Woodland Camo?
80's Woodland Camo? Gonna go hold the Fulda Gap? Not even sure its that; looks like a picture of jar of marbles which got some Photoshop filter treatments. Forgot to put Milly's face on it.
"For all you butter bars out there on your first land nav...this Bud's for you."
Excellent opportunity for Jameson to get those Sergeants.
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Woodland camo is either an attempt to: a) recapture the rural voter or.... (IMHO) further action to insult the rural voter disguised as an apology which will make great fodder for the TGIF cocktail parties.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
05/18/2023 11:38 Comments ||
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#10
So they plan to make it seem like beer or camouflage it so that no one can see it on the shelves?
Posted by: Super Hose ||
05/18/2023 12:08 Comments ||
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#11
So, the left is allowed to be "triggered" by "microaggressions," but the proles are supposed to "just get over it."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
05/18/2023 12:32 Comments ||
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#12
What do you call a bottle of Budweiser, Bud Light, Michelob, and a Miller Lite bottle walking down the street?
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The company is set to launch a line of camouflage aluminum bottles that promote the “Folds of Honor” program, which provides educational scholarships for families of fallen and disabled American military service members and first responders, the New York Post reported.”
“It’s an aluminum bottle,” a source familiar with the plan told the Post. “I believe it is the only package that will be transitioning, but I am not 100% certain on that.”
Apparently not har har har. You fucking people are morons.
Folds of Honor. Anyone ask them about this?
Established during Enduring Freedom, well known for its heavy use of woodland camo.
Somebody want to tell them attacking Iraq from the jungle is from Hot Shots Part Deux. Better tell them that movie is satire, not documentary.
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#17 Anyone here read Forever War? There's a chapter where, returning from campaign via hyperspace, they find that everyone on Earth is gay via executive fiat. It is enforced with the full weight of the law. Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
05/18/2023 19:08 Comments ||
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Rex, I read that book. IIRC, the hero was able to escape to the one planet in the universe where straights were allowed, where he reunited with his lover.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
05/18/2023 19:53 Comments ||
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Commentary comes from the V Kontakte page of Egor Stulikov
The French Foreign Legion had a German accent from the first days: King Louis Philippe created it in 1831 from mercenary German and Swiss regiments. The difficult, but massive presence of the Germans in the Legion lasted a century and a half.
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I have read first-hand accounts from German soldiers who were captured by French troops who were forced into the Foreign Legion after WWII ended instead of being allowed to go home. I even got to talk to one, Wilhelm Gehlen. I have a signed copy of his book.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
05/18/2023 7:23 Comments ||
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All fairly well known, but still fascinating.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
05/18/2023 9:15 Comments ||
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Yes. Read Bernard B. Fall's Street Without Joy for some anecdotes about former Waffen-SS serving in Indochina. Great book as is his book Hell In A Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu.
[Heartlander] In the haunting Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others, an East German Stasi agent spies on innocent artists to tragic effect — but ends up changed, regretful and more fully human.
Watching it again this past week made me wonder: Is it remotely possible that America’s domestic spies and malefactors — who conspired to subvert and perhaps destroy our republic the past seven years — might also someday feel guilt and shame enough to come clean?
The Durham report on the FBI’s Russia collusion coup lays bare the fact that federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies under Barack Obama cynically conspired to gin up an investigation of candidate-turned-President Donald Trump. While cozying up to the Hillary Clinton campaign, the agency ignored intelligence of "a trusted foreign source pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server."
The world-class conspiracy, involving an unknown number of unindicted co-conspirators, led to trumped-up charges against former Trump National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (who is now suing the government for $50 million for wrongful prosecution); illegal surveillance of a Trump supporter, aided by the phony Steele dossier and by repeated bald-faced government lies to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; and a two-year, multimillion-dollar Potemkin "probe" by special prosecutor Robert Mueller that hamstrung and further divided America.
All this, despite the fact that Christopher Steele’s own researcher had told the FBI in May 2017 there was absolutely nothing to the dossier. Yet the political operatives atop the agency plowed on in their scheme to destroy Trump and install their preferred political regime.
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Considering all the lies and disinformation after the Russian Hoax I would suggest the success of the Russian Hoax just encouraged more mass manipulation by the deep state.
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The system was designed with checks and balances that have been negated or overridden so that we have collected bad folks in elected and unelected offices. If there is a good person in the system, that person would have to be hiding from attack.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
05/18/2023 11:55 Comments ||
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A Stasi agent in Cold War East Germany, having grown up in Nazi Germany during WWII, might be excused for doing his job. He grew up in an amoral culture where that type of job might have been seen as one of the few ways to get ahead. I can't judge him because for all I know about that time and place, he might have been a basically decent human being who just didn't know any better.
I cannot say the same for the likes of Peter Stzrok. I believe that he was born that way and recruited by people who valued his particular type of character defect. After seeing the smirk on his face when he testified before Congress, lying and claiming that he couldn't remember much of anything, I don't believe that he will ever know the meaning of remorse, guilt or shame. Sociopaths and reptiles never do.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
05/18/2023 12:06 Comments ||
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Key players in the Durham investigation refused interviews with the special counsel. The list includes:
• James Comey
• Andrew McCabe
• Peter Strzok
• Former FBI counterintelligence chief Bill Priestap
• Marc Elias, Clinton campaign attorney who funded the Steele dossier
• Glenn Simpson, cofounder of Fusion GPS, the firm behind the Steele dossier
[The Nation (Pak)] In the present charged political atmosphere, accusations, slurs and abuses are flying everywhere. The State is churning out statements and proposing ways and means of teaching a lesson to the opposition and its supporters in the public. Taking the cue, much is being written in print and electronic media to further suggest ways to suppress opposition and any dissenting voices, even if they are of the ordinary public. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... beating the drums of war, the politicians are not realizing that their words and actions may later come back to haunt them.
Hundreds of opposition activists have been arrested along with their first and second-tier leadership by the state, which is simply unprecedented in the recent political history of Pakistain. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... would such violent mostly peaceful actions of arbitrary arrests, and baton charging, and tear gassing the protestors help to ease the charged atmosphere in the country? Similarly, houses of opposition leaders are being raided, thus setting another dangerous precedent in politics. Also, protesting families are manhandled in front of cameras with impunity, without realizing that local media may be influenced but not the foreign media which is continuously beaming ground realities to the international viewers.
Further, taking the State’s cue and molding public opinion, ideas are being floated in the print and media to repress the opposition—an essential ingredient of democracy. It has been suggested to set up ’rioter courts’ to punish the rioters, giving the example of the UK, which is the cradle of democracy and citizens’ rights are jealously guarded and the judiciary is independent and impermeable to any influence-hostile or condescending. To try the demonstrators, words like ’terrorism’ and ’terrorists’ are being thrown around like spaghetti, and everything is being painted as black or white: you are either with us or against us. In the UK, judges of the ’rioter courts’ handed sentences for vandalism, theft and arson only upon the provision of solid evidence provided by the law enforcement agencies, not at the whims and egos of a few. Similarly, it is being suggested to conduct trials by army courts. Such undemocratic steps would only weaken the institutions and democracy.
Among the political parties, PPP and its workers have suffered the most for democracy: the execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the liquidation of Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... (BB), the incarceration of former Pres Zardari and the flogging of PPP activists. BB was subjected to misogynistic slurs and faced a slew of cases. There are still iconic pictures of BB visiting her incarcerated husband with young children in tow. Therefore, PPP was always at the forefront to save democracy and give space to opposition. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the torch of leadership has passed to a new generation: which, probably, has neither the experience nor memories of past political victimization, because of this no fire control measures are being initiated by the most mature political party in Pakistain.
There is a general glee over the victimization and abuse of the protesting public. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... keeping in view the political history of Pakistain, what goes around, comes around. Therefore, the petty and brutal tactics might come back to haunt everyone. The egos of a few have put the entire country in a spin and suddenly personal vendettas over the country’s interests have taken center stage. Political parties have probably forgotten the slogan: Democracy is the best Dire Revenge. So let sanity and saner minds prevail, lest everybody will lose what was hard won by BB—democracy
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05/18/2023 00:00 ||
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