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It would be like poetry without rhyming, it’s too easy.

Walt Whitman and many other poets would like a word. Bezos the uneducated, uncultured sycophant putting his lack of knowledge on full display.

Four have been destroyed in the conflict so far, including three shot down by friendly fire over Kuwait

Among the other incidents recorded in the report are the crash of seven KC-135 stratotanker aerial refueling aircraft over friendly airspace, which could cost around $1.8bn to replace based on US Air Force budget estimates for previous replacement purchases.

In total, the 42 planes include four F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets, one F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter, one A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft, seven KC-135 Stratotanker refuelling aircraft, one E-3 Sentry AWACS surveillance aircraft, two MC-130J Commando II aircraft, one HH-60W Jolly Green II rescue helicopter, 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones and one MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone.

The cost of replacing the aircraft are estimated to be around $7bn but valuations of the planes (some now out of production) and their potential replacements vary widely.

This sounds like Operation Epic Incompetence to me. Shot down by friendly fire? Crashing in friendly airspace? But no worries, $7B of additional debt-funded, taxpayer-guaranteed dollars will be flowing to the Regime's buddies in MIC companies.

Excellent suggestion. Used to love driving/riding that way and stopping in Poulsbo at the Poulsbohemian coffee shop .. which seems to be closed now! WTF! :-( I remember liking Poulsbo's small-town hippie vibe and it's about the same size as the small hippie town I grew up in in Vermont. Bremerton was not cool at all (military vibe) but maybe it's changed. I used to imagine the Peninsula to be the home of rednecks and wealthy retirees but I'll have to check out the R.E. scene this weekend on Zillow. Tnx.

"Trans people. We are legion. Expect us."

I somethings fantasize about moving back to the Puget Sound area. I wouldn't want to pay Seattle prices so would probably be looking at the South Sound. I lived in Tumwater for a year and it was bland but Olympia is liberal and a bit weird so that's probably where I'd be looking. Bonus for the still-employed: state jobs, bonus for me: already got a paid-up membership to the food co-op there.

Don't forget, if they're young enough and cute enough, sex slavery awaits, just like in the gulags. Republican perverts (redundant I know) and pedos will get first pick, and at low-low prices.

Ha ha, "According to Harvard alumna Nancy Berliner (白铃安), during the construction, one incident involved a raccoon that entered the storage room. The Chinese craftsmen killed it with a shovel, skinned it, and cooked it for food."

I want to read a story about how this guy does something like that. That would be newsworthy.

*eccentric

But yeah, I thought this was going to be about having a house built in China and then loaded on a boat and shipped. A manufactured house or maybe a doublewide. But no, the guy just bought fancy house materials for cheap by skipping the middleman.

Clickbait.

My vintage appliances just became much more valuable.

takes off her face and puts it in a jar of adrenochrome every night

With some help from her government-issued boyfriend. That "face" is really stuck on.

Concentration camps.

Coal-burning power plants are among the largest sources of hazardous air pollution, including mercury, lead, arsenic and acid gases, as well as major sources of benzene, formaldehyde, dioxins and other organic hazardous air pollutants.

"you'll continue to see hamburger innovation as we move throughout the year," Cook said.

Everyone eating real food elsewhere due to a lack of "hamburger innovation" at Wendy's, raise your hand. Thought so.

Imagine popping out a kid today. The kid's going to live until what, 50 or 60 maybe, if they're lucky, because of all the pollution plus anthropogenic global warming?

Even SS is indexed by how much you earned as a wage-slave over your lifetime. If you've done something other than slaving for the Boss, or if your slaving has been for low pay, you get commensurately less in SS payments and the state will be happy to see you starve and freeze in old age.

You mean you're not having your photos automatically, immediately encrypted and backed up on remote servers? ente.io will do that for you and their free plan comes with 10G of storage which is quite a few pics.

Nekiva Levy Armstrong, a Twin Cities civil rights attorney and ordained reverend since 2016, and Monique Cullers, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Minnesota, were among a group of community activities Tuesday to call for the resignation of David Easterwood as pastor of Cities Church in St. Paul.

They say Easterwood is also the acting field director for ICE in Minnesota. They say it’s a direct conflict of interest for someone in a faith leadership role to also be a leader in immigration enforcement operations.

https://www.fox9.com/news/activists-call-cities-church-pastor-resign-over-ice-leadership-conflict

The "Straight White American Jesus" podcast touched on this sin-of-empathy stuff recently. Listen here:

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/weekly-roundup-the-sin-of-empathy-and-the-theology-of-terror-from-minnesota-to-davos?hsLang=en

"Brad Onishi and Dan Miller connect the dots between City's Church, ICE, Doug Wilson's theological orbit, and the ideology behind The Sin of Empathy, showing how a strain of Christian nationalism produces pastors who see no contradiction between pulpit ministry and state violence. "

Guns are LOUD. Much louder than you expect.

Especially handguns. As a kid I'd shot lots of rifles including some beautiful .22s and the latter weren't very loud. As an adult I picked up a .22 pistol and figured I'd go out in the woods and plink a little w/it. First shot .... holy hell, WTF was that?? Yeah I got my hearing back but I've never pulled a trigger again w/o ear protection.

“he got his s*** rocked,” - just the kind of speech you want to want to hear from a federal agency. Classy bunch, really dignified.

This poor victim, if he somehow survives and is released (no doubt after some more beatings in retribution for getting a judge on his side) will have traumatic brain injury and be disabled for the rest of his life. All because ICE, empowered and funded by Trump and Republicans, hires violent sociopaths and encourages them to do such things.