Raven Gift Giving Open Thread

Meanwhile, Saudi media is reporting that the IDF killed several Revolutionary Guards terror commanders.

11 leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an airstrike targeting Damascus International Airport on Thursday evening, Saudi media reported the following morning.
The commander of the Revolutionary Guards in eastern Syria, Nur Rashid, was injured in the airstrike, Saudi media channel Al-Hadath reported.
IRGC commanders were reportedly at the airport to meet with high-ranking delegates.

IRGC spokesman Sardar Ramzan Sharif denied on Friday reports that 11 of its leaders were killed in an airstrike in Damascus International Airport the night before, Iranian media quoted them as saying, as he said that such claims are "baseless."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:45 PM

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1 y66geybhe5

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2024 02:46 PM (n7rxJ)

2 It's just a scratch.

Posted by: IRGC Leader, now residing at another address at January 01, 2024 02:48 PM (PiwSw)

3
the IDF welcoming Iranian agents at the Damascus airport is a beautiful thought.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2024 02:48 PM (n7rxJ)

4 They have jury duty

Posted by: IRGC at January 01, 2024 02:50 PM (as3uC)

5 I guess their just mostly dead

Posted by: doug at January 01, 2024 02:50 PM (8/lc0)

6
Ray Lewis is a gift giving Raven.

How about a nice Hawaiian Punch?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 01, 2024 02:51 PM (8Z5Bd)

7 From previous thread

Ciampino's Rescue Kitties

Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all

There's another more extensive photo update #220 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
https://is.gd/WQ5JcT

ALSO LIVE STREAMING!! - Now most nights as well

https://is.gd/qyDILz

____

Kitten Visitor -- Last night Dec 31:
Daughter arrived from work and there's a young black and white tabby out front. Pictures at the top link or here https://is.gd/WQ5JcT

(It isn't one of the two kittens born under the house. This one has a dark spot on its nose.)

She put some wet food out for it. If it sticks around we'll need to sex it as we have 3 unspayed females in the house, blissfully unaware that we are waiting till the large vet bill goes down a good bit before taking them for the unkindest cut of all.

Posted by: Ciampino - Beautiful Tabby came to visit at January 01, 2024 02:51 PM (qfLjt)

8 They’re taking a Brandon watch shift.

Posted by: IRGC at January 01, 2024 02:51 PM (as3uC)

9 Happy New Year, Ace!

Also cob-loggers, and the Horde! and many more!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, for certain values of sock, rat, & Eez ... at January 01, 2024 02:52 PM (kc18b)

10 They’re looking for the real killer.

Posted by: IRGC at January 01, 2024 02:52 PM (as3uC)

11 Legalinsurrection.com- Sam the Baggage Man is free from jail

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2024 02:52 PM (fwDg9)

12
Sorry, Ray Rice, not Ray Lewis

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 01, 2024 02:53 PM (8Z5Bd)

13 And I thought I was happy when Hollywood went on strike.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 01, 2024 02:54 PM (xT7BI)

14 This was yesterday:
~~pro-Palestine~~ TERRORIST protesters set off SMOKE BOMBS in Macys in New York City as they march through the Big Apple... but are steered away from Times Square ball drop

https://mol.im/a/12915609

If they had been Jews or Israel supporters or ptotesting against those Arabs then they would ALL have been arrested, water-cannoned, etc.

Posted by: Ciampino - Billy clubs at January 01, 2024 02:55 PM (qfLjt)

15 Today's Lola.

https://youtu.be/4miyv7agvNQ?si=lEdgUZrOOtmK__3Y

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 01, 2024 02:55 PM (zYoUB)

16 I have no idea who this is but my kids obviously do:
Ian Ziering attacked by group on mini-bikes on Hollywood Boulevard after traffic altercation ... as LAPD continue to probe violent incident

https://mol.im/a/12915837

Hopefully not led by Ace on a Vespa.

Posted by: Ciampino - Billy clubs not fight clubs at January 01, 2024 02:58 PM (qfLjt)

17 Some protestors are protected

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2024 02:58 PM (FQmDC)

18 11 dead IRGC commanders?

A good start.

Keep it up, IDF!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2024 02:58 PM (BpYfr)

19 Ian was on 90210

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2024 02:59 PM (fwDg9)

20 Drop the puck, eh?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2024 03:00 PM (ZLI7S)

21 Last night:
At least nine people are injured including one critically as car plows into New Year's Eve revelers and cops near Madison Square Garden in New York City

https://mol.im/a/12915939

Posted by: Ciampino - Billy clubs not fight clubs ... at January 01, 2024 03:00 PM (qfLjt)

22 So woke Macy's is a jihadi target now. Oh well.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 01, 2024 03:00 PM (3cGpq)

23 Well, I just got back from my personal little polar bear plunge.

Puget Sound is 48 this time of year. So, I walked across the street in sandals and my suit and a bathrobe, towel in hand. I also brought my mom's crucifix. She was wearing it when she died. More than half the time I wear it, I get crippling anxiety and a feeling of doom.

I was halfway thinking about chickening out when a group of millennials, who had obviously already take. Their plunge and were gathered around a fire ring drinking something hot and steamy from coffee mugs, well, they started cheering for me.

I took off my robe, dropped my towel, keys and phone and walked into the water, with them cheering louder. About waist high, I tossed the crucifix into the water in front of me and dunked under.

As I was walking out, they invited me to join them around their fire. I put my robe back on, tied my hair in my towel, thanked them for their encouragement and wished them a happy new year.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2024 03:01 PM (gU5fc)

24 Can we haz Slow News Day Gorn?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, for certain values of sock, rat, & Eez ... at January 01, 2024 03:01 PM (kc18b)

25 That had to have made the Saudis happy, among some others…

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2024 03:02 PM (PCK5/)

26 Shit must be getting uppity at the Peach Pit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 01, 2024 03:02 PM (R4t5M)

27 Oh, excellent, nurse! Bravo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, for certain values of sock, rat, & Eez ... at January 01, 2024 03:03 PM (kc18b)

28 Well done Nurse!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 03:04 PM (W/lyH)

29 27 Oh, excellent, nurse! Bravo!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, for certain values of sock, rat, & Eez ... at January 01, 2024 03:03 PM (kc18b)

Certainly braver than me

Posted by: It's me donna at January 01, 2024 03:04 PM (n2vyf)

30 Sometimes you have to let go.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2024 03:04 PM (G39vn)

31 Nurse - I'm glad to hear the otters spared you during your dunking. Happy New Year.

Posted by: PabloD at January 01, 2024 03:05 PM (rgS2D)

32 Those Canadians used to be so peaceful even when 'violently' protesting ... Now?

As the clock strikes midnight, anti-Israel protestors in Toronto chant “No celebration until liberation!” while disrupting New Year’s Eve festivities.

https://t.ly/vxAiu

I love all those checkered tablecloths used as scarves.

Posted by: Ciampino - Surely all these people don't have an experienced personal thing about this? at January 01, 2024 03:05 PM (qfLjt)

33 Willowed
So the US carrier group is leaving the Red Sea and the eastern Med.
Now I see why. Iran has moved a ship into the Red Sea.
Not necessarily a bad move by our navy. It puts some range between the Iranian ship and the very expensive carrier. Range = time to respond to any anti-ship missile launch.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 03:05 PM (W/lyH)

34 Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2024 03:01 PM (gU5fc

Good for you nurse r. May this be a most excellent year for you and your family!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 01, 2024 03:05 PM (hOUT3)

35 IRGC commanders were reportedly at the airport to meet with high-ranking delegates.

Whose "high-ranking delegates"? The UN's?

Posted by: mrp at January 01, 2024 03:05 PM (rj6Yv)

36 Play crow games, get crow prizes ???

Posted by: Adriane the Sci Fi Critic . . . at January 01, 2024 03:06 PM (4Winp)

37 >>> Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2024 03:01 PM (gU5fc)

Congratulations! As long as you have something nearby to warm you up afterwards it can be nice. In Pagosa Springs Co. there's a hot springs right by the river. You can hop through a hole in the ice in the river, take a plunge then run over and jump into a hot spring. Back and forth.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2024 03:06 PM (Y6IkP)

38 Thanks, y'all.

I'd be in a world of loneliness and depression without my very real and comforting family here.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2024 03:06 PM (G39vn)

39 So the US carrier group is leaving the Red Sea and the eastern Med.
Now I see why. Iran has moved a ship into the Red Sea.
Not necessarily a bad move by our navy. It puts some range between the Iranian ship and the very expensive carrier. Range = time to respond to any anti-ship missile launch.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 03:05 PM (W/lyH)
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Why was the Iranian ship allowed into the Red Sea in the first place?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2024 03:07 PM (BpYfr)

40 That Canadian truckers protest was something, eh?

Posted by: mrp at January 01, 2024 03:07 PM (rj6Yv)

41 31 Nurse - I'm glad to hear the otters spared you during your dunking. Happy New Year.
Posted by: PabloD at January 01, 2024 03:05 PM (rgS2D)

*glares*

Next year, Nurse. Next year.

Posted by: The River Otters at January 01, 2024 03:07 PM (lqBuX)

42 Hopefully, all the "delegates" got pasted, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 01, 2024 03:08 PM (R4t5M)

43 If the Corvids had hands with opposable thumbs, we would all be in trouble…

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2024 03:08 PM (PCK5/)

44 Why was the Iranian ship allowed into the Red Sea in the first place?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2024 03:07 PM (BpYfr)

Freedom of navigation.

The real wonder is how much did Iran have to scavenge parts from other ships to get the ship there?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 03:09 PM (W/lyH)

45
As I was walking out, they invited me to join them around their fire. I put my robe back on, tied my hair in my towel, thanked them for their encouragement and wished them a happy new year.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2024 03:01 PM

Rejected. Please resubmit with more details about the moments before putting your robe back on.

Posted by: Penthouse Letters at January 01, 2024 03:09 PM (3qE2b)

46 To be fair, we really need another decisive victory in the Middle East to complete FJB's set of accomplishments on the world stage for the laudatory history books you know are coming!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 01, 2024 03:09 PM (hOUT3)

47 To the IRGC deadsymps: "I fart in your general direction."

Posted by: Dr_No at January 01, 2024 03:10 PM (ayRl+)

48 I was thinking of taking a walk but it's cloudy and cold. Then I read Nurse's dip in chilly Puget Sound.

Nah, why chance it. Could rain! I have a headache! My sinuses hurt! There could be wolves!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 01, 2024 03:10 PM (sAmhv)

49 46 To be fair, we really need another decisive victory in the Middle East to complete FJB's set of accomplishments on the world stage for the laudatory history books you know are coming!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 01, 2024 03:09 PM (hOUT3)

Right... We already know he saved the economy and united us... Is there nothing he can't do ?I threw up typing that

Posted by: It's me donna at January 01, 2024 03:11 PM (n2vyf)

50 nurse better you than me.

Off to see my dad, it's his birthday and mom who got out of hospital yesterday

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2024 03:11 PM (fwDg9)

51 Why does Dr. Jill always look like a stripper in a gentlemen's club?

Maybe it was the fashionable dress she was wearing that looked like she had two sleeves of tattoos. I still favor her in a mini-skirt, fishnets and spiked heels.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 01, 2024 03:11 PM (J3ryZ)

52 And did Biden do the opposite??

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 5h
I'll bet they are evacuating more than that.

@amuse @amuse 6h
Did the Biden regime give Iran advanced notice promoting the evacuations?

War Intel @warintel4u 7h
#BREAKING Iran's Revolutionary Guard is evacuating all its military bases in northern Syria.
Jan 1, 2024 · 1:27 PM UTC

@amuse @amuse 6h
More…

Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal 7h
🚨BREAKING: IRAN ORDERS EVACUATION IN EASTERN SYRIA
IRGC has reportedly issued orders for a complete withdrawal from their positions in the Al-Bukamal region in Syria, near the Iraq border - evacuating all bases and points linked to the IRGC in the area.

This directive coincides with intensified Israeli and American drone and missile strikes against Iranian-backed militias in Syria.
Source: DeirEzzor24

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 01, 2024 03:12 PM (2yu8s)

53 Right... We already know he saved the economy and united us... Is there nothing he can't do ?I threw up typing that
Posted by: It's me donna a

I know, I am still retching from just the mental effort it took to type that!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 01, 2024 03:12 PM (hOUT3)

54 Iran has had a ship in the Red Sea for weeks; the MV Behshad. It's a commercial vessel they use as a "base." I don't think it's armed... except for the crew. It's used to coordinate Houthi attacks.

Normally it'd be a target.

But our government doesn't view Iran as a threat.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2024 03:12 PM (Q4IgG)

55 47 To the IRGC deadsymps: "I fart in your general direction."
Posted by: Dr_No at January 01, 2024 03:10 PM (ayRl+)

Knock off a significant number of their commanders and it's a good precursor to other more serious actions. Iran is reportedly very close a nuclear breakout, and Israel have vowed to never allow that to happen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 01, 2024 03:12 PM (x0n13)

56 Yeah, 11 were not killed. 10 were killed and one had the Black Knight definition of a flesh wound.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 01, 2024 03:13 PM (tT6L1)

57 The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 01, 2024 03:13 PM (t8Tm9)

58
omg nurse. I'm afraid to even get within viewing distance of scenes like that. Good for you!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2024 03:13 PM (n7rxJ)

59 I remember reading about "gifting" ravens who brought objects to a girl who fed them. One day, a raven left an earing that the girl had lost some time before.

Posted by: mrp at January 01, 2024 03:13 PM (rj6Yv)

60 51 Why does Dr. Jill always look like a stripper in a gentlemen's club?

Maybe it was the fashionable dress she was wearing that looked like she had two sleeves of tattoos. I still favor her in a mini-skirt, fishnets and spiked heels.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 01, 2024 03:11 PM (J3ryZ)

She looks like the wrangler in Maizie Hirohito's mother's Honolulu whorehouse.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 01, 2024 03:14 PM (x0n13)

61 Green Day Changes the Lyrics of ‘American Idiot’ to Bash the ‘MAGA Agenda’ During ABC’s New Years Eve Show

https://t.ly/8hqek

Posted by: Ciampino - I've heard the name but otherwise no f**ks to give at January 01, 2024 03:15 PM (qfLjt)

62 {{{Nurse watched}}}

I bet every one of them wanted to towel dry you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2024 03:15 PM (u82oZ)

63 I think it would be so cool to introduce magpies into the US midwest. Would liven things up some.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at January 01, 2024 03:15 PM (MvF+J)

64 I was thinking of taking a walk but it's cloudy and cold. Then I read Nurse's dip in chilly Puget Sound.

Nah, why chance it. Could rain! I have a headache! My sinuses hurt! There could be wolves!!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 01, 2024 03:10 PM (sAmhv)

I walked the dog and we had to pass through the trash of fireworks all over the street. Came back...might of been some unexploded ordnance.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 03:16 PM (W/lyH)

65 IRGC spokesman Sardar Ramzan Sharif denied on Friday reports that 11 of its leaders were killed in an airstrike in Damascus International Airport the night before, Iranian media quoted them as saying, as he said that such claims are "baseless."

My guess is that the 11 leaders are also baseless, as in a head and nothing else.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2024 03:16 PM (CsUN+)

66 63 I think it would be so cool to introduce magpies into the US midwest. Would liven things up some.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at January 01, 2024 03:15 PM (MvF+J)

Fine… you take our armadillos, coyotes and ticks then….

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2024 03:17 PM (PCK5/)

67 Green Day is the Sha Na Na of punk.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 01, 2024 03:17 PM (t8Tm9)

68 Green Day Changes the Lyrics of ‘American Idiot’ to Bash the ‘MAGA Agenda’ During ABC’s New Years Eve Show

Oh no! Does anyone under 35 still know who Green Day was?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2024 03:17 PM (CsUN+)

69 >>Why does Dr. Jill always look like a stripper in a gentlemen's club?

yikes!!! been a real change in decor since I've been in one of those if she's an example of now

Posted by: DanMan at January 01, 2024 03:17 PM (8uzBS)

70 Sloe Joe likes his wimmens on the trashy side.

But prefers nubile little girls who smell slightly of baby powder and Gerber applesauce.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2024 03:17 PM (Q4IgG)

71 61 Green Day Changes the Lyrics of ‘American Idiot’ to Bash the ‘MAGA Agenda’ During ABC’s New Years Eve Show

https://t.ly/8hqek
Posted by: Ciampino

LOL! They still think they're Punk.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 01, 2024 03:18 PM (sAmhv)

72 Looking at 2024 calendar and see it's a Leap Year.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2024 03:18 PM (ju2Fy)

73 J.J. Sefton

Thank you for the morning report, And Happy Birthday.

The really good news here is promotion opportunities in the IRGC just went way up.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2024 03:18 PM (u82oZ)

74 71

LOL! They still think they're Punk.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 01, 2024 03:18 PM (sAmhv)

And relevant….

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2024 03:18 PM (PCK5/)

75 Oh no! Does anyone under 35 still know who Green Day was?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2024 03:17 PM (CsUN+)
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Ya think they're trying a bit hard to claim they're still relevant?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 01, 2024 03:19 PM (tT6L1)

76 72 Looking at 2024 calendar and see it's a Leap Year.
Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2024 03:18 PM (ju2Fy)

Yep…. an election year..

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2024 03:19 PM (PCK5/)

77 OSINTdefender @sentdefender 31 Dec 2023
Several Individuals at the Pro-Palestinian Demonstration today in Chicago were seen wearing what appears to be Headbands used by the Hezbollah Terrorist Group based in Lebanon.

Beth Baisch 📸 @BethBaisch 15h
Anti-Israel protestors chant “Justin Trudeau pick a side! Justice or genocide!” as they prepare to disrupt New Year’s Eve celebrations in Toronto.
===
Justin can't hear them -- he's vacationing in Jamaica.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 01, 2024 03:19 PM (2yu8s)

78 Looking at 2024 calendar and see it's a Leap Year.

Well, then, we might want to take nurse's example and jump right in.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 01, 2024 03:20 PM (dZVON)

79 Iran has had a ship in the Red Sea for weeks; the MV Behshad. It's a commercial vessel they use as a "base." I don't think it's armed... except for the crew. It's used to coordinate Houthi attacks.

Normally it'd be a target.

But our government doesn't view Iran as a threat.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2024 03:12 PM (Q4IgG)
***

Looks like this is a frigate, the Alborz.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 03:20 PM (W/lyH)

80 I spent the morning freezing outside, though not in Puget Sound (or any other body of water). Took me 90 minutes to finally get a response after calling CQ, but I managed to have a quick chat with a guy on the opposite coast. Now I'm warming up inside with a mug of coffee.

Posted by: PabloD at January 01, 2024 03:20 PM (rgS2D)

81 The really good news here is promotion opportunities in the IRGC just went way up.

I'm waiting for the usual lurid threats from the Iranians. As Humphrey Bogart said in The Maltese Falcon, "the cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter".

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2024 03:20 PM (CsUN+)

82 66 We got ticks and coyotes already, but sure, send some armadillos. They're cool too, if not as sassy and devious as magpies are.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at January 01, 2024 03:22 PM (MvF+J)

83 Billy Joe Armstrong and his swollen adenoids. Green Day sux.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 3/12 FA at January 01, 2024 03:23 PM (T/Lqj)

84
Green Day Changes the Lyrics of ‘American Idiot’ to Bash the ‘MAGA Agenda’ During ABC’s New Years Eve Show

https://t.ly/8hqek
Posted by: Ciampino

=============

Edgy. Subversive. Risk-takers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2024 03:23 PM (n7rxJ)

85 Evacuate Syria? Sure.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 01, 2024 03:24 PM (as3uC)

86 Billy Joe Armstrong and his swollen adenoids. Green Day sux.

He's 51. You're a bit long in the tooth to be playing the youthful rebel, you flabby douchebag.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2024 03:24 PM (CsUN+)

87 82 66 We got ticks and coyotes already, but sure, send some armadillos. They're cool too, if not as sassy and devious as magpies are.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at January 01, 2024 03:22 PM (MvF+J)

Cool… but beware the leprosy!!

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2024 03:25 PM (PCK5/)

88 {{{Nurse watched}}}

I bet every one of them wanted to towel dry you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2024 03:15 PM (u82oZ)

63 I think it would be
***

I'm wondering where she hid the .45?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 03:25 PM (W/lyH)

89 This seems kindof ominous:

Iranian warship ‘enters Red Sea’ amid ongoing Houthi attacks on merchant shipping https://timesofisrael.com

Didn't someone here post earlier about the US pulling warships out?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:25 PM (t/2Uw)

90 Good afternoon, horde, and I wish you a new year rife with personal blessings. I have hopes for us together as a nation, as well, but, you know.

As NaCly advises us, we must just be happy and joyful strike the killjoys where it hurts them.

Nurse ratched, good on ya for that polar bear swim. Not I, not ever.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 01, 2024 03:25 PM (OX9vb)

91 He's 51. You're a bit long in the tooth to be playing the youthful rebel, you flabby douchebag.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2024 03:24 PM (CsUN+)
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Word.

Posted by: Neil Young at January 01, 2024 03:25 PM (tT6L1)

92 Crows? Never trust 'em. Never.

Posted by: E. A. Poe at January 01, 2024 03:25 PM (NBVIP)

93 > Looks like this is a frigate, the Alborz.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 03:20 PM (W/lyH)
___________

Ahh... I hadn't seen that. The Ike CSG is still in the area. As are a bunch of other warships. Iran's feeling frisky it seems. We'll see how it goes, but I seriously doubt the USN will do much more than observe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2024 03:26 PM (Q4IgG)

94 Didn't someone here post earlier about the US pulling warships out?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:25 PM (t/2Uw)

Me.
See 33.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 03:26 PM (W/lyH)

95 green day..*snicker*

I don't have the time
to hear those homos whine

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2024 03:26 PM (VwHCD)

96 Happy Birthday Skip's Dad !

Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 03:26 PM (T4tVD)

97 Well, then, we might want to take nurse's example and jump right in.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
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Nah. Heard Polar Plunge shrinkage could be permanent.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2024 03:26 PM (ju2Fy)

98 Open Thread: Just because

Gifting ravens: Just caws

Revolutionary Guards assassination: Just Cause

Posted by: Muldoon at January 01, 2024 03:26 PM (991eG)

99 Crows? Never trust 'em. Never.
Posted by: E. A. Poe at January 01, 2024 03:25 PM (NBVIP)
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But you're cool with ravens, right?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 01, 2024 03:26 PM (tT6L1)

100 I don't have the time
to hear those homos whine
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2024 03:26 PM (VwHCD)
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LOL!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 01, 2024 03:27 PM (tT6L1)

101 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody) @AOCpressTwo 52m
Stop picking on Green Day. They’re a real punk band, not fake like the Ramones.

Dude Bro @themegamanusa 1h Replying to @catturd2
Green Day mandates vaccine for show
http://tinyurl.com/4suybbx4
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Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 01, 2024 03:27 PM (2yu8s)

102 No one in Gabby's hometown can figure out why bridges and buildings keep collapsing. Meanwhile, Gabby is the proud owner of screws, bolts, nuts, and pins.

Posted by: Orson at January 01, 2024 03:28 PM (dIske)

103 99 All corvids are up to no good. That's what makes them so lovable.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at January 01, 2024 03:28 PM (MvF+J)

104 Ah, Diogenes, did not see your post. Should have known you would be ont top of this.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:28 PM (t/2Uw)

105 Dash my lace wigs!

If I was crazy enough to do a polar bear swim, when I recovered I would look up at a team of two doing chest compressions and rescue breathing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2024 03:28 PM (u82oZ)

106 But you're cool with ravens, right?

***
I used to be. But now... nevermore.

Posted by: E. A. Poe at January 01, 2024 03:28 PM (NBVIP)

107 87 82 66 We got ticks and coyotes already, but sure, send some armadillos. They're cool too, if not as sassy and devious as magpies are.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at January 01, 2024 03:22 PM (MvF+J)

Cool… but beware the leprosy!!

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2024 03:25 PM (PCK5/)
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Koalas have entered the chat .....

Posted by: Ciampino - Chlamydia carriers at January 01, 2024 03:29 PM (qfLjt)

108 {{{: sharon(willow's apprentice) }}}

May you be blessed in the New Year. May your pursuit of happiness be rewarded magnificently.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2024 03:30 PM (u82oZ)

109 Nurse ratched, good on ya for that polar bear swim. Not I, not ever.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs

Well. I hate cold water. But this is different. It's invigorating and energizing. I don't hang out and contemplate my navel afterwards, I get my robe on and towel off and skitter back to my heated apartment.

It's cleansing. I like to imagine sloughing off 2023 and all my failures and disappointments and getting a chance to perhaps do a little bit better this year.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2024 03:30 PM (G39vn)

110 So, the US sinks three Houthi ships and kills everyone on board and when Iran moves a battlrship into the space, we hightail it out of there and leave the Israelis on their own. Do I have that right?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:30 PM (t/2Uw)

111 Ah, Diogenes, did not see your post. Should have known you would be ont top of this.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:28 PM (t/2Uw)

Moi?
Naaaa.
I'm just thinking out loud.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 03:31 PM (W/lyH)

112 Great tip in. How the hell do you leave a guy that open in front?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2024 03:32 PM (ZLI7S)

113 Birds are not real.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2024 03:32 PM (G39vn)

114 It's cleansing. I like to imagine sloughing off 2023 and all my failures and disappointments and getting a chance to perhaps do a little bit better this year.
Posted by: nurse ratched/i]

Hmm, ice water therapy!

But it does sound like a great way to mentally and emotionally capture a clean break with the old year and a fresh start with the new year!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 01, 2024 03:32 PM (hOUT3)

115 114
drat

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 01, 2024 03:33 PM (hOUT3)

116 Twain wrote a short story about a jay that dropped acorns down a cabin chimney until the building was filled. Don't remember the ending, or if there were any casualties.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at January 01, 2024 03:33 PM (MvF+J)

117 Birds are not real.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2024 03:32 PM (G39vn)

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Suuuree...you just keep telling yourself that....

Posted by: The Woodpeckers at January 01, 2024 03:33 PM (tT6L1)

118 I'm just thinking out loud.

Posted by: Diogenes

Being a stout supporter of Israel, I am in awe of your knowledge about the region.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:33 PM (t/2Uw)

119 Dude Bro @themegamanusa 1h Replying to @catturd2
Green Day mandates vaccine for show

OBEY

Posted by: Rage For The Machine at January 01, 2024 03:34 PM (sAmhv)

120 88 {{{Nurse watched}}}

I bet every one of them wanted to towel dry you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2024 03:15 PM (u82oZ)

63 I think it would be
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I'm wondering where she hid the .45?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 03:25 PM (W/lyH)
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Don't even go there ....

Posted by: Ciampino - Tra-la-la at January 01, 2024 03:34 PM (qfLjt)

121 Good Lord, nurse. How on earth can you do that? I shiver at anything below 80°.

There's a lady in Svalbard who has a YT channel. She takes ice baths. You two would get along like a house afire. As for me, I'll take the burning house. Should be warm enough.

Posted by: creeper at January 01, 2024 03:34 PM (cTCuP)

122 I would never do a polar bear plunge,but I do run barefoot in the snow, something that my son and I have done for years. The colder the better.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 3/12 FA at January 01, 2024 03:35 PM (T/Lqj)

123 I did the polar bear plunge into Tahoe one new year.

Never again.
My nuts clenched up so tight it felt like I'd been kicked, I almost drowned. Then that whole trying to get your lips from blue to red for two hours kind of sucked. Pretty sure the only reason my blood was pumping was from my shivering.

Bucket list item checked off and bucket list reevaluated.

Posted by: Reforger at January 01, 2024 03:35 PM (9yp5S)

124 113 Birds are not real.
Posted by: nurse ratched

(smiles, waves)

Posted by: Alfred Hitchcock at January 01, 2024 03:35 PM (sAmhv)

125 Nice catch, Hrothgar.

Posted by: creeper at January 01, 2024 03:36 PM (cTCuP)

126 Intelschizo @Schizointel 1h
01JAN2024 Updated map of warships operating in Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea.
Updates:
Important Context:
Today I'm seeing a lot of people regurgitating IRGC media reports that the IRIS ALBORZ has been sent to the Red Sea and that this is escalation all the IRGC media outlets did today was publicly announced previously reported on media of the ship already being in the Red Sea. Also it is not the only ship. Along with the fact this ship has been in the Red Sea for a month, this is old news.

IRIN has as part of the 94th fleet the following ships in the Red Sea since early December 2023.
IRIS ALBORZ (72) IRIS BUSHEHR (422)

IRGCN has the following ship in the Red Sea and has hardly moved in nearly 3 years.

MV BEHSHAD which is a known IRGCN Forward Base Ship which acts as an offshore surveillance, command & liaison base by Iranian forces operating in the Red Sea, providing actionable intelligence and targeting data to the Houthi Rebels.

IRIN and IRGCN have long held naval presence in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. This is nothing new at all.
http://tinyurl.com/2s3fyxh3

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 01, 2024 03:36 PM (2yu8s)

127 Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2024 03:32 PM (ZLI7S)

I don't know, but those jerseys.....wow.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2024 03:36 PM (YRsIm)

128 {{{Salty}}}

How are you doing? Life is too short to only get together once a year. We need to do something about that.

Here's wishing you a Healthy, Joyous and Prosperpus New Year.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:37 PM (t/2Uw)

129 I would never do a polar bear plunge.

I learned my lesson about prolonged exposure to cold water during a motorcycle ride home in a 45 degree rain. Icy cold water coming off the tank into the crotch is not fun in any way shape or form.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 01, 2024 03:37 PM (tT6L1)

130 I watched "The Birds" again night before last. It was free with ads. Good enough.

It's still terrifying.

Posted by: creeper at January 01, 2024 03:38 PM (cTCuP)

131 Thank you.

I am looking at coming East this summer. I would definitely fit you in.

Thank you for your good wishes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2024 03:38 PM (u82oZ)

132 As for me, I'll take the burning house. Should be warm enough.

*********

Fist bump

Posted by: Sam McGee with. a rictus grin at January 01, 2024 03:39 PM (991eG)

133 Checked the college football scores. I'm missing nothing not watching it. The LSU/Wisconsin game was close but that's it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 01, 2024 03:39 PM (sAmhv)

134 The Ford group is in the Med; supposedly returning home soon; no replacement Group named yet.

Aerospace Intelligence @space_osint 2h
Photos of the U.S. Navy's (🇺🇸

Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group sailing in formation in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday.
http://tinyurl.com/zm2sv43x
aerial photos

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 01, 2024 03:39 PM (2yu8s)

135 Birds are not real.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Then who keeps eating my birdseed ?

Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 03:40 PM (T4tVD)

136 Things motorists tell cops: "I know my rights." "I'll sue." "I know Mayor Smoot." "Just let me call my mom." "You just lost your job." "I live only a block away." "My father-in-law is a lawyer."

Posted by: gp's Bodycam Metastudy at January 01, 2024 03:40 PM (MvF+J)

137 >>I don't know, but those jerseys.....wow.

Not good.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2024 03:41 PM (ZLI7S)

138 I thought we were going to be talking about cheap .25 acp pistols. They weren't that bad, probably just priced too cheap. What do you want for thirty bucks?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2024 03:41 PM (0EOe9)

139 Gotta run...er, walk. Later, Horde. Keep yer hand on it.

Posted by: creeper at January 01, 2024 03:41 PM (cTCuP)

140 Things are happening!

Posted by: pawn at January 01, 2024 03:42 PM (QB+5g)

141 130 I rank "The Birds" as his best, followed by "Rope."

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Healthful Glow at January 01, 2024 03:42 PM (MvF+J)

142 Green Day...living up to the name of their album.

Dookie.

Posted by: Zombie Joey Ramone at January 01, 2024 03:42 PM (R/m4+)

143 129 I would never do a polar bear plunge.

I learned my lesson about prolonged exposure to cold water during a motorcycle ride home in a 45 degree rain. Icy cold water coming off the tank into the crotch is not fun in any way shape or form.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 01, 2024 03:37 PM (tT6L1)
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Is that bad design?

Posted by: Ciampino - Tra-la-la-la at January 01, 2024 03:42 PM (qfLjt)

144 The Y where I swim has an outdoor pool that they keep open year round. They only close it if the temps drop below 32 degrees or its snowinig. They heat the pool to 82 degrees. Lots of people show up in bathrobes and flip flops, swim, put on the bathrobe and run to their cars. Or, hit the indoor jacuzzi and proceed to the locker room and sauna. I stopped swimming in the outdoor pool when it dropped below 60 degrees outside but I keep thinking I want to try it. The people who do it look very healthy.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:42 PM (t/2Uw)

145 Wow, nurse, that plunge sounds very, um, purifying. Congrats on having the courage to let it go.

Meanwhile I am eying our little lap pool that's at 52 degrees. Um, nope.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at January 01, 2024 03:43 PM (FEVMW)

146 Pug Mahon, I think I could do a barefoot run in the snow. A short one!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 01, 2024 03:43 PM (OX9vb)

147
Gotta run...er, walk. Later, Horde. Keep yer hand on it.

Posted by: creeper at January 01, 2024 03:41 PM

Keep yer hand on it? That's how I got kicked out of the skinama.

Posted by: Pee Wee Herman at January 01, 2024 03:44 PM (3qE2b)

148 When I was stationed at Fort Wainwright (Fairbanks) the hospital First Sgt asked me when I wanted to do my overnight Cold Weather Orientation.

I told him, "August."

He never asked again.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 01, 2024 03:44 PM (991eG)

149 The Mediteranean is not the Red Sea and the aggression has been solely in the Red Sea.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:45 PM (t/2Uw)

150 Photos of the U.S. Navy's Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group sailing in formation in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday.
http://tinyurl.com/zm2sv43x
aerial photos
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 01, 2024 03:39 PM (2yu8s)

That's Geraldine R. Wilson Ford sucker!

Sure does hope they don'ts be running into each other.

Posted by: Zombie Flip Wilson at January 01, 2024 03:45 PM (R/m4+)

151 Being a stout supporter of Israel, I am in awe of your knowledge about the region.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:33 PM (t/2Uw)

I've met you...and I wouldn't describe you as "stout!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2024 03:45 PM (gSZYf)

152 When I was a little kid, maybe five or so, Dad took me to sauna at the Lutheran center. Bunch of Finnish guys, sweating it out, drinking "ice water" (yeah, sure) out of jars and hitting themselves with switches. And then the Old Man threw me into the snow and they laughed and laughed. Pricks.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2024 03:45 PM (0EOe9)

153 146 Pug Mahon, I think I could do a barefoot run in the snow. A short one!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 01, 2024 03:43 PM (OX9vb)

Yeah,they are usually pretty quick. Then the fluffy socks.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 3/12 FA at January 01, 2024 03:46 PM (T/Lqj)

154 150 I hope they've got their heads up to prevent another USS Cole-style attack.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Healthful Glow at January 01, 2024 03:47 PM (MvF+J)

155 Heh, my wife about had a cow when I was out in the snow barefoot last year. We'd had quite the snow storm here in the high desert, so, naturally, I looked for a way to freak my wife out.

Honestly, it wasn't that cold out, maybe 34 or so.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 01, 2024 03:48 PM (tT6L1)

156 sharon(willow's apprentice)

Those are the survivors.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2024 03:48 PM (u82oZ)

157 Crows? Never trust 'em. Never.
Posted by: E. A. Poe at January 01, 2024 03:25 PM (NBVIP)
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But you're cool with ravens, right?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 01, 2024 03:26 PM (tT6L1)
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Crebain are right out.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 03:48 PM (ScR16)

158 >> I stopped swimming in the outdoor pool when it dropped below 60 degrees outside but I keep thinking I want to try it. The people who do it look very healthy.

There's a group of old timers around here that swim at the town beach year round. I don't mean dip I mean swim.

I see them when I take Elvis to the park for a walk.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2024 03:49 PM (ZLI7S)

159 77 OSINTdefender @sentdefender 31 Dec 2023
Several Individuals at the Pro-Palestinian Demonstration today in Chicago were seen wearing what appears to be Headbands used by the Hezbollah Terrorist Group based in Lebanon.
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Cops should put them in the bilge of a slow boat to China.
Dump them overboard about 100 yards from shore.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 01, 2024 03:49 PM (367uk)

160 Braenyard

Sharks have to eat.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2024 03:51 PM (u82oZ)

161 Being a stout supporter of Israel, I am in awe of your knowledge about the region.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:33 PM (t/2Uw)

I've met you...and I wouldn't describe you as "stout!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Thank you CBD! Maybe should have said strong?
I have some interesting info about Jews in Rome that I picked up in my travels. Will try and put something together for the food thread. As I traveled, I kept writing articles in my head for the Food thread, Book thread, Art thread...Oh, so much art.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:51 PM (t/2Uw)

162 There's a group of old timers around here that swim at the town beach year round. I don't mean dip I mean swim.

I see them when I take Elvis to the park for a walk.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2024 03:49 PM (ZLI7S)
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How nature says, "do not touch!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 01, 2024 03:51 PM (tT6L1)

163 No way was Liberty hanging with Oregon. Waiting for Michigan to wreck my day.

Posted by: Jamaica at January 01, 2024 03:51 PM (Eeb9P)

164 Cops should put them in the bilge of a slow boat to China.
Dump them overboard about 100 yards from shore.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 01, 2024 03:49 PM (367uk)
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Yeah, but if you put them in the bilges, you only have to take them back up on deck again.

Lash 'em to the cutwater.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 03:52 PM (ScR16)

165 Blake
Did she rub your feet?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2024 03:52 PM (u82oZ)

166 136 Things motorists tell cops: "I know my rights." "I'll sue." "I know Mayor Smoot." "Just let me call my mom." "You just lost your job." "I live only a block away." "My father-in-law is a lawyer."

Posted by: gp's Bodycam Metastudy at January 01, 2024 03:40 PM (MvF+J)
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We must watch the same videos. Pisses me off when they stop another cop and sit there and argue for an hour, with the understanding that if there were no body-camera recordings they could reach an understanding. I do enjoy the sovereign citizens who cherry pick "I don't fall under the US jurisdiction." Next moment "What law have I broken?"

Posted by: Ciampino - I'm traveling and not driving at January 01, 2024 03:52 PM (qfLjt)

167 I had no idea Marshawn Lynch was a minority owner in the Seattle Kraken. That's pretty cool!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2024 03:52 PM (YRsIm)

168 No Indian food tonight. Just learned that our hostess/cook is sick.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 03:53 PM (ScR16)

169 IRIN and IRGCN have long held naval presence in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. This is nothing new at all.
http://tinyurl.com/2s3fyxh3
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 01, 2024 03:36 PM (2yu8s)

As is always the case, hang around here long enough and you realize why it is a smart military blog.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 03:54 PM (W/lyH)

170 Detroit Is Asking Residents to House Illegal Aliens

http://tinyurl.com/2cfpypmh

Posted by: Ciampino - I'm traveling and not driving! at January 01, 2024 03:54 PM (qfLjt)

171 Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY 1h
#NOW Pro-Palestine Protesters continue to drive around JFK attempting to enter as NYPD blocks access with check points.

http://tinyurl.com/nh42psyt
47 seconds; "...shut it down..."

Within Our Lifetime @WOLPalestine 1h [the assholes' admission of guilt]
VICTORY! Port Authority has effectively shut down all entrances to JFK for people w/o a boarding pass. Airtrain service is closed, and cars cannot get into the terminal without proof of ticket. Airport is swarming with law enforcement and organizers were removed from Terminal 4.

We are calling on everyone w/o a car to meet us at the offices of El-Al, the zionist entity’s largest airline, for a protest at 100 Wall Street in Manhattan. For the Car Caravan, head to LaGuardia Airport Terminal C to shut it down, and then head to Wall St. to join us after.

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 36m
BREAKING:
A large caravan of anti-Israel protesters is heading toward JFK Airport in New York with the intention to shut it down so that people can’t return home after New Year’s Eve
http://tinyurl.com/mryj5vn2
2:04 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 01, 2024 03:54 PM (2yu8s)

172 161 Being a stout supporter of Israel, I am in awe of your knowledge about the region.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:33 PM (t/2Uw)

I've met you...and I wouldn't describe you as "stout!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Thank you CBD! Maybe should have said strong?
I have some interesting info about Jews in Rome that I picked up in my travels. Will try and put something together for the food thread. As I traveled, I kept writing articles in my head for the Food thread, Book thread, Art thread...Oh, so much art.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

Staunch is the word!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 01, 2024 03:55 PM (hOUT3)

173 Cattle prods, tasers, rubber bullets (CA has weapons that fire them full auto - I saw it, BLMers don't like it), mace, tear gas, billy clubs, tire irons (ignoramus certified only), sedative darts followed by leg irons with neck bracelets and dungeons.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 01, 2024 03:55 PM (367uk)

174 I had no idea Marshawn Lynch was a minority owner in the Seattle Kraken. That's pretty cool!
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2024 03:52 PM (YRsIm)

Whenever I see his name I want to scream: Memo to Pete Carroll — Run the damn ball!!!!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2024 03:55 PM (xT8gx)

175 A large caravan of anti-Israel protesters is heading toward JFK Airport
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Second look at the Highway of Death?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 03:56 PM (ScR16)

176 No Indian food tonight. Just learned that our hostess/cook is sick.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 03:53

The buffalo ran away.

Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 03:56 PM (T4tVD)

177 166 Heh. Sovereign Citizens. Up in Erie PA, the local public/nut station had a program where those of really different views could appear. The Sovereign Citizens showed up every couple months and were pretty entertaining. I'm surprised the Erie County Prison didn't have a pod just for them. Buncha mouthy punks.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2024 03:57 PM (0EOe9)

178 >>How nature says, "do not touch!"

I don't get the attraction. My town has a New Years Day plunge and that's great. But going swimming around here in the winter without a special occasion holds no interest for me.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2024 03:57 PM (ZLI7S)

179 When I was stationed at Fort Wainwright (Fairbanks) the hospital First Sgt asked me when I wanted to do my overnight Cold Weather Orientation.

I told him, "August."

He never asked again.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 01, 2024 03:44 PM (991eG)

I was at Wainwright too. Minus 35 for our orientation. Turned me against cold weather to this day.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 01, 2024 03:58 PM (BdMk6)

180 170 Detroit Is Asking Residents to House Illegal Aliens

http://tinyurl.com/2cfpypmh
Posted by: Ciampino - I'm traveling and not driving!

I am betting the Mayor's and City Council members' houses are already full of immigrants so it is time for citizens to take up the slack!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 01, 2024 03:58 PM (hOUT3)

181 Stout, Porter, or Guinness??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 01, 2024 03:58 PM (2yu8s)

182 When I was stationed at Fort Wainwright (Fairbanks) the hospital First Sgt asked me when I wanted to do my overnight Cold Weather Orientation.

I told him, "August."

He never asked again.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 01, 2024 03:44 PM (991eG)

LOL !!!

Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 03:59 PM (T4tVD)

183 Blake
Did she rub your feet?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2024 03:52 PM (u82oZ)

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Stinkeye I got said, "Do not approach."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 01, 2024 03:59 PM (tT6L1)

184 I dunno Hrothgar. Staunch doesn't sound right. Stalwart? Devoted?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:59 PM (t/2Uw)

185 Birds are not real.

The one that was flipped at me when I honked at the woman running the stop sign this morning seemed real enough.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 01, 2024 04:00 PM (dZVON)

186 >>>Staunch is the word!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3)
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Maybe she is, ... you know.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 01, 2024 04:00 PM (367uk)

187 Stout, Porter, or Guinness??

Posted by: andycanuck

Nah. wine drinker. Never liked beer.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 04:00 PM (t/2Uw)

188 Dunked myself in the North Sea during Summer that wasn't, cold enough for me

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2024 04:00 PM (gxVuS)

189 A large caravan of anti-Israel protesters is heading toward JFK Airport
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Second look at the Highway of Death?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 03:56 PM (ScR16)
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Another reason to keep .22 shorts in the ammo inventory.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 04:01 PM (W/lyH)

190 I dunno Hrothgar. Staunch doesn't sound right. Stalwart? Devoted?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:59 PM (t/2Uw)
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Leal.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 04:02 PM (ScR16)

191 Staunch as an adjective works IMHO, but Stalwart works nicely!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 01, 2024 04:02 PM (hOUT3)

192 When I was stationed at Fort Wainwright (Fairbanks) the hospital First Sgt asked me when I wanted to do my overnight Cold Weather Orientation.

I told him, "August."

He never asked again.
Posted by: Muldoon

If you tried that at the Presidio (of S.F.), you'd suffer frostbite AND poison oak.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 01, 2024 04:02 PM (KAi1n)

193 175 A large caravan of anti-Israel protesters is heading toward JFK Airport
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Second look at the Highway of Death?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea,
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I see a repurposing of crop dusters.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 01, 2024 04:02 PM (367uk)

194 Too bad there isn't a steamroller just outside JFK with the keys in it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2024 04:03 PM (Q4IgG)

195 When I was stationed at Fort Wainwright (Fairbanks) the hospital First Sgt asked me when I wanted to do my overnight Cold Weather Orientation.

I told him, "August."

He never asked again.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 01, 2024 03:44 PM (991eG)
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Ahhh...
The famous Ft Wainwright Mosquito Orientation.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 04:03 PM (W/lyH)

196 Nood open thread.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2024 04:03 PM (ju2Fy)

197 190, Captain O, that works well also!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 01, 2024 04:03 PM (hOUT3)

198 184 I dunno Hrothgar. Staunch doesn't sound right. Stalwart? Devoted?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2024 03:59 PM (t/2Uw)
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Fanatic? (runs away and hides)

Posted by: Ciampino - I'm traveling & not driving! at January 01, 2024 04:03 PM (qfLjt)

199 Too bad there isn't a steamroller just outside JFK with the keys in it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2024 04:03 PM (Q4IgG)
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Now I'm thinking of the climactic scene in "A Fish Called Wanda."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 04:04 PM (ScR16)

200 189 Keeping .22 shorts in the ammo inventory. I picked up 5 100 count boxes of .22 LR Stingers. They're labeled STANGERS, with a picture of the Cajun Swamp Guy Troy on them. Get it, Stangers?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2024 04:05 PM (0EOe9)

201 I was at Wainwright too. Minus 35 for our orientation. Turned me against cold weather to this day.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 01, 2024 03:58 PM (BdMk6)

And yet the Army's Arctic research center is at Ft Drum NY.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2024 04:06 PM (W/lyH)

202 Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas 1h
Islamic Jihad released another video showing off their war crimes. See the terrorists dressed as civilians fire rockets from a civilian home.

http://tinyurl.com/8tfwwwh2
1:09 minutes; loud; not in English.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 01, 2024 04:07 PM (2yu8s)

203 And yet the Army's Arctic research center is at Ft Drum NY.
Posted by: Diogenes

That's where the brass located themselves!

Field researchers, not so much!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at January 01, 2024 04:08 PM (hOUT3)

204 Stout supporter of Israel.
Staunch doesn't sound right. Stalwart? Devoted?

The word
is Zealot.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 01, 2024 04:19 PM (FCs/J)

205 Business, Pleasure, or HellStrike?

Posted by: DaveA at January 01, 2024 04:31 PM (FhXTo)

206 Congrats to Nurse! I am not even going outside today.

Posted by: Theodore at January 01, 2024 05:09 PM (pGonq)

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