Welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day.
First, the song. This showed up in a trivia quiz, and I had completely forgotten the song and had to look it up. The Big Bopper, J. P. Richardson wrote the song and sang backup with George Jones and the session producer. Probably would be denounced these days.
Now for the hunks. We’re gearing up for the Olympics in the RFH household (and praying they don’t go woke), so I’ve been watching the gymnastics trials. Candidates for the team include:
Brody Malone
Malone again, because I couldn’t decide between the two pics.
Sorta redhead (strawberry blonde?) for Carin, Shane Wiskus.
Allan Bower.
Yul Muldauer.
Brandon Briones.
Last, but not least, Alec Yoder.
USA! USA! USA!
Thanks to Pirate’s Cove for the linky love every week, and y’all have a good day.
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Nice day out there except for the skeeters. The rain woke them up and they’re swarming now. I’ll need to borrow MJ’s mosquito sucker.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/07/haitian-president-jovenel-moise-assassinated-in-his-home/
This is the Third World shit they’re trying to import here
Dude staying in office by shady shit trying to clinch power by dubious means gets 86’d at home?
We should be so lucky.
I think Messico averages something like 100+ political assassinations a year. We’re way behind on that score.
wakey wakey
at least they aren’t racist
They’re perfectly ok with various low-level assassinations in the black community right here in the United States.
Remember – white supremacy is our biggest threat.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2021/07/rise-of-the-moors-classified-as-antigovernment-group-not-hate-group-by-southern-poverty-law-center-adding-there-has-been-no-actual-violence.html
NO ACTUAL VIOLENCE, People. Shesh. Don’t get your panties in a wad.
I read a story in the Boston Herald about the arraignment for the Moors that they tried to do yesterday. It went as well as you might expect. You’d think the sooper geniuses who were patting themselves on the back for arresting them without bloodshed would have anticipated the circus that would ensue in court and have taken steps to short circuit it.
Dragged my ass to the gym last night and actually managed to do pull-ups for the first time in a long while. It’s nice to finally get back into some semblence of decent shape.
how do you know when the southern poverty law center is lying?
They issue a statement?
I could do pull ups if I didn’t weigh so much. Maybe I should try kipping.
NO.
Use bands or do negatives. Kipping is harder on your shoulder the heavier you are.
The track star that got thrown off the olympic team for testing positive?
That’s an IQ test, not a drug test.
Male bees die after mating.
That’s basically their life.
Honey. Nut. Cheerio.
backpedaling already: https://www.dailywire.com/news/nations-largest-teachers-union-scrubs-website-of-pledge-to-teach-critical-race-theory
Guess Joy Reid can continue lying now.
Everyone celebrates Juan Williams leaving the Five (haven’t watched in months, but just saw this). But careful what you wish for, I despise Jessica Tarlov. She’s like John McCain, lets in the message with a nice little bow on it. She’s out and out lying in this clip.
‘The Five’ reacts to the White House blaming Republicans for defunding police
Dana Perino makes my skin crawl now. Used to really like her.
Might be of interest to fans of wood, and sturdy foundations
nu poat? h3?
Whatever happened to the AZ thing?
I assume nothing was found…
I’m filling out a job application while attending meetings and trying to set up an ECE cluster.
Welp, we’re 1-2 in wars during my lifetime. It’s kind of weird.
When the ROE is “wait for the enemy to shoot you” it’s hard to get a W.
Meh, I don’t consider Iraq a loss. We removed Saddam, and Iraq is a bit of a basket case but relatively stable and no longer a regional threat. It also allowed us greater flexibility in the region.
Comment by leoncaruthers on July 7, 2021 10:16 am
When the ROE is “wait for the enemy to shoot you” it’s hard to get a W.
As opposed to what? Random executions of civilians? “Burn the whole village?”
We got very good at killing the Taliban whenever they popped up. So they kept their heads down and took potshots from behind human shields, and put bombs in the road.
Did we win in Panama or never admit it was a war? I was too young for details.
I’ve been trying to help a friend get a job. I’m doing God’s work.
If the bee doesn’t do a parody on this new deal, I will be really disappointed.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/07/06/breaking-andrew-cuomo-seizes-emergency-powers-to-fight-gun-violence-public-health-emergency-n1459811
He’s going to do to gun violence what he did to Covid.
I mean, the jokes write themselves, right?
Send granny to the rifle range?
Wait, so there are going to be shootouts in the nursing homes now?
I mean, I knew the old folks took their tapioca seriously, but damn…
We got very good at killing the Taliban whenever they popped up. So they kept their heads down and took potshots from behind human shields, and put bombs in the road.
I get that, I do. If we aren’t willing to deny them the strategy of human shields, we shouldn’t be waging ‘war’. You don’t win wars like that, you can’t, and no one in history ever has. You have to be willing to shoot through the shields, bomb the city, whatever. If you aren’t, don’t go to war. It’s brutal, ugly, and awful, but that’s war. Anything less and you’re hunting and hoping you get lucky and the bad guy makes a mistake. If your ‘war strategy’ is hoping the other guy screws up, you will lose.
AZ is still going on. The left has started with sexual harassment complaints, so there is stuff still there I assume. Bannon on War Room seems to think he’s seen evidence that AZ is gonna flip. I’ll believe it when i see it.
Jesse Kelly is right, we are headed for a divorce.
Shooting those human shields is a good way to piss off their families, and end up pushing them to the other side. We’ve fucking seen it happen. Locals get killed because some commander took your attitude, and all of a sudden what was once a peaceful area starts trying to blow you up when you come out for patrol.
It better be us kicking them out of the house with their shit dumped in the water.
The problem wasn’t the ROE. The problem was the failure of the State Department, the CIA, and the elected officials in this country. We failed to commit to a long-term strategy in Afghanistan, we failed to exploit the hard-won successes in Iraq to push Iran into revolution back in 2009, and we failed to ever deal with the problem of the Northwest territories in Pakistan, where the Taliban were able to regroup, recruit, and rearm.
When I was there in 2011, we were still living in tents and shitting in porta-shitters. Why? Because we weren’t allowed to spend money on permanent structures. That right there was a bigger problem than ROE. We basically spent twenty years trying to figure a way to get the hell out at first opportunity, which told the Afghans, “you can’t trust us.” We would have been far better off building a series of permanent bases along the Afpak border and basically telling everyone in the region, “We’re in control here, don’t fuck with us, and don’t try to sneak across or we’ll shoot you.”
Then it’s impossible, Alex. Using the army and marines for police actions is a fool’s game where we spend billions to play whack-a-mole in the sandbox and then walk away when our will and wallet are spent. That’s my lesson from 20 years of Afghanistan. We sent our people to die and bring down their numbers a bit, spent our treasure keeping them there and now the Taliban gets the country and we bring our survivors home.
If the C I fucking A and N R fucking O were doing the job they’re supposed to do, we could have saved a fuckton of blood and treasure. Hell, we could have at least walked away 4 years ago instead of now if Mattis weren’t a fucking traitor.
Alternately, we failed to deal with the enemy within, who has sabotaged our every move and enterprise.
Given they saturate the agencies and groups you cite, it’s functionally the same issue, of course.
Then as far as I’m concerned, when the next 9/11 occurs that kills thousands of Americans, I’m going to point and laugh. Because they’ll fucking deserve it.
Sorry, I was still typing the response to the earlier comment.
I think we’re in agreement, I think I’m saying “ROE” when I really mean strategy. The footprint either needed to be heavy and lasting as you lay out, or non-existent. What we did felt like using our men as peanut butter in a mousetrap, and we’re hunting rats.
I also remember the Nazis using the civilians to hide their weapons development and caches, and we eventually hit those anyhow, because that was war, not policing.
I won’t point and laugh, but if it happens again it will absolutely be because we didn’t take the threat seriously. The graft and incompetence we’ve permitted in our upper ranks, IC, and the like aren’t what you do when you think the threat is real.
https://americanmind.substack.com/p/david-vichy-french
How many of the high-and-mighty were actually under threat on 9/11? I’m forced to wonder about that.
quite a few in the Pentagon were, and Shanksville was probably headed for the Capitol.
How lucky for them that the towers were hit first, then.
And no, I don’t think that was part of some plan, but I see why it could look like that to a conspiracy-minded person.
I’m in agreement with leon – if it’s worth shooting at it’s worth shooting up.
The bottom line is they’re a bunch of fucking savages hell bent on imposing their will on the world.
We should kill them before they kill us.
War is actually pretty simple.
Kill
Or be killed.
The fact that our leadership squandered our lives and our treasure is reprehensible and undeniable.
We’ve handed our enemies across the globe an opening by ceding the region to china.
What’s everyone guesstimate for when China attacks Taiwan?
The instant Harris gets swapped out for Zou Bai Den when he’s sent home to “spend more time with his family.” Car in
I don’t think China cares about whether biden or harris are in office
I think the Russians tried the “Shoot through the human shield” thing without much success.
doesn’t Taiwan have nukes?
The view of National Review:
“Fully vaccinated people do not need to wear masks. Their bodies already have the antibodies to fight off COVID-19. They may still be at risk of infection, but the virus’ effects on their bodies are extremely likely to be minimal. Full vaccination reduces the odds of severe illness, hospitalization, and death to an extreme long shot. So far, full vaccination provides sufficient protection from all of the variants, including the Delta variant.
These sorts of mundane, self-evidently true, scientifically verified statements can set off furious reactions and denunciations as disinformation on social media. And once again, as predicted, vaccinated people are being asked or told to wear masks in order to protect those who have chosen to not get vaccinated – an absurd position that contends that you, a responsible person who got vaccinated when given the opportunity, must continue to make changes to your life and habits to accommodate those who refuse to take the same actions.“
Someone, maybe Alex, linked a twitter thread about China moving into Afghanistan after we leave and the final comment to it was something to the effect of “Taiwan may have the Taliban to thank for its survival”.
How does this stat differ from my immune system?
” Fortunately, all the studies so far agree that most Covid-19 vaccines are very effective at keeping people out of the hospital and have generally protected against the Delta variant. Israel’s Ministry of Health estimated that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is about 93 percent effective in preventing serious illness and hospitalization.”
That’s literally lower than an injection of distilled water would obtain.
I don’t think the Chinese will invade any time soon. They’ll try to maneuver so that the Taiwanese have no choice but to rejoin China, because the rest of the world will concede the western pacific to the commies.
Are you contending that the West Coast and Hawaii aren’t already theirs, because I’d say they damn near got the ocean to themselves.
the US Navy would disagree with your contention, leon. I think they are in a better position than China.
Hyperbole, but after WuFlu it sure looks like CA and particularly HI are USAINO.
Also, Alex said commies, not Chinese.
haha, touche on the commies
China doesn’t have the naval capacity to control the whole Pacific, nor do they need to do so. They will simply buy off western politicians. What they want is control of the western Pacific and the ability to deny access to the Indian Ocean in the event of a war with India.
One of the authors of the Fauci book, and cohost of The Steve Deace show has a daughter who just won the 800 national, becoming the first Iowa girl to win a championship there. Nothing on local news, amazing.
https://theoutdoornationals.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=14188&do=videos&video_id=308087
now the NSA leaked Tucker’s emails to journos? Have they ANY shame at all?
The ones they didn’t read?
well, AOS commenters didn’t like The Tomorrow War. I disagree.
CoAlex bait
https://tinyurl.com/4v6k8sp5
top story at AOS leon. tucker was on Maria’s show today.
Why are either one at Fox any more?
I was with my family all weekend. Everyone was vaccinated except for me.
Same for my neighbors. All are vaccinated sans MJ.
I win.
Comment by PepeLp on July 7, 2021 1:24 pm
CoAlex bait
https://tinyurl.com/4v6k8sp5
I approve.
She appears to be suffering from the lambada variant.
the original twerkers
This:
“Ray Blanchard and J. Michael Bailey have both been utterly monstered for describing the particular nature of the sexual fantasy that this is for straight men — that [men can] begin to fall in love with the idea of themselves as a woman, and this becomes their erotic target. Instead of another person, they fall in love with this idealized vision of themselves as a woman, and it begins to distort their reality.”
It’s perversion. Sorry. It is. And self-obsession.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2021/07/06/washpost-transgender-man-wife-best-friend/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3k0eSMwCbF8_3_WeHFl5LoNyrdVRdtmhx-t5_a6H_5qAPeLlG0NkJ2O8k
“… that [men can] begin to fall in love with the idea of themselves as a woman…”
==========
WTF?? Luckily for me I hate myself.
Jesse Kelly is right, we are headed for a divorce.
Which makes me glad that we visited the family in NJ while we could, because they are going to be on the other side of that divide.
Tucker has made some unwarranted assumptions. Sure, the NSA collects everything on everyone. We’ve known that since Snowden.
It all goes into a giant, searchable database.
As we found out during the Flynn/Trump witch hunt, many people have access to that data:
FBI
CIA
DIA
Susan Rice
Samantha Power
Perkins Coie
Fusion GPS
Bruce & Nellie
Srtozk & Paige
McCabe
etc…
So, him coming to the conclusion that it’s all the NSA is silly.
Not silly at all. The NSA can either admit it or tell him who’s really snooping.
Like I said, they have everything, including yours and mine.
Collecting is what they do.
Misusing it is open to a very large cast of deep state clowns…
Like I said, they have everything, including yours and mine.
Which is a clear violation of federal law, and they need a reining in.
Good luck on doing that within the system. The system is totally bent and corrupted.
Like I said at the mothership, vote, don’t vote–what else are you doing?
Making that the be-all and end-all of keeping control of things was the worst of all possible mistakes.
Gotta start somewhere, and raising hell about it is somewhere.
I just got a text encouraging me to get the poke and to encourage others.
Comment by Car in on July 7, 2021 3:11 pm
I just got a text encouraging me to get the poke and to encourage others.
Lucky Pat.
From who?
Is it ok to call haiti a shithole now?
Haiti’s been a shithole since they ran out the French.
I thought the Clinton’s fixed Haiti.
Bill banging Haitian child sex slaves somehow did nothing to life that nation out of poverty.
https://tinyurl.com/kpetprfk
LOL
https://tinyurl.com/kfxvc85x
OMG! Bad Pepe. Bad skunk. 🤣🤪
At a friend’s beautiful house cuz the kid got married. Most people swimming. The heat is killing me so I’m by myself in the AC, big fat heat intolerant fattie that I am.
Shoulda stayed home.
House is at 76 but I’ve acclimated to the heat and it feels cold as heck. I bumped the AC up to 78. Hope she doesn’t notice.
Text was from the Michigan health department or something.
I bumped the AC up to 78. Hope she doesn’t notice.
Narrator: She did, in fact, notice.
78? OMG I would die. We currently have two tower fans, a ceiling fan, and a portable AC going. Too humid for the Swamp Cooler.
Pepe, don’t listen to Oso. That was hilarious.
They were both hilarious. Pepe is one of the more mature Hostages. He posts almost IB quality.
Dan is making Bobbies for tomorrow. Capriotti’s. His are better.
*runs naked through thread but tastefully
I do that all the time.
RL friend lost her oldest son to suicide 3 years ago. He would’ve been 16 today.
That’s horrible.
He decided to opt out of the custody battles. There have been so many COVID suicides. So many children.
***waves at Herr Morgenholz***
Hi, stranger! How are you? How is Sophie?
Silly Twitter thread on when to eat bread. Some of the comments are hilarious.
Favorite “Can say that my parents made me sit through 3 fucking years of cotillion to learn etiquette and ballroom dancing and they never said shit about waiting to eat the bread.”
Ridicule:
Disillusioned, Erin retreated promptly.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2021/07/08/get-the-hell-out-of-afghanistan-already-n2592155
https://www.shootingillustrated.com/articles/2021/3/8/300-blk-vs-300-hamr-which-is-the-better-cartridge
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjuly21/concrete7-21.html
WHo’s in charge here?
faster:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/dr-robert-malone-mrna-vaccine-inventor-on-the-bioethics-of-experimental-vaccines-and-the-ultimate-gaslighting_3889805.html/?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily
Am I putting up a Thursday post?
What’s the stupid vaccination end game. Those who want it have it. Why the push for those who DO NOT WANT IT?
Do you have time with all the training you should be doing?
Because the aim has nothing to do with public health and everything to do with power.
It has to be that, Leon. Test run of what we’ll let them do.
That greaseball shitstain Cuomo laid it out with his new XOs.
We’ve had a standing army in perpetuity (against the expressed will of the Founders in the Constitution) by being in a state of “war” for almost as long as we’ve been a country. Now we’ll have an “emergency” or “crisis” forever because it lets them do what they wanted to do anyhow.
This quote keeps springing to mind:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
I need that on a bumper sticker.
put one up, or not. I usually just wait and see what is going up, as far as poats. after a while, I’ll put one up if there isn’t a new one
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