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The fall in ratings was predicted. The GOP and some of hid own party are sabotaging Biden at every turn and big business is overtly hostile to any change on the status quo. On top of that, Faux News is spreading lie after lie and the rabid right-wing has allied itself with neo-Nazis, fundamentalist churches to disseminated the same BS. To me, it seems that Putin's agenda to make Americans distrustful and cynical about their political system has worked incredibly well. The core message of all these is what our current premier recently said: you're on your own.

Severe punishment are only a temporary deterrent at best. At one time people (including children) were hanged for stealing or had one hand cut off, but that changed nothing. I have worked with offenders and none were ever deterred by the threat of consequences- they either did not think they would get caught or didn't give a damn due to being in the grip of a psychosis or in such emotional turmoil that they felt compelled to what they did. The US has the highest percentage of incarcerated people in the world but still has one of the highest incidences of violent crime. The roots of crime are in poverty, childhood abuse/neglect, addiction, lack of education (and hope for a decent future) and mental illness. Unless we deal with the root causes, we will still be having this discussion 50 years from now. Most criminals are not all that different than you or me, but at some point in their lives, their life experiences caused them to turn left instead of right.

Hunter Biden’s Laptop Was Tampered With And Had Files Added To It According to an independent investigation and the person who recovered the device, Hunter Biden’s laptop had files added to it after it left his possession. The Washington Post’s experts and the man who owned the computer repair store both came to the same conclusion that files were added to Hunter Biden’s laptop after it left his possession. The Washington Post reported: “The experts found the data had been repeatedly accessed and copied by people other than Hunter Biden over nearly three years,” our report explained, with those we spoke with being unable to “reach definitive conclusions about the contents as a whole, including whether all of it originated from a single computer or could have been assembled from files from multiple computers and put on the portable drive.” What Mac Isaac said next, though, is what was most noteworthy. When he did his “deep dive,” he said, he “saw a lot of photos” — but “did not see a lot of photos that are being reported to [have been] seen.” “I do know that there have been multiple attempts over the past year-and-a-half to insert questionable material into the laptop as in, not physically, but passing off this misinformation or disinformation as coming from the laptop,” he said. “And that is a major concern of mine because I have fought tooth and nail to protect the integrity of this drive and to jeopardize that is going to mean that everything that I sacrificed will be for nothing.” The fact that the laptop was tampered with and there are new warnings from the PC repair shop owner about the possibility that disinformation was inserted on it casts doubt on the authenticity of anything that Republicans are going to attempt to use to impeach President Biden and make him a one-term president. The Washington Post story also reports that someone tried to add files to the laptop one week after the initial New York Post story was published. The laptop has been corrupted. At the time that the laptop surfaced, Rudy Guiliani had been working for years to get Russian disinformation into the media about Biden.

From Faux News fanning the flames of racism in the US:

Some exes really hold grudges, obviously.

No doubt the Bombers could create a workaround. A mysterious benefactor could provide Hansen with a vehicle, paid promotional work, housing, gift cards for restaurants etc. Riders were doing that for decades.

It may have been updated after I checked it, but when I did so, it was not listed as false. Or maybe I didn't read it properly.

Have you forgotten assault rifles and automatic weapons? Any firearm designed to kill people ought to be banned.

I do not think I am alone in believing that people-killing firearms ought to be banned altogether, but absolutely in the minority. However, this is a discussion that needs to happen and needs to begins somewhere and sometime soon. Sometimes, these discussions plant seeds that take a while to grow to fruition.

I am almost to the point where if mother Nature puts more snow down, she can take it away.

Snopes did not confirm or deny the rumour, but it was bad optics if nothing else for McDonald's to take so long to deny it. A few years ago, Tim Horton's was accused by rumour to have laced their coffee with MSG, and they squelched that in a few days.

Good, but not good enough. In our country, few need to own firearms whose sole designed intent is to kill people. This doesn't need to be the sole plank of a election platform, but an important one.

Tucker Carlson Goes Nuts For '******** Tanning' And The Internet Has Questions Tucker Carlson, who recently came under fire for the homoerotic nature of the trailer for his upcoming “documentary,” which highlights the alleged collapse of testosterone levels in men, is under scrutiny again. In a short clip, Carlson’s guest, Andrew McGovern, said, “If you want to optimize and take it [your testosterone] to another level, expose yourself to red light therapy”: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-********-tanning_n_625cd22ee4b0be72bff7a25f

Birds Aren’t Real': How a mock conspiracy theory caught on with the far right When Arkansas native turned Memphis resident Peter McIndoe invented the Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy theory in January 2017 — the month of former President Donald Trump’s inauguration — he was making fun of far-right conspiracy theorists. It was an exercise in political satire; McIndoe, now 23, was mocking the type of MAGA Republicans who listen to listen to Alex Jones’ “Infowars” and embrace Pizzagate and other ludicrous conspiracy theories. But Birds Aren’t Real caught on, and according to The Guardian’s Zoe Williams, some conspiracy theorists on the far right actually take it seriously. Birds Aren’t Real claims that the “Deep State” killed off all of the real birds in the United States and replaced them with drones that are made to look like birds — and the drones are being used to spy on Americans. McIndoe never really believed that, but he found that some far-right conspiracy theorists took him seriously and believed that all the birds flying around were drones. McIndoe, Williams notes, unveiled his Birds Aren’t Real claims at a rally in Memphis in January 2017. “Someone was filming him and put it on Facebook,” Williams explains. “It went viral, and Memphis is still the center of the Birds Aren’t Real movement. Or is it a movement? You could call it a situationist spectacle, a piece of rolling performance art or a collective satire. MSNBC called it a ‘mass coping mechanism’ for Generation Z, and as it has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, ‘mass,’ at least, is on the money.” The audience for far-right conspiracy theories only grew during Trump’s four years in the White House, from QAnon to the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. And according to Williams, Birds Aren’t Real is “the most perfect, playful distillation of where we are in relation to the media landscape we’ve built but can’t control, and which only half of us can find our way around.” https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/birds-arent-real-how-a-mock-conspiracy-theory-caught-on-with-the-far-right-report/

Potential carries a player for only so long. If he does not measure up this training camp, he will probably be done here.

No doubt the soldier will suffer a mineral-induced heart attack very soon.

Garland has not enough for accolades or condemnation, but justice delayed is justice denied.

There are those who seek power to do good and make the world a better place, but there are also those who are so psychologically damaged that they seek power to harm others as they have been harmed. "Hurt people hurt people". There are places which do not allow criminals to profit from their misdeeds.

This is pathological. Instead of going after Big Oil for predatory pricing or encouraging people to drive less or smaller vehicles, this is feeding the problem. Problematic gamblers do not see the gambling as a problem, but see the problem as a lack of money.

Russian Soldier Tells Wife Putin’s Troops Bombed Their Own People, Ukrainian Intel Says ‘THAT WAS OURS’ A Russian soldier in an occupied part of Ukraine’s Donetsk region was caught telling his wife back home that Putin’s own troops were the ones who bombed a Russian town on the border this week, according to Ukrainian intelligence. In an audio clip of an intercepted call released Friday by Ukraine’s Security Service, a woman can be heard expressing concern about the attack on the town of Klimovo that Moscow blamed on Ukrainian forces, which reportedly left seven people wounded. “That was ours ******* stuff up,” the purported soldier quickly responds. “It’s necessary. They do that to provoke the [Ukrainians]. And that’s why they hit it,” he said. “We talked to the bosses and they said that’s how it is. The same **** was happening in the Chechen War, they blew up apartments in Moscow, as if it were terrorists. It was really the FSB,” he said, referring to the series of bombings in September 1999 that helped bring Vladimir Putin to power. Prominent Kremlin critics and defectors like Alexander Litvinenko have long accused Russia’s security services of orchestrating the bombings themselves to drum up support for the Chechen War and Putin. The unnamed soldier in the intercepted call goes on to say there was “no way” the Ukrainians could have reached the town of Klimovo, in the Bryansk region, from where they were, and tells his wife he plans to “refuse” to go further with the war in Ukraine.

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