FBI: Federal Bestiality Instigators

In June, new internal guidance revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation relaxed several longstanding hiring disqualifiers, according to reporting by CBS News.

Past acts like soliciting s** workers or stealing from an employer no longer trigger an automatic rejection. Candidates who hired s** workers may still qualify if the incidents occurred over ten years ago and happened fewer than three times. Theft is allowed if it happened over three years ago.

The updated rules also address past acts of bestiality or animal cruelty. Applicants who engaged in such behavior before turning 18 are no longer automatically banned from working for the FBI.

It'll lead to interwsting questioning of agents in trial: "Have you ever fucked a sheep or other animal", etc. I know that J.Edgar Boozer has pushed out a shitload of competent people, but how short of applicants are they that they need to hire johns, office thieves and sheep-fuckers?

DEAR SUPREME COURT: FUCK YOU ALL

The Supreme Court issued a decision on Monday that gives Donald Trump the ability to proceed with his plans for construction of a new White House ballroom.

Trump’s plans for a White House ballroom have been an ongoing point of contention and legal action, with opponents arguing that Trump has no legal authority to pursue the project without congressional approval. In a 5-4 decision, the court granted the Trump administration’s request to block a lower court ruling that would have prevented work from being done on the ballroom.

They all knew that he didn't have congressional authority, but they relied on a technicality to let him go ahead.

The bottom line is that the Spremes hauled out their rubber stamp and let Trump do what he wants to do. They like to say that no man is above the law, but it's clear as glass that one man is.

Your Sunday Morning Aircraft Noise

EAA mostly departures.



The GA fleet is pretty old.

DHS is the American Gestapo

They have been pushing the edges of the law to illegally serve administrative subpoenas on tech companies to get the records of reporters and others. The tell is, whenever someone is able to contest the subpoenas, DHS folds rather than fight things and take the good chance that a judge will slap their dicks for being fascist douchebags.

It's nothing new, really. DHS has been an authoritarian police state organization since it was esablished under Chimpy McFuckwit. Nothing about DHS would suggest that anyone who works there has any familiarity with the Constitution of the United States. In short, everyone who has been worn into a DHS position and swore to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution should be charged with perjury or, at least, lying to a federal official.

Shorter Trump: It’s Only Dead Brown People

The US government on Wednesday expressed its condolences over the deadly floods in Nepal and promised to provide $500,000 in emergency assistance, the State Department said.

A half-million donation from the US government is fucking chicken feed and borderline insulting. Everyone other than MAGAts would completely understand if the Nepalese turned it down.

Caturday

Speck is chilling.

Guy Who Advocated For Deporting People is Getting Deported

Far-right political commentator and deportation advocate Milo Yiannopoulos is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody facing a final order of removal, according to U.S. officials and agency records.

So the guy who supported the party of face-eating leopards has had his face eaten.

Trump’s “Freedom Fuel”

Well, it turns out that the stations selling TrumpGas were, allegedly, selling stolen fuel.

Which tracks, no. It wasn't "Freedom Fuel", it was "Felon Fuel".

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Because It's Friday

A copy of the first locomotive in France with a firetube boiler, designed by Marc Seguin.

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Dear Navy: Fuck Off

A judge dismissed a lawsuit from a civilian engineer in the Military Sealift Command after it was determined that her report of being raped in her own bed aboard a Navy transport ship was within her duties and must be treated as a worker’s comp claim.

So, for the Navy, being raped is a work hazard. The Navy's Coverup Integrity Service also helped sweep the matter under the rug. The ship's captain, a civilian mariner, was "disciplined" by having to surrender his mariner's ticket.

I wish that I could say that I was shocked and surprised. But I'm not. It's never about justice with those clowns, it's all about protecting the institution.

In other news, several states are doing what they can to ensure that their children grow up illiterate and stupid.

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Play Football, Scramble Your Brain

That's the upshot of a new study:

Since the degenerative brain disease known as C.T.E. was first scientifically linked to football about 20 years ago, and as hundreds of former professional football players have been diagnosed with the disease after their deaths, a haunting question has lingered:

Just how many N.F.L. players will end up with C.T.E.?

New data provides a sobering indication: At least one in four of all the people who have played in the N.F.L. might expect to end up with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a study of hundreds of cases over a recent six-year period.

Researchers considered every former N.F.L. player who died from 2016 to 2021. There were 878. Some died in their 20s, some in their 80s, most in between.

The study’s main finding was simple math: At least 215 of those 878 former players — 24.5 percent — had C.T.E.

The actual prevalence could be far higher. The roughly 25 percent rate does not consider the 643 brains that were not examined. Some of those, maybe many of them, likely had C.T.E. too.

That doesn't take into consideration those who played college ball and didn't go on to the pros. When I watched World Cup games and saw some dude taking a header on the ball, my thought was that guy's setting himself up for CTE down the road.

A dozen years ago, I went to a hairdresser whose grade-school son played tackle football. I wondered if they were setting their son up for future brain damage with repeated head impacts on a developing brain. But I kept my wonderings to myself.

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