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especially for the bootleggers and their clients, they're getting away with murder. But for dumb luck and statistics, it's not really a story.

Pretty sad, the weak reaction to this man.

Says more than the actual action, or the man.

Did anybody watch the admin's shtick? You're not gonna ask me to post a Twitter link, are you? Besides, it could be a deep fake... You know the routine, can't trust anything.

But to tell the truth, I found the utter insanity and incompetence absolutely incredible. Very close to true idiocracy.... If the video is for real.

Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings

A group of US senators, including the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, received a classified briefing Wednesday about a series of reported encounters by the US Navy with unidentified aircraft, according to a congressional aide.

"If pilots at Oceana or elsewhere are reporting flight hazards that interfere with training or put them at risk, then Senator Warner wants answers. It doesn't matter if it's weather balloons, little green men, or something else entirely — we can't ask our pilots to put their lives at risk unnecessarily," Rachel Cohen, the spokeswoman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, told CNN.

The briefing was first reported by Politico.

President Donald Trump recently confirmed that he was also briefed on reports of Navy pilots spotting unidentified flying objects. "I did have one very brief meeting on it," Trump told ABC News in an interview that aired Sunday. "But people are saying they're seeing UFO's, do I believe it? Not particularly."

‘We’re watching’: Trump stokes UFO rumors during ABC News interview

Asked if he would be told if extraterrestrial life was found, Trump said: “We’re watching, and you’ll be the first to know.”

[...] On Thursday, UFO speculation hit Kansas City after several people said two mysterious, white, hazy and elongated “orbs” had appeared above the city’s airport. A local TV station tweeted a series of photographs of the purported mysterious objects. “We’ve taken several calls in our newsroom about these two orbs spotted in the Kansas City sky tonight,” KMBC said. “This picture was taken near KCI Airport.”

The National Weather Service declared itself flummoxed. “We honestly have no explanation for the floating objects over Kansas City,” it wrote.

Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home, sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye
Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles await you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling, do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye
Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home, sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye

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Bonus Track: Her Majesty
Her majesty's a pretty nice girl
But she doesn't have a lot to say
Her majesty's a pretty nice girl
But she changes from day to day
I wanna tell her that I love her a lot but I gotta get a belly full of wine
Her majesty's a pretty nice girl
Someday I'm gonna make her mine
Oh yeah
Someday I'm gonna make her mine

get off me... get out of my flat

get off my fucking laptop

You just don’t care for anything because you’re spoilt. You have no care for money or anything.

Navy SEAL War Crimes Witness Says He Was the Killer

In stunning testimony that may upend the war crimes trial of Chief Edward Gallagher of the Navy SEALs, a SEAL medic told the court on Thursday that he — not the chief — had killed a wounded captive in Iraq.

The medic, Special Operator First Class Corey Scott, testified that he watched Chief Gallagher stab the prisoner, a teenage ISIS fighter, in the neck, but that the stab wound did not appear to be life-threatening. After the chief walked away, Special Operator Scott told the court, he pressed his thumb over the captive’s breathing tube until he died.

“I knew he was going to die anyway, and wanted to save him from waking up to whatever would have happened to him,” Special Operator Scott said, adding that he had seen other captives tortured and killed by Iraqi forces.

He testified after being granted immunity from criminal prosecution for the events and actions that he would discuss on the stand. A Navy official said that he could still face nonjudicial punishment, including being dropped from the SEALs or discharged from the Navy entirely.

Did he do it, or is he just exploiting immunity to try to be a lightly punished fall guy?

Never heard of it, but I'm still in favor of that same-sex marriage deal.
Then it's settled.
We'll legalize gay money-- I mean, uh, gay marriage.

Let's have Refugee Chic...

Und Der Migrant

Damn! Are we gassing and incinerating 2000 people every hour down there?

See this screen grab from the Hacker News site.

If you can't read it, it is page 3, containing two adjacent news items:

65. Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX eperience for the F22
66. The New York couple donating millions to the anti-vax movement

Coincidence that these items are adjacent?

Or some evil alien conspiracy?

AMD’s “special binning” the 16-core Ryzen 3950X to make it “your best gaming part”

It would be interesting to see an 8-core, 2 chiplet Ryzen. 4 working cores on each, up to 4 completely broken. Select the 4 best cores, pump up the clocks. Gamers will probably prefer that over 12 or 16 cores.

AMD EPYC Rome Specs Leak: From 8 Cores Up to 64 Cores

Supposedly, Intel's Ice Lake (mobile) will own AMD:

Intel Ice Lake benchmarked - i7 performs better with lower TDP than Ryzen 7 3750H-APU

Intel Core i7-1065G7 – 10nm Ice Lake Incoming, Surpasses AMD’s 12nm Picasso Ryzen 7 3750H in Latest CPU Benchmarks