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Post by mhbruin on Sept 26, 2022 8:27:57 GMT -8
A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, 'I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.'
The husband replies, 'Your eyesight's damn near perfect.'
And then the fight started.....
Just a Few Days Ago I Wrote Nice Things About Musk. Oops!
“Activating Starlink.”
That is how billionaire Elon Musk generated headlines last week as he often does, in a few terse words on Twitter. This time, he was referring to the ongoing protests in Iran.
He was making a promise to allow Iranians affected by state-imposed internet restrictions to use his satellite internet network operated by SpaceX. And the United States government said it would support his efforts by easing its sanctions on Iran by promoting the free use of the internet and issuing the necessary permits to make the process work.
In order for Starlink to work, thousands of Starlink terminals would need to be smuggled into Iran. This would probably cost millions of dollars – which Tehran would view as a security risk.
Unless SpaceX decides to make its subscriptions free for Iranians, many will not be able to afford them because of the country’s ailing economy made worse by US sanctions that have cut Iran off from international payment systems.
News of Starlink’s “activation” has circulated wide and far among Iranians, many of whom have pinned their hopes on the service.
But so far, the only tangible result has been hackers who published malware under the guise of software required to connect to Starlink in order to dupe users.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 26, 2022 8:29:05 GMT -8
Uber Mules?
A bag of white stuff. A cigar box wrapped tightly in duct tape. A bottle of pills labeled as a prescription amphetamine.
Drivers for Uber’s courier service don’t always know what’s inside the suspicious-looking packages that people ask them to deliver — but some know they don’t want to be a part of it.
NBC News spoke to six drivers from around the U.S. and Australia who said they are worried they’re being used as unwitting “drug mules,” ferrying across town what they believe may be narcotics while doing work for Uber Connect, a courier service the tech company started early in the coronavirus pandemic.
It’s hard to determine if a package contains drugs or not. And that leaves drivers in a bind: Drive the packages to the police, or go ahead and make the delivery?
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 26, 2022 8:30:56 GMT -8
Those Wacky Borrow-and-Spend "Conservatives"
The British pound fell to all-time low against the U.S. dollar early Monday after Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng pledged a sweeping package of tax cuts, fueling concerns about the government’s economic policy as the United Kingdom creeps toward recession.
The pound fell as low as $1.0373, before rallying to $1.0672 in early London trading. It was its lowest level since the decimalization of the currency in 1971.
The British currency has lost more than 5% of its value against the dollar since Friday, when Kwarteng announced the biggest tax cuts in 50 years.
It comes as the Conservative government plans to spend billions of pounds to help consumers and businesses struggling with high energy bills that are driving a cost-of-living crisis. The combination sparked investor concern about spiraling government debt.
Sounds a Lot Like the QOP
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 26, 2022 8:39:07 GMT -8
We Talking About Practice?
In the U.S. Army, every soldier gets 10 weeks of basic combat training, then moves to advanced individual training. For infantry, my son was in school 22 weeks, almost six months, to get him to a modicum of proficiency as an infantryman. To hear him say it, even that is rudimentary knowledge at best. While his platoon worked on basic infantry skills like ambushes, reacting to ambush, assaults, and other squad- and platoon-level tasks, he joked about what a mess they still were, despite several weeks of working on it.
Who Needs Training When You Have a Gun and Know Who the Real Enemy Is?
A Russian man who was called up to fight in the war in Ukraine shot an official at a local enlistment office, multiple reports said.
The incident took place in the Siberian city of Ust-Ilimsk on Monday and was captured on video, according to The Guardian, Reuters, and independent Russian news outlet The Insider.
The video shows two military officials on stage in front of a group of new recruits who had been called up to fight in the ongoing war in Ukraine, The Insider reported.
Suddenly, a gunshot rings out and one of the officials collapses as everyone else runs out of the enlistment in panic, the video shows.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 26, 2022 8:40:58 GMT -8
It's Only One Poll, But ...
Biden's approval, 45%—a 9-point improvement since July
Trump's favorability, 34%—unchanged since July
Generic ballot, D+6 (47% Democrat/41% Republicans)
Just 30% support for overturning Roe
90% support for allowing abortion in cases of rape/incest (including 81% of Republicans)
82% oppose states outlawing interstate travel to get abortions (including 74% of Republicans)
76% oppose states outlawing ordering abortion pills from out of state (including 60% of Republicans)
Enthusiasm gap has nearly closed, with 54% of Republicans and 51% of Democrats very enthusiastic to vote
None of that is welcome news for Republicans, but things get even worse when you dig a little deeper.
Trump absconding with a cache of highly sensitive, classified documents isn't playing well at all; 67% of respondents say Trump did have such documents, including 39% of Republicans and 65% of independents.
In a hypothetical 2024 contest between President Biden and Trump, Biden receives 40% and Trump 36%, while 19% say they would vote for someone else and 6% say they would abstain.
Biden also tops Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, 40%-35%.
Does It Make Sense for a Party to Keep Doing Unpopular Things?
Just 1/3 of Americans back Republican migrant flights, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
Only a third of Americans - including half of Republicans and one in six Democrats - say it's OK for state officials to fly or bus migrants to other states, a sign the push by Republican Southern governors to ship foreigners north could backfire with some voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
It Does to the QOP
If you thought Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s migrant stunts couldn’t get any crueler, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has shown otherwise. In an email blast, the committee, which is chaired by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and works to elect Republican senators, asked supporters to submit suggestions for where the GOP should “ship” migrants next. The NRSC’s “Polling Team” solicited votes for locations like Barack Obama’s house.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 26, 2022 8:42:18 GMT -8
Brett is Favre From a Good Man
Brett Favre didn’t stop at lobbying for millions of dollars of Mississippi welfare money to go toward a new volleyball stadium at the university where his daughter was playing volleyball, or at taking $1.1 million in state welfare money for speeches he never gave. He followed that up by lobbying for millions more in state welfare money to pay for an indoor practice facility for the football team at the University of Southern Mississippi, texts between him and then-Gov. Phil Bryant show.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 26, 2022 8:51:04 GMT -8
Fetterman 9, TucKKKer 0
Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman stuffed a cruel, arrogant Tucker Carlson insult down the Fox News host’s throat on Sunday.
Carlson snidely blasted Fetterman’s tattoos as “fake” and portrayed the lieutenant governor as weak on crime in his opening monologue early this month. (Carlson, heir to an immense fortune whose net worth is estimated at $30 million, also claimed Fetterman was a fake blue-collar populist.)
“All your stupid little fake tattoos, it’s a costume, of course. Duh, it’s not real,” smirked Carlson.
Carlson could hardly have mangled that attack more. The tattoos Carlson mocked, Fetterman pointed out in an NBC op-ed on Sunday, commemorate people slain in violent crimes when he was mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania.
“Tucker Carlson wants to talk about my tattoos. So let’s talk about them,” wrote Fetterman, who’s been leading in polls ahead of his November election against Donald Trump-endorsed GOP nominee Mehmet Oz.
“I have nine dates tattooed on my right forearm. Each one is a day on which someone died violently in Braddock, Pennsylvania, while I was mayor,” Fetterman explained. “Gun violence and violent crime might be jokes to someone like Carlson, but they are very real to people in towns like Braddock.”
Fetterman recounted some of the killings in his op-ed, including Christopher Williams, “shot dead delivering pizzas,” and 23-month-old Nyia Page, who was sexually assaulted by her father, then left to die in the snow.
The tattoos are “not some ‘costume.’ They are reminders of the people we have lost and what I am fighting for,” he wrote.
The stories of the people “whose lives we tragically lost still are with me every single day — not just on my arm but in every decision I make as an elected official,” Fetterman wrote. “They remind me of why I am here and why I’m doing this.”
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 26, 2022 8:56:49 GMT -8
One, Two, Three, Look at Senator Lee. Three, Four Five, Look at Him Jive
Senator Mike Lee immediately steered the conversation to what he regarded as "overreach" on the part of law enforcement.
Lee: In the last few days we've seen some pretty glaring examples of what appear to be instances of overreach [...] You’ve got a Catholic father of seven who formed a group designed to encourage young men to be faithful to their commitments, who was arrested in front of his seven children.
Bartiromo: Crap!
What Lee failed to mention was that the Catholic father who was arrested was charged with assaulting a 72 year old volunteer reproductive healthcare clinic who was escorting patients through a gauntlet of anti-choice activists. According to the local ABC news affiliate...
"A Pennsylvania man has been charged for allegedly assaulting an elderly Planned Parenthood volunteer. [...] According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, Mark Houck is alleged to have twice assaulted a 72-year-old man because he was a volunteer reproductive health care clinic escort.
"The charges stem from two separate incidents [...] In the first incident, the man was attempting to escort two patients exiting the clinic when Houck forcefully shoved him to the ground. In the second incident, Houck allegedly confronted the man and shoved him to the ground in front of the Planned Parenthood center, causing injuries that required medical attention."
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