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In breaking news out of Czech Republic:
Foreign Minister Jan Hamáček has expelled all diplomats who were identified as members of the Russian secret services. It is about 18 people.
Hamáček informed the Russian ambassador about this.
Czech Prime Minister Babiš stated that he informed President Miloš Zeman about the findings of the Czech secret services.
The explosions in the ammunition areas in Vrbětice took place in October and December 2014.
Hamáček wanted to fly to Russia on Monday, where he wanted to negotiate a vaccine against covid-19. It has not yet been approved in EU countries.
Original, in Czech: novinky.cz
In 2014, two ammunition depots near the small town of Vrbětice exploded; the Czech intelligence services believe that the Russian GRU had a hand in these incidents, which is why 18 Russian Embassy staff, who were identified by Czech military intelligence as GRU operatives, were expelled today.
re: #2 Dr Lizardo
I should add that the case made by the BIS (Czech intelligence, similar to the American NSA) is pretty straightforward and iron-clad.
The Russians committed an act of international terrorism on Czech soil, which resulted in the deaths of two people. Now as far as I’m concerned, I think that’s enough to get Russia labeled as a “state sponsor of terrorism” by the US Department of State….and all that listing entails.
re: #1 marcusgorillius
Seen on a wall in France nique la police! Eeew, do I have to?
THREAD 1) The ill-gotten money Falwell Senior and Pat Matrisciana received from Falwell’s gullible flock from the phony & expensive Clinton Chronicles tapes (along w/ a “loan” from cult leader Sun Myung Moon) got @LibertyU out of debt. https://t.co/DQuy2QNQ9Q
— Museum of Weird & Demented Religious Tracts (@WeirdTracts) April 17, 2021
Stuart’s time machine:
The photo below was taken 173 years ago on Kennington Common, south London. It shows a Chartist meeting on Monday 10th April 1848 taken by William Edward Kilburn. I’ve cleaned & enhanced it and, for purists, included both a monochrome copy & the original daguerreotype pic.twitter.com/WZghwnefTa
— BabelColour 🎞 (@StuartHumphryes) April 17, 2021
re: #4 Dr Lizardo
I should add that the case made by the BIS (Czech intelligence, similar to the American NSA) is pretty straightforward and iron-clad.
The Russians committed an act of international terrorism on Czech soil, which resulted in the deaths of two people. Now as far as I’m concerned, I think that’s enough to get Russia labeled as a “state sponsor of terrorism” by the US Department of State….and all that listing entails.
“Iron-clad” case or not, why did it take (apparently) seven years to finally fix the blame on the Russians?
Is he in jail yet? https://t.co/rEiUHZfpWD
— gregarious. (@mistergeezy) April 17, 2021
re: #9 Jay C
“Iron-clad” case or not, why did it take (apparently) seven years to finally fix the blame on the Russians?
The Czech BIS long-suspected the GRU was behind it - the break came in the last few weeks, owing to SIGINT. Rumor (one of those “we can neither confirm or deny” rumors, mind you) is that the cyberwarfare unit of Czech military intelligence managed to successfully gain access to Russian intel.
Mueller couldn’t nail down the link between Trump’s campaign manager and the Kremlin during the 2016 campaign, but now it’s complete. Really good @qjurecic explanation: https://t.co/sSiWXZE5cw
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) April 17, 2021
“… The Kilimnik revelations aren’t an argument for refocusing American anxiety over election interference back to the threat posed by foreign actors. But they are another reminder that after 2016 and 2020, and in a political environment in which 78 percent of Republicans still believe Biden did not legitimately win the election, the guardrails that previously constrained what political candidates would do in order to win—lie, cheat, overturn the vote outright—have been shattered. There is a danger that another Kilimnik will, in 2024, reach out to another politician’s campaign to offer foreign support. The greater danger by far, though, is that the new campaign will be all too eager to listen.”
The awesome Australian green tree python.
(Photo: @JodiRowley) pic.twitter.com/VSQGh9vUTr— Strange Animals (@StrangeAnimaIs) April 17, 2021
what was going on in your life that you were planning an entire Saturday around a visit to Burger King.
Was this before or after you accidentally did PCP and ended up in Kenya? https://t.co/2UyJ64TukZ— ⚓️🚢Imani Gandy 🚢⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) April 17, 2021
Asshole.
Actor Jim Caviezel appeared at a right-wing COVID conspiracy theorist conference yesterday and promoted the QAnon blood-harvesting conspiracy theory (https://t.co/9RgU0ORDVI) about “the adrenochroming of children.” (clip 1/2) pic.twitter.com/JZWxpFbjFY
— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) April 17, 2021
My favorite “Anglo-Saxon political tradition” is when they got their ass kicked by the French.
Where’s William the Conqueror when you need him? pic.twitter.com/xftEvuY4Cx— foone (@Foone) April 17, 2021
re: #7 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Stuart’s time machine:
I even know what Chartists are; they had a subplot in BBC’s Victoria.
Shocking that the star of Passion of the Christ would be pushing a blood libel conspiracy.
— Pé (@4everNeverTrump) April 17, 2021
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wait. Burger King serves BEER?
— Karl Groucho Marx (@bruisedpristin1) April 17, 2021
yep…exactly my question
Reporter: Why not try to pass a more limited gun bill?
Jen Psaki: Why won’t Republicans vote for universal background checks, which 80% of the public supports? pic.twitter.com/iNJyTsSiYS— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 17, 2021
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
I love this messaging. Consistently, it’s, “We’re putting forward things that have broad support among voters. If Republicans don’t want to vote for it, that’s their own problem.”
re: #17 🌹UOJB!
Asshole.
It’s depressing when an actor whose work I like shows himself to be a person I wouldn’t like.
(he was really good in Person of Interest. Starring along with Taraji P. Henson, Kevin Chapman, Michael Emerson, Amy Acker, Sarah Shahi and a Belgian Malinois).
re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wait, Burger King serves beer?
yep…exactly my question
it does in France. So does Mcdonald’s.
re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth
Highlander:
Terrance Coventry: You thieving French whore.
Amanda Deveraux: I’m not French.
(Amanda was born 820 AD in Normandy.)
Hummer hanging out on the water feature I built. (large ceramic pot, 178gph pump, second pot underneath).file:///home/sean/Pictures/hummer.jpg pic.twitter.com/sskcm3Xel2
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 17, 2021
Flew over the capitol on my birthday. Now flies over my yard salmon. pic.twitter.com/WPpqiyKPPM
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 17, 2021
And yes, you’re goddamn right my Xmas lights are still up.
re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
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yep…exactly my question
Looks like it’s an NYC only thing:
Ready or not, Burger Kings serving booze are opening in New York, as a new Manhattan Burger King vies for a liquor license. DNAinfo reports that Burger King franchisee Rackson Restaurants LLC approached its Community Board in hopes of adding beer to the menu at the 474 Seventh Avenue location in the Garment District.
re: #25 John Hughes
(But it is really shitty beer)
LOL! “She didn’t approve that language and has no plans to launch anything.”https://t.co/jUMj86dEcT
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 17, 2021
re: #12 jaunte
From the Tweet:
“…Mueller couldn’t nail down the link between Trump’s campaign manager and the Kremlin during the 2016 campaign,
Mueller couldn’t nail it down because he didn’t want to.
Republicans put party first, always. Mueller is a Republican. This math is not hard.
re: #31 Mattand
From the Tweet:
Mueller couldn’t nail it down because he didn’t want to.
Republicans put party first, always. Mueller is a Republican. This math is not hard.
Wasn’t Mueller boxed in on what he could investigate? Weren’t requests to the intelligence agencies buried due to obstruction by Trump appointees, such as Bill Barr?
re: #30 Charles Johnson
Translation: “I’ve been caught and the public pushback is such that I’m going to deny everything while quietly reworking the idea for use later.”
LOL…. No.
And I connected virtually with the Southwest Council of Agribusiness to discuss ways to work together to help Texas’ agriculture community recover from the winter storms and receive the federal support they need. pic.twitter.com/2HAYsSNHRO
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) April 17, 2021
re: #24 sagehen
It’s depressing when an actor whose work I like shows himself to be a person I wouldn’t like.
love the art, not the artist.
It’s hard, but it’s the only sane way to go.
re: #34 Dave In Austin
Ted… Tell them to call us directly, you can just fuck off.
re: #31 Mattand
From the Tweet:
Mueller couldn’t nail it down because he didn’t want to.
Republicans put party first, always. Mueller is a Republican. This math is not hard.
Mueller didn’t have access to materials the Trump admin wanted kept hidden.
re: #34 Dave In Austin
Macs have a built in camera so why is Ted using an attachment.
re: #39 sagehen
Only a pitch black room would help him.
Judd Legum of Popular Information has his latest newsletter out.
What we learned from the first major FEC deadline after the insurrection
What I learned is as follows:
Hey @Toyota I learned from @JuddLegum that you sent $1,000 to Rep. Andy Biggs on 2/26 & 3/8. He’s my rep & he tried to disenfranchise me and 3 million other Arizonans on Jan. 6. Obviously you don’t care about his seditious behavior so I won’t consider a Toyota for my next car.
— Dee “That Shrew” Holmes (@mmmirele) April 17, 2021
I swear, Toyota USA must be braindead and stupid. And yes, my vehicle is getting a little long in the tooth, so not quite in the market for a new car, but not going to buy a Toyota if they’re going to fund an insurrectionist.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
Greene suggested in her tweets she plans to move forward with advocating for former President Donald Trump’s America First agenda.
Same seditious bilge, just slightly less vocally Anglo-Saxon.
One of my friends sent this to me after I whinged about my morning.
When you accidentally deploy your new feature on a Friday but then didn’t cause any service issues. pic.twitter.com/NVrAP1rX01
— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) April 16, 2021
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
what was going on in your life that you were planning an entire Saturday around a visit to Burger King.
I seem to recall back in Gary, Indiana, that a High School Friday/Saturday night’s activity involved driving back and forth between the Burger King at 35th and Broadway and the MacDonald’s at 52nd and Broadway and hanging out in the parking lot(s)
YET ANOTHER FUCKING SHOOTING…
One person was hospitalized with critical injuries after a shooting at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, according to police https://t.co/eqiKbEoAEc
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 17, 2021
re: #45 🌹UOJB!
YET ANOTHER FUCKING SHOOTING…
That’s okay though, this one’s not a mass shooting because it was just one person.///
re: #46 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
That’s okay though, this one’s not a mass shooting because it was just one person.///
really, surprised it was even reported on national news
re: #44 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
what was going on in your life that you were planning an entire Saturday around a visit to Burger King.
I seem to recall back in Gary, Indiana, that a High School Friday/Saturday night’s activity involved driving back and forth between the Burger King at 35th and Broadway and the MacDonald’s at 52nd and Broadway and hanging out in the parking lot(s)
In Bumfuck, Indiana, I spent my Sunday nights at the local Pizza Hut with the teenagers, and that was the highlight of my week.
Another stern test for my opposition to the death penalty, though 3 years in jail, confiscation of assets, and a lifetime ban on firearms ownership would be in order.
The victim’s name was Taco. Taco was tagged and chipped and belonged to a neighbor. The chicken molester, his son and three dogs reportedly cornered Taco in the backyard, beat him with a bat, shot him, and threw his body into a dumpster. The son, surely a cow-chip off the old blockhead, was arrested when he blurted out, “I didn’t shoot the cat, I was the one with the bat.”
North Las Vegas Chick-fil-A operator accused of shooting, killing cat
re: #48 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
In Bumfuck, Indiana, I spent my Sunday nights at the local Pizza Hut with the teenagers, and that was the highlight of my week.
Later we used to drive down to Terre Haute because the Pizza Hut there would serve us beer without carding us.
re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And in PA some restrictions have been lifted such as I can now buy wine in my local supermarket.
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re: #47 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
really, surprised it was even reported on national news
Maybe the only way forward is to report every shooting as attack on American forces.
In 2019 15,208 Americans were killed by enemies of the USA
re: #51 PhillyPretzel
And in PA some restrictions have been lifted such as I can now buy wine in my local supermarket.
I was absolutely freaked out by the idea that I couldn’t buy wine in a supermarket in the burbs of DC (can’t remember what state it was), spent a whole hour wandering around looking for the wine.
Later on found where the wine shop was, not so far away, but the idea that a huge supermarket like that didn’t sell wine freaked me out.
re: #54 John Hughes
In Ontario, Canada, wine and liquor can only be purchased at government run retail stores.
Facebook ads are sometimes the best. pic.twitter.com/VCOXlU8PTL
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 17, 2021
re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg
In Virginia, it’s beer and wine everywhere, but liquior is only in state run stores.
re: #56 darthstar
If they’re weiner dog lovers.
In the winter, we used to party in an old milk tanker.
re: #57 dharmamark
Virginia still has dry counties.
re: #57 dharmamark
In Virginia, it’s beer and wine everywhere, but liquior is only in state run stores.
When I was in college I went to the town bar in the hometown of my Minnesota college friend. It was literally the “town” bar - a “muni” owned and operated by the town. Bartender was the town librarian.
re: #63 dharmamark
Many states have counties dry, and then others have beer only for sale. The only way you drink liquor in an establishment is a club. You join, bring your bottles, and have someone serve you.
I was in counties in a few states where shine was the choice.
re: #64 nines09
They sell Shine in the ABC stores here. One of the dudes from TV’s Moonshiners is from VA and went legit.
re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter
Wasn’t Mueller boxed in on what he could investigate? Weren’t requests to the intelligence agencies buried due to obstruction by Trump appointees, such as Bill Barr?
Grenell is in deep.
For someone who spends a lot of time mining Twitter, your silence is deafening @RichardGrenell. I’ll draw from it an adverse inference that you did cover up intelligence that Kilimnik gave sensitive polling data to Russian intelligence, which Mueller said he could not prove. https://t.co/IQluhk1dcI
— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) April 16, 2021
re: #61 nines09
Virginia still has dry counties.
Had a solo business trip to Salt Lake City in the early 2000’s and went down to the hotel restaurant and ordered a burger and a beer. The waitress informed me that only private clubs could serve alcohol and that I’d have to join the club and pay club fees if I wanted a beer. She produced the paperwork, informed me that the club fee was coincidently the same as the cost of a beer. And, as a perk of being a new member, the first beer would be free.
I had a porter from Polygamy Beer. Slogan at the time: “Why only have one?”
re: #65 dharmamark
Na. Real shine pays no taxes. Thus revenuers.
re: #49 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Another stern test for my opposition to the death penalty, though 3 years in jail, confiscation of assets, and a lifetime ban on firearms ownership would be in order.
The victim’s name was Taco. Taco was tagged and chipped and belonged to a neighbor. The chicken molester, his son and three dogs reportedly cornered Taco in the backyard, beat him with a bat, shot him, and threw his body into a dumpster. The son, surely a cow-chip off the old blockhead, was arrested when he blurted out, “I didn’t shoot the cat, I was the one with the bat.”
North Las Vegas Chick-fil-A operator accused of shooting, killing cat
Did he kill the cat on a Sunday?
Twitter thread on the Czech situation:
So in 2014 the GRU blew up Czech military ammunition destined, via a Bulgarian arms dealer, for Ukraine. Then it twice tried to murder the Bulgarian with a nerve agent, first in Sofia, then on the Bulgarian coast. The puzzle pieces finally fall into place. https://t.co/v2B4CN1J49
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) April 17, 2021
re: #34 Dave In Austin
Seeing Sen. Asshole with his attached webcam is prompting me to put a tech-support question out to the Lizardariat.
The built-in camera on my 2018 HP laptop has ceased functioning (not detectable, no drivers detected, either). My first call/chat (Thurs.) was to Microsoft - with the result that while I am now running the latest build of W10* (with extraordinarily little improvement, AFAIC), the camera is still dead.
My second call/chat was to HP: and again, after several hours of diagnosis, no joy.
Both sets of techs could only recommend a major reinstallation of the OS (possibly losing data/apps). So my choices seem to be:
A) Do reinstallation/reset on the OS. OR:
B) Spend $20 at Amazon or somewhere and get a cheap external webcam?
I’m thinking B) might be a more-useful idea, as another factor is that a couple of months ago I dropped the laptop hard enough to crack off two corners of the casing. While it seems to work fine otherwise, I can’t discount the possibility that the camera got terminally rattled.
* it occupied NINE FUCKING HOURS of my time. Don’t ask….
re: #71 Jay C
It’s most likely a hardware issue. The ribbon cables connecting those things up aren’t always the greatest. I’d go with a cheap external, if you really need a webcam.
re: #71 Jay C
Get the $20 webcam and try it. If it doesn’t work then there probably is a problem with the laptop.
re: #65 dharmamark
They sell Shine in the ABC stores here. One of the dudes from TV’s Moonshiners is from VA and went legit.
re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg
First time ever I heard of a “split” was over the bridge from NY to Ontario up by Buffalo long ago.
12 of one 12 of another.
Actually the first 12 pack come to think of it.
Then when they started brewing Miller’s High Life in Canada the laws made them put it in brown bottles.
And no. Bud and Miller brewed in Canada was not the same.
Loved the taxes though. Buy a beer and get change with pennies.
Huh?
First brew pub I visited was in Lindsay Ontario at the York. They actually took me on a tour. I was very impressed. I was a visiting celebrity from down there. In the mid 80’s.
All gone.
Nice place, Lindsay was jumping.
All gone.
You can google the spot.
re: #71 Jay C
Seeing Sen. Asshole with his attached webcam is prompting me to put a tech-support question out to the Lizardariat.
The built-in camera on my 2018 HP laptop has ceased functioning (not detectable, no drivers detected, either). My first call/chat (Thurs.) was to Microsoft - with the result that while I am now running the latest build of W10* (with extraordinarily little improvement, AFAIC), the camera is still dead.
My second call/chat was to HP: and again, after several hours of diagnosis, no joy.
Both sets of techs could only recommend a major reinstallation of the OS (possibly losing data/apps). So my choices seem to be:A) Do reinstallation/reset on the OS. OR:
B) Spend $20 at Amazon or somewhere and get a cheap external webcam?I’m thinking B) might be a more-useful idea, as another factor is that a couple of months ago I dropped the laptop hard enough to crack off two corners of the casing. While it seems to work fine otherwise, I can’t discount the possibility that the camera got terminally rattled.
* it occupied NINE FUCKING HOURS of my time. Don’t ask….
Any idea when it stopped working? A march update to windows 10 broke a bunch of generic web cams. Happened on my brothers old dell. The only thing that worked was to do a system restore to a the snapshot prior to the update and pause updates so it wouldn’t reinstall for at least a month and hope the next update fixes whatever the last one broke.
Great news: Mrs. Fish is now getting her vaccine. First Pfizer shot is Tuesday.
re: #78 danarchy
No: no idea: last use I recall (last in to log) was on NYE - so yeah, that March upgrade (which also seems to have borked Chrome) may be it.
Anyway, thanks for the replies, guys: I think I’m going to go with the cheap-external-cam solution: if it doesn’t work, I can always “upgrade”, i.e. pay more….
fish tacos pic.twitter.com/I3h93TLmEi
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) April 17, 2021
re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Would have been a very different world, but the people of England would have probably been better off under Harald Godwinson rather than William. Really close battle too, and that’s after a forced march after crushing Harald Hardrada at Stanford Bridge.
re: #43 mmmirele
One of my friends sent this to me after I whinged about my morning.
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I was wondering how that ball had that much spin to do that, but then they zoomed in a bit and I could see the bumper rails for the kids. Back in the day here they would put blow up balloon like cylinders in the gutters to keep from gutter balls.
re: #51 PhillyPretzel
And in PA some restrictions have been lifted such as I can now buy wine in my local supermarket.
On this side of the state our Country Fair and Sheetz both sell beer and wine now. I hear Walmart is pushing to be able to also. If I need to pick up some beer I will still go to the distributer I always go to, and any wine or stronger I will hit the State Store as always. It won’t change my buying habits.
re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg
In Ontario, Canada, wine and liquor can only be purchased at government run retail stores.
Here in PA liquor can only be bought by the bottle in a state run State Store. Of course you can get it by the glass in a bar.
re: #62 dat_said
When I was in college I went to the town bar in the hometown of my Minnesota college friend. It was literally the “town” bar - a “muni” owned and operated by the town. Bartender was the town librarian.
Here in my small town in NW PA our current and the previous mayor have both been my bartender at points in time.
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ...
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They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
