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As pointed out in those comments, FFA is part of the DoT. With ButtGig in charge, I guess that means StarShip just isn't ghey enough. Yet...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/30/2021 11:48 Comments ||
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FFA FAA
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/30/2021 11:49 Comments ||
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Well Butagay is head of DoT and he doesn't even drive a car. He appointed the ex-head of human resources at the Peace Corp to be head of the FAA. Why? She's fugulgy enough that maybe she's a fellow traveler in so many ways... Oh and the way she went after SpaceX and Musk it's obvious she sees rockets and their supporters as spawn of Satan...
[Guardian] A military whistleblower has said federal officials sought to use some controversial crowd control devices, including a so-called heat ray, to disperse protesters outside the White House in June.
In written responses to questions from a House committee, the national guard major Adam DeMarco said the defence department’s lead military police officer for the national capital region sent an email asking if the Washington DC national guard possessed a long-range acoustic device used to transmit loud noises or an Active Denial System (ADS), the heat ray.
DeMarco said he responded that the guard was not in possession of either device. National Public Radio and the Washington Post first reported DeMarco’s testimony.
Use of either the acoustic device or the ADS would have been a significant escalation of crowd control for the guard, particularly since the defence officials ordered that troops not be armed when they went into the area. Law enforcement personnel were armed.
Athough active-duty military troops were sent to the region, they remained at bases outside the district in case they were needed.
The ADS was developed by the military nearly two decades ago and was unveiled to the public around 2007. It is not clear if it has ever been used in combat, although reports suggest it has been deployed.
The system, which emits a directed beam of energy that causes a burning sensation, was considered a non-lethal way to control crowds, particularly when it may be difficult to tell the enemy from innocent civilians in war zones.
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Most of the protesters did not try to enter the capital. There was not point to escalate.
No, they only burned a church and tried to climb the fence into the White House grounds. But, hey, none of them got shot.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/30/2021 11:34 Comments ||
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to bad they didn't burn the capitol building down with the useless shit that sits in it where in it.
Posted by: Chris ||
01/30/2021 14:32 Comments ||
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I recall seeing that Pelosi asked for heavy machine guns. Maybe that was a joke, but if it really happened, well, that trumps crowd-dispersal weapons.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
01/30/2021 20:34 Comments ||
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[FoxNews] Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was sentenced to 12 months probation and 400 hours of community service Friday after pleading guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case arising from Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.
Clinesmith in August pleaded guilty to "one count of making a false statement within both the jurisdiction of the executive branch and judicial branch of the U.S. government, an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of five years and a fine of up to $250,000."
U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia James Boasberg on Friday during Clinesmith's sentencing hearing said Clinesmith had suffered by losing his job and standing in the eye of a media hurricane.
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The Chinese have used common Mandarin words to capture the uncouth names of barbarians for a long time. It has only been since the 1950's that they have decided some purely phonetic symbols would be useful -- only 500 or so years after the Japanese !?!
In WW2 General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell was assigned "Shih" (martial prowess) + "Weill" (architect/builder), or so Barbara Tuchman's book on Stillwell relates.
So what do those words mean, hmmm? According to Google Translate the first predominately means "worship". The second is all over the place from "ascend" (most common) to "pedal/treadle", "step on", and "tread on with the foot" (insulting inference that).
What are they really saying? I dunno, I don't speak the language, but I do know from reading translated webnovels that the Chinese can be creative with their insults.
[Rolling Stone] As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ravage the country and the economy, President Joe Biden signed an executive order creating an opportunity for Americans to sign up for subsidized Obamacare. It’s an important move considering many people in the country have lost their jobs (and health insurance) due to the economic fallout from the virus.
Biden’s actions authorize the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to allow people to sign up for federally subsidized insurance using the Affordable Care Act portal during a "special enrollment period" between February 15 and May 15 of this year. The last time the portal was open for enrollment was December 15, 2020.
"There’s nothing new that we’re doing here other than restoring the Affordable Care Act and restoring Medicaid to the way it was before Trump became president," Biden told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office.
The administration will also do "robust outreach" to ensure people know they can take advantage of the health care exchange. And they will have plenty of funds to do so. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump administration did not spend $1.2 billion in fees insurers paid the government for running the marketplace, which means the money is now available for Biden to use.
Let’s see if they succeed before getting excited about it. The Democrats are fond of misleading leaks to divide their enemies.
[Breitbart] Democrat senators are trying to recruit Republican senators into business-backed amnesty deals, despite the public’s demand for pro-American migration policies.
Their targets include Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Susan Collins (R-ME), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Rick Scott (R-FL).
The Hill reported Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the leading Democrat advocate for greater migration, working with Graham to draft a bill that would provide citizenship and work approval to younger migrants who were brought into the United States by their illegal-migrant parents.
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Make them a deal. The illegals get amnesty but in the same act, all Americans get amnesty for anything crime alleged or real that those of their grand-parents and all prior ancestry may or may not have committed. Sort of like the amnesty Donks grant themselves for slavery, segregation and the Klan.
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The illegals and amnesty is a feeder population to the bottom of the pyramid scheme of social security that will soon go bankrupt without more forced payment suckers.
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/\ Ditto with the immigrants that flood(ed) Europe...same principle, to prop up the failing pyramid scheme called social welfare along with declining birth rates there.
Introducing bills is easy. It’s getting them passed in both Houses of Congress that’s the challenge, and Senator Mitch McConnell is not a happy man.
[NTD] Democrat lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill dubbed the "Vote at Home Act," which seeks to "massively expand vote-at-home ballot access," enacting automatic voter registration and providing voters with pre-paid ballot envelopes.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) introduced the bill (pdf), saying in a press release that the legislation is meant to "fight voter suppression."
We had more people voting than ever before in 2020. Some voted multiple times. We had people feeding ballots into the counters that were previously untouched by human hands. Who exactly is being suppressed?
"Our democracy is stronger when every American can vote, without standing in ridiculous lines or having to take time off work or school to exercise their Constitutional rights," Wyden said in a statement.
In other words, we can't inconvenience people in any way. The Democrats would like not to inconvenience voters into even thinking...
They’ve long laughed about casting your vote for you after you die; this time round they added voting for you pre-death as well, so you needn’t be inconvenienced even by leaving the couch in front of your television.
Why, they'll even clear out your mailbox for you! How much more convenient can we make it?
The initiative stands in contrast to a bill introduced by Republicans several weeks ago, which seeks to tighten voter registration verifications and narrow rules for when and how mail-in ballots can be accepted, in a bid to strengthen the integrity of federal elections.
The Democrat lawmakers said the introduction of the bill was encouraged by what they described as "the successful expansion of voting at home and by mail in the November 2020 election," in which almost 50 percent of voters cast ballots by mail, a record high in federal races.
And some of those ballots were even legitimate!
"Last year we saw a widespread expansion of vote-at-home access as a safe and secure way to participate during the COVID-19 pandemic," Blumenauer said in a statement. "We should continue to make voting easier, not harder. This important bill would strengthen and clarify the right to vote at home, the most secure and convenient way for voters to exercise the franchise."
Critics of expanding vote-by-mail initiatives have warned of the increased potential for voter fraud, allegations of which were front and center in the contested presidential election, with President Donald Trump, members of his legal team, and supporters, making numerous claims that amounted to the charge that the election was stolen.
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Remember the Card Check movement in Labor Voting where the Democrats wanted to outlaw secret ballots? As soon as workers were coerced, threatened, err, "persuaded" to sign a Pro-Union card then that was the end of the process with no messy secret ballots. Is this their End Game?
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Face it, me droogs: our constitutional republic is finished. We've crossed the Rubicon. As if there was any doubt, it's obvious now that the fix is in. Mail-balloting on a mass scale = one-party state.
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/30/2021 10:42 Comments ||
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New York State needs a massive politician enema.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
01/30/2021 11:22 Comments ||
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In California, we're close to enough signatures on a recall petition for Gavin Newsom to put the question to the voters. It'd be the second time we've done that. The first was that slime ball Grey Davis after a $96 million boondoggle with Oracle Corporation and $26 billion budget deficit. Doesn't New York have such an option? I mean, if Democrats wanna impeach Trump, we should recall Newsom and Cuomo. Two can play this game.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/30/2021 11:40 Comments ||
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/\ And there's that fat slob NY congressman who crapped his trousers on the podium some months ago...for some reason his name fails me...just as well. Tubby will do for now.
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He already had gastric bypass IIRC. He used to be Uuuuuge
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/30/2021 12:00 Comments ||
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We came to such an evil entertainment rather depressed. “Now,” said Trimalchio, “let us have dinner. This is sauce for the dinner.” As he spoke, four dancers ran up in time with the music and took off the top part of the dish. Then we saw in the well of it fat fowls and sow's bellies, and in the middle a hare got up with wings to look like Pegasus. Four figures of Marsyas at the corners of the dish also caught the eye; they let a spiced sauce run from their wine-skins over the fishes, which swam about in a kind of tide-race. We all took up the clapping which the slaves started, and attacked these delicacies with hearty laughter. Trimalchio was delighted with the trick he had played us, and said, “Now, Carver.” The man came up at once, and making flourishes in time with the music pulled the dish to pieces; you would have said that a gladiator in a chariot was fighting to the accompaniment of a water-organ. Still Trimalchio kept on in a soft voice, “Oh, Carver, Carver.” I thought this word over and over again must be part of a joke, and I made bold to ask the man who sat next me this very question. He had seen performances of this kind more often. “You see the fellow who is carving his way through the meat? Well, his name is Carver. So whenever Trimalchio says the word, you have his name, and he has his orders.”
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^ Ah, the Satyricon swksvolFF! Very nice. Yes, our lords-and-masters certainly seem determined to demonstrate the cyclical model of history, do they not?
#16
“But who cares — 33 [percent], 29 [percent] — died in the hospital, died in a nursing home? They died.”
The issue isn't where they died but that they were the victims of a policy that ensured many of the most vulnerable would be infected and many of the infected would die.
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.
[Guardian] A military whistleblower has said federal officials sought to use some controversial crowd control devices, including a so-called heat ray, to disperse protesters outside the White House in June.
