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Sudan''s army claims control of key town near Khartoum
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Authentic Haggis ‘May’ Be Legalized for Purchase in the US of A!
[DaveBarry]
Posted by: Clem+Elmish4239 || 02/08/2025 09:35 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11150 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The taste is best chased with whisky that tastes like dirt.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/08/2025 13:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Wiki AI Cite: "Haggis is a savory Scottish dish made from minced sheep's offal, oatmeal, suet, and spices, and traditionally cooked in a sheep's stomach. It's a key part of Burns Night supper on January 25th. "

You need a number of "glasses" before dinner...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/08/2025 15:40 Comments || Top||

#3  You can buy Haggis on line and there are some groceries that sell them.

I suppose they are 'not authentic' in some sense.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/08/2025 20:39 Comments || Top||

#4  They have to include the lungs to be authentic haggis
Posted by: Gloluns Turkeyneck4904 || 02/08/2025 20:50 Comments || Top||

#5  "Welcome to MacPopeye's. May I take your order?"
"Yeah, baby, gimme a three piece dark with a side of dirty oatmeal and a extra scone. Ooh, wait, is that a picture of fried lungs up on that menu?"
"Sure is, baby. They good, too."
"Okay, just gimme two orders of them instead. And a jalapeño."

Still craving those damn livers.
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 02/08/2025 23:58 Comments || Top||


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Nazi atrocities in Murmansk region demand recognition as genocide
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Murmansk Region Prosecutor's Office filed a lawsuit to establish the fact of genocide of the peoples of the USSR by the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. This was reported on February 7 by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office.

"On the instructions of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, the Prosecutor of the Murmansk Region has submitted to the court a statement on recognizing as war crimes and crimes against humanity, genocide of the Soviet people the established and newly identified crimes committed by the Nazi invaders and their accomplices on the territory of the Murmansk Region during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945," the department reported.

During the Great Patriotic War, the territory of the Murmansk region was partially occupied by Wehrmacht troops. As a result of massive bombings, more than 1,500 houses were destroyed in the region.

Red Army soldiers captured by the Nazis were kept in camps in inhumane conditions and forced to do grueling work. The Red Army soldiers died from exhaustion and cold. The total number of Nazi victims in the Murmansk region exceeds 15,000 people. The amount of damage caused to the region is 1.3 trillion rubles, converted to the current ruble exchange rate.

The prosecutor's office sent a statement on establishing the fact of genocide in the region to the Murmansk Regional Court in order to protect Russia's national interests, the legal rights and interests of the relatives of the dead, and to subsequently disseminate information about the victims of the punitive forces during the Great Patriotic War to the world community. This is necessary to restore historical justice, the department emphasized.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, at the end of January the Federal Security Service published declassified archived interrogation reports of the Pole Jozef Pechka, who worked as a guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp. He said that he regularly beat concentration camp prisoners with a stick. His group sent 100 to 500 bodies of prisoners to cremation every night. The Pole said that the SS men and guards brutally abused the prisoners, exhausted them with backbreaking work, and beat them to death.

Posted by: badanov || 02/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under:


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Federal judge rules not to immediately block DOGE access to Labor Department systems
[FoxNews] A federal judge on Friday said he would not immediately block the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing systems at the Labor Department.

U.S. District Judge John Bates said he had concerns about DOGE but that the labor unions who sued to block their access to the systems have not yet provided evidence of any legal injury.

"Although the court harbors concerns about defendants’ alleged conduct, it must deny plaintiffs’ motion at this time," Bates wrote.

The ruling comes after the Trump administration agreed earlier this week that DOGE would not receive access to the Labor Department until this court decision.

The Justice Department said there are three DOGE staffers assigned to the Labor Department and reporting to its acting secretary, although they have been made special government employees and are required to follow the law with any sensitive information about corporations or workers as they conduct a review.

Musk’s DOGE team had gained access to sensitive Treasury Department payment systems, although a judge has since blocked that access to Treasury records containing sensitive personal data such as Social Security and bank account numbers for millions of Americans. DOGE has also largely dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development and offered financial incentives to millions of federal workers to resign.

"At every step, DOGE is violating multiple laws, from constitutional limits on executive power, to laws protecting civil servants from arbitrary threats and adverse action, to crucial protections for government data collected and stored on hundreds of millions of Americans," labor union lawyers represented by the Democrat advocacy group Democracy Forward wrote.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/08/2025 04:40 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11164 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The judge said he had concerns about DOGE but that the plaintiffs were whiny little bitches who should stop bothering the court with AI-generated motions.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/08/2025 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  The question that needs to be answered once and for all is who runs the Executive Branch: the President (by the Constitution), labor unions (by lawsuit when possible), or the Judiciary? The future of our nation depends on the answer.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/08/2025 11:40 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ good question, but it has no standing.
Posted by: q || 02/08/2025 13:18 Comments || Top||

#4  t the labor unions who sued to block their access to the systems have not yet provided evidence of any legal injury.

That's what they're afraid of.
Posted by: alanc || 02/08/2025 17:43 Comments || Top||



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