Meanwhile, In Belgium . . .

I typed “News from Belgium” into a browser, and, after a yawn, the computer grudgingly popped this up:

Seven Terror Suspects With Links to IS ‘Deprived of Their Liberty’ in Belgium

Euronews •  Updated: 04/05/2023

Seven people suspected of planning a terror attack in Belgium have been detained, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced on Thursday.

“Seven persons were deprived of their liberty and questioned,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

Almost all the suspects are Chechen nationals belonging to a group of strong supporters of the so-called Islamic State. Three of them have the Belgian nationality.

The examining magistrate will decide at a later stage whether to bring them before him and possibly issue an arrest warrant. The possible charges are attempted terrorist assassination, participation at the activities of a terrorist group and preparation of a terrorist attack.”

“All of them are suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in Belgium,” the statement also said, adding that the exact target of the planned attack has not yet been determined. 

Gotta love countries without a Bill of Rights. All that’s left to deprive them of (since the Pursuit of Happiness is moot) is Life.

Not that I support terrorists, but these could have been Boy Scouts or altar boys, under these rules.

Photo Essay: Home Economics

“So, you’re saying I can skip Phys Ed if I take Home Ec, which is like 90% chicks?”

“Ah, this carrot’s too small. Want to hand me that cucumber?”

Bad, Bad Ideas 101

Teen Bragged ‘Fraud Is Fun’ Before Allegedly Hacking DraftKings, Stealing $600K: Feds
New York Post | May 18, 2023 | Priscilla DeGregory

A Wisconsin teen bragged “fraud is fun” before allegedly hacking user accounts on sports betting website DraftKings and helping others steal $600,000, Manhattan federal prosecutors charged Thursday.

Joseph Garrison, 18, is accused of swiping the login information of 60,000 accounts in the Nov. 18 cyberattack, and then selling the data, allowing others to steal money from some of the users, the feds alleged.

In total, the Madison man allegedly helped others loot the $600,000 from a total of 1,600 users — with at least 30 of those accounts belonging to New Yorkers, prosecutors said. Before Garrison carried out the major hack, he bragged in messages to one of his co-conspirators on Sept. 16 that “fraud is fun,” adding that he’s “addicted to see [sic] money in my account,” according to the criminal complaint against him.

If this means that his co-conspirators logged into gambling accounts and re-directed winnings to their own banks, then he is for a world of hurt from the type of guys you don’t play around with.

Still Crazy

♪

I saw our old president
On the stairs last night
He seemed so frail and senile I just smiled
And he lied about some old times
As if he'd drank himself some beers
Still lazy after all these years
Oh,
Still crazy after all these years

I'm not the kind of man
Who tends to socialism
I seem to lean on
Older freedom ways
And I ain't no fool for liars
Perspiring in my ears
Still CNN-free after all these years
Oh; stir-crazy after all these years

Three in the morning
The President
Is snoring
Hong-Konging my life away
I'll never worry
Why should I?
It's all gonna be traded away

Now I update my Windows
Watched by avatars
That I fear will do severe damage one fine day
But I would not be diverted
Or converted by some beers
It's still crazy after all these years
Oh still hazy
Ford, Blazey, after all these years

♪

Bye, Croakey!

NSW Police Suspend Officer Who Tasered Grandmother, 95 (Australia)
1News New Zealand | 5/23/2023 | Andrew Macfarlane

New South Wales Police have suspended the officer

[with pay?]

who tasered a 95-year-old grandmother, causing her to fall to the ground and hit her head.

Clare Nowland is now in end-of-life care after being tasered. Police were called to the rest home where she lives, as she wouldn’t drop a steak knife. She lives with dementia…

… and, she passed away.

The only question is, why didn’t the cops call in more backup and go all Rodney King on her?

Straight Line of the Day: Plausible Alibis for Walrus

I think the cops may have heard all the Blues Brothers’ alibis.

When he’s on vacation, he may need some excuses to keep in his back pocket, to explain the extraordinary circumstances that surround him.

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