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calendar   Thursday - February 13, 2020

Color Me Shocked

Two unrelated news stories about pigmentation attitudes. I wonder if “white privilege” means living your life without noticing your skin tone, while large parts of the rest of the world fret about it constantly?
I’m not kidding. Awareness of my own race is something I never think about. And while I might notice yours, I really don’t care one way or the other, until you start throwing it my face all the time as an excuse and motivation for everything in your life. At which point I write you off.


Gorgeous Indian Actresses Take Stand Supporting Government Ban On Fairness Advertising

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Tapsee Pannu is super cute

At first glance I found this confusing. Why would anyone be against advertising fairness? Although I’m not sure exactly what that means.

The Indian Government is coming with a lot of changes in the advertising sector. The Health and Welfare Ministry has proposed an amendment for Drugs and Magic Remedies under objectionable Advertisement Act, 1954 with a strict punishment that goes up to five years of imprisonment as well as a fine of 50 lakh. However, this step by the government has been applauded by the people on social media. Bollywood celebrities too praised the great step initiated by the government.

Some celebrities like Tapsee Pannu, Dia Mirza and many others have not only praised this act but also welcomed it with great response.

Speaking about the same, Tapsee told the media that she hopes that it impacts consumers and they stop buying these fairness creams and realise that there are no standard of beauty. According to her, it is a very personal matter to any human being on how he or she wants to look. She further said if she is asked to endorse any fairness cream or product, she would never do it.

Dia Mirza who is known for her stands on matters of importance like politics and environment has spoken on the same and said, “We evolve in our understanding of what kind of advertising perpetuates stereotypes, gender discrimination and falsehoods, we must collectively take responsibility to ensure this ends as soon as possible.”

There is some level of hypocrisy here; all of these actresses have very light complexions; many other similar celebrities have endorsed these “whiten up” products.

PS - A lakh is 100,000, so a 50 lakh fine, 5 million Rupees, is around $70,000.



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UVA’s New Multicultural Center Is Too White??

The University of Virginia on Wednesday reminded those on campus that its newly opened Multicultural Student Center is open to everyone after a viral video emerged of a student making a “public service” announcement that there were “too many white people” using the facility.

The video was posted on Twitter by the Young America’s Foundation with a caption that said “leftists” at the school were “dictating who is and who isn’t allowed” at the center.

The unidentified woman in the video begins by saying “public service announcement.”

“If ya’ll didn’t know, this is MSC and frankly there are just too many white people in here and this is a space for people of color,” she said. “So just be really cognizant of the space that you’re taking up because it does make some of us POC uncomfortable when we see too many white people in here.”

She argued that white students already have plenty of recreational facilities on campus, while minority students have very few. She was cheered by what sounded like a handful of students at the end of the announcement.

The Cavalier Daily, the student newspaper, said it reached out to the student in the video but she did not immediately respond for its report.

The school recently opened new student spaces to support a diverse student body, the report said.

The paper reported that the new MSC facility replaced the Center for Cultural Fluency that was located inside a basement on the campus. The old location was created in 2004 after a mixed-race female student running for Student Council was assaulted by a man who made a racial slur.

Well kudos to the Young America’s Foundation for bringing this to people’s attention, but you’re spitting into the wind. Learn to decode understand the word games PC plays. “Multicultural” means the same as “diversity” means the same as “cultural fluency” and all of them mean “anybody but whites, and not too many Asians either”.

Interesting how every single recreational facility on campus is open to all students always. Not segregated in the slightest. Yet this video’s author feels there should be even more spaces set aside for “minority” groups. Because being around white people makes POC students “uncomfortable”. Go figure. That sounds like blatant hard core racism to me.

30 years ago I argued against any and all enclave areas on campuses, whether they were religious or ethnic driven. If you really feel the need to self segregate, go back to your dorm with your friends from your group.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/13/2020 at 09:04 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - February 12, 2020

New Hampshire Primaries

•   Trump takes 85.5% of GOP votes, more than twice as many votes as Obama 2012

•  Sanders 25.7%, Buttgig 24.4%, Kloubuchar 19.8%, Warren 9.2%, Creepy Uncle Joe 8.4%.

•  Yang and Bennet drop out


Nevada and South Carolina follow New Hampshire – which is an overwhelmingly white state – in the presidential nominating calendar. Biden’s campaign has long considered Nevada and South Carolina – with their far more diverse electorates – as much friendlier ground for the former vice president. And they’ve pointed to South Carolina - with a majority black electorate in the Democratic presidential primary - as their firewall.

Biden - at a campaign kick-off Tuesday night in Columbia, South Carolina, downplayed the results in Iowa and New Hampshire.

“It is important that Iowa and [New Hampshire] have spoken, but, look, we need to hear from Nevada and South Carolina and Super Tuesday and beyond,” Biden told a crowd of supporters.

President Trump’s re-election campaign quickly spotlighted Biden’s abysmal finish in the primary, writing in an email to reporters titled, “Joe Biden Predicted He Would Win New Hampshire. He Just Got Beat Like a Drum—Again.... A crazy socialist and a former small town mayor just crushed the former VP”

South Carolina primary is 2/29
Nevada caucus is 2/22
Super Tuesday is 3/2, when 16 states and territories have their Democrat events

Freakin New Jersey doesn’t come in until June 2, when the game is long over, and does a rubberstamp drop of 107 delegates on whoever has already won the Dem thing. They really should join the Super Tuesday gang, just to get this whole thing settled faster, and to give their people a little voice.

Heck, in this instant information internet age, every state and territory in the whole darn country should do the primaries on the same day. Get it over with, and give the media a chance to report on real news.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/12/2020 at 10:34 AM   
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Even Disease Is Now PC

The WHO: We will be fooled again?

World Health Organization Names It COVID-19

The rest of us just call it the Wuhan virus, although I’m really leaning towards Kung Flu

The World Health Organization on Tuesday finally gave an official name to the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 1,000 people: COVID-19.

“Co” is for coronavirus, “Vi” is for virus, “D” is for disease and “19” since it was detected in late 2019, officials said.

The name was chosen because the agency wanted something “pronounceable and related to the disease,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva. “We had to find a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual or group of people.”

The infectious disease had been previously referred to in reports as the Wuhan coronavirus since it originated in the central Chinese metropolis.

“Having a name matters to prevent the use of other names that can be inaccurate or stigmatizing,” Tedros added.

It’s not like the entire world didn’t know that the virus came out of Wuhan China. Or that bats, snakes, and now maybe pangolins are part of the vector. Wet markets with all their filth and germs.

Who is WHO trying to kid? But oh noes, don’t use a name that might stigmatize anything. Like Typhoid Mary, or Spanish Flu. Or even MERS, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome thing from a few years back. What a crock.

I do agree that just saying “coronavirus” is shortsighted, because there are many coronaviruses. But until 2 months ago, almost no one outside of a medical lab had ever heard the term.

“covid 19” isn’t much easier to say than 2019-nCov, which could just as easily be nCov-2019 or nCov-19. Saying “Enn cahv 19” is as easy as “coe vid 19”. And just as non-stigmatic. And pretty much the same name that the accurate media has been using already.

But if PC forces me to abstain from saying “Wuhan virus” I really want to go with Kung Flu. It’s obliquely referential to China but not bluntly stigmatizing. “Kung Pao Sicken” could work too, which would add in a food reference for this “novel” Bat Soup Death Broth thing.

There may never have actually been someone named Mary who spread typhoid. These days we say Patient Zero. And the Spanish Flu didn’t come from Spain, which everybody knows. But this one did come from China. From Wuhan China. And from eating bats and snakes.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/12/2020 at 09:55 AM   
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calendar   Tuesday - February 11, 2020

Hannity Goes PC And Gets It Wrong

2015 video of former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg on Fox’s Hannity show tonight. OMG BLOOMBERG IS SUCH A TOTAL RACIST !!!

In the video recently former Mayor mini-Mike says how too many whites are subject to Stop ‘n Frisk; it should be far more minorities. That’s why we put ALL the cops in minority neighborhoods, because that’s where ALL the crime is.

He also states how 95% of violent crime in the city is done by, (and to?) minorities. (OK, I think he said 95%. Maybe he said 92%, maybe he said 97%. A couple of points doesn’t change the reality of his statement)

And Hannity had a fit. Maybe he’s just as “woke” as the rest of media. He certainly made a leftist mistake tonight, denying the 300lb gorilla reality. Better to have focused solely on Bloomberg’s callousness during that video clip.

Here are the statistics from NYC’s report 2017 Crime and Enforcement Activity In New York City:

•  97% of Homicide suspects are non-white. 88.7% of them are either black or hispanic.
•  97.6% of not fatal shooting suspects are non-white
•  95.7% of robbery suspects are non-white
•  89.2% of rape suspects are non-white
•  95.7% of firearms arrests are non-white

Maybe in 2015 things were radically different, but I don’t think so. These kind of numbers are pretty stable year after year after year. But you have to wonder, is 95.7% or 97% conversationally close enough to “all”? How about 97.6%? It seems ballpark enough for me. But some will have stinky over “absolutist” terms, and I can’t deny that using the qualifier “almost” or “nearly” before the word “all” would have been a smarter thing to do.

When Bloomberg was mayor from 2002 to 2013, he was HUGE on Stop ‘n Frisk, with nearly 700,000 people “thrown up against the wall” in 2011, although 88% of those resulting in no conviction (not necessarily no arrest, just no conviction. Plea bargaining, court overload ... lots of reasons other than innocence).

Metrics on the program were mixed, more often than not leaning to a rating of non-effective. Is that our favorite invisible giant simian on the couch making an appearance again?

[ While Bloomberg was elected mayor as a Republican, he had been a Democrat before that, and finally left the office as an Independent. He didn’t rejoin the Democrat party until late in 2018. ]

While the report does use several ethnic categories, including Native American, it lumps Asian/Pacific Islander together, meaning that a criminal from Fiji goes in the same statistical bucket as criminals from Saudi Arabia, India, China, Korea, and the Seychelle Islands. Regardless of lumping nearly a third of the world’s population into one generic group, in NYC those people are suspects or victims in a relatively small percent of criminal events.

in 2019 New York City, [ whites 33% ] blacks represent 22.8 percent of population, Hispanics 28.6 percent, and Asians 12.6 percent.

So there are roughly 24% as many “Asians” there as black and hispanic people combined, but they commit just 4% as many killings.

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But according to Hannity, Bloomberg is a terrible horrible no good racist for speaking about very similar numbers in 2015, and drawing the obvious conclusions. You don’t fish in the desert. You drop your line where the fish are.

Remember when the governor of NJ fired some top cop for racism because he read the FBI crime statistics out loud? I do, but I can’t find it online. I think it was Gov. Christie Whitman. 1999 or so?


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/11/2020 at 09:22 PM   
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You Know They’ve Been Saving This Byline For Ages

“Electile Dysfunction: Joe Biden Pulls Out Early from New Hampshire”

Former Vice President Joe Biden announced Tuesday morning, in the midst of voting in the New Hampshire primary, that he is leaving the state, skipping his “victory” party.

Instead, Biden said, he would go on to campaign in South Carolina, where he hopes to win the state.

Biden once led the polls in New Hampshire, but lost his lead several months ago. He now trails Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) in the latest polls. He is battling Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for fourth place, and could even finish sixth if one of the second-tier campaigns takes advantage of his weakness to turn out their voters.

The former vice president signaled to supporters Friday that he did not expect to win — or even do well — in the state, when he declared during the Democrat debate that he expected to “take a hit” here. Making matters worse, on Sunday he called a voter at a town hall meeting a “lying, dog-faced pony soldier.”

Supporters believe he will do better in the more diverse states of Nevada and South Carolina. However, Biden did not want to face the spectacle of a crushing loss in New Hampshire in person.

Oh yeah, that’s the kind of guy I want to be my president. One bad result from one tiny state and he runs away before the polls are even closed. Tough guy, for sure. Um, no. Pretty limp actually. And his polling ... shrinkage!!

Meanwhile, President Trump ...

Democrats were closely monitoring how many people showed up for Tuesday’s contest. New Hampshire’s secretary of state predicated record-high turnout, but if that failed to materialize, Democrats would confront the prospect of waning enthusiasm following a relatively weak showing in Iowa last week and Trump’s rising poll numbers.

Trump, campaigning in New Hampshire Monday night, sought to inject chaos in the process. The Republican president suggested that conservative-leaning voters could affect the state’s Democratic primary results, though only registered Democrats and voters not registered with either party can participate in New Hampshire’s Democratic presidential primary.

“I hear a lot of Republicans tomorrow will vote for the weakest candidate possible of the Democrats,” Trump said Monday. “My only problem is I’m trying to figure out who is their weakest candidate. I think they’re all weak.”


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/11/2020 at 03:22 PM   
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No Air In The Air Up There

Extremely Low Air Pressure Grounds Flights In Norway

The past months have seen extraordinarily rough weather along the north Norwegian coast. Early this week came another extreme. The air pressure dropped to a level not seen in several decades.

According to the Norwegian meteorological institute, the air pressure across major parts of the region was below 940 hectopascal, a level that makes flying unsafe.

[ hectopascal is the same as millibars. Standard atmospheric pressure is 1013.25 hPa or mbar, equivalent to 29.92 inches of mercury or 14.69lb/sq in. ]

The Widerøe company that serves most of the regional routes put almost its whole aircraft fleet on the ground.

«Our smallest aircraft type Dash 100, 200 and 300 can not fly with pressure lower than 948 hectopascal,» the company informs on it Facebook page.

More than 2,000 passengers were affected by the weather conditions. Only on Tuesday afternoon did the pressure return to a level that allows aircraft to operate normally.

The Dash 100, 200, and 300 are all dual engine turboprop passenger planes, variations of the DeHavilland Canada DHC-8. When Bombardier bought DeHavilland from previous owners Boeing they renamed the line the Dash 100, Dash 200, Dash 300. Longview Aviation bought the company from Bombardier, and they are once again known as DeHavilland, an aircraft name that goes back to 1920. The Dash 300 carries about 50 passengers, with a range of about 1000 miles.

I really don’t understand this situation; 940 hPa is 94kPa, which is the normal air pressure at 2000’ altitude. Surely these planes can take off from less than half a mile elevation?

On the other hand, European storm Ciara is over there blowing like mad, winds 100mph in UK, and the storm system is so large, blowing west to east, that several flight records have been broken on the NY to London run; a plane made the journey the other day and arrived 102 minutes early, going 825mph with the tailwind instead of the typical 575mph. Wind comes along with abrupt changes in air pressure, so this company’s statement might be a noble CYA; better to say “dangerously low pressure” than “it’s too damn windy to fly”.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/11/2020 at 02:44 PM   
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Meanwhile In China And Elsewhere

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Citizens model the latest fashion in Shanghai as reported deaths from the Wuhan virus top 100 per day for the first time.




China is busy spraying entire cities with bleach.

Elsewhere in the world, a highly limited study shows that it may be the case that Chinese people, males especially, have a higher number of ACE2 receptors in their lung tissue than do non-Chinese people. This is the same part of the body through which SARS, a very similar virus, spread some years ago.  Analysis of the case data shows that the two (as of this writing) deaths “outside China” were actually Chinese men. Also, the cases in the UK, France, UAE, and in Finland are also Chinese people. If PC is driving the media to hide, or not even ask, about the ethnic identity of people who are getting sick, then they are doing all of us a great disservice and just spreading panic.

The authors begin by noting that, from an evolutionary perspective, there is every reason to expect there to be ethnic or race differences in the susceptibility to different pathogens. Races—or, as they call them, “ethnic groups”—are breeding populations, long-separated, usually by geography, who are, therefore, genetic clusters adapted to different ecologies. Because they were exposed to different pathogens in prehistory, there are very likely to be race differences in susceptibility to the pathogens and in how well the immune system can fight them.

With the highly endangered poor little pangolin the latest possible strange mammal to be included in the animal to human vector chain, the above author notes how genetic populations (races) that have long practiced farming, animal husbandry, and livestock crossbreeding were far less susceptible to SARS, Swine Flu, and the Spanish Flu back in 1918, while other genetic populations that never really domesticated animals (Maoris in New Zealand, native groups in Canada, the Saami people in Norway and Finland) had a far greater illness and death rate than everyone else. Farming has been around in China since forever, but the recent news has shown that they obviously still consume and use weird wild animals much more than your typical resident of Gary Indiana. Whether or not this is THE connection, A connection, or nothing at all remains to be seen. However, the upshot may be that while the Wuhan virus may spread around the world, it may not be much of a big deal if you aren’t ethnically Chinese. [ of course, the tinfoil hat brigade will run with this, not accepting that there is a difference between random natural happenstance and malicious GMO intent ]


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/11/2020 at 10:00 AM   
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calendar   Monday - February 10, 2020

what a dummy

On Fox News last night or the night before I saw a bit of an interview Bill Maher did with Mark Levin. The interview may have taken place some time ago, and was a prop in a roundtable discussion Levin was having with a couple other people.

Bill Maher was honestly disgruntled that the Senate had only two representatives per state, even though some states have many many times the population of other states. He was not being funny or making a parody. And Levin didn’t smack the crap out of him on the spot.

This is what our education system has created. Sad.

Hey dummy: Congress is divided into two parts: The House of Representatives and the Senate. The House is the People’s Legislature, with Congressmen elected from the several States based on their population. States with lots of citizens get more Representatives, which we call Congressmen, even though Senators are actually Congressmen too. Calling them “Housers” just doesn’t sound right. The Senate is the State’s Legislature, in which ALL STATES HAVE AN EQUAL VOICE. That’s why each State gets 2 Senators, only 2, no more and no less.

This is grade school level stuff. [ I hear AOC was recently lost in the forest, trying to find the 3 branches of government. ]

I will leave it as an intellectual exercise to the adults in the room to figure out what would happen if the Senate was also proportional, but I’ll give you a hint: it ain’t pretty, and it reeks of mob rule.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/10/2020 at 05:35 PM   
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And if you buy this, I’ve got a bridge for sale

Bernie: “I’m not a communist”

Yes you are. And you’re a liar too. And a creep. And a tyrant wannabe.

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” accused President Donald Trump of possibly not understanding the difference between communism and socialism.

In a video clip, President Trump said, “I think he is a communist. I think of communism when I think of Bernie. You can say socialist. Didn’t he get married in Moscow?”

Sanders said, “It gives me no pleasure to say this, we have a president who is a pathological liar. He lies. No, I did not get married in Moscow. I participated in creating a sister city program.”

He continued, “Obviously, I am not a communist. I presume the president knows the difference. Maybe he doesn’t.”

Forget the outmoded, simplistic, and nefarious textbook definitions. 

This is the effective difference between Communism, Fascism, Nazism, and Socialism, other than the level of violence the state is willing to instantly use against the people:

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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/10/2020 at 02:46 PM   
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maybe it’s time to clam up

Reclaim the Bay?

Reclam the Bay!!

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I’ve said many times before that the way to combat climate change and CO2 is to harness nature. Plant more trees and grow more clams. Along with holding the soil in place, trees may clean the atmosphere, and shellfish definitely help clean the oceans.

Oooh, and they’re renewable resources too!

Here’s a group based in New Jersey that’s doing the clam dance. I’m sure there are other groups like it in other places, but I haven’t run across them ( nor have I looked ).

OCEAN TOWNSHIP (Ocean) — Its name is both a play on words and a distillation of its mission. ReClam the Bay is well into its second decade of informing and engaging the public about growing shellfish life in the Barnegat Bay watershed.

Rick Bushnell, ReClam the Bay president, said the title of the organization came from the idea of a “reclamation project,” but also highlights the importance of clams and other shellfish in filtering algae out of the water. When that happens, the water becomes clearer, allowing for the continued growth of eelgrass, which in turn encourages the health of other sea creatures.

The presence of nitrogen, created by waste and runoff byproducts, is a constant concern.

As Bushnell, a lifelong sailor, puts it, if there are more shellfish in these bays (Barnegat, Manahawkin and Little Egg Harbor), more marine life of other types will follow.

ReClam the Bay has its roots in the Barnegat Bay Shellfish Restoration Program, which began as an offshoot of the Rutgers Cooperative Extension. But it soon grew into its own nonprofit, tasked with making the watershed more profitable.

“We’ve always felt that if the bay is to improve, it’s got to be an economic success, and that will make it an ecologic success,” Bushnell said.

RCTB engages people in growing shellfish from tiny seeds (the size of a pencil point) in June to the size of an M&M candy by October.

We also conduct remote sets where we enable oyster larvae to set on recycled clam and oyster shells. We fill and deploy bags of recycled shells into the bay to stabilize shorelines and catch natural spat from wild oysters. This close involvement establishes a sense of caring (stewardship) that helps people see the reason to change behavior firsthand.

RCTB is more than an endeavor to restock a decimated shellfish population. A critical part of our mission is forming and supporting partnerships with academics, municipalities, citizen groups and other environmental organizations in order to educate the public. This empowers and energizes them to make changes to their life style to improve the quality and resilience of the bay.

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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/10/2020 at 02:21 PM   
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up early and hungry

I was up at quarter to dawn this morning. One eye barely open and the first neuron firing in my brain says “get up and feed the cats”. Wow, am I trained or what? So I did, at and the sound of the kibble jug a voice comes from the bedroom “I fed them already” Ok. Back to bed. Can’t get the right temperature under the blankets, so I get again in a short while. Hand hurts, back hurts, knees hurt. Oh joy. Gosh is it raining again? Why, yes it is.

Right. got one coffee in me, look for some food. Nada, unless I want sardines or artichoke hearts for breakfast. Grrr. So on with the shoes and off to the store. And I had to park waaaay the heck in the next lot last night, because parking sucks here.  Actually, it’s not built bad, it’s that too many people have too many cars ... I don’t want to get into that rant right now. Maybe the qwikee mart has some kind of something I can gnaw on for cheap?


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/10/2020 at 09:14 AM   
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calendar   Saturday - February 08, 2020

Ewww

I went to a pizza shop where instead of tossing the dough, the guy was beating the dough ball against his sweaty hairy bare chest to flatten it out.

“That’s really disgusting”, I said to another customer. 

She answered “Well, if you think that’s bad, you probably don’t want to watch him making the bagels.”


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/08/2020 at 11:57 AM   
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calendar   Friday - February 07, 2020

I’m sure this is raycis too

Melanin Rich Fungi Eat Radiation At Chernobyl

A type of black fungi that eats radiation was discovered inside the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.

In 1991, the strange fungi was found growing up the walls of the reactor, which baffled scientists due to the extreme, radiation-heavy environment.

Researchers eventually realized that not only was the fungi impervious to the deadly radiation, it seemed to be attracted to it.

A decade later, researchers tested some of the fungi and determined that it had a large amount of the pigment melanin—which is also found, among other places, in the skin of humans.

People with darker skin tones tend to have much more melanin, which is known to absorb light and dissipate ultraviolet radiation in skin.

However in fungi, it reportedly absorbed radiation and converted it into some type of chemical energy for growth.

It’s a good bet that this kind of fungus is one of the earliest multi-cell lifeforms on earth, back from the early days when there wasn’t much atmosphere and the planet was a hot radioactive mess. And billions of years later they’re still here.

I wonder just how much radiation they can eat. Could they be used to clean up radioactive waste?


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/07/2020 at 03:34 PM   
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Ferals In The Subway: Lazy Racist Chicago Cops

11 “teens” Rob And Beat Elderly Man On Chicago Subway

I’m really peeved about this story. I’ll try not to go all “raycis” but no promises. Not only is this totally out of control, it’s totally common. “Dog bites man” is hardly even news, but this time it was a whole pack of dogs.

•  68 yo white man falls asleep on Chicago subway

•  feral teen girl tries to pick his pocket but he wakes up, tells her to buzz off

•  she comes back with 10 more ferals and they take turns beating him to a pulp

•  entire incident captured on CCTV

•  dozens of witnesses, but only one came forward

•  Chicago cops say they can’t prosecute

•  witness’s name released, but refused to give interview to news

CHICAGO—The brutal beating of a 68-year-old man by 11 teens on a passenger train here Monday was captured in a disturbing, graphic video obtained by Fox News.

The Chicago Police Department told Fox News the beating is under investigation, but no one is in custody because the victim “was unable to identify his attacker(s) due to his injuries.”

A police source told Fox that the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office “wouldn’t touch” the case if the victim can’t identify those accused or is unable to cooperate.

When reached about prosecuting the case, state’s attorney’s office responded: “We are unable to comment.”

The footage shows one of the female teens first trying to pickpocket the victim while he’s asleep. The man awakens, tries to fend off the teens, but the woman drags and beats the man.

She then appears to run to another car, and returns with a group of teens including five men and two women. They surround the man seated on the train.

One man pummels the victim, even lifting himself up on the train’s bars to repeatedly kick him in the upper body and face. The video also appears to show many bystanders failing to intervene.

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A single witness is listed on the police report. Fox News has reached out to the witness and has not received comment.



Let’s see: 11 assailants but 5 of them are male and 3 of them are female including the pickpocket. I guess the other 3 were transgendered? Whatever.

And the beaten man, hospitalized, can’t ID the perps, so the cops won’t do a thing. Even though the entire thing is on CCTV. So what’s the point of having CCTV? And what about murders - the victim can’t identify the killers, so the cops can’t prosecute? That explains the insanely low arrest and conviction rate for murder in the Windy City.

The law has obviously failed. I think it’s Charles Bronson time.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/07/2020 at 02:52 PM   
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