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by Will · April 1, 2010

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Will writes from Washington, D.C. (well, Arlington, Virginia). You can reach him at willblogcorrespondence at gmail dot com.

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Mike at The Big Stick says:

April 1, 2010 at 9:26 am

I don’t even know how to respond to this.Report
Jaybird says:

April 1, 2010 at 9:39 am

Do you want everyone in Guam to die?

It’s a simple question.Report
- Mike at The Big Stick in reply to Jaybird says:
  
  April 1, 2010 at 9:41 am
  
  What if we just relocated everyone in Haiti to the other side of the island?Report
North says:

April 1, 2010 at 11:15 am

The rep from the military deserves a pay raise for managing to keep a straight face, let alone responding in a polite respectful and accurate manner.Report
Will says:

April 1, 2010 at 11:47 am

Johnson clarifies:

“I wasn’t suggesting that the island of Guam would literally tip over,” said Johnson. “I was using a metaphor to say that with the addition of 8,000 Marines and their dependents – an additional 80,000 people during peak construction to the port on the tiny island with a population of 180,000 – could be a tipping point which would adversely affect the island’s fragile ecosystem and over burden its already overstressed infrastructure.

“Having traveled to Guam last year, I saw firsthand how this beautiful – but vulnerable – island is already overburdened, and I was simply voicing my concerns that the addition of that many people could tip the delicate balance and do harm to Guam.”

Stay thirsty, my friend.Report
- Will in reply to Will says:
  
  April 1, 2010 at 11:53 am
  
  Actually, this sounds pretty plausible when you look at the full transcript:
  
  http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDkyMTkzMGNkNTYwMzE3ZWI0Nzg0MWZkNTBjMmY4YmU=Report
Mike Schilling says:

April 1, 2010 at 12:03 pm

This part concerns (though does not surprise) me

REP. JOHNSON: Very small island and about 24 miles, if I recall, long, 24 miles long, about seven miles wide at the least widest place on the island and about 12 miles wide on the widest part of the island. And I don’t know how many square miles that is. Do you happen to know?

Apparently no one at the meeting knew enough geometry to say “What the hell, call it 230.” (Actually 209, sez Wikipedia.)Report
Scott says:

April 5, 2010 at 7:27 am

What do you expect of the people of GA’s 4th district? These are the same people that sent Cynthia McKinney to Congress.Report

Ten Second News

Pardon Me, Sir

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The full list of pardons and commutations President Trump has issued on his last day in office, with a little help from Grey Poupon

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Ryan Adams Cleared by the FBI

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While Adams still has the pall of being an asshole hanging over his head, none of those come with possible felonies attached.

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From Rolling Stone: What Happened to Promises to Disband the Minneapolis Police?

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How vows to reform public safety in the wake of George Floyd’s killing devolved into modest cuts to the city’s 2021 police budget

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From CNN Business: Sheldon Adelson, Republican kingmaker and casino magnate, has died at 87

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From CNN Business:

New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.

Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.

(Featured image is "Some birds hanging out at the Sands Casino in Atlantic City" by iirraa is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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From Gizmodo: Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived

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From Gizmodo:

In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.

The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.

(Featured image is "A radio tracking device on a Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) at the Cotswold Falconry Centre" by Anguskirk and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Amazon Turns Out the Lights, The Parler’s Over

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First Apple kicked the app off the iOS app store, and now Amazon is ending their web services agreement citing breech of terms of service.

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From Twitter Safety: Donald Trump’s Twitter Account has been Permanently Suspended

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From Twitter Safety:

After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021