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-Great Cultural Revolution
Kamala Harris Frustrated with Media for Ignoring Her ‘Depth and Thought'
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/06/2021 13:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Replacement planning team?

Democrat Women Gather in D.C. to Discuss Kamala Harris Media Crisis
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/06/2021 13:19 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Hilary! at least had a certain brutal competence.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/06/2021 14:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Decency prevents me from snarking on "Her depth of what?", but I honestly was expecting the Bee.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/06/2021 15:12 Comments || Top||

#4  With apologies to MAD magazine years back: "We're helping her articulate her innermost thoughts. Because her outermost thoughts are all stupid."
Posted by: Tom || 08/06/2021 16:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Bitch you have the depth of a teaspoon.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/06/2021 16:28 Comments || Top||

#6  I wonder, do her parents have any other children?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/06/2021 16:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Maya Harris, who is another example of mediocrity:
Maya Lakshmi Harris (born January 30, 1967) is an American lawyer, public policy advocate, and writer. Harris was one of three senior policy advisors for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign's policy agenda and she also served as chair of Kamala Harris's, her older sister, presidential campaign.[1]

Harris was born in Champaign–Urbana, Illinois, and was educated at Bishop O'Dowd High School, the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. She was involved with PolicyLink, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Center for American Progress.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/06/2021 16:52 Comments || Top||

#8  ^Gracias. I asked because I was told once by somebody who ought to know that her mother was a good biochemist.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/06/2021 17:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Harris' paralinquistics belay deception at nearly every turn. The body language, the filler words (um, like, so, ya know, sorta), the cackling brain re-load. The 'baby kiss' pucker at the graphic, yet another example.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2021 17:38 Comments || Top||

#10  do her parents have any other children?

"...and this is my other sister, Kamala"
Snark O'The Day (early evening)
Posted by: SteveS || 08/06/2021 17:52 Comments || Top||

#11  Decency prevents me from
I was going to write "I hear Stormy Daniels has the same depth complaint", but thought better of it.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/06/2021 20:03 Comments || Top||


Denver spends far more on homelessness per person than K-12 students, veterans affairs: reports
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/06/2021 00:24 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are you telling me that social worker union stronger than teachers' union?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/06/2021 3:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Are you telling me that social worker union stronger than teachers' union?

Schools in America have local governing boards that at least monitors spending. Not like state/federal spending.
Posted by: badanov || 08/06/2021 6:37 Comments || Top||

#3  spending it doesn't mean it's going anywhere but a politician or friend-of-a-politician's pocket
Posted by: Retard Strength || 08/06/2021 6:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Because everyone knows the next Einstein, Salk or Jarvik is a homeless person waiting for just the right moment to get their life together...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/06/2021 16:26 Comments || Top||


Ayaan Hirsi Ali fears curriculum will teach children to 'hate each other''
[FOXNEWS] Somali-Dutch scholar and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali did not mince words regarding her feelings about Critical Race Theory

...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites and Asians are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense...
in an interview with Fox News, calling it a "nihilistic" practice that will teach children to "hate" one another.

Ali is concerned about America's trend toward "wokeness," which she said is all about stoking division.

"It divides us into people of different races and it says that these racial differences are irreconcilable and then divisions along gender, along transgender, along immigrants colonists ... It sees no reconciliation, no coming together unless the people that they describe as eternal victims, black people, people of color, women, transgender people, unless they unite to destroy and dismantle our existing institutions. It's a very nihilistic, zero-sum game. It's the worst philosophy I've ever come across," Ali said.
Posted by: Fred || 08/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Biden will sign executive order pushing for half of all vehicles electric by 2030 at White House event with Ford and GM executives - but NO Elon Musk
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's a totally genius plan! I only have one question:
a) Where are you going to charge the electric vehicles?
b) What are you going to charge them with?

Yeah, I know that is two questions, but arithmetic is not a strong point with this crowd. As you can see by the fact that no one is talking about these questions.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/06/2021 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  I can't wait for all of the lithium ion car battery fires.
Posted by: Raj || 08/06/2021 0:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Where are you going to charge the electric vehicles?

They'll have some slaves enemies of the people undergoing their rehabilitation sentence turn dynamo wheels.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/06/2021 2:30 Comments || Top||

#4  City folk that never have to travel far beyond their bubbles.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/06/2021 6:14 Comments || Top||


#6  And other factors for the EV Mindset Folks

EVs Cost 1.6 To 2.3 Times More To Service Than Internal Combustion Vehicles, New Study Shows
Posted by: Cruck Glutle9447 || 08/06/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||

#7 

#6 And other factors for the EV Mindset Folks

EVs Cost 1.6 To 2.3 Times More To Service Than Internal Combustion Vehicles, New Study Shows
Posted by: Cruck Glutle9447 2021-08-06 09:23


Keep in mind that for this crowd, that's a feature, not a bug - if people can't afford the repairs, they won't drive.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/06/2021 9:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Not to mention there isn't enough lithium in the world to build all the batteries and the environmental problems with disposing of worn out batteries
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/06/2021 10:12 Comments || Top||

#9  "Well, we will have to switch to di-lithium crystals, like the original Tesla was suppose to have in them" - Elon Musk - Star Trek Time Traveler

Posted by: Elmeger Chains2396 || 08/06/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||

#10 

A Junta Order to rescinded 2024 or sooner.

Because the US Constitution does not give him the power to mandate such items or issues.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/06/2021 15:49 Comments || Top||

#11 

BTW: ever seen an Electric Car fire.
My son is a Fireman in the Metro-Atlanta area says it can take hours and produces a lot of Bio-Hazard issues.

Question: How many new Nuke Plants does the USSA Junta plan to build to support the enormous power drain this will cause to the already over taxed power grids on the West Coast and Northeastern seaboard?

Note: It takes about 8-10 years to plan, get approval, build and test a Nuke Power generator before use..

So they better have started back 2020.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/06/2021 16:00 Comments || Top||

#12  This is an example of why we should be happy that our leaders have the attention span of a gnat. This will all long be forgotten by 2032.

Just go back to 2000 or so and look at all the "mandates" to be accomplished by 2020.
Posted by: Tom || 08/06/2021 16:10 Comments || Top||

#13  ...not to be confused by our Founding Fathers who remembered to implement at the earliest possible date permitted in the Constitution to ban further importation of slaves.

In 1807, the U.S. Congress passed a statute prohibiting the importation of slaves as of the first constitutionally-allowable moment of January 1, 1808. This act was signed by President Jefferson and entered into force in 1808, rendering this part of the Constitution irrelevant except as a historical curiosity. (or a bludgeon to blame later generations for something they never did in their lifetimes)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/06/2021 16:16 Comments || Top||

#14  Someone will make an electric golf cart that counts as a car and people will buy them for a few thousand to make the GIVERnment feel like they are being helpful.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/06/2021 19:03 Comments || Top||

#15 
Biden Is Off His Rocker - Just "GDnuts"


Posted by: Dino Ebbolet9447 || 08/06/2021 19:54 Comments || Top||

#16  #2..Chevy Volt is still catching fire...back several months we nick named it the Chevy Toaster"...
Just love lighting off my 69 Corvette ZZ502...
Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/06/2021 21:51 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Cori Bush Defends Private Security: ‘My Body is Worth Being on This Planet Right Now'
"I've got a face like a dog that successfully chased parked cars, but..."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/06/2021 05:06 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Depends on who you talk with and what you say, really. And it's only your opinion.
Others may have a different opinion on your pronouncements.

I believe you Cori Bush, should be a gardener, Pushin' Up Daisies.



Posted by: Ulemble Ulaith6815 || 08/06/2021 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  ^1. What he said.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 08/06/2021 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Her body can remain on the planet. It's state of animation should be up for discussion, however...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/06/2021 8:31 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^^
Marvelous Ricochet
Posted by: Clumble Guelph9896 || 08/06/2021 8:40 Comments || Top||

#5  I'll bet even the planet will heave a sigh of relief once it has safely consumed you, Cori. You and that other humongous arsed piece of Wakandan trash in Georgia.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/06/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#6  I have no problem with that, as long as I can be permitted to select the planet.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2021 9:27 Comments || Top||

#7  The "logic" here seems to be that Rep Bush requires private security so she can defund the police.

Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/06/2021 9:42 Comments || Top||

#8  I'll bet even the planet will heave a sigh of relief

Geologists call that isostatic rebound
Posted by: SteveS || 08/06/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Where does the $200,000 come from to pay private security?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/06/2021 11:32 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Hopefully out of funds that would otherwise go to other dem candidates.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/06/2021 12:03 Comments || Top||

#11  No it isn't
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/06/2021 16:28 Comments || Top||

#12  ‘My Body is Worth Being on This Planet Right Now'

V-2001DVDcover.jpg
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/06/2021 17:30 Comments || Top||

#13  I'm tired of her sucking up so much gravity.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/06/2021 20:06 Comments || Top||

#14  Her body is worth 39 cents a pound to the Purina company. Maybe.
Posted by: Grunter || 08/06/2021 22:26 Comments || Top||

#15  Nah... Purina prefers not to poison its customers...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/06/2021 22:33 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
DOJ inspector general cannot identify FBI leaks regarding Clinton server in lead-up to 2016 election
[FoxNews] The report found no evidence FBI personnel leaked information to Rudy Giuliani.

A yearslong investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general revealed that numerous FBI employees had "substantial" media contacts prior to the 2016 presidential election, but it could not determine who leaked sensitive information to reporters.

The 10-page report issued Thursday by Inspector General Michael Horowitz said that while FBI policies strictly limit the employees who are authorized to speak to the media, those rules "appeared to be widely ignored" in 2016.

The new findings expand upon the investigative work included in a June 2018 report entitled the "Review of Allegations Regarding Various Actions by the Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Advance of the 2016 Election (2016 pre-election report)."

The IG report reads in part: "Among the issues we reviewed in that report were allegations that FBI employees improperly disclosed non-public information regarding the FBI’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. The FBI has a strict policy that limits the number of employees who are authorized to speak with the media, and requires approval for any others.

"We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters," it continues.

The IG stated that it "determined this information from reviewing FBI records and through forensic examination of FBI electronic devices," including text message communications and phone records that did not reflect the "substance" of communication. However, the IG did not seek a court order to compel service providers to produce personal email communications

"The large number of FBI employees who were in contact with journalists during this time period impacted our ability to identify the sources of leaks. For example, during the periods we reviewed, we identified dozens of FBI employees that had contact with members of the media."

The report said its ability to identify the leakers was also hampered by that the fact that in some instances, more than 100 employees had access to the sensitive information that was leaked.

The report detailed three senior officials who had numerous unauthorized contact with media between January and November 2916, including unauthorized social engagements, such as drinks and dinners, which violated FBI policy. In addition, the IG referred six employees at FBI headquarters to the FBI for it to determine whether their media contacts warrant disciplinary or other corrective action.

The IG report also found no evidence FBI personnel leaked any sensitive information to Rudy Giuliani about the Hillary Clinton email server investigation.

Giuliani claimed days before the 2016 election that Trump had some "pretty big surprises" he was prepared to reveal. Two days after that statement then-FBI Director James Comey announced the bureau was reopening its Clinton email probe.

The IG's office confirmed they spoke directly with Giuliani, saying in the report: "As a result of the content and timing of these public statements by Giuliani suggesting that current or former FBI personnel may have provided non-public investigative information to him, the OIG contacted Giuliani, who agreed to appear for a voluntary interview."

Giuliani told the IG: "[Director] Comey’s statements were a shock to me. I had no foreknowledge of any of them."

The report continues, "He also said he had not been in contact with any active FBI agents in October 2016, and stated that he had only spoken with former agents who did not have any direct or indirect knowledge of FBI investigations in October 2016, and that the extent of his conversations with former agents was "gossip" about Comey’s decision-making in 2016."

Since the 2016 pre-election report, the IG states that the FBI has taken steps to improve the FBI’s procedures and "cultural attitude" and "disciplinary penalties" regarding unauthorized contacts with the media.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Um, I think they mean 'won't identify FBI leaks'; call me fussy...
Posted by: Raj || 08/06/2021 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Same as their reluctance or refusal to identify recruited FBI intelligence sources. However, an initial clue might read something like this:

"Suspect was on the FBI's radar."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2021 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  DOJ inspector general cannot identify FBI leaks regarding Clinton server in lead-up to 2016 election

File under professional courtesy
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/06/2021 6:12 Comments || Top||

#4 
Agree with RAJ and
Also ask if the IG found FBI policies strictly limiting employees who are authorized to speak to the media were widely ignored" in 2016.

Then why haven't we also read of FBI resignations and terminations for doing so?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/06/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Well you know here at the Bureau (the most professional law enforcement establishment in the world), we have bad leaks and then we have those good not so bad leaks.

We really can't be expected to rack & stack them and make our methods them public knowledge now can we ?

Top men, all top men.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2021 9:25 Comments || Top||

#6  In other words, the report says: "Forget about FBI leaks and Hillary's illegal server, there's nothing to see here."
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/06/2021 11:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Every single agent should be required by name to explain the contacts, and the reporters should be cited as possible FBI sources. How long would such a disclosure take to end the practice?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/06/2021 13:27 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ The current FBI domestic intelligence tactics were successful for the Nazi until 8 May 1945.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2021 18:00 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Senate's $1trilllion infrastructure bill would require alcohol monitors in all cars to prevent drunk driving and back seat alerts to stop hot car child deaths
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Assume Pelosi already has a designated driver.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 08/06/2021 2:07 Comments || Top||

#2  What a waste of money.
Posted by: Wren || 08/06/2021 3:41 Comments || Top||

#3  And a pony!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/06/2021 6:15 Comments || Top||

#4  "Coz the points don't count and the rules don't matter!"
Posted by: badanov || 08/06/2021 6:34 Comments || Top||

#5  One simple device is all that's need to "solve" these problems in automobiles - drunk drivers, hot car deaths (its not just children) and STP (Sudden Tesla Pyrotechnics).

Behold the Solution !



That's Right - Sprinkler Systems Inside and Out !

Think About It ...

Drunks Get Soaked !
Children Get Cooled !
Tesla s Get Remediation Until the 6 Alarm Fire Brigade Arrives on Scene !

Fixed it for You and You are Welcome.
Posted by: Ulemble Ulaith6815 || 08/06/2021 6:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Nanny state.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/06/2021 6:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Got anything in that bill for monitors to monitor creepy guys who display their junk to female SS agents and molest little girls?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/06/2021 11:19 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2021-08-06
  Jihadists kill 30 in north Burkina Faso, says official
Thu 2021-08-05
  Israel moves cyber sabotage units to UAE to turn Persian Gulf into crisis hub
Wed 2021-08-04
  375 Taliban killed in past 24 hours: MoD
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  Possible 'Mine Attack' Incident In Gulf Waters
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