It's now 4 days since the attempted ass*ssin*tion of former president Trump. To this day, I haven't heard that the Secret Service is conducting an internal investigation of their goof-up. Only that Wray, Mayorkas and Cheatle are having a closed door discussion today. I haven't heard that were any apologies to the familes of the people who were killed or injured. The New York Times has not published any of their signature spiffy graphics about the bullet trajectory. Spiffy graphics have only come from amateurs who post on X/Twitter. I've only heard that SS Director Kim Cheatle was interviewed on ABC, and dug in her heels as to her performance, planning to stay on as director, despite calls to resign. Now there is evidence that there were agents inside the building with the roof whose slope was too steep for agents to handle. And this information comes from small local outlets. The story is getting stranger and doesn't make sense. Consider: the ladder and the large sniper rifle escaping detection. The inexperienced kid. People who saw the shooter minutes before and sounded a warning, and nothing was done. The lack of curiosity in the mainstream media about what happened is really bizarre. Theories like this one seem plausible. In the turmoil that would have followed, it would have been easier to sweep things under the rug. But now they stand out.
Sheesh. In Portland, when a person of color makes art, you are required to like it forever.
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This is a big deal. Providence recently sold it's lab services to Labcorp (which Legacy uses, too). Tests which used to take 90 minutes to perform, now takes 7 hours. And the medical staff aren't happy.
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Reason writer fails to understand the difference between cancel culture and having an employee that isn't a decent human being. Cancel culture is when you say that anyone who thinks a man can't be a real woman or a woman can't be a real man deserves to be punished. Or anyone who says that for mission critical positions, merit should have higher priority than diversity issues in hiring for positions of authority. Quite a bit different from letting someone go because they wished someone harm or death. Cancel culture is saying that just purely just because you don't like something, it should be made illegal or unavailable to everyone else. Home Depot (and others) just fired people who thought that they were still safe in expressing the hateful narrative of the Left. Times are changing. Learn the difference between true hate and just being tired of putting up with someone's bullcrap.
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Academic journals are a lucrative scam. it's true. That's why there are so many of them. Academics need to be published in order to survive. And there are people only too glad to make that happen. You'd think that the Internet would fix that, but no. You still need a system that handles peer-review.
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