[Motorious] Ralph Arabian was traveling south on Interstate 495 in Lawrence, Massachusetts on Sunday, April 25 in his 1956 Plymouth Belvedere when another driver hit his classic car, then took off. The 82-year-old retired mechanical engineer from Andover suffered injuries to his hand and shoulder in the crash. Now he wants the other driver tracked down and brought to justice.
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Of COURSE this flaming asshole was compromised by the CCP.
Of course they hacked his laptop which he forgot even existed. Of course they have stuff on his idiot dad, the one who flew him into Beijing on the VP's official jet. Of course he's been trapped with honeypots and extortion schemes.
Why hasn't this POS been executed for treason?
When will his father's dereliction of duty result in impeachment?
#9
This is surreal. Depraved, perverse on so many levels
The president's son is a willing tool if our mortal enemy-- and a deranged drug addict
We've never seen such corruption
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — After skipping a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest is set to return to the Florida Keys this summer.
The 40th contest is scheduled for July 22-24 with a reduced entry field, organizer Donna Edwards said Friday. Hosted at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, preliminary rounds on July 22 and 23 will feature 35 contestants each night, about half the number that usually enter, Edwards said. The final round on July 25 will have about 24 finalists.
The bar also plans to stage its "Running of the Bulls," a spoof event featuring a parade of Ernest Hemingway look-alikes, some riding fake bulls on wheels. The event is planned for the early afternoon July 24.
The look-alike contest is a cornerstone event of the annual Hemingway Days Festival, staged around the author’s July 21 birthday and other activities are being planned, Edwards said.
Other events include the Key West Marlin Tournament, a Hemingway museum exhibit of rare memorabilia, literary readings, a 5k run and paddleboard race, a street fair and the announcement of the winner of the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition.
Hemingway lived in Key West throughout most of the 1930s, and it was there that he wrote such classics as "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "To Have and Have Not."
And now for something... completely different!
[Zero Hedge] - In the early days of the virus pandemic, things didn't look so hot for the field of plastic survey. Hospitals were overrun with COVID-19 infections and banned all elective procedures, limiting plastic surgeries. But sometime after, when the economy reopened, and hospitals allowed elective surgeries, demand for butt implants soared.
Bloomberg, citing data from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), says there were broad declines for minimally invasive and surgical cosmetic procedures during 2020. Botox and soft-tissue fillers remained popular with consumers. But it was buttock augmentation, or butt implants were a massive hit among consumers. Cosmetic procedures for the implants last year were up 22%, from 970 to 1,179.
Dermatologist Ava Shamban said the lockdowns likely triggered those with flat buttocks to receive implants after spending their days surfing Instagram and seeing influencers and models with "higher, tighter rounder assets." This is the millenial-type 'solution' (which only lasts ten years, by the way) if you're too fuckin' lazy to buy a bike (and I don't mean that pansy indoor Peleton crap) and go ride a few thousand miles. Right now we have colder than normal weather in the Boston area and I've still managed 215 miles, and I hate cold weather riding (1,000 or bust is the goal this year). You're only going to build muscle if there's genuine resistance (road friction, wind resistance and gravity when climbing) and that wussy spin class crap simply will not cut it. Oh - and you get real calves in the process to boot (by way of pulling up with your calf with one leg whilst doing the normal pushing down with the other leg).
Dance, gymnastics, martial arts, barre classes, ice skating, roller blading... lots of satisfying ways to tone and strengthen the glutes.
I wonder how many Ear procedures will be performed for those persons who have constantly worn protective masks and have had their ears pulled forward by the tight elastic bands to look like Mickey Mouse Ears?
Normally I'm all in favor of such things. In this case, since I live five minutes from Ocean City (we can see it from down the road a bit) I'm ambivalent. I've got a fifteen-year-old granddaughter who has some womanly protruberances. Some things just ain't right. [BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] The fight for women to go topless in Maryland’s most popular beach town is back in court.
A federal appeals court has heard arguments from advocates who want to overturn Ocean City’s ordinance that bans women from going topless.
A ruling was made last year to uphold the 2017 law that made nudity a municipal infraction punishable by a $1,000 fine.
The case began when five Maryland women sued Ocean City, saying the law unfairly targets women. That prompted the resort town to pass the emergency ordinance in June 2017.
"We will not allow women to go topless on our beach or any public property within the city limits of Ocean City." Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan said at the time.
"Why is it necessary to pass an emergency ordinance to say a female has to be covered up?" the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Devon Jacob, argued.
"The city’s interest is of course in preserving and protecting the character of Ocean City, the moral sensibilities of its residents and visitors." Bruce Bright, Ocean City attorney, said in 2017.
Maryland is one of several states with ambiguous topless laws. Some cities like Austin, Texas, Boulder, Colorado, and Madison, Wisconsin have what’s known as "top freedom." But some fear the family friendly feel of Ocean City could be in jeopardy if toplessness becomes the norm.
"The beach is something that we’re trying to incorporate as a family," one beach visitor told WJZ in previous coverage of the controversy. "It would turn us away and we would just go elsewhere."
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A new Zulu king in South Africa was named amid scenes of chaos Friday night as other members of the royal family questioned Prince Misuzulu Zulu’s claim to the title and bodyguards suddenly whisked him away from the public announcement at a palace.
The controversy over the next king, a largely ceremonial role but one with great significance for South Africa and its 12 million Zulu people, has arisen after the death in March of King Goodwill Zwelithini, who had reigned since 1968.
Zwelithini apparently named one of his six wives, Queen Mantfombi Shiyiwe Dlamini Zulu, as the "regent of the Zulu kingdom" in his will, but her death just over a week ago after holding the title for only a month has thrown the royal succession into turmoil.
The commotion broke out at the reading of Queen Mantfombi’s will and hours after a memorial service for her. Her will named 46-year-old Prince Misuzulu, her eldest son with King Zwelithini, as the next king.
But another prince objected and interrupted the announcement at the KwaKhangelamankengane Royal Palace in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, while two princesses have already questioned whether the late king’s will gave Queen Mantfombi the right to nominate a successor on her death.
King Zwelithini reportedly had 28 children with his different wives, and Queen Mantfombi was not his first wife. The dispute over succession has been rumbling for a month since the former king’s death, fascinating many South Africans with their very own royal scandal.
[Breitbart] Terrorist mobs have destroyed 25 police emergency response stations in Bogotá, Colombia, alone as of Wednesday night in a spate of violent attacks nationwide. Eyewitnesses say the assailants were attempting to burn police officers alive and, in some cases, succeeded in setting them on fire.
Colombia is in the midst of what leftist movements are calling a “national strike” against the government, police officers, and authority in general. Some unrest began last week in response to conservative President Iván Duque proposing a large tax hike on most of the country, claiming it necessary to combat the negative economic effects of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Widely panned by a bipartisan coalition that including the head of Duque’s party, former President Álvaro Uribe, the tax reform failed to pass and Duque announced Sunday he would no longer pursue it.
The end of the tax controversy did not stop nationwide protests, however, which turned violent when radical leftists organized on Saturday, a Marxist holiday known as International Workers’ Day. Far-left unions and syndicalist groups have insisted on continuing the “national strike” despite no longer having a political goal or concrete objective. The calls for more protest have resulted in roving mobs attacking police stations, public transit stops, hotels, banks, and civilian residential property in the capital as well as large cities like Cali, Medellín, Barranquilla, and Cartagena.
Photos of the daytime protests preceding the nighttime mob violence show little indication that those involved are concerned about tax hikes. The English-language acronym “ACAB,” or “all cops are bastards,” has become a rallying cry for “protesters.” Many openly advocate attacking and killing police. Also common are offensive depictions of police officers as pigs.
Reports of mobs attempting to burn down populated locations — most of them, but not all, CAI police stations — have emerged nationwide this week. In the western city of Cali, a leftist mob attempted to burn down the La Luna Hotel on Tuesday night. As in Bogotá, where a civilian appeared to save Mahecha, civilians in Cali also organized groups, in some cases armed, to confront the terrorists.
El Tiempo reported Thursday that it had obtained evidence that the mob burnings were coordinated attacks, not spontaneous eruptions of violence. A local official in Bogotá accused leftists of using Facebook to organize attacks, writing messages on the social media site specifically calling for criminals to convene and “burn the CAI” about an hour before a mob convened at a local park on Wednesday. Fearing violence, the local councilmen and other officials went door-to-door urging businesses to shut down. The officials also used Whatsapp to contact state officials asking for law enforcement backup for their local forces, but “no one” answered, they told the newspaper.
The officials also attempted to organize a “human shield” defense of the police station in the Kennedy neighborhood of Bogotá, but were met with a barrage of rocks and stones. A video from Twitter reproduced by the newspaper shows the attack.
In Medellín, a city in Colombia’s mountainous heartland, a leftist mob burned down a highly trafficked Metroplus public transit station, an unprecedented event in the city despite its extremely violent history as a drug trafficking hub in the 1980s and 1990s.
Colombian Attorney General Francisco Barbosa Delgado has accused multiple Marxist terrorist organizations of being behind the violence.
“From Cali, I want to inform the country that, thanks to the investigations by a specialized team of prosecutors … we have determined that [involved in] the disorder and vandalism occurring in Cali in last days there are structures tied to drug trafficking, the ELN, and FARC,” Barbosa said in a video message on Tuesday night. The FARC are the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and ELN are the National Liberation Army, both Marxist narco-terrorist organizations.
Estimates as to the human cost of these leftist riots vary, but at least 20 deaths attributable to the violence have been recorded and over 800 injuries. At least 80 of those injured are journalists attempting to document the reality of the violence, according to the Foundation for Freedom of the Press, a Colombian group.
[Aljazeera] Mexico has sent a diplomatic note asking the United States to explain funding for an anti-corruption group critical of the government, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said shortly before a scheduled call with US Vice President Kamala Harris.
Lopez Obrador said the formal protest was sent because of funding for Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity, a group that investigates political corruption. He said the group is seeking to undermine his government.
"It’s promoting a form of coup," said Lopez Obrador, describing funding that includes money from the US Agency for International Development, commonly known as USAID, as an affront to Mexico’s sovereignty.
"That’s why we’re asking that (the US government) clarifies this for us. A foreign government can’t provide money to political groups," he said.
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"That’s why we’re asking that (the US government) clarifies this for us. A foreign government can’t provide money to political groups," he said.
Say what ?
There simply wasn't time to funnel the money through the normal Non-Gov't Agency (NGO) cut-outs and Deep State money laundry systems. We had to make certain it got into the right hands.
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The US government is all about providing money to political groups. That's what we've done in foreign countries for decades, while we pretend to know what we're doing.
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China was preparing for a Third World War with biological weapons
A standard doctrine for biological warfare is "immunize your own population before unleashing the agent". Thus Covid19 proved that China is unready for biological warfare because they can't make a vaccine - despite the fact that they had a head start on everybody else. However, now they're going to get the secrets of vaccine making from Biden.
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I was looking for an article written last year about the possibility of a different strain targeting China's neighbors, India. In light of current events there....
[AP] Stocks rallied to more records on Wall Street Friday as a stunningly disappointing report on the nation’s job market signaled to investors that interest rates will likely stay low.
The S&P 500 rose 0.7%, topping the previous all-time high set last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average set a record high for the third straight day.
Technology companies accounted for a big share of the broad rally, which included solid gains by stocks in the energy, industrial, and consumer discretionary sectors. The gains helped the S&P 500 notch its eighth weekly gain in the last 10 weeks.
Voices up and down Wall Street acknowledged that Friday morning’s jobs report was a massive disappointment. It’s usually the market’s most anticipated economic data of each month, and it showed employers added just 266,000 jobs in April. That was far fewer than the 975,000 jobs that economists expected and a steep slowdown from March’s hiring pace of 770,000.
"It was a bit of a shock when that headline number hit, but you realize most of, if not all of it, is the result not necessarily of demand, but supply," said Peter Essele, head of portfolio management for Commonwealth Financial Network. "There seems to be a bit of a labor shortage at the moment."
#EU leaders divided over whether to follow #Washington in supporting a waiver of patent rights to #coronavirus vaccines, as many argue this would take years and not address the immediate issue of making more shots to end the pandemic.#COVID19https://t.co/XEfvl1Z0t8
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Smoke and mirrors. The bottleneck is the manufacturing supply chain, not patents. But that is not sexy to talk about. You don't get the base fired up over precursors and catalysts.
[The Takeout] I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Food and Wine reports that Oktoberfest is being canceled again, for the second year in a row. My family and I visited Germany decades ago, and we got to see Munich just before the celebration kicked off. It looked like it would have been a lot of fun, if we’d stuck around. Too bad my parents aren’t partiers. But this news is a stark reminder that not only is the pandemic not over, it’s still got enough momentum that canceling events remains the safer route.
Munich’s Lord Mayor, Deiter Rieter, said on the official Oktoberfest website, "It wasn’t an easy decision, but I have to make it now and I have done so," citing public health concerns. Expecting a rowdy beer-fueled crowd to observe masking etiquette probably wouldn’t work too well, knowing human beings, in general.
[Army Times] A large contingent of U.S. paratroopers is expected to jump into Estonia tonight after a long flight from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, that includes mid-air refueling.
The jump is one of three brigade-size jumps over the next several days in which a total of 7,000 paratroopers from the United States and 10 other nations will conduct a joint forcible entry exercise at each of the landing sites in Estonia, Bulgaria and Romania.
The exercise, known as Swift Response, is part of a larger umbrella exercise called Defender Europe 2021 that runs from May through mid-June and spans countries from the Baltic region to Morocco, with U.S. Army Europe and Africa coordinating missions across the continent.
Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, 82nd Airborne Division commander, said everyone participating in the exercise has received the COVID-19 vaccination.
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not necessarily. sounds routine, actually... better to be consistent, measured, calm and let the Russians know our intentions -- that way, peace is preserved
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Did a nonstop into Egypt as part of Bright Star
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Only 200 miles from NATO territory in Estonia to Moscow. Regime change in the Kremlin and Russian election meddling is ended forever. A sharp kick and the whole rotten structure will collapse.
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As far as I can tell, the guys have to train anyway, and it’s more fun when competing against other teams. Egypt’s Al Ahram proudly announces every exercise their army is involved in, whether American, French, English, or the smaller things they organize to pass on learnings other nations in the region.
The Royal Navy is testing a jet suit from Gravity Industries. First Sea Lord Admiral Tony Radakin tweeted out a video of Royal Marines testing the kit at the HMS Tamar Trials. (UK Royal Navy)
Gravity Jet Suit
Power: 1050HP using 5 motor/turbines (4 on arms 1 on back)
Fuel: JetA1 fuel or common commercial diesel.
Dry weight: 60 LBS with w/o fuel.
Fuel Weight: add about 10+/- LBS
Flight duration: 5-10 minutes.
Recommended Max Altitude: 2,000 feet due to flight time limits
Speeds: Up to 80+/- MPH
Est Lifting Weight for 5 to 10 flight: up to 200+/- lbs person and attachable items including jet pack weight and fuel.
Combat Issues:
Because the jets packs are mounted on the hands and back, this precludes any hand held and used weapons while in flight.
Carried Items must be small and light weight and likely attached to arm or leg areas. note: video shows a rope boarding ladder was carried.
NOW THE AVG JOE DEAL BREAKER
Cost $400K+
But I can see the price seriously dropping to under $100K later.
#2
Franky Zapata's jetboard [best] is the French one.
I can see a use as an exfil device for assets. If it can be dropped in and put on fast, in situations where stabo and line SPE is not possible. Of course such assets will need months of training.
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.
[Motorious] Ralph Arabian was traveling south on Interstate 495 in Lawrence, Massachusetts on Sunday, April 25 in his 1956 Plymouth Belvedere when another driver hit his classic car, then took off. The 82-year-old retired mechanical engineer from Andover suffered injuries to his hand and shoulder in the crash. Now he wants the other driver tracked down and brought to justice.
Chrysler Powerflyte Transmissions. What will they think of next?
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — After skipping a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest is set to return to the Florida Keys this summer.
[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] The fight for women to go topless in Maryland’s most popular beach town is back in court.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A new Zulu king in South Africa was named amid scenes of chaos Friday night as other members of the royal family questioned Prince Misuzulu Zulu’s claim to the title and bodyguards suddenly whisked him away from the public announcement at a palace.
[Aljazeera] Mexico has sent a diplomatic note asking the United States to explain funding for an anti-corruption group critical of the government, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said shortly before a scheduled call with US Vice President Kamala Harris.
[AP] Stocks rallied to more records on Wall Street Friday as a stunningly disappointing report on the nation’s job market signaled to investors that interest rates will likely stay low.
[The Takeout] I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Food and Wine reports that Oktoberfest is being canceled again, for the second year in a row. My family and I visited Germany decades ago, and we got to see Munich just before the celebration kicked off. It looked like it would have been a lot of fun, if we’d stuck around. Too bad my parents aren’t partiers. But this news is a stark reminder that not only is the pandemic not over, it’s still got enough momentum that canceling events remains the safer route.
