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Ghoul Hand Luke
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Old USN dude, OEF & Desert-Sx; now middle management. Geek, writer, cynic, interracial adoptive father. Member of the Pact Act club. Appalachian in exile. Erudite shitkicker, always looking for suspects.
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im so glad we normalized sports gambling and even made it obnoxiously ubiquitous. surely nothing could go all wobbly from that
Those that do not study history are doomed to repeat it (in tattoo form).
There’s no reason, at any time, to defend ICE or their practices.

That said, there’s a lot of people- the overwhelming majority of America, in fact- that couldn’t run 6 mph for half a mile, let alone any further.
Little noted side effect of the administration’s racist policies is that my 11-year old has to have his DoD identification and passport on standby because he doesn’t look like me and might get hemmed up under SCOTUS’ criteria for stops.
Kid3 is going to another city for a mock trial tournament with her college team this weekend. Just found out that the hotel they are using is housing an ICE team. She’s got her passport card, which establishes she’s a citizen (since adoption, by law). Hope that’s enough. Fuck ICE scum.
We could perhaps throw on ‘Crimson Tide’ for how the Services will disregard their doctrine and orders based on a hunch.
BAH, LHM, AWS, Microsoft, Palantir.

The largest DOD vendors with the largest incumbency on current contracts.

Zombie Eisenhower is going to rise from the grave to devour the brains of the military-industrial complex.
This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
This guy is one blood transfusion away from wearing Kleenex boxes on his feet and peeing into Mason jars.
Got to the part of my Twin Peaks rewatch where Windom Earle becomes the main antagonist. S2 has a lot of deadwood, but I find Earle’s storyline to be a great villain arc.
No, but I do sip coffee out of a SVR coffee mug for laughs.

Guess I can’t run for Senate any longer.
Music of the moment. If the concept of “cool” could be distilled down to a sound, it would be Mike Bloomfield’s guitar playing. Perfect Chicago electric blues.
Work Song
YouTube video by Paul Butterfield - Topic
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First run after another prolonged absence from the gym due to my twitchy immune system. Lost a minute on my run time, which should be recovered in 1-2 weeks if I stay healthy.

First 10k of the season in a little more than 2 weeks; nothing like coming down to the wire on prep.
Oh, so now a bunch of linear right angles arranged against each other is a hate symbol? Just looks like a geometry problem to me. Move on.
The good news is that Americans have an overdeveloped sense of bloodlust and vengeance, so at some point, we’ll probably sail a cruiser or destroyer- something disposable- into a provocation that gives the yokels a cause to rally around.

Wouldn’t be the first time, not even in my lifetime.
You want the average Carolina tobacco farmer or a shoe salesman from Fresno to allow their kid to die in the ECS, you better have something more real to them than Great
Powers competition or multipolar realignment. Joe Citizen don’t care.
The overriding problem with this is that neither the NatSec community or either political wing in America has made a publicly convincing argument as to why their children should potentially pay in blood in competition against the CCP. A national strategy is DOA without a national cause.
The Pentagon’s Missing China Strategy
Washington still lacks a credible military plan for deterring Beijing.
www.foreignaffairs.com
Tilting at the NDS windmill is a noble effort, but with about the same chance of success. It’ll take more than tariff scuffles to move the needle away from border nativist operations.
Great, great flick that a non-zero percent of Gen X vets overly associate with.
This guy was a Master Chief from my community who worked his way into a horrible reputation by proving he’d do anything for the next step up.

So setting someone on fire? That’s on brand.
🚨 Married GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales allegedly had an affair with his senior aide, Regina Aviles — who was found dead after she supposedly doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire, per The Daily Mail.

Uvalde Police are blocking release of the 911 call, video & records. (Daily Mail)
The F-16 has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, a fighter pilot who patrolled D.C.’s skies during 9/11, will again fly the Air Force’s F-16 while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be a passenger in a Navy F/A-18 in Nevada on Sunday.
Gen. Caine, Hegseth to fly in fighter jets during Nevada demonstration
Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine, who patrolled D.C.’s skies during 9/11, will again fly the Air Force’s F-16, and Pete Hegseth will be a passenger in a Navy F/A-18.
wapo.st
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Surely nothing to be keeping an eye on. Xi has been aggressively purging leaders since the PLARF scandal, but he’s also been pruning potential successors out of the CCP.
So I’ve been busy with a ton of other stuff, but basically, China just purged, basically all, of the senior leadership of the military - He Weidong was CMC Vice Chair, Miao Hua was head of the political department. Seeing some stuff about key branch leadership also going.

x.com/ifenglobal/s...
Still doing my Twin Peaks rewatch and amazed that Lynch invested a primetime network show to a blend of experienced thespians mixed in with some real Z-grade local theater yokels. Tommy Wiseau brain
a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing in front of a sign that says number 5
ALT: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing in front of a sign that says number 5
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