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-Obits-
Darwin visits Biwabik, Minnesota
A horrible way to die.
[NYP] A Minnesota man who was found dead inside the freezer of an empty home last month was on the run from authorities and likely jumped in the icebox to hide from cops, police believe.

Brandon Lee Buschman, 34, was discovered in a chest freezer in the basement of the unoccupied home on June 26 after he apparently tried to evade cops who were in the area, police said Friday.

The Babbitt resident had an active warrant for his arrest, and police suspect he jumped into the freezer of his own accord to hide but became trapped inside.

The chest freezer is an older model with a latching mechanism on the outside of the freezer, according to the Gilbert Police Department, which contracts with the city of Biwabik where the death happened.

"When closed, the freezer is not capable of being pushed open from inside," police said in a news release.

The freezer wasn’t working when he went inside because no utilities have been connected to the home since April 2022.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Colorado woman, 26, dies after 500-foot fall while free solo climbing at Rocky Mountain National Park

Oldie but goodie:

"I want to die like my grandfather, in my sleep.
Not screaming like the passengers in his car."
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2023 11:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I would probably save and skip buying a coffin for him. Just saying. Might need a couple of cans of black spray paint depending. If it’s silver, I would let it ride.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/11/2023 13:00 Comments || Top||

#3  The cops have him on ice.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 07/11/2023 13:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Hogan!! The Cooler...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/11/2023 14:30 Comments || Top||

#5  As I see it, the recently deceased was successful in his bid to evade the cops and escape the clutches of the criminal justice system and therefore, should be awarded points. The fact that he died in the process seems incidental to his escape. Can we get a ruling from the judges?
Posted by: SteveS || 07/11/2023 23:08 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Air Force Academy Instructional Materials Include Presentations on Critical Race Theory, White Privilege, and Black Lives Matter – Attacks American ‘Creation Myth' of the Declaration of Independence
(Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch announced today that it received 478 pages of records from the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), a component of the United States Department of Defense, which includes instructional materials and emails that address topics such as Critical Race Theory, "white privilege," and Black Lives Matter.

Judicial Watch obtained these records as the result of a November 2022 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the Defense Department failed to respond to a request for Air Force Academy training material records on Critical Race Theory (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Defense (No. 1:22-cv-03510)).

The records include a PowerPoint presentation titled "Political Psychology, Lessons 32-33: Prejudice and Racism." On a slide labeled "Race and Partisanship" is a bullet stating: "Opposition to interracial dating correlated with white partisanship after Obama’s election despite being unrelated to party identification in previous decades."

The presentation includes a set of tables with the headline "White Americans’ Support for Democratic Candidates for President as a Function of Old-Fashioned Racism." Another slide depicts tables which purport to show "Correlations between Republican Party Identification and Old-Fashioned Racism among White Americans."

A slide titled "Racialization of Public Policy" includes a bullet stating "They [pollsters] found that the image of a black man greatly impacted responses among Trump supporters." The next bullet asserts:

After exposed to the black racial cue, Trump voters:

Were less supportive of housing assistance programs

Expressed higher levels of anger that some people receive government assistance

Were more likely to say that individuals who receive assistance are to blame for their economic situation.

Another slide purports to show a chart depicting "White Identity among White Americans," with the subtitle "How Important Is Being White to Your Identity?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2023 06:51 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A four year 'taxpayer funded' WOKETHON preparing America's future leaders and decision makers.

(sarc off)
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2023 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, maybe when the gummint sends its F-16s to take care of us uppity AR-15 owners that won't go so well for the woke.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/11/2023 7:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Worse than I thought! The rot is deep, and mid-career I suspect the weeding out of conservatives is already underway.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/11/2023 11:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Academic content has credited authors, no?
Help them join the long lines of job hunters.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2023 11:46 Comments || Top||

#5  I will have to ask Santa for a new copy of Reef Points for some holiday comic relief.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/11/2023 13:09 Comments || Top||

#6  That's how you create camaraderie and a band of brothers in today's military -- by teaching all to envy, resent and hate your fellow classmates.
Posted by: Regular joe || 07/11/2023 17:38 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Busted - 24 Chinese hypersonic missiles can sink USS Gerald R Ford strike force
[YouTube] Taiwan has dismissed China's claim that it could sink the US Navy's most advanced aircraft carrier strike group.

This assertion seems to be part of an effort to bolster public confidence and counter ongoing Chinese intimidation tactics.

A research paper published in May by scholars affiliated with the People's Liberation Army-backed North University of China claimed that a war game demonstrated the capability of sinking a flotilla led by the USS Gerald R Ford with 24 hypersonic anti-ship missiles with absolute certainty.
Everything is possible in theory, even if the probability is less than 1%. Real life is a different story.
This marked the first public disclosure of a Chinese simulation involving hypersonic strikes on a US aircraft carrier. The simulation is thought to have utilized Dongfeng-21D and Dongfeng-26 ballistic missiles, commonly referred to as "carrier killers" due to their intended targeting of mobile naval vessels.

This was reported by SCMP or South China Morning Post.

Viewers can check the video on the above card to get details of the Chinese simulation.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  So now we know what that model built in the desert was for. That's serious gaming commitment.

China Builds Missile Targets Shaped Like U.S. Aircraft Carrier, Destroyers in Remote Desert
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2023 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Can the Theater US Forces survive The 6 Hour War™? IMO the CCP will throw the proverbial 'kitchen sink' at the US forces. They will be smart, they will be cunning and they will have wargamed it for years. Remember the Egyptian Army crossing the Suez Canal in 1973? That degree of planning.

After the first day the US forces will get to show their mettle.
Posted by: magpie || 07/11/2023 0:54 Comments || Top||


#4  Remember the Egyptian Army crossing the Suez Canal in 1973?

Ouch, magpie. That was an exceedingly effective bit of communication.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2023 1:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Did they calculate when someone pushes 'the button' making it all meaningless in the end?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/11/2023 8:18 Comments || Top||

#6  The only winning move is not to play

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2023 11:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Somewhere in the plot of every Tom Clancy novel is the hot new item that fails to perform, while some used-up submarine or a discontinued missile found in the back of the warehouse saves the day.

Yes, it's fiction, but compelling because real life is full of exactly those kinds of unexpected twists.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/11/2023 11:26 Comments || Top||

#8  And in the end the Egyptians got their ass kicked.
Posted by: Albert Untervehr4453 || 07/11/2023 14:48 Comments || Top||


Europe
World's Newest ‘Military Behemoth' Could Parade Its Latest Tanks, Drones, Howitzers On 15th August Parade
[Eurasian Times] With Poland meticulously working to strengthen its military force and emerging as the next big military powerhouse in the European continent, it is geared to display its cutting-edge weaponry at the next month’s annual military parade.

The parade, conducted to commemorate the country’s Armed Forces Day on August 15, will display the state-of-the-art military systems that the forces have acquired recently, the Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak announced in the capital Warsaw last week.

According to the Polish media and a video posted online by the Polish Ministry of Defense (MoD), Błaszczak said: "Strong White and Red" — this is the motto of this year’s celebrations #WojskoPolskie. From August 12 to 15, picnics with the participation of soldiers will be organized, and a military parade will take place in Warsaw on August 15."
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Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They could be paraded on trains, to the front.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2023 12:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Poland has ample reason to guard both the Russian and German borders.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 07/11/2023 13:29 Comments || Top||

#3  ...actually, its the Germans who should be concerned on that front.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/11/2023 15:30 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Congressman Believes Secret Service Has Identified White House Cocaine Suspect
[WIRE] Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) of the House Oversight Committee said during an interview Monday that he believes that the U.S. Secret Service has identified someone as a suspect in the case involving cocaine that was found last week in the White House.

Fallon told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum that he spoke with law enforcement officials in his home state how long it should take for fingerprints to be taken off the baggie that had the cocaine and he was told it should be within an hour.

"If there was no fingerprints, they could have told us immediately," he said. "So, I suspect there are fingerprints, and you can run it through a database, and this was found where high level aides and staffers are, so most of them were fingerprinted at one time or another, so they may very well already know who it belongs to and aren’t sharing with us and that’s my greatest concern and worry."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2023 00:16 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Congressman Believes Secret Service Has Identified White House Cocaine Suspect

So does everyone else.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2023 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  The real question is will they ever reveal it?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/11/2023 0:28 Comments || Top||


#4  So who will be the later well rewarded Fall☺Pronoun☺?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/11/2023 7:35 Comments || Top||

#5  I'll take JFK assassination classified documents release for $600 Alex.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2023 7:42 Comments || Top||

#6  So who will be...

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2023 11:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Skidmark, was that absolutely necessary? Couldn't you find a picture of her in handcuffs?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/11/2023 12:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Is the stall, assuming it is Hunter or linked to supplying Hunter, about the Plea deal being in danger if this is him? If it is relevant, even on just a moral turpitude basis, are we finally approaching "a bridge too far" territory for this waning abomination of grifters?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/11/2023 13:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Milder and Scully have been temporarily reassigned from their J6 pipe bomb case.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/11/2023 13:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Mulder
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/11/2023 15:05 Comments || Top||

#11  "The Secret Service confirmed last week that the white powdery substance, which was found last Sunday, was, in fact, cocaine after it underwent multiple rounds of lab testing."


S/S: Is it still coming up as "cocaine?"
Lab Techie: Yes, it is still coming up as "cocaine."
S/S: Run it through again...

(After many additional rounds of testing)S/S: "Aw Crap!"
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/11/2023 16:27 Comments || Top||

#12  Ms. Besoeker and I just returned from seeing "Sound of Freedom" Should be mandatory viewing for all members of congress. While no mention of it in the movie, anyone with an IQ above room temp should be able to make the parallels btwn the movie island and Epstein's island getaway.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2023 16:40 Comments || Top||

#13  The nation's leadership is evil, and the ones that aren't evil are venal, meaning they will go along to get along.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/11/2023 16:42 Comments || Top||

#14  /\ Yes, a vile, despicable lot, almost to the man or rather person. Not certain what we have done to deserve such disgusting rabble.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2023 16:52 Comments || Top||

#15  The Founders understood that the only way to keep a gummint from doing a lot of harm was to keep it as small as possible. Every move to expand it was a vote for more evil.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/11/2023 17:00 Comments || Top||

#16  From Diet Coke, to Diet of Coke.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/11/2023 18:57 Comments || Top||

#17  Why Abu, what are you thinking?
You're welcome to post your own memes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2023 23:49 Comments || Top||


Israeli professor who claims to have given evidence to the FBI about Biden family corruption is charged by DOJ with arms trafficking and Iran sanctions violations - as he remains on the run
[MAIL] The US Justice Department on Monday unsealed arms trafficking and other charges violations charges against an Israeli professor and potential star witness who claims he has evidence of the Biden family's corrupt businesses

Gal Luft,
...co-director of a Washington, DC-based non-profit think tank focusing on global energy security issues, he holds both Israeli and American citizenships. He reached lieutenant colonel when he served in the IDF. Nothing in these descriptors makes me think of arms dealer, particularly to Libya, China, and the UAE, which much have their own longstanding suppliers for such things...
57, was arrested in February on eight counts of working secretly for China, attempting to broker the sale of arms to Libya, Kenya and the UAE without the necessary US permits, and selling Iranian oil to China in violation of sanctions.

He was detained in Cyprus but fled while free on bail.

His whereabouts are unknown, but on Monday the indictment against him was unsealed.

Luft claims he has information about the Biden family's business with people linked to Chinese military intelligence. He was a potential witness for the US House committee investigating wrongdoings by Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden.

The status of his potential testimony is not known now that Biden's DOJ has announced charges against the think-tank leader.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dealing in Cluster Bombs was he ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2023 0:03 Comments || Top||



#4  Given the current state of relations between the Puppet Show and Israel, the safest place for this guy is probably Bibi's Guest House?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/11/2023 11:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Let me be the first to say Gal Luft did not kill himself.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/11/2023 11:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, that certainly is convenient.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/11/2023 12:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Usually think tank guys are not good at sales - different skill set.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/11/2023 13:03 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
China Balks as South Korea, Japan Leaders Plan to Attend NATO Summit
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2023 05:12 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Is China the Ticketmaster for the event?
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/11/2023 13:07 Comments || Top||


Turkey agrees to back Swedish NATO bid: Stoltenberg
[IsraelTimes] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
’s President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
has agreed to forward Sweden’s application to join NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
to his parliament for approval, the alliance’s head Jens Stoltenberg says.

After talks in Vilnius with Erdogan and Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Stoltenberg says Turkey agreed to move forward, declaring: "This is a historic day."
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  So giving up Syria to Turkish settlements had nothing to do with it?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2023 12:44 Comments || Top||

#2  I think they said that Sweden can join NATO as soon as Turkey is allied into the EU.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/11/2023 13:01 Comments || Top||

#3  To what end does Turkey want to settle part of Syria? Other than creating an terrorist free buffer zone on their common border.
Posted by: jpal || 07/11/2023 17:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Other than their own terrorists? Turkey has no claim to purity
Posted by: Frank G || 07/11/2023 19:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Other than creating an terrorist free buffer zone on their common border.

The idea started out as a place to dump the millions of anti-Assad Syrian refugees currently living in Turkish cities, jpal.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2023 21:33 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Rev. Al Sharpton's pastor brother is jailed for 30 months for drug trafficking, income tax evasion and lying to obtain Social Security benefits
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Grifting begins in the home
  • Pastor Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow, 58, the half-brother of the civil rights leader, was sentenced to more than two years behind bars on Thursday

  • He pleaded guilty to stealing $407,000 from two non-profit organizations he founded The Ordinary People Society and the Prodigal Child Project

  • Jim Parkman, one of Glasgow's defense attorneys, told The Christian Post it was 'a fair sentence'
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2023 00:40 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Apparently, Al didn't teach him well.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/11/2023 11:24 Comments || Top||

#2  The books for the Prodigal Child Project must be a sight to behold.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/11/2023 13:06 Comments || Top||



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