[Bee] Dating in 2024 isn't the same as it was in generations past. Why? Your date might be one of those transgenders. Surgical advancements and breakthroughs in hormone therapy have made it more difficult to know if you're dating a male or female than ever before.
Don't worry! The Babylon Bee is here to help you determine your date's true gender with the following list of signs to watch for:
She picked a restaurant in 5 seconds: No woman can accomplish this feat.
She ordered a ribeye and a Guinness: Nice order... SIR.
She works as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health: Oh no! Your date is Admiral Rachel Levine!
She just wants to chill, smoke cigars, and name obscure running backs: Enjoying a Padrón and throwing out names like "Tim Biakabutuka" isn't any woman's idea of a good time.
Her chest is hairier than yours: You can tell even though she isn't wearing a low-cut blouse because it's sticking out the neck hole.
She won a gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Olympics: As impressive as this accomplishment is, that ain't no lady.
She tries to seduce you by burping the alphabet: Any woman would score major points with this, but everyone knows that isn't going to happen.
She says she has a doctor's appointment on Thursday for a prostate exam: We're not biologists, but we're fairly certain women don't have prostates.
She can watch a movie without asking any questions about the plot: Only a man can follow the plot of a movie that well.
She's currently peeing at the urinal next to you: RUN!
Posted by: Frank G ||
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I don't date. [rpb;em solved!
With the way women are nowadays, who would want to date them?
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[RIA] After the outbreak of large-scale hostilities on the territory of Ukraine, many hoped that the rumbling thousand-kilometer contact line would become an object lesson and a fuse for other hotheads. But then red poured over the edge from the Palestinian-Israeli cauldron, and then the Yemeni Houthis got into an all-out dance with sabers, which is why it became very crowded in the area of the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.
Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip has been going on for almost six months
...October 7th to February 6th is four months, but we don’t expect many reporters to have math skills, so do go on...
with very modest results;
...half of Hamas fighters and many of the leadership cadre become casualties, not to mention all the tunnels and weapons caches revealed and destroyed, headquarters looted of all sorts of useful information, and hundreds or thousands of fighters taken back to be questioned could indeed be considered modest results, if one squints really, really hard...
along the way, Washington is ostentatiously bombing Yemeni sheds and sheds with similar achievements.
Similar in type, not similar in results. it seems to me.
At the same time, the Pentagon categorically rejects even the theoretical possibility of launching a ground operation, and judging by the fact that there is no sharp increase in the military contingent in the region, this is true. At least for now.
In attempts to explain this phenomenon, a forest of copies has already been broken and tons of theories have been put forward. The consistently degrading foreign policy of the United States, the shameful flight from Afghanistan, and the obvious inability to solve problems by force even in a confrontation with a much inferior army are cited as limiting factors. All this is true, and much more can be added here, but today I would like to talk about another little-known but important factor.
The other day, foreign publications were full of publications saying that the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea are not only maritime logistics gates for the transshipment of goods and resources from Asia to Europe. Powerful cables snake along the seabed here, allowing for the exchange of information and business transactions worth multiples of the value of the goods in the holds of the ships passing above them.
Below is a purely reference list of the largest cable routes that go around Yemen in the water column and go north.
IMEWE (India - Middle East - Western Europe) is a 12 thousand kilometers long canal that connects Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, India, Egypt with Italy and France. Bandwidth 3.8 terabits per second.
FEA (FLAG Europe - Asia) is a line 28 thousand kilometers long, which, like a thread, connects Japan, South Korea, China, Thailand, India, UAE, Italy, Spain and ends in the UK. Launched in 1997 and valued at a third of a billion dollars.
Middle East North Africa (MENA) submarine cable route. One of the most recent, launched in 2014, has a length of just under nine thousand kilometers and ensures data exchange between Karachi, Mumbai and Sicily at a speed of 5.7 terabits per second.
There are also 15 thousand kilometers of the Europe India Gateway (EIG). It provides connectivity between the UAE, Oman, India, Libya, France, Portugal, and the end point is the City of London. Fiber optic route using the 2+2 system, 16 telecommunications clusters worth more than $700 million.
In 1999, one of the largest and longest submarine cables, SeaMeWe-3, was launched. A breathtaking 39 thousand kilometers and a state necklace in the form of Japan, Australia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, Portugal and Germany. Nearby is the twin brother SeaMeWe-4, which also includes Myanmar and Malaysia.
These are only the largest, fastest and most expensive cables.
And there is also G2A (Gulf2Africa) for communication between Oman and Somalia. RAMAN connecting Jordan, Oman and India. Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Iran use the Falcon cable bridge. The last one built is AAE-1 (Asia Africa Europe - 1), thanks to which millions of banking transactions are carried out between the Old World and the countries of continental Asia.
And many others. Those who are interested can look for information on their own to understand the scale.
To visualize and understand the motivations for geopolitical actions, it will be useful to look at the map, namely at the layout of the notorious cables. It is quite interesting, if only because disparate bundles and routes converge into a single data center in Djibouti. By a strange coincidence, it is here that the largest US naval base in the region has long been deployed, namely Camp Lemonnier - a permanent home for more than five thousand soldiers and officers. Their presence here and ensuring reliable uninterrupted operation of the telecommunications hub is critically important for dozens of countries included in the top twenty economies of the planet.
And this is one of the thin but extremely strong threads that wraps around the throat of Europe and some Asian countries - Washington expressively tugs on it on occasion. After all, modern telecom is not about watching clips on your phone or playing tanks on the Network: modern digital communication technologies provide billions of financial transactions amounting to trillions of dollars a year, and the breakdown of two or three channels can lead not to the bankruptcy of individual companies, but to collapse entire state economies.
But, as often happens, this game can be played together.
Of the listed cable bridges, at least four extend into Yemen itself, and the physical route of the rest is no secret to the local military. There are doubts that the Houthis have the equipment and tools to carry out underwater sabotage, but the Iranians definitely have all this, experiencing severe heartburn from the sight of the American flag.
Two years ago, when the Nord Stream terrorist attack took place, Vladimir Putin warned the Western community that this explosion had opened the lid of the proverbial Pandora's box. Because from now on, all critical underwater infrastructure, be it an oil pipeline or a fiber optic cable, becomes a legitimate target in a game without rules. And if three gas pipes exploded at the bottom of the Baltic for unknown reasons, then who can guarantee that one day, somewhere in the El-Mukalla area, a dozen or so telecommunication lines will not accidentally rub against the rocks. At that moment, this statement was taken most seriously by the British, who urgently sent warships with divers to check the underwater engineering infrastructure.
The main reason for the most shameful failures of the United States in recent years has been butting heads with countries that are guaranteed to go to the end. This was the case with North Korea, where two aircraft carrier groups aimlessly descended; the Afghan Taliban turned out to be no less stubborn. Judging by the Pentagon's obvious reluctance to get involved in a direct war in the region, Washington and London came to the conclusion that in the event of a critical situation, the crabs of the Gulf of Aden could have very sharp claws.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/07/2024 7:15 Comments ||
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Yemen has nothing. Not even Wolfowitz would want to invade them. Just blockade everything but food and meds. Sink all their bass boats. Eventually, they will be down to trebuchets and slings. The shipping lanes will be safe.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
02/07/2024 19:44 Comments ||
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Houthis are an easy demonstration project not to fuck with us. Except, Biden & Blinken & Obama
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/07/2024 20:31 Comments ||
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I miss the days of a North & South Yemen.
I've never had their honey, though. It's supposed to be pretty good.
[Gateway] Joe Biden is declining the opportunity to speak to millions of Americans during the Super Bowl and Megyn Kelly thinks she knows why.
According to Kelly, it might have something to do with Biden recently claiming that he spoke with deceased French President Francois Mitterand.
Megyn might be on to something here.
From Real Clear Politics:
SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly on Tuesday discussed President Joe Biden refusing to sit with CBS News for a Super Bowl interview, his media defenders like Joe Scarborough, his latest gaffe about world leaders, and more.
"Last year he [Biden] could get away with it, because it was FOX," Kelly said. "Evil FOX. Who would sit with them? That would be terrible. And but this year, it’s different story because it’s CBS. What does he have against CBS? Why won’t he go on CBS? There’s not even a reason. He’s just not going to do it because he won’t sit at the press. Because he can’t answer hard questions. I don’t mean he doesn’t know the answers. I mean, he physically cannot get the words out."
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It would have been awkward to have Joe say he was at the Super Bowl when Beau played...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/07/2024 15:15 Comments ||
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"Well, first I want to say, its great to be here at the Los Angeles Raiders arena. Just this morning, I was talking to one of my favorite Raiders of all time, Carl Weathers. Carl, I know you're out there, stand up!"
#10
The interview is usually low key Barbara Walters stuff as I remember. Jill would be there as the “journalist” teed up each ball. I think the fear is that too many people would watch the interview. Part of his slide into incoherence is hidden by he is totally unlikable. No one shows up at his events or watches his appearances.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
02/07/2024 20:12 Comments ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bee] Dating in 2024 isn't the same as it was in generations past. Why? Your date might be one of those transgenders. Surgical advancements and breakthroughs in hormone therapy have made it more difficult to know if you're dating a male or female than ever before.
