Sweaty men with their strungths.
Hey, wasn’t the Friday video dump fun? From Paul taking a hammer to the noggin, to five cops stomping the life out of a man who did nothing to deserve it. At least for a few hours tomorrow, we can focus on Championship football. It should be good.
Let’s see what we can pull from the headlines, shall we?
Wonder what his Glibs handle is.
Come hell or high water, there will be war!
If there were female libertarians…
California really needs to look into gun control…
Why come up with new words when you can trot out the same, dusty old trope.
If you need a Lark to get around the park, your hide is too big for the ride.
This popped in my Prime feed the other day, sandwiched between Metallica and Black Sabbath.
Enjoy that the headline writer decided to stir up the magazine versus clip controversy. He or she could also be an honorary Glib.
If we are going to use clips we should use Hollywood clips.
“Gen. Mike Minihan, head of Air Mobility Command, said, “I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me will fight in 2025.”
That’s good enough for me, General, I’m going with your gut feeling.
/Declares war, reloads an extra clip
Dry land is not a myth.
Bro firsting, however, *is* a myth.
After reading those lynx, I’m afraid to move. That there’s a whole theme park of froot loopiness. Especially West Virginia Man.
I’m just going to note the irony of the Blaze giving coverage to a man with a butane torch.
Retards do not exclusively end up in politics.
The military to politics retard pipeline is well established
Like 90% of the generals I see look the same. They are tall white dudes carrying about 50 extra pounds than they should, almost always with a saggy double chin that has left them with no jawline, and a shit ton of bullshit medals they really didn’t do anything to earn.
I Googled Minihan.
Some good people make the rank, by accident.
Good lord. From ten years ago when he was a colonel.
https://media.defense.gov/2012/Oct/26/2000102546/-1/-1/0/121024-F-BP651-055.JPG
Meanwhile look at WWII generals and they largely looked more like Wainwright.
Wtf with wrong with Welch’s shirt cuffs? Unbuttoned or wearing cuff links?
First off…both the shirt and jacket were bought at military clothing at AAFES.
Second. His wife isn’t too bad to look at.
It’s the Air Force so being “too busy” to go to the gym is considered a prerequisite. Only second to being a careerist sycophant.
Yeah. A turkey in pajamas is pretty much every AF General I came across.
Except this asshole.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2015/04/10/two-star-fired-for-treason-rant-against-a-10-supporters/
He probably went straight to a cush gig with Boeing or Lockheed. Seems like he was acting at their behest when he got fired.
Wait, generals can be corrupt? Our esteemed heroes are fallible and greedy?
Unpossible!
What’s funny is it’s not very difficult to find examples. I found myself wondering what ever happened to one of the worst O-6’s I ever worked for……a google search later I see that he’s on the board of some word salad-spewing NATO think tank/consulting firm, probably pulling down a nice six figure salary….and that’s an O-6. How much worse is it once you get up into the GO range?
I’ll give the military credit, they’ve managed to bury most of their reputation as a corrupt, bloated bureaucracy. 9/11 changed a lot of that, but still.
The vax mandate was an egregiously stupid move on their part. It turned off an entire generation of deplorables that otherwise are a not insignificant demographic the draw on to fill out the ranks.
He probably went straight to a cush gig with Boeing or Lockheed.
He also could’ve died in a fire. Frankly, I like my fantasy better.
I’m sensing some personal animosity. I’m guessing you were there for the “treason” speech?
No. He was merely an O-6 while he was wing king at Shaw AFB. He decided to throw a holiday party, but found out the number of Airmen that were > E7 AND >O3 were enough to fill a large SUV.
So he made a “mandatory holiday party”
Mandatory fun: the beatings will continue until morale improves.
Here is how unpopular this guy was. Shaw was the only base with an active duty station with a unit dedicated to homeland defense after 9/11.
https://www.goang.com/discover-ang/missions/unique-missions/homeland-defense-mission.html
The standard is, once the call is made the alert birds have 4 mins to get in the air. I worked airfield lighting one morning and saw them do it. Its pretty impressive. The rumor was, the alert station failed routine checks multiple times on purpose. They had to call the VT ANG to man the station until the Shaw team could get “within standard”.
Meanwhile, he wasn’t fired, they just sent him to Qa’Tar to run this:
https://www.afcent.af.mil/About/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/217803/combined-air-operations-center-caoc/
Where he again failed up to command PACAF.
Mandatory fun: the beatings will continue until morale improves.
My wife and I attended slightly beyond the minimum 30 mins. The shrimp puffs were actually pretty good, but we went to Texas Roadhouse after that.
I’m guessing he was somebody’s boy. I’ve seen that plenty of times. Some asshat decides to make a lesser asshat their protege and, performance be damned, they will make sure their protege gets promoted ahead of their peers.
“Somebody”
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/104909/general-gary-l-north/
This fucking guy won Oder of the Sword…AF senior enlisted are a bunch of kiss asses.
“AF senior enlisted are a bunch of kiss asses”
That has overwhelmingly been my experience.
The 7th row is the first with an individual merit award. Everything below is participation awards.
Interesting you mention that. Had we a reasonable foreign policy, he’d only have four rows.
A reasonable foreign policy – how 19th century!
Also I’m calling bullshit on the Bronze Star. The AF gives those out for being combat adjacent.
No Bronze Star. He has a Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Minihan
Ah. I saw the red and blue and assumed Bronze Star, which the AF has a shameful history of giving out for indirect action.
For valor in defending Aviano Italy from Serb aggression.
AKA “End of tour award”. IOW another participation award.
That sounds suspiciously like a justification for a military coup.
Minihan is probably distilling his water and denying women his essence.
Yeah, we’ll probably be busy in Ukraine.
I think the military actually has figured out that China and Russia are nearly spent forces, the Islamic threat is no more and FUCKING A – we don’t have anyone to scare our Congresscritters into throwing more money at us; so let’s hype the fuck out of everything now while we still have a tiny chance.
I can see Russia being a spent force. What makes you say that about China?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3UPG8CuPAY
I thought that would be the video of Indian army regulars beating the fuck out of Chinese soldiers who tried to jump the border. They used some sticks to repel the invasion. Sadly I cannot find the link.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GXaeYWcImNk
Your google-fu is weak R.J.
I’ve got to get some stuff done in the kitchen so advance apologies for the early extra link, but I thought this one too good not to share. It’s everything that makes for the perfect NYP story. Unusual sexual harassment claim, interracial angle and the most PC of PC places Google.
Google exec fired after female boss groped him at drunken bash, suit says
Because of course Google has a “managing director of food, beverages, and restaurants”.
Or, had. I’m guessing the food and beverage department has been recently trimmed.
My assumption is that it to attract ad revenue and reviews and the like across its platforms.
Or it could be the same unhappy ending as the unneeded 31 massage therapists.
It is plainly obvious that the responsible thing to do at all times is to raise the debt ceiling without any sort of debate or questioning of the policies that led us to have to raise the debt ceiling in the first place. I mean, that’s the entire point of having a debt ceiling, isn’t it? Who wouldn’t like to just extend themselves more credit every time they max out their credit card?
The horror…
I wonder how the last seventy-five juicings went. 🙄
Roid-rage economy?
Yellen is out of checks, economy stops dead. I sort of feel sorry for her, she thinks the music will play forever. When things can’t go on anymore they stop.
We’re either going to get years of humor watching people try to make this play out or some major event will come along and people will stop pretending this is something serious.
I’m not sure which is worse. Last time it was 9/11.
I’d like to ask the good reverend how much is enough.
“Gimme” is not a number that I’m aware of.
He can take the issue up with God – it’s His creation anyway.
I actually hope it goes through in CA.
What will happen will be simple: there will be story after story in 1-2 years about those who blew through the entire thing, and that virtually no one will be better off.
And it will still be because racism.
And you’ll be able to see the U-Hauls leaving California from space.
But yes, this needs to happen. As a warning to the rest of the country.
Calif Lamborghini dealers should start building up their inventories.
Can you blame him? He’s still paying off his student loans.
Alls I know is that Newsome better nip this shit in the butt real quick. What these morons are proposing isn’t even remotely possible. It would demolish California’s budget.
Instead, the idiot has his Secretary of State out encouraging the nonsense.
California’s budget is already demolished. The inevitable stock market reaping that’s incoming will set fire to the remains.
Bud. The phrase is “nip [this shit] in the bud.”
SMDH
“Make like a tree and get outta here!”
MikeS is a seconder who has gotten one thing right in his life – blowing and sucking at the same time.
When the Great Firstening comes to pass and your fourth eye is opened, you will finally see that I am a Firster of much higher accomplishment than you are capable of comprehending. Will I use my superior place in the Great Firster’s kingdom to belittle and besmirch you? No. I will forgive your ignorance, and show you the same love and patience that I would to any other retarded child.
Bob, I read your line, and I heard the voice of Fuck-Ass from Boondock Saints.
Made me chortle.
https://youtu.be/gBlfqgmmS_Q
Bro is a perv who wants to nip it in the butt.
Not to kink shame him, of course.
Police were called about a topless woman who allegedly committed vandalism inside the church.
I hate it when that happens.
Really? Had it happen more often, it would make me go back to church, to be honest.
Hey DEG, you still planning on a run through Gourmeltz tomorrow afternoon?
There is something fundamentally broken in American policing where cops feel as though any level of force is justifiable no matter what the offense is for disobedience. The guy was supposedly pulled over for reckless driving. Like, it aint that fucking serious if he gets away from you and you have to arrest him tomorrow. You know who he is – you have his fucking car.
My guess: Steroids, authoritah, and resentments from previous interactions.
Rule #1: Get home safe, no matter how many innocent people you have to kill to make it happen.
I don’t know. Chasing down some guy to give him a beating poses some actual risk to officer safety. It really conflicts with that stated number one priority. The cops in this instance had the weight of numbers, but they were pretty worn out by the end of things. They were out of breath, one guy was complaining about hurting his knee etc. It was actually kind of pathetic. 4-5 of them couldn’t subdue one guy and aint like he was on PCP as far as we know.
Too many cops in general are just like high school bullies backed by the full weight of the government. And it’s amazing to me just how little professionalism there actually is. Nearly ever single video I see of cops interacting with the public seems to involve them cursing like a sailor in ways that would get a normal peon hit with disorderly charges for acting that way in public.
I do want to see what led up to them pulling his ass out of the car. It doesn’t justify the beating, but the video makes it look like they completely escalated things at every step of the way and legitimately made the dude fear for his life. I think we need to establish the same sort of standard for running from cops that cops have for using lethal force. What would a reasonable citizen be thinking in this situation…
And you got at least a 50-50 chance of getting covered by qualified immunity for whatever bullshit behavior you pull. Let’s see, give people authority to use violence and minimize the consequences for their abusive behavior – I don’t know, is there something ferrous here?
You should check it with a magnet.
how little professionalism there actually is
Basic grooming and uniforms have pretty much gone by the wayside in the past twenty years. Scruffy unkempt armed goons.
Hey now…
Sorry, that was uncalled for.
+1 Tacticool
Hey now… I think neck and face tattoos are still banned by most police departments.
If they allowed those, how could they tell who the bad guys were?
Everyday is just another rotten mess, and when it’s gonna change is anybody’s guess. There’s no way to delay that trouble coming everyday.
Can you believe this? People might be forced to spend Dollars already printed?
The animal spirits strike again!
Heresy!
Leave me out of this.
Saturday and I’m home, so the Zoom/Happy Hour/Sportsball talk will be opened at 2000 Eastern.
Don’t really blame the activist. I mean, if they are offering up “free” cash, go for as much as you can get. F California!
He’s got a great haircut.
… I need a beer and it’s titty squeezing time. 😛
*backs away slowly*
You can’t fool me, you ain’t that bad.
Let’s make a deal if you think that’s true.
Yes he is.
So … PBR lactation?
Your own?
I have nipples, Lack. Can you milk me?
*slaps suction hose on Mike’s tit*
That was a rhetorical question!!!11
Depends how well your sex change therapy is going.
Nathaniel Ratelieff looks like Count Dankula.
Huh. The USMNT are in action against Colombia on TNT.
I wonder who’s coaching after that shitshow with Reyna(s) in Qatar.
I want them to back the Brinks truck up to Mourinho’s house.
Seriously.
He’s free? Not a bad idea.
Manages Roma. But has said he’d love to take on a national team.
He might be just the asshole the USMNT needs right now.
Wasn’t he coaching Chelsea when they drove Anders Frisk out of the game?
Fuck ever single person who did that to Frisk.
[Gump voice] And just like that, the entire USMNT leadership was out the door. [/gv]
RESPECT!
“five cops stomping the life out of a man who did nothing to deserve it”
You cannot deny the media’s dedication to their narrative. Making this about racism despite the fact that everyone involved was Black. The level of cognitive dissonance is truly impressive. Meanwhile, the great Evul that is Elon Musk let’s people say shit on Twitter. You can’t just let people say stuff! The end is nigh.
That was about getting BLM out there for the daytime peaceful stuff followed by their Antifa buddies to wrap things up with some violence during the night show. It all kind of fizzled out though.
At least we continue letting the cops kill people, with on consequences, unabated. Big mission accomplished, I guess. BLM will still be waiting when we need them, like useful idiots do.
‘No’ consequences
“Wonder what his Glibs handle is.”
Tulpa
Beetlejuice!
Thanks, Spud.
Watching Hockey Day Minnesota and Trampled by Turtles enhances the homesickness.
Admit it, your heart yearns for Pope Jimbo.
He’s very striking.
Jimbo’s hair does have a bit of that hockey flow…
Totally.
Last time I was with him I tried to pull it off. No dice. It’s real.
Bastard.
I’m getting a Recaptcha for the embedded video. WTF?
It didn’t like the ‘Murican VPN I was going through. Switched to a Kraut connection and now my Sprockets, we dance!
“Yellen warns of debt ceiling “catastrophe” for U.S. and beyond”
The call is coming from inside the house!
“If we stop going further into debt, we will go bankrupt!!!11!!!!”
Look at one of the other lanks, war with China, lol. We can’t go broke if we sell all of this war shit!
How’d we go from bombing poor sheep farmers to going to war with 2 nuclear powers at the same time, so quickly?
A hubris and stupid cocktail with a generous dash of corruption.
At least the serious people are in charge now.
And no more mean tweets. We can’t forget the really important stuff.
I got into an argument a few days ago with some guy who just could not believe I’d choose negotiation with Putin over pushing him into a nuclear war. People have went all sorts of stupid and lost any sense of reason.
I see you’ve met my father-in-law.
Ask him if he knows who Klaus Schwab is. I find that an interesting diversion.
I generally try to avoid politics with him. He’s not a true believer but just your average dupe who thinks he gets his news from reliable sources like The Economist and CNN. I find it’s better to chip away at their worldview slowly with counter factuals. It seems to be working with my wife who did pointedly ask him after 100 billion dollars, how much would be enough.
My heart grew thee sizes that day.
“Honey! Stop getting me all horned up in front of your old man!”
/touches side of nose
You don’t want to ravish your wife in front of her father?
https://i.imgur.com/aZoPCpf.jpg
NSFW.
https://i.imgur.com/PuWS0oz.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/AAtXd/1ebf199c0e9d9129cf4af0fc12522f5b01295cf7.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/VBXrO/7c49f5d0157871b9b253679462a0196cff961f0c.webp
NSFW.
Holy damn.
Agreed.
This is the best TbT song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_6M_6KStEw
Free pass on less than manly reactions.
This is a sad day for me.
Radley Balko is something of a personal hero to me. His reporting on police abuse and prosecutorial misconduct and forensics fraud was tremendously important. I followed him to HuffPo and then to WaPo where I left him as he became more partisan and less original in his reporting.
BLM killed all the progress he made with “rise of the warrior cop” by turning the conversation to race after Ferguson.
And now?
He is all-in on never reforming anything and blaming everything on race.
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1619439706110054400?t=J75WtPm9k3HmFjU8illWKw&s=19
He went from the best reform advocate to … I don’t even know what to call someone who claims that a black mayor and a black police chief and black cops are actually white supremacy in action.
At least Kmele is calling him out.
I can’t even with this shit.
It is as if they are channeling Jimmy the Greek
What the fuck?
This is some of the most racist shit I’ve ever read.
That wasn’t Radley, to be clear. Just some rando who replied.
With one or maybe two exceptions, I’ve always stayed out of the Twitter cesspool. But, I replied to Balko’s ridiculous assertion that Republican cities are just as murdery as Dem led cities.
https://twitter.com/alanesque/status/1619466424866729984
Yeah, I had fallen out of touch With where he had evolved to because I was not on Twitter. I joined Twitter in response to the musk take over.
at 1st it was kind of interesting to see how all of these well known writer’s thought. Now that I’ve heard more, it is much less interesting and more nauseating.
I will say that I now understand why they want to live in an echo chamber. Most of the people express some really stupid things most of the time, even the ones I agree with
NYC had Republican mayors for 20 years and the murder rate went down 80 percent.
Two can play that dumbfuck game, Radley.
OK. I agree with him here.
Not sure WTF he was doing going on about Ds and Rs and then burps up this comment.
You don’t think decades of race-baiting collectivists running a city have anything to do with current crime levels?
NYC’s murder rate is like 1/4 that of Philadelphia and both are now perma-Dem cities.
There are clearly more factors at play than which party is currently holding the mayoralty.
Alternately, correlation != causation.
Fair’nuff
To be sure, there a lot of factors at play. And it’s long past time everyone had a gown-up conversation about why that is.
Narrator: It won’t happen
Could be the other way around…. the factors that drive crime up also drive up democrat voting.
But… Rahm Emanuel. Dude presided over a ramp-up of murder that was truly staggering. And doubled down on every bad choice.
And Baltimore. Just everything.
Food for thought
To be fair, I agree that it is a strong correlation.
Even more so in recent years with Dems pursuing pro-criminal policies.
Rhywun, Philly never had their Rudy Giuliani.
Though I agree that demographics of the two cities aren’t the same.
I don’t recall NYC fire-bombing inconvenient people either.
It’s really simple. He sold out for a paycheck.
Provorov wasn’t alone in the NHL.
Good morning, reprobates!
Two sets down, one to go.
Good Morning:
It seems I have a project from hell.
Contractor who was supposed to drill 15 or so boreholes has only gotten 4.5 done since Monday. Drill Rig broke down, and wont be back up to Tuesday at best.
Tuesday is supposed to be ice and snow.
Drill rig is stuck in golf course with bit in the ground.
I wont be there next Saturday to help…
I have my Ryobi cordless….
Just play a few rounds instead
Good morning party people.
☕🎉
https://news.yahoo.com/300-wounded-wagner-mercenaries-brought-094200507.html
“The General Staff said in its regular morning report that the doctors in Yuvileine refuse to provide medical assistance to the Wagner mercenaries due to the fact that most of them are carriers of such diseases as HIV/AIDS, syphilis, tuberculosis and pneumonia.”
😲
The most base of dehumanizing, disgusting garbage propaganda is being posted on Yahoo News as gospel I see.
No different from the way people here post the most base, dehumanizing anti-Ukrainian garbage propaganda as gospel truth.
Ah, so its all good then.
https://www.kptv.com/2023/01/29/sw-portland-grocery-repairs-after-13th-break-in-since-pandemic-owner-says-crime-unacceptable/
Thieves suck.
The brown face of white supremacy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fTAOLmEba4I
🎶🎶
https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/boy-playing-hide-and-seek-found-in-another-country-six-days-later/
Hardcore.
Relevant
Getting a late start for NC. It’ll probably be closer to 4 when I get to Gourmeltz. I have Ron’s number, I’ll update him on the way. Or, VA folks interested can e-mail me at thorby455 AT proton DOT me.
Re: sports, how about the Purdue basketball team? Number 1 in the country! Boiler Up!