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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chicago teen shot 24 times while buying snacks, family says
[NY Post] If this pic of the 15 yr old is up-to-date, I'm Trayvon Martin
A 15-year-old boy has died after he was shot 24 times near a Chicago gas station while he was out buying snacks, his family said.
24 times? Someone wanted him DRT
Sincere Cole was fatally injured in the Chicago Lawn area Saturday night when the unidentified gunman opened fire, WGN9 reported.

Police haven’t yet revealed if they have any suspects, and the boy’s family are begging any witnesses to come forward.

"I’ve got to stand up here and scream from inside out and make sure I get the word out so he won’t be another name, another number, another tag," his aunt and legal guardian, Brandy Martin, said from the scene of the shooting.

Martin said she hopes surveillance footage from nearby stores and apartments will help solve the crime.

The grieving aunt said Sincere was a "lovable kid" who was often misunderstood after his mother, Felon Smith, was fatally struck by a Chicago Transit Authority train in 2019.

She described him as an "ambitious" child who had taken initiative to better his life.
"He was an aspiring rapper, turning his life around"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/17/2022 12:15 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Skittles?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/17/2022 12:21 Comments || Top||

#2  evidently someone didn't love him to much.
Posted by: Chris || 02/17/2022 12:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Skittles and cough medicine. Sizzurp.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 12:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Martin’s daughter – Akeelah Addison Martin, 22 – was also murdered in 2019 in Fuller Park, and that case has never been solved.

Seems like a nice family
Posted by: Frank G || 02/17/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes. He's a really young looking 15. Figure he was a druggie and a bangah and he probably actually looked 28 last week.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 12:32 Comments || Top||

#6 
#2 evidently someone didn't love him to much.
Posted by: Chris 2022-02-17 12:23


...Was just thinking the same thing.

2-4 shots is a random, wrong-time-wrong-place thing.

Twenty-four rounds on the other hand, seems kinda...personal.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 02/17/2022 14:50 Comments || Top||

#7  Proof that snack food will kill ya!
(Newspaper logic.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/17/2022 15:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Whitey made him do this. Total bullshit.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 15:48 Comments || Top||

#9  "Dat movie, I seen it..."
His niece.
"So I know how he met his decease!
My uncle's attackers
Were twenty-four crackers
Who shot dat man one time apiece!"

Cuz they coldblooded like that. Probably run over his mama with that train, too.

Fats Waller
Posted by: Albemarle Squank5456 || 02/17/2022 16:22 Comments || Top||

#10  I live in Florida. It is an insult to a Cracker for someone to call me that. I'm not a cracker by heritage or DNA. I'm a yankee, but the sort that fits in here.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 16:35 Comments || Top||

#11  Perhaps the parent-person who gave 'Sincere' his name is an Oxford scholar, fond of Jacobean poetry?
from the OED
'sincere', adj.
d. (Obscure) Free from hurt; uninjured
Popular: free of holes
From John Dryden's Metamorphoses:

... and threw: the trembling weapon pass'd
Through nine bull-hides, each under other plac'd,
On his broad shield; and stuck within the last.
Achilles wrench'd it out; and sent again
The hostile gift: the hostile gift was vain.
He try'd a third, a tough well-chosen spear;
Th' inviolable body stood sincere,
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/17/2022 16:39 Comments || Top||

#12  Always after me Lucky Charms! (Johnny St. Cyr cover)
Posted by: Albemarle Squank5456 || 02/17/2022 16:44 Comments || Top||

#13  John Dryden delivered my favorite quote: "Beware the wrath of a patient man..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 16:47 Comments || Top||

#14  looks like Sincere wasn't, y'know, sincere-sincere
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/17/2022 17:57 Comments || Top||

#15  Probably a very well-meaning young man, if you get my meaning. Durrr.
Posted by: Albemarle Squank5456 || 02/17/2022 18:10 Comments || Top||

#16  Sending the message that those guys got to honor the territorial boundaries.
Posted by: KBK || 02/17/2022 18:56 Comments || Top||

#17  If he was hit 24 times, imagine how many rounds were fired!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/17/2022 23:00 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Morgan Stanley Under Fire for Minority-Only Intern Program
[Free Beacon] An advocacy group is pressing financial giant Morgan Stanley to end an internship program open only to gay students and select minorities.

The Project on Fair Representation on Tuesday sent a letter to Morgan Stanley and Princeton University warning that identity-based criteria for the bank’s 2022 Freshman Enhancement Program violate federal nondiscrimination laws. The internship is open only to "Black, Hispanic, Native American, and/or LGBTQ+ freshman undergraduate student[s]," according to Morgan Stanley’s website. Princeton has allegedly encouraged its students to apply for the program, according to the letter.

"Morgan Stanley and Princeton are leading institutions in our culture," the letter reads. "What you do matters not only because it affects the individuals involved, but also because you set an influential example for others. Pandering to activists with ’diversity, equity, and inclusion’ initiatives like this internship program is actively harming and racializing our already divided country."

The program keeps with the uptick in race-based benefits in recent years. Following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, gig economy behemoths like Uber and Postmates waived delivery fees for black-owned restaurants. And public health agencies have encouraged providers to prioritize certain minority groups when distributing scarce COVID-19 therapeutics.

Morgan Stanley’s program appears to use race and sexual orientation in a wooden fashion. While a holistic review that considered race and sex among numerous other factors might survive a legal challenge, the bank’s website and outside materials that describe the program explicitly state that candidates must be gay, black, Hispanic, or Native American to apply.


Related: LI - "Inside the WOKE indoctrination machine.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/17/2022 02:19 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's not just Morgan Stanley. Here's one of the reasons why:

Edward Jones pays $34 mln to settle bias claims by Black financial advisors
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/17/2022 2:32 Comments || Top||

#2  This ain't the 1960's people there is NO George Wallace blocking the doors.

Any quota form of hiring based on race, creed, or color is discrimination.

It is simple as.
A Business to be the best and profitable,
must seek out and hire the best.




Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/17/2022 8:07 Comments || Top||

#3  At Morgan Stanley minority is defined as someone who's ethical.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/17/2022 15:47 Comments || Top||

#4  If a niggah was making any money there, internal control would be looking at it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 15:50 Comments || Top||


These small devices could be the future of contact tracing
[Scripps National via 10 News] "Take the implant, or lose your job, financial accounts, insurance, just like in Canada"
COVID-19 contact tracing programs across the country are being scaled back as the omicron wave subsides.

Health departments are encouraging people to alert their close contacts themselves after testing positive, and those still working as contact tracers are focusing on the most vulnerable communities.

Now, scientists are working to make contact tracing more effective for the future.

"Maybe contact tracing wasn't successful, given the disease parameters and how COVID spread. But, in the future, there could be maybe a different disease that spreads in a slightly different way, and then contact tracing may be an extremely effective tool that's stopping the spread," said Saw Woo Nam, a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. "So, I think we just need to have these tools ready in case you know we have another pandemic."

Nam has been working on a radio system for contact tracing. The tiny devices can be worn, carried or mounted in areas with poor ventilation, like an elevator, to monitor the spread of disease.

The radio system devices, which use Bluetooth to communicate, help protect privacy because they're not linked to the person wearing them.

Nam also says the devices can be used in places where smartphones aren't continually monitored.
cultural score, anyone?
"It could be easier to deploy, say, in nursing homes or in schools with children," Nam said. "Kids could carry it, it could be a little more organized so kids can run around the playground and not worry about whether it would break because they smashed it against something."

Nam estimates mass-producing the devices would cost less than $10 a unit. He also sees the potential for using it with animals in the future to stop the spread of disease in the food supply.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Last August, I wore such a device on my wrist during a cruise. The cruise line sent two people home and isolated a handful of 'close contacts'.

You did have to show your vax card to get on board, so the sick were an early 'breakthrough' case.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/17/2022 8:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Going to be so easy to defeat with a rogue app on a phone. Stuff like this has to be stomped out in the earliest stages of deployment.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3  "Maybe contact tracing wasn't successful..."
Yeah, it didn't work, so let's do more of it.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/17/2022 15:49 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Flu Season Turned Out to be Mild, Despite Recent Omicron Surge
[Dallas Morning News] Throughout the pandemic, health experts have warned of the disastrous impacts from a severe flu season coupled with a COVID-19 surge on an already overwhelmed health care system.

And although people for some time feared "flurona," or getting the flu virus and COVID-19 at the same time, health experts say it’s been a relatively rare occurrence.

So far this year, Dallas County has had a mild flu season despite the rapid spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19 over the past several weeks. County and state trends mirror what’s been seen across the country — nationally, only 2.6% of all influenza tests since Oct. 3, 2021, have come back positive, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But how can the flu virus be so low when omicron was surging? Here’re some questions, and answers from the experts.
Lots of expert guessing at link.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/17/2022 09:45 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not "despite"; because of this variant, you nitwits.
It's so contagious because it's mild. The lethal variants die out with the host.

Why are these morons tossing all knowledge of evolutionary biology out the window?

Have we really descended so low?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/17/2022 19:45 Comments || Top||


Springfield U.S.Model 1877 Trapdoor .45-70 CAL. Cadet Rifle
[Guns International] Only 1000 made. All original and complete with all the original model features and no later parts changes. Excellent with approximately 90% of the blue and much of the case colors. Stock with the original finish with normal wear and dings. Old weathered minor hairline on right side of butt. Perfect markings and excellent oval "ESA/1877" Erskin Allin cartouche. Perfect working order and excellent bore. Hard to find model particularly with all the original parts.
ju
Link to Condon's shop in scenic Middleburg, VA. Excellent place for a Spring Saturday outing. Call before attending. If the Burg's cafe's are too crowded, venture on down to Upperville, just a few miles further West and visit the Hunter's Head.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/17/2022 06:33 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Been looking for a nice .50-120 buffalo rifle for my cowboy shooting arsenal. Every now and then CDNN has a Sunday auction that has some of that sort of stuff. Usually, it's too nice to use though.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 8:05 Comments || Top||

#2  I have an 1873 Springfield trap door 45-70. Kicks like a mule.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/17/2022 10:15 Comments || Top||

#3  .45-70 was one of the first crossover cartridges, black powder to smokeless. As a smokeless cartridge, it can be quite powerful. It was no slouch as a black powder cartridge either.

Marlin lever action 335 guide gun in modern .45-70. Pretty much all you should need for grizzley.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 10:22 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 10:27 Comments || Top||

#5  AR chambered in 45-70.
Posted by: Angstrom || 02/17/2022 11:47 Comments || Top||

#6  I loke the Nemo .300 Win Mag AR, but it's not practical for me. I'll stick with .223, 6.8 SPC and .308 semis.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 11:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Got a .300 RUM Rem 700 Sendero II for the long shots.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 12:00 Comments || Top||


Bob Saget's family files an injunction to PREVENT more details about his cause of death being made public after autopsy revealed head trauma so severe it 'was like he'd been hit with a baseball bat'
  • Bob Saget, 65, was found dead in his hotel room at The Ritz-Carlton hotel in Orlando after a stand-up show on January 9

  • On February 9, the family said he died of head trauma, adding he 'accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep'

  • Yet on February 11 the chief medical examiner of Orange and Osceola counties in Florida reported that Saget suffered severe skull fractures

  • Medical experts said the report showed far more significant injuries than a bump to the head, with injuries consistent with being hit by a baseball bat

  • On Tuesday Saget's family filed a lawsuit to block the release of records from the investigation of his sudden death
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/16/2022 13:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Piledriver

Posted by: Skidmark || 02/16/2022 14:18 Comments || Top||

#3  What pissed off his killer or whoever it was that hired them?
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/17/2022 0:10 Comments || Top||

#4  From what I gather the "hit by a baseball bat" statement comes from someone not involved in the actual autopsy.

Maybe we respect the family and forego the conspiracy theories on this one?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/17/2022 6:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Orange County, FL. A human toilet. Bob hooked up with some unsavory people while trying to hire personal entertainment. He is a victim of the Demings crime fambly.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 10:14 Comments || Top||

#6  I would add to the above. Bob died because the people who killed him had no idea he was a celebrity. Several people are going to disappear now. You won't hear about it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 10:18 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Bird Flu 2022
[Epoch Times] Authorities with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said bird influenza has now been detected in flocks of birds in Kentucky and Virginia, just days after the officials said that thousands of birds were sickened with the flu in Indiana.
This kind of thing happens fairly regularly, as far as I can tell. Israel had to kill off many of their chickens not long ago, as I recall.
In a statement, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service did not say whether the outbreak involved H5N1, the same highly pathogenic virus found extensively in wild birds and on the Indiana turkey farm.

Citing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the USDA said that "these avian influenza detections do not present an immediate public health concern."

"No human cases of these avian influenza viruses have been detected in the United States. As a reminder, the proper handling and cooking of poultry and eggs to an internal temperature of 165 [degrees] F kills bacteria and viruses," the agency added.

The disease is hitting the market as poultry supplies are down due to strong demand and labor shortages at meat plants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Government data showed U.S. frozen chicken supplies were down 14 percent from a year ago at the end of December while turkey inventories were down 23 percent.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh, good, now let's have chicken as expensive as steak. Something only the inner party can afford. Neener neener peasants!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/17/2022 5:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Get ready for a steady stream of crisis that only Biden/dems can solve. The MSM is going to go ape-$hit for the next 3 years.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 02/17/2022 6:10 Comments || Top||

#3  With Mid-terms nearing is this the best they can do?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/17/2022 8:08 Comments || Top||

#4  ^
No, look for more C19 hysteria, mass killings (even if they have to do it them selves), racism, tough guy Biden talk, get Trump committees, FBI round-ups, and of course, election cheating.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 02/17/2022 8:27 Comments || Top||

#5  The left is not the hyper competent juggernaut that the tinfoil hat conspiracy mongers on the right depict. The best they could do with their stolen election is to install Joe Bidet, who is a bad joke. They may have actually harmed their brand badly in the process. If the GOPe was not irretrievably stupid it would not even be a contest.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 8:31 Comments || Top||


Yea, that's it Tony! Dr. Fauci claims the easing of COVID mandates by blue states has 'nothing to do with politics' and they are only 'following the science': Virus cases plunge 44% in one week
Israel is easing Covid restrictions, as is much of Europe, and elsewhere no doubt. This genie is not going back in the bottle.
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci said the easing of COVID restrictions is not political, but instead due to the nation's 44 percent plunge in case positivity

  • 'I wouldn't say it's the politics. I think it's the different evaluation of what's right for a particular community,' Fauci told MSNBC Monday

  • He did, however, note the CDC still recommends mandates and warned that states should be careful not to lift restrictions 'prematurely'

  • His comments come as the Democratic-majority states of California, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York started easing back restrictions
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  can we be done with this piece of shit yet?
Posted by: Chris || 02/17/2022 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe he can move to Ottawa to keep the lock-down gaming going.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/17/2022 5:08 Comments || Top||

#3  If it's done by a politically approved blue state it's all good. If it's done by a red state, the same results are eeeeeevil!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 6:41 Comments || Top||

#4  How much do we need to pay this despicable little shit to stop destroying this country?

What's his price?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/17/2022 8:39 Comments || Top||

#5  The Worldometer "Serious/Critical" number has been falling every day since Jan. 24 and is now as low as it was Dec. 2.

The number of test to find one case is now about 10, which was pretty average until the Omicron spike, but a case turned up every five tests (more or less) in the middle of January. So I suppose that data more or less supports Tony's claim of a 44% drop in case positivity.

But what makes Tony think this trend will continue and not rebound before the midterms?
Posted by: Bobby || 02/17/2022 8:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Megalomania pushes out rationality.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 8:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Fauci also says that he, personally, IS the science, so...
Posted by: Angstrom || 02/17/2022 11:45 Comments || Top||

#8  "I am The Science!"
-Judge Medd
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/17/2022 16:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Fauci, being take from his cell: "You can't lethal inject me. FDA won't allow it."
Warden: "That's OK, Mr. Fauci. You will be electrocuted. FDA and CDC have no authority over that."
Member of the tie-down team: "Don't worry, you get to wear a mask..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 17:22 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Google is adopting privacy changes on Android similar to the ones Apple made on iPhone that cost Facebook billions of dollars
[Insider h/t Insty]
    Google just announced plans to change how apps like Facebook can track Android phone users.
    It's similar to a change Apple made last year to iPhone, which stops apps from tracking you across apps.
    Facebook said it stands to lose $10 billion this year due to the change Apple made to the iPhone.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/17/2022 08:59 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Man kicked off flight because he wore a mask that said ‘LET'S GO BRANDON'
[Right Scoop] A man was reportedly kicked off an Allegiant Airlines flight this week because he’d written ’Let’s Go Brandon’ on his mask.

The incident was originally recorded yesterday by Dgotch on Tiktok and they noted in the video that this was about the passenger having the phrase on his mask.

It was then picked up by LibsofTiktok on Twitter and here we are.

Watch:
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/17/2022 06:53 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Probably little more than a coincidence:

WIKI Sponsorships - In July 2018, Allegiant became the official airline of Minor League Baseball (MiLB).[61] In September of the same year, Allegiant partnered with the National Hockey League's Vegas Golden Knights as the "Official Domestic Airline Partner".[62] On June 3, 2019 soccer club FC Cincinnati announced that they had entered a multiple-year agreement with Allegiant making them the club's official airline partner. The agreement includes club and stadium assets, game-day experience and more. Allegiant also offers its popular Fan Flyaway Program to FCC fans. FCC's TQL Stadium also has a entry gate named after the airline.[63] On August 5, 2019, Allegiant inked a 20-year deal with the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) for the naming rights to the team's new home, Allegiant Stadium, in Paradise, Nevada.[64] Allegiant is also a main sponsor with GMS Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series. In January 2020, Allegiant became the official airline of the Indianapolis Colts.[65]
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/17/2022 7:02 Comments || Top||

#2  IF the person was just wearing a mask and not being annal cavity while doing it.

An since the airline is a Interstate commercial business. This could be headed to the US Federal Courts for BIG $$$$.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/17/2022 7:34 Comments || Top||


#4  They will never stop, so sue them into extinction.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/17/2022 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes. Lawfare for all.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
US troop reinforcements arrive near Poland-Ukraine border
[IsraelTimes] Dozens of US paratroopers land at a Polish airport near the Ukrainian border as part of a deployment of several thousand to bolster NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
’s eastern flank amid tensions with Russia.

AFP news hounds witness the soldiers leaving a Boeing C-17 military transport plane and boarding buses at Rzeszow Airport, located around 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the border with Ukraine.

Another group of soldiers, around a dozen, board two Black Hawk helicopters that then took off. Two Chinook helicopters are also seen landing.

Armored cars, military trucks, containers and dozens more soldiers are seen at a makeshift camp set up in and around a glass-covered conference center opposite the airport terminal.

"We don’t know yet," a sergeant manning a checkpoint into the camp, who declined to be named, tells AFP when asked how long they might stay.

The US has said it is planning temporarily to deploy a total of around 4,700 additional soldiers to EU and NATO member Poland in response to Russia’s troop buildup around Ukraine.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The US has said it is planning temporarily to deploy a total of around 4,700 additional soldiers to EU and NATO member Poland in response to Russia’s troop buildup around Ukraine.

...once they've completed their blood clotting shots and Bolshevik indoctrination. Nothing works better than telling the troops that there's nothing worth dying for before sending them off.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/17/2022 5:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Dozens of US paratroopers land at a Polish airport near the Ukrainian border as part of a deployment of several thousand to bolster NATO

Yeah, never mind all that. The question is whether the paratrooper contingent is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We can only hope that there are some non-binary pararoopers in the group. The Spetsnaz would be quaking in their high heels.
Posted by: Matt || 02/17/2022 11:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Mission briefing in the old SMEAC style (for you younger folks Situation, Mission, Execution, Admin and Logisics, Command and Contraol)
Mission: Small unit token symbol of meaningless tactical value beyond speedbump publicity moment for a national command authority who value you only as a play-action figure. In the event of combat, BOHICA or BOAKYAG-B as situationally determined!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/17/2022 11:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Not our circus. Not our monkeys.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 11:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Wasn't Putin supposed to invade Ukraine yesterday? Did he get cold feet after hearing Brandon's tough talk?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/17/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Hey, we've got all the pronouns

Apologies to Tom Lehrer:

Hooray for the Folk Song Pronoun Army,
We will show you the way.
'Cause we all hate rayciss, Russkies, and tranzphobes,
And folks that deny us our Ghey.

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/17/2022 13:43 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ That's pathetic. This isn't a joke. Grow up.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 13:46 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ ?
[assuming you're serious, M.] Our troops won't be in harm's way.

They're only there to create a bargaining chip that allows us to be seen to make a tit-for-tat concession when demanding that Russia pull back some of their forces.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/17/2022 13:51 Comments || Top||

#9  Tripwire. Stupid idea if all the tripwire does is trigger whining. Which is all it will do.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 13:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Our "diplomats" exist only to sell us out. We don't need to be at war with anyone.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 13:55 Comments || Top||

#11  The only position the US needs: We won't fight you, but we won't trade with you either. Not a problem for Russia, but a big problem for China. This exact stance triggered WW II between the US and Japan. Doesn't mean it's not a valid bargaining position.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 13:58 Comments || Top||

#12  has no second choice if the US stops importing their crap. They can't militarily force us to trade with them.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 14:01 Comments || Top||

#13  China has no second choice
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 14:02 Comments || Top||

#14  FFS, even Ukraine's president came out and told the BBC interviewer, in no uncertain terms, that he's backing away from insisting on NATO membership: "It's not about NATO membership; it's about Ukraine's independence."

Look at his eyes. Read his body language. Even his words are unmistakable: he wants a diplomatic solution, which requires a formal end to Ukraine's "NATO ambitions."

As predicted. The diplomatic solution will be couched in terms of "INDEPENDENCE" for Ukraine.
Russia Will interpret "independence"to mean no NATO membership for Ukraine. Ukraine will accept that.

And the US will pretend that "independence" means no Russian domination of Ukraine.

Everyone will accept that. And like it, and climb down, the way we and the Chinese have avoided war for 50 years thanks to our diplomatic sleight of hand about Taiwan and "one China."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/17/2022 14:09 Comments || Top||

#15  Have you figured out the Ukraine thing is totally designed to blind your eyes, Merrick? It ain't happening. What is the magician doing while you are listening to his patter?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 14:17 Comments || Top||

#16  Yes I have, and am investing accordingly... with favorable results
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/17/2022 14:34 Comments || Top||

#17  I'm totally on your side, Merrick. It may not seem that way as I talk, but believe me, I only seek to make everyone look hard at their existing positions.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 14:52 Comments || Top||

#18  I hear you M.
The only certainties wrt Ukraine are that that miserable collection of unhappy souls will never
- join NATO,
- become a normal, orderly 1st world nation, or
- cease providing grifting opportunities for the American UniParty
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/17/2022 15:02 Comments || Top||

#19  It's a given stupid people will stumble in the worst ways. We are at a point where we must hope the Russians are not stupid. I don't think they are.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 15:06 Comments || Top||

#20  Really. A few public executions here would solve the foreign grift problem quickly. Won't happen, but a boy can wish, eh?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 15:07 Comments || Top||

#21  I like the idea of green voters being forced to pedal bicycles to power an electric chair on the Ellipse.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 15:09 Comments || Top||

#22  My fantasies are not so lurid as yours, M.

Me, I just want to separate from these sick m0therfvckers
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/17/2022 15:11 Comments || Top||

#23  They are wasting our air, Merrick. I will back down to nitrogen asphyxia so we can get some useful organs for some suffering children.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 15:14 Comments || Top||

#24  And of course, any old piece politically offensive of sh*t whose organs are useless should die hard.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 15:17 Comments || Top||

#25  The only t-shirt you need: "We should forgive our enemies- right after they are taken out back and shot."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 15:20 Comments || Top||

#26  I wouldn't want their organs. They're likely full of blood clots
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/17/2022 15:23 Comments || Top||

#27  Or commie genes. Useless either way...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2022 15:25 Comments || Top||

#28  "How dare you not attack when we told everyone you would."
Posted by: badanov || 02/17/2022 17:55 Comments || Top||


Russian planes intercepted US Navy aircraft over Mediterranean, says Pentagon
*Sigh*
[IsraelTimes] Three US Navy aircraft were intercepted by Russian planes in an "unprofessional" manner over the Mediterranean Sea last weekend, the Pentagon says.

"While no one was hurt, interactions such as these could result in miscalculations and mistakes that lead to more dangerous outcomes," US Navy Captain Mike Kafka says in a statement.

The three P-8A maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft "experienced unprofessional intercepts by Russian aircraft" while "flying in international airspace over the Mediterranean Sea," Kafka says.

He says the United States has "made our concerns known to Russian officials through diplomatic channels."

According to a US official who asked to remain anonymous, one of the Russian planes came dangerously close to a US aircraft.
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White House calls Russian report of mass graves misinformation
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

That little thing like the excavations in in Donetsk, reported well before this latest shit show began-- that stuff is all bullshit.

[NewsFrontInfo] White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that Russian reports about the discovery of mass graves of civilians in the Donbass may be disinformation, according to Twitter White House.

Psaki believes that a Russian "attack" is "possible at any moment" and will be preceded by a “manufactured pretext that Russia is using to invade,” which could be “allegations of provocations in the Donbass” and false state media reports.
And I believe Jen Psaki will someday come to my home and give me a custom lap dance.Doesn't mean it's the Gospel Truth.
One can only hope you’re wrong. Do you know where her bottom has been?
It is worth recalling that the Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the use of prohibited means and methods of war after the discovery of mass graves of civilians in the Donbass. According to the agency, in August-October 2021 five spontaneous mass graves were discovered in the area of ​​​​several settlements, from which the remains of at least 295 civilians were exhumed, including women who died as a result of shelling by Ukrainian armed forces in 2014.

The department also stressed that since April 2014, Ukrainian security forces have been neglecting international agreements and have been shelling settlements in Donbass, using weapons designed to most effectively destroy people and infrastructure. The result of such strikes was not only destroyed residential buildings and social facilities, but also the death and injury of thousands of civilians, Russian-speaking groups that did not take part in the conflict.

Posted by: badanov || 02/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You have your misinformation and we have ours.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/17/2022 12:35 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Hackers Crash GiveSendGo, Leak 98,000 Trucker Donor Names to Help Trudeau 'Follow the Money'
[PJMedia] “Hello GiveSendGo Grifters and Hatriots," read the screen after organized hackers crashed the site, plundered data, and leaked the names of 98,000 people who gave money to the Freedom Convoy truckers via the crowdfunding website.

Canada’s government-sponsored news media, CBC, began reporting details of the plunder soon thereafter. Indeed, the government journalists are reportedly emailing people who gave money to the fund to demand they explain themselves.

Rebel News reported that CBC news hounds were "doxxing Trudeau’s political opponents. They’re teeing them up for financial punishments. This is not journalism, any more than Der Sturmer or Pravda was journalism."

The GiveSendGo crowdfunding website was disabled for two days after the hack.

GiveSendGo’s website has been restored.

CBC reports that about 56% of the donors to the website come from the United States. It’s unclear what their legal liability is under Trudeau’s Emergency Act, but you can bet Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan...
will help him.

The hack came after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
...hereditary prime minister of the same country that once produced McKenzie King...
and his cabinet announced that, under terrorism laws, they would freeze all bank accounts and halt insurance to Canadian truckers who participated in the protests. Government media outlet CBC reported that, starting immediately, the federal government declared "crowdfunding and payment services providers must register with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)."

Following this announcement, Trudeau invoked the Emergency Act, in which he took over all policing and arrogated to himself the power to change all laws by fiat.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/17/2022 08:53 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Apparently the "hacker" outed himself, and is now seeing some "consequences" of some sort, but not from the government
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 02/17/2022 17:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Canada = proving grounds for eventual USSA martial law
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/17/2022 17:55 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Very possible.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/17/2022 18:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Canada's where consumer internet companies conduct trials of new features before they're released to the Big Show.

Beta-testing of
- doxxing using dual-purpose govt hackers (check)
- media leaks for shaming dissidents (check)
- forced exclusion from banking system (check)

Next round of feature testing:

- forced confessions + pressure on family members esp children to condemn deplorable parents

- incarceration in concentration camps

- testing of combined Big Tech/Big Banks' credit, shopping, online, location-tracking and other behavioral data to create and enforce new Social Credit system
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/17/2022 19:53 Comments || Top||



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