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Al-Qaeda Emir Killed During Ma'rib Clashes with Sana'a Forces
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
American Patriots Dump Harry And Meghan Into Boston Harbor
[BabylonBee] A group of rebellious American patriots did their duty for God and country today by dumping Meghan Markle and Prince Harry into Boston Harbor. The protest, dubbed "Boston Tea Party Part 2: Rebel Even Harder," saw American protesters seize the royal couple and dump them right into the sea.

"The British are coming? Not on our watch!" they cried as they hauled the couple to the harbor and threw them in. "Royalty overboard!"

"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be refreshed with the cries of British royalty as we dunk them in the harbor!" said a spokesperson for the protesters. "It was far past time for us to throw more dumb, uppity British people into the water. America!"

"Help! I'm a brave woman of color and I'm being oppreeeeeeessed!" Markle cried as she was thrown into the harbor. The rowdy colonists cheered as the couple went under, proud of themselves for once again demonstrating that America is the best goshdarn country on earth.

Prince Harry was asked for comment but said he had to check with Markle first before he's allowed to respond.

Related: Prince Harry says he was bred to offer spare organs to heir William
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/12/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Did she float?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/12/2023 6:51 Comments || Top||

#2  This was one where it was obvious from the headline that it was the Bee. But, it a) was funny as heck, and b) sounded like a really good idea.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/12/2023 9:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I actually thought the headline might be real and was about dumping copies of the new book into the bay..
Posted by: Warthog || 01/12/2023 9:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Good one P2K.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/12/2023 10:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Afghan Vets:
Harry bragging about his Apache missions and his kill count will give away operational secrets and invite retribution attacks.

Taliban:
Nah, he's a blow hard loser, forgetaboutit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/12/2023 12:58 Comments || Top||

#6  They really shouldn't taunt us this way! I knew it was the bee but you can't help but wishing it was real.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 01/12/2023 13:32 Comments || Top||

#7  The spare organs link is true...
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/12/2023 22:51 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Military To End Vax Mandate Now That All The Conservatives Have Been Weeded Out
[BEE] U.S. — Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has officially reversed the COVID vaccine requirement for the military, as it is no longer needed now that all the Conservatives have been weeded out.

"This vaccine was a great success in helping us eliminate anyone who valued freedom, thought critically, or voted Republican," said Austin. "Now that those pesky conservatives have been forcibly removed from our military, we can finally move forward in our sacred mission of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion around the world! Also, bombing kids in Yemen. Can't forget that."

Authorities at the Pentagon are now confident they have a completely obedient, sufficiently woke fighting force capable of any mission, as long as the mission doesn't include prolonged, strenuous activity which seems to be causing people's hearts to explode for some reason. "Our military has never been stronger!" said Austin as he left for his weekly blood clot-removal procedure at the hospital.

At publishing time, the Navy had also started playing Elton John 24/7 on bases and ships to weed out the rest of the straight males.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/12/2023 08:27 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Scathing when the Bee is Not Satire.
Posted by: mossomo || 01/12/2023 12:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Ouch.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/12/2023 15:00 Comments || Top||


#4  Think I saw Biden re-extended The Covid Emergency, which I'm sure suspends any such deadlines or otherwise bad news.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/12/2023 15:37 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Skidmark || 01/12/2023 16:07 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Is Pakistan ok?
Short answer: No.
[DHAKATRIBUNE] For the last two years, Pakistain has been experiencing a severe economic crisis. Oil prices have sky-rocketed due to the conflict in Russia and Ukraine. Since Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders...
was shot, there have been several protests throughout Pakistain, where food inflation has already surpassed 15%. Pakistain has been struggling with the same economic, political, and terrorism-based problems for the past 75 years.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 01/12/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Was it ever?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/12/2023 13:47 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ This!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 01/12/2023 16:34 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
America's Nuclear Air Defense
[YouTube] After WWII the United states decided that all the fun toys should be nuclear capable. This is the story of the Nike Hercules.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/12/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...There's several excellent websites out there that all end up making the same point: we had literal rings of steel surrounding this country and Canada. Statistically some bombers were going to make it through, but between the Nikes and the interceptors, being a Russian bomber crew member was suicidal at best.

And I'm not able to watch the video right now, but I'll be willing to bet it doesn't address a major bee in McNamara's bonnet: the last generations of missiles were to a surprising extent dual capable.

They could kill bombers AND incoming warheads. (More of a happy accident than by design, but we were getting skin-to-skin hits with Nike-Zeus and Nike -Hercules; knocking down warheads would have been comparatively simple. The later Sprint and Spartan missiles were designed from the start to kill ICBMs and warheads, and they worked.)

No way in Hell Robert S. McNamara was going to allow us to defend ourselves.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 01/12/2023 6:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Not that the average city councilor, let alone the citizens, in Chicago knew that nuke warheads were loaded on those suckers along the Lake Shore Battery.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/12/2023 7:19 Comments || Top||

#3  At the rate things are going, Musk will have a private sector solution that the US gummint will have to lease.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/12/2023 7:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Land located at the former Arlington Heights, IL site on Central & Wilke roads was sold to real estate and golf course developers. The command bunker is now a members only Polish White Eagles bingo and bowling club.

All's well that ends well.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/12/2023 7:48 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
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9Islamic State
4Govt of Iran
3Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
3Commies
2Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (al-Nusra)
2Ottoman Proxies
2Sublime Porte
1Govt of Syria
1Hezbollah
1Houthis
1al-Shabaab (AQ)
1Moslem Colonists
1Narcos
1Pak Taliban (TTP)
1Palestinian Authority
1Taliban/IEA
1Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,
1Govt of Iraq
1al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
1Govt of Pakistan
1Govt of Saudi Arabia

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