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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Anthony Weiner spotted at Hamptons children's park with his son
[New York Post] It’s hardly shocking to see a boldfaced name out East during the summer. But one sighting took a spy by surprise.

"Strange but true. Just saw Carlos Danger Anthony Weiner at a children’s park in Sag Harbor with his kid," said a source. "I noticed him before he put his mask on," they added.

Of course, Weiner is a registered sex offender, having done time for sending explicit pictures to a 15-year-old in 2016.

Page Six reported earlier this year that parents at his son’s downtown school were up in arms because Weiner was lobbying to be allowed onto the school grounds. He had previously been allowed only as far as the school gates.

Weiner declined to comment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2020 03:14 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bully for him!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 10:02 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Really? He's a pathological freak. Fuck him
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2020 11:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Israeli celebrities launch global campaign against child abuse
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 I'm a divorced father - try keeping me from my kid, I'll kill you.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#5  He's not being kept from his child. He's being kept from other children due to his sexual proclivities. As a divorced father, you should appreciate that - If you're not like Weiner
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||

#6  ^Look up definition of pedophilia, Francis - 15 year is illegal (and immoral, IMO) but it's not pedophilia.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 11:50 Comments || Top||


#8  Dude was taking gross pictures with his son laying right next to him.

Box of doughnuts says if it weren't for Clinton dirt, some real nasty photos might have been presented.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 12:43 Comments || Top||

#9  You don't hear squat doodle about Sydney Leathers any more. Either she wisely banked her payout and disappeared. Or spent it and disappeared.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 17:11 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
YouTuber aims to take down 'mask-holes' with pneumatic gun that fires a surgical mask at your face
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 09:47 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "It's American as apple pie".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 10:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Yea, let's celebrate violence against those who do not voluntarily comply.

So he goes down to Huntington Beach, notes 1/4 have on masks, and wants to try out his invention, and says this:

'I fully expect people to get angry at me,' Pan said in the video. 'I even brought my running shoes in case things got, y'know, racist.'


Yesterday I thought this was all clever. This here, well, I guess this was an exercise born of antagonism instead of curiosity.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Yesterday I thought this was all clever.

The Mask Gun debut!
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 11:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Just went to vote in meaningless primary. But I went to the poll. It was actually busy. I told every poll worker they are what makes America great, voted and moved on. I'll be voting in person in November too.

The mask thing is a bad joke, but it's not worth losing your dignity over.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 12:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Allan Pan shows why diversity is our strength.

Posted by: charger || 08/18/2020 12:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Shooting crap at my eyes is awfully close to triggering self-defense.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/18/2020 13:31 Comments || Top||

#7  'I even brought my running shoes in case things got, y'know, racist.'

Be tough to outrun a bullet. Factually, speaking.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/18/2020 13:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Allan Pan shows why diversity is our strength.

Allan Pan shows what happens when young engineers have free time and decide to test answers to all their nerdy ComicCon wonderings. Before the Rona he made flamethrower Kung Fu fists and tried shooting at Wonder Woman bracers to see where the bullets would go.

What he gleefully demonstrated was that this is not an effective solution, even if it were not assault.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2020 15:23 Comments || Top||

#9  It all makes the JNCO jeans thing seem normal.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 16:35 Comments || Top||

#10  It's not a wonderful mechanical/social engineering project. He just needs a beat down
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2020 16:39 Comments || Top||

#11  he should go up to north idaho where they dont wear masks if they dont want to and try it there
Posted by: 746 || 08/18/2020 17:44 Comments || Top||

#12  Leveraging his fame to demonstrate physical violence upon 'racists' and 'mask holes' is no longer cosplay, but encouragement to commit assault those who are not on board his idea of how others must live.

Says it himself; I'm going to go to the beach and talk about shooting them in the face and if they don't like that, they're racist.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 17:56 Comments || Top||

#13  Starting to wonder if the masks are going to make this worse. Consider that all coronaviruses are notorious for creating a short lived immune response. Something between 3 and 12 months. If that's true, and if the masks actually reduce R-naught (both big "ifs") then there could be a sweet spot where the masks make this thing perpetual. In other words, they slow the infection down to the point where it doesn't burn out before people who already had it start to lose immunity. Fun, right?
Posted by: Iblis || 08/18/2020 17:57 Comments || Top||

#14  Got no human grace.
He's eyes without a face.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 18:42 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Pentagon investigates drone sighting near Air Force One
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 10:47 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:



Black babies in the US are THREE TIMES more likely to die in hospital than white children when cared for by a white doctor, study finds
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 09:39 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ^5 times as likely when cared by a "Black" doctor?

p.s. I thought most of the doctors in USA are Hindu?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 10:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Aren't Hindus the original Aryans?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/18/2020 10:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Then I suggest they stop having babies.
Posted by: Dacama || 08/18/2020 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Or blacks become doctors instead of gang bangers and gangstas.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/18/2020 10:06 Comments || Top||

#5  I smell bullshit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 10:37 Comments || Top||

#6  That's baby poo.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 11:14 Comments || Top||

#7  The smell is strong indeed.

A bit of googling for US infant mortality rates by race (for example - scroll down for bar chart) shows the rate for blacks is roughly 2~3 times that for whites. That's in the aggregate without controlling for the doctor's race.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/18/2020 11:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Will the Daily Mail(UK) enlighten us to what the equivalent statistics are in England? Or in France, for that matter. Agree that the smell of BS is strong here.
Posted by: magpie || 08/18/2020 11:27 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 Inbreeding?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 11:28 Comments || Top||

#10  I smell big-time f'in bovine egesta, too.
Posted by: Clem || 08/18/2020 11:35 Comments || Top||

#11  Inbreeding?

Genetics is certainly a possibility. I'd look at poor diet, lack of pre-natal care, and overall health first.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/18/2020 11:44 Comments || Top||

#12  Poor parental care is genetic.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 11:48 Comments || Top||

#13  The saying goes: If you can stay out of the hospital and the courthouse, you are living well...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 12:27 Comments || Top||

#14  It's hard to make it out of the neonate unit when you were born addicted to crack.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 12:29 Comments || Top||

#15  Grom, sex is hereditary -- if your parents didn't have sex, it's likely you won't either.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/18/2020 12:36 Comments || Top||

#16  Sexual reproduction and parental care are two different things, Crawford - look it up in Wikipedia.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 12:38 Comments || Top||

#17  if your parents didn't have sex, it's likely you won't either.

Mitosis is reproduction too, you chromasomalist!
#Mitosis
Posted by: SteveS || 08/18/2020 13:40 Comments || Top||

#18  I would think some factor is missing, such as the parents waiting longer before seeking care, or white doctors being in higher positions so that really bad cases are escalated to them.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/18/2020 14:37 Comments || Top||

#19  I thought most of the doctors in USA are Hindu?

Hinjoos, all of ‘em.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2020 15:30 Comments || Top||

#20  ^😢
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 15:37 Comments || Top||

#21  I'd look at poor diet, lack of pre-natal care, and overall health first.

My first thought; along the theory that vegetarians and especially vegans have underdeveloped infants. Children born addicted to drugs is a real thing.

The researchers analyzed records on 1.8 million hospital births in Florida between 1992 and 2015.

Oooook...Which Florida?

At baseline, 1,090 out of every 100,000 black babies born died within the first 28 days of life.

That was more than twice the death rate among white babies: 490 per 100,000.

The team attributed this shocking disparity to higher rates of eclampsia and preeclampsia (potentially dangerous high blood sugar during pregnancy) among the mothers while they were pregnant, higher rates of preterm delivery, economic disadvantage and racial bias.


Oh, its the racial bias.

Once again a DM article drinks 16 pints of cheap beer, passes out, and can't figure out why they shit the bed.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 15:52 Comments || Top||

#22  Once again a DM article drinks 16 pints of cheap beer, passes out, and can't figure out why they shit the bed.

But being good stout Englishmen, they'll still get up tomorrow and do it all over again.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/18/2020 16:08 Comments || Top||

#23  with a ton of pictures and irrelevant videos overlapping what you wanted to read
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2020 16:14 Comments || Top||

#24  Having babies in abortion clinics is deadly....
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/18/2020 16:15 Comments || Top||

#25  From the article: "The team attributed this shocking disparity to higher rates of eclampsia and preeclampsia (potentially dangerous high blood sugar during pregnancy) among the mothers while they were pregnant, higher rates of preterm delivery, economic disadvantage and racial bias."

Perhaps the white doctors are less aware of how to handle this situation.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/18/2020 17:19 Comments || Top||

#26  Black babies in the US are THREE TIMES more likely to die in hospital than white children when cared for by a white doctor, study finds

Fine. Pick a black doctor.
Posted by: gorb || 08/18/2020 22:26 Comments || Top||


California heat wave leaves threat of rolling blackouts for millions as Gov. Newsom calls for probe
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 09:21 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


#2  It's also leads the country in # of covid 19. "This is known as 'bad luck'".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 9:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Rolling Blackouts, also known as rationing.

Still doing the water rationing?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 10:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Fascist reasoning. Rationing always seem to apply to the little people. Remember the Party-Only stores in Soviet Russia?
Posted by: magpie || 08/18/2020 11:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Still doing the water rationing?

Except for that in use on the fires.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 11:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Did Newsom specify what kind of probe he wants, like in a Blue Oyster kinda way?
Posted by: Raj || 08/18/2020 12:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Called for Jennifer to probe him.. but good
Posted by: Zebulon Phaick7016 || 08/18/2020 12:11 Comments || Top||

#8  The fires are a real mess.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 12:15 Comments || Top||

#9  And they'll be begging Trump/the Feds for more dough. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Posted by: Clem || 08/18/2020 12:27 Comments || Top||

#10  Seeing as how the Government critters in Sacramento have stifled most utility infrastructure upgrades over the last 40 years because of some endangered amoeba, unsightly towers, excavation permitting or some grievance concocted at the time, I'm surprised that their system fails as little as it does.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/18/2020 13:39 Comments || Top||

#11  In fairness to the incompetent state government, we should acknowledge that this heat is unprecedented since at least last summer.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/18/2020 14:18 Comments || Top||

#12  So they aren't serious about Global Warming then?
Posted by: gorb || 08/18/2020 14:42 Comments || Top||

#13  104 degrees in the shade on my porch just now - rural San Diego.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2020 15:37 Comments || Top||

#14  ...been normal, in the shade on the porch, since the first of July in rural New Mexico.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2020 16:41 Comments || Top||

#15  At least San Diego is off the Covid list.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/18/2020 17:25 Comments || Top||

#16  anal probe?
Posted by: 746 || 08/18/2020 17:45 Comments || Top||

#17  Gavin Gavin is just ticked off that they handed him a note about blackouts AFTER they pulled the switch.
So yeah,the anal probe is on or in...?
Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/18/2020 18:00 Comments || Top||

#18  Meanwhile, at the Lake Fire

https://twitter.com/VCFD/status/1294438570480898048

You really have not had the full rural firefighting experience without something like that happening.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 18:02 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Belarus vote challenger Tikhanovskaya says ready to be 'national leader'
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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#2  Americans actually think this might work. They also think everything on teevee is real.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 12:46 Comments || Top||


EU to hold emergency meeting on Belarus, denounces ‘unacceptable’ violence following presidential election
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Lukashenko says Belarus could hold a new presidential election after the country adopts a new constitution
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Translation from the Russian: "I'm not quite done looting, yet."
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/18/2020 6:45 Comments || Top||


Belarus. Chair of the department of North America and Western Europe Andrei Bushilo has resigned
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
North Koreans are ordered to hand over 'decadent and bourgeois' pet dogs for 'restaurant meat'
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Dictator Kim Jong-un announced in July that owning a pet is now against the law

  • Authorities are identifying homes with dogs in Pyongyang and rounding them up

  • Some of the dogs are sent to state-run zoos or sold to dog meat restaurants
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "Hewllloooo, Shitty Wok..."
Posted by: Raj || 08/18/2020 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm sure Melissa Alano is all over it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 2:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Sounds like they are expecting Obama to drop by.
Posted by: Classer || 08/18/2020 3:00 Comments || Top||

#4  ...When I was in the ROK in the early 80s, dogs were to a surprising extent considered just as much livestock as pets (see also kagogi) but the government made a full-court press prior to the '88 Olympics to get it stopped. They did pretty good in the cities, but out in the country and smaller cities it's still common.

The point here though is this - up north, they never stopped using dogmeat, and if it's to the point where pets are now being confiscated (and keep in mind that in a society where food is often scarce at best, the pets likely belonged to upper middle or upper class Norks because they were the only ones who could afford the luxury of feeding them) then it's bad. Really, really bad.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/18/2020 5:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Is that how the Chow got its name?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 10:49 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm sure Melissa Alano is all over it.

If they are collecting dogs then she will probably want to stay far, far, away.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/18/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||


Ex-CIA agent arrested, charged with spying for China for years
[AmericanMilitaryNews] A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer was arrested and faces charges he spied for China for years.

Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, a 15-year agent of the CIA, was charged Monday for selling U.S. secrets to China, NBC reported. Ma reportedly disclosed a substantial amount of highly classified national defense information" to five members of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, including the identities of CIA officers and human assets, information about the CIA’s internal organization and means of CIA communications.

Ma worked for the CIA from 1967 to 1989 and was assigned to work overseas in the East-Asia and Pacific region during part of his CIA tenure. The meeting between Ma and the Chinese officers reportedly happened about 12 years after his retirement from the agency, around some time in 2001. According to the charging documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Ma kept in touch with his Chinese contacts as he applied for an FBI position in 2004. Over the next six years, Ma allegedly downloaded, collected or otherwise photographed sensitive information to pass along to China until he stopped work for the FBI in 2010.

Ma was reportedly caught after the FBI began a sting operation in January of 2019. The FBI had reportedly held suspicions about Ma for years but it is not clear as to why the FBI waited as long as it had to investigate Ma.
President Trump doesn’t like spies and traitors, whether serving the Deep State or a foreign state, and does not exempt Communist China.
As part of the sting operation, an FBI agent pretended to be a Chinese government auditor reviewing the Chinese governments handling of Ma as an intelligence source. The FBI agent reportedly showed Ma a video of his 2001 meeting with the Chinese officials to gain Ma's trust. It was not immediately clear how the FBI obtained the footage.

After playing the footage, the FBI agent gained Ma's trust and got him to admit in further meetings that he worked for the Chinese.
Meaning, he had been 'flipped' by the Chinese and at some point had become a double agent.
According to the charging documents, Ma told the agent he "wanted ‘the motherland' to succeed" and said he would consider working again for the Chinese government, "perhaps as a consultant."

Ma is charged with conspiring to communicate national defense information to aid a foreign government and, if convicted, faces up to a life term in prison.

Ma is not the only former CIA agent to face charges of spying for China. In May of 2019, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 54, a former CIA case officer and U.S. Army veteran admitted to spying for China. Lee reportedly devised a document on his computer on May 26, 2010, that detailed specific locations where CIA officers were, as well as the precise location and time frame of a sensitive CIA operation, which was all secret level classified information. He then transferred the sensitive information to a thumb drive, he used to transfer the information.

The New York Times reported in November that Lee was sentenced to 19 years in prison.
So it seems reasonable that Mr. Ma should get the same.
Posted by: Clem || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Multiculturalism is the future! Go ahead US government, keep hiring those Chinese foks, giving them security clearances, and access to highly classified documents.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2020 2:06 Comments || Top||


#3  It used to be that if you were from a Communist country, or even had relatives in a Communist country, you had some trouble getting a clearance. Not sure when it changed.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/18/2020 12:01 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ During the Kennedy administration. The earliest version of woke.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 12:33 Comments || Top||

#5  he "wanted ‘the motherland' to succeed"

Patriotic Chinese-American. Notice which one comes first.
Posted by: Elmung Hatrack5948 || 08/18/2020 13:18 Comments || Top||

#6  shoot him
Posted by: 746 || 08/18/2020 17:46 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
MN Governor Quietly Reverses Course on Hydroxychloroquine
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 01:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why bother to have medical schools?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 2:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Meanwhile the health MSM tell you lies that it has no effect
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/18/2020 4:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Has Google censored her yet?
Posted by: gorb || 08/18/2020 5:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Minnesota Governor Walz is a male, but I see your confusion, g(r)om.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/18/2020 7:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Michigan governor/kurva has been quiet lately, or so it seems.
Posted by: Clem || 08/18/2020 7:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Clem - it's hot mic time for Lady Hitler.
Posted by: Raj || 08/18/2020 9:16 Comments || Top||

#7  If this were an actual emergency, HCQ would have been OTC at the get go.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 12:31 Comments || Top||

#8  M. Murcek: It is an actual emergency, and the American Mandiranate is committing mass murder by limiting HCQ as much as possible.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/18/2020 15:28 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Man dies of COVID-19 30 days after his father
[Arutz 7] - Rabbi David Oberlander, one of the leading figures of the Belz Hasidic movement in Ashdod, died at the Ichilov Hospital from the coronavirus. He was only 38 years old.

...Rabbi Oberlander died exactly 30 days after his father, Rabbi Moshe Yosef Oberlander, also died from the coronavirus, and two weeks after the disease claimed the life of his uncle, Rabbi Yechiel Oberlander.

Belz Hasidic movement are covid sceptics (cf. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/HkuZd0UMw)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 11:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They lived by their rules and died by their rules. Seems that's how freedom is supposed to work. But the stone atheist is alarmed, because "the deaths." Comon...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 12:25 Comments || Top||

#2  No. They lived by their rules, until they got sick. Then they took advantage of the secular Israeli society's rules on Covid medical treatment.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 12:30 Comments || Top||

#3  They paid taxes? They were entitled.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 13:03 Comments || Top||

#4  He's bitter about people mocking his religion. Don't you go trying that!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 13:11 Comments || Top||

#5  They paid taxes? They were entitled.

Typical "Government don't tell me what to do, I has my rights! I'm entitled to Government assistance when - in the course of excising my rights - I run into trouble!"

p.s. Mostly they don't pay taxes. But that's not the point. In Israel, if you deliberately spread communicable diseases, you are entitled to up to 7 years in prison.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 13:33 Comments || Top||

#6  It's alright. Biggest users of gummint services in US don't pay taxes either.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 14:19 Comments || Top||

#7  deliberately spread communicable diseases

We're not talking about HIV positives here. Fauxi wasn't in favor of quarantining them either.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 14:31 Comments || Top||

#8  ^It's the law (admittedly not used so far) in Israel. When things will become bad enough...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 14:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Mumble, mutter....
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||


Pickup truck-sized asteroid flew within 2K miles of Earth on Sunday and NASA didn't see it
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 10:40 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, those are very small rocks and if they don't have a great reflection, we can't see them.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/18/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Smaller than a re-entering MIRV, which we are assured is detectable?

Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 11:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Because NASA looking at Mecca?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 11:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Big block Chevy with sidepipes?
Posted by: Raj || 08/18/2020 12:19 Comments || Top||

#5  So long as they call they asteroid by its preferred pronouns, we should be fine.

#NASAPriorities
Posted by: charger || 08/18/2020 13:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Smaller than a re-entering MIRV, which we are assured is detectable?

Different animal. We can track the launch and the trajectory with thermal, then radar. An MIRV coming in from deep space would most likely catch us completely by surprise.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/18/2020 14:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Hell I can't see those little Toyota pickup jobs when they are 10 feet behind me.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 15:17 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ heh
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2020 15:35 Comments || Top||

#9  When I lived at White Sands Proving Grounds in the late 50's Dogs proved better at locating fallen missile parts than man or instruments . Before firing, critical missile parts were sprayed with squalene, a shark liver oil almost odorless to humans but easily detected by dogs.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/18/2020 17:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Picture of the Asteroid:
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/18/2020 18:47 Comments || Top||

#11  An MIRV coming in from deep space would most likely catch us completely by surprise.

Say it with me. X-37C
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 19:57 Comments || Top||

#12  Pickup truck-sized asteroid flew within 2K miles of Earth on Sunday and NASA didn't see it

It was Frank in a hurry to get home and he missed his exit.
Posted by: gorb || 08/18/2020 22:23 Comments || Top||

#13  It was Frank in a hurry to get home

The things you think of, gorb!
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2020 22:34 Comments || Top||

#14  Cop who pulled over George Jetson: "What do you think this is, the Indianapolis 500,000?"
Posted by: Clem || 08/18/2020 23:09 Comments || Top||


Strangle COVID with an Inhaler?
[Fierce Biotech] Just weeks after ExeVir Bio was spun out of a Belgian research institute to develop a llama-inspired antibody treatment for COVID-19, a rival effort has sprung up at the University of California, San Francisco. Now, the UCSF team is reporting promising preclinical results for its aerosol formulation—and suggesting it could be used as a self-administered form of protection against the virus.

Llamas and other camelids fight off pathogens like viruses with tiny antibodies called single-domain antibodies or "nanobodies." The UCSF team used protein engineering to make a synthetic nanobody that prevents the spike protein on the surface of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from binding to healthy cells and infecting them.

In tests against the live virus in the lab, an aerosolized form of the nanobody rendered SARS-CoV-2 incapable of binding to the ACE2 receptor on healthy cells that line airways. The synthetic nanobody remained functional after it was freeze-dried, exposed to heat and aerosolized, they reported (PDF) in the preprint journal bioRxiv . The UCSF team dubbed the aerosol formulation "AeroNabs."

UCSF’s Walter said the llama-inspired AeroNabs could be used as a sort of personal protective equipment, a "stopgap" until the vaccines become available. UCSF is planning human trials and is in discussions with partners who could provide manufacturing and distribution support.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It seems going about my life as I already was is prevention enough. But where's the graft in that?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2020 2:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Perhaps useful for the 0.05% actually at risk from covid.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/18/2020 4:15 Comments || Top||


#4  ^I remember student dorms in that place. Central climate control and windows don't open - like being a f*cking spaceship.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 9:51 Comments || Top||


#6  ^Or just kissing llamas.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/18/2020 11:27 Comments || Top||

#7  My wife gets two nebulizer treatmenta a day...Albuterol Sulfate 0.5 ml with Sodium Chloride 0.9%. She also is on two inhalers:
Advair and Spiriva.
We have our fingers crossed.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/18/2020 19:30 Comments || Top||

#8  In #7 I meant to say no Covid 19 issues. Just COPD and she has history of some flare ups but none in past year.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/18/2020 19:34 Comments || Top||

#9  prayers be with you, CH and Loved One
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2020 20:49 Comments || Top||

#10  Thanks Frank.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/18/2020 23:01 Comments || Top||


Government
Trump rejects Pentagon proposal to cut funding for US military health care
[FoxBusiness] The plan would have cut funding by billions of dollars, the president said.

Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2020 00:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...One of the FIRST things we can expect from a Biden Administration would be an essential dismantling of the military health care system for pretty much everybody except active duty personnel. Obama's people couldn't quite bring themselves to do it; I have no doubt that Biden's team won't make the same mistake.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/18/2020 5:47 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Twitter apologizes after briefly suspending The Babylon Bee's account
[FoxNews] Spokesperson for social media giant says satire site 'was mistakenly caught in a spam filter'

Twitter offered an apology to the popular conservative satirical website The Babylon Bee Monday after the tech giant briefly suspended the site's account.

Bee editor-in-chief Kyle Mann initially alerted fans that Twitter had taken action against the outlet's account.

"Your account, TheBabylonBee has been suspended for violating the Twitter Rules. Specifically for: Violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam," Twitter wrote in an e-mail posted by Mann. "You may not use Twitter's services in a manner intended to artificially amplify or suppress information or engage in behavior that manipulates or disrupt's people's experience on Twitter."

The suspension sparked a major outcry among conservatives who launched a #FreeTheBee campaign on Twitter.

Less than an hour later, the Bee's account had been restored.

Also linked in article (from Jan 2020): Twitter CNN Attacks Babylon Bee: 'The Internet Is Only Big Enough For One Fake News Site'
Posted by: Crolump Sninemp2426 || 08/18/2020 00:10 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bullshit, a Twitter SJW did it because she was filled with rage.
Posted by: Elmung Hatrack5948 || 08/18/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Uh huh.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2020 17:44 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Clem || 08/18/2020 17:46 Comments || Top||



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