David Harbour. He is great in it. I hope they do a pecursor movie about Santa's life before he became the 1 and only Santa Claus. I won't give a spoiler, but the movie shows his earlier life as a mortal was an interesting one.
Yes a P-63 collided with a B-17. The incident was captured by several videos. The 2 planes were only about 1,000 feet up when the collision happened. There were no survivors. A true tragedy.
A young woman seeking a penniless young man is what is dumb. She can always find one of those after the rich old man she married dies of old age and she becomes a middle aged woman with money. Of course if she has half a brain she still won't waste her time on a young man when there are rich old men looking for women who have their own money.
Trump will probably be the first former US President to spend time in a Federal prison. Well, he wanted to leave a mark on history, looks like he will get his wish.
We would only be able to speculate about the small cast iron drum in the corner of the room with thousands of miles pf gears visible inside and what it's purpose is.(are those stars on the back side of the can and at the bottom and are they moving?). The same would be true of a Macedonian suddenly encountering a chain saw left running on a forest floor. When they finally stopped running 3 towns away to tell the local Priest at the temple of Zeus what had been seen even his or her language would have problems describing a bouncing chainsaw on the forest floor.
Does a word or phrase for toothed chain even exist in ancient Greek? Ooo we are a lot smarter now, we can string words like dimensional fold together. But do we yet understand folds in reality? How would you describe an 11 sided pyramid? Technology not understood is both scary and dangerous.
Remember the DoJ commandos you imagine were by definition Agents of Trump their ultimate boss and any orders you imagine them having (could we see a copy of the memo please? The US Govt DoJ as long standing policy only issues written orders, not verbal ones, so if your imagination is accurate, there exists a memo on letterhead specifying the order). them having came from and was approved by their ultimate boss, President Trump, which of course means the Democrats are quire correct in seeking his public crucifixion.
Well to a Roman or Macedonian (or any tribe you want to name from that Bronze Age era) yes, the lack of a human to associate with the thing (chainsaw) noisily running and tearing up dirt and bouncing up and down would add to the terror and strangeness. At least with a human you can label them a witch, scream sorcery and react as per the local culture. But with no human just a 'live' weird thing bouncing along.., run Forrest run. Indeed even laying in the middle of the trail off a chainsaw in that era of time would be completely wrong in the eyes of whoever viewed it. Everything about it's shape, the materials it is made of, it's unknown purpose, etc would be completely wrong and outside of the experience or ken of someone from the Bronze Age.
So too would it probably be for any of us humans who actually encounter a piece of Alien technology.
France only reveals what the aliens in the French government decide to release. Most of it is BS they invented anyway. The aliens take the long view, something no human government does. The short alien goal is raise the temperature here on Earth.until most of the life dies just like it did once before when only a few Ameba in the depths of the oceans still lived and everything else was decomposing sludge. That should be in about 70 years. Then when everything is dead they will smash some rocks at solar L1 and use that stationary dust cloud *it is most probable the dust will be simple iron filings) to block the sun's rays which will quickly cool the Earth back down. Once the proper temperature is reached they will clear out the dust cloud (if using iron filings for the cloud, then magnetism would be the most efficient way of sweeping it up) and reseed the Earth and move right on in. As long as they start the cool down process before the temperatures pass 400 Fahrenheit noting much will burn so they will inherit our world and whatever technology trinkets we left behind. In less than 100 years this world will belong to them and we will just be a fabled myth used to scare their children.
You have no need to know. Actually we have about a dozen aliens in captivity. We hide some in Panama, there is another hidden in a closed gravel mine in Luchan, China and there was one in the dungron under Buckingham Palace, but she died under interrogation. < I mean, who knew the artery in her thumb was that large and under that kind of pressure? We cut it off during interview with the expectation of no more bleeding than when we use bolt cutters to snip off a human woman's thumb during an interview. Usually all sorts of useful information accompanies seeing a women's body part fall to the floor. <Males tend to be tougher, less concerned about appearance and they need to see a bone or two of theirs bounce on the floor before their memory suddenly improves.> No one was expecting her to exsanginate in less than 30 seconds. Mistakes happen. Oh well..>
Anyway I don't think a US reluctance to share information with those not paying for it puts us behind France. If anything the opposite is true in my opinion. My understanding is France doesn't even know how to detect them when they are trying to pass as human and even have one inside the French Parliment, LoL The Fox owns that hen house I think. I believe the US has another 3 or 4 under constant observation. I won't claim we have particle beams aimed at their skulls (a tip of the hat to Foundation for that line), but they can be terminated fairly quickly. A quarter pound or so of C4 wired to a refrigerator light switch or a bread toaster switch solves most political problems. 'Their pilot light was off, the apartment filled with heavier than air gas, then they lit a match to light the pilot and bent down' The media always accepts that BS. After all if they don't, maybe their own pilot light will go out someday soon.
Grounds for a divorce I would say. It is like when your spouse spends an hour in a hotel room with someone else. Doesn't matter what they did or didn't do. The mere fact they were there together behind closed doors for 1 hour or more was instant grounds for divorce in NY. Back in the days before no fault. Now of course you just have to say I don';t want to be married anymore and poof, it is done.
My understanding from some back channel is that after a few incidents and problems the judge in the case agreed with you and signed the needed paperwork.
Oh I agree with that. Especially for the officers that personally cooperated with those they were supposed to eject. Capital Police talk a lot about those deaths and the many resignations and how short handed they are this week, but not one word about how many they have fired since January 6. In my observation a few decades ago they used to simply fire about 30 - 40 a year, every year. Vack then it was an excepted agency with no Union. Back then they would fire someone if more than one Congress person didn't like them or if they had a coffee stain on their white shirts too often (some I knew back then kept clean shirts on post just in case that happened, LoL. But we haven't heard anything publicly about how many none voluntary separations have occurred since Jan 6 2021. Personally I suspect the officers who provided floor plans and directions to the protestors as to where to find people may be gone. On the other hand, why? Before the protest anyone who wanted a floor plan could call the House or Senate Architects and request one and have them sent to wherever. LoL Crazy stuff.
A followup, one thing that made the news this week is a proposal to make Capital Police a two tier agency, that is security guards and Police, instead of using trained Police Officers as parking garage and gym locker room and shower guards. It is highly probable some officers who may be 'uncomfortable' with being required to pass a full scope background investigation with polygraph will opt to just become one of the parking lot guards instead. Their Union has voiced objections to the plan of course. This is understood. The same thing happened at the Pentagon when their own police force went 2 tier. Salary cut and pension time were the big issues then. 20 year retirement versus 35 year retirement and a big cut in pay too. Allowing grandfathering the salary and keeping the old pension solved those issues. That was decades ago at the Pentagon and those who became guards retired years ago and were replaced by newly hired security guards. I would expect something similar to happen with the Capital Police.
Actually a lot of the issues involving break downs in Capital security are indeed the subject of both House investigations and FBI investigations. One thing that has grown out of this is a future requirement for continued employment with the Capital Police is they all must pass background investigations for a Security Clearance. Only about a half dozen of them have one, and thise in the higher ranks. The average Capital Police Officer had nothing more than an arrest records check and a credit check. Both the House and the Senate Sergeant at Arms have agreed the time has come to change that. It will be a slow process but best evidence makes it plain that over the years (partially due to the prior patronage system in which Congressmen and the Senators had the ability to arrange for the sons and daughters of campaign contributors to be hired with no prior experience, supplemented by about 10$ of the force having actual prior law enforcement experience with MPD, or the US Park Police. The end result was many officers were hired who should have never been just given postions of trust and the right to carry a firearm anywhere inside the US. It is overdue in my opinion. I helped create 2 different Federal Police agencies back in the 70s and 80s and all of our hires qualified for at least a Secret clearance and had periodic re-investigations periodically (some failed their re-investigations of course, because life happens and sometimes mistakes are made as the years and decades roll by). Initially a lot of the Capital Police will be required to qualify for a Confidential Clearance according to a paper I read, but even that, what is called a NAC/LAC BI is expected to create some vacancies which will be hard to fill quickly. There have been some resignations with that coming down the pike that have less to do with job stress than a certainty that troubling things will be unearthed so they getting out now to avoid that. Meanwhile the FBI and the DoJ have stated they have their own investigations underway regarding the actions of some members of that force. Associations, FaceBook writings, known associates, emails, texts, etc. Facing 30 years I think it is safe to say the 11 arrested high rankers of Proud Boys will shed more light in their pre-trial negotiations. It is safe to predict that the US Capital Police Force (unionized or not) will be a totally different agency 5 or 6 years down the road. There is no question that a lot of the people who participated on January 6 had no knowledge of the totality of the coup attempt and it is sad many of them were duped into committing Federal crimes and assisting the coup organizers. A corollary sidebar is the possession of some of the weapon types brought to the DC line and stashed in vehicles in Maryland is by itself a violation of Maryland law as pistol magazines that hold more than 10 rounds are prohibited in that state as are also many forms of AR. The Maryland Attorney General has also expressed an interest in following the investigation regarding possible violarions of Maryland's gun laws. The former General Counsel of Proud Boys is now their current leader. Many members of Proud Boys paid $50 a year in membership dues. A recent hack of their ISP has made many of their records public along with the names and addresses, etc. of their members (both former and present) and also associate members and oontributors. The hackers put it all online in plain text.pdf. If you hunt for it (try 'Proud Boys' "Server hack") you can probably find it. So much for staying anonymous.
Yes he talked for 2 hours. Only said 2 things I found of interest.
He stated more Gun laws would not have deterred that crazy person from England that took those people in the Synagogue hostage. I almost fell out of my chair. It was the first time I heard an honest sentence from that man.
Sadly he also said Putin will probably go ahead and invade Ukraine. I take that to mean he gave permission. I note he ignored requests from other countries that have US weapons rhat Ukraine would find useful. Shoulder fired anti aircraft weapons, anti tank weapons, etc. So he is going to let it happen. I guess the Russians feel like we did when Granada suddenly went all Cuban. We didn't let that happen, and obviously Russia has no interest in Ukraine going all NATO.
The rest of his talk was pretty boring. Lots of taking credit for 75% of America being vaccinated, etc.
That's so silly. It is tennis. No one has cared about Tennis since Billy King beat what's his name back in the 60s. It'd be different if he was a soccer star, or even a basketball player or a boxer, but he isn't. Just a tennis player. Yawn.
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Best adult Christmas movie in decades
David Harbour. He is great in it. I hope they do a pecursor movie about Santa's life before he became the 1 and only Santa Claus. I won't give a spoiler, but the movie shows his earlier life as a mortal was an interesting one.