Whatever Floats Your Boat

Its alive! The Ever Given effort to unblock the Suez Canal had a major breakthrough. But lots of work remains, so reports of its successful re-launch are premature.

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[Jim Eagle]

More proof that the reason people become teachers is because they aren't smart enough to become doctors, engineers or entrepreneurs.

Well not all of them, but the ones who join Teacher Unions are close to that dynamic.

[Neo]

Unusual tweet by Strategic Command spurs comedic comments
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/unusual-tweet-by-strategic-command-spurs-comedic-comments-1.667633

[GUS]

OL, name one LEFTIST FULL COMMIE that has ANY character. While you're at it named 2 that are against killing babies.

[GUS]

Jane, nothing about her knowing him has ANYTHING to do with the SUPREME COURT in DISGUSTING SHIT HOLE MINNESOTA making the ruling they made.
Even if she is LYING, this makes open season on intoxicated/stoned/high women. MORONIC HORSE SHIT.

[Tom Bowler]

Posted by: Dave (in MA) | March 29, 2021 at 04:46 PM

Just wow, Dave! Read the whole thing, and listened to the eulogy. Wow.

[Melinda]

Neo-

Convert that tweet through ASCII and you get a whole nother input stream that SAC HAS admitted is real, just dates from 1963.

[Old Lurker]

Gus "OL, name one LEFTIST FULL COMMIE that has ANY character."

Nope. Can't do that!

But I was mocking the "character" of those Trump SCOTUS empty suits.

[Jane]

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2021/03/nyts-expert-on-middle-east-smacked-down.html#more

This is a great takedown!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

If two drunk people have sex how can one be protected by the concept of the inability to give informed consent but the other is not covered by the inability to perceive whether informed consent was given or not?

[Melinda]

Ig-

"Ham Sandwich" + "Mattress Girl" = "You shoulda known this was coming." DSYDIC.

[Jim Eagle]

The Chauvin trial is fairly compelling so far, but its only the prosecution part. I see hole open for the defense and only 3 witnesses so far.

[jimmyk]

I’m not sure he was drunk, though he may not have been stone cold sober. As to Gus’s point, I believe he was charged with a crime that could involve prison time, just not rape.

I remember once in my younger days being at a bar and a really beautiful young woman gave me a friendly look and I naturally moved over and started a conversation. It became immediately clear that she was high as a kite, and probably in need of medical attention. It’s hard to imagine the mindset of a guy who would want to take her to his apartment rather than call an ambulance, unless he was equally high.

[John S]

Gus, I have 3 daughters, the youngest being 24. Youngest got totally wasted a few times her freshman year at UCLA. I had to drive over in the middle of the night a few times to collect her when she was sicker than a dog and totally fuzzy in the head. But she still knew enough not to consent to any guy at the fraternity parties who tried to make a move. I'm sure there are times when a girl is so drunk she doesn't consent or know what's happening to her. So there are lots of possibilities. But I think there are also times when she does consent in her drunken state, and just regrets it later, as Jane says

[GUS]

Its alive! The Ever Given effort to unblock the Suez Canal had a major breakthrough. But lots of work remains, so reports of its successful re-launch are premature.

A "LITTLE KNOWLEDGE" is dangerous.

I sure hope they get that ship refloated and free after a "lots of work" that remains.

[GUS]

Yes OL, you were mocking them, and you were correct.

If you come in 2nd, you come in last.
These corrupt creeps are themselves LEFTISTS.

You aren't what you SAY YOUR ARE, you are WHAT YOU DO YOU ARE. What do these PATHETIC LOSERS DO?

[GUS]

No argument on that JOHNS or JANE. This isn't a hard concept to understand. The words and ruling of the FUCKED UP MINNESOTA SUPREME COURT said that IF YOUR DAUGHTERS WERE RAPED, IT WASN'T RAPE.

Pretty clear.

[Pinandpuller]

Why do they keep leaving the “L” off Kamela’s middle name (or whatever Indians call it)?

[GUS]

JIMMY, once again, the situation has NOTHING to do with what the COURT RULED. The court abrogated the ACTIONS of a would be and actual rapist by making law that said, YOU CAN RAPE HER IF SHE'S FUCKED UP, and that isn't RAPE RAPE.

[MissMarple2]

Benny
@bennyjohnson
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Nike Sues Designer of Lil Nas X ‘Satan Shoes’ https://rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lil-nas-x-satan-shoes-sued-nike-1148538/
via @RollingStone

[MissMarple2]

Special Presidential Envoy John Kerry
@ClimateEnvoy

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This is how we solve the climate crisis. Together. #LeadersClimateSummit

(There is a video with this which I will not link because I loathe Kerry; he's on my Top 10 list of traitors.)
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And meanwhile...

Peter J. Hasson
@peterjhasson

The Kerry family private jet made two flights this weekend, per flight records.

[MissMarple2]

John Basham
🇺🇲
@JohnBasham
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REPORT: According to #Forbes , the city of Los Angeles is paying MASSIVE SALARIES TO LIFEGUARDS. Top earners bringing in $392,000/yr. Forbes says that “dozens of others” LIFEGUARDS are bringing home more than $200,000/yr.

[MissMarple2]

Texas GOP delegation touring the DEA district office in McAllen. According to agents - methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine are the top 3 drugs seized at the border, agents saw a 600 % increase in fentanyl seized from 2019 to 2020 pic.twitter.com/Z6HPir6gB6

— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) March 29, 2021

Thirty-second video at the link.

[Jane]

“lifeguards”? As in watching a pool?

[henry]

Beach. Think “Baywatch”

[jimmyk]

Gus, from what I understand, your gripe is with the legislature that wrote the law, which the court claims it had had no choice but to apply, that explicitly says that if the woman voluntarily intoxicated herself she cannot claim "rape." I know courts routinely make law, but in this case it appeared to follow the law.

[Melinda]

Green Thumb is under investigation for "Pay-To-Play"?

This calls for some Freddie King and some Guitar Boogie!

[Nice collars!]

[Neo]

No Armageddon: NASA says Earth safe from asteroid Apophis for 100 years
https://m.jpost.com/health-science/no-armageddon-nasa-says-earth-free-of-asteroid-risk-for-next-100-years-663470

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--REPORT: According to #Forbes , the city of Los Angeles is paying MASSIVE SALARIES TO LIFEGUARDS. Top earners bringing in $392,000/yr. Forbes says that “dozens of others” LIFEGUARDS are bringing home more than $200,000/yr.--

Talking to a friend this morning whose sister and BIL live in San Luis Obispo about an hour north of Santa Barbara.
BIL is a contractor and is building a house for himself on a lot in town. Has his two carpenter guys working for him who he knows and has used for years. Pays them $90 per hour, which apparently is the going rate [some are over $100] there for decent carpenters.
My friend is a top notch cabinet maker of many years up here where I live. His son works for him and he pays him $25 per hour.
Not sure, but I don't think the cost of living is four times as high down there.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--NASA says Earth safe from asteroid Apophis for 100 years--

Yeah, they said those O-rings were a-ok in the solid rocket boosters too.
Might want to buy a hard hat.

[Neo]

In one of those rambling, mumbling videos of Joe Biden last year, if you listened closely he said he would get a comprehensive settlement with the Chinese, now they probably will claim he was just mumbling, as Secretary of State Blinken is blinking.

[MissMarple2]

Computer problems again.

Nytol!

[Narciso]

There just funning with us, again

[Narciso]

I think this was the first segment

https://pandemic.warroom.org/2021/03/29/episode-832-rewriting-pandemic-history-dr-birx-and-dr-fauci-lie-about-president-trumps-respons-w-joanna-miller-mark-meadows-rabbi-spero/

[Narciso]

They only had 18 days in the film

[matt - deplore me if you must]

The only cards Biden ever plays are race cards. He is a sick, disgusting racist fuck. From Cornbread to his remarks regarding South Asians to his "gonna put y'all in chains" to his "if you don't vote for you ain't black", he is a horrifying relic of the real Jim Crow South.

His fiasco with Harris on the border crisis exposes the Democrats Balkan strategy to perfection. Keep them all down so that the oligarchs can rule.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

LA lifeguard salaries?

Epic, dudes!!!

[Narciso]

Indeed:

https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/29/ron-desantis-vows-to-ban-vaccine-passports-slams-them-as-totally-unacceptable/

[Narciso]

Why sparky

https://mobile.twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1376661241477873671

[Dave (in MA)]

Uh-oh, another MAGABOOGALOO Trumpy hate crime,

https://www.amny.com/new-york/manhattan/neighborhoods/midtown-manhattan/monstrous-midtown-beating-brutal-brooklyn-train-assault-were-anti-asian-hate-crimes-nypd/

[fdcol63 🇺🇸]

Sadly, I’m at that awkward phase where I could liquidate my current assets and buy something remote where I could try to live “off the grid” as much as possible, but this is tempered by the knowledge that I’m now an old fart who needs to stay close enough to quality medical care in case of an emergency. 😜

[Dave (in MA)]

"Did you refloat the boat yet, Daddy?"

[Dave (in MA)]

The New York Times@nytimes
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Mike Pompeo is emerging as the most outspoken critic of President Biden among former top Trump officials, ignoring, much as he did in office, the custom that current and former secretaries of state avoid the appearance of political partisanship. https://nyti.ms/3ruQB49

Garbage paper with a short memory.

[Davod]

My first thoughts with any of these off the wall rulings is that the original charges may have been wrong - the prosecutors used the wrong law (based upon the correct interpretation of the law.)

[Davod]

Ignatz - What the market will bear.

[Dave (in MA)]

Mayor Pete’s Husband- “What are you thinking about babe?”

Mayor Pete- “Taxing every American by the mile since we didn’t add infrastructure to the $1.9T stimulus.”

Mayor Pete’s Husband- “Great idea! I’m glad taxpayers pay for our travel, or else that would be a nightmare.” pic.twitter.com/vmEiya807E

— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) March 30, 2021

[Narciso]

Oh

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/29/terrorism-charges-dismissed-by-judge-against-three-men-accused-of-plotting-to-kidnap-michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer/

[Davod]

Narciso. The charge of material support for terrorism remains. 20 yrs for that.

[Davod]

Jim Eagle. Re. the Chauvin trial. When will the defense show the training manuals that show the knee restraint as a valid restraint for certain circumstances.

[Melinda]

Dave-

Nice to see the code for a delayed weapon delivery from ColSpgs to DC, a la ‘63!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Mayor Pete is nominally a man so he can't and doesn't have a husband.
He has an undignified "dignity" partner, a societal station created by Injustice Kennedy's disgraceful substitution of his mawkish, personal feelings in place of jurisprudence and a respect for self governance and the people's right to decide the type of society they will live in.

[Narciso]

Back and to the left:
https://technofog.substack.com/p/new-superseding-indictment-hits-ghislaine

[Narciso]

The plot thickens

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malta-daphne-china-specialreport-idUSKBN2BL1WF

[Narciso]

Accenture (formerly part of arthur anderson) in china and a dow media company was involved with a chinese power company

[Pinandpuller]

Those two “teens” from DC should be sentenced to be Juan Williams’ valet parking attendants for life.

[Pinandpuller]

Does Candace Owens live in Nashville or did they forget to switch Matt Walsh’s backdrop?

[jim nj]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-faces-tough-balancing-act-on-infrastructure-as-pressure-builds-on-immigration-gun-control/ar-BB1f4oMA?li=BBnb7Kz

Bafflegab.

People are screwing up Xiden*'s script so he's going to pretend some stuff isn't happening.

The man has a laser-like focus, kind of like a cat. Pouncing wherever his minders shine that light.

"President Joe Biden is putting his foot on the gas pedal and moving ahead with his plans to sell an expansive infrastructure proposal this week as he faces mounting pressure to act on other legislative priorities that have become increasingly difficult to ignore."

He (they) just wants to spend as much money as he (they) can before things start to fall apart.

[jim nj]

They got the Covid bill passed and thought OK maybe we should risk a press conference and try for some more money.

That kind of worked. Let's hide so much money that we can fund an underground for years to come.

The sense of urgency makes me wonder just how long they think they can pull this off.

I'm sure the committee running this thing is suggesting all kinds of things that Xiden* should do, yet the main focus seems to be all about the money.

[jim nj]

President Joe Biden urged state governors and other officials Monday to implement mask mandates again if they’ve relaxed them.

"Mr. President, there's not enough fear out there. We're losing control of the narrative. You have to do something, or they'll wonder what we want all this money for."

[jim nj]

https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-will-the-public-schools-recover-after-covid-2316498/

Not if the parents of the school children demand more control over the public-funding money.

[jim nj]

Typhuspad ate a post.

I guess it's time to say nytol.

[Jane]

Morning!

Xiden about to start appointing Judges. Apparently you don’t have to be a lawyer to get the job now.

[hoyden]

^a ^c ^v is an effective typhuspad vaccine. ^ is Ctrl.

[MissMarple2]

Good morning!

[MissMarple2]

I am uneasy reading about Chinese power companies involved in the murder in Malta, which story Jim linked early this morning.

[MissMarple2]

J.E. Dyer
@OptimisticCon
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Buttigieg now says no mileage tax, no gas tax hike to fund infrastructure https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/03/29/buttigieg-now-says-no-mileage-tax-no-gas-tax-hike-to-fund-infrastructure/
via @LUnyielding
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No one in this administration is on the same page. Perhaps that "confusion to the enemy" toast has been effective.

[MissMarple2]

This squares with my memory, since these stories have often caught my eye:

SCAREY
@SCmusic82
·
2h
1970’s-New Ice Age

1980’s-Acid Rain

1990’s-Ozone Depletion

2000-Global Warming

2010-switch to Climate Change because the globe was no longer warming

40+ years of baseless fear mongering to rip off billions from taxpayers, expand gov power, and advance the left’s agenda

[MissMarple2]

J.E. Dyer
@OptimisticCon

Drama: CDC director fights back tears, talks 'impending doom' and 'fourth wave' https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/03/29/drama-cdc-director-fights-back-tears-talks-impending-doom-and-fourth-wave/
via @LUnyielding

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Yep, she indeed said it. There is a photo with the story, too.

[MissMarple2]

Reuters
@Reuters
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6m
GameStop hires Amazon executive as chief growth officer in e-commerce shift http://reut.rs/3cxaqDU

[MissMarple2]

So, I am not the only one who has noticed:

John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
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Mixed message: Biden touts progress on COVID-19 while CDC chief warns of ‘impending doom’ | Just The News

[Jane]

When you wake up today, remember: THE GOVERNMENT IS THE ENEMY!

[MissMarple2]

Jazz Shaw
@JazzShaw
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And then there were seven. Next Cuomo accuser comes forward... with photos
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-

[MissMarple2]

Jane,

As are a lot of groups serving or in cahoots with them.

[Narciso]

Feltercarb and that was me.

[Old Lurker]

No Jane. The Government is the tool of the enemy, wielded by those people among us who want to control the rest of us for their own ends.

[henry]

Gotta force that social credit vaccine passport on the rubes. Pointing out that morbid obesity has consequences is double plus untold.

@cnbc

Mutations could render current Covid vaccines ineffective in a year or less, epidemiologists warn

[Narciso]

Oh

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/03/big-media-and-big-tech-collude-control-thought-joseph-hippolito/

[Narciso]

Of course

https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/29/china-mocks-america-for-black-lives-matter-riots-it-fomented/

[Melinda]

Virus that doesn't mutate to survive might, just might, un-survive.

[Narciso]

Like andromeda the version that ate through the gaskets was uninfectious

[MissMarple2]

Reuters
@Reuters
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Exclusive: PayPal will announce that it has started allowing U.S. consumers to use their cryptocurrency holdings to pay at millions of its online merchants globally, a move that could significantly boost use of digital assets in everyday commerce

[Jane]

OL,

The government has the power, regardless if they are a tool.

[Narciso]

So who saw china on the bottom deck of the galitzia hit?

[Jane]

The birds are squawking like lunatic this morning. I wonder what they see.

[Narciso]

Secretary howdy sometimes spins those propellers too tight.

[cathyf]

Drama: CDC director fights back tears, talks 'impending doom' and 'fourth wave'

Biden imports covid-infected illegals at the southern border and spreads them out all over the US.

(I wonder if the Democrats are paying the cartels directly?)

[MissMarple2]

Narciso,

No use asking me. I have been seeing the Chinese Communists behind everything for at least 5 years.

[Narciso]

How about the reverse, we know where the money from cartel operations gets waahed ans what what happens to it.

[Narciso]

I thought a car bomb was an exceedingly aggressive move over a energy deal but if the dragon is at the center of it.

[Jim Eagle]

Remember, the nine scariest words.

“We, are from the government and here to help.”

[MissMarple2]

cathyf, Narciso,

It's a version of the Planned Parenthood scam:

1. Drugs (including fentanyl produced in China)pour over the southern border. Massive $$$$.

2. A share gets donated to PACS which support those officials (elected and appointed) who look the other way or push for things like amnesty.

3. PAC money goes to officials via various schemes. Hence 3 homes for Bernie Sanders, Pelosi's massive wealth, Biden's 47 years in Congress, etc.

Rinse and repeat.

[rse]

Narc--

Warzel describes an idea devised by Michael Caulfield, a professor whom Warzel interviewed. Caulfield distilled the findings of two other professors, Stanford's Sam Wineburg and the University of Maryland's Sarah McGrew, into a process he calls SIFT: Stop, Investigate (the source), Find (better coverage) and Trace (claims to their original context).

"The four steps are based on the premise that you often make a better decision with less information than you do with more," Warzel wrote. "Also, spending 15 minutes to determine a single fact in order to decipher a tweet or a piece of news coming from a source you've never seen before will often leave you more confused than you were before."

While Warzel discourages professional researchers from using SIFT, he believes it provides an essential advantage for the average information consumer, who can be overwhelmed when evaluating online claims from various parties.

What the article leaves out, either because the author doesn't know or because Front Page and the Freedom Center get funding from the Bradley Foundation which funded the History Commission that developed the original conceptual frameworks standards that Winefield's work and SIFT are based on, is that SIFT is tied to both the Thinking Like a Historian-SHEG- as well as the Media Literacy Standards.

The Bradley Commission History Standards in turn built on the Rockefeller push that started in 1980 that I mentioned yesterday in Humanities and Language Arts. Conceptual frameworks are the real means of censoring thought that Big Tech and the Media are using, but that's not the story FP wanted to pitch.

The Freedom Center's ed work seems designed to get people upset while sending them in an unhelpful direction that doesn't interfere with Bradley's overall vision. I have been tracking their work by its function and how it always seems to be what Rockefeller funded initially, but the new Hewlett Foundation Economy and Society Initiave actually mentions Bradley as funding groups on the Right they think they can work with. Apparently Hewlett also funded Oren Cass' latest think tank American Compass to expressly act as the Right steering pincer in its vision to explicitly move beyond Neolibrealism.

Footnotes are my friend.

[MissMarple2]

NCSC
@NCSCgov
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#OTD 2006, former NSA computer specialist Kenneth Ford was sentenced to 6 years in prison for removing classified documents from his workplace. Acting on a tip from his girlfriend, the @FBI found boxes of Top Secret documents during a search of his home.
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Looking back on this,I now wonder if Walker was set up via the girlfriend, who may have been a plant.

Why was this posted? Is this a warning to certain people in intelligence? Does this signify an inter-agency war? Who was the intended recipient of the documents?

[Narciso]

I know were down the rabbit hole, the puzzle palace nevwr learned from boyce or pelton, its like an opem front porch.

[rse]

That's Wineburg, not Winefield. And the Hewlett Initiative report launched officially in December 2020 although it builds on initiatives it has been funding since about 2018.

The LPE--Law and Political Economy reworking of the purpose of the law is part of this, as is Fairer Tomorrow launched by Stanford's CASBS. Danielle Allen's new integrated history and civics curriculum is also funded by Hewlett as is the Moral Economy push they are funding in various econ departments.

[Narciso]

Never open, wikipedia has been playing games with 'verified' sourcing.

[MissMarple2]

Reuters
@Reuters
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Deliveroo will price its share sale this week at the lower end of expectations. The Amazon-backed food delivery app is aiming for a valuation of about $10.5 billion https://reut.rs/3fnB2cg

[Old Lurker]

I agree, Jane.

I just don't want to divert attention to an inanimate faceless object away from the actual evil humans within our midst themselves.

The whole point of our "scheme of association" was to carefully, guardedly allow a government limited to only those powers the We The People agreed to.

Our own people in large numbers broke that compact on purpose, and in so doing, as Codevilla (h/t Mel) wrote yesterday, they freed all of us from complying with any "rules" those people seek to impose.

Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence that free people have a duty to do just that, now that our own people are transgressing those limits worse than King George ever imagined he could get away doing.

Femall.

[Narciso]

Thats the erotic poetry readers shop, dni btw where they bury the cabal plotters tools.

[rse]

http://invisibleserfscollar.com/intertwining-architects-advocates-makes-planned-mind-manipulation-both-tight-and-nearly-invisible/ from 2018 on how SHEG works and conceptual frameworks dictating required categories of thought generally and the ties to both Wineberg and George Mason and the Rockefeller Foundation are all here.

Notice too how the Front Page story managed to hype critical thinking and creativity which are 2 of the 4 21st century skills and do not work in the manner the writer has readers believing. Both terms though tie to conceptual frameworks real intended purpose and both are grounded in CA standards and the work of arthur costas in the 90s IIRC.

[MissMarple2]

Calvin
@RealCalvinX
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Covid is not like the bubonic plague in any way. The plague was a true pandemic, killed 50million people in 2 years. The reason Covid became what is has is because of the media. They created the fear factor for it.

They are the most powerful entity on the planet.
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This is why I am convinced it was a biological and psychological weapon from China. I haven't forgotten those videos of Chinese dropping dead in the street, supposedly "leaked" out of China. The memory of the fearsome Black Plague has remained with us in our cultural memory even if most now couldn't tell you what it was, when it was, or what caused it.

Consider phrases like "avoid it like the plague" and you see what I mean.

I think they tried like hell to manufacture the virus that would kill all people except Han Chinese. When THAT proved unsuccessful, they decided to use this one as a way to destabilize our society, tank our economy, and get rid of Trump.