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Saturday, June 13. 2020

Saturday morning links

 Decluttering: The Delightful, Awful Pangs Of Human Molting


Next Up In The Stupidest Litigation In The Country: The Science?


 SPME Stands By Professor William Jacobson


 CANCEL YOURSELVES, YOU LOUSY TWITS


 A Plague of White Submissiveness


 WALSH: The Only Real Privilege In America Is Leftist Privilege


Three indicted for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at NYPD vehicles, face life in prison


Is there an epidemic of racist violence? 


Andrew Cuomo’s sad bid to blame Florida for New York’s mismanagement


 Trump’s excess drama only helps hide his achievements


Biden is invisible; Trump is running against himself 


Stockman Calls "Bulls**t" On The Latest COVID-19 Fear-Mongering About Spikes In Texas, Arizona


Virus:  One way or another, I think the credibility ship has sailed.


 The U.S. Troop Reduction in Germany is Not About NATO


Is Assad About to Fall? While the world wasn’t watching, Syria has edged toward collapse, and the dictator is in his weakest position ever. The U.S. now has a narrow chance to prevent a catastrophe.

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In The Stupidest Litigation case, the defendants could argue that they aren't the ones actually burning the stuff.
#1 Randy on 2020-06-13 07:56 (Reply)
One after another, the 2020 election-year disasters trot out onto the stage to twirl slowly in the gaze of a hungry crowd: Impeachment; COVID-19; Recessions in May; George Floyd & Black Lives Matter; CHAZ and Raz and Antifa in Seattle, Defund the Cops in all the Blue cities (that will evaporate quickly, nothing to blame Trump for, here).

What will be next, shall we guess? Will it be another poke at COVID-19 recession (we need two quarters of negative GDP), or Climate Science redux or Border Trouble redux? A fresh purge at the Universities and media outlets for wrong-thinking conservatives? Or maybe it’s time for another faux-scandal from The Donald’s past. Funny how these all seem to run one-after-another, eh? Kind of like lining up jets on the taxiway during a busy day at the airport. Place your bets……
#2 Aggie on 2020-06-13 11:22 (Reply)
Next Up In The Stupidest Litigation In The Country: The Science?
How cool would it be if the oil companies would tell the states complaining that they will stop selling gas in those states?

SPME Stands By Professor William Jacobson: Good for them!
BOO for Cornell.

A Plague of White Submissiveness: Go NOW to get your copy of
Gone With The Wind! Also, Blazing Saddles and Animal House, before it's too late!

Trump’s excess drama only helps hide his achievements: rich Lowrey? Isn't he one of those National Review NEVER-TRUMPERS?

The U.S. Troop Reduction in Germany is Not About NATO: True; it's about GERMANY.
#3 Sam L. on 2020-06-13 12:13 (Reply)
Some random thoughts on De-cluttering as Human Molting:

Too many folks nowadays have no long-term military experience, and never learned that (a) don't buy anything that can't be left out overnight in the rain, and (b) three household moves equals one house fire.

Like speech, the cure for bad stuff isn't no stuff, it's better stuff.

Wear those old t-shirts more often. Otherwise they sit in the dark and breed. You gotta TRY to kill 'em every day.

Don't hoard someone else's dream. I'm always amazed at our annual White Elephant Give-away, when my old junk becomes somebody's hidden treasure.

Good food and wine never seem to accumulate excessively. Candy neither.
#4 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2020-06-13 12:15 (Reply)
What does 3 moves equals a fire mean?
#4.1 Jerry on 2020-06-13 14:36 (Reply)
The amount of loss and breakage.
#4.1.1 Texan99 on 2020-06-13 16:16 (Reply)
re Three indicted for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at NYPD vehicles, face life in prison

It will be interesting to see how this turns out.

Life sentences would certainly send a powerful message to those thinking of firebombing the police.

Somehow I don't think the sentences will be nearly that bad. Heck maybe they won't be found guilty.

Still, one wonders what is going through the heads of the perps at this point with a potential life sentence hanging over them?

I wonder if they think they made a mistake?
#5 feeblemind on 2020-06-13 14:01 (Reply)
RE: three indicted for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at NYPD vehicles.

There is this part:

"Prosecutors allege Shader bit one of the officer’s legs when she was being taken into custody."

Who on earth, but a crazy person or a kindergartner, tries to bite someone?
#6 charles on 2020-06-13 16:22 (Reply)
Re: Syria

Syria could also take a truly unprecedented turn for the worse, crashing into a debilitating crisis that tears every fiber of the country apart and, as hard as it is to imagine in 2020, leaving even greater levels of destitution, famine, and worsening criminality and predatory behavior.

This article is a paid-propaganda piece; probably by the Pentagon. Syria will not benefit in any way from American intervention. And we don't have the responsibility to finance Syria just because it may lead to "predatory behavior" (whoever wrote this article: your wording is so transparent and corny that you should receive an award). Syria is going to collapse no matter what anybody does. It has no economy, and too many people. There's nothing that we can do about that.

American farmers, of course, would love for Washington to buy millions of tons of wheat and corn. Then we can send all that free food to Syria, and "rescue" them. But it wouldn't be a rescue. We would only be enabling the same bad people who are in charge right now. The only thing we can do is stay completely out of it. If Turkey wants to get mixed-up in that mess, that's their decision. Right now, the incredibly expensive Pentagon is looking for a reason to exist.
#7 Ron Liebermann on 2020-06-13 17:02 (Reply)
Your comment may be true about Syria, but there are plenty of reasons for the Armed Forces and ( a much smaller) Pentagon, starting with China.
#7.1 The Old Salt on 2020-06-15 19:39 (Reply)
George Floyd died from drugs and his bad heart. It was unfortunate that it happened while being restrained by police but they did not choke him or kill him it was his own drug use that caused his death. George Floyd was a armed home invader, gang rapist, armed robber and sometimes a "jogger" when he committed his crimes. His crimes were despicable and it is humanities loss that he only went to prison for five years for what he did. It is odd to hear him eulogized as though he were an upstanding citizen instead of the low life thug rapist that he actually was. Now, sadly, Minneapolis and other cities will suffer as their police are punished and kept from doing their jobs in a phony 'nod' to this thugs death. As a result the crime and homicide rate in many of those cities will double overnight. For what???
#8 BlueLivesMatter on 2020-06-14 17:49 (Reply)

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