A deterministic system will always produce the same output for the same input because its operations are uniquely defined, making it predictable and reliable.
Bullet Points:
** 20 million illegal aliens are above the law. Democrats put them up in luxury hotels—run by donor hoteliers—giving them stipends that were larger than Social Security checks and free health care. The American people complain to no avail. The elitists in the media sneer that we are deplorable racists and Islamophobic. Conservatives stopped caring what they call us because we refuse to be defined by people who believe a man can get pregnant. America is full up. It is closing time for Chinese spies, Somalian fraudsters, Mexican welfare queens, Haitian cat eaters, Afghanistan assassins, Muslim terrorists, European anti-Semites, Venezuelan drug-runners, Nigerian princes, Palestinian protesters, and filthy French fifth columnists. This is America’s last call for alcohol. Like the bartender always says, you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here. Maybe Canada will take them?
** (right) It’s time to shout Aloha Snackbar and self-identify for a free BBQ sandwich. Put a black tent over your wife and drag her along so you don’t have to buy her dinner. She won’t mind, “Oh, you can’t eat through the tent, I’ll take care of that sandwich for you…”
** A new study, released today by Nature Astronomy, looks at one of the consequences of the difference in density between liquid water and ice (about 10 percent): the potential for the moon’s interior to shrink as it melts, leaving an area of low pressure immediately below its icy shell. If the moon is small enough, this study suggests, it could cause the ocean surface to boil.
** Did you know that there is a dwarf car museum in Arizona? All vehicles are street-legal and made from scratch, with refrigerator doors and other creative features. I’m not against “the little people.” However, there may be creative people in Arizona with too much time on their hands.
** A Minnesota jury found that a Somali home healthcare owner stole $7.2 million from Medicaid taxpayers. A woke judge erased the conviction and called the evidence circumstantial. Jurors say the proof was obvious. The attorney general is appealing. Minnesota is flooded with welfare fraud, feeding our future, and allegations of taxpayer money tied to terrorist organizations.
** Concrete is a good shield against neutron radiation, but so is water.
** On October 15, roughly half of the 101 members of the self-important Pentagon Press Association turned in their credentials as Pentagon reporters to protest new rules, such as not giving reporters free rein in the military headquarters. These are the eagle-eyed journalists who never noticed that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for a month.
Stay or Go?
(h/t Claudio) Does Nicolás Maduro want to end up like Gaddafi (left) or Saddam Hussein at the gallows?
Maduro, the Venezuelan Dictator, now moves through Miraflores enveloped by an expanded protective sphere of nearly two hundred personnel, including Cuban medics, helicopter and fixed-wing pilots trained in Russia, Belarus, and Brazil, all fused into a multilayered security architecture built to shield the dictator and his family.
At its core stands a select inner phalanx of roughly fifty Cuban specialists from the Brigada Móvil de Tropas Especiales (BMTE) or Unidad Militar 4895—something akin to Russia’s GRU. They are men and women, half of whom have known him for more than a decade, while the others are younger operatives with barely two years at his side, including seven Cuban-Venezuelans not yet twenty-one. Together, they form the intimate, unyielding cordon that never leaves his shadow. Maduro himself has adjusted his security architecture and, like Chávez, now relies on an internal “shadow” control team. Direct protection for Maduro and his immediate family is currently provided exclusively by Cuban agents.
This reinforced Cuban presence, embedded across bodyguard teams and counterintelligence units, mirrors the deepening anxiety triggered by fears of a U.S. precision strike or special-forces raid, prompting Maduro to rotate beds, phones, and sleeping locations in a perpetual choreography of evasion. Yet within this climate of tension, the Cuban cadre’s loyalty and familiarity remain the anchor that sustains Maduro’s belief that he can still outlast the gravest threat to his twelve-year rule.
Cocaine Cows in European Waters – It’s a Thing
Cartels turn 200-meter cattle ships into drug-trafficking fortresses as authorities avoid deadly, disease-ridden decks. Drug cartels now use livestock ships loaded with disease-infested cows, called “cocaine cows,” to smuggle cocaine into Europe. An investigative report has revealed the scale and complexity of this unusual operation, showing how organized crime exploits loopholes in maritime regulations.
According to the report, each vessel can carry up to 10,000 cows. These ships, some stretching 200 meters long, are packed tightly with the animals, many of which are sick or dying. Authorities describe the conditions as so awful that it becomes nearly impossible for them to inspect the ships properly.
The stench onboard these vessels is reportedly unbearable. Decaying bodies, excrement, and the smell of disease create a horrifying environment. Many authorities avoid searching the ships because handling thousands of distressed animals is a “logistical nightmare.” In law enforcement circles, these vessels have earned the nickname cocaine cow ships.
Officials say that stepping onto one of these ships is nearly impossible for anyone due to the smell and sheer number of animals. Investigators also highlight that the overcrowded conditions make it dangerous for humans to move around on deck. This combination of risk, disgust, and complexity gives the smugglers a significant advantage.
The report explains that these cattle carriers do more than transport livestock. They act as floating drug hubs, with cocaine hidden in massive grain silos and other secret compartments throughout the vessel. The animals themselves, disease-ridden and weak, often serve as an unintentional cover, as authorities are reluctant to risk inspections in such unsanitary conditions.
Once at sea, the crew attaches cocaine packages to small inflatable devices equipped with GPS trackers. These packages are thrown overboard at pre-determined points in the Atlantic. Smaller boats then retrieve the packages and transport them to European countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands, bypassing traditional law enforcement measures.
The combination of overcrowded livestock, decaying animals, hidden compartments, aging vessels, and GPS-tracked cocaine packages has created one of the most successful and low-risk smuggling methods in recent years. Authorities acknowledge that intercepting these ships is one of the toughest challenges they face in the fight against drug trafficking.
(VM comment) What about sinking them in deep water? The sharks will clean up the carcasses of the narcos and the cows. Or is that too simple? The wreck will eventually provide a marine habitat. If the Europeans are squemish, I’m sure they could contract with the US Navy to solve their cocaine cow problem – for a fee.
Identify the Aircraft
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2,072 built
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About 100 built
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14 built – not well known but operational during WW2
Parting Shot
DNA: The gift that keeps on giving.
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1 – British Sopwith 5F.1 Dolphin
2 – German Junkers Ju 388
3 – German Heinkel He 116 Designed as a long range mail hauler converted to a long range reconnaissance and bomber use
Outstanding!
Illegal aliens – Maybe Canada will take them? I can tell you that the people of western Canada do not want them. Nobody wants them. The leftists cannot allow themselves to admit this. An inconvenient truth for the left.
Maduro – The US has him running in a circle as he tries to negotiate his way through and out of this. We will not invade his country to get him out, we will keep the pressure turned up until he has nowhere left to hide and agrees to spend his years as a guest of one of his communist brothers. Trump is crazy. Like a fox.
Cocaine Cows in European Waters – It’s a Thing – They sure have a knack for finding ways to import problems into their countries in Europe.
22 Year Old Onlyfans Model – That is one smart lady. I bet nobody else has thought of that.
ML – A Navy friend of mine/a dive buddy, married a woman who did the same thing, unbeknownst to him. She wasn’t a whore – slut, yes. Actually, she worked in a well-paid support-type job in Hollywood. She paid for plastic surgery to fix an unattractive rhino-nose. He had two children with her before they divorced (nasty divorce). He didn’t know where the baby noses came from and accused her of cheating. She confided that she’d had surgery not only for herself but for her posterity.
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He later remarried, etc. The two daughters have “the rhino” – he came by the White Wolf Mine a couple of years ago and showed me pictures of the now twenty-somethings and recounted how his wife thought no one would know about her surgery because she fixed the situation.
It’s called rhinoplasty for a reason.
indeed!
The nose (etc) thing was a minor plot hole in Harry Harrison’s The Stainless Steel Rat stories.
[ SPOILERS — then again, TSSR came out over 50 years ago; y’all had your chance]
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Slippery Jim DiGriz’s (interplanetary conman/criminal “The Stainless Steel Rat”) love interest is the beautiful but criminally psychotic Angelina. It is eventually revealed that she became a criminal to be able to afford extensive plastic surgery. And she’s a murderous psychotic because of the abuse she suffered as a child. DiGriz captures her, gets her “cured” through essentially magical psychiatric treatment, and marries her. In the subsequent books, they have two sons, who are described as handsome because they take after their mother. Yes, these days one could evoke some magical BS gene therapy, but I’m pretty sure that Angelina’s physical transformation was because of surgery in Harrison’s original books.
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>an unattractive rhino-nose
Hey! Some people might be partial to rhino noses. “Stop kink shaming!”
If it’s your kink, Mike_C, that’s cool. Different strokes and all that.
Jennifer Grey had a very productive career as an actress before rhinoplasty. What made her stand out amongst a bunch of equally-talented actresses was her snoz. So she got it lopped off and suddenly she blended in with all the others. Sad, very sad.
I know that I didn’t recognize her once she had her nose job. It killed her career completely.
Has the Onlyfans gal been studying up on pangenesis?
While exact, real-time figures vary, estimates from late 2024 suggested around 1.4 million American women were OnlyFans creators, with women making up a large majority (around 70-78%) of creators overall. That’s a lot of whores, and a lot of stupid men who support the industry. I’m sure that there are more who are altering themselves surgically in the hopes of a DNA change…
LL, while the rest of us are looking at the auto and commercial property repossessions, you find the strangest stats from the depths of the internet.
There was a Ford supplier plant in Ypsi that closed.
The state of Michigan had a Filmmaking grant program to encourage production in Michigan.
A porn outfit was trying to buy the facility and qualify for some of the grant money using young co-eds from Eastern and Michigan looking to support their tuition.
Thankfully, nothing came of it. It was disappointing to learn how many prospective “actresses” there were.
It’s a billion dollar industry in the USA.
…and how exactly did these aspiring “actresses” get so well versed in ‘the field’ of operation to show it’s not acting? Oy vey.
Mini/Midget/Dwarf Car Museum- Basically the same as The Covid PsyOp shrinkflation where manufacturers gave us less product for the same or more cost to try and fool consumers into thinking it was the same. Gotta admit, the guy has skills…and time…lots of time. What else ya gonna do in the desert?
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C-Cows: I’m with you LL, make a hole in the water with these ships…as PDJT is doing. Then again, will the usual Criminals In Charge screech that doing do is also a war crime/act of war if they saw drone footage of one diseased dying “helpless innocent” cow floating around amidst drug packages only to drown? My guess? Yup…can’t fix a a demented mind.
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Maduro- How is it in this day and age of [supposed] sophistication ‘we’ still have/allow dictators? Just seems odd to me. It’s like watching a car full of (before Covid that is) masked men pull up to a bank and run in while you just stand there and say, “Gee, I guess they are going to rob the bank.” ….and watch it unfold but do nothing, or worse, video it on your phone.
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So…Ms. O-F’s DNA Denier wants a better nose for the kids yer is okay with them following in her..ahem…profession? Like DNA, the Interweb is forever. Not the deepest spoon in the drawer, that one..yet some will call her smart for selling ‘a product’ others want. It’s just business, right?. (LL…where do you manage to find these weird tidbits?)
There are people in the US who claim that President Trump is a King/Dictator.
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When you look around the world, there are a LOT more dictators than there are republics. Russia claims to be a republic. China is a one-party representative government.
The Criminals In Charge can’t screech to much as your idea is only helping evolution and climate change Those cows are learning how to swim fast and defeat great white sharks in the latest episode of evolution and as a bonus, their flatulence isn’t killing the world.
Sounds like a new version of ‘I Shouldn’t Be Alive’ married to ‘Alone”.
That OnlyFans bimbo is really off Lamarck ! 😸
You’re bad, Jerseygirl.
That one deserves a Thumbs Up :)
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I’d sure like to think that the nose job girl picture is humor..
As I commented above, I know of that same situation many years ago before Only Fans. So I can’t say that the picture is accurate, it happens.
Are we sure her name isn’t Vandersnoot?
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I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at the intellectual wherewithal to come up with that idea. While I’m guessing it’s really humor, I’m not sure the people who write such things would understand it, either.
When Babylon Bee satire meets reality…hard to tell what’s truth or fiction these days. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s real.
The gene pool is shallow, PaulM
Shallow, and too many are peeing in it.
Yeah but this is hilarious and seriously well done…while ‘Franklin’ is ‘pointed’, this takes AI generated content to the next level…and we know it’s AI but still funnier than all get out: https://youtu.be/TEpMWFEMczw?si=tH-SeTXwNsrKe04c
… with no Life Guard on duty.
@LL…And, sadly, getting shallower by the minute. Having children does not require a license or any manner of simple vetting. I suppose it’s not what God had in mind when he started this whole experiment.
Like everything else God created, if it’s used the way it was designed for – it works great. If not, not so much…
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Where is there a market for 10k diseased cows? Assuming the ship reaches its destination, who buys them? What are they used for?
Give us “The Rest of the Story….”
Scours is no fun…and [generalizing] Mexican’s do not “believe” in animal vaccinations so could easily find enough sick and dying cattle to fill a ship. Toxic waste site that needs sinking into the deep sea to be reclaimed as fish food (and reef material as LL said).
MANY years ago, I encouraged friends in the Mexican Navy to sink the drug subs and they wouldn’t. I don’t think these guys were paid off, they didn’t want the heat from above.
Proverbial warning shot across the bow when they wouldn’t heave to…except the gyro was ‘accidentally on purpose’ poorly calibrated and the missile hit instead. “Oops, didn’t mean to sink it.” could be a viable excuse.
Be more like the USS Ward outside of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Put a hole in the conning tower and that’s all she wrote.
And, yeah, sink the disease ships. No real way to disinfect the ships so sink them, the ocean will cleanse.
The ocean has great power to cleanse and also through tectonic plates to subduct carbon that would otherwise build up over eons and threaten the planet’s health.
I honestly don’t know, Fishlaw, but I expect that they’re used as pet food.
And the Euros bitch and complain about our use of antibiotics in our beef cattle? Screw them. Screw them all.
Screw ’em sideways if they can’t take a joke.
I suspect the answer rhymes with “Halal meat market”.
– Kle.
Sopwith? One day you’ll be posting Snoopy’s plane just to test us.
Cattle shipping? Where are all those EU animal rights NGOs. Who allows all that tarnished beef through customs? Why can’t all the maritime regulators not figure out the ‘who, whom’ behind the not cheap coke shipping method? I agree sinking would solve the problem. Baring that Elon should offer up some SpaceX suits, just to bring attention of EU complicity in the drug trade.
Snoopy’s Sopwith Camel has made the blog thrice previously. In one case, he was going down in flames with a fist raised.
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There’s a lot of grease applied at all levels to accompany the drug trade. It’s one reason that drugs are more expensive in Europe than in the USA.
I gotta say it was easier back in the 70s-80s chasing the drug boats. Most of them were ‘coastal’ freighters, so easily IDed. Just follow them until a Coastie LE det could get there. And when they threw the cocaine overboard, it was at the mercy of the currents with no locators on them (a lot floated up on beaches as far north as North Carolina).
Easier, but not as kinetic.
KInetic. That a euphemism for “fun”, right?
It is!!
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Apparently, El Presidente Maduro doesn’t heed the advice of Ol’ Remus (R.I.P.) to stay away from crowds. I don’t know a thing about intelligence operations (you could ax my wife) but seems to me moving around in the midst of a couple hundred people would be a mighty fine indicator of target location.
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Let’s not tell him.
Cocaine Cows – Australia caught one of these about a year ago.
– Kle.
The world’s oldest profession, with a multitude of variations, meets the digital age. What is pathetic, IMO, are the customers.
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Cocaine cows. Where is PETA? Greenpeace?
Yes, the digital customers…they’ll graduate to a humanish skinned robot with a face that can simulate anybody’s and a custom made lubricated part. Optimus on top or bottom.
Great a.i. art, and never ceasing, amazing titles.
All drug boats matter, black or white or any other banner. Enrich the sea floor environment with any possible means. Collateral damage? The word will get out and shipments will diminish and morph into another means to supply demands. Thus creative slueth skills will adapt this type of “climate” change. Will there be warnings of warming and migration as a result?
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Eventually paranoia can overwhelm the cupable. To have a foreign guard indicates an awareness of those that are not “in the one party” being willing to break free from the Chavasites and the Madurolonian strangling of their society and economy. Anywhere on this planet is to close to our borders to be hosting the Middle East and Rooskie bad actors that don’t play around. Their pro active presence is enough just cause for preemptive actions.
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Meanwhile the crying Karen’s on the left are being spoon fed diarrhea of the mouth from MSM that recent sanctions are causing the shortage of one’s life essentials in V.
Maduro can’t trust Venezuelans. The Cubans make good servile bullet sponges in his service so long as they’re paid and nobody pays better…