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Post by mhbruin on Sept 14, 2023 7:53:12 GMT -8
A highway patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway. Glancing at the car, he was astounded to see that the MAGA Republican behind the wheel was knitting!
Realizing that he was oblivious to his flashing lights and siren, the trooper cranked down his window, turned on his bullhorn and yelled, 'PULL OVER!'
'NO!' the MAGA yelled back, 'IT'S A SCARF!'
Not News: Alex Jones is a Piece of Excrement
Alex Jones has been spending tens of thousands of dollars a month while Sandy Hook families wait to collect on the $1.5 billion in judgments against him, according to a report Thursday.
The Infowars host was ordered to pay the astronomical sum last year in lawsuits for claiming the 2012 school shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators in the Connecticut town had been a hoax, which led to years of harassment and threats from Jones' followers.
Now those plaintiffs want a court to curb his spending, reported the Associated Press.
“It is disturbing that Alex Jones continues to spend money on excessive household expenditures and his extravagant lifestyle when that money rightfully belongs to the families he spent years tormenting,” said Connecticut attorney Christopher Mattei, who represents the families. “The families are increasingly concerned and will continue to contest these matters in court.”
An Aug. 29 court filing shows Jones has been paying $15,000 a month to his wife, Erika Wulff Jones, and in July he spent $7,900 on housekeeping, $6,300 on meals and entertainment, and $3,400 on groceries. His expenses for that month topped $93,000 – up from nearly $75,000 in April.
“If anything, I like to go to nice restaurants – that is my deal," Jones told listeners on Tuesday when he asked them to donate to his legal defense fund. "I like to go on a couple of nice vacations a year, but I think I pretty much have earned that in this fight."
Lawyers for the families said in the filing that if Jones doesn't reduce his personal expenses to a "reasonable" amount, they will ask a judge to bar him from “further waste of estate assets," and to appoint a trustee or dismiss his bankruptcy case.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 14, 2023 7:57:27 GMT -8
Russia Is Missing a Kilo (Not a Kilo of Weed)
On Tuesday evening, Ukraine launched an attack against drydocks associated with the naval port at Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea. In that attack, the Rostov-on-Don, a Kilo-class submarine, was reportedly destroyed. A surface ship, reportedly a Ropucha-class landing ship that has been identified as the Minsk, was also heavily damaged and is also likely to be destroyed.
Unlike Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities, Ukraine used its long-range precision weapons to strike vital interests of the Russian military. And this single attack cost Russia assets worth well over $300 million.
The base price on a Kilo-class submarine is somewhere between $300 million and $350 million. And the Rostov-on-Don wasn’t just a Kilo-class, but one of just 11 “Improved Kilo II” subs built since 2010. This is a new, expensive boat that is—or rather, was—regarded as one of the most effective and stealthy subs in operation.
In addition to its primary role in attacking surface ships, the Kilo-class can also carry up to four Kalibr missiles. Some of the strikes against Odesa and other Ukrainian cities may well have originated from the Rostov-on-Don.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 14, 2023 8:01:32 GMT -8
The Shell Game
Analysts have described Russian artillery units in particular as surprisingly skilled, a counterbalance to some of the more chaotic areas of Moscow’s army. A recent analysis by Britain’s Royal United Services Institute found that artillery units were particularly adept at the trial-and-error task of homing in on targets, sometimes able to accurately hit their mark within three minutes — “essentially the limit of what is physically possible,” given the time it takes to fire.
But this heavy use of artillery comes at a cost. Recent Western estimates suggest that Russia fired 11 million rounds in Ukraine last year. Jack Watling, senior research fellow for land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute, told my colleagues that there were estimates that it would fire 7 million more this year. At that rate of expenditure, production alone can hardly keep up.
Accounts from Western officials suggest that while Russia has impressively boosted its military production, its capacity for artillery production is not higher than 2 million a year. From within the Russian military, there have been numerous angry accounts of shortages: The late Wagner boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin had complained of “shell hunger” on the front near the eastern city of Bakhmut, with his troops receiving only 800 of the 80,000 shells it needed per day, by his account. [...]
The Soviet Union once provided weapons to countries around the world that it sought to influence, creating client states that would be reliant on it for weaponry. In many ways now, the situation is reversed, with Moscow forced to ask the weaker countries it once supplied for help.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 14, 2023 8:03:34 GMT -8
DeathSenetnece Wants Flori-Dumbs to Be Flori-Dead
Contradicting guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s top health department official recommended residents against getting a new COVID-19 vaccine booster.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and the Republican governor, who is also running for president, discussed the state's new vaccine guidance on Wednesday during a panel discussion with health professionals who were critical of the shot. Ladapo announced that state health officials will warn anyone under the age of 65 against getting the new boosters recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
DeSantis strongly promoted COVID-19 vaccines when they were first released but has since become one of the most prominent public officials raising questions about their safety, even as federal health officials insist that the benefits of the shots outweigh any risks.
“I will not stand by and let the FDA and CDC use healthy Floridians as guinea pigs for new booster shots that have not been proven to be safe or effective,” DeSantis said in a news release after the panel discussion.
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Post by hasben on Sept 14, 2023 12:40:47 GMT -8
DeathSenetnece Wants Flori-Dumbs to Be Flori-Dead
Maybe a new covid wave will take out loads of old, maga, DeSatan supporters. Not all a bad thing. My pulmonologist told me the Jupiter and Palm Bch Gardens hospitals had so many covid patients this month that they ran out of intubators.
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Post by gainsborough on Sept 14, 2023 14:39:40 GMT -8
That sounds like a very newsworthy situation in Florida. So why is it not on the news?
Back in the early days of the pandemic, I recall that Florida was playing tricks with the way that the state reported Covid deaths. The state refused to count any death as Covid-related unless the victim was tested for Covid, and in most cases after a person died the state declined to test. In addition, iirc, the state refused to include Covid deaths in their reports if the victim was not a resident of the state. Moreover, I recall the state also played games with the reporting interval, first reporting weekly and then not reporting for several weeks, and then issuing a monthly number. In other words, they fudged their numbers, and got away with it.
But if the hospitals are having problems providing intubators for their patients, well, that would be hard to hide..... and it means that democracy is dead in FLA if things have gotten so bad that the authorities are afraid to report the truth.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 14, 2023 15:40:02 GMT -8
DeathSenetnece Wants Flori-Dumbs to Be Flori-Dead Maybe a new covid wave will take out loads of old, maga, DeSatan supporters. Not all a bad thing. My pulmonologist told me the Jupiter and Palm Bch Gardens hospitals had so many covid patients this month that they ran out of intubators. Apparently your pulmonologist knows his stuff: "There are currently more people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida than in any other state, with roughly 12 new hospitalizations reported per 100,000 in the week ending Sept. 2. This is a 4.4% increase from the previous week, according to data obtained and shared by the CDC." But as gainsborough says, the media doesn't seen to be interested. After all, there is Hunter Biden stuff. |
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Post by hasben on Sept 14, 2023 16:42:12 GMT -8
authorities are afraid to report the truth
Authorities have never reported the truth with anything under desantis. He forces compliance with covid info and vaccine denial, climate change, and education regarding black history and lgbtq. It's not much different in TX and several other states that are gop controlled.
As far as the media they don't want to raise desantis's ire so they avoid heated political controversies and soft pedal everything.
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Post by gainsborough on Sept 14, 2023 21:00:21 GMT -8
I've long suspected that Florida's reporting on Covid has been deceitful. But when they aren't held to account, Florida's false figures become accepted by society at large. Eventually we hear things like "Well, Florida didn't mask or enforce social distancing, and their Covid numbers are about the same as the other states that did." When enough people believe the falsehoods, the bad science becomes government policy. Allowing DeSantis and his ilk to make policy will ensure disasters beyond anything we've ever seen - in our nation's health, in the world's ecology, and more.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 15, 2023 8:39:52 GMT -8
Americans seem to want to live in a world where our economy is crumbling, Biden is a crook, COVID is gone, there are murdered bodies on every street corner of our cities, and drag shows are the most serious problem facing America.
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Post by hasben on Sept 15, 2023 9:24:44 GMT -8
Americans seem to want to live in a world where our economy is crumbling, Biden is a crook, COVID is gone, there are murdered bodies on every street corner of our cities, and drag shows are the most serious problem facing America. I wouldn't say "Americans" but we do know almost half of Americans are total morons. maga |
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