Geidi Prime
The Harkonnens are very white – Finland?
They don’t look like they’d handle the summer sun in Arizona (or Arakis) well, so it’s no wonder that things didn’t work out well for them.
Bullet Points:
** Call sign Bayonet.
** Boating with EdB (right) – missed the channel marker by this much.
** Romania has officially confirmed plans to acquire Israel’s Iron Dome, becoming the first European nation to adopt the battle-proven short-range air defense system. Defense Minister Ionuț Moșteanu announced the move on national TV, calling it a key step toward strengthening Romania’s SHORAD-VSHORAD capabilities ahead of a formal deal this fall.
** The illegals are going home – hire Americans.
** Alan Dershowitz speaks out regarding the Epstein files! “I know for a fact that documents are being suppressed, and they’re being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals, I know why they are being suppressed, I know who is suppressing them.”
**U-238 decay – half-lives matter.
** Do MD’s age disproportionately to other people because of stress? A doctor explains how it works. And here. It’s a common theme.
** To people who have a pre-nup, break up? A lawyer who specializes in the field weighs in on the discussion.
** The most English man in the world.
** If you get a Covid shot – you get a voucher for a ‘free’ fountain drink.
** Epstein’s death and its cover-up are proof that democrats and Republicans can work together.
** Globalists are asking American academics whether or not America is breaking the global economy by ending trillions in subsidies for places like Canada and Cambodia. My answer to the question is that I certainly hope that America is doing what’s best for America for a change. I have nothing against Canada (ok, Alberta), but why in the world was the US providing direct cash subsidies to them? Yes, it’s true that the narcos heavily subsidize them and are heading in the direction of the Mexican narco state, but they’re not quite there yet. To the extent that both Canada and Mexico became willing catspaws of China, we owe them nothing. To the extent to which America drank Chinese Kool-Aid, we need to prosecute and incarcerate.
** British foreplay. It’s the only place on the planet where beans on toast qualifies as cuisine.
It’s Time to Revisit this:
More from Mr. Beck
Is Putin popular in Russia?
I’ve read various opinions on the Internet. It’s not unlike the blind Indians feeling the elephant and explaining what an elephant is like. Russia has 11 time zones, which currently observe times ranging from UTC+02:00 to UTC+12:00. Daylight Saving Time (DST) has not been observed in Russia since October 26, 2014. From March 27, 2011, to October 26, 2014, permanent DST has been used. All of the money in Russia flows to Moscow and St. Petersburg (the same can be said for pretty Russian women). The standard of living is higher in Moscow, and Vladimir Putin enjoys a particular popularity that flows from eating the food that inadvertently falls from Putin’s table. If the strongman loves you, prosperity flows to you. If he doesn’t, you commit suicide by jumping from a window.
The oil-rich areas like Tyumen (Siberia) also have their prosperity that keeps people content. If you’re not content, keep your feelings to yourself. Smile and pretend to work, and the state will give you a small allotment, which is better than freezing to death or starving in the harsh winter.
Zampolits (political officers) and the militia (law enforcement) are rewarded for their loyalty. It’s Russia. That’s how it was in the time of the Czars, and that’s how it is today. The disastrous adventure in Ukraine is tolerated in Russia, as these things have always been endured. Hanging on in quiet desperation until death’s icy fingers take you is something that the Russians are very familiar with.
There is no way back for Vladimir Vladimirovich from Ukraine. Forever war works for the Russians today in much the same way as it did during their Great Patriotic War (WWII) with Germany. Do the Russians love Putin? No. But they’ve always had (and needed) a strong man to call the shots for them. If it weren’t this despot, it would be a different one.
The Soviet Union (primarily Russia) suffered an estimated 24 to 27 million total casualties during World War II, including both military personnel and civilians. This represents the highest number of casualties of any country involved in the war. Stalin remained ‘popular’. Stalin’s government was responsible for widespread political repression, including purges, show trials, and executions of political opponents and perceived enemies. Stalin’s policies involved the forced deportation and relocation of various ethnic groups, often with devastating consequences. The (botched?) collectivization of agriculture under Stalin led to widespread famine, particularly the Holodomor in Ukraine, resulting in the deaths of millions. And still, he retains popularity in much of Russia as the sort of strong leader they needed. These lessons are not lost on Putin.
Putin may have concerns about the United States, but we operate within the context of political cycles. Obama today (selling uranium to Russia), Trump tomorrow, then Pedo Joe Biden, then President Trump again. The only thing consistent in America is inconsistency. Europe is bloated, rich, and risk-averse, and Russia has devoted generations to infiltrating and undermining them.
The Russian people outside of Moscow or St. Petersburg may not have much cause to love Putin, but he’s who they have, and they are familiar with suffering over countless generations. And Slav = slave. It’s not an unfamiliar situation.
Despite initially showing resilience against Western sanctions due to its energy exports to China and India, Russia faces a bleak future. Its economy, heavily reliant on military spending for the ongoing war in Ukraine, is plagued by soaring inflation and high interest rates, which are stifling investment and growth. The war, causing massive casualties and emigration, is depleting Russia’s young workforce. A lack of innovation, as evidenced by its low ranking on the Global Innovation Index, and its dependence on non-renewable resources further dim its prospects. With no shift in Kremlin policy, Russia’s “greatness” hinges on nuclear and cyber capabilities, risking long-term stagnation.
Pres. Trump’s Big Beautiful Tariff Threat?
It’s a multi-axis threat because the US Congress will impose a 500% tariff on any country (think China) that does business with Russia. So it’s more than a 100% tariff. Additionally, Iran won’t be a trading partner. I expect that Israel knocked out railway bridges linking Russia and Iran, and if it doesn’t move by rail, it doesn’t move. The UAE will follow the US in sanctioning Russia, and that will hurt because the Russian oligarchs could fly there and play. That action may be over, and where will the mistress shop? If anything else, that might bring the war to a swift conclusion.
Russia can make do even if the soup is nearly clear broth. Naturally, Moscow and St. Petersburg will muddle through without much in the way of shortages. There are still a few pariah states like Cuba that will trade with Russia despite 500% tariffs from the US because we don’t trade with Cuba, but there aren’t many of those. Brazil will flip us off, but I doubt they’ll deal with Russia in the face of punitive tariffs from the US. Russia is on a total war footing, and if a million peasants starve, it’s not even a PR problem for Vlad.
I suppose it will take the US fifty days to deploy enough new artillery in Ukraine to disrupt the Russian lines of supply and communication that link them to the soldiers at the front. Armies run on logistics. That’s why the fifty-day deadline has been emplaced. It’s summer, the muddy season (Rasputitsa) won’t begin for a couple of months. The Patriot batteries will down incoming Russian Missiles (blue and yellow dome). They will mitigate the destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure – more of a terror/vengeance weapon as Vlad currently uses them.
The Persian Blood Covenant
An Iranian movement has reportedly raised more than $40 million for the assassination of President Donald Trump, as the country’s senior religious clerics make clear that ‘every cell of the resistance in the West is charged with carrying out this sentence.’
Iranian leaders recently issued two death warrants, or fatwas, against Trump and deemed him an “enemy of Allah” who must be killed. Those calls prompted the creation of a new organization dubbed the “Blood Covenant,” which claims to have raised nearly $40.3 million for the president’s assassination, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).”
By the beard of the Prophet – they’ll need more money than that. Stop wasting money on feeding the population – contribute it (with the appropriate skim) toward obliterating the Great Satan. You know, some undercover Mossad guy is behind that, collecting all the money and using it to buy replacement Iron Dome missiles from Raytheon.
The AutoPen
Pedo Joe Biden spoke to The New York Times by phone in an apparent effort to get ahead of the autopen scandal, even though the train had left the station months ago. The roughly 10-minute interview didn’t do him any favors.
Biden sent mixed signals to The Times about his supposed involvement in issuing a record number of pardons and commutations in the final days of his presidency.
While Biden claimed he personally made each decision, internal documents reported by The New York Times suggest otherwise. These records show Biden approved only broad eligibility criteria, while aides and the Bureau of Prisons finalized lists and used the autopen without further presidential review. Emails between senior officials—such as Ed Siskel and Jeff Zients—confirmed that the autopen’s use was coordinated after the criteria were set.
Biden aides (with a 10% kickback to the big guy) were selling indulgences in the form of pardons for a couple of million dollars each. I know that for a fact, and the pay-to-play will come out. I knew some of the people involved personally. Although I don’t have signed confessions, I am aware that the scam was intended to enrich them in their departure from the White House while indemnifying the criminals who infested the government.
Identify the Aircraft
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It has an interesting provenance.
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Parting Shot
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1 is Douglas VC-118 built to carry Pres Truman. Named after his home town.
Exactly!
That aircraft ( and a lot of other AF1s) is on display at the Air Force Museum in Ohio. The museum is free..
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Douglas VC-118 (variant of DC-6), used as transport by President Truman
2. BAC 221
3. Xi’an JH-7A
Well done!
Hire SANE Americans.
Going to be perambulating around Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska for the new few weeks. Doubt I’ll be spending much time online.
You’ll be missed. Travel safely, check in when you surface.
Inte Finsk, Dansk. The Baron is after all the father of Amleth of Dane-mark. Also, not Harkonainens.
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“both Canada and Mexico became willing catspaws of China”
I feel so lucky that the US is totally NOT the catpaw of any other nation state. WE decide who to bomb, and to arm, and to blockade, solely based on American interests. America’s foreign policy is ONLY about what’s best for the US.
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“24 to 27 million total casualties during World War II”
Bolsheviks: Hah! Hold my beer. (And Maoists say: Hold my baijiu. Also Maoists: Thanks, totally Russian advisor Mikhail Borodin. And IJN says, thanks, totally German-American Kuhn and Loeb and Schiff!)
Bozhemoi, but Patton (whose death was a totally random and wholly not suspicious accident) was entirely correct.
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“It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time.”
— Uncle Aleksandr
Odd comment from me as your comment raised the thought…chalking it up to maybe I’m more seasoned now and have too much time on my hands to ponder such age-old philosophical improbability’s…
I find the constant BS fighting between nations/factions/ etc like 8th Grade boys being idiot juveniles battling over which side is to be skins vs. shirts in Dodgeball, the shirt helps with getting hit with the small ball…but only a little…regardless shirt or not, both sides end up with varying size stinging red marks. Usually the less athletic kid loses big time and has to tape his glasses afterward. Somebody always pays the price, and it’s always the Peon, not the coach. This armwrestling stupidity is often because someone decides they can’t be happy with their territory or wealth or [pick any inane reason], and wants MORE; someone else wants what you have and then makes a mess of things (basic criminal behavior) trying to get it. Tell me…why wasn’t that evil cretin Castro taken out early on, why was he left to destroy a beautiful thriving island country and people and nobody did a damn thing? (Yeah…world domino effect politics and all…) i say it’s okay to rid evil from the world…or Congress for that matter (in mind are those arrogant ones way past their warranty).
Yes, totally rhetorical and naive sounding…because…”what lies in the hearts of man”. I get it…yet when PDJT righteously takes out some Middle East warlord type why is it there are weak-minded or agenda-driven types who will come to the defense of the warlord (or Hamas or Iran or, or)…usually from their safe space or cheap seat?
It’s an age-old moral dilemma, because who is the arbiter? Joe’s Autopen? HRC? Lindsey Graham?…who appears to want wars despite looking like a scared boy scout on a nighttime Snipe hunt when his flashlight quits. Yet…I trust PDJT to make right decisions in these matters. Of course, all this might be because I’ve been watching the 2016 Shooter series (great binge watch), might have skewed my thinking some that bad guys need taking out sooner rather than later to avoid them doing harm to good people…and concluded that anyone not behind that philosophy is either warped mentally or completely stupid. Maybe it’s not solvable, been going on since Cain and Abel.
Then again, maybe I was up too late last night…
Taking out Castro would have been unacceptable due to international norms at the time with sovereign nations. Even evil sovereign nations.
That’s why you set up an undercover operation with deniability like the Bay of pigs. Or poison cigars. But nothing overt.
(1) The Baron got around, bless his heart. If the old guy hadn’t been sewing his seed, we wouldn’d have Lady Jessica and offspring. If he saw a pile of rocks, he’d hump it in the hope there was a snake inside.
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(2) We’ve been discussing British, Israeli, Chinese, etc. manipulation of the US. Even the French, when they joined the Revolution in late 1777. Perhaps we should also discuss American “election interference” as well since we spend hundreds of billions of dollars to do that every year. You can argue it was the purpose of USAID to influence and push elections until the sexual freaks used it to fund the deviat show. My comment about Mexico and Canada was the degree to which they’d been swayed. And to be fair, the Red Chinese have FEARED Western influence (McDonalds being one of the prime deliverers of culture to the youth) which changed things in the Celestial’s patch of ground. Xi’s backlash against US including building back the Bamboo Curtain can be seen as just that.
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(3) Joe McCarthy was right. So was Patton.
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(4) I don’t know if they slaughtered more than the Mongols did in their time of ascendence. There are more people on the Earth, so it’s a difficult comparison. Genghis would have said, “hold my airag.”
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The last time I read Dune was in high-school, and I don’t remember too much about it. I was more interested in Heinlein and Niven at the time.
This is the perfect opportunity!!
I started Heinlein from “the wrong end” so to speak. I began with Stranger in a Strange Land and Friday. Those two slightly, then moreso, respectively, put me off of Heinlein. I SHOULD have started with his earlier “juveniles” which were wonderful, but I didn’t know it at the time, since SiaSL and Friday were enough to make me move on. Niven, yes. Pournelle, more so. Poul Anderson and H. Beam Piper, MUCH more so.
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As to some of the other “great SF” writers, I didn’t care for Clarke, and I actively disliked Asimov (maybe Foundation was not the place to start [1]). And I wasn’t hardly the person I am today. If anything I was an NPR-listening, small-L libertarian (but then I turned 19 and grew out of THAT particular high-IQ idiocy). I was bored by Clarke (specifically his flat characters that I can’t even remember a single one of; at the time I had no idea about his alleged inordinate fondness for children) and as for Asimov, I didn’t know about the Futurians business, nor his Upper West Side Manhattan socialism; I just didn’t care for his writing style nor his characters. Now, of course, I am not surprised.
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[1] Political commentator “Morgoth” has an interesting piece on what is wrong with the worldview underlying Foundation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxTz4pIXTFY
Power through the thick northern accent, if you can. I’m not sure I agree with Morgoth about Spengler, but I think he is spot on regarding Hari Seldon’s (or Asimov’s) great plan to Save Civilization. My G-d, the arrogance! But it’s EXACTLY the sort of mindset that underlies Bolshevism (and other utopian, “world repairing” schemes that are in reality not hardly the door to earthly paradise as claimed, but rather the gaping maw of Hell on earth). “Psychohistory” my skinny yellow ass.
“Foundation” makes much more sense when you understand that Asimov was an anti-American leftist socialist pompous, misogynistic asshole.
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I read most of his fiction before reading the Foundation trilogy. They were okay, far better than Bradbury from my opinion. But I read the Foundation trilogy twice, and was totally disgusted with them by the end of the second read-through.
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Apparently Asimov had no problem with programming whole societies, with the rule of the (academic) elite over the workers, with the restriction of knowledge to only the elite class.
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Reading the rest of the fiction again after reading FT and it’s plain to see that the egotistical turd-burgler was a complete jerk.
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Still hate Bradbury. I’ve tried his garbage and it’s still garbage. Much prefer David Drake, John Ringo, Travis Taylor, Tom Kratman, Heinlein’s earlier works (there’s something creepy about Lazarus Long being pursued and pursuing twin underage girls that were based on his own DNA.) You can see, from his writings, when exactly Heinlein suffered brain damage from a stroke or something. He went kind of pervy afterwards. Before Stranger his works make sense and aren’t pervy. Starting with Stranger he gets weird. Some of his books are good, but they still get weird.
Well, of course, baked beans qualifies as bloody cuisine! Stick some Sweet Baby Ray’s in it, see how you feel about it then. That’ll get ya going.
Anyway, it’s not flirting unless they’re on hot buttered toast with grilled cheese on top and then a poached egg.
Do I qualify the most English lady in the world if I take my own teabags on the plane to America too?
BBQ sauce indeed help with baked beans, but my taste runs to Gates Extra Hot, a Kansas City based sauce.
I’ve noticed that whatever you put in beans it tastes nice. Particularly Cowboy beans. Cowboys know what they are doing. When I first had cowboy beans at cowboy church I wrote down the recipe and asked all the ladies at the church to give me their favourite version and to this day I still make them in England. I reckon I could open one of those vans and go to summer fairs and serve cowboy beans to people and make a killing. I just can’t be bothered.
What about heart attack potatoes? Do you make those?
Cowboy beans are wonderful, but so are American style baked beans where you add brown sugar or molasses, American yellow mustard, tons of BBQ sauce, chopped onions and a heavy American bacon to bean ratio. Then you re-bake the whole thing getting a little glaze on top. Some people also add pineapple to that melange but I think that’s a bridge too far.
I’m drooling….
Me too.
That sounds like I need to make it when I get home tonight. Thanks for the inspiration!
Don’t forget to put a bunch of hot dogs on top of the glaze area during the final bake, they should be black splotches on them or they’re not done… then add in some garden fresh tomatoes on a plate with sugar as the salad… of course yiu could add some potatoes in the oven too …crack open the tater, butter, drop on plate, smother with the beans and dogs…
Liquid Smoke adds a little something extra.
Pineapple! Forsooth!!
So Earl Grey is different in The Motherland than The Colonies that you have to bring in the carry on?
I have personally witnessed Jules committing the ULTIMATE sin – drinking pre-sweetened tea with ice in it (in Texas). I’m sure that since then, she confessed her sin and received some sort of absolution, but it doesn’t matter. She let cold tea cross her teeth and that is enough. She also ate (most of) a chicken fried steak that was the size of a large pizza. There were no beans on toast available, so in order to keep from starving, she resorted to chicken friend steak. She didn’t eat all of the sides either and leaving food on your plate is also some sort of a sin in Texas.
Well now, see, that explains everything, a quick trip to a Texas eatery makes a Euro-Convert to a new world of some good eatin’ (could include any greasy spoon in the South with amazing fried chicken). I mean, what the hay is a ‘crisp’? Mr. Lay is rolling over in his grave. No matter, Jules is definitely a proper open-minded Brit convert…welcome aboard…rootbeer floats all-around.
What did you put up a few months back, “Wait until they get AirCon over there.”
The level of civilization that accompanies the arrival of air conditioning changes cultures.
LL, we need to ship Jules a Mr. Cool DYI kit for the cottage…not only would the neighbors be eminently jealous (altho, the pitchfork scene from Frankenstein may result), the wolf hybrids would thank us, let us in without incident if we choose to make a visit.
I stopped a place somewhere around lake Amistad Texas for dinner & had a Chicken fried steak. The choice was “regular” or “Texas sized”, I looked around the place and went with “regular”… the steak hung off the edges on my plate!
I’m not sure what they did if you got it “Texas sized”.
They lay it on a slab of plywood, not a plate.
Everything Larry says is true. Through the first time I tried iced tea, I hated it. I was in a restaurant in Texas and I’d just got there, fresh off the boat, and they brought me this thing. I drank it out of politeness only to find they refilled it for nothing. When they weren’t looking, I tipped it into the plant pot and kept doing that until our dinner party left. However, once the heat hit me, I kind of got used to it but it isn’t for me. I’m a hot tea kind of gal. I’ll also have you know that despite all the wonderful things Larry has witnessed me eating in the wonderful land of the free, he also tried to get me to eat a testicle. I didn’t fall for it.
They’re called Rocky Mountain Oysters…
After 10 years in Texas, my husband still imports Ahmad Tea, and while he’s reconciled himself to me ordering iced tea at restaurants and making cold brew coffee at home, he looks at me like I’m speaking heresy when I suggest he try the icy option.
The Rocky Mountain Oysters are like calamari – very good when cooked right, chewy as a shred of rubber tyre when cooked wrong.
P.S. Your cards are even better in person than the look online! I look forward to matching the person and occasion to the card… especially the cheeky one!
What no rare T bone steak, baked potato and green beans? I hope she didn’t ask for trout…
Well, I bring PG Tips or Tetley. I don’t think you can get them over there unless you go to one of those funny British shops that you have where everything cost 10 times more than it does in England and that’s already insanely expensive. Easier to bring my own . As for Earl Grey, it depends on who’s making the Earl Grey because there are different levels of class when it comes to the perfume Bergamot, I’ll have you know, Paul.
If you add a lot of lemon and sugar (with ice of course) to your tea, you can’t taste the difference between the expensive upper class tea or the regular tea they sell at Walmart.
I feel more British just knowing that…pinky finger extend of course. I come by it due to a tiny bit of included English heritage, which is in total conflict to some gnarly Scots-Irish Macdougal Clan from the wayback. When I watch Rob Roy I can relate.
We get Tetley (purple box; probably floor sweepings) at Wal-Mart or Kroger here in Atlanta suburbs. Very few other Brit brand teas available outside specialty stores.
World Market in Fort Collins carries some British teas.
Is it Mariage Fereres? Love the Casablanca…..
U-238; were SMR’s the power source for the Imperium travels to the Unna solar system?
Also, still wondering about the title for the 2nd short story of “Conduct Unbecoming.” Presently re-reading ” Half Life” together with my girlfriend. ( same one I’ve been with for 44 yrs).
You’re referring to “HALF LIFE”. Half Life is an unpublished novel, and I took the first few chapters and cut them into the short story you are reading. There was a much deeper story and plot that dealt with an Earth Fleet headed toward the Unna System to sort out the engineered species. The young girl, Mary, shared experiences with a young man who is part of the invasion fleet. In essence, what she saw, he saw. The psychic connection is explored.
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There are issues with time dilation (a fact of near light speed travel) and other science that are addressed as the fleet approaches. Propulsion was not mentioned in any degree except that the Earthers who were space faring replaced their blood with a different, nutrient rich compound that kept them alive while in hybernation – and had some interesting side effects. I could possibly publish that novel, but I didn’t think anyone would want to read it.
I was wondering if the earth fleet could travel along at the speed of light. Hibernation and it’s side effects is a peculiar aspect. Sure enjoying tee excerpt of the partially written work! Many morals to consider within the well paced drama.
There are a lot of wild theoretical possibilities. Could we reduce a human soul to a digital signal, project it and have “you” placed inside of a robot or a clone? That’s the only possible way to move at close to or even nearly at the speed of light.
Problem with going faster and faster to a reasonable fraction of light speed isn’t that it takes more and more energy. That can be fixed.
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The real problem is the faster you go the more deadly impacts with stuff is. And the corollary of the faster you go the smaller the stuff impacting you has to be.
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Currently there is no shielding available other than mass. Like building a huge thick plate of steel or nickel-iron to go on the front of your vehicle, which, duh, reduces the mass available for everything else. So you could have an Ohio-sub sized spaceship that goes slow, but has lots of usable space for things like people, food, fuel, propulsion, weapons and stuff. Or you could have an Ohio-sub sized spaceship that goes fast and has a dense impact shield on the front and you now have room for a crew of 2 and 2 month’s rations and fuel, no weapons, few sensors, very little other stuff.
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Until you fix the ‘shield’ issue, go-fast is like putting a drag-engine into a Yugo and trying to do a Gran Prix race at 100mph all the time. Yeah, you may get to go fast, until you hit that rock in the road, or a bunny tries to cross the course, or God realizes what you’ve just done to a Yugo and hits the ‘Smite’ button…
“…but I didn’t think anyone would want to read it.”
I don’t think you could be more wrong; there are more than several of us who’d pay good money to enjoy your maunderings.
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3X!!!
(But Hungry Ghosts first…please)
“Is America is breaking the global economy?”;
I really like the renewed patriotism of ” America First” GO USA! Your academic answer in short is a hope I share as well. As far the kool-aid stands, prosecution and lock ups may swirl the drain but actually never take the heads of the snake all the way down. $20 of rope, is far better than the repeal$ proce$$ i m h o. Would Public Executions for high crimes and treason be an effective means to deter further sell outs to the chicoms or globalists?
When you consider that the US has funded China’s rise along with rebuilding Japan and Europe (mainly Germany), and drained the gold from Britain to finance their wars, destroying their empire, the Global Economy has been us spending our seed.
If tariffs didn’t work, then why does everyone else tariff the ever-living daylights out of our stuff?
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I’m at the point of ‘F-them. F-them all.’
“…even though the train had left the station months ago.”…with his mind in tow. The most irrelevant ex-President on the planet.
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The Brits have some strange practices, no wonder a bunch got on a few leaking boats to head into the American wilds. But hey, whatever floats yer boat. Better be some seriously good beans, especially considering the timeframe from consumption, might “unsaddle the horse” if too long.
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#2: The Stinger, very pointy, looks inspired by a hummingbird maybe.
#3: Would not enjoy seeing this in my Cessna rearview, intimidating to say the least.
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Mr. Colt was a good businessman with that deal. Reminds me of two Polish immigrant shop owners, both clothing stores, next to each other. Constantly having pricing feuds, complaining about the other, and telling people they each had the best merchandise. Oddly these two shop owners passed away in the same week. The building owner had to clear out for the new tenants and discovered a secret door connecting the shops, the apartments above were also connected. They were brothers…and clearly excellent salesman as they did very well.
Am I the only one with Epstein File fatigue?
No. It’s asinine when other massive priorities exist (hence PDJT’s saying as much last week to that idiot reporter who pressed it).
The truth may eventually come out in the wash…but my opinion is this is being used as distraction cover for the [real] perps so as to not upset current world-level deal making.
It’s been lingering out there for a long time with very powerful people lobbying and spending vast sums to cover it up. Point of Fact: There are other “resorts” like Epsteins that are used by the rich and famous. His wasn’t the only one but he prospered from blackmail.
My theory: PDJT and the administration now have access to the Epstein files and are using the info therein to drag folks into line with the President’s plans. There’s no dirt on PDJT and his team in the files, thus the files cannot be held over his head like they can for many others.
Just my $0.02
That may not be far from the truth.
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The Files business was handled about as poorly as possible by Bondi. If you are not going to release anything, you don’t wind people up for months talking about how they’re “on my desk”. Bondi reflects on the Trump administration, for good or for ill. I have no idea if she’s merely the Designated Fall Girl, or if she’s an ineffectual idiot, but it does NOT look good. Thor’s ballocks, how stupid can you get? If you are planning on stonewalling, then you bloody well START by lowering expectations. Start by saying that the Files have been in the hands of Bad People for years, and who knows what damage the Bidens (and Obama, and the Clintons, and the Comeys etc etc) have done. Who knows what they took out, and worse, what they might have PUT IN. (Yeah, put in. If I were a political operative, I’d ADD the names of my political enemies to the Epstein Files, especially if they were clean people. It ain’t rocket science. Duh.)
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As for “higher priorities”? Bullshit. There is no higher priority. At the risk of sounding like a Libertarian (gods help me), the only reason government should be suffered to exist is if it protects the innocent and metes out justice impartially. If we allow the wealthy to rape (and likely murder) children (while some poor mother in the UK gets literally sent to prison for tweeting something about immigration) then the system is utterly broken and illegitimate. If our (“our” hah!) system is that broken, then it is not worth preserving. The Files are symbolic of how a tiny minority can get away with not only literal felonies, but complete moral rot. (And to make it worse, THEY are sanctimoniously condescending toward US.) It’s not actually that important if Clive Bankman the currency speculator, or “Baldy” Filmwin the actor, raped a 17-yo (as heinous as that act is), but it IS important to know that the Bankmans and the Filmwins (and un-sweating twits called Andrew for that matter) can’t get away with serious crimes. (Sure, that sort has ALWAYS gotten away with great crimes, but it is crucial to at least PRETEND there is such a thing as impartial justice.)
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I hope y’all are right about the 5D chess and leveraging the Files (which don’t exist) to achieve Trump’s political ends, but I doubt it.
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FIAT JUSTITIA, RUAT CAELUM.
“If you get a Covid shot – you get a voucher for a ‘free’ fountain drink.” …And if it kills you and destroys your family’s lives (or reduces your fertility, or God-only-knows-what-else), well, “Sucks to be you!”
Avoid the boosters too, BPD.
[blank stare]…when that distant (or not) family member is proud of their five booster shots while bragging they only had Covid three times and it could’ve been way worse…then lifts their sleeve to show the ‘I’ve Been Vax’d’ tattoo.
I remember the immigration videos. I agree. Such a hot issue right now.
Have a fabulous day and week. :)
House Atreides, living on a planet full of water and their chief strategist wasn’t smart enough to suggest they just ship water to Arakis in exchange for spice. No wonder the floating fat man was able to knock off the Duke.
Woulld the Space Guild have allowed the importation of water? They had the monopoly until Leto #3 dealt with the problem personally there on the planet.
Dune Part 3 (Messiah) has started filming!
Release date is scheduled for December 2026.
Don’t cover yourself with sand trout, Recargador. Just resist the urge.
The Wife and I just finished watching the Sci-Fi production of “Dune” and “Children of Dune” which followed the books very well. Acting was good, music good, costumes and sets very good, the CGI isn’t up to today’s standard but also aren’t as bad as today’s CGI.
As to other productions of Dune, I’d love to hear your critique of the Paul/Feyd-Rautha knife fight in the 1984 Lynch film.
I don’t recall the Syfy version of the fight.
House Atreides could also have mined the outer Ort cloud for ice asteroids. Or any ice belts in the inner system. But the Spacing Guild controlled everything above the Karman line.
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Atreides had to get permission to put weather satellites in orbit. Get permission from the Spacing Guild.
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And, well, the Imperial House and Houses like the Harkonnen and the Spacing Guild and the Bene Geserits and the Mentats all were fearful of House Atreides. Why? House Atreides was bucking the normal, was building alliances with lesser houses, was working on despecialization of the Houses. All that became major threats to the Imperial House and the major Houses and Guilds. Which pissed off just about everyone that had their happy little specialized worlds.