yes, it's humor/satire. If you've ever been a gamer, you'll get it
At a press briefing today a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed speculative reports that Secretary of Defense James Mattis utilized a new power move to thwart an attempt on his life earlier this week when Taliban forces in Kabul launched a rocket attack against him as he boarded his C-130 transport plane.
Army Colonel William Rotman said that "Initially, Secretary Mattis came under fire on the tarmac of Hamid Karzai International Airport and Rug Emporium. Although his escort of Shaolin warrior-monks were able to snatch the speeding missiles from the air before they landed, the Secretary chose that event to test out a new ability he'd spent his most recent skill points on. After seconds of reflection on all possible outcomes and their probabilities he immediately warped space and time backwards two hours in order to exit safely and transit home with no loss of life or unanticipated flayings of low-level enemy fighters."
This new ability comes as a shock to defense experts as Mattis has previously focused on melee attacks and leadership buffs, typically abstaining from health regeneration or armor bonuses. "I'm not a tanker," Mattis declared, as he waited for the mandatory twenty-four hour ability cooldown period to conclude, "I rely on speed and let my corpsmen patch me up when things get hairy. I know very well there isn't a piece of armor in the world that can stop a maxed-out Tripoli Knife-Hand stacked with Chesty's Glare of Doom locked in macro repeat. I assure our country that I still believe the best defense is a good offense."
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Babylon Bee
BOTHELL, WA—According to reports, local 22-year-old Chloe Kowalski’s world was torn apart Thursday morning, as the millennial barista was diagnosed with a rare disease that prevents her from having the ability to even.
“I just—I can’t even,” Kowalski reportedly sobbed on her boyfriend’s shoulder after the appointment with her regular doctor, which she had scheduled after slowly losing her even functionality over the course of several months.
“I can’t even right now. I can’t even, ever,” she was overheard saying through tears before breaking down.
“We’ve never seen a case quite like this before,” Dr. Elizabeth Eden told reporters gathered outside the clinic where Kowalski’s devastating diagnosis was handed down. “Many millennials will experience short bouts of not being able to even for several seconds, often triggered by a cute video of a cat or other small animal, or perhaps something online that’s ‘so relatable.'”
“But Kowalski—she just can’t even. She may never even again, at least not without assistance,” she said, shaking her head grimly, according to reporters.
Reached for comment, Kowalski noted that she “still can’t even.”
“I seriously just can’t even, you guys,” she confirmed.
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Very few people do satire as well as the Babylon Bee. I have them bookmarked and recommend reading them (like now on Sunday afternoon, rather than watching people give you the finger on the NFL.)
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Can't wait to see the reaction when I use it on my kids.
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[Right Scoop] One of the more stunning stats she presents is that a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is likely to be killed by a cop.
Macdonald makes some great points about how police actually help the black community ‐ I saw it growing up in a poor Hispanic community myself. There is a lot to be gained from the safety and security that police provide in enforcing the law.
But on the other hand, it’s not a reasonable expectation to say that a group of people should accept injustice because they have prospered by participating in a society. As Americans, we should want to stamp out any injustice in our society instead of making excuses for it. Of course, that doesn’t included exaggerated or fabricated injustice that the left peddles so often.
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But on the other hand, it’s not a reasonable expectation to say that a group of people should accept injustice because they have prospered by participating in a society.
Number of the children of the upper 1, 5, or 10 percenters who have given the last full measure of devotion since 9/11? That people should prosper and exercise political power in society without paying their share of the butchers bill is the injustice. No personal consequence tied to their governing failures. Only prominent one I can quickly grasp is Joe Biden's son.
The perfect's distaste for the bearable,
Aversion insane but inerrable,
Conceals within quibbling
An elegant nibbling
On infinite helpings of terrible.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The historic decision allowing women to drive is far bigger than just about women as it encompasses the entire country and its vision for the future.
It confirms that the kingdom is strongly and steadily walking down the right path to achieve an ambitious vision engineered and supervised by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
This vision has become part of the national dream, which many pessimists and figures preaching misery doubted the capability to achieve. The prince however won the duel and we have seen illusions fall one after the other.
We are now entering into a new era for the homeland where there is no place for extremism. It is a country that is washing off the damage caused by hate and death preachers.
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And the Rubicon is a puddle in your driveway...
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All very well, but the Crown Prince better watch his back.
Are there enough driver schools?
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Will their driving schools teach the difference between "Stop" vs "Yield" signs? Will they point out that the lines for parking places are not mere suggestions but rather a reasonable place to put one's parked car?
[Hot Air] It was big news three years ago when Castro more than doubled the monthly wage for doctors with two specialties, from ... $26 to $67. Alas, nurses didn’t do quite as well percentage-wise. They went from $13 per month to $25. Imagine knowing you have an expertise in a profession that would let you live comfortably, if not lavishly, even in the richest country in the world and receiving a monthly wage whose equivalent value could be paid in literal peanuts without too much logistical trouble.
But that’s the thing. How many Cuban doctors know how badly they’re being shafted for their services? This fascinating NYT story zeroes in on doctors who have been dispatched to other countries, like Brazil, to work and been amazed at the freedom and comparative luxury other doctors enjoy there. That’s a risky proposition for Castro, as showing his medical industry how much higher their standard of living would be in a free country naturally means many won’t want to come back. The reason the regime agrees to it is because it needs the money and receives big bucks for its "export." That’s where the Times piece comes in: Although Cuban doctors are making way, waaaaay more in Brazil than they’d make at home, they’re still getting royally screwed by the Cuban government, which receives three times as much per month from the Brazilian government as the doctors themselves do. "When you leave Cuba for the first time, you discover many things that you had been blind to," said one doctor to the paper. It turns out communism is de facto slavery. Who knew?
[Townhall] Douglas Murray has written what is probably the most important book of the last 50 years.
His extremely readable The Strange Death of Europe clarifies so many issues that are swirling around our lives. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the state of the Western world today.
I had the distinct pleasure of spending a couple of hours with Murray while he was on a recent trip to Los Angeles. It was hard to focus the conversation because there are so many immense concepts conveyed by Murray in the book even though it is just 320 pages.
Murray debunks many of the lies foisted upon the public about the effects of mass immigration on the countries of Europe. It is challenging to give you a few tidbits, but here goes.
It is amazing how Europe and the United States share so many parallel challenges. The Europeans are flooded by people from Northern and Central Africa boating in from two jumping-off points. One is Lampedusa, Italy, and the other is the Greek Islands. Charged huge fees by transporters (think of the Coyotes who bring in people from our Southern border), many die. However, the ones who do survive are almost guaranteed a life somewhere in Europe because of the rules of the European Union (EU). "They are all coming just to make a better life for their family." Sound familiar?
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Europe attempted suicide in 1914. You know that place most of our ancestors left or were thrown out of. We threw a lifetime in 1917 before another attempt in 1939. Since then they've cost us irreplaceable lives and fortunes. I suspect non-Marxists historians a hundred years from now will have fun comparing the waste of the futile American efforts with those the Justinian trying to resurrect the fallen Western Roman Empire.
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In 1939 an expansionist marxist inspired leader decided to force the people's of europe together with tragic consequences.
Then in the 1960s and 1970s they are trying it again. It will not end well.
[Barely a Blog] The American media and manipulative Puerto-Rican politicians are using President Trump as a piñata. Poke and pound him and the American taxpayer enough until, stateside, everyone is soon apologizing for merely existing, and coughing up into the coffers of corrupt representatives.
By all means, help the largely tax-exempt Puerto Rico territory. But realize, admit and quit the cover-up of the fact that Puerto Rico is a socialized, fiscally bankrupt, systemically corrupt "welfare state with a labor force participation rate one-third less than in the United States." Wondering why there’s no power and water? "The major Puerto Rican state-owned or controlled enterprises are all losing money, including the power authority which is insolvent":
... Puerto Rico has a bloated government with far too many employees, unstainable pension obligations, and an intolerable level of corruption. The proper solution to the Puerto Rican debt problem is for the U.S. government to establish a "control board," which Congress has the authority to do. This past Friday, Rep. Jeff Duncan, South Carolina Republican, of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter to his fellow lawmakers advocating a control board for Puerto Rico, much like the one they created for the District of Columbia a couple of decades back, when D.C. was in danger of default because of mismanagement.
Puerto Rico needs fundamental restructuring of its pension and civil service systems. It needs to sell all of its interests in the fully or partially state-owned enterprises. That is, privatize them. (How many more hundreds of years will we need before the political class learns that socialism ‐ i.e. state-owned enterprises ‐ always fails)? In Hong Kong, even most of the transportation infrastructure is in private hands ‐ and it is clean, efficient, attractive, and works without government subsidies.
Puerto Rico needs to radically reduce government spending, taxes and regulation so it begins to attract foreign capital again rather than driving it away. Puerto Rico is now a welfare state with a labor force participation rate one-third less than in the United States. Many of the most productive Puerto Ricans have moved to the mainland ‐ but could be attracted back with their high-level job skills if the economic environment was made attractive again. Puerto Rico needs to embrace the Hong Kong economic freedom model, rather than the Greek model of too much government. ...
[Right Scoop] Newsweek - On a speech on Friday in Fresno, California, Joseph M. Arpaio, billed on the evening’s program as "America’s toughest sheriff," delighted local Republicans with his pronouncements. He promised to restart his investigation into the veracity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, suggested he might run for a congressional seat, perhaps the one held by Arizona’s Senator Jeff Flake, and lambasted professional football players for their National Anthem protests, which he called "little Mickey Mouse political games."
[Breitbart] Friday on Fox News Channel’s "Hannity," in a rare television interview conservative talker Rush Limbaugh explained to host Sean Hannity why President Donald Trump is having difficulties moving agenda.
According to Limbaugh, the so-called establishment "can’t afford" for Trump to succeed.
"Look, there isn’t much conservativism in the establishment," Limbaugh explained. "There are Republicans and Democrats, but it’s basically people who are pro-government, pro-Washington, think government and Washington is the center of the world. They’ll give occasional mentions of these things that you mention, these policies to placate voters. But going back to an original question you had here, they don’t want Trump to succeed with his agenda. They can’t afford that. I’m not exaggerating here and trying to say things for a sound bite that Fox replays the rest of the day. They don’t want five days rush."
"They don’t want ‐ they can’t afford for him to succeed with his agenda," he continued. "They can’t afford it. The lid’s blown. The gig is over. The joke is revealed. If an outsider with no prior political experience can come in and fix messes that people have been promised would be fixed for 30 years, how does that make them look? They can’t allow that to happen."
[cfif.org] By now, many Americans are familiar with the public debt fiasco that plagues Puerto Rico. The issue has steadily risen in prominence as the gravity of Puerto Rico’s debt load sets in on the American public. Certainly, the island’s economic mismanagement has taken center stage in Washington, as Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla has been called to testify numerous times before Congress.
What probably remains unfamiliar to many Americans, however, is the other specter that haunts Puerto Rico’s government: its seemingly unshakable culture of corruption.
Though well-covered on the island, the Garcia Padilla administration’s questionable ties to political fundraiser Anaudi Hernandez hasn’t truly broken into the mainstream media landscape.
Hernandez, along with nine other Puerto Rican businessmen and officials, was arrested in December 2015 as part of an ongoing FBI corruption investigation into Padilla’s government. At the time of their arrests, FBI special agent for San Juan, Carlos Cases, issued a scathing indictment of Puerto Rico’s government and the role corruption played in driving it to the brink of default, stating, "Unfortunately, this is one more case of graft, greed, and corruption that over the last 20 years have contributed to the government of Puerto Rico's fragile economic condition and [placed it] on the brink of bankruptcy... Let there be no doubt this is only the beginning and the investigation will continue."
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You know what? Fuck that fucking Godamn useless Mayor.
Giving hugs and moral support is what Nurses do. I need a hard as nails:
Andi riot, anti looting, pro-security, pro fix my town Mayor.
Emotion does not run the world. Duct tape does.
If you could not find any, you are worthless.
Have to ponder the ritual of confession, the belief that you can get away with any sin if only you do penance, and its relationship to a culture's acceptance of corruption.
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Ah, yes, the Culture of Corruption. The gift that Spain gave to the New World keeps on giving (and not just the Spanish).
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The culture of corruption is what separates the First World from the third.
The USA has pockets of third world in some of our larger cities. I believe they can be cleaned up when the people are tired of it (NY seems to elect a Guiliani once in awhile to clean things up for awhile).
The problem is despite all evidence some folks never seem to tire of it (looking at you Chicago).
[DAWN] AFTER the excitement over the by-election in Lahore’s NA-120 had died down, pundits began wondering about the significance of the recent emergence of a new political outfit, the Milli Moslem League.
This rebranded version of Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... ’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa
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the Milli Moslem League.
Vanilli died
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The Milli Moslem League
The One-thousandth Moslem League. Fixed it, Commodore Frank.
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God protects fools, holy men... and Dawn contributors. Brave bastards.
[DAWN] THE vigour and alacrity with which Pak authorities deny that the krazed killerIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group has an ’organised’ presence in the country is matched perhaps only by evidence of an IS footprint in the country. On Thursday, the Foreign Office spokesperson once again denied that evidence of an IS presence in the country, or at least sympathy for IS, is of any significance.
The incident in which a version of the IS flag was confiscated by the police from the outskirts of Islamabad following a civilian report is troubling because authorities were not only unaware the flag was on display but once their attention was brought to the matter, they have been unable to explain who is responsible for the act. Across the board, the security apparatus seems unwilling or unable to recognise the threat that IS may pose.
In Pakistain, the absence of an organised IS network like in the Middle East or that of the TTP can be misleading. A wave of attacks in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... have demonstrated that a combination of sophisticated propaganda via the internet and the presence of disaffected individuals in society can have terrifying consequences. Pakistain’s vulnerability is also deeper: IS ideology can penetrate existing terror networks or their remnants and morph into a menacing new threat.
Instead of recognising that reality and developing a strategy to combat it, the state seems to be repeating many of the mistakes it made early on in the fight against the TTP and other anti-Pakistain krazed killer groups.
Then too there was a belief a soft approach to militancy or so-called peace deals would prevent the problem from growing out of control. But it did grow out of control, to the point that the state has had to launch the largest internal security operations in its history to fight militancy and terrorism.
Troubling too is the glib manner in which counterterrorism operations are reported by the police.
In yet another incident where individuals who are mysteriously eliminated in police ’encounters’ are later labelled as members of all manner of terrorist groups, the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police on Thursday killed five individuals, one of whom was identified as a member of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent. The individuals were, according to the police, planning to carry out attacks on Muharram processions. While Al Qaeda does have a sectarian strain in its krazed killer ideology, more details are needed about the victims and their alleged krazed killer affiliations before firm conclusions can be drawn.
What is striking about the police claims is that a hotchpotch of turbans was found together ‐ and a typically large number of attacks have been attributed to them. While the incident will soon be forgotten, the broader pattern is clear: the state seems to be lurching from incident to incident without a clear idea of the nature or scale of the threat it faces.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Give the Kurds a real stake in Baghdad’s government, only then they dispense the separation plea. Right now, they are imitating honorary positions without authority. The same applies to many components of the Iraqi state, which was built post the invasion. It was built on a shared parliamentary system.
Almost each and every country in the region opposes any territory’s separation, as such, Kurdistan’s separation will not be easy. There is increased fear that the central Iraqi authority, along with Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , will wage a war against the Kurdish ’state.’ This is especially after 92 per cent of the Kurds in Kurdistan supported the separation. Separation is a long and dangerous political road, it includes military confrontations and a painful economic blockade. Nevertheless, the Kurds are determined, even if they hold back a little now, they will pursue it. The reason why the Kurds’ project is worrisome is because the rest of Iraq’s provinces and governorates are divided by separatist ideas that will eventually lead to the end of Iraq as we know it. A Iraq we have known since 1920 ‐ one whose borders were set by the British and French.
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[Free Beacon] The all-woman league formerly known as the Lingerie Football League announced this week its belief that America's flag and national anthem are "far too sacred" to protest.
The league, recently rebranded as the Legends Football League, said in a Tuesday statement that its players would not be taking a knee during the national anthem as many of their male counterparts in the NFL have done.
"The LFL recognizes everyone's First Amendment right to protest, but our nation's flag and anthem are far too sacred," the league said. "Too many fellow Americans have made the ultimate sacrifice, so that our flag and anthem continue in all its majesty."
The Daring Book for Girls
Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz
William Morrow, 2012
The sister book to The Dangerous Book for Boys, I really enjoyed doing the screening of this book. In the same style, the tone is humorous and relaxed. Here is the page my daughter is on:
Page 82
Facing your fears can be a rewarding experience, and pushing yourself to new heights will inspire you to face challenges throughout life. Here in no particular order is a checklist of danger and daring. Some you should be able to do right away, but a few you might need to work up to:
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7. Try sushi or another exotic food. California rolls do not count. For the true daring girl try some natto (fermented soy beans) or escargot (snails).
A timely suggestion, considering the opposite page is French Terms of Endearment, Expressions, and Other Items of Note, including how to order food at a café/restaurant.
The history lessons are centered around famous women, and pulls no punches such as the life and fate of Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, Boudica, Zenobia, and many others. From the section covering Women Spies:
Pages 149-150
Hedy Lamarr
Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler is best known as Hedy Lamarr, movie star of the 1930s and 1940s. But she was also an inventor who patented an idea that was to become the key to modern wireless communication. During World War II, Hedy, along with George Antheil, invented a way to make military communications secure through frequency-hopping, and early form of a technology called spread spectrum. Hedy's status as a beautiful and successful actress provided her with the perfect cover: she was able to visit a variety of venues on tour and interact with many people, none of whom suspected that the stunning starlet might be listening closely and thinking of ways to help the U.S. cause.
There is some cross-over information shared with The Dangerous Book for Boys, such as leaf identification, first aid, government, knots, so forth.
I have a series of skill tests I will require of my children before they earn their own phone. One of which is changing a tire. Why, that information is also in this book.
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3. If you have tire blocks, put them under the other tires to keep the car in place. Medium-sized rocks work too.
4. Start to loosen the lug nuts; these are the nuts that keep the hubcap on. Not all cars have hubcaps, but look and you'll see what needs to be loosened. Put the lug wrench on each lug nut (illustration of lug wrench, nuts). Put the lug wrench on each lug nut. Remember "rightly-tighty, lefty-loosey" to guide which way to turn the lug wrench.
Before we get into having some good shims and an after-market jack, we are already ahead of too many high-school graduates. Reading tidal charts, interest, stocks, and bonds. There are fun topics as well, such as friendship bracelets, card games, handclap games, so forth.
To be honest, both The Daring Books for Girls and the Dangerous Book for Boys are not too gender-specific. I would say about 90% of the information is just good information for girls and boys alike. Of course, this being a book for girls, there is the topic of boys. I will have to take the opinion of others whether this is good advice, but it seems like good advice. Concerning romance (fatherly cringe here)
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If you are in the former group, there are two main things to keep in mind. One, if a boy doesn't like you the way you are, the problem is him, not you. And two, don't try to make a boy change for you - it is important to appreciate people for who they are.
Wherever you fall on the spectrum of how you feel about boys, do treat all your friends, boys and girls, with kindness. This has gone out of fashion, and that's a sad mistake.
I cannot recommend this book enough, and is definitely on my gift list. It was a cold purchase, and like I said I screened the spectrum from inappropriate content to way too girly. Caught myself more than a few time nodding, "Yup, good My First Toolbox", "ABC, CPR, RICE, nice My Beginner First Aid kit." and "What the heck is a peach pit ring?"
Link is to Amazon hardback.
This Week in Emergency Preparedness
First, hat-tip to trailing wife who located my peaty muse from last week - the drywall poo bucket. Note the optional disposal bags. There were comments about other fillers such as kitty litter for people and a liquid addition which would essentially gel the contents, I guess like poo-pourrie on steroids.
Just gonna throw out that there might be times a little weight and stability would be nice. Looking at you, mashed potatoes from the Brisket MRE. Looking. At. You.
I'm thinking a few bricks and the liners. Remove bricks to transport. No sharp edges or catches on the bricks. Some sort of domed weight sounds better.
I guess one advantage here is that since we are not flushing, any old thing would work for cleaning, though toilet paper would still be my first choice.
OK. Right then. Moving on.
Staying clean. Smelling good is, well, good. Filth can be a real issue. Other than thinking every point of the compass seems to be downwind of a water buffalo, there is chafing and potentially corrosive and otherwise dangerous material to leave on the person for extended periods of time. I have not come across a good answer to that issue if the tap is out of the question. It is tough enough to set aside enough water for an extended stay at the Holy Crap Motel California without breaking into the only potable water you may have for a while.
My solution: dry shampoo and baby wipes. Granted, this is an emergency, so I am not planning on opening a box of wipes and auditioning for a Boris Karloff movie; just cleaning the bits which need cleaned, or wiping the gasoline off my hands, and so forth. Annnnd you should know that there are brands of dry shampoo which are vegan friendly. I don't know. I guess if your rice and beans need a touch of lavender, you can keep to your vegan values. You're welcome.
Friendly reminder. If the tap is contaminated, don't wash your toothbrush, and be mindful of water getting into your body like during shower. It is just that people forget, get tired, or just have not thought it out. OK, the story: someone I knew was coming back from Old Mexico and got the trots while boarding the plane. Person gets back, tells the story of woe. I said, "Whaddya do, Person, drink the water?" Person goes, "Shit no, I stuck to iced tea the whole time." Apparently, revenge is a dish which can be served cold. I think I did my best impression of the bust of Julius Caesar ever.
To be fair, I do have my own "amoxicillin probably saved me" story. I could twist it about and shape a "Why you prepare and how it will make the difference" story, but no. I was dumb. So, so dumb. The stares of Medusa's victims dumb.
Any rate, less than $10, good value for the space taken, weighs nothing, throw it in the shelter-in-place bag and forggettaboutit. Opinions welcome, especially about good foot care sans l'eau. Work hard enough and those socks coming off sounds like someone ripping off a roll of duct tape. Losing feet is not a good thing.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Right Scoop] One of the more stunning stats she presents is that a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is likely to be killed by a cop.
[Townhall] Douglas Murray has written what is probably the most important book of the last 50 years.
[Right Scoop] Newsweek - On a speech on Friday in Fresno, California, Joseph M. Arpaio, billed on the evening’s program as "America’s toughest sheriff," delighted local Republicans with his pronouncements. He promised to restart his investigation into the veracity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, suggested he might run for a congressional seat, perhaps the one held by Arizona’s Senator Jeff Flake, and lambasted professional football players for their National Anthem protests, which he called "little Mickey Mouse political games."
What probably remains unfamiliar to many Americans, however, is the other specter that haunts Puerto Rico’s government: its seemingly unshakable culture of corruption.
