Ireland won their second in a row 6 Nations Rugby Championship.
In Dublin
On St Patrick’s
Who among yinz would not like to be there this weekend?
…the fields of Athernry….
it’s an open, good on yinz Ireland Rugby.
against the famine and the crown…
There are few things I treasure more than singing ‘The Fields of Athenry’ at the top of my lungs with the Irish fans versus the All Blacks in the late 80’s at Landsdowne Rd in Dublin, sorry AI!!!
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happy st pats yinz!
to confess, i had to sing this song at the Spaniard in kinsale every time me and the ex wife returned to ireland.
god love ya rip pat jones!
we’d sing it together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATucV4Ugqsw
winks at a girl
heh…
St Patrick was not Irish, he only spent six years in Ireland.
Technically he is of Italian heritage.
The myth that he banished snakes from Ireland is bollocks as there were no snakes in Ireland, Snakes can swim but not very far.
The nearest land that snakes live on is Britain, and there is only one species of snake. It goes by the name of Adder or Viper.
If you get bit by one then you are stupid. They are shy and reclusive.
Joke is, if you are walking through the woods and you hear ” one and one is two, two and two is four… ” Run like hell!!!!!
There is an Adder here!
@ Possum:
“Snakes” was typo. He banished snales, the celtic corruption of snails. Póg mo thóin.
@ coldwarrior:
No problem mate Happy St. Paddy’s day to you and yours!
After all ‘blood is thicker than water’ and given my name Irish / Scots with a dash of Welsh, as long as the Irish are in the winning grove the AB ‘natives’ can look after themselves!
🙂
Possum wrote:
Yeah …. yeah … we knew that. But I have to question that snakes can’t swim far! Ever heard of sea snakes? They breathe air and travel the oceans. The Irish Sea a a wee bit cool for them however.
The missus is watching a Dublin St. Patrick’s Day parade. There were a couple of marching bands from the US playing traditional Irish tunes, then an Irish band followed up with “Ring of Fire.”
Hot off the presses, from a festival in Mexico City this afternoon. I believe this is the first time The Warning has ever played Que Mas Quieres to a live audience:
Fruit on pizza?
Yes or no?
I say YES!!!!
Possum wrote:
Only because tomatoes are technically a fruit
lobo91 wrote:
LOL you busted me. I was looking for a fight.
Tomatoes, red peppers, green peppers, Jalapenos, green olives, black olives and even mushrooms are fruits.
The mushroom thing is a stretch, what we eat as a mushroom is a fruiting body that pops up out of the ground and matures and spreads spores. The brain of a mushroom lives underground and resembles a spider web.
I like pineapple on a ham and cheese pizza. But not on a pepperoni one.
It is the blend of tastes and textures that is important when eating food. As an example, I very often put potato chips in a ham and cheese sandwiches, or any other sandwich EXCEPT for one containing egg.
The thought of a crunchy bit in an egg sandwich makes me think there was some egg shell in it.
Aw shit. I think I am going to get benched for a time out again.
Stupidly admitted I was here looking for a fight…..
Possum wrote:
Peppers are berries. Red, orange, yellow and green bell peppers are chilies and thus are fruit.
Pizza with chicken, barbecue sauce and pineapple is addictive.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Got to be in the St. Pats parade in Dublin in 2000. Holy hell what anight. My time there was a blast.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Missus said they’ve been doing the parade for only 30 years.
Possum wrote:
Definitely pineapple on a Hawaiian Pizza! Technically even Olives are classed as fruit … kinda… and nobody has a problem with that!
🙂
Thread of Don Lemon’s interiew with Elon Musk.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1769793387287245141
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
that’s just fucking hysterical! Did you hear what Lemon was demanding? Control over any policy changes in news coverage, I forget the $ amount, and some share in twitter ownership or something?
@ eaglesoars:
His “agent” denies that Lemon’s demands “included an $8 million salary in addition to a $5 million upfront payment, a Tesla cybertruck, equity stake in X and the right to approve any changes in X policy as it related to news content.”
Sure.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/don-lemon-denies-demanded-5m-advance-tesla-cybertruck-elon-musk-1235854432/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
True. The irish said themselves the ones in the US are bigger. Dublin is a small city of 1 million.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Ok, let’s stipulate that his agent is telling the truth. Then the conclusion is Elon killed the deal because Lemon is an asshole.
So, after Tysons laid off a bunch of legal workers in its Arkansas facilities in order to hire ‘asylum seekers’, it now is going to include insects in our food.
[sorry can’t cut-paste this one]
https://twitter.com/Cav1Cav/status/1770019766188577061
@ eaglesoars:
His agent claimed that the NY Post was lying but did not address the fact that Don Lemon is an asshole.
One of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRen8nI8_aM
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
He’s black, he’s gay, he’s untouchable and precious.
@ eaglesoars:
He couldn’t pull that crap on Sheriff Clarke, but he almost trapped Musk, got him stuttering a bit.
Gettin’ pumped, Number 100 underway.
My most recent CT scan report had a line that bothered me: “Coronary Artery Calcification: Severe.”
When I reviewed the report with my Onkydoc, he didn’t bring it up, but when I did he recommended a cardiologist, and it was the same doc who treated my late dad.
Just got back from my introductory appointment, showed Cardi C. the report. His first words were, “That’s bullshit,” and that CT image interpreters can’t diagnose severity by looking at scans. Then we scheduled an appointment for some routine stress tests and go from there.
I like this guy already.
I am a legal scholar and an expert on the United States of America constitution and stuff.
The judge ruled CORRECTLY
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1770262384625549558
eaglesoars wrote:
Multimillion dollar fund manager ditches Tyson Foods, saying meat giant sacking US workers to hire 42,000 asylum seekers is the ‘woke liberal takeover of America’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13215789/fund-manager-ditches-Tyson-Foods-meat-sack-workers-asylum-seekers-woke-liberal-America.html
@ Possum:
Maybe I should stick to food and cat posts.
Food confession. I do not use ketchup on burgers or my latest passion bacon and mushroom sandwiches.
I use marinara. Buy a 16oz jar, freeze half in a ziplock bag flat in freezer so I can just break of small chunks.
Not sure how long half a jar lasts or is safe kept in the fridge so I toss it after a week.
@ lobo91:
@ coldwarrior:
In talking to Australian high school audiences, I found, when I asked directly, that only one in ten … were prepared to fight for their country. — Ukrainian Ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenk at ADF Academy, April 12, 2023
The ADF are a hollowed out husk of once they were. The whole ADF system has been sold down the river and I fear what is about to happen to what’s left of the operational ‘teeth arms’ as they have been sold down the river by their officer corps. Not that the US forces are in any serious shape either. Most Australians expect that the US will withdraw centred on Hawaii in the central Pacific. Whole societies have been traitorously undermined by 60 years of craven political shuffling. Until the Defence Force Academies failed to hold the line and capitulated to a craven civilian political class. The rot began in the Field and General corps20 years ago and spread through the Defence Academy System that threw its hand with a corrupt System of higher learning.
I am about to experience the corruption of an active Field Officer of the US army who is about to be promoted to One Star. My luck to be ‘selected’ to host this ‘political activist’ in a green uniform, with his extended family for the next few weeks. Lucky me! This guy has drunk deep at the well of ‘Kool-Ade’. The only reason I am even ‘volunteering’ …. ahem …. is because a 2 Star and 1 Star asked me to do this for old times sake. Both of these guys were actual fighting soldiers when ‘Profession of Arms’ actually meant something.
Here is the story of the Australian Defence Forces road to perdition, and the treason towards their men and women, by senior officers of the ADF. I thought that the US Army might hold out for a little bit more, but I was wrong.
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/03/why-the-adf-risks-failure-in-the-next-war/
@ Possum:
As an added bonus I can link the decision of the judge directly to the existence of the prison in Guantanamo.
@ Possum:
But you’re not going to? It’s been 5-1/2 hours already.
eaglesoars wrote:
When Corporates decide that running business is passed, they then go down the route of political activism. That almost inevitably leads to … Go Woke = Go Broke….
These degenerate corporate activists are a threat to the Corporate world. “Stick to your knitting” remains the necessary mantra, but we are now dealing with raging narcissistic brats pretending to the CEOs, so anything is possible with these losers.
When activist politics becomes more important than the skilled management of Corporates it’s time to begin the sack these activist CEOs before they can destroy the structure of their businesses. When CEOs decide that instead of running a business … “it’s all about ME” …., then it’s time to flick these sociopaths into the nearest trash bin.
🙂
passed = passe
predictive slipped one past me when I wasn’t looking!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
“….. our Point Is Completely Valid” The USN Pacific Forces Chief acknowledges that the US Is spending too much downing Houthi anti-ship drones
The head of U.S. military forces assigned to the Pacific region voiced concerns Wednesday about the cost of shooting down Houthi weapons with missiles and air defense assets needed in a conflict with China in a congressional hearing.
Many of the expensive weapons used to counter Houthi attacks could be used in the Pacific theater during a possible China fight, and the cost-benefit ratio does not favor the U.S., Adm. John Aquilino, the outgoing commander, told the House Armed Services Committee. Admiral Aquilino is suitably pissed at the C in C, or whichever gnome pulling the strings behind the WH curtain! The USN Pacific missile reserves are being denuded at a time when China is building towards an altercation over Taiwan. Nobody is laughing except Lockheed Martin who ‘wins’ whatever happens and who’s kids get killed!
“We’ve used well over 100 of these missiles to shoot down Houthi drones that cost 100 times less than our own missiles rather than saving them for a potential fight with China,” Representative Banks said.
Banks asked whether the high rate of expenditure was eating into the number of air and missile defense assets INDOPACOM expected to get in the coming year, once Congress approves the military’s spending request.
“Those missiles coming off those destroyers, those SM-2s” — Standard-Missile 2s — “are resident in my theater, on my destroyers.”
Let’s do the math:-100 Standard Missile 2’s, at $2,000,000 each = ……………………
To shoot down a $10,000 drone.
Anyone ever contemplated using Australian Slingers at $1,550 per drone engagement?
Nope we can’t have that! Nooo not at all. That cuts across 100 years of US defence policy initiatives. The US Defence Industry Corporates wouldn’t make the BIG $$$$$$$!
You guys think that the Brits are ‘perfidious’? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Whether related to US Defence Corporations building armour for BOTH sided in WWII?
Selling 30+ WWI rust buckets to the Brits in the early stages of WWII, knowing that the Brits had no other options?
Cleaving off a decade of Brit nuclear Atomic Technology. Paying Britain Zip, for the privilege. Then snatching the cream of Brit and Commonwealth researchers to jump start the Manhattan Project by at least 4 years, thus saving a million American lives that would have taken it to take Japan at the point of a bayonet. Then screwing Britain sever ways to Sunday, for years, in a final attempt to ‘get even’ with the British! Yet we keep getting the PR crap about some ‘mysterious’ Special Relationship between the US and the UK.
Read a HISTORY book about how hard-ball vicious the US attempted to force Britain, NOT to build the atomic bomb post WWII, by using covert trade warfare that forced British fiscal suffering to last another 2 years post WWII. Ask British, Canadians and Australian nuclear scientists, who were at the peak of Oppenheimer’s team at Los Alamos, why Australian and British scientists and engineers were threatened by Eisenhower and Kennedy’ presidencies, with a full on trade war that this time would break the British economy, to prevent an independent Australian nuclear armed option. This time the British blinked and didn’t get bankrupted. In its stead Australia got a piece of paper that promised ‘timely discussions’ in case any parties to ANZUS were attacked.
Read the semi covert (AKA wilfully forgotten) history American duplicity when it comes to US allies!
Ever ask yourself, when the fog between your ears clears, and the Ra.. ra… ra USA… USA .. USA, clears however briefly. from your brains and ask yourself … it is my imagination that then it comes to accumulating $$$$$$$ US bullshit is 100% amoral socially?
How many times has ACTUAL historical facts have been ‘air-brushed’ aside and a now ‘hollywood version ‘ is slotted in reality’s place. Pick something. There are examples aplenty? Something with historical gravitas. How about Battle of the Bulge? Makes a great movie, BUT it was 80% FICTION, not that you’d know it from the almost total but NOT QUITE airbrushing from the historical record of what ACTUALLY happened. Would it shock you to know that the last minute destruction of the German Army West was caused by NOT Paton’s Third Army riding to the rescue of the beleaguer 82nd. Airborne, as the ‘hollywood’ version’ suggest. The Germans were destroyed by the timely pincer movement by Viscount Montgomery’s British Army from the NORTH of the salient. Eisenhower couldn’t wear that shame, so he did what Americans often do, and rewrite history. Suddenly, voila, the cautious and losing General Clarke was rescued by the hated American bete noir, the Brit Montgomery. Paton didn’t ride in, pearl handled revolvers at his side to save the day, and reality got the ‘hollywood airbrush treatment’ and Eisenhower claimed the victory for the US of A. The movies rammed home that alternate ‘truth’ and the USA… USA …. USA. ra..ra…ra mob lapped it all up and actually BELIEVED it ALL.
To their eternal shame many Americans are really ‘full of it’. There many other actual histories lurking out there that tend to place the USA in places where they shouldn’t
pick off the scab lest they discover things that they would rather forget! That is one thing that the US is extremely good at!
FORGETTING
… and yes the Brits really are Perfidious bastards.
The difference with the Yanks is that they are so full of themselves ra … ra …ra… USA… USA … USA, when they should be a little more circumspect and tell the TRUTH warts and all. The US should also husband their defence personnel resources, and instead of using them like propaganda puppets, and wasting hundreds of thousands needlessly ….. because we have plenty more where they came from, and the amorality of $$$$$$$ that drive the whole Defense Industrial Complex.
….. oh and PLEASE cease that nasty habit, desist in airbrushing of history, as your American Story will eventually get exposed as the cruel canard that it really is.
I would strongly suggest that Americans get out and see what else the world has done with its time in the sun. Perhaps then you may not be surprised quite as profoundly, when you sun sets, as it always does!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
It’s not something we’re taught. Those of us willing to learn just a little know we’re some of the worst ‘allies’ you can have.
In other news, step son needs open heart surgery ASAP (not sure the diagnosis) – he’s in his mid 50s – and my whole damn family – well almost – is coming to visit me in July. Aunt Eagle, we miss you! We’re comin’ get ready! *blush*
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That’s what I was referring to when I confused Ms. Eagle with the use of the word “chumped”. 😀
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Ditto TORA TORA TORA.. My dad edumacated me on that story when he handed me an abridged copy of David Kahn’s The Code Breakers.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
It works in reverse also. Schools don’t teach the history of slavery in the US any more. They teach Alex Haley.
Chemobrain has its benefits. I was sweating getting my taxes in order by tomorrow when I discovered that the appointment with my CPA isn’t for another two weeks.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Glad you got the taxes in order. My accountant gets hammered by late filers so I always get mine done early.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Correct.
Makes it easy for some braindead teacher, who takes the lazy option and just pops a movie of ‘ Roots ‘into the class video, and then repairs to the staff common room to discuss Marxist dialectic with her comrades. Or even more egregious, an activist with a covert agenda let loose amongst innocent minds! For some reason it still shocks me to the core when I see the look on the faces of Black Americans when they stumble upon the facts of the British Navy’s destruction of the West African slave trade and the actual history of the RN’s West African Squadron!
Real histories should be all about ‘the warts and all’ bits especially, so that we can all learn the hard lessons by reading about them, rather than sacrificing yet another generation on the altar of War. All we seem to get are hidden agendas aplenty and a few moderately watchable fictional movie scripts most of which are just made up ‘shit’.
@ rightymouse:
Self employment tax is a bitch. Gotta get creative with legal deductions.
eaglesoars wrote:
Terribly sorry to hear that Eagles, know that your step son is in my prayers. Just be glad that open heart surgery is an option these days. Stay strong Eagles, as there are folks who are counting on just that fact!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Daughter was in an AP world history class in H.S. and I had the pleasure of meeting her teacher during the open house festivities. His classroom presentation to us parents was an advertisement for a book that, in his words, “changed my life.” It was Johnathan Friedman’s book touting China’s economic model of “leveling the playing field” as the path to solve the world’s inequities. I almost exploded. Got home and fired off a broadside to the school board.
It didn’t accomplish anything except to get me thinking about possible repercussions against my daughter.
Mark Levin says he’s getting flack from his parent broadcast company’s sales department because he won’t run erectile dysfunction ads.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I said I could, I did not say I would.
A confession.
I had to Google “Perfidious” to see what it meant.
Just a simple and polite request.
Can we stop using big words in here please?
Bunk ain’t too bright…..
I started watching the new adaptation of Shogn last night. So far, it’s pretty good.
And then I saw this:
Possum wrote:
As far as I know the use of the adjective, ‘Perfidious’, hardly gets a run these days, and mostly it is a descriptive used to describe Albion, a little underused noun for Latinised Roman Britain. I could have cast the British Empire as treacherous, knavish, or even double-dealing, but the first option is used so often these days, that it’s lost its sting. The last alternative option has the stench of politicians and hucksters about it, and for that reason alone, should be avoided! Ahhh but ‘knavish’, is a wonderful descriptive and I must promise to take it for a run around the block more often!
So you get a double dose, ‘run for your money’, with ‘Perfidious Albion’ together. It does have a wonderful ring to it, you must admit? Words like devious, underhanded, twisted, evil, cunning and the like, get worn out through overuse. So letting Perfidious Albion out for a trot now and then, just for old time’s sake, surely is not too much of a stretch?
English is such a wonderful, anarchic, ‘bastard’ language, full of wonderful stolen words and phrases, so sticking to the nominal 3,000 ‘often used’ words, is like reading magazine advertisements, and missing out on playing in ‘Shakespeare’s garden’ , of 60-80,000 words. It’s your language mate, so be in ….. go and play.
🙂
In my next life when I get reincarnated I am going to be a weather expert and be on TV and press the severe weather warning button that sends text to four million people and scares the shit out of them.
Heavy storms, damaging hail and severe winds….
Looking outside, sky is clear, no wind at all. Not even a slight breeze.
I trust my cats more than the emergency weather alerts. If Natasha is in a cabinet in the bathroom a storm is on the way.
Natasha is curled up and sleeping on our bed.
@ Aussie Infidel:
OK! game on….
But first I have to find a way of setting my computer and phone to work in English English not US English.
They both underline most of all the big words I type with a red squiggly line thing and ask me to correct it.
Why did American English and real English diverge so much.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Hubby has his own business. He has a flock of accountants. The IRS messes with him sometimes. We have always filed separate. I learned my lesson from joint-filing with my ex who was horrible with finances.
Fire has engulfed many building after Terrorist attack in Moscow.
40 people known to have been killed and at least 100 injured.
#Moscow #Russia #TerroristAttack
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1771271071829770637
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13228663/Moscow-concert-hall-shooting-three-gunmen-camouflage-open-fire-crowd-huge-venue-rocked-explosion-injuries-reported.html
Moscow concert hall shooting: At least 40 dead after three gunmen ‘in camouflage uniform’ open fire on crowd in ‘terror attack’ as huge venue is engulfed in flames as survivors cower trying to escape massacre
@ eaglesoars:
Don’t thinks it the Chechens on this one.
You’ve heard of “Ghost Guns”.
Now meet: The Zombie Gun
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/03/21/beyond-ghost-guns-democrat-house-member-pushes-zombie-gun-ban/
10% for the big guy.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/lyGRWT-f9N8/
Possum wrote:
I shine when I dim the lights.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I still like the modern vernacular “dickish”, as in
Mr. Possum is being dickish as usual.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Whats your plutonium intake?
The Russian National Guard and Police have reportedly begun to establish Checkpoints at Key Intersections around the Capital of Moscow and at Exits from the City, in order to hopefully find several of Attackers from tonight’s Terrorist Attack on the Crocus Concert Hall who are believed to have Fled the Venue.
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1771273126745121203
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
HEH.
🙂
Clever!
rightymouse wrote:
The key with small business taxes is to show no profit at the end of the year.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
Don’t know, but I inherited it from my dad, one of the last surviving members of The Glow-In-The-Dark-Society who participated in Operation Ivy.
Jesus Christ. The White House via that idiot press secretary, relayed best wishes to The Duchess of Cambridge (cancer diagnosis)
Catherine is the Princess of Wales.
Friend just sent this clip from a Michael Yon interview.
Full interview here:
https://youtu.be/K-cKQ-emN6Y?si=IG4N4-KM3K4j-NnG
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
‘Dickish’.
Yup I’ll give you that one as a ‘keeper’
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Awwww! Give me strength. That idiot Press Secretary is a total doofus, who is using a weapon (AKA her mouth) without a licence. Where do they breed these people?
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
Someone should ask if the White House has an official position on the controversy over the lack of black actors in Shogun
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I must admit that I got myself deep in the ‘do-do’ when I called a Rear Admiral a ‘Pedant’, in a response to a letter he’d written. The whole thing got wildly out of control and the Rear Admiral got on his ‘high-horse’ and demanded satisfaction! It ended up in an ….. ‘ahem… court…. of the Kangaroo variety. There were a dozen in the room and it was chaired by a Brigadier, a senior fellow of an august civilian law firm, and a former company commander of mine, to my Company 2ic (AKA XO in US military terminology) and eventually my Battalion Commander, to my Bn Intelligence Officer.
I knew that I was in safe hands, and this was pure theatre to assuage the ire of a Rear Admiral prig (not that I’d ever call him that ). The suitably contrite ‘guilty one’ was marched in and apologised for any accidental offence, but used (the English language) as my defence.
Rather than an offence in using ‘Pedant’ as a pejorative for conceited affected, speech, surely it was meant to mean a teacher or learned one. David the ‘kangaroo court’ president was grinding his teeth in a vain attempt to not burst out laughing, and the rest of the’ kangaroo court’ were have serious problems keeping straight faces. Apologies were given and grudgingly accepted and the court adjourned to the bar … no not THAT, bar the one serving booze.
In fact the Rear Admiral in question was a serial drunk, a philanderer and a terrible man manager, who also happened to be Chief of Navy at the time! A suitably contrite IO kept his head down for a while and everyone else seemed to have a good time playing with the vagaries of the English language.
True story
🙂
lobo91 wrote:
Pick me PICK ME mate!
P-l-e-a-s-e choose Congressman Hank Johnson to ask the question about the lack of Black actors in Shogun.
🙂
See I’m grinning already in expectation if Congress-critter Hank gets picked to ask the question!
We need a little laughter so badly in the Congress and Hank is the gift that never fails to deliver!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
My worst was when the bossman was in the lunchroom eating a cheap hoagie and complained “This tastes like a horse dick sandwich.” I asked him how he knew.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Guam’s gonna tip over.
Just in case you have forgotten here is Congress-critter Hank in full brains-trust flight. You can see the Admiral having problems keeping a straight face.
ENJOY!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/congressman-who-once-feared-guam-could-capsize-compares-jewish-settlers-to-termites
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
HEHEHE
Ahhhh
That made my day!
🙂
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
HAR!!!
hey y’all
@ eaglesoars:
American Pilot Jailed Abroad For Trying To Fly While Drunk
An American pilot was jailed Tuesday in Scotland for being intoxicated while due to fly a transatlantic Delta Air Lines flight, Scottish prosecutors announced.
Captain Lawrence Russell, 63, a Delta Air Lines pilot, pleaded guilty to “reporting for duty as a pilot while being impaired through alcohol,” Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said
Russell, in his uniform and lanyard with “Delta” emblazoned on it, was scheduled to fly a Boeing 767 plane from Edinburgh to New York’s JFK Airport June 16, 2023 when an X-ray machine rejected his carry-on baggage, according to the COPFS. The baggage reportedly was found to contain two bottles of Jägermeister, one of which was already opened and half-empty.
Russell “failed a breath test at 9.30 am and later a sample of blood was taken which showed Russell had not less than 49 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood,” the COPFS said.
Phhttt!…
That’s not drinking and flying…
THIS is how to drink and fly!!!….the “old Fashioned” way!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i415QwSj0Og
hehehehehe
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’d fire him just for drinking Jägermeister
lobo91 wrote:
At least it wasn’t Iron City.
Hundreds of Thousands of upset spring break festival concertgoers are being evacuated due to severe storms
#Miami | #Florda
Currently, over 165 thousand upset and soaked spring break concertgoers are being evacuated from Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida. At the Ultra Electric Music Festival, that’s being hosted this weekend, the festival host has canceled the rest of tonight’s event due to severe weather. The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch until 3 am, as heavy rain, strong winds, and lightning, along with possible tornadoes, move across the Florida area. Many spring breakers are reportedly upset at the festival venue for cutting it short
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1771353883782099071
I am somehow utterly indifferent
lobo91 wrote:
Nah. Give him a break . He’s already going to hell for drinking Jäegermeister, as it is!
🙂
This is child abuse.
Senator Joe Kennedy interviewed an expert witness on climate change.
https://twitter.com/SenJohnKennedy/status/1770830505417576612
dis my shocked face :0
https://rollcall.com/2024/03/21/fbi-headquarters-project-set-to-get-200-million-more-funding/
good news
https://www.newsweek.com/fda-settles-lawsuit-over-ivermectin-social-media-posts-1882562
eaglesoars wrote:
BWAHAAAA!!!
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
isis-khorasan
‘Islamic State fighters attacked a large gathering of Christians in the city of Krasnogorsk on the outskirts of Moscow, killing and wounding hundreds and causing great destruction to the concert hall before they withdrew to their bases safely.’
such brave muslim men! pretty much summarizes the sham that is islam.
rain of lead wrote:
For those not familiar with the D.C. area – the D.C. headquarters look like something out of the ‘brutalist’ school of architecture. It would fit right in in Moscow. Poured cement
And Greenbelt MD is an absolute shithole. I would rather live in Uniontown PA where I was born. Or even Millsboro
So I’m happy. They deserve it.
rain of lead wrote:
The appeals court also said that, “Even tweet-sized doses of personalized medical advice are beyond the FDA’s statutory authority.”
The FDA and the doctors reached a settlement dated Thursday that stipulates the FDA will retire a Consumer update titled, “Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19.”
Along the same lines, I’ve been meaning to post something but I haven’t had time to research it enough. APPARENTLY the FDA has approved the vax for cattle and swine and it is already being used in pigs. I’m not sure but be aware. ALSO. The brand of Smithfield bacon was bought out by the Chinese years ago. THAT I DO know
rain of lead wrote:
This:
“The FDA is not a physician.”
and this:
“Ivermectin is not an exceptional case. The FDA is biased against many low-cost, generic, and/or natural therapies with low profit potential. Could it be because half its funding comes from Big Pharma?”
and everyone can take that “y’all” condescending bullshit and blow me.
eaglesoars wrote:
Which vax? Ivermectin? Or the Pfizer/Moderna/General Mills vaxxes?
Georgetown University, wargaming the 2020 election, and presidential military control.
https://redstate.com/mccabe/2024/03/23/sessions-targets-rosa-brooks-mary-mccord-military-in-georgetown-preservation-letter-n2171792
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1771545163732496857
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
This ‘child’ will undoubtedly go far as a poster boy for the Marxist left. I expect that after winning several Winter olympic medals he will eventually turn his hand to mouthing fascist Left rhetoric on command, as a Congress -critter .
I can hardly wait! Choke!
🙂
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
man
you just can’t get good help these days
anyone starting to hear about the red heifer news in Isreal
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Reads like a who’s who of activist socialists, who have burrowed their way to the very halls of power. Significantly, just below the level where their nefarious covert and semi-covert politicised actions are able to use their institutional status as a cover for traitorous actions. It is the likes of these individuals who are the moderators of the corrupt and treasonous actions that define the SWAMP. These individuals are the targets begging for comeuppance in the next electoral investigations post 2024 ballot. In these people, lay the sinews of the swamp.
There are always a new crop of traitors and n’ar-do-wells arriving on the scene in the swamp. Rather than playing the usual game of ‘wack-a-mole’ how about setting traps to ensnare the generators of treason and marxist infiltration to the highest levels of power and set to destroying their bureaucratic underpinnings at source?
rain of lead wrote:
Alas just a temporary tactical withdrawal by the marxist politicised US Federal Drug Administration. This tactic worked so well for the FDA last time they will just fall back and do it all again with malicious aforethought ….. next time.
Rust like inhuman marxist maladministration …. never sleeps.
SPIT!
Cody and I just set up camp at a spot on a bluff overlooking the ocean outside of San Jose del Cabo. We’re about 20 miles east of Cabo San Lucas. I’ll probably go over there and look around, but it’s pretty much like South Florida at spring break year ’round. Not really my scene.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Dangerous times when someone like Bernie Sanders can garner more support for a run for POTUS than the leading democrat (Hillary).
rain of lead wrote:
Didn’t this happen a few years ago too?
@ coldwarrior:
I believe you’re familiar with The Ramones’ fifth founding brother Damone. He never got the credit he deserved.
https://damoneramone.wordpress.com/
I’ve been in sporadic contact with Damone over the years, trying to help him right this injustice, and today an autographed copy of his book showed up, sent all the way from Germany. Made my day. 😀
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Nice!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
He’s got recognition. I’m gonna try to convince him to do a documentary.
watching a geeky history science thing…
we have been in one of the world’s lowest centuries of volcanic activity since 1883 krakatoa.
so that is actually 150 years at this point.
so, therefore, we need devastating volcanoes to stop global warming.
SCIENCE!!!!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
do it!
@ lobo91:
drinks, sunset, a good dog…
yes!
Let’s get brutal
https://www.thecollector.com/soviet-brutalism-iconic-buildings/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
The MRNA / Covid death vax
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Jack Posobiec has been covering this. Something called Transition Integrity Project.
rain of lead wrote:
No. Speak
coldwarrior wrote:
Wanna see something even uglier. African American museum/Smithsonian Fucking hideous and it is deliberate
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/the-national-museum-of-african-american-history-in-washington-dc-gm1391628477-448166724
Oh lookie here! They’re coming for our guns!
The Justice Department lanched The National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center (the Center) which will provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.
https://thepoliticsbrief.com/what-the-hell-is-this-evil-doj-announcement-of-federal-red-flag-center-catches-congress-by-surprise/
What the hell is this evil?
A Federal Red Flag center;
We did not authorize this.
Announced, of course, just hours after the omnibus passes.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/177152171680566901
coldwarrior wrote:
but …. but …. BUTTTTT
That would presuppose this stuff has been going on in the background for a VERY long time. Now don’t strain yourself …
That would suggest that the Industrial Revolution was a mere peccadillo in the greater course of history after all, before it became the whipping boy of all misanthropic turds pushing Global Warming. After all these misanthropes have to have something handy to HATE on. These sociopaths hate themselves almost as much as they hate all the normal folks! I have a great idea! let’s all have a worldwide ‘knees-up’ get drunk / drugged screw other silly and allow these sociopaths down Risan flavoured milkshakes and go to their chosen Valhalla. Then the normal folks can get along with the rest of their lives, the sociopaths with Gaia complexes are all dead and the more depopulated world moves on and forgets the whole thing! Everyone is happy.
What’s not to like?
🙂
Trouble is the sociopaths refuse to lead the way, and insist the normal folks comply with their demands and off themselves … even if the sociopaths have to resort to the ‘camps’ and bio-warfare to force compliance.
Why is it always like this?
I know that obvious answer as do you lot, but polite society can’t speak about actual truths.
One of the alleged Moscow terrorists~
https://twitter.com/i/status/1771585557958721780
@ eaglesoars:
And guess who’s in charge of it?
Our illustrious VP
Cody was just outside growling like we were being attacked by wolves.
It was two wild burros walking down the road
lobo91 wrote:
She isn’t in charge of her own bowel movements
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
The total number of Tajaks has risen a tad and is now supposed to be 17 at last count. Telling that were attempting to escape INTO Ukraine across a boundary fielding 300,000 very pissed off Russians.
Hmmmmm. I’ll have to think like a Tajak, ask who the organisers may be . Hell there are 17 shooters or shooter assistance and their stories can’t hold warm milepost 40 hours ….. even if they were VERY motivated. These guys ain’t!
So who’s paying toy hard money? How did they get there and who did the surveillance without getting pinged?Weren’t they all supposed to die and collect their 72 virgins passing GO? How did they travel as far as they did if they were only equipped to did gloriously for the ‘messenger’?
I see Mother Russia even in the Spring is helping out in the interrogation cells! Maybe this Tajek just has stage freight.
The truth will eventually surface as it tends to do.
Who DUNIT?
Russians operating a false Flag for reasons yet to be discovered?
The CIA just ‘messing’ with Putin and ensuring salt was applied to the wound, by supposedly warning Russia 2 weeks ago to expect …. something?
Zelinski running a massed civilian hit to twist Putin’s tail, after the close hit that may have upset Zelinski
The lead up theatre that results in an October Surprise that …ahem … necessitates a military lockdown, the suspension of the November election, and a demand for universal postal balloting as a Russian repost during the election makes anything else impossible. (Hey it’s 2024 and ANYTHING is now possible)
Maybe a bunch of crazy Tajiks who killed a bunch of concert goers got cold feet when faced with their imminent demise and tried to run, and the Russian security response went in all guns blazing, as they have in the past. Hence the 133 dead concert goers.
If the Tajik numbers are 17 then that is getting sophisticated administratively and logistically. That smells like smart money behind this! Definitely smells more CIA than SVR.
How come 17 individuals collectively decided at the same time, in mid killing spree, to escape rather than die?
Time may tell. The Russians have probably (certainly) got as much information out of these doofuses now than they possess. Now the cross references and associated Tajak sources in Russia are being asked hard questions how this was put together.
HMMMM
Jeeees Corrective and I are going to have a serious falling out!
🙂
How Israel’s Red Heifer Prophecy Explains What’s Happening Right Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2uuQkQYYuA&t=4s
ya know…things that make you go hmmm
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Something smells. A LOT.
Prepare to get mesmerized. 100 CGI artists were given a basic animation template and told to fuck with it. The variety of results is stunning.
https://youtu.be/UNjMSFLkMZA?si=71bVqN43TaoSQSP_
Aussie Infidel wrote:
You think that the typing stuff and predictive and autocorrect is bad.
Try doing the voice to text in the USA with a Yorkshire accent.
You may laugh but there are many online customer service front ends that start with speaking what you require. Eventually they give up trying then connect you to a real human, who is in India and the confusion continues.
Worst one in my experience is FedEx. If in frustration you say ” fuck ” or ” duck ” it disconnects you immediately.
Best customer service experience I had was from Amazon. Eventually call sent to a human, who had a South African accent. She sorted my problem within minutes. A 20lbs sack of cat food gone missing.
Then we had a 15-20 minute friendly chat. She was in Cape Town and I used to live in South Africa.
I may sound racist but I feel one of the main qualifications for a customer service representative is they can speak intelligible standard English.
new digs for the new assignemt
@40.295512,-78.5480408
hey! there’s a golf course here!!!!
Possum wrote:
that’s not racist. that is BASIC service. BASIC.
you have to be able to communicate effectively first, THEN act
@ coldwarrior:
Seems like common sense to me. If your customers speak English, then you need English-speaking customer service people. If your customers speak Chinese, that’s what your employees should speak
lobo91 wrote:
obvious to the sane….
Cody and I just got back from visiting the “Fiesta Marina” in Cabo San Lucas. Sort of a cross between San Francicso’s Fisherman’s Wharf and the Vegas strip. He’s oddly fascinated by boats recently. He kept trying to climb onto them.
We stopped for a picture in front of Cabo Wabo, of course. It’s less impressive in person (and way overpriced).
@ lobo91:
he wants to go marlin/shark fishing…go with him!!!
its a ball!
coldwarrior wrote:
I would actually take him, but the tourist boats don’t allow dogs
He even has a life jacket
Bunk! Please check a Poteen post downstairs that needs release from DerpPress jail. Thanks !
@ Aussie Infidel: As a US historian, I have long known that the USA has acted in some highly selfish manners throughout time — I just have not known the degree or extent. Thank you for your insightful posts. Keep going.
If angers me to think that my own nation has treated its’ allies as if they were lower than dirt. I’m sorry.
The development of the really big splody bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is very interesting.
I have not watched the recent movie oppenheimer as it is not free on any streaming places yet.
There are many other movies and documentaries out there though.
They all emphasize the development of the atomic bomb and the first test in Nevada of Gadget. A plutonium based bomb.
Then they all start showing footage of Hiroshima. What is not mentioned is the bomb on Hiroshima had fuck all to do with the first test in Nevada. It was a totally different design.
The one dropped on Hiroshima was an enriched Uranium bomb, never tested. The Nagasaki bomb was a plutonium bomb, the result of the Manhattan project and tested.
I knows history….
rightymouse wrote:
Done.
Here’s his vid.
https://rumble.com/embedJS/u4
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Well looking at the comment you released then no way would I have released it.
Possum wrote:
Mitsubishi was one of the targets. They made Zeros.
Possum wrote:
I do what I’m told except for when I don’t.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look of the filming of GAZA GAZA GAZA.
https://twitter.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/1771634114338189493
@ Possum:
grin
https://youtube.com/shorts/_vc1Q6HrvbU?si=pRL7zA973hO2rjsj
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
0/10 for that video. No cats.
Possum wrote:
Guy tried to prank this cat.
https://twitter.com/SteveInmanUIC/status/1771943371478597674
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Um, no. Cat may be street slang.
What I should have said is there is no pussy in the video.
Remember a month or so ago I did a food post about liver, bacon and onions?
That is what is supper yet again.
Frozen then thawed mystery supper…
Possum wrote:
Why?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Thanks for releasing it for Poteen.
@ Possum:
The first bomb was tested in New Mexico, not Nevada. I’ve been to the site
@ Possum:
If you want to watch something that goes into the behind the scenes work at Los Alamos, the series Manhattan is pretty good. It’s fictionalized, of course, but the gist of the story is there. It’s on Prime.
lobo91 wrote:
That is my fault for not fact checking myself. Nevada was where they exploded the subsequent bombs. And where they keep the aliens.
lobo91 wrote:
That is what happens when I don’t fact check myself. I have watched too many atomic bomb tests on youtube. Nevada is where they did a lot of testing.
@ lobo91:
Yes it was good. I watched it. And here I go again saying things from memory but I seem to remember in one of the last episodes they told a couple of British scientists to go back home. Without any documentation.
First British atomic bomb was tested 3 October 1952.
rightymouse wrote:
Because Possum happens.
Possum wrote:
That’s when the US was blowing up thermonuclear stuff at Eniwetok.
Bunk. One of my posts downstairs is stuck in moderation. Help! Thanks!
@ rightymouse:
Freed for the world to see. Too many links gets the spaminator all humpy.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Thanks!! DerpPress doesn’t like certain site links too.
Canoe Convoy wrote:
No problems mate
🙂
Just trying to keep the US from making the same old ‘cock-ups’ as most of you guys are good buggers!
🙂
I see that Kamala is at it AGAIN.
This time in Puerto Rico, wearing that dopey hyena grin at some public get together. The singing was in Spanish. I thought Kamala spoke some Spanish? Who knew.
Anyhow the local drummers got to Kamala’s brain and she was really ‘getting into it’ grinning like a loon and started clapping to the bass beat nodding her head and having a good time. Trouble is the lyrics that the crowd was dancing to was asking of Kamala … ” what the hell are you doing in Puerto Rico? Screwing .. ahem … us again (or words to that effect) and whatever is the local idiom for “go piss up a rope Kamala”.
The local luminaries realised that Kamala was unawares of her surroundings and some kind soul then suggested that Kamala should at least stop clapping along!
Red faces all around but the crowd thought it very funny apparently.
I’ve done gone lost my Kamala ‘home goal’ score sheet, damn-it! Now I’m going to have to start one from scratch.
Still that won’t take long.
🙂
HEH
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
As part of ‘Operational Grapple’ that were a series of atomic tests in South Australia and H bomb tests on Christmas Island in the Pacific in what is now called the Kiribati Islands. The actual test was a specific test shot called ‘Short Granite’ and registered 1 Megaton or equivalent of 70 times the size of the Hiroshima atomic bomb!
The bomb was dropped from a 4 engined jet bomber called the Valiant, which was part of the V Bomber series of high altitude nuclear bombers. The Valiant was the second type in the independent British V-Bomber nuclear force that included the Victor and of course the incredible Vulcan. The Valiant actually didn’t have the ‘legs’ really and could only carry a single thermonuclear bomb. The Vulcan had both the ‘legs’and height capability to carry two 1.37 Mt H bombs at high level and a ‘magic’ electronic warfare suite to penetrate the Soviet’s warning defences and missile fences. Eventually even the Vulcan had to alter its attack profile as Russian missile defences improved. The Vulcan went to a Hi-Lo-Hi profile had had a dual target capability to kill two separate Soviets cities, in a Primary and Secondary targeting Suite. The Vulcan’s electronic warfare suite was more advanced that the USAF systems, which also pissed of the US Administration at the time.
Meanwhile the Valiant dropped the ‘Short Granite’ 1 Mt thermonuclear warhead over Christmas Island which exploded at 8,000 feet, after the Valiant bomber had completed it’s high speed escape profile.
Much to the chagrin of the US authorities who wanted nukes restricted to the US and grudgingly the USSR, and offered Britain a ‘piece of paper’ that ‘guaranteed’ an American nuclear response if ever the UK was nuked. The Brits didn’t believe’ the piece of paper guarantee’ and spent treasure establishing an independent nuclear deterrent.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
In fact the Brits who were in the middle of a slanging match with the US about independent British nuclear capability were probably NOT real H-bombs but in fact ‘boosted’ and ‘double boosted’ (the third Orange test in 1957) fission devices. I think to US did their first true thermonuclear detonation in 1953, and the Brits dropped a real H-bomb in 1958. By then the US grudgingly allowed a small amount of research that was incorporated into the Brit H-Bomb as they were well on the way to doing it anyway.
The Australians too didn’t trust American ‘guarantees’ of risking US cities, in the defence of Australian or Brit cities under Russian H-bomb attack, so a joint program was instituted at Jervis Bay 100 miles south of Sydney to build a dual set of Breeder Reactors that would supply BOTH British and Australia with large supplies of Plutonium. The cover was that these two Breeders would also supply Sydney with electricity which was true however the primary use was breeding Plutonium for independent thermonuclear weapons that guaranteed and independent thermonuclear / nuclear MAD defence.
That was a step too far as Britain had already stared down US threats when the Brits built their own nuclear warheads with Australian and British research. That is when Eisenhower made the threat of total economic warfare against Britain and Australia if the twin Breeder reactors were completed at Jervis Bay. This time Britain blinked and the Australian reactors that were about 50 % complete were left to rot in the ground.
I, as an eleven year old, school kid with a perchance for ‘all things physics’ remember the threats myself in the news, though they were couched in ‘diplomaticees’. It was a time when Prof. Harry Messel ‘a yank’ running the Physics department t Sydney University, and Butler was the Sydney University Vice Chancellor (one of the inner core of the ‘Manhatten Project’ was joined by Sir Mark Oliphant then Governor of South Australia, also an inner circle member of the ‘Manhattan Project’ . Butler and Messel were running programs for kids about to enter high school who had a perchance for physics and chemistry. I didn’t get inside the inner sanctum at Sydney University where 15 of my classmates accessed as part of the 100, but I did get to watch from a breakout room filled with the ‘dregs’ of would be physics students watching on 17″ black and white TVs. 🙂
Heady times! Brian Lederer my best mate in my class of 72 souls, was admitted to the University’s ,briefing room. He ended up becoming the emeritus professor of theoretical physics at Sydney University.
Brian decided that we needed added mass to increase the momentum of a bike to break the current record in downhill racing near Queens Park and Centennial Park in Sydney. Alas we had an equipment failure and the seat bolt loosened the seat tipped up and dropped me onto the rear tyre (no there was no mudguard) and the friction burned a hole in my jeans, much to my chagrin and Brian’s amusement!
Turns out that Sir Mark Oliphant, august nuclear physicist and State Governor was almost surely also a Soviet Agent! One of MANY that inhabited the Manhatten Project! Butler however was true blue
🙂
Some things are worse than death.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13235061/torture-russia-putin-prisons-criminals.html
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
When we were subjecting SAS applicants to methods of interrogation training prior to their qualifying as possible candidates, they were warned and told how to pace themselves as they were expected to last a minimum of 40 hours so that operational material they had memorised would have been changed by then.
During their selection process they ended up in the Int corps for a couple of days. ALL hallucinated within 24 hours but some could you tell how long they had been captive within a couple of hours whilst others had no idea of time whatsoever. They were held in Soviet type interrogation conditions (although unbeknown to they we had a doctor and two psyche monitoring them 24/7 covertly). I still believe that we seriously compromised some candidates psychologically and we knew that some suffered accidental physical trauma.
When got them they had already been through months of selection and had been hunted for a week in an arid snowy desert with no food or water except what they could find. Helicopters and ‘hunter teams ‘ and dog teams tracked them, and as a control mechanism to ensure that they didn’t get so offtrack they might get lost and die of exposure, they were forced to transit known locations, to collect small ‘extras’ from ‘agents’, like a button compass or a small plastic ziplock bag. If they got caught they would be transported back to the base of the desert region and they would begin again start climbing from scratch!
Eventually everyone was caught after a week on the run. Choppered to a Primary Interrogation facility about 60 Km away set 100 feet underground in a tunnel complex, Had a medical check, a psych check, stripped and probed for hidden contraband, issued a baggy black set of overalls, an oversized runners without socks. given a number that was etched on the back of both hands and on their forehead , had blackout goggles over their eyes and placed in the ‘tank with white noise 2 dB below hearing loss, and stood in wall pressure standing positions, against a concrete wall or forced to sit on concrete covered with sharp gravel for the next 40 hours. The STANAG required 1 hour of sleep and they were placed on a metal wide wove with a wet bag of sand for a pillow. Woken with a bucket of ice water after they had their 1 hour and it was then straight into ‘Harsh’ for what could be hours. They were all required to experience at least once Harsh; Technical Attack; Soft; and ; Mental Dislocation / Boring.
We also has to expose them to ‘ploys’ depending on the evolving assessments of the Psychs and doctor. Tat could include ‘mutt & jeff’ plays where there was a threat of the ‘good’ interrogator being called away leaving the prisoner ‘alone’ with the bad interrogator with the threat of sexual attack made plain. Pain ploys were candidates saw (or thought they saw) other prisoners suffering horrific beatings complete with excrement and blood covered walls and floor, allowing a candidate … ‘accidentally’ but preplanned …. see another candidate naked with their feet in a bucket of water chained down in a chair with electrodes attached to penis and their tongue. As the one being interrogated transited the scene he lost sight of the scene for 5 seconds and the victim was swept away and a surrogate put in their place, of similar build including their blackout goggles. The lighting was dodgy and atmospheric (low wattage bulb swinging in a breeze)(fan assisted).
Religious ploys were permitted and on occasion I heard catholic confessions from candidates whilst dressed as an airforce padre. ( I apologised at EndEx individually to them , but they had been pre warned 6 months prior to accept nothing at face value.) Nobody was ever electrically shocked but a few ‘Academy Awards were awarded for screening Intel guys acting as dupes.
I used to spend the odd night off and tole my wife that if I was having nightmares then I must have still been OK.
We also found an ACTUAL sadist amongst the intel guys and got he out of there forever! We called him Boris as a joke before we realised his true inclinations and he said to me whilst operating on a ‘mutt & jeff’ scenario …. “Geeees sir we make a great team!” The penny dropped soon after and I had to go and have a shower! Ughhh!
EndEx when the survivors were trying to not vomit the bacon and eggs, they were wrapped in blankets and brought together when an Int Officer dressed in KGB uniform dragged the last candidate still shackled and masked handcuffed him into a chair. His verdict was read out and the ‘pretend KG officer drew his pistol and appeared to shoot the prisoner in the hear blowing the chair onto the ground.
The CO SAS Regiment then came in and said to the successful candidates …. DON’T GET CAPTURED!’
That was when these candidates began their year of training before getting their ‘buff beret’
Singapore-flagged container ship struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. The bridge collapsed, mass casualties, people missing.
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1772514786338619487
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/26/us/baltimore-bridge-collapse#ship-hits-baltimore-key-bridge
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Hard to tell from the videos, but one report says the cargo ship turned into one of the supports.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Another camera angle. There was an explosion.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1772540601193345184
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
an explosion, or just sparks from when the ship hit?
Baltimore is a city I do tech scheduling for.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Ummm….I assume a highly trained pilot was at the controls.
@ coldwarrior:
I think I heard 2.
Ship might have lost power a couple of times, too.
I’ve watched the video. It looks like at least some of the lights that should have been lit on that ship were not. Did it lose some power. It ran directly into a bridge support.
@ eaglesoars:
How does the rudder react when power is lost?
It doesn’t. That boat was drifting. Although I imagine there are several discrete systems on a ship that complex w/backups. This was a complex failure.
As it has a high profile, the wind may have played a part along with currents
right_wing2 wrote:
Appears to be a shower of sparks.
right_wing2 wrote:
Lights went out several times.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That’s kind of what I thought.
@ coldwarrior:
right_wing2 wrote:
Here’s a sped up video with annotations. Two power outages, two recoveries, but too late.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1772566837571539264
The carggo ship Dali was involved in at least one prior accident when it collided with a shipping pier in Belgium (2016). Unknown if the same captain / pilot was involved.
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Here’s the 2am terrorism conspiracy connection.
Ramadan began 11 March and ends 09 April according to the Saudis, 30 days.
11 March + 15 days = 26 March.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yeah, but notice the ship only started turning towards the bridge support when the lights came back on. While lights were off it was going straight and headed for between the supports.
The turn began when lights came back on.
@ Possum:
The rudder is in the rear. The pilot was already freaking out, cranked the wheel hard to starboard causing the ass end of the ship to veer into the bridge support.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
OR the pilot did the opposite and tried to wag the tail the other way, hoping to finesse a close pass when the power went out the second time.
Well this was dumb
RFK Jr. has named far left Democrat donor and activist Nicole Shanahan as his vice president. Nicole provided financial support to both Pete Buttigieg & Biden. She also funded Soros-backed DA George Gascón.
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1772644255430762551
Does anybody know if this completely closes the Baltimore port now? Cuz we’re looking at supply chain issues again and a host of other issues
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Not forgetting there were lives lost in this incident this is going to be a fascinating investigation.
If you look at the tracking data my bet is that they needed to make a slight starboard course correction to go under the bridge in the middle of the channel when the power went out the first time. Commands input and out went the power. Power came back on and ship did as was commanded.
However a minute later than command to starboard was given. So ship tried to go where it was supposed to be, knowing where it was, and where it was not, and the difference of where it was and where it should be and where it used to be…..
Yeah that was the missile thingy.
OK probably my last comment for a while as Walmart just delivered chickin tenders, salsa, dish soap and flour tortillas> Oh and a cheap 5 liter box of wine.
As I had a sip of the wine I cannot now get my head around the scenario where if a ship rudder is full starboard, as in swinging the ass to port which way does everything go if you slam the engines into reverse, but the momentum of the ship means you are still going forward?
From the video the engines obviously went to a higher power state as seen from the black smoke. Excess diesel injected and exhausted only partially burned while engine is speeding up hence black smoke.
@ Possum:
failure analysis is one of my favorite topics.
fail…learn…improve
coldwarrior wrote:
Fully loaded container vessel underway in a narrow seaway that necessitated reasonably ‘way’ to maintain steerage . Has all of the hallmarks of a loss of steerage control in just the wrong place, in a ship with previous ‘form’ of brushing up against permanent barriers in the past. Maintaining adequate ‘way’ in a river system in a fully loaded ship can be a tricky balancing act for a pilot. He needs enough speed to maintain rudder control, especially with a following current but not too much speed that imparts momentum that makes turning the ship in narrow waters safe. All it takes is a loss of ‘way’ and a full load of cargo coupled with any steerage problems and you have a very serious problem.
Time will tell, but I guarantee that steerage questions, mechanical failure of the steerage systems and will be asked and of course the pilot will be the first guy in the ‘box’ before the courts.
eaglesoars wrote:
Has the DNC done a smoke filled rooms number on RFK Jr/ Or perhaps come up with an embarrassing peccadillo from his past? Is RFK Jr. not being tasked by the DNC to minimise the damage to the Biden run?
Hmmmmmm
Aussie Infidel wrote:
The second will be the vessel’s owner.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
The third will be the person who decided not to put any barriers around the bridge supports when the power company put deflective hexagonal concrete barriers around their power poles.
Google maps image view tells a story.
This wine box is quite nice. * burp *
“JUST IN: President Biden reveals that he took the train over the Francis Scott Key Bridge ‘many times’ during his commute even though the bridge didn’t have train tracks.”
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1772684436959797621
@ Possum:
That occurred to me also. Seems like that would have been required even in 1977, but I don’t do bridgework. That’s for the tooth guy to do.
@ Possum:
@ Aussie Infidel:
i don’t know that any useable barriers would work in a collision like that
F=M*A
while A acceleration is not terribly high, Mass is….the force per square inch has to be absurdly high in this collision.
@ coldwarrior:
There was no attempt at deflection. Even on the interstates there are those stripy waater barrels and steel barriers to try to deflect drunk drivers away from the bridges.
Also ship was not going fast, and when it hit bridge support stopped pretty quickly.
If you look at the latest pictures the ship just casually knocked the leg of the bridge and stopped.
https://twitter.com/TBifford/status/1772721634316615846/video/1
Due to time elapsed and low water temperature, search and rescue has been suspended. No survivors, no bodies found yet.
@ Possum:
for bridge failure, its not really a question of what happened before impact. all that matters is physics at and after impact.
i can see several bridges from my back deck (ohio river). there are barges all day up and down. some of these barges when fully loaded are gigantic but not anywhere near a trans-oceanic container ships.
the physics, shockwaves, failures are going to be interesting to see
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
this is why i hate working drownings at our hospital on lake erie in winter.
hypothermia helps…and then it kills
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
You can put money on that too as this ship has previous negative ‘form’!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
But in a river system with an outgoing tide and multiple and complex water movement
M = mv
Where the v (velocity is relative to the ship velocity + the tidal flow)
To maintain velocity that enough to handle rudder forces and ‘way’ (AKA seaway on the outflow means that the actual ship velocity relative to stationary objects can bump up the ‘v’ and mean that the M (AKA Momentum is seriously large and you are going to have serious problems handling all of that M (LARGE momentum in a narrow body of water. )
Same with another fluid called AIR and airplanes landing with a tail wind having huge momentum and trouble stopping!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
But was it the same crew?
@ Aussie Infidel:
again, i am only giving math for the impact of the ship,
weight of the ship M
and it’s speed A
versus the impact point F.
all else is superfluous to the collapse of the bridge. the Moment of Impact, MOI is the reason the bridge failed.
what happened before the impact…well, we will see.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
@ coldwarrior:
2 things occurred, and these have to be kept completely seperate.
1. why loss of control
2. MOI on the bridge pier.
these are mutually exclusive in the ntsb investigation.
i’ll put up a new thread tomorrow.
lots of work and other things going on…mostly good things.
new thread
@ coldwarrior: