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Tuesday, December 10. 2024

Tuesday morning links

This baboon is helping his dog friend to get rid of bugs.


HIDDEN 4,000-YEAR-OLD TOWN DISCOVERED IN ARABIAN OASIS


Americans for Assassination


Is It Any Wonder That No Sane Person Takes Fact Checks Seriously?


An Open Letter to Everyone Who Will Have Their Rights Taken Away on Jan. 20, 2025


BLM mad about Penny's acquittal


Daniel Penny’s Innocence—and the Shame of Alvin Bragg.


The Daniel Penny verdict is a hopeful sign that sanity can rule in our cities again


Rand Paul Warns Musk & Ramaswamy About The Swamp's Upcoming DOGE Dodge


In Britain you can and will be arrested for "misusing" social media


Democracy Is Dead: A Coup Against Right Wing Movements Is Underway In Europe


Ukrainians Are Sick of the War. But We’re Not Allowed to Say It.


It's Time To Stop Blaming Russia For Europe's Woes

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 08:00 | Comments (15) | Trackbacks (0)

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The irony of BLM and blacks in general to rally around black men like Jorden Neely or George Floyd is not lost. These men like so many black men are criminals harming and killing people and inevitably killed as they commit one of their many, many crimes. Right or wrong this is how everyone sees black men. Even Jesse Jackson once said that when he was out at night and saw a couple of black men walking towards him that he would cross the street. The problem is that black men commit most of the violent crime in America and until this changes black men will continue to die in the commission of violent crimes. But why erect statues of them??? WTF is wrong with black culture to put these criiminals on a pedestal?
#1 OneGuy on 2024-12-10 09:54 (Reply)
I'm afraid sanity in the cities is a long way off. The jury should've been in deliberations less than 15 minutes - and a part of me wonders if they themselves were concerned about the optics should they return a "not guilty" verdict too soon and were themselves playing games with an innocent man's mental state.

The Penny case, just like the Jose Alba case, should've never been commenced in the first place and is yet another exhibit in, "The process is the punishment" file. It has told every reasonable person that even if you survive intervening on behalf of an innocent party (parties), then you run a great likelihood of being placed in the dock with your freedom on the line. Your face will be plastered all over the media, your family will be endangered, you will spend thousands of dollars, and maybe you'll be found not guilty of all charges. It encourages cowardice and acquiesence to manifest injustice.
#2 BornSouthern on 2024-12-10 10:00 (Reply)
Penny did Americans of all races a favor.

As did, quite frankly, Mangione.
#3 Maniac on 2024-12-10 10:02 (Reply)
Care to elaborate on Mangione? Health care system sucks but I doubt Mangione is more than a cog in a machine. You owe his widow and sons an apology.
#3.1 don on 2024-12-10 14:44 (Reply)
Brian Thompson's widow and sons
#3.1.1 don on 2024-12-10 14:49 (Reply)
Blaming Russia for Europe's woes... The majority of the ex-Soviets learned the downside lessons to progressive, socialist, collectivism but far too many Europeans have not. They are on a similar road to ruin until, once again, reality is recognized.
#4 indyjonesouthere on 2024-12-10 12:00 (Reply)
"They are on a similar road to ruin until, once again, reality is recognized."

By They you mean the Russians of course.
#4.1 JJM on 2024-12-11 06:53 (Reply)
Europe certainly has woes and Ukraine was no ideal democracy, but the fact remains that Russia invaded Ukraine and they did it to acquire strategic land and ports. Do not forget what Russia did in the 20+ years following the end of WW II. They would very much like to acquire control of most of Eastern Europe and if they are allowed to do it they will.
#5 OneGuy on 2024-12-10 13:24 (Reply)
Never mind that the West (including the US) promised to stay out of Ukraine and then ignored that promise!

Whatever you say, Hymie!
#5.1 Mark Matis on 2024-12-10 14:27 (Reply)
What are you saying? That you didn't know Russia invaded Ukraine. It's been all over the news. Maybe you were too busy calling people names to notice.
#5.1.1 OneGuy on 2024-12-10 22:16 (Reply)
Russia learned from a long list of imposing 'democracy' on others. Their current view is to protect Russians.

The US has learned nothing from a long list of imposing 'democracy' on others. They won't even protect our own borders from invasion.
#5.2 indyjonesouthere on 2024-12-10 17:02 (Reply)
"Their current view is to protect Russians."

Yes, by getting hundreds of thousands of Russians killed in a pointless and incompetent invasion, er, excuse me, "special military operation".
#5.2.1 JJM on 2024-12-11 06:49 (Reply)
re HIDDEN 4,000-YEAR-OLD TOWN DISCOVERED IN ARABIAN OASIS

That was interesting.

Thanks for posting.
#6 feeblemind on 2024-12-10 13:54 (Reply)
Re: Baboons and Dogs

Many years ago, I saw a TV show about baboons living near a dump that would steal puppies from feral dog moms. They groomed them like other baboons, and kept them with their baboon families. The advantage for the baboons was that as the puppies grew, they became great watch dogs, warning the baboons of the approach of other baboons, or humans, or potential predators. The researchers recording the baboons and watching them theorized that this might be another way / reason human domesticated dogs: To utilize their "watch dog" capabilities. And from there, humans started to realize what other roles dogs could fulfill.
#7 Lee Also on 2024-12-11 08:33 (Reply)
HIDDEN 4,000-YEAR-OLD TOWN DISCOVERED IN ARABIAN OASIS What would make the inhabitants abandon those walled towns? Disease? Starvation? Enemy action?
#8 snopercod on 2024-12-11 10:48 (Reply)

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