Wednesday, May 26, 2021
I’m not crying, YOU’RE crying: Thread on former car salesman who’s never played basketball getting inducted to NBA Hall of Fame BEST thing you’ll read today
I’m not crying, YOU’RE crying: Thread on former car salesman who’s never played basketball getting inducted to NBA Hall of Fame BEST thing you’ll read today
"We spend so much time sharing stupid, terrible, and horrible stuff (yay, politics!) that when we have a chance to share something pretty damn AWESOME we try to. And considering how rarely we get to write anything positive about the NBA?
Yeah. This is a winner.
Full disclosure, this editor typically does NOT read sports stuff but this is so damn good.
Read all of it.
Twice.
And then decided to write about it. (click the Twitter link below to see the entire thread!
When the Mob Came for the Jews of Baghdad - WSJ
When the Mob Came for the Jews of Baghdad - WSJ
- We heard screams all through the night.
- Today only four known Jews remain in Iraq.
"I was 10 when mobs attacked the Jewish community of Baghdad, my community, with cruel and unimaginable violence.
Rioters maimed, raped, killed and robbed the unsuspecting Jews.
This massacre, which began June 1, 1941, was called the Farhud, Arabic for “violent dispossession” or pogrom.
The seeds of the Farhud had been sown two months earlier...Read all.
China accuses Pompeo of telling lies over its handling of coronavirus
Note the date of this crap! May 7, 2020
China accuses Pompeo of telling lies over its handling of coronavirus
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying reiterated China opposed the politicisation of the origin of the virus.
The remarks were made by Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, who reiterated that Beijing has been transparent about the COVID-19 outbreak that emerged in China late last year and that U.S. politicians are making baseless accusations against China...
...Video Transcript
HUA CHUNYING: [SPEAKING CHINESE]
INTERPRETER: What China opposes is, since you've just mentioned the word oppose, is the US and other countries trying to politicize the origin of the coronavirus and trying to hastily conduct an international inquiry under the presumption of a crime...Read all.
More than 4 months later, National Guard troops stationed at the Capitol have finally left DC - TheBlaze
More than 4 months later, National Guard troops stationed at the Capitol have finally left DC - TheBlaze:
Having been stationed in Washington, D.C., for more than four months following the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the last remaining National Guard troops officially ended their term on Sunday, the Army reserve component announced in a news release. "The National Guard's U.S. Capitol security mission to support the U.S. Capitol Police ends May 23," the release stated as the final 2,200 troops exited the nation's capital.
History for May 26
Peggy Lee (Norma Deloris Egstrom) 1920 - Singer, actress
- 1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted, by one vote, of all charges in his impeachment trial.
- 1908 - In Persia, the first oil strike was made in the Middle East.
- 1938 - The House Committee on Un-American Activities began its work of searching for subversives in the United States.
- 1940 - The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.
- 1959 - The word "Frisbee" became a registered trademark of Wham-O.
- 1972 - The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) was signed by the U.S. and USSR. The short-term agreement put a freeze on the testing and deployment of intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles for a 5-year period.
- 1994 - U.S. President Clinton renewed trade privileges for China, and announced that his administration would no longer link China's trade status with its human rights record.
- 1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police officers in high-speed chases are liable for bystander injuries only if their "actions shock the conscience."
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
DeSANTIS STRIKES: Florida Gov Signs Bill That Lets Citizens Sue Tech Companies for Monetary Damages | Sean Hannity
DeSANTIS STRIKES: Florida Gov Signs Bill That Lets Citizens Sue Tech Companies for Monetary Damages | Sean Hannity:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a historic bill Monday that allows residents in his state to sue big tech companies for monetary damages that take place on their digital platforms.
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Intended to incite anger?-----Report: Detroit police using guns more often during arrests
Report: Detroit police using guns more often during arrests
"...The number of times Detroit police have used force has dropped slightly this year — though they're using their guns and pulling the trigger "substantially" more than they did last year, according to a report released at Thursday's Detroit Board of Police Commissioners meeting.
So far this year, the city has seen 17 so-called Category 1 incidents, which involve the most serious use-of-force tactics, including shooting suspects, striking them with a Taser or using a force that leads to death, broken bones or loss of consciousness. This includes pepper spraying a person who is detained, which is prohibited by police.
Of the 17 most serious use-of-force incidents, nearly half involved guns. Category 1 incidents are up 70%, from 10 last year to the current number of 17, which include:
- 1 fatal shooting
- 2 nonfatal shootings
- 2 shots fired
- 3 unintentional discharge of a weapon
- 5 Taser incidents
- 1 critical vehicle pursuit
- 4 other
"There really weren’t any substantive changes (in use-of-force incidents) … however, there was a substantial increase in gun-related arrests in 2021 compared to 2020," DPD director Reid Branche-Wilson told the commissioners in explaining the quarterly report.
Wilson attributed the rise in Category 1 incidents to an increased use in Tasers and officers unintentionally discharging their weapons, though his report did not say whether the use-of-force incidents were justified or not...Read all.
Did the GOP Just Dodge a Bullet? | CNSNews
Did the GOP Just Dodge a Bullet? | CNSNews:
But if it was an insurrection, an act of sedition, an attempted coup, an act of domestic terrorism, the conspirators should be charged in court, for each of these is a specific crime. And if anyone plotted to kill Mike Pence, then they should be charged with that and put on trial.
But it would be folly for the GOP to cooperate in a Democratic scheme to indict the GOP and Trump presidency in the court of public opinion for abetting something close to treason, which did not happen.
The Jan. 6 national commission idea, understandably supported by every congressional Democrat, belongs in the dumpster.
Chicago Shootings: 48 shot, 10 fatally, in weekend violence across city - ABC7 Chicago
Chicago Shootings: 48 shot, 10 fatally, in weekend violence across city - ABC7 Chicago
CHICAGO -- At least 48 people have been shot, 10 fatally, since Friday night in Chicago, with more than a third of the shootings happened on the West Side.
That's where the youngest victim, a 15-year-old boy, was shot dead on a porch Friday night in Lawndale...
The 15-year-old was shot in his head and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Other homicides...Read all.
Extortion!-----Black-owned media targeted GM. Ford and Stellantis are next
Black-owned media targeted GM. Ford and Stellantis are next
Media mogul Byron Allen, who owns The Weather Channel among dozens of other TV properties, has asked the two other members of the Detroit Three automakers to discuss increasing their advertising spending with Black-owned media companies.
Separately, Ben Chavis, CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, which represents 230 Black-owned newspapers, said he is seeking meetings with automakers, including Ford, about spending more with the media the NNPA represents.
- Black-owned media taking on Ford, Stellantis after battling with GM
Media mogul Byron Allen, who owns The Weather Channel among dozens of other TV properties, has asked the two other members of the Detroit Three automakers to discuss increasing their advertising spending with Black-owned media companies.
Separately, Ben Chavis, CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, which represents 230 Black-owned newspapers, said he is seeking meetings with automakers, including Ford, about spending more with the media the NNPA represents.
Chavis is a longtime civil rights activist who in 1993 became the youngest person to serve as executive director and CEO of the NAACP.
Chavis was appointed national director of the Million Man March and helped organize the march in the nation's capital in 2000...Read all.
Fauci Now Says He's 'Not Convinced' Coronavirus Developed Naturally
Fauci Now Says He's 'Not Convinced' Coronavirus Developed Naturally:
Dr. Anthony Fauci reversed course May 11, claiming he is “not convinced” the Chinese coronavirus developed naturally and that its origins merit investigation.
“No, actually. … No, I’m not convinced about that. I think that we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we find out to the best of our ability exactly what happened,” Fauci said during an interview when a PolitiFact reporter asked, “There’s a lot of cloudiness around the origins of COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] still, so I wanted to ask, are you still confident that it developed naturally?”
They've been lying all this time???-----Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin - WSJ
Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin - WSJ --WSJ NEWS EXCLUSIVE
The details of the reporting go beyond a State Department fact sheet, issued during the final days of the Trump administration, which said that several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness.”
The disclosure of the number of researchers, the timing of their illnesses and their hospital visits come on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization’s decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into Covid-19’s origins...Read all!!
- Report says researchers went to hospital in November 2019, shortly before confirmed outbreak; adds to calls for probe of whether virus escaped lab
The details of the reporting go beyond a State Department fact sheet, issued during the final days of the Trump administration, which said that several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness.”
The disclosure of the number of researchers, the timing of their illnesses and their hospital visits come on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization’s decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into Covid-19’s origins...Read all!!
Local "news" just a biased as national news...only dumber!-----John Oliver Fools Local Broadcast News Programs Into Promoting “Ridiculous” Fake Product
John Oliver Fools Local Broadcast News Programs Into Promoting “Ridiculous” Fake Product
- John Oliver on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight focused his main segment on the amount of sponsored content creeping into local news broadcasts under the guise of news.
“It is far too easy to make a ridiculous product that makes outlandish claims and get it onto local TV,” he said. “And the reason I know that is, we did.”
The show’s production team set up company called “Venus Inventions,” makers of the “Venus Veil,” described as “the world’s first sexual wellness blanket.”
They also created a website and hired an actress to ”brand-egrate the shit” out of the product into “shows it had no business being on.”
ABC4 in Utah took the bait, and ran a segment on it Friday. Oliver showed highlights from the broadcast.
Oliver said it was very easy to get the segment on the air and noted that the staffer interviewing the actress promoting the product was the station’s chief medical correspondent.
“It seems striking she didn’t have any follow-ups on claims we made about the veil that you would hope a medical correspondent would immediately take issue with,” he said...
Watch the segment below...Read all!
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