives and she's an elite stuck-up Hollywood liberal.

Those weren't her exact words, but that captures the sentiment pretty well.

While discussing her political consternation the name Tucker Carlson came up.

From The Daily Wire:

Lawrence said that she had been "trying to heal" after feuding with her own family over politics, and said that recurring nightmares about Tucker Carlson had even been a topic of discussion between the actress and her therapist.


This Hollywood A-Lister is SO stuck in her Hollywood bubble that the idea of Tucker Carlson gives her LITERAL nightmares!

Nightmares about a cable host!

I mean, I get into politics, but this is absolutely ridiculous.

The actress whose entire personality is being "relatable" proves she is anything but, as she has had to "feud" with her family over their TV watching habits.

Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 09/09/2022 00:24 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What? No nightmares about eating Harvey Weinstein's asshole?

[Ughh, blechh]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/09/2022 1:33 Comments || Top||

#2  So, she is a regular viewer of the Tucker Carlson Show?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/09/2022 2:27 Comments || Top||

#3  ...I, for one, wish I had the luxury of mere disagreements with my family being at the top of my list of concerns.

At the risk of being labeled sexist, it's a good thing she's reasonably attractive, because she is dumber than a bag of hammers.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/09/2022 6:23 Comments || Top||

#4  We lost H.R.H. yesterday and this insufferable wench wankers on. Life, it's not fair, it's just live.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2022 6:29 Comments || Top||

#5  dumber than a bag of hammers

Don't disparage hammers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 6:53 Comments || Top||

#6 
#5 dumber than a bag of hammers

Don't disparage hammers.
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-09-09 06:53


Skid,

You are absolutely right, and I'd like to apologize to the Hammer-American community. ;)

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/09/2022 7:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Dumber than a box of hair


/Former Senator Barbara Boxer
Posted by: Frank G || 09/09/2022 7:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Dumber than a bucket of hair?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/09/2022 7:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Actors are by nature narcissistic, egotistical, and neurotic. It's the very rare ones that stand out otherwise.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/09/2022 7:45 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Like Gary Sinise
Posted by: Frank G || 09/09/2022 7:47 Comments || Top||

#11  She is as bright as a burnt match.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/09/2022 8:52 Comments || Top||

#12  And he's living rent-free in her head.

Win-Win!
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/09/2022 9:38 Comments || Top||

#13  Wait...she was in an X-Men film? What a stand-out.

-type type type-

Oh, the insufferable Raven/Mystic. I kept waiting for Jar Jar to show up during those films.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/09/2022 10:30 Comments || Top||

#14  Of course Tucker is in her nightmares, he might ask her questions she can't answer, like What is a woman? or Why are Democrat run place such crapholes? And the biggie, "Do you know what 2+2 is?"
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/09/2022 12:51 Comments || Top||

#15  "This Hollywood A-Lister..." I don't think she's been A-list since she talked politics before the last Hunger Games movie and it underperformed. Then a few movies with her as the headliner also underperformed and its ensembles and low budget films.

Now that time has moved on and she has a chance to regain lost ground and she doubles-down and goes political again.

She is an emotional child who never finished High School and it shows.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/09/2022 16:53 Comments || Top||

#16  Ima thinkin' JenLa has run headlong into the Jane Fonda Inflection Point.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/09/2022 18:42 Comments || Top||

#17  Dumber than doggy-doo.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/09/2022 19:00 Comments || Top||

#18  and she's an elite stuck-up Hollywood liberal.
Hollywood liberal? Now you're being redundant redundant.
It's a shame too because when she first came on the scene, she seemed to be intelligent and funny, just plain folks.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/09/2022 22:06 Comments || Top||


Oberlin College has initiated payment in full of the $36.59 million judgment in the Gibson’s Bakery case
[LegalInsurrection] Finally, Oberlin College stops fighting, and the future of Gibson’s Bakery looks brighter after six years of darkness.

by William A. Jacobson

It looks like the Gibson family’s long struggle with Oberlin College is over, and the college will pay the judgment it has been fighting for years. Unfortunately, David Gibson and “Grandpa” Allyn Gibson did not live to see it, having passed away after the trial verdict.

We have covered this case since the November 2016 protests, through the trial (the only national outlet with a reporter in the courtroom every single trial day, through the appeals, and now what appears to be the end. It was not always easy covering this case, at one point Oberlin College tried to subpoena OUR records, After legal challenge, Oberlin College withdraws subpoena seeking our journalist communications.

I just received the following email from Scott Wargo, Director of Communications at Oberlin College:

Oberlin College initiates payment of awarded damages in Gibson’s Bakery case

Oberlin College and Conservatory has initiated payment in full of the $36.59 million judgment in the Gibson’s Bakery case and is awaiting payment information from the plaintiffs. This amount represents awarded damages and accumulated interest, and therefore no further payments are required.

On August 30, the Ohio Supreme Court issued its decision not to hear Oberlin’s appeal. Oberlin’s Board of Trustees has decided not to pursue the matter further.
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 09/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It’s a good day for the Gibson family.
Posted by: Xyz || 09/09/2022 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  No problem. It'll be covered by raising tuition, which the students will borrow from the government -- later to be 'forgiven' by the Democrats.

Has anything happened to the individuals involved?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/09/2022 4:28 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Yes, tuition increases will be baked in.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2022 6:15 Comments || Top||

#4 
#2 No problem. It'll be covered by raising tuition, which the students will borrow from the government -- later to be 'forgiven' by the Democrats.

Has anything happened to the individuals involved?
Posted by: CrazyFool 2022-09-09 04:28


CF,

AFAIK, the one person who really pushed this whole thing - former Dean of Students and school VP Meredith Raimundo - bailed in 2021 to take a similar job at Oglethorpe University. Take note, however, of two things:

1) She was supposed to have stayed on in a teaching slot at Oberlin, but that was scuttled at the last minute. There is at least circumstantial evidence that she fell/was pushed from the school because

2) After fairly intense 'discussions', the school indemnified her in writing against any possible civil penalties arising from this disaster. In other words, when (not if) she's sued by the Gibsons, and they win (the evidence against the college had her name, fingerprints and smiling face literally all over it) the school is going to pay that judgement.

This ain't over, sports fans. Not by a long shot.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/09/2022 6:44 Comments || Top||


#6  Leftist Shariah and racial mob moochery loses. Yaaayyy!

Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/09/2022 8:01 Comments || Top||

#7 

We need to see more of these lawsuits were LSD's slander good hard working people solely for political gain.

Now the BIG Question: Who came to the $$$$ aid Liberal Univ. the Alumni, an Insurance Company or the DNC?

BTW: The Dean of Student that was deeply invloved in this royal $%^& up came to Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA. ---> Needless to say I heard she started up again.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/09/2022 8:12 Comments || Top||

#8  #7 Now the BIG Question: Who came to the $$$$ aid Liberal Univ. the Alumni, an Insurance Company or the DNC?

IIUC, an insurance company. Which is a GOOD thing, because they hate losses and will be talking to their other clients about how not to screw the pooch like Oberlin. Maybe, just maybe, leading to muzzling a few of the more rabid DEI bullshitters.
Posted by: Nero || 09/09/2022 13:15 Comments || Top||

#9  because they hate losses

More like, they dial losses into the algorithms that determine premiums for the rest of their insured. And figure the cost of coaching those clients on risk management into that total too.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/09/2022 13:23 Comments || Top||

#10  I hear a lot of talk about "taxing the value" of the forgiven student loan.

How long until the "value" of scholarships are taxed ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2022 13:47 Comments || Top||

#11 
#8 #7 Now the BIG Question: Who came to the $$$$ aid Liberal Univ. the Alumni, an Insurance Company or the DNC?

IIUC, an insurance company. Which is a GOOD thing, because they hate losses and will be talking to their other clients about how not to screw the pooch like Oberlin. Maybe, just maybe, leading to muzzling a few of the more rabid DEI bullshitters.
Posted by: Nero 2022-09-09 13:15


...And this is a win-win for the real world: The insurance company paid, and that means that the College and the insurers' reps are having some very quiet, earnest conversations about either multiplying their premiums by a couple orders of magnitude...or seeking another insurer.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/09/2022 13:58 Comments || Top||

#12  #7 damn that’s across the street from me…
Posted by: Beavis || 09/09/2022 14:28 Comments || Top||

#13  With guaranteed student loans, you can be sure that tuition hikes have been baked in for years.

And if this Administration can just tear up contract law by absolving student loan debts, even if temporarily, then rest assured tuitions will go even higher. These universities/colleges will get their dough.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/09/2022 14:43 Comments || Top||


Portland residents with disabilities sue city over homeless tents blocking sidewalks
[Foxnews] Genius move
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


#2  They will find that they are a down scale victim group now.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/09/2022 7:28 Comments || Top||


Glenn Greenwald Slams Corrupt, Pro-Censorship Corporate News Industry
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


-Short Attention Span Theater-
A Third of COVID Cases in Dallas County Are Children
A followup to yesterday's article - Only 2% of Dallas Kids Have Taken the Jab
[Dallas Morning News] More than 3,465, or 33%, of the county’s 10,538 cases are in children ages 0 to 17. Cases in school age groups have rapidly increased in the last two weeks, jumping 75% for adolescents ages 14 to 17 from the week ending Aug. 26 to the week ending Sept. 1 and 61% for children ages 5 to 13 in that same time period.
Back to school, spreading infection.
While pediatric COVID-19 cases are climbing, other age groups have been trending downward for the last month following an early summer surge in cases led by the highly-contagious omicron subvariants.
Total US seven-day average cases are half what they were a month ago.
It’s too soon to tell whether North Texas will see another winter spike in COVID-19 cases like the area did last year with the emergence of the omicron variant, Chang said, but it seems likely that the flu will be stronger this year compared to the last two years of the pandemic as public health measures like masking ease.
But we can plant the seed of fear today.
Flu shots are available, and it is safe to get a flu shot and the COVID-19 vaccine together.
Influenza deaths were hundreds per week before COVID and have been tens per week ever since May 2020 - even as masking restrictions were relaxed.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/09/2022 09:50 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  I scanned the source article in a fruitless search for any mention of recent deaths (at any age) due to Covid-19. Deaths were not mentioned at all! Summit County in NE OH has several weeks in the last few months with no deaths, news the local media either doesn't mention, or lists at the very end of a long article. One might think the absence of deaths more newsworthy, but one would be wrong.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 09/09/2022 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  But not for children 0-5.

But not for children 0-5, right?

I scanned the source article in a fruitless search for any mention of recent deaths (at any age) due to Covid-19.

I understand the guidelines are that it is a Covid death if the patient drops dead due to heart failure. Otherwise, it is with a covid, because the vaxx reduces symptoms and has electrolytes.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/09/2022 10:44 Comments || Top||

#3  This is either an unprecedented tragedy or no big deal, depending on what the meaning of "cases" is. Does "cases" mean admissions to the ICU or does it mean showed a positive test result without actually being sick?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/09/2022 11:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Been the question since week 0 of 2 weeks to flatten the curve.

Very tempting to fall into a game of Red Car.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/09/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||

#5  total new cases reported are down from a month ago

but that may be because a lot of new cases aren't being reported - in fact, if a 15 year old has the sniffles and tests positive, the only thing that happens when you report is you get lots of texts, emails and phone calls from health dept telling you stuff you already know
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/09/2022 17:55 Comments || Top||


Britain
United in grief: How the Queen's order to break royal protocol after 9/11 and play the Star Spangled Banner outside Buckingham Palace moved a heartbroken nation in a gesture America NEVER forgot
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 14:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't know about America, but I personally have never forgotten it.
Posted by: Matt || 09/09/2022 15:04 Comments || Top||

#2  And the USG has ordered all official flags worldwide be flown at half-staff until her internment.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 09/09/2022 21:19 Comments || Top||

#3  A World-Class Leader
Posted by: Frank G || 09/09/2022 21:28 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Nigerian officials intercept 7,000 smuggled donkey penises at international airport after smell from sacks aroused suspicion
[Sniff! Sniff!] "What's that? I smells like several thousand rotting donkey penises!"
Ancient Chinese medicine!
Gotta dry them out first!. Mom always told me..
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Huangdi, that old divil?
He never needed tadalafil.
And he taught that you don't too!
'Find a democrat', he said.
'And con him out of his hoo-hoo!'

Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/09/2022 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Better donkey penises than elephant penises...
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/09/2022 6:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Now we know what those Nigerian Princes spend their scam money on.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/09/2022 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Nigeria lost over £6 billion to the illicit trade of smuggling donkey parts to China

Wait... How?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/09/2022 8:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Not a Brandon rally, way too many.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/09/2022 9:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Nigeria lost over £6 billion to the illicit trade of smuggling donkey parts to China

Wait... How?


Loss of NGO tourist income I suppose.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/09/2022 10:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Lots of damage from the objecting donkeys I suppose.

Long dong curative powders.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 13:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Wait...WHO COUNTED THEM?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 14:22 Comments || Top||

#9  ^
"Ninety eight... Ninety nine... hundred. One thousand. One, two... six, seven. Seven thousand. It's seven thousand. Can I punch out early, Lakoto? I need to bathe and get drunk."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/09/2022 14:27 Comments || Top||

#10  There is a proverb of sorts about The F'n New Guy being the most active recruiter.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/09/2022 19:01 Comments || Top||


Cyber
China Daily Spent over $1 Million on Newspapers that Back Zombie Media Cartel Bill
[Breitbart] The China Daily, a Chinese Communist Party-controlled outlet, has paid over $1 million to establishment outlets that support the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA).

Breitbart News has chronicled how the News Media Alliance, a trade association representing some of the most powerful media conglomerates, has showered Congress with millions in lobbying and donations in order to receive support for the JCPA.

Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) disclosures also detail how many of the newspapers that support the JCPA have received significant funds from China Daily, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party’s State Council Information Office.

FARA disclosures reveal that from May 2021 to April 2022, China Daily‘s expenditures total over $1 million to USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune.

The FARA disclosure for May 2021 to October 2021 reveals:

  • USA Today received $57,500 in advertising expenses from China Daily

  • Los Angeles Times received $375,207.20

  • Chicago Tribune received $33,250

Between November 2021 and April 2022, USA Today received $230,000, the Los Angeles Times received $300,400, and Chicago Tribune received $29.505.99.

The Seattle Times, which has received $123,444.80 from China Daily, also supports the JCPA.

The China Daily paid the Boston Globe $147,164.36, as reported by the Daily Caller in 2020. The Globe also backs the JCPA.

Altogether, this amounts to more than $1 million that JCPA-supporting outlets have received from a Chinese Communist Party-owned outlet.

USA Today, which is owned by Gannett, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, which is owned by Tribune Publishing, all support the Journalism Competition and Protection Act.

As the Senate Judiciary Committee considers the legislation during a markup session on Thursday, a rapidly growing number of Senate Republicans oppose the legislation.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) confirmed to Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle that he will oppose the JCPA.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) confirmed to Boyle that he will oppose the JCPA, and a spokesman for Hawley relayed that he has long been skeptical of the plan to create an antitrust exemption for media outlets.

Breitbart News’s Allum Bokhari detailed how the JCPA’s defenders have often said that the bill will help suppress “misinformation.” This includes David Chavern, the president and CEO of the News Media Alliance, and Emilly Barr, CEO of the Graham Media Group, which also represents the establishment media.

Chavern wrote to lawmakers in March 2021 that “the cost of inaction, in terms of the spread of misinformation we are all experiencing, is simply too great to ignore any longer.”

This is why Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who opposes the bill, said that conservatives considering voting for the bill should oppose it.

“Any conservative considering this bill should note that Jerry Nadler is a lead sponsor and cites ‘widespread misinformation’ as a rationale—in other words, they know this cartel will censor conservatives,” said Sen. Cotton.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 08:26 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Commies





#5  I'd bet that Journalism Anti-Competition and Perversion Act (JAPA) would be more like it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/09/2022 18:10 Comments || Top||

#6  JCPA’s defenders have often said that the bill will help suppress “misinformation.”

Riiiigghht.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/09/2022 18:21 Comments || Top||


Facebook Engineers: We Have No Idea Where We Keep All Your Personal Data
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 08:01 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Either or Both




Russia or China
Posted by: Guillibaldo Glemble6445 || 09/09/2022 15:35 Comments || Top||


Former Disney CEO Bob Iger Says ‘Substantial Portion' of Twitter Accounts Are Bots
[Breitbart] Former Disney CEO Bob Iger recently explained why the entertainment giant abandoned plans to buy Twitter in 2016, noting that a "substantial number" of the platform’s users are bots and fake accounts.

Recode reports that in 2016, Bob Iger, then CEO of Disney, became convinced that the company should buy Twitter as it would be an excellent distribution platform for Disney content around the world, but shortly before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the plans to purchase the company were scrapped.

In a 2019 memoir, Iger said that the boards of both Disney and Twitter had agreed to the deal, but then he had second thoughts due to the "nastiness" across Twitter. However, the supposed "nastiness" of Twitter should have been readily apparent well before a deal was almost finalized to purchase the platform.

Now, speaking at Vox Media’s annual Code Conference in Beverly Hills, California, Iger said that Twitter would have been a "phenomenal" distribution platform for Disney but that it would have also come with too many issues — including bots.

Iger stated:
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2022 02:42 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...All together now - they knew. They all knew.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/09/2022 6:25 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ If it helps, you may wish to think of the Twitter and Social Media, as cerebral vaccination administered mind-control with a monitoring app.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2022 6:44 Comments || Top||

#3  I think social media and cable news proves that Gresham's Law is applicable beyond money. Bad information forces out good information.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/09/2022 6:58 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Yes, and clearly addictive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2022 7:06 Comments || Top||

#5  So will this mean Musk knew or should have known Twitter was botty when he made his offer and will have to pay the $44 billion?
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/09/2022 9:57 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 So will this mean Musk knew or should have known Twitter was botty when he made his offer and will have to pay the $44 billion?
Posted by: Glenmore 2022-09-09 09:57


Glen,

At the very least, he had to have had a strong suspicion, and certainly knew about Disney's reservations. Once this comes out, I expect he's going to end up paying a lot less than $44B for it.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/09/2022 10:21 Comments || Top||

#7  And if he doesn't buy it, bet he gets his deposit back.

What is the Price is Right bid now, 60% bots?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/09/2022 10:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Appears to me he flushed the crooked SOB's out. For that alone, we owe him a debt of gratitude.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2022 11:03 Comments || Top||


Europe
German Diplomat Who Mocked Trump At UN Suddenly Silent As President's 'Russian Energy' Warning Comes True
[ET via Zero] One of the German diplomats who snickered when then-President Donald Trump said Germany would "become totally dependent on Russian energy" didn’t respond to a question on whether his views have changed as rising energy costs amidst the war in Ukraine seem to prove Trump right.

Trump made the remarks during a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in Sept. 2018. Trump said during the same speech: "Reliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2022 03:02 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Oh, it wasn't one German. It was the whole country. They all shook their heads in disbelief and laughed at us. Laughed.

Oh, that burned. That's something we will neither forget nor forgive. We'll remember how our "friends" in Europe laughed at us when we told them to take their security seriously.

And I get it, right? It was supremely satisfying to tell the Americans to fuck off. Especially Trump. If there's one thing Europeans do well, it's self-righteousness and self-satisfaction. After all, they were living after the end of history. They had the idiot Americans to pay for their defense and Nordstream 2 from Russia to pay for their industry. What could possibly go wrong?

Maybe the clever Germans can figure out a way to heat their houses this winter with their smug sense of satisfaction. They've certainly got a surplus of it.
Posted by: Sonny de Medici5342 || 09/09/2022 5:24 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Oh, it wasn't one German. It was the whole country.

Without questions, a stunningly beautiful country.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2022 6:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Tell me all about it.

Posted by: European Conservative || 09/09/2022 6:25 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ If we could only visit St. Bartholomew's today EC, I would buy both the schnitzel and the beer
~<(;-)

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2022 6:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Oktoberfest is starting next week ;-)
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/09/2022 7:24 Comments || Top||

#7  More than three million Turks live in Germany, and mosques are more active than churches.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 09/09/2022 7:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe because it would be a 3 year jail term for turning on the PA system?

Has anyone tried getting Santa Claus downtown, thumping him, and hauling him off to prison?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/09/2022 10:26 Comments || Top||

#9  They all shook their heads in disbelief and laughed at us. Laughed.

That was no laugh. They were sneering.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/09/2022 13:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Re #2 concerning unforgiveness...

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 6:14-15.


Posted by: Vespasian Glease8381 || 09/09/2022 14:53 Comments || Top||

#11  So I guess when the German Energy Director when asked about this, said that business can close and not go out of business because of the lack of revenue; hibernate if you will. Perhaps EC can correct or elaborate?

Have we not literally just spent 2 years proving that wrong?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/09/2022 15:14 Comments || Top||


Poland seeks purchase of 96 Apache attack helicopters from US, making second-largest fleet in the world

See Belarus twitching at the border.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Remember what I've said about the Poles and Never Again.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/09/2022 6:46 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Don't ask for a senior discount at the Saturday market in Ożarów.....in either German or Russian.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2022 6:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Given how the Poles are going full bore on defense, I wonder if there is a deep program for nukes. Given how fickle Deep State is about 'allies', it would seem to be in their best interest.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/09/2022 7:39 Comments || Top||

#4  An A-10 or fifty would be a useful acquisition.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/09/2022 8:47 Comments || Top||

#5  "I'm nazi, not nuts," muttered Yuri,
"And I sure wasn't born in Missouri!
What, root out those Poles
Once again from their holes
In the country of Conrad and Curie?"
Posted by: Tarzan the Bald9626 || 09/09/2022 17:10 Comments || Top||


Almost 40% of grain exported from Ukraine entered the EU
[NewsGlory] At least 38% of the grain that was exported along the “grain corridor” from Ukraine entered the countries of the European Union (EU). This was reported on September 8 by the Spanish newspaper El País.

According to UN data and resources that track the movement of ships, from August 1 to September 7, more than 2.3 million tons of corn, wheat, barley and other agricultural products have already been exported from Ukraine along the Black Sea corridor.

“Of the total number of tons of grain exported through the corridor, 38% (about 900 thousand tons) were sent to the ports of the EU member states,” the article says.

Read the rest at the link. The story isn't on El Pais' website, and I suspect it prolly won't be.
Posted by: badanov || 09/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Great White North
Ugh! 'Indigenous' scholar resign after being outed as white
An Emily Carr University professor who made a career as an indigenous artist and scholar has resigned after it was discovered she is white.
"Well, I felt kinda Kickapoo one morning so I painted a picture of teepee and they hired me.
"Gina Adams was among a group of faculty hired in a cluster in 2019 as part of a ’commitment to reconciliation, Indigenization and decolonization,'" the Vancouver Sun reported, adding a spokesperson for the Canadian institution released a statement confirming Adams resigned from her tenure-track adjunct professor position Aug. 25.
Dear Emily Carr:
I hereby regretfully resign my position as this morning I feel more Irish than Kickapoo. Love your dress, by the way.
Best Regards,
Gina

"Emily Carr University takes very seriously the allegations that a member of our faculty made a false claim to Indigenous identity," the statement read.
"We thought something was off when we saw the freckles and she couldn't speak Algonquian."
The Daily Mail reported that Adams was born in Connecticut and is actually the "white daughter of Maine pageant queen," but claimed the "idea for her ingenious-inspired artwork came to her in ’dreams,’ courtesy of her Anishinaabeg ancestors."
The idea for lots of things comes to me from my ancestors. I once built a house inspired by one of my Italian ancestors. It leaned to port, and eventually fell over. I once had another idea inspired by one of my Scotch-Irish ancestors, but she slapped me and said no way.
"But internet sleuths dug into her background and found that her grandfather and relatives are in fact white, with no link to Native Americans."
Shoulda said she was part Monacan or Suquehannock. They're all dead now, so who's to say no?
Posted by: Fred || 09/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They're so oppressed whiteys are tripping over themselves to identify as them.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/09/2022 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Not the first time this has happened. Neither the hoaxers nor the institutions take in by the hoaxes seem to learn.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/09/2022 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3 
"I always knew the bitch was fake! Couldn't roll a joint to save her life."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/09/2022 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4  And the Ward Churchill protoges have hatched and walk among us.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/09/2022 11:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, if they flayed her, then she'd be red...it's a simple and quick solution.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/09/2022 13:28 Comments || Top||

#6  #2 There's nothing to learn when everyone is in on the grift. All there is to keep it going because it furthers the agenda. Actual people mean nothing to these sociopaths.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/09/2022 14:33 Comments || Top||

#7  If there was so much prejudice against people of color we wouldn't have a flood of white folks pretending to be people of color. That's not generally how oppression works.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/09/2022 18:43 Comments || Top||

#8  I grew up in New Hampshire, so that must mean I'm part Algonquin!
Posted by: Raj || 09/09/2022 20:51 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Is NASA finally getting it right? The aggressive Artemis repair plan that might work!!


NASA has made the aggressive decision to repair the hydrogen leak on the pad and still try to launch Artemis 1 in September! Is NASA feeling the heat and trying to launch SLS too quickly, or is this the right way to handle the problem?
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/09/2022 13:56 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah'm sensing a rapid disassembly, pad clearing and grass fire potential.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 15:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I’m reading Laurie Garver’s book Escaping Gravity right now. I wouldn’t be too optimistic about Artemis.
Posted by: Remoteman || 09/09/2022 16:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Is this akin to trying to fix a race car on pit road instead of the garage? It sure looks that way.
Posted by: Raj || 09/09/2022 20:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Columbia anyone?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/09/2022 22:25 Comments || Top||


SpaceX spins all 33 engines on booster then fires off 7 on Starship and starts a huge grass fire.
[Twitter]


Posted by: 3dc || 09/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Will we be reading next that the Biden Earth 1st EPA to fine $10M them for the grass fire ☺ and damages to the climate?☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/09/2022 8:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Clearing noxious weeds for the fall planting?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2022 12:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Second time in as many years they've set the surrounding grass and weeds on fire. It was actually confined on a strip of land in between water and the highway, so not really a danger. Local FD eventually set a back fire and stopped it after dark. Maybe they should just do a prescribed burn every summer and call it good?
Posted by: Nero || 09/09/2022 15:32 Comments || Top||

#4  I started a grass fire near Nutts Pond in my hometown when I was a punk teenager. At least I was savvy enough to pull the nearest fire alarm (installed on telephone poles in that city) before I ran for my life. The kid I was with was more of a goody two-shoes type - kinda surprised he still talks to me nowadays.
Posted by: Raj || 09/09/2022 20:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Next time Elon do it on earth day.
Posted by: Oscar Omusotle6695 || 09/09/2022 23:44 Comments || Top||



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