India's mouth piece WION says the American Red Sea operation was a failure after two fighters lost and 7 Reapers destroyed and the Houthis are not destroyed.



I always find it interesting what others think and say unless they piss me off !! hahaha

The division and hate in this world in all countries is sickly amazing

Charges dropped against Boeing in 737-MAX crashes

This is bad news!  Not only was Boeing likely guilty of the charges, they were also charges against Boeing for not following ANOTHER previous ruling which let Boeing off the hook easy.  This is like violating an early conditional release from prison.

Boeing was 100% responsible, in my opinion, for deceiving regulatory authorities in the 737 inspection process, and as a direct result of their own DEI policies and substandard and shoddy QA practices along with unproven, untrained, technology...346 people lost their lives (died) in two separate crashes.  And, even after all that, the practices continued which led to several other in flight incidents with their aircraft.

This is a perfect example of big business being able to successfully lobby government officials into letting them off easy.  It is NOT okay, and it is WRONG!

Very disappointed in this development!

Edit - Plus, the 737-MAX exists for one reason, and one reason only...to extract the absolute most possible money out of the traveling public as humanly possible.  It is a real-world example of stuffing 10 lbs. of shit into a 5 lb. bag!  Everything about the 737-MAX is intended to maximize profits while pushing passenger tolerance to the absolute limits.  I don't know why they put any seats at all in that damn thing!  Why not just have everyone pack in there as tight as they can get them and then shove the doors shut?  Be about the same thing.

So, Trump pardoned former reality show stars, Todd Chrisley and his wife Julie Chrisley, from a decade long prison sentence for income tax evasion (among other things).  More correctly, I probably should have said Trump pardoned Julie Chrisley and her accomplice husband, Todd, because it was Julie who was the ringleader of this whole caper.  These pardons, as a result of tireless lobbying on their behalf by their daughter, Savannah.

Trump pardons Chrisleys

I like Trump generally speaking, but I am NOT okay with these pardons!  This, for several reasons.  First of all, both of them were caught dead to rights evading millions of dollars in federal income taxes (something Trump has stood against).  And secondly, I take issue with persons who are rightfully convicted and justly sentenced for their crimes being pardoned.  It's a different matter to pardon someone who was either wrongly convicted, or who was given an unduly harsh sentence, for minor crimes.  But the Chrisley's fall into neither of these categories and their pardon was wrong.  Period.

I also want to point something else out here.  Just because I may be favorable towards Trump does NOT mean I won't call out something he, or anyone else, does as being wrong.  This, unlike most democrats who are willing to overlook the fact that their guy wasn't even present for minimally the last two entire years of his presidency.  I'm not like that.  I call a spade a spade...and these pardons of the Chrisley's are a 'spade'.

I also have an issue with this little strumpet daughter of theirs being able to lobby a sitting president, any president, to free her criminal daddy and mommy.  This wanna-be pageant queen (who looks more like a guy) should get stopped at the front gate just like everyone else.

That's my opinion, and I'm stickin' to it!

What say you?

A Johnny Somali wannabe is arrested in London after he was held by a man who believed the TikToker had stolen £1000 from him , plain clothes police moved in to arrest the idiot , I do like it when they complain.


Time to start jailing these muppets , looks like Somali could be going down long time in South Korea.

Ti

An Arkansas Elementary school descended into chaos and mayhem when a bunch of parents got into a huge melee over a Kindergarten graduation.  The fight escalated to the point where kindergartners were screaming at their parents to STOP!!

All I can say is (well, not "all") who the hell can find a reason to get into a fistfight at a Kindergarten graduation?????  What kind of a crazy person would ever do this???  And, what world do these people live in where this is acceptable behavior???  Unbelievable! What is the IQ of a person like this?

Kindergarten Graduation descends into Chaos!

Edit - And, it's a pretty SAD statement when 'kindergartners" have to scream at their parents to stop fighting!! Like really? Kindergartners!!

(a comment in another thread inspired this post).  

So, lots of little kids had a pushbike when they were super young, before they learned to ride a real bicycle.  If you're unfamiliar with a pushbike, these look like regular bikes but without pedals.  So basically a kid gets on one of these bikes and uses his legs to power it forward.  Great idea for tuckering out Junior.  Anyway...

I was noticing that in various places around the world they have pushbike races.  These are races for little kids where they compete against each other, usually on some kind of a course set up in a parking lot with cones for obstacles.  Okay, cool, makes sense, right?

Well, we should know that parents are not gonna' leave it that simple.  No, their kid not only has to race, but has to WIN!  Right?  So, just having pushbike races was not enough.  Next, they started having pushbike "training" classes where Mario Andretti of the pushbike world shows your kid how to race to WIN!  But not even that was good enough.

Enter the pushbike trainer.

Yes, as unbelievable as it may sound, there is such a device in existence (and not just one of them either).  These are basically a treadmill on the back end, where the kid's feet go, and the front part has a bracket to hold the front wheel pushbike in place.  Now you can put Junior on the pushbike trainer for 40 minutes, doing timed sprints, or long distance, so the kid can become the Lance Armstrong of the pushbike world!  

But maybe the parents forgot one small detail.  Everyone gets a trophy now days.  Well, most places anyway.

I'm not sure I fully understand the differences in roles between MI-5 and MI-6.  As I understand it, MI-5 is basically focused on domestic issues / crimes within the UK.  They also have some other roles which perform some of the duties of the US Secret Service.  So, if I were to draw a rough analogy, MI-5 is akin to the FBI and the SS rolled into one.  Is this close?  And, do they do anything beyond this.

MI-6, on the other hand, is principally focused on international issues outside the UK.  However, they also perform a national intelligence gathering role.  So, if I were to draw another rough analogy, MI-6 is like the CIA and the NSA rolled into one.  Is this close?  And, do they perform other roles too?

I see a lot of references to MI-5 get thrown around in UK media, and don't see much about MI-6 except on rare occasions being discussed in any media, so I could be off base here, hence my questions.

I guess maybe a different way to ask these same questions would be...is there any coordination between these two agencies and/or do they have hard boundaries of jurisdiction, where one agency has to hand something off to the other based on the location of whatever it is they are investigating.

Lastly, is MI-5 a law enforcement arm (i.e. can they arrest and charge people), or do arrests have to be performed by the 'police' based on information from MI-5?  Same question for MI-6(?)

TIA

Quote:Hermeus has officially taken flight with their Quarterhorse Mk 1 technology demonstrator, marking a significant step toward their goal of fielding fully reusable hypersonic aircraft to come in the Quarterhorse Mk 3 and beyond.

I wasn't sure where to put this thread, so I stuck it here.

The title of a news article today says..."3 City-killing asteroids could strike Earth within weeks - generating a million times more damage than Hiroshima"...  That's the actual headline, I kid you not!  You can read it for yourself (here)

3 City-killing asteroids could strike Earth within weeks

So, I guess we should all prepare to DIE! 

I wonder, do we have enough time to TAX ourselves to death before the asteroids incinerate the planet???  Can we stop worrying about global warming now?  Do I have to pay my Amex bill this month?  Hang on while I call Domino's Pizza and order (5) triple sausage pies and a couple fifths of Jack Daniels...gonna' party like it's the end of the freaking world!

But WAIT!!

Well, for those who took the time to READ the WHOLE article, and not just the first 64 characters (which seems to be the World's attention span these days), there's a twist.  You see, if you made it to the last sentence of the entire piece, it says...the orbits of these asteroids won't become unstable (the thing which "might" (i.e. maybe) send them in our direction) for another 150 years.  Wait WHAT??  But, but...you said "within weeks", right; what gives!?!?  Well, you see, IF the asteroids head towards Earth (150 years from now), then it will only take them 'weeks' to get here.  Frigging DOOM PORN media!  This is a perfect example of it too; the media twisting the English language to get people all spun up over nothing. 

(yes, I'm ranting)

So, the only responsible thing I see for the residents of Earth to do right now is...RAISE TAXES!  In these dire times, we need to undertake staggering actions, and raising taxes by 90% is the ONLY responsible thing to do.

Can I cancel my Domino's order now???

/extreme sarcasm

That is all.

Christmas ornaments, Drywall and Jeffrey Epstein.

I'll take..."Name 3 things which don't hang themselves", ...for $500, Alex



I'd love to take credit for this one-liner, but credit goes to none other than Senator John Kennedy (R. - Louisiana) at a Congressional hearing.