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Post by mhbruin on Jul 9, 2023 8:14:22 GMT -8
What’s the difference between a prostitute with diarrhea and a cornhusker with epilepsy. One shucks between fits.
Fox Noise Gives You the Stories No One Else is Covering.
Columnist Gordon Chang told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that blood-drinking Chinese fighters have secretly entered the United States in preparation for a surprise attack.
During an interview on Sunday, Bartiromo noted that the apprehension of Chinese nationals at the southern border was up 1,300% in the last year.
Chang said some of the apprehensions involved middle-class Chinese.
"But among them are packs of males of between 5 and 15 who are of military age, not coming with family groups, pretending not to speak English, and engaging in Chinese military rituals like drinking blood," he explained. "So clearly, these are saboteurs coming into America to wage war on the United States on the first day that there is war in Asia."
"Drinking blood?" Bartiromo gasped. "Is that what you just said?"
"One of the Chinese military rituals is to slaughter an animal, in this case, chickens," Change claimed. "Michael Yon, a war correspondent, has seen this, and they basically drink the blood. And this was done in a hotel in Panama after they crossed the Darien Gap from Colombia. So we know that these are Chinese military coming into our country."
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 9, 2023 8:17:58 GMT -8
Not the Smartest Serial Killer AroundFederal law enforcement agents in the U.S. have arrested a Los Angeles County man wanted by Mexican authorities in connection with the killing of a Tijuana sex worker and possibly two others, according to officials in both countries. Bryant Rivera, a 30-year-old Downey resident, is charged in Baja California with at least one count of femicide and was the subject of an arrest warrant issued by a Mexican judge in November, according to a complaint filed by federal prosecutors in Los Angeles. Baja California's attorney general described Rivera as a suspected "serial killer" and said in a news release that he is "presumed to be the perpetrator of three femicides" in Tijuana between September 2021 and February 2022. Attorney General Ricardo Iván Carpio Sánchez said investigators "gathered evidence that placed him in the location where the crimes were committed and the victims were found." ... Employees at the strip club and hotel identified Rivera as the client that Acosta had accompanied to the room at Hotel Cascadas, according to the complaint. Surveillance footage inside the hotel showed the pair entering the room together and showed Rivera leaving alone about 90 minutes later. Thirteen minutes after leaving the hotel, video surveillance from the San Ysidro Port of Entry showed Rivera walking into the U.S., according to the complaint. Authorities arrest US citizen in one of three serial killings of Tijuana sex workers
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 9, 2023 8:19:32 GMT -8
"This is what happens when you lose interest in winning elections,"
The Arizona Republican Party four years ago boasted nearly $770,000, but now only holds about $50,000, in large part due to legal expenses incurred attempting to overturn Trump's 2020 defeat, according to a local report.
Political writer Jon Gabriel wrote in an opinion piece for AZ Central that, although the Arizona GOP "hanging on to one-vote majorities in the state House and Senate," they will inevitably "have trouble in 2024 if they don’t get their finances in order."
"The Arizona GOP had less than $50,000 in cash reserves as of March 31. That’s not much money to fund crucial expenses such as rent, payroll and campaign operations. Four years earlier, it had close to $770,000," Gabriel wrote. "The cobwebs in the bank vault aren’t as important as all the money wasted. The party blew $300,000 on 'legal consulting,' much of which focused on overturning Trump’s 2020 defeat. All they have to show for it are a Democratic governor and U.S. Senate delegation."
Gabriel also noted that, as new Republican Party Chairman Jeff DeWit "tries to right the ship," he shares a fear with Democrats in the state.
"As of April, 34.6% of voters are registered as Republicans," the article says. "This compares well to the 30.3% who are Arizona Democrats. But between the two parties is the growing contingent of the unaffiliated."
One big problem with the AZ GOP's money issues, according to Gabriel, is that independents are only 10,000 voters away from passing up Republicans as the state’s biggest “party.”
"This is what happens when you lose interest in winning elections," Gabriel wrote in a Twitter post on Saturday.
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 9, 2023 8:21:22 GMT -8
The Real Problem With Social Security is Rich PeopleIt’s not just because too many boomers like me are retiring. It’s because of inequality. Now, I don’t want to alarm you. Social Security is still helping us oldies enjoy our golden years — but only for so long. Social Security is one of the most popular and successful government programs ever created, not only helping retirees — but it’s also keeping 26 million people out of poverty. Yet here is the problem: It’s going run out of money before you can ever receive it if the rich don’t start paying their fair share. The trustees of Social Security — of which yours truly was once a member back when I had thicker hair — say the program will only be able to pay full benefits until 2033. After that, Social Security will only be able to dole out roughly 77 percent of benefits. Why? It’s not the reason that many seem to think. Boomer retirees like me might be soaking up some sun, but we’re not soaking up all of the program’s funds. The Social Security trustees anticipated the boom in boomer retirements. This is why Social Security was amended back in 1983, to gradually increase the age for collecting full retirement benefits from age 65 to 67. That change is helping finance the boomers’ retirement. What did the trustees fail to anticipate? How much income would be going to the top. A big part of the American working population today is earning less than the Social Security trustees anticipated years ago — reducing revenue flowing into the program. At the same time, a much larger chunk of the nation’s total income is now going to the top compared to decades ago. But income subject to the Social Security payroll tax is capped. No dollar of earnings above the cap is taxed. The cap in 2023 is $160,200. So, as the rich have become far richer, more and more of the nation’s total income has escaped the Social Security payroll tax. The real reason Social Security is in danger that nobody’s talking about
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 9, 2023 8:23:55 GMT -8
Don't Bring a Gun to An Egg Fight
Three teenagers are charged with murder after police say their plot to egg a home as part of an "ongoing lover's quarrel" in Griffin, Georgia, escalated to gunfire.
Deputies arrived to a call of a "man down" in the road last week to discover a man had been shot and killed, the Spalding County Sheriff's Office said in a press release Saturday. The victim was identified as Johnathan Gilbert.
The three teenagers — Sydney Maughon, 18; Jeremy Munson, 19; and McKenzie Davenport, 19 — were allegedly vandalizing Gilbert's home when he came out to confront them, according to Spalding County Sheriff Darrell Dix.
"The suspects ran back to the car, and as Gilbert approached them, Sydney Maughon, a backseat passenger in the car, produced a firearm and shot him multiple times," Dix said. "The suspects then drove away leaving Gilbert dead in the middle of Dobbins Mill Road."
Dix did not offer details on a motive, only that there appeared to be an "ongoing lovers quarrel."
Detectives traced a cell phone number belonging to one of the three suspects to a neighboring county, where a local police department located a car authorities believe to have been used in the incident. A gun was found in a search of the vehicle.
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 9, 2023 8:25:49 GMT -8
Welcome to the Green Energy Superpower
On Wednesday, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced that the state landed a new “gigafactory” that will bring a $400 million investment and generate 500 jobs. That gigafactory will be run by Norwegian company Nel Hydrogen and will be used to create components needed to generate hydrogen gas.
That factory comes in part due to some necessary courting and negotiating with foreign companies by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. However, Whitmer is quick to point out that it would not have happened were it not for the funding provided through President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Thanks to that act and other Biden-sponsored legislation like the Chips and Science Act, private companies have already announced $435 billion in manufacturing and clean energy investments in the United States.
It’s not only funding projects that are quickly increasing the amount of renewable energy used in many states, it’s also creating a way that renewable energy can be moved over long distances, or even shipped overseas in the form of clean-burning hydrogen. In fact, the United States is becoming a hub for this technology. Replacing oil and gas with a clean substitute could make America the world’s leading renewable energy superpower.
As Politico reports, the incentives offered under CHIPS and the Inflation Reduction Act have been so effective that they’re frustrating European leaders. The two laws combined put $400 billion in place for renewable energy projects like the Nel Hydrogen plant. And that’s in addition to the subsidies that have been provided to taxpayers to use renewable energy and drive electric vehicles.
For decades, the United States was at the back of the pack when it came to eliminating greenhouse gasses and promoting renewable energy. Thanks to the power of fossil fuel lobbies, Democratic administrations were able to make little progress, and Republican administrations swiftly reversed any changes made.
However, under Biden the U.S. hasn’t just moved to place limits on fossil fuel use, the country has also made investments in renewable energy so significant that they are rapidly changing the global landscape.
“A year ago, the EU clearly had the yellow jersey,” said the CEO of Nel. “Now the U.S. has it.”
That Michigan plant is part of a seven-state cooperative to develop widespread use of hydrogen. That even includes some states like Kentucky and Indiana, which have been very reluctant to make any moves that would be seen as less than 100% supportive of coal, oil, and gas. Now those states are eager to dive into the possibility of jobs and development that the Inflation Reduction Act promotes, and an interstate compact is resulting in a shared effort to standardize and expand the necessary infrastructure.
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 9, 2023 8:28:51 GMT -8
$150,000 Seems Pretty Cheap to Buy a US Senator
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is in trouble. The latest public polls give her a 27% favorable rating, and 50% unfavorable—usually the kiss of death for a well-known incumbent up for reelection next year.
Now she has teamed up with her Republican colleagues to weaken the rules on how many hours of safety training pilots must complete before flying a commercial plane. And with the U.S. Senate's narrow 51-49 Democratic majority, that means she can hold up key business.
Her Democratic colleagues are not amused, and neither are we. “Now is not the time to put corporate profits ahead of the lives of our constituents who may want to board a commercial flight in the future,” said Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois back in June. “A vote to [change the training rules] for pilots will mean blood on your hands.”
Federal Aviation Administration rules currently require airline pilots to undergo 1,500 hours of safety training before flying a commercial plane. This rule has been in place since 2012, after a tragic plane crash of Flight 3407 in Clarence, New York, in 2009, killed 50 people. The Hill reported: “Following the Flight 3407 crash, the NTSB identified serious deficiencies within the airline industry, including exhausting schedules, inexperienced pilots, and insufficient training. Prior to the implementation of the 1,500-hour rule, first officer pilots were only required to have a minimum of 250 flight hours in their training. “
But despite this regulation saving lives and having improved air travel safety, airline companies that make millions in profits are lobbying to repeal or water down this regulation. And now, they have found an ally in Sinema.
As she struggles with her 2024 reelection, Sinema has raised over $150,000 from the airline industry in the past two election cycles, with the majority received in the last two years. This is in addition to major funding she has received from real estate and private equity leaders. CNBC reports that “as Sinema considers whether to launch a bid for a second Senate term, the senator’s campaign entered 2023 flush with cash, with $8.2 million on hand, according to a new Federal Election Commission filing.”
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 9, 2023 8:30:32 GMT -8
Christianity Is Supposed to Be About Love, and SCOTUS LOVES, LOVES, LOVES Those Christians
In just the past three years, the court has sided with a religious foster-care agency that refused to certify same-sex couples as foster parents; a religious group that wished to fly a Christian flag over Boston’s City Hall; religious schools in Maine that sought public subsidies; a public school football coach who insisted on praying at midfield after games, on some accounts causing students to feel pressure to participate; and religious organizations that challenged early Covid restrictions on gathering in large groups.
The legal questions and reasoning differed, but since Justice Barrett replaced Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court has sided with religious plaintiffs in every major religion case except a few exceptions on the shadow docket, representing an essentially unbroken streak of wins for Christian plaintiffs.
This last point is significant. Where historically some of the court’s most important religious freedom rulings have protected members of minority religions from discrimination, the big winners in the recent cases have been practitioners of mainstream Christian religions.
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 9, 2023 8:32:34 GMT -8
Who Won the Week?
Federal Judge Neal Kravitz, for ordering the Proud Boys terrorists to pay over $1 million to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church for vandalism in 2020
Germany's green energy push, as 50% of its electricity comes from renewable sources during the first half of 2023
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D): by vetoing the digits "20" and the hyphen from a reference to the 2024-25 academic year, he guarantees school funding increases for the next 400 yrs
Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom & Protects Choice Ohio, for gathering 300,000 more signatures than needed to put a referendum on the Nov. ballot adding abortion rights to the state constitution
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, on their 77th wedding anniversary---the longest marriage of all the presidents
Judge Mark Walker, for blocking parts of a Florida law barring volunteers from voter registration activities for third-party registration groups and criminalizing retention of voter information for get-out-the-vote efforts
Karma, as the kooky House Freedom Caucus kicks Marjorie Taylor Greene out of their sandbox because she's a big butthead, yes she is, yes she is, stinky butthead Marjorie!!!
The California Air Resources Board, for forging an agreement with the makers of "big rig" diesel trucks to phase them out nationwide by 2036
President Biden: solid jobs report (longest stretch of sub-4% unemployment on record); reins in Trump era limits on short-term "junk" health insurance; promotes U.S. manufacturing renaissance
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 9, 2023 8:34:22 GMT -8
When Is An Abortion Ban Not An Abortion Ban?
Wisconsin’s 173-year-old abortion ban outlaws killing fetuses but doesn’t apply to consensual medical abortions, a judge ruled Friday in allowing a lawsuit challenging the ban to continue in the perennial battleground state.
Dane County Circuit Judge Diane Schlipper said the legal language in the ban doesn’t use the term “abortion” so the law only prohibits attacking a woman in an attempt to kill her unborn child.
“There is no such thing as an ’1849 Abortion Ban’ in Wisconsin,” the judge wrote.
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 9, 2023 8:35:44 GMT -8
You Can Ban, But You Cannot Hide
Jack Sweeney, the college student behind the “ElonJet” account that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet, has taken off for Meta’s Threads after Twitter suspended his account last year.
Sweeney’s move to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter competitor arrives months after Musk threatened to take legal action against the student in December. Musk, in posts at the time, warned users about “doxxing real-time location info” as he referred to a “crazy stalker” following a car that carried his son.
Sweeney, who has shared publicly available information, had over 30 accounts on Twitter that tracked flights for the likes of Musk, former President Donald Trump, Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian and Zuckerberg, according to Insider.
Sweeney, in his first post on Thursday, declared that “ElonJet has arrived” on Threads.
“@zuck will I be allowed to stay,” Sweeney wrote in another post from the account.
The account, seen on other rival platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky, has over 53,000 followers on Threads as of Sunday morning.
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 9, 2023 8:38:16 GMT -8
Maybe He Meant "Ocean's Eleven"
Former President Donald Trump declared that Las Vegas could “maybe someday” have an ocean before a crowd broke out into cheers at a campaign stop on Saturday.
Trump, while discussing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ request for an endorsement in his state’s election, reflected on his love for the Sunshine State before comparing it to the Nevada community.
“And remember, Florida’s easier than other places, you have the ocean and you have the sun. There’s something about that that works. But – you have the sun, too, but you don’t have the ocean, I can tell. You definitely don’t have the ocean. Maybe someday you’ll have the ocean, you never know,” said Trump, who made a motion with his hand before the crowd applauded him.
″Someday. Hopefully it’s a long time away, right? Hopefully.”
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