My senior year in High School was a blur of wonderful memories.
I was pretty much stoned most of the time, and yeah, this was the 1970’s, so just about everyone was on some kind of “high”.
Do you remember Mary Hartman Mary Hartman?
“Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” #002 January 6th 1976
This is so bizarre. Looks so strange today.
Jesus H Christ
The sense of humor was different back then.
Ah, everyone was “buzzed”, I’ll tell you what.
Do you feel like we do?
Anyways…
My classmate (Steven) … Oh what a guy… but not in my immediate friend circle… Oh, hed’ be a coming into school smelling like a hard alcohol liquor cabinet. (It’s a peculiar special smell) and He did it just about every day in School. Which was different than the rest of us getting “high” all the time.
We all were off in la-la land at that time.
Ok, it’s not the right year. (I was off doing college and MAJestic in 1978) But the playlist is cherry. Take a time machine day-off to the days long gone by….
Today…
The insanity continues. And you know, gets even weirder.
U.S. Moves Amphibious Assault Ships Near CUBA; Issues NOTAMS for Mexico, Central, and South America: “Military Activity”
In a major escalation, the United States of America has moved two of its key amphibious assault ships—the ‘USS Iwo Jima’ and ‘USS San Antonio’—to waters just miles north of ‘Cuba.’ It has also issued NOTICES TO AIR MEN (NOTAM) covering Mexico, Central and South America, Colombian and Panamanian air space, and large swaths of the Pacific Ocean.
Military analysts believe this positioning of Amphibious Assault Ships indicates potential American action in Cuba. The NOTAMS for many areas of other countries is an astonishing expression of American military intent.
Speaking about the arrival of US Navy Amphibious Assault Ships off the Cuban Coast, Cuban Army Corps Chief of Staff Joaquín Quintas Pérez dropped a defiant warning to the United States straight from Havana: “They would have to kidnap millions or wipe us off the map. Even then, our ghosts would haunt them forever.”
In addition, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at the behest of North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) has issued several NOTAMs covering large areas of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Pacific Ocean, including parts of Colombian and Panamanian airspace.
According to the notices, airlines are urged to “exercise increased caution” due to military activity and disruptions to global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). The NOTAMs are effective immediately and will remain in effect until March 17, 2026.
The FAA cites “potential risks exist for aircraft at all altitudes” over wide swaths of Pacific airspace near Mexico, Central America, and South America because of military activity and possible satellite navigation interference.
The specific areas in FAA NOTAMs include FIR: MMFR (Mexico), MMFO (Mazatlán Oceanic), MHTG (Central America), MPZL (Panama), SKED (Bogotá, Colombia), SEFG (Guayaquil, Ecuador) and part of the eastern Pacific (XX01). Reason: military activity and possible GNSS interference. In Venezuela: SVZM and SVZS, due to U.S. operations (NOTAM KICZ A0015/26). Check faa.gov for updated details.
Hal Turner Analysis
This is a staggering announcement of military intent, covering several different countries in the western Hemisphere. It seems to me that Mexico, Colombia, Central America and Ecuador is likely due to drug traffickers. It seems to me the Panama NOTAM has to do with the US __maybe__ taking back possession of the Panama Canal Zone. I admit this is speculation on my part and that I may be wrong.
In any event, it appears to me the US is going full bad-ass to forcibly eject communist/socialist influence in our Hemisphere, and to finally wage actual warfare on the drug cartels that have hurt and killed so many, for so long in our country.
I worry, though, that we may be biting off more than we can chew.
Thanks to the traitors and nitwits of the Biden Regime, we are allegedly down to eleven days of re-supply inventory for some of our key warfighting systems.
Biden and company wasted a tremendous amount of our warfighting capacity on that retched country, Israel, so they could bomb civilians in Gaza back to the Stone Age. Biden and his crew facilitated Genocide. They should eb charged, arrested, tried and convicted.
The Biden dingbats also supplied Ukraine against Russia, in a war that would not have even begun if it weren’t for the retards infesting the Biden Regime.
I have to wonder if what we see happening here is the deliberate realization of the psychotic goals written long ago by Albert Pike. He wrote a deranged “plan” to cause a vast war between Islam and Zionism, and cause such a world conflagration that all the countries of the world would be completely exhausted, and would agree to a one world government.
He is a little about Albert Pike and his ALLEGED letter:
"The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the "agentur" (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions." "The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm." "The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion… We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time." What we are now seeing take place in US foreign policy, I think would achieve that exhaustion.
No thanks.
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Can you share a story where your experience from living in harsh climates surprised people who underestimated you?
I was born and raised on the brutal prairies of Canada where harsh winters are a fact of life, and learning to survive them starts when we are very young. Things are easier now, but in the 1960’s roads were not cleared of snow for a long time, families owned one car and mother’s didn’t drive. Schools didn’t have snow days and there were school buses only for rural schools. School recess was 15 minutes, but 10 minutes of that was putting on snow gear and taking it off. Kids went home for lunch, so the snowy, freezing trek home happened twice a day. Every Canadian child was tricked into putting their tongue on a frozen metal fence post once in their lifetime. It’s a lesson you never forget.
Fast forward to my youngest child getting her first car and learning to drive on icy, snowy roads. She slid into a snowy ditch and ran home weeping because her car was stuck. With years of experience pushing cars out of ditches, I walked back with her trying to reassure her that the world had not ended. Her car was stuck on a steeper incline than I could muscle out, but we tried. Then I remembered a trick from my own childhood. I told her to grab the floor mats from her car and we wiggled into the tight space between the car and snowbank to place them behind the front tires. I carefully explained how she would back out and not to take her foot off the gas once the car began to move. It worked like a charm! After we waded through a deep bank of snow to retrieve floor mats that shot forward many feet, she gave me a brilliant smile and said, “Mom, I can’t believe you knew how to do that. Thank you”. If you are a parent of a 16 year old, you know that there is no greater praise, and the rare smile directed at me was memorable too.
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Why do gypsies have such a bad reputation?
I grew up in southern Hungary where there was a significant number of gypsies living there. I had a first hand experience with them on a daily basis.
As a kid I was scared of them. If I walked on the street alone and saw a group of Gypsy kids coming towards me, I knew i had two options. Turn around and run, or keep walking and to be in serious trouble. Once when I had no option just to try to go around a group, I got a mighty slap from a 16–17 years old guy without any reason. His followers, much younger boys, were all laughing loudly. I was about 9 or 10 then.
When I saw a group of Gypsy women in the city centre, all I had to do was to wait a few minutes and see what pickpocketing looks like in live action. Their favourite targets were the Yugoslav shopping tourists. And when they were caught they made a circus that they are discriminated and things like that.
When there was an area where the communist government gave flats to Gypsies, you knew that it’s only a matter of weeks before the whole area started to look like a disaster zone with rubbish, human feces everywhere. The crime rate jumped up, there was antisocial behaviour all the time. It was very unpleasant to live near to them. And these memories are hard to forget
Is what people think conservatism is really conservatism?
Back in the day (and I’m 110 years old, so we’re talking a looong time ago,) the conservatives I knew were normal people.
They didn’t see a problem with gay/trans people or equal rights for women, or the constitution.
They were sensible, fair, respectable. They just had their own ideas on fiscal policies etc. just as we all do.
I feel sorry for those type of conservatives nowadays. Their label has been usurped by the most demented, hateful and radical movement since 1930s Germany or America’s slavery era.
MAGA, and the current administration, is not conservatism. If I were an old-school Republican, I’d be pissed as hell that a bunch of slobby, knuckle-dragging morons on day release from the mental ward are passing themselves off as one of mine.
It would be like if suddenly ALL parents were tarnished as evil just because child abusers exists. Imagine it. Imagine if every time you told someone you’re a parent, they just assumed you beat your kids and stuff them in dark closets with no food or water.
Americans Believe They’re Being Bullied Into Poverty While the System Profits
This is BRILLIANT.
Italian Sausage and Peppers
Ingredients
- 2 pounds Italian link sausage, browned
- 1 can or jar prepared spaghetti sauce
- 1 large green bell pepper, sliced into thick strips
- 1 medium onion, sliced
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 4 hard rolls
Instructions
- Combine ingredients in slow cooker.
- Cook on LOW for 4 hours.
- Serve on hard rolls as sandwiches. Top with mozzarella cheese, if desired.
How do online romance scammers convince elderly people to give away their life savings?
My 125 fiancés were generally in their 20s. So, even though I subtracted 18 years from my real age for research purposes, my loves still regarded me as elderly. To them, I was an old biddy, hopefully, one with money.
However, given that they had added 30 years to their age, we were engaged in mutual deception. Their real age was glaringly evident in their writing style, grammatical errors, use of chat speak, and lack of general knowledge.
Of course, their objective was to persuade me, an elderly lady (hopefully with incipient dementia), to give them access to all the funds in my bank account. The most frequent reasons for requesting money were the following:
- Wifi connection
- Honey, am sorry for asking you this please don’t feel bad okay am running out of WiFi and I can only recharge it will give 100 euro gift card please can you help me with that please so I can always online to communicate with you please. (Dr. Lawrence Robert without a penny to his name in Yemen)
2. Health problems
- Sweetheart, I need to leave here as soon as possible my daughter health is in serious condition. She’s been diagnosed with a brain tumor I’m scared. Send me $1000 for a plane ticket. (Gen Daniel Allyn, worried about his daughter in Syria)
3. Military portfolio
- A small fee (€3,000) is required for our exclusive portfolio. It is a box with two methods for unlocking a key and a 6-digit PIN. It will be delivered to you by the diplomat. I trust it will be safe with you. (Gen. Vincent Malone in Syria, sending his valuable possessions to me.)
4. Box of gold
- I have $6.8 million and 186 kilos of gold bars stored with a company for safe keeping, this company offers safe storage vault services. I would like you to be the beneficiary for a payment of only $18,580. (Oil rigger Christian Kalb, wanting to send me a fortune in the Gulf of Mexico)
5. Equipment failure
- There is this machinery we use for work down here it’s called the shale shaker, it stopped functioning. We are trying to fly in some group of specialist engineers from Japan to have it fixed. The cost of flying them from Japan to Louisiana is $35,820. (Oilrigger David Overton with machinery problems in the Gulf of Mexico)
These are a few of the most common reasons why fraudsters in their twenties solicit money from elderly women like me, hoping to cash in big time. And judging from the romance fraud statistics, their ploy often works because of the promise of a future reward, more valuable than diamonds, emeralds, and rubies.
But what were they offering me in exchange? The carrot dangling on the stick was always the ultimate antidote for loneliness: a rich, handsome piece of masculine eye candy with a prestigious profession, who would forever cherish me and be the light of my life during my golden years.
Here is a picture of my latest heartthrob, Ben Jackson, on an oil rig in the Norwegian Sea, counting the days until he can fly to Spain to meet me and marry me.
As you can see, Ben is a virile male with hair on his chest (though I am less keen on the tattoo). His flexible, elastic arms (the photo is supposedly a selfie) further enhance his natural ursine look. Since he is scheduled to finish his last contract in less than a month, he should soon be in my arms. He appears to be quite determined to fly to Spain.
- Although we are far from each other but our heart is closer to each other. It’s a matter of time. I don’t think that anything will ever stop me from coming to meet you.
So, at long last, it looked as though things were on track for wedded bliss. Once again, I was on the verge of choosing my wedding dress for this happy occasion. However, today I received the message below.
- As much as we want to be together, all i need from you is your prayers for me while I’m here in the Rig. You know, anything can happen at anytime here.
Dear reader, could this be a harbinger of doom? As I am in a position to know after 19 ‘oily’ fiancés, oil rigs are veritable petri dishes for disasters, especially in the Irish Sea, Adriatic Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. I can only pray that the Norwegian Sea will be a calmer place.
New Evidence Found In The Dyatlov Pass Mystery Will Leave You Speechless
Nine experienced hikers vanish in the snowy wilderness of Russia. Weeks later, their bodies are discovered scattered, barefoot, disfigured, and irradiated. What happened to them in the dead of night at Dyatlov Pass remains one of the most chilling unsolved mysteries in history.
Now, new evidence uncovered in 2021 may finally explain part of what happened… but not everything. In this video, we dive deep into the last hours of the Dyatlov group, the autopsy anomalies, Soviet secrecy, and the discovery that left even seasoned investigators stunned. From missing tongues to buried Cold War secrets, this is the Dyatlov Pass Mystery, reexamined.
What’s it really like to sail across the Atlantic on a small sailboat, and how do you deal with the boredom and challenges along the way?
We sailed across the Pacific. Longest leg was from Galapagos to the Marquesas Islands, 3100 miles, a longer passage than crossing the Atlantic. My wife and I and two children who were 4 and 6 at the beginning of our voyage.
Jade.
We kept watch and looked after the boat. We did homeschool. We watched the ever-changing ocean and were often visited by dolphins. We fished (for food, not sport). We talked. We read books. We watched movies. The children drew. Or played endless games of make believe. At night we watched the stars. On moonless nights in the middle of the ocean they are spectacular.
That particular passage took 21 days. We were never bored and loved every single minute of it.
Chipotle Roast
This is to be used for tacos, burritos or sandwiches.
Ingredients
- 1 (3 pound) chuck roast, trimmed of visible fat
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 2 teaspoons cumin
- 3 chipotle chiles in adobo, chopped
- 1 (4 ounce) can green chiles
- 1 (7 ounce) can salsa verde
- 1 cup sliced onion
- 3 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1 cup beef broth
Instructions
- Place chuck roast in large slow cooker and sprinkle with the salt and pepper, chili powder and cumin.
- Add the remaining ingredients and cook on HIGH for 5 hours or on LOW for 7-8 hours.
- Shred the meat with a fork and cook on HIGH for an additional10-15 minutes.
- Serve in burritos, tacos or on crusty rolls with the juice for dipping.
Why did Xi Jinping not follow Jiang Zemin and Deng Xiaoping’s value which translates roughly to “Make a fortune quietly”?
This is the trouble when one allows others to interpret the Chinese on their behalf.
The phrase 韬光养晦 was originally used as a political refrain to hide one’s strength, until the stars aligned to employ one’s skills.
Anthony Fauci in the Trump court is a good example of 韬光养晦 today, otherwise he would have already joined Steve Bannon, John Bolton and hundreds more in the road kill bin.
A modern interpretation of 韬光养晦 is to exercise restraint during bad times and to do good when empowered during good times.
However, Deng wasn’t referring to individuals when he used the phrase in the 80s and 90s. I will also note this phrase was used during cadre meetings, and not in the course of diplomacy. I.E. It was meant for specialists and not the general public.
What did Deng say? He broadly defined the future direction of china’s foreign policy as:
＂冷静观察、稳住阵脚、沉着应对、决不当头、有所作为＂
Condensed into the more well known:
＂韬光养晦，有所作为＂
The trouble comes when people take liberties with translations and massacre the context.
外交战略 becomes “war strategy” instead of “foreign policy”.
韬光养晦 is usually translated as “hide our capabilities and bide our time”, or in this instance, a more hilarious “make a fortune quietly”. 有所作为 is usually dropped to emphasize the “Chinese threat”.
What Deng was trying to condense into these eight words is 冷静观察、稳住阵脚、沉着应对、决不当头、有所作为 or “calm observation, steady position, mature response, exercise of restraint, and do what you can” on the international stage.
In the aftermath of Tiananmen, Deng famously described China’s domestic “micro climate” existing within the global “big climate”.
In other words, 韬光养晦，有所作为 as foreign policy is an admonishment to Chinese leaders that China does not have a big voice on the global stage. Do not challenge the status quo. Rather, work with or around the powers that be and do as much good as you can with a calm, mature and steady hand.
Act within the confines of the voice, and not the size of the nation.
韬光养晦 is foreign policy, not the Art of War.
Xi and the politburo are still applying the same lesson today.
I AM A BLASTED TREE
Written in response to: “Set your story during — or just before — a storm.“
HAAKON RAGNSKJOLD
I tried to cam myself. I had no doubt this being could tear me limb from limb if he wished.
“Were you struck by lightning,” I asked. “Your clothes. There are burnt patches.”
“I have wanted to die. For all I have done I deserve to die. I gathered the wood for my pyre. Fire came from above. I felt its agonies. Wilt Thou burn out all the evil I have done? Let its pain grant me redemption and forgiveness. Let me scream in its agonies as that my suffering may surpass that which I inflicted.”
Lost in his soliloquy, the creature looked at me, seemingly for the first time. His hand stroked my face.
“You, too, are scarred. You are like me.” He leaned in close.
“Are you like me in other ways? Did he make you too?” I could not read the creature’s thoughts, nor gain insight as to his intentions. Did he think I was a second of his creator’s efforts?
The creature shook his head. “No. You have been scarred and flawed, but the hand of God has made you. You need not fear me. Vengeance’ has gained me nothing. I took the life of those who had never wronged me. I have suffered and suffered for the evil I did the innocent, who never did me wrong. You have done me no evil.”
He set his hand on my shoulder and it seemed those eyes looked deep into my soul.
“Will you be my friend?”
I admit I was taken back by this request. I knew exactly who, and what I was dealing with here, though it was impossible for me to understand how these things could be. Certainly, to refuse this request would be perilous. But to accept it without being truly sincere, and acquiescing only out of fear would not do. If I said yes, it must be out of a sincere heart, and not just an attempt to escape death. I had already endeavored to kill myself on Mount Washington—if I die now, I would only be gaining my wish, however belatedly.
The fact is, if the story was true, this man might never had had a friend in his entire life. How like him I felt. There was no need to search my soul. Could I deny to another sufferer that which I had so longed for in my life, and never really had?
I raised my hand to his shoulder. “Of course I will.” And I saw how well his creator had made him, for those tear ducts were now flooded.
We talked for long after that. I had often thought of the story. The monster had often been characterized as evil—yet, was it not his creator’s rejection of, what was without a doubt his own child, that had resulted in those acts he did? Certainly they were wrong. But the creature had long put such intentions far from himself. Indeed, his resolve to destroy his very own self witnessed to the desire to atone.
“What is your name?’
“Jhäeggr. And you?”
“He never even gave me a name. I was so hideous in his eyes that he could not regard me as a child of his labors, but a deserving inhabitant of the dunghill. Though I am unlike all men, and have none of the rights they may call their own—may a man not strive after such wishes? May a man not try to attain what others have by right? May he not be willing to pay a great price for his freedom, though others are freeborn?
“I thought I should call myself Adam, since I, like that first Adam, was created by the hand of his Father. But I was certainly not made in my father’s image, as he was in His. I am truly a monstrous thing. And I should not have been. But was my father not monstrous, who turned away from me in disgust? I was indeed the thing you see, while he was fair, comely and straight. But as I was in visage, he was in heart. So I do my father proud. He has paid for his crimes. I will honor my father, who am so monstrous as was he. I am Victor.”
“That is another way we are alike, Victor. I, too, picked a name for myself.”
“There are many ways we are alike. Our names, which we have chosen. That we have endured terrible scarring. That we both seek a mate and have always been denied. And…you too went out into the frozen wilderness, as did I, to put an end to your life. Why did you seek to do this?”
“I was tired of being alone as I was. Like you, I had no companion—not even friend to lighten my load. You were denied that—but did he not start to build you…?”
“It was all I asked of him. He reneged on our contract. So close it came. Do you understand my rage? Bad enough he brought me into existence and did not take responsibility for me. But to create another, to so lift up my hopes—and then take an ax to her before she had even tasted of life? Hard enough to lose what you did not even know you had—but to see the fruit near ready for the plucking, snatched from your grasp, thrown down and ground down by hateful tread. He declared it was to protect man, he feared what the two of us would do—but what I did far outshone the mightiest of his fears. If anything had ever made me an enemy of the human race, it was that solitary act of murder—torn from my grasp, murdered before she even drew her first breath!”
I had never imagined such depths of feeling. Rage enfolded him like the lightning storm that had embraced me. But in a moment it was gone. And great, wracking sobs overcame him. Though deep down I feared this being and knew not what would follow, I could not deny the fellow feeling. I set my hands on his shoulders. Not even looking at me I knew that never had he had another to suffer with him and be to him a sympathetic ear.
The face that looked up to me was that of a different man. With that deluge of sorrow, and with another to share his grief it was as if he had truly become human. I was not fooled. He had always been human, but enduring unconscionable suffering had driven him near to madness.
He had recovered himself. There was a curious expression on his face. “You, too sought to destroy yourself. But why?”
“I told you. I couldn’t endure the suffering any longer. I had no more purpose to live. It was better I was gone. I would inconvenience no one any longer”
Victor looked at me strangely.
“I should never have been given life. By destroying myself I might atone for what I had done. My ashes might then be of some use to at least fertilize the earth. But what would your death prove? You were no blasphemy to life like I was. God had made you. You are lawful life—yet you wanted to destroy yourself. Help me comprehend this.”
“Victor—my own mother did not want me to be. Months before I should have been born, I was torn out of her womb. This I learned long after. If my own mother didn’t want me…”
“Why then are you still living if they meant to take your life?”
“A nurse found me. I was on the steel table, gasping out my life. She endangered her own job. She snuck me out of there. She gave me a chance.” I did not like the look on Victor’s face.
“And this is how you reward this woman’s sacrifice? You were scheduled to die. Your life was spared.”
“Look at me—look at my face! Who will love me as I am? I haven’t a single hope in hell of that! Do you think I want to keep on living like this?”
I couldn’t conceive how someone that big could move so fast. I didn’t see his arm moving. I felt the blow as he back handed me. I must have flown fifteen feet. The astonishment hurt worse than getting struck.
“Your self-pity disgusts me. You think you’re so hideous? Look up at the face that a creator couldn’t even bear to set his eyes on. Then tell me if you think you’re hideous. I am a blasphemy—but you, you’re life is lawful. You have not the right to take what God’s given you. You would have died had He not put that nurse there. You would have died had not that thing found you in the forest. You would have died had not the lightning taken you to this place like it took me. It took me! It found a use for me! No reason for you to live? You’ve been given a reason! You’re needed for something more important than your own little life. If it wants me, as lawless as I am—how much more you?” Victor’s eyes softened.
“I am sorry I was so hard on you. Give me your hand. I’ll help you up. Do not despair. Someday someone may find you. I found someone a long time ago. It was her I told my story to. No one before her had ever failed to recoil from me in disgust. She could not be the mate I sought—and yet, what she became—that was so much more. If I inspired her—she in turn inspired me. Each, the other’s muse. I will never forget her.
“So if I, who am a monster, was that one time, able to find such a one, dare you think to have less chance than I? Do you think yourself more monstrous?
“Something has brought us both to this place. Chanced us new possibilities. I see it. Can you not see it as well, my friend? Come—let us see what fortune has set our steps upon. There is life in both of us. Let us see what we can make of it. Will you come with me?”
I nodded. Victor was right. Self pity. There was no room for it, not when this great new adventure had opened up the doors. Several miles away I saw another flash of lightning light up the azure sky.
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How did a Ford Model T start its engine if it didn’t have a battery until 1919?
Some people aren’t aware of the proper choice of words (the vocabulary) to use, particularly in technical matters.
How do you start these kinds of engines (on airplanes, on land vehicles)?
You crank them.
Yes, cranking.
It means turning over the engine using outside effort.
It was not the battery that mattered; the battery came into the automobile a long, long time before the electric starter.
Electric starting had to await the invention of Charles Kettering’s electric starter, or what they called “self-starter” for some time.
(Incidentally, they never called it a selfie!).
So, let’s go in reverse order on how they used to crank piston engines pre-Kettering’s electric starter:
Hand-propping:
Hand cranking: That’s the way they did it: even females.
American Food Pictures
A mistake resulting in death
The photo above shows Cameron Herrin, and it was at this moment that a judge sentenced him to 24 years in prison. Cameron Herrin, 18, lived in Tampa, Florida. In 2018, he graduated from high school, and his parents gave him a black Ford Mustang as a graduation gift.
On May 23rd, Cameron and his brother Tristan went to the gym and met a friend named John Barrineau. Cameron and Tristan were in the Mustang, while John took his own car. As they approached the lampposts, the two cars pulled up alongside each other and began a street race.
As they sped down the residential street, the two cars reached speeds of over 100 miles per hour, trying to keep up with each other. At the same time, Jessica and her young daughter Lilia were crossing the road as the cars hurtled toward them. Unfortunately for the young mother and her little girl, the cars were going too fast to reach the other side of the road, and the black Ford Mustang struck them head-on.
At the same time, David Robonel, Jessica’s husband, was driving by, unaware of what had just happened. He noticed a crowd of people had gathered to witness the carnage, but he just wanted to get home and hoped no one was seriously injured. David then tried calling his wife, but she didn’t answer, and when he got home, she wasn’t there either. He figured his wife must have stopped to look at the accident and went to look for them.
Once he arrived, it didn’t take him long to realize what he was seeing. His wife and their baby’s stroller were there, in the middle of the street, and that’s when his world collapsed. His wife Jessica died that same day, and his daughter Lilia died the next day, after doctors fought to save her.
Cameron and John were immediately arrested and charged with vehicular homicide. John Barrineau agreed to plead guilty and received a six-year prison sentence and 15 years of probation. Cameron also pleaded guilty, but to his surprise, he was sentenced to 24 years in prison. His family was shocked by the verdict, and many felt the sentence was too harsh.
Actions have consequences, and in this case, the consequences were terrible for David, who saw his entire family disappear in the blink of an eye. We could consider the fact that Cameron’s parents gave their son a powerful sports car; at 18, one is still a child, and if he hadn’t wanted to kill someone, he would have killed himself.
When the judge sentenced him, he had to take mitigating circumstances into account. If Cameron hadn’t had a history of dangerous driving, the sentence would have been very different. If it hadn’t been a mother and her little girl, and a father sitting in the gallery contemplating the rest of his life once the trial was over, the sentence would have been different.
What would have been the appropriate sentence in this case? He will be considered a non-violent prisoner and when his parole hearing takes place after 7 years (I don’t know how the parole system works in America, so I’m guessing), he will most likely be free; his friend John will be released in about 3 years.
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Americans Believe They’re Being Bullied Into Poverty While the System Profits
Truth.
Why did the price of rice in Japan spike 98.6% last month from a year earlier?
We all know that food prices in Japan are very, very expensive, ridiculously expensive.
This is a gift that Japanese people give to friends when they visit them. It looks beautiful in the gift box, but it is actually just a very common thing in Asia – rice. Other Asians may think that Japanese people are stingy for giving such a gift, but in fact, rice is a precious gift in Japan.
In a Japanese supermarket, the price of a cucumber is enough to buy half a kilogram of imported beef, and a watermelon can be sold for almost US$28.
Recently, Japan is having a rice shortage, a bag of 5 kg of rice, can be sold to more than 42 U.S. dollars, is more than 10 times the price of rice in China, so now the Japanese people can not even afford to eat rice.
What is the reason for this?
If the core interest group of the United States is the military-industrial complex, then the core interest group of Japan is the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA Group).
Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA Group) is a sophisticated ‘price meat grinder’, over the years and the Japanese government collusion, monopoly of almost all of Japan’s agricultural distribution channels, all farmers produce crops must be sold through their wholesale markets, layers of price increases, the final retail price soared.
For example, the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA Group) direct supply of cucumbers, farm factory price of about 20 yen / 1 cucumber, after the cold chain transport, wholesalers, supermarkets on the shelves of the fee, the end of the sale price soared to 200 yen / 1 cucumber, a direct 10 times.
In the middle of this, if you say that the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA Group) Association and the Japanese politicians does not have a profit share, I do not believe it.
Anyway, this system of agricultural associations in Japan has been running for decades, the Japanese government let prices soar, never done anything about it.
The United States is the world’s number one food exporter. When the Americans see Japan engaging in this kind of business, of course, they want to sell American food to Japan. In order to protect the interests of the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA Group), the Japanese government significantly increased tariffs. At one point, tariffs on rice were as high as 140%-700%, making it impossible for American rice to enter Japan. The Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA Group) was able to make huge profits in a closed market.
When Trump saw this, he thought his chance had come.
The U.S. entered into a tariff war with China, which immediately cancelled orders for U.S. farm products and turned around and gave them to Brazil. Now that American farmers were losing out and cursing Trump every day, Trump then looked to Japan for a market to make up for it. So he forcefully demanded that Japan expand imports of U.S. beef, rice, aquatic products, potatoes, etc., and that Japan lift tariff restrictions.
At a glance at this request, the Japanese government was dumbfounded.
In fact, Trump did this to the Japanese people is a good thing, because the United States food is too much cheaper than Japan, but if Japan opens up the agricultural market, then the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA Group) is dead, the Japanese government for many years of the small treasury, their most core interests of the chain is about to be demolished by Trump ……..
So here’s what we’re seeing — the Japanese government is threatening Trump that they’re going to dump US debt now
New Solar System Object Discovered with a 25,000-Year Orbit
A New Solar System Object with a 25,000-Year Orbit Has Been Discovered! 🌌 What does this mysterious celestial body tell us about the farthest edges of our solar system? Join us as we explore one of the most exciting space discoveries of the year! In this video, we uncover the recent detection of a strange new object orbiting the Sun once every 25,000 years — far beyond Neptune and Pluto, deep in the Kuiper Belt or possibly even the Oort Cloud. What is it? Could it be related to the search for Planet Nine? Why are astronomers so excited about this distant traveler?
Donald Trump proposed the idea of ”China, the United States, and Russia dividing the world into three parts”. Is this a peaceful withdrawal from hegemony?
The world doesn’t work that way.
Trump is thinking in 19th century terms.
Economics and trade are more important than colonial divisions of the world.
The US doesn’t have the economy and trade to influence others, so it is caught relying only on military might. But if the US economy is weak, the tax base to support the military and overseas bases disappears. Why should the rest of the world buy US debt to support an empire which only cares about itself?
China and Russia already have good relations, and coordinate policy on international issues. Why should they divide the world up when everything is working fine as far as they are concerned.
Sir Whiskerton and the Clucktopus Incident
Ah, dear reader, prepare yourself for a tale of high-seas horror, bovine mysticism, and the most tragic case of mistaken identity since Porkchop tried to flirt with a garden hose. Today’s adventure stars Captain Cluckbeard, the barnyard’s most delusional pirate, whose quest for glory leads him to declare war on… a cow’s udder. So batten down the hatches (or at least your sanity), and join us for The Clucktopus Incident—a story that proves even the bravest sailors shouldn’t mess with dairy.
Act 1: The Beast from the Deep
Captain Cluckbeard stood atop his ship (a repurposed wheelbarrow) and squinted at the horizon.
- Cluckbeard: “Avast, ye barnacles! A fearsome beast lurks in yonder pasture!”
- Squawk: [Peering through a toilet paper roll telescope] “Cap’n, that’s just Bessie the Cow.”
- Cluckbeard: “Nay! That’s the dreaded Clucktopus—eight-legged terror of the seven barnyards!”
Bessie, blissfully unaware, munched clover. Her tie-dye udder swayed hypnotically in the breeze.
- Pluck: “Maybe it’s friendly?”
- Cluckbeard: “Friendly?! It’s got more colors than a drunken parrot! MAN THE HARPOONS!”
Act 2: The Battle of the Bovine
What followed was the most one-sided naval engagement in farm history.
- Cluckbeard launched a harpoon (a garden rake tied to a rope). It bounced off Bessie’s hip.
- Squawk panicked and hid in a feed bag, screaming “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!”
- Bessie, deep in a mood ring trance, sighed: “Whoa… the universe is speaking to me through my own udder, man.”
Then—Pluck had an idea.
- Pluck: “Cap’n… what if we milk the beast? For… research?”
- Cluckbeard: “Brilliant! We’ll sell its creamy treasure for gold!”
Bessie, now convinced she was channeling cosmic energy, allowed the “milking.”
- Result: One bucket of milk, two traumatized roosters, and a very confused cow.
Act 3: The Truth Comes Out
Sir Whiskerton arrived just as Cluckbeard tried to bottle the “Clucktopus Elixir.”
- Sir Whiskerton: “Let me get this straight. You attacked a cow’s udder, stole its milk, and now you’re selling it as monster juice?”
- Cluckbeard: “Aye! A pirate’s life is—”
- Bessie: “Duuuude… I think I just achieved udder enlightenment.”
The verdict?
- Sir Whiskerton confiscated the “treasure” (Porkchop drank it immediately).
- Bessie started a wellness cult (“Embrace Your Inner Clucktopus”).
- Squawk developed a phobia of spotted things (including polka-dot pillows).
The Moral (and the Post-Credit Milking)
Moral: If it looks like a cow and moos like a cow… it’s probably not a sea monster.
Post-Credit Scene:
Mr. Ducky sells “Clucktopus Milk” at a 300% markup. The label reads: “Now with 100% More Existential Dread!”
Best Lines:
- “The universe is speaking to me through my own udder, man.” – Bessie, dairy shaman
- “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!” – Squawk, worst first mate ever
- “Embrace Your Inner Clucktopus.” – Bessie’s cult slogan
Starring:
- Captain Cluckbeard (Delusional Pirate)
- Bessie the Cow (Psychedelic Philosopher)
- Squawk & Pluck (Crew of Cowards)
Key Jokes:
- A cow’s udder mistaken for Cthulhu.
- A rooster suggesting dairy espionage.
- A cult based on spotted lactation.
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Written in response to: “Set your story during — or just before — a storm.“
Riley Noel
“Yang Ling Quan,” he read aloud. “Located below and in front of the head of the shinbone.” He felt around on his knee, looking at the diagram. “That’s got to be the yingling.”
“Yin Ling Quan,” he continued. “On the outside of the lower leg, below, and in front of the head of the shinbone.” He felt around as he read until he was satisfied.
He looked out his kitchen window, the sky was still clear. Maybe his knee was just getting worse. It all started the day Roland tackled him at practice, a prank gone wrong. Or maybe a rivalry gone too far, but it had been getting worse with age. The party trick of feeling incoming storms was getting old.
Ansel felt again for the Yang Ling Quan and held his finger to it as he pulled out a needle. This was just a test, he could always get the real needle when he got serious about this. He drove the needle in above his finger.
Nothing. He felt nothing. The pain stopped. Then pain shot through his entire leg, and up through his body. His vision went white and he heard a loud bang.
Laying on the floor, he came to. There was wind howling through his kitchen. He pulled himself up and realized the kitchen window had burst open, and a giant crack was letting water in.
Ansel went into his bathroom to grab a towel. Coming back into the kitchen, he peered out the broken window and saw a smoldering hole in his back yard. That must have been the bang, he thought. Lightning struck right outside.
He couldn’t wait to see what Roland had to say about this. He turned on the weather channel. Roland was reporting live from the library, at his signing.
“We’ve never seen a storm like this in the one hundred fifty years of our town! I advise everyone to shelter in place under the storm calms down. There’s a strong possibility of tornados touching down as well…” Roland continued as Ansel smirked to himself.
He looked down to his knee and saw the needle still there. It had really worked, no pain, no aches. He pried the needle out and studied it. Who needs acupuncture needles? These work fine.
The aching began to return, quickly, and worse than before. He felt around for the Yang Ying Quan and held his finger there, driving the needle back in. His TV lit up and the room glowed white. Ansel flew backwards into his coat stand.
Lighting had struck his TV, and left a smoldering pile of junk. Laying on his back, Ansel looked to his knee, then to the TV. What were the odds? Two strikes at the same moments he jabbed himself. There’s no way that’s coincidence.
He pulled himself up by his coat rack and put on a poncho. Whatever was happening, he was going to unleash it on Roland.
No cancer cure for Americans!
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How powerful is the JF-17 Thunder in 2025?
With China or Chinese collaboration, it’s not the Aircraft per se
It’s the entire package
The Chinese offer you the entire data linked package :-
- Radar communications
- Aircraft
- Early airborne warning integration
- Satellite backup feeds on BEIDOU
- On board Missiles
Its like the Apple Ecosystem
You buy an Apple Iphone or an Ipad and it’s easy to integrate into the Apple ecosystem within minutes, save data, store data, use data
The Integration – that’s superb
I believe only US and Israel have comparable integration
Not even Russia has such compact integration
India of course is nowhere close even though the Rafale is a better aircraft than the J10C or JF17 by a fraction or margin.
So the entire package is sold for $ 40 – $ 62 Million a piece
With Source Code, Training, Virtual Stimulation and now the latest – Integrated On board AI
Against a $ 150–250 Million price tag for a F-35 or Rafale with no source code, no integrated platform, plenty of modifications and 1001 conditions for end use
It’s Smartphones, Solar Cells and EVs all over again
As an Aircraft the JF-17 may be a notch or two below the Rafale or F-15
Yet the JF-17 is part of a very strong ecosystem
It has the advantage of superb early warning and satellite backup
It packs a very powerful radar system
It has a very good on board AI integrated missile launch system
The Pilot has to take off to the skies and then is protected by a whole system which lights up the sky for him
Imagine a BYD like vertical integration now available for Aerial Combat
In a fairer world, nobody would buy over priced Rafales and Typhoons
The F-15s, F-18s and F-35s offer a similar top notch networked structure but THEY ARE ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON THE MOOD OF THE US GOVERNMENT
In ten seconds, the Satellite GPS backup feeds may be cut off, Radar Assay Analysis may be locked out, Missile Launch Program may be restricted
The SU-35 & SU-57 have networked structure but it’s not as good as that of the Chinese or Americans
Russians are masters of Land War and their specialities are Surface based Air Defense and Surface to Air or Cruise Missiles
The Indo Pak conflict of 2025 shows us Aerial Combat has changed forever
It’s less about the Aircraft itself and more about the overall ecosystem under which the Aircraft flies into combat
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Is there a way for Americans to unite and improve the economy like China does, or are there too many obstacles in the way?
The happy story of the new year! -MM
Follow the CCP’s example. Here’s a fresh new hot case study in January 2026. Enter:
Dorky’s Piggy Adventure
A Chongqing peasant girl named Daidai, or Dorky, posted online that her family had two pigs to kill for the new year, but her father was getting too old to hold down the pigs, so that any help was welcome and would be treated to freshly killed pig stew at her house.
The post went viral.
Already a day in advance on Jan. 10th, miles long of cars have appeared in the country road before Dorky’s house. Over 3000 people joined the group chat wanting to pitch in.
It was at this moment when Dorky knew she fked up…
However, as funny as this was…
… the really impressive stuff was how the local authorities handled it.
Reminded by the people online, Dorky reported to the local police on possible unusual gathering of people at her house.
- The police immediately alerted the local authorities.
- Instead of trying to ban it or let it fail, by 2AM, January 11th, Sunday morning, the police was already at Dorky’s house, setting up perimeter, Hechuan district Bureau of Culture and Tourism was there with local specialties, emergency processed tickets to local tourist attractions, as well as 18 restaurants with mobile kitchens ready to take on the online fans with nothing else to do with their lives.
- They also brought in shows and fireworks, as well as professional video editors to promote the event.
- Village authorities mobilized the entire village to pitch in table and chairs to Dorky’s house, as well as having all the villagers go help at Dorky’s kitchen.
- Other villagers used their motorcycles to ferry in people from town center and earn some cigarette money as traffic broke down.
- Chinese state owned companies like China Telecom also reacted quickly, to send mobile cellphone antennas and power-banks to Dorky’s.
Together, they made it work:
Over 3000 people showed up at Dorky’s, the caravan of cars stretched on for miles. People were driving in from 1000 kilometers away and over a million people who couldn’t come in person joined via livestream.
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And people are now suggesting officializing the festival as Dorky’s Festival or Hechuan Piggy Festival.
Now of course this is top performance even in China, but ask yourselves if your local government can pull this off.
A political party and government so in touch and on good terms with the locals down to the village level, so getting in line with the flow rather than trying to stop it, so agile at turning an online accident into an internet phenomenom on a Sunday morning, succeeded in putting a nameless village back onto the national map, and will surely drive the local economy to the stratosphere.
From now on, Hechuan will no longer be remembered by history nerds as the town that accidentally saved the progress of human civilization, but also as the place of an accidental happy flash mob event.
The authorities have even come out with a Piggy Slaughter Song with local accent.
If your house’s killing a pig,
Don’t forget to call me in.
I can help hold the pig’s feet,
Start a fire, cook the meal,
I know it all, in exchange for a little ribs.
Don’t be stingy how much can I eat?
Just for the action just for fun.
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I’m putting it on a loop for the new year.
What was the last straw for you when you decided to cut off a friend?
I was uninvited to his wedding.
Long version: I received my Save The Date cards in the mail with a note saying how great it will be to get the old posse back together.
My invitation never came.
He had a mutual friend tell me that he really wanted my girlfriend and I there but the bride needed to invite some extra coworkers so he had to cut someone. I was only person from old crowd that wasn’t invited.
That’s what pissed me off…..He didn’t have the balls to tell me himself.
Three years later my girlfriend and I got married….He wasn’t invited.