“Ukraine Hostage Standoff Ends After President Agrees To Promote Joaquin Phoenix Film”
It’s not widely known that terrorists and extremists are HUGE fans of Joaquin Phoenix, especially his youthful debut in SpaceCamp. He’s not their only favorite. For relaxation after a hard day of mindless slaughter, car-bombing and hostage-taking, they love to wind down with a Hugh Grant romcom.
There are at least two possible definitions of the ambiguous term “mortality rate”:
1. The percentage of people who die after contracting the disease.
2. The percentage of all people in a country who die from the disease.
The USA does poorly on both scales.
The worldometers.info data lists 218 countries and territories.
The USA does beat several European countries in both criteria: Belgium, UK, Spain, Italy, France and Sweden, but it will pass most of those in “deaths per million population” in time, because they have brought their numbers way down, while the USA is soaring ever upward.
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia have ZERO fatalities, while the USA has more than 140,000. (Vietnam has nearly 100 million people, a long border with China, and NO fatalities.) Because of the brilliant job Eastern Asia has done in controlling the pandemic, anybody with a reasonable grasp of the international numbers, or even the slightest lick of common sense, would know without actually running the numbers that the USA can’t be anywhere near the best in any mortality calculation. Needless to say, Trump has neither of those qualifications.
Modern technology applied to tiny, ancient B&W footage. Impressive
To wit: “Kim tried to involuntarily commit me”
I like it!
And it gives Trump another slogan option as well. “Vote for Trump. Saner than the other guy.”
Kanye West has turned on his own family in the midst of what we’re told is a major bipolar episode … targeting Kris Jenner, comparing his life to the movie “Get Out” and accusing Kim Kardashian of trying to commit him to a mental hospital.
In a series of tweets Monday night, Kanye revealed his wife’s plan to get him help … just 24 hours after a bizarre and, at times, incoherent campaign rally in South Carolina. Kanye said, “Kim was trying to fly to Wyoming with a doctor to lock me up like on the movie Get Out because I cried about saving my daughters life yesterday.”
That was actually one of his more coherent assertions. Some of them are just full Nicholson in The Shining. Check this one out:
“I put my life on my God that Norths mom would never photograph her doing playboy and that’s on God. I’m at the ranch … come and get me.”
He did not. Chris Wallace pushed back on misleading and false claims.
TRUMP: “Now we have the 1619 project. What is THAT all about?”
WALLACE: “Slavery.”
I don’t know why Trump agreed to this interview. As The Mooch pointed out:
The Chris Wallace interview is Biden’s campaign ad.
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 19, 2020
“Countries where fermented cabbage forms a key part of their diet have had lower fatalities.”
Death or fermented cabbage – the choice is yours.
“The attack was not the work of a single country like Russia or a sophisticated group of hackers. Instead, it was done by a group of young people – one of whom says he lives at home with his mother.”
“The massive hack of high-profile users from Elon Musk to Joe Biden has raised questions about Twitter’s security as it serves as a megaphone for politicians ahead of November’s election.”
This doctor puts on six masks while demonstrating his oxygen level in real time.
“The President is losing at light speed. It is very possible that not only will DA Vance has his tax returns before the election, but also Trump and members of his family could be indicted for lying on business and loan documents in the middle of the presidential election.”
Frankly, I doubt it.
“The ruse included bogus tweets from former President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and a number of tech billionaires including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Celebrities Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian West, were also hacked. The fake tweets offered to send $2,000 for every $1,000 sent to an anonymous Bitcoin address.”
What happened, or so Twitter now thinks, is that some of its employees were hacked, and their permissions were used to gain access to the accounts of influential people. That takes a real criminal mastermind like the ones in the comic books. But unlike comic book masterminds, these guys didn’t seem to know how to monetize their iniquity. The couldn’t really have expected many people to fall for the obviously phony “send me a thousand and I’ll send you two” scam, so it’s not clear what the point was meant to be.
I’m not convinced that this half-hearted crypto-currency scam, which apparently netted only $117,000, was the real endgame. Maybe they didn’t intend to “score” this time. I guess it could be a gambit by the intruders to test their methods, or perhaps to demonstrate their power, like when the Joker takes over all of the Gotham City TV stations just to prove he can do it. Or they may have posted the bitcoin scam as a red herring to cover up their data mining in Twitter’s servers. Time will tell. But it seems at this moment like they wasted access to vast power.
“Gov. Kemp bans cities, counties from mandating masks”
UPDATE:
Georgia governor Brian Kemp sues the mayor of Atlanta over the city’s mask mandate.
I do have words this time. His justification is absolutely ridiculous. “This lawsuit is on behalf of the Atlanta business owners and their hardworking employees who are struggling to survive during these difficult times. These men and women are doing their very best to put food on the table for their families while local elected officials shutter businesses and undermine economic growth.” All of his points are totally irrelevant. The mask ordinance does not prevent anyone from going to work or opening a business, or anything else, for that matter. It merely requires that people wear a mask while doing so. You want proof that America’s education system is failing? All you need to know is this: Brian Kemp graduated from college.
You might …
“Kanye West Presidential Bid Seemingly Ends 10 Days After Announcement”
Or you might not …
There are other indications that he’s in. The AP reported: “Rap superstar Kanye West has qualified to appear on Oklahoma’s presidential ballot, the first state where he met the requirements before the filing deadline. A representative for West filed the necessary paperwork and paid the $35,000 filing Wednesday afternoon”
“On Sunday morning, I suffered gunshot wounds, as a result of a crime that was committed against me and done with the intention to physically harm me … I’m incredibly grateful to be alive and that I’m expected to make a full recovery.”
(She seems to be trying to control the narrative. A bystander video showed Megan herself in cuffs, and she reportedly told the LAPD she had suffered an injury to her foot due to broken glass on the floor of the car.)
No consolation prize for this game …
Earlier this week, Woolery tweeted that, essentially, everyone was lying about COVID 19, “The CDC, media, Democrats, our Doctors” were all lying to make sure Trump lost the election. Trump immediately re-Tweeted Woolery’s Tweet, basically agreeing with him and throwing Dr. Fauci and every right thinking person under the bus.
The next day Woolery backtracked. The reason? His son, he said, had tested positive for the virus. “Covid-19 is here and it is real,” he said, contradicting his entire prior Tweet. And his whole philosophy. The former host of “Love Connection,” outspoken right winger and supporter of Donald Trump, has deleted his Twitter account
Former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville defeated former Attorney General Jeff Sessions in Alabama’s Republican primary runoff election on Tuesday.
The report now current is that Imahara died suddenly following a brain aneurysm.
Needless to say, because you are reading it on Other Crap, somebody leaked the plan itself.
Or maybe that was his plan all along. Maybe he only told one guy that he had a top secret plan, knowing that if it leaked, that guy had to be a leaker. Oh, man, my head hurts more than that episode when Kirk tricked Mudd’s robots.
According to reports, the new name will not be announced immediately.
Some insiders say Snyder couldn’t decide between “Injuns,” “Hostiles,” “Wagon Burners” and “Savages.” I’m kidding about that, but just barely. Snyder really wanted to keep all the racist iconography and rename the team “Warriors.” As I’ve noted in the past, this is roughly equivalent to Evil Roy Slade’s decision to start his new law-abiding life by changing his name to Evil John Ferguson.
Snyder also hoped to offend a different ethnic group for a while but, as we all know now, it is evil to offend any race or ethnicity except the Irish.
Wait a sec! Why doesn’t Notre Dame’s racist Irish caricature have red hair? Another minor point – I spent quite some time in Ireland working with the Shell people there (great place, by the way), and I never saw anyone wearing yellow shoes.
To be serious for a sec, the new name seems to be contingent on registering the trademarks, sealing all the licensing deals, and other legal folderol. Nobody seems to be spilling the beans about which name the team is attempting to lock down, but the coach said “he wanted the new name to honor both Native Americans and the military, saying that many native people join the military.” Personally, I would have suggested that the team stay away from ethnic identification altogether, but I’ll hold off until I see what he has in mind.