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Russia downs American spy plane - correction: "Escorted"
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
White husband and wife are charged with assault after jumping out of their Mercedes 'to attack' an interracial couple
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • John Kingkade, 38, and his wife Krystal Kingkade, 37, were arrested in Columbia, South Carolina on Wednesday over the incident outside a Dollar Tree on April 10

  • They have each been charged with two counts of robbery and two counts of first-degree assault and battery

  • The victims, Bron Cornett and his girlfriend Elena Vawter, were both treated in hospital following the ordeal

  • The victims told authorities they were driving on Saturday night when the Kingkades cut them off at a red light in their Mercedes C-Class

  • They were allegedly assaulted after pulling into the Dollar Tree parking lot
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2021 10:36 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A Mercedes C-class at the Dollar Tree? At a WalMart would be stereotypical, but Dollar Tree?
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2021 13:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Road rage trumps merchandise quality.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2021 14:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Krystal KingKade

bet she votes Democrat
Posted by: Frank G || 04/16/2021 14:36 Comments || Top||

#4  The two vehicles pulled in there to supposedly swap insurance information, doesn't appear where any of them were shopping.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/16/2021 15:02 Comments || Top||

#5  What is astonishing is that the Dollar Tree had a functional camera...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/16/2021 15:21 Comments || Top||

#6  What is astonishing is that the Dollar Tree had a functional camera...

Thanks for the pro tip; if I'm ever in a situation like that, I'll pull up to an HD camera near a light (if it's at night).
Posted by: Raj || 04/16/2021 19:10 Comments || Top||

#7  @#4: I'd be interested to hear what transpired between "Let's go over there and swap insurance information." and the assault.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/16/2021 20:48 Comments || Top||


Gunman kills eight, takes own life at FedEx site in Indianapolis, police say
[ynet] A gunman shot eight people dead and injured several others at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis before taking his own life, police said early on Friday.

An Indianapolis police officer said the authorities did not feel there was an active threat to the community anymore.

In the latest media briefing, officer Genea Cook said that including the gunman the total number of casualties was nine.

"We have multiple people with injuries consistent with gunshot wounds," Cook had said in an earlier briefing, adding that there were others who have been transported to various hospitals throughout the area.
The incident occurred at a FedEx facility in Mirabel Road, Indianapolis, late on Thursday night, according to the police. The facility is located close to the Indianapolis International airport.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 05:01 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  AP - Police: 8 dead in shooting at FedEx facility in Indianapolis
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2021 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  So 'going postal' is now outsourced too. Wonder why this hasn't happened at a Amazon fulfillment center yet?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/16/2021 7:26 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Amazon's Robots are armed.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/16/2021 7:57 Comments || Top||


#5  Summer already... another long, hot summer
Posted by: Kojo Hatfield8932 || 04/16/2021 10:27 Comments || Top||


#7  Just when Biden wants to grab guns. How convenient
Posted by: JFM || 04/16/2021 11:32 Comments || Top||

#8  How many of those were in struct gun-control/gun-free areas?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/16/2021 13:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Just when Biden wants to grab guns. How convenient

Advancing the script.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2021 15:56 Comments || Top||


70-year-old Asian woman badly beaten by black woman on Metro bus in Eagle Rock
[THEEASTSIDERLA] A 70-year-old woman was badly injured on a Metro bus late last week when she was allegedly assaulted by another passenger, according to her son.

Police have confirmed there has been an arrest in the case, but have released no details about the incident.

The victim’s face and eyes were left swollen, her nose was broken, hair was pulled out of her head and she suffered a concussion, according to her son, who identified himself as Pete. He provided photos of the injured woman to The Eastsider.

The woman, identified only as Becky, was attempting to get off the 81 bus at La Loma Road and Figueroa Street early Friday afternoon. She was headed to the nearby Vons supermarket to shop for her granddaughter, her son said.
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Time for the Asian community to hire a few experts in Kung Fu & disguise?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 4:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Yesterday

See Daily Mail
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2021 8:22 Comments || Top||


'Breaking Bad' teacher, 40, is shot dead in bedroom of Mexican cartel stash house while trying to steal two pounds of coke after planting GPS trackers on gang members
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Barney Dale Harris, 40, was shot dead when he raided the cartel's stash house in Green Level, north-west of Raleigh, on April 8 to steal drugs and cash

  • Harris and his brother-in-law Steven Alexander Stewart broke into a mobile home used by the cartel after tracking them with electronic devices

  • Authorities say the shootout broke out after Harris and Stewart shot dead an 18-year-old cartel member who confronted them

  • Harris, who was wearing a bullet proof vest, was killed in the shootout

  • The circumstances surrounding Harris' death has left his community and authorities dumbfounded

  • Harris, who leaves behind a wife and three children, taught Spanish at Union Academy Charter School

  • He was also the head coach of the school's varsity basketball and track teams
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  "beloved teacher"
Posted by: Hupique Ulereter1966 || 04/16/2021 1:37 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Watched one too many crime shows, me thinks.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/16/2021 4:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Needed the coke to "speed up" his players?
Posted by: 3dc || 04/16/2021 5:51 Comments || Top||

#4  He thought he was Walter White; turns out he wasn't.
Posted by: Raj || 04/16/2021 8:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Somehow "Barney Harris" doesn't quite match Heisenberg" for the "Say my name" thing.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/16/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||

#6  On a level, that is impressive.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/16/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||


Dementia sufferer, 73, screams in agony as Colorado cop fractures her arm and dislocates her shoulder after she forgot to pay for her $13.38 of Walmart groceries
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Dementia patient Karen Garner, 73, walked out of a Loveland Walmart last June without paying for $13.38 worth of items

  • Store employees stopped her at the exit and retrieved the items

  • But police officers caught up with her while she was walking back to her house

  • Garner, who suffers from dementia, appeared confused when she was stopped, but she was aggressively arrested by two officers

  • Bodycam footage shows her face down in the grass as she wails while being handcuffed; she allegedly suffered a fractured arm and a dislocated shoulder

  • A lawyer has now filed a civil suit on her behalf
    And rightfully so. I generally assume the police were in the right, but they could have controlled her with a hug.
  • On Thursday the department placed arresting officer Austin Hopp on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation

  • Assisting officer Daria Jalali and supervising sergeant Phil Metzler have been reassigned to administrative duties, the Loveland Police Department said
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
SARCASM & LEFT HANDED HUMOR FOLLOWS
Given Liberal States seem to have the majority of the Violent Police and/or Bad Shoot, Crazy Gunman issues.

Maybe LIBERAL STATES should eliminate their police departments.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/16/2021 5:13 Comments || Top||

#2  No worries. She forgot the entire incident happen.

But there is some irony when those same cops sit back and watch when that Walmart is looted in a few days.
Posted by: Airandee || 04/16/2021 6:57 Comments || Top||

#3  As cops increasingly will be cautious about arresting "kellered people," they will have to work out their frustrations on the rest of us...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/16/2021 10:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Daily Mail.

I'll wait for the video.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/16/2021 10:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Pigs will be pigs.
Posted by: Clem || 04/16/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||


#7  Body Cam Footage at page through Skidmark's link.

Not sure what beat that guy runs, because the lady cop wasn't having any either.

But if that were my grandma I would not be happy. Not sure why he went straight for a pin, not like she was going to run off.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/16/2021 16:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Yet another story about cops over-doing it. Are we seeing another media play here? My spider sense is tingling...

Over the long term, whether they show up in the media or not, I would expect more over-copping incidents, particularly in urban areas. The various anti-police efforts will drive the decent cops away to better working environments. That leaves the ones who enjoy being jerks. Plus more affirmative action hires like Officer Taser in Minnesota who really should be in another line of work.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/16/2021 18:54 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ hello Brazil. Or Mexico.
= Blue America's Future
Posted by: Omaviling Grumble8585 || 04/16/2021 19:11 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
'Mistress' becomes wokemeisters' latest target
[NYPOST] The News Agency that Dare Not be Named Stylebook, which has traditionally set standards for language usage within the media landscape, mystified Twitter users Tuesday when it tweeted a reality-bending, wrist-slapping admonishment.

"Don’t use the term mistress for a woman who is in a long-term sexual relationship with, and is financially supported by, a man who is married to someone else. Instead, use an alternative like companion, friend or lover on first reference and provide additional details later," the tweet read.
or "Vice President"
Of course, goomah is a much better term.
Or "popsie."
The announcement led many to wonder which mistress had taken control of the account, and what is truly wrong with the word mistress.

It also spurred a joke-fest with people tweeting alternatives to mistress, like "side piece" or "homewrecker."

NPR news hound Susan Davis tweeted: "His wife probably has some words she’d also like to use to describe her."

Author and mathematician James Lindsey wrote: "I call her whatever I want. You call her mom."

Cheeky college hoops commentary account @noescalators took the AP’s advice on word substitution, writing: "Rick Pitino and his lover companion got a brief tour of an Italian Restaurant," referring to the 2003 incident during which Pitino had sex with a woman on the table of a Louisville restaurant.

Obviously someone at AP is banging a married dude. Gross. https://t.co/mOrPEk6vbW
— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) April 14, 2021
Though it surfaced yesterday on social media, the AP Stylebook’s policy regarding the word mistress dates to 2016, when it said to avoid the word because there was no male equivalent.
... like "gigolo" or "boy toy" or something like that...
Then in 2020, the AP grew stronger in its woke feminist convictions, saying it was banning the word because it was "archaic and sexist."

"We now say not to use the archaic and sexist term ’mistress’ for a woman in a long-term sexual relationship with, and financially supported by, a man who is married to someone else. Instead, use an alternative like companion or lover on first reference."

That led to a round of skewering from media circles. It’s unclear what sparked this latest woke lecture — but mistresses everywhere must be thrilled at the opportunity to rebrand themselves in a more favorable light.
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  O Mistress mine where are you roaming?
O stay and hear, your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low.
Trip no further pretty sweeting.
Journeys end in lovers' meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.

What is love, 'tis not hereafter,
Present mirth, hath present laughter:
What's to come, is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty,
Then come kiss me sweet and twenty:
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 4:40 Comments || Top||

#2  So are terms like Dynamo Humm out in the woke world too?
Posted by: 3dc || 04/16/2021 5:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Also, is it still Okay to call Queen Nancy one of the:
Posted by: 3dc || 04/16/2021 5:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Concubine?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/16/2021 7:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Concubix?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/16/2021 8:19 Comments || Top||

#6  In Tehran, You Can Choose a Marriage That Lasts for Three Minutes
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#7  ^Are they rabbits?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Will Elvira have to change her name?

Posted by: Warthog || 04/16/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#9  I always thought Elvira was a Mistress in the "female Master" sense, not in the "side peace of the dark" sense. of course I could be wrong.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/16/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

#10  My Side Bitch's Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun.

Sonnet 130, Shakespeare
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/16/2021 10:49 Comments || Top||

#11  "Is a Ladies' Man a Person's person?"
Posted by: magpie || 04/16/2021 15:53 Comments || Top||

#12  #7 ^Are they rabbits?

Come again?
Posted by: SteveS || 04/16/2021 16:12 Comments || Top||

#13  ^Marriage That Lasts for Three Minutes
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 16:22 Comments || Top||

#14  ...so, they're minutemen?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/16/2021 17:48 Comments || Top||

#15  ^😂
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 17:55 Comments || Top||

#16  Come again?

That requires an additional marriage, sir.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/16/2021 19:44 Comments || Top||

#17  So I guess I have to keep referring to her as "trim?"

Yes, much preferable.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/16/2021 20:52 Comments || Top||

#18  LOL
Posted by: Frank G || 04/16/2021 21:59 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
They lived in the company of corpses: In some of the most raw, shattering accounts of the Great War, soldiers, medics and those left to grieve tell visceral stories in heartbreaking letters, diaries and memoirs
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2021 09:51 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Or you can read:

A Rifleman Went to War
- Herbert McBride

I know, forever since a TWIB. This book is a great first hand account of training and participation, and not written by Corporal Upham.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/16/2021 11:03 Comments || Top||

#2  One of the most haunting parts of The Lord of the Rings is the Dead Marshes -- a flooded former battleground, where you can still see the corpses of the dead beneath the shallow water.

It was inspired by Tolkien's experience in the trenches of WWI.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/16/2021 11:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Well at least they didn’t have to live with the horror of being mis-pronoun-ed !

/sarc
Going to have to pick this up

Pronouns: Don’t care, been called worse, sometimes accurately
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/16/2021 14:22 Comments || Top||


Russia's defence minister wants to CLONE 3,000-year-old ancient warriors found in Siberia (and their horses to boot)
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2021 09:03 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...AND the horses they rode in on???

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/16/2021 14:18 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Black Louisiana grandfather punched and kicked by white cops 'after suffering epileptic seizure while walking his autistic grandson to school'
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2021 10:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Grandpa's Spells

Shreveport Stomp
Posted by: Pholutle Glaitch6819 || 04/16/2021 23:58 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Chief of CAIR in Florida is accused of multiple sex harrassments
[this is from NPR - who insist on calling CAIR a civil rights organization but at least they covered the story] For months, stories swirled around a prominent Muslim civil rights leader, alleging secret marriages, bullying, sexual harassment.

Then, late last year, some of the allegations against 34-year-old Hassan Shibly burst into public view. In a video posted on GoFundMe, Shibly's estranged wife, mother of their three children, looked directly into the camera and begged for help. She said her abusive husband had cut her off financially.

"For years, I've been in an abusive relationship, and the situation at home has become unbearable," Imane Sadrati said. "I finally decided to build the courage to start over for my children and I."

The accusations were shocking not only in their content but in the public airing of a nationally recognized Muslim leader's personal drama. For a decade, Shibly led the prominent Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 04/16/2021 09:42 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  Shibly said that he did enter into religious marriage contracts with women outside his legal marriage when he and his wife were separated and prior to that — with her permission and when he felt their marriage was essentially over. He denies that any of the relationships were secret or abusive and described them as courtships.

Most religious scholars do not see a conventional Islamic marriage as legitimate unless it is publicly declared, and having more than one wife is generally frowned upon in jurisdictions where that's not allowed under local law.


I suppose it will be argued that the women believed they were in real Sharia marriages that are not legally binding under secular state law, as opposed to believing that the marriages were legal.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2021 14:08 Comments || Top||

#2  This is the reason that schools fo girls and female education are frowned upon in Muslim countries an educated woman is probably smarter then most of the men in their societies.
Posted by: Muggsy Thud2393 || 04/16/2021 14:44 Comments || Top||


Gov. Pete Ricketts signs proclamation declaring Nebraska a 'Second Amendment Sanctuary State'
[JustTheNews] Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts has signed a proclamation declaring his state a "Second Amendment Sanctuary State."

"The White House and U.S. Congress have announced their intention to pursue measures that would infringe on the right to keep and bear arms," part of the proclamation states. "Nebraska will stand up against federal overreach and attempts to regulate gun ownership and use in the Good Life," another section of the proclamation states.

Last week the Biden administration announced actions related to gun violence, and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki indicated that more actions could be coming in the future. She said that Biden "is not going to wait for Congress to act to take additional executive actions. This is the beginning. He will continue to have his team review, both from a policy and a legal standpoint, additional executive actions that are possible to take."
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why only that? How about a 'Constitutional State'?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/16/2021 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  The state Governors are realizing the Fed over reach and the threat to the states. This is the first step in protecting each other.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/16/2021 11:38 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
The end for Cuba's 60-year Castro dynasty: Fidel Castro's brother Raul, 89, prepares to hand power to President Miguel Diaz-Canel ending family's grip on Communist country's leadership
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2021 09:16 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Yet another lefty grifter family. They were billionaires thanks to stealing the Bacardi company assets. Looted the nation and ran it into the ground. Criminals.
Posted by: Otto Big Foot2760 || 04/16/2021 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Keep the kingship in the family -- merge with Canada.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/16/2021 11:50 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ I see whut you did there
Posted by: Frank G || 04/16/2021 14:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Eventually the vampire will leave the body - after it's been fully drained of blood.
Look for the Castro's to retire to some non-shithole
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/16/2021 14:52 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia downs American spy plane - correction: "Escorted"
[Arutz7] - The Russian Ministry of Defence has announced that a Russian fighter has shot down a USAF Boeing RC-135 on an espionage mission over Kamatchka.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 07:02 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Shot down"....????
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2021 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  All RC-135s are assigned to Air Combat Command. The RC-135 is permanently based at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., and operated by the 55th Wing, using various forward deployment locations worldwide.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/16/2021 7:56 Comments || Top||

#3  ...and so it begins.... if real
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/16/2021 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  ^tho there's a world of difference between "stops" and "downs"....
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/16/2021 8:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe the drone was checking out Ted Turner's spread on the Peninsula.
Posted by: b || 04/16/2021 8:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Russian Military Jet Escorted U.S. Spy Plane Over the Pacific - TASS
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday an MiG-31 fighter jet had escorted an RC-135 U.S. strategic reconnaissance aircraft over the Pacific Ocean along the coast of Kamchatka, TASS news agency reported.

The f&cker of a Arutz-7 translator almost gave me a heart attack
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 8:14 Comments || Top||


#8  Russia downs American spy plane

Whoa - serious flashback there!
Posted by: Raj || 04/16/2021 8:32 Comments || Top||

#9  "Downs" "Escorted" what's the diff when you're trying to start a war, right?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/16/2021 8:50 Comments || Top||

#10  So now President Asterisk and his freak show have blundered their way into three wars: China about to invade Taiwan. Israel left no choice but to prevent-emotive my strike Iran. And foolishly sticking our nose even deeper into Ukraine's arse so that The Big Guy and Lil' Crackpipe can collect their walking-around money.

And these idiots told us nonstop for four years that it was Trumpy Hitler who was dragging us over the brink.


Posted by: Black Bart Uloter9042 || 04/16/2021 9:07 Comments || Top||

#11  Elections have consequences. Anyone not "packing the larder" is foolish
Posted by: Warthog || 04/16/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#12  Russians won't fire unless fired on.
Posted by: badanov || 04/16/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#13  Their pilots are clowns who will love to play chicken, for real or for play, but they won't fire on aircraft unless instructed to do so.
Posted by: badanov || 04/16/2021 9:32 Comments || Top||

#14  /\ Wagner Group can easily arrange such an incident.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2021 9:32 Comments || Top||

#15  Expect some "home movies" staring Hunter to be downloaded to internet.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 9:34 Comments || Top||

#16  /\ Wagner Group can easily arrange such an incident.

So can our side.
Posted by: badanov || 04/16/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#17  escorted away. "The ministry said the U.S. aircraft had not violated Russia's borders."

So they got close and left when Russia fighters saw them and got too close to allow further spying. I suspect this was a daily occurrence back in the cold war.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/16/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||

#18  hell in the Cold War B-52s used to get 100 miles away from Moscow before being escorted out.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/16/2021 11:41 Comments || Top||

#19  Russians won't fire unless fired on.

Unless it's a Korean Air Liner.

(And, yeah, I realize the US accidentally shot down an airliner, too.)
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/16/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#20  #15 Expect some "home movies" staring Hunter to be downloaded to internet.

Plus details of wire transfers to Hunter from various Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh and other money-laundering criminals
Posted by: Jiggs Omaper5061 || 04/16/2021 12:20 Comments || Top||

#21  I don't know whether or not to tell the story about my Dad and the book _The Pursuit of Vigilance_ or not.

I'm kinda tired.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/16/2021 17:38 Comments || Top||

#22  I'm sorry. _The Price of Vigilance_.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/16/2021 20:03 Comments || Top||


Russia has announced that it's closing the strategic Kerch Strait until October
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



#3  Ukraine has a navy?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 9:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Ukraine has a navy

Hey there sailor, know where a paren' could score some nookie and blow?
Posted by: Hunter Crackpipe || 04/16/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  I thought Ukraine scuttles the bulk of the deeper water ships during the Crimea take-over, partly to deny capture and partly to block the port. Don't remember anything particular about the near water boats.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/16/2021 14:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Can't wait for the SoS to tell the world the U.S. ship that was sunk there was on a "humanitarian" mission.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/16/2021 20:57 Comments || Top||


Biden admin as soon as Thurs will sanction ~12 Russian individuals, including govt and intel officials
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Gotta love the Times of Israel headline: Hitting Russia with new sanctions, Biden says ‘now is the time to deescalate’
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Have the sanctions had any impact, at all, on Russian behavior in regions where our interests are affected?

Even if you swallow the BS about Russian electoral interference, that only underscores how pointless and ineffectual the sanctions have been.

US policy toward Russia is a kind of playacting based on fantasy, hysteria and scapegoating

Unmistakable proof of decadence and decline
Posted by: Blackbeard Elmusoth3721 || 04/16/2021 1:33 Comments || Top||

#2  AP: Sanctioned the Kremlin’s first deputy chief of staff Alexei Gromov and several individuals linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman with close ties to Russia’s president, nicknamed “Putin’s chef” for serving Kremlin functions, and several front companies the U.S. says helped Prigozhin evade sanctions imposed earlier. Also sanctioned were eight individuals and entities tied to Russia’s occupation in Crimea.
Posted by: b || 04/16/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#3  In addition to the sanctions, Russian dressing will be removed from grocery store shelves. Take that, Ivan!
Posted by: SteveS || 04/16/2021 11:08 Comments || Top||

#4  We expel 12 Russians, they expel 12 Americans. What changes?

Except for the sovereignty of Ukraine. While the current administration makes nice-sounding noises.
Posted by: Tom || 04/16/2021 17:08 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Australian Military Reminded Its Role is ‘Lethal Violence’, Not ‘Woke’ Activism
[Summit] The Australian military has been reminded by MPs that its core mission is the "application of lethal violence" in response to concerns about it being too "woke" following a performance during which scantily clad dancers twerked on a Navy ship."
Anchor Wankers aweigh! And to think the USN used to be the trendsetter in scandals. Vid of the "performance" @ link; My $ on somebody's not gonna' make their Commodore boards.
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#1 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 4:29 Comments || Top||


#3  I'm guessing the scantily-clad dancers were male, because scantily-clad women dancing on a ship would be a completely different type of scandal.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/16/2021 11:55 Comments || Top||

#4  The advisory came after awkward scenes where young women gyrated suggestively in front of military officials, some of them elderly, during a ceremony to formally commission the Navy’s newest ship, a debacle that was dubbed a “shitshowby one member of the government.

Word.
Word of the day Year Decade
Posted by: Shusomp Bucket6770 || 04/16/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||

#5  hmmm...nostalgia, probably nothing they didn't participate in or had seen at younger times when 'the fleet is in' at various ports of call.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/16/2021 17:47 Comments || Top||


Economy
Garden gnome shortage strikes due to pandemic and Suez Canal blockage
[FOX] Gardens may have to go gnome-free this summer.

Over the past year, a combination of changing consumer needs and issues stemming from the pandemic has caused a variety of shortages. These supply issues have ranged from toilet paper to aluminum cans and even pepperoni.
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#1  Mods - feel free to throw up (oddly appropriate) a picture of Fauci
Posted by: Warthog || 04/16/2021 9:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Gotta be Bee.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 9:28 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Oooops!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 9:28 Comments || Top||

#4  a lot of food products require multiple flavoring ingredients to produce and some of them get to the manufacturer via Suez Canal but this hurts Europe much more than the US

more importantly, a lot of China's industry has been closed at various times in the past 12 months, similarly various plants in other countries have been closed or hours of production shortened because of workers being sick or other reasons



Posted by: Lord Garth || 04/16/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Down $1
Posted by: Lonzo Whagum5792 || 04/16/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Gonna have to resort to forest gnomes, then.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/16/2021 11:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Here ya go.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/16/2021 12:06 Comments || Top||

#8  I visited a garage sale and tried to buy the garden gnome. The seller said that was her toddler.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 04/16/2021 12:16 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Canadian lawmaker caught nude during virtual legislative meeting
[NYPOST] A Canadian politician was caught in the buff during a virtual House of Commons conference on Wednesday, a report said.

William Amos, a Liberal MP, was recorded on camera standing nude in his office, flanked by the Quebec and Canadian flags, according to a screenshot obtained by the Canadian Press, CTV News reported.

The incident occurred during the questioning period.

The 46-year-old politician, who represents parts of Quebec, later apologized for the showing, which he said was unintentional.

"This was an unfortunate error," Amos said in a statement tweeted by CTV News news hound Rachel Aiello.
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nudism is a fundamental human right!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2021 4:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Nudism Esthetics is a fundamental human right!
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/16/2021 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  It's always a Lib MP / Democrat, isn't it?
Posted by: Raj || 04/16/2021 8:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Transparency in Government.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2021 10:55 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Disinfectant is the best disinfectant
Posted by: Spereger Bluetooth8415 || 04/16/2021 11:01 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Federal Government Caught Buying ‘Fresh' Flesh Of Aborted Babies Who Could Have Survived As Preemies
[Federalist] Last week, legal accountability group Judicial Watch dropped a bombshell: a nearly 600-page report proving the U.S. government has been buying and trafficking "fresh" aborted baby body parts. These body parts, purchased by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to "humanize" mice and test biologic drugs in scientific experiments, came from babies up to 24-weeks-old gestation, just weeks from being born.

While Americans may be used to hearing pro-lifers beat the warning drum on abortion groups harvesting baby bodies and selling them for research, (who hasn’t heard of the lawsuit against David Daleiden, who exposed Planned Parenthood haggling over baby lungs and livers at dinner parties?) this time, the U.S. government was the one trafficking baby parts.

Recent emails uncovered by Judicial Watch between FDA employees and the California-based Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) prove the agency spent tens of thousands of dollars buying aborted babies for unethical scientific experiments between 2012 and 2018. In 2018, the Trump administration terminated the contract, halting government fetal tissue research due to concerns the contracts were unlawful. Judicial Watch’s new FOIA Request adds 575 pages of records to its existing 2019 lawsuit against the agency.

Caught Red-Handed
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#3  Making Sodom and Gomorrah look like places God would have smiled on...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/16/2021 17:22 Comments || Top||



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