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Am I the only one who is weirded out by the fact that Brainey's superiors haven't yet told him how to feel about the recent Julian Assange news, and post memes which somehow incrminate the democratic national committee as part of a conspiracy related to same?
What we need is for the San Andreas Fault to cut loose with an 18.5 quake and drop the first 20 miles of California coastline into the Pacific. Yes, my parents and some good friends are in there, but I told them to move a decade ago.
I know you were talking tongue in cheek...............but...............
Beware what you wish for because a really significant quake on the West Coast would potentially cause a series of quakes all up and down the coast and bring on a tsunami large enough to wipe out a lot of Hawaii as well.
It would be the stuff that a dozen movies could be made from.
It would be the stuff that a dozen movies could be made from.
By who? Sound travels pretty good over water... and because I'd have many hours of warning as the wave moves across the Pacific, I wonder if I could hear the screams of all the Hollywood elite while they drown as I enjoy the 4-lo in my Sequoia heading for higher ground with all my guns and 30rd mags.
People around these parts don't like when we dump data about the government, however, people around these parts like when we dump data about the government. I've heard people hear curse the name Snowden, but at the same time, people have praised him since he exposed a horrible spying campaign.
Manning had no business holding a clearance in the first place.
I got a good laugh from reading about Chelsea Handler a couple of days ago.
She owns up to having a mental condition she calls "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and spending many hours and lots of $$$ in therapy in an attempt to heal herself.
Didn't know there was such a condition but now that I am aware it got me thinking that there are a bunch of other people suffering from the same condition.
They need to get together and have weekly meetings similar to what Alcoholics Anonymous does.
As best I can tell the main symptom is that a person blames every negative thing that happens in the entire world on Trump.
In a nutshell Trump is the devil himself in their mind.
Am I the only one who is weirded out by the fact that Brainey's superiors haven't yet told him how to feel about the recent Julian Assange news, and post memes which somehow incrminate the democratic national committee as part of a conspiracy related to same?
I'm curious why we have no Brainy memes about Drumpf praising Wikileaks (and therefore Assange) 100+ times before the election and now he claims not to know what Wikileaks is.
I'm curious what the international community, IE the US, pulled from Ecuador to finally give him up.
I'm curious what the international community, IE the US, pulled from Ecuador to finally give him up.
think they (Ecuador & embassy staff?) just got bored of Assange? or did he run out of 'secrets' to trade for bed&breakfast?
have heard that theres a legal battle to stop extradition because he (Assange) was denied healthcare while hiding in an embassy - but if he didn't go to a hospital
I'm curious why we have no Brainy memes about Drumpf praising Wikileaks (and therefore Assange) 100+ times before the election and now he claims not to know what Wikileaks is.
Not sure if you're being serious. Brainey would never say or post anything which implied that God-Emperor Trump was capable of error.
Originally Posted by z31maniac
I'm curious what the international community, IE the US, pulled from Ecuador to finally give him up.
From what I have read, Assange was being a pain in the *** within the embassy, and Ecuador finally just got tired of dealing with him. Reports are that Assange had rather poor hygiene, tended to play loud music and skateboard down the hallways late at night, was rude to the embassy staff, and even did some really crazy **** like smearing feces on the walls. (In other words: he's definitely a true patriot who reflects positively on all Americans.)
Quoth president President Lenin Moreno: "We've ended the asylum of this spoiled brat. From now on we'll be more careful in giving asylum to people who are really worth it, and not miserable hackers whose only goal is to destabilize governments."
The mystery of Julian Assange’s cat: Where will it go? What does it know?
Julian Assange’s cat sits on the balcony of the Ecuadoran Embassy in London on July 30. (Peter Nicholls/Reuters)
By Reis Thebault April 11 at 9:47 PM
Julian Assange kept a lot of secrets pent up with him in a cramped corner room at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London. But as his seven-year tenure there ended ignominiously on Thursday, one final mystery captured the attention of the international community.
What will happen to Embassy Cat?
The asylum seeker’s furry friend was Assange’s only consistent companion during some of his lonely years as a self-styled political refugee. The cat had a significant Internet following of its own — though its views hewed suspiciously close to its human’s — and it was apparently a fixture at the embassy, with a penchant for pouncing on Christmas tree ornaments and for defusing tension as the WikiLeaks founder tangled with a bevy of world leaders. It was named for its famous home but occasionally went by “James” or “Cat-stro” after the Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s death in 2016.
Its Twitter and Instagram accounts — with 31,000 and 5,000 followers, respectively — also monopolized the coveted market for cybersecurity-meets-cat puns (the cat was reportedly interested in “counter-purrveillance”).
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So when British police stormed the Ecuadoran Embassy, arrested Assange and took him into custody after a U.S. federal court unsealed an indictment charging him with conspiracy, many worried about the fate of the feline.
Would the cat’s asylum end, too? Or was it just beginning? Would someone adopt it, or would it also face extradition to the United States? Would it fall victim to a vast conspiracy? Did it know too much?
“Is Julian Assange’s cat going to be okay though?”
While it’s unclear exactly what happened to Embassy Cat, multiple sources have indicated that it long ago left its home.
Italy’s la Repubblica newspaper reported in November 2018 that the cat was gone. But, according to the paper, its departure was for its own good, a benevolent gesture by its owner. The author, who visited Assange for the story, wrote that “Not even the cat is there anymore. . . . Assange has preferred to spare the cat an isolation which has become unbearable and allow it a healthier life.”
Sputnik, the Russian government-run news organization and diligent reporter of Embassy Cat developments, said it had contacted the Ecuadoran Embassy about the cat and that a spokesman confirmed that it has been gone for months.
“It is not here since September, I think,” the official told Sputnik. “It was taken by Mr. Assange’s associates a long ago … It is not here. We are not a pet store, so we do not keep pets here.”
James Ball, an early employee of WikiLeaks who defected after three months at the organization, said on Twitter that the embassy gave the cat to a shelter “ages ago.” He also wrote that he “genuinely offered to adopt it,” though it doesn’t appear that Assange took him up on it.
For the record: Julian Assange’s cat was reportedly given to a shelter by the Ecuadorian embassy ages ago, so don’t expect a feline extradition in the next few hours.
(I genuinely offered to adopt it)
But the person closest to Assange to comment on Embassy Cat, a member of his legal team, said Assange gave the cat to a family member after the Ecuadoran Embassy threatened to take the pet to a shelter.
“Ecuador also threatened to put Assange’s cat in the pound,” Hanna Jonasson said in a tweet. “Insensed at the threat, he asked his lawyers to take his cat to safety. The cat is with Assange’s family. They will be reunited in freedom.”
And this: https://t.co/8D0zYhgLcG Hanna Jonasson@AssangeLegalIn the same document in which Ecuador threatened to hand Assange over for arrest, Ecuador also threatened to put Assange's cat in the pound.
Insensed at the threat, he asked his lawyers to take his cat to safety. The cat is with Assange's family. They will be reunited in freedom. pic.twitter.com/W9FvDbvQgw 2,359
In 2018, the Ecuadoran Embassy chastised its most famous tenant, giving Assange a set of house rules that instructed him to clean his bathroom and take better care of his cat. The rules warned him that he must look after its “well-being, food and hygiene” or risk losing it, the BBC reported.
Other media reports have suggested that the cat is less a companion and more of a public-relations strategy. Assange has told tabloids that the cat was a gift from his children, but someone the New Yorker described as knowing Assange well told the publication something quite different.
“Julian stared at the cat for about half an hour, trying to figure out how it could be useful, and then came up with this: Yeah, let’s say it’s from my children,” the person said. “Everything is P.R. — everything.”
As for the new owners, Bradshaw advised them to keep the cat as an indoor-only pet, because it grew up as such in the embassy. If allowed outside after its repatriation, it may try to escape and return to its old home in the London neighborhood.
“It will probably try to get back to Knightsbridge,” Bradshaw said, “and likely fall foul of the traffic.”
EDIT: I give up. This is edit #8, and I still can't make this message format properly, due to the forum software trying to do all sorts of "intelligent*" parsing of my input. @Robb M. , you, and all of Internet Brands, have succeeded in sucking all of the joy out of my life.
* = years ago, I coined the phrase "distributed stupidity" as a counter to "distributed intelligence," which was the early 2000s version of "in the cloud." That describes where IB is now rather well.
Edit #9: The forum is still deleting carriage-returns before an indent tag, Which makes me look like an idiot.
Edit #10:: When I added Edit #9, the software inserted 14 carriage-returns between "EDIT: I give up" and "* = years ago."
Just tell me what you want. Money? Sex? Gold? I will consider all reasonable offers to return this forum to the level of functionality which it had in 2016.
Edit 11: After edit 10, it also inserted a bunch of CRs after "* = years ago."
Edit 12: apparently it inserts a bunch of CRs both before and after any indented paragraph when using the edit function.
Edit 13: yup, confirmed. The CRs around an indented paragraph double every time I use the edit function.
This is utterly deplorable. The VALID CRITICISMS of Omar and her history of disgusting and ignorant comments DO NOT EQUATE to the Holocaust. This is peak victim complex. Omar is not a victim.
These "fresh faces" of the Democratic party have, in their 6 months in office, spewed more hate, vitriol and partisanship than any other American politician I can think of. They preach about Trump dividing this country, when they themselves demonize all those who disagree with them.
I am taken aback by their constant ignorance and deception. But this, equating criticism of Omar to the atrocities of the Holocaust, is outright evil and disrespects the Holocaust.
EDIT: I give up. This is edit #8, and I still can't make this message format properly, due to the forum software trying to do all sorts of "intelligent*" parsing of my input. , you, and all of Internet Brands, have succeeded in sucking all of the joy out of my life.
I don't know why you have such annoying issues. I just edited the post to remove the line breaks and it seems to have works as expected/intended for me?
I don't know why you have such annoying issues. I just edited the post to remove the line breaks and it seems to have works as expected/intended for me?
I don't know about Joe's issues, but this is the only site of the thousands I go to that first loads with blocks missing and doesn't show the full page until I reload.
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I'd like to know how to feel about it.
