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I can understand....you cannot believe the celebration when the abombs dropped o Heroíshma and Nagasaki -- you should have been there....that the celebration was because the apprehension about the necessity to invade Japan was uppermost in the minds of American troops, and their families, on their way from Europe to the Pacific theater of war, and about draft calls of 100K/month persisting after the defeat of Germany.
Japan’s Last Ditch Force
By John T. Correll
June 1, 2020
In the summer of 1945, the Japanese had almost seven million troops remaining and were not nearly ready to quit.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/japans-last-ditch-force/#:~:text=About%202%20million%20U.S.%20troops,dropped%20on%20Hiroshima%20and%20Nagasaki.
Surrender
Japan did not respond immediately to the atomic bombs at Hiroshima Aug. 6 and Nagasaki Aug. 9. The invasion was still on.
Marshall had his staff studying an alternative to using atomic bombs in direct support of the invasion force. At least seven more bombs would be available by the end of October. Manhattan Project officials advised Marshall that although lethal radiological effects would reach out 3,500 feet, the ground would be safe to walk on in an hour.
Conventional bombing and blockade would have eventually ended the war, but were not likely to have done so any time soon. Bombing by the B-29s would have resumed, and two nights on a par with the Tokyo attack on March 9 would have exceeded the death toll of both atomic bombs.
Meanwhile, Operation Olympic would have gone forward, against an enemy force three times as large as previously estimated. And that would have left the invasion of Honshu and Operation Coronet yet to come.
In the end, Japan would have been defeated, but the price in lives on both sides would have been terrible.
The Emperor, who had aligned himself with the peace faction, broadcast his rescript of surrender Aug. 15. There was a flurry of revolt within the army, but War Minister Gen Korechika Anami committed ritual suicide. He was opposed to surrender but would not challenge the Emperor. The formal instrument of surrender was signed Sept. 2 aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
Various factors no doubt contributed to the outcome, but revisionist fantasies aside, the key events were the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In what respect(s) and toward what end.
Perhaps a Jewish Space Laser set not on 'combust' but rather 'knock down'?
Some Iranian Aviation heads should roll.
Grumpy Trumpy Felon from Jamaica in Queens! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
Grumpy Trumpy Felon from Jamaica in Queens! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
No, I don't think it's credible either.
Grumpy Trumpy Felon from Jamaica in Queens! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
Both the review and the move sound like a gawker's block. Do I REALLY need to read/see this?
‘The Substance’: Demi Moore Stars in the Grossest Movie at Cannes
BLOODY GOOD
“The Substance” got one of the biggest ovations at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. You also might need to take a barf bag with you when you see it.
Esther Zuckerman
Published May 20, 2024 12:09PM EDT
A photo still of Demi Moore in 'The Substance'
Cannes Film Festival
When I say The Substance, the Demi Moore-starring movie that rocked Cannes, is bloody that’s an understatement. Take the amount of blood you think could be in this movie and double it. No, triple it. At one point during the runtime you will think you have seen the bloodiest part, but just you wait. It gets bloodier.
And yet the blood isn’t even the part of this wonderfully batshit body horror spectacular that had me almost throwing up. It’s a symphony of lurching flesh that might have you both gagging and cheering. The audience at my press screening of Cannes certainly did. We whooped, we gasped, and we clapped. It’s the grossest thing you will see all year.
Directed by Coralie Fargeat, of the also bloody Revenge, the film is at its core pretty simple. Moore, who is locked in to her role, is Elisabeth Sparkle, a fading star with a workout empire called Sparkle Your Life, where she sways her booty like Jane Fonda back in the day. But she is also miserable. Hollywood—or the fake version of Hollywood with ’80s flourishes that Fargeat has created—is casting her out. An executive not inconsequentially named Harvey and played with disgusting gusto by Dennis Quaid wants to replace her. (An early nasty moment involves Quaid eating shrimp with a close up on his mouth.)
After getting in a car accident when absentmindedly looking at a billboard of herself being torn down, a nurse who looks like he has been run through an Instagram filter slips her a flash drive introducing her to “The Substance” with a note that says “it changed my life.” She watched the promo, which promises a new, younger, and better you by unlocking your DNA. Of course, there are warnings: You must remember that despite the two bodies you are still one person. You must stabilize yourself using spinal fluid every day. And you must switch every seven days.
Desperate, she gives it a go, retrieving her kit from a locker in a blindingly white room from a dingy address. Once injecting herself, out of her back emerges her other self played by Margaret Qualley, who is taut where Elisabeth sags. (Though of course Moore looks amazing, it should be noted.) This new Elisabeth sews up the back of her creator—Fargeat makes sure you hear the sound of needle hitting skin as well as see it.
Then, calling herself Sue, the other self heads out to a casting call where she is immediately chosen as Elisabeth’s replacement. Naturally, the love and recognition means that Sue starts to abuse the rules of The Substance, forcing Elisabeth to deteriorate in the process. First, it’s one of her fingers that withers into that of a woman in her 90s. Then it is so much more.
The two halves of a whole start to bicker and rail against one another, but are constantly reminded by the disembodied voice on the other end of the phone number for The Substance that they are indeed the same person. They can only blame themselves for any indiscretion. Because ultimately, The Substance is about a woman who hates herself when she isn’t being loved and will do anything to achieve the recognition for her beauty she craves.
The messaging can be obvious at times throughout the movie, and is hammered home by the fact that it all seems to exist in an alternate, one dimensional universe where celebrity is defined by “the morning show” and no one questions when a girl shows up out of nowhere with the single name Sue. And yet the horror is so creative and over the top, you don’t mind the lack of world building. Similarly, while the script doesn’t care much about Elisabeth’s backstory, you can see the frustration in Moore’s face, as she grapples with her insecurity. One of the best moments in the entire film has no icky ooze, but is just of Moore getting ready for date, constantly changing her makeup until she ends up standing up a high school classmate still in awe of her.
Richard Gere Is Dying (and Confessing) at Cannes
BETTER WITH AGE
https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/oh-canada-review-richard-gere-is-dying-and-confessing-at-cannes
Esther Zuckerman
A photo illustration showing Richard Gere and Uma Thurman in Oh, Canada.
Still, yeah, it’s the gore that makes The Substance worth seeing whether you end up loving or hating it. The visual effects and prosthetics work is astounding in its gruesomeness. A beat when Qualley feels something in her butt and then ultimately pulls a chicken leg from her belly button, for instance, is truly sickening.
Fargeat has made a movie about beauty that is thoroughly ugly in its perversions of the human body. I think some will argue that it punishes Elisabeth for her vanity in a way that is unfair, but there is also a liberation in the disgusting contortions. Come prepared though. You might need a barf bag.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the-substance-review-demi-moore-stars-in-grossest-movie-at-cannes?utm_source=web_push
You miscalculate my time here and ignore the Trumpanzees who burn up their keyboards posting on this board
Here's the formula. Don't like the content on non-Trumpanzee posts? They're here all the time!
Trumpanzee posts? Quiet as a 🐁 pissing on cotton.
That said, time for a bike ride.
I don't see chimneys on the nearby homes, but maybe drivers who have fireplaces will pull over for firewood. 🔥
the ‘mainstream media’ can go fuck itself
it was a weekend full of journalistic atrocities
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/the-mainstream-media-can-go-fuck?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
JEFF TIEDRICH
MAY 20, 2024
the so-called mainstream media fucking sucks. this we know. on any given day, the lazy and intentionally misleading reporting from the worthless, corporate-contolled scribblers of the press makes you want to guzzle paint thinner straight from the can.
then there are entire weekends when the firehose of journalistic malpractice reaches such a level of insanity that your head explodes before you can even get that can of thinner to your lips.
we just lived through one of those weekends. witness just three of the worst offenders.
hey, here’s a thing that happened: Joe Biden borrowed $50,000 from a line of credit on his vacation home. oh, okay. did he hide it? no, it’s right there on his White House financial disclosure statement. did he use it to pay hush money to cover up a sexual encounter? no. did he falsify business records? no. did his lawyer form a shell company to obscure where the money went? no. none of that happened.
so why then is this a story?
no, seriously, why is this a story — and why did Forbes Magazine create a video about it that they plastered all over social media?
why does Forbes feel the need to call attention to Joe Biden’s perfectly normal home equity loan — implying that it’s somehow shady — when right now down in Manhattan, Little Donny Fuckface is on trial for his elaborate criminal conspiracy to conceal payments to a porn actress?
oh wait, I think I just answered my own question.
here’s another journalistic war crime, this time from Politico.
buried towards the bottom of a report on Trump’s trial is this total fucking head-scratcher of a paragraph:
It’s impossible to know exactly how Trump will behave if he returns to office. By all accounts, Trump has professionalized his 2024 campaign, suggesting he learned something from his slapdash first campaign and his 2020 reelection loss. The question is whether his views on presidential prerogatives have changed or whether he intends to be guided by loftier principles.
hello, what? let’s break down the fuckload of dipshittery here.
first sentence: “It’s impossible to know exactly how Trump will behave if he returns to office.” sure, Trump is unpredictable — but that’s because the guy is an impulsive moron with the attention span of a coked-up squirrel.
but we sure as fuck know what Trump intends to do. has Politico never heard of Project 2025?
second sentence: “Trump has professionalized his 2024 campaign, suggesting he learned something from his slapdash first campaign and his 2020 reelection loss.”
what, wait? Trump has professionalized his 2024 campaign? on what fucking planet? outside of hate-rallies, the guy has no 2024 campaign. he’s opened no field offices. he’s doing no advertising. the only thing Trump has done is turn the RNC into a shakedown operation where Trump gets his cut first, the bulk of which goes right to Alina Habba’s kidney-enhancement surgery lawyers’ fees. right now, some down-ballot candidate in Stumblefuck, Iowa can’t get money to print up lawn signs because Donny has bled the RNC dry.
now read that final sentence, because it’s a beauty: “The question is whether his views on presidential prerogatives have changed or whether he intends to be guided by loftier principles.”
what the fuck? this is Donald Trump we’re talking about — the most profoundly broken-inside person ever to have walked the earth. there are no lofty principals at work in Donny’s deteriorating brain. he’s motivated by greed, revenge, the bottomless craving for attention, and the need to stay out of prison.
how can anybody who writes about politics and has been alive for the past ten years even ask such a question?
the New York Times is horny for centrism. the Grey Lady is so desperate to live in a world where Republicans and Democrats hold hands and feed each other grapes, they’ll invent centrism where none exists, and then hump its leg.
A New Centrism Is Rising in Washington
Call it neopopulism: a bipartisan attitude that mistrusts the free-market ethos instead of embracing it.
what’s the Times’ proof of this new era of bipartisan love? that the Democrats bailed out Mike Johnson and kept him from losing his speakership.
After the bill’s passage, far-right House Republicans tried to oust Speaker Mike Johnson because he did not block it — and House Democrats voted to save Johnson’s job. There is no precedent for House members of one party to rescue a speaker from the other.
free clue for the Times: this was not your beloved centrism. the Dems saved Holy Mike’s ass out of political expediency. no sane person wanted to go through another days-long debacle where one dipshit Republican after another goes down in defeat, only to end up with someone even worse than Johnson. and nobody wants to give Marjorie Three Toes a win.
and yes, there’s no precedence for one party saving another party’s speaker, but holy shit — everything about the current gang of Republicans who control the House is unprecedented. trying and failing to impeach a president out of spite and revenge is unprecedented. refusing to say you’ll abide by the results of the 2024 election if Biden wins is super fucking unprecedented.
oh, and the other thing the Times points to is that Congress passed some bills.
Under President Biden, bipartisan majorities have passed major laws on infrastructure and semiconductor chips, as well as laws on veterans’ health, gun violence, the Postal Service, the aviation system, same-sex marriage, anti-Asian hate crimes and the electoral process. On trade, the Biden administration has kept some of the Trump administration’s signature policies and even expanded them.
excuse me, but these bills were passed because Joe Biden is awesome at politics, not because of some New York Times centrist fever dream.
let’s not forget that the current Republican-controlled House has been the least-productive House in over a century. the 118th Congress passed a total of 63 bills. compared to past Congresses, 63 is a rounding error away from zero. contrast that with the 80th Congress, the one Harry Truman famously dubbed “the do-nothing Congress. they passed 906 bills.
if 906 bills makes you the “do-nothing Congress,” 63 makes you the “incompetent as fuck clownshoe Congress.”
let’s not forget that Glitch McConnell is still using the filibuster to block the majority of the Senate’s business, and that failed football coach Tommy Tuberville destroyed our nation’s military readiness by blocking all military promotions for the better part of a year.
is this centrism, New York Times? in a pig’s eye.
while we’re on the subject of The New York Times, what the fuck is this headline trying to say?
yes indeedy — when a defendant is as fucking guilty as Donald Trump is, and there’s a shitload of evidence that proves it, the law definitely gives prosecutors an edge. it’s literally how justice works. is the Times implying that this is somehow unfair to Trump? boo fucking hoo.
now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to run out to the market. I’m all out of paint thinner.
the ‘mainstream media’ can go fuck itself
it was a weekend full of journalistic atrocities
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/the-mainstream-media-can-go-fuck?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
JEFF TIEDRICH
MAY 20, 2024
the so-called mainstream media fucking sucks. this we know. on any given day, the lazy and intentionally misleading reporting from the worthless, corporate-contolled scribblers of the press makes you want to guzzle paint thinner straight from the can.
then there are entire weekends when the firehose of journalistic malpractice reaches such a level of insanity that your head explodes before you can even get that can of thinner to your lips.
we just lived through one of those weekends. witness just three of the worst offenders.
hey, here’s a thing that happened: Joe Biden borrowed $50,000 from a line of credit on his vacation home. oh, okay. did he hide it? no, it’s right there on his White House financial disclosure statement. did he use it to pay hush money to cover up a sexual encounter? no. did he falsify business records? no. did his lawyer form a shell company to obscure where the money went? no. none of that happened.
so why then is this a story?
no, seriously, why is this a story — and why did Forbes Magazine create a video about it that they plastered all over social media?
why does Forbes feel the need to call attention to Joe Biden’s perfectly normal home equity loan — implying that it’s somehow shady — when right now down in Manhattan, Little Donny Fuckface is on trial for his elaborate criminal conspiracy to conceal payments to a porn actress?
oh wait, I think I just answered my own question.
here’s another journalistic war crime, this time from Politico.
buried towards the bottom of a report on Trump’s trial is this total fucking head-scratcher of a paragraph:
It’s impossible to know exactly how Trump will behave if he returns to office. By all accounts, Trump has professionalized his 2024 campaign, suggesting he learned something from his slapdash first campaign and his 2020 reelection loss. The question is whether his views on presidential prerogatives have changed or whether he intends to be guided by loftier principles.
hello, what? let’s break down the fuckload of dipshittery here.
first sentence: “It’s impossible to know exactly how Trump will behave if he returns to office.” sure, Trump is unpredictable — but that’s because the guy is an impulsive moron with the attention span of a coked-up squirrel.
but we sure as fuck know what Trump intends to do. has Politico never heard of Project 2025?
second sentence: “Trump has professionalized his 2024 campaign, suggesting he learned something from his slapdash first campaign and his 2020 reelection loss.”
what, wait? Trump has professionalized his 2024 campaign? on what fucking planet? outside of hate-rallies, the guy has no 2024 campaign. he’s opened no field offices. he’s doing no advertising. the only thing Trump has done is turn the RNC into a shakedown operation where Trump gets his cut first, the bulk of which goes right to Alina Habba’s kidney-enhancement surgery lawyers’ fees. right now, some down-ballot candidate in Stumblefuck, Iowa can’t get money to print up lawn signs because Donny has bled the RNC dry.
now read that final sentence, because it’s a beauty: “The question is whether his views on presidential prerogatives have changed or whether he intends to be guided by loftier principles.”
what the fuck? this is Donald Trump we’re talking about — the most profoundly broken-inside person ever to have walked the earth. there are no lofty principals at work in Donny’s deteriorating brain. he’s motivated by greed, revenge, the bottomless craving for attention, and the need to stay out of prison.
how can anybody who writes about politics and has been alive for the past ten years even ask such a question?
the New York Times is horny for centrism. the Grey Lady is so desperate to live in a world where Republicans and Democrats hold hands and feed each other grapes, they’ll invent centrism where none exists, and then hump its leg.
A New Centrism Is Rising in Washington
Call it neopopulism: a bipartisan attitude that mistrusts the free-market ethos instead of embracing it.
what’s the Times’ proof of this new era of bipartisan love? that the Democrats bailed out Mike Johnson and kept him from losing his speakership.
After the bill’s passage, far-right House Republicans tried to oust Speaker Mike Johnson because he did not block it — and House Democrats voted to save Johnson’s job. There is no precedent for House members of one party to rescue a speaker from the other.
free clue for the Times: this was not your beloved centrism. the Dems saved Holy Mike’s ass out of political expediency. no sane person wanted to go through another days-long debacle where one dipshit Republican after another goes down in defeat, only to end up with someone even worse than Johnson. and nobody wants to give Marjorie Three Toes a win.
and yes, there’s no precedence for one party saving another party’s speaker, but holy shit — everything about the current gang of Republicans who control the House is unprecedented. trying and failing to impeach a president out of spite and revenge is unprecedented. refusing to say you’ll abide by the results of the 2024 election if Biden wins is super fucking unprecedented.
oh, and the other thing the Times points to is that Congress passed some bills.
Under President Biden, bipartisan majorities have passed major laws on infrastructure and semiconductor chips, as well as laws on veterans’ health, gun violence, the Postal Service, the aviation system, same-sex marriage, anti-Asian hate crimes and the electoral process. On trade, the Biden administration has kept some of the Trump administration’s signature policies and even expanded them.
excuse me, but these bills were passed because Joe Biden is awesome at politics, not because of some New York Times centrist fever dream.
let’s not forget that the current Republican-controlled House has been the least-productive House in over a century. the 118th Congress passed a total of 63 bills. compared to past Congresses, 63 is a rounding error away from zero. contrast that with the 80th Congress, the one Harry Truman famously dubbed “the do-nothing Congress. they passed 906 bills.
if 906 bills makes you the “do-nothing Congress,” 63 makes you the “incompetent as fuck clownshoe Congress.”
let’s not forget that Glitch McConnell is still using the filibuster to block the majority of the Senate’s business, and that failed football coach Tommy Tuberville destroyed our nation’s military readiness by blocking all military promotions for the better part of a year.
is this centrism, New York Times? in a pig’s eye.
while we’re on the subject of The New York Times, what the fuck is this headline trying to say?
yes indeedy — when a defendant is as fucking guilty as Donald Trump is, and there’s a shitload of evidence that proves it, the law definitely gives prosecutors an edge. it’s literally how justice works. is the Times implying that this is somehow unfair to Trump? boo fucking hoo.
now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to run out to the market. I’m all out of paint thinner.
the ‘mainstream media’ can go fuck itself
it was a weekend full of journalistic atrocities
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/the-mainstream-media-can-go-fuck?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
JEFF TIEDRICH
MAY 20, 2024
the so-called mainstream media fucking sucks. this we know. on any given day, the lazy and intentionally misleading reporting from the worthless, corporate-contolled scribblers of the press makes you want to guzzle paint thinner straight from the can.
then there are entire weekends when the firehose of journalistic malpractice reaches such a level of insanity that your head explodes before you can even get that can of thinner to your lips.
we just lived through one of those weekends. witness just three of the worst offenders.
hey, here’s a thing that happened: Joe Biden borrowed $50,000 from a line of credit on his vacation home. oh, okay. did he hide it? no, it’s right there on his White House financial disclosure statement. did he use it to pay hush money to cover up a sexual encounter? no. did he falsify business records? no. did his lawyer form a shell company to obscure where the money went? no. none of that happened.
so why then is this a story?
no, seriously, why is this a story — and why did Forbes Magazine create a video about it that they plastered all over social media?
why does Forbes feel the need to call attention to Joe Biden’s perfectly normal home equity loan — implying that it’s somehow shady — when right now down in Manhattan, Little Donny Fuckface is on trial for his elaborate criminal conspiracy to conceal payments to a porn actress?
oh wait, I think I just answered my own question.
here’s another journalistic war crime, this time from Politico.
buried towards the bottom of a report on Trump’s trial is this total fucking head-scratcher of a paragraph:
It’s impossible to know exactly how Trump will behave if he returns to office. By all accounts, Trump has professionalized his 2024 campaign, suggesting he learned something from his slapdash first campaign and his 2020 reelection loss. The question is whether his views on presidential prerogatives have changed or whether he intends to be guided by loftier principles.
hello, what? let’s break down the fuckload of dipshittery here.
first sentence: “It’s impossible to know exactly how Trump will behave if he returns to office.” sure, Trump is unpredictable — but that’s because the guy is an impulsive moron with the attention span of a coked-up squirrel.
but we sure as fuck know what Trump intends to do. has Politico never heard of Project 2025?
second sentence: “Trump has professionalized his 2024 campaign, suggesting he learned something from his slapdash first campaign and his 2020 reelection loss.”
what, wait? Trump has professionalized his 2024 campaign? on what fucking planet? outside of hate-rallies, the guy has no 2024 campaign. he’s opened no field offices. he’s doing no advertising. the only thing Trump has done is turn the RNC into a shakedown operation where Trump gets his cut first, the bulk of which goes right to Alina Habba’s kidney-enhancement surgery lawyers’ fees. right now, some down-ballot candidate in Stumblefuck, Iowa can’t get money to print up lawn signs because Donny has bled the RNC dry.
now read that final sentence, because it’s a beauty: “The question is whether his views on presidential prerogatives have changed or whether he intends to be guided by loftier principles.”
what the fuck? this is Donald Trump we’re talking about — the most profoundly broken-inside person ever to have walked the earth. there are no lofty principals at work in Donny’s deteriorating brain. he’s motivated by greed, revenge, the bottomless craving for attention, and the need to stay out of prison.
how can anybody who writes about politics and has been alive for the past ten years even ask such a question?
the New York Times is horny for centrism. the Grey Lady is so desperate to live in a world where Republicans and Democrats hold hands and feed each other grapes, they’ll invent centrism where none exists, and then hump its leg.
A New Centrism Is Rising in Washington
Call it neopopulism: a bipartisan attitude that mistrusts the free-market ethos instead of embracing it.
what’s the Times’ proof of this new era of bipartisan love? that the Democrats bailed out Mike Johnson and kept him from losing his speakership.
After the bill’s passage, far-right House Republicans tried to oust Speaker Mike Johnson because he did not block it — and House Democrats voted to save Johnson’s job. There is no precedent for House members of one party to rescue a speaker from the other.
free clue for the Times: this was not your beloved centrism. the Dems saved Holy Mike’s ass out of political expediency. no sane person wanted to go through another days-long debacle where one dipshit Republican after another goes down in defeat, only to end up with someone even worse than Johnson. and nobody wants to give Marjorie Three Toes a win.
and yes, there’s no precedence for one party saving another party’s speaker, but holy shit — everything about the current gang of Republicans who control the House is unprecedented. trying and failing to impeach a president out of spite and revenge is unprecedented. refusing to say you’ll abide by the results of the 2024 election if Biden wins is super fucking unprecedented.
oh, and the other thing the Times points to is that Congress passed some bills.
Under President Biden, bipartisan majorities have passed major laws on infrastructure and semiconductor chips, as well as laws on veterans’ health, gun violence, the Postal Service, the aviation system, same-sex marriage, anti-Asian hate crimes and the electoral process. On trade, the Biden administration has kept some of the Trump administration’s signature policies and even expanded them.
excuse me, but these bills were passed because Joe Biden is awesome at politics, not because of some New York Times centrist fever dream.
let’s not forget that the current Republican-controlled House has been the least-productive House in over a century. the 118th Congress passed a total of 63 bills. compared to past Congresses, 63 is a rounding error away from zero. contrast that with the 80th Congress, the one Harry Truman famously dubbed “the do-nothing Congress. they passed 906 bills.
if 906 bills makes you the “do-nothing Congress,” 63 makes you the “incompetent as fuck clownshoe Congress.”
let’s not forget that Glitch McConnell is still using the filibuster to block the majority of the Senate’s business, and that failed football coach Tommy Tuberville destroyed our nation’s military readiness by blocking all military promotions for the better part of a year.
is this centrism, New York Times? in a pig’s eye.
while we’re on the subject of The New York Times, what the fuck is this headline trying to say?
yes indeedy — when a defendant is as fucking guilty as Donald Trump is, and there’s a shitload of evidence that proves it, the law definitely gives prosecutors an edge. it’s literally how justice works. is the Times implying that this is somehow unfair to Trump? boo fucking hoo.
now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to run out to the market. I’m all out of paint thinner.
Why would helicopters not have black boxes?
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/73936/why-would-helicopters-not-have-black-boxes
Airline and commuter type aircraft are required to have cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders. There are no requirements for any other type of aircraft to have them.
Most helicopters are actually small or light aircraft. The helicopter in which Kobe Bryant and others died would be considered a medium sized helicopter, but a small aircraft.
You will find VERY few non-airliner or non-commuter aircraft have any type of “black boxes” as they’re commonly (and erroneously) called. They are not required to, either. Expense, weight, complexity, and maintenance are all reasons. The smaller number of lives at risk might be another. After all, they carry the same number of people as between a sports car and a passenger van. School and passenger buses carry more people.
Saying that, technology has become cheaper and more compact in order to provide de facto recorders. Some modern avionics have that function built in. With the proper app, iPhones and iPads have that function. Some pilots will go the extra step and buy their own sensors to provide more accurate data on Attitude, Heading, Position, Altitude, Ground Speed, Carbon Monoxide presence, and Traffic Data. Add-on apps will even record voice transmissions picked up by the headsets and audio system. This is not mandated by the FAA. It is more for the pilots Situational Awareness and review for training purposes. ForeFlight, CloudAhoy, Stratus, Sentry, and Lightspeed are some common devices and apps used to record data.
If there were two other copters that would be SOP security. I can remember when Obama was president, and visiting Chicago, I would see three copters traveling south over the lake on the way dntn.
No way to know which one to take down. Same thing when they're on the ground, no way to know which one to monkey with.
Instrumentation/imaging is what enables safe flight in those conditions; and failure of it can prove fatal.
Better hope a Mossad mechanic's fingerprints are nowhere to be found on the wreckage.
How many meltdowns left for 'America's Mayor/Ass-Clown before he's just a puddle/
I thought about that as I saw it go down. Isn't there, shouldn't there be, some kind of guideline during tornado season that requires bolstering unwalled new construction. Diagonal beams from the ground to all 4 corners and at all levels?
Meanwhile, on the placid waters of the Chicago River......Da Bass.
Could the Chicago River be having a run of white bass?
Dan Renkosiak holds his PB smallmouth bass, caught on the Chicago River downtown.
Dan Renkosiak caught his PB smallmouth bass Friday on the Chicago River downtown, then found dozens of white bass, raising the question of whether there is now a white bass run on the Chicago River.
By Dale Bowman May 20, 2024, 7:17am CDT
Dan Renkosiak earns Fish of the Week for an apparent white bass run on the Chicago River and a personal-best smallmouth bass caught Friday on the Chicago River downtown.
“My son was fishing the main branch of the river today,” his dad (WindyCity Weather and News) messaged on X. “Caught his personal best smallie in the river then found the white bass *by a discharge pipe [downtown]. He says he landed about 70 of them.”
*So, already 'seasoned' and, were it not for catch and release, almost ready for the grill?😏
White bass are sporadic catches on the river, a run is something extra.
One of the dozens of white bass caught and released by Dan Renkosiak Friday on the Chicago River.
His dad added, “He loves taking his kayak down there. Said he had a small cheering gallery on the bridge.”
Cheering onlookers from bridges is one of the great joys of fishing downtown.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/outdoors/2024/05/20/might-the-chicago-river-be-having-a-run-of-white-bass
Straw man argument.
Nobody is disallowing opinions but rather challenging opinions that are based upon misinformation and filled with logical fallacies. Both of those failings are also challenged by good teachers from the age of reason onwards.
nationalism, bigotry, isolationism and the like aren't likely brought on by economic dislocation; they were lurking and needed only to be brought to the surface by a demagogue like Trump and by the likes of the GOP 'freedom caucus' in the House, preceded by the Tea Party responding to the Great Recession and the black secret Muslim president without a birth certificate.
That was the wide spread opinion of most Republicans, and I accorded it no respect whatsoever anymore than I accord it now to antivaxxers and election deniers. In other words some opinions are absolutely bat 💩 crazy and deserve to be called out as such without regard for the feelings of those who hold them.
Laughable on its face in light of the MAGA version of populism replete as it is with election denialism, authoritarianism, fear & conspiracy theory mongering and support for a candidate who promises to be their retribution. Nothing patriotic or small d democratic about any of it.
Guess you would have really hate the piece I posted that populist are highly democratically oriented and patriotic......
On the subject of 01/06 insurrectionists not yet identified: Oh MY...LOL
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218962421
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— Michelle Laissez les bons temps rouler (@Michell80070209) May 17, 2024
On the subject of 01/06 insurrectionists not yet identified: Oh MY...LOL
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218962421
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— Michelle Laissez les bons temps rouler (@Michell80070209) May 17, 2024
Tp paraphrase Liam Neeson's character from Taken:
As an AG I have a very special set of skills. We will look for you, We will find you and we WILL serve you your subpoena.
A former U.S Attorney should have known better.
Your Sunday LOLcats (dial-up warning) Catching Salmon Edition
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10182013619
Your Sunday LOLcats (dial-up warning) Catching Salmon Edition
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Really? Who in TF are you kidding? Your 'desire' doesn't count for jack 💩.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174448993
Your willingness to believe what you want/need to believe undercuts that desire, bigly.
Thank you for proving just how badly the edgication system let your sorry, credulous, easily misinformed ass down.
"The Second Amendment is not absolute," the president said.
And it's not. 'Well regulated militia' makes it clear that some gun regulations are valid.
Note what the famously liberal Justice Scalia had to say, you willfully ignorant f'k.
JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIADISTRICT OF COLUMBIA V. HELLER, 2008
In its decision, authored by Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court was careful to stress the limited nature of its ruling. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia noted: “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. [It is] not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”
https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-laws/second-amendment/the-supreme-court-the-second-amendment/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CLike%20most%20rights%2C%20the%20right,whatsoever%20and%20for%20whatever%20purpose.%E2%80%9D&text=In%20its%20decision%2C%20authored%20by,limited%20nature%20of%20its%20ruling.
Our nation’s highest court has consistently recognized that the Second Amendment is compatible with strong firearm regulations. Despite this, the gun lobby has repeatedly sought to invalidate lifesaving gun safety laws.
HOW HELLER SHAPED SECOND AMENDMENT LAW
There have been two landmark Supreme Court rulings on the Second Amendment in recent years: District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago.
In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled on the Second Amendment for the first time in almost 70 years after Dick Heller sued the District of Columbia over its ban on handguns in the home. The court ruled in Heller’s favor, affirming an individual right to keep handguns in the home for self-defense.
“Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. [It is] not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”
JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIADISTRICT OF COLUMBIA V. HELLER, 2008
In its decision, authored by Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court was careful to stress the limited nature of its ruling. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia noted: “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. [It is] not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”
The Court provided examples of laws it considered “presumptively lawful,” including those which:
Prohibit firearm possession by dangerous people.
Forbid firearm possession in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings.
Impose conditions on the commercial sale of firearms.
The Heller decision was far from the blanket endorsement of unlimited gun rights that the gun lobby hoped it might be. Rather, the last decade of post-Heller litigation has demonstrated that the decision was a limited ruling fully compatible with the many lifesaving gun laws that protect us today
Not EVEN a 'wait a minute, I'll Google it just to be sure'. Or, 'I've had pork sausage patties, pork chops, pork ribs, pork loin roasts, how come this burger tastes nothing like any of that?'
It's working well for the GOP House, init? How else are Moscow Margie and Hand Job Boebert, normalized nut jobs both, even still in the House?
Normalizing mental illness if obviously going to improve society
Why are you not holding the GOP AND Trump accountable for holding up military assistance to Ukraine for 6 f''ing months?
You have GOP Reps claiming their colleagues are mouthing Kremlin propaganda. Moscow Margie ring a bell?
You're a bothsidesism guy UNTIL it's a matter of accountability. THEN the GOP gets a pass from you.
The top rated Outlook has served me well, forever. And I don't need AI drafting my emails, yet.
What you overlooked is that most states count-mail in votes after polling place votes. And again, because Biden voters didn't want to take a chance of contracting Covid from mitigation measure averse Trumpanzees, most of the mail-in's were Dem votes.
We'll vote early again just for the fun of watching Trump Nation get excited about early returns and then, predictably, lose their shit as the vote totals mount against the Orange Goof late into the night and into the next day.
Then why are you claiming outrageous numbers of votes needed for either candidate to win, idiot?
You can't sustain an argument from post to post because the shit you make up is hard for you to keep straight.
The voters have thus far decisively contradicted you very weak math. Please, take YOUR finger and plug the place that you're pulling your meaningless numbers from. Gotta be getting pretty sore back there.
Absurd. Why do you imagine pulling numbers like that out of your ass will be persuasive to anyone with a decent HS education?
How about this arithmetic?
Biden wins 169M to Trump's 161M. Almost the entire population of the U.S., including children will have had to have voted, you f'ing imbecile.
Don't try and gaslight me with your 'seems' bull💩. That you don't understand statistics is YOUR problem not mine.
THIS is the reality; an abortion rate of 14.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years, and 20.6 abortions per 100 pregnancies ending in abortion or live birth.
Look to how the voting on abortion rights has played out so far. It makes your 1 out 334M/290M argument laughable.
Ohio special election result shows enduring power of abortion rights at ballot box
Politics Aug 9, 2023 1:05 PM EDT
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ohio-special-election-result-shows-enduring-power-of-abortion-rights-at-ballot-box
The 60 percent threshold was no accident, abortion rights supporters say, and was aimed directly at defeating the Ohio abortion measure. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, six states have had elections regarding reproductive rights. In every election — including in conservative states like Kansas — voters have supported abortion rights.
In Kansas, 59 percent voted to preserve abortion rights protections, while in Michigan 57 percent favored an amendment that put protections in the state constitution. Last year, 59 percent of Ohio voters said abortion should generally be legal, according to AP VoteCast, a broad survey of the electorate.
CHICAGO (AP) — Abortion wasn’t technically on the ballot in Ohio’s special election. But the overwhelming defeat of a measure that would have made it tougher to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution this fall was the latest indicator that the issue remains a powerful force at the ballot box.
The election saw record turnout for what’s typically a sleepy August election date and sets up another battle in November, when Ohio will be the only state this year to have reproductive rights on the ballot. It also gives hope to Democrats and other abortion rights supporters who say the matter could sway voters their way again in 2024. That’s when it could affect races for president, Congress and statewide offices, and when places such as the battleground of Arizona may put abortion questions on their ballots as well.
Democrats described the victory in Ohio, a one-time battleground state that has shifted markedly to the right, as a “major warning sign” for the GOP.
“Republicans’ deeply unpopular war on women’s rights will cost them district after district, and we will remind voters of their toxic anti-abortion agenda every day until November,” said Aidan Johnson, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
The measure voters rejected Tuesday, known as Issue 1, would have required ballot questions to pass with 60 percent of the vote rather than a simple majority.
Interest was unusually high, with millions spent on each side and turnout by far the highest for an August election in Ohio, which in the past have been mainly limited to local races. Turnout was even higher than the most recent off-year election in November, when voters in 2017 decided two statewide ballot measures.
Opposition to the measure, which became a kind of proxy for the November abortion vote, extended even into traditionally Republican areas. In early returns, support for the measure fell far short of Donald Trump’s performance during the 2020 election in nearly every county.
The November ballot question will ask voters whether individuals should have the right to make their own reproductive health care decisions, including contraception, abortion, fertility treatment and miscarriage care.
Ohio’s GOP-led state government in 2019 approved a ban on abortion after cardiac activity is detected — around six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant — but the ban was not enforced because of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, which granted a federal right to the procedure. When a new conservative majority on the high court last year overturned the nearly 50-year-old ruling, sending authority over the procedure back to the states, Ohio’s ban briefly went into effect. But a state court put the ban on hold again while a challenge alleging it violates the state constitution plays out.
During the time the ban was in place, an Indiana doctor came forward to say she had performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio who could not legally have the procedure in her home state. The account became a national flashpoint in the debate over abortion rights and underscored the stakes in Ohio.
Ohio is one of about half of U.S. states where citizens may bypass the Legislature and put ballot questions directly to voters, making it an option that supporters of reproductive rights have increasingly turned to since Roe v. Wade fell. After abortion rights supporters said they hoped to ask voters in November to enshrine the right in the state constitution, Ohio Republicans put Issue 1 on Tuesday’s ballot. In addition to raising the threshold to pass a measure, it would have required signatures to be collected in all 88 counties, rather than 44.
The 60 percent threshold was no accident, abortion rights supporters say, and was aimed directly at defeating the Ohio abortion measure. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, six states have had elections regarding reproductive rights. In every election — including in conservative states like Kansas — voters have supported abortion rights.
In Kansas, 59 percent voted to preserve abortion rights protections, while in Michigan 57 percent favored an amendment that put protections in the state constitution. Last year, 59 percent of Ohio voters said abortion should generally be legal, according to AP VoteCast, a broad survey of the electorate.
Last month, a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found the majority of U.S. adults want abortion to be legal at least through the initial stages of pregnancy. The poll found that opinions on abortion remain complex, with most people believing abortion should be allowed in some circumstances and not in others.
Opponents of the Ohio abortion question ran ads that suggested the measure could strip parents of their ability to make decisions about their child’s health care or to even be notified about it. Amy Natoce, spokesperson for the anti-abortion campaign Protect Women Ohio, called the ballot measure a “dangerous anti-parent amendment.”
Several legal experts have said there is no language in the amendment supporting the ads’ claims.
Peter Range, CEO of Ohio Right to Life, said he has been traveling across Ohio talking to people and “I’ve never seen the grassroots from the pro-life side more fired up to go and defend and protect the pre-born.”
While the November question pertains strictly to Ohio, access to abortion there is pivotal to access across the Midwest, said Alison Dreith, director of strategic partnership for the abortion fund Midwest Access Coalition.
Nine Midwestern states — Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Nebraska, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin — are considered restrictive, very restrictive or most restrictive of abortion rights by the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization that supports legal access to abortion.
“Ohio in particular has always been a destination state for the states around it,” Dreith said. “If we don’t protect abortion access in Ohio, the options just continue to shrink for people seeking care in the Midwest.”
Sri Thakkilapati, the executive director of the Cleveland-based nonprofit abortion clinic Preterm, said the effect of the Ohio vote will reverberate throughout the country.
“When we restrict access in one state, other states have to take up that patient load,” she said. “That leads to longer wait times, more travel, higher costs for patients.”
Thakkilapati called the energy around abortion rights in last year’s midterms “exciting.” But she said the media attention died down, and people quickly forgot “how tenuous abortion access is right now.” The special election and ballot measure in Ohio are “a reminder of what’s at stake,” Thakkilapati said.
“Other states are watching how this plays out in Ohio, and it may give anti-abortion groups in other states another strategy to threaten abortion rights elsewhere,” she said. “And for the majority who do want abortion access in their states but are seeing it threatened, the results in November could give them hope that the democratic process may give them relief.”
Kimberly Inez McGuire, the executive director of Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity, which focuses on young people of color under age 30, says the results of elections involving reproductive rights show that support doesn’t come just from Democrats or in cities and states considered liberal bastions.
“There was this idea that we couldn’t win on abortion in red states and that idea has really been smashed,” McGuire said. So, too, she said, is the “mythology” that people in the South and Midwest won’t support abortion rights.
“I think 2024 is going to be huge,” she said. “And I think in many ways, Ohio is a proving ground, an early fight in the lead up to 2024.”
Dreith said that since abortion hasn’t been on a major ballot since last year, the Ohio vote this fall is “a good reminder” for the rest of the country.
“Abortion is always on the ballot — if not literally but figuratively through the politicians we elect to serve us,” she said. “It’s also a reminder that this issue isn’t going away.”
Associated Press reporter Stephen Ohlema
No evidence to support that and no cooperation by states in circumventing existing law against non-citizen voting can be expected.
Keep on looking for excuses why Trump lost and will lose again, he revolts most thinking, moral, people IS the reason.