And do not drop your battlefield missiles off the back of a truck:
Heck, you drop ’em on the streets of Russia, you can’t sell ’em to the Ukrainians.
Oct 072022
Oct 052022
Those days are gone.
Gotta wonder why some people are like this.
Oct 042022
Go die for Putin. Receive fish.
Families of conscripted Russians on Sakhalin Island are promised fish
Bonus: According to the translation of the interviews below, conscripts are being given a “machine gun” (presumably an AK-47 or AK-74), “four rounds and a knife.” Way to build morale, Vlad.
Palpably mutinous moods among the Russian troops post Lyman. Auto translation via @vidtranslator pic.twitter.com/NQ3QW8dUUV
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) October 4, 2022
Oct 032022
Gotta admire the hustle:
Discounted from $685 all the way down to $378! You’d be crazy *not* to buy one!!!
Honestly, I’m jealous. Why can’t *I* ever think of things like this to extract vast sums from people with more money than sense??? Granted, it looks like this thing is actual metal, and designed to be removable and only *look* like a zip tie. But a silver-painted plastic zip tie has got to be sellable for, what, at least a couple dozen bucks, right?
Oct 032022
Indonesian soccer match stampede leaves 125 dead
Shoot, I can’t imagine even getting 125 people together to watch that dull, dull “sport,” much less getting them excited about it.
Sep 302022
So Russia has blamed the west for sabotaging the pipeline; everybody else on the planet blames Russia for sabotaging the pipeline. But there is another possibility. Consider, for a moment, the fact that the same culture of corruption, arrogance and vodka that gave us Chernobyl was also responsible for maintaining the pipeline.
Yeah. No sabotage needed to explain massive mechanical failures.
An interesting read full of things you probably haven’t considered:
Nordstream
Might be advisable to figure out of this was just a maintenance fail before people start nuking each other over it.
Sep 292022
For starters, it has the FBI actually doing its job. Shocking, I know.
Johns Hopkins doctor and spouse, an Army doctor, indicted for trying to leak medical information to Russia
Not so much “leak” as “sell.” The medical information seems to be medical records of military personnel and their families, a pile of data that does not immediately seem all that terribly useful. But then, the Russians do not seem to have actually been involved here; these people were baited by the FBI. And what people they are:
During an initial Aug. 17 meeting in a Baltimore hotel room, (Anna) Gabrielian told the agent she was “motivated by patriotism toward Russia to provide any assistance she could to Russia, even if it meant being fired or going to jail.”
Nice. But where it gets more interesting: the female doctors spouse, also arrested, has been in the news before:
(Jamie Lee) Henry received attention in 2015 after becoming the first known active-duty Army officer to come out as transgender. A Buzzfeed article from that time said she was also, to her knowledge and to the knowledge of LGBTQ advocates, the first and only active duty service member who had changed her name and gender within the United States military.
In the one photo in the article Henry looks like a dude. But I guess Henry considers Henry to be female. Shrug.
“My point of view is until the United States actually declares war against Russia, I’m able to help as much as I want,” Henry, 39, told the agent, according to the indictment. “At that point, I’ll have some ethical issues I’ll have to work through.”
“You’ll work through those ethical issues,” Gabrielian replied.
Henry also told the agent she had looked into volunteering to join the Russian Army after the conflict in Ukraine began.
Wonderful. *These* are the sort of people the military is hiring *and* promoting.
It seems that both of these characters consider themselves women. So the fact that they have some number of children is a bit unusual; once again, biology ain’t what it once was. But also:
Gabrielian did fear what might happen to the couple’s children if she put herself at risk of arrest, demanding that the kids be put on “a nice flight to Turkey to go on vacation” if arrest seemed imminent.
What the hell is in Turkey awaiting these kids? “Gabrielian” is an *Armenian* surname. I may not be a world-reknowned historian, but I do seem to recall some unpleasantness between the Turks and Armenians that would tend to suggest that they’re not real fond of each other.
Sep 292022
Lots to contemplate here:
Lizzo Twerks on Stage with James Madison’s 1813 Crystal Flute
On top of everything else, the Library of Congress deemed it proper to hand over a priceless (and doubtless fragile) historic artifact to be used as a prop or a toy on stage by someone with demonstrated and clearly obvious impulse control issues.
“B****! I just twerked and played James Madison’s crystal flute from 1800’s!” she said, after handing the flute back to a representative from the Library of Congress.
Indeed.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/desecration
desecration
[ des-i-krey-shuhn ]
Definition of desecration
noun
the act of treating something sacred or solemn in a sacrilegious or disrespectful way: Many locals opposed the use of their former church building as a courthouse, feeling that conducting civil matters there would be a desecration of a holy place.
Sep 282022
Huh.
It’s happening 😡😡😡😡😡 pic.twitter.com/ihSvgbqBr5
— WILL (@KRTN_Will) September 27, 2022
Another video has emerged of Birmingham anti Hindu hate crimes at Durga Bhavan. #Leicester #Birmingham#AntiHinduHateUK pic.twitter.com/F5Rr7vkboP
— 𑆩𑆳𑆬𑆴𑆤𑆵 Sarah L Gates (@SarahLGates1) September 28, 2022
When I was a kid, the British Army patrolled cities in Northern Ireland. Why are they not now patrolling the cities of England? They could be kept busy for *weeks* grabbing riotous foreigners and tossing them onto deportation flights.
Sep 272022
Homeless man arrested for vicious beating in NYC train station
How could this crime have been prevented? Were there any warning signs? Any possible hints of what was coming? Any chances to go ina different direction?
In 1995, Foster was arrested as a 14-year-old for killing his own 82-year-old grandmother in Flatbush, Brooklyn. He apparently got into a dispute about money and started punching her. She died on the couch shortly after the attack. …
In 2010, police arrested him for stabbing a 50-year-old woman at a psychiatric center in Queens Village. The woman was left permanently disfigured in the attack.
Foster was paroled last year for that incident.
New York City Police arrested him in August for Petty Larceny. The next day he was arrested again for criminal mischief.
Nope. Nothing at all that could have been done. There were no chances to have nipped this in the bud.