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Sandbox – 26may22

[Please post your mass killings comments under '… to protect the children'.  Thank you. gjr]

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215 responses to “Sandbox – 26may22”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ya think?
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/bronx-rape-robbery-suspect-19-arrests
    Police chiefs from New York City, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Milwaukee, Orlando and Los Angeles each expressed some concern with how their respective district attorneys or lead prosecutors, as well as their local court systems, have made significant judicial policy changes that have altered how and even whether accused criminals face justice.
    Some chiefs feel like their officers bear the brunt of issues with criminals who have been ignored by other areas of society and government until they commit a crime. And even after they commit a crime, some new district attorneys have chosen not to prosecute certain misdemeanors or to eliminate cash bail. Chiefs expressed particular concern over juveniles who commit violent crimes but avoid prosecution as a result of these new policies, saying young people feel emboldened when they commit a crime and successfully get away with it.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-perfect-storm-major-cities
    😉

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Best Daily Quotes in awhile. Not bad.
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/88812-friday-short-cuts-2022-06-03?

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A shit hole from hell –
    The mother of a San Francisco fentanyl user said the city’s liberal policies has enabled open-air drug markets and her son’s addiction.
    “My son, who is addicted to fentanyl and living on the streets of San Francisco, has told me that … San Francisco is like hell because you can get everything that you want to stay addicted very, very easily and there’s no pressure to get well,” Jacqui Berlinn told Fox News.
    Berlinn’s 31-year-old son has been battling addiction and homelessness in different forms for years and has attempted rehabilitation several times. However, San Francisco’s progressive policies soften the consequences for drug user and sellers, harming both the city and users alike, according to Berlinn.
    At least 129 people died from overdoses in San Francisco between January and April, with the majority being fentanyl-related, according to city government data
    Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s progressive district attorney, has been criticized for policies such as eliminating cash bail and gang enhancements. He faces a recall election next week.
    Mayor London Breed announced in January that the city leased space in the Tenderloin neighborhood where drug users can receive meals and showers. It was initially called the Tenderloin Linkage Center and was intended to connect addicts to social services.
    But only a small fraction of drug users vising the center were referred or connected to substance use treatment, city data shows. The word “linkage” was recently dropped from the center’s name.
    “My son told me when he first went to the Linkage Center, he couldn’t believe that people were using and selling inside,” Berlinn said.
    “So he’s in bondage to this,” she continued. “We’ve tried to get him well, but because San Francisco makes it so hard to get off of these drugs, and they’re always right there in your face, even in the Linkage Center, even in the places where you go to get help, it’s really, really difficult.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-bay-area-mother-fentanyl-user-warns-city-enabling-sons-drug-use
    😉

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  4. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “For the last six years the Left has had a leader, his supposed omnipotence equal to that of Hitler, Mao, Castro, and Stalin, one to whom all attention must be paid.” This is Trump, because the Left “couldn’t find anyone on the bench to send in, so they chose the rival team’s most powerful player and instructed the faithful that it was opposite day.”
    -David Mamet

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Gregory@6:51AM
    hah, that’s a good quote. You can certainly see it on these pages. It’s an overused comparison, but it seems like Trump is primarily an Emmanuel Goldstein character since what is needed is not policies or philosophy to be against, but a person.
    re: DonB@8:09PM Police chiefs vs. the (often Soros-appointed) legal chiefs in their cities.
    Maybe it’s just that police chiefs haven’t got with the program. If the Left is going to produce a generation of mentally-ill children, perhaps the answer is a Legion of Social Workers. The cops need to be trained at one of those bad-kid schools where the inmates are allowed to hit the staff but not the reverse. The other angle is the use of crime as a form of reparation payment, keep all that you can steal, urban drug flow as a form of alternate economy.

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 04 June 2022 at 07:14 AM
    If the Left is going to produce a generation of mentally-ill children, perhaps the answer is a Legion of Social Workers.
    Hard pass! The various and sundry social workers who I’ve brushed up against socially (….ex wife and family thought social workers were going to save humanity) seemed as a group as screwed up mentally as those they would save. The one or two who didn’t come across as batshit crazy to coin a Frischism wore their doublethink like chain mail! Probably the only way they could get through the day!

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  7. psfish Avatar
    psfish

    Hoot of the Day: Biden Plans to Pay Down National Debt, Tackle Inflation
    Yeah…..I remember when whoppers like this would send psul into a frothing, spittle flecked rage.
    Good times….good times indeed!
    https://mishtalk.com/economics/hoot-of-the-day-biden-plans-to-pay-down-national-debt-tackle-inflation

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Hapless Joe
    ” U.S. President Joe Biden compared Tesla (TSLA.O) unfavorably to Ford (F.N) on Friday, while sarcastically wishing Chief Executive Elon Musk “lots of luck” on his “trip to the moon” after the billionaire expressed reservations about the economy.”
    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-wishes-elon-musk-luck-trip-moon-after-job-cut-remark-2022-06-03/
    Nothing looks better on the ‘President’ than mocking the accomplishments of SpaceX.
    What a complete ass that man is.

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  9. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 04 June 2022 at 08:03 AM
    What a complete ass that man is.
    …..sigh….
    If only there had only been signs over his nearly half century tenure. Anything at all to let Americans know what a towering, grifting mediocrity Joseph Robinette Biden was. Just one tiny….one nearly imperceptible indication or clue might have saved the United States from this embarrassing saga.
    Fortunately the legacy media has been watching him like a hawk!

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Your injustice of the day…..

    Canada’s fake ‘Indigenous’ professor resigns

    Whitey, it seems, never tires of keeping the brown man (and woman) down!
    https://www.thecollegefix.com/canadian-fake-indigenous-professor-resigns-from-public-university/

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: fish@8:20AM
    That’s just more transracephobia at work.
    I just love the fairy dust and unicorn tears that surround these people.
    https://diversitycan.com/web/Article.aspx?id=Dr-Carrie-Bourassa-assumes-the-ositio-of-Scietific-Director-of-the-CIHR-Istitute-of-Aborigial-eoles-Health-2455&type=tops
    I did find her thesis. What is she a ‘doctor’ of you might ask.
    “Special Case Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Social Studies,”
    It seems to me that this merely proves how rich our culture is. We are able to support, in a certain style, people who produce nothing of value.

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Maybe 9 years ago my bro was sent by his employer (a satellite manufacturer) to SpaceEx to evaluate their claim to having a viable design for a launch platform.
    Not being easily impressed, he reported back after a long day of talking to them that they’d not be meeting their timetables but they had real engineering going on and he thought they’d become a major player.
    They did and they are.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 04 June 2022 at 09:03 AM
    “Special Case Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Social Studies,”
    It seems to me that this merely proves how rich our culture is. We are able to support, in a certain style, people who produce nothing of value.
    Yes….sufficient excess economic value to allow Ms. Bourassa to fuck off on everybody else dime….. while wearing her colorful native attire.

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 04 June 2022 at 10:18 AM
    ….but they had real engineering going on and he thought they’d become a major player.
    I hope there was a close examination of Spacex and their dedication to the only true raison d’etre for NASA or dare I say any fledgling space exploration company…….muslim outreach!

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    My, what lovely Dem poetry I hear.
    ‘Overdoses Up 700% After Oregon Decriminalizes Hard Street Drugs. Officials Mystified.’
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jeff-reynolds/2022/06/03/overdoses-up-700-after-oregon-decriminalizes-hard-street-drugs-officials-mystified-n1602995

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Too true unfortunately for all of us –
    Then again, little Biden says or does makes sense from the vantage point of either policy or politics. He’s right to be rattled. He’s also clueless.
    https://freebeacon.com/columns/there-is-no-plan/
    😉

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Meanwhile, the month of June marches on. A series of vidyas from MrAndyNgo showing the state of Team Blue.
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1533206784252563458
    From January, Fauci funds studies into our most important issues.
    https://www.peta.org/blog/government-funded-hiv-experiment-monkeys-wont-help-transgender-women/
    What do you call it when 1/2 of a country is mentally ill?

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 05 June 2022 at 07:53 AM
    What do you call it when 1/2 of a country is mentally ill?
    Nevada City?

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Nevada City?”
    Good point.
    What you are likely to hear in a coffee shop there. For the full effect, first watch this without the sound.
    https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1532347722111516672

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 05 June 2022 at 08:30 AM
    …..I have to confess that because I absolutely refuse to jump and scamper when the wrinkliest teenaged girl tell me to follow a link but because it’s you I did exactly as suggested! It all looked so civilized and reasonable when silent.
    It’s indicative of a society in terminal decline…..
    The Cooke’s Cheryl and Jensen’s M. who haunt the comment section of the Penneysaver of the Pines are not going to be happy with what comes after!

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  21. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “It all looked so civilized and reasonable when silent.”
    I love the condescending smile from the women when she’s talking absolute bollocks.

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  22. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    QOTD:
    “Who am I to talk, I’m just a straight white guy. In other words, I’m the worst. All people who look like me did was create things that are useful, allow people to live longer, and make life better. Gross.”

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 8:30 am—from comments on your Matt Walsh blog.
    “Kyle Rittenhouse is alive today because of an AR-15.”
    —————————————-
    Gregory @ Saturday am.
    ‘Confronting Conformity and Collectivism with David Mamet’
    https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/31/confronting-conformity-and-collectivism-with-david-mamet/
    ——————
    PS: I have seen some Libertarian memes lately! The Libertarians are finally finallyfighting back against the Left. The Dems have been dissing on them since Obama said, “You did not build that.” Fight on!

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  24. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Been thinkin’ about what to do (if anything) about the Parkland/Uvalde/Buffalo shooters. Eighteen year olds who hadn’t had the time to establish a pattern that could flag them as a bad bet under the Constitution to have a gun.
    What about, you can’t buy an ugly (black rifle) or concealable gun until you’re a high school graduate or admitted to college or accepted into the armed forces, or until your 21st b’day?

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    That’s a tiny step n the right direction.

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  26. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Gregory: “What about, you can’t buy an ugly (black rifle) or concealable gun until you’re a high school graduate or admitted to college or accepted into the armed forces, or until your 21st b’day?”
    Sounds like a good rule for voting or drinking. Probably best just to make it for all firearms since they’re largely equivalent. Consider it the price of full citizenship.
    Psul: “That’s a tiny step n the right direction.”
    lol. Those ratchets are funny things. They only turn one direction.
    How about we go for Gregory’s rule, but you can buy a suppressor over the counter (like any European can)?

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  27. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy 1109a
    It’s as big a step as I’ll make, and if schools and police were doing their jobs better, it probably wouldn’t be an issue.
    The Parkland shooter was ‘visited’ by the police something like 70 times and didn’t get busted for a felony because they were following the advice of Obama’s Secy of Education to break the pipeline to prison.
    Either go to school seriously or go into the armed forces. Otherwise, be thankful you can get a bolt or lever action centerfire rifle to shoot food with.

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  28. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Gregory: “It’s as big a step as I’ll make, and if schools and police were doing their jobs better, it probably wouldn’t be an issue.”
    David Cole gives a handy list on Taki’s Magazine for such things. High efficiency erupts by simply using the reason number.
    “(1) Guns: The favored “why” among leftists. If only we had stricter, European-style gun laws, these things wouldn’t keep happening!
    (2) Broken families: With so much divorce and single parenthood, what else do you expect but mass shootings?
    (3) Untreated mental illness: If only we could lock up the loons, we’d be safe.
    (4) Overtreated mental illness: Thanks to Big Pharma, parents warp their kids’ minds with unnecessary meds.
    (5) Media: Violent vidja games! Violent movies! 4Chan! And the evening news, which glorifies shooters and creates copycats.
    (6) Fail male: “Society” is failing our boys. Our villages no longer raise up men!
    (7) Failed safeguards: Schools unguarded, tips unheeded.”
    https://www.takimag.com/article/new-shooter-new-shooter-new-shooter/

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  29. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Regarding lever action rifles… they be weapons of war in exactly the same way as an M16, Springfield ’06 or a Pennsylvania/Kentucky longrifle is: they’ve killed people in battles between opposing armies. Same crap, different millennium.
    And no one now is showing up for service with an AR-15 or an AR-10.
    That said, all I want for Xmas besides my two front teeth is an AR-15 in 6.5mm Grendel with a 20″ barrel.and

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    @1029 & ponytail of ignorance –
    The 9th circuit recently ruled that unconstitutional.
    😉

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  31. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    db 1209p
    A 9th Circus ruling is not a good bet to survive, but I am hoping their large cap magazine ruling will be overturned by the Supremes.

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Then you have this quandary –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/05/california-no-1-gun-control-no-1-active-shooter-incidents/
    😉

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    scenes writes:
    ” you can buy a suppressor over the counter (like any European can)”
    Can you elaborate on that or possibly provide a link? I am not familiar with that.

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  34. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paul Emery@12:33PM
    Obviously the various countries can differ.
    https://www.alloutdoor.com/2017/03/15/silencers-easy-get-uk-american-tourist-brings-home-goes-prison/
    https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/01/09/sweden-make-sound-suppressors-license-free/
    https://www.northwestfirearms.com/threads/countries-that-allow-suppressors.254205/
    It’s a no-brainer as gun ranges and housing get closer.

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  35. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy don’t care if shooters go deaf which is what suppressors help eliminate.
    Too many folk (including Punch?) think “silencers” actually make gunshots all but silent.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Too many folk (including Punch?) think “silencers” actually make gunshots all but silent. ”
    I think it’s the movies mostly. Pewpewpewpewpewpew.
    It’s odd that the Great State of California you end up with:
    “33410 Any person, firm, or corporation who within this state possesses a silencer is guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 or by a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.”
    Maybe it’s just that ‘gotta do sumthin’ about it’ role that government likes to play when it laminates another and another and another rule for everyone.
    Guns will be abolished in California simply from the sheer exhaustion of everyone trying to figure out what’s legal about what they are doing.
    Just wait until more-intelligent cars keep a better eye on you. There’s lots of potential law crafting there.

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  37. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “What you fail to realize is that, contrary to the Republican propaganda, consumers themselves are, in large measure, to blame for inflation. They have continued to spend, and drive, regardless of price.”
    Rich Howell, a couple of hours ago, at The Union
    And to think Milton Friedman died for your economic sins.

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    gunz 2:
    OTOH, I can’t see how anything besides high fences and extremely authoritarian governments that will fix any of this. (insert handwaving about lack of fathers here)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUQGiquHPgs
    (good channel. CharlieBo313 goes there so you don’t have to.)
    Gregory@1:31PM
    What an odd thing for someone to say. To what extent the whole situation is massive nonproductive infusion of cash vs. restrictions at various stages of supply is not clear to me, but the fault of policy makers is more clear than usual. I guess that an extremely partisan person can always extract some weird blame theory to nudge an upcoming election.

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  39. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    scenes:
    Since you applaud the apparent ease at which silencers or suppressors can be purchased in Europe do you also support their other laws concerning the possession and ownership of hand guns and and semi automatic rifles such as AR-15’s?

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Oh great ponytail of ignorance they don’t have the second amendment DUH
    😉

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  41. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Scenes 147p
    The Chicago compilation reminded me of a fellow USR engineer who came to the GV orifice one March long ago… ’94 maybe?
    Doing a pub crawl after a long day, we left Mad Dogs under our own power (it was my favorite at the time) and Mike looked at where we were going (behind The National) and he wasn’t buying it. Every ounce of his Chicago being told him he was walking towards Certain Death. Literally shaking. Would have been fun if he hadn’t been scared nearly to death.
    Mad Dogs (and Englishmen) was a great place, down to the dartboard and “Englishmen drink warm beer because they own Lucas refrigerators” and “Every part falling off this automobile is of the finest British manufacture” notices.

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  42. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “do you also support their other laws concerning the possession and ownership of hand guns and and semi automatic rifles such as AR-15’s? ”
    No, although the laws differ by country. There’s also less free speech rights there. Is that a good thing?
    If Swedes don’t care if you buy a suppressor, why should California? At least in the freer parts of the US, a $200 tag and a bit of time allows you to buy one.
    Not that you can’t roll yer own.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71UJIByCv8g

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  43. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punch 155p
    We have the 2A because of the pomme bastards.

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  44. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lol. Check this out. Never heard of this one.
    https://scatteredshots.com/2022/03/04/atf-unofficially-declares-solvent-traps-to-be-suppressors/

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  45. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: suppressors.
    Just poking around a bit and ran into this.
    It’s Weird Exotica Sunday.
    https://i.redd.it/3pguqp9guf391.jpg

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  46. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    re silencers – apparently it’s really not a necessary thing to have when some one needs to start shooting:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1l9UujYal8
    and
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roQ-ObzbDxU
    Notice the curious lack of MAGA hats and NRA stickers.
    Perhaps Psul can explain.
    It’s the Amish.
    Again.

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  47. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    And re Rich Howell in the Union. He is a prolific left wing party parrot.
    Perhaps someone could ask him why when Trump was POTUS and the economy was booming and gas was far cheaper – “They have continued to spend, and drive, regardless of price.”
    Those terrible awful price gouging oil barons.
    That failed to gouge when Trump was POTUS but waited until a Dem was in office just so they could cause problems.
    Perhaps that Psul chap could explain.

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  48. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    God forbid creepy grampa joe and the socialist greens take the handcuffs off our domestic production and stop discouraging banks from investing. For the record our oil is massively cleaner than Venezuela’s. –
    The U.S. will reportedly resume allowing Venezuelan oil to flow to Europe, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
    The outlet on Sunday reported that Eni SpA and Repsol SA, which are Italian and Spanish respectively, could ship Venezuelan oil to Europe as early as next month after the Biden administration authorized the plan last month.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-allow-venezuelan-oil-shipped-205111291.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
    😉

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  49. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another spawn of soros being recalled for good cause –
    California teen who rammed car into mother and infant child was on probation at time of incident
    The Los Angeles teenager was on probation at the time of incident with the mother and child for allegedly spiking a girl’s drink in 2019
    The statement added that juvenile justice is intended to “rehabilitate young people.”
    “In this case, this teen will be held accountable for his actions and receive the needed services to foster positive development to keep him from committing future offenses,” the statement read.
    On Saturday, Gascon’s office corrected their initial statement, saying that the sheriff’s office was not involved in the charging decision.
    LOS ANGELES DA GASCON’S OFFICE LANDS 5-MONTH PROBATION CAMP SENTENCE FOR TEEN WHO MOWED DOWN MOM AND INFANT
    “We were never consulted as we were not the investigating agency,” the Los Angeles official wrote on Facebook and Twitter early Saturday. “Sheriff’s investigators would never be OK with the lightweight sentencing in this hit-and-run case. Stop empowering and encouraging criminal behavior. Hold them accountable #VictimsMatter.”
    Jon Hatami, Los Angeles deputy district attorney, told Fox News that it looks “very negligent” that the public is just now learning from Gascon’s office that the teenager was on probation at the time of the hit-and-run.
    “As a district attorney, you have an obligation to be transparent,” Hatami said.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-teen-rammed-car-mother-child-probation
    😉

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  50. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “The U.S. will reportedly resume allowing Venezuelan oil to flow to Europe, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.”
    Gotta love the word ‘allowing’ in there.
    Now for something completely different. There’s a lot to like in this article:
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/asylum-seekers-overwhelm-shelters-portland-maine

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