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Good morning, kids. Hope you all had a blessed Mmoial Day holiday in remembrance and appreciation for those of our fellow citizens who paid the ultimate price for our nation and freedom. sadly now gone, by all indications on so many levels.

Can it be reborn, if not as it was at least in a way that reinstitute its essence and spirit. Probably not without sacrifices that we can barely imagine even at this point. But the memory of those who laid down their lives for it and for your children and posterity and even our own selves, it must be worth it. The thought of living in a land lorded over by the likes sho have a will to power and lust to destroy us for our beliefs and essence is intolerable to me. Better to die on our feet than exist as slaves on our knees, if even we are permitted that. The nature of Leftism and it's ally in Islam mean exactly that. We must overcome. Somehow, some way.

Death to them both.

The persecutions against Donald Trump is/are the sine qua non of evidence that the principles and concepts that undergirded the founding of this nation have been completely eviscrated. that scum and imbeciles like that of the so-called squad can become elected representatieves I guess is both a flaw in the original system, or else a nature in that we get what we vote for good and hard, or more likely look at our school systems today and you see the same lack of morality and intellect that guides leaders in and out of government in the grinding down of our culture and society into dust.

This must be stopped by any and every means necessary. And because those who lord over us will not go quietly but rather grip the reins and whip even harder means we have our work cut out for us,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• actor Davis Hanson: "Take heed that what almost never happens in war can certainly still occur.

  Loose Talk About the End of Everything

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• Elon Musk's xAI has raised $6 billion in funding from people hoping to cash out before the bubble bursts. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Okay. It's still garbage, but it's competition for the communists running OpenAI and Google.
  
  

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"I have never been so relaxed in my entire life," "This is a way to experience nature effortlessly." FOX Business' Lauren Simonetti

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Tokyo
That's not a joke caption, the
Tokyo Tower
is inspired by the Eiffel Tower.
by @3yin_2yu via @Japan_City_Blues

Watersking while being towed by a drone boat.

You boys stop fighting.

Frigid beaver.

Charged up dog.

This video of Boston Dynamic's "sand flea jumping robot" is 12 years old, but it's new to me.

Did you see the ravens ball game?

Flick the runt baby goat is bullied by his siblings and rejected by his mother, but he finds a new flock.

Poor little dog just isn't cut out for the sheep herding game.

ICYMI: French bulldog has the strangest vocalizations.

From Steve Inman: some classic black and blue.

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But liberals really care about the children and not just the government workers, right?

Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans have spent years aggressively turning the state into a haven for school choice. They have been wildly successful, with tens of thousands more children enrolling in private or charter schools or homeschooling.

Now as those programs balloon, some of Florida's largest school districts are facing staggering enrollment declines -- and grappling with the possibility of campus closures -- as dollars follow the increasing number of parents opting out of traditional public schools.

The emphasis on these programs has been central to DeSantis' goals of remaking the Florida education system, and they are poised for another year of growth. DeSantis' school policies are already influencing other GOP-leaning states, many of which have pursued similar voucher programs. But Florida has served as a conservative laboratory for a suite of other policies, ranging from attacking public- and private-sector diversity programs to fighting the Biden administration on immigration.

"We need some big changes throughout the country," DeSantis said Thursday evening at the Florida Homeschool Convention in Kissimmee. "Florida has shown a blueprint, and we really can be an engine for that as other states work to adopt a lot of the policies that we've done."

Education officials in some of the state's largest counties are looking to scale back costs by repurposing or outright closing campuses -- including in Broward, Duval and Miami-Dade counties. Even as some communities rally to try to save their local public schools, traditional public schools are left with empty seats and budget crunches.

Since 2019-20, when the pandemic upended education, some 53,000 students have left traditional public schools in these counties, a sizable total that is forcing school leaders to consider closing campuses that have been entrenched in local communities for years.

In Broward County, Florida's second-largest school district, officials have floated plans to close up to 42 campuses over the next few years, moves that would have a ripple effect across Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood.

The district has lost more than 20,000 students over the last five years, a decline that comes as charter schools in particular experienced sizable growth in the area. Enrollment in charters, which are public schools operating under performance contracts freeing them of many state regulations, increased by nearly 27,000 students since 2010, according to Broward school officials.

Broward County Public Schools claims to have more than 49,000 classroom seats sitting empty this year, a number that "closely matches" the 49,833 students attending charter schools in the area, officials noted in an enrollment overview.

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The fall of the "Falaise pocket" was the final blow in the Battle of Normandy.

The Falaise pocket or battle of the Falaise pocket (German: Kessel von Falaise; 12--21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War. Allied forces formed a pocket around Falaise, Calvados, in which German Army Group B, consisting of the 7th Army and the Fifth Panzer Army (formerly Panzergruppe West), were encircled by the Western Allies. The battle resulted in the destruction of most of Army Group B west of the Seine, which opened the way to Paris and the Franco-German border.

Here's a short film about "The Fall of Falaise" from 1944.

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Have you been following the story of FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg? Probably not, since he’s a Democrat. This isn’t a story most of the media wants to bring attention to, because removing Gruenberg from power due to the culture of sexual harassment that has flourished under him would put a Republican in charge of the FDIC. The Wall Street Journal deserves much credit for engaging in actual journalism in covering this story, even though it exposed a Democrat who has been an obedient officer working to advance the Obama/Biden banking agenda.

I’ll first do a quick overview of the scandal, and then I want to highlight how this is another example of Democrats keeping the slimiest and most unethical people in office as needed to retain power, subordinating any principles regarding ethical behavior to the greater cause of advancing their agenda and preventing Republicans from gaining power. It’s another reminder that only unethical Republicans are expected to surrender office.

In November 2023 the Wall Street Journal published an expose of the shenanigans going on at the FDIC.

“Strip Clubs, Lewd Photos and a Boozy Hotel: The Toxic Atmosphere at Bank Regulator FDIC” [WSJ – 11/13/2023]

A male Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. supervisor in San Francisco invited employees to a strip club. A supervisor in Denver had sex with his employee, told other employees about it and pressed her to drink whiskey during work. Senior bank examiners texted female employees photos of their [genitals]. All of the men remained employed at the agency.

“It was just an accepted part of the culture,” said Lauren Lemmer, a former examiner-in-training. She quit her job in 2013 after three years in which she said she was denied opportunities to advance, followed back to her Dallas hotel room by a male colleague during training, invited to a strip club in Seattle by other bank examiners and sent an unsolicited naked photo by a colleague.

There is much, much more in the story. I’ve been working in the private sector since the late 1980s, and any of these acts would have gotten me fired 30 years ago. Gruenberg was aware that his subordinates were engaging in predatory sexual behavior, yet he protected his people. Records of misbehavior were helpfully “lost.” Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio is the Chairman of the Senate’s Banking Committee. He is running for re-election, and Republicans have put him in the difficult position of either defending and perpetuating the FDIC’s culture of sexual harassment by allowing Gruenberg to remain in office, or demanding that Gruenberg step down.

Senator Brown has decided to split the baby in half. He is calling for Gruenberg to step down, but only after President Biden names a replacement.

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Jasper Johns

In Flanders Fields
John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow,
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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Good morning, kids. First and foremost, I have been slowly but surelyrecuperating at home an cannot thank all of you enough for your kind words, prayers and encouragement. I don't know that I have the energy to spare to do as thorough a job for you these next few days or so as I get back on my feet.

Secondly, this is memorial day, and more than ever we cannot forget those who laid down their lives for our cojcountry and way of life. My their ultimate sacrifice never be in vain and may what they died for yet be reborn in our lifetime.For those of you who lost friends and loved ones in combat, I mourn right along with you.

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• Widespread power failure at one of the two data centers where I have servers. In fact, it was so widespread that it took out servers I have with two different providers.
  
  Yes, they have battery backup and generators.
  
  No, those didn't work. At all.
  
  But at least this time they didn't explode and set off the sprinkler system leaving the company with weeks of cleanup work.
  
  
  
• Families of the victims in the Uvalde shooting, and the remoras with legs they call lawyers, are suing Activision and Facebook. (Tech Crunch)
  
  They blame Call of Duty for turning a psychopath into, well, a psychopath.
  
  The Call of Duty series has sold around half a billion copies over the past twenty years. If it were the problem, we would know.

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Now to the best comments in the whole wide interwebz!

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Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Annual May 26th Massive Rip-Off Edition? Weasel are headed to the Farm-O, that's how! Lo siento, amigos y amigas. I made a late decision to head to the farm-o for the long weekend, so naturally all y'all must suffer the consequences in the form of , shall we say, a "content lite" edition. When you read this I will be sitting feet-up under a pine tree sipping a warm bottle of water with an umbrella in it and smoking a cigar.

NOTE: Today is the deadline to register for the 2024 NoVAMoMe. Deadline, as in, the last day to register. Period.

Q: Weasel, can we wait until tomorrow and say we didn't know there was a deadline?
A: No. Well, you can, but it's not going to get you registered and you stand a good chance of disappointing bluebell.

Q: Weasel, is disappointing bluebell ever a good idea.
A: It is not.

Tomorrow we guarantee the headcount to the caterer and that's it. No more registrations or refunds. Hope to see you in a couple weeks!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Oh wow...I love beef ribs. But they are difficult to get around here, and even when they show up they are trimmed to within fractions of an inch of the bones, so they aren't much of a meal. Of course I am talking about the beef ribs, not the short ribs from the plate; but those are good too!

What I really want is a slab of beef ribs like the slab of pork ribs we all know and love. Sort of like in the photo, only with more meat. A lot more meat, so it's not just gnawing on the connective tissue (which is good).

I could settle for the short rib version of it, which is what a lot of BBQ joints use for their "Dino-Ribs" or whatever they call them.

But I'm a traditionalist! I want a rack of true ribs, and I will keep looking until I get them!

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Replace the door? Maybe replace the entire front porch?

I ordered a new deadbolt because the old one failed. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but if one can push the deadbolt back into the lock, then maybe it isn't as secure as one would hope!

To its credit, Baldwin sent me a new one. I sent them photos and model numbers, and they sent me...the wrong face plate. Because they don't make the old one any more.

Sh*t. It was cold and rainy when I replaced it, so painting was probably not a good idea. But what this means is that I will have to pull the lock, and reinstall after I sand and repaint.

Maybe I'll just burn the house down and start over...

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Yup...all the way back to 1982, and curiously, Begin was a nationalist, and relatively conservative. Of course that's just a coincidence...right?

Biden is a shill for the left, and the two-fer of a Jew AND a conservative was just too much to resist.

Biden National Security Council Advisor: We Can't Go Against Israel until Reelection; Israel 'Lies, Bombs, and Kills All These Kids'

The headline says it all. That's the tone in Biden's administration, in spite of the overwhelming objective evidence that Israel is conducting a incredibly humane war, with rules of engagement and tactics that get Israeli soldiers killed.

Biden says US won't supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally

Israel is a staunch and loyal ally, in an existential war, yet Biden is happily playing politics with Israeli lives and security for a few muzzie votes in Michigan and Minnesota.

Biden team reverses support of Abraham Accords

Oh look! Another two-fer! damage an incredible foreign policy success by President Trump while setting back Israel's outreach to its neighbors on matters of trade, and more importantly, security from an expansionist Iran.

Biden: 'Working to make sure we finally get a two-state solution' as Sullivan visits Israel

The two state solution is a guarantee of endless wars and terrorism, very possibly ending in Israel's destruction and the genocide of its citizens. Yet the official policy of the United States is to support it? President Trump suggested a modified plan that gave Israel defensible borders, but Biden is hell-bent on a powerful terrorist Arab state in the midst of Israel.

So what's the point...

American Jews need to get their heads out of their asses and learn something about Joe Biden and the Democrat party. It isn't what bubbe and zayde voted for, and it certainly doesn't support anything that is objectively good for American Jewry. It has shifted even farther left, and has become a reflection of the worst excesses of American progressivism and the current Woke insanity. Even worse, it is actively pursuing alliances with the growing Arab population in America, and they are perfectly clear about their goals: a caliphate.

Do any of you knuckleheads know what that means for Jews?

Or Christians?

Or freedom?

Or liberty?

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