Apropos? I wish I knew ...

@#38 It's a race baiting, trolling thread.

A Boaz special. ...

While I am not yet at that opinion, I will say that this thread, ummmm, provides me with more of a reason to understand the posts of that alias.

@#53 ... I'm surprised to learn that Fauci had taxpayer security. ...

Why is your current alias surprised at that?

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... The Rhesus Macaque monkey returned to the facility Friday and was in good condition, WCSC reported. The facility is about 95 miles west of Charleston.

The monkey's return was confirmed by Alpha Genesis Chief Executive Officer Greg Westergaard.

The primates on the night of Nov. 6 escaped from their confines at the Alpha Genesis facility in Beaufort County but remained close to the facility.

Alpha Genesis officials said the monkeys did not pose a danger to the local community and were staying on and near the facility's grounds.

Alpha Genesis staff continued to feed the monkeys, who gradually returned to their holding area. ...

@#1 ... reassigning control of those features to any phone or computer they chose. ..

Oops.

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... It took Curry until last November, when he was home for Thanksgiving, to begin examining the 2023 Impreza's Internet-connected features and start looking for ways to exploit them.

Sure enough, he and a researcher working with him online, Shubham Shah, soon discovered vulnerabilities in a Subaru web portal that let them hijack the ability to unlock the car, honk its horn, and start its ignition, reassigning control of those features to any phone or computer they chose.

Most disturbing for Curry, though, was that they found they could also track the Subaru's location -- not merely where it was at the moment but also where it had been for the entire year that his mother had owned it.

The map of the car's whereabouts was so accurate and detailed, Curry says, that he was able to see her doctor visits, the homes of the friends she visited, even which exact parking space his mother parked in every time she went to church. ...

As an aside, I have to ask, have you ever experienced Cabot's Habanero Cheddar Cheese?

Whoa, it is a flavor experience.

Overall ...

@#1 ... It makes exceptions only for emergency food aid and for military funding for Israel and Egypt. ...

Interesting that Ukraine was not mentioned.

@#2 ... The order, which shocked State Department officials, appears to apply to funding for military assistance to Ukraine. ...

Yup.

Pres Putin is happy with this, imo.

Another view ...

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... The United States is the world's biggest international aid donor spending $68bn in 2023 according to government figures. The State Department notice appears to affect everything from development assistance to military aid.

It makes exceptions only for emergency food aid and for military funding for Israel and Egypt. The leaked memo's contents have been confirmed by the BBC. ...

@#32 ... What's up with this "alias" ----? I don't have an alias. ..

As I have said many times before, when I ran a message board back in the day, when you created the board account, you selected an "alias" to use in your participation on the message board. It was not your real name, it was an alias.

(and, as a complete aside, based upon my experience in running that message board back then, my respect for what RCade does here on this most august board is profound. If you do not understand why I say that, then just put up your own message board and deal with it. Case closed. :) )

So, I carry that to this board.

I was just looking to see if you would reply to what I posted or try to continue to deflect.

I am not at all surprised with the continued deflection of your comment.

@#29 ... Where were you when people attack me first?

I can post something and even Laura will attack me personally and never answer to the subject of the post.

You are a little late for that Lamplighter..

Maybe, maybe not.

For starters, I do not see all of the comments you post. So I do not know if the ramifications of those comments may be justified, or not.

However, in #28, I was quite specific in my comment that specified my concern.

And I note that your alias still seems to think that "You, without a doubt, are the dumbest person I have ever met." is a valid comment.

@#11 ... Biden did not allow Trump to retain his security clearance after leaving office. ...

Got a link? (I ask once again)

I did find this ...

@#26 ... You, without a doubt, are the dumbest person I have ever met.

You arent black. You no idea of that it takes to be a man. And you damn sure don't know what it takes to be a woman. ...

So, all your alias has to counter what was posted are ad hominem attacks against the poster of those comments?

Your alias has nothing else to counter besides attacks?

Allow me to ask, who is the weak one in that conversation?

@#44 ... Indeed, her primary client is less likely to be the people of the United States than it is Donald Trump. ...

Bingo!

The Constitution be damned.

@#43 ... DEI hire. Weak. ...

Touché

@#3 ...Biden's revocation of Trump's clearance was also unprecedented. ...

I found this ...

@#7 ... These 51 lied and interfered in a election. ...

How so?

@#3 ... Biden's revocation of Trump's clearance ...

Got a link?

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... "We must respect the First Amendment"

Commissioner Anna Gomez, one of two Democrats on the commission, criticized the Carr FCC's decisions. "As I stated last week, we cannot allow our licensing authority to be weaponized to curtail freedom of the press," Gomez said yesterday. "The First Amendment is a pillar of American democracy, and our country needs a press free from interference from regulators like me. In fact, the Communications Act explicitly prohibits the Commission from censoring broadcasters. We must respect the protections of the First Amendment and the restrictions in the Communications Act." ...

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...
The Situation on Friday said goodbye to a genuinely decent man who had earnestly sought to do justice.

And now, as Maurice Sendak might put it, let the indecent rumpus start.

I could write this column today about the indecency of pardoning more than a thousand people convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, making the point that this sort of indecency is really, really bad" -- but that's obvious.

I could write instead about the Kafkaesque nature of beginning a presidential proclamation on the subject of these clemency actions by describing the Jan. 6 prosecutions, many of which involved violent felonies, as "a grave national injustice" -- but that's also too obvious to spend any time on.

I could write about how the president's proclamation, which also "direct[s] the Attorney General to pursue dismissal with prejudice to the government of all pending indictments against individuals for their conduct related to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021," constitutes a dramatic and overt presidential intervention in a series of ongoing criminal cases of precisely the sort that would normally provoke scandal. But that point too is obvious. Who needs to hear more about the investigative independence of the Justice Department? ...

The truth is that I have almost nothing non-obvious to say about the president's action -- just one thing, really.

It all won't work.

Oh, the president might accomplish a short-term goal. He has rewarded his friends. And he has thus shown others that he will protect them if they commit crimes or take risks for him. He has put the power of the United States federal government behind the patent lie that the prosecution of Jan. 6 rioters was an injustice requiring remedy, which is all part of the larger lie that the prosecution of Trump himself was political. And that -- in turn -- is all part of the still-larger lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him. So sure, he has thrown some dust in the air. ...

Yeah, as is the norm with the lawfare articles, visit the site to read the entire article and possibly learn stuff.

@#5 ... And they wonder why China is taking over theirs world countries ...

Yeah, China is moving in, challenging the US in many areas.

Pres Trump seems to be saying, ~that's OK by me, MAGA by surrendering to the world.~

To which I ask ...

At what point does Pres trump make the United States so weak that the US has to succumb to a foreign power?