Karl Lewis (191444) 29 SFW Posts | 490 Space Comments | Favorites | RSS Feed Registered 2015-09-15 16:15:15 Comment Karma: 1409 Featured Comments: 14 Member of :

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Comment on WOKE MIND VIRUS (2023-02-24 16:45:28)
The real pity, as near as I can tell, is that many, many people are utterly immune.
Comment on THE WITT SISTERS (2023-02-24 07:11:08)
Middle one is Kari Lake, the GOP Gubernatorial candidate from Arizona who managed to lose a winnable race by embracing the crazy, and now claims that she won, in spite of, you know, losing. (There are so many contenders for the top three dumbest Republican women, (and men), that choosing any particular three is always going to be controversial.)
Comment on THE WITT SISTERS (2023-02-23 18:04:59)
Methinks you flatter them, but, whatever.
Comment on hmmm (2023-02-21 16:44:36)
Previously unseen photo of Trump's tryst with Stormy Daniels/Stephanie Clifford.
Comment on Justice Department declines to charge Rep. Matt Gaetz in sex trafficking probe (2023-02-17 07:13:29)
Worth noting: It's not the DOJ, or the US Attorney's Office, that made this announcement... it was Matt Gaetz's attorneys. (For those keeping score at home: keep in mind, those motherfsckers have significant motivation to try to mislead the press and the public. And, this is the second time they've made this announcement; it isn't really news.)
Comment on Local school bus company operator (2023-02-14 07:43:20)
Maybe, just maybe, people who operate buses aren't all experts in economics. Or government. Or slavery. Or any fscking thing at all beyond, possibly, driving buses.
Comment on Higher wages just mean higher rent (2023-02-09 09:08:40)
Weirdly, rents have risen, significantly over the past decade, even though the Federal minimum wage hasn't moved, at all. This has led some cynics to suggest that linking rising wages to higher rents is a "strawman argument." (Although, to be fair, it is generous to describe it as a strawman argument, because mostly, it's just bullshit.) It's almost as if rents were driven by some arcane combination of population, available housing, the costs of building housing, property taxes, and interest rates.
Comment on We do need more black officers but clearly we need a lot more than JUST that (2023-02-02 12:38:53)
Ironic, that now we've learned that there was yet another cop involved in the murder who has , so far, only been "suspended", and he's... how to put this delicately?... not quite as dark complexioned as these other officers. #FTP
Comment on First there was ‘Space Force’… (2023-02-02 08:05:40)
And, when Reagan first proposed "Star Wars", many folks pointed out the it violated an existing Treaty. (If the Treaty is still in force, our flouting of it is likely tolerated because it's just so much expensive masturbation; it can't work.) Testing anti-missile systems under "controlled conditions" is fundamentally different from success in the real world. Modern "MIRV" systems, stealth technology, and, potentially decoy warheads, as well as the existing "over-kill" capabilities of the big three Nuclear Powers would certainly, and trivially, overwhelm any defensive system. The warhead part of a MIRV is relatively tiny; put a guidance system in it, such that its flight path is not ballistic, and your putative defensive system is unlikely to even be able to see it, much less hit it. Further, keeping in mind the power in a nuclear weapon... the MIRV warhead need not present you with a target for more than a few seconds before its explosive capabilities become world-ending for everything beneath it. After the first explosion, any currently inflight defensive missiles, or yet unlaunched missiles, could not be expected to function against the next wave of weapons. You could, of course, be correct, that it is an achievable goal, (I'm just some random internet user, myself, what do I know?), but, that still leaves the issue of how China or Russia would react if it became clear that MADness was no longer in effect. Or, how we would react, should that shoe be an another foot. I'm not trying to be argumentative, really, I'm not. I just consider the issue extremely interesting; and I've been watching it, and thinking about it, for a long time.
Comment on Arrest of high-level FBI agent on Russia’s payroll raises stunning new questions about how Trump won in 2016 (2023-02-02 07:27:04)
It doesn't, really. Charles McGonigal, the agent in question, wasn't part of Crossfire Hurricane, and wasn't in the New York Office until well after Trump became President. And, unrelated to Mr. McGonigal, if anyone is still questioning whether or not Trump's campaign was a Russian Op... well, intentional ignorance is hard to fix. It does, however, raise some interesting questions about the reach of Russia's Intelligence Services into the US's politics, and Law Enforcement and Counter Intelligence communities.
Comment on First there was ‘Space Force’… (2023-01-31 07:53:04)
It isn't that it's a "laughable goal", so much as it's 1) likely impossible with today's technology; 2) I'm not an expert in international law, but I'm pretty sure we've signed a treaty that makes it unlawful to develop any such; 3) Irrelevant to defending us against the Russians or the Chinese, since if you deny them that particular vector of attack, they will certainly select an alternative, (and, you would profoundly motivate them, should they lack a similar "dome", to strike early, as in "now", because they would otherwise have no deterrent available, and that'd make them feel at risk for attack from us). Consider how we'd feel if the Chinese had an effective defense against our ICBMs. "Mutual Assured Destruction" is ugly, but it was/is an effective deterrence against Nuclear Weapons. To your other point: yeah, it's pretty clear that Dementia Don has no idea how any damned thing, at all, works, because, even *before* his brain melted with tertiary syphilis, or whatever, he was an ignorant moron.
Comment on Tanks Biden (2023-01-30 10:53:37)
Among Putie's manifold errors, he started talking about nukes waaaaaaay back when all we had given the Ukrainians were some anti-tank weapons. Now, it's as if he was the little Dick-tator who cried "Nuke"; no one is even taking him seriously. In politics: Never rattle before you strike and/or don't make threats you aren't fully prepared to follow through with.
Comment on I hear Trump supporters like red, so maybe this analogy will make sense. TBF, both are bad. Just one is far worse. (2023-01-16 12:31:06)
Worth noting, for the "both sides" crowd: The law in question includes the words: "willfully retains it or fails to deliver it", so Biden likely hasn't committed a crime, at all, while Mr. Trump, and his lawyers, (or, as I prefer, lolyers), have, in fact, inarguably committed a number of felonies. SEE: 18 U.S. Code § 793 (e)
Comment on Enrique Tarrio’s attorney said, it would be an "injustice" to hold the defendants culpable and allow Trump to not be held accountable for his own actions. (2023-01-14 13:15:17)
IANAL, but... I gotta say, "Sure, my client robbed the bank, but it's unfair to prosecute him unless you also prosecute the guy who planned it, too", doesn't really seem like the *best* defense. It maybe sounded better in his head, than it did out loud. I can hardly wait to see what the jury thinks of it. I mean, from where I'm sitting, it looks remarkably like a confession.
Comment on My local news station published an article stating that 167 swimming pools have the same amount of water as… the Atlantic Ocean. The literal ocean 🤦🏻‍♂️ (2023-01-13 08:17:37)
It's an easy mistake... 33.4 million gallons, vs. 80 million cubic *MILES*. At about 100 BILLION gallons per cubic mile... they were only off by, what 8?, 10? orders of magnitude?