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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Biden (or his....media ready double) goes for beach bike ride as Zelenskyy warns of WWIII
[American Wire] Somehow, the image of President Joe Biden bicycling on the beach while war rages in Eastern Europe is not a good optic, though it’s fair to say the 79-year-old president has a busy week ahead of him.

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel noted in a tweet that Biden "is currently on his 36th trip to Delaware on a beach vacation," and he was photographed riding a bicycle in Gordon’s Pond State Park in Rehoboth Beach, Del., on Sunday.

Of course, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not the only pressing issue at the moment, as the GOP noted in a tweet sharing that there’s also record gas prices, historic inflation and the wide open southern border with Mexico, where migrant crossings are trending higher that last year, which saw nearly 2 million illegal immigrants cross.

And then there’s the addition "weakness on the world stage"...
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/21/2022 12:44 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry, IMA not believing that one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/21/2022 12:50 Comments || Top||

#2  On the Beach
Posted by: Chusoger Thrusosh4089 || 03/21/2022 12:57 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Some truth to be found there:

The phrase "on the beach" is a Royal Navy term that means "retired from the Service."[5] The title also refers to T. S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men, which includes the lines:

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/21/2022 13:00 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Chusoger Thrusosh4089 || 03/21/2022 13:03 Comments || Top||

#5  I worked for a time at a consultancy where "on the beach" meant unbillable hours.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2022 13:24 Comments || Top||

#6  the Biden family has no unbillable hours
Posted by: Chusoger Thrusosh4089 || 03/21/2022 13:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Now tell me to pull the other finger.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/21/2022 13:40 Comments || Top||

#8  A man has got to know his limitations...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/21/2022 15:29 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK Hospital Denies a Victim Was Raped Because the Ward Was for 'Women Only'
[PJMEDIA] There are times when reading about how we are adapting to a many-gendered world that I have to check to make sure I’m still on good old Planet Earth and have not been transported to Cloud Cuckoo Land to live with people who deny the reality of existence.

The Cloud Cuckoo Landers who 30 years ago may have been living under lock and key in some insane asylum are now taking their place in positions of authority and are dictating how the rest of us should view reality.

It would be amusing if there weren’t real-life victims of this nonsense.

A British woman reported to police that she had been raped during a stay in a hospital. But the police were told that simply wasn’t possible because the ward where the woman claims she was raped was for "females only." And since there "was no male in the hospital, therefore the rape could not have happened."
Eh? Even XX females — or X0 females, for that matter — can commit rape. It requires equipment not provided by nature, but objects to meet the need are easy enough to find. I’m sure even in benighted England the law defines rape as unwelcome penetration, not unwelcome p3nile penetration.
Update: According to Wikipedia, England is actually that benighted. Only p3nile penetration is rape; otherwise it is the lesser crime of assault by penetration. In America we are more logical.
Emma Nicholson, the Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, stood before the members of the House of Lords and pointed out that the rape was caught on CCTV, but it took nearly a year for the hospital to admit there was a transgendered person in the ward who raped the victim.

Nicholson claimed that the alleged incident was the direct result of a National Health Service policy known as Annex B, which orders hospitals to place patients in single-sex wards according to their preferred gender identity.

"The result of Annex B is that hospital trusts inform ward sisters and nurses that if there is a male as a trans person in a female ward, and a female patient or anyone complains, they must be told that it is not true, there is no male there," Nicholson said.

She added that the policy "gives priority to trans people over women" and, as a result, erodes the "dignity, privacy and safety" of women and girls. (emphasis added)

According to the baroness, the victim came close to a nervous breakdown after spending nearly a year being told that the rape that she experienced never happened. And the hospital would have actually kept denying the victim’s claims if the CCTV cameras hadn’t shown the truth.
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  reductio ad absurdum
rĭ-dŭk′tē-ō ăd əb-sûr′dəm, -zûr′-, -shē-ō

noun

Disproof of a proposition by showing that it leads to absurd or untenable conclusions.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/21/2022 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  The law does prosecute women for seducing boys and sexually abusing minors. Why can't a case be made for a 'girl with penis' (ugh) raping a woman. After all it is all about the penis?

The law just wants to keep creating categories of people it does not have to bother with enforcing itself upon.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/21/2022 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Modifying the admissions process is not what is needed. Jailing the rapist and everyone involved in the cover-up is what is needed.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/21/2022 12:54 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Georgia ballot harvesting probe advances as state elections board approves subpoena
[justTheNews] Action allows Secretary of State investigators to compel testimony, delivery of evidence.

The Georgia Elections Board has approved a subpoena to secure evidence and testimony in an ongoing investigation into whether third-party liberal activists illegally gathered thousands of absentee ballots in the 2020 general election and a subsequent runoff that determined Democrat control of the U.S. Senate.

The vote was a major win for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who announced the investigation into alleged ballot harvesting in January and was seeking the subpoena authority to assist the probe.

The subpoena power will allow Raffensperger's team to secure evidence about a whistleblower who alleged to an election integrity group that he participated in a large operation to gather ballots in which activists were paid $10 for each ballot they delivered.

Georgia law expressly prohibits third parties from collecting, gathering or delivering absentee ballots, except in the case of immediate relatives.

A vote on the subpoena was delayed by weeks as the Elections Board could not decide on a new chairman. But at a meeting last week, the board unanimously chose member Matthew Mashburn to be acting chairman.

The board then voted out the subpoena in a closed session, according to audio of the meeting reviewed by Just the News.

"All the board members are here," Mashburn said after emerging from the closed-door session. "A quorum is in order. We went into executive session for purposes of discussing pending and potential litigation and for the board to authorize subpoenas in case no. 2020-10-Dougherty County and 2022-003 ballot harvesting."

Officials said the new subpoena powers will be used by Raffensperger's office to secure evidence from the election integrity group True the Vote, which filed a complaint in November saying it had acquired videotapes, a whistleblower's admission and cell phone location records showing what appeared to be a widespread ballot harvesting operation in the November 2020 general election and January 2021 election runoff.

The group's complaint said surveillance camera footage showed ballot traffickers delivering stacks of ballots to drop boxes between midnight and 5 a.m. and cell phone records showed as many as 240 activists made such deliveries.

The group said a cooperating whistleblower to whom it granted John Doe anonymity admitted he was paid $10 for each ballot he collected and delivered and that scores of others were involved in the operation.

"John Doe described a network of non-governmental organizations that worked together to facilitate a ballot trafficking scheme in Georgia," True the Vote wrote in its complaint. "John Doe claimed to have been one of many individuals paid to collect and deliver absentee ballots during the early voting periods of the November 2020 General Election and the January 2021 Runoff Election."

Raffensperger, who in 2019 led an effort to update state law to explicitly outlaw harvesting, told Just the News earlier this month that his investigators want to secure the identity and cooperation of the whistleblower and to follow the money to who funded the operation.

"We need to get a subpoena for the fella who this John Doe is," Raffensperger explained. "Was he paid? How much was he paid? And then who paid him. And we're going to follow the money, and we're going get to the bottom of it. And we're going to prosecute this, if we find that there's substance to it."

State law currently allows only the ballot traffickers to be prosecuted, and does not invalidate the ballots of voters who are lawfully registered to vote but give their ballot to a third-party.

Some state officials told Just the News they have been privately discussing asking the Georgia legislature to create penalties for voters who surrender their ballots to a third party.

The Georgia investigation comes as other states have begun turning up evidence of ballot harvesting during the 2020 election.

Arizona has prosecuted several activists for illegally collecting third-party ballots, while the former state Supreme Court justice named to oversee an election integrity probe in Wisconsin recently offered evidence that third parties may have cast ballots on behalf of physically or mentally incapacitated nursing home residents.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2022 08:59 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:


Fauci appears to dismiss plans for retirement
[NYPOST] Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday appeared to back-track on retiring any time soon, saying he wants to wait for the US to be "really out" of the COVID-19 pandemic before he moves on.

The 81-year-old had started buzz about his potential retirement Saturday when he told ABC’s "Start Here" podcast, "I have said that I would stay in what I’m doing until we get out of the pandemic phase, and I think we might be there already."

But in an interview on ABC’s "This Week" on Sunday, the White House chief medical adviser was asked about whether the country was nearing the end of the pandemic and if he planned to get "some rest" at that point.

"I’m not so sure, George," the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases​ told anchor George Stephonaupolous. "I want to make sure we’re really out of this before I really seriously consider doing anything different. We’re still in this.
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  81 year old REMF 'Baby Boomer'. only a bureaucrat last 20-30 years
Posted by: magpie || 03/21/2022 1:03 Comments || Top||

#2  The beagle killer is just another power-hungry sociopath.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/21/2022 8:19 Comments || Top||


#4  He remains ready for his close-up whenever Mr. DeMille gets around to it.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/21/2022 12:48 Comments || Top||


#6  Fauci, born in 1940, took a job with the National Institutes for Health (NIH) is 1968. He thus has over 50 years of federal service.

He has been director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Deceases since 1984. That is almost 40 years in same job. He was offered the job of head of NIH several times but turned it down.

The man just loves his work.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/21/2022 19:04 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Kamala loses her TENTH staffer since June: VP's National Security Adviser Nancy McEldowney joins staff exodus after widely-criticized trip to Poland and Romania
  • Nancy McEldowney will be succeeded by her deputy Philip Gordon, according to an internal email

  • She said that she is stepping down to 'focus on some pressing personal matters'

  • McEldowney is a 31-year veteran of Foreign Service, having served as ambassador to Bulgaria, and deputy chief of mission in both Azerbaijan and Turkey

  • Last week Harris' deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh revealed she is moving to the Defense Department

  • It marks the latest departure as Harris looks to recover from poor poll ratings

  • Last year Harris was rocked by reports of unhappiness in her office
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2022 12:03 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wonder when the person who was like, "Harris would be a great Veep pick; we can get her polished and trained up." falls out of a window.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/21/2022 14:19 Comments || Top||

#2  "Boss, we got her as polished as she is going to get."

OK, send her out.



*sound of window breaking, decrescendo lonely wail*
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/21/2022 18:14 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 - Polling and a "we need a black female". After all, it seems to have given us a great VP and a POTUS nominee, right?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/21/2022 19:56 Comments || Top||

#4  "We've selected these crackerjack hacks
From McMansions and shacks by the tracks--"
"Shit, if that's all we got,
We deserves to get shot!"
"... to 'encourage' the rest of you Blacks!"
Posted by: Eohippus Foxworthy2607 || 03/21/2022 20:56 Comments || Top||

#5  At a Georgia Camp Meeting, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Posted by: Eohippus Foxworthy2607 || 03/21/2022 21:09 Comments || Top||


House passes bill to outlaw hair-based racial discrimination
Hairlessness does not a Skinhead, make.
Which reminds me: time for a haircut
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2022 09:26 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In my lifetime I have never seen a deeper trivialization of our governmental power. Every single legislator that participated in this moronic, racist insult to the people who pay their salaries needs to be bitch-slapped and laughed out town. This isn't about fairness, it is institutionalized race entitlement, at its barely concealed philosophic core ,this is about creating a privileged, exempt racial class.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/21/2022 12:14 Comments || Top||

#2  As I said. Zimbabwification.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/21/2022 12:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Hair today, gone tomorrow
Posted by: Slock Grang7638 || 03/21/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#4  What next?
Gold Teeth?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/21/2022 12:38 Comments || Top||

#5  If it won’t pass in the Senate, it’s just posturing for the rubes. It’s for preventing this kind of nonsense becoming the law of the land that the Senate exists.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/21/2022 13:19 Comments || Top||

#6  I get that TW, but its shameless posturing the PASSED the House of Representatives. That descent into garbage legislation will be passed to a near rubber-stamp Senate. It is how far standards have devolved that honestly disturbs me. A mere three or four minds like Murkowski, or Collins or Romneyin the Senate are all that might stand between this and Biden's pen.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/21/2022 13:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Fair enough, NoMoreBS.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/21/2022 18:44 Comments || Top||


Adam Kinzinger threatens Israel with aid cutoff if Israel refuses to take Ukraine's side vs Russia
The Corbynization of the Democratic Party on full display.
Except he's a "Republican"
Whoops! So he is. Does he generally dislike giving Israel money, or is this an emotional response to the situation in Ukraine?
[Twitter]

Posted by: Snoluse Chomp9315 || 03/21/2022 08:48 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I am starting to see how the entire world could be thrown into a tizzy because somebody shot an archduke.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/21/2022 9:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Guns of August '14 sequel. Missiles of March '22.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/21/2022 9:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Seven Days in May
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2022 9:54 Comments || Top||

#4  BTW isn't this the rationale, to cut off aid, used by Pelosi Inc for the second impeachment of Trump?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/21/2022 9:57 Comments || Top||

#5  This crooked, Illinois SOB has NO business suggesting or making US foreign policy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/21/2022 10:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Kinzinger has no power to do anything. Lame duck RINO POS
Posted by: Frank G || 03/21/2022 11:36 Comments || Top||

#7  LC "tiny hands" is just polishing his cred for whomever he intends to go to work for after leaving Congress.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 03/21/2022 22:43 Comments || Top||


Iowans respond to delayed project giving Apple $200 million in public subsidies: 'It's just welfare'
[FoxNews] Des Moines suburb residents slam government's secretive deal with Apple

Residents of a Des Moines suburb criticized a government agreement with Apple that gave the tech giant $200 million in public subsidies for a project that's years behind schedule.

"It’s not fair. They don’t give me anything," a Waukee man told Fox News. "I go there as a citizen, as a single person, they’re not going to listen to me."

Apple reached an agreement with state and local officials in 2017 that gave the tech giant $213 million in public subsidies in exchange for 50 permanent jobs at a data center it would build in Waukee. Residents have criticized the agreement for lacking transparency and for its perceived unfairness.

Apple, which reached a market value of $3 trillion in January, planned to open the data center in 2020, according to the company's initial announcement. Apple now plans to complete the project in 2027, according to the Des Moines Register.

Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2022 07:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:



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Mon 2022-03-21
  Russia tells US all diplomatic ties to be severed soon.
Sun 2022-03-20
  Elon Musk's satellites help Zelensky dominate the skies
Sat 2022-03-19
  Commander of 8th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District: Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvichev is no more
Fri 2022-03-18
  ISIS ‘lover’ blows up aunt’s house in Baghdad for refusing his marriage proposal
Thu 2022-03-17
  Tens of thousands of Syrians enlisting to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine war
Wed 2022-03-16
  Amphibious Assault On Odesa Could Be Imminent According To Satellite Imagery
Tue 2022-03-15
  Over 500 'Repentant' Boko Haram Terrorists Graduate From Rehabilitation Camp In Gombe
Mon 2022-03-14
  War Crime of the first order. Russia burns Mariupol to the ground!
Sun 2022-03-13
  Missiles fired from Iran fall near US consulate in Erbil, Iraq
Sat 2022-03-12
  Mosque of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent shelled by Russians in Mariupol. Turkish citizens hiding inside.
Fri 2022-03-11
  Putin Places Spies Under House Arrest - CEPA
Thu 2022-03-10
  Russia’s FM said they will no longer participate in the Council of Europe
Wed 2022-03-09
  Ukraine says no longer insisting on NATO membership
Tue 2022-03-08
  Is this a Russian ‘Barguzin’ nuke weapons train in the Ukraine?
Mon 2022-03-07
  Ukraine's Government Opens Website To Recruit Foreigners To 'International Legion'
Sun 2022-03-06
  5 Members of Family Beheaded in Herat, 2 Girls Killed in Balkh


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