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What we need RIGHT NOW is a windfall profits tax on the petroleum industry. I was at the Costco gas bar last Friday and most people were NOT filling up as they were wont to do in the past. Most were putting in much smaller amounts of fuel, judging from how long they were at the pumps.

Teacher Wounded In Texas School Shooting Slams Police As 'Cowards' “You have a bulletproof vest, I had nothing. You’re supposed to protect and serve," said Uvalde teacher Arnulfo Reyes, whose 11 students all died. A teacher wounded in last month’s school shooting in Texas slammed first responders as “cowards” for standing by outside his classroom while the gunman killed all 11 of his young students as they tried to play dead. “You have a bulletproof vest, I had nothing. You’re supposed to protect and serve. There is no excuse for their actions and I will never forgive them. I will never forgive them,” Arnulfo Reyes said in an interview with “Good Morning America” Tuesday from a hospital, where he’s recovering from multiple gunshot wounds. The Robb Elementary School teacher said his class was watching a movie following a student awards ceremony around 11:30 a.m. on May 24 when they heard gunshots. He directed the kids to get under a table, just as they were trained, and told them to “act like you’re asleep.”

Which, like it or not, was why the Bombers found it necessary to move on from him.

Big usually means durable and Ellingson does not seem to have been injured often.

Probe Reveals Mysterious ‘Third Party’ Breached Michigan Voting Systems Amid Trumpworld’s Voter Fraud Frenzy -Getty Election officials in Michigan have reportedly told investigators about an unauthorized “third-party” accessing voting equipment amid Trumpworld’s push to expose what it claimed was voter fraud in the wake of his 2020 defeat. Citing newly obtained records, Reuters reports that state police have expanded their investigation into voting system breaches, with search warrants and memos revealing an additional three towns and one county under scrutiny. Investigators are said to be looking into a potential breach in Lake Township, and equipment in Irving Township was also reportedly seized for examination. In Roscommon County, two officials told investigators they handed over equipment to unauthorized people, the records show. In one case, a town’s two ballot tabulators were given to unidentified people for several weeks. State authorities announced a criminal investigation into the statewide breaches in early February, with at least 11 such incidents reported across the state. Although Trump won all the counties where the breaches are said to have occurred, his allies have argued that he should have won by a larger margin.

Russia has several areas in the far east and south east that are inhabited by people who are distinctly Mongolian in appearance. These areas are largely poor and uneducated and have been heavily relied upon to fill out the ranks of the Wagner group and kill-squads of the Russian army. For those who are unfamiliar with the Wagner group, it is loosely affiliated with the Russian army and is rented out as mercenaries. They are currently in Africa and many were brought to Ukraine, Georgia and Chechnya. Their commander is an out-and-out Nazi who shows off his swastikas at every opportunity. They were responsible for the atrocities at Bucha in Ukraine and other locations in Ukraine.

No doubt he would prefer everyone went back to Conestogas.

78 years ago today on D-Day, June 6, 1944, James M. Doohan of Vancouver, led D Company of Royal Winnipeg Rifles ashore at Juno beach. He would be shot 6 times, survive and go on to become Scotty on Star Trek.

A new COVID vaccine is coming. Will it sway anti-vaxxers? Anew COVID-19 vaccine could soon be available to Americans this summer — and the familiar protein technology used to make it may make the vaccine more palatable to those who were wary of mRNA vaccines, experts believe. On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) advisory committee will meet to review Novavax's submission for its vaccine, dubbed NVX-CoV2373. If endorsed by the committee, the FDA will likely authorize the shot for adults 18 and over. The move would mark the fourth vaccine to be approved for emergency use authorization in the United States. Notably, the anticipated approval would make it the first new vaccine to be approved in over a year in the U.S. — and at a time when more transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 have become the dominant strains in the United States, which the original vaccines weren't designed to target. The Novavax vaccine is already approved in the European Union, Canada, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia. Given that the original strain of COVID-19 has died out, having been superseded by newer, more virulent variants, the announcement of a new vaccine designed to fight the ancestral strain of SARS-CoV-2 might seem odd. Yet experts tell Salon that the Novavax vaccine is particularly exciting given that it may be attractive to people who hesitated to get the mRNA vaccines (which includes Moderna and Pfizer's shots) due to misinformation and fear. As of June 6, 2022, an estimated 66.7 percent of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); that includes 76 percent of adults over the age of 18. "Unfortunately, some of the other vaccines have gotten maligned by the anti-vaccine movement because they're not protein-based," Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center, told Salon. "This is a protein vaccine, it's very similar to other vaccines that people routinely get, so maybe those individuals who have been unfortunately swayed by the misinformation about the other vaccines may find this one more suitable." Adalja added that even though this vaccine is "more traditional," it is also innovative in its own way. https://www.salon.com/2022/06/06/a-fourth-vaccine-from-novavax-vaccine-is-coming-soon-will-it-sway-anti-vaxxers/

Proud Boys Leaders Indicted On Seditious Conspiracy Charges Over Capitol Attack Five members of the Proud Boys street gang — including their leader, Enrique Tarrio — were indicted Monday on seditious conspiracy charges for their role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., returned the rare indictment, which charges that Tarrio and four other members of the Proud Boys — Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola — played an outsize role in the planning and execution of the insurrection. A sixth Proud Boy, Charles Donohoe, wasn’t included because he’d already pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in a plea deal that will force him to testify against his fellow gang members. Dozens of Proud Boys were among the thousands of people who stormed the U.S. Capitol that day in an effort to stop the certification of Joe Biden as president. Prosecutors say that Tarrio and his fellow defendants were instrumental in the planning stages of the attack; Tarrio allegedly looked over a document titled “1776 Returns” on Dec. 30, 2020, detailing plans to occupy several buildings in Washington on Jan. 6, including six House and Senate office buildings. Tarrio didn’t join his gang on the day of the insurrection — he was under court order to stay away from D.C. following his arrest over other crimes he committed with the Proud Boys in December — but the other members led the charge. They stood at the front of a massive throng that marched to the Capitol following a speech by defeated President Donald Trump, joined by members of the Oath Keepers, a self-described “militia” that often shows up to Proud Boys events, whose leaders are also facing seditious conspiracy charges. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/proud-boys-leaders-indicted-seditious-conspiracy-charges-capitol-riot_n_629e5618e4b0c184bdd3f0ed

Paddy has a second career as either a colour commentator or standup comedian waiting for him.

Bombers won't even break stride with those owies.

Even Costco has loss-leaders- where else can you get a cooked rotisserie chicken and hot dog and pop for those prices? Referring to Fajardo's passes?

Can we say "plea bargain"?

Soooo....two dicks went to lunch together.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Survives No-Confidence Vote Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a no-confidence vote on Monday. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a no-confidence vote on Monday. AARON CHOWN - WPA POOL/ VIA GETTY IMAGES LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a no-confidence vote on Monday, securing enough support from his Conservative Party to remain in office despite a rebellion that leaves him a weakened leader with an uncertain future. Known for his ability to shrug off scandals, the charismatic leader has struggled to turn the page on revelations that he and his staff repeatedly held boozy parties that flouted the COVID-19 restrictions they imposed on others. Support among his fellow Conservative lawmakers has weakened as some see the leader, renowned for his ability to connect with voters, increasingly as a liability rather than an asset in elections. Johnson won the backing of 211 out of 359 Conservative lawmakers, more than the simple majority needed to remain in power, but still a significant rebellion of 148 MPs. With no clear front-runner to succeed him, most political observers had predicted he would defeat the challenge.

See? See? Harumph.

I thought that was what the "D" in DJ stood for. He certainly doesn't look like an animal from the Andes.

Trump-Endorsed Senate Candidate Blames Gun Violence on ‘Black People, Frankly’ Blake Masters, whom former President Donald Trump recently endorsed for Senate in Arizona, said during a podcast appearance earlier this year that “Black people, frankly” are responsible for America’s gun violence problem. “We do have a gun violence problem in this country, and it’s gang violence,” Masters said on the “Jeff Oravits Show” on April 11, the Daily Beast reported on Sunday. “It’s people in Chicago, St. Louis shooting each other. Very often, you know, Black people, frankly. And the Democrats don’t want to do anything about that.” Masters — who has peddled the great replacement theory and falsely insisted that Trump won the 2020 election — went on to say that Democrats “don’t like the Second Amendment” because “it frankly blocks a lot of their plans for us.” Masters has leaned on racism, conspiracy theories, and guns throughout this campaign. Guns in particular have been featured prominently is his campaign videos. “The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting,” he said in one of them, adding that “the first thing the Taliban did when Joe Biden handed them Afghanistan” was “[take] away people’s guns.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/blake-masters-gun-violence-black-people-1363376/

Can he do this, being the leader of Tibetan Buddhism and all?

You forgot to post a "graphic violence" warning.

And Ulster (Northern Ireland) as well as Wales have stated that they reserve the option to join the EU as independent states.

Brexit will not undone in any scenario- that would take another act of UK parliament to reverse that disastrous decision that was encouraged and funded by Russia.

Damning text messages reveal plot to give pro-Trump supporters access to Georgia's voting machines: report According to a report from the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, texts obtained by the website between a former Georgia Republican county chair and an election board member revealed they were plotting to allow pro-Donald Trump outsiders access to the county's election computers. As the report reveals, those text messages were flying back and forth on Jan 6th as the Capitol in Washington D.C. was under siege to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election that saw Trump lose re-election. As Pagliery notes, the Washington Post has reported that "the Secretary of State’s office was investigating the matter. But the previously unreported text messages shed new light on who arranged the possibly illegal access to the computer and who was on the team that traveled south to do it." According to the new Beast report, "The text messages acquired by The Daily Beast show two separate conversations in which former Coffee County GOP chair Cathy Latham and elections board member Eric Chaney lay out a plan to bring in a team of computer experts to access the computer voting system. The Daily Beast has verified that the conversations were real and remain stored on an iPhone." "At 4:26 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, as the Capitol building in Washington was under attack, another plan was in the works 607 miles away in the small town of Douglas, Georgia," Pagliery wrote. "Chaney, the elections board member, received word that the county GOP chair was on the phone with an Atlanta businessman who wanted access to the voting system computers there." https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/trump/ Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone WASHINGTON, June 27 - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation. The decision, with an opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia and dissents from Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, overturned a ruling by a federal appeals court in Colorado. The appeals court had permitted a lawsuit to proceed against a Colorado town, Castle Rock, for the failure of the police to respond to a woman's pleas for help after her estranged husband violated a protective order by kidnapping their three young daughters, whom he eventually killed. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html