With the amount of corruption in their military, one has to wonder if they are maintained well enough to actually work.

So who gets the missing £37.38?

<------12,570----->|<-----yours-----><--tax-->
<-------15,000------>|<----yours-----><-tax-->
you get extra by paying less tax here^

Miracles can be done,, but the impossible...
£10 a week, are you sure?
The difference between £15k & the current allowance is £2,430/52=£46.73 a week. That would definitely help out many of the low paid as well as the VATman.

MAGA Music is WONDERFUL

A big "Ew" to that. I'd like to keep both religion and music separated from politics.

A Florida highway was blocked on Wednesday by thousands of beer cans after a crash with five semi-trailers.

All lanes were closed after the semi-trailer carrying the beer crashed into trucks parked on the side of the road.

Photos taken at the scene by the Florida Highway Patrol show so many spilled beer boxes and cans, the road can barely be seen.

The highway was eventually reopened some hours later. Only minor injuries were reported.

According to the Tampa Bay Times, two semi-trailers crashed on the busy highway on Wednesday morning and pulled over.

Two more semi-trailers pulled over to help, as well as a pickup truck.

A fifth semi-trailer - the one carrying the beer - failed to stop in time and crashed into the parked vehicles.

As well as the beer, concrete being transported by one of the lorries also spilled all over the road.

Evidence of the earliest use of the narcotic opium has been found in an ancient burial site in Israel.

Traces were discovered by archaeologists in pottery vessels at the complex in Yehud, about 11km (7 miles) south-east of Tel Aviv.

Two years ago, researchers identified as cannabis a substance found in a 2,700-year-old temple in Tel Arad in south-east Israel. They said it might have been used in religious rituals by ancient Israelites.

Donny got the special master that he wanted and now his legal team is trying to avoid turning over information about whether or not the documents found at Mar-A-Lago were declassified?

Could it be because that there are no such documents and this is just another of Donny's usual delaying tactics?

Or could it be that he just doesn't want people to know just how much of a fraudster/mobster he really is?

Dearie is asking that Trump's team hand over specific information regarding whether files were declassified or not.

Ministry of Defence ??
@DefenceHQ· 4h
United Kingdom government organization
Replying to
@DefenceHQ
(1/3) The command of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has almost certainly relocated its KILO-class submarines from their home port of Sevastopol in Crimea to Novorossiysk in Krasnodar Krai, southern Russia

(For those that don't know - when a car hits a moose the poor animal's legs get knocked from under it and......)

And then there's cattle, camels, water buffalo,... ;-)

Cheers.

Dirt. All Over my Face; Body; and Clothes, and definitely Under My Fingernails.

Hard Dirty Work

da Way it Is and Should Be

Stay Dirty My Broheims. Stay Dirty

SUPER(B)

KYIV/HRAKOVE, Ukraine, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Ukrainian officials shared photos on Saturday showing troops raising the nation's flag over the main railway city that has supplied Russian forces in northeastern Ukraine, as a collapse in Russia's frontline threatened to turn into a rout.

A Reuters journalist inside a vast area recaptured in recent days by the advancing Ukrainian forces saw Ukrainian police patrolling towns and boxes of ammunition lying in heaps at positions abandoned by fleeing Russian soldiers.

With Ukrainians now having reached the city of Kupiansk, where rail lines linking Russia to eastern Ukraine converge, the advance had penetrated all the way to Moscow's main logistics route, potentially trapping thousands of Russian troops.

Natalia Popova, adviser to the head of the Kharkiv regional council, shared photos on Facebook of troops holding up a Ukrainian flag in front of Kupiansk city hall. A Russian flag lay at their feet. "Kupiansk is Ukraine. Glory to the armed forces of Ukraine," she wrote.

A failed solution?

Same as 99.9% of the ideas to reduce carbon.

Is that some cynical random Marketing statistic/propaganda?...


This is our only one planet...
Martin

WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - In 2007, the U.S. Congress mandated the blending of biofuels such as corn-based ethanol into gasoline. One of the top goals: reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

But today, the nation’s ethanol plants produce more than double the climate-damaging pollution, per gallon of fuel production capacity, than the nation’s oil refineries, according to a Reuters analysis of federal data.

The average ethanol plant chuffed out 1,187 metric tons of carbon emissions per million gallons of fuel capacity in 2020, the latest year data is available. The average oil refinery, by contrast, produced 533 metric tons of carbon.

A federal grand jury is reportedly taking a closer look at Donald Trump’s PAC operation and its dubious fundraising, adding to his list of legal troubles

According to the Times’ report, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, the new subpoenas were apparently issued by a grand jury separate from Jan. 6 grand jury. The article went on to note, “At least one of the new subpoenas bore the name of a veteran federal prosecutor in Washington who specializes in fraud cases, suggesting that this avenue of inquiry is devoted primarily to examining the spending and fund-raising at Mr. Trump’s super PAC.”

The specific details surrounding the investigation are not yet known, but if federal investigators are examining the former president’s post-defeat fundraising, there’s plenty of evidence to consider.

Circling back to our earlier coverage, it was in December 2020 when Trump’s operation pushed an avalanche of lies about the outcome, telling unsuspecting donors that their money would go toward challenging the election results that the then-president falsely claimed were illegitimate. The pitches were incredibly successful, at least insofar as they raised an enormous amount of money.

This has been a few days now where Putin himself is NOT in the news...

Is he hunkered down somewhere bunkered?


Stay safe folks!
Martin

A car whose driver had fallen seriously ill while at the wheel on a motorway was brought to a halt by a quick-witted motorist who had realised his plight.

John Barlow said he spotted the Audi going slowly in the outside lane of the M62 near Leeds on Saturday. The driver was slumped with a bloodied face.

Mr Barlow managed to get his car ahead of the Audi and eased it to a stop before getting out to help the man.

It emerged the driver had suffered a seizure but was well enough to go home.

Three rare model locomotives have sold for thousands at auction.

The Fine Scale O Gauge models, made by James Stanley Beeson, went for £25,000 - nearly four times the total estimate.

A LNWR Ramsbottom 0-6-0T "Special Tank", listed for £1,500-£2,000, was auctioned for £14,000.

A 1958 locomotive "Belted Will" with tender, estimated at £2,000 to £3,000, sold for £9,500; while a 1940s LNWR 4-6-0 136 "Minerva" with tender, listed at £1,500 to £2,000, earned £3,400.

The sale was held on Wednesday by Market Harborough-based Gildings Auctioneers, which said it had bidders flying in from across Europe despite the auction being online-only.

The filing traces the extraordinary saga of government officials’ repeated efforts to recover sensitive national security papers from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and club, centered on a storage room where prosecutors came to suspect that “government records were likely concealed and removed … and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”
The agents also came to doubt claims by Trump’s team that the storage room was the only place where such documents might be found.

When agents conducted their court-ordered search on Aug. 8, they found material so sensitive that “even the FBI counterintelligence personnel and DOJ attorneys conducting the review required additional clearances before they were permitted to review certain documents,” the filing says.

Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches (27 centimeters) on its own, according to a study released Monday.

Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers. That’s because the parent glaciers are getting less replenishing snow. Meanwhile the doomed ice is melting from climate change, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.

“It’s dead ice. It’s just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet,” Colgan said in an interview. “This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now.”

Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is “more like one foot in the grave.”

Boeing has been hit with a worldwide safety alert after British security experts say they discovered a possible flaw in its software used by pilots in take-offs and landings.

A global “safety alert for operators” was issued by the US Federal Aviation Administration earlier this month after researchers found an issue with Boeing’s Onboard Performance Tool (OPT), a mobile app that pilots can use to make safety calculations before take-off and landing.

The tool uses data on metrics such as weather and weight to help make calculations for planes leaving and returning to the tarmac.

The possible flaw meant hackers could ­tamper with critical data and trick pilots into using the wrong settings, potentially causing a crash.

Pen Test Partners, based in Buckinghamshire, discovered the potential issue and reported them to Boeing. Ken Munro, boss of Pen Test Partners, said their findings showed that the mobile app could have been “calculating and putting out the wrong data” to pilots.

So, you are showing 15-16 million is loans to republicans.
How in the world does that compare to the minimum of 25 to 100 billion or more that Biden is giving away?

These are all republican members of congress.
It is not a list of all republicans who took out PPP loans, The total amount of PPP loans was over 800 Billion which makes the student loan forgiveness plan look like small change.

And no doubt a large percentage of that 800 billion was taken out by democrats.

So, you are showing 15-16 million is loans to republicans.
How in the world does that compare to the minimum of 25 to 100 billion or more that Biden is giving away?

Joe is about the corrupt every law ever made by allowing the liberal students loan amnesty.
And that should offend all of us.

Republican Members of Congress
Whose PPP Loans Were Forgiven
Below the headline is a list that reads:
Matt Gaetz (R-FL): $476,000
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA): $180,000
Greg Pence (R-IN): $79,441
Vern Buchanan (R-FL): $2.8M
Kevin Hern (R-OK): $1,070,000
Roger Williams (R-TX): $1,430,000
Brett Guthrie (R-KY): $4.3M
Ralph Norman (R-SC): $306,520
Ralph Abraham (R-LA): $38,000
Mike Kelly (R-PA): $974,100
Vicki Hartzler (R-MO): $451,200
Markwayne Mullin (R-OK): $988,700
Carol Miller (R-WV): $3.1M

Bharat Ramamurti, a deputy director of Mr. Biden’s National Economic Council, told reporters at a White House briefing that “we absolutely think it’s a fair comparison” between P.P.P. and student debt.

“Our view is, why is there a double standard here?” Mr. Ramamurti said. “Why is it, from the perspective of Republicans, great to forgive a loan of up to $10 million to a business owner, but if we want to provide $10,000 or $20,000 in loan forgiveness for a teacher or a bus driver or a nurse, all the sudden it’s socialism?”

Even when idle, the reactors still must have their cooling system powered and active...

Russian tanks can be seen just 60 metres from Europe's largest nuclear reactor in new satellite images released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

In early March, Russian ground forces seized Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in southeastern Ukraine, and analysis of imagery from August 21 has now identified Russian military equipment and tanks located a short distance from reactor five.

In a statement released about the alarming imagery, the MoD said: "Russian troops were probably attempting to conceal the vehicles by parking them under overhead pipes and gantries."

The MoD warned that Moscow "is probably prepared to exploit any Ukrainian military activity near ZNPP for propaganda purposes" and that the principal risks to the reactor remain disruption to cooling systems and damages to back-up power supply.

The government in Kyiv has alleged Russia is essentially holding the Soviet-era nuclear plant hostage, storing weapons there and launching attacks from around it, while Moscow accuses Ukraine of recklessly firing on the facility, which is located in the city of Enerhodar.

"Anybody who understands nuclear safety issues has been trembling for the last six months," said Mycle Schneider, an independent policy consultant and coordinator of the World Nuclear Industry Status

Just another lowlife religious GOP nutter and their violent rhetoric. :-(

GOP Candidate Saying it's 'Totally Just' to Kill Gay People Resurfaces.

Just your typical hater from the far right.

Just how does that quote from Niemöller go?

3 more cops going rogue.

Three Arkansas officers suspended and under investigation after video shows use of force.

Ah the "good old days" when school outfitters provided bog standard generic uniforms.
What differentiated them from each each other were the schools themselves.
They provided the badges/logos for self sewing. :-)

Despite new Government guidelines in the pipeline designed to curb costs, schools could continue to recommend apparel carrying their logos

Uneccessary expense for families

An average secondary school uniform costs £337, with additional extras such as lab coats and science goggles adding more financial pressure for parents

No place is safe for war criminals on Ukrainian soil.

The Ukrainians Have Struck Another Russian Airfield In Crimea.

A Ukrainian drone blew up an ammunition dump at a Russian airfield near Hvardiiske in occupied Crimea on Tuesday, according to Russian media....

That's a lot of PooTin's ammo being taken out of late and it's yet to be reported if any planes were damaged in the strike.

Chinese research ship has docked in Sri Lanka's Hambantota port despite Indian concerns.
The Yuan Wang 5 was given permission to dock on the condition it would not carry out research while in Sri Lankan waters, said port officials.
India had previously voiced concerns that the ship would be used to spy on its activities, said media reports.
Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry said the ship will be allowed to remain in the Chinese-run port until 22 August.

Meanwhile more Explosions refocus Ukraine war on Russian-annexed Crimea.

So... Have we 'given up' on vaccinating the youth and sacrificing the old for the sake of stirring the economy?

PARIS/WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Boeing Co's (BA.N) 787 Dreamliner has returned to the world market for newly delivered aircraft at a time when demand for wide-body jetliners is finally stirring to life after a prolonged slump.

The U.S. planemaker delivered its first Dreamliner since May 2021 on Wednesday, in a significant milestone for the manufacturer after production problems with its wide-body jet

I refuse to answer because I might tend to incriminate ... no that isn't right.

"I refuse to answer because I forgot to incinerate ... no that isn't right."

A Russian multi-role fire control radar was reportedly blown up at the Zyabrovka air base near Homel in Belarus, which is located some 30 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
A source familiar with the intelligence said that the Russian 92N6 fire control and engagement radar, known as Grave Stone by NATO, blew up in a huge explosion at Zyabrovka air base on the night of August 11.
Lots of Russian military vehicles and aircraft, including S-400 and Pantsir S1 air defense systems, are stationed there and the Russians often launch attacks against Ukraine from Ziabrauka.
The Belarusian Hajun Project and Flagshtok Telegram channels quoted witnesses on August 11 as saying at least eight blasts were heard and flashes were seen near the Zyabrovka military airport in the southeastern Homel region of Belarus overnight.
The Belarus Ministry of Defense confirmed on Wednesday evening that one of the vehicles in the military area near Homel caught fire, though it said it was a result of an inspection run.

"He's now stuffed behind bars"

Just about everything you want to know about this eruption can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsRFmU7aUVo but as I write (day 10) the weather is too bad to see very much of the eruption.

And for a volcanologists insight Prof Valentin Troll is on his way, https://www.youtube.com/c/ValentinTroll/videos

In the UK there is a well publicised dedicated phone line for reporting suspected gas leaks. I've used it, and the response was very rapid and very thorough. My guess is they phoned the non-emergency emergency services number which is next to useless for anything other than cats stuck in trees.

(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.

taking money from “deprived urban areas” to help wealthy towns

One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast

If you are wondering why Donny buried his first wife at the Bedminster, N.J golf course, it could be because a cemetery in New Jersey doesn't pay Property, income & sales tax.

And I'll ask as I have elsewhere: so, one body makes it a cemetery?

Cambridge says plural to me: an area of ground in which dead bodies are buried.

Humans Have Been Keeping TEMPERATURE Records for How Long?

Good question....
In the UK official records go back to 1884, but individuals were recording data for at least another couple of hundred years.

Here in the UK the official declaration of a weather record contains a statement along the line "since records began", and possibly give the date of the first official recording of that type of data.

Raining Here in EAST.

PIPE WATER to WEST.

Rupert Murdoch, hitherto one of Donald Trump’s most loyal media messengers, appears to have turned on the former president.
US media circles were rocked this weekend after the New York Post issued an excoriating editorial indictment of Trump’s failure to stop the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
The editorial, in a tabloid owned by Murdoch since 1976, began: “As his followers stormed the Capitol, calling for his vice-president to be hanged, President Donald Trump sat in his private dining room, watching TV, doing nothing. For three hours, seven minutes.”
Trump’s only focus, the Post said, was to block the peaceful transfer of power.

The Wall Street Journal, another Murdoch paper, issued a similar critique in which it said evidence before the House January 6 committee was a reminder that “Trump betrayed his supporters”.

A robot broke a seven-year-old boy's finger during a chess match in Moscow last week, Russian news outlets report.

"The robot broke the child's finger," Sergey Lazarev, Moscow Chess Federation President, told Tass news agency. "This is of course bad."

Just a typical cop, shoot someone dead and don't report it.

Bead Blasters shoot gel water beads propelled by a spring-loaded air pump, making them an air rifle. Air rifles are a violation in NYC & are unlawful to possess.

But like other stunned locals, Ms Szumowski's mind initially went elsewhere - was it an alien invasion? An asteroid?

"Mum's on the phone and Dad's in the background going: 'I better hurry up and eat my tea because the world's ending.'"

"And Mum's like: 'What's the point of eating your tea if the world's ending?'"

It turned out to be light emanating from a cannabis farm just outside the town of Mildura, in northern Victoria.

There's was also this bit of comedy.

Watch Josh Hawley Run From January 6 Rioters He Cheered On.

A pilot escaped with just light injuries by deploying a parachute to slow the descent of his plane as it crashed on a busy road in Belgium.
The light aircraft was captured plummeting nose down on video by shocked residents in Sint-Andries near Bruges at about 2pm on Friday.
A parachute on the back of the plane lessened the impact as it hit the ground. The male pilot was able to jump out of his plane, relatively unscathed.
He later told emergency services that he had lost control of the plane due to technical difficulties. Firefighters rushed to the scene but the plane did not catch light.
Despite the crossroads in the middle of town being often busy, no other vehicles were involved in the smash.

All that's wrong with the system today

Things are not looking any better at all for Donny boy today.

Dramatic details and key takeaways from the latest Jan. 6 hearing.

With allegations of more witness tampering.Legal experts react to Liz Cheney's Jan. 6 bombshell claim.

"So, Trump tried to call a witness," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance noted. "The witness passed it on to their lawyer & the committee forwarded the information to DOJ. Former presidents are no more entitled to break the law by witness tampering than any other citizen."

She added that "only the guilty try to tamper with witnesses."

Meanwhile it seems that you must certainly be brain dead these days to be a GOP to even think about believing anything in a total fictionary put together by a moron.

Biggs calls for hearings into election fraud claims in 2000 Mules.

A major general and up to a dozen Russian senior officers have been killed in the latest wave of strikes by Western precision weapons that have crippled Russian logistics.

Major General Artyom Nasbulin, the chief of staff of the 22nd Army Corps, was killed in a Himars rocket strike on a command post near Kherson, said Sergei Bratchuk, a spokesman for the Odesa region.

The "Champers & Caviar" brigade are openly giving the electorate the bird.
The response?
I'm only human

Yep Joe is lovable, vaxed and boosted. Go Joe, what a guy.

...and Vogue magazine was famous for it's perfectly posed photos of the rich & famous

Question. Doesn’t GRAVITY always win in the end.

Simple answer, do away with title use for online forms, just input initials/first name & surname with another field for gender i.e. M/F.
Job done.

Russia’s new 100-ruble bill will not be introduced into circulation anytime soon due to difficulties stemming from Western ATM and point-of-sale service providers' exit over the war in Ukraine, the Kommersant business daily reported Thursday.
Russia’s Central Bank introduced the new 100-ruble banknote — depicting the Kremlin’s Spasskaya Tower on the front and the Rzhev Memorial to the Russian Soldier on the back — with higher durability and upgraded security features this Thursday.
Concerns over the new bill’s circulation arose after the leading U.S. ATM and point-of-sale terminal manufacturers NCR and Diebold Nixdorf left Russia in retaliation to its invasion of Ukraine.
“Given the geopolitical situation, it is difficult to imagine that development for the Russian market will be a priority,” Kommersant quoted an unnamed payment market source as saying.
They warned that the new banknotes could be impossible to use because of the service providals’ refusal to issue updates for them.

My entire life I've never seen potato chips (crisps) packed in anything but a plastic bag. I simply can't imagine those greasy things in a paper bag.

I guess now all there will be is baked flat mashed potato rounds so they can be uniform enough put in a tube. Yuck.

Wow, £185.15 = $326.10au which is close to what someone on the dole here gets and almost $180au less than my pension. :-O

ONLY one in 20 pensioners is receiving the full £185.15 a week state pension, a new analysis has revealed.
Figures from the Department of Work and Pensions obtained by the over-60s campaign group Silver Voices showed that around 87% of senior citizens are still on the old state pension rate of £141.85 a week or less.
The new state pension only applies to those who reached the state pension age after 5 April 2016.
Campaigners last night said the analysis showed the UK’s older citizens are far worse than generally understood.

THE NUMBER of pensioners who are now living in millionaire households has risen to three million, new statistics have shown, with some experts now questioning state pension increases as a result.
New analysis of Government data has shown the rising number of wealthy over 65s throughout the UK. In 2008/2010, there were 846,000 over 65s recorded as living in households with over £1million in housing and pension assets.
However, just a decade on, and this picture has drastically transformed.
Now, there are a total of 3,137,000 over 65s who live in millionaire households.

Cheney read aloud from the testimony of two witnesses who said they had recently spoken to people who encouraged them to stay in Donald Trump’s good graces with their comments to the committee.

One witness told investigators, “What they said to me is, as long as I continue to be a team player, they know that I’m on the right team. I’m doing the right thing, I’m protecting who I need to protect. ... They have reminded me a couple of times that Trump does read transcripts and just to keep that in mind as I proceed through my depositions and interviews with the committee.”

Cheney’s comments point to the possibility of witness intimidation impacting the investigation, although it will ultimately be up to the justice department to determine what (if any) criminal charges stem from the committee’s findings.

Now who would've though that he'd rise $'s, "Standing Up For What's Right."?

An artist raised $14,000 for abortion rights by selling an image of Tucker Carlson appearing with an unintentionally 'pro-choice' message on Fox News.

I hope that the artist does more of them, in fact, many artists should do it. ;-)

We DO NOT LIKE The Freedoms and Liberties OTHERs ENGAGE In - Because Their FREEDOMs and LIBERTIES They Partake INFRINGE

On OUR FREEDOMs and LIBERTIES As We SEE THEM TO BE.

Doesn't Interest Me at All. Humans Doing Fatally Nasty Stuff.

She's just another far right moronic nutter.

Kari Lake, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, tweeted her dismay about drag queens performing in front of children on Saturday
Soon after, Rick Stevens, one of the Phoenix, Arizona-area's best known drag queens as Barbra Seville, said he performed in front of Lake's young daughter
He recounted how Lake invited him to her home to perform as Marilyn Monroe at her birthday party 10 - 12 years ago, and her daughter was in the audience
Stevens says he remembers her then elementary school-aged daughter in the audience because she was wearing glasses and he sympathized
The Lake campaign has denied that it was a drag performance and that her daughter was in the audience

Kari Lake, left, a GOP candidate for Arizona governor who has criticized drag, poses with drag queen Richard Stevens. According to Stevens, the pair were friends for more than 20 years and Lake attended at least 15 shows. (Courtesy of Richard Stevens)

It's NICE to be NICE

SUPERNice

Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who is widely tipped to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, condemned the bill as an attempt to "try to disarm law-abiding citizens rather than take serious measures to protect our children".
The National Rifle Association (NRA) has opposed the bill, and argued that it will not stop the violence.

Sadly, there are still numpties in power.

This murder was Nov 1994.
DNA used in evidence was in use since 1986, so why was it a cold case?

..... for the brain dead losers out there.

It's NICE to be NICE

SUPERNice

What's he going to prove beyond all doubt that he's a total moronic lunatic?

Do you mean what's he going to sell?

Snake oil

Didn't he take notice of Donny? You're suppose to lead from the rear and out of site.

Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
And the general sat
And the lines on the map
Moved from side to side

Then there is the higher capacity batteries that will only charge 80% of the battery due to the heat element. Oops.

Allendale — FBI agents arrested Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley on misdemeanor charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

The arrest and search that unfolded at Kelley's home in Allendale outside of Grand Rapids add more uncertainty to a chaotic race for governor that has seen five Republican candidates blocked from the ballot for submitting fraudulent nominating petition signatures.

Prosecutors filed four charges against Kelley, 40. They are knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building; disorderly and disruptive conduct; knowingly engaging in any act of physical violence against person or property in a restricted building or grounds; willfully injuring or committing depredation against property of the U.S.

A few years ago I met a senior being (life form?) in the DWP. He was really shocked to learn that not everyone, let alone every person of pensionable age, had a functional bank account. Such is the "intelligence" of those that run the government systems....

Least it isn't like over here where they reason they don't have an account is because they are undocumented.

The current weekly payment regime for State Pension has been in place since 1948. I do understand that the opportunity of being paid calendar monthly would be more convenient for many. However, to make this choice available we would need to make significant changes to a large number of computer systems. I am afraid the costs of these changes would be too great.

Looking to the future, whilst there are no plans to introduce such payments, they remain an option as we look to digitalise the claims and payments process.

Council tax payers who receive their rebate by cheque aren't paying by direct debit - they probably don't have a bank account that can handle cheques. So the presence of an old-fashioned "big four" bank branch close to them is completely useless.

Government level 'solutions' have to be universal.

Some of those waiting in line said they couldn't afford to wait days for a cheque to clear through their bank

And here's another one for Boris to think about.

Council tax rebate cheques cashed at pawnbrokers

People have been cashing in their £150 council tax rebate cheques at a pawnbrokers because they cannot afford to wait for the money.

A large queue formed outside the Cash Shop in Rotherham, which deducts a £15 fee for the service.

Some of those waiting in line said they couldn't afford to wait days for a cheque to clear through their bank.

That's very close to where a parliamentary by-election is to be held on June 23. The verdict of the electorate will be interesting.

Isn't that more the 'con' of Marketing and Marketing food for the maximum profit?...

Meanwhile, there is no denying that going vegetarian or vegan avoids a huge and expensively wasteful cost of farming animals...


All on our only one planet,
Martin

Lumping the UK in with global figures for countries with vastly different farming practices means that some of the good news gets lost. Beef cattle and sheep in the UK account for just 5.7 per cent of all UK emissions, but this is reduced to 3.7 per cent if carbon sequestration (storing of carbon in the soil) is taken into account. While she says it’s a cliché, “It really is the how, not the cow.”

An ordinary, average British 4oz steak, Buxton worked out from numbers in an FAO report, is about 1.9kg of CO2e.

But that Vegan takeaway you ordered from 5 miles away added 2.7kg of carbon emissions emitted by the vehicle delivering it.

1 very small step for mankind, but will it be enough?

A Florida woman was charged in the death of her husband after their 2-year-old son appeared to fatally shoot him in the back, authorities said Monday.
Marie Ayala, 26, was charged with one count of manslaughter by culpable negligence, accused of failing to properly secure a Glock handgun the boy is believed to have shot his father with while he was playing a video game, according to an arrest affidavit from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
The boy's 5-year-old brother told authorities that his sibling accidentally fired the gun, the affidavit says.

June 8 (Reuters) - A 10-year-old Florida girl has been arrested after police say she retrieved a gun from her mother's backpack and fatally shot a woman during a physical altercation between the two women on Memorial Day.
The Orlando Police Department detained the unidentified girl and placed her in custody at the juvenile detention center on Tuesday, the department said in a statement. She has yet to be charged while her mother was arrested and charged with multiple offenses.

Despite what the documentaries tell you, a plant-based lifestyle isn't better for your health and it certainly won't save the planet

Canola oil, yeast, acidity regulator, methyl­cellulose, corn oil thickener, starch, gelling agent. “Hmm, I don’t like agents in my food,” says Jayne Buxton.
We’re in the refrigerator aisle of a well-known, high-end health-food supermarket in Richmond, London, reading the backs of packets of vegan ­sausages, burgers et al. As far as vegan products go, we’re dining at the Ritz.
Pastrami-style slices, scrambled tofu, vegan chorizo slices, jackfruit rendang, a canister of No-Egg Egg for £4.99. “That’s more than a carton of eggs,” says Buxton as she scans the ingredients. Gum cellulose dextrose, “That’s sugar. Do you want sugar with your eggs?”
You would expect the quality here to be better than anywhere else, but nutritionally, says Buxton, it’s a wasteland of chemicals and oils where nutritious protein should be.

“Someone’s going to arrest us in a minute,” she jokes. It does feel subversive. Like we’re poking around in veganism’s knicker drawer.

A museum believes a D-Day ration pack held in its collection is the only complete one of its kind in the world.

An X-ray on the waxed cardboard box by experts at Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex revealed all the original contents were still intact.
Three chocolate bars, 10 biscuits, blocks of tea, sugar and milk and four pieces of toilet paper were among the items found in the pack.

Russian state media has confirmed the death of one of Moscow's top generals during heavy fighting in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.
Maj Gen Roman Kutuzov was killed leading an assault on a Ukrainian settlement in the region, a reporter with the state-owned Rossiya 1 said.
Alexander Sladkov said Gen Kutuzov had been commanding troops from the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic.

His death comes as rumours circulated on social media that a second senior officer, Lt Gen Roman Berdnikov, commander of the 29th Army, was also killed in fighting over the weekend. The BBC cannot independently verify the claims.

Johnson, a businessman who has self-funded much of his campaign, was required to submit a petition containing 15,000 valid signatures in order to qualify for the gubernatorial primary election on Aug. 2.

The candidate submitted 23,193 signatures, but the Michigan Bureau of Elections denied his petition along with four other candidates, saying more than 9,000 signatures were fraudulent, thus dropping him below the qualification threshold.

Big Challenges ahead for producing the Metals required for the Energy Transition. Here a Discussion of the Swedish Situation with some wider implications for the Global Metal markets. This is from a *Lecture to the MSc class in Sustainable Development at Uppsala University*.

Tsk Tsi Tsk

I Can't Imagine ONEs LIFEs Work to Post 'bout USAs

Death and Destruction by GUN

Tsk Tsk Tsk

SUPERWdaF'

How Many NRA Members do you Know?

I must also be about due for my 2nd booster.

SUPERHealthy

A 15-year-old was has been shot dead in Mississippi in what police describe as a "prank gone wrong."
Police were called to reports of a shooting on Village Drive in Jackson on Saturday.
Jackson Deputy Police Chief Deric Hearn said Christopher Patton, 15, and two passengers, later identified as Derreon McGowan and Jakuious Galloway, pulled up in front of the home of Joshua Davis, 16.
Patton and the two others were wearing masks and toting water guns, which police said looked like real firearms, at Davis.
According to local media, Davis then pointed a real gun at Patton and shot him a single time in the chest, killing his friend.
The Jackson Police Department (JPD) believes the shooting was justified.
Police said all those involved were friends and described the shooting as being a "prank gone wrong," according to WLBT.

Currently, the CDC is monitoring six people in the United States for possible monkeypox infections after they sat near an infected traveler who had symptoms while on a flight from Nigeria to the United Kingdom in early May.

So this BS about airplane air being so fresh you don't need a mask to protect you ... looks like the real world says MASK UP.

Monkeypox cases in Spain have been linked to a superspreader event at an adult sauna in Madrid.
Enrique Ruiz Escudero, the region’s cabinet minister for health of the community, said on Friday that health officials had traced many of Spain’s 30 monkeypox cases to a single sauna in the capital.

Britain’s monkeypox tally now stands at 20 after 11 fresh cases were announced on Friday, and contact tracing and quarantine of close contacts is under way.
A “notable proportion” of the UK and European cases are in gay and bisexual men, health officials have said.

Three cases in Belgium have also been linked to a large-scale fetish festival in Antwerp, according to organisers. The Darklands Festival warned people who attended four days of parties, starting on May 5, that authorities had linked the event to the country’s three confirmed cases.

It is the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy and capable of completing the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.
What is less well known about the Millennium Falcon is it truly was the last ship to be built at the Royal Pembroke Dockyard.
Now an exhibition will tell the story of how Han Solo's beloved spaceship was built in an aircraft hangar in the Pembrokeshire town in spring 1979.
It will tell the story with photographs, film, models and costumes.

PC Craig Walker says no knife visible when colleague used spray without warning against man who died in custody in Kirkcaldy

An officer involved in Sheku Bayoh’s arrest has admitted that police fired CS spray and pepper spray at him without warning even though he made no direct threat and did not show any weapons.

Bayoh, a father of two, died in hospital in handcuffs in May 2015 in Kirkcaldy, Fife. He had multiple injuries after being hit with police batons, and being shackled and held on the ground by numerous officers.

This is our first look at the new all-electric Renault Scenic SUV with electric/hydrogen power and real-life interior rainbows

Pretty much the same moronic RINO names turn up yet again to try and block the Baby Food bill.

Here are the 9 Republicans who voted against a bill to help poor families buy baby formula amid the ongoing shortage.

But Joe got it passed easily.

WSJ sources suggest black box recorders from Boeing 737-800 indicate intentional input from cockpit

A China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in March, killing 132 people, appears to have been intentionally flown into the mountainside below by someone at the controls, according to reports.
Analysis by US officials of the black box flight recorders found amid the wreckage suggests deliberate input from the cockpit forced the Boeing 737-800 plane into its catastrophic dive.
The Wall Street Journal quoted an unnamed source who said: “The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit.”
The China Eastern plane was cruising at a steady altitude and speed before it suddenly descended more than 20,000ft in just over a minute, and crashing near the city of Wuzhou in Guangxi province.
Chinese investigators have led the crash inquiry but US officials are involved as the plane is US-made.

Women are almost twice as likely as men to become trapped in a motor vehicle after a crash and they also sustain different patterns of injury, data suggests.

The research – the first large UK study to compare sex differences in injury patterns and the likelihood of becoming trapped after a collision – could help vehicle manufacturers improve car design and safety features to reduce rates of injury in both sexes. It also strengthens calls for the inclusion of more biologically accurate crash test dummies in simulations of vehicle collisions, to investigate their impact on women.

all I have to do is park on the designated markings and wait in the car.
I can hear bolts being undone as the battery is automatically removed from underneath the vehicle and replaced with a fully- charged one.
In less than five minutes, I'm ready to go again.

People from All The World Move Here EveryDay and Into The Night. Legally and Illegally.

Wat da Heck doe Birth CONTROL Mean? Dat be a Funky Term. Does NOT Belong in Same
Sentence as Abortion.

WTF, are you suppose to call a person "hairless" instead (BTW, it's not just men who go bald) and what about those who shave their heads to be bald.

Calling a man 'bald' is sexual harassment, a UK tribunal rules.

I can see this causing problems.

Removing a Prez with Less than 2 Weeks Left.

Congress Takes Years to Get NOTHING DONE.

'cept for RAISING Their Pay and Other GiveAways to Their DONORs

SUPERYap

da MORE PROFITs a Business Has - dA MORE SAFETY can be Implemented.

WASHINGTON/SEATTLE, May 5 (Reuters) - U.S. planemaker Boeing Co (BA.N) is set to move its corporate headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia, two people familiar with the matter said.

The move, likely to be announced as early as next week, comes as Boeing works to emerge from successive crises and industrial problems that have deepened its focus on repairing relationships with customers, U.S. regulators and lawmakers.

The move to Arlington - across the Potomac River from the U.S. capital - will place Boeing senior leaders close to the Federal Aviation Administration, lawmakers and the Pentagon.

Wind turbines spun by the airflow from passing vehicles installed on a major road in Shropshire will generate enough electricity to run all the streetlights for the nearby town in a UK first.

The vertical wind turbines, invented by a British company, can harness even a moderate breeze, which they say is generated by a car driving at 50mph, as well as by natural wind, and catch airflow moving in either direction.

They will be installed on 181 streetlights on the A442 after a deal between Telford and Wrekin’s Labour-run council and company Alpha 311, which hopes the turbines could become as ubiquitous as cats’ eyes on the roads.

The turbines will provide electricity to the grid, and are expected to generate a surplus beyond the needs of Telford’s 20,000 street lights.

One wind turbine in the middle of a motorway can generate as much electricity as 30 solar panels, or nearly enough to power two homes, according to estimates from Alpha 311.

it doesn’t belong to aliens.
Instead, the wreckage is the work of NASA, a component called a backshell that detached during the landing of the Perseverance rover on the surface of the red planet in February 2021.

BERLIN, April 29 (Reuters) - As Germany speeds up investment in renewables, the energy consumption of its carmakers reveals just how reliant the country's most important industry is on fossil fuels, a Reuters analysis of environmental data shows.

Their dependence lays bare the hurdles automakers face in transforming their own energy consumption while moving the transport sector, responsible for around 30% of German energy consumption, towards electromobility.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine and spiking gas prices have stepped up the urgency for German industry, which consumes another 30% of the country's energy, to move away from fossil fuels, with tools like carbon offsets and renewable energy certificates no longer enough to meet the new goal of energy independence.

Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) depended on non-renewable energy sources for around 80% of its needs, while for BMW (BMWG.DE) the figure was over 60%, according to 2021 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) data, based on 2020 figures provided by the companies.

Over half of the carmakers' energy consumption was from fossil fuels, with the largest chunk from natural gas, the CDP data - the world's largest repository of environmental data - showed.

Chief executives from the largest oil and gas companies received nearly $45m more in combined total compensation in 2021 as compared to 2020 amid the steep rise in gasoline prices across the US over the last year, a new report states

I took a MOCA test last month, my result was 0 (zero) out of 30.

That's 0 wrong answers

So 100% that Rump claims would be 30 out of 30 wrong.