Episode #163: Lizzie’s in a Box and the Blitzkrieg Bops
Unattended Baggage Show Notes
9/10/2022
Episode #163: Lizzie’s in a Box and the Blitzkrieg Bops
The Queen is dead and you shouldn’t give a damn, Ukraine opens up a can of whoopass on Ruskies and oligarchs are calling for Putin’s head, the media is beating the civil war drum, Florida Man says “gator got my arm” then wanders the wood for three days, Bible Belt states jail pregnant women for fun, and several other things we been right about all along.
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Quote of the week
“There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”
Milton Friedman
Lizzie’s in a box
The Irish give no fucks
Ukraine
Ukraine's counterattack takes Russia – and everyone else – by surprise (except us)
Key updates this week:
Ukrainians launch blitzkrieg-style counterattack across the entire front line, sees overwhelming success
UAF retakes >400 sq. mi. of territory in a few days, and dozens of towns and villages liberated
UAF executed fast and deep salients north of Kherson and south of Kharkiv
UAF forces reach Dnipro river northeast of KhersonRF attempts to resupply across Dnipro river to Kherson failed, pontoon bridge destroyed
UAF now controls all of the west bank of Oskill river
UA liberates
UA forces retake the city of Kupyansk, cutting off a major Russian rail & highway resupply junction from the north
UA forces have turned north from Kypyansk and are now pushing fast toward the southern Russia border
Russians flee Lyman as UA approaches, it and several other towns liberated without a fightRussian lines are collapsing rapidly, thousands of troops surrender, others dressing as civilians and deserting
Reports/videos of Russians abandoning positions long before Ukrainian troops arrive, lack will to fight
Unconfirmed reports partisans raise Ukrainian flags over occupied Mariupol
Unconfirmed reports UA forces have captured Donetsk airport, under Russian control since 2014
Officials in St. Petersburg openly calling for Putin to charged with treason
Moscow municipal deputies ask Putin to resign
https://theins.ru/en/news/254897
US: Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians forced to Russia
Ukraine military chief says ‘limited’ nuclear war cannot be ruled out
WRAPUP 3-Russia threatens to stop exporting energy to Europe; Ukraine claims advances in the east
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wrapup-1-russia-threatens-stop-005033845.html
Team Putin Admits Their Worst Case Scenario Is Coming True
Well That Escalated Quickly
MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross Says ‘Civil War’ With Trump Supporters ‘Has Already Begun’: ‘It’s More Than Just Threats’
Trump Calls Biden ‘Enemy of the State’ at First Rally Since FBI Raid, Accuses Him of Delivering Most ‘Hateful’ Speech Ever By a President
Most Americans see Trump's MAGA as threat to democracy: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Alarm grows as more election workers leave their posts ahead of Election Day
Barr says DOJ ‘getting very close’ to having enough evidence to indict Trump
Judge calls Jan. 6 an ‘insurrection,’ bars ‘Cowboys for Trump’ founder from office
Steve Bannon lawyer says former Trump aide is en route to surrender in New York
Florida Man
'Gator got my arm': Man survives 3 days lost in the woods after alligator attack
That was kind of the point of the group
Oath Keepers Members Include Hundreds Of Elected Officials, Police And Military Personnel, Leaked List Suggests
Judge rejects Oath Keepers founder’s ‘bewildering’ bid to delay trial
Unions only care about the teachers and not the students
Seattle teachers strike, delaying first day of school
https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/seattle-teachers-strike-delaying-first-day-of-school/
Virus from CA threatens the country
California’s electric car mandate could spread to over a dozen states
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/californias-electric-car-mandate-could-spread-dozen-states
South of the Border
Chileans resoundingly reject new progressive constitution
https://apnews.com/ffd6779b3f7f0c62579e6b0ec86affa6
Abortion and fetus protection
Pregnant women held for months in one Alabama jail to protect fetuses from drugs
Got a food truck? We are going to tag it
Chicago's Electronic Surveillance of Food Trucks Is Ridiculous—and Probably Unconstitutional
It is either illegal or mandatory
Some Canadian Health Care Patients Say They're Being Encouraged To Just Die Already
Photo Op or not?
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sitting in economy on a flight
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/x9bldy/us_treasury_secretary_janet_yellen_sitting_in/
Another Cassandra Trigger Prediction
Cars could soon ‘run on thin air’ thanks to hydrogen breakthrough
So, tell me about this “free speech” thing again?
Pregnant Black activist serving 4 years for protest comments
https://apnews.com/article/us-news-cc8a16ddccf2e811f48b1bd11cd8bbfa
The family wants answers after pallbearer killed by officers
https://apnews.com/article/shootings-west-virginia-c4efb5173e0e5048170455058e97c618