Gotta admire the hustle:
Discounted from $685 all the way down to $378! You’d be crazy *not* to buy one!!!
Honestly, I’m jealous. Why can’t *I* ever think of things like this to extract vast sums from people with more money than sense??? Granted, it looks like this thing is actual metal, and designed to be removable and only *look* like a zip tie. But a silver-painted plastic zip tie has got to be sellable for, what, at least a couple dozen bucks, right?
Shoot, I can’t imagine even getting 125 people together to watch that dull, dull “sport,” much less getting them excited about it.
So Russia has blamed the west for sabotaging the pipeline; everybody else on the planet blames Russia for sabotaging the pipeline. But there is another possibility. Consider, for a moment, the fact that the same culture of corruption, arrogance and vodka that gave us Chernobyl was also responsible for maintaining the pipeline.
Yeah. No sabotage needed to explain massive mechanical failures.
An interesting read full of things you probably haven’t considered:
Might be advisable to figure out of this was just a maintenance fail before people start nuking each other over it.
For starters, it has the FBI actually doing its job. Shocking, I know.
Not so much “leak” as “sell.” The medical information seems to be medical records of military personnel and their families, a pile of data that does not immediately seem all that terribly useful. But then, the Russians do not seem to have actually been involved here; these people were baited by the FBI. And what people they are:
During an initial Aug. 17 meeting in a Baltimore hotel room, (Anna) Gabrielian told the agent she was “motivated by patriotism toward Russia to provide any assistance she could to Russia, even if it meant being fired or going to jail.”
Nice. But where it gets more interesting: the female doctors spouse, also arrested, has been in the news before:
(Jamie Lee) Henry received attention in 2015 after becoming the first known active-duty Army officer to come out as transgender. A Buzzfeed article from that time said she was also, to her knowledge and to the knowledge of LGBTQ advocates, the first and only active duty service member who had changed her name and gender within the United States military.
In the one photo in the article Henry looks like a dude. But I guess Henry considers Henry to be female. Shrug.
“My point of view is until the United States actually declares war against Russia, I’m able to help as much as I want,” Henry, 39, told the agent, according to the indictment. “At that point, I’ll have some ethical issues I’ll have to work through.”
“You’ll work through those ethical issues,” Gabrielian replied.
Henry also told the agent she had looked into volunteering to join the Russian Army after the conflict in Ukraine began.
Wonderful. *These* are the sort of people the military is hiring *and* promoting.
It seems that both of these characters consider themselves women. So the fact that they have some number of children is a bit unusual; once again, biology ain’t what it once was. But also:
Gabrielian did fear what might happen to the couple’s children if she put herself at risk of arrest, demanding that the kids be put on “a nice flight to Turkey to go on vacation” if arrest seemed imminent.
What the hell is in Turkey awaiting these kids? “Gabrielian” is an *Armenian* surname. I may not be a world-reknowned historian, but I do seem to recall some unpleasantness between the Turks and Armenians that would tend to suggest that they’re not real fond of each other.
This seems like a moment in time that won’t last. Cultural Enrichment is damn near certain to bring this practice to an end.
@annieineventyrland ♬ path of the wind ~ my neighbor totoro lofi – Closed on Sunday
Lots to contemplate here:
On top of everything else, the Library of Congress deemed it proper to hand over a priceless (and doubtless fragile) historic artifact to be used as a prop or a toy on stage by someone with demonstrated and clearly obvious impulse control issues.
“B****! I just twerked and played James Madison’s crystal flute from 1800’s!” she said, after handing the flute back to a representative from the Library of Congress.
Indeed.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/desecration
I feel so warm and secure.
Huh.
It’s happening 😡😡😡😡😡 pic.twitter.com/ihSvgbqBr5
— WILL (@KRTN_Will) September 27, 2022
Another video has emerged of Birmingham anti Hindu hate crimes at Durga Bhavan. #Leicester #Birmingham#AntiHinduHateUK pic.twitter.com/F5Rr7vkboP
— 𑆩𑆳𑆬𑆴𑆤𑆵 Sarah L Gates (@SarahLGates1) September 28, 2022
When I was a kid, the British Army patrolled cities in Northern Ireland. Why are they not now patrolling the cities of England? They could be kept busy for *weeks* grabbing riotous foreigners and tossing them onto deportation flights.
A fitness class out for a jog goes by an outdoor cafe… and the people having their lunch think that the class are running *from * something, panic, and take off running with them. On one hand.. ha ha, very funny. On the other hand, this was in Brazil. I’ve seen the videos. The many, many, MANY videos. It’s not insane to keep your head on a swivel in Brazil, and be ready at the drop of a hat to bolt. That whole country seems like Chicago writ large.
En Brasil, afuera de un restaurante, pasó un grupo de personas haciendo CrossFit, pero los que comían pensaron que huían de algo y decidieron huir con ellos 😂 pic.twitter.com/c35svFP0KU
— Ruido en la Red (@RuidoEnLaRed) September 23, 2022
How could this crime have been prevented? Were there any warning signs? Any possible hints of what was coming? Any chances to go ina different direction?
In 1995, Foster was arrested as a 14-year-old for killing his own 82-year-old grandmother in Flatbush, Brooklyn. He apparently got into a dispute about money and started punching her. She died on the couch shortly after the attack. …
In 2010, police arrested him for stabbing a 50-year-old woman at a psychiatric center in Queens Village. The woman was left permanently disfigured in the attack.
Foster was paroled last year for that incident.
New York City Police arrested him in August for Petty Larceny. The next day he was arrested again for criminal mischief.
Nope. Nothing at all that could have been done. There were no chances to have nipped this in the bud.