I wasn’t at Libertycon, but…
In Baghdad
Iraqi security forces launched a massive anti-corruption raid in Baghdad’s Green Zone. Elite Counter-Terrorism Service units arrested 47 individuals, including sitting members of Parliament, officials linked to Iran-aligned Shia parties, and Farhan al-Fartousi, the former Director General of the General Company for Ports of Iraq (GCPI), who was reportedly detained. Troops sealed off the diplomatic and government compound, entering private residences and searching properties. They seized illicit cash, gold, and incriminating documents. The raids focused on financial and administrative corruption, involving allegations of illicit enrichment and the smuggling of Iranian oil.
Though early reports indicated that Ali Nizar Fayeq Al-Shatari, Iraq’s Governor in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and the Director General of the Iraqi State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO), was also arrested, that is not the case based on my information.
The sweeps are part of a broad domestic reform drive timed to coincide with Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s upcoming visit to Washington, aimed at demonstrating democratic reforms and a willingness to reduce Iranian influence. The action coincided with an unannounced visit to Baghdad by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, which highlighted Iraq’s delicate balancing act between the U.S. and Iran.
Key people in Iraq are interested in a much closer relationship with Washington, D.C. The most recent elections favored the more radical Shiia elements, but it would seem that their majority has now been de-nutted and is in custody.
A couple of days ago, Iraq—OPEC’s second-largest producer and a founding member—issued a warning that it may also withdraw if its production quotas are not significantly raised. Driven by a deep financial crisis and the ambition to push output to 7 million barrels per day, Iraq’s potential exit poses an even greater threat to the cartel’s existence. Getting to that 7 million barrels-per-day benchmark will require infrastructure improvements.
Deepening fractures between Saudi Arabia (OPEC’s de facto leader) and its neighbors have destroyed the facade of cartel unity. Countries with diversified, highly capable economies, such as the UAE, can comfortably tolerate lower oil prices, making them unwilling to sacrifice national revenues to balance Saudi Arabia’s larger domestic fiscal deficits.
If Iraq stays, OPEC will remain a functional alliance anchored entirely by Saudi Arabia, functioning primarily as a mechanism for market communication rather than absolute price control. However, if Iraq follows the UAE out the door, OPEC could face a terminal breakdown. Regardless of whether the organization physically dissolves, the global oil landscape is transitioning from a period of managed cartel supply to an open, highly volatile market characterized by aggressive competition and potential price wars.
For OPEC’s core members, particularly Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, keeping Venezuela in the bloc is a high priority. President Trump, pulling the levers of power, said it would be better if Venezuela remained in OPEC. The Iraq card is something different, and there is a lot of brinksmanship involved that the US News media never reports on.
From the Mail Bag:
Q – LL, Given the competing interests in the international oil market, would there be an advantage for the US to join OPEC?
A – No. The U.S. remains fundamentally incompatible with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) due to structural, legal, and strategic realities: Joining OPEC would require private American energy companies to coordinate production levels to influence global prices. This would be a direct violation of U.S. antitrust laws. OPEC member states dictate production levels through state-owned, national oil companies. In contrast, the U.S. oil sector consists of hundreds of independent, publicly traded corporations that compete and respond solely to market price signals. The U.S. is the world’s leading oil producer and largest crude exporter. Because it controls its own energy security, the U.S. has no strategic need to join a cartel. Keeping Venezuela in OPEC is a sop to Saudi Arabia, a US ally (when it suits them).
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Q – Why did the UK abandon North Sea Oil Exploration and Drilling?
A – The UK raised its windfall tax (the Energy Profits Levy) on oil and gas producers to 38%. This pushed the sector’s headline tax rate to an extraordinary 78%, making it among the highest in the world. Major energy conglomerates such as Shell, British Petroleum, TotalEnergies, and Ineos have aggressively scaled back, merged operations, or sold off their North Sea portfolios. They have redirected their capital to more profitable, lower-tax basins in regions like the US, Brazil, and Namibia. The British are more interested in being woke than in drilling for oil. How is that working out for them?
Around 80% of North Sea crude oil extracted by private companies is exported immediately. Most UK refineries were built decades ago to handle low-sulfur oil imported from the Middle East and Africa; they lack the specialized machinery needed to process the high-sulfur “sour” crude from the remaining North Sea fields.
The fundamental difference between the two approaches is that the British treated their North Sea oil revenues as immediate cash flow to fund day-to-day spending (on social welfare/subsidies for migrants), while Norway treated its resources as a finite capital asset, converting it into the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. While both nations drilled the exact same North Sea basin starting in the 1970s, their contrasting economic philosophies led to vastly divergent outcomes. Norway is wealthy, and the UK is bankrupt.
…in Mission Control, she waits patiently for DRJIM to take charge.
Bullet Points:
** A friend from Europe visited the White Wolf Mine recently and asked why I needed a five-car garage. There are not five cars in it. Europeans don’t share the American obsession with big garages in homes. Not all of it is a garage. It’s an auto shop, a gun shop, a place to park my 18′ carbon-fiber canoe, a motorcycle shop, food storage, ammo storage, and a place to park cars. It’s a drive-through garage, so there are two driveways leading to and from the garage with roll-up doors at either end. It’s also a place to play music. Question of the day – what is your favorite music to play in your garage? I also have a den/office, and I often write in my notebook computer at the dining room table, overlooking my valley through the large picture window. Sometimes I sit out on the covered deck. So no, it’s not all about the garage, but at the same time, yes, it is. Can your garage be too big? No, it can’t. I have a friend with a fly-away home near the general aviation airport in Payson, AZ. His garage is an airplane hangar, and he has two airplanes in it. He complains that there is not nearly enough room in it. I can relate. I suggested that he go to Navy warbirds so that the wings would fold and he could add a third airplane. A light went on.
** Do the math. A German visits Walmart.
** As Keir Starmer announces his resignation, one resident of 10 Downing Street is preparing to welcome yet another prime minister. Larry the Cat, the UK’s famous Chief Mouser, has been a constant fixture at No. 10 since 2011, serving under six prime ministers through years of political upheaval.
** How are freaks like Rep. DeLauro elected to and then returned to Congress? (right) The ‘hag factor’ is strong with this one. Ranking member — how depressing.
** “Today, we held an illegal alien from Honduras accountable for a brazen scheme that stole more than $38 million from American taxpayers to facilitate the employment of illegal aliens,” Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said. “This case exposes how unchecked illegal immigration fuels widespread payroll tax fraud and underground economies that harm American workers and taxpayers,” McDonald said. “This sentence sends a strong message: Those who exploit our open borders, cheat the U.S. Treasury, and violate federal laws will face justice.
** Reverend Manning sets the record straight. An early sermonette and portent of things to come.
** No wonder my smoked brisket sandwich at home never tastes like Buc-ee’s, I don’t use enough chemicals on my brisket or to make my sandwich rolls. (left) The ingredients list is like reading the Bible – Leviticus at least. Yes, there’s now a Buc-ees in Arizona, and the place is packed. It will level off with time—maybe. The corporation was so pleased with the response that they say they’ll open a second one somewhere in AZ. Maybe on I-40?
** Justice Clarence Thomas said: Non-Citizens Have No Equal Protection Rights Against the Federal Government. This clear constitutional distinction emphasizes that the federal government’s authority over immigration and national security is not constrained by the same equal protection standards that apply to U.S. citizens.
** Shawn Ryan delves into the issues involving space aliens (who may or may not be here illegally)…
** JPMorgan Chase fired Angie Báez, 40, as its $350,000 Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce, for stealing a New York Knicks trash can following the team’s NBA championship victory. Before you trash her, remember she was smart enough to snag a $350,000-a-year gig with just a two-year degree from a community college. DEI Card. Don’t leave home without it.
** A French woman was given a six-month suspended sentence and a €3,000 fine after her home was invaded by a Tunisian migrant who sexually assaulted her. She appeared on national television to discuss her ordeal and said, “The main danger for women in France is Black African and Arab immigrant men.” The Police then charged her with “incitement to racial hatred.” That’s how they roll in France, the UK, and other Caliphates.
** Alignments – The Saudis are heavily aligned with Pakistan. The Paks are “assisting” them with their nuclear weapons program. Pakistan is heavily aligned with Iran. USGOV knows this. The Wahhabists are more comfortable with the Twelvers than they are with the Jews or the Americans. This has always been the case. It’s a complicated part of the world.
** I heard a statement that claimed 30 million plus men in China will never know a woman besides their mother.
** Fiction, wargaming, and easychair warrior crack. (h/t Claudio) – The Henry Protocol
** Hezbollah launched a massive Fateh-110 ballistic missile at Tel Aviv this morning. The 9-meter-long rocket carries a warhead with up to 500 kg of high explosives. Fortunately, Israel’s David’s Sling air defense system shot it down. It could have caused mass casualties.
** The British have passed the tipping point. CDRSAL discusses it. The Royal Navy’s SSNs are ALL in dry dock, and maybe one can be cannibalized to go to Perth to join the AUS/US task force based there. Even if it can make that voyage, where will they find spare parts to keep it operational and patrolling? Maybe they can load a second SSN onto a barge and float it there to be used as a donor sub for spares? I doubt that the British Royal Navy will roll out a new class of ships in the 2030s or beyond. It’s all talk. Britain is finished. Not many white British people are having babies, and within a generation, they will be swallowed by numbers. LSP discusses the rise of the caliphate on his blog as KC3 capitulates. He’s a weak old drunk who can only act important now. The US should be kind to the UK in its decline and should vet would-be immigrants carefully to weed out undesirables, but we can be welcoming to the right sort. (for more, see KC3 – Charles in Charge)
KC3 (Charles in Charge)
In 1743, a British king drew his sword and led his army into battle for the last time in history. He was George II, fifty-nine years old, and at the village of Dettingen in Germany, he became the last reigning British monarch ever to command his troops in the field in person. It may come down to it that King Charles III will need to do the same in person for want of troops. Could he lead the expulsion of the caliphate, like St. Patrick drove the snakes from Ireland?
It didn’t work out for George II. His army — British, Hanoverian, and Austrian — had been outmaneuvered and trapped: boxed in against a river, with a French force across the only road out and French guns ranged along the far bank to tear them apart at leisure. It should have been a massacre. Instead, the French threw it away — and the old king, his horse bolting under fire, fought the rest of the battle on foot, sword in hand, in the thick of the firing line. No king or queen of Britain has led an army into battle since.
In the Rotten Apple
Over 1 million people have fled NY since the 2020 Census. 80% of towns & cities in NY have lost population since the 2020 Census. NY expected to lose 2 House Seats after the 2030 Census. People fleeing the Socialist failed States are removing their Congressional power one seat at a time. NY Socialists are doubling down, but insanity is continuing to do the same thing, expecting a different outcome.
Charlemagne
Charlemagne was not the peaceful saint modern books suggest. He was a conqueror who built a unified Europe on a foundation of iron and blood. In 768 AD, this Frankish prince inherited a fractured kingdom. He spent forty-six years crushing every tribe that stood in the way of his Carolingian Empire. His longest conflict was the Thirty-Year War against the pagan tribes of Germany. He demanded absolute spiritual and political submission from every person he conquered.
The real issue was not just expansion. It was the forced conversion of an entire people under the threat of the sword. He issued the Capitulary Concerning the Parts of Saxony to enforce this holy vision. Practicing pagan rituals or refusing baptism became a crime punishable by immediate death.
The massacre at Verden in 782 AD remains his darkest hour. He ordered the systematic beheading of four thousand five hundred prisoners in a single afternoon. Records of the exact body count vary across centuries of history. Yet the memory of the river Aller turning red remains a chilling historical reality.
This brutality existed alongside a genuine passion for literacy and law. He mandated schools in every monastery, even as he himself struggled to master the alphabet. The modern borders of France and Germany are the scars left by his imperial will. We live in a world designed by a man who used terror to create order.
SMRs
US-based nuclear energy startup Nano Nuclear is aiming to get its partnership with the UAE back on track after the war in Iran delayed plans to identify sites for small modular reactors (SMRs). Nano Nuclear is also in early-stage talks about potential investment from a firm linked to UAE National Security Advisor Sheik Tahnoon bin Zayed, as it looks to fund the rollout of its technology, James Walker said in an interview. Abu Dhabi is looking to SMRs as a potential power source for data centers and remote oil and gas facilities. Several companies are developing microreactor technology, and dozens of countries have expressed interest, but so far only a handful of plants are operational or under construction. If the UAE government commissions Nasdaq-listed Nano Nuclear to build a reactor, it will likely also invest in the company, and some initial talks about a potential dual listing in Abu Dhabi have already taken place, Walker said.
Identify the Ship
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Identify the Aircraft
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The national livery is your hint.
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749 built
Parting Shot
A little light summer reading?
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Identify the Ship:
1. USS Mount Whitney
Identify the Aircraft:
2. Experimental Hawker Tempest V fitted with ducted spinner
3. Short Sunderland
The AI never sleeps – Well done, Surly.
Identify the Ship
1 – USS Mount Whitney
Identify the Aircraft
2 – Hawker Tempest V
3 – Short Sunderland
Exactly – nailed them.
What type ship was the Mt. Whitney?
The USS Mount Whitney was originally authorized and laid down as an Amphibious Force Flagship (with the hull designation AGC-20). She was purpose-built as a command-and-control ship… now LCC-20, but same/same. Same with the USS Blue Ridge.
Within the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), there were sanctions against employers that hired illegal aliens. These were monetary fines and terms of incarceration for those more egregious offenders. It was never seriously pursued, especially amongst large corporations such as Tyson, et al.
Enforce those sanctions across the board and you will see self deportation en masse.
I have a friend who is an immigration attorney and handles defense cases in this area. He said that the federal government is doing precisely as you suggest – and he’s making bank handling these matters. So all good.
Wikipedia say Mount Whitney was “sunk” by an Argentine sub during an exercise. Maybe they learned something from the General Belgrano after all. Say it ain’t so, Larry.
No, it was not sunk. The USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) is still in active service. Commissioned in 1971, she serves as the flagship for the United States Sixth Fleet.
By putting “sunk” in quotation marks, I wasn’t meaning to indicate an actual sinking, and the “Larry” was reference to the long-time feline residence of 10 Downing, who if he was running the place instead of some of the recent human occupants of that address, could hardly do any worse. A veiled reference to the current conditions of the Argentine and British fleets, respectively. I could have made that a bit clearer………
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Per Wikipedia: “In 1994, during the FleetEx 2/94 “George Washington” war game exercise, the Argentine Navy, acting as the enemy and using the diesel submarine ARA San Juan, went undetected, penetrated the destroyer defense and “sank” Mount Whitney, which was acting as the command ship during the exercise.” Ooopsie!
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The San Juan itself later sank for real after an implosion resulting in loss of all hands in 2017, may they rest in peace, not as result of enemy action but after reporting electrical problems.
Garage music; Boston.
I have a playlist and Boston is on it too.
I try to understand the opinions of many in Europe. They ignore how liberty creates prosperity, demand the rest of the world adopt their opinions, agitate the pot to create discord, deliberately destroy their economies with ridiculous regulations, and wonder why they are so miserable in their smugness. It usually doesn’t end well, and it’s looking like a new large conflict is on the horizon. I wonder how the spoils will be split when it’s over.
The Russians lack the capacity to occupy Ukraine. They can be mischievous in Europe, but I don’t see the Red Hoards charging through the Fulda Gap anytime soon. They have a lot of dismounted infantry and some reconditioned T-72s from the 1970s and 80s, but they have had to build cages around those to keep the drones off of them. Lucky Europe.
Ah, the Fulda Gap. Was stationed in a suburb of Nürnberg in the mid-70’s. Our running joke was that if the Rooskies hit the Gap at 24:00 hours, we could all meet at our mess hall for breakfast. Perhaps even more so these days.
Circa 1965 the Fulda Gap was no joke. Ask any 2nd Cav vet. We 12Bs were up there several times maintaining ADM and Davy Crockett M28/29 sites.
No joke when I was there either. One of our maintenance company’s primary customers was the 1/2 ACR. Our gallows humor was more aimed at our side. I arrived on station in 1974. By then, the Army was a few years into becoming all volunteer, a fact that our drill sergeants in basic took no small joy in reminding us. Recruiters were chipping away at the bottom of the barrel. There were recurring issues with worthless individuals who did not GAF. One evening, an incident in one of our barracks nearly caused a race riot. It took time to weed out the rotten apples, and readiness suffered in the mean time.
They actually deployed Davy Crockett?
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Man, that’s a “Last Chance” weapon. The only thing that makes less sense would be an Atomic Hand Grenade.
Garage Music…depends on the mood and what I’m doing in said garage/shop, but usually what has been defined as Classic Rock. Other times it’s Bluegrass or LiveIreland. Same goes for ‘tractor therapy’ when out and about. This is also why I never liked standardized tests, not a binary thing for me.
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‘Ranking Member’ pretty much says it all, just lose the ‘ing’ part for half those cretins who clearly are working for others and not WTP. How is it Democrats care more about hating PDJT than stopping Iran from getting a nuke? Or allowing their party to be coopted by Socialists, the mentally unhinged, the galactically stupid, or worse, America haters, only to make excuses and give a free pass to every one of them? Boggles the mind, until one realizes Satan has stolen their brains and souls. Oh, and many of the R’s are no better except on the other end of the feckless scale…both do serious damage to our Republic.
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PS: Garage Size, same with Shops, never big enough, especially right after construction…and something the Euro’s have no understanding…like ice in tea, and cold beer.
To clarify ‘ranking’ title, and on them for being poor examples of elected leaders (from any standard NOT on the Left): ‘Rank Member(s) with Rancor for We The People’
Candy Dulfer on sax and Dave Stewart on guitar…music for a hot summer night. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1031325101697288
Those two are incredible, hadn’t seen that in a while.
Dulfer’s really good!
Satan, is this the adversary who was sent by G-d to test Job’s faithfulness?
Looking at the extreme antipathy towards The Donald amongst the mentally ill population (I’m including Democrats/Socialists) with my skewed vision, I sometimes wonder.
One only has to look at today’s asinine SCOTUS ruling to realize Satan is operating freely among certain types. For ANYONE to twist logic and parse plain words from our Founders into the belief that any pregnant woman coming here, often from enemy countries (a specific reason for naturalized born citizen language for President), then having the kid now gets to claim that kid as a US Citizen, is beyond mentally challenged – or – the evil one was operating. Maybe both as he preys on the weak-minded and unanchored.
No one in their right mind thinks this way, but apparently some of the highest judges in the land do. Not a good look folks. If we take it to the absurd and allow every pregnant woman on the planet, some half billion or so, to come here to have their kid…are all of them what the Founders thought as citizens? No, it is beyond stupid. But that’s what passes for the level of brainlessness in today’s society, even with supposedly smart people. Time For A Reset ™
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My first thought as well when I heard the ruling and the ensuing gobblygook mental tap dancing desperate to spackle-over the glaring errors; Old English law?? The exact opposite was in play at the time, yet Roberts pushed this idiotic concept to make the win. I was/am totally gobsmacked, and so are most Americans with half a brain. The only reason for this 14A and ‘birthright [no way in hell] citizenship’ (that leads to chain migration) arm-wrestling is for Constitutional watering down so Dems can cheat with more voters and to allow subversives to dilute our sovereignty.
That’s the long and short of it.
**Can your garage be too big? No, it can’t.**
Garage or shop or whatever is going to be 10% too small one week after you move in…
At least 10% too small.
In the short term. The number will increase.
Currently, after having a full woodshop, plus garage and barn, I now have no garage and 12×24 ‘shop’….do I get special dispensation since I’m clearly underprivileged and underserved?
Carport??
Was thinking more along the lines of reparations/subsidies to afford a new much larger garage than prior.😉
** A French woman was given a six-month suspended sentence and a €3,000 fine after her home was invaded by a Tunisian migrant who sexually assaulted her.**
I can see why they don’t want that vigilante movie to be seen.
The Euros and Brits need to up-arm. The USA small arms market could supply the guns and ammo.
I’ve often wondered how many WWII small arms German vets stashed? I personally know circa 1965 there was a black market. Ammo today might be a problem.
One of my Uncles had an Officer’s version of the Luger. Nazi proofmarks and all.
“Question of the day – what is your favorite music to play in your garage?”
I have more music stored in my head that I sing/hum (none of it on-tune) than any music buff’s collection of CDs, 78s, and 45s I’ve ever known, the spectrum ranging from early church madrigals up to current, but not including tribal dances.
In the garage I would always shut it off when using the table/band saw, neither harmonized very well, besides which I needed my fingers come Monday, drill press, too – most often.
I have to say that Cuban boleros ranged amongst my particular favorites when using a plane.
I no longer have a garage since we moved into a 2-bedroom condo in SW Floorida, so I just play Bach when my wife is enumerating my tasks for the day over breakfast and 50s R&R when watching the market.
I prefer Chopin when reading VM – to answer your question.
Garage space. Never enough. That was a large part of the appeal of that refurbished missile silo I linked a bit ago.
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Garage music. Oh my. I have a long serving mini stereo up on a shelf over my work bench. It has a woofer and two satellite speakers. It loads and plays one CD at a time. I have the aux-in line plugged into an old Win 7 PC tower where I have a wide range of downloaded music, including your posted link to “Lilly was here”. Also love the Junior Walker sax riff in Foreigner’s “Urgent”.
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At the 33:40 mark, they absolutely nail “Suite Judy Blue Eyes”. (Trivia–“Judy” is Judy Collins).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vV5VSxsMLw&list=RD-vV5VSxsMLw&start_radio=1
You were right!
Garage workbench task music. (Loops after about an hour). If I need to concentrate, I generally avoid lyrics as part of my brain insists on singing along.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F5dgg1eeGE&list=RD5F5dgg1eeGE&start_radio=1
Garage Music.
I don’t bother. I can’t hear it over the air tools, and if it’s good, I stop working.
Usually listen to podcasts as opposed to music anyway.
If the question wasn’t constrained to ‘music’ I would have said ‘EdB’s Podcast’!…especially if it includes our VM host! (Yup, total suck up)
I don’t recall doing an interview. It must have been an AI.
Let me refresh your memory.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5cHkm4EKH1v5e5o6xb497l?si=0b8be936a5ee459a
Garage Music. My younger brother has Sirius and plays the Deep Tracks channel.
Years ago I introduced him to listening to the tracks on the album that weren’t on the radio.
He still thanks me.
Until recently I had my Kenwood quadrophonic receiver than I bought in 1974 (first remote control, ultrasonic) and my Bose 501s of the same vintage (re-coned).
You could hear it down the street.
But the air compressor overruled it.
Norway is wealthy, and the UK is bankrupt.
“The Ant and the Grasshopper”
“…in Mission Control, she waits patiently for DRJIM to take charge.”
No need, he can do it from his man cave.
The link is down. I think she turned it off so I’d have to go there….
My garage isn’t close to being big enough but it’s all mine and I’ll settle for that.
Music in that garage includes most of what has been mentioned except no Boston, not ever!
Rock, blues, country, it doesn’t matter.
I think a Buc-ees somewhere on 89 would give folks headed to the Grand Canyon a place to stop and fill up on chemical food.
Been meaning to ask, what’s with that wavy road anyways?
The road was built on an active fault line. The Earth beneath the road is constantly moving. Look at the geologic formations around it. So driving the route is like Victory at Sea.
That is an old pic of USS Mt. Whitney. Not nearly enough antennas on the upper works! Re the formerly great Britain, yeah, they are circling the drain. The ‘reason’ they want in the tripart agreement is got get their hands on a Virginia without have to pay full price and wait years. Everything they ‘say’ they are going to build is well out past 2030, if not 2040!
Re LibertyCon, thankfully there was no pool out where we gathered…LOL…
Photos of Old NFO wearing a speed-o poolside at Libertycon would never have surfaced on the Internet.
Eye bleach please.
The OldNFO graphic could be generated by AI. I’m not going to do it, but it’s 2026.
Heard a comedian moons ago:
“ALL the men spaces that are supposedly part of the house; garage, basement, attic, shop…AREN’T EVEN IN the actual house! That means if we want our own space to do…nothing…we have to leave the house!” 🤣.
Also means whatever your shop/garage music choice ends up being no one else gets a say…crank it up and make those old Jensen 6×9’s you took out of the Camaro rear deck then installed in homemade scrap plywood boxes rattle the walls.
Man of the House?
The point.
My cave, my music.
Any body remember The Pelican Brief?
I wonder why I thought of that.
Great flick, on the watch list at least twice a year…still holds, as with most Grisham novels. Always more operating than WTP could ever know (COVID anyone?).
French rape – that lady needs to move to the free parts of the US.
We have better ways of dealing with people breaking into homes here.
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Britain – is gone.
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NYC – also gone.
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Charlemagne – well, he was trying to, and sort of had to, create some sort
of unified “French” identity out of mostly Germans and former Slavs. Most
of the Gauls and Celts and whomever the hell was there before them having
been killed or driven out by the successive waves of “Barbarians” from the
East… So some harshness was forgivable, probably.
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Garage size – if people are talking about *need*, they should take it somewhere
other than the US. This country is about “want” not “need”.
– Kle.
I want to need a huge garage…is that better?
SMR’s; h/t for the updates on developments. Long live SMR’s.
Buccees is incredibly awful.
The Europeans are intrigued by Buc-ees.
Your opening graphic looks very similar to the style General Motors used in their 1960’s advertisements. Pretty neat look.
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Oh, geez….who let her in? I’ve warned you guys about letting that ditzy ginger in here. What’s she done this time?
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People who work on their own vehicles seldom have enough floor space, shelf space, workbench space, or tool storage space. A lift, or even a ‘pit’ is also a wonderful thing to have. And music is a must. Whatever floats yer boat, or spins yer wheels, just make sure it’s a big enough stereo for the size of the garage. And a fridge packed with cold ones!
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I think Britain is lost. It pains me to say that, but I see no way for them to recover without massive bloodshed on both sides. Import The Third World, BECOME The Third World. And it’s all on display across most of Europe. So sad….