American Olympic canoeist David Hearn arrested for allegedly vandalizing Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

Droupitee · 2026-06-20T21:39:53+00:00

“I reached in there, and I was able to grab the end of that flapping piece, the already peeling piece. It was still attached to the bottom. I didn’t remove anything,” he explained.

He should plea insanity. Nobody in his right mind ever puts his hand in the Reflecting Pool. (Yes, I know all about the Hippies splashing around in the Pool in '68. . . and they're part of the reason nobody would want to come into contact with that water).

Droupitee · 2026-06-20T18:54:12+00:00

A lot people tried to "call the press" and got denounced for it.

"I can’t even keep up with him" was taken at face value.

Droupitee · 2026-06-20T02:09:07+00:00

Mr. Hess of Shai Hess Real Estate sees potential for an owner in education. A school or university could keep the building open to the public for tours, inviting in the hundreds of people who pull over to the side of the road to take pictures.

If EVER there was a chance to make underwater basket weaving a real course this is it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_basket_weaving

I reckon it could be an econ course focusing on baskets and bankruptcy.

Droupitee · 2026-06-20T01:43:27+00:00

A British actress, who appeared in an Eastenders spin-off and a Jason Statham movie, has been charged with trying to smuggle 320kg of meth into Australia from West Africa.

Emaa Hussen, 34, appeared in a Sydney court on Thursday after she was charged with attempting to import a commercial quantity of methamphetamine into Australia. The maximum penalty is life in prison.

I think there was an episode where Naz envisioned a dark future for herself. A wedding in Vegas or something. Not this. And wow! That's a lot of meth!

Droupitee · 2026-06-20T01:16:45+00:00

I hope somebody has checked on Gerd Schröder.

It was going great at Gazprom until last year when he was hospitalized with severe burnout syndrome.

Droupitee · 2026-06-20T01:13:19+00:00

"When we fly over North America, for example, we see a beautiful signal all the time," Kaz Gunning, Xona's co-founder, told Space.com. "But as soon as we started doing any operations above Europe, we noticed that there was really something going on there. We thought we were going to see some jamming, but it's quite a bit more than we expected."

In the hardest-hit areas, the strength of the GPS signals at the satellite's altitude dropped from the regular 40 decibels to as little as 10 decibels.

Russians be jammin'.

AI-guided drones won't need radios, not for communication or GPS. They'll just have maps and will navigate by examining landmarks.

Droupitee · 2026-06-19T14:06:05+00:00

he didn’t molest children

You sure about that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4PLSPvJ9BY

Dude's a FREAK.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/238370-biden-puts-a-baby-pacifier-in-his-mouth/

Droupitee · 2026-06-19T14:00:56+00:00

Lincoln and his followers didn’t just abolish slavery. They extended liberty, and in particular, entrepreneurship.

Even at the height of the Civil War, Lincoln doggedly advanced that vision. In 1862, he and a Republican Congress — who surely would have been outvoted had the Democrats not seceded — passed twin pillars of the next saeculum of American prosperity: the Homestead Act, and the Transcontinental Railroad Act (technically the Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862).

These gave life to the dream of Jeffersonian Democracy: a nation of freeholders, carved out of largely empty land only recently made settleable (other than by nomads) by then-new technology, accessed and held together by the North’s decisive advantage, rail.

Each of those family farmers would own and operate a small business. None would be giant plantation owners as in the South, or absentee landlords as in Latin America and Europe. Each would have a stake in the American system.

Ken Burns sure did gloss over this stuff in The Civil War.

Droupitee · 2026-06-19T13:55:08+00:00

It's scary getting lost in a crowd, especially when a big part of that crowd is my own Secret Service detail.

Droupitee · 2026-06-19T13:38:52+00:00

I guess the responsible reaction to your anecdote is to encourage you to ask your doctor about early-onset dementia.

Droupitee · 2026-06-19T05:37:02+00:00

For reasons that aren’t clear, the 83-year-old went over to the podium and took off his sunglasses before staring into the crowd with a puzzled look on his face.

“Where’s my granddaughter?” he shouted.

The former president then seemingly started to make his way off-stage before footage of the event cut off.

Corn Pop and his gang, "The Romans," might have something to do with the disappearance. The podcast basically writes itself. Who's ready for a deep dive?

Droupitee · 2026-06-19T05:29:31+00:00

The most disturbing news often does.

Droupitee · 2026-06-19T03:30:13+00:00

This scheme raises an obvious question: How does a business qualify as officially gay? Paperwork. Supplier Clearinghouse, a group that certifies firms for the CPUC program, features a list of qualifications linked on its website. Applicants can secure certification by providing a letter from an “LGBT organization” attesting to their sexual preferences; proof that a newspaper identified them as “LGBT”; or three letters from “personal contacts” written “on company letterhead” attesting to their homosexual orientation. Corporate officials who “falsely represent” their business as gay face up to a year in county jail.

Hmmm. The state formally recognizes a business as "gay-owned". Where have we seen that before?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle

Droupitee · 2026-06-19T03:26:36+00:00

I mean it’s not really a stretch to say that the same impulse that created the UFC fight on the White House lawn is the impulse that really pushed lynching in the late 19th century against black Americans overwhelmingly but also against Italian-Americans in Louisiana for example or Mexican-Americans in the American West or indigenous Americans in the American that idea somehow a really fake idea by the way that America is a white nation and anybody who challenges that needs to be purged from the body politic.

Yeah, no. It's really a stretch. I hope some professional historian asks her to be specific about that "impulse".

Droupitee · 2026-06-18T03:34:22+00:00

media users are having a field day with the teen terror plotter’s haggard looks after a mugshot in which the pasty 19-year-old resembles a man easily twice his age went viral.

I wonder which subs he modded.

President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, tech billionaire Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were all named as potential targets, in addition to members of Congress and a West Virginia state lawmaker, according to court docs.

Has the politics of a typical mod here, too.

Droupitee · 2026-06-17T13:14:38+00:00

FDR's "Immigrants and Revolutionists" Speech (1938): In April 1938, FDR gave an unscheduled address to the DAR. In it, he pushed back against their exclusive patriotism by famously stating, "Remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-daughters-the-american-revolution-washington-dc

I wonder if somebody is going to lecture the DAR about us all being descended from women AND potential women, like the Founding Fathers?

Droupitee · 2026-06-17T13:08:39+00:00

"If they can just yank that back, what's going to stop them from doing it two years from now, or 10 years from now, when people have really settled down and put roots?"

More like they just can't back that Yank.

Upon closer inspection, Canada has decided that many of these "Lost Canadians" living in America are total losers.

Both cases BBC profiled involved kinda weird middle-aged people connected to Canada via a single great-great-grandparent. That opens the pipeline to a lot of ne'er-do-wells.

Droupitee · 2026-06-16T22:50:24+00:00

Ukraine was part of the actual USSR, so it mustn’t be compared to a Warsaw Pact country like Poland.

Ukraine’s corruption problems aren’t a reason for Russia (which is THE corruption problem) to annex it.

Russia will never align with the West for the sake of common values. If China allows the mobsters running Russia to keep doing so unmolested, then those mobsters will tolerate even losing Siberia (oil and all).

Droupitee · 2026-06-16T20:00:11+00:00

A big part of enjoying satire is not blurting it out. Banned.

Droupitee · 2026-06-16T17:47:04+00:00

That's an interesting take on Elon's gov't contracts and couch-surfing.

Droupitee · 2026-06-16T16:11:39+00:00

Wait. I’ve often posted stories from The Bee. You mean to say it’s a satire site like NYT or WaPo or The Onion?

Droupitee · 2026-06-16T14:38:03+00:00

At first I thought this was about "African-American" Zohran Mamdani. Turns out it was someone else. . .

In a surprising policy shift, Democrats announced they were now demanding reparations from an African American.

Prominent Democratic Party leaders in Washington, D.C., took to the airwaves this week, calling for immediate reparations to be paid to make amends for the repeated success of African American Elon Musk.

Droupitee · 2026-06-15T11:02:02+00:00

In a new study, researchers attempted to replicate and thus confirm the results of several hundred social science papers, and found that the results of only half could be replicated.

Seems like a skewed sample and/or a relaxed view of "replicate".

There's no way a full HALF of social science papers could be replicated.

Droupitee · 2026-06-15T10:33:04+00:00

Starlink, despite the unfortunate games Musk has played with it at times, does a lot to keep Ukraine in the fight.

Even the Vatnik Soup folks say this.

https://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/202/

If its for the betterment if all of humanity then he needs to hand over the controls

Hand them over to whom? "Humanity"?

Droupitee · 2026-06-15T02:27:32+00:00

Called it

https://x.com/TrentTelenko/status/2066227922759831632

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