Never mind deer, supper (take out) was almost ruined by a turkey last evening. Bird jumped up like a quail right in front of me. Slammed on brakes. Book came flying off seat and smashed the styrofoam container. Barbeque squeezed out like toothpaste. OTH, it’s turkey season; I may have to learn to hunt turkeys in self-defense.
turkeys are stupid animals if they are somewhere they are not actively being hunted. It’s like they have a switch labeled Be Very Aware/Full Leftoid Style Detachment From Reality
Then there’s the Turkeynator that destroyed the entire first floor of a house by breaking a window with sheer force and squatting there for a week and a half while the owners were away on vacation. That bird just Did Not Care. I don’t remember what cleanup cost the poor people that lived there, but it was not cheap.
Like they taught my brother in truck driving school — don’t wreck your truck trying to avoid hitting something. If something gets in your way, bring the truck to a safe stop. If you hit it anyway, tough shit. For them.
Or the Midwesterner who hit a deer that jumped in front of his car. He got out, tied the deer on top, drove away.
Many years ago in North Alabama, back in the edges of the woods, we saw a deer lying by the side of the road. She was looking around, but not getting up (I’m guessing broken back). And we saw a big car stop, a bunch of guys spill out and head for the deer. I went on hurriedly because I didn’t want the 5-year-old to see the imminent throat cutting I figured was about to happen before they tied her to the car. Not going to let good venison go to waste….and in fairness, she was doomed anyway if her spine was fractured.
Locally the recoverable road kill is scooped up and given to either soup kitchens or if close enough the local reservation system. Rural locals might scoop it up if they can get away with it, and mix it in with prior fall catch. Generally just see them laying on the road. National parks will drag the kill off into the brush away from the road. Gets the scavengers (bear, coyotes, wolves, cougars, eagles, etc., off the road).
They’ve got a point; the world is not being ‘secretly’ manipulated — they’re doing it right out in the open. They just want to stop anybody from talking about it.
Usually termed “unlawful combatant”, sometimes “unprivileged belligerent”, are exclusive of the other categories defined by the laws of war through failure to meet the qualifying requirements of being combatants. They also fail to meet the requirements for classification and protections under the other defined categories, civilians or prisoners of war.
Unlawful combatants basically fail to get the positive protections that combatants get, so they don’t receive immunity from prosecution for lawful acts of war as do combatants, and as noted are not entitled to the protections of prisoners of war if captured.
Further distinctions are subject to conflicting interpretations, mostly in my view because the original rules assumed anyone caught who fell outside the combatant rules would shortly be executed, so for example there’s nothing about how long “unlawful combatants” can be kept prisoner or their treatment.
Things are going to get narly very quickly because Iran just launched a direct attack on Israel, which included not only drones but ballistic missiles. Depending on the payloads of those missiles (i.e. gas, chemical weapons or the U.S. financed nukes), Israel’s response might need to be overwhelming enough that the was in the Middle-East will serve as the signal for the CCP and other bad actors to try their land grabs. If Israel has to use a nuke to preserve its existence, have no doubt that Putin will use the opportunity to launch nukes at Ukraine and perhaps other parts of Europe, knowing feckless Western media will blame Israel.
Almost “much nothing”. Some ordinance did damage on the ground, after being shot out-of-the-way sky. At least one dead, I believe. One may have actually hit a base in southern Israel.
Israeli, Jordanian, and USA forces shot down most of the drones/missiles/whatnot. “200” is being tossed around the talking heads.
If any of the remains test positive for fissiles, there might not be an Iranian government much longer.
I rather doubt the Mullahs are quite that mad. This was likely a pure “conventional” strike, to evaluate how likely they are to get a nuke to Tel Aviv. Or, they have such unruly internals they needed a positive distraction.
I was expecting the Mullahs to send (or wait for one opportunisticly) at least one airliner full of people into the turkey shoot, hoping to embarrass Israel.
Rumors have it the Iranians had a hard time getting the number of shaheeds they launched actually good to go, let alone times out as a time-on-target, as lots of the crews were apparently basically untrained, so the IRGC technical experts had to have long radio conversations and even direct visits to some locations to solve “how do I do this again?” questions. Note these conversations, between whom and where, and associated movements are all incredibly useful bits of intel.
And for all of that effort, the word is all the shaheeds were downed well outside of Israeli airspace, so all it did was run a giant shootex for the USAF, RAF, and Arab pilots and low altitude SAM crews.
Israeli fighters were also up during this – deconfliction with all their SAMs must have made it a fun night for those pilots.
Note also that a sidewinder costs a lot more than a shaheed. The fighter pilots union needs a much cheaper yet good enough anti-drone missile. Or frickin lasers.
Only cruise and ballistic missiles got through into Israeli airspace, and the Israeli SAM systems got most of those, some pretty spectacularly intercepted exoatmospherically, with the only injury I have seen reported being a Bedouin 10yo (some reports say a little girl, others a boy) who went to the hospital, and some impacts that didn’t damage much at an airbase, possibly from something the Houthis launched from the south that was evaluated as not high enough priority during the main attack.
The main takeaway for me is there’s nothing even remotely similar to the integrated SAM system even in Europe, let alone here in the US. 200 shaheed-class foam drones popped out from a containership all at once seems to me to be pretty doable.
This was their first mass launch of drones and missiles. Do not underestimate their ability to learn from this attack so that they can launch more missiles and drones, more effectively, next time.
Of even greater import is that by getting Team Obama to throw Israel under the bus yet again by demanding it “take the attack and not respond” they help Team ObamaBiden further throw Israel under the bus and making the US look even weaker internationally. They also forced Israel (and us) to use munitions in defense of the stuff they did fire, thereby using up materials that are becoming shorter and shorter supply (there are serious manufacturing shortfalls in things like shells, antimissiles, etc., because of gutting funding of such stuff here and the vast amount shipped to Ukraine). Iran also can be confident that once Israel uses up materials, anything supplied by the US won’t be resupplied by the feckless cabal running the White House and the Democratic Party Jew-hating apparatchiks in Congress.
Thus, they can be confident that there will be less in the way of supplies to fund off a massive Hezbollah missile launch, and a second, actually unannounced, Iranian launch, this second launch will be much more likely to include chemical weapons, and perhaps even nukes, given that the US under ObamaBiden has been financing, facilitating and assisting Iran’s nuclear weapons’ program.
Iran is very explicit in their calls for not only the destruction of Israel and global annihilation of Jews, but of “death to America” as well, goals that appear to be shared by the current cabal in the White House and its backers/puppet-masters outside of it. The left has long sought to destroy the USA as it exists in order to replace it with its desired totalitarian socialist state. Since it has been unable to do so by fomenting domestic Marxist revolution, they have outsourced the destruction part to others.
On the other hand, Biden is the “biggest loser” in this Iran vs Israel battle.
Biden told Iran “Don’t” and Iran went ahead with the attack.
The US Military apparently did a good job in assisting the Israeli defense but I’m suspecting Biden’s Handlers had very little to do with the military action.
IE The US Military had “other support” in the “Deep State” so they were able to act without “Presidentical” interference.
More likely the US military assisted for the same reason Jordan and the UK did; they know that if that barrage had resulted in more widespread damage and casualties in Israel., Israel would have had no choice but to launch a massive attack on Iran that would certainly trigger a full scale war in the Middle-East, as Israel would have gone to take out the Mullahs and all of Iran’s military facilities, Hezbollah and the Houthis would have launched mass attacks, and places like Jordan would have had all the Jihadists try to overthrow their governments as Iran’s Mullahs tried to retain power. That conflict would very possibly involve nukes if Israel needed them to defend themselves, and that would give both the CCP and Russia justification for using their own nuclear weapons.
Reuters says the Administration actually greenlighted the attack, “so long as it’s a proportional response.” And are now joining the general, “The conflict must be de-escalated! Since Iran failed to do damage, Israel should refrain from retaliating!”
Having forgotten what “Victory” actually means, thus repeatedly failing to win wars, we now lecture others on how to lose their own wars.
So we look better?
Victory is when the other side begs you to stop, or if they play extra stubborn, when you cannot find anyone who can beg you to stop.
The folks without Victory are called the defeated.
Now, you might plan your “war” as a raid, “We will smash areas 1-2-3 until they are rubble, bounce that for a while longer, than withdraw.” or “We will sink every military vessel under the flag of Outer Ashcania, then head for home.” However, if there isn’t a side saying “Uncle! Please stop!”, have you really done anything except posture? maybe you “punished” them, but you haven’t “defeated” them. They may be -chastized-, they may be less troublesome, they may have vastly less means to whizz someone off anytime soon, but they are not -defeated-.
Now, if you start thinking you are going to have a really, really big raid, and then the other side rebuilds their nation in a manner pleasing to you, you have completely missed the “Victory “/ “enemy defeated” step for managing enemies. The side that will thus be defeated is yours.
The folks without Victory are called the defeated.
The folks without Victory are called the defeated.
The folks without Victory are called the defeated.
People will get sniffy about how the Geneva Conventions define only “civilian” and “lawful combatant” — because the really dreadful thing is defining a term that means “civilian who violates the conventions by waging war and is therefore liable to summary execution.”
My dear fellow, I’m quite willing to lend people my books although I charge a very high price to those who don’t return them. 😈
Of course, an intelligent person would not “just take books” from me and I’m fully aware that there are people who would be just as dangerous as I if I attempted “take their books” from their libraries. 😉
I no longer lend copies of “Economics in One Lesson,” “The Moon is A Harsh Mistress,” or “Monster Hunter International.” Those might occasionally be gifts, but not lending material. They never come back.
Mises.org occasionally runs giveaways of Economics in One Lesson – they sent me a box of 30 once – stuffed a few in the local Little Free Library(ies) next to the Mormon, 7th Day Adventist, Christian Science books. Guess my town’s not weird enough for Scientologists?
Anyway, I was amused at free books from the TNSTAAFL crowd.
So how does the District Manager summoning even work? They just materialize out of the air like a jin? Can she summon more than one at a time? Do they actually do anything useful, or do they just run around distracting the oncoming bug horde while they’re out?
I recall a Karen at the old Bikesmith in NOLA.
After getting mad at her ‘salesman’ because he wouldn’t do something bizzare or high cost for free (forget what it was about . . it was the late 80’s, dammit), she demanded to see the Manager, so Adam was called and asked the ‘salesman’ “What’ya need Boss?”, so not seeing the light demanded “to speak with the owner!” and the ‘salesman’ replied “I’m the president of this corporation.”
repeat 4 or 5 times before she finally realized that was basically “I’m who you are demanding to talk to”, and she was certainly not going to have her unreasonable demands met.
Btw, I had no idea that the Fat Electrician was such an entertaining and educational history channel on YT. Also, somebody finally displays an appropriate level of dislike for Communism coupled with rhetoric that lets the kiddies learn what they should know.
I mean, the man comes up with some truly amazing figures of speech, not to mention the explanations.
Apparently I’m 45, 15 years early, because every one of those applies. Yea verily, I get along better with people who are significantly older than I am, which is probably why I’m still single. Can’t stand my own age group, and the age gap with people I can get along with is firmly in ‘creeper’ territory, did they harbor romantic interests. *sigh*
I don’t understand the phone fixation when there’s so many neat things to see when you are walking. And curbs, loose dogs, traffic, holes in the road/sidewalk, tree roots, small children on the loose …
I mean, also I’m paranoid, so I could never. I like knowing what’s happening around me. This is also a bad thing, because I cannot concentrate in crowds at ALL, because I’m trying to listen to five conversations and see everyone in all directions.
Well, I always used to enjoy walking and reading a book at the same time, but then everybody else started doing it with phones. Obviously this didn’t work out as well for the amateurs, although I think some people have fully developed their side vision now.
However, the ability to walk while listening to an audiobook in one ear is definitely a process improvement in many ways.
I’m mean. I have a friend who is looking for feeder pigs. But bored pigs are destructive pigs, so my brain devised a game. A long track balanced in the middle and a feeder at either end, like a piggy teeter-totter. A bowling ball sits on the track. As soon as a pig sticks its nose in the feeder, the ball rolls down and plugs the feeder.
Iran has launched multiple drones at Israel. Jordan has announced Israel has permission to come into their airspace. The President has returned to the White House but will not be addressing the nation tonight. *Sigh.*
His handlers need to be sure he’s juiced up enough to come across as semi-coherent. After a day of travel for the poor old man, that’s something that best wait till he has slept.
Iran fired a crapload of ordinance through Jordanian airspace, presumably on the basis of “what van they do?” That certainly could draw a Jordanian response. That could expand this into another Shia/Suni Fracas.
But I expect folks might prefer this to all fizzle out.
The following is a quote from a statement made by IDF.
The IDF said its Aerial Defense Array successfully intercepted the majority of the launches using the “Arrow” Aerial Defense System, together with Israel’s strategic allies, before the launches crossed into Israeli territory.
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I’m guessing that “strategic allies” includes Jordan.
If Jordan is going to respond to this attack, it will do so as an ally of Israel.
Iran shot its bolt through Jordanian airspace. I very much doubt they even bothered asking. That’s rather bad form, eh?
Since much of that junk fell on Jordan, -they- would have cause to retaliate. And would that not be an interesting turn of events? Shooting at ones fellow muslims is rather bad form, also, eh?
My “too funny for words in a sick way” scenario: Israel retaliates with a single ballistic missile, preferably sea-launched. They announce it just before launching, state the target, then proceed to deliver a ballistic warhead of concrete with high precision into some well known, visible from highway, unpopulated, and undefended terrain near Tehran. Upwind.
Message is kinda loud and clear, on several levels.
There is an “F-35 Stealth” version of the above. That one drops the 2000 pound concrete GPS guided blivet into a prominent fountain/monument near the Iranian parliament.
Perhaps -that- one is actually louder and clearer.
The 2000 lb concrete blivet will cause a LOT of collateral damage in that scenario. You really want a 250 lb or at most 500 lb guided concrete blivet – and it needs to be independent of GPS because the Iranians routinely jam it. Don’t ask the Reader how he knows.
I think something more Mossad-ish involving lots and lots of shaped charge IEDs as gifts for the individuals involved in the planning and execution of this, within Iran itself, would be more poetic-justice-y given all of those they sent our way in Iraq.
Something the size and weight of a B-61, with whatever the nerds have figured out for delivering to a specific AO.
Yes, some splash is expected, with expected broken things and bodies. This is in response to a recent attempted mass murder, and originated in an utter obscenity outside any sane interpretation of the Laws and Customs of War.
As far as I am concerned, Israel has justification to use whatever they deem necessary to decapitate the snake that promised them genocide. If that means more global fallout, so be it. if they do so, there are likely to be much less such attempts in the future. I certainly prefer a nice “clean” demonstration without the multi-kilometer fireball. But I think we have now observed that a certain clique of Mad Mullahs are not going to stop until they too play with atoms.
Hey. I am sure Iran can have a kinetic accident of the Chernobyl type all by their lonesome (wink). They are playing with cosmic fire. They believe in punishing failure. (Which is another way of saying, no one will tell them the truth.)
The IDF said its Aerial Defense Array successfully intercepted the majority of the launches using the “Arrow” Aerial Defense System, together with Israel’s strategic allies, before the launches crossed into Israeli territory.
End quote.
IMO the strategic allies may include Jordan and any Jordanian response may be combined with the Israeli response.
The Jordanians and the house of Saud were active shooters, along with RAF and USAF fighters over Iraq among other airspaces, especially against the mass of shaheed low and slow drones.
The whole thing must have been a monster to deconflict.
Some minor British celebrity of long ago was an introvert with a more outgoing wife, and supposedly his solution to their parties running later than he was comfortable with, was to go away and put on pajamas and come back to tell the guests: “I’m at home. Why aren’t you?”
I dunno. It sounds workable to me, but I’ve never tried it.
Anyway, thank you for the fun memes; the Milei ones are always funny but I think my favorite was kitten versus cockatiel. :)
Got to be photo shopped, there is no way in hell Joe Biden would be around that many american flags without the flags spontaneously bursting into flames.
O’Keefe punking the crooks is high comedy and entertainment. If you’ve got a dark sense of humor, that is. His new company should be better known and watched than ABCNNBC and Fox.
Investigative journalism is alive by dint largely of his own effort and unwillingness to be cowed by anyone or anything. That they thought he *could* be controlled is utterly laughable.
Even if he did have to go all Shawshank to get it done, poor man.
The Reader is grateful for social vegans. They don’t advertise unlike the other ones. As to NI vs AI, the Reader’s position is you identify as intelligent or not based on your actions. The rest is details.
According To Hoyt 
Ace has one on this thread. Scroll down. It’s technically NSFW.
and it’s truly giggle worthy.
forms
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https://ace.mu.nu/archives/409222.php#409222
WPDE
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The “sparkling water ” video at the end. Oh, St. Thomas Edison save us!
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“How do you know his house burned down?”
It was shockingly obvious . . .
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Good harvest this week.
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Never mind deer, supper (take out) was almost ruined by a turkey last evening. Bird jumped up like a quail right in front of me. Slammed on brakes. Book came flying off seat and smashed the styrofoam container. Barbeque squeezed out like toothpaste. OTH, it’s turkey season; I may have to learn to hunt turkeys in self-defense.
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turkeys are stupid animals if they are somewhere they are not actively being hunted. It’s like they have a switch labeled Be Very Aware/Full Leftoid Style Detachment From Reality
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Then there’s the Turkeynator that destroyed the entire first floor of a house by breaking a window with sheer force and squatting there for a week and a half while the owners were away on vacation. That bird just Did Not Care. I don’t remember what cleanup cost the poor people that lived there, but it was not cheap.
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Why did you slam on the brakes? :-D
Instant Turkey Casserole!
Like they taught my brother in truck driving school — don’t wreck your truck trying to avoid hitting something. If something gets in your way, bring the truck to a safe stop. If you hit it anyway, tough shit. For them.
Or the Midwesterner who hit a deer that jumped in front of his car. He got out, tied the deer on top, drove away.
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Many years ago in North Alabama, back in the edges of the woods, we saw a deer lying by the side of the road. She was looking around, but not getting up (I’m guessing broken back). And we saw a big car stop, a bunch of guys spill out and head for the deer. I went on hurriedly because I didn’t want the 5-year-old to see the imminent throat cutting I figured was about to happen before they tied her to the car. Not going to let good venison go to waste….and in fairness, she was doomed anyway if her spine was fractured.
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Texas actually has a whole process for doing that and giving you legal ownership of the meat. The game wardens in each county handle it.
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My husband has fond memories of the deer that got in the way when he was being driven to school.
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Locally the recoverable road kill is scooped up and given to either soup kitchens or if close enough the local reservation system. Rural locals might scoop it up if they can get away with it, and mix it in with prior fall catch. Generally just see them laying on the road. National parks will drag the kill off into the brush away from the road. Gets the scavengers (bear, coyotes, wolves, cougars, eagles, etc., off the road).
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🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵
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TURTLE, NO!
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I think you have to say it in turtle.
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They’ve got a point; the world is not being ‘secretly’ manipulated — they’re doing it right out in the open. They just want to stop anybody from talking about it.
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To the idiots screeching about ‘civilian casualties’ in Gaza — terrorists are civilians, you dumbasses!
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*Facepalms* An interpretation I did not think of. Huh.
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Civilian outlaw criminals, or at least non-uniformed combatants not following any laws of war, or international laws, or….
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Usually termed “unlawful combatant”, sometimes “unprivileged belligerent”, are exclusive of the other categories defined by the laws of war through failure to meet the qualifying requirements of being combatants. They also fail to meet the requirements for classification and protections under the other defined categories, civilians or prisoners of war.
Unlawful combatants basically fail to get the positive protections that combatants get, so they don’t receive immunity from prosecution for lawful acts of war as do combatants, and as noted are not entitled to the protections of prisoners of war if captured.
Further distinctions are subject to conflicting interpretations, mostly in my view because the original rules assumed anyone caught who fell outside the combatant rules would shortly be executed, so for example there’s nothing about how long “unlawful combatants” can be kept prisoner or their treatment.
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Things are going to get narly very quickly because Iran just launched a direct attack on Israel, which included not only drones but ballistic missiles. Depending on the payloads of those missiles (i.e. gas, chemical weapons or the U.S. financed nukes), Israel’s response might need to be overwhelming enough that the was in the Middle-East will serve as the signal for the CCP and other bad actors to try their land grabs. If Israel has to use a nuke to preserve its existence, have no doubt that Putin will use the opportunity to launch nukes at Ukraine and perhaps other parts of Europe, knowing feckless Western media will blame Israel.
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Almost “much nothing”. Some ordinance did damage on the ground, after being shot out-of-the-way sky. At least one dead, I believe. One may have actually hit a base in southern Israel.
Israeli, Jordanian, and USA forces shot down most of the drones/missiles/whatnot. “200” is being tossed around the talking heads.
If any of the remains test positive for fissiles, there might not be an Iranian government much longer.
I rather doubt the Mullahs are quite that mad. This was likely a pure “conventional” strike, to evaluate how likely they are to get a nuke to Tel Aviv. Or, they have such unruly internals they needed a positive distraction.
I was expecting the Mullahs to send (or wait for one opportunisticly) at least one airliner full of people into the turkey shoot, hoping to embarrass Israel.
Looks like what they got was a big botch.
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A few things:
Rumors have it the Iranians had a hard time getting the number of shaheeds they launched actually good to go, let alone times out as a time-on-target, as lots of the crews were apparently basically untrained, so the IRGC technical experts had to have long radio conversations and even direct visits to some locations to solve “how do I do this again?” questions. Note these conversations, between whom and where, and associated movements are all incredibly useful bits of intel.
And for all of that effort, the word is all the shaheeds were downed well outside of Israeli airspace, so all it did was run a giant shootex for the USAF, RAF, and Arab pilots and low altitude SAM crews.
Israeli fighters were also up during this – deconfliction with all their SAMs must have made it a fun night for those pilots.
Note also that a sidewinder costs a lot more than a shaheed. The fighter pilots union needs a much cheaper yet good enough anti-drone missile. Or frickin lasers.
Only cruise and ballistic missiles got through into Israeli airspace, and the Israeli SAM systems got most of those, some pretty spectacularly intercepted exoatmospherically, with the only injury I have seen reported being a Bedouin 10yo (some reports say a little girl, others a boy) who went to the hospital, and some impacts that didn’t damage much at an airbase, possibly from something the Houthis launched from the south that was evaluated as not high enough priority during the main attack.
The main takeaway for me is there’s nothing even remotely similar to the integrated SAM system even in Europe, let alone here in the US. 200 shaheed-class foam drones popped out from a containership all at once seems to me to be pretty doable.
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This was their first mass launch of drones and missiles. Do not underestimate their ability to learn from this attack so that they can launch more missiles and drones, more effectively, next time.
Of even greater import is that by getting Team Obama to throw Israel under the bus yet again by demanding it “take the attack and not respond” they help Team ObamaBiden further throw Israel under the bus and making the US look even weaker internationally. They also forced Israel (and us) to use munitions in defense of the stuff they did fire, thereby using up materials that are becoming shorter and shorter supply (there are serious manufacturing shortfalls in things like shells, antimissiles, etc., because of gutting funding of such stuff here and the vast amount shipped to Ukraine). Iran also can be confident that once Israel uses up materials, anything supplied by the US won’t be resupplied by the feckless cabal running the White House and the Democratic Party Jew-hating apparatchiks in Congress.
Thus, they can be confident that there will be less in the way of supplies to fund off a massive Hezbollah missile launch, and a second, actually unannounced, Iranian launch, this second launch will be much more likely to include chemical weapons, and perhaps even nukes, given that the US under ObamaBiden has been financing, facilitating and assisting Iran’s nuclear weapons’ program.
Iran is very explicit in their calls for not only the destruction of Israel and global annihilation of Jews, but of “death to America” as well, goals that appear to be shared by the current cabal in the White House and its backers/puppet-masters outside of it. The left has long sought to destroy the USA as it exists in order to replace it with its desired totalitarian socialist state. Since it has been unable to do so by fomenting domestic Marxist revolution, they have outsourced the destruction part to others.
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On the other hand, Biden is the “biggest loser” in this Iran vs Israel battle.
Biden told Iran “Don’t” and Iran went ahead with the attack.
The US Military apparently did a good job in assisting the Israeli defense but I’m suspecting Biden’s Handlers had very little to do with the military action.
IE The US Military had “other support” in the “Deep State” so they were able to act without “Presidentical” interference.
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More likely the US military assisted for the same reason Jordan and the UK did; they know that if that barrage had resulted in more widespread damage and casualties in Israel., Israel would have had no choice but to launch a massive attack on Iran that would certainly trigger a full scale war in the Middle-East, as Israel would have gone to take out the Mullahs and all of Iran’s military facilities, Hezbollah and the Houthis would have launched mass attacks, and places like Jordan would have had all the Jihadists try to overthrow their governments as Iran’s Mullahs tried to retain power. That conflict would very possibly involve nukes if Israel needed them to defend themselves, and that would give both the CCP and Russia justification for using their own nuclear weapons.
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That makes sense as their reason but I doubt that Biden’s Handlers would “think” about that.
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yep.
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Yes, but there are still some at the Pentagon who would think about it.
I also note that had they not been intercepted, several of Iran’s missiles would have hit the Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
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Now it is being reported that Team ObamaBiden knew in advance of the attack and gave Iran “the green light within limits”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/04/14/joe-biden-approved-of-irans-assault-on-israel-n4928167
Remember this is the same crew that invited the invasion of Ukraine by telling Putin that a “minor incursion” would be okay.
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I’ve heard about that but would like better evidence.
Mind you, it is darn easy to believe.
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Reuters says the Administration actually greenlighted the attack, “so long as it’s a proportional response.” And are now joining the general, “The conflict must be de-escalated! Since Iran failed to do damage, Israel should refrain from retaliating!”
Words fail me. Even gagging noises aren’t enough.
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This. So much this.
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via James Woods:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLIyw2GasAA9nN-?format=jpg
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Having forgotten what “Victory” actually means, thus repeatedly failing to win wars, we now lecture others on how to lose their own wars.
So we look better?
Victory is when the other side begs you to stop, or if they play extra stubborn, when you cannot find anyone who can beg you to stop.
The folks without Victory are called the defeated.
Now, you might plan your “war” as a raid, “We will smash areas 1-2-3 until they are rubble, bounce that for a while longer, than withdraw.” or “We will sink every military vessel under the flag of Outer Ashcania, then head for home.” However, if there isn’t a side saying “Uncle! Please stop!”, have you really done anything except posture? maybe you “punished” them, but you haven’t “defeated” them. They may be -chastized-, they may be less troublesome, they may have vastly less means to whizz someone off anytime soon, but they are not -defeated-.
Now, if you start thinking you are going to have a really, really big raid, and then the other side rebuilds their nation in a manner pleasing to you, you have completely missed the “Victory “/ “enemy defeated” step for managing enemies. The side that will thus be defeated is yours.
The folks without Victory are called the defeated.
The folks without Victory are called the defeated.
The folks without Victory are called the defeated.
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Thank you for the term, because “unlawful combatant” was not coming to mind!
Unprivileged belligerent is definitely a lawyer term, but I kinda like it. What a mouthful.
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People will get sniffy about how the Geneva Conventions define only “civilian” and “lawful combatant” — because the really dreadful thing is defining a term that means “civilian who violates the conventions by waging war and is therefore liable to summary execution.”
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via Insty open thread (do not recall if Tacitus actually said this as it has been a long time since I read him, but it sounds right):
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And once again, instead of putting this at the end after the last post, it put it with the reply to the last comment I made. WP delende est.
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Yep. If someone censors it, there’s got to be something potentially useful there….
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I need to get caught up in Frieren. I have absolutely no idea what happened that inspired that, but I am quite curious.
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Frieren is a very pleasant little series.
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I don’t want to Human anymore.
I Want To Dragon!
Take What I Want For My Hoard!
Take What I Want To Eat!
Destroy Anybody/Anything That Gets In My Way!
[Loud Knocking At My Liar’s Entrance.]
Oh, Hello Geoge. Just blowing off steam.
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Hey now! I’m the Book Loving Dragon and I dislike it when people don’t let me get books from Their Libraries. 🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲
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Would you like it if people got books for your hoard?
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My dear fellow, I’m quite willing to lend people my books although I charge a very high price to those who don’t return them. 😈
Of course, an intelligent person would not “just take books” from me and I’m fully aware that there are people who would be just as dangerous as I if I attempted “take their books” from their libraries. 😉
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I no longer lend copies of “Economics in One Lesson,” “The Moon is A Harsh Mistress,” or “Monster Hunter International.” Those might occasionally be gifts, but not lending material. They never come back.
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Mises.org occasionally runs giveaways of Economics in One Lesson – they sent me a box of 30 once – stuffed a few in the local Little Free Library(ies) next to the Mormon, 7th Day Adventist, Christian Science books. Guess my town’s not weird enough for Scientologists?
Anyway, I was amused at free books from the TNSTAAFL crowd.
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By the way, you have nothing in your lair that I want.
[Don’t ask me how I know.] 😁
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One of Mercedes Lackey’s fairy-tale novels had a Bookwyrm as the male romantic lead.
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Considering the price of hard cover books, it might be cheaper to sleep on a pile of gold.
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Is there a truth teller’s entrance?
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I meant Lair. [Embarrassed]
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Frieren: This’ll show Serie!
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So how does the District Manager summoning even work? They just materialize out of the air like a jin? Can she summon more than one at a time? Do they actually do anything useful, or do they just run around distracting the oncoming bug horde while they’re out?
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Look at ultraKaren. And realize that you do NOT want to know.
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I recall a Karen at the old Bikesmith in NOLA.
After getting mad at her ‘salesman’ because he wouldn’t do something bizzare or high cost for free (forget what it was about . . it was the late 80’s, dammit), she demanded to see the Manager, so Adam was called and asked the ‘salesman’ “What’ya need Boss?”, so not seeing the light demanded “to speak with the owner!” and the ‘salesman’ replied “I’m the president of this corporation.”
repeat 4 or 5 times before she finally realized that was basically “I’m who you are demanding to talk to”, and she was certainly not going to have her unreasonable demands met.
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You clearly didn’t get the memo. The bitchier she got, the more reality was supposed to bend to her will. That’s how it always worked for her!
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Stall her until her light starts blinking?
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Victims of Communism
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I liked the double entendre in “lots of sandwiches”. :-)
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Then there’s this.
Oh, it inlined this time. huh. What will WordPress do next?
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Jennifer Slopez!!!
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Btw, I had no idea that the Fat Electrician was such an entertaining and educational history channel on YT. Also, somebody finally displays an appropriate level of dislike for Communism coupled with rhetoric that lets the kiddies learn what they should know.
I mean, the man comes up with some truly amazing figures of speech, not to mention the explanations.
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I recommend Scotch as well.
But I am curious how the ironed shirt holds a sandwich.
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”No, iron the shirt before you wrap the sandwich in it!”
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Starch, brah. Starch can do amazing things.
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Apparently I’m 45, 15 years early, because every one of those applies. Yea verily, I get along better with people who are significantly older than I am, which is probably why I’m still single. Can’t stand my own age group, and the age gap with people I can get along with is firmly in ‘creeper’ territory, did they harbor romantic interests. *sigh*
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I don’t understand the phone fixation when there’s so many neat things to see when you are walking. And curbs, loose dogs, traffic, holes in the road/sidewalk, tree roots, small children on the loose …
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…dodging people with their nose stuck in their phone…
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I mean, also I’m paranoid, so I could never. I like knowing what’s happening around me. This is also a bad thing, because I cannot concentrate in crowds at ALL, because I’m trying to listen to five conversations and see everyone in all directions.
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Well, I always used to enjoy walking and reading a book at the same time, but then everybody else started doing it with phones. Obviously this didn’t work out as well for the amateurs, although I think some people have fully developed their side vision now.
However, the ability to walk while listening to an audiobook in one ear is definitely a process improvement in many ways.
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But walking while reading was never socially acceptable. I got very adept at knowing who was in my “airspace.”
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I’m mean. I have a friend who is looking for feeder pigs. But bored pigs are destructive pigs, so my brain devised a game. A long track balanced in the middle and a feeder at either end, like a piggy teeter-totter. A bowling ball sits on the track. As soon as a pig sticks its nose in the feeder, the ball rolls down and plugs the feeder.
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How did that end up there? I swear I put it at the end.
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I used to do that. Listen to an audio book, I mean
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That’s okay, I am 60+ going on fourteen.
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That’s mentally, physically yes I am very much 60+.
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Iran has launched multiple drones at Israel. Jordan has announced Israel has permission to come into their airspace. The President has returned to the White House but will not be addressing the nation tonight. *Sigh.*
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Apparently, there are reports that Jordan is assisting in shooting down the stuff heading for Israel.
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Saudis did as well.
Nobody in the neighborhood likes the mullahs.
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For demonstrable good reasons.
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His handlers need to be sure he’s juiced up enough to come across as semi-coherent. After a day of travel for the poor old man, that’s something that best wait till he has slept.
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Then Joe Biden will blame the Attack on Trump.
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Even those who voted for him, or some number of them, are getting tired of that excuse.
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Apparently you were spot on with that prediction.
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Iran has now announced their “retaliation,” for the Damascus strike is over. we’ll see.
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Any get through?
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The last I heard none have really gotten through and Iran is still launching attacks.
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Can’t wait to see what Mossad has in store for a counterstrike.
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Iran fired a crapload of ordinance through Jordanian airspace, presumably on the basis of “what van they do?” That certainly could draw a Jordanian response. That could expand this into another Shia/Suni Fracas.
But I expect folks might prefer this to all fizzle out.
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Something “interesting” from Fox News.
The following is a quote from a statement made by IDF.
The IDF said its Aerial Defense Array successfully intercepted the majority of the launches using the “Arrow” Aerial Defense System, together with Israel’s strategic allies, before the launches crossed into Israeli territory.
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I’m guessing that “strategic allies” includes Jordan.
If Jordan is going to respond to this attack, it will do so as an ally of Israel.
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Well, Jordan announced immediately that Israel was free to use their airspace to maneuver against the attack.
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Fox News reported that Jordan assisted in shooting down the attack.
I’m suspecting that the assistance involved more than “just letting Israel entering Jordan’s airspace”.
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Oh, I’m sure we don’t have all the details yet, but just letting them use the airspace is a good thing.
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I think the Saudis were giving permission to use their airspace, too.
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Iran shot its bolt through Jordanian airspace. I very much doubt they even bothered asking. That’s rather bad form, eh?
Since much of that junk fell on Jordan, -they- would have cause to retaliate. And would that not be an interesting turn of events? Shooting at ones fellow muslims is rather bad form, also, eh?
My “too funny for words in a sick way” scenario: Israel retaliates with a single ballistic missile, preferably sea-launched. They announce it just before launching, state the target, then proceed to deliver a ballistic warhead of concrete with high precision into some well known, visible from highway, unpopulated, and undefended terrain near Tehran. Upwind.
Message is kinda loud and clear, on several levels.
There is an “F-35 Stealth” version of the above. That one drops the 2000 pound concrete GPS guided blivet into a prominent fountain/monument near the Iranian parliament.
Perhaps -that- one is actually louder and clearer.
(Kzin grin)
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“Shooting at ones fellow Muslims is rather bad form, also, eh?”
Not when Sunni (Jordan) and Shiite (Iran) are added to the mix.
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The 2000 lb concrete blivet will cause a LOT of collateral damage in that scenario. You really want a 250 lb or at most 500 lb guided concrete blivet – and it needs to be independent of GPS because the Iranians routinely jam it. Don’t ask the Reader how he knows.
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I think something more Mossad-ish involving lots and lots of shaped charge IEDs as gifts for the individuals involved in the planning and execution of this, within Iran itself, would be more poetic-justice-y given all of those they sent our way in Iraq.
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Something the size and weight of a B-61, with whatever the nerds have figured out for delivering to a specific AO.
Yes, some splash is expected, with expected broken things and bodies. This is in response to a recent attempted mass murder, and originated in an utter obscenity outside any sane interpretation of the Laws and Customs of War.
As far as I am concerned, Israel has justification to use whatever they deem necessary to decapitate the snake that promised them genocide. If that means more global fallout, so be it. if they do so, there are likely to be much less such attempts in the future. I certainly prefer a nice “clean” demonstration without the multi-kilometer fireball. But I think we have now observed that a certain clique of Mad Mullahs are not going to stop until they too play with atoms.
See other comment on “Victory”.
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Don’t disagree. But if a fireball happens, it needs to appear that they caused it themselves.
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Hey. I am sure Iran can have a kinetic accident of the Chernobyl type all by their lonesome (wink). They are playing with cosmic fire. They believe in punishing failure. (Which is another way of saying, no one will tell them the truth.)
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Why not some more ‘Ginsu Missiles’ delivered to those most deserving of such gifts? :-D
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From Fox News.
The IDF said its Aerial Defense Array successfully intercepted the majority of the launches using the “Arrow” Aerial Defense System, together with Israel’s strategic allies, before the launches crossed into Israeli territory.
End quote.
IMO the strategic allies may include Jordan and any Jordanian response may be combined with the Israeli response.
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I should think Jordan will simply allow Israel free passage, openly and covertly.
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The Jordanians and the house of Saud were active shooters, along with RAF and USAF fighters over Iraq among other airspaces, especially against the mass of shaheed low and slow drones.
The whole thing must have been a monster to deconflict.
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But the Jordanians publicly announcing they’d granted Israel access to their airspace is a big thing in itself.
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This concludes Iran’s BOLOEX2024.
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What the Heck? I responded to Mailclerk twice and the responses are missing. Wordpress Must Die!
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I had spammed you. I freed you now.
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Thanks.
I had wondered if WP didn’t like my mention of FN. 😉
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Some minor British celebrity of long ago was an introvert with a more outgoing wife, and supposedly his solution to their parties running later than he was comfortable with, was to go away and put on pajamas and come back to tell the guests: “I’m at home. Why aren’t you?”
I dunno. It sounds workable to me, but I’ve never tried it.
Anyway, thank you for the fun memes; the Milei ones are always funny but I think my favorite was kitten versus cockatiel. :)
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Speaking of Idiocracy:
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Got to be photo shopped, there is no way in hell Joe Biden would be around that many american flags without the flags spontaneously bursting into flames.
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Which is why the flags are ghost (faded) flags, haunting those on the motorcycle, as they try to flee the flags.
But of coarse it is photo shopped. None of them are competent to be on a motorcycle. Not even a 3 wheeler.
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Or Joe. Anyone else notice these f*ckers react to the flag like vampires to crosses?
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That picture needs fluffy little chicks running behind with the statement “And hell followed after.”
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OK, so was OJ’s hearse a white stretched Bronco?
He now is facing the “real killer”.
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OJ’s been facing the real killer every day. That, or avoiding mirrors.
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O’Keefe punking the crooks is high comedy and entertainment. If you’ve got a dark sense of humor, that is. His new company should be better known and watched than ABCNNBC and Fox.
Investigative journalism is alive by dint largely of his own effort and unwillingness to be cowed by anyone or anything. That they thought he *could* be controlled is utterly laughable.
Even if he did have to go all Shawshank to get it done, poor man.
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“I’m a social vegan. I avoid meet.”
“I was assigned NI at birth but identify as an AI. As a pre-up transhuman my pronouns are vi/vim/sed.”
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The Reader is grateful for social vegans. They don’t advertise unlike the other ones. As to NI vs AI, the Reader’s position is you identify as intelligent or not based on your actions. The rest is details.
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