Thursday Afternoon

I'm on tilt here.

OK, here we go: Ebola "cured-ish", if treatment is early. This is a BFD, and to whom do we owe thanks? The US taxpayer and, well, terrorism-inspired paranoia.

From the Times:

A Cure for Ebola? Two New Treatments Prove Highly Effective in Congo

The therapies saved roughly 90 percent of the patients who were newly infected, a turning point in the decades-long fight against the virus.

...

REGN-EB3 is made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals of Tarrytown, N.Y., which also makes other antibody treatments. Dr. Fauci’s institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, developed mAb114 and licensed production last year to Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, a Miami company.

[LONG Skip and...]

Development of the new treatments was supported by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services concerned with fighting chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats, and pandemic diseases.

Your tax dollars at work! In partnership with two private companies, so something for everyone. Come 2021 President Bernie will be investigating these companies and fining or jailing them for not having finished this sooner, but let's focus on the now. Here is HHS announcing the new trial last year:

Actions under Project BioShield could protect health from bioterrorism, naturally occurring outbreaks

 

Hundreds of thousands of Americans could be protected from or treated for Ebola infections through the first purchase of vaccines and therapeutic drugs by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA ), part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response  (ASPR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The vaccines and drugs are the first for Ebola to receive Project BioShield  funding which supports late-stage development toward licensure and stockpile purchases.

 

“Today we are prepared to add four Ebola countermeasures to the stockpile whereas three years ago, very few products were even in early stages of development,” BARDA Director Rick Bright, Ph.D., said. “This marks a pivotal moment in U.S. and global preparedness for future public health emergencies from viral hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola. We reached this point at unprecedented speed, and that’s a direct result of innovative approaches to product development and to partnering across the U.S. government, other nations, and private industry.”

 

Ebola  is considered a potential bioterrorism threat by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as well as a naturally occurring public health threat. Natural Ebola outbreaks occur most often in African countries, the most recent, from 2014 through 2016. According to the World Health Organization, during that outbreak more than 28,600 cases of Ebola virus infection were suspected, probable or confirmed and more than 11,000 people died.

Don't run out and buy Regeneron (REGN) stock, however- no one is sure whether or how they will make money on this.

And the other winner, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics? As best I can tell it is owned and funded by a doctor and his wife, a health care investor, both of whom seem to have struck it rich as hedge fund heroes and are running this company to do good:

Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics is a privately held, majority woman owned biotechnology company focused on orphan and infectious diseases.  Life to date, all funding for Ridgeback Biotherapeutics has originated from Wayne and Wendy Holman; two science driven individuals who invest in technologies that they believe will make the world a better place.  The team at Ridgeback is dedicated to working toward finding life-saving and life changing solutions for patients and diseases that need champions.

Yeah, take THAT, Bill and Melinda Gates!

OK, good for them, good for us, and thank you. (Now, Bernie, lock 'em up, amirite!)

 

 

Comments

[MissMarple3]

Good morning! Momto2. I think you are right.

[hrtshpdbox]

The 10 yr vs 2 yr spread, charted. Change it from a 1-yr chart to "all", which goes back to the 70's, and imagine a chart of the Dow laid on top of it - any investor with even a moderately long timeline shouldn't buy into the Chicken Little talk.

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=10Y2YS

[hrtshpdbox]

I think it's pretty clear that Trump would've taken New Hampshire except for Massachusetts voters pouring over the state line to vote illegally.

[Pinandpuller]

I just talked to a mechanic friend. He said he had a 25 labor hour ticket waiting but he could knock it out in 10.

I said in a socialist country you would just do the job two and a half times and give the car back.

[MissMarple3]

Thank you New Hampshire. KEEP AMERICA GREAT! #KAG2020 pic.twitter.com/fbU7YYsYyI

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2019

Four photos at link.

[Jim Eagle]

In re last night's discussion on acquiring Greenland: During WW2 and later we, the USA, basically owned it and ran it through our Army Air Force and later the USAF. My dad was Chief of Plans for the Northeast Air Command and was actively involved in developing Thule AFB. But beside Thule we also had a number of airfield operations through out Greenland.

Bluie West One airfield, later known as Narsarsuaq Air Base and Narsarsuaq Airport, was built on a glacial moraine at what is now the village of Narsarsuaq, near the southern tip of Greenland. 

Sondrestrom Air Base, originally Bluie West-8, was a U.S. air base in central Greenland. The site is located 60 mi (97 km) north of the Arctic Circleand 90 mi (140 km) from the northeast end of Kangerlussuaq Fjord, formerly known by its Danish name Søndre Strømfjord. The base is approximately 11 mi (18 km) west-northwest of Ravneklippen and 80 mi (130 km) east of Sisimiut.

After our dependent's stint at Keflavik in Iceland, we were scheduled to move with my Dad to BW-1 but thankfully got cancelled and we were re-routed to Plattsburgh AFB which was under construction at the time.

[Pinandpuller]

jim nj

The only lexicogical limits I place on myself relate to blasphemy but I save most bad words for special occasions like my birthday.

[MissMarple3]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-intelligence-warned-of-huawei-plan-to-sneak-unmarked-smartphones-into-us-via-mexico_3043903.html

[Another Bob]

Anyone ever taken a dip in the alternate media world?

I’ve been listening to this podcast that is basically economics, but had this woman Whitney Webb on talking about Epstein. (Webb seems the classic 30 year old who’s been immersed in the prog world her entire life, and therefore knows nothing.)

I wouldn’t know where to start. But in the end, it’s pretty pedestrian stuff: it’s all part of a massive decades-long sexual blackmail op run by the CIA and the Mafia with a side of Teh Joos. Stitched Roy Cohn and Meyer Lansky into this, Trump “had to” be in the “same social circles” so therefore must be somehow involved. Bunch of supposed factoids tossed around like Steven Spielberg was a protege of Lew Wasserman who worked for mobster Moe Dalitz. The Clintons and Marc Rich are somehow involved. (What that has to do with Epstein was never made clear.) No actual evidence of anything (the CIA has it all and will never release it), just a long list of six-degrees-of-separation claims, with a crap ton of implications we’re supposed to take for granted. Bill Barr comes up a few times. On and on.

I’d like to ask yo-yos like Webb if they’re part of the op, paid to throw a bunch of bizarre chaff.

Mind. Boggled.

[rse]

Also, porch made a comment about tourism to greenland. My parents had planned to go there as an excursion from iceland, but the flight was cancelled because of poor weather conditions. I remember my parents were told that was quite common.

Basically as a tourist you can reliably plan to get to and around iceland, but not greenland.

[MissMarple3]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/as-epstein-investigations-expand-gop-senators-want-barr-to-make-results-public

Grassley and Johnson sent Barr a letter.

[Marlene]

Good Morning! The same day registrations in the NH college towns (Hanover and Durham) also affected the 2016 results.
NH is a purple state now. The cranky Yankees are a dying breed. I have one surviving uncle who fits that label,he's a character.

[MissMarple3]

https://tinyurl.com/yynfqrk9

While the story from the Epoch Times a few posts above posted, the one above kept disappearing, so I assume it must be the subject matter, which concerns someone's illegal server and who her emails were forwarded to. I decided to try with a tiny url link.

[Buckeye]

Marlene

Sounds like Trump's re-election committee should throw some huuuuge keg parties in Hanover and Durham election eve.

Add plenty of "hairy buffalo" to make sure the students are in no shape the next day to register or vote:)

[henry]

A Wisconsin fugitive wanted on child sexual assault and child pornography charges hid out for more than three years in a makeshift bunker powered by solar panels and a pedal generator before a hunter stumbled onto him last week, police said.

https://madison.com/wsj/e675402b-9a3d-52db-93d2-d39dcaa6f4ad.html#1

[MissMarple3]

Retweeted by the President. Rudy reviews the campaign rally. Photo at link.

This is a tour de force which is equivalent to Reagan and Clinton but has much bigger audiences and he excites them much more. He is one of our great campaigners which is how he defeats a hostile media.They don’t get it. pic.twitter.com/BRXLg71L6o

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) August 16, 2019

[MissMarple3]

Retweeted by the President:

Rudy Giuliani‏Verified account @RudyGiuliani · 13h13 hours ago

This is more than an hour before and it is as full as a playoff game for a rally for @realDonaldTrump. No one has ever gotten these kinds of crowds. This was the reason he won in 2016 and will again. Don’t tell the dummies in the Fake Media.

#Trump2020 rally in Manchester, NH blows Biden and Dems away. pic.twitter.com/nmZIhlfdzj

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) August 16, 2019

Photo at link.

[MissMarple3]

Rudy Giuliani‏Verified account @RudyGiuliani

I haven’t been at a Trump rally since the 50 or so during the 2016 campaign. These are masterful performances. No one in American politics can excite a crowd like @realDonaldTrump. Very few ever have. This is a unique and potent political weapon.

6:01 PM - 15 Aug 2019 from Manchester, NH
===============================
Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump · 5m5 minutes ago

Thank you Rudy!

[MissMarple3]

Remember when he first started having the rallies and everyone in the press and the consultant class thought it was corny and old-fashioned?

[Captain Hate]

Basically as a tourist you can reliably plan to get to and around iceland, but not greenland.

Back in the 90s I gave our daughters a chance to pick a vacation spot to any non third world shithole. They chose Greenland which I researched; in addition to your point it was *really* expensive getting there at the time. So I overruled them for Iceland where we had a good time.

Things may have changed because I've heard, from another friend, that a dog walking friend at a local park went to Greenland and hiked this:

https://arcticcircletrail.net/

I hope I run into her soon.

[MissMarple3]

Retweeted by the President:

The White House‏Verified account @WhiteHouse · 17h17 hours ago

"Americans can do anything, go anywhere, and outperform anyone.

Nobody can beat us.

Nothing can stop us because winning is what Americans do."
—President Donald J. Trump

[MissMarple3]

https://thedcpatriot.com/trumps-leaner-white-house-payroll-saves-taxpayers-20-million-in-2019/

My favorite part:

"Comparing First Lady staff headcount: Melania Trump (12 staffers) versus Michelle Obama (24 staffers)."

[MissMarple3]

Anyone else want to know how CNBC had the story of the pressure cookers left in Manhattan 15 HOURS ago? It only happened an hour ago. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/6luXx9eVDn

— Jaye 🇺🇸 (@Jaye_inUSA) August 16, 2019

Link goes to screencaps with time stamps.

[MissMarple3]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/15/hail-satan-are-satanists-now-the-good-guys-in-the-fight-against-the-evangelical-right?CMP=share_btn_tw

I tell you, the world is getting creepier and creepier.

[henry]

A security researcher miniaturized a malicious Wi-Fi microcontroller inside the tiny housing of a USB connector. What looks like a regular phone cable actually pretends to be a keyboard that an attacker can remote-control.

https://techbeacon.com/security/omg-usb-cable-will-pwn-your-mac-or-pc-pdq

[James D.]

Via insty, a transcript of a session with the executive editor of the NYT.

I don't know that I've ever read so much delusion, self-importance and dishonesty all mixed together in one article:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/new-york-times-meeting-transcript.html

[Pinandpuller]

I was just going to say that Tlaib and Omar would probably get a friendlier greeting at the airport than Leo Ryan; but did you know that Dan Quayle almost went with him to Guyana? I guess he was friends with John Hinkley Sr IYKWIMAITTYD.

[Pinandpuller]

I think the Ben Stiller Walter Mitty went to Greenland.

[MissMarple3]

Pinandpuller,

I believe Quayle was a senator from Indina then, and the Jonestown Temple people were almost all from Indianapolis. Jim Jones had a big church here before he left for Guyana.

[MissMarple3]

https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/16/hillary-clinton-emails-cryptic-gmail/

[henry]

Jeryl Bier
@JerylBier

The article that @RashidaTlaib tweeted says "Tlaib then submitted a request and, on Friday, the Israeli Ministry of Interior said she would be allowed to visit her family in a strictly personal trip..."

So she submitted a request and then publicly turned it down when approved?

https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1162351196532826113

[Pinandpuller]

IDK about that Another Bob but they have notes from Indiana Jones where Spielberg, Lucas and another guy discuss how young they could make Karen Allen’s character when Indy basically statutory rapes her. It’s pretty cringy.

[Jane]

Since his death we have learned a number of things that make you question this man’s death.
Here is a Complete List of Inconsistencies in Prison Policy Surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s Death:

** Epstein said he was considering cooperating in “naming names” in his international sex ring
** He was found unconscious in his prison cell just three weeks earlier
** Two days prior to his death documents released for the first time implicated several top Democrats in his pedo sex ring
** He was taken off suicide watch after a failed attempt just two weeks earlier
** He was in isolation (unusual for a suicidal individual)
** The cameras malfunctioned — There is no video
** Even Mexico had video of El Chapo’s escape from prison
** Then later we hear the cameras showed the guards did not do rounds? Which is it?
** The prison guards had worked several extra shifts last week
** One prison guard on his floor was not even a certified guard
** The prison guards “forgot” to check on Epstein
** The prison guards slept through their shift
** The guards did not check Epstein for several hours
** There were reports of screaming the morning Epstein died
** The MCC had not seen a successful suicide in 40 years
** Epstein said he was the victim of attempted murder three weeks ago
** Epstein’s former roommate is facing mass murder charges
** Epstein had dirt on numerous globalist elites
** Epstein was not given paper sheets
** Epstein had sheets in his cell to hang himself
** Epstein was not suicidal according to medical professionals
** Epstein told his lawyers on Friday, a day before his death, “See you Sunday.”
** Epstein’s former roommate heard nothing
** Epstein reportedly had to get on his knees to hang himself from his bed
** Epstein autopsy showed broken bones in neck common in strangulation deaths
This prison obviously suffered a breakdown in official policy.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/here-it-is-complete-list-of-inconsistencies-in-prison-policy-surrounding-jeffrey-epsteins-death/

[Jane]

Top Forensic Pathologist: ONLY 1% of Hanging Deaths Resulted in Broken Hyoid Bone — Like What Epstein Had (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/top-forensic-pathologist-only-1-of-hanging-deaths-resulted-in-broken-hyoid-bone-video/

[Buckeye]

Jane

Makes you wonder how many factions are engaged in disinformation campaigns.

Lots of people have a dog in this hunt.

Like my dad used to say "don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see".

[Narciso]

Yes i came across whitney webb, she wrotes for an outfit called mint press, she may have been a larouchite before that, seemed too many kevin bacon turns.

[Captain Hate]

Also, porch made a comment about tourism to greenland. My parents had planned to go there as an excursion from iceland, but the flight was cancelled because of poor weather conditions. I remember my parents were told that was quite common.

Sounds like O'Hare.

[Narciso]

I remember walter mead was really intrigued on buying siberia from the russians, this was when he stopped on his anti american jeremiad in mortal splendor. That was daily kos level agita.

Greenland would serve as a pincer movement across to northern russia i think they call it karelia.

[Pinandpuller]

That warden sounds like a real diversity hire or a really great candidate for the nickname Patsy.

[Narciso]

I may be wrong on that last part, yes dan moldea had this theory that reagan was a mob puppet because mca, his book dark victory which also dinged paul laxalt, so i think it was an info op with harry reid, who really has long standing mob ties, now the heir to the fiunder oof mca is none other than gucci marxist katrina van denheuvel,

[Pinandpuller]

Government incompetence kills every single day but it’s hardly ever so specific.

[MissMarple3]

https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/16/schools-girly-boys-fix/

Yes, Schools Are Too Girly For Boys. Here’s How To Fix That

Pretty good article, and one which will no doubt enrage the feminists.

[Narciso]

Dan moldea did some interesting research re hoffa, including william bufallino who employed frank sheeran, who is the subject of deniros biopic about the guy who iced hoffa.

[Narciso]

In both toy soldiers and the last season of wiseguy, where they cast steven bauer and killed off terranova (only to retcon him a few years later) a riot serves as a pretext to icw the intended target.

[MissMarple3]

Jane,

Have you seen this?

https://nypost.com/2019/08/16/jeffrey-epstein-spent-hours-alone-with-mysterious-woman-in-lockup/

[Narciso]

Well one could check the prison entry logs and find out who visited him, and if she used a pseudonym there must be tapes

[Narciso]

Actually miss marple, reading romans 1, it makes perfect sense, satan is the lord of this realm,

[James D.]

You'd think that, narc.

But somehow the logs will turn out to be missing, and the tapes mysteriously damaged or erased.

[clarice]

As the Post article suggests she was probably a young associate there to keep him out of his cell under the pretext of communications with his lawyers.

[henry]

State Department deep staters butthurt, complain to IG.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/15/state-department-watchdog-censures-two-trump-appointees-for-harassing-career-staffers/

[Narciso]

But thats where i wiuld go if i had to check the story,

[Narciso]

Have to keep the griff dontcha know.

[Narciso]

This is a yang rally in south carolina:

https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1162171989097963521/photo/2

[henry]

Federal judge rules against Maryland as Judicial Watch wins big to uncover obvious vote fraud potential

Judicial Watch had sought the Maryland voter list data after discovering that there were more registered voters in Montgomery County than citizens over the age of 18 who could register.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/federal_judge_rules_against_maryland_as_judicial_watch_wins_big_to_uncover_obvious_vote_fraud_potential.html

[Narciso]

This might explain the barak trips or not:

https://theswamp.media/the-epstein-associate-nobody-s-talking-about-the-idf-linked-bond-girl-infiltrating-the-uk-nhs

[jimmyk]

The climate change crowd on the left should be enthusiastic about Trump wanting to acquire Greenland. They should want to buy up waterfront property there for when it becomes great for summer beach resorts in about 12 years.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--In South Africa from 1948 to 1989 the country averaged 170 murders a year. From 1994 on they averaged 24,000+ per year.

That's more.--

I don't know where you get some of your stuff but a lot of it doesn't make much sense.
The charts below indicate 1948 would have experienced about 1500-2000 murders. By the mid sixties it would have been around 7500 per year, peaking at ~30,000 in the early nineties. And the rate has supposedly dropped by more than half since the end of apartheid.
All stats are suspect, but especially in this neck of the woods. However South Africa has been well known as a violent area for a long time.

[MissMarple3]

Bomb threat at Israeli Embassy in DC.

Secret Service has closed off the street.

Gee, can't imagine why the Israeli Embassy has been targeted.

[Narciso]

One cam aafely say the monopoly of force has been sistributed since 1994,

[Jane]

Like my dad used to say "don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see".

Buckeye.

I don't when your Dad said that, but it's 8,456 times worse now.

[Narciso]

These are a decade old:

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/profiles/South-Africa/Crime

[Jane]

Sheesh MM, it never ends! Well at least he got some before he was killed. What an addiction!

[Manuel Transmission]

No reaction from last night, so will try again:

1. I think everyone would tend to agree that Epstein behaves like a psychopath.

2. Psychopaths by definition have no conscience.

3. They have no conscience, because they have no sense of time, ie, past, present, future. Therefore they can’t anticipate something bad happening to them, because they can’t anticipate the future where that could happen.

4. Therefore, Epstein would not commit suicide.

[Pinandpuller]

Fair point Mr Iggy. I report, you deride.

That’s just word play, I’m not serious.

Now I can say with some certainty, pulling figures from my back pocket, that the Black population of South Africa increased I’m gonna say at least four times during Apartheid-possibly by six or eight times. At one time the largest hospital in the world was in Soweto but it was surpassed by China.

[Jane]

LOL Jimmy! That's perfect!

[Pinandpuller]

I’m hoping I can be discredited enough to stay off jury duty.

Do you know what they pay?

Duty.

[Jane]

Man Tran,

I totally agree, but i'm on the ledge. I'm sure Clarice and Rocco will kick some sense into you!

[Jane]

Pin,

Don't know if you are joking, but I've always said: If you don't serve, don't complain. I remember after they let OJ off, all sorts of people bitching about it, and I asked how many served on a jury when called. Not a bloody one.

[Threadkiller]

Maybe Tony Clifton survived.

[MissMarple3]

MT,

I had forgotten that you posed that question last night. I tend to agree with you.

However, I attribute anything bad that happens to the Clintons and the Obamas, which probably makes my judgement a bit colored.

[Narciso]

Heh, tk, i see what you did there.

[Manuel Transmission]

BTW, I learned about psychopaths 10 yrs ago this month from a link probably posted here. That also reminds me that four weeks from yesterday will be the 10th anniversary of the 9/12 March. Flashbacks anyone?

[MissMarple3]

Jane,

The only time I got called for jury duty, we were asked how we felt about the crime (bank robbery if I remember).

They questioned about 20 of us, all of whom were adamant that it should be puished severely.

Then we were excused for about 15 minutes, and when we came back, the judge said the defendant "had seen the handwriting on the wall" and plead guilty. So we were excused from serving and sent home.

[Pinandpuller]

I am again joking, Jane. I actually have flexibility to go but this is the first time in months I’ve been up this early and I have mixed feelings.

To my facts and figures, I’d be a lot more studious if I was in charge of a high profile government witness, but I’m not. Just saying.

[henry]

MT, a problem with your analysis. If Epstein as a psychopath cannot anticipate something bad happening to him, does that imply he cannot recognize something bad happening to him while it's happening? Total loss of control in jail would be bad (anticipated or not). Does the inability to see beyond the present flip your algebra in that instance? e.g. he cannot see the possibility of something good happening so must suicide.

[Narciso]

Its rather striking leaving out the sexual assault allegations, no one seemed to follow up where hiz money was coming from or where it was going, if hoffenberg was one of his sponsors, and he was a crook. Who he was partnered with like wexner or leon black.

[MissMarple3]

Narciso,

I saw a tweet that Elton John's charity said they never received the money Epstein said he had donated.

I will have to look for that story.

[Narciso]

A psychopath doesnt care anout the consequences, now he probably he was still protected by multiole sponsors. Did he think the giuffre revelations sealed his fate,

[MissMarple3]

One of my favorite parts of the speech last night. Video at link.

“Whether you love me or hate me, you have no choice, but to vote for me😲”. This guy has 🏀 ‘s of steal to say that👊. There really is no choice🤔. Either you vote for Trump or we all are eating out of a dumpster😲! Think I’m exaggerating, think again😘 pic.twitter.com/9DmLfN0Ywt

— Bob Dunlap (@robertdunlap947) August 16, 2019

[GUS]

The ALL GONE MACHINE is warming up.

Epstein who??

[Narciso]

Comes through the palm beach post

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1028561

But where were they then, with onr of their most famous residents, samr with the herald whwrs was charity navigator the ftc.

[Narciso]

Very secret,

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hedge-funder-jeffrey-epstein-and-the-elton-john-aids-foundation-fight-hiv-resistance-239602351.html

[Pinandpuller]

I did just buy a new 13” planer at Lowe’s so I will be devoting more time to reclaimed mahogany and less time to fevered conspiracy theories. After I put a new water pump on my John Deere.

[MissMarple3]

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-elizabeth-warren-rolls-policy-native-american-communities/story?id=65008925

This takes some nerve.

[hrtshpdbox]

Epstein who??

"I can't believe GUS has forgotten me".

[Captain Hate]

This takes some nerve.

This ignorant crone thinks appealing to Massholes is a good national strategy. I blame the firewater.

[hrtshpdbox]

The NY Post says, of the rice cooker jerk...
"Police said the man appears to be homeless, wearing a blue T-shirt that appears to say “Prime Day.” He has black curly hair and a tattoo on his right arm."

I wonder what the appearance of homelessness is; in the photos he looks like any guy wearing a t-shirt. He is not particularly slovenly or anything. Really, unless they have other info, it might as well be "Police said the man appears to be a hedge fund manager on his day off", etc.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--3. They have no conscience, because they have no sense of time, ie, past, present, future. Therefore they can’t anticipate something bad happening to them, because they can’t anticipate the future where that could happen.--

I question that, MT. My experience and research indicates they have no conscience because they have no empathy and others are merely pawns to be moved about on their chessboard designed to protect their damaged inner self. Every single thing they do is calculated as to its future profit or loss to them and they are utterly unconcerned with or actually pleased by the wreckage it causes others. They are impulsive and engage in incredibly reckless behavior but it is never blind recklessness. They never want to get caught and that is part of the thrill; getting away with recklessness. But they aren't monolithic. Everyone exists on a spectrum. Some are quiet, evil nocturnal and furtive. Some are extroverted, reckless meteors.
But they are all aware that there is something profoundly wrong with them and experience life as an empty tedium. As clarice pointed out the other day, narcissists who are on that same spectrum, seem to have a higher suicide rate than the general population. I couldn't find any actual statistics for sociopaths but at some point it becomes too much of a mess to even understand. Is a person a psychopath, a narcissist, a sociopath or does he have anti social personality disorder? They overlap and interchange and are comorbid with each other and with other disorders.

[Narciso]

There really isnt anything of that settlememt left, if its on her fathers side

https://web.archive.org/web/20080829185744/http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/mad/discussion/062discuss.html">http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/mad/discussion/062discuss.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20080829185744/http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/mad/discussion/062discuss.html

[Captain Hate]

The story of America’s mistreatment of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians is a long and painful one, rooted in centuries of discrimination, neglect, greed, and violence.

What centuries in Alaska would those be, Princess? Be specific and show your work.

[Manuel Transmission]

Henry, not sure how that mind works, but it lives only in the present, apparently.

Joe, did you kill Mary with that knife?

No, ... but I loved the way the blood dripped off the edge.

That was in the paper I read 10 yrs ago relayed by a homicide cop. Couldn’t sustain a single thought from the beginning to the end of the same sentence.

So, in Epstein’s case, he clearly is innocent always and any threat of impending death is still too abstract into the future?? My head doesn’t go there, so I’m stuck.

[hrtshpdbox]

Ghislaine (sp?) Maxell spotted reading a book at an LA burger place, that book being "The Book of Honor : The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives", published in 2001. Naturally, there's an Amazon review published yesterday by a "G. Maxwell" that reads:

5.0 out of 5 stars A comforting read after a personal tragedy
August 15, 2019
Format: Kindle Edition
A good friend of mine died recently under very tragic circumstances. Some of us saw it coming for quite a while but it was still a huge shock when it finally happened. I picked up this book at the advice of a friend and absolutely couldn't put it down. I'd read it walking the dog, getting fast food, or even just lounging around the house. It helped me realized that my friend really believed in something, and that giving your life for the CIA, NSA, FBI, Mossad, or other intelligence agency is truly a higher calling and not something to mourn. A wholehearted recommendation.
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[Narciso]

Sorry on her mothers side, that area is now a settlement like any number of cities im texas

[Manuel Transmission]

Iggy, thanks for the expanded discussion. Obviously on a complex spectrum. I’m focused on the lack of guilt that most seem to hold. Suicide always seems to point to a hidden conscience that acknowledges fault. I really have a hard time believing that Epstein had that ‘flaw’.

[MissMarple3]

hrtshpdbox,

I don't believe she was seen in that burger joint.

I don't believe she read that book, and I don't believe she wrote the review.

It smells like a LARP aka hoax by one of those lefties who get a kick out of getting Trump supporters duped into a wild goose chase.

[MissMarple3]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump · 16m16 minutes ago

Thank you to my good friend Chuck Canterbury for 16 years of service to the Fraternal Order of Police and our great men and women in blue. You are an incredible patriot!

[hrtshpdbox]

Miss M, definitely didn't write the review, but there is a photo of her sitting at the In n Out reading a book. Looks like her, could be any time though I suppose.

[MissMarple3]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump · 16m16 minutes ago

Congratulations to Patrick Yoes for his election as National President of the great Fraternal Order of Police. Together we will fight for our incredible Law Enforcement Officers!

[Narciso]

Oh never mind

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/smackdown_joe_biden_gets_owned_over_his_whining_about_israel_and_the_omartlaib_visit.html?fbclid=IwAR30yDYqjdbTVyisdDnuwFfkCU09yiHj4636WgTBOzFCIImNNCMjQGxQO0s#.XVavKLRzJgs.facebook

[Manuel Transmission]

Note from a pal:

A socialist is someone who promises free stuff in exchange for your rights while they are running for office in a democratic system where people get to vote. Once elected they become communists and take the free stuff promised to you, enforce this redistribution program through a police state where only they have guns, and decide your vote for you. A dictator is someone who as a socialist promised you free stuff, then became a successful communist who’s taken your free stuff for himself, and then installs himself as God for life through force. It’s important here to recall that Gulag is not a Christmas libation.

Funny how the people of Hong Kong are protesting Chinese, and while doing so are singing the US National Anthem. Funny that they aren’t taking a knee, but instead honoring the flag and the freedom it stands for. Maybe we ought to outsource (I.e., exchange) our knee takers to the Hong Kong Chinese. My guess is that the queue to sign-up for the exchange in Hong Kong would be miles long. And yes, free one-way tickets should be provided to all participants through a National go fund me account - it would be oversubscribed. I’d also bet, that the Hong Kong applicants would increase our Country’s grade point average, and the commitment to our American values.

The young lady we helped get settled in school over here (she being the daughter of the Mongolian Princess), ended up in HK after she graduated. I don’t have direct contact with her anymore, but would love to know her observations and pray for her safety.