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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Trump Vows To Release Remaining JFK Assassination Files If Re-Elected
[ZH] Trump made the announcement in a Monday interview with The Messenger, vowing that every single remaining file on the JFK assassination would be made public.

"I released a lot, as you know. And I will release everything else," Trump said.

It would mean that some 4300 files that are still redacted would become available.

In 2018, Trump delayed the full release of the remaining JFK documents until October 2021, with Joe Biden later postponing that until December 2022, citing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Biden did release more documents, but thousands still remain hidden.

Trump refused to be drawn on what is in the files, noting "Well, I don’t want to comment on that. But I will tell you that I have released a lot. I will release the remaining portion very early in my term."

After a long pause, Trump admits Pompeo blocked release of JFK files....
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/16/2023 14:16 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One big fat YAWN. Sure, Donny, sure.

Oh, and now you're blaming it on Pompeo. Give me a fooking break.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/16/2023 14:19 Comments || Top||

#2  why not every file.... every single file ever!
Posted by: airandee || 05/16/2023 14:53 Comments || Top||

#3  The only way to convince people that you're not hiding something incriminating is to release the documents.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/16/2023 14:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Quick way to -

DeSantis Vows To Release Trump Assassination Files If Elected

Just saying. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/16/2023 15:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Look, it's like pulling teeth to get Pfizer, et al., to release their covid vaccine data (remember their request to protect it for 75 years?) or the Jan 6th info that is under lock and key for a while (25 years?), so, do we really expect any president to authorize the release of the JFK assassination files? Come on.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/16/2023 16:15 Comments || Top||

#6  It is probably worth writing legislation to prevent the 75 year memory hole stuff. I am not sure that it will do much good as there will just be an incentive to keep no records. It would work against what Pfizer is doing; the CIA and FBI are probably beyond reform or accountability.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/16/2023 17:23 Comments || Top||

#7  That's the absurdity about the Pfizer Fauci Flu vaccine files. To treat the files as if that info were TS/SCI is utterly ridiculous. And who is the FDA to arbitrarily decide to hold such information under the wraps for such a lengthy period? I suppose not surprising given the unholy alliance between Big Pharma and government (FDA/NIH, CDC, etc.).
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/16/2023 18:46 Comments || Top||


Florida convicted felon charged after fatally shooting machete-wielding man in self-defense

I find it hard to believe this activity is new.
Quite possible this has been happening for a long time and we have been 'protected' by our media controlling betters.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/16/2023 04:50 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Just following the old saying - don't bring a knife to a gun fight.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/16/2023 7:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Could have selected a softer target.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/16/2023 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  He looks nice. A keeper for some lonely soul.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/16/2023 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Had Brooks picked up a ballbat or a golf club and dispatched machete guy to an appropriate place, would Brooks still have a legal problem? Or is it just the firearm issue. Personnally, IMHO Brooks performed a public service.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/16/2023 11:28 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ PSH (Public Service Homicide)
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2023 11:46 Comments || Top||

#6  So what they are saying is that a convicted felon is not permitted to protect him/herself.

Dumb. I'm on this felon's side (and not because of his good looks and pretty hair).
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/16/2023 16:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Machete attacks dropped substantially after Raiders of The Lost Ark hit theaters.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/16/2023 22:35 Comments || Top||


Twelve Arrested After Motorcycle Gang Shootout in Georgia
[Breitbart] Two people were killed and four others injured during a shooting between rival motorcycle gangs in Augusta, Georgia, Saturday night.

WSB-TV noted that police received calls about the shooting at 6:35 p.m.

The Associated Press reported that the shooting broke out in a clubhouse that belonged to one of the gangs, and shell casings were found as far as a block away.

Over 150 shell casings were recovered, and Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree said, "With the amount of firepower and carnage we saw at the scene, this could have been a much more horrific event."

Roundtree indicated that his office arrested 12 people in connection with the shootout. Eleven are from somewhere other than Augusta, and ten face murder charges.

The two deceased individuals were identified as 30-year-old Keith Coates of Valdosta, Georgia, and 51-year-old Germayne Farrell of Daytona Beach, Florida.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2023 01:10 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I suspect that the back story will not read like Westside Story. Looks like nearly 100% of motorcycle gang members are carrying and capable.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/16/2023 5:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Low scores on both sides. More range time needed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2023 7:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Note: The Augusta "Outcast Motorcycle Club", is a Black motorcycle club.
This shooting happened in the immediate area of East Boundary GHETTO Black Democrat Plantation project and future voter baby factory.

The shooting involved members of the Outcast Motorcycle Club, based in Augusta, an a out-of-town motorcycle club called Thug Riders. The Fla. Thug Riders got their butts handed to them.


Lesson learned MC's don't mix well.


BTW: The Augusta area also has several Good Samaritan MC groups that are Christian based.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/16/2023 7:34 Comments || Top||

#4  I'd take the paid for view Outcast Motorcycle Club vs Antifa cage match.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/16/2023 7:47 Comments || Top||

#5  The Outcast Motorcycle Club was founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1969. Black riders typically weren’t allowed to join white clubs, so the name and identity of “Outcast” was chosen for the new group. The next chapter was formed in Atlanta, and there are now 45 chapters nationwide.
Posted by: Tarzan Grolump8219 || 05/16/2023 8:10 Comments || Top||

#6  "51-year-old Germayne Farrell" was my first clue
Posted by: Frank G || 05/16/2023 8:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Check out the name of the sheriff - Richard Roundtree!
Posted by: HeavyG || 05/16/2023 12:20 Comments || Top||

#8  You're damn right.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/16/2023 12:44 Comments || Top||

#9  MCs don’t mix well. indeed. Search “Milperra Massacre” for a prime example. Commancheros vs Bandidos.
Posted by: Clusorong Trotsky5960 || 05/16/2023 18:30 Comments || Top||


Google Co-Founder Larry Page Vanishes as Authorities Try to Subpoena Him in Jeffrey Epstein Investigation
[PJ] The intrigue behind the shadowy sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein somehow continues to climax, despite his untimely "suicide" in a New York jail cell almost four years ago.

Via Daily Mail:

The US Virgin Islands is unable to subpoena Google co-founder Larry Page over potential ties to Jeffrey Epstein because he cannot be physically located, federal court filings reveal.

A motion filed by the attorney general for the US Virgin Islands said investigators tried to identify a physical address at which Page, 50, could be personally summoned to appear in a court.

After identifying four possible addresses, none of which were ’valid’, prosecutors are requesting the federal government allow Page to be summoned via Alphabet, Google’s parent company, as he is still a member of its board.

It seems there are two potential explanations for Mr. Page’s disappearing act: either he himself doesn’t want to testify because of personal fears of what crimes it might implicate him in, or someone or something else doesn’t want Mr. Page discussing what he knows about Jeffrey Epstein’s activities.

I recently made a half-serious petition for Elon Musk to slap a Twitter "red check" on all known Jeffrey Epstein associates. When this ordeal is said and done, there might be a new Silicon Valley tech overlord to add to the list.

The subpoena efforts are part of the ongoing Virgin Islands prosecution of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, implicating the highest level of multinational banking as potential accomplices in the years-long trafficking ring.

Via CNBC:

CEO Jamie Dimon in an interview Thursday said he was "so sad" the bank had any business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — but denied the firm is legally liable for the dead predator’s sex trafficking.

Dimon also said, in the televised interview with Bloomberg, that if JPMorgan had known everything that has become public in recent years about its former customer Epstein "we would have done things differently."

What sad propaganda.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2023 00:54 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  US Virgin Islands says it cannot find Elon Musk to serve subpoena
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/16/2023 0:58 Comments || Top||


#3  So now we get to play Where’s Waldo and Carmen San Diego like we did with Ms Maxwell.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/16/2023 5:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Just Asking:

Will they find that he hung himself, tied to a 50lb concrete block in Lake Erie?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/16/2023 7:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Lake Erie is too shallow.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/16/2023 7:57 Comments || Top||

#6  plenty of DEEP water near the virgin islands
Posted by: 746 || 05/16/2023 9:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Where is Joseph Mifsud?
Where is Larry Page?
Posted by: mossomo || 05/16/2023 14:47 Comments || Top||

#8  You're looking for a guy that has a personal boat the size of a destroyer. And others.
If he don't want to be found, you won't.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/16/2023 15:46 Comments || Top||


Las Vegas judge sentences speeding woman on cocaine who killed drunk driver high on meth
Darwin always wins.
[8NEWSNOW] Crash happened in January 2022 in North Las Vegas

A woman who drove under the influence of cocaine and alcohol, killing another driver who was under the influence of alcohol and methamphetamine, was sentenced to probation, records showed.

Summer Butler, 39, pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges of reckless driving and driving under the influence for the January 2022 crash, the 8 News Now Investigators reported last year. On April 19, Judge Carli Kierny sentenced Butler to a 28-to-72-month prison sentence and three years of probation. Kierny suspended Butler’s sentence, meaning she would not have to go to prison if she stuck to the terms of her probation.
She'll be back
On Jan. 14, 2022, North Las Vegas police reported the two-car crash near Cheyenne Avenue and Civic Center Drive. Police said a car was making a U-Turn in a center lane, causing the front of another car, which Butler was driving, to collide with it. The driver and the passenger in the first car were both ejected from the vehicle, police said

While a trauma paramedic was attending to Butler’s injuries, "a small baggie containing a white substance fell out of the left side of her bra," police said. Police confirmed the substance was cocaine.

Nearly two weeks after the crash, blood tests confirmed Butler had cocaine and cannabinoids in her system. The blood draw also found Butler had an alcohol level of .102, which is above the legal limit.

The victim who died in the crash had a blood alcohol level more than three times above the legal limit. The person also had a substantial amount of methamphetaminei in their system, police said.
Sometimes what stays in Vegas really stays in Vegas.

Posted by: Beavis || 05/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My bad not WOT

The headline overly excited me
Posted by: Beavis || 05/16/2023 0:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Fixed. It’s a great headline, dear Beavis, not to mention the rest of the article. A classic Lurid Crime.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/16/2023 0:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Thankee TW

Visions of Nick Cage danced in my head
Posted by: Beavis || 05/16/2023 0:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Summer Butler protecting her fellow Las Vegans with her own body car.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/16/2023 7:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Trying to figure out how they got so dreadfully far from Florida.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/16/2023 9:27 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
O'Keefe Media Group Releases Undercover Video, FOX News Producer Reveals, ‘Tucker Getting Fired Was Part of It’ – The Dominion Settlement!
[Gateway] O’Keefe Media Group released undercover video on Monday of a FOX Insider spilling the beans on Tucker Carlson’s firing.
*Snicker*
FOX News at Night producer Sean Langille
...whose wardrobe seems much too precious for someone at that level, but what do I know about show business? I seriously miss the working ladies’ and gentlemen’s suits of yesteryear...
told undercover journalists that part of the Dominion settlement included Tucker Carlson being fired.

Sean Langille: $744 million to settle that.

Reporter: Oh, that was with the Dominion Company. What happened with that?

Sean Langille: Like, they gave him money. They say it wasn’t part of it, but we’re learning that Tucker getting fired part of that.

Reporter: Tucker getting fired was part of the Dominion lawsuit?

Sean Langille: Part of the settlement. Yeah, he’s ousted... And we got money from Pfizer... He (Tucker) brought up things that cost a lot of money. Cost the company a lot of money. This whole thing about January, it was an inside job. FBI agent on the inside encouraged it

This was the latest explosive video release by James O’Keefe and The O’Keefe Media Group.

James O’Keefe strikes again!
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2023 01:36 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How much did Fox save by canning Carlson?
Posted by: Bobby || 05/16/2023 5:35 Comments || Top||

#2  The settlement dollars were a ridiculous sham. They paid like 50 times the value of Dominion as a company. The sham portion is that the same company owns both Dominion and Fox so it was equivalent of a corp moving money between accounts.

In summary - there was a probable loss in ad dollars from Pfizer.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/16/2023 5:52 Comments || Top||

#3  FOX is dead to me. I no longer watch it. Dominion should be dead to all of us. Voting with paper and pencil worked here for over 300+ years. Why do we need computer voting ?

Rhetorical, I know.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2023 6:48 Comments || Top||

#4 
So basically the Freedom of Speech was slaughtered by a CCP owned company, with the help of the LSD's controlled courts, While the DC Swamp's Media helped the compromised & controlled DOJ hide the obviously known illegal violations from public view. All because it presented threats to the Coup, positions, future $$M offers, civilian employment and power.

So America citizens were again sold out, all to protect the DC Swamp's / Elite's power and wealth.

I hope, once the now hidden FACTS regarding Pfizer's Vax-ccident and the ease of vote counting compromise are uncovered by the "Gray Hats", Tucker sues to expose the facts and sticks it to all of them.

But he could always Accidentally Hang Himself, and they would call it Erotic asphyxiation. Like they have done with other journalists, politicians and well known persons that had too much insider knowledge or accidentally knew the wrong things about wealthy people.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/16/2023 7:05 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Remember that Heroic Witness to the Texas Mall Shooting? Well....
[MSN... no , really...] A witness to the Allen, Texas, mall shooting who has called for gun control in the aftermath of the tragedy has had his account disputed by Texas police, who say he has spread "misinformation" in multiple media interviews.

However, Spainhouer's dramatic retelling of the events has been disputed by the Allen Police Department, who released a statement on Friday claiming that he was not a "credible" witness.

"Allen Police Department wants to inform the public of discrepancies with statements made by a witness to several media outlets. Following the shooting at Allen Premium Outlets, Mr. Steven Spainhouer of McKinney, Texas gave multiple public accounts of his actions," the police statement said. "Inconsistencies between these public accounts and investigative facts led Allen Police Department to conduct a follow-up interview. During this interview, detectives determined that Mr. Spainhouer is not a credible incident witness."

Posted by: Thromoper Sleatch9746 || 05/16/2023 07:01 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
Hundreds Of Fighting Age Chinese Males Are Entering The Country Each Week - We Have No Idea Why
[ANDmag] Border Patrol agents encountered more than 4,200 illegal migrants from China between October 2022 and February 2023, compared to roughly 1,900 in all of fiscal year 2022, according to CBP data. The Border Patrol believes that number is going to continue to rise and has warned its agents to prepare.

“Chinese national apprehensions will continue to rise across the SWB [Southwest border]. primarily in Yuma and the Rio Grande Sector, as more Chinese nationals successfully reach the United States to request asylum and information about routes becomes more accessible.”

“CBP reporting suggests that given the apprehensions in RGV [Rio Grande Valley], it is unlikely that a new smuggling route were [sic] created, but that the recent uptick is indicative of an overall surge across the entire SWB [Southwest border].”
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/16/2023 12:13 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  They will be joining the UN maneuvers in our national forests.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/16/2023 22:31 Comments || Top||


China Rolls Out Nationwide ‘Pilot Programs' to Pressure People into Having Children
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/16/2023 00:34 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Commies



#3  The CCP appears to be trying to increase fertility by increasing bureaucracy. I don’t think they will be successful. I never see much PDA at the DMV.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/16/2023 4:46 Comments || Top||


#5  So weird.

Texas House passes bill banning child gender modification procedures
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/16/2023 6:00 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Plummeting Birthrates Are Biggest Threat to Western Society, big government and the teacher's unions. Warns Conservative MP

* Corrected, with some redundancy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2023 6:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Come on Beijing, we have Deep Blue cities that are models of subsidized human reproduction. You might need to work on the feral nature of the crop, but you can be sure of getting more than you need.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/16/2023 7:49 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 - that's why their importing their new population in the US.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/16/2023 8:01 Comments || Top||


A Massachusetts man has been arrested for providing information about Chinese dissidents in the US to China'
[TWITTER]

A Massachusetts man has been arrested for providing information about Chinese dissidents in the United States to China’s government, the Justice Department said Monday.

Litang Liang, 63, of Brighton, was arrested on May 9 on charges of acting as an agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) without notifying US authorities, according to the department.

The announcement of Liang’s arrest came on the same day as a court in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou revealed that a 78-year-old US citizen, John Shing-wan Leung, had been sentenced to life in prison for espionage.

The Justice Department said Liang, between 2018 and 2022, had passed information about Boston-area residents, dissidents and groups, including "community organizations with pro-Taiwan leanings," to Chinese government officials.

Liang organized a counter-protest against pro-democracy dissidents in Boston and provided names and provided photographs of dissidents and potential recruits to China’s Ministry of Public Security, the department said.

"We will not tolerate the PRC’s efforts to interfere with public discourse and threaten civic participation in the United States," assistant attorney general Matthew Olsen said in a statement.

"This case demonstrates, once again, the lengths that the PRC government, including its Ministry of Public Security, will go to target people in the US who exercise their rights to speak out against the PRC."

Liang could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the charge of acting as an agent of a foreign government. He could face an additional five years if convicted of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government.

The Chinese court in Suzhou revealed few details about the espionage case involving Leung, who is also a Hong Kong permanent resident, but it is likely to increase tensions between Beijing and Washington.

US-China relations are already strained over issues such as trade, human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
and Taiwan.

Washington and Beijing just ended an unofficial pause in high-level contacts over the US shooting down of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon in February.
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Does that mean that Swalwell and half of Congress is next? Probably not.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/16/2023 5:20 Comments || Top||

#2  A Chinese spy, not a native to Brighton or the US. This seems like an act of espionage of the type the KGB used to specialize in.

A long spell in federal prison is indicated, alas he will be exchanged for something "the big guy" deems more important.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 05/16/2023 8:34 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
NIH director nominated by "Joe Biden" has 116 grants from Pfizer totaling over $290 million
[Crispen Miller] So she's the perfect choice to manage NIH—a WOMAN, comfortably in Pfizer's pocket, and, as head of the National Cancer Institute, all for cancer patients getting jabbed-and-boosted.

Monica Bertagnolli receives applause after being recognized as the next director of the National Cancer Institute in August 2022 [in which post she’s done an aces job, since cancer rates are higher than they’ve ever been, and "experts" like Dr. Bertagnolli are completely "baffled" as to why—MCM].

Having overseen the government’s expenditure of billions on "cancer treatments" often likelier to cause more cancer than to cure it ("Cancer Moonshot" is the perfect name of such a program)—and having vigorously pushed for cancer patients to get "vaccinated," and then serially boosted—Dr. Bertagnolli has exactly what it takes to keep those NIH trains rolling to the end—MCM.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2023 15:42 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Biden Admin Considers Banning Chocolate Milk From Elementary Schools
[Daily Caller] The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is considering prohibiting elementary schools from offering chocolate milk to students in an effort to reduce kids’ sugar intake, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Where's Big Mike?
The USDA is weighing a ban on flavored milk, including chocolate and strawberry, from elementary and middle school meals, a decision that could be finalized by the 2025-2026 school year, according to the WSJ. Whether the department decides to restrict the milk from elementary schools, the flavored drinks would have to meet new restrictions on the amount of added sugar allowed. (RELATED: Republican AGs Sue Biden Admin Over ’Gender Identity’ Policy That Could Withhold School Lunch Funds)

"Flavored milk is a challenging issue to figure out exactly the best path forward," Cindy Long, administrator of USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, told the outlet. "We really do want to encourage children to consume milk and we also recognize the need to reduce added-sugar consumption."

The USDA mandates that school districts serve a minimum of two types of milks, one of which must be skim, plain or 1%. School districts are not allowed to serve whole or 2% milk but can offer flavored milk if it is fat free or 1%.

Flavored milk was one of the main sources of sugar in students’ school meals, increasing the push to remove the beverage from the nation’s school districts, the WSJ reported.

"From a public-health perspective, it makes a lot of sense to try to limit the servings of these flavored milks because they do have quite a lot of added sugar," Erica Lauren Kenney, a public-health and nutrition professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, told the outlet.

Thirty-seven distributors who supply 90% of the milk in schools pledged in April to limit their beverages to 10 grams of added sugars per 8 ounces to align with new USDA standards, according to the WSJ. The milk distributors sell nearly $2 billion of the beverage to school districts each year.

Ohforfokssake !
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2023 07:02 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is considering prohibiting elementary schools from offering chocolate milk to students in an effort to reduce kids’ sugar intake, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Sticking their fingers into your daily existence because they can and lust for such power.
"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/16/2023 7:44 Comments || Top||

#2  But Hunter can still have his crack...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/16/2023 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  "Flavored milk is a challenging issue to figure out exactly the best path forward"

Just stop the poisoning.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/16/2023 10:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Chocolate milk is racisss.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2023 10:15 Comments || Top||

#5  "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Agree
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/16/2023 10:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Fondly remembering taking 'milk money' to 1st grade. Early lesson in commerce.

10:00 every morning we were each issued a tiny carton of milk and two vanilla wafers. Nap time followed.

What goes around comes around.
I still take a 10:00 nap.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/16/2023 10:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Now is the time for artificial sweeteners to jump into the market!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/16/2023 10:52 Comments || Top||

#8  The latest salvo in their war to ban all things enjoyable from childhood.
Posted by: Tom || 05/16/2023 12:30 Comments || Top||

#9  The latest salvo in their war to ban all things enjoyable [except for the ruling caste]. FIFY
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/16/2023 12:44 Comments || Top||

#10  Utter b/s because we know damn well that sugar juice will still be on the menu. With choco milk, at least the kids get the calcium, vit D and the rest of the wholesome stuff. With Orange and Grape Flavor Sugar Juice, that stuff is only good for the diabetes.
Posted by: mossomo || 05/16/2023 13:19 Comments || Top||

#11  Ref #9: They'll always have Davos.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2023 14:00 Comments || Top||

#12  Chocolate milk to be replaced by bug juice?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/16/2023 14:06 Comments || Top||

#13  I'm sure there's lots of stuff in the typical school lunch that makes sugar seem benign.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/16/2023 14:08 Comments || Top||

#14  Ref #12 for SOTD ?

Can I get a second? An Amen?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2023 15:06 Comments || Top||

#15  Look for Michelle's new sugar "juice" to be readily available.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/16/2023 15:12 Comments || Top||

#16  PLEZi ingredients: water, apple juice concentrate,
soluble vegetable fiber, citric acid, watermelon juice concentrate, potassium citrate, ascorbic acid, orange juice concentrate, sodium citrate, magnesium lactate, natural flavors, stevia leaf extract, monk fruit extract, beta carotene, zinc oxide. Isn't zinc oxide sunscreen? It's 22% juice from concentrate. Sounds really healthy to me. (NOT)
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/16/2023 15:24 Comments || Top||

#17  'monk fruit'

Goodie! More 'stuff' from China!

Monk Fruit and Stevia are artificial sweeteners, and not really good ones at that.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/16/2023 15:39 Comments || Top||

#18  Isn't zinc oxide sunscreen?

Zinc Oxide is a beneficial food additive:
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/16/2023 17:07 Comments || Top||

#19  Most essential minerals are ingested in compound arrangements like chlorides, oxides, tartrates, etc.

That's how the body is able to metabolize and absorb them.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/16/2023 17:13 Comments || Top||

#20  @#14 - Thanks for the nomination, B.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/16/2023 18:50 Comments || Top||

#21  Killjoys.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/16/2023 18:50 Comments || Top||

#22  It's at times such as these we must ask Brother Maynard to consult the wisdom of the Food Pyramid.
Posted by: Cesare || 05/16/2023 18:51 Comments || Top||

#23  Confucius say, "Wonderful juice
Come from monkfruit. From name we deduce
That the taste may be sweet --
Though it never beat meat! --
But make students too hard to seduce."
Posted by: Unart Hupimp5504 || 05/16/2023 21:46 Comments || Top||

#24  Are they going to patrol the lunch room with Quik sniffing dogs?
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/16/2023 22:38 Comments || Top||

#25  Free Brawndo from cradle to grave!
But given how children behave...
Once the kids get enough
Let us hope that the stuff's
What the plants on the playground will crave.
Posted by: Unart Hupimp5504 || 05/16/2023 23:45 Comments || Top||

#26  Poignant stabs of nostalgia there... milk money! The resonant thumping and scraping of a funky old almost-empty rusty-lidded box of Quik! And later on, living higher on the hog, Carnation Instant Breakfast, any damn time of day whatever!
Posted by: Unart Hupimp5504 || 05/16/2023 23:59 Comments || Top||



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