FOLIO OLIO: SUNDAY #3874

One Of My Very Own

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Would you like to have someone explain the Mueller Report in plain English? Boy, do I have the podcast for you.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/introducing-report-podcast-series-lawfare

WAR AND WARRIORS

Young men and women have been fucking around with their weapons for as long as there have been weapons.

The nukes I maintained had a decal that reads: U.S. AIR FORCE. I watched as a young man cut the A out of one decal and place it atop another to read: U.S. AIR FARCE.
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The French Nerod F5 microwave jammer designed to target drones by jamming the pilot's signal.

As I understand it the US used something like that to bring down that Iranian drone. Further, I have read, that it will not work on airplanes because they are metal, whereas the drones are composites.
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It looks to me like men are clinging to the side of the hull. Damn.
That is probably a warship, but you have to admire the Merchant Marines - the sailors who manned freighters during WWII. They were completely defenseless.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/military-life/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-merchant-marine
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It is not difficult to understand how men surviving this kind of shit come back altered.

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Every Father’s Day I think about the time I jokingly asked my 4-year-old soon to be scientist daughter if she was going to get me a “World's Best Dad” mug. “Nope,” she said gravely. “I haven’t met all the dads in the world.”

THE MOON

We have all seen a water drop doing this...

But bedrock does the same thing with enough force applied.

I find that that little dimple fascinating.

And there are thousands of them.

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“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
You have probably realized that "for man" and "for mankind" means the same thing. He left out the A in "for a man."
https://www.winknews.com/2019/07/20/armstrongs-famous-one-small-step-quote-explained-2/
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Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 suit.

I was visiting friends who worked at the State Museum when a moon suit arrived. Dozens of large warning stickers reminded staff not to clean the suit since that filth was moon dust.
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How very wonderful.
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But the event is not devoid of humor.

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I was 36 before I figured out most of my dad's advice to me was just quotes from John Wayne movies.

MEMORIES AND OTHER THOUGHTS FROM YOUR HOST

My newest dollar art is rapidly approaching the halfway mark.

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This man is faking brink in stucco.

I hate shit like that.
I don't even like materials used for things it wasn't meant to depict.

These used to be made of wood and when they switched to stone they kept the details that the wood demanded.

Even that bothers me.
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Horses with dog mouths

The collection was rather humorous until it came to this one.

To breed that extreme deformity into an animal is just cruel.
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I'm thinking that the new faster trains are just too fast for the old closing switches.
I knew a guy who used to fuck with train gates like that. He found out that the train triggers the gate by having a little electricity travel from one rail to the other through the train's axle. So he straightened out a coat hanger and laid it from rail to rail and sure enough, the gate came down.
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I would have thought it more than that. But you have to realize that we are hardwired for such ogling. To any healthy male, this is impossible to ignore.

Religion is so good at playing off natural urges and making you feel guilty about it.

Porn has been around forever. I am convinced that totems like this were simply masturbation aids for that long hunts without the women.

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The thrill of brilliant architecture is countered by my distress over bad architecture.

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I hate bullfighting and think this alternative is an excellent idea.

https://i.imgur.com/pH7c019.mp4
They do not kill the bulls after the event.
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https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/germany-is-making-vaccinations-compulsory-for-all-children-/

I know I'm preaching to the choir, but I can't ignore any news on this subject.
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[verification needed]
I have no way of knowing if it was climate change people or not, but such behavior sickens me.
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This is a huge cube of crushed weapons.

I don't want the government taking all my guns, but something needs to be done about the epidemic of murder in our country.
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Interviewer: You have a 3-year gap on your resume that just says “vengeance.”

Me:

Interviewer:

Me: You don’t remember me do you?

FUN WITH LANGUAGE

I love the absurd.
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Welcome to marriage.
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????
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*MNBT
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When I run into an old friend, and I have no idea what they’ve been up to, I just say, “I love your blog.” Haven’t been wrong yet.

PEOPLE NOT LIKE YOU AND ME

Carson Pickett

She was charged a handball.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_Pickett
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Nobody likes to be bored...

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Woman plays double bass in underwear.

Hahahabananaha!
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She wanted bangs...

So why not stream it for millions of viewers all over the world?
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Whatever this guy is paid, it isn’t enough.

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Repost but I don't care.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nicholas-winton-and-the-rescue-of-children-from-czechoslovakia-1938-1939
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Wife: "What's that nice french place we went to called again?"

Me: "France."

Wife: "Yeah, that's the one."

RATHER UNUSUAL FLORA

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Fools.
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Unusual Tree Images

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Weed Awards

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When my wife gets out a board game I just storm over and flip the table before the game even starts.

Why delay the inevitable?

RANDOM BLOG FODDER

Do you think the driver had any control of his car? I mean, did he actively steer to avoid those guys?
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This was titled: "Os cachorros e os acidentes."