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June 7, 2023

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34 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...: News about Jamie Foxx's health status continues to slip out.

link to YouTube short; 6/7/23, 6:14 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: My, My, My...

https://www.frontpagemag.com/he-covered-up-cuomos-nursing-home-deaths-now-hes-a-cdc-deputy-director/

Washington is full of 'em.; 6/7/23, 6:37 PM
Saint Croix said...: I'm currently in a War on Women and it's not going well.; 6/7/23, 6:43 PM
Narr said...: Superb palette and textures. Kudos to everyone involved.; 6/7/23, 7:42 PM
gadfly said...: BUMBLE BEE said...
My, My, My...

https://www.frontpagemag.com/he-covered-up-cuomos-nursing-home-deaths-now-hes-a-cdc-deputy-director/

Washington is full of 'em.

“So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.”; 6/7/23, 8:02 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Big, if true: Facial scanning live in the USA! Seattle airport.; 6/7/23, 8:54 PM
Narr said...: Lest I forget, in regard to Nazi symbology and eastern Europe.

Nina Tumarkin's book "The Living and the Dead" recounts how, in the Eighties, Russian schoolkids on field trips to the museums and memorials to the Great Patriotic War would ignore the Soviet displays and flock to the Nazi ones. They weren't Nazis one has to suppose, but they clearly had no interest in the Soviet/Russian innocence narrative.

I'd wager that in The Bloodlands a lot of young toughs and bucks of many nationalities have fylfots and runes on their skins.

As a basis for choosing sides, it's thin.; 6/7/23, 9:03 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Tweet: NYC today

Where there is smoke, there's a fire thousands of miles away.; 6/7/23, 9:28 PM
Mark said...: Thankful the smoke is gone and my throat finally feels OK.

What unusual times we live in. Glad it didn't get to the orange sky NYC has.; 6/7/23, 9:47 PM
gadfly said...: The Department of Justice is preparing to ask a Washington, DC grand jury to indict former president Donald Trump for violating the Espionage Act [Section 793] and for obstruction of justice as soon as Thursday, adding further weight to the legal baggage facing Mr. Trump as he campaigns for his party’s nomination in next year’s presidential election.; 6/7/23, 10:17 PM
Yancey Ward said...: A little noted story went by either yesterday or today- WaPo reporting that the US intelligence agencies had info that the Ukrainians were going to blow the Nordstream pipelines, and that they had this information two months before it was blown up. Now, this may just be more bullshit either created by WaPo's crack journolistic staff, or more bullshit fed to the journolists by the CIA and the Biden clown car operation to cover up the US's involvement in blowing it up, but here is the question the story didn't ask and no one seems to be raising:

If the story is true, then why were US government officials publicly and anonymously blaming the Russians on September 27th of last year, and continued to blame them for the next several months until Seymour Hersch published his story blaming the US. In other words, our officials were lying to our faces if you now believe the latest story, and if you don't believe the latest story, then they are lying to our faces right now. Either way, our government is a bunch of pathological liars, and can't be believed on any matter, regardless of how small or big.; 6/7/23, 10:52 PM
Mason G said...: Saw an ad on tv tonight- a power string trimmer for dad on Father's Day. I wonder if there was one for a vacuum cleaner for mom on Mother's Day? If so, I didn't see it.; 6/7/23, 10:54 PM
madAsHell said...: Big, if true: Facial scanning live in the USA! Seattle airport.

It's true. It's been that way for months. I think it is just the international flight. The computer compares your photo against your passport.

There are SOOOOOO many cameras at the airport. You can't be upset, although I truly hate the invasion of privacy.; 6/7/23, 11:18 PM
walter said...: Saw pic of Pence on moto and thought of Dukakis in tank.; 6/7/23, 11:41 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: "The Department of Justice is preparing to ask a Washington, DC grand jury to indict former president Donald Trump for violating the Espionage Act [Section 793] and for obstruction of justice as soon as Thursday, adding further weight to the legal baggage facing Mr. Trump as he campaigns for his party’s nomination in next year’s presidential election."

Every attack against your monster makes him stronger, angrier, and more inevitable. Surely you know that, everyone knows that. What do you liberals do for fun, Gadfly? Go out into the woods and tease bears with food and hit them with sticks?; 6/8/23, 1:57 AM
Wa St Blogger said...: Off to Wisconsin to watch #1 daughter get diploma.; 6/8/23, 3:51 AM
Humperdink said...: Orange smoke hangs over NYC. What can't climate change do?; 6/8/23, 5:45 AM
iowan2 said...: “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.”

gadfly, you got a fraction of the conversation, but you refuse to provide the context.
More propaganda for the RUSSIA hoax believers. HOAXERS!(tm); 6/8/23, 6:16 AM
iowan2 said...: Every attack against your monster makes him stronger, angrier, and more inevitable.

There is a letter by Trump explaining the documents he declassified, because the DoJ FBI had refused, multiple times to send the President unredacted documents free of declassified markings. The are the documents he took. That is why the warrants specified "marked classified" documents. Not simply 'classified' documents. The DoJ has always known what he took....he let them know. The DoJ led the National Archives in filing the requests to get the DoJ involved. The whole thing is crooked.
Not sure what happens when Trump declares all documents declassified. No entity has the power to question the assertion of the President. Forget about a judge claiming the power to decide.; 6/8/23, 6:27 AM
iowan2 said...: I wonder if there was one for a vacuum cleaner for mom on Mother's Day? If so, I didn't see it.

It wasn't for mothers day. Anniversary/birthday maybe. I got central vac system put in the house when she was working. She loves it,(when she rarely uses it, as I do lots of the house work, along with the mowing and trimming, I'm retired,only work ~800 hours a year); 6/8/23, 6:47 AM
iowan2 said...: The Department of Justice is preparing to ask a Washington, DC grand jury

Gadfly, you have a whole story that never cites a source. Grand Juries are secret, and the DoJ, never comments on investigations. So how can you believe this?; 6/8/23, 6:50 AM
farmgirl said...: Lem: my daughter could collect her tax return unless she scanned her face for the irs. I begged her not to. She’s 23. She figured they already had so much info on her. I was very upset.

My oldest did a photo app game of turning herself into a comic- an enhanced drawn image. Same type of thing, to me. They’re of this age, I guess. Not a very smart move.; 6/8/23, 7:05 AM
Rusty said...: Trump is hiding under Gadfly's bed.; 6/8/23, 7:50 AM
tim in vermont said...: "Orange smoke hangs over NYC. What can't climate change do?"

It's pretty straightforward to reconstruct the history of wildfire predominance over the past couple thousand years, for instance by looking for smoke particles in Greenland ice cores, or examining the bark of 2,000 year old Sequoia trees. The findings that never seem to make their way into the press, is that North American experienced hundreds of years of wildfires far more severe than today during pre-Columbian times. This is what the climate change narrative pushers call "an inconvenient truth."

I live very close to Quebec, and I am personally getting very sick of it. I had a hard time sleeping because of constant coughing, it smelled like coal smoke for a while, or a house fire, visibility was pretty limited. We had a couple of dry lightening strikes nearby, which I attributed to the smoke, but who knows, maybe that is what caused the fires. Or maybe they have been set by eco terrorists who are trying to create an air of climate doom. This is not really the time of years for such fires.; 6/8/23, 7:52 AM
farmgirl said...: It’s an Andy Warhol sunrise…; 6/8/23, 8:04 AM
Big Mike said...: From Sarah Hoyt, working the overnight shift at Instapundit:

At this point, [Trump’s] running on spite. Having been there myself, I have full faith in spite.; 6/8/23, 8:05 AM
tim in vermont said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/8/23, 8:25 AM
Big Mike said...: Speaking of vivid sunrises, this weekend the wife and I are traveling to Baltimore for our grandson’s first birthday. The AQI at BWI airport is predicted to reach 354 (it’s already 190 as I write this). I wasn’t aware the scale could go that high.; 6/8/23, 8:35 AM
wendybar said...: The whole FBI belong behind bars for TREASON. This is getting ridiculous.

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/06/08/twitter-files-fbi-assisted-ukrainian-in-targeting-journalists-and-others-for-censorship/; 6/8/23, 9:57 AM
tim in vermont said...: "Ukrainian TGs report that 50K Ukrainian troops from Kherson will be moved to Zaporizhzhia, as crossing Dnepr is no longer an option."

You don't say. It turns out that blowing up the dam has conferred tactical advantages on the Ukrainians, freeing up troops that are no longer required to defend one line for use in the counteroffensive elsewhere...

Not to mention that they have rid themselves of the Sword of Damocles, that the Kakhovka Dam represented should they wish to try to retake the rest of Kherson by crossing the river. Russia could have flooded their troops and washed away their temporary bridges by opening the floodgates. Not anymore.

Oh yeah, and Russian defensive positions and minefields have been washed away in the flood, and Russia lost a lot of equipment there, since they evacuated their soldiers, but lett the equipment to be washed away.

All at the cost of decades of decimated agricultural production and electricity production in ethnic Russian areas of Ukraine, you know, like Crimea and the Donbas.

I guess the argument is that Russia is stupid, and keeps shooting themselves in the foot, like when they blew up their own pipeline, instead of, you know, just turning off the valves, so that they still could be used after the war.

Or when they shelled their own nuclear power plant, in order to create a massive radioactivity problem within the Russian speaking areas that they control. What could their motivation possibly be? Stupidity of course, the same nation that created the Periodic Table of the Elements and invented the theory of Stealth. That's right, stealth fighter jets are based on a paper about radar reflectivity written by a Soviet scientist.

What was the evidence given at the UN Security Council about this event? "Russians are liars! Don't listen to them!" Very convincing. I am convinced.; 6/8/23, 11:00 AM
tim in vermont said...: I deleted a comment, because we are still in the fog of war stage of this whole thing. One thing I do know though, is that our "scientific community" is utterly corrupted, and if getting to the truth requires that they participate in the process, the truth will never come out.; 6/8/23, 11:02 AM
walter said...: I sense Jabfly is very outraged over the continued targeting of Trump.
He's cool with selective prosecution.
True patriot. Took extra jabs to save us.; 6/8/23, 11:46 AM
Friendo said...: Most excellent photos.; 6/8/23, 3:25 PM
Dr Weevil said...: There is no doubt that Russia blew up the dam at Nova Kakhovka.

Here is a Russian military expert explaining that it was built to resist nuclear blasts and could only be broken by huge demolition charges. His copanelists try to shut him up, since he seems to have forgotten that only Russia had access. The third reply on Twitter shows another expert talking about exactly how such demolition is done, saying "There's a technique called water or blast saw. It's how the Nord Streams were undermined": as the tweeter says "Basically admitting they did Nordstream too 😂".

I've read that Russia blew up their own gas pipeline to Georgia when they invaded, and blew up a gas pipeline to one of the 'stans (Tajikistan?) to show their displeasure. They certainly blew up the Oskil dam and drained the 8th largest reservoir in Ukraine a year ago. And they've been draining ponds and flooding farmland all over Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts since May 18. Are they stupid enough to have drowned their own troops downstream from Nova Kakhovka? They were stupid enough to station troops in the forbidden zone at Chernobyl and have them dig trenches in radioactive soil there, so yes, they are that stupid.

Plenty of 'experts' on RT are now calling on Putin to blow up the dam upstream from Kyiv and drown everyone in the city. And plenty of 'experts' are saying about Nova Kakhovka, "Hey, it worked, didn't it? How can it be wrong?"

RT is even denying that there was a zoo half a mile from the dam in Nova Kakhovka, though Google Maps still has a zoo symbol on the spot and 1075 pictures of what it looked like before they flooded it and killed all the animals but the ducks and swans. (Note: it didn't have any tigers or polar bears or pythons. If they'd allowed the Ukrainian keepers to open the cages, the mountain goats and beavers and donkeys and monkeys and all the rest could have gotten away with little danger to the public.)

Finally, the fact that armed Russians allowed only Russian passport-holders to leave Oleshky before the water hit, leaving the rest to die, and Russian artillery is firing at the Ukrainians trying to rescue people from the south bank shows you who blew up the dam. (They just missed the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, one of the rescuers.) There are plenty of videos of the ongoing rescue operations: it's exactly like the 'Cajun Navy' after Katrina, except no one was shooting at them. And the beaches in Odesa have been closed because of all the corpses and poisonous debris washing up on them.

One more thing: Draining the reservoir will not only destroy agriculture in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts for a decade. (The areas are fertile but arid, and depend on irrigation canals. Their crops keep dozens of Third World countries from starving. And the residents are not ethnic Russians, but Ukrainians.) It also destroys Ukraine's river commerce. Just as the Saint Lawrence Seaway allows ocean-going ships to go all the way from the Atlantic to Duluth, the six Dnipro reservoirs and their locks and dams allowed ocean-going ships (600+ feet long) to go all the way from the Black Sea to Kiev. It was a huge part of the Ukrainian economy. I wonder how many huge ships are now stuck in the mud upstream from the dam, and will be for years.

With all this easily-anticipated horror, some people still think this is something Ukraine might have done to themselves for temporary military advantage? You have to be a moron and a bigot to think that.; 6/8/23, 7:54 PM