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Post by mhbruin on Oct 20, 2023 8:48:03 GMT -8
Whoever invented zero, thanks for nothing.
He's in the Speaker's Office, But He Doesn't Hold the Office of Speaker
Even though he was the first speaker of the House to lose his job in a motion to vacate filed by members of his own party, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca) is still occupying the speaker's physical office in the US Capitol. And even though movers were seen carrying boxes from the office bearing McCarthy's initials, the ousted former speaker is not in any hurry to leave.
So He's a Squatter
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 20, 2023 8:50:45 GMT -8
Freaks and No Geeks
CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday aired a chilling voicemail received by the wife of a Republican lawmaker who opposed Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) faltering bid for the House speaker role.
“This is pretty ugly stuff,” Tapper warned viewers before playing the audio sent to the GOP lawmaker, whom he did not identify. Anti-Jordan House Republicans have received multiple threats in recent days.
“Why is your husband such a pig? Why would he get on TV and make an asshole of himself? Because he’s a deep-state prick? Because he doesn’t represent the people?” the male-sounding caller began.
The caller then threatened to “fucking come follow you all over the place” and warned she would “keep getting calls and emails.”
“I’m putting all your information over the internet now. Everybody else is,” they continued, adding, “You’re going to be fucking molested like you can’t ever imagine,” but “non-violently.”
They went on to add, “You must be a bitch to marry a fucking ugly motherfucker like that.”
The voicemail was called “disgusting” by Tapper.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 20, 2023 8:52:31 GMT -8
A Signal Older than the EarthEvery day and night, hundreds of thousands of intense, brief flashes of radiation suddenly flicker on and then off all across the sky. These “fast radio bursts” are invisible to the naked eye, but to a radio telescope many almost outshine everything else in the sky for a few thousandths of a second. Since the first such burst was spotted in 2006, we have found that nearly all of them come from distant galaxies. Most bursts pass unnoticed, occurring outside the field of view of radio telescopes, and never occur again. In new research published in Science, we have found the most distant fast radio burst ever detected: an 8-billion-year-old pulse that has been traveling for more than half the lifetime of the universe. We traced a powerful radio signal to the most distant source yet
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 20, 2023 8:55:26 GMT -8
A Top Ten List So Bad It Makes George W. Bush Look Almost OK
Far-right House Republican Congressman Matt Rosendale of Montana, one of the eight who voted to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, is claiming Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan is the "second most popular Republican" in America, next to Donald Trump.
Rosendale told CNN's Brianna Keilar on Thursday that Congressman Jordan is "trying to meet with the remaining people that haven't supported him," and "he's trying to earn their support," which he called "extremely honorable."
"And that's why Jim Jordan, quite frankly, is the second most popular Republican in this country, second only to Donald Trump," Rosendale said.
The "second most popular Republican in this country" is not only false, but as The Washington Post reported Wednesday, it's a claim that other Jordan supporters have also made.
U.S. Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) "told reporter Ben Jacobs, this wasn’t like January, when the caucus was dragging its feet on approving the 'very unpopular' Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to serve in the top position in the House. Jordan is 'the second-most-popular Republican in the country,' someone that his colleagues should presumably line up behind," The Post reported. "Except, of course, that he isn’t."
Rep. Rosendale earlier this year was forced to denounce neo-Nazis after posing with one for a photo. It was not his first time posing with members of fringe or extremist groups.
According to a recent YouGov survey, Congressman Jordan does not even appear in the top 100 of most popular Republicans in this country, nor is Donald Trump first.
The YouGov poll, "The Most Popular Republicans (Q3 2023)," is based on popularity, which the pollster defines as the percent of people "who have a positive opinion of a Republican."
Here are the top ten:
1. Arnold Schwarzenegger
2. Donald Trump
3. George W. Bush
4. Ben Carson
5. Bob Dole
6. Ted Cruz
7. Henry Kissinger
8. Ron DeSantis
9. Tim Scott
10. Rand Paul
Bob Dole? Henry Kissinger?
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 20, 2023 8:57:05 GMT -8
It Was a Great Speech. It's Likely No One Cares.
Throughout the speech, Mr. Biden toggled between the two crises, making the case that if America does not stand up in both conflicts the result will be “more chaos and death and more destruction.” That argument reflects his certainty that this is the moment he has trained for his entire political career, a point he often makes when challenged about his age.
His sense of mission explains why, at age 80, he has in the past eight months visited two countries in the midst of active wars. But at the same time he has married his public embraces with private cautions to American allies, while carefully keeping American troops out of both conflicts — so far. He seems determined to prove that for all the critiques that the United States is a divided, declining power, it remains the only nation that can mold events in a world of unpredictable mayhem.
“When presidents get into their sweet spot you usually see and hear it, and in the past few weeks you have seen and heard it,” said Michael Beschloss, the historian and author of “Presidents of War,” which traces the rocky history of Mr. Biden’s predecessors as they plunged into global conflicts, avoided a few, and sometimes came to regret their choices.
Whether Mr. Biden can bring the American population along, however, is a more unsettled question than at any moment in his presidency, and was the backdrop of his Oval Office address.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 20, 2023 8:59:53 GMT -8
Who Is the Biggest Loser? Previous Guy, Gym Jordan, or Russia? If these figures are accurate then WOW. The daily fatalities of Russian soldiers must be a one day high or very close even in the prime Wagner days and their complete disregard for human life they struggled to reach those numbers. The armour losses are very impressive especially coming on the back of a week or so of heavy armour losses for the Russians. In WWii days allegedly T-34's were driven out of the factory straight towards the battle, is Russia repeating this with tanks and APCs from storage? Anyone in a uniform that can vaguely drive, grab a piece of armour and head west, no time wasting practicing aligning the tracks of your vehicle with a pontoon bridge! I am surprised the Russians can get armour out of storage quick enough to keep up with the losses especially as who knows which pieces of the equipment have been sold off on the black market! They are jaw dropping losses. Speaking of Jaw Dropping Losses.A “hodgepodge” of 25 entrenched GOP lawmakers on Friday blocked Rep. Jim Jordan from winning the speaker’s gavel for a third time, raising more doubts about whether the Donald Trump-backed candidate can continue in the race. Jordan, an Ohio Republican and the Judiciary Committee chairman, received 194 votes, 10 votes short of the number he needed to be elected speaker on the House floor based on attendance. All 210 Democrats rallied behind Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York. Jordan received five fewer votes than he did on the second ballot on Wednesday, a sign that things were continuing to trend in the wrong direction for his speaker bid.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 20, 2023 9:02:22 GMT -8
Send the Pastor Thoughts and Prayers
Toddler Shot in the Head at North Carolina Church
A pastor's two-year-old son was shot in the head by his three-year-old brother who was wielding their father's gun outside church on Sunday.
Toddler Daniel Vines was rushed to hospital in critical condition after the horror unfolded in the parking lot after an evening service at River Valley Baptist Church in Morganton, North Carolina.
Pastor Adam Vines told local news channel WCCB Charlotte that his three-year-old son—who was not named—found the gun in the side door of the family's van, and said that the weapon was in a holster with the safety on. But the boy somehow managed to accidentally shoot his younger brother, he said. Updated news reports later suggested the child's condition had improved after emergency surgery and he is now said to be stable.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 20, 2023 9:04:53 GMT -8
Biden Is Old, But Previous Guy is Old and Senile
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 20, 2023 9:12:33 GMT -8
Add Another Witness Against Precious Guy
Kenneth Chesebro, a co-defendant in former President Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case, has taken a last-minute plea deal in the case.
The deal comes after the jury selection process had gotten underway Friday.
Chesebro, an attorney, was facing seven counts after prosecutors said he drafted a strategy to use so-called "alternate electors" to prevent Joe Biden from receiving 270 electoral votes in the 2020 election, according to the Fulton County DA's indictment.
The plea comes a day after former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell took a plea deal in which she received probation in exchange for agreeing to testify in the case.
Powell and Chesebro were both originally scheduled to go to trial next week after both demanded speedy trials.
Chesebro, according to sources, last month rejected a similar plea deal with the state, ABC News was first to report.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 20, 2023 9:15:05 GMT -8
Will Everyone Around Previous Guy End Up Broke?
A Texas judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.
The decision is another significant defeat for Jones in the wake of juries in Texas and Connecticut punishing him over spreading falsehoods about the nation's deadliest school shooting. U.S. District Judge Christopher Lopez of Houston issued the ruling Thursday.
Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year and more recent financial documents submitted by his attorneys put his personal net worth around $14 million. But Lopez ruled that those protections do not apply over findings of “willful and malicious” conduct.
“The families are pleased with the Court’s ruling that Jones’s malicious conduct will find no safe harbor in the bankruptcy court," said Christopher Mattei, a Connecticut lawyer for the families. “As a result, Jones will continue to be accountable for his actions into the future regardless of his claimed bankruptcy.”
An attorney for Jones did not immediately return a message seeking comment Friday.
After 26 people were killed by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, Jones made a false conspiracy theory a centerpiece of his programing on his flagship Infowars show. He told his audience last year he was “officially out of money” and has asked them to shop on his Infowars website to help keep him on the air.
But Jones' personal spending topped $93,000 in July alone, including thousands of dollars on meals and entertainment, according to his monthly financial reports in the bankruptcy case. The spending stuck a nerve with Sandy Hook families as they have yet to collect any of the money that juries awarded them.
Sandy Hook families won nearly the $1.5 billion in judgments against Jones last year in lawsuits over repeated promotion of a false theory that the school shooting that ever happened.
The amount of money Jones owes Sandy Hook families could grow even larger. Another lawsuit is pending in Texas, brought by the parents of 6-year-old Noah Pozner, one of the children slain in the attack. A trial date has not yet been set.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 20, 2023 9:17:45 GMT -8
Guess What Tommorow Is. It's a One-Year Anniversary.
October 21, 2022: Steve Bannon sentenced to 4 months in prison for contempt of Congress
Guess Who Still Hasn't Gone to Jail
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 20, 2023 9:20:57 GMT -8
Terrible Translation to "Terrorist"Instagram and its parent company Meta is being asked to provide answers for yet another incident of alleged bias in the midst of thee Israel-Hamas conflict. After being accused of shadow banning pro-Palestinian posts, the app has been auto-translated Arabic words in Palestinian bios as "terrorist". First reported by 404media, the issue appeared for some users who had the Palestinian flag (??), or the Arabic word "Alhamdulillah" (  ??), which means "praise to Allah". TikTok user @ytkingkhan posted about the incident in relation to his Instagram bio. While ytkingkhan isn't Palestinian himself, he wanted to test the matter after a friend brought the issue to light. Upon pressing "See translation", his bio was translated to "Praise be to God, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom". The TikTokker showing his Instagram bio, which displayed the word "Palestinian" and the flag emoji. Upon translation, the word "terrorist" was displayed. Meta apologized for the issue, saying that it has since been fixed. However, the company did not explain why this happened.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 20, 2023 9:23:24 GMT -8
We Don't Want to Boil Our Crabs Before We Catch Them
Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the ocean around Alaska in recent years, and scientists now say they know why: Warmer ocean temperatures likely caused them to starve to death.
The finding comes just days after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced the snow crab harvest season was canceled for the second year in a row, citing the overwhelming number of crabs missing from the typically frigid, treacherous waters of the Bering Sea.
The study, published Thursday by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found a significant link between recent marine heat waves in the eastern Bering Sea and the sudden disappearance of the snow crabs that began showing up in surveys in 2021.
“When I received the 2021 data from the survey for the first time, my mind was just blown,” said Cody Szuwalski, lead author of the study and fishery biologist at NOAA. “Everybody was just kind of hoping and praying that that was an error in the survey and that next year you would see more crabs.”
“And then in 2022, it was more of a resignation that this is going to be a long road,” Szuwalski told CNN.
That year was the first the US snow crab fishery was closed in Alaska. Catchers have attributed to the population decline to overfishing, but “overfished” is a technical definition that triggers conservation measures, experts told CNN — it doesn’t actually explain the collapse.
“The big take home for me from the paper, and just the whole experience in general, is that historically, fishery scientists had been very worried about overfishing — this has been our white whale, and in a lot of places we really solved that with management,” Szuwalski said. “But climate change is really throwing a wrench into our plans, our models and our management systems.”
For the study, scientists analyzed what could have triggered the disappearance of the snow crabs beginning in 2020 and boiled it down (poor choise of words) to two categories: the snow crabs either moved or died.
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