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June 1, 2024
Newsmax Host Ominously Warns ‘You People in Your Cities’ Who Are ‘Pushing the Party That Owns 90% of the Guns’
Michael Luciano
Mediaite.com, May 31st, 2024, 6:46 pm
Newsmax host Carl Higbie went on a tirade on Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury the day before.
SNIP...
During Friday’s edition of Frontline on Newsmax, Higbie demanded congressional Republicans drop everything and go after those involved in Trump’s prosecution.
“Where the hell are you guys on this one?” he said. “Stop everything in Congress. Subpoena everyone. Don’t take summer recess. Don’t take weekends. Don’t even get up to go to the bathroom. Get in there and subpoena everyone. This judge, his daughter, everyone affiliated with anything ever, ever! I don’t care if we stop building bridges and highways and stop funding our government. You fight fire with fire. Otherwise, these Marxists are going to keep doing this.”
The host then called on Republican attorneys general to begin targeting Democrats. He also addressed the “tyrants” responsible for Trump’s prosecution and conviction:
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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/newsmax-host-ominously-warns-you-people-in-your-cities-who-are-pushing-the-party-that-owns-90-of-the-guns/
ETA: Higbie is so crazy, he had to resign his office in the Scumpf badminstration for making racist, sexist and sundry bigoted comments.
Newsmax Host Warns 'You People in Your Cities' Who Are 'Pushing the Party That Owns 90% of the Guns'
For the Record, another borderline psychotic Republican "just mentioning" violence against Democrats:Newsmax Host Ominously Warns ‘You People in Your Cities’ Who Are ‘Pushing the Party That Owns 90% of the Guns’
Michael Luciano
Mediaite.com, May 31st, 2024, 6:46 pm
Newsmax host Carl Higbie went on a tirade on Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury the day before.
SNIP...
During Friday’s edition of Frontline on Newsmax, Higbie demanded congressional Republicans drop everything and go after those involved in Trump’s prosecution.
“Where the hell are you guys on this one?” he said. “Stop everything in Congress. Subpoena everyone. Don’t take summer recess. Don’t take weekends. Don’t even get up to go to the bathroom. Get in there and subpoena everyone. This judge, his daughter, everyone affiliated with anything ever, ever! I don’t care if we stop building bridges and highways and stop funding our government. You fight fire with fire. Otherwise, these Marxists are going to keep doing this.”
The host then called on Republican attorneys general to begin targeting Democrats. He also addressed the “tyrants” responsible for Trump’s prosecution and conviction:
I’m not just talking. You tyrants are about to awaken a machine you don’t want. You are pushing people to the edge. The same party that is offended by the wrong pronoun is pushing the party that owns 90% of the guns, of which, the majority defends our nation, who mine our minerals, who build our skyscrapers, and drive our trucks.
You weak people have no idea. You people in your cities with your white-shoe consultants, country clubs who thought prosecuting Trump was a good idea. You have never met America.
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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/newsmax-host-ominously-warns-you-people-in-your-cities-who-are-pushing-the-party-that-owns-90-of-the-guns/
ETA: Higbie is so crazy, he had to resign his office in the Scumpf badminstration for making racist, sexist and sundry bigoted comments.
May 31, 2024
Three Decades, 4,095 lawsuits
Plaintiff. Defendant. All broken down by type…
https://www.azcentral.com/pages/interactives/trump-lawsuits/
May 31, 2024
Don the Con
Got a ring to it.
May it echo. By which I mean…
‘I Have the Right to Take Stuff’:
Trump Assures Hannity He’d Take Government Documents After Host Tells Him He Wouldn’t
Story by Michael Luciano
Mediaite • Yesterday 9:54 PM
Snip…
“I’ve known you for decades,” Hannity said to Trump during an interview on Monday night on Fox News. “I can’t imagine you ever saying, ‘Bring me some of the boxes that we brought back from the White House. I’d like to look at them.’ Did you ever do that?”
“I would have the right to do that,” Trump responded. “There’s nothing wrong with it.”
“But I know you,” Hannity said. “I don’t think you would do it.”
Trump replied by disabusing Hannity of the idea he wouldn’t do that by telling him, yes, he would.
“I don’t have a lot of time, but I would have the right to do that,” he said. “I would do that.”
“All right, let me move on,” Hannity said, trying to steer Trump away from the topic.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-have-the-right-to-take-stuff-trump-assures-hannity-he-d-take-government-documents-after-host-tells-him-he-wouldn-t/ar-AA199xhH
Documents. Espionage. Florida. Moscow.
May 31, 2024
Scott Jennings (Toady for W) on CNN talked the new Party Line
The shitheel said guilty verdict would boomerang on Democrats, that Repuglians who weren’t gonna vote for scumpf now would. He added next week Hunter B is on trial.
May 29, 2024
Wrong Kitty Litter Led to Radiation Leak at New Mexico Nuclear Waste Dump
The leak was caused by "chemically incompatible" contents, including kitty litter, that reacted inside a barrel of waste causing it to rupture
By Laura Zuckerman
Scientific American, March 27, 2015
March 26 (Reuters) - A radiation leak at an underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico was caused by "chemically incompatible" contents, including kitty litter, that reacted inside a barrel of waste causing it to rupture, scientists said on Thursday.
The U.S. Energy Department report on last year's radiation accident at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad showed that a drum of waste containing radioisotopes like plutonium was improperly packaged at the Los Alamos National Laboratory near Santa Fe before arriving for disposal.
The improper mix in the barrel, including the wrong sort of kitty litter used to absorb liquids, sparked a chemical reaction causing it to heat up and generate gases that dislodged its lid, spewing radioactive materials, investigators found.
The radiation leak that began in the WIPP disposal chamber half a mile below ground on Feb. 14, 2014, "did not result from a detonation," the report showed.
The accident exposed 22 workers to radiation in amounts not expected to threaten their health, according to Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC, the contractor that operates the plant.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wrong-kitty-litter-led-to-radiation-leak-at-new-mexico-nuclear-waste-dump/#:~:text=The%20improper%20mix%20in%20the,spewing%20radioactive%20materials%2C%20investigators%20found.
FTR: No amount of plutonium is safe.
Count me as a critic.
Not that I'm against the welfare of atomic scientists or the nuclear industry and the weaponry it makes possible; rather I favor more judicious use of our limited government resources. Spending billions to boil water is a big waste of time, energy and hope.
For instance:
Wrong Kitty Litter Led to Radiation Leak at New Mexico Nuclear Waste Dump
The leak was caused by "chemically incompatible" contents, including kitty litter, that reacted inside a barrel of waste causing it to rupture
By Laura Zuckerman
Scientific American, March 27, 2015
March 26 (Reuters) - A radiation leak at an underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico was caused by "chemically incompatible" contents, including kitty litter, that reacted inside a barrel of waste causing it to rupture, scientists said on Thursday.
The U.S. Energy Department report on last year's radiation accident at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad showed that a drum of waste containing radioisotopes like plutonium was improperly packaged at the Los Alamos National Laboratory near Santa Fe before arriving for disposal.
The improper mix in the barrel, including the wrong sort of kitty litter used to absorb liquids, sparked a chemical reaction causing it to heat up and generate gases that dislodged its lid, spewing radioactive materials, investigators found.
The radiation leak that began in the WIPP disposal chamber half a mile below ground on Feb. 14, 2014, "did not result from a detonation," the report showed.
The accident exposed 22 workers to radiation in amounts not expected to threaten their health, according to Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC, the contractor that operates the plant.
Continues...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wrong-kitty-litter-led-to-radiation-leak-at-new-mexico-nuclear-waste-dump/#:~:text=The%20improper%20mix%20in%20the,spewing%20radioactive%20materials%2C%20investigators%20found.
FTR: No amount of plutonium is safe.
May 29, 2024
by Scott Neuman
NPR, January 24, 2018
Former Vice President Joe Biden says he and President Barack Obama decided not to speak out publicly on Russian interference during the 2016 campaign after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to sign a bipartisan statement condemning the Kremlin's role.
Speaking on Tuesday at the Council on Foreign Relations, Biden said the Obama administration sought a united front to dispel concerns that going public with such accusations would be seen as an effort to undermine the legitimacy of the election.
However, McConnell "wanted no part of having a bipartisan commitment saying, essentially, 'Russia's doing this. Stop,' " he said.
SNIP...
"Can you imagine if the president called a press conference in October, with this fella, Bannon, and company, and said, 'Tell you what: Russians are trying to interfere in our elections and we have to do something about it,' " he said. "Would things have gotten better, or would it further look like we were trying to de-legitimize the electoral process, because of our opponent?"
"Had we known what we knew three weeks later, we may have done something more," Biden added.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/24/580171396/biden-mcconnell-refused-to-sign-bipartisan-statement-on-russian-interference
Moscow Mitch McConnell refused to condemn Trump-Putin conspiracy, so Obama and Biden shut up.
Biden: McConnell Refused To Sign Bipartisan Statement On Russian Interferenceby Scott Neuman
NPR, January 24, 2018
Former Vice President Joe Biden says he and President Barack Obama decided not to speak out publicly on Russian interference during the 2016 campaign after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to sign a bipartisan statement condemning the Kremlin's role.
Speaking on Tuesday at the Council on Foreign Relations, Biden said the Obama administration sought a united front to dispel concerns that going public with such accusations would be seen as an effort to undermine the legitimacy of the election.
However, McConnell "wanted no part of having a bipartisan commitment saying, essentially, 'Russia's doing this. Stop,' " he said.
SNIP...
"Can you imagine if the president called a press conference in October, with this fella, Bannon, and company, and said, 'Tell you what: Russians are trying to interfere in our elections and we have to do something about it,' " he said. "Would things have gotten better, or would it further look like we were trying to de-legitimize the electoral process, because of our opponent?"
"Had we known what we knew three weeks later, we may have done something more," Biden added.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/24/580171396/biden-mcconnell-refused-to-sign-bipartisan-statement-on-russian-interference
May 28, 2024
Issued on Friday, May 24, the special counsel "told Cannon that a limited gag order is needed in order to discourage Trump from making statements 'that pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents.'"
https://www.alternet.org/trump-jack-smith-cannon-request/
Feds don't like it when they're lives are endangered unnecessarily for the benefit of Putin's Puppet.
Judge I. Lean Bannon just stepped on a mine.
From Alternet:Issued on Friday, May 24, the special counsel "told Cannon that a limited gag order is needed in order to discourage Trump from making statements 'that pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents.'"
https://www.alternet.org/trump-jack-smith-cannon-request/
Feds don't like it when they're lives are endangered unnecessarily for the benefit of Putin's Puppet.
May 28, 2024
His always itch and always burn.
May 27, 2024
JOHN F. KENNEDY AND PT-109
Lieutenant John F. Kennedy's encounter with a Japanese destroyer on the night of August 1, 1943, may be the most famous small-craft engagement in naval history, and it was an unmitigated disaster.
At a later date, when asked to explain how he had come to be a hero, Kennedy replied laconically, "It was involuntary. They sank my boat."
An Ambush Goes Awry
In Blackett Strait, south of Kolombangara in the Solomon Islands, the starless, moonless night of August 1, 1943, was profoundly dark. Inky blackness like this could have a disorienting effect, even on experienced sailors.
PT-109 stood at her station, one of fifteen PT boats ("Patrol Torpedo" boats) that had set out to engage, damage, and maybe even turn back the well-known "Tokyo Express." US forces gave that name to the Japanese navy's more or less regular supply convoy to soldiers fighting the advance of US forces in the islands farther south.
When the patrol actually did come in contact with the Tokyo Express—three Japanese destroyers acting as transports with a fourth serving as escort—the encounter did not go well. Thirty torpedoes were fired without damaging the Japanese ships. No US vessels suffered hits or casualties. Boats that had used up their complement of torpedoes were ordered home. The few that still had torpedoes remained in the strait for another try.
Collision!
PT-109 was one of the boats left behind. Lieutenant Kennedy rendezvoused his boat with two others, PT-162 and PT-169. The three boats spread out to make a picket line across the strait. At about 2:30 in the morning, a shape loomed out of the darkness three hundred yards off PT-109's starboard bow. The young lieutenant and his crew first believed it to be another PT boat. When it became apparent that it was one of the Japanese destroyers, Kennedy attempted to turn to starboard to bring his torpedoes to bear. But there was not enough time.
The destroyer, later identified as the Amagiri, struck PT-109 just forward of the forward starboard torpedo tube, ripping away the starboard aft side of the boat. The impact tossed Kennedy around the cockpit. Most of the crew were knocked into the water. The one man below decks, engineer Patrick McMahon, miraculously escaped, although he was badly burned by exploding fuel.
Fear that PT-109 would go up in flames drove Kennedy to order the men who still remained on the wreck to abandon ship. But the destroyer's wake dispersed the burning fuel, and when the fire began to subside, Kennedy sent his men back to what was left of the boat. From the wreckage, Kennedy ordered the men with him, Edgar Mauer and John E. Maguire, to identify the locations of their crew mates still in the water. Leonard Thom, Gerard Zinser, George Ross, and Raymond Albert were able to swim back on their own.
Kennedy swam out to McMahon and Charles Harris. Kennedy towed the injured McMahon by a life-vest strap, and alternately cajoled and berated the exhausted Harris to get him through the difficult swim. Meanwhile, Thom pulled in William Johnston, who was debilitated by the gasoline he had accidentally swallowed and the heavy fumes that lay on the water. Finally Raymond Starkey swam in from where he had been flung by the shock. Floating on and around the hulk, the crew took stock.
Harold Marney and Andrew Jackson Kirksey had disappeared in the collision, very likely killed at impact. All the men were exhausted, and a few were hurt, and several had been sickened by the fuel fumes. There was no sign of other boats or ships in the area; the men were afraid to fire their flare gun for fear of attracting the attention of the Japanese who were on islands on all sides. Although the wreckage was still afloat, it was taking on water, and it capsized on the morning of August 2.
After a discussion of options, the men abandoned the remains of PT-109 and struck out for an islet three and a half miles away.
CONTINUES...
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/john-f-kennedy-and-pt-109
The movie is a good reenactment of history.
PT-109
JOHN F. KENNEDY AND PT-109
Lieutenant John F. Kennedy's encounter with a Japanese destroyer on the night of August 1, 1943, may be the most famous small-craft engagement in naval history, and it was an unmitigated disaster.
At a later date, when asked to explain how he had come to be a hero, Kennedy replied laconically, "It was involuntary. They sank my boat."
An Ambush Goes Awry
In Blackett Strait, south of Kolombangara in the Solomon Islands, the starless, moonless night of August 1, 1943, was profoundly dark. Inky blackness like this could have a disorienting effect, even on experienced sailors.
PT-109 stood at her station, one of fifteen PT boats ("Patrol Torpedo" boats) that had set out to engage, damage, and maybe even turn back the well-known "Tokyo Express." US forces gave that name to the Japanese navy's more or less regular supply convoy to soldiers fighting the advance of US forces in the islands farther south.
When the patrol actually did come in contact with the Tokyo Express—three Japanese destroyers acting as transports with a fourth serving as escort—the encounter did not go well. Thirty torpedoes were fired without damaging the Japanese ships. No US vessels suffered hits or casualties. Boats that had used up their complement of torpedoes were ordered home. The few that still had torpedoes remained in the strait for another try.
Collision!
PT-109 was one of the boats left behind. Lieutenant Kennedy rendezvoused his boat with two others, PT-162 and PT-169. The three boats spread out to make a picket line across the strait. At about 2:30 in the morning, a shape loomed out of the darkness three hundred yards off PT-109's starboard bow. The young lieutenant and his crew first believed it to be another PT boat. When it became apparent that it was one of the Japanese destroyers, Kennedy attempted to turn to starboard to bring his torpedoes to bear. But there was not enough time.
The destroyer, later identified as the Amagiri, struck PT-109 just forward of the forward starboard torpedo tube, ripping away the starboard aft side of the boat. The impact tossed Kennedy around the cockpit. Most of the crew were knocked into the water. The one man below decks, engineer Patrick McMahon, miraculously escaped, although he was badly burned by exploding fuel.
Fear that PT-109 would go up in flames drove Kennedy to order the men who still remained on the wreck to abandon ship. But the destroyer's wake dispersed the burning fuel, and when the fire began to subside, Kennedy sent his men back to what was left of the boat. From the wreckage, Kennedy ordered the men with him, Edgar Mauer and John E. Maguire, to identify the locations of their crew mates still in the water. Leonard Thom, Gerard Zinser, George Ross, and Raymond Albert were able to swim back on their own.
Kennedy swam out to McMahon and Charles Harris. Kennedy towed the injured McMahon by a life-vest strap, and alternately cajoled and berated the exhausted Harris to get him through the difficult swim. Meanwhile, Thom pulled in William Johnston, who was debilitated by the gasoline he had accidentally swallowed and the heavy fumes that lay on the water. Finally Raymond Starkey swam in from where he had been flung by the shock. Floating on and around the hulk, the crew took stock.
Harold Marney and Andrew Jackson Kirksey had disappeared in the collision, very likely killed at impact. All the men were exhausted, and a few were hurt, and several had been sickened by the fuel fumes. There was no sign of other boats or ships in the area; the men were afraid to fire their flare gun for fear of attracting the attention of the Japanese who were on islands on all sides. Although the wreckage was still afloat, it was taking on water, and it capsized on the morning of August 2.
After a discussion of options, the men abandoned the remains of PT-109 and struck out for an islet three and a half miles away.
CONTINUES...
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/john-f-kennedy-and-pt-109
The movie is a good reenactment of history.
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