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ONT Leo XIV
Welcome to Thursday night! How about we open with some feel-good content?
A Smart Military Blog
Army secretary says US tanks will have to hang back to avoid getting killed by cheap drones
The heavy losses have led to assessments that tanks may be obsolete in wars dominated by drones. However, Driscoll recently told BI that the role of US tanks will change rather than disappear. Instead of combined-arms assaults led by armor, where tanks are the first to hit the front lines and lead breaching operations, uncrewed systems may spearhead the charge instead. Driscoll said that tanks will stay in safe, defended positions until there is a clear path that allows them to move forward. This is a break from the traditional role of tanks, but it is seen by military planners as necessary in a world where armored vehicles worth millions can be easily picked off by drones worth as little as a few hundred bucks. Using cheap drones to destroy expensive armored vehicles has proven to be an effective asymmetrical warfare tactic. US forces have enjoyed air superiority in recent conflicts, not needing to be constantly looking up for enemy airpower. That's changing with drones.
It seems to me, armchair general that I am, that we may be at an inflection point in warfare, much as WWI was an inflection point. Drones change everything. Or do they? I think we may be close to being able to deploy mobile, Iron Dome type defensive vehicles, armed with lasers, that completely nullify or severely mitigate, the drone threat. What do y'all think?
Useless What Is The Point Of Having A GOP Congress?
But now that they’ve been given the reins of power, many congressional Republicans have shown little interest in actually governing in accordance with the pitch they made to voters just a few short months ago. On Wednesday, reporting surfaced that a cabal of House Republicans is fighting efforts to end the flow of federal taxpayer funds to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, which also offers harmful chemical and surgical castration procedures. According to NOTUS, this group of lawmakers — which reportedly included Republican Reps. Mike Lawler, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Jen Kiggans — “made it clear to House GOP leadership that they oppose adding a measure to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood” to the House’s reconciliation package. So, if slashing the taxpayer subsidization of entities that terminate unborn babies isn’t on the budget chopping block for Republicans, then what is? It’s apparently not fully repealing Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act or making significant reforms and reductions to Medicaid. Congressional GOPers have come out opposing both options over the course of the party’s reconciliation negotiations.We've made progress, but it's plain that we need a long march through our own institutions to rid our ranks of GOPe scum. I just don't know if we have time.
Interlude: Tool Time!
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 9, 2025
First An American Pope, Now This American tourist becomes the first man in over 1,500 years to be impaled at the Colosseum
But at 5 p.m. on Friday, when the 47-year-old tourist (who has American citizenship but is a "resident of Taiwan") climbed the fence at the Piazza del Colosseo, impaled himself, screamed until he passed out, and nearly bled to death, the crowds had a different reaction:Speaking of the pope, since he is now an elected official from Chicago, does that mean that it's inevitable that he'll be arrested on federal corruption charges? We'll see how he does, but I'm not a big fan. He's one of the guys that was behind removing the wonderful Bishop Strickland from his post for publicly stating that the church should, I dunno, maybe follow the teachings of Christ.
Visitors looked on in horror, according to Italian news outlets.
‘It was terrible,' commented one tourist, an eyewitness of the tragedy. ‘I saw that man skewered on a railing, and he couldn't free himself on his own.'
Liberal Women: A Theory
Why so many woman get manipulated into being liberals
George Orwell once wrote women are always and inevitably on the side of the state. He wasn't being misogynistic, he was making a psychological observation. In his view, women, particularly in their role as caregivers and moral enforcers, tend to prioritize safety and compassion over risk and freedom, and that instinct, while natural, is easily weaponized by totalitarian systems. When conformity is marketed as compassion, control is rebranded as care, the state taps into the feminine psyche to enforce ideological obedience.More at the link, what do you think?
I Like Trains Sir Rod Stewart reveals his epic model railway city
He told Railway Modeller he worked on the skyscrapers and other scenery while on tour, requesting an extra room for his constructions in his hotels. "We would tell them in advance and they were really accommodating, taking out the beds and providing fans to improve air circulation and ventilation," he said. The scenery and structures are his forte, rather than the locomotives and tracks. "I find beauty in what everyone else sees as ugly - rugged skyscrapers, beaten-up warehouses, things that are very run down." Photos of the layout show dozens of highly detailed buildings plus bridges, ships, vegetation and streets teeming with vintage cars and taxis. "When I take on something creative like this, I have to give it 110%," he said. "For me it's addictive. I started, so I just had to finish. I'm lucky I had the room. If I'd have realised at the start it would have taken so long, I'd have probably said, 'No! No! Nah!'"Pictures at the link, it's pretty epic.
Road Rage This road-rage incident is seriously one of the worst things I've ever seen (don't worry, he survived) Video at link. I make it a point not to antagonize other drivers when I'm on four wheels, much less when I'm on two. Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by scenic San'aa:
Background, if you don't get the reference.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: mindful webworker - not all there at May 08, 2025 10:00 PM (b/vRQ)
Posted by: Ciampino - look them up at May 08, 2025 10:00 PM (sPQoU)
Good Evening
Posted by: four seasons at May 08, 2025 10:00 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 08, 2025 10:00 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 08, 2025 10:00 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: A Bears Fan at May 08, 2025 10:01 PM (RFhjS)
Have seen several online personages hailing the new pontiff because he's "pro life".
The pope. Pro life. OK. Log that in as a "W" - I guess?
Posted by: rhomboid at May 08, 2025 10:02 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2025 10:03 PM (77rzZ)
8 Evenin’, All. I will try to behave myself tonight.
Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2025 10:03 PM (77rzZ)
Me too.
No more booze tomorrow. I'll be crappy then.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 10:04 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2025 10:05 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 10:05 PM (jvJvP)
Yes, and he did a shoddy investigation of SA in Peru. Yeah, I'm aware that Sadat didn't become Nasser II, but I'm pessimistic.
Posted by: night lifted at May 08, 2025 10:05 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke ( give a genuine e compliment to two people today) at May 08, 2025 10:05 PM (JqvmG)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Might be the nice weather affecting my attitude, at May 08, 2025 10:06 PM (b/vRQ)
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 08, 2025 10:06 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 10:06 PM (VofaG)
lake a good look, Pro-aborts. This is how you redeem an evil situation.
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Sorry I cannot get behind "convincing" a child to bear a child. If it was a rape there could have been immediate prophylactic measures taken to prevent conception. Not knowing more details, not a good look for the pro-life point of view.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 10:06 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 08, 2025 10:06 PM (K9xEt)
Posted by: Iris at May 08, 2025 10:07 PM (bOJ2I)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 08, 2025 10:07 PM (FVLcK)
Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2025 10:08 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Don Black at May 08, 2025 10:08 PM (AOsQT)
More at the link, what do you think?
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I think George was a smart MFer
Posted by: Don Black at May 08, 2025 10:09 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: davidt at May 08, 2025 10:10 PM (i0F8b)
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Wait, wut?
Posted by: Gertrud Scholz-Klink at May 08, 2025 10:11 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 08, 2025 10:11 PM (FVLcK)
It was on a Joe Dan Gorman Intellectual Froglegs back before the 2016 election that I was forced onto the Trump Train when Joe Dan pointed out that Trump was not the type of person who was into it just to increase his "brand," and would throw the race to Hillary. Light bulb over head. Oh, yeah; duh!
So, I've been going back through old Froglegs episodes trying to find that, watching them at 2X. What's weird is how so much of what we're still fighting was going on then, from Political Correctness to ghei "marriage" to criminal invaders to RINOs. If anything at all has changed, it's only because of Trump.
Posted by: mindful webworker - and on and on at May 08, 2025 10:11 PM (b/vRQ)
The Archdiocese of Seattle has informed that any priest who breaks the Seal of the Confessional will be excommunicated.
As a Catholic, this could be vert interesting.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at May 08, 2025 10:11 PM (uoytw)
No opinion on Leo XIV right now. As always, as a dumb pew-sitter, the best thing to do is keep my nose down and try to live up to the time-tested precepts we're bound to follow.
Following Vatican goings-on is not a worthwhile expenditure of energy and can only lead to anxiety without being able to do anything about it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 08, 2025 10:12 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 10:06 PM (VofaG)
That Library was oppressing them.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 08, 2025 10:12 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2025 10:05 PM (77rzZ)
Hi Bulg.
Things are moving along. I hope you're well.
We can't be the only people with inheritance stories where people turned crappy. People need to share. I could use a few stories.
For anyone else that wants to share, here's my contribution.
I took care of Mom and Dad for about 15 years after moving back from South Korea. Dad died at 90. Mom passed eight years later, this year at 88.
We had no unexpressed thoughts. I'm still recovering.
Despite taking care of them, I never wanted more than 50% of anything with my brother. But since I was a caregiver---most thankless profession ever---I wanted a year to get my life together, find a job, develop income streams.
He's been making that difficult.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 10:12 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Don Black
Communism-
Orwell learned it, lived it, turned out he didn't love it.
Posted by: Two Legs Good, if a fine set of lady pins at May 08, 2025 10:12 PM (t6ibK)
The state of Washington passed a bill, signed into law that makes Catholic priests who hear confessions mandatory reporters.
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God hears confessions. The priest just does the absolution.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 08, 2025 10:13 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: night lifted at May 08, 2025 10:13 PM (FZn/N)
You're not dumb and your advice makes a lot of sense.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke ( give a genuine e compliment to two people today) at May 08, 2025 10:13 PM (JqvmG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 08, 2025 10:13 PM (UGyV5)
Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 10:06 PM (VofaG)
Bangable?
I did get my teeth cleaned at the dentist today. Middle Eastern girl. She was very sweet. I really liked her. Had the mask on the entire time but seemed kind of hot.
That's one...
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 10:14 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 10:06 PM (RIvkX)
I don’t understand why it’s not a good look. To me the guy obviously didn’t know the girl until well after conception. You would have rather the little girl in the photo been killed?
Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 10:15 PM (VofaG)
In other news Mrs. F. reports major bombing in Karachi but I cannot find reportage.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 10:15 PM (RIvkX)
The Archdiocese of Seattle has informed that any priest who breaks the Seal of the Confessional will be excommunicated.
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His Excellency can also say that henceforth all Confessions will be heard behind a screen. Like they should.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 08, 2025 10:15 PM (QnmlO)
Prayer up for you, Brother.
Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2025 10:16 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - first and foremost at May 08, 2025 10:16 PM (b/vRQ)
Posted by: Two Legs Good, if a fine set of lady pins at May 08, 2025 10:12 PM (t6ibK)
He remained a socialist though. So really not that smart.
Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 10:16 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Ciampino - did the Suez Canal at May 08, 2025 10:17 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 10:15 PM (RIvkX)
ANd Lahore
Posted by: night lifted at May 08, 2025 10:17 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at May 08, 2025 10:18 PM (elaR+)
The only point is that a GOP Congress mostly stays out of Trump's way. A Dem one actively impedes him. But that's it. You notice these useless sacks of shite aren't doing anything to implement his EOs legislatively. He has to do it all on his own.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 08, 2025 10:18 PM (UGyV5)
Posted by: scampydog at May 08, 2025 10:18 PM (41CYW)
Is there some kind of conclave to pick a Pope Emeritus? And since Catholics claim that their authority is because Jesus told Peter that "on this I will build my church" is there a "Rock Emeritus"?
I'm not Catholic, but Pope Bergerglio seems to have been a fraud by Catholic standards, and the cardinals he put in place are mostly frauds, making this Pope Leo fourteen pretty sus.
Posted by: Minuteman at May 08, 2025 10:18 PM (47/pr)
But, having the state, require a priest to call the cops on a penitent is something I'd expect out of the CCP sponsored, "Church".
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at May 08, 2025 10:18 PM (uoytw)
Have seen several online personages hailing the new pontiff because he's "pro life".
The pope. Pro life. OK. Log that in as a "W" - I guess?
Posted by: rhomboid
Well, thank God for that at least. What sickens me as a Catholic is the number of Catholic women I know who are pro abortion, oops, I mean pro choice. I don't know what the hell has happened to Catholic women. I suspect they've been corrupted by the democrat party.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 10:19 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: El Mariachi at May 08, 2025 10:20 PM (gDhA9)
Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 10:21 PM (VofaG)
I've heard this described as the "mom and dad" theory of politics. Dad sends you to bed without supper because you didn't do your chores, and mom feels sorry for you and sneaks your favorite meat loaf plus dessert up to your room on a plate.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at May 08, 2025 10:21 PM (XlvBQ)
But, having the state, require a priest to call the cops on a penitent is something I'd expect out of the CCP sponsored, "Church".
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic
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WA Dems don't care about abused kids. They care about bashing the RCC.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 08, 2025 10:21 PM (QnmlO)
The Pope's brother was interviewed about whether he was a Cubs fan or a White Sox fan. The brother said the Pope didn't like the Cubs and was a Sox fan, but his Father was a Cardinals fan....
Posted by: ERF at May 08, 2025 10:21 PM (qqD/x)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke ( give a genuine e compliment to two people today)
Spend a couple of years weeping over the blow to his pride. Along with a year long bender. From what I hear, they like their Scotch.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 10:22 PM (0Htd1)
I just started a Gregorian Chant playlist. Here's hoping it helps me destress.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 08, 2025 10:22 PM (VNX3d)
More accurately that would be Native American. If words mean things.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 08, 2025 10:22 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 08, 2025 10:22 PM (63Dwl)
40 As a Baptist, despite my skepticism about some RCC doctrine and practise, I'd have to nullify the law if I was on a jury that had such an awful law presented to it.
Posted by: Eric2 at May 08, 2025 10:22 PM (q7Vou)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 08, 2025 10:23 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: PJ at May 08, 2025 10:23 PM (RRCAT)
My husband said tonight "I found out something I don't like about the new Pope. HE'S A SOX FAN"
Hubby is a Cubs fan.
Posted by: four seasons at May 08, 2025 10:23 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: mindful webworker - not all there at May 08, 2025 10:00 PM
Have you seen the little wave that the Pope did on his balcony?
Isn't that exactly the same way the bears are now waving?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 08, 2025 10:23 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Minuteman at May 08, 2025 10:18 PM (47/pr)
Easy. Popes have always died in office, for the last 600 years. No Pope ever retired. But benedict was old and sick, and decided the church needed more active guidance than he was capable of giving. So, he just said "I retire." Since this never happens, nobody knew what to do. But everyone decided that it wasn't that bad an idea to let Popes quit if they are ill or tired, so they made up the title of Pope Emeritus to cover Benedict.
Posted by: El Mariachi at May 08, 2025 10:24 PM (gDhA9)
As I stated, it is not legally possible for a 13-year old to be "convinced" to carry and give birth nor is it safe or advisable. She should never have conceived.
Making the "child rape exception" a pro-life argument is not a good argument to make.
Again, without specifics we're arguing generalities.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 10:24 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2025 10:24 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 10:25 PM (VofaG)
Soldiers need to climb on and off the tank, and willy-nilly spray and pray might get the lead drone, but are you really going to be able to re-load a hundred shotguns in the five minute interval before the next drone comes a creepin'? Plus, the inside of a tank isn't exactly spacious as it is, so finding room for all these extras would be a challenge.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 08, 2025 10:25 PM (FVLcK)
I'm in the house where I took care of Mom for years. The dog is with me, old, limping, I'm doing my best to keep him going.
It's a big house. Our realtor cousin appraised it at $520,000 to $540,000 Canadian. Which is crazy. It's a big house in a small town but everything in Canada has gone insane.
My brother was fine with $250,000. We'd avoid realtor fees. But after probate cleared, he immediately wanted to come to town to pull money out of the bank. I asked him about the house. He said after talking with friends and the cunt wife, he didn't want to hold a mortgage.
I told him don't come to town, the remaining money in the probate account will stay there until my living situation is resolved.
I was at the lawyer this week. He will now hold a mortgage. I am looking at other options. But since I'm unemployed after being a caregiver for so long, I'd pay more than he wants.
I actually have enough precious metals to pay him off, But gold is on fire and I'd like to keep that. I have enough money to keep me comfortable for a bit while I develop a life.
I didn't expect all this drama after my parents passed.
Suck it up Princess....
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 10:26 PM (jvJvP)
Because of a natural tendency to favor authoritarianism, especially if they think they are going to be in charge?
Welcome to what most people really believe.... Until they have been crushed under the boot of despots for generation or three.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 08, 2025 10:26 PM (/lPRQ)
Military history is a never-ending cycle of a dominating new offensive weapon or tactic eventually countered by a new technical defensive measure (i.e., thicker or different armor) or tactic. We are at the mid-point of the latest of these cycles in land warfare. I hope DARPA and smart people in the Army, Marines, and Air Force are on a winning and rapid path to countering the cheap drone and drone swarm threat.
Posted by: Gref at May 08, 2025 10:26 PM (aBgBM)
I want to know if the rapist was prosecuted. I've always wondered what follow up Planned Parenthood takes when they perform abortions on young girls. Do they bring in law enforcement to investigate and arrest the rapists? Something has to be done so that the perp doesn't keep doing it.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 10:27 PM (0Htd1)
I'm not Catholic, but Pope Bergerglio seems to have been a fraud by Catholic standards, and the cardinals he put in place are mostly frauds, making this Pope Leo fourteen pretty sus.
Posted by: Minuteman at May 08, 2025 10:18 PM (47/pr)
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Biden46 was a fraud so what are you going to do with all he set up?
Posted by: Ciampino - too complicated at May 08, 2025 10:27 PM (sPQoU)
Laser weapons are limited in a lot of ways. The big problem is carrying enough juice for the lasers.
But I can imagine you can screw up laser weapons systems in a lot of ways - reflective paint on the targets or "smoke" bombs that are opaque and/or refractive to the frequency of the laser...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 08, 2025 10:27 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2)
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I see super sonic or stealth type cruise missiles loaded with mosquito hawk sized drones being released over target and swarming infantry.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 10:28 PM (lCWOD)
At 70, I recall a few times when 13 year olds got pregnant and, pre Roe, usually gave up the baby for adoption. A friend married a girl who had a mother that age and grandma raised her. Lovely woman.
Posted by: night lifted at May 08, 2025 10:28 PM (FZn/N)
You know, like the ones we had in the fucking Cold War?
Network platforms together so they constantly shift which platform if actually emitting Radar... then shift that data between platforms for defense.
Or, just do broad beam High power Jamming... all those drones are controlled by someone.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 08, 2025 10:28 PM (QAkQ3)
EMP over enemy space will fry the delicate electronics and generally make life for the enemy suck.
Doing it is the hard thing.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 08, 2025 10:28 PM (/lPRQ)
I vaguely recall a law to mandate PP report cases where a girl comes in for an abortion in statutory rape type cases failing in some red state. PP argue that the state was trying to track rape victims to harass them or something and that actually worked.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 08, 2025 10:29 PM (t0Rmr)
The pope. Pro life. OK. Log that in as a "W" - I guess?
Posted by: rhomboid at May 08, 2025 10:02 PM (1m82a)
He's so pro-life he's pro-illegal immigrant life in your country/neighborhood.
IMAO, the cardinals gave a 'screw you' to Trump by electing a liberal American globalist as pope. This is the polar opposite of Reagan and JP II.
Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 10:31 PM (gKDq2)
The Uke war is showing infantry perhaps supported by very cheap and expendable armor are a better choice.
But this cuts against the modern "more money equal more better" philosophy we have in the DoD now.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 08, 2025 10:31 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 10:31 PM (VofaG)
Suck it up Princess....
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 10:26 PM (jvJvP)
Which is why I FORCED all my siblings to sign onto a Living Trust for Mom, when I came to take care of her 12 years ago. Everything in writing... everything in a Trust Fund that I was the Executor for.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 08, 2025 10:32 PM (QAkQ3)
IMAO, the cardinals gave a 'screw you' to Trump by electing a liberal American globalist as pope. This is the polar opposite of Reagan and JP II.
Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 10:31 PM (gKDq2)
Indeed, it is. And the synodality stuff is dreadful, too
Posted by: night lifted at May 08, 2025 10:32 PM (FZn/N)
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I see multiple super sonic or stealth type cruise missiles loaded with drones large enough to carry grenade sized bombs focused on multiple artillery targets.
Multiples of these drones could focus simultaneously from different directions on a single larger target.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 10:32 PM (lCWOD)
Posted by: mindful webworker - not all there at May 08, 2025 10:00 PM
According to census data, most bears are Episcopalian. It's not much. But at least they aren't Unitarians.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 08, 2025 10:32 PM (UGyV5)
I can see a black market for undetonated payloads of downed drones.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 08, 2025 10:33 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: polynikes
If they have to spend the night in jail, their girlfriends will be so sad.
Posted by: Chief Iron Eyes Miklos sheds not a single tear at May 08, 2025 10:33 PM (t6ibK)
American housing prices have spiked too.
Between Biden hyperflation and the mass influx of immigrants, illegal or otherwise, the prices are up 2X over 4 years ago and 5X over 20 years ago.
Young people complain about it...then at least where I live go vote to bring in more immigrants and spend more federal dollars.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 08, 2025 10:33 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Good point. Why does it take morons to come up with the smart solutions?
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 10:34 PM (0Htd1)
So a cluster bomb.
Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 10:34 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2025 10:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 08, 2025 10:33 PM (t0Rmr)
thing is? its all regional. My house in Central Calif small town? Due to the crap economy here... worth less than 20 years ago.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 08, 2025 10:35 PM (QAkQ3)
Moral enforcers? Once upon a time, not anymore.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 08, 2025 10:35 PM (mH6SG)
I need to add that the military history cycle also includes new, dominating defensive weapons or tactics that are eventually are countered by new offensive weapons or tactics.
As in large numbers of machine guns in continuous lines of trenches being eventually countered by better artillery support to the offense, tanks, and infiltration tactics.
Posted by: Gref at May 08, 2025 10:36 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 08, 2025 10:35 PM (mH6SG)
Now they are leftist political enforcers.
Posted by: night lifted at May 08, 2025 10:36 PM (FZn/N)
Other than Hollywood movies and various international spy thriller fiction, has an EMP been proven to even work in the battlespace?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 08, 2025 10:36 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate
Not in my family. My mom was pretty hard nosed. Maybe it's a Germanic thing.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 10:37 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 08, 2025 10:37 PM (CHHv1)
My parents live in a region where the economy has been in the crapper for the last 20 years. Still 2X what it was 10 years ago.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 08, 2025 10:37 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 08, 2025 10:31 PM (t0Rmr)
Yeah, the new XM Rifle? getting crap reviews from the troops... unofficially of course.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 08, 2025 10:37 PM (QAkQ3)
One of my wife's best friends is going through the same thing since her mother died.
The friend has been a practicing attorney, a judge, on state commissions, etc.
Her sister is being so neurotic about the estate, that we have had to go down and visit once and talk the friend back down to a normal blood pressure on the phone twice.
This sister is accusing her of stealing, scheduling an appraiser one day and then cancelling them the next, and then threatening to sue the appraisal company because they have said they won't work with her, etc.
The sister is a loon, and she has almost broken a very tough and smart woman. I think that is because it is her mother's estate. To anyone else acting like that, my wife's friend would just tell them to "get bent".
Good luck getting everything resolved nicely on your end.
I guess my only advice would be, do everything in writing (emails and texts), but don't write anything when you are emotional. Only write it when you are calm and in a good place.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 08, 2025 10:38 PM (HlyYF)
Wow that is the complete opposite of the feminist pro choice hags.
Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 10:38 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 08, 2025 10:32 PM (QAkQ3)
I wish I did something like that.
My parents had me very late. Mom was a nun for 14 years.
But Dad was 90. We were walking down the street. I told him I needed to find something for my future. He was concerned about my living situation.
I told him I'm a smart guy and would figure something out. And I figured my brother and I would be fine. 50% - 50% and I took care of them.
But here we are.
Thank you for sharing Romeo13.
I actually kind of hope you are the last one to comment on this topic. It would make me very happy if the rest of the Horde didn't go through stuff like this.
I'm going to bed soon.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 10:38 PM (jvJvP)
My parents live in a region where the economy has been in the crapper for the last 20 years. Still 2X what it was 10 years ago.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 08, 2025 10:37 PM (t0Rmr)
Like I said... regional. House was worth more 20 years ago because they actually thought High Speed Rail was going to let them commute to the Bay Area...
OOOOpsie...
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 08, 2025 10:38 PM (QAkQ3)
Moral enforcers? Once upon a time, not anymore.
Oh I still think the Karen cohort is enforcing something, its just not fair to call it morals anymore.
The fem-o-sphere seems to have plenty of heavies telling other women that if they marry a Trump supporter, have more then 2 kids, or stay at home that they should be shunned.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 08, 2025 10:39 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 10:39 PM (RIvkX)
EMP over enemy space will fry the delicate electronics and generally make life for the enemy suck.
Doing it is the hard thing.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 08, 2025 10:28 PM (/lPRQ)
Hardening your electronics against your own and the enemy's EMP is part of that solution.
Posted by: Gref at May 08, 2025 10:39 PM (aBgBM)
Between Biden hyperflation and the mass influx of immigrants, illegal or otherwise, the prices are up 2X over 4 years ago and 5X over 20 years ago.
County tax appraisers are thrilled at the prospect of twice the taxes coming in without the hassle of putting a millage increase up to a vote.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 08, 2025 10:39 PM (a4flb)
http://tiny.cc/HolyBear
Posted by: tankdemon at May 08, 2025 10:40 PM (FVLcK)
Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2025 10:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 10:40 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 10:41 PM (RIvkX)
Tim Walz@Tim_Walz
When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child can have?
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What he is talking about is that the tariffs may constitute a doll availability limitation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 08, 2025 10:42 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 10:41 PM (RIvkX)
Fixed that right up for you.
Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)
Tim Walz@Tim_Walz
When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child can have?
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What he is talking about is that the tariffs may constitute a doll availability limitation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 08, 2025 10:42 PM (L/fGl)
This is the guy they brought in to bring men back into the fold.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 08, 2025 10:43 PM (UGyV5)
Tim Walz@Tim_Walz
When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child can have?
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What he is talking about is that the tariffs may constitute a doll availability limitation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Was he wearing a 'Save Our Dolls' T-Shirt when he said it. The kewl kidz in Hollyweird are wearing those. It's, of course, depraved tranny BS again.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 08, 2025 10:44 PM (K9xEt)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 10:27 PM
Do a search for "Planned Parenthood reports rapist". My search always comes back with zero results of a local news story where PP helped catch a rapist.
Some of the pro-life groups do perform stings where a 13 y.o. girl goes in with a 35 y.o. man. PP apparently is quite adept at creating situations where no relevant questions are asked, yet the young girl is still scheduled for her abortion.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 08, 2025 10:44 PM (HlyYF)
Young people complain about it...then at least where I live go vote to bring in more immigrants and spend more federal dollars.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 08, 2025 10:33 PM (t0Rmr)
In the tax box, I have government records from a few years ago listing the house value at about $200,000. Not that long ago.
It's a small Canadian town.
All of a sudden, $500,000 plus. We had a minor flood damage a couple of years ago and much of the house has been updated, and I'm still cleaning up. But that was crazy...
Can't afford a place to live?
This is how revolutions start...
My brother wants monthly payments of $1500 and almost half would go against my mortgage principle.
There are apartments going up in town for $2000 a month. Insane.
Why won't revolutions happen when you want them?
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 10:45 PM (jvJvP)
\Donald Trump now has the progtards talking about how good consumerism is. There is nothing that man can not do.
Posted by: Kwak! at May 08, 2025 10:45 PM (89Sog)
The M-16 was shit when it came out. Amazing that you can spend so much money and still produce something that doesn't do what its predecessor did.
On the positive side eventually they did fix the M-16 issues but...I don't know that our current military can.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 08, 2025 10:45 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 08, 2025 10:43 PM (UGyV5)
Please. "The Man Whisperer."
Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 10:46 PM (gKDq2)
Not entirely. The problem is that "drones" is a REALLY large category. Some of the drones are hobbyist-size with grenades rigged underneath them. Easily taken care of with your shotgun. Some of them are much larger, carrying 250lb bombs and faster - maybe you can knock it down with a shotgun, but it will fall ballistically and might still hit your tank, depending on altitude and how far away you manage to hit it. Then some are actually the size of a small airplane with a lot of explosives packed in them - basically crude cruise missiles. Not so easy to defeat.
Both the people saying "all of warfare has changed!" AND the people saying "oh, please, just shoot them down" are likely wrong.
Posted by: GWB at May 08, 2025 10:46 PM (ANsAt)
Hugs to you. I spent years taking care of my parents who were in their nineties. I was better off than you, because I had taken early retirement, and had a pension. And my siblings were appreciative. They helped as much as they could. Taking care of someone that old is a real burden. You basically gave up your freedom. Your brother is a jerk and the least he can do is wait a little bit for the money. I hope the lawyer can help you in this.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 10:47 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: GWB at May 08, 2025 10:47 PM (ANsAt)
Some of the pro-life groups do perform stings where a 13 y.o. girl goes in with a 35 y.o. man. PP apparently is quite adept at creating situations where no relevant questions are asked, yet the young girl is still scheduled for her abortion.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 08, 2025 10:44 PM (HlyYF)
Yet Washington State just passed a law that in the case of child abuse, including incest and rape, breaks the seal of the Confessional, saying Priests are OBLIGATED to report, and will have to testify.
How the hell does that work... when we already have in place laws that say Planned NoParenthood is supposed to report?
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 08, 2025 10:47 PM (QAkQ3)
County tax appraisers are thrilled at the prospect of twice the taxes coming in without the hassle of putting a millage increase up to a vote.
There are many tax scenarios like this where inflation hits you with a double whammy - the progressive income tax is another one.
Even if your company kept giving your 10%+ raises to keep up with Bidenflation that would push you into a steeper tax bracket.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 08, 2025 10:49 PM (t0Rmr)
You here for four hours! You go now!!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 08, 2025 10:49 PM (YSv5G)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 08, 2025 10:49 PM (TdCYS)
Tim Walz@Tim_Walz
When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child can have?
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What he is talking about is that the tariffs may constitute a doll availability limitation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 08, 2025 10:42 PM (L/fGl)
2028 Democrat Platform Plank:
We promise every household will be able to afford unlimited dirt-cheap Chinese-manufactured dolls, electronic gizmos, and everything else your consumerist heart desires! We will make this possible for every poor and middle-class household by making the rich finally pay their fair share in taxes!
Posted by: Gref at May 08, 2025 10:50 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: GWB at May 08, 2025 10:46 PM (ANsAt)
Radar guided .30 cals... maybe in a dual or quad mount.
Mounted ON your tanks.
Large enough to take out fairly large targets... small enough to deploy a buttload of them.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 08, 2025 10:50 PM (QAkQ3)
Now: If the Trump tariffs stop anyone from buying as much Chinese crap as they want it is a crime against the Constitution. Give me Chinese dolls or give me death!
Posted by: 18-1 at May 08, 2025 10:51 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 08, 2025 10:47 PM
Prosecutorial discretion is currently one of the Left's greatest tools.
Prosecute Catholic priests ... oh heck yea!
Prosecute intersectional allies of the Democrat Party ... no way!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 08, 2025 10:52 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 08, 2025 10:43 PM (UGyV5)
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To be fair, he-man David Hogg wasn't going to do it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 10:53 PM (JkO4W)
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Orwell missed one obvious observation -
Statists are always faggots or latent homosexuals.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 10:54 PM (lCWOD)
Good luck getting everything resolved nicely on your end.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 08, 2025 10:38 PM (HlyYF)
Yeah. I couldn't imagine how stressful this could be.
I'm in a worse state because I was a caregiver for Mom for years. There are pictures my friends' daughters have drawn of us with Mom holding onto my arm. Mom needed me. I have to develop a life now.
I wonder how people go so nuts.
My brother doesn't really need the cash. Mortgage paid off.
I do admit that I am going a bit crazy, but that's simply because I don't know where I will be living in a while.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 10:55 PM (jvJvP)
Orwell missed one obvious observation -
Statists are always faggots or latent homosexuals.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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Or they're tyrannical, sadistic psychos like Stalin and Mao.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 08, 2025 10:55 PM (U7Gpi)
Posted by: GWB at May 08, 2025 10:47 PM (ANsAt)
23 years in the army as a tanker, though I am a bit reluctant to call myself a veteran since I was never actually deployed anywhere while bullets were actually flying.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 08, 2025 10:55 PM (FVLcK)
India and Pakistan navies begin parallel drills just 60 km apart
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 10:56 PM (lCWOD)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 08, 2025 10:43 PM (UGyV5)
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To be fair, he-man David Hogg wasn't going to do it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 10:53 PM (JkO4W)
Currently 50% of Men, are on Cholesterol Medication... uh... which just happens to be the building block of Testosterone... and Low T is suddenly an epidemic...
Geeeee... almost like... theres... a connection?
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 08, 2025 10:56 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 08, 2025 10:55 PM (FVLcK)
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If you've never been deep in the shit, that's a chasm that can't be bridged.
Posted by: Dick "Dick" Durbin at May 08, 2025 10:57 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 08, 2025 10:57 PM (YSv5G)
If you need help figuring out your health insurance, drop me a line, my nic at gee, mail!
Posted by: Weirddave at May 08, 2025 10:58 PM (df/te)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 10:56 PM
I wonder if they're doing the water equivalent of those elaborate gqte closing ceremonies they do in Kashmir.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 08, 2025 10:58 PM (TdCYS)
4. Indian Navy: Growing regional power with around 150 ships, including one (2 I think) aircraft carrier and modernizing frigates and submarines. Emphasizes Indian Ocean dominance and blue-water capabilities.
Number 3 is Russia which is rusty and questionable
Number 2 is China which in numerically superior but, you know, made in China
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 10:59 PM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 08, 2025 11:00 PM (TdCYS)
Hubby is a Cubs fan.
Addison St is 3600 North.
Dolton IL is roughly 13500 South.
I'd be surprised if he wasn't a White Sox fan.
Posted by: Chuck C at May 08, 2025 11:00 PM (D0HYP)
I wonder if they're doing the water equivalent of those elaborate gqte closing ceremonies they do in Kashmir.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 08, 2025 10:58 PM (TdCYS)
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Those things are awesome. Makes the geese jealous.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:00 PM (dDmld)
The Chinese are building a new drone, and the way it’s described explains why they’re becoming so popular with military forces worldwide. They say it will have the same accuracy as a Tomahawk missile, with 1/3 the explosive power at 1/11 the cost.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 08, 2025 11:00 PM (S+5p3)
Also, KTY us visiting for Mother's Day weekend!
Feeling the blessings rn
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 08, 2025 11:01 PM (rT96s)
After my dad died, I was an executor. It was a full year before the estate was settled. It took one year for us to get the money from the estate. The only money that was distributed quickly was from savings bonds and life insurance. Money from financial accounts, stocks, and the sale of property takes time. There are steps that you take through probate court. It took almost exactly 1 year to settle with probate court.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 11:01 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2025 10:40 PM (77rzZ)
And with you. And your sister.
Damn. We are hitting a night thread. I bet if ace had a post and asked for stories, you and I would be grateful.
But if you and I are the worst ones going through crap like this, and none of the rest of the Horde is, I'm good, not thrilled, but good with that.
And wish I could take this issue from you.
Good night.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 11:01 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: polynikes
But smarter sub-munitions. Programed to home in on anything moving in its range or meeting the target profile.
Thing is, cluster bombs are frowned upon and those of the scatterable mine type are pretty much 'outlawed' because too many blow up little kids years later.
I'd think widespread use of these things may actually intensify conflict in what might just be a border skirmish. So...
Drones would have to maintain individual control less spec-ops / terrorists infiltrate the enemy's capital and other sensitive behind the lines areas and raise hell where they cannot unleash drones in areas with their own civvies.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 08, 2025 11:01 PM (/lPRQ)
I have been expecting the obsolescence of tanks and aircraft carriers for a while. They have survived longer than I expected.
I don't really like this new world. I didn't like the old one much either.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 08, 2025 11:01 PM (tAAke)
Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 11:02 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Dick "Dick" Durbin at May 08, 2025 10:57 PM (JkO4W)
Shouldn't the sock be "Blumenthal"?
Posted by: tankdemon at May 08, 2025 11:02 PM (FVLcK)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 08, 2025 11:02 PM (YSv5G)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 11:01 PM (0Htd1
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Let me take this moment to advertise the critical utility of a trust.
Avoid probate, peeple!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:02 PM (dDmld)
1. Swap out the Papal Throne for a Lay-Z-Boy recliner, one that has a built-in beer cooler in the armrest.
2. Require the Cardinals to attend all meetings in NFL jerseys. Youngest Cardinal is responsible for providing the wings and beer.
3. Designate the official Popemobile to be a 1964 International Scout, which will always be up on blocks on the lawn of the Apostolic Palace.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 08, 2025 11:03 PM (gm511)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 08, 2025 11:02 PM (FVLcK)
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Damn, you're right.
I blame alcohol.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:03 PM (dDmld)
Amid heavy exchanges of artillery fire between the two countries, two Pakistani drones have been shot down by Indian Army Air Defence Units in the Naushera sector of Jammu and Kashmir, as per the defence sources.
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India retaliated early Thursday. The military attacked Pakistan's air defence systems in several places, including Lahore, using precision-guided missiles and kamikaze drones.
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Several towns have been put on high alert as Pakistan launched drones and missiles across northern and western India. Bikaner, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Jammu, Samba, Akhnoor, and Kishtwar reported blackouts. Threats were intercepted in midair by air defence forces in Udhampur and Jaisalmer,
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US Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said that the India-Pakistan conflict is "fundamentally none of our business" but hoped that it does not escalate into a nuclear war.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 11:06 PM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:06 PM (ZwnGn)
Posted by: nerdygirl
One year? Sheeeeeet! It took me 8 years to settle the grandparent's estate and farm due to fuckery from the lawyers, one cousin, PA EPA, US EPA, County and Township.
A full one half of the value of the place was lost to taxes, lawyer fees, unnecessary penalties, and previously stated asshole cousin.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 08, 2025 11:06 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 08, 2025 11:06 PM (FVLcK)
Perhaps sell the house, give your money hungry brother what is “his.” Buy something smaller that you can keep up by yourself.
This can be your beginning. Something to occupy your mind and your energy for a bit while
You heal. Fighting with your brother will not allow you to get yourself together.
Do you REALLY LOVE that house? Is the constant reminder of your folks, and losing them, healthy for you? Is the risk of answering the door or picking up the phone to a hostile sibling worth it?
I pray for you, stateless. Maybe a trip to TX in October would be a worthy and healing experience for you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 08, 2025 11:07 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 08, 2025 11:07 PM (TdCYS)
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Rod Stewart?
I'm spitballin' here.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:07 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2025 11:08 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 08, 2025 11:07 PM (TdCYS)
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Not when there are lightly-used Oscar Meyer wienermobiles on the market.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:08 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Bulg at May 08, 2025 11:08 PM (77rzZ)
I have been expecting the obsolescence of tanks and aircraft carriers for a while. They have survived longer than I expected.
I don't really like this new world. I didn't like the old one much either.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 08, 2025 11:01 PM (tAAke)
The US and most Western European societies have arrived at a point where human military casualties must be prevented at practically any cost but autonomous armed robots are taboo. Something's got to give, if we want to survive in this dog-eat-dog world.
Posted by: Gref at May 08, 2025 11:08 PM (aBgBM)
If you need help figuring out your health insurance, drop me a line, my nic at gee, mail!
Posted by: Weirddave at May 08, 2025 10:58 PM (df/te)
Thank you. I'll do that if I need help.
I think it's more how long I've been looking, and not getting nibbles anymore.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 08, 2025 11:08 PM (VNX3d)
40 Admirals.
Only 28 warships left.
The UK has has more Brigadier Generals than it has working battle tanks.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 08, 2025 11:09 PM (S+5p3)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 10:06 PM (RIvkX)
Without knowing the circumstances of the alleged rape, we don't know if the girl was able to get the morning-after pill in the time window within which it is safe to administer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:09 PM (ZwnGn)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Who is to say they weren't latent homosexuals?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 11:10 PM (lCWOD)
40 Admirals.
Only 28 warships left.
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The Cherokees have more chiefs than they have kettles of broth.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:11 PM (dDmld)
But drones are semi autonomous robots.
I am waiting for humanoid drones. Like that one anime from when I was a kid. I want giant, Kung fu robots with human pilots in the head.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 08, 2025 11:11 PM (WOqxE)
Posted by: Gref
Hardening a lightweight/microweight drone may not be possible w/o pushing it into something the size of a WWI biplane.
And corresponding cost and target profile.
Some of the micro racing drones move FAST, hard target whateverb you are trying to shoot it down with, but tiny payload... But somehow carry more punch than a MBT cannon?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 08, 2025 11:12 PM (/lPRQ)
The Popemobile should be a convertible 1976 Cadillac ElDorado Biarritz.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 08, 2025 11:07 PM (TdCYS)
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It should be based on an El
Camino.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 08, 2025 11:12 PM (ES1Rb)
One year? Sheeeeeet! It took me 8 years to settle the grandparent's estate and farm due to fuckery from the lawyers, one cousin, PA EPA, US EPA, County and Township.
A full one half of the value of the place was lost to taxes, lawyer fees, unnecessary penalties, and previously stated asshole cousin.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 08, 2025 11:06 PM (cYBz/)
Which is why I have a living Trust for the Son... everything is spelled out... no need for legal fuckery...
And as the Bank accounts, stock accounts, and House, are all IN the trust... I can do whatever I want... but when I die, it all reverts to the kid and he can use it as executor immediately.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 08, 2025 11:13 PM (QAkQ3)
Tim Walz@Tim_Walz
When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child can have?
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What he is talking about is that the tariffs may constitute a doll availability limitation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
The point of tariffs is to get companies like Mattel to manufacture dolls here, and avoid the tariffs. Apparently Waltz isn't bright enough to get that. Which doesn't surprise me.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 11:14 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Puddleglum
That one is right up there with #MeToo
Pedo Talk
Not that I recommend it, but check out the "Dolls" in the series "Happy".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 08, 2025 11:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Think that way and there never will be a decisive battle.
How about this? MBT or screening element detects inbound drone swarm. TC activates part of the dual-purpose reactive armor that covers the hull.
Dual-purpose reactive armor? Take classic reactive armor except discrete segments can now be launched via rocket motor towards the approaching swarm. Either have a timed trigger, remote trigger, or VT fuse so it detonates and spews its hundreds of steel BBs at the drones.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 08, 2025 11:14 PM (uvr++)
Posted by: Francis at May 08, 2025 11:14 PM (bbuBP)
You mean Five Star Stories with their Mortarr Heads being piloted by genetically enhanced young women called Fatimas?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 08, 2025 11:16 PM (uvr++)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 11:01 PM (0Htd1)
Hi nerdygirl!!
Sorry, I'm having beers tonight.
Last night. So much to do.
Mom's probate was pretty quick. About 2 months. We are in a smaller Canadian farming community.
After my father passed, we set most things out for quick payment by listing us as beneficiaries. And thanks to Trudeau, money was taken out of the Canadian Stock Market where it could be taken with a few lines of code and put into gold and silver and out of government hands.
My share could buy out my brother but I'd like to keep the gold and just see where I am in the rest of the year.
Thank you for sharing your story.
By the way, I am so happy you got the chance to take care of your parents. You know exactly the feeling.
No Regrets.
Dad and I were great. Mom and I - Amazing. No unexpressed thoughts.
We did good. Thank you for the encouragement.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 11:17 PM (jvJvP)
Mine were both dead by the time I was 40. I didn’t get the chance to see my mother turn 50. She never met my boys. She didn’t see me get married. I was 24 when she died.
Dad wasted everything and then blew his brains out.
Taking care of your parents is a privilege.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 08, 2025 11:17 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 08, 2025 11:18 PM (zTf8W)
Submarines will be next after that then they cut the cables.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 11:19 PM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 11:20 PM (lCWOD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 11:20 PM (RIvkX)
Just as IJN Mikasa is considered the last surviving British dreadnought.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 08, 2025 11:21 PM (uvr++)
Listen, they are only now getting around to dicking with the coming CR, and apparently, closeted homosexual and all around sexual deviant, Mike Johnson has cancelled house committee meetings to discuss DODGE rescission items.
These people are f**king scumbags.
True fact: The GOP has controlled the power of the purse for 24 of the last 32 years.
The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit and is not the answer to any of our problems and in a very major are the cause of them.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 08, 2025 11:21 PM (XV/Pl)
Statists are always faggots or latent homosexuals.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
Back in olden days people didn't talk about homosexuality. My mom didn't realize that Liberace was gay.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 11:21 PM (0Htd1)
É simples, mas eficaz. Muitas vezes é muito difícil obter
aquele "equilíbrio perfeito" entre facilidade de uso e aparência.
Devo dizer você fez um excelente trabalho com isso.
Além disso, o blog carrega super rápido para mim
no Chrome. Excelente Blog!
Posted by: Integre os valores do empreendedorismo cristão no dia a dia at May 08, 2025 11:22 PM (ifQLd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 11:20 PM
Vandenberg launches are fun to watch. We used to always go to Andersen's after, but sadly, not anymore.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 08, 2025 11:22 PM (TdCYS)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:23 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 08, 2025 11:23 PM (uvr++)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:09 PM (ZwnGn)
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Yes all of those are relevant.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 11:23 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 08, 2025 11:23 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 11:21 PM (0Htd1)
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Wait. Liberace was gay?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:23 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 11:24 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 08, 2025 11:24 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Gref
Hardening a lightweight/microweight drone may not be possible w/o pushing it into something the size of a WWI biplane.
And corresponding cost and target profile.
Some of the micro racing drones move FAST, hard target whateverb you are trying to shoot it down with, but tiny payload... But somehow carry more punch than a MBT cannon?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 08, 2025 11:12 PM (/lPRQ)
Military science since forever has sought to find the means to deliver the minimal necessary killing force at a fatally-vulnerable location on an enemy soldier, fortification, ship, land vehicle, ship/sub, or aircraft, as quickly, reliably, en-masse, and inexpensively as possible. Small 'suicide' drones are about the best manifestation of that goal to-date.
Posted by: Gref at May 08, 2025 11:24 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 08, 2025 11:24 PM (gKWVE)
You heal. Fighting with your brother will not allow you to get yourself together.
Do you REALLY LOVE that house? Is the constant reminder of your folks, and losing them, healthy for you? Is the risk of answering the door or picking up the phone to a hostile sibling worth it?
I pray for you, stateless. Maybe a trip to TX in October would be a worthy and healing experience for you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 08, 2025 11:07 PM (mT+6a)
There is wisdom here...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 08, 2025 11:25 PM (zTf8W)
A full one half of the value of the place was lost to taxes, lawyer fees, unnecessary penalties, and previously stated asshole cousin.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 08, 2025 11:06 PM (cYBz/)
I'm still catching up.
EIGHT YEARS? Human years?
That's insane. Do you want to elaborate?
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 11:25 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Now that you mention it, it wouldn't surprise me if Hogg and Walz get married some day.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 11:25 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 11:25 PM (lCWOD)
And contrary to it's name, you can use it to create relation diagrams, workflow diagrams, entity diagrams, etc.
Either by manually building them or using text prompts.
I'm using it to design the workflow and database for my ERP App.
The number of tools out there to build applications is staggering, which begs the question, if there are so many tools to help people build applications, why does everything suck?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 08, 2025 11:26 PM (XV/Pl)
I'm spitballin' here.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:07 PM (dDmld)
Hermann Goering. The entire attic of Karinhall, his country estate, was a model railway layout. There are photos on line.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:28 PM (IrztQ)
1. Putin's 3 day Victory Day truce seems to be holding up fairly well, even if Ukraine didn't formally agree to it. If nothing else, Ukraine gets a three day respite from missile attacks. Still some fighting going on in several locations.
2. One of the locations is the latest cross-border excursion into Russia in the northeast, where Ukrainian forces are busy capturing a couple of villages and a few potato fields at an appalling cost, apparently for propaganda purposes.
3. In the far south, there are rumors that the Russians have crossed the river and established multiple footholds near Kherson. Big if true.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 08, 2025 11:28 PM (gm511)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 08, 2025 11:24 PM (gKWVE)
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Sit near me, as I unreel a tale of Rip Taylor that will blow your socks off.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:28 PM (dDmld)
>>If life begins at conception what is one doing when he terminates it?
Everyone know it's a baby, which is why showing depictions of the aftermath of abortions is banned from all media.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 08, 2025 11:28 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Gref at May 08, 2025 11:24 PM (aBgBM)
This never ends well in science fiction.
I fear the marriage of AI with drone technology. SkyNet would be lethally real.
Posted by: RickZ at May 08, 2025 11:28 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 11:25 PM (lCWOD)
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There are available interventions that can prevent conception.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 11:29 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:09 PM (ZwnGn)
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Yes all of those are relevant.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 11:23 PM (RIvkX)
Rrriiight....no thought about the life that was spared. Not relevant at all...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 08, 2025 11:29 PM (zTf8W)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:28 PM (IrztQ)
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Maybe he should have spent less time on toy trains, and more time on building the Luftwaffe.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:30 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 08, 2025 11:30 PM (uvr++)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 11:31 PM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:31 PM (IrztQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 11:32 PM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Francis at May 08, 2025 11:32 PM (bbuBP)
Posted by: Gref at May 08, 2025 11:24 PM (aBgBM)
Of course all ballistic weapons, including guns, are "suicide" weapons from the point of view of the projectile.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:33 PM (IrztQ)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 08, 2025 11:34 PM (bP/i4)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 08, 2025 11:16 PM (uvr++)
No, this one was Starbirds? HBO. I was maybe 8. I have mentioned it before and I think you said it was chopped to hell shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 08, 2025 11:34 PM (bss/y)
In case everyone missed it, reposting: Hegseth has ordered transsexuals in the military to resign or be fired by June 6.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 08, 2025 11:35 PM (U7Gpi)
You heal. Fighting with your brother will not allow you to get yourself together.
Do you REALLY LOVE that house? Is the constant reminder of your folks, and losing them, healthy for you? Is the risk of answering the door or picking up the phone to a hostile sibling worth it?
I pray for you, stateless. Maybe a trip to TX in October would be a worthy and healing experience for you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 08, 2025 11:07 PM (mT+6a)
There is wisdom here...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 08, 2025 11:25 PM (zTf8W)
Hi nurse. Big Hugs.
Joe Kidd....don't know you... but man hug pat on the shoulder.
I just want to get my life together. I was a caregiver for 15 years. I just want to grieve, and work on finding a new path.
The dog Ralphy is here. Legally, my dog. Ten years of experience....Mom's dog. I don't want to move him around. I don't know how old he is. We guess 15. Limping more and more despite what I pay the vets to give him.
I really do like the house. Much of it was recently redone by my friend.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 11:35 PM (jvJvP)
In case everyone missed it, reposting: Hegseth has ordered transsexuals in the military to resign or be fired by June 6.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 08, 2025 11:35 PM (U7Gpi)
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Company....SASHAY!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:36 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:30 PM (dDmld)
Or retired from the Luftwaffe, and spent all his time with his toy trains. Might have lived to see his old age in that case.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:36 PM (IrztQ)
One of the generations in my family has this issue. Lovely, sweet, smart young ladies have gone round the bend. They are smart but have zero discernment and somehow have no recognition of leftist evil. They passionately believe things that are obviously false and are constantly cultivating fear and outrage. One was saying that she warns all of her hispanic clients to always carry proof of citizenship with them or else Trump will have them kidnapped and deported even though they are citizens. This is especially crazy because I have never seen her express this concern about her hispanic in-laws. Another has undergone surgery to not just tie, but completely remove, her fallopian tubes because Trump is going to deny women access to reproductive health. She almost didn't survive the surgery.
On the other side of the family, the young women are marrying and happily bearing many babies and are enjoying fulfilling lives. There's fear on one side of the family and joy on the other. The difference is stark.
Posted by: Emmie at May 08, 2025 11:37 PM (Sf2cq)
"Don't worry. It's on low."
*ZAP*
*THUD*
(Laughter seems to have been cut for that one, because it definitely would fit...just like all the other ones. In just about every one of those there is someone behind the camera laughing their ass off)
Posted by: Orson at May 08, 2025 11:38 PM (dIske)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 08, 2025 11:39 PM (YSv5G)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:36 PM (IrztQ)
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He wasn't going to waltz under any circumstances. The #2 Nazi was headed for the galllows.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:39 PM (dDmld)
Which allows you to build diagrams super fast.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 08, 2025 11:39 PM (XV/Pl)
Thank you so much.
I think I'm just actually surprised that things would be crazy.
I think probate should be thought of as dealing with liberals. You want to be civil and fair, they go bat shit crazy and you deal with the situation from there.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 11:39 PM (jvJvP)
Official News:
Karachi seeing worst nightmare since 1971
Indian Navy opens another front & goes for jugular vein of Pakistan!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 08, 2025 11:40 PM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:40 PM (dDmld)
Heh, I just learned something.
Remember that scene in Pulp Fiction when Vincent tells his mate (Sam Jackson) about his trip to France and explains the little differences such as what the frogs call a Quarter Pounder With Cheese?
Well, what do you reckon they call "alligator clips" (for electrical stuff, etc.) in New Zealand/Australia?
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 08, 2025 11:41 PM (25Zgp)
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Huh, roach clips man, like everyone else.
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 08, 2025 11:42 PM (dDmld)
btw, wouldn't intuition tell you in France they'd call a Qtr-Pounder with Cheese a One-Hundred Grammer With Cheese?
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 08, 2025 11:43 PM (25Zgp)
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 08, 2025 11:41 PM (25Zgp)
Crocodile clips, IIRC.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:43 PM (IrztQ)
Sorry, I have had a few beers.
I am happy for you also. You took care of your Dad.
I remember walks down the street with my Dad. No unexpressed thoughts. I imagine you are at that place too. And I smile.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 11:44 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 08, 2025 11:45 PM (vm8sq)
Crocodile clips, IIRC.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Exactly!
Because they don't have alligators there! It's so obvious....now.
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 08, 2025 11:45 PM (25Zgp)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 08, 2025 11:46 PM (bP/i4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:47 PM (IrztQ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 08, 2025 11:47 PM (YSv5G)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:47 PM (IrztQ)
I bought eggs a couple nights ago, they seemed reasonable.
Gas here is north of $3 again.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 08, 2025 11:48 PM (bss/y)
Marklinstop.com has an article from 2011 that goes into some detail on Hermann's fancy layouts. That perhaps the Reichmarshal even had a track above his attic rail layout to allow him to be Gomez Addams and bomb his trains with a plane.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 08, 2025 11:48 PM (uvr++)
But drones are semi autonomous robots.
I am waiting for humanoid drones. Like that one anime from when I was a kid. I want giant, Kung fu robots with human pilots in the head.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Um, that doesn't end well. (Second Variety)
Posted by: Philip K Dick at May 08, 2025 11:49 PM (K9xEt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:49 PM (IrztQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 08, 2025 11:48 PM (bss/y)
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Same here. $2 north.
To hell with Newsom and the CA legislature.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 08, 2025 11:49 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 08, 2025 11:49 PM (YSv5G)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 08, 2025 11:49 PM (bP/i4)
Posted by: Francis at May 08, 2025 11:14 PM (bbuBP)
Maverick the Race Car Driver
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 08, 2025 11:50 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 08, 2025 11:06 PM (cYBz/)
Got two in progress. 4 years and counting for the one, 2 years for the other (which may actually get wrapped up this summer).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 08, 2025 11:51 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Puddleglum
That one is right up there with #MeToo
Pedo Talk
Not that I recommend it, but check out the "Dolls" in the series "Happy".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
I've seen it. It was a pretty creepy episode. Never watched the second season. The first one weirded me out.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 08, 2025 11:52 PM (K9xEt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2025 11:29 PM (RIvkX)
Those "interventions" cause the uterine lining to shed whether the woman has conceived or not, sweeping the embryo out. This kills the embryo, of course.
If a woman has a chance to conceive, her egg has already been released from the ovary by the time the sexual contact has occurred. Those "emergency contraceptives" do not prevent sperm from reaching the egg.
Posted by: Emmie at May 08, 2025 11:52 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 08, 2025 11:52 PM (W5ArC)
AoP, what's your take?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 08, 2025 11:52 PM (W5ArC)
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I'm all for it.
Posted by: Heironymous Bosch at May 08, 2025 11:54 PM (dDmld)
1.24X0.71=3.41/gallon, USD, U.S. measure. In the ballpark with what I was paying in AJ.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2025 11:54 PM (IrztQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 08, 2025 11:54 PM (25Zgp)
https://tinyurl.com/4pvyzkhd
(settle down, Swalwell... this has nothing to do with you)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 08, 2025 11:55 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 08, 2025 11:57 PM (uvr++)
Posted by: E. Swallwell at May 08, 2025 11:57 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 11:35 PM (jvJvP)
Well. My house was the very embodiment of the California dream. It was my crowning achievement as a man, a provider, and a father. It would have funded my son's future and my very comfortable retirement.
When my wife and I agreed to divorce, I had hopes that I might be able to buy her out with more money than she ever had in her life, and even borrow against it down the road if she needed more. This was an asset that is now valued at over $1M, and we got in at less than half that. I may as well have been explaining quantum physics to her. Nope, she decided to go scorched earth, and my resources were diverted to defending my paternal rights.
I mourn the loss of that place. Last night there, I was looking out of the master bedroom on a dark night and watch a great meteor stream across the sky. I took that as God's promise that He would carry my son and I through this if my faith didn't waiver. I won't say that I always held up that bargain, but over fifteen years on, I am at peace with where I am now...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 08, 2025 11:59 PM (zTf8W)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 08, 2025 11:07 PM (mT+6a
I WOULD LOVE THAT!
I HAVEN'T BEEN OUT OF THE HOUSE IN YEARS!
But first new duty is to Mom's dog. Actually, legally my dog. But I was his fifth favourite person in the house.
1. Mom
2. Mom
3. Mom
4. Mom
5. Hey that Stateless guy seems pretty friendly, feeds me and tries to get me out for walks.
I'm going to get my life in order.
But nurse, October may be a goal.
My friends can take care of Ralphy since I've taken care of clowders of cats.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 08, 2025 11:59 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 08, 2025 11:01 PM.
My brother died 5 years ago the 16th. I still haven't closed his estate. We were locked down at the time. I just got the final money from the IRS a month or two ago and am waiting on the court to give me their fee breakdown so I can make the final disbursement and close the dang thing, oy!
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at May 09, 2025 12:00 AM (y7zkd)
AoP, what's your take?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 08, 2025 11:52 PM (W5ArC)
More power to them. That's about 7 miles. There are deeper wells in the Gulf of America, but not necessarily vertical wells. The Russians drilled a super-deep wellbore: The Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 is the deepest human-made hole on Earth, which attained maximum true vertical depth of 12,262 meters, over 40.000 feet. They quit when the hole kept squeezing in on their tools. At that depth and temperature, the rock is plastic, like clay.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:00 AM (IrztQ)
The memories you made with your parents are your real treasure. Your brother is the poorer for not having them. Pity for him...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 09, 2025 12:02 AM (zTf8W)
I mourn the loss of that place. Last night there, I was looking out of the master bedroom on a dark night and watch a great meteor stream across the sky. I took that as God's promise that He would carry my son and I through this if my faith didn't waiver. I won't say that I always held up that bargain, but over fifteen years on, I am at peace with where I am now...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 08, 2025 11:59 PM (zTf8W)
I can't even imagine.
I am happy that you are where you are at. I've done 5000 hours of meditation and this year is still kicking my meditative ass.
You are so lucky to have been married...theorectically..
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 09, 2025 12:03 AM (jvJvP)
It will be interesting to see what they find, for sure.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 12:04 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 09, 2025 12:05 AM (YSv5G)
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um e-mail para você. Tenho algumas recomendações para
seu blog que você pode estar interessado em
ouvir. De qualquer forma, ótimo blog e estou ansioso para vê-lo expandir
com o tempo.
Posted by: aumente o engajamento no Instagram at May 09, 2025 12:07 AM (ifQLd)
https://tinyurl.com/4pvyzkhd
(settle down, Swalwell... this has nothing to do with you)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 08, 2025 11:55 PM (W5ArC)
That is a really shitty-written article, and whoever (or whatever) wrote it hasn't got a fucking clue. They talk about drilling down to Cretaceous strata. Shit! That's damned near to surface, or on surface in most of the world. It's about 150 feet below me, where I sit right now. And all those dinosaur fossils out of the Gobi Desert? Cretaceous.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:08 AM (IrztQ)
https://tinyurl.com/4pvyzkhd
(settle down, Swalwell... this has nothing to do with you)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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How much magma's going to come out before it cools?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 12:09 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 09, 2025 12:10 AM (gm511)
Posted by: E. Swallwell
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You betcha'
_Chairman Xi
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 12:10 AM (lCWOD)
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Posted by: Integrate the values of Christ entrepreneurship in everyday life
Well ... okay then
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 09, 2025 12:13 AM (AyCfd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 12:09 AM (lCWOD)
Before you get to liquid magma, you are going to enter a realm where the rock is so plastic it has the consistency of putty, and lithostatic pressure will cause it to close in around the drill bit and trap it. The Russians encountered this in the Kola super-deep well bore. Pumping really cold water-based mud to chill the rock may gain you a couple thousand meters into that realm, but sooner or later you are up against thermal and mechanical limits.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:14 AM (IrztQ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 09, 2025 12:14 AM (YSv5G)
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 09, 2025 12:03 AM (jvJvP)
It seemed like a good idea at the time. If not for my son, it would have been 13 squandered years. Because of him (and I've told this), I'd go through the same damn thing again.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 09, 2025 12:15 AM (zTf8W)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 09, 2025 12:10 AM (gm511)
and all the oil runs out, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:15 AM (IrztQ)
But drones are semi autonomous robots.
I am waiting for humanoid drones. Like that one anime from when I was a kid. I want giant, Kung fu robots with human pilots in the head.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 08, 2025 11:11 PM (WOqxE)
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Philip K Dick - "Second Variety"
Excellent novelette.
Posted by: Ciampino - too real at May 09, 2025 12:16 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 09, 2025 12:17 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 08, 2025 11:11 PM (WOqxE)
A Kung-fu robot with a human pilot in the head isn't a drone; it's just a variety of tank, an armored fighting machine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:18 AM (IrztQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 08, 2025 11:41 PM (25Zgp)
Crocodile magazines?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 12:19 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 09, 2025 12:17 AM (gKWVE)
I just have to drive a dozen miles east to be in the badlands of the Red Deer River. the K-T boundary is about a third of the way down the canyon wall. And dinosaurs and ammonites are found there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:21 AM (IrztQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 08, 2025 11:41 PM (25Zgp)
Crocodile magazines?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 12:19 AM (l3YAf)
Platypus bills?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 09, 2025 12:21 AM (VNX3d)
India was threatened with sanctions for purchasing the S-400 missile defense system.
Even BJP rebel Subramanian Swamy also opposed it.
Yet today, this very system protected India's border areas from Pakistani missiles.
PM Modi stood firm and ignored those threats. India's best ever Prime Minister !
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 12:22 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 09, 2025 12:15 AM (zTf8W)
I am so happy for you. But wish it was better.
My friend across the street has three beautiful kids. Sweetest things ever although he was here 4 hours telling me otherwise. 10 year olds...
I am always happy for him.
Always will be.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 09, 2025 12:22 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 09, 2025 12:23 AM (YSv5G)
Posted by: raimondo at May 09, 2025 12:24 AM (68VEO)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 12:25 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 12:25 AM (D7oie)
Gee, I thought you were posting about raimondo!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:26 AM (IrztQ)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 12:26 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 12:26 AM (dDmld)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 09, 2025 12:26 AM (gKWVE)
YES
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 09, 2025 12:26 AM (YSv5G)
Posted by: Archer at May 09, 2025 12:27 AM (IDphi)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 12:28 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 09, 2025 12:28 AM (dDmld)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 12:28 AM (Vnr18)
Worst political party ever. Trump, just burn it down. Spend the next year amassing evidence of the GOP’s corruption and let it loose.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 12:30 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at May 09, 2025 12:00 AM (y7zkd)
I had connection issues.
I can't imagine 5 years. I've been horrible over 2 months. On the plus side, my brother is suffering too. Barely sleeping, like me.
That'll move things along faster...
But I'm wondering what happened that dragged on 5 years. And I'm sure some others are sadly wondering.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 09, 2025 12:30 AM (jvJvP)
Baloch Fighters attack Pak Frontier in Quetta. Pakistan in MASSIVE TROUBLE !!
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They attacked the Chinese/Pak Gold & Copper railroad last week.
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PallaviCT@pallavict 7h Replying to @TimesAlgebraIND
#BalochistanLiberationArmy believes in Aapda Main avsar 🤣🤣
They know Pak Army is busy on Eastern front: let’s make the best of it
Who knows?
Taliban in Afghanistan may also keep Pak busy on Afghan border🤣🤣
Pak fighting on multiple fronts
BALKANISATION of Bhikharistan is inevitable
https://tinyurl.com/bdh3ru47
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 12:31 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Archer at May 09, 2025 12:31 AM (IDphi)
Just charming.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 12:32 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:21 AM (IrztQ)
surely not it the same layers, Kindltot asks, archly.
Is there a good fossil layer just under the KT boundary there, like at Hell Creek in MT?
Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 12:33 AM (D7oie)
PallaviCT @pallavict 8h
Aman Asha Ki Gang right now👇
Lahore, Karachi main Diwali 🪔
#BalochistanLiberationArmy believes in Aapada main Avsar & aggressive against Pak Army
Taliban biting at Afghan border
Forget strategic depth;
now Pak in strategic deephole
https://tinyurl.com/3b8pm3yy
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 12:34 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 12:34 AM (D7oie)
I am always happy for him.
Always will be.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 09, 2025 12:22 AM
Parenthood is the ultimate extreme sport.
Oh, you climbed Everest? Try raising a kid into adulthood, you faggot!
Yeah, sometimes you have to unload on a sympathetic ear. Bless you for giving him your time. I'm sure it strengthened him to stiffen up and wade back into that mess. I hope he has others like you in his life, and maybe even a wife who is a true partner that has his back.
I hope we meet some day. Corsicana is on my itinerary this October..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 09, 2025 12:37 AM (zTf8W)
Posted by: Kindltot
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LOL. One sibling has been a total jerk since Dad passed, (was only "mostly" jerk before that) and lives not far from me.
Come to the jerk's rescue? Me? Nope. No way.
Posted by: JQ at May 09, 2025 12:38 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Archer
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Go to Psalms, find David's prayer and pray for them.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 12:38 AM (lCWOD)
A Pakistan International Airlines flight is en route from Lahore to Bahrain
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 12:39 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: JQ at May 09, 2025 12:38 AM (rdVOm)
Now imagine he is your only remaining relative
Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 12:39 AM (D7oie)
Not here to judge a rape victim for having an abortion, but it's still murder. I certainly understand why; again, no judgment, especially at 13.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 09, 2025 12:39 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 08, 2025 11:41 PM (25Zgp)
Nipple Clamps
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 09, 2025 12:39 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 12:33 AM (D7oie)
Uppermost Cretaceous is pretty fossil-rich, yes. Time-wise, I think the Hell Creek correlates with the Bearpaw in Alberta, which is more marine. Hell Creek is riverine deposits.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:41 AM (IrztQ)
Posted by: JQ at May 09, 2025 12:42 AM (rdVOm)
Raymond Burr, the actor who played Mason on TV was gay.
It’s a little shocking to see the physically very different actor who played the character in the 1930s serials. Warren William, very thin and tall, very unlike Raymond Burr.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 09, 2025 12:42 AM (YSv5G)
Pakistani army flees Quetta - Baloch fighters seize army posts
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 12:43 AM (lCWOD)
In my case, the decedent was known to have a will, whose general provisions were known, but it couldn't be located. Relatives who weren't in the will saw this as their Big Opportunity to cash in. Those who were known to be in the will dragged their feet, in case the will should turn up (understandably, IMO). Fortunately the will DID turn up (among some legal papers belonging to another deceased relative, as it turns out.... perhaps the decedent gave it to him for safekeeping? Unknown). Now, one would think that the relatives who weren't in the will would just accept that fact and move on.
One would assume wrong.
Yours truly is in the middle of all this. I'm not in the will either, and knew I wasn't, but I'm glad, even though I'd have gotten a chunk of money and property if it hadn't.
I'm the one who found the will. No one else knew about it. I had a paper shredder literally right next to me when I found it (I was going through the other deceased relative's papers, disposing of old receipts and such).
The heirs are very lucky I'm the one who found it, not one of the others.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 12:43 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 12:34 AM (D7oie)
Well, if we are picking nits, I guess. But Paleogene is basal Tertiary.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:44 AM (IrztQ)
Posted by: JQ at May 09, 2025 12:38 AM (rdVOm)
Now imagine he is your only remaining relative
Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 12:39 AM (D7oie)
Got one of those. Far as I know, she's still in jail...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 09, 2025 12:45 AM (zTf8W)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:46 AM (IrztQ)
I mourn the loss of that place. Last night there, I was looking out of the master bedroom on a dark night and watch a great meteor stream across the sky. I took that as God's promise that He would carry my son and I through this if my faith didn't waiver. I won't say that I always held up that bargain, but over fifteen years on, I am at peace with where I am now...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 08, 2025 11:59 PM (zTf8W)
A pastor once explained the verse, "you have not because you ask not," was in reference to faith: if our faith isn't strong enough, we ask for more, and God is faithful to strength what we have and help it grow. I don't know if that helps you, but it is something I am praying for as I type, and I'll happily include you in my prayers.
Posted by: moki at May 09, 2025 12:46 AM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 12:43 AM (W5ArC)
Oh, and my own will has already been deposited with the court.
This bulllshit isn't happening after I'm gone.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 12:47 AM (W5ArC)
(Swalwell, this still isn't about you)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 12:48 AM (W5ArC)
Good man! It’s hard to be unwavering in carrying out a decedent’s will. It’s too easy to slide a little in interpretation, especially if there’s big money involved. Again, good show!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 09, 2025 12:48 AM (YSv5G)
I hope we meet some day. Corsicana is on my itinerary this October..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 09, 2025 12:37 AM (zTf8W)
Not a mess. Dude is engineer working from home making a nice amount of money from a US company.
Wonderful wife. Wonderful kids....although frustrating....today. Just today. Wonderful kids.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 09, 2025 12:50 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Adriane the Wholly Cow Critic . . . at May 09, 2025 12:51 AM (tcomi)
He also made a snarky "you won't be missed" remark in response to a West Point philosophy professor resigning. Have no idea about the prof, but still recall what a chilling and disgusting picture was drawn of things at West Point by a former instructor, in an op-ed a few years ago. Fundamentals of distinct military academy life, not just teaching and curriculum.
Fear the rot is wide and deep. From the academies, to the brass, to the procurement entities (NAVSEA is an unbelievable disaster), to many, I'm sure, in the ranks. A military often reflects (more/less) the culture and society from which it's drawn. Well.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 12:51 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 09, 2025 12:51 AM (YSv5G)
India is with the #BalochistanLiberationArmy @miryar_baloch . Jai Hind
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AlgebraIND 9h
X blocks over 8000 accounts at the request of Modi Govt over National security concerns
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 12:52 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 09, 2025 12:48 AM (YSv5G)
Thanks!
I'm checking out too. Good night, all.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 12:52 AM (W5ArC)
Pakistani army flees Quetta - Baloch fighters seize army posts
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 12:43 AM (lCWOD)
So glad they have nukes..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 12:53 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 09, 2025 12:44 AM (IrztQ)
Paleontologists are the sort of people you have to keep busy or else they get into trouble. Fortunately you can short them out by asking things like "what is a species"
Posted by: Kindltot at May 09, 2025 12:54 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 12:54 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 12:43 AM (W5ArC)
Wow, Thank you! I really needed that. You made my night better.
That needs to be a "Columbo" episode with AI Peter Falk. Have a great night.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 09, 2025 12:55 AM (jvJvP)
Have no idea, but imagine a new regime in Tehran would by definition be looking to get off people's necks, unleash the economy, and "get along". Can see such an outfit making an autonomy deal with the Baluchi south.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 12:58 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 09, 2025 12:43 AM (W5ArC)
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Wow, Thank you! I really needed that. You made my night better.
That needs to be a "Columbo" episode with AI Peter Falk. Have a great night.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 09, 2025 12:55 AM (jvJvP)
And here I was thinkin', "That's a nice inheritance you got there. Be a shame sumptin' were to happen to it." {Adjusts jacket sleeves}
Posted by: RickZ at May 09, 2025 12:59 AM (gKDq2)
POP
Family: the source of our greatest strength and joy, the source of our deepest sorrows and pains. Sometimes all at once.
https://youtu.be/Epza4M_R24E
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Morons are good family at May 09, 2025 01:01 AM (b/vRQ)
Posted by: JQ at May 09, 2025 01:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 01:02 AM (lCWOD)
Dr. Sheldon Cooper, duh!
Posted by: Adriane
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Gomez Addams
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 09, 2025 01:03 AM (XeU6L)
Question I asked here about a year ago: Do You Think You'll See Nukes Used In Your Lifetime?
Me?
Yes.
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 09, 2025 01:03 AM (25Zgp)
I can't remember if they're the ones who have feisty women. One of my brothers was in Afghanistan for several deployments and he talked a little about a specific ethnic group with women who were crazier than the men. Not all the women, but maybe a certain tribe within a larger group. They refused to cover up, and I think some were tattooed. He said the Taliban were afraid of them and left them alone. 🤣
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 09, 2025 01:03 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 09, 2025 01:04 AM (25Zgp)
Chuckling at the Rossiya24 correspondent gushing over the current armor that will be in the procession - "which has been successful in the area of the SVO (special military operation)." Well true to some extent of course, but hardly the big story (see drone discussion above).
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 01:05 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: rhomboid
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That map indicates that Paki may break up into several segments.
What I'v read agrees with your assessment of the Baluks. One statement says they were independent before Paki absorbed them.
Taliban is roaming in southern Iran they seem to be a wild card.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 01:07 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Zombie Yogi Berra at May 09, 2025 01:08 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: moki at May 09, 2025 12:46 AM
I'm familiar with the verse, and my personal takeaway is that the house would eventually have compromised my relationship with God. I guess I shouldn't mourn the loss as that does recall Lot's wife looking back towards Sodom. Thank you for your prayers, dear sister..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 09, 2025 01:08 AM (zTf8W)
I heard something about nukes that I'm not sure is very accurate, but I know enough to know it's kinda true: nuclear weapons DEGRADE overt time, relatively quickly.
I mean, they're still quite potent, but to a lesser degree each year of age. I mention it because I'm not sure the pakis & injuns have the resources or wherewithal to keep their nukes in tip-top shape like the US does.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 09, 2025 01:08 AM (25Zgp)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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I don't care for tattoos but that story is charming.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 01:09 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
If you genealogy it was not unknown for Mom to have a bunch of kids... a gap of a few years and then another...
What a coincidence - eldest daughter is 13/14.
The wholesomeness of the Waltons extended family is long gone.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 09, 2025 01:13 AM (/lPRQ)
@MithilaWaala
2h
Pakistan's Port City and Economic Capital Karachi is in flames 🔥
#IndiaPakistanWar #OperationSindoor #OperationSindoor2
#IndianNavy #IndianArmedForces #BharatMataKiJai
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 01:15 AM (lCWOD)
Dr. Sheldon Cooper, duh!
Posted by: Adriane
Gomez Addams
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 09, 2025 01:03 AM (XeU6L)
Hollywood Mythology says that whole Train wrecking thing was John Astin's idea...
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 09, 2025 01:16 AM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 09, 2025 01:13 AM (/lPRQ)
So is that wholesome very successful Black family...
The Huxtables... from the Bill Cosby Show...
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 09, 2025 01:17 AM (QAkQ3)
Not a fan of tattoos, either, especially on women, but these were culturally significant, not dolphins and rainbows, etc.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 09, 2025 01:18 AM (Vvh2V)
All were pleased with the outcome.
Posted by: Braenyard
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All were pleased that a teenage (I assume) girl got pregnant and the baby was separated from the family? I can imagine "making the best of a bad situation," but I wouldn't walk around with an outcome like that feeling "pleased."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 09, 2025 01:18 AM (U7Gpi)
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar
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The US keeps its nukes in tune?
After eight years of Barky... Four of the Meat Puppit?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 09, 2025 01:18 AM (/lPRQ)
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 09, 2025 01:08 AM (25Zgp)
Most modern Nukes are dial a Nuc... depending on how you set the tritium (if I remember correctly)...
So, ya just dial em up.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 09, 2025 01:18 AM (QAkQ3)
I don't think there is any reason to think either India or Pakistan lack the competence or resources to deal with both. These are crown jewel national programs and both countries have plenty of talented engineers.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 01:18 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 01:20 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 09, 2025 01:22 AM (YSv5G)
You think the Nork's nukes are still fresh and ready to go?
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar at May 09, 2025 01:25 AM (25Zgp)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Pick your adjective.
The baby was saved and went to a good home. The young jr. high girl was able to proceed wiser and comfortable with the knowledge that her baby would grow up in a good home. They all felt that they had made the right decision. I don't see a problem
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 01:27 AM (lCWOD)
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
Posted by: Soothsayer and five yamulkas walk into a bar
I Wholeheartedly agree.
America needs to practice on Canada. Let's see how ypu do nuking Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and a bunch of leftist shitholes.
Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 09, 2025 01:28 AM (jvJvP)
Indian army has got a free hand in Modi rule, statement of Indian soldier 🇮🇳⚔️🪖
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 01:30 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 01:31 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Braenyard
Which hand? That matters over there.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 09, 2025 01:31 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 09, 2025 01:35 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2025 01:35 AM (ypFCm)
A brave daughter speaks.
Baloch kids are born without shoes but when they walk, they wear golden shoes.
Dear World we thought you did not understand Balochi language so we recorded our voice in English.
https://tinyurl.com/5f4myp3s
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 01:35 AM (lCWOD)
No, but big air burst in South Pacific (over Bikini atoll?) in the 50s knocked out power systems in Hawaii. That’s when the threat of an EMP was first recognized.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 09, 2025 01:36 AM (YSv5G)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 01:38 AM (1m82a)
Not being familiar at all it's difficult to tell true from false.
Also Modi has shut down sites so recent info is difficult
with indicates that there is much activity.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 01:38 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 01:39 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 01:40 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Adriane the Hope Cooler Heads Prevail Critic . . . at May 09, 2025 01:44 AM (tcomi)
Not being familiar at all it's difficult to tell true from false.
Also Modi has shut down sites so recent info is difficult
with indicates that there is much activity.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 01:38 AM (lCWOD)
I'll do a dive into Bloomberg and see what the Asian markets are doing...
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 09, 2025 01:47 AM (pIfcn)
Dire economic situation of Pak is now very much out in the open. Ministry of Economic Affairs of Pakistan is openly seeking loans by admitting "heavy losses inflicted by enemy". Global investors in Pak should try to get out from Pak
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 01:47 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 09, 2025 01:48 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 09, 2025 01:53 AM (jvJvP)
If Karachi is having bad day, nobody has noticed yet.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 09, 2025 02:00 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 09, 2025 02:03 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 09, 2025 02:04 AM (Hmysf)
If Karachi is having bad day, nobody has noticed yet.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 09, 2025 02:00 AM (pIfcn)
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Can you check the Pakistan market. There are reliable reports that Pakistan market crashed yesterday and is suffering today.
Also reports of them seeking loans to replenish supplies.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 02:08 AM (lCWOD)
So, ya just dial em up.
Posted by: Romeo13
Um, so just for the guys down the block and all??
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 09, 2025 02:12 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 09, 2025 02:13 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 02:13 AM (Vnr18)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 02:13 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 02:13 AM (ImXfC)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 09, 2025 01:36 AM (YSv5G)
Johnston Atoll, 1962, Operation Starfish Prime. (Sounds like a Saturday morning cartoon villain.)
Ended up destroying a bunch of satellites in LEO, including Telstar 1, the first satellite that carried transcontinental video and telephone. Telstar 1 was launched the day after the Starfish Prime test, but the Van Allen belt trapped the radiation from the nuclear blast, eventually degrading Telstar 1 until it failed a few months later.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 02:14 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 02:15 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 02:16 AM (Vnr18)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 02:19 AM (Vnr18)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 09, 2025 02:20 AM (mlg/3)
I was driving with my daughter a few days ago when we pulled up behind a suv with a sticker that said real women like football. My teenage daughter was like fuck that shit. I don’t like football so I’m not a real woman?
And I thought yeah that’s a stupid thing to say. Not just football but anything. Who gives you the right to say what a . “Real woman” likes or doesn’t like.
I felt a little you go grrrlll in me right there, haha.
She’s an interesting one this kid o’ mine. Really into fashion and hair and all the girly things. But also a wicked ass feminist type. Hates Trump but loves my impression of him and cracks up whenever I do it. Also hates EVs. Go figure.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 02:20 AM (ImXfC)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 02:22 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 09, 2025 02:24 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 02:25 AM (UzL96)
DD India @DDIndialive 2h
In response to a surge of misinformation and fake narratives following India's recent strike on terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (@MIB_India) has launched the #IndiaFightsPropaganda campaign
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Good, now launch the #IndiaShowsWhatsHappeningNow campaign
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 02:29 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 09, 2025 02:32 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 02:37 AM (1m82a)
Comments box border is back to normal.
Happy Friday to those who work M-F. Everyone keep sending that social security money in. Thank you for your hard work!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 09, 2025 02:40 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 02:40 AM (1m82a)
Ha, an African leader (new-ish chief in Mali? Or Chad?) wore his fatigues and beret.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 02:43 AM (1m82a)
@eadgop
2h
Govt of Pakistan appeals to International Partners for more loans after heavy losses inflected by enemy. Amid escalating war and stocks crash, we urge international partners to help de-escalate. Nation urged to remain steadfast. @WorldBank #IndiaPakistanWar #PakistanZindabad
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 02:45 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: rhomboid
Evening wear … very nice!
Posted by: Song of the Volga Boatman . . . on violin . . . at May 09, 2025 02:45 AM (tcomi)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 02:45 AM (UzL96)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 02:43 AM (1m82a)
Sure, he rules a country, but has he made General yet?
Posted by: Colonel Khadafi's haberdasher and sunglasses wrangler at May 09, 2025 02:46 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: rhomboid
Evening wear … very nice!
Posted by: Song of the Volga Boatman . . . on violin . . . at May 09, 2025 02:45 AM (tcomi)
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Hence fatigues.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 02:46 AM (UzL96)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 02:48 AM (Vnr18)
https://tinyurl.com/4p9yfc3
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 02:45 AM (UzL96)
Daaayum.
That's pretty wild.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 09, 2025 02:48 AM (pIfcn)
Memory's going - who was the Flt. Lt. or Sgt. who grabbed "power" in west Africa in the early 80s? My favorite coup. Junior officer or NCO.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 02:53 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 02:54 AM (Vnr18)
“The People’s Colonel” is what they’ll call me. ¡Viva el Coronel!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 02:54 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: rhomboid
Samuel K. Doe
Not the Ernie K-Doe who had the hit "Mother-in-Law"
Posted by: Helpful Miklos at May 09, 2025 02:55 AM (t6ibK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 02:55 AM (Vnr18)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 02:56 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Adriane the When I Become Pooh-bah, Look Out! Critic . . . at May 09, 2025 02:58 AM (tcomi)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 09, 2025 02:13 AM (0nHVk)
Bunch of idiot twats, if you ask me. They have no idea the value of a woman and think they need to be men or some damned thing. I would be embarrassed for them except most of them are beneath my contempt.
Grow the hell up, ladies, and figure it out.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 09, 2025 02:59 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Adriane the When I Become Pooh-bah
Wife (or at least one) was Hungarian.
Posted by: Miklos knows....Things at May 09, 2025 02:59 AM (t6ibK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 03:01 AM (Vnr18)
Maduro putting his hands together, prayer-like, and looking skyward. Odd. Interrupted by the first announcement and peeling of the bells in the Kremlin clocktower.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 03:01 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 03:02 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 09, 2025 03:02 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: My Delta name is Miklos at May 09, 2025 03:02 AM (t6ibK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 03:03 AM (Vnr18)
Convoy of US war jeeps starts end-of war celebrations
04/30/2010
A convoy of American war jeeps drove through Prague on Friday at the start of celebrations marking the 65th anniversary of the end of WWII and the liberation of western Bohemia from the Nazis by the US 3rd army. The largest Czech city General Patton’s men freed in 1945 was Plzen - about 80 kilometres south-west of Prague – where the biggest celebrations with US war veterans are due to take place over the weekend.
Posted by: 13times at May 09, 2025 03:03 AM (LZSsH)
Posted by: 13times
There is one (1) Pilsner Urquell in the fridge.
VICTORY BEER!
Posted by: Miklos may have an early "breakfast" at May 09, 2025 03:05 AM (t6ibK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 03:07 AM (Vnr18)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 08, 2025 10:12
As the Wasp that I am my mind is blown by the election of Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV. When I grew up Popes were always some old Italian guy, think John XXIII, Paul VI and remember poor old John Paul I who lasted less than a month.
Today the new Pope is my age, just 18 days older, both of us born in IL. And he grew up in Dolton, just a few miles from Jules in Chicago Hts.
Weird, just weird.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at May 09, 2025 03:12 AM (55Qr6)
32m
Fully intact Chinese PL-15 long range air to air missile recovered from Hoshiarpur, Punjab..
Obviously fired from a PAF jet, likely a JF-17 Failed to detonate.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 03:12 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 03:14 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: My Delta name is Miklos at May 09, 2025 03:02 AM (t6ibK)
Maybe he just figured you'd have lots to talk about
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 09, 2025 03:14 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 03:15 AM (1m82a)
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I'm unclear on why we don't simply get a squadron of women to shoot them all down and then award them medals and talk to the press about how they're awesome super aces for shooting things with no air-to-air combat ability.
Remember that?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You're pretty when you dress feminine. Men like to see ladies dressed up. at May 09, 2025 03:15 AM (/wLGm)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 03:15 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: 13times at May 09, 2025 03:16 AM (LZSsH)
119 views · 3 days ago
3 minutes of WWII jeeps and trucks driving down an old road.
Posted by: 13times at May 09, 2025 03:18 AM (LZSsH)
Posted by: 13times
Are IPA's just easier to make? I love a good pilsner, just hard to find them.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 09, 2025 03:19 AM (K9xEt)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 03:21 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 03:22 AM (Vnr18)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 03:23 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 09, 2025 03:19 AM (K9xEt)
There's a lot to hide behind; hops mask poor brewing practices.
Posted by: 13times at May 09, 2025 03:26 AM (LZSsH)
https://smotret.tv/rossiya-24
Back up. In time for the nice artillery salute from the north wall while the national anthem was played.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 03:27 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 03:31 AM (Vnr18)
Just now, all those beautiful PPsh-41s. Sigh. I just want one.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 03:31 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 09, 2025 03:32 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 03:33 AM (Vnr18)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 03:34 AM (Vnr18)
I don't drink much now - I spent years working at a craft brewery and it cured me of drinking - so I've not a current list of recommendations.
Posted by: 13times at May 09, 2025 03:34 AM (LZSsH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 03:38 AM (Vnr18)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 09, 2025 03:43 AM (K9xEt)
ISIS Toilet Cleaner from Kerala Rejaz Sydeek was arrested by Nagpur police y'day after posting video abusing Indian Army while posing with guns. He is accused of waging war against India.
This is not news. This is almost all of them. [you know who]
What's interesting is he was found in a hotel with a girl Isha Priya Kumari. He had gone to Nagpur to meet her and they were there for a few days.
She is a prime example of how colleges are completely brainwashing Hindu students and girls are the primary target of Islamocommunist brainwashing project called Indian education. She is a student of Symbiosis Law School Nagpur. 1/2
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Worldwide pandemic, brain virus.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 09, 2025 03:48 AM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 03:53 AM (Vnr18)
Yet another Stephen King story is being turned into a movie. 'The Long Walk'. I vaguely remember reading that.
Brian Dehenney plays The Short Pier …
Posted by: Adriane the When I Become Pooh-bah, Look Out! Critic . . . at May 09, 2025 03:54 AM (NCz1m)
Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2025 03:59 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 04:00 AM (Vnr18)
Posted by: Adriane the When I Become Pooh-bah, Look Out! Critic . . . at May 09, 2025 04:10 AM (NCz1m)
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Yes they. Be very afraid.
> I think we may be close to being able to deploy mobile,
> Iron Dome type defensive vehicles, armed with lasers,
> that completely nullify or severely mitigate, the drone
> threat. What do y'all think?
I think there might be a better mousetrap. I posted this when it came out at the end of April:
https://tinyurl.com/5syj3vem
Be very hopeful.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 04:16 AM (UzL96)
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