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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • He’ll fit right in with the administration, honestly. He probably already has a friend over in the Justice Department. Former FBI agent, Jared Wise, who was pardoned mid-trial for his crimes on Jan-6 is now a senior advisor over there. I bet there’s a bunch of Jan-6ers working all over this administration.

    “You guys are disgusting,” Wise told the officers, as captured in the bodycam footage. “I’m former law enforcement. You’re disgusting. You are the Nazi. You are the Gestapo.”

    Wise had served at the FBI from 2004 to 2017, where he worked on international counterterrorism and eventually became a supervisory special agent. By Jan. 6, 2021, according to later testimony, he was working as a consultant in Bend, Ore., and he traveled to Washington, D.C., to support Trump.

    As he stood in front of the police line, he continued to berate the officers.

    “Shame on you,” he yelled. “Shame on you. Shame on you.”

    Violence erupted again, as rioters pushed against officers, knocking one to the ground, according to prosecutors.

    “Kill 'em! Kill 'em!” Wise yelled, as he watched the skirmish. “Get 'em! Get 'em!”







  • It’s not a stimulus check from the federal government. It is an annual check for Alaskan residents handed out since the oil started to flow through the pipelines up there.

    The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) is a permanent investment fund established in 1976, and managed by the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation corporation. It was created by an amendment to the state constitution. The idea was to put 25% of oil revenues into the fund to preserve it for future generation who would no longer have oil revenue to rely on. The original investment was about three quarters of a million dollars, the fund is now worth nearly $90 billion.

    The stimulus check Is the Permanent Fund Dividend check given out every year based on the funds performance. Every year, anyone who has lived in the state for a full year and plans to stay indefinitely is eligible for a stimulus check.

    It all sounds surprisingly socialist, for such a red state, and it’s a big bonus for people struggling to get by up there. Pity everyone in the nation doesn’t get a dividend check from big oil companies.







  • From the link above:

    Sprites, on the other hand, are one of the most commonly observed types of TLEs [Transient Luminous Events] — brief, colorful flashes of light that occur high above thunderstorms in the mesosphere, around 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. Unlike gigantic jets, which burst upward directly from thundercloud tops, sprites form independently, much higher in the atmosphere, following powerful lightning strikes. They usually appear as a reddish glow with intricate shapes resembling jellyfish, columns, or carrots and can span tens of kilometers across. Sprites may also be accompanied or preceded by other TLEs, such as Halos and ELVEs (Emissions of Light and Very Low Frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources), making them part of a larger and visually spectacular suite of high-altitude electrical activity.







  • Yeah, that’s a bit of a puzzle, isn’t it?

    Ge was last seen alive at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday and was discovered an hour later hanging by a ligature in a shower room

    So he was seen at 4:30 AM, one assumes by a guard, and an hour later he was hanging in a shower room? That is obviously bullshit.

    The article goes on about how the facility is so horrible and has had “scores of complaints” about how oppressive it is and how it is more like a prison for convicted criminals but it never even asks the obvious question of how he was able to exit his cell at 4:30 AM and go to the shower room?