Bullet Points:
** It is a lonely life for a Henchman, with long hours spent in isolated outposts that the Uber Eats delivery drivers can never find. (from Johnny Quest) One bright side is that henchmen are higher in the food chain than minions. Whether in Star Wars or Johnny Quest, the Henchmen are inferior shots.
If you are a US citizen, and your evil super-villain employer is not based in the USA, you may qualify for the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. Consult with a reputable tax preparation specialist for details.
Superheroes (minions) take orders from Dr. Benton Quest…
** Those loveable Houthis.
** WASHINGTON, LONDON, and PARIS — Several nations have announced their contributions to Operation Prosperity Guardian, a new multinational security initiative in the Middle East to help protect merchant ships in the Red Sea area from drones and missiles. It’s difficult to bomb the Houthis in Yemen “back to the stone age” when the barbarians essentially live in the stone age. Then again, we could nuke Iran and use their asses for runway lights, thus eliminating the Houthi threat.
** “To pay for this runaway spending spree, the Federal Reserve created trillions of dollars out of nothing, which quickly devalued the currency in less than three years as inflation hit 40-year highs. So, though many Americans earn more today, their larger paychecks buy them less. For 28 of the last 32 months, inflation has outpaced the growth of average weekly earnings.” (Heritage Foundation)
** The Egyptian Wall – Egyptian workers recently completed an 8-10 foot concrete border wall to keep out Palestinians. A security fence topped with barbed wire stands before the concrete wall. And a series of earthen berms are behind the concrete wall. The Egyptians don’t want an invasion of human lice from Gaza.
** Give the gift of ammunition to those you love!
Be the extremist that the media says you are…
** 10% for the Big Guy
Meme-of-the-Day
Housekeeping
In the Spirit of Christmas, all your subscriptions to the Virtual Mirage Blog were automatically renewed! Don’t say that we never gave you anything.
Identify the Aircraft
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Not a Swordfish…
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Fokker G.I
2. Gloster E.28/39
3. Commonwealth CA-13 Boomerang
4. Blackburn Shark
IDA:
1. Fokker G.1 Heavy fighter
2. Gloster E.28/39
3. CAC Boomerang
4. Letov S-328
Steve/HogsbreathSS nailed #4. It’s a Letov S-328. The Blackburn guess was solid because it looks somewhat like one, and I like throwing Blackburn curves.
If I didn’t get any of the others right I was going to get that one. Shot from the hip wound up putting a cns hit to the AI chipset. Nice curve LL
Do the Biden Crime Family known holdings reflect the amount of cash they were raking in, or is it pretty well hidden?
It just seems to me that the Vette and the house don’t reflect the take.
I don’t know where they’ve stashed the take. Clearly, Pedo Joe and Not-a-Doctor Jill have been living beyond what he makes in the US Senate for many decades, and Hunter’s hooker and drug habit is well north of a quarter million a year alone. The income was spread through the entire crime family, and I don’t know if there is a single large pot that they draw from. I wouldn’t be surprised if they use debit cards from foreign banks to buy things.
Should the House Committee be able to discover where?
They have an investigative staff, as does the US Senate, and the power to subpoena records. That works inside the US. Once you leave the US, the US State Department, controlled by the Biden Crime Family, has to issue letters rogatory to the other country to elicit their assistance.
The Executive Branch controls most investigative agencies like US Treasury, that can threaten to cut another nation from using the SWIFT system if they don’t comply. So you’re back to the Biden Crime Family calling the shots on investigations. DOD is normally independent, but the Joint Chiefs are friends of the Swamp (thus the crime family) and enemies of the Republican Party and Pres. Trump. So no help there. Any piece of the government controlled by the President’s Cabinet (including intelligence agencies) will by default, defend Slow Joe and the crime family.
When FJB finally kicks the bucket how will “Dr.” Jill maintain that lifestyle of hers?
The leach will drop from the dead host and will attach itself to a new one. Nature is consistent.
Pretty accurate visual…truth.
she’ll join hunter’s harem.
If slo-jo’s sniffing proclivities go beyond sniffing, I’m sure that’s expensive. Plus the hush money.
His daughter Ashley’s diary outlined what he did at home.
The FBI has it safe and sound.
Ammo is the perfect Christmas gift. If you get the caliber right, you have a very happy shooter. If you get the caliber wrong? They get even more excited, because now they have to buy a gun that shoots that!
You’re a woman after my own heart. Oh, and there is a mention of your shopping date in tomorrow’s bullet points…. the devil made me do it.
Win!Win!..thanks Dorothy for the ProTip I can pass along to the Mrs.
(Altho, knowing her, she may want me to use that to fill her stocking.)
I came home with a new one the other day. Mrs. confiscated it and announced it would be my Christmas present (rolls eyes and shrugs).
You might not want to pass that tip along, of course…….
Houthis. You have a point about no punishment bombing them back to the stone age since they are already there but why not use that 5 inch gun on the front of all of our rusty destroyers to lob a few shells at the launch sites after they launch a missile? We need to do something to discourage them. It seems terribly inefficient to shoot down a $5,000 drone with a multi-million dollar missile.
I bought my son some ammo for Christmas when I was at their house a few weeks ago. Today I bought me some ammo for Christmas.
The subscription renewal to your corner of the blogisphere is much appreciated. Thank you for what you do.
Congratulations to the Egyptians on building a wall. We sure can’t manage it.
The Phalanx CIWS is more than capable of taking out the Houthis drones. Some referred to them as “R2D2s” with a full on chub! I’ve personally witnessed the CIWS take out an enemy drone at sea and a couple of small enemy fast attack boats minzed into chum in the Straights of Hormuz.
https://youtu.be/Zsf38NYzo5Q?si=H1n_nEdcnM02CET4
Well, with something like 700 SARs reports, I’m sure there will be even more companies ‘found’… And I agree, probably most of the $$$ are offshore somewhere.
“In the Spirit of Christmas, all your subscriptions to the Virtual Mirage Blog were automatically renewed! Don’t say that we never gave you anything.”
May I ask politely for a refund? I take cash, check if a bank check…
Cederq, LL offers a great deal, get a VM subscription and get one to your and Phil’s place for free.
I’m thinking of handing out free Busted Knuckles gift cards, Cederq, made in China.
The ONLY automatic subscription I allow (even if I didn’t know about it). So thanks for the renewal, otherwise not sure what I do with that stuff rattling around my spleen if it weren’t vented here in pithy rants and oddball humor attempts. So a yuge thank you for offering a truly altruistic public service…otherwise…that scene in Scanners.
LL, you realize that I’d gladly annually renew my subscription even if you doubled the fee! Heck, with Biden-flation, I could see you having to triple your fee next year! Still worth it…
Bidenflation may bankrupt the blog eventually.
Hey, at least Shrinkflation hasn’t affected the content…altho, come to think of it the text is smaller on my iPad.
Well it’s all very odd, no one seems to want the Palestinians except for, ahem, Canada.
I feel sorry for the Christians, what a nightmare.