#1
That's impossible, we were reliably informed by the Famous But Incompetent some 40 odd years ago that they had broken the back of the Five Families.
#2
The Colombo traces its roots to the Profaci bootleggers family formed in 1928. Thus its nearing a century in operation. The Profaci ruled the mob until the late 1950s, when an internal struggle involved its greediest. The "family" was reunited in the early 1960s under Joseph Colombo. After sixty years the claim (probably made by FBI propagandists) that the ENTIRE Colombo leadership was "taken down" really remains to be seen.
#3
Wow! The FBI & DoJ going after actual criminals. I bet all the goverment guys on this get retired after this because they're obviously old school.
(Personally, I'm shocked to hear that there was a labor union in Queens available to be took over.)
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#4
"I'll take 'Headlines From Thirty-Something Years Ago' for $600, Alex..."
#6
They can take down an entire crime family (and how big would that be at this point?) but can't seem to get the 30 yr. old ANTIFA goons that live in Mom's basement? Wonder why?
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Leaked internal research reports reveal one in three girls blamed the app for body image issues getting worse and 6% said they wanted to kill themselves because of it
#4
And where are the parents in all this?
Why do they allow their kids to surf or intercact with Instagram without supervision or time limits?
These body issues wouldn't be a problem with parents, ya know raised their kids instead of factbook and bitchslapped Zuckerberg and his minions for pushing this nonesense
#5
The problem with that is that FacistBook and the others often don't give the parents tools to filter their children's access outside of banning the entire site (I know... not bad...). The only thing a parent can do is ban Instagram entirely.
I typically don't allow my young kids access to YouTube or Facebook or any of the other social media sites. I would *love* to have them able to converse with their friends via social media or share videos but I would have to open it up entirely - and I do not like what the perverts at FacistBook, Goole/Youtube/etc consider 'acceptable for young viewers'. Not at all.
And they somewhat suffer for it :(.
#6
So a good parent would say "This is as bad for you as crack. I don't care if you hate me for not letting you have it."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#7
Every stage of a successful life involves controlled deprivation from stuff everyone wants. Attention when you are young. Who loves that kid who always needs to be the center of attention? Too many distractions when you are a young adult transitioning to hopefully self-sufficient adulthood. Neither too dominant or submissive in your adult relationships. Not too much food or booze and please no ciggies or drugs. Hopefully well enough set in your later years to take care of yourself or be cared for. All involve not being completely addicted to a screen that sucks your time and attention and gives nothing back.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#8
Good thing we didn't just lock our kids in their rooms for 18 months with nothing to do but computerize.
Yes, a parenting issue. A side effect of an adult wanting to be their kid's best friend, or more likely, single mom issues.
#10
I was born in 1961. When I was seven, our television broke. When I was seventeen, my baby brother bought a 13” black and white tv with his bar mitzvah money, and shared it with the family. I went straight from Lassie, Gentle Ben, and that animal thing to Soap and Saturday Night Live. As a result, I have never been quite connected to the culture of my age mates, or of Americans in general. It’s not just cussing that Mr, Wife has to translate for me — there are lots of cultural touchstones I’m unaware of, even yet. We did read voraciously, that thing everyone claims to want, and had time for all sorts of hobbies and activities, but not being connected matters.
There are seriously good reasons to deny this generation of kids time on Facebook, etc, but doing so will result in disconnecting those kids from their peers in important ways.
#11
Same, same you sweet young thing.
Telly went out and encyclopedia book reports came in. Also a mobile library would come about weekly.
Both assigned and reading of choice.
#12
As a kid I did not like what most of the other kids were doing. My senior year I was not in the senior play that all seniors traditionally were in. After it ewas over that ight the teacher over the play walked into the convenience store and said next year I would be in the play. I informed I am a senior. She could not believe I was so "independent".
#1
Warren Zevon said it in Desperados Under the Eaves:
And if California slides into the ocean,
Like the mystics and statistics say it will.
I predict this motel will be standing,
Until I pay my bill.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/15/2021 8:37 Comments ||
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#3
The holes for the piles were allegedly drilled too big, causing soil underneath the building to shift to fill the newly-drilled voids, making its lean even more pronounced
This is Journolist-Stoopid. Either the soil is stable or you steel-case the pile excavations to prevent sloughing. One method (non-cased) involves skin friction and end-bearing to develop resistance and the other (cased) depends on end-bearing only. This building was already on piles from the original construction/design. Just wait til the glass starts popping out...
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/15/2021 10:07 Comments ||
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#4
Forget it Frank, it's Chinatown The Fly Ash Anti-Carbon Conservation Corps.
#5
So, Frank, your Gender Studies degree is finally paying off?
Posted by: Matt ||
09/15/2021 12:38 Comments ||
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#6
;-)
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/15/2021 12:46 Comments ||
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#7
So, I was sitting in a school that had some construction "issues" discussing the issues with a structural engineer and a few others. The engineer scribbles a few calculations literally on the back of an envelope. Then he looks up and says: "We have to leave. Now."
Posted by: Matt ||
09/15/2021 13:03 Comments ||
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#8
Wasn't it the John Hancock building (or some other) in Boston where the windows kept popping out? Seems the wind was creating a vacuum that sucked the glass out or something.
Allegedly, they called in professors from MIT who concluded that the only way to solve the problem was to rotate the building by 15 or 20 degrees.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
09/15/2021 13:21 Comments ||
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#9
Recently seeing the building in Surfside Florida collapse I don't know how safe I'd feel. Learning this building is sinking possibly another 30 inches wow. Also what will happen during the next earthquake.
San Francisco if I remember correctly has seismic standards due to the earthquakes there, I wonder how this plays into the construction.
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09/15/2021 13:48 Comments ||
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#10
Then he looks up and says: "We have to leave. Now."
A British diver spots the world’s largest jellyfish, which can sting up to 150 people at the same time, in English waters, according to local media reports.https://t.co/uwyHZMDhNH
[Breitbart] The far-left Atlantic, owned by leftist billionaire and widow of Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, admitted in a Monday piece the dramatic reporting on coronavirus hospitalizations may be misleading, given it does not account for the severity of the illness of those hospitalized, nor does it specifically identify if individuals are actually hospitalized for another reason.
#1
Thus becoming a crackpot dubious source to all Covidian True Believers™
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#2
Then again there are the results of the blood bank surveys. Apparently the virus is twice as infectious as previously thought so that 99.+ survival rate becomes...CDC numbers, not mine.
Alternately, the simple minded idea that if you get it, you surely die(!). If you don't get vaccinated you absolutely get it and again YOU DIE(!). But if you do get vaccinated you must live in mortal fear of anybody who is not.
Follow the science, I say. Yeah, straight to the post office.
#2
Amazing. Been in this line of work for 25 years bravest civilians I know. My son of course as a US Army Ranger takes the cake so I am partial to him.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Rusvesna] Experts of the interdepartmental commission on the search for missing persons found and removed from the mass grave in Snezhnoye the remains of 28 people. This was reported today by the office of the DPR ombudsman, chairman of the commission, Daria Morozova.
"Yesterday, September 13, during the next stage of search work on the territory of the Ovsyanoye cemetery in Snezhnoye, the remains of seven people were recovered from unmarked graves. Snezhnoye is about 40 miles due east of Donetsk city.
Recall that the search group of the interdepartmental commission has been exploring this location since August 18. During this time, the remains of 28 people were discovered and raised to the surface. They were sent to the Republican Bureau of the SME for conducting forensic investigations, ”the office said.
They added that in parallel, work is underway to identify the relatives of the victims.
"This is important for further identification of the victims. But it is already obvious that we are talking about civilians, as evidenced by the surviving items of civilian clothing," the office stressed.
The exhumation on the territory of the Snezhnyanskoye cemetery will continue.
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[Korrespondent] Money for the rescue of the Church of St. Nicholas continues to flow. Work can begin as early as mid-October.
For the restoration of the Church of St. Nicholas in Kiev, which suffered from a fire, 15.7 million hryvnias (USD $591,600.32) have already been collected. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy.
"The first meeting of the working group on public control over the progress of emergency restoration work in the Church of St. Nicholas took place," the message says.
Minister of Culture and Information Policy Alexander Tkachenko said that the State Emergency Service had drawn up a preliminary conclusion on the emergency condition of the building.
After the conclusion of the State Commission on Technogenic and Environmental Safety and Emergencies, an examination of the emergency condition of the building will be carried out. It will become the basis for the preparation of design estimates.
According to preliminary data, work in the church will begin in mid-October.
[TASS] Media reports claiming that Moscow is in possession of a large amount of evidence regarding the intervention of US intelligence agencies and IT companies in the Russian elections is correct, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Tuesday.
"The information, reported in the Kommersant article is true," the diplomat noted.
On Tuesday, the Kommersant newspaper reported, citing a diplomatic source, that Russia has a ‘colossal amount’ of unreleased information regarding US intervention in the Russian elections. Couldn't find the report. Sorry.
Earlier, Zakharova pointed out that, according to the Russian national IT watchdog, IP addresses, associated with the ‘Smart Vote’ app technical support are mostly located in the US, adding that its developers have connections to the Pentagon. Russian nationwide legislative elections (Russian Duma) will take place on September 19th.
#2
F---ing liars.
Price of everything is soaring - gas, food, housing, meat-produce-dairy-packaged foods, sugar, lumber, steel, aluminum and every other base metal ... and these assholes are still pretending it's a temporary "blip."
#3
Everything is going up, or in short supply.
Part of it is the way the Biden Admin handled their Over-hyped Covid-19/21. An the Socialcrats general lack of understanding how the US Economy works, or their underlying agenda to screw it up.
Then add Profits = Bonuses for CF-CEO's, Regional and Store Mgr., and you have a perfect scenario to screw the customer.
#5
I think it was like 6-8 months ago my neighbor was whining about scrap prices being in the basement. I said "just wait..."
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#6
Kind of makes a person wish they'd held onto their Clunker. Spare parts are all gone as it was the best choice to repair instead of replace when the Covid measures demolished the production to purchase chain.
Sheet Mahn, can't find a single purchase bottle of sweetened and unsweetened iced tea.
To go out and blame the food producers was an absolute dick move, and you end up with bobbleheads saying crap like Big Meat when it is an across the board agriculture problem starting with spare parts and planting essentials. Oh, "Big Meat" will be fine, what you will see suffer are the small and medium producers, with the small producers, who by the way do the neat artisan things, getting shorted out.
Know 3 hayers [men that cut and bale cattle feed hay] that are down. Tractors, cutters, balers can't find parts or their mechanics are buried in other repairs from the spring cutting.
The upside for them, they underbid the cost of diesel. Now they aren't burning any.
#11
Cost of hay went way up. Deisel went up. Bailing twine went up so hay went up. It's not hard to figure out.
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#12
The Covid lockdown, which played havoc at the production end, and the massive move to shopping online that resulted from the shutdown, was part of it. Then President Biden squeezed domestic oil, leading to higher oil prices that drove up the cost of everything shipped from producer to consumer, and the result was guaranteed. Finally, the huge deficit spending bills added serious inflation to the mix. and here we are.
Thank goodness it looks like neither the proposed $3.5 trillion bill nor the proposed $1.? trillion bill will survive in the Senate, and possibly not in the House as well. And with more continuing to work from home for the next year or more, retail gasoline consumption — and car/truck purchases — will be reduced, while used cars will become more available as those working from home realize that for probably the next year they’ll need at least one car less than they’re currently supporting.
[NewsAustralia] A controversial reconciliation idea that saw students at a school in Canada burn 4700 books is now playing out in the country’s federal election campaign.
Canada is currently gearing up to vote, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attempting to keep office. And the topic of reconciliation between Indigenous Canadians and white settlers is taking centre stage.
On Tuesday, it was reported in Canadian media that in 2019 a “flame purification ceremony” was held by the French language school board Conseil scolaire catholique Providence, which oversees elementary and secondary schools in southwestern Ontario.
This involved destroying thousands of books.
In total, more than 4,700 books were removed from library shelves at 30 schools across the school board, and they have since been destroyed or are in the process of being recycled.
Books were burned if they had elements of racism, discrimination and stereotypes.
Some of these included Tintin and Asterisk books.
Tintin in America was removed for its “negative portrayal of Indigenous peoples and offending Aboriginal representation in the drawings”.
The ashes are being used as fertiliser to plant trees. Isn't that precious! No word if the inks and chemicals used are toxic to plant life.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it was not up to non-Indigenous people “to tell Indigenous people how they should feel or act to advance reconciliation”.
“On a personal level, I would never agree to the burning of books,” he said.
The Canadian leader is now being slammed for a “weak response”, reports The Week.
Meanwhile, Mr Trudeau’s main opponent in the prime ministerial race, Conservative candidate Erin O’Toole, slammed the book burning.
“A Conservative government will be committed to reconciliation. But the road to reconciliation does not mean tearing down Canada. I strongly condemn the burning of books,” he said.
It comes as earlier this year, more than 1000 unmarked graves were discovered at former residential schools, where Indigenous children were forcibly assimilated into white society in a practice that began in 1867 and didn’t end until 1996.
#1
Has there been an honorable political spouse since maybe Ladybird Johnson? And, no, don't you dare bring up either Boosh wife. They both wrote the first chapters of the "I have my husband's back while he stabs you stupid voters proles in the back" book.
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[JPost] - The brother of Hai Shaulian, an Israeli activist against vaccines who died from COVID-19 on Monday, said Hai's death could have been avoided if he had gotten the jab.
In an interview given to N12 on Tuesday, Avi Shaulian mourned the death of his brother who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccination.
"He could have seen his kids get married, his grandchildren get married," Avi said of Hai. "He was too stubborn," he added.
...When asked whether he tried to convince his brother to get vaccinated, Shaulian said he "tried to convince him...there was no way to change his mind."
"He refused to be ventilated," said Shaulian. "Until the very last day, he believed his way was the right way. We tried explaining it to him in the countless arguments we have had."
In a video uploaded to social media by Hai Shaulian while he was hospitalized at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, he claimed "the Jerusalem police tried to poison" him.
Hai then called on his followers on social media not to get vaccinated against the virus under the headline: "There is no epidemic - the vaccine is unnecessary and dangerous."
[JPost] - More than 2.9 million Israelis have elected to get a third shot of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. One health fund, Maccabi Health Services, has released a report of the side effects that some of its clients experienced after the shot.
In a survey published Monday of 9,222 individuals over the age of 18 (41% men and 59% women), the health fund showed that while the majority of people experienced some side effects from the vaccine, none of them were life-threatening and they usually went away within one to three days.
The survey was taken between September 3 and 6, 2021.
Yet in USA thousands of people die every day from the side effects of the Jab. How's that possible?
#5
Pleased they survived the first, second and third injection. Will the vax work after three? What level of immunity to c19 will they have? Will they still require more boosters? Will a semiannual c19 shot be mandated for a virus as deadly as the flu?
#7
Many of us currently NOT getting the VAX are NOT Anti-VAX'ers.
Many of us are Wait & See regarding the Long Term results against of this man-made BIO-WARFARE engineered Virus.
I think we'll all agree the CDC/NIH and Fed's position has been a moving target and has been anything but constant in their VAX effectiveness, warnings, handling, treatments, statements and infection data.
We know that those that said early on in 2020 that the C-19 already had multiple strains (A-B-C and now D+) like the FLU Virus. Pondered if it would require different or additional VAX's to addresses new strains were ridiculed initially. But with the D strain were found semi-right.
We know the protection / effectiveness of mRNA based Vax's wears off after 5+ months.
There are many more.
But the point is; too many times those voicing concerns were called fools, idiots and conspiracy nuts. But they have had their share of dead on calling it correctly. Almost as much as the CDC/NIH.
#10
Yet in USA thousands of people die every day from the side effects of the Jab. How's that possible?
Source please...
Without attribution/corroboration the assertion above is funny since I can't name one single person that even had what could be considered even moderate side effects from the vaccine much less someone that died from it. But, I can name two relatives and two friends that died from Covid. So tell me, how is that possible?
Reading through this blog's reader responses and opposition to the vaccine indicates some serious paralysis by analysis. It appears that waiting for “Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien”...the perfect is the enemy of the good.
#11
G is being sarcastic. But he tips a huge can of worms. If these numbers get questioned, why not those. I really, personally thing all the numbers are suspect or worse. So I'm a vicious crank...
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#11 G is being sarcastic. But he tips a huge can of worms. If these numbers get questioned, why not those. I really, personally thing all the numbers are suspect or worse. So I'm a vicious crank...
Posted by: M. Murcek
Clever sarcasm is oft lost on the dim-witted like myself...
#15
the people who get adverse reactions to the vaccine tend to be under 25
The Israelis who got the booster are probably 40+ although there may some in their 20s or teens.
At some point the danger of vaccine equals the danger of not getting the vaccine. That point is almost certainly below 30. The CDC thinks it is below 13. Pfizer thinks it is below 5, maybe below 1.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
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#3
Please tell me 6 miles and 8000 ft isn't a blast radius
...It's not. However...
First, I'm assuming the bird landed mostly intact - but 'damage' in this case can be a flexible word. Keep in mind too that 'damage' could expose certain components of the airframe that we don't normally see to prying eyes. Thirty years old it may be, but the B-2 is still one of our crown jewels - better safe than sorry.
Secondly - and perhaps just as relevant - a B-2, F-35, F-22 (and to a lesser extent F-16s) accident scene is by definition a HAZMAT site. The USAF has lived in quiet fear for some years now that environmental groups will come after them because of the high health risks associated with these airframes - see also the so-far futile efforts of some folks employed at Groom Lake who say their cancers were caused by some of the materials they worked with.
Mike
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#4
/\....see also the so-far futile efforts of some folks employed at Groom Lake who say their cancers were caused by some of the materials they worked with.
Not to mention the potential cancerous effects of decades of 'above ground testing.' That would be 'above ground nuclear bomb testing' that is no longer discussed or written about.
#6
^ Dad grew up in Fallon, NV. Died of Glioblastoma. As did a lot of his friends, classmates
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09/15/2021 7:42 Comments ||
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#7
But is it a total loss like the one at Andersen AFB?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/15/2021 8:09 Comments ||
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#8
Just for stinky stuff and giggles, I ran the numbers that would call for an 6-mile exclusion area "in case" of accidental detonation.
The B-83 1300KT Mod ## that the B-2 commonly carries, is too big for only a 6-mile safety zone. With even the Light blast damage radius out to 12.5 km and 3rd degree burns out to 11.6 km
But a B-61 300KT Mod ## "accidental" surface detonation would fit right in. With Light blast damage radius out to maybe 2.0 km and 3rd degree burns out to 7.58 km.
#9
We only have 19 or now 18 of these. Why would they ever fly unarmed?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#10
see also the so-far futile efforts of some folks employed at Groom Lake who say their cancers were caused by some of the materials they worked with.
Groom Lake is also considered 'downwind' as testing at Mercury was postponed until Weather called and said the wind was from the south, away from Vegas.
#1
Fortunately they are all oversized hipster prop glasses and therefore you get a big visual warning to turn away or put four mask on before some idiot starts photographing you without your permission.
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#2
Can somebody please patent and manufacture a dazzler that thwarts these things?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#3
Can somebody please patent and manufacture a dazzler that thwarts these things?
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.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] 
[TASS] Media reports claiming that Moscow is in possession of a large amount of evidence regarding the intervention of US intelligence agencies and IT companies in the Russian elections is correct, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Tuesday.
by Mitchell Van Homrigh
