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[AD1184]

Quite insane thing to say. Is she presenting herself as a prophet or something?
Also, wouldn't attributing a human action to God be blasphemous?

I think acts of God are those with no human cause. Deliberately planting explosives and blowing them up is not an act of God. It seems that she does not understand her purported religion very well. Let's hope that others in the state of Georgia will denounce her as a blasphemer.

 

[nivek]

She's another Trump supported wacko...

Trump loyalist who lost Georgia governor primary with just 3.4% of the vote is refusing to admit defeat

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[nivek]

 

[nivek]

I read about this yesterday, its completely unacceptable, hasn't Biden caused enough damage already, now he's giving our oil to China?...China can get its own oil...

GOP hammers Biden for allowing emergency oil reserves to go to China: 'compromising our energy security'

The top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee says Americans 'deserve answers' on China receiving oil from U.S. stockpiles.

More than five million barrels of oil released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) have been diverted to European and Asian nations instead of U.S. refiners, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing customs data.

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[wwkirk]

Former Prime Minister of Japan Assassinated!
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assassinated during campaign speech, hospital officials confirm
From Wikipedia

Tetsuya Yamagami, a 41-year-old man from Nara City and a former member of the Maritime Self-Defense Force from 2002 to 2005, was arrested by Nara Prefectural Police at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder and was transferred to the Nara West Police Station. He was described as being calm and making no attempts to flee. Yamagami told investigators that he was dissatisfied with the former prime minister and intended to kill him.

News Report

The actual first shot:

 

[wwkirk]

Former Prime Minister of Japan Assassinated!
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assassinated during campaign speech, hospital officials confirm
From Wikipedia

News Report

The actual first shot:

Taking down the assassin.

 

[nivek]

Woke NPR is slammed for 'tasteless' tweet calling ex-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a 'divisive arch-conservative' just hours after he was assassinated during walk



Conservatives are slamming NPR on Twitter after the news outlet referred to the late ex-Japanese Prime Minister as a 'divisive arch-conservative' while reporting on his death. Shinzo Abe, 76, died on Friday after being shot multiple times during his campaign speech. Abe was loved by many conservatives in the U.S. for his values.

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[nivek]

Biden has ANOTHER Ron Burgundy moment: President, 79, reads directly from prompter saying 'end of quote, repeat the line' (but White House claims he was meant to)

Republican strategist Greg Price mocked Biden on Twitter Friday after yet another gaffe in which the president appeared to read speaking directions off of his teleprompter. 'It is noteworthy that the percentage of women who register to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of the men who do so. End of quote. Repeat the line,' the president said during a White House speech earlier in the day. Posting the clip on social media, Price compared it to Will Farrell's Ron Burgundy being unable to deviate from the script on his teleprompter despite grammatical mistakes and obvious errors.

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[nivek]

Sunak declares bid to replace Boris with a VERY slick video and 'Ready For Rishi' slogan as he promises to 'restore trust' - three days after he quit as Chancellor to spark PM's downfall

Rishi Sunak has officially declared his bid to replace Boris Johnson as he promised to 'restore trust, rebuild the economy and reunite the country'. In a slick video, the ex-Chancellor today pledged his Tory leadership campaign would be based on 'patriotism, fairness and hard work'. As part of a very polished campaign launch, the 42-year-old also unveiled a website - with the slogan 'Ready For Rishi' - as he looks to make the early running in what could prove to be a bloody battle to become the next PM. Mr Sunak said: 'Our country faces huge challenges, the most serious for a generation. Someone has to grip this moment and make the right decisions. 'Because the choices we make today will decide whether the next generation of British people will have more opportunities than the last.'

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[nivek]

REVEALED: Joe Biden sold nearly ONE MILLION oil barrels from emergency reserves to state-owned Chinese gas giant that Hunter's private equity firm had $1.7B stake in

• Joe Biden in April authorized the release of a million barrels of oil a day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves
• He said it 'will help address supply disruptions caused by Putin's further invasion of Ukraine and the Price Hike that Americans are facing at the pump'
• Last week it emerged that the Biden administration had in fact sent five million barrels abroad
• On Thursday it emerged that 950,000 barrels were being sold to the Chinese state-owned China Petrochemical Corporation, known as Sinopec
• On Friday, it further emerged that Hunter Biden's private equity firm bought a $1.7 billion stake in Sinopec seven years ago

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[AD1184]

None of the above, thank you.

 

[nivek]

Basically. Roe v Wade went to the Supreme Court because the pro-choice radical elements sued the state of Mississippi for limiting abortion to before 15 weeks, they were pushing for the right to abortion up to birth...So the pro-choice supporters have themselves to blame for Roe v Wade being overturned, otherwise Roe v Wade would still be in place...

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[wwkirk]

Biden has ANOTHER Ron Burgundy moment: President, 79, reads directly from prompter saying 'end of quote, repeat the line' (but White House claims he was meant to)

Republican strategist Greg Price mocked Biden on Twitter Friday after yet another gaffe in which the president appeared to read speaking directions off of his teleprompter. 'It is noteworthy that the percentage of women who register to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of the men who do so. End of quote. Repeat the line,' the president said during a White House speech earlier in the day. Posting the clip on social media, Price compared it to Will Farrell's Ron Burgundy being unable to deviate from the script on his teleprompter despite grammatical mistakes and obvious errors.

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Hilarious shoop and edit!

 

[nivek]

 

[nivek]

NY lawmakers approve one-time cash payment to senior citizens

The program would provide eligible seniors with a one-time payment of $200

Lawmakers in Onondaga County, N.Y., passed a resolution to provide a one-time cash payment to certain senior citizens who are struggling during a period of high inflation.

The legislation would grant a $200 payment to eligible households in the upstate New York county to older residents who meet certain eligibility requirements.

(More on the link)

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[pigfarmer]

Now THIS is entertaining !!

Anybody deal with those verdammit HOV lanes ? Now you don't have to lug around a dummy - unless that's how you're referring to your unborn child ....



Pregnant Texas woman says unborn baby should count as car passenger after receiving HOV ticket

Pregnant Texas woman says unborn baby should count as car passenger after receiving HOV ticket
Brandy Bottone cited Texas' penal code, which recognizes an unborn baby as a person.

July 10, 2022, 2:30 PM EDT
By Kalhan Rosenblatt

A pregnant Texas woman said her unborn baby should count as a second passenger in her vehicle after she received a ticket, citing Texas' penal code in the wake of Roe v. Wade's being overturned.

Brandy Bottone, 32, of Plano, was pulled over June 29 after she drove in an HOV lane, or high-occupancy vehicle land, NBC-Dallas Fort Worth reported. Bottone was stopped by the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, which was looking for drivers violating the HOV lane rules.


The HOV lane requires drivers to have at least one passenger in their cars when they use the lane.

When a sheriff's deputy told Bottone about the rule, she said she did, in fact, have a second occupant in her car — her unborn baby.

"I pointed to my stomach and said, ‘My baby girl is right here. She is a person,'" Bottone told The Dallas Morning News, which first reported the story.

The officer responded that the rule applies to "two people outside of the body."

Bottone, who was 34 weeks pregnant at the time, told the officers that with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, her unborn child now was recognized as a living person. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24.

 

[wwkirk]

I watched a documentary about Steve Jobs and he said he saw how wealth would change people which made him live more modestly.

Supposed true story about Steve Jobs illustrating how the time is money principle can lead to an odd lifestyle choice.

Steve Jobs famously replaced his car every six months - with an identical car each time. He actually had a standing order with the car dealership - so he didn’t even have to think about it - they’d just drive to his house or his office with a new car and drive away the “old” one. For years he drove a long run of black Porsche 911’s but did switch to a long number of black Mercedes SL55s. But this is madness! A car loses 10% of it’s value during the first 20 feet as you back it out of the parking space at the dealership!

But the Steve Jobs story is weirder:

In California, you don’t need a proper license plate for 180 days - you can drive on the temporary dealership plates, so by swapping out his cars every 6 months, he never had to go to the DMV to pick up his replacement plate. Looking at how much his time was worth - that wasn’t such a dumb idea. Jobs was earning upwards of $100 million per year - that’s $50,000 an hour. Going to the DMV for an hour cost him MUCH more than replacing the car!

 

[AD1184]

Supposed true story about Steve Jobs illustrating how the time is money principle can lead to an odd lifestyle choice.

Steve Jobs famously replaced his car every six months - with an identical car each time. He actually had a standing order with the car dealership - so he didn’t even have to think about it - they’d just drive to his house or his office with a new car and drive away the “old” one. For years he drove a long run of black Porsche 911’s but did switch to a long number of black Mercedes SL55s. But this is madness! A car loses 10% of it’s value during the first 20 feet as you back it out of the parking space at the dealership!

But the Steve Jobs story is weirder:

In California, you don’t need a proper license plate for 180 days - you can drive on the temporary dealership plates, so by swapping out his cars every 6 months, he never had to go to the DMV to pick up his replacement plate. Looking at how much his time was worth - that wasn’t such a dumb idea. Jobs was earning upwards of $100 million per year - that’s $50,000 an hour. Going to the DMV for an hour cost him MUCH more than replacing the car!

This story sounds apocryphal. Can you not buy a pre-registered vehicle in the US/California? Usually the dealer takes care of it for you in Britain. If not, could he not have delegated the task of registering the vehicle to a PA? In this country, registration simply entails filling out a form, which can be mailed to the vehicle licensing agency.

I don't think Jobs wanted to be especially frugal, considering he was in the process of having a luxury mega-yacht built in the years preceding his death, at a cost of more than 100 million dollars:

Venus (yacht) - Wikipedia

 

[wwkirk]

Tangentially related. I didn't know this before, but a 911 dispatcher hung up on the store manager during the Buffalo shooting incident!

"I called 911, I go through the whole operator and everything, the dispatcher comes on and I'm whispering to her, and I said ‘Miss, please send help to 1275 Jefferson there is a shooter in the store’," Rogers told WZZM. "She proceeded in a very nasty tone and says, ‘I can't hear you, why are you whispering? You don't have to whisper. They can't hear you’."

"So, I continued to whisper, and I said, ‘ma'am he's still in the store, he's still shooting! I'm scared for my life, please send help’," Rogers added. "Out of nervousness, my phone fell out of my hand, she said something I couldn't make out, and then the phone hung up."

Noteworthy detail - the dispatcher was no rookie:
The dispatcher, who worked for the Erie County Central Police Services Department for eight years, had been on administrative leave since May 16 "as the mishandled call was investigated," Peter Anderson, a spokesman for the office of the Erie County Executive, told media outlets.

Buffalo mass shooting: 911 dispatcher fired for allegedly hanging up on Tops supermarket employee

Another alarming case involving a 911 operator
911 dispatcher charged with involuntary manslaughter for not sending ambulance to help woman who later died

 

[nivek]

This story sounds apocryphal. Can you not buy a pre-registered vehicle in the US/California? Usually the dealer takes care of it for you in Britain. If not, could he not have delegated the task of registering the vehicle to a PA? In this country, registration simply entails filling out a form, which can be mailed to the vehicle licensing agency.

When purchasing a car from a dealer in North Carolina, the dealer provides a temporary 30 day vehicle plate and submits all the necessary documentation to the state's DMV (department of motor vehicles) so that a permanent vehicle plate is issued, which usually takes less than 30 days...The dealer I purchased my car from also provided financing and as the lienholder the DMV sent the permanent plate to the dealer and he called me when it arrived so I drove there and replaced the temporary vehicle plate with the proper one...Then from that point the DMV sends the annual renewal forms to my physical address instead of the dealer...Once the car is paid for the dealer and I meet one more time to sign over the title to the car to me, he sends the documentation to the DMV and they send me the title and paperwork updated to show myself as the new owner of the vehicle...

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