I cannot let go of the murders at sea issue. This is so mind boggling antithetical to America’s stated ideals and the self-description of our military’s ethos it would be hard to come up with something more evil.
Right now, I want to know what the Rules of Engagement (ROE) for this fiasco are. From where I sit, they just seem to be, “Go kill someone the felon-in-chief does not like”. These are civilians and they are not even trying to invade the United States. Their vessels may be armed, yet we have no proof they are. It’s certain they’re not armed like an actual military force because they are not an actual military force.
The ROE are classified. This is what one does for miitary operations, not law enforcement. For the case under discussion now, there really doesn’t seem to be a need to keep it secret (not that War Criminal Hegseth and his co-idiots could so anyway for long). The evidence shows the ROE are simply, “Let’s go kill us some drug boats”.
For law enforcement, there would usually be an escalation of threat matrix to determine the appropriate level of response. This is decidedly lacking here. And the current attacks are not following the US Coast Guard’s Maritime Law Enforcemet Manual.
Yes, my father bought that one too, he was cheaper than you, even considering inflation:
But what are those holy spirit pentecost flames coming out of the top of the last six, starting with Clinton? I am surprised you know El Greco!
In fact, I am surprised I know him myself!
Just FYI, El Greco didn’t invent that imagery. The Acts of the Apostles says that “tongues of flame” appeared over the apostles’ heads at Pentecost, and something like the el Greco image has been standard for a very long time. I have no idea where it originated.
Trump clearly wasn’t trying to duplicate it in that line of images. When windows overhead prevented his mounting those gold monstrosities vertically, he mounted them horizontally, covering four images with a pair of them.
They aren’t flames. They’re faux wall moulding spray painted gold. They appear to be this particular size (they’re customizable!) available from Home Depot and appear to have been applied upside down at that. Retails for under $60
US Military could be cutting ties with the Scouts, because that organization is now genderless.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning for the military to sever all ties with Scouting America, saying the group once known as the Boy Scouts is no longer a meritocracy and has become an organization designed to “attack boy-friendly spaces,” according to documents reviewed by NPR.
In a draft memo to Congress, which sources shared with NPR but which has not yet been sent, Hegseth criticizes Scouting for being “genderless” and for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
Maybe it’s been commented on already but did everyone notice how Trump didn’t include a portrait of Biden in his gallery? The picture in Biden’s place is an autopen.
When Pentecost Day arrived, they were all together in one place. Suddenly, a sound from heaven like the howling of a fierce wind filled the entire house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be individual flames of fire alighting on each one of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them to speak
Acts 2:1-4:
I was only mocking him and trying to be funny.
BTW: That is the origin of “speaking in tongues”, which does not mean speaking gibberish, but speaking in such a way that everybody understands you. As an interpreter that would be quite something.
Someday I will manage that in writing too.
Basically, Mr. Potato Head thinks gold conveys power and success.
“Both the Sun King’s Versailles and Putin’s home are ‘palaces,’ and were not designed to be public spaces,” she said. “It’s my belief that President Trump has a personal affinity for these motifs because he believes they convey opulence and power.”
Designers likened the Oval Office to a ‘soundstage’ and a ‘casino’.
With Trump, it is. He’s on record as vastly preferring one-on-one meetings, which has obvious problems when a third party is trying to negotiate a cease-fire between two other parties.
Of course, this is no different than the last time around, when Kushner “negotiated” ‘peace in the Middle East’, but only included Israel in the discussions. Unsurprisingly, not taking into account the opinions of the Palestinians didn’t lead to a great success.
Nobody else seems to be talking about this, but on last night’s Rachel Maddow show she pointed out how Jair Bolsonaro had used a soldering iron to try to break off his ankle bracelet (He’s on house arrest) and evidently intended to get away while a bunch of his supporters, summoned by his son, milled around and created confusion. He’s evidently visited some embassies in the hope of geting to safety in one of those. But on last night’s show she showed a reporter asking question of Trump on Friday. He said that he had spoken to Bolsonaro earlier that day and was hoping to speak to him in person in the near future. He was apparently unaware that Bolsonaro had been arrested and placed in stricter confinement.
She interpreted this to mean that Trump knew about the attemped escape that thought he was slyly refering to meeting with Bolsonaro after he had been spirited away from Brazil to some other country, possibly the US.
He famously hates pets. They probably instinctively sense what a terrible person he is. I bet that asshole Don Jr would demand they breed some for him to hunt, though
