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"Well, we tried to employ one with a PhD in Mathematics*. We even put up with her going around telling programmers that Math is Eurocentric. But then she started started telling them not to play Warcraft because it's racist (orcs clearly represent African-Americans). Programmers become upset & their productivity went down. So we had to let her go.
*Mathematical education actually, but beggars can't be choosers."
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Take every last cent from those 10 moguls and give it to the black community. I'm sure that'll fix everything.
It'll make me laugh if nothing else as those guys will be super-rich in a year and you'll see zero change in the black community for the effort because just moving money around doesn't help.
[FOXNEWS] Seattle police are investigating after "several bags" of human remains were found on a beach Friday, authorities said.
Officers responded to a call of a suspicious bag on the shoreline of Elliot Bay in West Seattle, police said in a statement. Police searched the area and found a second bag floating in the water nearby.
"There was a police boat and an inflatable boat and they had a hook and they took black plastic bags out," Steven Buty, who lives nearby, told KOMO News. "I saw them take two bags."
Once authorities determined the bags held human remains, police said detectives were called to the scene to start their investigation.
It was unclear if the remains were male or female, or if they belonged to more than one person. Police have not said whether the bags were dumped on the beach or were brought in by the tide.
Harbor Patrol is assisting in the investigation, and detectives are working with the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, the statement said.
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"It appears somebody committed suicide, dismembered themselves, placed the remains in several bags and dumped them in the water. It's a 'working theory', but yeah. Suicide.."
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With all the disturbances in Seattle, Planned Parenthood had a problem with disposal?
[STARTRIBUNE] The shock of a mass shooting in Uptown that left one man dead and 11 other people maimed had barely subsided Monday when multiple shootings elsewhere in the city swelled the number oonef casualties.
On Monday, the day three separate afternoon shootings on the North Side left nine people injured, Mayor Jacob Frey announced details behind a multiagency effort to quell the bloodshed that has persisted over the past several weeks.
Joining the Minneapolis Police Department will be virtually every law enforcement agency within reach: the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, Metro Transit police, and federal authorities from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the FBI and the Secret Service, according to the mayor.
"The violence and lawlessness that we’ve seen the last few days is not acceptable in any form," Frey said. "Residents, businesses and all that choose to be in Minneapolis for any reason deserve to feel safe."
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo declined to reveal how the other agencies will interact with his department, but he said it would include being a visible presence as well as providing intelligence.
Arradondo, the city’s first black police chief, made a point to remind the public that many of the gunshot victims "are members of the African-American community ... young men. Their lives are not disposable. This cannot become our new normal."
Police say 111 people have been shot in the four weeks since George Floyd was killed in an encounter with four Minneapolis coppers, setting up widespread civil unrest. Arradondo said he does not believe the Uptown shooting had any connection to Floyd’s death.
In the meantime, police front man John Elder said "we are making good headway" in the Uptown investigation.
There was no preliminary word on a motive or even how many shooters were involved in sparking the chaos while the area was bustling with activity now that bars and restaurants have loosened customer limitations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monday afternoon saw police at three scenes of gunfire. Shortly after 2:30 p.m., ShotSpotter technology recorded the sound of 41 rounds at N. 16th and Newton avenues, police said. One person went to the hospital at death's door, while three others came away with noncritical wounds. Then shortly after 4 p.m., four people suffered gunshot wounds in a commercial stretch in the 600 block of W. Broadway. Another person was injured by gunfire shortly before 7 p.m. at 25th Ave and 4th Street.
Two people were also stabbed, one fatally, in the 500 block of Nicollet downtown Monday afternoon.
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"The violence and lawlessness that we’ve seen the last few days is not acceptable in any form," Frey said.
Seemed to have tolerated a lot of it so far. You get what you tolerate. All your actions so far have shown you have absolutely no idea what you are doing nor what reality is.
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The solution is obvious. Pay a copyright fee and rename the Minneapolis Police Department to the Minneapolis Planned Parenthood Agency. Then no one will care how many Blacks (or any other ethnic/racial group) are terminated.
[PAGESIX] Porn star Ron Jeremy ... who looks like a potato with a mustache...
has been criminally charged in a series of sex attacks, which he allegedly committed on women he met in the Hollywood area over the past six years, the Los Angeles County district attorney announced Tuesday.
The 63-year-old smut film legend was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles County Superior Court on three counts each of forcible rape and forcible penetration by a foreign object, and one count each of forcible oral copulation and sexual battery, officials said. ... plus mounting a German shepherd, two sea bass, and a plow horse...
The counts against Jeremy, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, include the alleged rape of a 30-year-old woman at a West Hollywood bar in July 2019, according to the Los Angeles DA’s Office.
Two years earlier, Jeremy allegedly sexually assaulted two women, ages 33 and 46, at the same bar, court papers charge.
In May 2014, he allegedly raped a 25-year-old woman at a home in West Hollywood, officials said.
Jeremy has been dogged by sexual misconduct allegations, with more than a dozen women having publicly accused him of sexual assault. The Los Angeles DA previously said the office was investigating the allegations.
In 2018, Kristin Brodie, then 22, sued Jeremy in Washington state for allegedly sexually assaulting her during an event at a Tacoma sex shop the previous year, People magazine reported.
Brodie, who was working at the event as a promotional model for a Seattle radio station, said in the lawsuit that Jeremy groped her breast and buttocks then “forcefully” digitally penetrated her, according to the magazine.
The young woman sued Jeremy after local authorities declined to file criminal charges against him for the alleged assaults, the report said. At the time, Jeremy’s lawyer said his client denied the allegations.
Prosecutors are expected to recommend bail of $6.6 million. If convicted, Jeremy, who stands 5 feet 6 and whose net worth is reportedly about $6 million, faces a possible maximum sentence of 90 years to life in prison.
[Daily Mail] Not just New York City, but Harlem. Attacked for protecting a lady, he disarmed the knifeman with his head, then calmly walked over to the EMTs so they could remove it and store it safely. We need more like this sheepdog.
[FOXNEWS] The FBI has determined that a noose found in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace's garage at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday had been there since at least last year, according to the bureau.
A statement issued by U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town said that an investigation has concluded that no federal crime was committed.
"The FBI learned that garage number 4, where the noose was found, was assigned to Bubba Wallace last week. The investigation also revealed evidence, including authentic video confirmed by NASCAR, that the noose found in garage number 4 was in that garage as early as October 2019," the bureau said. "Although the noose is now known to have been in garage number 4 in 2019, nobody could have known Mr. Wallace would be assigned to garage number 4 last week."
Further details were not immediately released. The FBI said no charges would be pursued in relation to the incident.
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Been there since last year, eh? Certainly an important detail. However...
Missing from this story is the fact that the "noose" turned out to be the pull cord for an overhead garage door. You know, a short length of rope with a loop at one end. Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be journalists.
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And as expected, there would be those calling BS on the results. Did not expect it to come from Bubba himself: discussing w/ Don Lemon on CNN he called the evidence photoshopped. As woke as NASCAR has become, that seems unlikely. Wonder if there have been any discussions between Bubba and King Richard on this???
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Wallace is pi$$ing all over NASCAR's brand now and the drivers, team owners, sponsors and front office crowd knows they can't say a word about it. Smart fans will say nothing either, but may quietly put their wallets away.
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I'm hoping he kneels on the race track. Somewhere along the 250 mile mark.
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If you deliberately set out to look for something that confirms your own biases and worldview, chances are you will find it whether it exists or not where you are looking.
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Arizona, Arkansas, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas are each recording their highest number of hospitalizations
California recorded its highest number of daily new COVID-19 cases throughout the entire pandemic Monday, with 5,019 infections in just 24 hours
Concerns are building over an outbreak among the San Quentin prison population in Marin County, where 342 have now tested positive
Officials also traced a new outbreak in Shasta County back to a man who broke social distancing rules to attend a 'large family gathering' where he infected 12
Gov. Newsom said the state could return to lockdown if cases continue to soar
Texas, which was one of the first states to start reopening back in April, has reached an all-time high with 5,489 new cases Tuesday
Republican Governor Greg Abbott warned Texans the outbreak is now 'rampant' and gave local officials more powers to reduce the size of outdoor gatherings
In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis warned Tuesday he will be cracking down on bars and restaurants that flout social distancing guidelines
He said 'the grim reaper for business licenses' will come down hard on violators
A similar hard line is being adopted in New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy said after images circulated on social media of large crowds at reopened bars
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^ Uh huh. How TF are they going to do that? Air passengers that pass thru on a non-stop will be forced to? Vehicle inspection points? Quarantine officers on rail "checking your papers"?
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Flattening the curve? Yeah it worked, but (to abuse the allegory) people forget there is still a curve to be navigated. You still need to exercise some steering and control of your velocity if you dont want to spin out and wreck.
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Still plenty in the press working hard to milk this. Items they are leaving out - a significant percentage of new cases are a result of increased testing, and deaths continue to decline.
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For the last five weeks, new cases have run 20-30,000 but the number of serious/crital rmains about 16,000 total. Some 100k new cases and no change in the serious/critical.
COVID deaths peaked about April 18 at some 3,000 per day, trending down to under 500 this week, but jumped up all the way to 872 yesterday.
That's nationally, of course. Some places are better/worse than average. Most of this comes from daily tracking of Worldometer.
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They glossed over it but i think this is how Escape from NY started.
Or it could have something to do with the murder of the Gracchi and the rival factions of Marius and Sulla. Caesar was an adherent of Sulla -- he was reported by Suetonius, I believe, to have been Sulla's girly boy when young. The rivalries among Caesar, Anthony, and Cassius had much more to do with the earlier factions than with the eruption of a volcano in Alaska. But I could be wrong. After all, I'm not an expert.
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Could have also been driven by their success in the Second Punic War which left an Italian city state republic with vast overseas acquisitions and subsequent military requirements that the structures of the government were never designed to support. Wealth, power, and ambition destroyed the checks and balances that had been previously designed in the structures of the republican state.
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#1 So you're going to throw an established, well reasoned chain of events and complex human interactions across an arc of time up in our face as opposed to...CLIMATE?
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he was reported by Suetonius, I believe, to have been Sulla's girly boy when young
Meh. The Romans considered homosexuality to be disqualifying for public office, so those rumors were around for EVERY emperor or would-be emperor. The bigger rumor about Julius Caesar was that he spent time as the king of Bithynia's lover -- he was the "Queen of Bithynia" -- when he was supposed to be gathering troops.
Yet he showed up with troops at Just the Right Moment(tm), and earned him the honors that started his political career.
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Corruption and internecine civil war in the second and third century as well as the splitting of the empire and the silly Diocletian 4way power sharing idea had far more to do with it.
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The Constitution places the District of Columbia under the jurisdiction of Congress (Article I, Section 8, paragraph 17), which the Democrats have ceded (without amending the Constitution) to the "local government". Trump should declare whatever actions the legislature took as unconstitutional, declare Martial Law in the area, and bring in five or six brigades of National Guard from all over the nation to reassert sovereignty over the Federal territory. The Democrats will of course scream, but Trump holds ALL the high ground on this case.
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I'm hoping the 'protesters' can lower that watershed age.
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My reading of the nursing home data indicated many of those who went were already within months of end of life expectancy. Weird thing about stats and the pie chart. You decrease the cause of death in one category, you just increase the cause of death in others. We all die of something.
Hattip Dr. Steve, who sends me links for the Burg from time to time. Photos and videos of airplanes at the link, along with the rest of the story. Enjoy!
[TheDrive/TheWarZone] The sorties into the Sea of Okhotsk come amid an increase in American and Russian aerial activity around each others' borders.
The Russian military sent Su-30 Flanker and Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jets and MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors to monitor two U.S. Air Force B-52H bombers that flew over the Sea of Okhotsk yesterday. This the first time B-52Hs have flown into this body water, which is surrounded on three sides by Russian territory and where American combat aircraft typically have not ventured in the past, in recent memory. This flight also comes nearly a month after a B-1B conducted a long-range training mission along a similar route as part of the implementation of a new concept of operations for U.S. heavy bomber sorties earlier this year.
The Russian Defense Ministry’s National Defense Control Center publicly announced the intercept over the Sea of Okhotsk on June 19, 2020, though it had taken place the day before. Twitter user and good friend of The War Zone @AircraftSpots tracked the two B-52Hs on June 18 as they flew from Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska through the Bering Sea and out over the North Pacific.
Eielson is notably not a bomber base. A trio of B-52Hs from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, which is home to the active component 2nd Bomb Wing and the Air Force Reserve 307th Bomb Wing, arrived at the base in Alaska on June 14, as part of a short-term Bomber Task Force deployment. As such, this particular flight not only underscored the ability of the bombers to project power far away from America's borders while operating from bases within the country, it also highlighted how they can first stage themselves at other bases closer to the intended area of operation, as needed.
After arriving in the North Pacific for this particular training mission yesterday, the two B-52Hs then alerted air traffic controllers in the region that they would be flying "due regard," or with their transponders off, for approximately two hours, at which time they turned north toward the Sea of Okhotsk. This sea is a sort of giant bay situated between Sakhalin Island to the west, as well as portions of Russia's mainland Far East region to the north, and the Kamchatka Peninsula to the east.
"On June 19, 2020, the air defense quick reaction alert forces of the Eastern Military District spotted and started tracking a pair of US Air Force B-52H bombers over the Sea of Okhotsk," Russia's National Defense Control Center's statement said. "At a considerable distance from the state border of the Russian Federation, the U.S. Air Force planes were continuously tracked by Russian monitoring capabilities. Su-30, Su-35, and MiG-31 fighters from the air defense quick reaction alert forces of the Eastern Military District were scrambled to intercept the targets."
The statement also said that the B-52Hs did not ever appear to make a concerted approach toward Russia's sovereign airspace and remained at least 186 miles from the country's borders throughout the duration of the flight. "The Russian aircraft performed the flights in strict compliance with the international rules of using the airspace over the neutral waters, without violating the borders of other states," the National Defense Control Center added.
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Say hi to Dr. Steve please, TW. His comments were always straightforward and thoughtful.
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He will always be remembered as the Pink Salmon Mod and head of the AOS ;-)
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Russia Sent Three Types Of Fighters To Intercept B-52s Flying Rare Mission Into Sea Of Okhotsk
Lockheed Martin and Boeing not permitted to participate in the Military Industrial Conflict (MIC) competition runoff. Morgan & Morgan standing by to investigate.
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Glad you like it, dear Old Patriot. It was the highest MiG number in Rantburg’s image file, so I went with it, not having any idea what the real differences are.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... has suspended anti-South Korea military plans, according to a report by South Korean outlet Yonhap News Agency.
Citing Pyongyang's state-run Korean Central News Agency, Yonhap reported that military actions were paused by Kim during a preliminary meeting of the Central Military Commission.
"At the preliminary meeting, the [Workers' Party of Korea] Central Military Commission took stock of the prevailing situation and suspended the military action plans against the South brought for the fifth meeting of the Seventh Central Military Commission by the General Staff of the Korean People's Army," the cited KCNA report reads.
Kim presided over the meeting via video conference.
Pictures or it didn’t happen.
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[NYPOST] Accused fraudster Shaun "Talcum X"
King, who most recently came under fire for his shady media company, drew both ridicule and threats online Tuesday for demanding statues showing a light-skinned Jesus be pulled down.
"Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... . Always have been," King, 40, had tweeted Monday over the movement to topple monuments.
King then extended his demands to include "all murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends." The Brooklyn-based King — who has denied being a white man masquerading as black — posted a photo of a dark-skinned Jesus that he says is the most accurate depiction.
"White Americans who bought, sold, traded, raped, and worked Africans to death, for hundreds of years in this country, simply could not have THIS man at the center of their faith," he said of the reason for images to lighten the skin of the son of God central to the Christian faith.
"Received about 20 death threats in the past 12 hours since I said that statues of white European Jesus are a tool of oppression for white supremacy and should be taken down," he wrote.
As well as threats, his tweets were met with ridicule from many online, with one follower asking, "Does it hurt to be this stupid? Honest question."
Along with the claims that he is really white — with his birth certificate listing two white parents — the former newspaper columnist has also faced scandals over his financial dealings.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Director Spike Lee said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell should pressure Redskins owner Dan Snyder to change the team’s nickname and logo. Lee’s comments echo a renewed call for Washington to change the name in light of the nationwide protests of racial injustice. Lee made his remarks on the same day as city officials removed the statue of Redskins founding owner and segregationist George Preston Marshall on Friday.
In an interview with SiriusXM, Lee referenced the removal of Confederate leader statues as a reason the Redskins should act on changing their name. The Cleveland Indians better go, too. And the Atlanta Braves. And the San Diego (or wherever) Padres, because they oppressed the Redskins and Indians and the Braves, as everybody knows.
[CBSNews] Washington — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Trump's 200th nominee to the federal bench, a milestone that caps an extraordinary effort by the president and the Republican-controlled Senate to leave an enduring stamp on the federal judiciary.
Senators approved the nomination of Cory Wilson to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by a vote of 52 to 48. With Wilson's confirmation and that of Judge Justin Walker to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit last week, Mr. Trump has now filled all vacancies to the federal circuit courts.
Walker, however, will not take his seat on the influential D.C. Circuit until September when Judge Thomas Griffith, whose spot he is filling, officially retires.
The vote to confirm Wilson is the culmination of the push by Mr. Trump, with the crucial assistance of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to reshape the federal bench and install conservative jurists who will make a lasting impact on U.S. law.
In all, the president has appointed 53 judges to the circuit courts, which are the last stop for thousands of cases moving through the federal judicial system, and 147 judges to the district courts. Trump's 53 Circuit Court appointments compares favorably to the 55 appointments made by Barry in his 8 years. There will likely not be any more circuit court vacancies this year, but there are still 71 District Court vacancies, 43 of which have pending nominations.
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..as long as they're life appoints, you won't have too many Thomas. If they had to be reapproved by the same body that approved them in the first place, say, every 15 years, you'd see a remarkable change in behavior those last 5 years or so.
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Hope this 'conservative' judge doesn't turn out like Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
They’ll still be overall less liberal than the those who started out liberal and moved even farther left. It will be interesting to see who President Trump nominates during his second term.
Monitors estimate around 70,000 people, mostly Iranian Kurds, make a living as kolbars. [Rudaw] At least 200 smugglers attacked a Kurdistan Region border post with Iran
Monitors estimate around 70,000 people, mostly Iranian Kurds, make a living as kolbars.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in the early hours of Tuesday, according to local security officials, with one smuggler killed and four border guards maimed in the resulting festivities.
The deadly nighttime clash began when border guards in Sargat refused exit to smugglers on the grounds of measures to combat spread of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
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In other news - who knew there was such a thing? Pics at the link - you have been warned...
[Oregon Live, via FARK] - The World Naked Bike Ride as we know it — thousands of cyclists gathering for a massive nude protest — will not take place in Portland this year, though that doesn’t mean it’s canceled completely.
In its place will be a do-it-yourself event called World Naked Bike Ride Day (incorporated into the sprawling Pedalpalooza event) that encourages cyclists to protest "wherever they’d like, whenever they like" on Saturday, June 27.
The mass gathering for 2020 was called off in May due to the coronavirus pandemic that continues to spread across Oregon. But as people continue to recreate outdoors, that leaves room for individual acts of protest close to home, organizers said.
"We definitely are encouraging people to keep it local," organizer Meghan Sinnott said. "Do a loop around your neighborhood, ride around in your garage if you don’t want to head out, bike on your stationary bicycle."
Organizers are also encouraging people to stay with those in their households and not to organize gatherings for World Naked Bike Ride Day, to prevent the risk of spreading COVID-19. Like that's stopped all the unwashed hippy wannabees from protesting over the past few weeks. Just another stupid event for these self-important bums to scream 'look at meeeee!'
[Washington Examiner] Walmart shoppers in Mississippi might notice a change in the flag hanging above their local store.
On Tuesday, Walmart spokesman Lorenzo Lopez announced that the company would no longer fly the Mississippi flag above stores in the state because part of the design pays homage to the Confederacy.
"We know the design of the Mississippi state flag is being discussed by various stakeholders," Lopez said in a statement. "While the issue continues to be discussed, we’ve made the decision to remove the Mississippi state flag from display in its current form from our stores."
The Mississippi flag is the only state flag in the United States featuring an "X" pattern referencing the flag of the Confederate States of America. Lopez said removing the flag from atop Walmart stores in the Southern state was the "right thing to do."
"We believe it’s the right thing to do, and is consistent with Walmart’s position to not sell merchandise with the confederate flag from stores and online sites, as part of our commitment to provide a welcoming and inclusive experience for all of our customers in the communities we serve," Lopez continued.
No statements forthcoming from Walmart regarding the plight of hundreds of thousands possibly millions of Uighurs and others currently experiencing the Horror of Concentration Camps in China.
Trading in Chinese box store goods off slightly at yesterday's close:
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What was that rule from years ago that forbade US companies from doing business in South Africa because of Apartheid? But found business with China is o.k. I get it now. /sarc
...because it's (of course) racist! via Universal Hub
[GregCookland] - Boston’s Faneuil Hall Is Named For A Slaver, Kevin Peterson Launches Hunger Fast Calling For It To Be Renamed
Boston’s Faneuil Hall is named for a slaver. This afternoon, Kevin Peterson, founder of the Boston-based New Democracy Coalition, launched a hunger fast at the landmark across from Boston City Hall as part of his multi-year effort to get the building renamed.
"This building behind me is a publicly owned building that we want to have renamed in the city of Boston because it’s named after a slave owner," Kevin Peterson said in a Facebook live video this afternoon. "...We do not want to remove the hall or have it torn down. We want to have the hall renamed after someone who wasn’t a slave owner."
"We’ve been petitioning the mayor for over two years to simply allow citizens of Boston to hold a hearing," Peterson said. "And the mayor of Boston has refused to talk to us and the City Council has refused to talk to us."
I sent to the mayor’s press office this afternoon seeking comment, but so far have not received a response. Look at the dude's picture - it could take him months to fast...
Those racists clearly want all people of colour to die horribly of the coronavirus.
[NYPOST] Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling.Health officials announced last week residents must wear face coverings in public settings where they may come within six feet of another individual who is not from the same household. Didn't you just do racial profiling?
But people of color do not have to follow the new rule if they have "heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment" over wearing the masks, officials said. Why yes, yes, you did
"No person shall intimidate or harass people who do not comply," health officials said.
With mask requirements becoming more common, activists have raised concerns that the directives could put non-white people in danger.
"For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandanna in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... is a lose-lose situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way," ReNika Moore, director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, told CNN.
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If this year has proven anything, our political class is worthless and needs to just be ignored. If they won't let us ignore them, then they need tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail.
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I thought the purpose of wearing a mask was not to prevent ME from getting the virus, but to prevent me from spreading the virus.
So, Lincoln County is saying that they don't care if POCs spread the virus.
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2010 census:
46,034 people
87.7% white
7.9% Hispanic or Latino
3.5% American Indian
3.4% other races
3.7% mixed
1.1% Asian,
0.4% black
0.1% Pacific islander
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[STARTRIBUNE] The shock of a mass shooting in Uptown that left one man dead and 11 other people 
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[FOXNEWS] The FBI has determined that a noose found in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace's garage at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday had been there since at least last year, according to the bureau.
Or it could have something to do with the murder of the Gracchi and the rival factions of Marius and Sulla. Caesar was an adherent of Sulla -- he was reported by Suetonius, I believe, to have been Sulla's girly boy when young. The rivalries among Caesar, Anthony, and Cassius had much more to do with the earlier factions than with the eruption of a volcano in Alaska. But I could be wrong. After all, I'm not an expert.
Eielson is notably not a bomber base. A trio of B-52Hs from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, which is home to the active component 2nd Bomb Wing and the Air Force Reserve 307th Bomb Wing, arrived at the base in Alaska on June 14, as part of a short-term Bomber Task Force deployment. As such, this particular flight not only underscored the ability of the bombers to project power far away from America's borders while operating from bases within the country, it also highlighted how they can first stage themselves at other bases closer to the intended area of operation, as needed.
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts 
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Director Spike Lee said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell should pressure Redskins owner Dan Snyder to change the team’s nickname and logo. Lee’s comments echo a renewed call for Washington to change the name in light of the nationwide protests of racial injustice. Lee made his remarks on the same day as city officials removed the statue of Redskins founding owner and segregationist George Preston Marshall on Friday. 
[CBSNews] Washington — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Trump's 200th nominee to the federal bench, a milestone that caps an extraordinary effort by the president and the Republican-controlled Senate to leave an enduring stamp on the federal judiciary.
[Washington Examiner] Walmart shoppers in Mississippi might notice a change in the flag hanging above their local store.
[NYPOST] Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling.Health officials announced last week residents must wear face coverings in public settings where they may come within six feet of another individual who is not from the same household.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
