Roley: Week Ending 6/18/2023

Roley

MONOLOGUE:

Back on my Bullshit, and removing the Citrus.

SO THAT HAPPENED:

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https://apnews.com/article/amazon-outage-aws-cloud-services-be93bc744e4e69d04055683830a409c3

(AP) Amazon’s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services experienced an outage on Tuesday, affecting publishers that suddenly found themselves unable to operate their sites.

The company said on its website that the root cause of the issue was tied to a service called AWS Lambda, which lets customers run code for different types of applications.

Roughly two hours after customer began experiencing errors, the company posted on its AWS status page that many of the affected AWS services were “fully recovered” and it was continuing to recover the rest.

**On a related note, I was window shopping on Amazon at the time. So, to paraphrase the words of the lady in the cafe’ in When Harry Met Sally, ‘I’ll have what Jeff’s having”.

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/13/politics/karine-jean-pierre-hatch-act/index.html

CNN — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre violated the Hatch Act for using the term “mega MAGA” from the briefing room podium, the US Office of the Special Counsel has determined, and has received a warning letter.

Jean-Pierre was found to be in violation of the Hatch Act, a law that is supposed to stop the federal government from affecting elections or going about its activities in a partisan manner, when she said “mega MAGA Republican officials who don’t believe in the rule of law,” according to a letter from OSC. The letter was addressed to Michael Chamberlain, a former Trump administration official and director of the “Protect the Public’s Trust” organization, after Chamberlain filed a complaint that Jean-Pierre used the phrase “mega MAGA Republican[s]” in an “an inappropriate attempt to influence the vote.”

“OSC has investigated your allegation and concluded that Ms. Jean‐Pierre violated the Hatch Act. However … we have decided not to pursue disciplinary action and have instead issued Ms. Jean‐Pierre a warning letter,” OSC’s Hatch Act Unit chief Ana Galindo-Marrone said in the June 7 letter to Chamberlain, who served in the Department of Education during Donald Trump’s presidency.

https://osc.gov/News/Pages/19-10-Kellyanne-Conway-Hatch-Act.aspx

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/kellyanne-conway-eclipses-50-hatch-act-violations-on-twitter/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/protect-publics-trust-nonprofit-status_n_64553faae4b0452cee9d5df0

**I wonder what Mr. Chamberlain has to say about the numerous times Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act during the previous administration. You know, the one he was also a part of. The OSC recommended to the former President that Conway be removed from office, which of course didn’t happen. You might remember Conway saying “If you’re trying to silence me through the Hatch Act, it’s not going to work,” and “Let me know when the jail sentence starts.”

Also, Protect the Public Trust seems to have an identity problem. It doesn’t know what to call itself, a non profit, an NGO, or something else. It also doesn’t want you to know how it gets funded.

There’s a word for a person that doesn’t want you to know the truth about them and has a shitload of money with no visible means of support, and since we’re not talking about anyone I’m related to…well, crook still applies. They’re a crook. Pay no attention to them.

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https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/virginia-beach/virginia-beach-students-parents-react-narrowly-passed-lgbtq-resolution/291-8690e1e2-b2da-4b50-9299-65cb72bc5219

https://youtu.be/TV3UTm-Q97k

[13 News] VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — It's a contentious topic that has plagued Virginia Beach City Public Schools for more than a year: determining what to do with a proposed LGBTQ+ resolution.

The resolution, presented by school board member Jessica Owens, passed 6 to 5 around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday morning. The vote came after board members spent hours listening to around 100 people voice their thoughts on the resolution.

The resolution reaffirms Virginia Beach City Public Schools' commitment to non-discrimination and anti-harassment when it comes to LGBTQ+ students and staff.

**No jokes here. I want to send out a shoutout to the kids—around 50—who have been speaking about this at every meeting since the school year started, because they played by the rules, they caused enough pressure on the board to put forth this resolution, and most importantly, because they did exactly what the performative bullshit artists did during the whole pandemic and monopolize the public comment time, they beat the clown show at their own game. IT WAS YOU DAD. I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU.

No doubt the bylaws are about to be revisited in time for the next school year so that this never happens again. I’d be surprised if they weren’t. But for now, hats off to the wonderful kids who stood up for their community and their friends. The kids are alright, and they’re going to save us from ourselves.

STUPID PEOPLE ARE STUPID:

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https://apnews.com/article/germany-drugs-retiree-seaman-marijuana-drugs-court-20def1429d595b296b8fbf6c3d39dab4

BERLIN (AP) — A German court says it is giving an 82-year-old man a “last warning” to avoid jail after he was found guilty of drug dealing, despite 24 previous convictions.

The retired seaman, who said he wanted to improve his meagre 800-euro ($855) monthly pension by selling marijuana, was handed a suspended sentence by a court in the northern town of Aurich on Monday.

German news agency DPA reported that prosecutors had asked the court to impose a prison term of 34 months in view of the man’s lengthy criminal record and an existing suspended sentence.

But judges said they would make an exception and classify the latest crimes as “less serious offenses” due to the man’s particular circumstances and recent health problems.

Dpa quoted the presiding judge telling the defendant that it was his “very last warning.”

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https://deadstate.org/white-woman-repeatedly-screams-the-n-word-at-random-people-before-shes-punched-in-the-face/

(DEADSTATE) A disturbing video posted to Reddit shows an irate, likely intoxicated woman screaming the N-word at passersby and seemingly targeting random Black people to assault during her tirade.

While it’s not known what transpired beforehand, the video starts showing the woman screaming the N-word as another woman throws a drink at her, prompting the racist woman to scream, “Stupid n***er b**ch!” before she is punched in the face.

The woman continues to scream the N-word as she grows increasingly distressed and throws her phone at the person recording the video.

At another point in the video, the woman walks up to man and strikes him in the back. She then takes a swing at a woman walking by and attacks other people at random. One man who she attacked responded by giving her a kick to the behind.

All throughout the video, the woman continues to scream the N-word.

**It's 2023. If you look up and someone is holding a phone in your direction, you've done something stupid. JUST. WALK. AWAY.

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https://2paragraphs.com/2023/06/u-s-congressman-threatens-to-read-top-secret-national-security-secrets-aloud-on-tv/

Referencing the Speech or Debate clause in the Constitution, Rep. Thomas Massie is claiming a right to read aloud from any document at issue in the Donald Trump indictment. Massie essentially threatens to read Top Secret national security documents aloud on the floor of the House of Representatives.

Those House proceedings, as all proceedings on the floor, would be broadcast on C-SPAN and available to anyone in the world.

From Massie’s Twitter: For what it’s worth, under the Constitution, no member of Congress can be prosecuted for reading aloud on the floor any of the documents Trump allegedly has copies of.

**Now, let’s be clear about something. Thomas Massie is not a serious person. However, he’s not THIS stupid. Even he knows that this is a no-go. But I must share with you the glorious vision I had. I watch C-Span a lot. No, more than that. EVEN MORE THAN THAT. You may not know this, but the cameras in the House don’t belong to C-Span, they belong to the House. There are a lot of static shots, and one of them is a medium shot of the Well of the House for when the Congressfolks come to the podiums to speak. I can just envision Rep. Massie really getting in the Zone reading all this stuff to own the Libs, when one of those really long hooks you’ve seen in cartoons or old Vaudeville skits slowly encircle Massie, and he gets yanked out of view Wile E. Coyote style, with his head being the last to go because he clearly wasn’t using it.

Thomas Massie, Super Genius.

THE LAST LAUGH

The Kid What Gonna Save Us From Themselves.