Monday, July 1, 2024
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Missing us by 180k miles yesterday, asteroid 2024 MK was only discovered on June 16 and was one of the 60% larger than 140 meters still unknown
Gee that's . . . not a happy thought.
The asteroid, named 2024 MK, is estimated to measure about 480 feet (146 meters) across, which is greater than the height of a 40-story building or the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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A sucker that size could destroy London, England:
"If [an asteroid as big as Dimorphos] were to fall on the city of
London, windows would break over the whole south east of England and the
damage in [the Greater London] area would be very extreme," Collins
said. "There would be no survivors in the center of London because of
the impact itself and also because of the severity of the air blast." ...
While asteroids of this size crossing the path of our planet are rare, astronomers estimate that 60% of near Earth asteroids larger than 140 meters are still unknown.
NASA said it came in at 152.4 meters.
European Space Agency said it came as close as 180k miles.
Talk about giving two weeks notice.
There's an easy way to recognize if the Democrat you are talking to is a "first-bucket" Democrat
First-bucket Democrats believe Joe had a cold on debate night, an excuse trotted out mid-way through the debate by the Biden campaign when everyone realized in the first minute that Joe was cratering.
Magically, Joe recovered overnight and made a relatively robust appearance in North Carolina on Friday in front of a supportive crowd using his trusty teleprompter!
Germany's Alternative für Deutschland is against EU bailouts of Greece and Italy and against EU membership for Ukraine
In discussing the party's policy platform, Weidel said AfD's future allies in the European Parliament should oppose the disbursal of taxpayer money to the "debt states" of Europe - a reference to countries such as Italy and Greece - and the idea that Ukraine belongs to the European Union, after it opened membership talks this week.
Reported here.
British conservatives are still blind to Nigel Farage's truth, which is identical with Henry Kissinger's long-held position that Ukraine should not join NATO
Zoe Strimpel, UK Telegraph
Last week, Nigel Farage outed himself as deeply unfit for leadership by piping the same line
as other populists in Europe and the United States: that Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine is effectively our fault because, through Nato
expansion, we had “poked” the Russian bear . . ..
Henry Kissinger was US Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford.
This position has nothing to do with populism, except by the accident of thinking correctly.
DNC chair Jaime Harrison and Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez gaslight DNC committee members in Saturday conference call, disable chat function and disallow questions
Here:
Multiple committee members on the call, most granted anonymity to talk about the private discussion, described feeling like they were being gaslighted — that they were being asked to ignore the dire nature of the party’s predicament. The call, they said, may have worsened a widespread sense of panic among elected officials, donors and other stakeholders.
Instead, the people said, Harrison offered what they described as a
rosy assessment of Biden's path forward. The chat function was disabled
and there were no questions allowed.
“I was hoping for more of a substantive conversation instead of, ‘Hey, let’s go out there and just be cheerleaders,’ without actually addressing a very serious issue that unfolded on American television for millions of people to see," said Joe Salazar, an elected DNC member from Colorado, who was on the call. “There were a number of things that could have been said in addressing the situation. But we didn’t get that. We were being gaslit.” ... “This should not be a close race,” Salazar said, pointing to Trump's criminal record and long history of falsehoods. “They’re the ones who should be looking for a new nominee, not us. And unfortunately for us, because of our president’s performance on Thursday night, that is now an open discussion.”
Democrat scare-mongering on democracy and the rule of law has totally flopped: Voters think both will be about the same no matter whom they elect
Most voters think the two are an equal threat to democracy lol.
The margin of error is 4.2 points.
CBS News here.
Biden campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon pre-blames the media for coming bad Biden polls lol
For everything else there's MasterCard ™.
The Biden campaign declined to comment for this piece, instead pointing to a memo Saturday from campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon that made the case that Biden can still win, pointing to the more than $27 million they raised between debate day and Friday evening.
Notably, however, O’Malley Dillon nodded to the possibility that there might be some tough polling ahead — but said the blame will rest with the media: “If we do see changes in polling in the coming weeks, it will not be the first time that overblown media narratives have driven temporary dips in the polls.”
Here.
NBC LOL: Democrats will abort Biden only if he's "not viable"
'It's a mess': Biden turns to family on his path forward after his disastrous debate:
“[Former] Speaker Pelosi[, 84,] has full confidence in President Biden[, 81,] and
looks forward to attending his inauguration on January 20, 2025,” Ian
Krager, a spokesman for the former House speaker said. “Any suggestion
that she has engaged in a different course of action is simply not
true.” ...
Party elites will urge him to exit the race only if they determine that he is “not viable and negatively impacting the House and Senate races,” said one big-time donor who is close to both Obama and Biden.
Saturday, June 29, 2024
The idiots at UK Daily Mail published editorial discussions about the article in the body of the article on John Deere shipping good American jobs to Mexico lol
XX Should we have the Dubuque job losses here too - bunch them all together, at least on first mention. And can we do them in chronological order - May is before March. Also assuming this first Oct one is 2023. And/or a little fact box on them, which we could also get made up ona little graphic of Iowa showing Factory location and town, population, jobs lost (and jobs left). Might be good to summarise that way. But can do it a fact box first and then decide on map graphic.
I'm sure the company would respond that the 2021 strike was the greed.
There's plenty of greed to go around, though, obviously.
The layoffs come after 10,000 unionized John Deere workers went on strike for five weeks in October 2021.
The strikes were among the most prominent during 'Striketober', where thousands of workers from Nabisco, Kellogg's, McDonald's and others walked out for weeks or even months to protest low pay in the wake soaring company profits.
Striking John Deere employees won a 10 percent raise for hourly earners, increased retirement benefits and the maintaining of the health insurance program that workers don't have to pay premiums for.
Friday, June 28, 2024
Joe Biden's rape comments from last night's debate are . . . disjointed
He went to the funeral. The idea that she was murdered by an immigrant. But here's the deal, a lot of young women are being raped by their inlaws. By their spouses. By their brothers and sisters. It's just ridiculous.
The main line of interpretation seems to be that Biden was referring to the rape culture of migrants, sisters being a slip of the tongue.
Which begs the question, Why bring them here? Just so they can get an abortion? Is that what America boils down to?
This Biden word salad last night ended with the death of Medicare
"We’d be able to help make sure all those things we need to do, childcare, elder care, make every single person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the, with the COVID. Excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with. Look. We finally beat Medicare."
LOL, Supremes overturn obstruction charge against Jan 6er who was in the Capitol for a whole four minutes, count 'em
It was 6-3, with Barrett defecting to the liberals and Jackson defecting to the conservatives.
Fischer
was accused by prosecutors of charging at police guarding a Capitol
entrance. Fischer, at the time a member of the North Cornwall Township
police in Pennsylvania, got inside the building and pressed up against
an officer's riot shield as police officers attempted to clear rioters,
according to prosecutors. He remained in the Capitol for four minutes
before police pushed him out, they said. ... Federal prosecutors estimate that about 250 of the roughly 1,400 people
charged in the Capitol attack could be impacted by the ruling. ... about 50 Jan. 6 defendants were convicted and sentenced on the obstruction charge with no other felony. Of those, about half are currently serving a sentence of incarceration, less than 2% of all charged cases. [Right, like that makes it OK, Reuters?]
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Supremes overturn 1984 "Chevron deference" to federal agencies, forcing Congress to either give teeth to regulatory ambiguities and so pay the political consequences they otherwise avoided, or defer to judges deciding for them from now on
My guess is they'll tend more to let the judges decide, because Congress is, in fact, timid, lazy, phony, tiny, and small.
It's complicated, but it's a good thing because it restores accountability to the political sphere. No one elects the agencies. But that will cut both ways, seeing how politicized the judiciary has become.
It's also a BFD. The New York Times is in a panic over it.
An
attorney for the commercial fishermen said Chevron deference
"incentivizes a dynamic where Congress does far less than the Framers
(of the U.S. Constitution) anticipated, and the executive branch is left
to do far more by deciding controversial issues via regulatory fiat."
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Your reminder that Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi owns the two worst episodes of federal spending in excess of tax receipts in the history of the country
Spending originates in the US House by law.
Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi owns the two worst episodes of federal spending in excess of tax receipts in the history of the country, by 310% in 2009 and by 309% in 2020, under Obama (Great Financial Crisis) and then under Trump (Pandemic).
Roseanne Roseannadanna knows why David Axelrod was all wet on CNN last night
You know how a guy goes into the bathroom and takes out his comb and sticks it under the faucet to get it wet so he can try to get his hair to behave before he comes out of there but the water mostly goes all over the place instead of on his hair? And those teenie tiny little curls just won't stay down no matter how many times he does it! That's why.
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Biden let Equador man into the US as an asylee in 2023, now arrested for murdering 21-year old woman in 2024
Her name was Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza.
EMTALA from 1986 became an illegal immigration magnet, 5-4 Supreme Court decision now may make it an abortion magnet
The federal government sued, leading a federal judge in August 2022 to block the state from enforcing provisions concerning medical care that is required under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA.
That 1986 law mandates that patients receive appropriate emergency room care. The Biden administration argued that care should include abortions in certain situations when a woman’s health is imperiled even if death is not imminent.
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Justin Amash polling at 8%: I'm going to wipe the floor with Mike Rogers lol
As he campaigns, Amash said, he encounters few Michigan Republicans who support Rogers outside of his party affiliation or his relationship with Trump.
“I’m just going to, you know, wipe the floor with him.”
Quoted here, June 10th.
Peter Meijer wisely dropped out at the end of April.
Trump endorsed Rogers on Monday, March 11th.
Pennsylvania's Senator John Fetterman visits Netanyahu in Israel, wears his dress whites
“We've been through dark times in these months of anguished war. During that time, I can say that Israel has had no better friend than Senator John Fetterman. Senator, welcome to Israel.”
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Tuesday Trifecta: Fire alarm puller Jamaal Bowman loses primary in NY, handsy Lauren Boebert wins hers in CO, and Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness was stopped by two Obama judges lol
The Hill reports here on Boebert, who replaces Ken Buck, and on Bowman's loss here.
ABC reports here on the student loan decisions.
Gen Z, the followers of Jahn and Miri
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| JAHN: Is this supposed to be a good thing, Miri? MIRI: Of course it is. |
Every day they navigate memes, photos, social media, chats with their friends, flashes of video, influencers influencing, news articles from a zillion places across the net. ...
"Within a week of actual research, we just threw out the term information literacy," says Yasmin Green, Jigsaw's CEO. Gen Zers, it turns out, are "not on a linear journey to evaluate the veracity of anything." Instead, they're engaged in what the researchers call "information sensibility" — a "socially informed" practice that relies on "folk heuristics of credibility." In other words, Gen Zers know the difference between rock-solid news and AI-generated memes. They just don't care.
Jigsaw's findings offer a revealing glimpse into the digital mindset of Gen Z. Where older generations are out there struggling to fact-check information and cite sources, Gen Zers don't even bother. They just read the headlines and then speed-scroll to the comments, to see what everyone else says. They're outsourcing the determination of truth and importance to like-minded, trusted influencers. And if an article's too long, they just skip it. They don't want to see stuff that might force them to think too hard, or that upsets them emotionally. If they have a goal, Jigsaw found, it's to learn what they need to know to remain cool and conversant in their chosen social groups. ...
They don't read long articles. ...
Instead of listening to stuffy old teachers, like CNN and the Times, they take their cues from online influencers — the queen bees and quarterback bros at the top of the social hierarchy. The influencers' personal experience makes them authentic, and they speak Gen Z's language.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-most-trusted-news-source-online-comment-sections-google-2024-6
Monday, June 24, 2024
Ukraine didn't target the beach in Crimea where Russians were collateral damage of Russian defense operations
Video shows panicked beachgoers fleeing from falling shrapnel after Russian air defense intercepted the U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles.
Don't sun on the beach in a war zone, unless you enjoy that sort of thing.
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Maybe that's the problem right there
No human biologist now argues that violence is in our genes.
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