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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 8:52:03 GMT -8
Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
Weird Headline of the Day : "A Michigan family of 4 has been missing for 4 days in 'abnormal' disappearance, police say"
What is a normal disappearance for a family?
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 8:56:21 GMT -8
Nothing Says "I Love Jesus" Like an AK-47
A federal judge on Thursday barred the state of New York, at least for now, from enforcing the part of a closely watched gun law that bans firearms from churches or other places of worship.
The ruling marks the latest victory for gun owners in a tug-of-war with the state of New York over its strict new statute, which as of Sept. 1 makes obtaining a license more difficult and prohibits firearms in a long list of "sensitive" public and private places.
Places of worship are among those places where guns were forbidden. Two church leaders sued last week, saying that such a constraint ran counter to the gun rights spelled out in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
She Shot Better Than He Did, So He Started Shooting
A Dallas, Texas, man has been arrested, accused of fatally shooting a 21-year-old woman after she beat him at a game of basketball, police and the victim's family say.
Cameron Hogg, 31, was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in connection with the fatal Oct. 3 shooting of Asia Womack, 21, the Dallas Police Department announced.
Police said the shooting unfolded in the 4100 block of Hamilton Avenue around 7:40 p.m. and responding officers discovered Womack on the sidewalk with “multiple gunshot wounds.”
She was taken to a hospital where she died.
Womack’s aunt told NBC Dallas Fort-Worth that she was killed over a basketball game.
Is Draymond Greene Going to Start Brining Guns to Practice?
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 9:02:16 GMT -8
It's Contagious. Not Does Previous Guy Destroy Everybody He Touches, But When Those People Touch Someone, They are Destroyed, Too.Special counsel John Durham, who once enjoyed a solid reputation as a prosecutor, now owns what may be the worst trial record of any special counsel or independent prosecutor in American history: no wins, two losses. Durham’s ignominious record further tarnishes the reputation of former Attorney General William Barr, Durham’s ignominious record further tarnishes the reputation of former Attorney General William Barr, the man who brought Durham to Washington in May 2019 and gave him the job of trying to poke holes in the FBI’s 2016 Trump-Russia investigation. Just before his exit from the Trump administration in December 2020, Barr protected Durham from removal by elevating him from a U.S. attorney within the Justice Department to the more protected role of special counsel. On Tuesday, Durham suffered his second straight trial loss. A D.C. jury acquitted Igor Danchenko on all four remaining counts in Durham’s 2021 indictment for making false statements to the FBI. Last Friday, Oct. 14, the federal judge overseeing the case tossed the first count as unsupported by the evidence. Durham’s previous defeat came in May, when another D.C. jury acquitted Michael Sussmann, the one-time Clinton campaign lawyer. As in Danchenko’s trial, Durham failed to convict Sussmann of making false statements to the FBI. Special counsel John Durham’s failure belongs to William Barr
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 9:10:39 GMT -8
Was Lara Logan Touched By Previous Guy?
Lara Logan has been banned by Newsmax after a totally bizarre and conspiracy-laden rant during her appearance on Wednesday. From comments referring to the United Nations as a “global cabal,” she alleged there was a plot to bring millions of undocumented immigrants to the U.S. to “dilute the pool of patriots” and that the country’s “open borders” were “Satan’s way of taking control of the world.”
“Newsmax condemns in the strongest terms the reprehensible statements made by Lara Logan, and her views do not reflect our network,” Newsmax said in a statement. “We have no plans to interview her again.”
A former 60 Minutes correspondent, Logan was once a respected journalist and war correspondent. She ascended to the top of her craft and, in 2006, garnered a job as Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News. Then the veneer of Logan’s credibility began to crack.
Two years after surviving a horrific sexual attack while covering an event in Egypt in 2011, she took to the airwaves in 2013 to apologize for inaccurate reporting on a story about the Benghazi attack. In a review of her coverage of the story, CBS News found there was a conflict of interest, and she failed to verify her sources. She was placed on a leave of absence in 2013 and left the network for good in 2018—and that’s when things began to go haywire.
In 2019, Logan turned up on the conservative Mike Drop podcast, hosted by retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland, where she said the news media is “mostly liberal,” and “most” journalists are left. Then in 2020, Logan took a job at Fox News and compared Dr. Anthony to a Nazi war criminal, and even Fox gave her the boot.
Logan landed at Newsmax not long after, where for the last few weeks, she’s been spewing her QAnon tropes and solidifying her place in right-wing cuckoo land on former Fox News host Eric Bolling’s program, The Daily Beast reports.
During her latest interview with Bolling, when asked about immigrants being bussed to New York City from Texas and other red states, Logan launched into a completely weird diatribe about immigration as a “spiritual battle” about God and good and evil and Satan and the “end times.”
Then she said that “open borders is Satan’s way of taking control of the world through all these people who are his stooges and his servants.”
She added that folks at the World Economic Forum want us “eating insects, cockroaches, while they dine on the blood of children,” a reference to a staple in QAnon conspiracy based on an antisemitic trope, the Independent reports.
She's Not Desi Lydic Doing a Daily Show Parody. She Just Sounds Like it.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 9:21:43 GMT -8
Have You Seen Pictures of the Desolate WWI Landscape Between the Trenches?
One of those places where there has been a lot of news this morning is the area around Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast. Throughout the night and morning, wave after wave of Russian assault has broken up against what has to be the most fought over—and devastated—point in the entire invasion so far. If you haven’t already seen this image of what things are like near the front in Bakhmut, take a look.
From the People Who Invented Vodka
They Seem to Like Western Washing Machines
Nothing really new here, but now it’s official. All of these towns are north of that Bruskynske to Mylove line by at least a few kilometers.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 9:23:04 GMT -8
Elon the Job Creator
Musk takes his classic guy who is a “free speech warrior” but fires employees for speech he doesn’t approve of, and applies it to being a billionaire “job creator.” According to the Post, Musk has been looking for “prospective investors,” and in so doing is offering up his vision of the near future for the company that as of right now has around 7,500 employees. First order of business? Cut that number down to 2,000 employees. No, you read that right, Musk told prospective investors that he would like to fire almost three-quarters of the Twitter workforce.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 9:30:15 GMT -8
Imagine These Guys in a New York Church
Believing there was a burglar at the door, father and son Rocky and Gino Colonacosta armed themselves with .45-caliber firearms and went outside to search for the apparent perpetrator.
In reality, what the Ring doorbell camera showed was a “good Samaritan” male neighbor who had mistakenly received a prescription drug shipment meant for the Colonacostas and was delivering it to their door, Judd said.Outside their apartment, a woman was sitting in her vehicle on her cell phone when she saw Gino Colonacosta pointing a gun at her and ordering her out of her vehicle, Judd said.
Thinking she was about to be carjacked, the woman put the car in reverse, crashing into the car behind her, and then fled.
As she escaped, Gino Colonacosta and his minor son opened fire.
The two of them shot at an innocent lady sitting in her car where she had a right to be. Rhey allegedly fired seven times, with one round passing through an empty child seat in the vehicle.
Had there been a baby in the car seat, the baby would have been killed.
They go out searching for a burglar that wasn’t there and shot up an innocent lady’s car while she was in it.
According to the arrest affidavit, Rocky Colonacosta fired a total of five shots, and Gino Colonacosta fired twice. While the woman’s car was struck multiple times.
Florida is a “Stand your ground” state. Something that has been linked to increased gun violence.
The Family That Shoots At Cars Together Goes Behind Bars Together
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 9:33:23 GMT -8
Scamming MAGAs. The New Growth Industry.
Anti-Woke Superhero Movie Blown Up in $1 Million Con
The film was based on a Confederacy-themed superhero comic book character created by a right-wing blogger. But then the money disappeared.
An attempt to make a right-wing superhero movie has ended in disaster, with $1 million missing in China and a participant facing a federal indictment.
“I wouldn’t count on us getting the money back,” Theodore Beale, a far-right blogger known as “Vox Day,” admitted to his fans and investors in a video last week.
This isn’t how Beale’s followers thought their investments would go in 2019 when they started contributing to fund a film based on a Confederacy-themed superhero comic book character created by Beale. A trailer promoting the proposed movie, Rebel’s Run, featured the character Rebel fighting a global police force hunting down freethinking conservatives.
Frequent Tucker Carlson collaborator Scooter Downey signed on to direct. Beale’s supporters rapidly blew past an initial $750,000 funding goal, ultimately raising more than $1 million.
That money was supposed to be held in escrow to secure several million more dollars in funding. Three years later, though, the cash is gone, and with it Beale’s hopes for a movie.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 9:34:30 GMT -8
A Day to Remember
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 9:39:43 GMT -8
Previous Guys Describes Documents Seized as "My Precious"
The Department of Justice has fired back at Donald Trump’s claim that nine White House files seized from his Mar-a-Lago compound by the FBI are his “personal” property.
The files include two documents related to U.S. immigration policy, six requests for clemency to the then-president, and a letter to him from someone in a military academy, according to the DOJ’s letter, filed Thursday in Florida to U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master appointed to review the confiscated documents.
The Justice Department dismissed the notion that any of the materials belong to Trump. It pointed out that the pardon requests, for example, “were received by plaintiff in his capacity as the official with authority to grant reprieves and pardons, not in his personal capacity.”
The DOJ letter cited the Presidential Records Act, which states that all documentary materials created or received by a president, his staff or his office in the course of official activities are government property that should go to the National Archives when a president leaves office.
Trump also claimed that four documents should be withheld from investigators because of executive privilege. They include the two immigration policy documents, which Trump’s team said were “predecisional materials,” and two documents about meetings.
The Justice Department argued that the former president can’t claim the immigration documents are both his personal records and protected by executive privilege. The claims are contradictory and he must argue one or the other, the filing said.
Dearie made a similar point about mixed and confusing claims concerning the documents in a conference call with the parties earlier this week. He pointed out that there’s “certainly an incongruity there” when Trump’s lawyers insist that some documents are protected both by executive privilege and as Trump’s personal records.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 9:40:57 GMT -8
Everybody Has News For Somebody Else
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) fired back at Mike Pence on Wednesday after the former vice president said “pro-life” Republican majorities in Congress would work to ban abortion.
“I’ve got news for President Biden” Pence tweeted, adding that after the midterm elections, “we will have Pro-Life majorities in the House and Senate and we’ll be taking the cause of the right to Life to every state house in America!”
“And I’ve got news for you: Absolutely no one wants to hear what your plan is for their uterus,” Ocasio-Cortez shot back.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 9:43:56 GMT -8
Iran and Russia Sitting in a Tree, K-I-L-L-I-N-G
The U.S. has evidence that Iran sent troops to Ukraine to help Russia launch drone attacks on targets across the country, Biden administration officials said Thursday.
Iran sent trainers and technical support to enable Russian forces to use Iranian-made drones “with better lethality,” John Kirby, White House National Security Council spokesperson, told reporters in teleconference.
“We assess that Iranian military personnel were on the ground in Crimea and assisted Russia in these operations,” Kirby said.
“The systems themselves were suffering failures and not performing to the standards that apparently the customers expected,” Kirby said. As a result, the Iranians decided to send in troops to assist the Russians, he said.
Asked how many Iranians were in Crimea and why, Kirby said, “I don’t have a number … What we do know is there’s a relatively small number that are.”
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 9:46:51 GMT -8
Do You Think Your Lawn Looks Bad Now?Little relief is expected for farmers, ranchers and reservoirs this winter in the Western U.S., as extreme drought is forecast to continue plaguing the region. That’s according to forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who predict "widespread extreme drought to persist across much of the West," according to Jon Gottschalck, chief of the operational prediction branch at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. NOAA on Thursday outlined its expectations for winter conditions across the U.S. "We’re going on our third year of this extreme drought for much of the Western U.S.," said Brad Pugh, the operational drought lead with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. "It’s adversely affecting agriculture, increasing wildfire danger and has impacts on tourism as well." Drought conditions are at their most extreme in Central California, where NOAA predicts warmer temperatures and less than normal precipitation throughout the winter. The same prediction applies to much of the South, including the Gulf Coast. Drought conditions this winter are expected to impact the middle and lower Mississippi River valley as well, where low water levels have already led barges to get stuck in mud and caused disruptions to shipping and recreational boating. Nearly 50% of the U.S. is in drought, according to the National Integrated Drought Information System, and more than one-third of the country’s population lives in areas affected by drought.  A man walks by a formerly sunken boat at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2022 9:49:17 GMT -8
Stayin' Alive Ain't Cheap If You Aren't Insured
Pfizer will charge $110 to $130 for a dose of its COVID-19 vaccine once the U.S. government stops buying the shots, but the drugmaker says it expects many people will continue receiving it for free.
Pfizer executives said the commercial pricing for adult doses could start early next year, depending on when the government phases out its program of buying and distributing the shots.
The drugmaker said it expects that people with private health insurance or coverage through public programs like Medicare or Medicaid will pay nothing. The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to cover many recommended vaccines without charging any out-of-pocket expenses.
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