strange doings in China, Reports of gun fire in Peking and fighters in the air. No confirmation. None of the trustworthy sources can agree. Don’t believe what you read, but don’t ignore it either. Things are very odd right now.
Typical. The press is mostly just propaganda for CCP.
The original composition of the Central Military Committee from the 20th Party Congress in 2022 included seven members:
Chairman: Xi Jinping
Vice Chairmen: Zhang Youxia, He Weidong (later replaced)
Members: Li Shangfu, Liu Zhenli, Miao Hua, Zhang Shengmin
Multiple high-profile figures have been removed or placed under investigation for “serious violations of discipline and law” (code for corruption or disloyalty), including:
Li Shangfu (former Defense Minister, removed 2024)
Miao Hua
He Weidong (vice chairman, expelled/removed around October 2025). He committed suicide recently, which is weird since they usually don’t do that — they belong to the party and all that jazz. He was supposed to be Xi’s ally.
Liu Zhenli (CMC member and Joint Staff Department chief)
Zhang Youxia (senior vice chairman, placed under investigation in January 2026). He was the only one who had ever been under fire having fought in the Vietnam disaster.
This has reduced the active CMC to effectively two members who remain in office:
Xi Jinping (Chairman, born 1953, still in full control as paramount leader).
Zhang Shengmin (Vice Chairman, also Secretary of the CMC Discipline Inspection Commission; a career political commissar from the Rocket Force background, promoted/retained amid the purges, including elevation in late 2025 after He Weidong’s fall).
One of the commentators YT things I found noted that both of the remaining CMC guys being from the PLAAF, so none of the people at the top of the chain of command for the Army have any Army experience, nor similarly the PLAN any floatyboat experience.
The presumption is being PLAAF, those remaining two guys would have zero Rolodex contacts in the nearby coup-convenient PLA formations.
One thing we rescued from the family house was the set of 1950 Compton Encyclopedias. I grew up reading those.
(And now I’m remembering the house is gone. OtOH, given my mom and my brother’s girlfriend died there (overdose), maybe it’s just as well. But it still hurts).
Encyclopedia and dictionary reader. The only time I listened to one song over and over was when I was trying to learn parts of a difficult piece for one of my choirs, or a piano recital.
The additional take away I would have is ‘expect more trolls, more blackpills’.
US spending on the UN is probably a lot of fraud, and a slush fund to keep a bunch of awful regimes in power. As those regimes fail, some of them may understand that US politics is responsible, and in play.
I think there are not the financial institutions and courts to handle bankruptcy by the UN.
And: Who cares if the UN goes bankrupt? Not the US citizens who have a clue. The rest we’ll use the clue bat on (meteorically, honest, maybe, if they are lucky).
Please: Turn the UN building into low-rent housing!!!
Not that I needed any official word to GTFO the streets, mind you. Other than a quick early morning run for some groceries (did some shopping last night before the snow, but had to top off the weekly grocery list) my butt is staying in the house.
Really, do you want people with that little experience driving on snow to drive on snow? Especially when it’s windy. And if they crash, they would have to keep warm to survive.
We were a balmy 58 F here in Western Oregon. Not short shirt sleeve. But long sleeve shirt with no coat or vest weather (from Eugene to Riddle, down I-5).
Try XLFEET.com I just got some good socks from them, and noted that they have shoes as well. Call before ordering, as they have free shipping options, but no way to select them on their web site. (Unless I am just that dumb).
I have no relationship with this company except as a retail customer.
Try XLFEET.com I just got some good socks from them, and noted that they have shoes as well. Call before ordering, as they have free shipping options, but no way to select them on their web site. (Unless I am just that dumb).
I have no relationship with this company except as a retail customer.
Rode my Harley to the hardware store yesterday here in NW Washington. Just because I could.
OTOH they just expanded gun free zones, are debating a bill to eliminate state preemption of firearm laws, added a 10% tax on purchases of gold and silver, and are getting ready to implement an income tax. So there’s that.
Wow. Washington has entered the race to exit out of being affordable. Talked to someone yesterday who in recent years retired from Washington.
When we moved from Washington in ’85, property tax per 1000 were lower than Oregon. Electrical and water rates were lower. Sewer rates were higher (because at the time our area in Oregon did not have sewers to charge). Otherwise, the sales tax and annual value tax (on vehicles), was comparable to Oregon income tax (for us the former was less, because we didn’t have any money to spend, and our vehicles were used and old).
These days? Washington would be more expensive. Oregon property tax has increased, but lags due to percentage increase and property value caps. No clue why our *not-for-profit water/electric/sewer rates lag Washington public utility rates. Water source is different, but most of our electric comes from the same source. Even though our vehicle fee is still bi-annual, those rates have escalated.
Darn Washington anyway. Our lovely state governor looks both south (California) and north (Washington) for ideas on how to tax us more. The only two things they cannot do is impose a sales tax (call it a sales tax, because that is what the so-called new vehicle and dealership fees are), or increase the income tax rates, without a state-wide vote (although with mail-in-fraud-no-id voting, it is a matter of time before the initiatives are on the ballot).
(*) There is a subtle difference between non-profit, and not-for-profit. Granted, in Oregon, the difference is minor.
“The only two things they cannot do is impose a sales tax (call it a sales tax, because that is what the so-called new vehicle and dealership fees are), or increase the income tax rates, without a state-wide vote”
Whatever helps you sleep at night. 😒 Washington state’s constitution prohibits income taxes, and yet we are on the verge of one, aided and abetted by a State Supreme Court which rubber stamps whatever the left does while simultaneously overturning whatever the right does on the most flimsy pretexts. The only good news for me is that I’m not really from Washington. Grew up out of the country, went to college at UW, moved here when I got out of the Navy, so even though I’ve been here for a lot of years, I’m still not really a native. I’ll rootlessly go somewhere else and do the same things I’ve been doing here. Doesn’t mean I have to like it, though.
Washington state’s constitution prohibits income taxes”
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I know. I voted on the “no sales tax without putting it directly to the vote of the people” initiative.
Yet, TPTB have a percentage fee on all new vehicles sold (including RV’s), and a percentage fee on dealership, for any vehicle sold. Interesting how all the dealerships print that amount on the sales tax line. Fees are flat fees. Sales tax are percentages.
Also, with our vote-by-mail-fraud … PTB get anything they want passed, and fail anything they don’t want passed. Upcoming, the increase on licensing and gas tax fees. Legislative passed it. Governor signed. Initiative to overturn it, has the signatures needed. Of coarse it isn’t on the NEXT ballot. Nope. The one after that.
I am from Oregon. Born and raised. The paternal line has been here since 1845, the second wagon train to come out on the Oregon Trail. There is a family graveyard that is still maintained by the extended family (at least one branch), by volunteers. The graveyard is still used for internments. Most recent by uncle’s ashes this last summer.
Iran appears to have a surge of Sudden Building Boom Syndrome in progress. Government buildings, as well as an apartment complex that residents claim did NOT smell of gas just before it exploded, contrary to what the authorities said.
There is no chaos or disorder in outlying regions like Peking, Tehran, Mumbai, and London.
The chaos and disorder that is not there, was not caused by terrible acts of Lese Majeste against Donald Trump, committed by nefarious actors at Davos.
The Celestial Order is still harmonious.
Nefarious actors at Davos do not need to be put to death in order to restore the harmony, which we never lost in the first place.
Respect to the man and witch getting empirical data. Always important to learn about pillaging. Gothic victory! A fish. And it wasn’t even carpapulted…. Er, both kinds of neurodivergent? …That’s a minority group, all right. Amused If there’s going to be a Martian Lord High Admiral of the Outer Worlds, this timeline is better than I thought.
It depends on which definition of “white” they’re using– the 8% seems to be the “one drop” version, under which they assume that Jesus was not white. (Although modern Jews, somehow, are.)
Oh, and if Indian (dot, not feather) is Asian or White.
There’s also things like how many of the folks moving in to Europe are still counted at home, and how many of China’s folks never existed at all.
It can be really fun to watch someone explain how the Romans weren’t white, but the Mafia was…..
(Still looking for a date for Valentine’s Day? Keep reading Sarah Hoyt. Very soon, even you will find love with your inspired master-level pick-up lines!)
Anubis was a jackal headed god. Jackals are scavengers, opportunistic carnivores that feed on the dead, or almost dead. I’m still scratching my head over the ancient Egyptians making one into a deity; unless they played an important part in urban cleanup.
Become a raccoon, or become a Republican.
Had to send the Tex Crow to my brother who lives outside of San Antonio.
Definitely not me. I’d have told them I don’t carry a naked woman in my holster.
I need to mark the date of Marx death so I can celebrate his demise with a stiff drink.
Is it really a meme if it’s the bald-faced truth?
Well, my mother actually didn’t because she passed away before all this craziness started. The only thing we worried about when she was alive was whether we’d blow up the world.
Damn. The NICE idea is a great idea! Someone send it to Trump so they can implement it immediately.
Marco Rubio, a man for all seasons.
Speaking of Marco, are we about to start seeing a Chuck Norris joke where he and Marco Rubio faced off against each other at a narrow bridge the other day. They both turned and walked away?
Okay, I could handle that Marvel reimaging of Captain Britain.
Timeline. Tomorrowland, sans Disney.
Love to see her pull that sword from the stone. Beats what they have for a royal family today.
Tertiary campuses should allow open and concealed carry for American students.
American students too unstable to carry simply are a little bit questionable as students.
Secondary schools that restrict carry are maybe questionable as prep for tertiary.
(Okay, I would have a carve out for national security sites that happen to be located on a tertiary campus, but basically if a place does not have controlled access and security staff, it should be open carry.)
Eh, I suspect my eldest would never want to carry, because sensory overload tendencies means he *really* doesn’t like the bang time necessary to feel confident. IOW, not unstable, but unlikely to ever want to carry. (Also not a good thing for chronic fidgeters, FWIW.)
This was linked on Instapundit, and basically the ‘research’ is a think tank, probably at federal behest, not academic ‘research’.
It covers universities that I do not have specific information or opinions about. Though the Oklahoma one looks like one of the Tulsa places, and the /privately owned/ Tulsa schools were expressing some very woke sentiments some years back.
I am reasonably confident that some universities still have major problems, that are not addressed, and definitely have some important wider implications.
A lot of “No we’re not picking up our guns and fighting for leftists who hate us and wants us dead against federal agents theyre picking fights with” on the Internet again. *sigh*
I saw two ‘opposing’ spam posts at old NFO’s today.
One was a fairly boring ‘left’ comment.
The purportedly right comment was alleging things were so bad for the left that leftoids in California were leaping from buildings. I basically don’t believe this.
I think the left has many idiots, I think they are stressed, I think they have made political mistakes, but it feels vastly unlikely that Americans would be feeling hemmed in this way.
So my conclusion was that it was some foreign troll for hire, simply lying.
A lot of the info war now feels awkward, careless, and stupid, but I might not be the intended audience.
According To Hoyt 
Stalin: “Why do those people fear that two-bit German but not me”?
Answer: “The people who fear that two-bit German love you”.
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SFBS!
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“The pub one fits me, to a ‘Q'”
“You me to a ‘T’ don’t you?”
“No I drink Quarts, not Tequila”
“Wait, what…?”
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Valid from underneath the related TFR airspace closure as well as today’s fighter CAP practice for the actual game in question:
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Blue = Commercial Fest
Which these days I watch online after the Super Bowl airs.
Already watched the eaglet and Clydesdale foal commercial, in full. Awwwww Sigh Awwwwww
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I’ll be watching the Puppy Bowl as a preliminary. And yes, the year animal channel got Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart to act as co-hosts was a hoot.
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I can tell you who will win, everyone who doesn’t watch.
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I want to know how to find the alternative halftime show. I mostly watch for the commercials, anyway.
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The Owl of course. It’s Superb!
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Bill Gates comes across more and more as a selfish git, doesn’t he?
Ahem, Heinlein was a wee bit too accurate on that. And I feel the plot hole way too much for comfort.
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Billzebub has always been a selfish git, profiting from work appropriated from other people.
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Neurodivergent – Both!
LMAO over a bunch of these.
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I was the dictionary reader.
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Me too. Still am to a degree. Encyclopedia too.
strange doings in China, Reports of gun fire in Peking and fighters in the air. No confirmation. None of the trustworthy sources can agree. Don’t believe what you read, but don’t ignore it either. Things are very odd right now.
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The top news headlines on China are several things before the military is mentioned.
What fun.
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Typical. The press is mostly just propaganda for CCP.
The original composition of the Central Military Committee from the 20th Party Congress in 2022 included seven members:
Multiple high-profile figures have been removed or placed under investigation for “serious violations of discipline and law” (code for corruption or disloyalty), including:
This has reduced the active CMC to effectively two members who remain in office:
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One of the commentators YT things I found noted that both of the remaining CMC guys being from the PLAAF, so none of the people at the top of the chain of command for the Army have any Army experience, nor similarly the PLAN any floatyboat experience.
The presumption is being PLAAF, those remaining two guys would have zero Rolodex contacts in the nearby coup-convenient PLA formations.
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One thing we rescued from the family house was the set of 1950 Compton Encyclopedias. I grew up reading those.
(And now I’m remembering the house is gone. OtOH, given my mom and my brother’s girlfriend died there (overdose), maybe it’s just as well. But it still hurts).
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I was the single son listener
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Encyclopedia and dictionary reader. The only time I listened to one song over and over was when I was trying to learn parts of a difficult piece for one of my choirs, or a piano recital.
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Sadly, a lot of this seems to be hype.
https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/01/31/un-promises-bankruptcy-by-july-unless-trump-gives-lots-of-cash-n2198714
The additional take away I would have is ‘expect more trolls, more blackpills’.
US spending on the UN is probably a lot of fraud, and a slush fund to keep a bunch of awful regimes in power. As those regimes fail, some of them may understand that US politics is responsible, and in play.
I think there are not the financial institutions and courts to handle bankruptcy by the UN.
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I think the knowledge that we’ve been propping up most of the world is one thing that has kept us safe so long.
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Danegeld. You have to know when it’s cheaper to pay it, and when it’s cheaper to beat the crap out of the Danes and take their Greenland.
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Geld Danes.
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Hey, good news for once out of the glass-sided gravestone(*) of Turtle Bay.
(* Title of one of Joe Commings’ Sen. Books Urban Banner mysteries … murder in the UN.)
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Gee, maybe they really will turn the UN building into low-rent housing. 🤣
(Heavy Metal, Harry Canyon segment, 1981)
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My response is twofold: “And?” “Please!”
And: Who cares if the UN goes bankrupt? Not the US citizens who have a clue. The rest we’ll use the clue bat on (meteorically, honest, maybe, if they are lucky).
Please: Turn the UN building into low-rent housing!!!
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Clue bat from orbit. Now that would seriously get someone’s attention.
Metaphorically. 😁
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Word mix-up because I can’t pronounce correctly, so I pick the wrong spell correction option.
I can SEE the difference — Now.
OTOH, from orbit does sound tempting. Metaphorically.
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UN Bankruptcy
…
Challenge Accepted!
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Tell me I’m not the only one who saw that segment and thought “It’s the Fifth Element source material!”
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FYI, the state of North Carolina is closed due to snow (and temperatures in the teens) and wind.
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CakalakaSnowplows
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Ditto for us folks directly to the south of you.
Not that I needed any official word to GTFO the streets, mind you. Other than a quick early morning run for some groceries (did some shopping last night before the snow, but had to top off the weekly grocery list) my butt is staying in the house.
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Really, do you want people with that little experience driving on snow to drive on snow? Especially when it’s windy. And if they crash, they would have to keep warm to survive.
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“Think of it as evolution in action.” – Niven
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82° at my house today. I asked a neighbor, why are we having summer in January? 😄
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We were a balmy 58 F here in Western Oregon. Not short shirt sleeve. But long sleeve shirt with no coat or vest weather (from Eugene to Riddle, down I-5).
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Implied short/skirt/pants on lower extremeties.
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Extremities (sigh)
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Depending on how big your feet are, they could be extremeties. 🤣
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I figure if Sasquatch Supply existed, I’d be a customer.
Size 15 EE
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Try XLFEET.com I just got some good socks from them, and noted that they have shoes as well. Call before ordering, as they have free shipping options, but no way to select them on their web site. (Unless I am just that dumb).
I have no relationship with this company except as a retail customer.
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Try XLFEET.com I just got some good socks from them, and noted that they have shoes as well. Call before ordering, as they have free shipping options, but no way to select them on their web site. (Unless I am just that dumb).
I have no relationship with this company except as a retail customer.
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11 6E.
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New Balance makes 2E, 4E, and 6E wides. Also narrows. Walkers and work shoes as well as runners and assorted athletics.
Highly recommend.
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Duncan Oil has Sasquatch carolers and a Sasquatch football quarterback.
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Rode my Harley to the hardware store yesterday here in NW Washington. Just because I could.
OTOH they just expanded gun free zones, are debating a bill to eliminate state preemption of firearm laws, added a 10% tax on purchases of gold and silver, and are getting ready to implement an income tax. So there’s that.
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Sounds like they’re about to implement a totalitarian regime there.
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Wow. Washington has entered the race to exit out of being affordable. Talked to someone yesterday who in recent years retired from Washington.
When we moved from Washington in ’85, property tax per 1000 were lower than Oregon. Electrical and water rates were lower. Sewer rates were higher (because at the time our area in Oregon did not have sewers to charge). Otherwise, the sales tax and annual value tax (on vehicles), was comparable to Oregon income tax (for us the former was less, because we didn’t have any money to spend, and our vehicles were used and old).
These days? Washington would be more expensive. Oregon property tax has increased, but lags due to percentage increase and property value caps. No clue why our *not-for-profit water/electric/sewer rates lag Washington public utility rates. Water source is different, but most of our electric comes from the same source. Even though our vehicle fee is still bi-annual, those rates have escalated.
Darn Washington anyway. Our lovely state governor looks both south (California) and north (Washington) for ideas on how to tax us more. The only two things they cannot do is impose a sales tax (call it a sales tax, because that is what the so-called new vehicle and dealership fees are), or increase the income tax rates, without a state-wide vote (although with mail-in-fraud-no-id voting, it is a matter of time before the initiatives are on the ballot).
(*) There is a subtle difference between non-profit, and not-for-profit. Granted, in Oregon, the difference is minor.
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“The only two things they cannot do is impose a sales tax (call it a sales tax, because that is what the so-called new vehicle and dealership fees are), or increase the income tax rates, without a state-wide vote”
Whatever helps you sleep at night. 😒 Washington state’s constitution prohibits income taxes, and yet we are on the verge of one, aided and abetted by a State Supreme Court which rubber stamps whatever the left does while simultaneously overturning whatever the right does on the most flimsy pretexts. The only good news for me is that I’m not really from Washington. Grew up out of the country, went to college at UW, moved here when I got out of the Navy, so even though I’ve been here for a lot of years, I’m still not really a native. I’ll rootlessly go somewhere else and do the same things I’ve been doing here. Doesn’t mean I have to like it, though.
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I know. I voted on the “no sales tax without putting it directly to the vote of the people” initiative.
Yet, TPTB have a percentage fee on all new vehicles sold (including RV’s), and a percentage fee on dealership, for any vehicle sold. Interesting how all the dealerships print that amount on the sales tax line. Fees are flat fees. Sales tax are percentages.
Also, with our vote-by-mail-fraud … PTB get anything they want passed, and fail anything they don’t want passed. Upcoming, the increase on licensing and gas tax fees. Legislative passed it. Governor signed. Initiative to overturn it, has the signatures needed. Of coarse it isn’t on the NEXT ballot. Nope. The one after that.
I am from Oregon. Born and raised. The paternal line has been here since 1845, the second wagon train to come out on the Oregon Trail. There is a family graveyard that is still maintained by the extended family (at least one branch), by volunteers. The graveyard is still used for internments. Most recent by uncle’s ashes this last summer.
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I know.
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Metric for bullets….
Confuse folks by referring to their sidearm as a “three fifty six”.
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Metric for some bullets. I would never call a .45 ACP an 11.43 mm.
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. 451 slug ~= 11.5mm
(11.4554mm @ 25.4mm/inch)
Also works out for .452 to 11.4808 ~= 11.5mm
(grin)
The modern .44s get to claim “11mm”
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Technically it would be an 11.43ACP. 😁
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Well, fine, if you want to get pedantic it would be 11.5 x 22.8 mm. 😛
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I stopped using the witch’s, uh, bosom analogy after dating a Wiccan in college; now I say, “Colder than a tax collector’s heart.”
And +1 on the Waco meme. That must never be forgotten.
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Also:
Biblio Tex? Ausgezeichnet!
And when Grandpa brings out the Dynamite, the party really gets rolling.
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BiblioTex? Donald Knuth would like a word.
BibTex is bibliography management tool in the TeX / LaTeX document creation environment.
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They have hearts? I thought they were powered by hellfire?
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The saying is, “Colder than a witches’ tit.”
One of my coworkers in NJ used to say that.
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For, extra emphasis, “in an iron bra!”
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I heard it as brass bra. No idea why the metallic difference.
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The link between coffee and a longer lifespan is real, but it’s a little misleading:
The fact that I get my morning coffee means that those around me have a greater life expectancy.
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That was my thought as well, and I’m not even that big a coffee drinker any more.
(I’ve cut waaay down on caffeine the past few years, for medical reasons.)
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Iran appears to have a surge of Sudden Building Boom Syndrome in progress. Government buildings, as well as an apartment complex that residents claim did NOT smell of gas just before it exploded, contrary to what the authorities said.
Make of it what you will.
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Fake news!
There is no chaos or disorder in outlying regions like Peking, Tehran, Mumbai, and London.
The chaos and disorder that is not there, was not caused by terrible acts of Lese Majeste against Donald Trump, committed by nefarious actors at Davos.
The Celestial Order is still harmonious.
Nefarious actors at Davos do not need to be put to death in order to restore the harmony, which we never lost in the first place.
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Respect to the man and witch getting empirical data.
Always important to learn about pillaging.
Gothic victory!
A fish. And it wasn’t even carpapulted….
Er, both kinds of neurodivergent?
…That’s a minority group, all right. Amused
If there’s going to be a Martian Lord High Admiral of the Outer Worlds, this timeline is better than I thought.
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Right? I now have high hopes for the timeline.
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So, the ‘white race’ is an 8% minority.
Which has created the civilization, philosophy, science, technology and industry that dominate the world. Pretty f*king impressive if you ask me.
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It depends on which definition of “white” they’re using– the 8% seems to be the “one drop” version, under which they assume that Jesus was not white. (Although modern Jews, somehow, are.)
Oh, and if Indian (dot, not feather) is Asian or White.
There’s also things like how many of the folks moving in to Europe are still counted at home, and how many of China’s folks never existed at all.
It can be really fun to watch someone explain how the Romans weren’t white, but the Mafia was…..
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What is this, Raccoon Meme Week? 🤣
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“I love you like a feral racoon loves trash.”
(Still looking for a date for Valentine’s Day? Keep reading Sarah Hoyt. Very soon, even you will find love with your inspired master-level pick-up lines!)
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I was in a racoony mood.
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Trash Pandas!
in!
Spaaaaaaace!
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Now there’s a question: Are there raccoons on Elly? 😄
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Probably. There are fleas. What were the founders thinking?
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Were they thinking? [Very Big Crazy Grin]
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No.
That would imply that other weeks are NOT Raccoon Meme Week by contrast.
Though it would be kinda fun if next week had many Superb Owl memes.
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I was in a racoony mood.
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LOL the Vanilla Ice.
Plus the Marco Rubio jobs meme still hasn’t gotten old. I’m waiting for Marco Rubio discovers that only he can actually hear the screaming.
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LOL. Take THAT Wicked!
Bears, the other intelligent race?
Anubis was a jackal headed god. Jackals are scavengers, opportunistic carnivores that feed on the dead, or almost dead. I’m still scratching my head over the ancient Egyptians making one into a deity; unless they played an important part in urban cleanup.
Become a raccoon, or become a Republican.
Had to send the Tex Crow to my brother who lives outside of San Antonio.
Definitely not me. I’d have told them I don’t carry a naked woman in my holster.
I need to mark the date of Marx death so I can celebrate his demise with a stiff drink.
Is it really a meme if it’s the bald-faced truth?
Well, my mother actually didn’t because she passed away before all this craziness started. The only thing we worried about when she was alive was whether we’d blow up the world.
Damn. The NICE idea is a great idea! Someone send it to Trump so they can implement it immediately.
Marco Rubio, a man for all seasons.
Speaking of Marco, are we about to start seeing a Chuck Norris joke where he and Marco Rubio faced off against each other at a narrow bridge the other day. They both turned and walked away?
Okay, I could handle that Marvel reimaging of Captain Britain.
Timeline. Tomorrowland, sans Disney.
Love to see her pull that sword from the stone. Beats what they have for a royal family today.
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Right?
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Tertiary campuses should allow open and concealed carry for American students.
American students too unstable to carry simply are a little bit questionable as students.
Secondary schools that restrict carry are maybe questionable as prep for tertiary.
(Okay, I would have a carve out for national security sites that happen to be located on a tertiary campus, but basically if a place does not have controlled access and security staff, it should be open carry.)
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Eh, I suspect my eldest would never want to carry, because sensory overload tendencies means he *really* doesn’t like the bang time necessary to feel confident. IOW, not unstable, but unlikely to ever want to carry. (Also not a good thing for chronic fidgeters, FWIW.)
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https://www.thecollegefix.com/despite-dei-bans-some-public-universities-maintain-dei-requirements-research-finds/
This was linked on Instapundit, and basically the ‘research’ is a think tank, probably at federal behest, not academic ‘research’.
It covers universities that I do not have specific information or opinions about. Though the Oklahoma one looks like one of the Tulsa places, and the /privately owned/ Tulsa schools were expressing some very woke sentiments some years back.
I am reasonably confident that some universities still have major problems, that are not addressed, and definitely have some important wider implications.
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A lot of “No we’re not picking up our guns and fighting for leftists who hate us and wants us dead against federal agents theyre picking fights with” on the Internet again. *sigh*
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I’m assuming that you’re talking about the response of city police to the Democrats wanting to “pit them against ICE”?
I don’t blame them for not putting their lives on the line for Politicians who loved “Defund The Police”.
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They’re trying to shame us 2A folks for not “standing up to tyranny” like they’re doing by having their AWFULs throw hissy fits at ICE.
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Idiots.
Of course, many of us see them as the potential dictators.
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I saw two ‘opposing’ spam posts at old NFO’s today.
One was a fairly boring ‘left’ comment.
The purportedly right comment was alleging things were so bad for the left that leftoids in California were leaping from buildings. I basically don’t believe this.
I think the left has many idiots, I think they are stressed, I think they have made political mistakes, but it feels vastly unlikely that Americans would be feeling hemmed in this way.
So my conclusion was that it was some foreign troll for hire, simply lying.
A lot of the info war now feels awkward, careless, and stupid, but I might not be the intended audience.
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