90 Miles From Tyranny

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #782

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

No More Kissing China's Ass - South Park

Girls With Guns

These Blogs Provide Links To Rule 5 Sites:

What is Rule 5?

The Other McCain has: Rule 5 Sunday: Roll Tide!

Proof Positive has: Best Of Web Link Around

The Woodsterman has: Rule 5 Woodsterman Style

EBL has: Rule 5 And FMJRA

The Right Way has: Rule 5 Saturday LinkORama

The Pirate's Cove has: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

In A Dark, Smoke Filled Room, Shady Things Occur...

Smoke Filled Room:

Used to suggest an inner circle of power brokers, as at a convention. It suggests a cabal of powerful or well-connected, cigar-smoking men meeting privately to nominate a dark horse political candidate or otherwise make decisions[1] without regard for the will of the larger group.

Do We Need Troops At The Border?

Our Duty Is To Protect Our Borders.

UK Police Investigate Transgender Being Turned Down For Porn Role as a “Hate Crime”

UK police are investigating the potential “hate crime” of a transgender woman being turned down for a porn role because she still has a penis.

Yes, really.

25-year-old Ria Cooper, who became the UK’s youngest transgender person 10 years ago, received messages on WhatsApp from on anonymous photographer who wanted to have sex on camera and sell the tape.

However, when the photographer found out that Cooper still had male reproductive organs, he said he couldn’t work with her because she “has a cock.”

This prompted Cooper to alert Humberside Police to this “transphobic behavior” and authorities are now investigating whether a hate crime was committed.

A spokeswoman for Humberside Police said: “We received a report of a hate incident yesterday, on Wednesday, October 16. The report has been logged and will be investigated.”

The UK’s violent crime rate has risen by 19% in the last year. Fatal stabbings are...

More Great Photos:

Using banknotes as wallpaper during hyperinflation, Germany (1923)

8 year old coal miner - 1900's

Grand Review of Union Armies After the Civil War (May, 1865)

The writer George Orwell poses with the puppy during the Spanish Civil War. Behind him is Ernest Hemingway (1937)

A Marine rifleman views the result of the American bombardment of Naha, Okinawa, Japan, on June 13, 1945

Imperial Japanese Army in China 1937

A Panzer III tank crewman surrenders to an advancing British soldier during the Battle of El Alamein, 1942

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and King George V of Great Britain in Berlin, 1913

Hollywood Blvd 1953

Piccadilly Circus, London (1939)

World War I, British soccer team with gas masks, 1916

Soviet soldiers in camouflage winter uniforms line up along the roof of a house in Stalingrad, in January of 1943

A woman in Chicago was arrested for wearing too short swimsuit (1922)

1915, British soldiers on motorcycles in the Dardanelles, part of the Ottoman Empire, prior to the Battle of Gallipoli.

The Precipice Of Adventure..

Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest - August 1939..

A Working Tugboat In Greece..

A Second Hand Mobile Phone Market In China..

Teenage fighters during the Warsaw uprising in Poland in 1944

A Lighthouse Is A Great Symbol Of The Strength Of Individualism..

Romney's Secret Twitter Account Found, Used To Defend Himself Against Attacks, Report

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney has made himself look even more ridiculous than he has in the past with a new revelation.

The senator, former governor of Massachusetts and 2012 Republican presidential candidate has a fake Twitter account.

He admitted to the fake Twitter account during an interview with The Atlantic and it did not take long for journalists to find it.

They manage that tension in different ways: While the president spent a too-online Saturday earlier this month unloading on Twitter—launching #IMPEACHMITTROMNEY into the canon of viral Trump taunts—Romney enjoyed a quiet afternoon picking apples with his grandkids in Utah and refusing to take the bait. When I met him in his office a couple of weeks later, I asked if the Twitter insults bothered him.

“That’s kind of what he does,” Romney said with a shrug, and then got up to retrieve an iPad from his desk. He explained that he uses a secret Twitter account—“What do they call me, a lurker?”—to keep tabs on the political conversation.

“I won’t give you the name of it,” he said, but “I’m following 668 people.” Swiping at his tablet, he recited some of the accounts he follows, including journalists, late-night comedians (“What’s his name, the big redhead from Boston?”), and athletes.

Trump was not among them. “He tweets so much,” Romney said, comparing the president to one of his nieces who overshares on Instagram. “I love her, but it’s like, Ah, it’s too much.”

He understands, of course, that many of his Republican colleagues live in fear of being subjected to a presidential Twitter tirade.

In fact, some believe that Trump’s targeting of Romney is intended as a warning to other GOP lawmakers lest they step out of line.

That fear is one of the reasons his caucus has attempted such elaborate rhetorical contortions to defend Trump as the House impeachment inquiry turns up damning evidence. “I think it’s very natural for people to look at circumstances and see them in the light that’s most amenable to their maintaining power,” he told me in an interview last month at The Atlantic Festival.

And within hours the news website Slate believed it had found the secret Romney account with the name of Pierre Delecto.

“This account joined the site in July of 2011, just one month after Romney announced his run for president,” Slate said.

“The majority of people it follows are either political reporters, politicians, political operatives, or pundits,” it said...

We Need To Get Women To Demand Separate Facilities From Persons With Penis's.

To Protect Your Daughters, Piss On The Seats Every Time Until Women Demand Separate Facilities.

Ukrainian Businessman Says Gas Company Hired Hunter Biden For Protection

A former member of the Ukrainian parliament reportedly says Burisma Holdings hired Hunter Biden for protection.

Oleksandr Onyshchenko, a businessman who left Ukraine in 2016, said Burisma’s founder, Mykola Zlochevsky, sought the assistance of Hunter Biden, the son of then-Vice President Joe Biden, at a time when the natural gas company was under intense scrutiny for corruption.

“It was to protect [the company],” Onyshchenko told Reuters on Friday.

Hunter Biden discusses his relationship to Ukrainian natural gas company
Burisma Holdings in an ABC News interview, Oct. 15, 2019. ABC News screenshot.

Hunter Biden obtained a seat on the company’s board of directors because he was seen as a man with a political clout, influence from his father’s role in the Obama administration, according to people interviewed by the news agency. Joe Biden was doling out assistance to Ukraine as then-President Barack Obama’s point man in the east European country.

Hunter Biden has admitted that he exercised “poor judgment” in taking a position for which he had no expertise or experience but blames his detractors for believing in a “ridiculous conspiracy.” He claims he knew as much about the subject as anyone on the board and that when he discussed the matter with his father, the elder Biden said, “I hope you know what you’re doing.”

His job ended in April this year after five years of apparently providing advice on legal issues and corporate finance, according to Reuters, which also noted Biden did not visit Ukraine to engage with other board members during...