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Country Icon Naomi Judd, 76, Died by Suicide, Report Says Multiple sources have confirmed to People magazine that country star Naomi Judd, 76, took her own life. The news follows an announcement made Saturday by her daughters, Ashley Judd and Wynonna Judd, that their mother had died. “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness. We are shattered,” they said, without elaborating. Naomi Judd was candid throughout her career about her struggles with mental illness and depression, as chronicled in her 2016 memoir, River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope. Regarding suicidal depression, the Grammy winner told People, “Nobody can understand it unless you’ve been there.”

All available experience indicates that you cannot reason with a fanatic. Putin is certainly that as a psychopath.

Apparently Naomi Judd took her own life: “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness" ,daughters Wynonna Judd and Ashley Judd shared in a Saturday, April 30, Twitter statement. “We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public. We are in unknown territory.”

Trump Organization accused of hiding witness Michael Cohen, Who knew Donald Trump lied Of all Donald Trump’s legal issues, the 2015 lawsuit over how his company’s security guards beat protesters seems relatively minor. But attorneys in that case now believe Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, was in the room when Trump allegedly ordered guards to attack protesters. That’s a key detail in an ongoing lawsuit in New York City. And, if true, that means the former president lied in his videotaped testimony behind closed doors last October. It also turns out that Trump’s former chief of security, Keith Schiller, also lied when he was similarly ousted in 2016 by lawyers representing battered protesters. The case was essentially on hold while Trump was shielded by presidential power in the White House. But over the past month or so — with the trial only weeks away — lawyers for the upset protesters have discovered that Cohen is a key witness to Trump’s personal involvement in the attack. The Trump Organization “should have known that Mr. Cohen had relevant information and was a potential witness for nearly seven years before he moved forward.” [us] his own,” wrote Benjamin N. Dictor in a court filing Tuesday. (Dictor also represents The Daily Beast’s News Guild.) The company “did not disclose this or identify Mr. Cohen as a person with relevant information at any time,” Dictor explained. On Friday, attorneys representing Trump, Schiller and the company filed the document in court and consider it a completely different story. The attorney, Alina Habba, claimed the defense was “ambushed” by Cohen’s sudden appearance as a prospective witness. And Habba took the opportunity to throw mud at Cohen himself, noting that he was “a disgraced lawyer and convicted of a felony.” She denied any testimony he could give, calling Cohen a “convicted persecutor” with a “well documented supplier” against Trump. Both sides are now preparing to formally question Cohen himself in the coming weeks, and his testimony could prove decisive at trial. Cohen declined to comment on the matter for the time being, citing that he is about to be removed from office. However, court records did explain what he was expected to say.

J.D. Vance Wildly Suggests Biden Is Trying To 'Kill A Bunch Of MAGA Voters' Ohio Senate candidate claims Biden is giving drug traffickers at the border a pass so they can wipe out right-wing voters. " Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance has leveled a bizarre new accusation against Joe Biden, suggesting that the president is trying to “kill” MAGA voters with fentanyl sold by drug traffickers. “If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl?” the controversial candidate pressed in an interview Friday with Jim Hoft, founder of the far-right news site Gateway Pundit. The venture capitalist and “Hillbilly Elegy” author, who was endorsed earlier this month by Donald Trump, did not explain how Biden could accomplish such a horrifying aim. But he implied that drug traffickers crossing into the U.S. from Mexico were expressly not arrested so they could kill right-wing Republican voters. “It’s really a border crisis that has gone all over the country,” said Vance. “It does look intentional,” he emphasized. “It’s like Joe Biden wants to punish the people who didn’t vote for him, and opening up the floodgates to the border is one way to do it.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-fentanyl-plot-maga-voters-joe-biden_n_626dd0f1e4b0cca67556acf9 (What he is really saying is that MAGA adherents are druggies)

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You can bet that Chris Jones was the other.

Sooo....someone else gave up the Chase?

Still aren't gonna beat Santa Lucia.

This was predicted- Putin's army is struggling with incompetent leadership, irregular air support, unreliable and outdated equipment (some dating back to WW2), very poor food and sinking morale as more and more of their comrades are killed right next to them. And this is even before the bulk of internationally-supplied armament is deployed in the field. The kill ratio between the Ukrainian forces vs the Russian forces is about 8 dead Russians for each dead Ukrainian. On top of that the top Russian general was meeting with his field commanders near Izium yesterday. The Ukrainian military found out about it and lobbed an artillery at the meeting, apparently killing or injuring many of the officers. General Gerasimov was hit in the leg by shrapnel and immediately departed for Russia. The Russians have had two consecutive days of losing ground along with heavy losses. Further, there are reports that hackers have penetrated the Russian Central Bank's computer records and are threatening to delete them. Russian media are ginning up reports of ethnic Russians being attacked in Moldova, and the Times of London is saying that the decision has been made for Russian troops in Crimea to invade as part of a campaign to seize Odessa. And:

With any luck, Trump will be on trial by then and maybe even under a gag order, but that will not stop him from funneling his bile through intermediaries, and he has a lot of those.

All journeys have a beginning and an end. When we accept this, we free ourselves from the yoke of fear as we do go on forever.

Apparently is has to do with the lingering aftereffects of the infection- reduced attention span, impaired memory, chronic fatigue and so forth. Several people I know are coping with this, and if you return to a demanding job, mistakes will be made.

Brutal Sect of Putin’s Army Accused of Murdering Their Own Comrades Serving under “Putin’s soldier” Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen troops have been linked to vile war crimes against civilians in Bucha—and their own severely injured brothers-in-arms. BUCHA, Ukraine—Ihor Yuschenko, 61, a former colonel in the Ukrainian Armed Forces who once served as the deputy chief of staff of ground forces in the Donbas in eastern Ukraine, watched in horror as a war crime took place right outside his window in broad daylight. According to Yuschenko, a column of Russian troops advancing through the town stopped and opened fire on his street in central Bucha on Feb. 27, killing two pedestrians. This column had included Chechen fighters known as Kadyrovtsy, members of various military groupings who are loyal to Chechnya’s local strongman, Ramzan Kadyrov, known as “Putin’s soldier.” Yuschenko said he was able to identify them by their black garb, their use of Islamic slogans, and Kadyrov’s name on their body armor. About an hour later, their column was decimated by the Ukrainian army in a different part of town—but the Kadyrovtsy returned. “Many Chechen soldiers penetrated this street to kill Ukrainian civilian people,” Yuschenko told The Daily Beast. He described how Chechen fighters, also dressed in black, shot up a car that had been driving down the street with at least “thirty bullets,” according to Yuschenko, killing its occupants and causing it to come to a stop on the side of the road next to the apartment building he was staying in. The Kadyrovtsy then allegedly dragged the two dead people whom they had shot out of the car, left them by the side of the road, and drove off in the car themselves.

It is near- critical for Japan. Japanese are not all that open to immigration and the pursuit of material gain has superseded the wish to have larger families.

The warning ought to be along the lines of "don't watch if you are both stupid and gullible".

Looks to be more quick than fast, but with good balance and seems to read blocking very well. Considering that our current KR has had some difficulty hanging onto the ball on occasion, Simpson may have a good shot at making the roster.

Research quoted on CBC Radio News yesterday indicated that 15% of workplace accidents in 2021 were related to COVID infections.

I woodn't put much stock in this.

They ought to be mandated to say at the beginning of every show and every interview that what they are presenting is entertainment and opinion but having nothing at all to do with reality.

If it walks like a duck....

Is Russia Using Dolphins To Guard Key Naval Base? Photos Suggest So, Analyst Says. Russia may be using trained dolphins to help guard a key naval base in the Black Sea. Submarine analyst H I Sutton, who first wrote about the findings for the U.S. Naval Institute, said satellite images taken by Maxar Technologies showed what appeared to be dolphin pens near the entrance to the harbor. The base in Sevastopol, part of Crimea that Russia annexed in 2014, is the Kremlin’s most important naval site in the Black Sea. Photos show the pens were moved to the base in February as Russia prepared to invaded Ukraine, Sutton said. Maxar Technologies told The Washington Post it agreed with his analysis. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russia-dolphins-naval-base_n_626a2e4ce4b0bc48f5774806

But that gets the followers all engorged and tingly.