Swiss’ birthday was yesterday…
he may still be recovering.
So he sent in a video of his pals at Plank Road Tap Room making … well, you just have to watch.
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They belong to me!
Why can’t we see-ee-ee?
At least you didn’t moon us.
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tragedy of the commons
NATO boss warns ‘learn Russian’ as he predicts war in Europe in next five years
Is that how much longer the current war will drag out?
The Eurotrash leaders want war with Russia so bad. Not that they can fight a war, but they assume the U.S. will come to their rescue after they start a war with the evil Ruskies.
None of this had to happen. It is almost by design.
If I were in a country formerly part of the USSR I might think Putin wanted to annex it — but Western Europe? Why would he want the headache? He already has neighbors with high Muslim populations — no need for Francistan or the London Sultanate.
What would conquering France get you exactly? Angry Muslims? Lazy assholes demanding you pay their pensions? If you just want good wine, Georgia is much closer.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has issued a stark warning to NATO members, urging them to commit to spending 5% of GDP on defense
Isn’t that what Trump the to during during Trump 1.0 term?
I’d add that “And no — Indulgences to Gaia as Carbon Offsets don’t count… yes, I’m looking at you Spain.”
If not, people might begin to question why we have NATO, and then he and his cronies will be shit out of business.
Most folks here: “Too late”… but no one listens to our common rabble….
Recently, I learned that the guy who played Strelnikov in Red Dawn was a USAF Russian linguist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_(actor)
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William Emmett Smith Jr. (March 24, 1933 – July 5, 2021) was an American actor and stunt performer. His career spanned nearly 80 years across film and television, often in imposing or villainous character roles.
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Military service
Smith enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1951. A fluent Russian speaker, during the Korean War Smith was a Russian Intercept Interrogator and flew secret ferret missions over the Russian SFSR, and was also a military language instructor.[5] He was reportedly also fluent in French, German and Serbo-Croatian.
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Hell of a guy!
Since it was Swiss’ birthday yesterday, this is on topic:
Rare Roman Marble Sarcophagus Depicting Dionysus and Hercules [drinking] Discovered in Caesarea, Israel — A First of Its Kind
I want that for my personal collection
For you men of culture.
Her pole handling skills are phenomenal. I had to watch it twice.
I’d pole vault her. Stick the landing, even.
As a followup to one of last week’s linked news stories…
He eluded the full weight of the authorities for an entire week. Safe to say he’s earned his stripes.
His trip home demonstrated the appeal of higher Ed.
🇨🇭, 🇨🇭 and 🇨🇭
From the am thred, that new Mustang looks more like a late 90’s New Edge than a classic 80’s fox body (although that generation was still using the Fox platform). Other than the five point oh naming, those Mustangs were seriously underpowered, even for a pony car.
And the font looks more like it was lifted from the Probe.
My internet is misbehaving.
I have been outside waging war on Mother Nature. She is winning handily.
Let us know if you need the Cal score.
Welcome to the club Brooks.
I wonder how this will play out?
Fingers crossed for some major lulz.
I think we need details — preferably from someone who speaks coherent English:
So… he put down his wife’s mother as his mother is the only way I can read that as being a problem? And somehow that affects her citizenship? (If the wife was a citizen by virtue of her parents… so should the State Rep be… :shrug:)
If it is true that she’s illegal — one would hope that somewhere in the laws we have the requirement to be a citizen to be a representative, so “kicked out of the state House and then looked at for deportation” would be the hard line position. One would think if she’s been there all her life and has state party ties they could swing some sort of sponsored visa or something. Who knows. Kind of reminds me of this though — the sort of sob story of “look at us… we’re productive non-citizens! Shouldn’t we stay?” tripe.
Ah — a bit better explained here. Including that yes, MN requires reps to be citizens.
But it looks like either an error or an intentional misstatement on a form, family went through naturalization and all… so not really “illegal” most likely, maybe a small fine on the father for screwing up (they came from Laos… did they even speak English at the time?). As RedState says — “this is bait”.
Don’t the progs only have a single vote majority in the Minnesota house? Or is that their senate? I know there was there one politician that’s being investigated (maybe tried at this point) for breaking into her mom’s house.
“Illegals aren’t voting.”
Which will immediately be flipped to “denied voting rights on a TeChNiCaLiTy.”
Somalis hardest hit
Holy moly, Norway.
It sounds like the Marines are inbound to LA.
Let them stop at Disneyland on the way up I-5.
Fucking insurrection- how does it work?
“It’s just an extraordinary moment, and I don’t want to overstate it, but these are the words of an authoritarian,” Newsom said in a Monday interview with POLITICO. “Whether he acts on it or not, the chill that creates is real, and it’s a serious moment, very serious.”
Trump and his border czar have targeted Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass by name with threats of arrests — and other ominous unspecified acts to be carried out by the federal government if the two don’t fall in line. Newsom spoke after a weekend of unrest — property destruction and bursts of violence — following immigration raids in the region.
Go ahead, Gavin. Show us who’s the boss.
Newsom recently rediscovered state sovereignity. It would be wonderful if he could be goaded into threatening secession.
https://abc7.com/live-updates/tensions-flare-downtown-la-anti-ice-protesters-clash-agents-live-updates/16692645/
Los Angeles has a downtown? Wilshire? I lived their a couple of years and was familiar with some of the neighborhoods, but no downtown.
The not shocking development – parks in northern LA are overrun with Mexicans. Unlike other days?
Isn’t downtown where the OJ trial was held?
OJ circus.
Fixed for you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Los_Angeles
I’ve seen DTLA appear more frequently over the past twenty years.
Where did you live, Drake?
I tried to avoid it, even in the 20-minute days.
Newsom, Bass and other Democratic leaders believe Trump’s moves were designed to provoke protesters to produce footage showing a major American city in chaos — as well as an attempt to distract from the uneven economy hastened by his trade standoffs and his messy breakup with Elon Musk.
“He is unhinged, and he’s acting recklessly, and the threat of the Marines coming in the United States, this is a very serious and sober moment. We are going to stand firm,” Newsom said.
Remember the Maine!
to provoke protesters to produce footage showing a major American city in chaos
They never would’ve done it if it wasn’t for TRUMP!!!!
They were just minding their own business.
Because the videos from over the weekend made LA look good?
LOL. If that’s true, then the Dems dumb asses played right into Trump’s hands, didn’t they?
lol Weapons-grade projection
Who has fought harder to get rid of posse comitatus? Oh yeah, it was Barak Obama
The Democratic governor said his state’s lawsuit challenging the Guard’s deployment was the latest example of relying on the nation’s courts to be a check on the president’s executive power.
“There’s maybe a second branch of government left in this country,” Newsom said. “We obviously lost the legislative branch to Trump and Trumpism. We pray that the courts are still holding firm.”
Somebody has to defend Democrat-ocracy from Trumpista populist mob rule.
OFFS what a pants-wetter.
Him and Bass: How dare you point out our failures and make us look bad (worse?) nationally and internationally!
Christ, as shameless as Meghan Markle. Sociopaths, all.
Since I missed this for the morning links, a couple of Bigfoot themed a.i. videos
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j4CT5dZe8ZA
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0ii37rnTdo
Music…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O69MTDdhHDk
Bonus ray of sunshine for libertarians
Another global warming tragedy
That plan started with a simple math problem.
“All the water has been used. It’s been called for. But yet, we have one of the fastest-growing communities in the Western United States,” said Zach Renstrom, general manager of the Washington County Water Conservancy District in St. George.
“So, we’re looking at hundreds of thousands of people moving to our community,” said Renstrom, “and we have no extra water for them.”
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At a construction site just east of St. George, Renstrom walked toward a maze of rebar and concrete that’s slated to become a new wastewater reclamation plant by the end of 2025. Once complete, it’ll take effluent from local kitchens and bathrooms and clean it with screens, bacteria and UV light.
In the near term, the treated wastewater will be sprayed on lawns and farm fields. But that will free up water for homes, too, because the county currently uses some of its drinking water for outdoor irrigation. Within two decades, Renstrom expects the district will start sending the clean water from its reclamation plants directly into the drinking supply.
Reusing water that would have otherwise flowed downstream to Lake Mead — the nation’s largest reservoir — is the centerpiece of the district’s long-term water plan. But it will come at a steep cost: over a billion dollars.
Global warming is drying up the rivers and destroying the planet. Also, millions of people are moving to the desert every year.
How can this be?
Unless they have two water lines to houses, I’m not sure how the treated water will be used for lawns but not drinking.
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/map
Protest map for June 14th. Check it out. Theres are probably going to be areas to avoid that weekend.
Looks like there will be something to do, locally, instead of fishing
What gets me is you just KNOW our tax dollars are somehow paying for at least part of this. The NGOs and nonprofits are out of control.
This. They have gone from not serving the interests of the people to actively waging war on us. Yes, it is 100% tax payer dollars and government actors.
Oh, they have a fuckton of events in my area. More small, local events depresses attendance at events in bigger towns/cities.
And interestingly, all of the nearby events are listed as “volunteer organized.” I couldn’t find a way to filter for other.
Nobody in my town. Good. I’m all out of lime to dissolve the bodies and my freezer’s full.
With any luck, weather here will be nice enough for me to be up in the mountains.
Protesting against flag day or Army’s 250th birthday?
It shouldn’t disrupt me. The couple in my area are at intersections without much around. It may be like the last time the Klan tried to rally.
Of course there’s three in metro Tucson. It will take some good camera work to make the one to the southeast in Vail and the one to the northwest in Oro Valley look anything but pathetic. No students at the U just now, but they’ll probably get at least a few hundred downtown. South Tucson is the barrio – interesting that nothing is planned there.
Yay! Nothing in my area
Down town Nampa at city hall.
Bless their hearts.
If it’s peaceful, fine, dandy, whatever. If it isn’t, I will want to make road pizza.
Doubt they’ll do that in Caldwell.
I wonder how long I’d last carrying these signs: “HANDS OFF my wallet; gimme yours” and HANDS OFF criminal non citizens” or “NO COMMISSARS EITHER.”
You’d be quickly dispatched to the great Aztlan in the sky.
I don’t think they’d see the problem with those statements honestly. They aren’t a self-aware bunch.
“NO COMMISSARS EITHER.”
Falco has a sad.
On the way home from work post 2pm, I got a message that the 4yo nephew was waiting for me to play.
Tho aching for some private time, I wasn’t foolish enough to leave him hangin’. We went to a gorgeous creek nearby, where he wanted to find bugs ‘n worms (cuz he loves ’em). That was his original ‘goal’ until joy took him to making dumpy wet-sand splashes with a Culver’s cup Dad had in the car.
Cuteness is an important incentive for mammals to continue reproducing. First, make sex fun enough to be (nearly) unstoppable, but once a fetus (or clump of cells!) comes out as a human, adorability kicks in, pushing all organisms to (proudly!) give up food, resources and territory to support a *very* needy creature.
He’s just so much fun. Important to not waste available time with him, especially as I was away when the other two boys were growing out of toddlerdom.
You’re a good man.
This background check questionnaire I have to do for KCPD 911 dispatching is beyond the limits of my memory and what I do have records for makes me feel like a failure as a decent human being.
“Should I put the misdemeanors on a separate sheet?”
I found out about a bench warrant issued for me in 1998 for failure to appear for failure to register a motor vehicle. I have ZERO memory of this.
I, too, fail to remember many of the times I’ve been arrested. I remember that I was arrested, just not what the what the fuck happened part.
You were committing fraud by lying about being a First.
“Im not sure how many guys it would have taken to whip my ass, but I knew how many they were going to use.”
-Ron White
finally back at the computer. Reply from morning links –
RC Dean – red bugs. Chiggers. Forest itch. Spell check kindly changed redbugs to bedbugs. Bedbugs are something I have zero tolerance for. I would burn a house down before living with them.
Everyoine else – We are also having a strange shortage of mosquitoes this year. That is very odd. I cultivate these in my yard and have hundreds of them https://cf.ltkcdn.net/reptiles/lizards/images/orig/332266-1600×1066-green-anole-1323561147.jpg
I thought they were keeping the skeeters down. Huh. Very interesting but I have no explanation for that.
Good to hear, Suthen. As a Boy Scout in North Texas, we called them “chigroes”.
I have heard that one before. That is funny
[ lights the Tonio signal ]
Sorry, MS
Alternative punch line:
“You’ll find both at a BLM riot.”
(thats an old joke too)
You want to be in this club, don’t you?
Daedone’s defense team had cast her as a “ceiling-shattering feminist entrepreneur” who created a unique business around women’s sexuality and empowerment.
But prosecutors argued the two women ran a yearslong scheme that groomed adherents — many of them victims of sexual trauma — to do their bidding.
They said Daedone and Cherwitz used economic, sexual and psychological abuse, intimidation and indoctrination to force OneTaste members into sexual acts they found uncomfortable or repulsive, such as having sex with prospective investors or clients.
The two told followers the questionable acts were necessary in order to obtain “freedom” and “enlightenment” and demonstrate their commitment to the organization’s principles.
Don’t be such a prude. You’ll fuck who we tell you to fuck, and like it.
Pernicious gobbledygook
A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders in grant funding requirements that LGBTQ+ organizations say are unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar said Monday that the federal government cannot force recipients to halt programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion or acknowledge the existence of transgender people in order to receive grant funding. The order will remain in effect while the legal case continues, although government lawyers will likely appeal.
The funding provisions “reflect an effort to censor constitutionally protected speech and services promoting DEI and recognizing the existence of transgender individuals,” Tigar wrote.
He went on to say that the executive branch must still be bound by the Constitution in shaping its agenda and that even in the context of federal subsidies, “it cannot weaponize Congressionally appropriated funds to single out protected communities for disfavored treatment or suppress ideas that it does not like or has deemed dangerous.”
Protected, promoted, what’s the diff?
By that reasoning, the government should be forced to fund and defend the Hitler Youth.
Ignore, ignore, ignore.
This. You pushed the limits and now you know where they are.
I very highly doubt that Congress appropriated that specific amount to that specific entity. If not, the executive portions money how he pleases.
Mammary Monday cannot create, only destroy.
https://archive.is/5LK7k
I got my amendment paperwork today, so I picked up my second pistol.
Now I’m obligated to learn how to shoot two at once, right?
😜
Second pistol is…….*drumroll*…..?
I named it “Peer Pressure” since Nat Adahn would never stop pestering me until I got a Shadow 2.
*Not Adahn
Maybe this?
Battle carry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=j4CT5dZe8ZA
Backup carry: https://i.shgcdn.com/2dc22aeb-9187-44bf-9dd1-4387a6608fce/-/format/auto/-/preview/3000×3000/-/quality/lighter/
Served me well for 40 years
It appears I could not have screwed that up worse. Battle pistol: https://gunsamerica.com/UserImages/219527/957391843/wm_13908731.jpg
Adorable. How about this? A little PPK vibe?
https://shop.uncrate.com/products/model-ppk-rubber-band-gun
I put tritium sights on it and a round spring housing on it. Shoots like a rifle. I cant miss its that thing.
I have one of those, Suth. Square butt, but just the same.
Always goes bang, no lazersights needed.
RJ: It’s adorbs, but the most important question is, can you use it while wearing shooting gloves.
I wanted to mount the optic tonight, but I think they used loc-tight on the screws holding the default plate on the slide. I can’t get them to budge and they’re threatening to strip.
When I have the much more than slightest trouble with a gun, I don’t fuck with it (for just that reason – its usually something that won’t give), and I take it to the gunsmith. For the money (which isn’t much, really), it’s worth getting done right.
Yeah, I put it back in the case. I’ll take it tomorrow when they’re open.
Sounds like my new Tikka T1x. Very strong glue/loc-tite holding in the barrel. Shoots like a dream, but I want a 22″-24″ MTU profile barrel for the balance. Takes flame to loosen it (around 300°F).
backup gun: https://i.shgcdn.com/2dc22aeb-9187-44bf-9dd1-4387a6608fce/-/format/auto/-/preview/3000×3000/-/quality/lighter/
Yeah, I put it back in the case. I’ll take it tomorrow when they’re open.
If you have a heat gun try warming it up to get the loctite to release, if that’s the issue.
Regarding the actual insurrection activities, I’m liking the IDF method of suppressed .22lr, lung shot or kneecap the lead agitators.