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Post by mhbruin on Feb 26, 2023 9:24:12 GMT -8
A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
Looking for Dilebert in Your Morning Paper?
Many US newspapers including the Washington Post have dropped the long-running Dilbert cartoon strip after its creator made racist comments.
In a video on YouTube, Scott Adams, who is white, said black Americans were part of a "hate group" and that white people should "get the hell away" from them.
Mr Adams, 65, later acknowledged that his career was destroyed.
He said most of his income would be gone by next week.
Dilbert has been a mainstay of the funny pages of America's newspapers, and features a put-upon office worker and a talking dog, who together take aim at the fads of corporate culture.
Among those media outlets that have dropped the Dilbert cartoon strip are the USA Today network, which operates dozens of newspapers, and the Los Angeles Times.
The Washington Post said Mr Adams' remarks promoted segregation.
His comments were made in response to a survey conducted by the firm Rasmussen Reports in which people were asked to agree or disagree with the phrase: "It's OK to be white."
The phrase is believed to have emerged in 2017 as a trolling campaign and has since been used by white supremacists.
According to the poll, 53% of black respondents agreed with the statement, but 26% disagreed and others were not sure.
Mr Adams said that those that disagreed were a "hate group".
"I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people… because there is no fixing this," he said.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 26, 2023 9:25:17 GMT -8
The Road to Freedom is Dangerous
At least 58 people, including children, have died after a boat carrying migrants and refugees sank off the Italian coastal city of Crotone in the southern region of Calabria.
The vessel had set sail from Turkey several days ago with migrants from Afghanistan, Iran and several other countries, and crashed on Sunday in stormy weather near Steccato di Cutro, a seaside resort on the eastern coast of Calabria.
The provisional death toll stood at 58, Manuela Curra, a provincial government official, told the Reuters news agency. Eighty-one people survived, with 20 hospitalised including one person in intensive care, she said.
One survivor was arrested on migrant trafficking charges, the Guardia di Finanza customs police said.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 26, 2023 9:26:32 GMT -8
Note to Prespective Murders: Don't Keep the Body Parts
Police in Hong Kong filed murder charges against the former in-laws of a model and influencer whose body parts were found in a refrigerator at a village house, and a skull believed to be hers was discovered in a pot.
Hong Kong model Abby Choi’s former father-in-law and his eldest son are being charged with murder, while her former mother-in-law faces one count of perverting the course of justice, police said in a statement Sunday.
The authorities also arrested the woman’s ex-husband on Saturday and will charge him with murder on Sunday night, said Superintendent Alan Chung. The four will appear in court on Monday.
The grisly case came to light when police officers on Friday discovered Choi’s body after she had been missing for several days, together with her identity card, credit cards and other items. The body was dissected and the remains stored in a refrigerator in the rural village home in Tai Po, a suburban part of Hong Kong closer to the border with mainland China.
At Sunday’s news briefing, Chung said authorities found a young woman’s skull believed to belong to Choi in one of the cooking pots they seized, alongside several ribs, hair, and human issues. In another pot, forensic pathologists also discovered a small number of human bones, he added.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 26, 2023 9:28:36 GMT -8
Trans in Texas? It May Get Worse.
Thanks to SB 1029—filed by Republican state Sen. Bob Hall of Texas, who has a history of outrageous beliefs—there’s a considerable chance almost all forms of safe and age-appropriate gender-affirming health care will be made illegal in the state. And that includes trans adults. In fact, it not only covers both youth and adults but even nonsurgical treatments. The legislation also seeks to allow medical malpractice lawsuits for life against providers and insurers who cover gender-affirming care.
For emphasis: This anti-trans health care bill isn't seeking to only bar youth from safe, age-appropriate health care. It’s seeking to stop adults from accessing it, too.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 26, 2023 9:29:49 GMT -8
Chemical Accidents in the US
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 26, 2023 9:32:45 GMT -8
Disco Schmuck
A socially connected insider tells Page Six that “Trump is officially DJing every Thursday night” at the members-only club.
The source added, “Members know this, and when they invite guests they say, ‘Let’s have dinner on Thursday, because Trump DJs every Thursday,’ as an event.”
During all the disc jockeying, “of course he works the room for votes,” the source said. “It’s always a very friendly room, since Mar-a-Lago is serious Trumpland.
How Socially Connected Are If You Are Having Dinner On Thursday at Mar-a-Lago?
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 26, 2023 9:36:23 GMT -8
Will Anyone Miss One Less QOP Lawyer?
Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich faces potential threats to his law license after the release of documents showing the two-term Republican concealed his own investigators' findings that debunked fellow Republicans' claims of election fraud.
Eight Bar charges have been filed against Brnovich in the last two days, according to the State Bar of Arizona.
Today, The Washington Post reports that Gov. Katie Hobbs also sent a letter to the State Bar of Arizona requesting an investigation into the AG’s “likely unethical conduct."
More than 60 of the Republican AG’s investigators spent 10,000 hours tracking down every claim of election fraud, over 430 of them, and they found nothing that would’ve changed the result. Well-known deniers like Mark Finchem and Wendy Rogers were invited to present the evidence they’d been crowing about in the media for months. They presented nothing other than rumors.
Brnovich chose not to reveal this information, however. Instead, he issued a report that suggested there may have been tampering, even though his own investigators told him to his face that the election was fair and the rumors and conspiracies were just that—fantasy talk. The AG’s lying report played into the conspiratorial hands of election deniers running for office and others demanding a Maricopa County “audit” (which—karma drumroll please!—found that Biden won the county by even more votes).
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 26, 2023 9:39:18 GMT -8
The QOP Considers Taking Health Care Coverage Away from Almost 40 Million People
Health care activists Protect Our Care on Thursday (Feb. 23) slammed a budget proposal by a former Trump administration official that would scrap the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies and Medicaid expansion after the Washington Post reported that House GOP lawmakers are open to the plan. The plan avoids making major structural changes to Medicare but calls for about a quarter trillion in payment cuts to the program.
Former Trump-eta Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought’s think tank, Center for Renewing America, released the 104-page fiscal 2023 budget proposal on Dec. 7.
“As Republicans hold our economy hostage, they are returning to some of their greatest hits: attacking American health care,” Protect Our Care said in a release. “Behind closed doors, they are relying on a far-right Trump appointee to draft their budget. Vought’s plan would effectively repeal the ACA, driving up costs for almost 15 million Americans and eliminating coverage altogether for more than 20 million people.
In addition to eliminating the ACA subsidies...the proposal would save $1.1 trillion by repealing the Medicaid expansion and extending work requirements to Medicaid.
We're up to 38.9 million Americans with ACA coverage already, and we're still missing a lot of Medicaid expansion enrollees.
But Wait! There's More!
If you get health care coverage through Medicaid, you might be at risk of losing that coverage over the next year.
Roughly 84 million people are covered by the government-sponsored program, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
But as states begin checking everyone's eligibility for Medicaid for the first time in three years, as many as 14 million people could lose access to that health care coverage.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 26, 2023 9:46:23 GMT -8
He Lies About Everything Everywhere All at Once
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) lied to a Seattle judge about working for Goldman Sachs during a 2017 court appearance, according to audio of the proceeding that was obtained and published Friday by Politico.
Introducing himself as George Anthony Devolder Santos, he spoke at a bail hearing in support of a man accused of an ATM fraud scheme, Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha, stating that his parents and Trelha’s parents knew each other in Brazil.
Santos said Trelha’s parents had been sending money to ensure their son had a place to stay if he were released on bail. Santos was helping by finding an “extended-stay apartment through Airbnb” or other such accommodation, he said.
Trelha’s public defender, Virginia Branham, introduced Santos to King County Superior Court Judge Sean O’Donnell, who wanted to hear from him directly.
“So what do you do for work?” the judge asked.
“I’m an aspiring politician, and I work for Goldman Sachs,” Santos said.
“You work for Goldman Sachs in New York?”
“Yup.”
Santos did not appear to be under oath at the time.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 26, 2023 9:52:05 GMT -8
Abraham Lincoln Did It Lincoln and Taney’s great writ showdownOne Democratic senator has a solution for the problem of the lone extremist judge in Texas who could take the option of abortion medication away from all Americans: Ignore him. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) spoke on the Senate floor recently, and made that case. Through what Wyden deems “court-washing,” Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a “lifelong right-wing activist, a partisan, an ideologue, an antiabortion zealot who was handpicked by Donald Trump and the Federalist Society to pretend to be an impartial judge on the bench,” will try to claim the power to put a national injunction on the use of mifepristone. That’s the abortion drug used in about 50% of abortions, one that has proven safe and effective for decades. “The power of the judiciary begins and ends with its legitimacy in the eyes of the public,” Wyden said. “If that’s what the ruling would do, the answer is to ignore it, at least until there is a final ruling on the underlying matter by the Supreme Court.” I Still Think It's a Terrible Idea to Propose Ignoring Rulings You Don't Like
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 26, 2023 9:54:50 GMT -8
What Did Herschel Lie-Walker Do With the Recount Money?
The Daily Beast’s independent review of Team Herschel’s end-game fundraising and spending turned up other oddities. They included hefty sums hauled in after the election, an in-kind private flight donation for the “recount” from Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), as well as a mysterious six-figure payout two weeks after the election to a family friend whom the campaign had previously described as a “dedicated volunteer.”
Not least of the puzzles is the campaign’s $5 million cash on hand—a sizable chunk of change for a candidate that, by all appearances, would have needed to burn every available dollar to keep pace with his deep-pocketed opponent, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA). (Warnock, who outraised Walker by more than $100 million, also ended 2022 with less than $6 million on hand.)
The FEC wrote a letter to the Walker Senate campaign
"Schedule A of your report discloses donations designated for a recount of the 2022 election. It appears neither a recount was held nor did the committee disburse these funds for recount activities."
"If the committee did not participate in a recount or recount activities, then the donations designated for the recount must be refunded or redesignated within 60 days from the date it becomes known that a recount will not occur."
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Post by hasben on Feb 26, 2023 13:26:35 GMT -8
body parts were found in a refrigerator at a village house, and a skull believed to be hers was discovered in a pot. hard to imagine  |
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