[BookworkmBeat] Few of these posters and pictures have anything to do with Christmas Eve. They’ll just make you laugh and think. That’s a good start for a Merry Christmas.
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Thanks Besoeker for the touching vid. A Merry Christmas to you and Fred and mods. A Happy Channuka for our Jewish friends as well. Best wishes in the coming year as well.
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...NukeMap is actually a useful tool, but it has one fairly serious drawback - it doesn't allow for terrain effects at all, which skews the results pretty thoroughly. However, as I said, it is useful and helpful in giving you an idea of what happens when The Big One arrives.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
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Hiroshima blast at 150,000 feet. Show the emp damage.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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So much for peace in earth. Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Bobby on the road ||
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Those things have been around for almost 50 years - maybe more. I was stationed at the Pentagon in 1971 and remember reading an article of what would happen if a nuclear blast happened over the Washington Monument. (At the distance, the skin of my car would have been melted.)
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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[Daily Caller] Democrats in Virginia may override local zoning to bring high-density housing, including public housing, to every neighborhood statewide ‐ whether residents want it or not.
The measure could quickly transform the suburban lifestyle enjoyed by millions, permitting duplexes to be built on suburban lots in neighborhoods previously consisting of quiet streets and open green spaces. Proponents of "upzoning" say the changes are necessary because suburbs are bastions of segregation and elitism, as well as bad for the environment.
The move, which aims to provide "affordable housing," might be fiercely opposed by local officials throughout the state, who have deliberately created and preserved neighborhoods with particular character ‐ some dense and walkable, others semi-rural and private ‐ to accommodate people’s various preferences.
But Democrats tout a state-level law’s ability to replace "not in my backyard" with "yes, in your backyard."
House Delegate Ibraheem Samirah,
...the Joo-hating, Chicago-born, Palestinian-American dentist who spent his teen years in Jordan after his illegal immigrant father, Dr. Sabri Ibrahim Samirah, chair of the Hamas-linked Islamic Association of Palestine and a leader in the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, was barred in 2002 from re-entering the U.S. before being allowed back in 2010. In his own dawah outreach, this friend of Rep. Rashida Tlaib joined a Jewish fraternity as a poli sci undergrad, was an activist for Students for Justice in Palestine while in dental school, and has since become an advocate for BDS...
a Democrat, introduced six housing measures Dec. 19, coinciding with Democrats’ takeover of the state legislature in November.
"Single-family housing zones would become two-zoned," Samirah told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "Areas that would be impacted most would be the suburbs that have not done their part in helping out."
"The real issues are the areas in between very dense areas which are single-family zoned. Those are the areas that the state is having significant trouble dealing with. They’re living in a bubble," he said.
He said suburbs were "mostly white and wealthy" and that their local officials ‐ who have historically been in charge of zoning ‐ were ignoring the desires of poor people, who did not have time to lobby them to increase suburban density.
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I am continually amazed at the Democrats' unique ability of seriously proposing galaxy-level stupid, unworkable ideas & policies (e.g, the Green New Deal) combined with strong totalitarian attributes, done under the guise of fairness and, oh yes, the ever precious diversity.
Plus, it's a nonstarter - where's all that money going to come from? Are they going to compel real estate developers to do this when they would otherwise not build them? You Dems gonna put a fuckin' gun to their head or something? These bastards need to be thrown out of office and down a huge flight of stairs.
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Dr. Samirah’s background suggests this is the soft jihad of the law rather than mere lefty nonsense. Check out the piece on him in The Federalist in July — the kid is connected.
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Because it is now a crime to be white and wealthy, comrade. Don't you just love communism? Besides, we need housing for all those illegal aliens, I mean immigrants.
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"I'll take 'How Do We Get More Trump?' for $500, Alex."
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Going to bet this initiative bypasses the "horse country" area of VA south of I-66 in Fauquier County where all the beltway bandits have bought up farms.
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/\ You wouldn't want their property taxes or crowded two lane highways.
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Michael Totten's The Dark Towers of Paris(2004) is a blogpost about the horrors of planned neighborhoods. These slums are what the Democratic Party apparatchiks seem to think are success stories.
To which we can add:
Suburbs = "toxic sprawl"
Single-family suburban homes with yards = like, fascism dude
Cars, highways, gasoline = agents of the counter-revolution that Must Be Destroyed
White males = phallocratic felons
Guns = signs of the devil
Founders of the American Republic = war criminals
h/t Instapundit
[ABC] - A Texas resident grabbed his shotgun and shot and killed three men when they allegedly broke into his home, authorities said.
Early Monday morning, one of the two residents of a trailer home in Channelview -- about 20 miles east of Houston -- heard a "commotion" outside, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. He then saw several men in dark clothing -- possibly one armed -- force their way inside, the sheriff said at a news conference.
That resident ran to hide, while his roommate, armed with a shotgun, exchanged gunfire with the suspects, Gonzalez said.
During the exchange of gunfire, one of the residents was shot and was hospitalized in unknown condition.
"We're told it's serious. But he's going to be going into surgery so we're not exactly sure of his condition," the sheriff said.
...The second resident was not hurt, Gonzalez said.
The case will most likely be referred to the grand jury, he said.
"A person does have the right to defend themselves if that's what the facts are," the sheriff said. "We'll have to confirm that. Everything is preliminary."
It's not clear why the suspects targeted this home, the sheriff said.
"If it turns out that that's what they were doing -- breaking into someone's home -- regardless of the circumstances, crime doesn't pay," Gonzalez said. "Eventually you're going to end up dead or end up in jail, most likely."
#4
I agree, those are never going to 'buff out.' As an interim measure, I recommend 90 mph tape to keep the moisture and weather out. Professional aluminum skin patching should produce acceptable results.
[ToloNews] The men are believed to work for Commander Wase, and residents say such threatening behavior is not new.
Unknown gunnies on Monday night shot up a health center in PD5 in Kabul, a number of eyewitnesses said on Tuesday.
The gunnies, who apparently belong to Commander Wase, a local strongman, have also warned that the residents should evacuate their homes, the residents claimed.
"Wase is not letting us live in peace. This is not the first time--he has threatened us with death several times," said Raz Mohammad, a resident in PD5 of Kabul.
"Over the past 20 years, six to seven hundred acres of land have been grabbed and were sold," said Ajab Gul, a resident in Kabul.
"The government never took action against the illegal gangs and instead supported them and, in some cases, created them," said Abdul Mohammad, the owner of the health center.
But Wase has rejected the allegations, saying the land where the health center was been built was his personal property and it has been grabbed by a man named Jannat Gul.
"Why should someone build a health center on my land? I asked the bullying man over the past seventeen years to come and give me my money or divide the land," said Wase in a telephone interview with TOLOnews.
Some residents said that the Kabul police failed to provide security to the public.
Be not amazed, dear Reader. As you read further, you will discover they forfeited their deposit — which is startling enough.
[KhaamaPress] Eleven out of thirteen presidential candidates who were unable to secure at least 10% votes will get fined 1m AFN each as per the procedure, Abdul Aziz Ibrahimi, an IEC spokesperson said.
Each presidential candidates deposited AFN 1,000,000.00 in a state bank as a criterial to get eligible for running the election.
Those candidates who made it to get at least 10% votes will be fully refunded, Ibrahimi told Khaama Press.
According to Ibrahimi, the five candidates who withdrew from the election process will also get refunded.
Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... , Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , Mohammad Hanif Atmar, Zalmay Rassoul, Ibrahim Alokozay, Noorulhaq Olumi and Shaida Mohammad Abdali will get refunded AFN 1,000,000.00 each.
The rest eleven candidates including Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... , Rahmatullah Nabil, Faramarz Tamanna, Sayed Noorullah Jalili, Abdul Latif Pedram, Enayatullah Hafiz, Mohammad Hakim Torsan, Ahmad Wali Massoud, Mohammad Shahab Hakimi, Prof Ghulam Farooq Nijrabi and Noor Rahman Liwal who could not manage to secure the minimum 10% votes will get fined AFN 1m each and their deposited funds will get transferred to the national budget, Ibrahimi said.
The preliminary Afghanistan election results announced after a prolonged delay on Sunday. Mohammad Ashraf Ghani secured 50.64% votes and his main rival Abdullah Abdullah got 39.52% votes.
The final results will get announced within next five weeks after the electoral complaints commission completes reviewing the complaints.
Russia's United Aircraft Corporation said in a statement that a Su-57 fighter jet crashed during a training flight near Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the country's far east. It said the plane's pilot safely ejected and there was no damage on the ground.
[Breitbart] Shoppers gave retailers a massive boost Saturday by making it the biggest sales day in U.S. retail history.
Super Saturday sales reached $34.4 billion thanks to a booming economy and more jobs, according to retail research firm Customer Growth Partners.
"Paced by the ’Big Four’ mega-retailers ‐ Walmart, Amazon, Costco and Target ‐ Super Saturday was boosted by the best traffic our team has seen in years," said the firm’s president, Craig Johnson.
Johnson noted that stronger household finances have "put consumers in a buying mood this season," adding that more of them are shopping online, which has accounted for a 58 percent sales growth compared to last year.
The weekend record beat out Black Friday’s $31.2 billion and Cyber Monday’s $19.1 billion, a Fox Business report said.
In November, incomes rose by half a percentage point, which caused consumer spending to rise at a 0.4 percent annual rate, according to Breitbart News’s John Carney.
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.
Picking up where 'Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac' left off. 
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
