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१०८ टिप्पण्या:
House Democrat charged with stealing $5 million in FEMA funds and making illegal campaign contributions
"The charges in the indictment against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., carry a maximum of 53 years in prison, the Justice Department said.
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., was indicted Wednesday on charges she stole and laundered $5 million in federal relief funds and used the money for her congressional campaign, the Justice Department said.
In a news release citing the indictment, the Justice Department said that Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and Edwin Cherfilus, 51, her brother, worked on a staffing contract funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Covid vaccinations tied to their family health care company in 2021 and that the company was overpaid by $5 million in relief funds."
More at the link.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/21/fact-check-joe-biden-leveraged-ukraine-aid-oust-corrupt-prosecutor/5991434002/
It's fun going back and looking at fact checks like this one, which was totally blown out of the water by the contents of Hunter's laptop, where there was an actual letter from Burisma asking Hunter to make an investigation go away.
Joe Biden and Ukraine were made for each other.
I emailed my insurance agent a question and I got a half page AI response within seconds. But the response was absolutely ridiculous and worthless.
Have you ever wondered why people will sometimes use an abbreviation once in a comment and then, in parentheses, write out the term in full, without using the abbreviation again?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chastised Sen. Mark Kelly for incorrectly displaying his military uniform medals, not comprehending that photographs reverse images from left to right. Here’s what that says about Joe Biden’s cognitive state.
👆Beer googles?
I haven't talked to my insurance agent in 40 years. He used to send me a good luck charm every year.
trumpsgiving: The expression of gratitude that Kamala Harris is NOT the President.
There are cause and effects that seem to be misunderstood
Like the 86 tax act triggering the brief 90 receession by reducing the deductablility of real estate
The interest rate spike from 99-01 popping the tech bubble same in 2004-2006, resetting arms and popping the subprime kne
When I was a boy in the '60s, an insurance agent used to walk the neighborhood and would stop in our house, and was a welcome guest. Funny to think about now.
Oh my. The top one is among the best of all time, on this here blog.
Insurance agents are useless.
The turned people in Pluribus are autistic, AI humanoid like.
Somehow the pics lead me to finding out Blues Magoos were American band, not a breed of ducks or geese.
It looks like the Titanic just sunk. Pic one, they're fine. Pic two, all dead. Pick three, only the Carpathia searching for survivors.
The Pluribus 'what would you do if you saw someone drowning' scene reminded me of Spock's 'the need of the many outweigh the need of the few, or the one' scene.
From r/startrek : Its a massively misinterpreted quote. People often cite it as an answer to the trolley problem, in that it is always right to sacrifice the one to save the many. But the quote isn't presented in isolation. Its part of an arc in which Spock makes that assertation and then acts on that basis in the climax of the story.
What Spock doesn't do is go down to engineering and force Scotty into the radiation chamber to complete the repairs. Logically, that probably would be the best thing to do. Scotty is the Chief Engineer and therefore best qualified to perform the repair quickly and correctly. As a purely logical decision, that would be the solution according to that maxim.
What Spock does is choose to sacrifice himself. He may not be the best choice, but he knows he can complete the task at hand. He is also aware that he has the right to choose to sacrifice his own life for the good of the crew. His life is his to give, whereas someone else's life is not. He is willing to to give what is his to give.
In Star Trek 3, Kirk reverses the maxim, but the principle is the same. Each and every one of the Enterprise's senior staff makes the personal choice to make a sacrifice for the good of their friend. From an external perspective, the many make a sacrifice for the one. But people should never be considered "the many." They are each individuals and from an individual perspective, each one made an individual sacrifice for one person. For each person, the needs of the one - their friend - outweighed the needs of another one - their own personal loss.
It is all about individual, personal sacrifice, in both scenarios. People who are willing to give up what they hold most dear for the benefit of others. None of them are advocating for forcibly making others sacrifice something they do not personally choose to, just for the sake of a mathematically larger group of people.
We've always had to have farm policies. One agent used to drive up in his fancy Caddy, come into the house and try to sell us more insurance, pointing it out with his beringed fingers. Hubby would just take something OFF the policy, because the building was getting old anyway. Soon the agent would just call on the phone and ask if there were any changes. And no, we're not a corporate farm, just a small one passed down the generations.
"Trumpsgiving: The expression of gratitude that Kamala Harris is NOT the President."
Add to that the expression of gratitude that Hillary will NEVER be the President.
Pray for this woman+her family this Thanksgiving and holiday season if you will. She is a survivor. She was smart enough to "stop, drop and roll..." God has plans for her. Please help with a donation if you can... Prayers appreciated. She is a survivor... https://gofund.me/822ac22f3
Blues Magoos… searching my memory files… “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet… NO!!! you ain’t seen nothin’ yet”… now will verify on the innernetz…
https://t.co/SScypvU4DI
Shes back, wait she never left
Fuck me runnin’, I’m slippin’ "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet,"
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1993428803377652215
My insurer is sending someone next month for an in person audit. Most insurers are cherry picking the best customers and are dumping the rest. Live near the water or in a fire prone area? They'll get to you soon...
https://youtu.be/TOWOdKs6KUo?si=562H5sR_yBeQHg3f
I want to thank Left Bank for talking down TSLA, so I could by back in at 390.
The New Yorker is emoting all over a Jamaican who is being deported:
Orville Etoria, a Jamaican national who’d lived in New York for nearly 50 years, was shackled and put on an ICE flight to Eswatini. *
Not mentioned is that he spent 27 of those 50 years in prison after being convicted of homicide. He’s served his time and now we want him out of here.
__________________
* He has since returned to Jamaica.
Oopsey
Its been terribly since they fired brian the dog from family guy
There have been some good pieces in the new yorker notably with lawrence wright even one with jeffrey goldberg that might not have been entirely made up (but we have to go back more than 30 years for that
"Trumpsgiving: The expression of gratitude that Kamala Harris is NOT the President."
+1
Kakistocracy said...
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chastised Sen. Mark Kelly for incorrectly displaying his military uniform medals, not comprehending that photographs reverse images from left to right.”
Three questions Kak:
1) If it’s a mirror image, why do the medals appear over his left shoulder instead of his right?
2) If it’s a mirror image, why are the numbers and letters on the medals not reversed?
3) If it’s a mirror image or not, why are the medals out of order? And very untidy.
"Add to that the expression of gratitude that Hillary will NEVER be the President."
I was just thinking today about how red hot angry that must make her every time she thinks about it, which I'm sure is daily.
She thought she was a shoo-in for the first woman President, and this guy, this guy of all people stopped her dream, her ambition, and the one thing that would justify all the evil she has done and put up with. Brutal, but infinitely righteous.
"She thought she was a shoo-in for the first woman President..."
"Woman" president? So she's a biologist? I did not know that.
Pluribus : what would we be willing to give up for happiness, love, peace and understanding. I'm digging it.
Lem Vibe Bandit: I hate to break it to you, but Cherfilus-McCormick is probably still an improvement over her predecessor, Alcee Hastings.
I love my home insurance agent. He got me an unheard-of year's extension on my construction insurance because I had to cut the bottom four feet off the extension and rebuild it from the ground up (he probably leaned in on the fact that I'm a female but is way too polite to say so). He sends me handwritten Christmas cards, and I advised his son on where to go to school. Of course, with my incredibly profitable Renaissance Poetry degree, I told him to screw school and become a tradesman in a field that requires licensing so he doesn't have to compete with illegals, so far. I could probably find cheaper rates myself now, but I believe in loyalty.
I'll repeat advice I've given before: check out Lloyd's of London, especially if you live in Florida. Heck, they practically invented insurance in the 17th Century and saved me thousands down there.
Some things are uninsurable, like fire insurance in fire-prone areas, flood insurance in flood-prone areas, etc. The problem is that all the policies go bad at once, where the point of insurance is not compensation so much as risk-sharing. The unflooded houses pay for the flooded ones, that being their share of the risk. That doesn't work in flood zones.
You can call what usually results insurance but it's not insurance but subsidies. Subsidies go to the first homeowner and the rest pay for it in the house price when they buy it.
Just stumbled on a cover of Dylan's 'Dark Eyes' (performed by Fernando Ortega). Moody, lovely. Wikipedia, or somewhere, says Dylan saw a prostitute in a hallway once and thought she would not, could not, be in this world, but was stuck in her own, and this inspired the song. Worth finding and listening to.
"Here’s what that says about Joe Biden’s cognitive state."
Note to Kak: Try your jejune diversionary tactics where the audience is more suitable.
italics off
"Shes back, wait she never left"
She is telling us that if climate change isn't stopped Venice will be under water in just a decade.
These are marvelous photos. The first one especially. A welcome blanket of silence to muffle the noise of crass Christmas.
Gavy Newscum has some heavy baggage…
https://x.com/E_Barcohana/status/1993429471618384200?s=20
Conditions over in the UK are getting dicey for the little ones…
https://x.com/boot15_vu/status/1993237448319811872?s=20
"Mark Kelly for incorrectly displaying his military uniform medals, not comprehending that photographs reverse images from left to right".
I am not even going to comment on this passage by our illustrious, Kakabich- I am just quoting it so that he can't delete it later. I am laughing my ass off right now.
One of the problems with technology, as far as this human is concerned, is that it makes me insane. The software doesn't get mad. The software doesn't give a shit. I get mad. And the software is inflexible and stupid. You ever try talking to software?
You go to Google, and it's simple and nice.
I bought a new Mac last month. That was like three days of insanity, of cursing the tech overlords, of bitching about Google and Microsoft and Apple. Why can't you fuckers work together? Play nice!
I like Apple. But I also like Word. Which is Microsoft. And I also like Chrome, which is Google. I might have had to suck Bank of America into this conversation, too. 3 days of anger, yelling, screaming, name-calling, prayer, more prayer, and walking my dog and bitching to the universe. And calling tech support over and over and over.
Another reason to date younger is to find a girl who can get pregnant and handle technology. "I am too old for this shit." I still don't know how fucking Snapchat works. You click on something, I guess.
The free PDF reader I have bene using -- my people come from Scotland, and we love free -- does not actually write PDFs. I found that out the hard way. It says it does. Your PDF is shit, you freebie piece of ass. And then I had to get that shit off my computer. And all of a sudden I'm getting pop-ups and worms and shit.
So I paid Adobe almost $200 to get a lifetime subscription that I will never have to renew. We'll see how long that lasts. All I want is to make a fucking PDF. This is not rocket science. Is it?
Apparently it is, because this is Tuesday and anytime I try to make a PDF of my book, Word crashes, my new Mac computer is fucked, and I am pulling the plug out of the wall to stop the spinning pie wheel of death. By God.
Anyway, we're talking on the phone tomorrow. Luke Skywalker is so happy with his robots. I think I'm going to be charged with robot homicide.
What I do, when I fuck up with bold or italics, is just copy the post and delete the damn thing. That's an easy solution. Then I post it again.
Apparently, some people are unable to delete their posts.
Medals are reversed because it is a mirror image.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front-facing_camera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_image
She thought she was a shoo-in for the first woman President, and this guy, this guy of all people stopped her dream, her ambition, and the one thing that would justify all the evil she has done and put up with. Brutal, but infinitely righteous.
To me it's funny that Bill Clinton advised him to run as a Republican.
What kind of world would it be if Clinton had said, "You know you're one of us, Donald. You're a Democrat."
MAGA Democrats. And Marco Rubio going, "I am not Little Marco, that is not fair." Democrats would be all, "We have to stop illegal immigration and protect the working class." And Republicans would be all, "freedom!" and "we love Hispanics."
And Roe v Wade would still exist. Thank you, Bill!
Rhardin, you have a more technical mind than I do, but when the (inappropriate, I think) federal flood protection plans ended fo Florida, I was living a block from the Ruskin Bay in a very modest 50s brick house, and my flood insurance went from 1.1K to over 13k in a year.
Lloyd's gave me $1200 a year for the exact same policy. I can read a policy. And my husband does some real estate law. I held a meeting for my neighbors, none rich, none waterfront, and all unable to afford the surprise rise. I will reiterate the government should not have been subsidizing us in the first place, but I also believe that community stability requires a longer withdrawl of subsidies and a whole lot more local government information.
Lloyd's didn't care. We all kept our houses. The nurses, the dockworkers, the police, the town renovation inspector. Lloyd's representative seemed amused. So I had another year of watching the chubby Irish priest waddle out to get his paper, while the very chubby racoon who lived in the mango tree next door oddly waddled out and imitated his actions.
Florida. I miss it.
It would be funny if Trump refused to pardon a turkey.
"I'm sorry, but he deserves the ax."
Kakistocracy said...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chastised Sen. Mark Kelly for incorrectly displaying his military uniform medals, not comprehending that photographs reverse images from left to right. Here’s what that says about Joe Biden’s cognitive state.
This person is allowed to vote.
But he probably needs to be reminded to breath.
Rhhardin: yes, I know. I am far more careful when I buy a house that needs renovating now. And I am not the Lorax. I hate trees.
Seems people have been looking up precedents. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/417/733/
Parker vs. Levy. More then a few retired officers might want to read up on this.
Saint Croix
In Re Computer Compatibility
I would get the seller to install all the software for me. Even if I had to pay a bit more. The Apple/Word issue is a well-defined problem that they could solve easily that day. And so could you with a few months study.
"Medals are reversed because it is a mirror image."
This is fucking hilarious, Bich. That image isn't a mirror image- if it were a mirror image, the medals would appear to be under the right shoulder, not the left. That image looks like it was taken of Kelly's dress shirt laying on something and not worn- in other words, Kelly took a normal photograph of the medals. Now, I have no clue if Hegseth's critique of the medal arrangement is right or wrong but I know this- that wasn't a mirror image. Seriously, dude, you are one dumb fuck.
For the record, here is the image Kakabich thinks was a mirror image. Note that military personnel wear their medals on the left breast above the pocket. The image appears on closer inspection to be his formal dress white jacket on a hanger.
Bibi Netanyahu is releasing information about Epstein's ties to Ehud Barrak and Israeli intel services.
The only people not talking about this are US mainstream media.
It is pretty obvious at this point why Trump sandbagged the Epstein File release.
It should also be instructive to the israel firsters here why he did a very abrupt 180 on he issue.
I think Bich spent his life hearing 10 times a day, "Your other left, dumbass."
Yes, kak is stupid and lacks understanding but he is sure he is right, making him more stupid. The words on the medals are not reversed, so it is not a mirror image. Every digital camera since 2015 auto flips pictures. And if auto flip has been disabled, or if it was an ancient uncorrected film camera, all lettering would be reversed as in a mirror. So kak wins the prize.
Yancey Ward said...
For the record, here is the image Kakabich thinks was a mirror image. Note that military personnel wear their medals on the left breast above the pocket. The image appears on closer inspection to be his formal dress white jacket on a hanger.
I haven't seen anything like that.
Maybe it is an army thing but you picked 1 or 2 actual medals and the rest went on the bars. CIB's, EIB Airborn pins go above.
Nobody pins 15 actual medals on their dress uniform.
Also I didn't realize Kelly was still in the chain of command when he made that video. That is UCMJ. He is fucked.
What I would like to know is what was Epstein’s hold over Les Wexner. That’s what nobody is talking about. What prompted Wexner to give Epstein the use of a Manhattan property worth millions and give him control of Wexner’s finances. They met early 80s and by the end of the decade Epstein had control of Wexner’s financial affairs. For 20 years.
What comes next is a multipolar world.
Obviously not a mirror image because the lettering on the medals is not reversed. Besides all the regular idiots on the internet, who initially asserted the picture was mirrored? I ran out of patience trying to determine if it was Kelly himself or some dimwitted person doing the Simpson's "I'm helping" meme. Kelly would have to be a colossal fool to make that claim himself, and although he gives every indication of being an amoral, scheming weasel, I don't think he's as transparently and obviously stupid as pseudonymous commenters.
Thanks Wildswan.
Court official dismisses Justice Department’s misconduct complaint against a federal judge in DC
"A court official has dismissed a Justice Department complaint that accused a federal judge of “hostile and egregious” misconduct during hearings for a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender troops serving in the military.
The complaint accused U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., of inappropriately questioning a government lawyer about his religious beliefs and of trying to embarrass the attorney with a rhetorical exercise during a February hearing.
In a Sept 29 order that wasn’t made public until Monday, Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed the complaint. Srinivasan said a motion for Reyes’ recusal would have been the proper means for the Justice Department to contest her impartiality and seek her removal from the case.
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The complaint was filed by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s then-chief of staff, Chad Mizelle, who has since left the department. Mizelle claimed Reyes’ behavior “compromised the dignity of the proceedings and demonstrated potential bias.”
“When judges demonstrate apparent bias or treat counsel disrespectfully, public confidence in the judicial system is undermined,” he wrote.
Mizelle’s complaint cited an exchange in which Reyes asked a government attorney: “What do you think Jesus would say to telling a group of people that they are so worthless, so worthless that we’re not going to allow them into homeless shelters? Do you think Jesus would be, ‘Sounds right to me’?” The attorney responded by saying, “The United States is not going to speculate about what Jesus would have to say about anything.”
The complaint also refers to a rhetorical exercise about discrimination. Reyes spoke of changing the rules in her courtroom to bar graduates of the University of Virginia law school from appearing before her because they are all “liars and lack integrity.” She instructed the government attorney, a graduate of the school, to sit down before calling him back up to the podium."
Headline: “(PA Governor) Shapiro signs CROWN Act against hair discrimination” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Hair discrimination? Apparently African-Americans are discriminated against for wearing afros or braids. Who knew?
The words on the medals are not reversed, so it is not a mirror image.
And the eagle would facethe other way.
Mirrors reverse front and back, not right and left.
Ok I looked at the pic of Kelly's medals. The thing that jumped out at me is that his Kuwait Liberation Medal is right in the middle. This medal is a foreign award and so should be well toward the bottom, I did not go medal-by-medal, but for example his KLM is in a position of precedence ahead of his Navy Achievement Medal and National Defense Service Medal - both of which are relatively low-level decorations, but as US awards, should take precedence over all foreign awards.
But within each row of medals, they seem to be in correct left-to-right order. So it looks like Kelly keeps each row on a separate bar, and then stuck the bars on his coat in the wrong top-to-bottom order, just to have them all together in the closet. Then he yanked it out of the closet to take his man-yells-at-clouds picture.
Tempest in a teapot. But Hegseth and the rest of the 47 admin have learned that when the other side goes sixth-grade-girl, we go sixth-grade-girl. CC, JSM
PS: All the services wear full-size medals on the dress uniform on certain occasions. Including the Army:
https://tinyurl.com/yc7tkf4h
PPS: Here is Hegseth's "rack." Not too shabby for a guy who didn't even do a full 20 years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth#Awards_and_decorations
CC, JSM
The reason I brought up that old scandal was to point out that the press covered for Joe Biden and lied to us about it, calling the prosecutor "corrupt" and lied about Biden's motivations, which were later documented by his son, the Burisma employee's laptop. And now by the general level of corruption in Ukraine. One economist has estimated that Zelensky and company have skimmed off up to a third of the money we gave them, which, had they not done that, would have left them with the cash to run another year, just on the money we gave them. Biden probably front loaded the cash to make sure he got his ten percent as "The Big Guy."
The partial truth usually comes out over time, and when it does, and you catch somebody who was lying to cover it up, well, what is the saying lawyers have about witnesses caught in a lie? And its the same now with Ukraine, we have been lied to about how Ukraine has been outfighting the Russians, and every victory for Russia comes at such a cost in lives and materiel that they are going to collapse any day, and yet... So if you have been getting your news from a source that tells you everything is rosy for Ukraine, and they should keep fighting, you should reconsider.
Maybe the theory of victory for the US is that in utterly crushing Ukraine, it will prove a pyrrhic victory for Russia, and we just start another war with regime change in another country along its border, time will tell. But how is using Ukraine as a battering ram, disregarding the harm being done to that country, "pro-Ukrainian"?
"The Malaysian airline thought their plane was safe because it was flying at 33,000 feet, and they believed the Russian assurances that the people fighting Ukraine in the Donbas were all local guerrillas using only weapons captured or stolen from armories,"
And yet an aircraft had already been shot down over the territory, just in the previous couple of weeks. Would US air traffic control have allowed flights over a combat zone where US fighter jets were operating, flying bombing missions, and where fighter bombers had been shot down in the previous weeks, and where combat operations were ongoing?
A transport aircraft Ilyushin Il-76MD was shot down near Luhansk on 14 June 2014 by pro-Russian separatists. All 49 onboard were killed." - Wikipedia
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down July 17.
So I am sticking to my point, based on the historical record, that Kiev should have shut the area down to air traffic, since they knew that anti aircraft systems were in operation in ongoing combat. Ukraine was flying combat missions in the area, and indeed lost several aircraft in the months following the incident, but they are not relevant to proving the lie.
I think that the USTSB would have put a large portion of the blame squarely on Kiev, rather than on soldiers on a battlefield who were being constantly harassed by Ukrainian air power. The way the US press puts it, the Russians shot down the airliner purposefully just to kill civilians.
BTW, NATO once shot down an Italian airliner over the Mediterranean, per a former Italian prime minister, and the investigation into the crash was shut down without a finding. They thought that Khadaffy was on board.
Air traffic control had already confirmed the flight track
Lets not try to minimize this
Ana reyes ignorant about scripture as she is about the law
You're hoarding all the ducks. Turn some loose for us down here!
"Air traffic control had already confirmed the flight track"
Over a combat zone where a transport plane had already been shot down.
Shes also ignorant about biology
The US Navy also shot down that civilian airliner near Iran. My only point is that shit happens when weapons are drawn, and the people wielding the weapons are at risk of their own lives. So the plane never should have been routed over a zone of active combat.
"Airlines cancel flights to Venezuela after FAA warns of worsening security, military activity"
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-airlines-faa-canceled-maduro-cf4d806bb870f388013af93fc5aada47
It's all politics.
Josephblau @ 7:31
I haven't had to put awards on a uniform since ROTC. But, correct me if I'm wrong, aren't the bars representing the medals supposed to go there?
It looks for all the world like he bought a bunch of medals and , upon seeing a Russian generals uniform, mounted them in a similar manner.
There is also the flight of 50 Ukrainian prisoners that the Ukrainians shot down, and after it happened, the Ukrainians blamed it on the Russians based on their claim that a couple of senior officers, including a general, were supposed to be on the flight, but didn't board.
Well, another possible inference from that is that the Ukrainians thought that this general was on the plane. There was noise at the time that these prisoner exchanges offered officers on both sides a chance to directly negotiate, which was considered a threat to the regime in Kiev.
Humperdink said...
“Headline: “(PA Governor) Shapiro signs CROWN Act against hair discrimination” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Hair discrimination? Apparently African-Americans are discriminated against for wearing afros or braids. Who knew?”
Does the Act apply to “Becky with the good hair”, too?
Thanksgiving gas prices fall to lowest levels since pandemic, with nearly 30 states below $3 a gallon
This is happening while adding 2mmboe to the Strategic Petroleum Reserves in the past month. Unfortunately, the Biden Administration emptied 290 billion barrels from the SPR to buy votes.
290 billion sounds like a lot.
When arguing with another commenter, an honest man will say who he is quoting, and which thread the words are quoted from. Not being an honest man, 'Jaq' quotes me in his 6:13am comment and does not say that he's quoting from this thread (link, 6:03 and 7:15pm).
An honest man would also have mentioned that the Ukrainian transport plane shot down a few weeks before was hit by an Igla short-range man-portable antiaircraft missile "while on approach to land at Luhansk International Airport". Wikipedia's article on the Igla reports a flight ceiling of 11,000 feet. An airliner flying at 33,000 feet was in no danger whatsoever of being shot down by an Igla.
One more time. The Russians repeatedly assured the world that they had no troops in Ukraine, that all the fighting was being done by local guerrillas equipped with locally-sourced weapons: captured or stolen from the Ukrainian army or bought on the black market. Such weapons could not possibly have included the Buk missile used to shoot down the airliner, which was brought in from Russia the day before, fired by a Russian crew headed by KGB colonel Igor Gerkin, and returned to Russia immediately afterwards. Why does Jaq lie and lie and lie, and why do all of his lies defend Putin and his butchers? Is he paid to lie, or is it just pure love of evil?
Yes it was part of the bust out i spelled out earlier
Rusty: " aren't the bars representing the medals supposed to go there?"
Complicated question. A dress uniform like that is roughly the equivalent of civilian morning dress. Which is an unhelpful analogy since we don't really wear that in the US anymore, except maybe for weddings. But like morning dress, the uniform covers a lot of different daytime formal occasions: parades, weddings, funerals, retirement ceremonies, academy graduations, changes of command, promotions, etc. Depending on the particular occasion, you might wear the fullsize medals or you might wear just the ribbons. The orders or invitation will as a best practice specify, e.g. "Dress Blues with Medals and Sabers." CC, JSM
Althouse asked us specifically not to do quotes + handles. Nothing you are saying, even if it is all true, takes away from the fact that it was an awful risk to send civilian flights over an active combat zone where air power was being employed and where planes were being shot down.
I don't see US sailors being tried in absentia for this:
"On July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes, a U.S. Navy warship, mistakenly shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people on board."
The US gets a "mistakenly" and Russia gets accused of deliberately killing civilians.
I am not the one who brought this up, as you say, you did. I think that the story is a lot more complicated than you imply, and in no way shows Russia to be any more evil than the US. The fact is that the militias were fighting a US backed coup, in other words, in a civil war. Shit happens when weapons are drawn, and bringing it up as a justification for the US sending weapons and money to a country on the other side of the world in a fight with their neighbor that they can't get along with is pretty thin gruel. This argument that it was only unsafe to fly under a certain ceiling, but otherwise it was perfectly safe, is crazy.
BTW, I am not advocating for the US sailors to be tried, but probably there is an officer or two who should have been relieved of duty. Shit happens in armed conflict.
With the iran airlines we were a third party
Duck dynasty.
A flotillla of quackers.
It must be duck season where Rusty lives and not wabbit season. As my late father, an avid turkey hunter, once said, "Turkey's may not be rocket scientists but they know to the hour when turkey season starts."
WWI got fully underway because the English people were convinced that "poor little Belgium" must be defended from "the Hun." The cost in lives was 15 to 20 million, not counting the grievously wounded, and those exiled from their homes, and then. of course WWII, which followed from it. The cost in lives at least doubled the population of Belgium, which was about 7.1 million.
Here's the order of precedence for medals and ribbons- https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/References/US-Navy-Uniforms/Uniform-Regulations/Navy-Awards-Precedence/
The pic referenced above is the Full Dress White uniform. AKA choker whites. The first two medals are in correct order. The rest? Well, my eyes get dizzy trying to follow them.
The medals also overlap. Allowed by regulation, but I've never seen it before. 3 fit side by side on a ribbon bar. When large medals are prescribed for uniforms- ribbons without medals are worn on the right side, and it would look reverse order because senior awards are inboard, that us, to the center. Last I recall, the 3 most senior awards are all that are required to be worn. Of course, all can be.
"The fact is that the militias were fighting a US backed coup, in other words, in a civil war." That is three lies in one. 1. It was never a civil war. Many (most?) of the "little green men" fighting in the Donbas were Russian regular soldiers, from Russia, armed with Russian weapons, and commanded by Russian officers. The man who commanded the Buk crew that shot down the airliner was a KGB colonel from Moscow, but also somehow the Minister of Defense of the "Luhansk People's Republic". The fact is that this "civil war" was and is a Russian invasion, with some local collaborators. Russia has now annexed both Donbas provinces, with no objections whatsoever from Jaq and his buddies. Why is that? 2. It was never a coup. Yanukovych was removed from power by vote of the Ukrainian legislature, after he had abandoned his post and fled the country, when he realized that everyone hated him for murdering peaceful demonstrators. There were only two coups in Ukraine that year: the one in which Girkin seized Crimea, and the one in which Girkin tried to seize the Donbas. 3. It was not US-inspired: the demonstrations started spontaneously when the people of Ukraine realized how utterly corrupt, thuggish, and tyrannical Yanukovych was, and that he was a traitorous puppet of Putin.
Why does Jaq repeat shameless propaganda? Why is every single one of his arguments designed to make Putin and other enemies of the US look good, and every enemy of Putin look bad? What's in it for him? Money, or some kind of sick Satanic pride in supporting evil?
As for the USS Vincennes, Jaq fails to note that Iranian ships had been firing on US ships less than 10 miles away less than an hour before. Flying an airliner directly over the Vincennes was a thousand times more reckless than what Malaysian Airlines did.
I can make out a DFC and AM (I think) on Captain Kelly's array, but have to assume some of the awards are mere trinkets of appreciation from Muzzies.
New Georgia prosecutor in Trump's "election interference" case has dropped all charges. Now we await Judge Scott McAfee to pull a Judge Sullivan and try to prosecute Trump anyway.
Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
So, you aren't going to admit you are wrong or you are really too stupid to realize you are wrong, right Kakabich? Astonishing.
Yancy @ 9:23
It has been for a couple of weeks. The ducks haven't come this far south yet. Although I think with this weather we'll be seeing some this weekend. Plenty of geese though.
I agree with Lem, top one is amazing
Dr.W
That's how I remember it.
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