vxbush 6/21/2024 5:47:39 AM

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This: 

“Women are not single-issue thinkers,” declared GOP pollster and former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. “Joe Biden and the Democrats seem to only talk to women from the waist down, since abortion is the only issue Joe Biden has an edge on in the polls.” Interestingly, black and Hispanic women are less likely to care about abortion than (young) white women. Again, if there is a single issue on which women intend to vote, evidence points to that being inflation rather than abortion, as even NYT confessed. 

I am so much more than my body parts, and yet the Demorats seem to think the only thing women care about is abortion. It's insulting and infuriating to be treated in such a one-dimensional way. 

vxbush 6/21/2024 6:00:27 AM

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George Soros wants to buy Audacy, the second largest radio network in the US. It filed for bankruptcy in January, and Soros bought the company. It isn't a done deal, however. The FCC has to approve it, he's using overseas money to buy the network, and US law does not allow radio station ownership be more than 25% from foreign sources. Soros is asking for an exception. 

Audacy has such conservative talkers as Dana Loesch, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Erick Erickson on its docket, so the question then becomes: will Soros use this opportunity to squash them all? 

vxbush 6/21/2024 6:08:03 AM

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Starliner is still at the ISS, and has received another delay of 4 days before they can return. Whatever is wrong with the maneuvering thrusters is serious enough that they keep stalling. This PJMedia article has a good list of all the issues and delays: 

• May 6: Launch scrubbed due to a problematic valve on the Atlas V launch vehicle.
• May 21: Launch scrubbed when a helium leak was found on a Starliner maneuvering thruster.
• May 26: NASA is "comfortable" with the leak.
• June 1: Launch scrubbed again due to a computer problem with the Atlas V.
• June 6: Following a successful launch (finally!) four thrusters failed in orbit, resulting in a one-hour delay in docking with the ISS. The crew is set to stay on ISS for about a week, until June 13-ish.
• June 11: NASA reveals four more helium leaks.
• June 12: Starliner's return flight was delayed until June 18 due to a scheduled spacewalk, which was later called off after someone reported some kind of "spacesuit discomfort." I am not making this up.
• June 14: Return flight delayed again to June 22 so NASA could devote more time to studying Starliner thruster issues.
• June 18: Return flight delayed again to June 26 so NASA can have even more time to study all those issues.

Boeing continues to cover itself in failure, but the concern is whether the Starliner astronauts will be able to make it down to earth safely. I'm assuming part of what they're doing in this analysis is seeing if they could teach the astronauts how to fix the problem while in space. 

I rather like this line in the PJM article: "Now I'm convinced that somewhere there's a secret coven of disgruntled former Boeing employees with a Starliner voodoo doll, a stack of needles, a cauldron, various frog and newt parts, and an ancient book of spells devoted to orbital spacecraft." Although if these are engineers doing the sticking, they'll have the formulas memorized.

vxbush 6/21/2024 6:25:23 AM

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This is not normal or acceptable. I can't copy and paste an image of the tweet in the article, but here's what it says: 

"The scars that cross your chest would be regarded as the most beautiful and the ones across your arms would be proof of your resilience and strength. You would be worshiped, as any other should, because you are human." #TransYouthManifesto

JCM 6/21/2024 7:10:38 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3:

Boeing is dumpster fire currently.

There has to be a completely clean out of the c-suite.

Bring in some engineering centric exes from other aerospace companies.

Occasional Reader 6/21/2024 7:10:39 AM

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Predictable as the sunrise:

Charges dropped by Manhattan DA against Columbia Jew-hating pro-Hamas rioters

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp66d9lg60ro

Occasional Reader 6/21/2024 7:16:57 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 4:

I don’t know if the author of the Hot Airr piece is correct in the interpretation of “scars across your arm” as meaning self cutting, self harm. Not that the alternate explanation is any better. I’ve seen references to female to male “trans” having muscle tissue “harvested” from their forearms in order to make a kind of prosthetic…uh, you know what.

vxbush 6/21/2024 7:45:23 AM

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In #7 Occasional Reader said: I’ve seen references to female to male “trans” having muscle tissue “harvested” from their forearms in order to make a kind of prosthetic…uh, you know what.

I thought they used the uterus instead, turning it inside out. 

Occasional Reader 6/21/2024 8:47:19 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 8:

🤷🏻‍♂️

Kosh's Shadow 6/21/2024 9:50:00 AM

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Democrat Owner of Original Obama 'Hope' Picture Now Backs Trump

one does not wake up until he is personally bitten on the backside by problems that one thought only plagued other people. 

Allison Huynh. Huyhn is a former Democratic fundraiser and donor whose efforts pumped millions into the party. 

She is now a Trump supporter.

Huynh is so disenchanted with Biden and the new incarnation of the Democrat Party that she is dumping her left-wing memorabilia. That collection includes a rocking chair owned by none other than JFK and the original Obama "Hope" piece by Shepard Fairey. You know the one. You saw it everywhere during Obama's campaigns and reign. She says the rocker cost her $10,000 at auction, while the artwork set her back over $1 million.

It might be tempting to tell Huynh and people like her, "Too little, too late," but what she needs right now is for someone to get her a beer and a welcome packet.

Kosh's Shadow 6/21/2024 9:56:37 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 10:

Maybe she could have kept the JFK rocking chair. While JFK is revered by the Left, his policies were more in line with today's conservative Republicans.
"ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."
Dems today - to potential Democrat voters: "ask how much free stuff your country can give you to vote for us"
To everyone else - "Ask how much we can screw you if you don't go along with our program"