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Is Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin dead? (Damfino)
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Nazi propaganda found on phone of 2022 Indianapolis mass shooter
Part of the rest of the story.
[IsraelTimes] Police find images of Hitler and ’extremely graphic’ videos of previous mass killings on Jonathan Douglas Sapirman’s device

The cellphone of a 20-year-old man who fatally shot three people last year at an Indianapolis-area mall contained photos of Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
, Nazi propaganda, firearms and "extremely graphic" videos of previous mass killings, police said Thursday.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2023 02:29 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Interesting. What kind of propaganda on the Uvalde shooter's media accounts? Philidelphia?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/14/2023 10:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems like we’re missing a manifesto.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/14/2023 12:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Hummmmm !
National Socialism (NAZI's) ... which Political Party in the USA does that seem to fit?

Could it be the Liberals, teamed with the Socialist and Democrats (LSD's) that have elected Radical Islamic Congress officials, use Brown Shirt tactics against other political parties, that advocate & organize Riots, Looting, attack Jewish persons on the street and constantly demean Israel ?


Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/14/2023 13:07 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 It's behind the curtain - pay no attention.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/14/2023 14:38 Comments || Top||

#5  From deeper in the article:

Police said "the most notable discovery" on the phone was a photo of a handwritten note taken on April 9 2020, which appeared to be a suicide note written by Sapirman.

That note begins with, "My final thoughts on paper" and goes on to say, "I’m a sociopath. I want to hurt people." Police said the note alludes to Sapirman shooting himself with a shotgun, with the explanation that "This was the result of my issues: mental instability, depression, frustration, and sexual isolation."

Police said that Sapirman’s apparent suicide note more than two years before the shooting "leads us to believe that Sapirman’s "homicidal and suicidal thoughts had been manifesting for years."


There is a strong affinity among the mentally ill for the cant of totalitarianism, whether Nazi, Marxist and variations, eco-terrorism, and so forth. Once the fact of insanity is established, in my opinion, the exact philosophy chosen is meaningless.

But it’s easier to fuss about the evils of Nazism — definitely evil, I’m not trying to claim otherwise — than the fact that the West’s paradigm for dealing with the mentally ill among us might as well have been designed to sacrifice random passers by (or immediate family members) to sudden death at the hands of a madman simply because we as a society are no longer willing to do the work to figure out who needs to be kept separate — whether or not forcibly treated — in order to protect both that untreated young man and those he could no longer resist the impulse to kill.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2023 21:50 Comments || Top||

#6  The manifesto I was referring to is the one from Nashville, although it has become hard to keep track. I doubt it will be released, but it might be worth establishing Wray’s ignorance on that topic as well.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/14/2023 22:14 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Hollywood actors go on strike, say it's time for studio execs to 'wake up'
Brilliant idea. Y’all go ahead and make yourselves unemployable, and suddenly only conservative actors will be available to work.
[NPR] SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood actors and performers, has voted to go on strike against major studios. Union president Fran Drescher said in a press conference that it was time for studio executives to "wake up and smell the coffee."

The union's national board made the decision after negotiations broke down with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. After a last ditch effort, monitored by a federal mediator, the two sides failed to come to an agreement.

"This is the Union's choice, not ours," the AMPTP said in a statement. "Rather than continuing to negotiate, SAG-AFTRA has put us on a course that will deepen the financial hardship for thousands who depend on the industry for their livelihoods."
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Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sadly, I have already noticed a decline in 'A-grade' movie and TV content. But I watch a lot.

'Oppenheimer' director Christopher Nolan says AI in film carries ‘responsibilities’ like atomic bomb creation

Come on AI!
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2023 4:53 Comments || Top||


#3  Given the movie industry, TV, and too many fading career actors doing Mega Far Left S%^T, for attention.

I hope they do strike and bankrupt every Far Left production company and actor.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/14/2023 6:20 Comments || Top||

#4  ...It appears that AMPTP is really not messing around - their attitude seems to be that if they simply wait everybody out until the end of October, they'll be offering to pay AMPTP to work instead of the other way 'round.

And with that, my feeling (YMMV, of course) is that the writers may have some real and realistic concerns here. Fully AI'd movies are a ways off yet, but I'm pretty sure I'll live to see them. They gotta make the demands now to insure that they get paid in the future.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/14/2023 6:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Harvey Weinstein could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/14/2023 6:55 Comments || Top||

#6  She gathered with other Filipinx actors outside of Warner Brothers

Filipinx? Someone needs to go away
Posted by: Frank G || 07/14/2023 7:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Union president Fran Drescher, "The Nanny"!

How serious and successful could this strike possibly be with her at the helm?

I still hear those grating, nasal tones.

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2023 7:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Good time to strike during an economic down turn and decreasing demand for your crappy products.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/14/2023 7:50 Comments || Top||

#9  I recommend they form an alliance with Disney and just blockade all their entertainment venues from the American consumer.

That'll teach us a lesson.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/14/2023 7:52 Comments || Top||

#10  This reminds me of the time the Buggy Whip Makers union went on strike. Buggy whips were essential to the transportation industry and they wanted more money. They felt the had the whip hand, so to speak, since that "horseless carriage" thing was years away from being practical.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/14/2023 10:03 Comments || Top||

#11  Company: "Do you want some or none?"

Union: "We want more."

Company: "None it is..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/14/2023 10:09 Comments || Top||

#12  Studio execs are already Woke.

Robots? You think Robots? Shit man, you've already lost.

SAG-AFTRA has put us on a course that will deepen the financial hardship for thousands who depend on the industry for their livelihoods."

Learn to Coal.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/14/2023 11:03 Comments || Top||

#13  I'm reading a fantasy novel about a troupe of actors, jugglers, magicians and musicians who travel around the countryside in horse drawn wagons putting on shows for a ha'penny a head. No world famous celebrities, no Beverly Hills mansions, no limousines or red carpets, no People magazine or National Inquirer. Just a group of talented people dedicated to their craft and struggling to make a living at it.

You can only get paid what people are willing to pay. Strike if you must and we'll see what happens.

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/14/2023 12:24 Comments || Top||

#14  I don't think you people understand. None of you are actually necessary.
Your jobs only exist so that someone else can make money.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/14/2023 13:01 Comments || Top||

#15  Big reboot. New season, The Nanny,
Now cannier, even more Franny:
"He squeaks as he cleans!
He's the nanny from Queens!"
"He?"
"Uh, she."
"Our new nanny's a tranny?"

Always figured Drescher for a genius... not that I've ever been able to watch more than the odd minute or two of her without feeling like a complete idiot.
Posted by: Uleatch Poodle8531 || 07/14/2023 13:40 Comments || Top||

#16  Oops... can nannies clean? Call the union!
Posted by: Uleatch Poodle8531 || 07/14/2023 13:42 Comments || Top||

#17  Was a time in human history that travelling minstrels were looked on and treated with contempt by the villagers. What's old is new.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/14/2023 15:26 Comments || Top||


Professor made student 'uncomfortable' with open debate, gets fired
[THECOLLEGEFIX] A conservative professor and former police officer lost his job at St. Philip’s College in San Antonio after he allowed debate on topics including homosexuality and policing, the second professor at the school to be forced out in the last semester.

Will Moravits told The College Fix that in all his class discussions he tells his students that the classroom "is a place where all opinions are welcomed and encouraged, but not required. I also remind them that if they feel uncomfortable, they have my permission to excuse themselves from the discussion."

Moravits’ situation should not be confused with that of Johnson Varkey, a biology professor at St. Philip’s who says he was fired for teaching that sex is determined by chromosomes.

After classes on police brutality and LGBTQ culture a student complained to the college and said Moravits’ open discussions made the student "uncomfortable." The resulting complaints led to him being removed from teaching, despite having an agreement that ran through the spring 2024 semester.

Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not as uncomfortable as this guy.

Los Angeles 1st grade teacher charged with allegedly sexually assaulting 6 students
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2023 4:55 Comments || Top||

#2  " We’ll be graduating our lowest high school classes by population in 2025. College closures increasing.
Posted by: Dale || 07/14/2023 6:49 Comments || Top||

#3  St. Philip's College is a public historically black community college in San Antonio, Texas. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and part of the Alamo Colleges District. The college currently serves more than 11,000 students in over 70 different academic and technical disciplines. It is the westernmost historically black college or university...
Posted by: Chaiger Henbane8193 || 07/14/2023 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Open exchange of ideas? What was he thinking?
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/14/2023 12:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Life can be uncomfortable. College is supposed to prepare you for life. Good luck if you're not prepared.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/14/2023 12:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Skid:
during the Clinton admin the Dept. of Education did a study that showed roughly 1 in 6 students in public school experience unwelcome sexual touching by the time they graduate at the hands of an employee of the school district they attend. That study has been buried but other studies show similar and often reference the 2017 (iirc) Dept. of Education study and it's results. Later studies show numbers scattered around 1 in 4.
Posted by: Abu Ga || 07/14/2023 18:02 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Drag Queen of Beers: Buy Bud Light, or We'll Fire Some Idiot Peasants Like You
[PJMEDIA] The dethroned king of beers has fallen on hard times. Its short-lived dalliance with fake woman Dylan Stench of Death Mulvaney
...the transexual influencer who single-handedly trashed a major American beer brand owned by a Belgian company, tainted Maybelline and Condé Nast, and then demanded that anybody who called him/her/it a man be arrested...
and implicit endorsement of the Left’s efforts to force us all to accept the trans madness has not only cost Bud Light its position as America’s top-selling beer, but the Drag Queen of beers isn’t even in the top ten anymore. Bud Light is now the 14th-best-selling beer in the United States, and fairly soon, Anheuser-Busch executives will look back fondly at the days when it was as high as 14th place.

The financial news site Benzinga reported Monday that "a recent YouGov survey reveals the decline in Bud Light’s ranking, casting it below competitors like Pabst Bue [sic] Ribbon, Miller Genuine Draft, and Miller Lite." In a telling indication that Anheuser-Busch and its friends are now pulling out all the stops to save their former flagship brand, Benzinga notes slyly that the grassroots boycott that has led to the unprecedented consumer abandonment of Bud Light is hurting the common man: "This seismic shift in popularity jeopardizes the livelihoods of the 65,000 people whose economic well-being is intricately tied to Anheuser-Busch InBev’s success."

The upshot of this is that now apparently Anheuser-Busch and Benzinga want us to join Ted Lieu and Adam Schiff
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...
in quaffing Bud Light because if we don’t, some people who aren’t woke ideologues or trans exhibitionists will suffer. And yeah, that’s a real pity, but it’s hardly a positive or inspiring marketing come-on. It does, however, look as if Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth is going with it. He has said of the boycott and sales drop that "it’s the impact honestly on the employees that weighs the most on me."

When someone uses the word "honestly" in that way, it’s usually because he isn’t being honest. Benzinga adds that "Whitworth called on people not to punish the workforce but rather to attribute blame to him." All right, Brendan. If you want people to believe what you’re saying, then apologize for bringing Mulvaney on and resign. Otherwise, shedding crocodile tears over the peasants you’re going to have to lay off if people keep on avoiding Bud Light is reminiscent of the classic National Lampoon cover from 1973: "If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Kill This Dog." If you don’t buy this watery, inferior beer, we’ll fire some idiot right-wingers just like you.

At the same time, however, Anheuser-Busch won’t even commit to keeping Mulvaney at the far end of a ten-foot pole in the future. While the beer giant "has attempted to downplay Mulvaney’s role in its overall strategy, Whitworth confirmed that the company will maintain its partnerships without making any changes."

Does that mean that Bud Light could ask Mulvaney to draw another bubble bath and tarnish the product further? Their man is sulking in Macchu Picchu and griping about how his beer baron friends abandoned him in his hour of need: "I was scared, and I was scared of more backlash, and I felt personally guilty for what transpired, so I patiently waited for things to get better. But surprise, they didn’t. And I was waiting for the brand to reach out to me, but they never did."

Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yesterday our corner Mom & Pop store pulled all the Bud-Lite out of the store, and placed it on the Sidewalk, for the distribution company to come pick it up.

I asked the owner wasn't he worried about it being stolen. He actually giggled.

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BTW: Next time you are in a store selling the Pronouns of Trans-Beer. Notice if only 2 or 3 cases are missing from the pile. Speaking to a few route sale people. I was told weeks ago, that it is being stacked to appear like some are being sold.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/14/2023 6:30 Comments || Top||

#2  “Rep. Ted Lieu tweeted the pic of him and Reps. Mark Takano, Judy Chu and Adam Schiff posing with the cheap low-alcohol beers in the Capitol Sunday in response to a Daily Beast article about how the National Republican Congressional Committee put the brakes on its Bud Light boycott because parent company Anheuser-Busch donated nearly a half-million dollars to its candidates in the last election cycle.” NYP

I thought Anheuser Busch had gone totally insane. It sounds like the endorsement was unsolicited. The GOP reaction is interesting. It is almost like their attachment to donors is stronger than any bond they have to voters.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/14/2023 12:10 Comments || Top||

#3  It is almost like their attachment to donors is stronger than any bond they have to voters.

No "almost" about it...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/14/2023 12:11 Comments || Top||


‘I didn't know how many bouncers it would take to get me out of that bar, but I knew how many they were gonna use.’ - Ron White
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] British teen beaten by bouncers at Greek island nightclub reveals injuries and the truth about how brutal assault broke out as his 'devastated' mother issues warning to parents whose children are going to Zante.

Distressing footage shows James Taylor, 18, being beaten up by bouncers.
The lesson, apparently, is to beware of Serbian men in groups, especially when they’ve been hired as bouncers. More generally, of course, you leave all your protections behind when you go abroad. Especially if you’re a dumb, drunk kid still learning the rules of adulthood. Were he a girl he probably would have found himself raped in a dark corner, and the local police would have told him he shouldn't have gone off with those nice men.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  you leave all your protections behind when you go abroad. out into the world.

Fortunately, I had respect for authority and situational awareness beaten into me at the outset of my travels off the block. Lessons well learned from thorough instructors.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2023 5:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Glad the ladyboy did his hair before taking selfies of his very, very lucky face.

Young men - hitting the gym a little bit and getting your eyebrows waxed is not the real world.

Take a look at the mate with the Brazilian butt model triceps, then look at the dude built like a 1940s refrigerator. Check the fiber definition. That is applied strength, like what you see in the legs of ballerinas or the arms of farm hands.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/14/2023 11:31 Comments || Top||

#3  His mistake was failing to shower the Serbians with love to show them the way that he feels.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/14/2023 11:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Typically a bouncer doesnt just rough you up because of nothing. And it typically doesnt take more than one bouncer to kick your ass unless you are especially douchey.

*sniff-sniff* Smell that? #FakeNews

"The evil Serb beat me up b/c I only stood on a chair..."

According [via Greek Local News] to club workers they intervened after the British man, who was violent and out of control, had previously beaten a 19-year-old girl and attacked her with a bottle.
Posted by: mossomo || 07/14/2023 13:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Box of donuts on: boy of privilege on vacay with similar mates getting drunk/high and being douchey, earning the spankings he should have received as a kid compounded with interest.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/14/2023 13:17 Comments || Top||

#6  All the limies had purses. Mama's boy actually used his in the fight.
Posted by: Regular joe || 07/14/2023 15:28 Comments || Top||

#7  As Shakespeare said, "Who steals my purse steals trash..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/14/2023 15:29 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Death Valley is forecast to record Earth's hottest EVER temperature of 131F on Sunday - after experts claimed 134F record from 1913 is 'bogus', with tourists flocking to area to experience the dangerous heat
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2023 07:21 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good extreme marathoning at Badwater 135.

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2023 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  The undisputed record is 130 from two years ago. The current forecast is for 131. Yawn.

Posted by: Bobby || 07/14/2023 11:39 Comments || Top||

#3  The hottest temperature in the history of mankind was set in the morning of 16 August, 1983, at Fort Irwin, CA, inside my M-60A3RISE, A-11 when we went to actual MOPP-4 for about 5 minutes!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/14/2023 11:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I think John Kerry should be dropped off in the middle of Death Valley with his Brooks Brothers suit, a bottle of Heinz Ketchup and to make it interesting a map of Iran.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/14/2023 12:13 Comments || Top||

#5  The vultures are asking people to not eat peanuts before attending the event as some of them are allergic.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/14/2023 12:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Still remember my Ft. Irwin in briefing.

"As for the heat, it is only 120F in the shade. Bad news is, there is no shade. Welcome to Ft. Irwin!"

And yes, MOPP-4 sucks in Death Valley. Don't fuck with the ants either. They are endangered apparently.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/14/2023 16:00 Comments || Top||

#7  ^^^^
Did they do the walk-by at the inbrief of the skinny little Mojave green, the Mohave rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus) is the most venomous snake found on the monument. The venom, potent in neurotoxins that attack the nervous system and hemotoxins that attack the blood should make this snake high on anyone's list to avoid.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/14/2023 16:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Have we considered re-naming it to something more temperate?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/14/2023 17:17 Comments || Top||

#9  So we are being now told the US WEATHER EXPERTS have been feeding us mis-information for 110 years. Why should we trust this data then?
Posted by: nn2n1 || 07/14/2023 18:06 Comments || Top||

#10  Lies are now the gold standard.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/14/2023 18:23 Comments || Top||

#11  BTW - they don't always rattle, and the younguns release more poison due to inexperience
Posted by: Frank G || 07/14/2023 19:08 Comments || Top||

#12  ...with his Brooks Brothers suit

I worked with a guy like that at State Street Bank back in 1987, my first job out of college and recently transplanted from the ever lovin' confines of Manchester, NH. That guy was just as stiff and boring as Jawn F'n Kerry. A bunch of us were talking about music / bands (I'm heavy metal to the core) and this human penguin mentions Neil Diamond as his favorite. Some men you just can't reach.

I did pick up a snazzy '80's fashion statement from him and started wearing suspenders, or as he called them, braces. Just like Gordon Gekko, without the two-toned shirts.
Posted by: Raj || 07/14/2023 19:09 Comments || Top||

#13  Did they do the walk-by at the inbrief of the skinny little Mojave green

Yeah, I was the smart ass that said, "Oh... ain't he a little cutie?"

Did push ups for 2 minute on the hot hardball. Ow.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/14/2023 21:18 Comments || Top||


Maybelline under fire for using bearded model in ad after Dylan Mulvaney flap
I have only eleven words to reply to this: "Ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha! hyuk-yuck-yuck! Har-har-har!"
[NYPOST] Maybelline is under fire again for hiring a bearded makeup artist to star in its latest ad — just weeks after the brand fielded calls for boycotts over tapping Dylan Stench of Death Mulvaney
...the transexual influencer who single-handedly trashed a major American beer brand owned by a Belgian company, tainted Maybelline and Condé Nast, and then demanded that anybody who called him/her/it a man be arrested...
to promote its concealer.

Maybelline — the world’s largest cosmetics brand — posted an Amazon Prime Day advert, and it stars mustachioed, bearded and bald influencer Ryan Vita.

In the ad, Vita sports a full face of makeup and a beaded barette in his beard while applying bright pink shades of Maybellie’s "Super Stay" liquid lipstick.

He then blows a kiss, showing that no gloss has tranferred onto his hand.

In less than 24 hours since Maybelline shared the ad with its nearly 12 million Instagram followers, the video was viewed more than 1.2 million times.

The caption denotes that Vita — who has 49,000 followers and uses the pronouns "she/he/they" — is a Maybelline Partner, and nearly 2,000 comments show that many consumers aren’t pleased with the casting.

"This is unacceptable and disturbing," one user wrote, while another commented: "Really don’t want to be seeing MEN doing makeup tutorials!!! Nonsense."

"Unfollowing," another commented, while others announced that they wouldn’t be buying Maybelline products any longer after seeing the video.

Over on Twitter, one response played on Maybelline’s catchprase, "maybe it’s Maybelline," and said "maybe it’s NOT Maybelline."

"Ah, yes. Nothing inspires me to buy makeup more than seeing it smudged on the face of a bearded man," another tweeted.

The Post has reached out to Vita for comment.

Representatives for Maybelline and its corporate parent, L’Oreal, also did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

The ad marks the second time so far this year that the drugstore makeup brand has come under fire for the influencers featured in its advertisements.
Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Aren't bearded ladies supposed to be in a circus?
Posted by: Raj || 07/14/2023 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  This IS a circus.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2023 4:45 Comments || Top||

#3  🫠 Predictions for 2024 🫠


Maybelline Who? - L’Oreal files Chapter 11

Bud-Lite - rebrands itself as the Trans-Beer of Life. Rainbow-colored can introduced.

WH creates new cabinet post - Drug Distribution Czar

Xi - announces run for US President


Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/14/2023 5:44 Comments || Top||

#4  I don’t think Kid Rock is a good enough shot for this one.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/14/2023 12:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Not with that chin.

'Maybe its Makebelieve.'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/14/2023 12:30 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm gonna have a tough time boycotting Maybelline.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/14/2023 12:37 Comments || Top||


Biden is ordering Military Reserves to Europe?
[Twitter]

Posted by: 3dc || 07/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


#2  The Biden/Obama/LSD Cartel so far has:

Reduced Military recruiting numbers to an all-time low.

Refuses to secure the borders which has the Cartel Mexico drug trade now equal to a Tax Free F-100 company for annual revenues.

Refuses to refill the National Emergency fuel reserves.

Bankrupted the Nation, while him, his family and many in the DC Swamp grow richer by $$ Millions.

Created an Ukraine US Taxpayer funded Shell Game - By giving Ukraine a massive amount of US Armour, weapons, ammo, vehicles and more in exchange for the $$$ Billions we donated to Ukraine to begin with. Which has enriched the DC Swamp and his family with $$M's.

He wants Oversight removed so he can give do and collect more for certain pockets? An wants to strip the USA of its Military ready Reserves. Which would try to defend us from the Open Borders created 5th column. IF they had the Military Supplies we have given Ukraine?




Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/14/2023 6:10 Comments || Top||


#4  The SOB (or the people behind him) want to get a shooting war going with RU. He'll declare a national emergency and cancel the upcoming presidential election. Globalism depends upon control, control of the energy resources. They need to put a cork in US/RU oil and gas. Nordstream was blown up. Keystone XL was cancelled. Lots of talk about the demolition of the Ukie nuclear plants.

Call me nuts, but I think it's all about the resources.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/14/2023 7:34 Comments || Top||

#5  While everyone has been focused on recruiting, in the background is the issue or retention - reenlistments. I suspect there are some serious holes developing in the mid-grades in certain military occupational specialties.

Background - the National Guard Bureau has seen fit to keep as many of their units oriented to the combat arms as they could get away with. That meant that the Reserve picks up a lot of combat support and combat service support duties, which are actually more likely the type of troops governors could use in emergencies.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/14/2023 7:46 Comments || Top||

#6  *the issue of

Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/14/2023 7:47 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Operational needs would appear to be in flux - pinpointing those holes would go a long way to discerning what the new focus/concern is.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/14/2023 9:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Brandon can't get his pants on correct.

I did see yesterday that Trudeau, on behalf of all Canadians, vows to fight until the last Ukrainian.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/14/2023 10:31 Comments || Top||

#9  ...aww, NATO was about fighting to the last American, willingness to immolate ourselves in their defense.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/14/2023 11:10 Comments || Top||

#10  IRR - individual ready reserve.

unless they changed the law - when you join up, you are contracted for x years of active duty and y years of reserve duty. The last number I recall was a total of 8 years in any combination of that. After 8 years your time was done and you received a discharge Department of Defense form 214 and were not subject to recall. One major exception I recall if you took a Regular Army commission you were subject to recall at anytime thereafter.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/14/2023 11:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Last time I remember reading about the IRR being raided was the Korean War... This is another reason that Emergency Powers need to be constitutionally restrained and 'Emergency(s)' be terminated ASAP.
Posted by: magpie || 07/14/2023 11:50 Comments || Top||

#12  RA Commisssion is lifetime, but once you retire from the Army, the Retired Reserve commitment is also lifetime.

My guess, give the small number for such a serious act, is that it is certain Skill Sets in short supply, both in weapons prep, training, maintenance, but also in major end item recovery/repair of battlefield damage? A look at the MOS pool might be heavy Ordnance Corps.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/14/2023 12:01 Comments || Top||

#13  Fleeing to Canada won’t work for this one.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/14/2023 12:16 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
'Gut-wrenching' moment LA sheriff's deputy punches pleading mom in the face while she's holding her three-week old baby boy in her arms and begging them not to take him during traffic stop
'Snapped'
Roid Rage?

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] This is the gut-wrenching moment an LA sheriff's deputy punches a pleading mom in the face as she pleads with police not to take her three-week-old baby.

The video, captured with a body camera in Palmdale, Los Angeles, in July 2022, shows up to five police officers surrounding the mom as she refuses to give them her baby boy.

In the footage, she can be heard saying 'You're all gonna have to shoot me dead before you take my baby.' A scuffle then ensues as the woman starts screaming 'Don't take my baby! My baby's very weak, you'll hurt him!'
Heartbreaking. But wait, there’s more!
Sheriff Robert Luna, a former Long Beach police chief, has vowed to overhaul the nation´s largest sheriff´s department since taking it over in December after defeating incumbent Alex Villanueva.

During the July 2022 encounter, deputies stopped a car driving without headlights at night, smelled alcohol, and saw three babies who weren't in car seats and were being held in their mother's arms, Luna said.

The male driver was arrested on suspicion of driving on a suspended license, driving under the influence of alcohol and child endangerment.

Four women in the car were held on suspicion of child endangerment. During their arrests, a deputy punched one woman twice in the face after she refused to let go of her child, Luna said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Four women in the car

Was the gentleman attempting to aid a group of neighborhood 'mothers without wheels' on their way to buy some formula, or was he a slaver?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2023 5:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Time Stamp says 00:30 and 7/14/22

Vehicle is a 4 door car.

Four women, three children, and the male driver.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/14/2023 13:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Swap the motorist for a Somali not quite filling out his Cramden hand-me-downs, double the passengers, add 1.5 babies per woman, and you've got an MTS bus passing through Barrio Logan. Not even kidding. "Health Center" wot. Great enthusiasm for health thereabouts.
Posted by: Uleatch Poodle8531 || 07/14/2023 14:14 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ LOL! Barrio Logan? SD familiar
Posted by: Frank G || 07/14/2023 19:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Sounds like that guy needed a bus license.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/14/2023 22:53 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Hundreds arrested, nine dead following Kenya protests
[AlAhram] Kenya's interior ministry on Thursday said more than 300 people had been arrested over anti-government protests that left nine dead as the opposition announced fresh demonstrations next week.

There were violent mostly peaceful festivities and looting on Wednesday in parts of the East African nation as protesters erupted into the streets over tax hikes and economic pressures in defiance of a government ban.

Police have been accused of a heavy-handed response and criticised for using tear gas against civilians, including at a school, causing dozens of children to be hospitalised.

Opposition leader Raila Odinga's Azimio alliance said it would stage its next demonstration on Wednesday, vowing to keep up the street action until cost of living pressures come down.

"Our protests will resume on Wednesday, 19th July 2023," Azimio said, hours after the interior ministry announced a raft of arrests linked to the demonstrations.

"Acts of lawlessness... can neither be accepted nor tolerated", Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said.

"There is no relationship between lowering the cost of living and destruction of critical infrastructure built using public funds. That is hooliganism, lawlessness, and a recipe for anarchy," he said.

"Security officers are directed to enforce the law firmly and decisively and deal with all criminals, including economic saboteurs, looters, and vandals, who are destroying...private property."

He said 312 people "who directly or indirectly planned, orchestrated, or financed" the protests had been arrested and would be charged, including a member of parliament who was later released.

"The search for more culprits is on," he added.

The unrest has claimed nine lives, according to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), an independent watchdog created by parliament, which said the figures were shared by the police.

The rights body on Thursday called for an investigation into reports of looting, vandalism and incidents of police brutality, warning the country was "teetering on the brink of anarchy".

"It is essential for leaders across the political spectrum to prioritise the interests of the nation and its citizens over partisan interests," it said, urging the two sides to find a solution.

Police said one man died in festivities between rival groups in Sondu on the border of Kericho and Kisumu, the latter an Odinga stronghold.

Six people bit the dust when police gave the demonstrators a whiff of grapeshot in the towns of Mlolongo and Kitengela on Nairobi's outskirts, and in Emali along the highway to Mombasa.

Two others were killed in Migori and Busia in western Kenya, KNCHR said.

CHILDREN HOSPITALISED
In Nairobi's Kangemi slum, dozens of children were hospitalised, some unconscious, after teargas was fired near their classrooms.

The National Gender and Equality Commission, a state authority, strongly condemned the incident.

"School children... who should be shielded from such chaos, were tragically caught in the crossfire," it said, deploring the vandalism and rights abuses linked to the protests.

Odinga initiated a string of anti-government rallies this year after losing to William Ruto in presidential elections last August -- a vote he claims was "stolen".

Last week, protests in several cities also saw six people killed.

Already hit by soaring inflation, many Kenyans say the country can ill afford the disruption caused by the demonstrations.

Each day of protest costs the economy an average of three billion shillings ($21.8 million), according to an estimate by the Kenya Private Sector Alliance.

Last month, Ruto signed a new finance law aimed at generating more than $2.1 billion for the government's depleted coffers.

The Finance Act provides for new taxes or increases on basic goods such as fuel and food and mobile money transfers, as well as a levy on all taxpayers to fund a housing scheme.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IMF deposits $1.2B in first installment of Pakistan's bailout deal, alleviating default fears

How many 'Little Dutch Boys' with how many fingers can plug the corrupt failed state dikes, for how long?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2023 5:04 Comments || Top||



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