Kind Of A Big Deal

Roe to Go? Heck of a leak.

 

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[Narciso]

take it away barry mcguire,

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-05-05/someone-still-wants-world-war-iii

[Pinandpuller]

“So, Amber Heard is a star in Hollywood.

She exists next to another star called Johnny Depp.

Johnny Depp is a bigger star. Johnny Depp is a powerful star.

Johnny Depp decided to attack a smaller star called Amber Heard.

So, basically, that’s wrong, and it goes against everything that we stand for.”

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Did someone shoot typepad?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Evidently not.

[Davod]

Severe Turbulence Rips Off Passenger Plane’s Winglet During Flight
Generally, the plane should not have parts fall off at 36,000 feet.
by Victoria Scott, May 4, 2022 5:12 PM

https://www.thedrive.com/news/severe-tu ... ing-flight

[Davod]

Remember when commentators were saying that Russia was not fielding its first-rate equipment in Ukraine?

" Russia Just Lost Its Most Advanced Operational Tank In Ukraine
The first confirmed loss of Russia’s most advanced operational tank is another blow to the Russian Army’s eroded image"

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/r ... in-ukraine

[MissMarple2]

I do not understand why Russia struggles economically. They have vast lands for livestock and grain, a wealth of natural resources, and a well-educated population. I assume it must be due to corruption.

[Davod]

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ producer says Darkstar looked so real, China moved spy satellite to see it

Alex Hollings | May 3, 2022

The long-awaited “Top Gun: Maverick” will fly into theaters later this month, and while most of the movie features very real U.S. Navy aircraft, there’s one exotic platform aviation buffs might not recognize: the hypersonic Darkstar.

Darkstar may not be a real airplane, but it certainly looks the part—so much so that the Navy apparently told Top Gun’s producer, legendary filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer, that China re-oriented spy satellites to get a glimpse of the full-size mock-up they built for filming.

https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/top-gun-maverick-producer-says-darkstar-looked-so-real-china-moved-spy-satellite-to-see-it%EF%BF%BC/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The many countries without free markets struggle.
The shrinking few who have them don't.

[Davod]

"Ukraine’s Mad Max style buggies used to destroy Russian tanks and planes

Pictures have emerged of Ukrainian defenders using tiny Mad Max style buggies to blast Russian tanks and take down planes.

Katie Davis and The Sun"

https://veteranweb.asn.au/news/ukraines-mad-max-style-buggies-used-to-destroy-russian-tanks-and-planes/

[MissMarple2]

Testing

[Rocco]

The War For Globalism In Ukraine
MAY 4, 2022 by DOUGLAS MACGREGOR

Washington actively cultivated Ukraine’s war with Russia for many years, harnessing Ukrainian nationalism—the incendiary force globalists claim to loathe—in service to their cause. It worked. Now the same globalists are prolonging the war with arms, advice, and encouragement, even though Ukraine is being destroyed.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-war-for-globalism-in-ukraine/

Busy day, later

[Melinda]

One stand out of the data this AM, NonSeasonally Adjusted Household Survey includes this:

Unemployment Rate 3.3% versus 3.8%

Labor pool is changing again....

[Melinda]

MM-

If you want to respond to Prof Cleveland with something helpful, here's your chance:

Here's the thread:

Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland
35m
THREAD. BREAKING. Durham files objections to Sussmann's trial exhibits. ourtlistener.com/docket/6039058… 1/

https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1522560811469783040

But this is the one needs the obvious response, "Because maybe it's well known as the most corrupt FBI Office in the country? Not one Major Chicago Area Investigation originates out of that office. Not One."

Margot Cleveland
@ProfMJCleveland
5/ Why was the FBI Chicago team involved in this???

https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1522562492261675010

[Melinda]

Whispers of Dementia
@mgEyesOpen
Next, Your Honor, we'd like to call Seth Abramson as an expert witness. 😂

Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland
Key Take-Away: Before D.C. Jury, Sussmann will put Trump on trial for colluding with Russia. twitter.com/ProfMJClevelan…

twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1522570503415

https://twitter.com/mgEyesOpen/status/1522586950389145602

[Narciso]

massive fail,

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/elon-south-africa-and-the-new-york-times.php?fbclid=IwAR3svVWCt_Rh1vO071LUiqkg22AGojiJP07-w4a4CKe9IgLIpjcK7aqSV-Q

[sbwaters]

If you have not recently visited https://theviewfromafar.com, I would be grateful to know what you think.

Thank you.

[clarice]

SBW, the comma at the end of the link makes it impossible to link to

[Narciso]

here we go

https://theviewfromafar.com/

[sbwaters]

Thanks. I was told computing would be easier!

[sbwaters]

Told Mrs. sbw last night, that I imagined there were few that could write about the things I write and also know enough HTML, CSS, and Ubuntu commands to get it all online.

That is, except for a number of people around here. :-)

[bubarooni]

Thanks for the link SBW.

A distinguished looking chap if you don't mind a compliment.

Now, to check out the prose...

[Davod]

Ace landscape - Girl and the Sea,
Iceland, Jason Charles Hill

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/GirlandtheseaIcelandasonCharlesHill.jpg

[bubarooni]

An update on the bubarooni family:

The Boy turned down engineering at Purdue and architecture at Ball State. He's going to go to I.U. at the Luddy School of Informatics.

Engineering was where I was steering him but we are only about 8 miles from I.U. so he'll be around close which makes his Mom very, very happy.

He got something called a 'Direct Admit' to the school which is apparently good and he got admitted to the Hutton Honors College too. I.U. offered the most money hands down as well. If he stays in Luddy all four years they are basically paying for half his college costs each year. Because of how close we live, he could actually live at home and save the other half but he wants 'the full college experience' (whatever that means...) and will live on campus instead.

The other 'Big Thing' for me is my Sig Other and I bought my Mom's floor covering business last Octoberish. I had broached the topic here one time and got some great input from peeps here on this board.

Anyway, I'm now a 'small businessman'. Honestly, I'm more of a 'silent partner' as my wife runs the business while I remain toiling away in the salt mines as an 'IT Guy' for the company I've worked at for the last 21 years. I do get a quarterly profit sharing check that will more than pay for the boys other half of the tuition. And his sisters too.

I will tell you when we bought the company, which Mom sold to us for less than a third of assessed value, gas was 2ish dollars a gallon, interest rates where ridiculously low and it seemed the purchase was a no brainer... well things have changed a bit and I'm a bit nervous over taking the plunge.

I.U. does seem to be flush with Covid Cash though (our biggest customer) and we are raking in cash from the out of state property developers here in Bloomington. Checks roll in from New Jersey, New York and Chicago on a weekly basis and I hope that continues.

20 years ago in Bloomington, the Big Money came from the locals. Some lady with 30 house rentals or a group of local business peeps building 100 apartments a few blocks from campus.

Now it's some corporation or private entity from Connecticut building 250 rentals off campus. Or New Jersey. Or New York. Chicago.

There is a place just west of the stadium with 850 rental units going up. They literally bought up blocks of those old single homes on plots the townies owned and rented out to students for decades and razed them to the ground.

Now a building, it's a 6 story monstrosity to be honest, spans all those blocks in a single, uninterrupted conglomeration of steel, concrete and sheetrock broken only by the only occasional 4 story, concrete parking garage inhabitated by license plates from Cali, New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Connecticut.

On Tuesday, some guys came in looking for transitions strips (I dunno look it up...) and willing to pay whatever. They were from the big 850 unit place going up. From Jersey and all Portugese.

Bloomington has changed significantly change over the last 20 years...

[sbwaters]

Too kind, bubarooni, thank you.

And thank you for catching us up on all that is happening.

[bubarooni]

I look forward to the next page sbw.

There needs to be a second page.

[Davod]

Oops (9)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1521911109179088896

[Davod]

Great adventures (13)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1522300627216445441

[Davod]

He looks shocked (6)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1522278976751902721

[Davod]

Cats love boxes (18)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1522297644596572166

[Davod]

Dolphins enjoy a busker(42)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1522197588333797378

[clarice]

I posred it on FB, sbw so people can know where to look. Your editorials were always well received there when I posted them.

[Davod]

He is enjoying life (11)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1521885855979290628

[Davod]

Oops (6)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1522534962926338049

[sbwaters]

Thanks, bubarooni.

I hadn’t thought that there was not yet a second page. Scrubbed it until there is one.

[Davod]

Flip flap somersault..(5)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1522615825563324417

[Davod]

Best birthday party ever (22)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1522645803499720710

[Davod]

Scary underwater (11)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1520372609606586368

[Davod]

Sunrises in 🇹🇷Turkey, Cappadocia 😍 (7)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1521438539120009219

[Davod]

Olee oleeeeeee oleeeeeeeeeeeeeeee bravo El Toro!
I'm with you Bull! 💕 (14)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1521867236562112518

[Davod]

Las chicas malas de Batman 🦇 (10)

[Amazing]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1521078894853603328

[Davod]

when my time comes this is how i want to go
(jukin media) (1:0)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1522593967111651332

[Davod]

I can't believe it's riot season already.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/riotseason.jpg

[Davod]

Is it a boy or a girl

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/kindergartenteacherwilldecide.jpg

[Davod]

Ewoks

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Panda%201.jpg

[Davod]

Never too late to learn

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Tire%20class.jpg

[sbwaters]

Thanks, Clarice. I appreciate what people have commented on.

[sbwaters]

Clarice, I don’t believe people see or appreciate the scope of what is happening under their noses.

[Davod]

Oleg Atbashian of The Peoples Cube Ukraine update May '22: Russian missiles over Oleg's folks

Interesting article complete with photos and a map.

https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/ukraine-update-may-russian-missiles-over-oleg-folks-t22834.html

[Davod]

Some People's Cube headlines:

Democrats insist on carrying unwanted presidency to term

Elon Musk went to bed thinking he owns Twitter. Then the mail-in ballots arrived at 2am...

Obama: "If you like your information you can keep your information"

Fact checkers reveal Biden handler not a real Easter bunny

Biden 2021: you'll save $0.16 on 4th of July BBQ!
Biden 2022: you'll save a ton of $$ if you don't eat this 4th of July!

Disney to buy Epstein Island for new theme park

The Biology Underground is like the Weather Underground, except they are real biologists and they've had to go underground

"Psssst. Hey you, kid. Ya wanna watch a Disney movie with me?"

"I am not suicidal," says COVID-19 after being contracted by Hillary Clinton

Trans-swimmer Lia Thomas's trophy is smaller than for male swimmers, and only 73% gold

Sources: U.S. now considers majority of U.S. citizens a threat to U.S.

BREAKING: Russian General claims he was beaten up outside Ukrainian bio lab by two Nazis who poured vodka and caviar over him and yelled "This is NATO Country!"

Global warming news: 100,000 Russian migrants fleeing climate change about to march into Ukraine

[Davod]

Raiders of the lost bark.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Raiders.jpg

[jim nj]

SBW,

Are you going to populate the links?

[jim nj]

Two assessments of the Ukraine war:

https://militaryland.net/ukraine/invasion-day-72-summary/

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-6

[MissMarple2]

https://cnsnews.com/article/national/michael-w-chapman/catholic-bishop-retweets-time-truth-post-joe-biden-heretic

We need more bishops like this!

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/new-jersey-plastic-bag-what-to-know

This ban goes into effect today.

[MissMarple2]

sbw,,

My GOP sisters and friends do. Realize. We tell our kids about it, but they think we are overreacting.

[sbwaters]

jim_nj, I’ll populate the links slowly, including more essays and editorials from the past that seem still relevant.

Next is a 30-year bibliography that should have been included in my schooling.

[sbwaters]

MM, postmodernism is a stealth crime that steals civility. People will “feel” you are overreacting until they see it for themselves.

That’s one reason for the website’s samizdat Twitter links. They serve as a daily reminder that they don’t respect you.

From Individuals, Journalism, and Society:
“... Premises, warrants, evidence, and conclusions are tools that can be used to come to understanding but that are more often used to bludgeon you into submission. Language does matter. Author William Gass said we use words to club the living into food.”

“So we have to defend ourselves against misuse of language.”

“The game today is to assassinate people with words and confuse others along the way.”

[clarice]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/80-suspicious-actors-under-scrutiny-by-jan-6-defense-attorneys_4449584.html

[Narciso]

yes indeed sbw, the overclass, or nomenklatura, as djilas might have dubbed them, regard 1984 as a how to manual

youngkin is stepping up with the state police and I'm sure miyares will do the same, while the organs that mayorkas and garland are silent at best complicit at worst,

[Narciso]

its regretable this has to happen,

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/06/exclusive-gov-youngkin-orders-virginia-state-police-to-monitor-protests-at-scotus-justices-homes-assist-if-necessary/

[BeastsEngland]

Happy Birthday, jimmyk!!

[Narciso]

hey beasts how have you been,

[clarice]

Happy Birthday, Jimmy!!!

[Neo]

Looking around for "Elon's Twitter" stories, it is an article of faith that Elon will hire up to 4000 or layoff 1000

[Bela1]

Happy Birthday, JimmyK!

[Jane]

Happy Birthday Jimmy! And there is a new thread!

[jimmyk]

Thanks for the birthday wishes! Beasts, great to see you here. On to the next thread.

[Davod]

The traffic was crazy

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/280207942_10159923263649868_3159182252208363148_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-6&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=qLMaa6xH854AX-j5CE_&tn=gRol2_rlWqdHNceZ&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=00_AT_6rewrHfn5zg3giUpwLe0tqJ7bRiTdDdPOraLGOMs1kw&oe=627BF824

[Melinda]

Tom Fowdy

@Tom_Fowdy

As Austria is not part of NATO their military leaders are able to speak openly about the conflict, and this assessment is damning. He accuses the western media of wantonly suppressing the reality from the public, whilst Ukraine are blowing their aid supplies very, very quickly

Jos Quinten @TaranQ

Austrian Colonel Markus Reisner: The West has made a serious miscalculation in Ukraine

Austrian colonel and military expert Markus Reisner declared that Western countries are seriously mistaken in relying on large arms supplies for the Ukrainian army. According to …1/10

https://twitter.com/TaranQ/status/1522685576792657925

https://twitter.com/Tom_Fowdy/status/15 ... 1843019776

[Melinda]

The Roe Demonstrators: Where Did They Get That Idea?
By Clarice Feldman

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/the_emroeem_demonstrations_where_did_they_get_that_idea.html

[Melinda]

Happy Mother's Day to ALL!