The computer that I use for this blog has crashed. Apparently my hard drive has some issues, and Windows is now trying to repair it. This will take a few hours and I will be back online later today.
If it is not resolved, it will mean that I will need to get a new computer. That will mean a delay by about a day.
I have other computers, but I do not do WNU stuff on them. I keep everything separate for security reasons.
I will update where I stand in the next hour or two.
Update 14:50 EST: It looks like I will need a new computer. Not a happy camper right now.
Update 19:45 EST: Ordered a new computer. Will be picking it up tomorrow at the end of the day. If everything goes OK, I will be back to blogging tomorrow evening or Friday morning.
23 comments:
Good luck!
Remember how Erdogan faked a coup attempt to put tens of thousands of dissenting voices into prison and turn Turkey into a totalitarian nightmare?
https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkey-sentences-citizens-former-soldiers-to-life-over-failed-coup-attempt-against-erdogan
Pelosi loves Erdogan
Biden was impressed too back then. ....
stop being so big an asshole anon
Treat yourself to one with a big fat SSD instead of HDD. If you don't already have one the speed will blow your mind.
My prediction is that there will be no boycott.
China has Blinky the Clown and others totally cowed.
State Department Backs Off US Boycotting Beijing Winter Olympics as China Threatens “Robust Response”
Secretary of State Blinky is such a wuss. Look for the wussy to downplay China and look for some other place to be tough. That place might be high on the threat matrix like Andorra, Monaco, Lichtenstein or San Marino.
Blink might really get tough and greenlight the invasion of Parador to over throw its fascist dictator.
Never change Lapides, you're one of a kind.
Ahh...the joy of hunting for a new computer and associated guff (and cables!!!).
Sadly, I'm a Mac guy.
Which means they break down regularly.
So...Mr WNU, my plea: Do not get a Mac.
But I'm sure you're all over this already.
Name one ally that Trump lost.
For example Trump did not lose Germany. Germany was an ally from January 20, 2017 through January 20, 2021.
Germany always wanted to go their own way since the 1970s or before. They came up with Ost Politik. That did not exactly make them a good ally.
What so you 4:01 (Fred)?
Alex
I love SSD
Crusader
I am not a Mac guy but I have an iMac that only my brother and his kids use when they visit (They for some reason love all things Apple).
I am actually using it now. But the iMac is useless when it comes to my style of blogging. I copy/paste a lot of stuff, and on the iMac it takes me forever to get anything done.
DC Chief Medical Examiner Announces Cause and Manner of Death of 4 People Who Died During Jan. 6 Riot – Ashli Babbitt Ruled a Homicide Death
ALL ACCIDENTS OR NATURAL CAUSES EXCEPT FOR THE PERSON THE GOVERNEMENT MURDERED.
WNU - thanks for keeping us updated. There's no substitute for this blog and I appreciate your dedication!
I have a five year old Dell laptop that is stone reliable.
Worlds better than the last two or three low quality HP's.
According to a recent report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, at least 55 of America’s biggest companies paid nothing in federal taxes for 2020, despite earning a collective $40.5 billion in pretax income. To address these kinds of discrepancies, the president’s plan would impose a minimum tax of 15 percent on firms with income of more than $2 billion and what the Treasury called “large discrepancies between income reported to shareholders and that reported to the IRS.” This minimum tax would affect, the agency estimated, fewer than four dozen companies.
I imagine the gop opposes their getting off without paying a cent in taxes
I was going to say, don't buy any new macs. Junk. Used to be really good but un upgradeable and they keep screwing up the os more and more. Buy a commercial dell.
Florida Republican Matt Gaetz may be the first member of Congress under investigation for sex trafficking, and whether or not he is indicted, “investigated for sex trafficking” has now affixed itself to his name, perhaps permanently. Whatever kind of monster it is people picture when they hear “sex trafficker,” his opponents hope it is enough to sink his political career. Still, what we already know to be true about Gaetz—that he pushed the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, that he has employed staff who took policy cues from a conspiracy theory–laden message board and who cheered on the January 6 insurrection—is plenty contemptible and corrosive. Matt Gaetz has quite publicly demonstrated a willingness to abuse power. There is enough here, too, without having to fall back on pernicious myths about sex trafficking in order to portray Gaetz as the kind of ready-made villain that may be, unfortunately, easier to run out of office.
A sex trafficker, in the popular imagination, may be someone more in the vein of Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide before evidence against him could be heard in court but who was accused by several young women of having trafficked them for sex, which prosecutors say spanned years of manipulation, deceit, and abuse. But Epstein is an exception: In fact, he evaded prosecution for a long time, in part because he was the kind of person who is rarely prosecuted for sex trafficking. He was white, by his own account wealthy, and he had powerful people to shield him—like U.S. attorney (and future Trump labor secretary) Alex Acosta, who in 2007 kept Epstein out of federal prison through a plea deal. Epstein’s story is the kind that fits more comfortably inside a conspiracy theory than the everyday mechanics of our criminal legal system.
Gaetz, meanwhile, seems to have come under investigation due to a less powerful associate, a former Florida official named Joel Greenberg, who has already been charged with sex trafficking, among other offenses, and whose prosecution may have exposed Gaetz. According to the indictment, when Greenberg was the tax collector for Seminole County, Florida, he “did knowingly … recruit, entice, obtain, maintain, patronize, and solicit” a minor between the ages of 14 and 17. The sex trafficking charge was reported in August 2020, but this March, The New York Times connected it to a Department of Justice investigation into Gaetz, which its sources say is focused on whether Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old and whether he gave her anything of material value. The sugar daddy website SeekingArrangement.com may have been where Greenberg and possibly Gaetz met women; as the Times reported, “The F.B.I. mentioned the website in a conversation with at least one potential witness, according to a person familiar with the conversation.” After this, Gaetz issued a memorable denial: “Matt Gaetz has never paid for sex.… Matt Gaetz refutes all the disgusting allegations completely. Matt Gaetz has never ever been on any such websites whatsoever. Matt Gaetz cherishes the relationships in his past and looks forward to marrying the love of his life.”
Patch Cord Ranger had a zinger at 11:51 and vomited at 11:53.
Never once did Patch Cord deny that corporations pass on the taxes to the consumer. Not once.
Corporations Don’t Pay Corporate Taxes. People Do - Yahoo
How Corporations Are Taxed | Nolo
Congratulations Philotectes! You made a web query and made a link to something besides a far leftwing nutter news source such as CNN, NYT or WaPo.
The Nolo was below the Huffpo and Yahoo in the query returns.
Now Parrot, explain to us why, if taxes do not matter, so many corporations are based in China Joe's Delaware?
PS you did not actually read the web page did you.?!? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
The US might as well pull their military forces back to Guam and just give the Western Pacific to the Chinese. China Joe will not stand up to them, and they have probably all ready filled several off shore bank accounts for him and his family to ensure that over the next four years the Chinese can do whatever it wants globally. That the US has not done anything about the Chinese caused pandemic is telling. If it China had launched a biological attack resulting in the deaths of half a million Americans in the 1960's it would have been turned into a pile of radioactive glass.
Over the last year the US has lost all credibility as a superpower and look to our enemies to resort to more plausibly deniable attacks in the future.
Chauvin is our next political prisoner.
Officer Chauvin's Knee Was NOT on George Floyd's 'Neck' and 8 Other Things You Didn't Know About This Case
In two late-night Venmo transactions in May 2018, Rep. Matt Gaetz sent his friend, the accused sex trafficker Joel Greenberg, $900. The next morning, over the course of eight minutes, Greenberg used the same app to send three young women varying sums of money. In total, the transactions amounted to $900.
The memo field for the first of Gaetz’s transactions to Greenberg was titled “Test.” In the second, the Florida GOP congressman wrote “hit up ___.” But instead of a blank, Gaetz wrote a nickname for one of the recipients. (The Daily Beast is not sharing that nickname because the teenager had only turned 18 less than six months before.) When Greenberg then made his Venmo payments to these three young women, he described the money as being for “Tuition,” “School,” and “School.”
The Daily Beast examined these records as a scandal, rooted in a criminal case against Greenberg, engulfs Gaetz.
The Strange Friendship That May Bring Down Matt Gaetz
Florida Men
Jose Pagliery,
Roger Sollenberger
Greenberg—the former Seminole County tax collector—has now been federally indicted on 33 counts, including sex trafficking crimes involving a 17-year-old. Court documents say Greenberg was “engaged in ‘sugar daddy’ relationships.” And The New York Times says a Justice Department investigation is looking into Gaetz’s involvement in the cash-for-sex ring.
Gaetz and Greenberg are both connected through Venmo to this then-18-year-old woman—who now works in the porn industry, according to a friend of the girl. And on Thursday, Greenberg’s attorney and prosecutors indicated during a court hearing that they expect Greenberg to strike a plea deal, likely meaning he plans to cooperate with investigators.
I am not impressed Frederick R. Lapides. You are not taking a random sample from both parties. Funny how Jeffrey Epstein ended up dead. I guess the ration of Democrats to Republican was too high. You could trade 2 Democrats for 1 Republican and win. Since that exchange did not happen it tells me that there were way more Democrats than Republicans.
Democrats would trade Bill and Hillary to get Trump. But it has not happened. You keep promising. I fond it extremely interesting that the only one being prosecuted in the Jeffrey Epstein case is Ghislaine Maxwell. Smells like pick and choose justice.
Personally, I think Gaetz is guilty. I would opine that talk show Joe Pags does too. He said the same things I did. Generally, if you are guilty, you do not go to the FBI when blackmailed. Still he did not give a full throated endorsement. On the other hand you've bene promising for 2 weeks now. You have also overpromised and underdelivered or not delivered at all on Trump, Ethan Nordean or Chauvin.
With all this pick and choose endorsement and this tsunami of human trafficking we get with Joe Biden, my life in America might be like it was in Latin American, where I lived 2 doors down form the largest cat house in town. Thanks Joe.
But you jeep being selective in your outrage. We would not want you to change your spots.
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