Again, the valley was full of: “pomp and parade, with shews, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more.” As President Adams wrote.
Most towns official fireworks are planned for Friday and Saturday Night.
JHey, I wonder…is there a Fireworks index?
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I’ve been doing a lot of music stuff lately, but this fits in with the Fourth, as well. It’s an interview with Eddie Van Halen from about two years ago, part of the Smithsonian’s “What it Means to be an American” series. People forget (or never knew) that Eddie and Alex were actually immigrants from the Netherlands:
@ lobo91:
i didnt know that!
glad to see all is back to normal over at DoD
coldwarrior wrote:
wellll….normal for DoD
😉
@ coldwarrior:
Glad you caught yourself.
A couple of us went ‘splody.
Sanity is a fragile thing. In the Contract of Life, there ain’t no sanity clause.
@ Bunk X:
True.
If net neutrality were in place, would Facebook, Twitter and other social media be able to block content, or would that only apply to service providers?
Good morning, all.
Came across this little nugget.
https://www.overdriveonline.com/diesel-fuel-taxes-increase-in-a-dozen-states/?utm_medium=overdrive&utm_campaign=site_click&utm_source=popular
Isn’t Illinois the state where they rob you when you try and leave as well?
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
They tried but I think it failed to pass. And for a few brief, shining moments, they had the highest gas tax in the country
Then California’s kicked in a couple days ago. It’s over 55 now and over 65 on diesel
jobs rpt – 224K jobs, I think about 160K expected, participate rate and unemployment rates hold, wages up 3.1% Very good overall.
No rate cut (my bet)
So this happened
Just got thrown out of Hill Country DC for standing up to a Nazi. Don’t go there ever again. They support Trump and Nazis
Guy wears MAGA hat at my favorite restaurant. I say “hey are you from dc?” He says “no.” I say “we don’t tolerate racism in this city.” His girlfriend then physically jabs fingers into my chest and starts threatening me. Management tells me to leave, not woman who assaulted me
Just called the manager there and his answer was “we are an equal opportunity restaurant who welcomes all political viewpoints” before hanging up on me. cool, except MAGA hats actually make clear that POC and LGBT are not welcome at all.
And for the record, the Nazi’s girlfriend assualted me by jabbing her fingers into my chest repeatedly, and I simply backed up. Yet I was told to leave, not the Nazi or his Nazi girlfriend
The burn delivered by Schlicter
I’ve never been beaten up by a girl. What’s it like?
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/07/05/lol-get-rekt-ahole-a-former-associate-dnc-comms-director-got-kicked-out-of-a-d-c-restaurant-after-harassing-a-maga-hat-nazi/
AOC can’t stop
Trump spent millions on a poorly attended, 1 day parade days after saying he couldn’t afford toothpaste & soap for caged children
poorly attended
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1147128726372724736
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s her job.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Looking at the date/time stamp on that tweet (6 am this morning), I’m guessing it was written in advance and auto-scheduled somehow.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
I think you have that as closer to the truth than we will know. She is not all that bright; she is being run just like a run-of-the mill traitor who has a handler who tells them what information to get. In her case, she has a handler(s) telling her what to say, when to say it, and where to say it. She was picked because she is reasonably attractive and checks enough diversity boxes to have what passes for credibility these days. Of course, the handler(s) have also told the traitorous media that she is the person they need to follow so she has the publicity required as well.
@ eaglesoars:
@ AZfederalist:
I have no doubt she is playing a role.
A common, run-of-the-mill idiot wouldn’t have an idiot thing to say at every opportune moment. And wouldn’t know when those moments were. Because, you know, “idiot.”
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Justice Democrats
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRniMFcxVoZud9cuIm9D1TFfCrwK1eCKksmtod6riHTEA97WvAZ7Q
This is a poster for Justice Democrats. I hope that it copied
It did.
@ RIX:
Chakrabarti, AOC’s chief of staff started that org. Actually I think it’s an offshoot of another one I can’t recall right now.
Really great Youtube channel to follow.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiHkzZLzYZYugebKTh0ly4g
@ Possum:
Marching, throwing hand grenades, shooting at things, climbing rope ladders, swinging from trees.
GO ARMY!!!!!
🙂
Stocks fall from record highs after strong jobs report dampens hope of a Fed rate cut
wall street is still addicted to cheap money meth instead of labor/production model
@ coldwarrior:
And the phone message was from me. I am so proud of someone.
Possum wrote:
Wooohooo!!!! I’m just waking up for night shift…
Excellent news!
coldwarrior wrote:
I think so too. I am 100% behind the person in question.
Life is good….
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/07/04/fashion-notes-melania-trump-defies-the-july-4th-rain-in-rainbow-style/
So much nicer than what Michel wore on those July 4th celebrations on the mall in DC during the Obama years….
coldwarrior wrote:
I don’t remember what she wore. I don’t remember if she even showed up. I DO remember they were doing some event and the camera caught her saying to Obama “All this for a FLAG??”
You know what else I don’t remember? That woman’s name, E. Jean something-or-other who fabricated the Bergdorf Goodman assault story.
Man, she faded fast.
@ eaglesoars:
https://youtu.be/1cy_aPCs_tA
https://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/robbins-report/2011/sep/13/michelle-obama-all-just-flag/
LOL. update on Basic Camp and Advanced Camp at Fort Knox ROTC.
Yesterday basic cadets were issued ear plugs.
Today advanced cadets are practicing throwing live hand grenades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1luPUcx_CSE
Really LOL
@ Bunk X:
yep, that’s the one!
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Most of the time Michelle wore a scowl.
@ Bunk X:
https://www.google.com/search?q=michelle+obama+scowl&client=firefox-b-1-e&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjeko-Y657jAhXTHDQIHetsD_QQ_AUIECgB&biw=1280&bih=796
There are – or were – 9 alien craft at area 51. This is an interview w/a physicist who worked there, Bob Lazar
http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/bob-lazar-jeremy-corbell
@ Bunk X:
I remember her ‘gladiator’ belts
eaglesoars wrote:
scroll down a bit
https://scottthong.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/michelle-obama-bizarre-fashion-fails-best-of-the-worst-collection/
coldwarrior wrote:
Too right Cold. Addicted to a means of exchange rather than making shit and stuff.
🙂
Possum wrote:
Getting issued with ear plugs is a REALLY good sign. It means that the boring marching shit is tailing off and the interesting shooting and blowing up shit is about to begin!
WooHoo!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
One of the founders was that uyger (sp) guys from the Young Turks.
Possum wrote:
HEH!
At first the guys and gals throwing live grenades were a little twitchy. They had to watch where the grenade landed so that if it was a blind then they could point out tp the demolitions engineer where it was laying. At first they would often throw and then duck and I’d have to grab ’em by the shoulders and lift ’em up and say watch where it lands and then we’d duck down before the explosion.
The look on some of their faces ad I’d lift them up was priceless! HEH! 🙂
One guy was peddling in the air trying to get down again.
All Good in the end as they all got used to the use of grenades and more importantly nobody got killed on my watch!
🙂
RIX wrote:
oh that’s RIGHT! I’d forgotten that part. Cenk is his first name
Throw her ass in jail
Democratic congresswoman secretly sending staff into Mexico to coach asylum-seekers
The National Border Patrol Council’s El Paso chapter and several Customs and Border Protection personnel told the Washington Examiner aides to Rep. Veronica Escobar, who took over 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s district, and the local Catholic diocese have interviewed thousands of migrants in Juarez over the past few weeks to find cases where Department of Homeland Security officials may have wrongly returned people.
“What we believe is happening is Veronica Escobar’s office is going … to basically second-guess and obstruct work already done by the Border Patrol,” said one senior union official, who shared evidence with the Washington Examiner from concerned CBP managers and rank-and-file members. Those documents have been held to protect identities.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democratic-congresswoman-secretly-sending-staff-into-mexico-to-coach-asylum-seekers
@ Aussie Infidel:
My experience throwing hand grenades was a little disappointing. As in, “That’s it?” 😀
We had a window to watch the explosion through in the throwing bay.
@ PaladinPhil:
The real thing is kind of a letdown after watching Hollywood mini-nukes for years
@ lobo91:
Truth. Since then I have paid attention to FX people talking about how they make the effects.
wait, what…
how the fuck is that even possible?
https://www.weaselzippers.us/425174-buttigieg-says-democrats-must-swing-further-left-to-beat-trump-in-2020/
@ rain of lead:
yeah, he’ll watch all the rest of them run off the left hand cliff and be the only ‘moderate’ standing.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/joe-biden-threatens-physical-violence-against-trump-again-says-hes-the-bully-id-smack-in-the-mouth/
@ Gatway Pundit
Biden again physically threatens the President of the United States again.
Seriously I think that he is overcompensating for something. Straight up Trump would give him a beat down.
Mayor Pete thinks the Dems need to move further left. https://www.weaselzippers.us/425174-buttigieg-says-democrats-must-swing-further-left-to-beat-trump-in-2020/
Isn’t he supposed to be the moderate?
@ right_wing2:
Oops. Late with the news.
Mrs RW brought 4 kittens home from the Humane Society since they wouldn’t admit them because of overcrowding and their being sick. Of course.
And we learn early tomorrow to get my new try.
right_wing2 wrote:
awwwww………..
RIX wrote:
talkin’ smack. If Joe wasn’t going to kick his useless son’s ass before it was too late, not much he’s going to do about Trump
coldwarrior wrote:
Absolutely gorgeous woman. She radiates happiness.
This is for Aussie to bookmark – NO PAYWALL
Huawei Technologies’ Links to Chinese State Security Services – it’s a 13 page pdf you can download
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3415726
Here’s a great new interview with Megan and Rebecca Lovell:
New aftershock in So. Cal. Stronger, lasted 10 secs. Larger than yesteraday.
lobo91 wrote:
Yup I wanted the whole fireball effect of the movies when all grenades are about the same explosive effect as a small nuke. The small explosion and a puff of grey smoke and…. that’s it? Seriously ?
I want fireballs and massive explosions!
🙂
HEH!
another earthquake just hit. somebody in Pahrump Nevada said it’s the biggest he’s ever felt
@ Bunk X:
7.1 is reported. That’s big.
7.1, 11 miles from Ridgecrest
https://twitter.com/almostjingo/status/1147345853415170048
@ eaglesoars:
According to the handy USGS calculator, a 7.1 earthquake is 5.011 times bigger than a 6.4, and releases 11.220 times as much energy
@ eaglesoars:
We had some serious rolling here, over 100 miles away from the epicenter. Haven’t felt that in a long time.
@ Bunk X:
6.9
@ lobo91:
@ Bunk X:
Yinz remember the quake we had here in DC because it was so unusual. I think it was 5.7. But it really didn’t feel extreme, I didn’t think I was going to lose my balance or anything (I was in the checkout line at the grocery store).
What was terrifying was the SOUND. I mean, it was like God waking up after he took a break back in Exodus or something.
This is from Dr. Lucy Jones, who is the seismologist on TV yesterday
So the M6.4 was a foreshock. This was a M7.1 on the same fault as has been producing the Searles Valley sequence. This is part of the same sequence –
https://twitter.com/DrLucyJones/status/1147349419903160320
I’m out. sleep tite.
@ Bunk X:
Back up to 7.1, half mile deep.
4.7 aftershock, we didn’t feel it.
@ eaglesoars:
First earthquake I ever felt was in Cincinnati. TRUE
eaglesoars wrote:
Hey thanks so much Eagles.
Extremely interesting and quite chilling !
I particularly enjoyed Comrade software engineer Yang Guozhi who works for BOTH Huawei and the notorious PLA’s Unit 61398 located in Building 101 in Shanghai. One can only hope that he’s getting paid by BOTH outfits, the PLA’s Unit 61398 as well as Huawei. One wonders where Comrade Yang finds the time between his regular meeting at the PLA’s Strategic Force, working on Cyber warfare, EW,Psyops, and tech reccon and holding down his desk at Huawei. He’s one of the lesser flies in the ointment whereas Comrade Wang Qiang’s CV and his work with Huawei makes your hair stand on end.
The discovery of a unique dataset of Chinese CVs that leaked from UNSECURE Chinese recruitment databases and websites and emerged online in 2018. Thank god for that! Needless some PLA goon is now volunteering to supply his organs at an organ harvesting farm, for this ‘little oversight’.
🙂
ANYONE who favours getting into bed with Huaiwi needs to have his security pulled immediately and be thoroughly investigated.
Oh and ensure that Huawei’s co-founder Men Zhengfei’s daughter stays SECURELY locked up in a Canadian prison.
WHEN does she get deported to the US to stand trial?
Heavy damage in Ridgecrest.
@ Bunk X:
I’m so sick of this Global Warming.
BTW, if any of you have a WOT account, this innocuous blog has been defamed. Please rate it.
https://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/
for cali
Shake, Rattle and Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B7xr_EjbzE
@ Bunk X:
what is a WOT account and where is he being defamed?
@ Aussie Infidel:
“Huawei’s co-founder Men Zhengfei’s daughter stays SECURELY locked up in a Canadian prison”. Actually she is under house arrest in her mansion in Vancouver. She never should have been arrested in Canada in the first place. The news here reported that the U.S. asked that she be arrested and extradited. Vancouver is far left politically. I’m inclined to think that some radical Sikh functionary messed up. Truedolt has tight ties with that clique of traitors in Vancouver. His Defense Minister is that strain and he has zippo experience that qualifies him for the job. They puffed up (lied on) his resume to make it seem like he’s worth it. He’s about as qualified as the Somali Immigration lawyer that Truedolt chose for his Federal Immigration Minister. Traitors with ties to the radicals in their home countries.
Bunk X wrote:
Stay safe! I’m not sure how you do that except keep your gas tank pretty full with food and water and a first aid kit in the car. Maybe a couple of packed suitcases & camping equipment at home? Maybe I’m being totally paranoid.I have very early trust issues.
@ yenta-fada:
Also, remember that only head shots kill the zombies.
Oh, wait…wrong scenario…
Tommy Robinson was found guilty after yet another trial. He had a million facebook followers and the same number on twitter. Both accounts were suspended because they are Globalist schmucks. Sentencing is supposed to be soon. Tommy and his supporters know that jail is a death sentence. The prisons are full of muslims. All victims of islamophobia I’m sure./// There is a fatwa out for Tommy.
Tommy’s crime was that, as an Independent reporter, he asked one of the convicted muslim rape grooming gang monsters how he felt about the verdict. That’s it. This 2 day trial came down to hurting the feelings of a muslim child rapist with a single question.
England no longer operates under the rule of law.
lobo91 wrote:
I’m not a fan of zombie movies, but they make a very good metaphor for all kinds of dystopian futures. Like ‘Falling Skies.’
Just a casual question for any friends that are/wer in the military.
Why bring a pillow to basic camp?
Also some of the men have breasts and a beer belly.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/armyrotc/sets/72157709473167222/with/48215438891/
In case anyone is interested in Tommy, here’s the much more accurate and detailed news on the guilty verdict.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/07/06/tommy-robinson-found-guilty-of-contempt-of-court-again/
@ Possum:
That’s ROTC. Those are college students between their sophomore and junior years.
If you brought a pillow to basic training, they’d make you send it home.
@ lobo91:
My kid is there somewhere in that camp today, but she did not bring her own pillow.
Calo wrote:
She has been there a week. She no longer needs a pillow, she is so tired she could sleep upside down hanging from a tree like a bat.
Only three weeks more to go.
lobo91 wrote:
I saw the list of things a mere college student had to pack to bring to Kentucky.
Pillows not on the list.
Mag lite with spare bulb was.
LED headlamp was substituted. But, how do you get a spare “bulb” for an LED light?
Our response was have two….
Lobo91 this person is not a college student looking for extra credit or something cool to put on the person’s resume.
This person is someone who is totally committed to a life in the military and a real dedication to that career.
@ Calo:
{{Calo}} Great to see you. When I think of the word “camp” I think of a place where you send kids to have fun. This is not that. But she will feel and be stronger for the experience.
Dinner gong.
@ yenta-fada:
Rains sent his daughter to a much more fun camp this summer. My kid is not having any fun 🙁
yenta-fada wrote:
What we having?
Tonight I ham having pizza. I buy a Red Baron special deluxe pizza.$5 Bake it as it required temp for only 10 minutes then top it with slices of tomato, Italian herbs and low fat mozzarella then put it in oven for another 20 minutes.
Ends up more like a pizza pie.
Calo wrote:
Actually I am not having much fun because she is there, as I told you. But…..
Support her 100%
@ Possum:
Best frozen pizza I’ve found is Screamin’ Sicilian.
Mile 22.
If you get a chance to see this movie, it’s GREAT fun. Action/thriller, Mark Wahlburg, John Malkovich
right_wing2 wrote:
yup
best frozen pizza there is
Calo wrote:
she is the archery director and having a blast
except when the tornado passed over the camp and they were out of power for 3 days
during the height of the storm when they were all huddled in the basement of the mess hall, the young 7-10 yr olds were panicked and crying she learned that as a leader she had to buck up and be strong
in order to calm them down and get through it
rain of lead wrote:
Sounds like she is a very promising young adult. Good on you and MomCat. … and her as well.
AOC bitch-slaps Pelosi and you know what? She has a point.
In a New York Times interview published Saturday, Pelosi dismissed the influence of Ocasio’Cortez’s “Squad,” which includes Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” Pelosi said. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”
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“That public ‘whatever’ is called public sentiment. And wielding the power to shift it is how we actually achieve meaningful change in this country,” the New York Democrat said Saturday about Pelosi after the New York Democrat said Ocasio-Cortez and her inner circle of liberal freshman Democrats were just “four people.”
“I find it strange when members act as though social media isn’t important. They set millions of dollars on fire to run TV ads so people can see their message. I haven’t dialed for dollars *once* this year, & have more time to do my actual job. Yet we’d rather campaign like it’s 2008,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/aoc-renews-public-feud-with-pelosi
Bunk X wrote:
WOT also was listing this site as a hate site for the longest time. Finally uninstalled the add on and never had to see their crap again.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
WHAT IS WOT?????
eaglesoars wrote:
Web of Trust Services. It’s a browser add on. It was originally designed to rate websites according to phishing and virus dangers. Later added ability to rate sites as bad based on “hate” and other leftist catchwords. They also have been caught several times illegally gathering your personal information and selling it to third parties.
Leftist creeps out of Finland I believe.
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s getting to the point that you can tell when it’s AOC or her handler. AOC is off the cuff, short, and usually wrong. Handler has longer posts with more details.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Oh, not a tweet. Scripted. Makes sense.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
no, it was twitter. I quoted the article instead of the tweets so I’d only have one link to post as citation.
But you have an interesting point about ‘handler’. I noticed the other day that her tweet about the 4th of July on the Mall being ‘poorly attended’ was posted at 6 am. I thought ‘no way’
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, it kind of helps when the press is in your back pocket and following your every move and stupid utterance
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Thanks. Never heard of it.
this is getting ugly. Turkey is causing serious problems
—————-
Turkey covertly transported 42 German Leopard-2A4 tanks to Kythrea, a small town in breakaway northern Cyprus just 10 kilometres from the Cypriot capital Nicosia, Greek website To Vima said.
Turkey deployed the tanks and ammunition belonging to its First Army with two cargo ships that set sail from the northwestern province of Edirne, near its border with Greece, To Vima said in a report this week that was cited by other Greek media on Thursday.
The transfer took place despite the U.S. Congress and the German government banning the transfer to Cyprus of weapons systems that they have manufactured, according to the news site.
Tovima said the move meant that a third party, Turkey, would be using European-made armaments in an occupied EU territory.
https://ahvalnews.com/cyprus-turkey/turkey-secretly-transports-german-tanks-cyprus-report?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1562318452
eaglesoars wrote:
A tank regiment equipped with Leopard-2A4s can leave a serious mark. Especially given that much concentration of force. Still the Greeks Cypriot army has terrain on their side as well as some limited Ant-Tank firepower available. In the end it will come down to logistics as it always does. If you can’t reuse over a water gap then you might as well have never left home!
🙂
Still what are the Turks thinking of doing seriously? Roll over a fellow NATO and an EU member state? Really?
NATO will NOT be pleased. The Russians will be laughing all over the place and the Israelis will be busy shipping anti-Tank weapons as fast as they can go to Cypiot armed forces.
The Turks are obviously getting twitchy as Israel and Cypus (the Greek half) are sharing a massive gas and oil field off the coasts of both nations. Cyprus will soon have the $$$$ it needs to challenge the Turks, who have up until now, had it mostly their own way.
Secret cables to London from UK ambassador in Washington describe Trump as ‘inept’ and ‘incompetent’
[long blah blah blah] then thi
Of the allegations that Trump could have colluded with the Russian government to get elected, Darroch said before the Mueller investigation concluded that “the worst cannot be ruled out” and that Trump’s White House has been “dogged from day one by stories of vicious infighting and chaos inside the White House, and swamped by scandals — all, one way or another, linked to Russia.”
what a moron
Possum wrote:
Coming into camp with a beer belly…. or a pillow is just asking for it!
The trick is NOT to get noticed until later on and then only for good reasons. When you’re green you need to blend in and never never draw attention to yourself especially from sergeant instructors.
lobo91 wrote:
If you brought a pillow they will make you eat it …….without Tomato Sauce (Ketchup)…. Too cruel…. HEH!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
He’s becoming Vlad’s bitch I think. Those S400 things are getting planted soon.
eaglesoars wrote:
Nope not a moron Eagles.
Just another paid up member of the VERY deep SWAMP that is the British Foreign Office.
They make the DC Swamp look like beginners with ‘trainer wheels’. After the Foreign Office has been at this garbage since the mid 1500s. They have had a LOT more experience of getting it so very wrong!
Think of the State Department , make it twice as cunning and thrice as nasty, and then put nasty pieces of British ‘slippery pole climbers, with Oxon Firsts, weaving dastardly plots in ‘clubland’ in London, that are played out on the world stage. ‘Sekret’ handshakes and all that, as well. You have NO idea Eagles.
Any self respecting sewer would reject this human trash!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
The Israelis have totally neutralised the S-300s as many of the original design teams from Russia are now living in Israel and working for IAI. They also have the S-400s almost sorted out as well. It’s complex and difficult with the S-400s but it’s doable with the right kit…. and the Israelis have definitely got the right kit.
They fact that the Israelis worked for years in Turkey and even built one of the world’s largest tank repair and reconditioning factories for them. Israel never goes someplace without leaving behind trusted co-opts behind within the general population and more importantly inside high tech partners and former partner’s businesses and organisations…… just to keep access open for some future ‘rainy day’!
🙂
If you get my drift.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’m sorry, if he had half a brain he’d know Trump is hardly incompetent. Unless he was simply giving his superiors the pablum they wanted to hear
Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested. Again. Just for context, Mueller prosecuted him before – and then apparently Epstein became an informant and Mueller got him out.
Not this time Sparky
I was watching the BBC today. A panel was discussing the UK shipping stopping the Iranian ship evading oil sanctions. They were simply AGHAST. British forces boarded from choppers? Sliding down from ropes! How RUDE. The Iranians could retaliate and THEN what will we do?
They appeared to be clueless that this particular ship, The Grace, is a known sanctions buster and it was like taking candy from a baby to nail her. They were far more concerned with the bad manners of the military.
I have a few friends there, but really, their upper classes aren’t worth the powder to blow them to hell
Aussie Infidel wrote:
all those GERMAN tanks, too. Such a shame.
Gee, that’s a lotta money Erdogan just pissed away isn’t it.
@ eaglesoars:
Just sabre rattling by Erdogan. This makes NO tactical sense and absolutely NO Strategic sense.
I did a literal back of the envelop ) actually on the back of an envelop) :), Terrain assessment as part of an Intel Preparation of the Battlefield.
*The Regiment of tanks are sitting on a very thin coastal strip of the North coast of Cyprus with a line of 3000 foot rough limestone mountains immediately to their south. Approaches from the north towards Greek Cyprus are through just two tortuous roads and a few tracks. These are NOT good approaches for armour and would leave then highly exposed
*Once over the North coastal range, what’s left of the Armoured Regiment has to negotiate the reality of an International ‘Trip-wire) force of UN Blue hats that would render Turket persona non grata globally. Then the Turks would have to get engaged in urban warfare in the Capital Nicosia in an unfavourable tank battleground with dodgy resupply having to transit over the northern mountains with vulnerable support and resupply options.
*Immediately after breaking pout of urban warfare the regiment would be faced with a massive strategic problem in the Eastern flank. The Sovereign British territory in front of Larnaca with the coast on the regiment’s left flank and overlooked on the right flank by the Troodos Mountains with Mt Olympus at above 6000 feet.
* if the regiment or what’s left of it still wants to continue ( it would be fighting the UK by this stage as well plus assorted NATO members. It would be faces with the VERY rough Troodos Rangewith no armoured approaches over it that couldn’t be immediately blocked. That leave the regiment with two choices of either the East or west coast strips that are only extremely narrow and make armoured manoeuvre impossible. They would be sitting ducks for air interdiction.
And finally he has to attack and destroy the soverign British Airforce base at Episkopi Bay and the Akoratime Peninsula in front of Limassol., yet a final urban battle.
Without total air superiority and sea domination Erdogan is restricted to the supplies he has in North Cyprus and major (almost impossible) constraints of resupplying Turkish Forces in the theatre from alternative means. Some Air resupply may get through but mountains will be a major impediment even to that option.
I don’t think Erdogan is totally nuts but if he actually unleashes this force he will lose them or have them captured as they sit awaiting refuelling and resupply.
I call this Bullshit from an back of the envelope Terrain analysis.
eaglesoars wrote:
My condolences to the crew. They were after all dealing with Royal Marine Commandos.
Not the most hospitable of hosts …. unless your in a pub in Plymouth and shouting for the Platoon!
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@ eaglesoars:
Pope Frank is in the process of centralising all power to himself and Secretary of state and away from the Curia. This makes him all powerful with the SoS acting as a sort of Prime Minister.
We have a pontiff and absolute monarch wanting to be just like the other tyrants on the block!
sigh!
🙁
This makes the little tiff on Cyprus look like a sunday school scrap!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH-8xGVMhH0&feature=youtu.be
The sun is setting and the temperature is dropping.
Time to go set the fire and warm up the beach house,
It’s been a beautiful Sunday afternoon with blue sky forever and the odd power gliders (guy with a parachute and a propeller on his backpack!, running up the beach at 500 feet.
🙂
Bliss
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@ Aussie Infidel:
I concur with your assessment having seen that territory you have described with the Mark I eyeball. Nicosia would be a nightmare to drive a tank in for one thing.
I’ll need someone to put up a thread…work emergency, see yinz Wednesday.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article232374872.html
Ruh roh.
coldwarrior wrote:
yeah, this is a Twisted Sister story if I ever saw one.
Mueller springs the scum for some reason we don’t know, but given the players, we wouldn’t like it if we did.
Then, somehow Mike Cernovich sticks his nose in it and all of a sudden the court orders release of over 2000 case-related documents that had been sealed
And BINGO! Epstein gets pulled in again.
It looks like some prosecutors somewhere know whats in those docs about to be unsealed and there’s a lot of CYA going on. However, this is coming out of SDNY, NOT the Feds that he has the immunity deal from.
so, I dunno. SDNY is living and breathing getting Trump, so I don’t know if that’s part of this play.
More Ruh Roh:
eaglesoars wrote:
Could also be about protecting Obama.
“Getting” Trump and protecting BHO are the two things (interrelated) that drive them to drastic measures.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
point taken
@ eaglesoars:
Just a thought or two…
Hillary Clinton’s personal aid, Huma Abdin’s husband Anthony Weiner got busted for sexting a minor. His laptop was confiscated by the NYPD. That laptop mysteriously disappeared. It was reputed to contain very damaging information regarding the sexual exploitation of minors by numerous powerfully connected individuals and politicians.
That laptop disappeared while in the custody of the FBI.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/nypd-chief-commits-suicide-1-month-before-retiring-was-directly-involved-in-anthony-weiner-laptop-computer-evidence-handling
https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/07/new-york-city-police-suicides/
@ doriangrey:
I was aware of the suicides, I was NOT aware of the police officers’ connection to the Weiner case. Thanks
eaglesoars wrote:
The number of people who have suddenly and violently ended up dead with direct connections to criminal investigations involving the Clinton’s long ago exceeded the mathematical limits of probability for mere coincidence.
doriangrey wrote:
NYPD DETECTIVE Joseph Calabrese is missing in NYC. THEYRE FRANTICALLY SEARCHING FOR HIM. Calabrese was in charge of the Anthony Weiner, Clinton, Podesta crime ring. Two others the NYPD CHIEF OF POLICE and a NY State Senator-both involved with the investigation – are reported dead. EHAT IS GOING ON HERE
Just two more Arkancides, nothing to see here.
I put up a blank open in case this one shuts off.
Getting stuff together to go on a hitch, so if anyone has anything else to throw up, please go for it.
This is purely an ‘In Case Of Emergency’ thread.