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FYI - "Goliath" is busy purchasing and developing more robots......Robots don't unionize...... https://nypost.com/2021/06/14/amazon-tests-warehouse-robots-it-claims-will-reduce-worker-injuries/ Amazon, meanwhile, insists that the robots are not aimed at replacing workers. Yeah, right......

SF has as much disdain towards the Oscars as the Grammys or any other awards show where the Hollywooders and Elite heap praise and more praise on themselves and each other so I didn't watch it. After the week of digesting the aftermath, I came to the conclusion that Mr. Smith acted irresponsibly and childish perhaps brought on by the past year of brutal news relative to his and Jada's "open" marriage that could have brought him to this point. Mr. Rock is a comedian - A COMEDIAN and a pretty good one. It has been reported he wasn't even aware that she had a medical condition and the joke was even a sideways comment almost that the Smiths seemed to enjoy (for a second anyway). So while Will Smith is a great actor, has played many insane roles and done an awesome job on just about all of them over the years, he should have been the adult in the room and ignored a comment that maybe he didn't like, instead he acted like a spoiled big kid foul-mouthed bully and I for one lost a great deal of respect for him as a person (not as an actor). Also, it won't make me want to watch next year either, if that was the intention.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article260068725.html the recent legislation pending in California is relatively modest compared to some of the sweeping reforms that gun-control advocates are demanding in other states and on the federal level — simply because most of the toughest curbs are already part of California law. Among other things, nationwide advocates are seeking to have all private-party gun sales subjected to federal background checks, which they call the “gun-show loophole.” They also want to see the nationwide assault-weapons ban, which expired in 2004, revived. Both of those laws are in effect in California. Advocates for gun owners say there isn’t much else California can do, given the protections for gun ownership enshrined in the Bill of Rights. “Here in California, we have done everything we could possibly do to control guns,” said Sam Paredes, who runs the Sacramento-area organization Gun Owners of California. “Everything short of banning (guns), and they know they can’t do that.” Paredes said lawmakers are gliding over the real issues that drive gun violence. “Is it mental? Economic? Medical? What is it? They won’t go there. Their knee-jerk reaction is to go after guns,” Paredes said. California has 107 different gun-control laws on the books, more than any other state, according to a database maintained by the Boston University School of Public Health. Massachusetts is No. 2 at 103. Still, lawmakers say Sunday’s bloodbath near the Capitol shows there’s more work to do in a state where an estimated 7 million people live in a home where guns are present. “What a sickening, senseless loss of life,” said California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon on Twitter. “It’s an epidemic, and we need #GunReform now to stop it.” Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, speaking a block from the scene, said, “Thoughts and prayers are not nearly enough .... This senseless epidemic of gun violence must be addressed.” He called for tougher laws on assault weapons, even though it wasn’t immediately clear what type of gun was used Sunday. Sure - We need more gun laws on "ghost guns" and "assault rifles" (when we really don't even know what guns were used on Sunday yet) in the state with the STRICTEST gun laws in the country right now.....

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/politics/mystery-call-gap-trump-jan-6-white-house-phone-logs/index.html There could be various reasons that explain the gap in the call log itself. One possibility is that Trump was speaking to people from a cell phone. As CNN has previously reported, Trump had a habit of using his and other people's phones to make or receive calls. Another explanation could be that Trump had aides place direct calls from the Oval Office, bypassing the switchboard. A former White House staffer who served in the Obama administration told CNN that if then-President Barrack Obama wanted to make a call to someone from the Oval Office, he would normally ask an aide seated nearby to dial the person. The aide would then call the number and hit transfer to connect the caller to the President. That call would not go through the White House switchboard and therefore would not be recorded on the White House switchboard log, the former staffer said. Another factor seems to be where Trump was when he made certain calls. All the calls noted from the January 6 log indicate they were made from the White House residence, suggesting Trump relied on the switchboard to put those calls through. The missing calls appear to start when the diary notes Trump has moved from the residence to the Oval Office. It's funny that the almost exclusive news this past week from the January 6 committee was the mystery wondering why the guilty party (Former President Trump) wasn't brought up on treason since there was such a gap in the WH phone records on January 6. Afterall, he had to be using "burner" phones since he was such a criminal. (Without questioning why there were similar gaps on a daily basis prior to and after, as well as the fact that the previous President, Barack Hussein Obama, had the same habit). SF wonders if there will be any apologies to DJT over this. Maybe they will go back to bad-mouthing Mrs. Thomas next week......

https://www.c-span.org/video/?465845-1/universal-flu-vaccine Not denying Covid is real, (I and Mrs. SF have already had it) just pointing out that Dr. Fauci and his cronies were tossing around the idea of a "Universal Flu Vaccine" in October of 2019 and lamenting the fact that to test an MRNA vaccine would take a minimum of 10 - 15 years.....While speculating an Asian virus would be enough to start an "Entity of Excitement"......Wondering if 2 + 2 = 4 in this scenario.....Since about 90 days after this conference the very "Entity of Excitement" came to pass worldwide......

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dnc-clinton-campaign-fec-civil-penalties-perkins-coie-fusion-gps DNC, Clinton campaign agree to pay FEC fines over Fusion GPS payments for Trump dossier Yeah - Trump was sure wrong about all that stuff, huh.......

https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/biden-used-cheat-sheet-while-doubling-down-on-message-to-oust-putin/ President Joe Biden once again referred to a printed cheat sheet sheet as he doubled down on his unscripted weekend claim that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” On Monday Biden, 79, told reporters he made “no apologies” for his remarks — made off the cuff and not part of his prepared speech in a nationally televised address from Poland Saturday — and did not view it as a provocation to Russia. “It’s more an aspiration than anything. He shouldn’t be in power. There’s no — I mean, people like this shouldn’t be ruling countries, but they do. The fact is they do, but it doesn’t mean I can’t express my outrage about it.” His comments closely aligned with notes printed on a small piece of paper that he was photographed holding in his left hand as he spoke that began as follows: If you weren’t advocating for regime change, what did you mean? Can you clarify? I was expressing the moral outrage I felt towards the actions of this man I was not articulating a change in policy “I was talking to the Russian people. The last part of the speech was talking to the Russian people, telling them what we thought,” Biden told reporters. The president has been photographed several times using a cheat sheet to talk to reporters and voters both in the White House and on the campaign trail. About two weeks before the 2020 election, he pulled notes out of his jacket as he fielded a question about taxes at a Town Hall event. “I carry this card with me,” Biden told the inquiring voter as he repeatedly referenced the notes to recite a litany of dollar amounts and percentages pertaining to his plan to eliminate the tax cuts of former President Donald Trump. Photos showed he used several cheat sheets during his first presidential press conference, including one with the headshots and names of reporters he planned to call on. Biden also utilized notes during a 2021 summit with Putin, while touring the damage of Hurricane Ida in Louisiana and while calling on reporters at the G20 summit in Rome. “I’ll take your questions, and as usual, folks, they gave me a list of the people I’m going to call on,” Biden told the assembled media at the November forum. Talk about scripted......Look, I'm not coming down on the guy for using notes, I do that as well. But when the questions are coming from "impromptu" reporters "firing off questions" at him IN THE SAME ORDER OF HIS NOTES, I might be a little suspicious it may be staged.......

I get it, there are scientific oddities outside of the norms of male/female BR, I read your "lengthy article" and while paraphrasing, this is the essence of that article. (With a whole lot of scientific mumbo-jumbo) I chose not to be "open minded" I guess. I can define a woman pretty easily and I'm not a biologist. Her answer seemed to emulate a former SOTUS Justice who during his confirmation was asked to define "pornography" “Perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so, But I know it when I see it.” I guess. A better answer from Judge Jackson came later in the hearings when she answered Ted Cruz "I know that I am a woman". Come on, she's a shoe-in, and YES, I get it. I feel like Will Smith wanting to smack Chris Rock for some reason.......AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT BR. 🤣

Nice.....

Dang Bob, take you the whole weekend to come up with that? "And you end up ignoring actual science" The "IDEA" of two sexes is "OVERLY SIMPLISTIC". I guess I am one of the "Uninformed"...... Woman: An adult female person. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) I guess "open-minded" means "come up with your own definition" and/or things/science can just evolve to suit the flavor of the day or argument. (Or else I'm just "close-minded")...... I get it, there are scientific oddities outside of the norms of male/female, but that refers to a natural occurrence, not an "identity choice".

In other words, when she used the words "African American woman" during her opening statement she was disingenuous as to the gender of Judge Motley?

You have to admit, even if you are her biggest fan, she attempted (successfully I would say) at very turn to hide her extremely progressive leanings even to the point you could even make the case to call it lying. Nevermind the "soft on child predators" line of questions conservative Senators tried to hang their hats on since I can see her point in her answers there and can agree for the most part. BUT - Her claiming to be "not familiar" with CRT when she clearly (and it's documented) gave very favorable and glowing speeches regarding it's founders and culture. Her incredible answer when asked to define "woman" indicates a deliberate misdirection or deflection rather than an honest answer making it difficult to identify her judicial or personal philosophy while obviously pandering to the LGBTQ123XYZ..... side of the liberals. SF predicts she will be the most left-wing radical on the SCOTUS when confirmed.

OR - Just wait until age of consent and let it decide it's identity?

When you know it's getting out of hand........

2 years and 10 months left with this President?

I just hope she's better at her job than Kamala Harris is at hers.......

Yeah, thanks you pompous A$$#0!E........ At least Ginsburg (who also wasn't an idiot, in fact a pretty smart Judge) had some definition of "woman" in her head, and most likely would have an answer to the Senator's question. In today's polarized society, this SCOTUS nominee is skillfully dodging these questions so her true liberal beliefs can remain hidden, and we're all supposed just go Uh-huh, yep, she's pretty smart (Which yes she is) so why worry about her, she'll make a great SCOTUS Judge. She's way further right wing than RBG. The real Ginsburg made this point in her majority opinion in United States v. Virginia, which ordered Virginia Military Institute, the state’s all-male military school, to become coed. There, she wrote that “[p]hysical differences between men and women … are enduring,” and, quoting Ballard v. United States, added, “[t]he two sexes are not fungible.” https://www.heritage.org/courts/commentary/why-ginsburg-fought-discrimination-the-basis-sex-not-gender-identity

81 million votes....Wink, wink......