[AirborneMuseum] September 29th is Saint Michael’s day in France. He is the saint patron of, amongst others, the French paratroopers.
It all began in 1944, when a british chaplain gave medals representing Saint Michael to the paratroopers of the 2nd SAS, before their jump in Bretagne, to join the Resistance. The following year, the military chaplain Valin de la Vaissière formally suggested Saint Michael as patron of the paratroopers. This idea was approved by father Jego, chaplain of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st RCP.
In 1948, it is father Jego who, during a service which went down in history, held in the cathedral of Hanoï (during the Indochina war), ended his sermon by “Et par Saint Michel, vive les parachutists!”, a sentence that became the traditional conclusion of the speeches made by the paratrooper regiment chiefs.
The election of Saint Michael as protector makes perfect sense, since he was tasked to fight off the rebellion of the angels, and descended from the sky, leading his militia, to face them, according to John’s Apocalypse. One thinks of Eugène Delacroix’s mural in Paris’ Saint Sulpice church, or of Luca Giordano’s painting, both representing a winged Michael dominating the fallen angels.
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It sounds like he has a lot of patroning to keep him busy. (Yes, I know it’s not a word. It just ought to be, because patronizing sounds wrong in this context.)
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[NYPOST] An Aussie influencer has explained how she accidentally ''broke'' her lover's penis during sex. That just influenced me to keep my pants on in Australia.
Hayley Davies claims that her IUD contraceptive device ''took a chunk'' out of her sexual partner's genitals during intercourse. Hmmm... Which is worse? A social disease or a chunk out of my genitalia?
A form of birth control, an intra-uterine device (IUD) is a small implant that is placed inside a woman's uterus to prevent pregnancy. If you didn't know that, you haven't been paying attention for the past forty years.
Depending on the type of IUD, it will release copper or hormones and can stay in the womb for up to five years. Chopping up pee pees twice a day or more in some cases.
In an interview with Ana Nello, a content creator and model dedicated to tackling sexual stigma, Hayley claims she had to go to hospital after the gruesome sex injury. "Ow! Ow! My cooze didn't escape unscathed!"
''I broke a guy's d—k during sex,'' she said. ... she said proudly.
''So, this hot Army boy that I was hooking up with hit my IUD and it ripped a chunk out of his (penis). "Why, yes. I do keep it sharpened. Why do you ask?"
''And not just that, it actually cut my cervix and I had to go to hospital and get it removed.'' "So there I was, with eggs and no Benedict, if y'know what I mean..."
Hayley recalls how she and her lover were both ''bleeding'' after the horror sex incident. "Wow. You weren't circumcised when we got here, were you?"
Despite the ''chunk of flesh'' that came off his penis, she said her lover did not end up going to hospital. "It's just a foreskin. I can get by without it."
''I felt bad for the guy,'' she said. "Golly, Tom. I feel really bad for you."
"My name's Harry. That was..."
"Don't say it!"
''I told him not to go that hard.'' "So to speak..."
Hailey said they were in the ''missionary position'' when the injury took place. "That explains the conversion..."
''We got into the shower [after the sex] and I saw that [the injury] and then I realized how much pain I was in,'' she recalled. "I didn't hurt at all until his foreskin landed on the shower floor."
''So it was like after the [sexual] experience.'' "And it clogged the drain. I'm still traumatized.""
It seems neither let the experience impact their relationship, as the model confessed that they did in fact see each other again ''once everything healed''. "Hey, baby! I'm back!"
"I remember you. The one with the hat, right?"
"The one without the foreskin."
''You gotta be dedicated to the process,'' she added. "And have really good taste."
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Works as designed.
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Sure, a new level for the attention wh&*e. "I broke my mans d&*k." Its a new one, I'll give her that.
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Important safety tip: Always keep your groundhogs hinged. [NYPOST] A crazed groundhog set its sights on a fallen jogger in New Jersey, only to be thwarted by a quick-thinking teen.
The hogwild drama unfolded on the morning of July 19 when Cait Lostan was confronted by the hostile hog on a trail behind the Bernards Township Police Department.
''I was running in the woods on the path behind the cop shoppe and high school this morning when I came upon a groundhog that looked injured,'' the 36-year-old posted to the BaskingRidgeMoms Facebook group.
''It must have been startled when I made a call on speakerphone because it charged at me screaming and lunging.
''I ended up on my back kicking at it and screaming for about a minute,'' she continued.
[GEO.TV] A team of researchers has found a substance identified as "kefir cheese", 21 years later from a 3,600-year-old coffin opened in 2003 in the Xiaohe Cemetery in Xinjiang, China.
The cheese was draped across the neck of the mummified young woman excavated in 2003 and it seemed like a piece of jewellery but researchers have now determined that it is the oldest piece of cheese in the world, as per Sky News.
A paleogeneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, Qiaomei Fu, told NBC News, "Regular cheese is soft. This is not. It has now become really dry, dense and hard dust."
Fu further explained that when the coffin was exhumed, the body was perfectly preserved because of the dry climate of the Tarim Basin desert.
She also revealed that her team took samples from three tombs in the cemetery and studied the DNA to determine the evolution of cheese across thousands of years.
The ''samples'' were later identified as kefir cheese with evidence of goat and cow's milk in the dairy product.
The research team wrote, "These 3,500-year-old kefir cheese samples are among the few dairy remains preserved more than 3,000 years and were produced by the Bronze Age Xiaohe population - a population that possesses mixed lifestyles and techniques.''
Moreover, Fu was asked by NBC News if the cheese was still edible and would she try it to which she replied ''No way''. "The pickled eggs, on the other hand, were excellent!"
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Here and I thought ethnic chinese were lactose intolerant.
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[HutchMountain] Saw a neighbor up here using this.
Stupid simple solution with no wiring.
Just plug the generator power cable into it and turn on the fuse box switches to what you want to use.
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^^ It fits into the electrical meter socket, so it has to be installed by the local utility and not your electrician buddy. Kinda pricey though, but indeed pretty simple to use.
They (the local electrical utility) don't have to follow the National Electrical Code as they have their own set of rules and therefor the local codes (or inspectors) aren't applicable.
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juat have the switch to switch between the mzin power and genera5or power ( one or the other, not both at the same time. Prevent 'back-flow' power from going back out to the main line and potentially electrocute a power-line repair person.)
[FoxNews] A comet not seen for more than 80,000 years will be visible from Earth, potentially during two separate time periods over the next month.
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, also known as Comet A3, is believed to have an orbit around the sun of more than 80,000 years, according to earth.com.
The comet was first visible starting on Sept. 27 and will continue until shortly before sunrise on Oct. 2. It is expected to appear like a fuzzy ball with a tail stretching across the sky.
"C/2023 A3 has an orbital period of approximately 80,000 years, classifying it as a long-period comet. This means its behavior and appearance can be unpredictable, with potential changes in brightness and tail development as it approaches the sun," Minjae Kim, a space expert in the University of Warwick's astronomy department, told earth.com.
"If predictions hold, it could be visible to the naked eye, appearing as a fuzzy star with a tail stretching across the sky. Otherwise, binoculars or a small telescope may reveal more detail in the comet’s structure and tail," Kim added.
Sept. 27th also marked perihelion, or closet point to the sun, after which the comet will begin its trip back to the outer solar system, according to WKMG.
Another viewing opportunity, which is expected to have better visibility, will be in the middle of October if the comet survives the trip around the sun, as comets will often break apart as they move closer to the sun.
If the comet survives the trip around the sun, the comet could be visible with the naked eye as it becomes its closest to Earth, with its best visibility expected from Oct. 12 until Oct. 20.
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[ColonelCassad] How the US Air Force Wants to Defend Against Drones: The Role of the "Red Team" in Identifying Vulnerabilities
The US Air Force, represented by the Pacific Air Force Command (PACAF), has issued a solicitation to conduct tests of counter-small unmanned aerial vehicle systems (C-sUAS) at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The goal is to conduct tests with the participation of the so-called "red team", which simulates threats from an adversary.
This will help evaluate the effectiveness of defense systems, identify their weaknesses and strengths, and understand what steps are needed to improve anti-drone technologies.
The "red team" is a group of specialists that acts as a conditional adversary. Their main objective is to simulate real-life drone attacks to test how well certain defense systems cope with the threat.
The red team will use different types of drones for the tests, including:
1. Small quadcopters (up to 9 kg) - common drones used for reconnaissance or attacking small targets.
2. Medium quadcopters (9 to 25 kg) - more powerful machines with increased payload capacity and flight range.
3. Large quadcopters (over 25 kg) - drones capable of carrying large payloads or performing complex combat missions.
4. Fixed-wing drones - aircraft-type drones that can cover long distances and perform complex missions, including reconnaissance at high speeds.
Several technologies will be used to combat drones in this exercise:
1. Anduril Anvil - a sophisticated system that detects and destroys enemy drones using a specially designed "interceptor". The system includes long-range surveillance turrets and a kinetic interceptor that literally knocks a drone out of the air with a physical strike.
2. Ninja - Developed by the US Air Force and Black River Systems, this system detects drones via their radio signals and uses jamming techniques to "jam" the aircraft's control signals, disabling it without physically destroying it.
3. Dronebuster - A portable device that can be carried around. It is aimed at a drone and uses radio frequency jamming to disrupt its operation, making the UAV uncontrollable.
The US Department of Defense and Air Force commanders want to get a clear picture of where their defenses are vulnerable. Red Team testing helps identify these weaknesses and make adjustments to personnel training, change tactics, and decide what equipment is needed to strengthen defenses.
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.
[NYPOST] A crazed 
