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On behalf of Centrist voters, I object to the mischaracterization.

Could you be more specific?

Only those with an IQ roughly equal to their shoe sizes, and that is a sizeable number.

AKA: the GOP.

Just Albertabamans doing Albertabaman stuff. He's been eating puppies again?

Regulators Seize First Republic Bank, Sell To JPMorgan Chase NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says JPMorgan Chase Bank will take over all deposits and most of the assets of troubled First Republic Bank. The FDIC said early Monday that California regulators had closed First Republic and appointed it as receiver. JPMorgan Chase will assume “all of the deposits and substantially all of the assets of First Republic Bank,” it said in a statement. First Republic Bank’s 84 branches in eight states will reopen Monday as branches of JPMorgan Chase Bank. Regulators had been working to find a way forward before U.S. stock markets opened Monday. San Francisco-based First Republic has struggled since the collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in early March. They added to worries that the bank may not survive as an independent entity for much longer. Regulators searched for a solution to First Republic Bank’s woes over the weekend, hoping to find a way forward before U.S. stock markets opened Monday. (And the American taxpayers foot the bill again)

I am shocked. (insert sarcasm emoticon here)

And yet, these same jackholes are perfectly fine with the Bible in schools, even though it condones slavery, incest, genocide, human sacrifice and even has literary porn in it.

Denied: Judge swiftly smacks down Trumpworld’s mistrial motion U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday denied a motion for a mistrial in E. Jean Carroll's civil rape case against former President Donald Trump. In a letter filed early Monday morning, Trump attorney Joe Tacopina claimed the "Court has mischaracterized the facts of this case to the jury. Here, despite the fact trial testimony has been underway for only two days, the proceedings are already replete with numerous explains of Defendant's unfair treatment by the Court, most of which has been witnessed by the Jury," the letter said. https://www.alternet.org/judge-smacks-down-mistrial-motion/

I don't worry about how Walters and Co. manage the draft- they have done an exceptional job and will continue to do so. As always, I will follow the draft with interest, not dread as in the previous regimes.

'They did it to get me out': Trump suggests COVID-19 was a Chinese plot to cost him the election Former President Donald Trump on Sunday passively accused China of purposefully spreading COVID-19 into the United States to destroy his political career. "China, I was very from, I was probably the first one I said, it came from the lab in Wuhan. I knew that," Trump declared on Life, Liberty & Levin, starring right-wing Fox News host Mark Levin.

Intel Reveals Depraved New Way Russian Commanders Punish Own Troops -REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Russian military commanders have likely resorted to punishing their troops by imprisoning them in underground pits covered with metal bars, according to a British intelligence memo published Sunday. “In recent months, Russian commanders have likely started punishing breaches in discipline by detaining the offending troops in ‘Zindans’ which are improvised cells consisting of holes in the ground covered with a metal grille,” the report says. The makeshift prisons have been used to punish Russian soldiers for alleged “violations” as minor as drinking or attempting to cancel their contracts with the military, according to the intelligence report, which cites “multiple recent reports from Russian personnel” who provided accounts of the incidents. The report notes, “draconian” shift among Russian commanders since the early days of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, when “many Russian commanders took a relatively light touch in enforcing discipline, allowing those who refused to soldier to quietly return home.” According to the British intelligence department, that all began to change in the fall of 2022, when the higher-ups of the Kremlin’s military began enforcing stricter punishment for perceived transgressions among Russian forces fighting the war in Ukraine. The drastic pivot, the agency notes, took an even harsher turn “since Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov assumed command of the operation.”

That there are still Flat Earth Societies in several countries is an indicator how self-delusion persists. Its all the fault of the goddam reptilians. Or the Illuminati.

It seems to be an integral feature of humanity that there will always be those who choose to misuse and even abuse anything intended to be good and helpful to us- be it food, sexuality, religion, education and yes, even the internet. It has allowed feeble and diseased minds to congregate and exert disproportionate influences on each other and the societies they live in. Some people in positions of power have learned to manipulate their followers to aggrandize themselves. It is the price of living in societies.

This guy's mind is so open that his brain apparently fell out.

‘Stop Deceiving the Population’: Russia’s Mercenary Boss Threatens Full-Blown Mutiny Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin is back to humiliating the Kremlin and threatening to sabotage Vladimir Putin’s war effort. “Russia is on the brink of catastrophe,” he said in an interview with a pro-war military blogger on Saturday, openly calling B.S. on the Kremlin’s repeated claims that all is going according to plan in Ukraine. “We need to stop deceiving the population and telling them that everything is fine,” he said, accusing Russia’s top military brass of deluding themselves about the war or “not giving a damn.” Prigozhin blamed his foe, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, for a lack of ammunition that he said could cost Russia the war. In the nearly hour-and-a-half long video interview—apparently filmed days earlier—he read out a letter he said he’d sent to Shoigu on Friday, in which he issued a brazen ultimatum threatening to pull his mercenaries out from Bakhmut if the defense ministry does not immediately provide the required ammunition. Apparently for added effect, he also threatened to tattle on Shoigu to Putin personally. “The bell is already ringing, we’re sounding the alarm,” he said. The group, he said, has enough rounds of ammunition left only “for days, not weeks.” When asked if perhaps the military didn’t want to provide weapons to Wagner out of a fear that the mercenary group “might storm the Kremlin” and seize power, Prigozhin conceded that the idea is “interesting” but said he wasn’t focused on staging a coup.

When you review the past draft picks by the Bombers it becomes clear that more than one or two players that make the team is little short of amazing.

You ain't seen crazy Russian crap yet. Warehouses of supposed war goods for the Russian army far away from the front lines have burned to the ground apparently because the Russian suppliers who had manufactured and stored for the military were torched because although the goods had been paid for were were nonexistent. The fires occurred right after they were requisitioned. Russian officers demand money from their soldiers or they will be sent to the heaviest fighting, sometimes with WW2 weapons and little ammunition. Families of dead Russian soldiers are given a certificate for a Lada to be delivered at some point instead of a pension. And that's only a small sample.

I suggest that greed is as much a symptom as an independent phenomenon. We humans have long been afflicted with the desire to be greater than others. Money is simply a measuring stick.

Close enuff.

Another bizarre performance by Trump. Apparently the GOP leadership has given up on trying to manage his public and social utterances as hid GOP followers worship him and nothing but nothing he says or does will shake their support. If you think this sounds like a cult following their messiah, you are correct.

Hockey, like football is a violent sport and even perfectly legal hits can injure players. The hit that took Scheifele out was such and Morrissey's wasn't much worse. NHL players are well compensated- CFL players, not so much.