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2019-04-15 Caribbean-Latin America

U.S. Military Wary of China’s Foothold in Venezuela

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Posted by Fred 2019-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Intelligence community has the means and the motivation to cause all the devastation to Venezuela that they can. That it's happening right when they're trying to engineer a coup? Complete coincidence I'm sure.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-04-15 05:51|| 2019-04-15 05:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Then quit financing China with $550 billion every year.

Posted by Pearl Brown6709 2019-04-15 06:01|| 2019-04-15 06:01|| Front Page Top

Still made in America.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-15 06:07|| 2019-04-15 06:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Estwing story.

Estwing Manufacturing Company was founded in Rockford, Illinois, in 1923 by Ernest O. Estwing (1884-1982). Estwing was an immigrant from Sweden who settled in Rockford with many other Swedish immigrants. His descendants live in Rockford. Estwing products are constructed of one solid piece of hardened tool steel for strength

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-15 06:17|| 2019-04-15 06:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey Beso, I've got 3 of those from my days as a nail banger. The straight claw framing hammer is a 22 oz and two 16 oz curved claws for general duty. They are indestructible and great. The youngest one is 20 years old, the oldest is 48 years old.

Good stuff.

Posted by AlanC 2019-04-15 07:41|| 2019-04-15 07:41|| Front Page Top

#6 ‘We Talked About Military Options in Venezuela’

Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-15 08:40|| 2019-04-15 08:40|| Front Page Top

#7 I think a heightened awareness of threats in "our back yard" is a good step in a good direction...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-04-15 09:47|| 2019-04-15 09:47|| Front Page Top

#8 The straight claw framing hammer is a 22 oz

That’s the kind Mr, Wife has — for nail bangers who don’t often need to pull out badly hit nails. When hanging drywall, I use the lighter hammer with the recurved claw because of how often I need to pull nails back out again. He gave me one for my very own after we’d been working on our house for a few years.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-04-15 11:14|| 2019-04-15 11:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Now that really is a thinking man, setting his wife up with dry wall tools. I'll bet you're a pretty good hand at tape and mud as well. :-)

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-15 11:20|| 2019-04-15 11:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Damn, why didn't I think of that?? My wife could do that too.

for nail pulling I prefer a cat's paw to get a tough one started or the straight claw and another hammer to get started and for the really tough ones, a crow bar.

Using the big one to hang strapping on the ceiling was serious exercise. 8^)

Posted by AlanC 2019-04-15 11:59|| 2019-04-15 11:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Cook, travel, blog, drywall.... is there anything she cannot do ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-15 12:02|| 2019-04-15 12:02|| Front Page Top

#12 He gave me one for my very own after we’d been working on our house for a few years.

That is so romantic!

Posted by SteveS 2019-04-15 12:22|| 2019-04-15 12:22|| Front Page Top

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