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Post by mhbruin on Oct 14, 2022 8:21:02 GMT -8
A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, 'I'll serve you, but don't start anything.'
Russia Used 13% of Their Missiles in One Day
About 90 missiles were fired on October 10. So they could do several more of those, but nowhere near the amount necessary to take out Ukraine’s power grid and keep it down, like the Russian stans want.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 14, 2022 8:30:55 GMT -8
No Trucks on the Highway to the Danger Zone
Russia's government has ordered contractors to finish repairs to a key bridge linking annexed Crimea to Russia by July 2023.
The bridge was damaged by a blast last Saturday which officials say left at least three people dead.
Russia blamed Ukraine for the attack but Kyiv has not said it was behind it.
The 19km (12-mile) bridge, Europe's longest, is a key supply route for Russian forces in Ukraine, but heavy goods vehicles are unable to use it.
The explosion caused midway sections of one of the two carriageways of the bridge to collapse into the sea and also damaged the railway line.
Currently, lorries are forced to queue for a ferry, in a process which is thought to take several days.
The bridge has, however, been reopened for rail and light road traffic.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 14, 2022 8:45:52 GMT -8
Svatove News - Taking the High GroundIf They Have Reached P66, They Have Reached the Heights Over the Town This puts UA in a dominant position over the battlefield for the next 10 km with very little cover for retreating Russians. There is no way that the town can hold if the bluffs fall, and if the bluffs fall, it is a long retreat under threat of those same heights. Ukraine working to surround SvatoveRemember, Ukraine doesn’t actually want to take the city head on. It’s much better to envelope it from multiple sides.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 14, 2022 8:48:41 GMT -8
Welcome to the Mobilization
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 14, 2022 8:54:04 GMT -8
Another Sane Republican
I was a reliable Republican voter since I was a Wisconsin College Republican at the same time as future governor Scott Walker and future Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. From the time I managed a Republican campaign for Congress in 1992 until my days as the editor and owner of RightWisconsin, I supported the conservative movement and Republican candidates.
But this year party loyalty is asking too much. I am going to vote for Mandela Barnes for U.S. Senate and Tony Evers for governor.
I am under no illusions that I have any policy positions in common with Barnes or Evers. I am pro-life. I support school choice. I support smaller government and lower taxes. I believe that we need to reduce crime by putting more police officers on the street and closing the revolving door at our courthouses.
But even more dear to me, and more important to the country, is protecting the Constitution. On this, Sen. Ron Johnson and Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels cannot be trusted.
Maybe This Had Something to Do With It
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 14, 2022 9:01:05 GMT -8
If Elected, McMullin (Who's First Name is Not "Egg") Won't Caucus With Either Party
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 14, 2022 9:03:24 GMT -8
Investigating DeathSentence
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is already facing lawsuits and an investigation by a Texas sheriff for flying migrants to Martha’s Vineyard as a political stunt last month.
Now he is facing another investigation for the trips, this time from a federal watchdog.
The Treasury Department inspector general’s office is looking into whether DeSantis “improperly used” money linked to COVID-19 aid to fund flights from Texas to the Massachusetts island, Politico reported on Wednesday. DeSantis reportedly had an Army veteran lure Venezuelan migrants to make the trip, falsely promising them work and shelter.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 14, 2022 9:09:44 GMT -8
Russia Is Stealing ChildrenRussia’s open effort to adopt Ukrainian children and bring them up as Russian is already well underway, in one of the most explosive issues of the war, an Associated Press investigation shows. Thousands of children have been found in the basements of war-torn cities like Mariupol and at orphanages in the Russian-backed separatist territories of Donbas. They include those whose parents were killed by Russian shelling as well as others in institutions or with foster families, known as “children of the state.” Russia claims that these children don’t have parents or guardians to look after them, or that they can’t be reached. But the AP found that officials have deported Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories without consent, lied to them that they weren’t wanted by their parents, used them for propaganda, and given them Russian families and citizenship. How Moscow Grabs Ukrainian Kids And Makes Them Russians
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 14, 2022 9:12:47 GMT -8
The Speaker Speaks For Us All. We All Want to Punch Him Out.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that she hoped then-President Donald Trump would come to the complex so that she could "punch him out."
Another clip shows Pelosi speaking to her staff as a crowd began to amass at the Capitol. In it, Pelosi's chief of staff, Terri McCullough, informs the speaker that the Secret Service had "dissuaded" Trump from coming to Capitol Hill to join his supporters.
"They told him they don't have the resources to protect him here," McCullough says. "So at the moment, he is not coming, but that could change."
"I hope he comes," Pelosi responds. "I want to punch him out. This is my moment. I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I want to punch him out, and I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy."
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 14, 2022 9:22:11 GMT -8
Young, Dumb, and Broke
America's graduating high school class of 2022 had the lowest average ACT score in more than 30 years, according to new data.
This year's high school seniors who took the ACT, a standardized test used for college admissions in the United States, had a national average composite score of 19.8, compared to 20.3 for the class of 2021. It's the first time since 1991 that the average ACT composite score was below 20, according to data released Wednesday by a nonprofit organization of the same name that administers the exam.
"This is the fifth consecutive year of declines in average scores, a worrisome trend that began long before the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has persisted," ACT CEO Janet Godwin said in a statement.
What's more, the data showed that only 22% of students among the 2022 graduating class met the benchmarks in all four main ACT test sections -- english, math, reading and science -- while 42% did not meet a single one. The benchmarks "demonstrate the minimum ACT scores required for students to have a higher probability of success in credit-bearing first-year college courses," according to ACT. Last year, 25% of students met all four benchmarks while 38% of students met none.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 14, 2022 9:25:06 GMT -8
She's Got a Little List. They'd None of Them Be Missed!
A fifth grade teacher has been arrested after telling one of her students that she had made a “kill list” of the students she taught and the colleagues she worked with.
At approximately 5 p.m. on Wednesday, officers from the East Chicago Police Department were dispatched to speak with the principal and assistant principal of St. Stanislaus School -- located about 20 miles south of downtown Chicago -- in reference to a threatening report that school officials had learned about earlier in the day regarding fifth grade teacher Angelica Carrasquillo-Torres, a 25-year old educator from Griffith, Indiana.
“At approximately 12:45 p.m. a 5th grade student told his/her Counselor that their 5th grade teacher made comments to him/her about killing herself, students, and staff at St. Stanislaus School,” East Chicago Police Department said in a statement released on social media. “The teacher further told the student that she has a list and that he/she was on the bottom of that list.”
rincipal’s office to discuss the disturbing incident and subsequently admitted to them that she did actually make those statements to the student and also confirmed that she had a “kill list” as well.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 14, 2022 9:27:20 GMT -8
If You Have Shit for Brains, Do You Need a Cat Box When You Sneeze?
At a luncheon for Republican women in Mesa County, Colorado, last week, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., warned that educators “are putting litter boxes in schools for people who identify as cats.”
To a person not steeped in the culture war battles over gender identity that have engulfed school districts nationwide, it’s the kind of claim that would sound bizarre and confusing — and, from high-profile GOP members, authoritative.
The week before, on Sept. 29, Minnesota GOP gubernatorial nominee Scott Jensen asked during a campaign stop, “Why do we have litter boxes in some of the school districts so kids can pee in them, because they identify as a furry?”
And during a legislative hearing last month in Tennessee, two Republican state lawmakers discussed the “growing crisis” of public schools providing litter boxes for children who identify as cats, and claimed it’s happening across the state.
At least 20 conservative candidates and elected officials have claimed this year that K-12 schools are placing litter boxes on campus or making other accommodations for students who identify as cats, according to an NBC News review of public statements.
Every school district that has been named by those 20 politicians said either to NBC News or in public statements that these claims are untrue. There is no evidence that any school has deployed litter boxes for students to use because they identify as cats.
But the claim has taken on a life of its own among a growing number of Republicans, conservative influencers and political commentators. In an episode of Spotify’s “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast this week, host Joe Rogan told former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard that a litter box was installed in a school that his friend’s wife worked at for a girl who “identifies as an animal.” A clip of the discussion quickly began to circulate on social media. Rogan did not name the school, and his publicist did not respond to a request for comment.
There is a real subculture of people known as furries, a community of children and adults who roleplay as anthropomorphized animal characters. But the vast majority of them still identify as humans, while sometimes adopting an animal-like persona and engaging in short-term roleplay, according to furries and experts, one of whom noted that there are no litter boxes at furry conventions. Three school-age furries told NBC News they have at times dressed up at school, typically wearing just part of their full costume such as a mask or gloves that look like paws, but they’d never heard of any furry ever asking for a litter box.
That has not stopped such rumors from circulating on social media, where they have been repeated like a game of telephone, often with descriptions of friends of friends who supposedly saw such things firsthand. And it has not stopped some politicians from picking up these claims and using them to alarm people by saying that this is where protections for LGBTQ students will lead.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 14, 2022 9:31:53 GMT -8
This is a Really Dumb Way to Turn People Off to a Good Cause
Two protesters who threw a substance that appeared to be tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting Friday morning were arrested on charges of criminal damage and aggravated trespass, London police said.
Video of the incident shows the two protesters, who police said were with the group "Just Stop Oil," throwing the substance at the 1888 painting at the National Gallery in London's Trafalgar Square.
In the background of the video, onlookers gasped and called for security as the protesters kneeled in front of the painting and glued their hands to the wall underneath the painting.
“What is worth more, art or life?" one of the protesters asked upon kneeling. (They are both valuable, Fool!)
"Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?" the protester continued. "The cost of living crisis is part of the cost of oil crisis. Fuel is unaffordable to millions of cold, hungry families. They can't even afford to heat a tin of soup."
The United Kingdom has been inching toward a recession and the pound fell to an all-time low against the U.S. dollar last month. The Conservative government plans to spend billions of pounds to offset high energy bills that are driving a cost-of-living crisis, but economists say the plan is unlikely to pan out.
"Just Stop Oil" defended the action on Twitter.
"Human creativity and brilliance is on show in this gallery, yet our heritage is being destroyed by our Government’s failure to act on the climate and cost of living crisis," the group tweeted.
Officers took the protesters into custody after un-gluing them from the wall, according to Metropolitan Police.
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