Today’s theme.
Little sleep, worried about my Dad, work consisting of several 2-hour Teams calls with large amounts of IT people from Canada and India… I can only muster up a “meh” for today’s links.
- Campus Management.
- Hmmm. Let us see what really happens.
- I am starting to suspect that the Ivy League has a Jew-hatred problem.
- Yeah, he kinda needed to do this.
Music (OK, its not really this bad)
Comment section is open and all yours.
P.S. Thanks to everyone who sent in articles/posts. I am working on scheduling them all.
Not happy about Earth Day?
*Prays to S.M.O.D.
FOR not TO.
HOW DARE YOU TRY TO CORRECT MY RELIGION. *Calls Inquisition
I planted a couple maple trees on Saturday.
Just trying to do my part.
I thought about planting some maples — but then thought it would just make me a sap.
I’ma just leaf that one alone.
Damn commie tree – starts out green and then turns red.
/looks at the maple seeds all over the yard
It’s one true sign of spring around here.
whirlybirds
In my area they plant themself so I had to go out and cut some down.
Plenty of trees around me too. Most of the mature trees in my yard are probably older than me (53) so I wanted to have some younger trees growing.
The two trees I planted are 5-6 foot tall and were only $20 a piece. I’ve been waging war against buckthorn this spring to help the nicer trees have a chance.
Shouldn’t the H be capitalized in that new holiday?
Not Happy about Earth Day brought to you by the United Nations.
I hope your dad is feeling better soon. Sending you papist prayers.
Ditto on both counts..
And I have to say I have one big soft spot for Hee Haw — thanks, Swiss. (And pppbbbttt she was gone! is always a great one too)
Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me!
https://youtu.be/DS4LPNxJtFI
Same shit going on at Yale. As time goes on they seem less and less impressive.
The left really does have a problem here. Their foot soldiers are getting out of control. It’s interesting.
Getting to the end-point of the diversity-is-our-strength nonsense.
My Dad along with a class-full of WASP men started at Yale in 1958. They weren’t particularly anti-semitic. Might not have invited Jews to the country club out of snobbiness, but not hatred.
Now we’ve imported the third world and act shocked that they brought their third world sensibilities and biases came with them. How many Palestinians ‘refugees’ will be coming our way when this ends? Any chance they may be a tad bit anti-semitic?
From a pure troll perspective, I’d love to see Doocey bring this up with KJP. These are the same voters he’s pandering to elsewhere, after all.
I’d be expelling the lot of the little whiny brats who either directly threatened other students/faculty or “took over” / obstructed / “de-colonized” public university spaces. And if they came back I’d arrest them for trespass. But I’m admittedly a cranky get-off-my-line relative hard liner.
It is almost like over 4 years and counting now of letting “protestors” run roughshod over everyone results in temper tantrum babies thinking they can do whatever they want wherever they want — or as you said “getting out of control”. I’m sure we’ll have a fun mostly peaceful Summer of Love again at this point, and January will be nuts on the off chance they don’t fortify enough.
Wouldn’t mind giving them the opportunity to fight for Palestine or Ukraine either — but doubt Israel would care for it. Can’t be shipping our toxic waste around the world, after all.
“Moment cops storm Yale’s Palestine encampment and arrest 47 – as shocking video shows Jewish student being stopped from entering campus in haunting echo of Nazi picture”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13336119/jewish-yale-student-sahar-tartak-palestine-flag-eye-attack-cops-arrests.html
What would we do without The Bee?
On point.
“April 22 (UPI) — Israel’s military intelligence chief resigned Monday over failures in the run up to the Oct. 7 attacks on the country by Hamas and other Palestinian groups in which 1,200 people were massacred.”
Netenyahu is probably going to go after this is “over”, as it happened on his watch.
Have to say comparing the fallout from the Afghan withdrawal leaps to mind… (i.e. no one actually taking responsibility).
20 years after he dies, Netanyahu is still going to be blamed for all that’s wrong in Israel at that time. If there still is an Israel.
We gave George Fucking Tenant a Medal of Freedom after 9/11. Bastard should have shot himself if he had a shred of honor.
Sunak is such a mediocrity that he makes BoJo look like the lovechild of Churchill and Richard the Lionheart. Entitled, boring, and stupid and he’s leading the Tories to a deserved wipeout of epic proportions.
Suspend; Arrest; Deport.
Problem solved.
That was not supposed to be a reply
I can’t say I’ve heard of anything/anyone in British politics that makes me think they can vote their way out of it. It is just shit sandwich vs. mega-shit sandwich all over.
The world needs more Millei and that-guy-I-don’t-remember-the-name-of-that-I-hope-beats-Trudeau….
Liz Truss. She has zero personality, and seems autistic as all get out, but that is what they need – someone who sees the problem and doesn’t really care about the personal end of it.
Don’t know if she would have been any good, but her ouster was led by petty politics, just the shit that has put them were they are.
Losing to f’g Labour?! Ugh sorry Britlanders.
The whole Oct 7+Followup Shebang strikes me now as ‘The government(s) will secret EVERYTHING so no one can know how ignorant, inept and incompetent they really are.’
I say this as someone with ZERO military experience nor inner knowledge. ‘He doesn’t really notice if you RETURN your older bro’s porn stash…doesn’t matter if it isn’t EXACTLY in its right spot…No one will notice…Right?’ <– That was me. And I was right! Or at least T̵h̵e̵ ̵P̵e̵o̵p̵l̵e̵ my bro didn't notice trespass… Or never got called out… (Hrm.)
It does give me some solace that our Tory analog does, at least rhetorically, represent an alternative to our Labour.
(Although the FISA and forever war funds votes are leaning me towards a Zero Seat mindset)
“Author sparks FURY after branding Taylor Swift a ‘billionaire racist’ and a ‘NAZI Barbie’ in vitriolic rant – while slamming star for not mentioning Palestine in her ‘vapid, rotted’ songs on The Tortured Poets Department”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13337261/taylor-swift-billionaire-racist-author-tourtured-poets-department-palestine.html
CWAC
Typical for the left: Swift probably agrees wholeheartedly on 99% of the issues but fail to be sufficiently enthusiastic on even one of them and out come the claws.
Strangely, I’ve never heard of Vanessa Angelica Villawhatever.
Well, that doesn’t sound tedious at all.
At least you’d get to find out if she has any colonic polyps. Possibly all the way up the small intestine, even.
“…. and so we gave her publicity (the idiot ‘author’) because that’s exactly what she was fishing for!”
‘Having nothing in common,’ with you is really not the insult you think it is, dear…
It worked the last time on Taylor.
Relevant? What’s that got to do with anything?
Merchan ruled that prosecutors are permitted to question Trump about two rulings — one by a judge, the other by a jury — finding that Trump defamed advice columnist E. Jean Carroll by denying her claims of sexual assault.
The judge said prosecutors can also raise the decision in Trump’s civil fraud trial finding that he fraudulently manipulated property values as well as rulings finding that Trump violated the gag order in that case. Trump can also face questioning about a 2018 ruling in a lawsuit against his foundation.
But Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) cannot bring up sanctions imposed against Trump in a lawsuit he filed against Hillary Clinton in Florida, the judge ruled, as well as several other “bad acts” prosecutors desired to cross-examine Trump about.
Merchan’s ruling is designed to give Trump’s legal team an informed view as it mulls whether the former president should take the stand in his defense.
I thought allegations not directly related to the charges at hand were off limits. But I guess they need to fling all the shit they possibly can at him.
If they can keep him off the stand, they can use that as proof he’s guilty.
“Hey look, this fucking guy’s guilty of something.”
“He was charged with 91 felonies!”
I don’t know what New York law is, but in Indiana Mrs. TOK was on jury duty for a rape trial, and it accidentally came out in testimony that the police had been to the victim’s house several times before. That was enough for a mistrial. So either NY is different or that judge just DNGAF.
Given the special casing / one-time-pass legislation and the judges they’ve trotted out — I’d go more with the latter in practice.
“finding that Trump defamed advice columnist E. Jean Carroll by denying her claims of sexual assault”
So anyone accused of anything they didn’t do can be sued for defamation?
In San Francisco all the shit is on the streets, in New York it is in the courts.
I am starting to suspect that the Ivy League has a Jew-hatred problem.
Wealth destruction, in general. People have to be seriously reconsidering the value of “elite” schools.
I will second your “meh” concerning the weekend’s hockey tournament. Not the best and kind of a waste of money. They didn’t put my team in the tier we requested, and as a result we were put into a group with two teams that just smoked everybody else. There was no semifinal, just a final, so unless your team was perfect your weekend ended early. The building wasn’t very accessible, and every game we had to schlep our hockey gear across a large building with 4 rinks and very narrow hallways.
Now that I’m done complaining, they announced the two big tournaments next year will be in Dallas and Florida. We were thinking of skipping those two, but of course they pick two of the best locations.
Oh if we’re going to “Meh” at sports, I raise you the F1 Chinese Grand Prix… aka the “Watch Verstappen lap almost a second faster than anyone else and the commentators try to make a battle for 9th place exciting!”
Yawn.
I read an interesting article somewhere (sorry, no link) which basically said the Israelis had become complacent and overly reliant on technology for monitoring the border, which was a major factor in getting caught napping Oct 7.
Yeah — that’s what I remember being said shortly after it happened. They were (are?) using some sort of “smart fence” surveillance to keep manpower lower and Hamas basically overwhelmed it and surged the fence or somesuch.
It is the folly of mankind everywhere, and for all of time. Hell the first amendment covers it: Thou shall not worship false gods, or somesuch.
The same thing will happen with AI, people will try to use it in replacement of humans, and it will work just as well.
“the government had booked commercial charter planes and trained staff to take migrants to Rwanda, part of a policy he hopes will boost his Conservative Party’s flagging fortunes before an election later this year.”
Is this some kind of slapstick comedy movie from the 1980’s
https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/3/94/628465141-0d21a6fc45b56faf04f1cbfc1802a912.jpg
I guess this is supposed to be a deterrent or threat that will likely not be followed up on. BTW wouldn’t Haiti be cheaper?
My client would like to read a prepared statement:
You lousy corksuckers. You have violated my fargin rights. This somanumbatching country was founded so that the rights of common patriotic citizens, like me, could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes like yourselves. Thank you.
I love that movie.
It’s an 88 Magnum. It shoots thru schools.
You fargin sneaky bastage. I’m gonna take your dwork. I’m gonna nail it to the wall. I’m gonna crush your boils in a meat grinder. I’m gonna cut off your arms. I’m gonna shove ’em up your icehole. Dirty son-a-ma-batches.
I’ll believe it when they toss Rishi Sunak on a flight back to India.
What a mouth on that guy!
Why Rwanda? Is that a point of origin for those migrants? Do they have excess housing, like hotels or something, in Rwanda?
If their new guests get out of line, the Rwandans will be more than happy to add them to the Tutsi rolls.
*squints suspiciously*
I’m a bad person.
I want to see 1960s police tactics (water cannons and dogs) used against the campus protestors.
Enough of this bullshit.
That’s unfair to the dogs. I imagine commies taste bad.
Worse than hippies?
You only need to play death metal to disperse hippies.
Eh, the protestors probably contain as much THC as a typical edible.
I’d be pretty pissed off if I were on the hook for $90K per year and the university shut the campus down in reaction to a bunch of out-of-control nitwits. I’d like to think that, if this spread to Justneednewskills Community College, the military vets and working mothers in the student body would club the shit out of the feral idiots.
“Melania Trump pushes for ‘equality for all’ at $10K-a-ticket conservative LGBTQ fundraiser while her husband is in court: Former First lady makes rare foray into politics as the hush money trial kicks off”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13337625/melania-trump-conservative-lgbtq-fundraiser-donald-court-hush-money-trial.html
“Melania Trump selling $245 customizable Mother’s Day necklaces as husband Donald faces mounting legal bills”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13334715/Melania-Trump-Mothers-Day-Necklace-Donald-trial.html
If she did an OnlyFans it would be huge, the best OnlyFans like you’ve never seen.
I wonder if Trump could do some OnlyFans. He’s got some amazingly weird fans.
There is probably a market for her bathwater as well.
The existence of conservative homos enrages the left like nothing else.
Right up there with conservative black folx.
Ron Paul / Seymour Hersh: CIA had to tell Zelensky to stop skimming so much off the top of US aid money and pass more around to his senior staff.
https://odysee.com/@RonPaul:d/cia-to-zelensky-%27please-stop-stealing-so:c
Urge to kill RISING more.
Damn. When you’re breaking off enough that the DO notices it, you’ve really got a problem.
If Zelensky survives this, he’ll have a lot of choices on where to live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GzqhnZ6c4E
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There is no evidence to support this claim. The building has not changed hands according to any publicly available information. The assertion stems from a single dubious source — a “British” outlet named The London Crier.
The article in question cites a video from a “real estate agent” whose YouTube channel was created just weeks earlier, in February 2024. DNS records reveal that this website was created on March 26, 2024, a week before it went viral with this claim. For several reasons articulated below, the claim is likely an example of Russian propaganda.
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zelenskyy-highgrove-house/
I don’t like agreeing with Snopes, but I think they got this one right.
TBF a good chunk of that goes into Boeing and Raytheon and the like pockets.
Still doesn’t mean the US gets the economic output.
Every time I hear that this spending creates “American jobs” I always want to say if we have Ford build an 150 here and give it for “free” to the Ukraine how does that make you feel?
I have a teammate who’s a Never Trumper. I can usually have a decent discussion on most things but I heard him say all that Ukraine aid would be spent here and I noped out.
He sees eye to eye with Trump on that one, sadly.
How ghoulish is that argument though, even ignoring the nonsense economics of it?
It’s all gonna support American weapons-making industries so it’s “good”. Holy shit. That does not sound good to me.
That’s fucked up.
I’d like to remind you all that Today is Earth Day, and every day is earth day.
https://youtu.be/GbDN4xOuf44?t=67
This is a good day to talk about everything the founder of Earth Day got hilariously wrong, but I’m feeling lazy.
Like composting his girlfriend?
I could use the help. Anyone have a good link? I get tired of debunking crap like adjusting thermostats and other information that is 50 years old.
Well it looks like Senator Nelson and not Paul Ehrlich gets credit for it, despite Ehrlich being the guy being the holiday,
But here are some fun predictions from that first earth day:
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year/
Regardless, this is good too should you have young children in school:
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-paul-ehrlich-got-everything-wrong
In mentioning Trump’s civil fraud case — where the judge found he conspired to alter his net worth for tax and insurance benefits — prosecutors similarly say they intend to note that the judge in that case determined Trump “repeatedly and persistently” falsified business records, issued false financial statements and conspired to commit insurance fraud.
Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records in his New York criminal case, which revolves around a hush money deal made with an adult film actress ahead of the 2016 election. He has pleaded not guilty.
If they have the evidence to prove the charges in this case, why do they feel the need to drag an unrelated case into it? Sounds like they’re afraid they don’t have a solid case.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged on Monday to start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks, telling the upper house of parliament he will force the new legislation through despite its opposition.
I wonder if Trump could try this tactic. There’s no shortage of third world shitholes to send our invader hordes back to. In fact, for a fraction of the price of “aid” to our Ukranian allies, I bet President Dudebro could be convinced to take our problems off our hands (whether by building another superprison like he did for los gangbangers or via training flights for his rotary-wing aircrew is a dilemma I’ll leave to the reader).
What like some sort of “Remain in Mexico” policy? Crazy talk.
Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Motivation is focused thinking on something positive.
Sorry about your dad, Swiss.
I REALLY don’t “get” the pro-‘Palestine’/anti-Israel sweep over Team Blue. Historically, American Jews have been quite well-off and, at least socially, quite Team Blue. Hollywood alone. The ‘anti-oppressor’ meme overflowed the Useful Idiots’ cup. We’ve all said it here: Go back far enough, and EVERYONE has been a ‘slaver’ AND ‘enslaved’ by others. I’d like to imagine said buzzword-shit has sloshed the fan and the whirring will (at least) slow. Because humans are predictable, I don’t foresee it ending well. Because humans are predictable, I expect no one to recognize the gears slurping soft at the constant slop. (Mmm…need more arousing euphemisms…)
Nothing profound will happen. Just more ‘Aww, SHUCKS!’-ing. Life will go on. Most won’t notice the shit til it passes them. I’m awaiting my generation’s hopeful slip into sanity. (Predictably, I proceed with caution.)
Team Blue has a long history of both racist and hating “the wrong kind of people”.
Europeans, especially Eastern Europeans have never been oppressed.
Just the very idea of the Slavs having any experience with slav-ery…. preposterous! Inconceivable!
Every corner of the planet was Gaia-friendly matriarchy Eden until those nasty nasty Caucasians came along!
(I wish this was 100% parody instead of the mush filling the minds of “educated” morons these days….)
“T̵e̵a̵m̵ ̵B̵l̵u̵e̵ Humanity has a long history of both racist and hating “the wrong kind of people”.
Yep. Hatred of ‘The Other,’ whatever that may be, is inherently human. Especially the ‘social’ part of ‘primate.’ Hence, a useful cudgel to prod and flog The Masses into doing the bidding of The Powers That Be. Same Teams, different names. See also: All of human history. Everyone does it. Sadly(?), the ‘sub-conscience’ is real.
Team Blue has always had a policy that antisemitism from correct-voting people of skin darkness is acceptable.
“Now, remember, ladies and gentlemen, just because the defendant was unwilling to take the stand and testify on his own behalf, and by doing so expose himself to questions requiring truthful answers by law, you should not assume he is attempting to evade responsibility for his actions. Now get in there and bring me back a guilty verdict.”
First day of work was quite chill. Most of this gig will be, methinks. We shall see, but navigating systems is always trickier than reading 4th Grade “essays.” But roughly $5k for eight weeks’ work is damn sweet for me. Especially considering the blessed home life I have, Room/Board+Family (that actively loves me) was already the icing on my cake.
(My cake is iced, nicely all ’round. I am THINKING of a euphemism I lack, but plenty others to focus on.)
Every time I hear that this spending creates “American jobs” I always want to say if we have Ford build an 150 here and give it for “free” to the Ukraine how does that make you feel?
Building and shipping shiny new cars to Ukraine for a demolition derby.
Many people underestimate global sympathy for Palestine. Here are two pro-Pali songs, one in Italian and the other in Irish. I also found one in Swedish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0CerQcBZu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90AAcSvJAl0
The Palis were smart to make the right lefty noises to get international support. The current leader of the Palestinian Authority is a graduate of Russia’s Patrice Lumumba University.
The entire Palestinian gestalt is a product of KGB influence operations in the 60’s.
The IRA/PLO mutual admiration society is not a new phenomenon.
Got an update on the Arkansas aiport executive shot dead in a raid:
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-judiciary-opens-formal-inquiry-atf-killing-arkansas-airport-executive
…And then nothing happens. Pisses me off. Also, nobody wore bodycams? Fire them all. Sounds more and more like an assassination.
That’s exactly what it was. There was zero need for it for it to go down like that. ZERO.
It definitely looks like they did not ever intend to take this guy into custody.
Since we’re wildly speculating, what are the going theories on what this guy did/what he knew that made him too dangerous to ever have the possibility of being interviewed?
Side note – this automatically counts as another notch on the Clinton death list from the name of the airport alone, right?
Given his position at the airport my guess is that someone flew in or out of there that someone didn’t want getting out, and he was going to let it out.
When you are putting tape over cameras, you aren’t the good guys.
putting tape over cameras
proof of intent
When you’re doing any kind of raid for anything not involving life threatening exigent circumstances, you are definitely the bad guy.
And so is the judge who signs the warrant.
Why would they need body cameras? Every survivor of the encounter is giving the same testimony.
Red Rocks Amphitheater has a new dress code: Keep the facial hair neat/trimmed, cover up vulgar/offensive tattoos, take out the facial piercings. This is bumming out the employees:
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/red-rocks-staff-appearance-guidelines/73-a1e0ec41-a528-4e0b-9d70-6bec077880f4
“Employees are now pushing back, saying this violates their right to self-expression and individuality.”
““Being asked to, hide those things is being asked to hide a piece of me… I’m contemplating coming back or not just because my personal identity is so important to me at this point,” said Wray.”
They have a change.org petition they’d like you to sign. I guess this is how we get things done these days.
“I am not anything more than my dopey tatts.”
/some losers
Sebastian Maniscalco on tattoos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFHCdTZR7n0
“I don’t put bumper stickers on a Ferrari.”
I am stealing that for future use.
As a former Denver resident and frequenter of Red Rocks, I would venture a guess that this is intended to thin out some of the hippies that work there that may or may not be known for helping their buddies sneak into Phish/Dead concerts.
A change.org petition so you don’t have to dress like you’re at work while you’re at work? Go fuck yourself you self-important twits.
They’ll get it right, this time
Construction began today on the first true high-speed rail line in the US, which will connect Los Angeles suburbanites to the bright lights of Las Vegas, Nevada. Not only should the project enable people in the US to finally experience European and Asian standards of speedy passenger trains, it could also offer a commercial model for building high-speed rail lines elsewhere in the US.
A groundbreaking ceremony today in Las Vegas, attended by US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg alongside Nevada and California state officials, marked the official start of construction for the Brightline West project. With a targeted completion in four years – just in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles – Brightline West is expected to whisk passengers at speeds of up to 320 kilometres per hour down the median of the Interstate 15 highway, bypassing lines of cars stuck in weekend traffic jams.
The $12 billion project may seem like a bold gamble for Brightline and its owner, Fortress Investment Group, even with a $3 billion federal grant announced by President Joe Biden back in December 2023. But there are several reasons why Brightline West may succeed where other US high-speed rail projects have fallen behind.
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One lesson that US state rail authorities could learn from Brightline is to “value the cost of delay and indecision” by avoiding a lengthy planning phase, says Russell Jackson, global transit director at AECOM. And although Brightline’s approach focuses only on the most potentially profitable routes, he suggests that government funding can fill the gap for other cases.
“The public purse can be used for those projects that are still needed to connect city pairs that are a little bit too close together for airline travel and too far apart for cars,” says Jackson.
I’m sure those guys at EarthJustice and thr rest of the ecofascists will gladly forego twenty years of environmental impact lawsuits if Mayor Petey
asks them nicelybuys them off.down the median of the Interstate 15 highway
Which intersects/overlaps the San Andreas fault in Cajon Pass. WCPGW?
Any seismic derailments will, of course be blamed on GLOBAL WARMING(tm).
Probably racism and sexism too, given the Mormon history of that area.
This is one line that might actually work. Lots of empty space so most land will be cheap. Few stops and a destination people want to go to, not like Merced and Bakersfield.
On the LA to Vegas drive, the worst traffic is still the first 50-75 miles, which you still have to drive to get to the San Berdoo train station, unless the plan has been modified.
I’ve been stuck in bad traffic going through El Cajon pass and all the way back to Victorville. For that matter I got stuck in traffic somewhere around the state line because somebody walking on the freeway got hit by a car. Add a bar car on that train so people can start the party early, and I think it can be successful.
There is a commuter train to SB FWIW. Presumably it will connect to this one.
Construction began today on the first true high-speed rail line in the US,
Florida has one already, built by a private company.
https://www.gobrightline.com/
Not high-speed. Real high-speed tops out faster than that one’s 125mph and has certain other defined specs.
Yeah, he kinda needed to do this.
He’s still way ahead of our crew, post 9/11, post Afghanistan, etc, etc.
Democracy at work:
House Speaker’s Ukraine Aid Support Influenced by CIA Briefing: CNN
Okay, I’m here for the briefing. Why do you guys have baseball bats? And hey! Where did you get those pictures?
I saw the video. So gleeful. Waving flags. They didn’t have to be influenced. They really do believe they’re doing the right thing with other people’s money.
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The briefing left a lasting impression on Johnson, who became increasingly convinced that the fate of Western democracy was at stake, according to sources close to him.
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How? Why? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
And why can’t he explain to us why western democracy is at stake?
Because shut up that’s why.
fate of Western democracy == Pictures of him with dead girls and live boys.
Probably hd videos now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_letter
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The FBI–King suicide letter or blackmail package was an anonymous 1964 letter and package by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) meant to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr.[1]
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On November 21, 1964, a package that contained the letter and a tape recording allegedly of King’s sexual indiscretions was delivered to King’s address. Although the letter was anonymously written, Martin Luther King Jr. correctly suspected the FBI sent the package.[1][2] King’s wife Coretta Scott said the tapes comprised only “mumbo jumbo”.[3]
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During the Church Committee hearings and investigations in 1975, a copy of the “suicide letter” was discovered in the work files of William C. Sullivan, deputy FBI director.[5] He has been suggested as its author.[6][1]
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The text of the letter is as follows:
KING,
In view of your low grade, abnormal personal behavoir [sic] I will not dignify your name with either a Mr. or a Reverend or a Dr. And, your last name calls to mind only the type of King such as King Henry the VIII and his countless acts of adultery and immoral conduct lower than that of a beast.
King, look into your heart. You know you are a complete fraud and a great liability to all of us Negroes. White people in this country have enough frauds of their own but I am sure they don’t have one at this time that is any where near your equal. You are no clergyman and you know it. I repeat you are a colossal fraud and an evil, vicious one at that. You could not believe in God and act as you do. Clearly you don’t believe in any personal moral principles.
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It’s nonsense, he was just lying about it the whole time until he had a secure position and the meeting which he conveniently can’t relay the gist of provides good cover. He was probably much more concerned about what he heard in the meetings he had with his big MIC donors.
Alternative take: Johnson really was convinced by whatever the spooks offered. BUT, given the track record of the alphabet agencies over the last, say, 70 years, how about a little bit of doubt over what they say.
I wonder if the meeting consisted of them silently sliding a picture of JFK and RFK across the table and walking out.
Help Wanted
A huge crowd of faculty members who teach at Columbia University in New York held a mass walk-out on Monday afternoon to protest the institution having called police to arrest students at a pro-Palestinian encampment protest last week.
Hundreds of members of the teaching cohort at Columbia walked out in solidarity with the students who were arrested by the New York police department last week and also suspended by the university.
The solidarity protest came as students put protest tents back up in the middle of campus on Monday after they were torn down last week when more than 100 arrests were made.
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The Columbia and Barnard chapters of the American Association of University Professors decried Shafik’s crackdowns on protests in a joint statement released on Friday.
“We are shocked at her failure to mount any defense of the free inquiry central to the educational mission of a university in a democratic society and at her willingness to appease legislators seeking to interfere in university affairs,” the chapters said, adding that Shafik invoked a “unilateral and wildly disproportionate punishment [for] peacefully protesting students”.
Hire permanent replacements and tell the children to show up to class or deliver their withdrawal notices to the dean’s office.
Let’s be honest here. Columbia has a mid tier Ivy League antisemitic protest program at best.
Embarrassing.
Sean, you hear anything about a tran kid beating the shit out of some girl at a school up your way?
Only that it was with one of those Stanley tumblers.
I didn’t pay much attention.
News now reporting that the North Penn school authorities had ample notice that the trans kid, with a long juvie record, was going to beat up the victim in the cafeteria and did nothing to prevent or stop the attack. The authorities apparently got a real earful from parents at a meeting, but one dad was shouted down by a few audience members for being “transphobic.” He refused to apologize and said the issue wasn’t a boy beating up a girl but school authorities refusing to intervene.
Uffda. I am awaiting the other shoe to drop. Sorry, but after reading this story, I know something bad will come out soon in regards to Our Historic First Black Female Fire Captain who was selected by Our Historic All Female City Council. Why? Because I already doubt her veracity:
This allegedly happened after 2012 (when she started her career).
Sounds like a problem that would sort itself out.
Maybe. If I’m being generous. This was in 2012, if you had a patient who was 85 at the time, they would have been born in 1927. And if they have cognitive decline they may have reverted back to their early years when those kinds of beliefs would have been more prevalent.
My internet worked fine today from 8 to 1, then went down for 3 hours. I got frustrated and have now reset my wifi gizmo twice in the span of 15 minutes. It seems to be the only way to restore my internet. I’ve had to reset it hundreds of times in the past year, and I worried about wearing out the on/off button. Oddly, it came back to life on its own when I made a positive comment about mass surveillance around 4 pm eastern.
I figured out NSA was spying on me on March 28th, 2021. I wish they would either give me a job or leave me alone. It appears instead I will be under surveillance indefinitely. I made a meme about it: https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2024/04/nsa-meme-and-screensaver.html
The average NSA analyst makes $40/hour. Assuming 24/7 coverage, they’ve spent about $1,000/day spying on me. That works out to a grand total of about a million dollars. It’s a very unpleasant situation when you think something weird and illegal is happening, yet also feel pressured not to talk about it because you won’t be believed, or it might harm your reputation.
Those poor protesters were TARGETED for extra-special punishment! So sayeth Isra Hirsi (Ilhan’s kid) She points out that no one has punished the monsters who sprayed them with “chemical weapons”.
I guess the good news is that I can look forward to Isra becoming the new US Rep for that district once Ilhan retires.
What would be the over/under on earnings from an OnlyFans account where Isra and the Obama girls got naked and frolicked?
Isra did not get her mama’s good looks, so I doubt her OnlyFans account would do well.
She must look more like her fatheruncle who I can only assume looks a bit like Buckwheat.
Gah wtf dude
And why can’t he explain to us why western democracy is at stake?
I saw a couple of articles about the FISA renewal which hammered on about the desperate importance and necessity of Section 702 without offering the vaguest explanation of its purpose or function. I guess the Important People already know, and that’s all that matters.
Isra sounds like the Arabic word for faster. Makes sense. Akbar is sometimes used as a name, and it means greater or bigger. Ilhan is garbled from al-Khan, meaning the leader/boss. Hirsi means amulet in Arabic.
I was thinking she’s named after the famous modernist poet Isra Pound.
[polite applause]
Ezra means helper in Hebrew. Ebenezer means stone of help.
I’m thinking she might be named after the famous Middle Eastern country Isra El. Her parents are big fans of that country right?
Years ago, I heard it claimed on Arab TV that Al-Baghdadi was a Mossad agent named Shimon Elliot. If CIA was smart, they’d spread a rumor just like what you came up with. Antisemites everywhere fell for the ISIS-Mossad story.
https://veteranstoday.com/2019/10/28/the-strange-case-of-baghdadi-was-he-the-jewish-head-of-a-mossad-run-isis/
You are interesting.
Agile Cyborg|10.8.14 @ 9:13PM|#
You seem very interesting.
Warty|3.9.15 @ 2:00PM|#
You are truly a monster.
What did you say for the monster thing? lol
The song The Impression that I Get by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones was quoted. I noted that it was on the soundtrack of Krippendorf’s Tribe, which I called the greatest comedy of the 90s. This provoked Warty’s reaction above.
It’s a great movie for driving progs crazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yZ2AKzt4IE
Since Swissy is otherwise occupied, he might pass over puns like that.
So many people fail to understand the Russian mentality that has already been demonstrated. They don’t care about casualties, at least not nearly as much as NATO countries. They will march every able-bodied man like a brood of cicadas into Ukrainian defenses if they must. In a war of attrition, the larger side is bound to win. The only question left is how many more people will get killed.
Speaking of cicadas, I recently learned why their life cycle is a prime number of years. By emerging all at once on such a schedule, they overwhelm their predators and keep the life cycles of those predators from synching up with theirs. Math shows up in nature in odd ways.
So many people fail to understand the Russian mentality that has already been demonstrated.
I thought hat was pretty well established in Stalingrad.
And Tannenberg. And Borodino. And Narva. And…they don’t care. Patriotism is real over there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGoNaLjQrV8
And when Napoleon invaded Russia, with winter coming on.
“Trump strategized with Lindsey Graham and other GOP Senators to pass Ukraine funding, the Wall Street Journal reports, which led to the adoption of Trump’s fake “loan” proposal in the final legislation. “Payback is contingent on defeating Russia.”
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1782421500609380668
Well I’m done with him…looks like he hasn’t learned a Goddamn thing.
Also when he says we will be paid back he doesn’t mean us does he?
He doesn’t mean us in any sense because without our direct involvement Ukraine’s going to lose and with our direct involvement we all lose. But seriously, conspiring with one of the most repulsive sack of shit warmongers to ever get into office to send our money over there when his base is dead set against is just retarded, there’s just no other way to look at it. What idiot’s advising him, just damn…
Hard to believe that Obama’s Admin had the clearest understanding of everything wrong with our foreign policy establishment (aka the Blob).
Wait a minute, I heard on good authority that Trump is pro-Putin.
Someone offered Trump a piece of the pie. He needs the cash.
Eh, Trump’s always been an opportunist, kind of like Romney, except more aggressive and entertaining.
He caved on Covid, now he’s caved on Ukraine. Disappointing, but I’ll still take him over Biden.
I’ll take him over Biden all day, just damned if I’ll vote for him.
A respectable position. You probably live in a state that allows write-in candidates. If so, please consider voting for me. I can’t possibly be worse than the other two.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2024/02/my-2024-presidential-campaign.html
Worst own goal of the EFL season? https://youtu.be/5zVreF7Kuz8?si=PwxWRcioyP6M6_HI&t=730
Wicked, wicked bounce.
Same game, same keeper: https://youtu.be/5zVreF7Kuz8?si=0TqdcMUpkwNBP53u&t=119
Biden flies in jet to survey devastation supposedly from “climate [sic]”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PG9O3mAc8o
‘Ukraine is not anymore sovereign state’, says Hungary’s Orban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LqxzeUZqTk
Hard to disagree with that. Ukraine relies on the US and EU for its budget and military, so it’s functionally a protectorate.
If Raytheon et al can benefit from it, there’s very little stopping the US from sticking its dick into every bowl of mashed potatoes around the world.
Cutting military spending would help somewhat, but good luck getting either team to vote for that.