7am?!? I should BE so lucky on a Monday morning… I had to wake up at the asscrack of dawn – actually, where I live, the Sun didn’t even have the decency to show the hell UP until something like 0800 – to make my way to a client site. And the coffee was awful, even by the standards of what you get in most cafes these days. You could have used it for paint-thinner.
Mind you, the nice thing about coffee is that it actually tastes pretty decent cold. You cannot say the same thing about tea.
There is actually a point to all this inane rambling, and it is that, as bad as Monday always turns out, the Great Mondaydact Browser Shredder is here to improve it.
Seeing as our friends in The Tribe are celebrating their second most important holiday, let’s hand things over to our buddy Dawn Pine. Here is the text he sent me for the same holiday, three (!!!) years ago – we’ve been doing this stuff a LONG time:
We are back to that period of the year again – Holiday season.
So I wanted to take the opportunity and showcase that holiday, and some of its meanings.
The story
A Jewish festival commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire. It is also known as the Festival of Lights. This is observed by lighting the candles of a candelabrum with nine branches, called a menorah (or hanukkiah).
The story of Hanukkah is preserved in the books of the First and Second Maccabees, which describe in detail the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem and the lighting of the menorah. These books are not part of the canonized Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) used by modern Jews, though the Catholic and Orthodox Churches consider them part of the Old Testament.
Greeks basically (after a struggle of power) sought to consolidate power over the population. They used a “stick and carrot” type of policy. On the one hand, they introduced the hellenic culture (such as gyms) but on the other hands forbade practicing Judaism. According to the books, some people accepted it, to the point of foreskin restoration (remember Jews are circumcised).
A man known as Mattathias ben Johanan, who was a priest (and decensent of high priests), refused to worship the hellenic gods and started, with his 5 sons, the Maccabean Revolt. The name Maccabee in Hebrew, means “Hammer” – so it was “The hammer’s revolt”.
The festival of Hanukkah is instituted by Judas Maccabeus and his brothers to celebrate this event (1 Macc. 4:59). Judas seeks an alliance with the Roman Republic to remove the Greeks. He is succeeded by his brother Jonathan, who becomes high priest and also seeks alliance with Rome and confirms alliance with Areus of Sparta (1 Macc. 12:1–23). Simon follows them, receiving the double office of high priest and prince of Israel. (Simon and his successors form the Hasmonean dynasty, which is not always considered a valid kingship by the Jews, since they were not of the lineage of David.) Simon leads the people in peace and prosperity, until he is murdered by agents of Ptolemy, son of Abubus, who had been named governor of the region by the Macedonian Greeks. He is succeeded by his son, John Hyrcanus.
Meaning
Let’s face it, it is a story of reactionary forces vs. progressive ones. The hellenic culture was (those days) the most progressive and advanced culture of the area. We still look up to those amazing people on some accounts (ethics and philosophy to name two).
To try to imagine it, is to vision fundamental christian revolting in the US and succeeding. On second thought…
Picture it: Some mid level congressman starts a revolt, with his family. He gathers a militia and goes against the US army. He wins, and claims his territory.
Oh, and he does that and still most people look at his lineage and say: “Well, they are not real presidents”. Yes, Israelis wanted their rulers to be related to David.
Also, the revolt started with Mattathias killing first a Jew who wanted to comply with Antiochus’s order to sacrifice to Zeus, and then a Greek official who was to enforce the government’s behest. Not saying anything on future predictions.
Conclusion
The Hashmonai state lasted about 100 years, until a rivalry between the brothers Aristobulus II and Hyrcanus II, both of whom appealed to the Roman Republic to intervene and settle the power struggle on their behalf.
Yes – let’s call the best military force of the time to bring peace. What can go wrong?
The Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) conquered the area and 12,000 Jews weremassacred in the Roman Siege of Jerusalem. The Priests of the Temple were struck down at the Altar.
Yes, exactly as they planned it. No?
And here is some new information that has recently come to light:
The legacy of Chanukah – faith, patriotism, defiance of extreme odds and tenacity in the battle of liberty against tyranny – has underlined the American spirit since the early Pilgrims, enhancing the unique foundation of the US-Israel covenant: shared values.
For instance, the statue of Judah the Maccabee, the hero of the Jewish rebellion against the Syrian-Seleucid Empire, is displayed at the West Point Military Academy, the most prestigious US military academy, founded in 1802. The statue of Judah the Maccabee, known for his principle-driven leadership and daring battle tactics, is displayed along with the statues of Joshua, David, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Hector, King Arthur, Charlemagne and Godfrey of Bouillon – “the Nine Worthies.”
George Washington became acquainted with the spirit of the Maccabees, upon settling, in December (Chanukah) 1777, at his new headquarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with ill-equipped, weary troops. Faced with a super-power, George III of Britain, Washington concluded that only a dramatic change could avoid a defeat. According to the diary entries of Louisa Hart, Washington told the Harts about a Jewish solider at Valley Forge who lit a Chanukah candle and explained its significance. Washington’s reaction was: “Perhaps we are not as lost as our enemies would have us believe. I rejoice in the Maccabees’ success, though it is long past…It pleases me to think that miracles still happen.” Six months later, on June 19, 1778, the Continental Army implemented the battle tactics of Judah the Maccabee, leaving Valley Forge in pursuit of the British, who were moving towards New York. Although the war would linger for five more years, Washington won a decisive victory.
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were inspired by the Maccabees, proposing “Rebellion against Tyrants is obedience to God” as the American official seal. Just like the Founding Fathers, the Maccabees were a tiny minority of “rebels” – condemned by the “loyalist/pragmatist” Jewish establishment – rebelling against an oppressive super-power. They prevailed due to their conviction-driven determination. They knew that swimming against the stream gets one closer to the source. The Maccabees were a role-model for Paul Revere, who was referred to as “a modern day Maccabee” and the organizers of the Boston Tea Party, who realized that there were no free lunches for freedom-seeking nations.
“In God We Trust” was inspired, also, by the Maccabees’ battle cry, which adopted Moses’ battle cry against the builders of the Golden Calf. A literal translation of the battle cry is “Whoever trusts God; join me!” The Maccabees’ sacrifice and political-incorrectness, also, inspired Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death.”
Keep in mind the source, and maintain some healthy scepticism, but it is an interesting point nonetheless.
Anyway – happy Hanukkah, all.
The Mighty God-Emperor
Let us relive that classic moment when His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, utterly OWNED the Clown News Network, right to the host’s smugly punchable face:
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has plenty to keep us busy as we settle into festive cheer. We start with one from Honest Ads (aka Cracked) about the reality of owning a Tezzla:
tl;dw version: you’ll pay a damned sight more than you think.
How History Works asks whether we work harder than mediaeval peasants did:
As TMB says – the guy is completely wrong, his facts are good, but his analysis is totally incorrect. And we should be thankful and grateful every single day for how good we have it now.
Eretz Nehederet (“A Wonderful Country”, apparently) is a satirical television show, and in this episode, they take a good swing at the United abomiNations:
Israel365 does not have much patience for failed rock-star Jew-Boy Blinken:
Well hey, if it makes y’all feel any better, the rest of us dislike him intensely, too…
And here are some new Hanukkah videos as well:
Mind-Expanding Drugs
Your General Knowledge of the Week is from Dawn Pine also, via a video from Insane Curiosity about how hundreds of stars have just, sort of… disapporated:
Death Smiles At Us All…
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice gets serious for a change to discuss the ever-increasing degree of control exercised by intelligence agencies over the lamestream media:
The dynamic duo over at Redacted look at what is likely to happen to Bellendsky the Puppet Piano Pecker Player of the failed state of Banderastan:
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan was super-busy last week, producing video after video on a range of subjects. We start with his very good take on Superhero Fatigue:
He then segues into Yellow Flag laws, which are an increasingly desperate attempt to sneak gun control into the FUSA via the back door:
Here’s one for the BattleTech fans:
He also interviewed Dr. Sebastian Gorka – who is not everyone’s cup of tea, and I understand why, but we’ll go with it – about Ron DeSantis:
And he capped it all off by looking at the collapse of the DeSantis campaign:
This is what happens when you try to take on the God-Emperor in a fair fight. It doesn’t go well.
PJW has some very bad news about the AIpocalypse:
We are, indeed, getting to the point where AI e-thots will be indistinguishable from real women. At that point, I might have to give up on trying to find anything about the ladies I post up here on Mondays and Fridays.
Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.
Your Vibrancy Be R Strenf moment of the week is from Tyler Oliveira, who travelled to Nawlins, the Murder Capital of the FUSA, to understand why it is so damned dangerous:
I am pleased to see he does not try to gloss too much over the realities of the ruinous Black ghetto culture. The verifiable and observable FACT is that Black America is a fundamentally different place from White America, and the two need to separate for the good of both.
Warrior’s Rage
Col. Douglas Macgregor explains the realities of Taiwan and China:
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Nap had his usual panel of outstanding talking heads on to discuss current events. We begin with LTC Tony Shaffer, who provides details of how Project Ukraine failed:
Maj. Scott Ritter ponders the end of American hegemony:
Capt. Matthew Hoh, formerly of the USMC, wonders whether the Israelis are targeting investigators in the Gaza Strip:
(Answer: probably. They’ve done it before.)
Alistair Crooke reckons the Israelis lost no less than SIXTY men in a single ambush attack by Hummus – though I have seen no official or other confirmation of this myself:
Larry Johnson was in Moscow to give a speech, and clearly had a great deal of fun doing it:
Ray McGovern discusses Henry Kissinger’s complicated legacy, based on his own first-hand knowledge of the man:
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is a classical liberal, and it is those classical sentiments which make him outraged by what he sees in Gaza:
Prof. John Mearsheimer explains how the current crises will increase Russian and Chinese influence in the region:
Дед Сварливый Говорит!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about those two recent articles from The Washington Compost which effectively put to the sword any hopes of American “victory” in Project Ukraine:
Polonium
Ania Konieczek did a really great livestream upon her return with Maj. Scott Ritter and Andrei Martyanov:
It’s All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran unpack this weird power struggle happening in Bankovaya between Bellendsky and Zaluzhny – who isn’t really any better, let’s be honest:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas points out the harsh reality that Russian industry is far more powerful, and of a vastly greater scale, than anything the West can imagine:
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell tries to make sense of what the heck is happening with this “mysterious pneumonia” thingy sweeping China:
Dr. Suneel Dhand warns you to stop using seed-oil in your diet:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle does an absolutely hilarious send-up of Lily Dawah, the helium-voiced clown who has done such a great job of destroying Izzlam’s credibility for the past couple of years:
It’s getting to the point where we Christians don’t even need to help the dawah assclowns along. They will destroy Izzlam through their own ridiculous posturing and preening better than we ever could.
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Al-Fadi from CIRA International unpack the infamous Ma’il Manuscript – so-called because of the odd “tilted” script used to write it:
The Ma’il is truly an embarrassing one for the Muslims. They tried to use it to justify their silly origin story for the Koran, but the more one looks at this manuscript, the worse it looks for that story. It is full of errors (relative to the current Hafs-Cairene-Fahd recension of the Koran), corrections, edits, and line breaks that do not exist in today’s standardised text.
Islam Critiqued looks at the Izzlamic justification for taking female captives – and, much worse, what Izzlamist doctrine says they can do with them:
Sam Shamoun continues to do God’s work, challenging Muslims to debate and beclowning them repeatedly in his efforts to get them to see the light:
Christian Prince does the same by looking at the actual texts Muslims use and revere, to point out the severe and glaring inconsistencies and problems they have:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp is utterly unimpressed by the attempts of the POH-LEESE to assuage butthurt among the people they “protect and serve”:
Joker from Better Bachelor simply cannot help but point out the obvious warning signs for one “Destiny”, who is about to get his ass dragged through divorce court – and who was in an “open marriage” up to that point:
I cannot even believe this needs to be written, but if you are in an “open marriage”, you are neither open, nor married. You are simply a fornicator and adulterer – end of discussion.
Joker also had a lot of fun picking apart the latest round of blithering idiocy from everyone’s favourite hot mess of a dating coach:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge reports on Brolon MuZk’s utter ownage of Li’l Bobby Iger as the House of the Devil Mouse crumbles:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock reckons Captain America 4, whatever that is, will be a colossal failure:
Gary from Nerdrotic cannot stop laughing at what MuZk did to Iger:
The Drinker REALLY enjoyed the latest Godzilla movie – made by the people who actually matter in making such films:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and is all about getting water from the air using the Sun, basically:
In recent years, solar-powered, passive adsorption-based air–water harvesting has shown tremendous potential in addressing freshwater shortages in arid regions. Although remarkable progress has been witnessed in unlocking the potential of new adsorbents in the laboratory, the productivity of freshwater is still limited by the slow adsorption kinetic, the large latent heat of water evaporation, and the efficiency of condensation. In this work, superhygroscopic porous gels consisting of titanium nitride, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, and LiCl (THL) were developed and demonstrated to have a unique high water uptake of 1.18–6.43 gwatergsorbent−1 at 25 °C and 15%–90% relative humidity. To validate the feasibility of THL for moisture extraction, reasonable energy management of the water harvester was carried out, and the potential daytime outdoor water collection in summer and winter reached 3.82 and 2.98 lwater kgsorbent−1 day−1, respectively, at relative humidity of ∼60% and ∼30%. The implementation strategy proposed in this paper provides a reliable path for solar-driven AWH, confirming the adaptability and possibility of achieving high yield freshwater production in real scenarios of practical significance.
Your long read of the week is a superb article from Franz-Stefan Gady back in February of this year, comparing the current Banderastan War to the Finnish-Russian Winter War, and how the Russian General Staff learned from their early mistakes in that war to fight through to final victory using attrition and the utter annihilation of the enemy’s combat capabilities:
Finnish resistance has continued to draw admiration by commentators, military thinkers, and strategists over the decades since the end of the conflict, who continue to mine the Winter War for valuable lessons underpinned by the “natural tendency to root for the underdog.” Unsurprisingly, the war was also the focus of multiple wargames for NATO officers during the Cold War. With Russia’s ongoing war of aggression in Ukraine, the Winter War has gained even more prominence in discussions, with parallels drawn between the brave resistance of the Ukrainian people since Feb. 24, 2022 and the heroic stand of the Finns against impossible odds in the winter of 1939 to 1940. However, in many of these discussions, detailed analysis of the later phase of the war and the Soviet side are often neglected or rather cavalierly described. This has a long history dating back to the initial reporting and military assessments (e.g., the German Generalstab or General Staff) on the Red Army, which were primarily focused on the first weeks of the war. The general narrative is that the Soviet Army merely overwhelmed the Finns — who had run critically low on ammunition and supplies — with superior firepower indiscriminately applied and sheer numbers, while “the basic Soviet tactic did not change,” as one modern author put it.
This is incomplete at best: The Red Army, within weeks of suffering humiliating defeats at the hand of the Finnish military, was able to reconstitute itself, devise a new strategy, tactically adapt, and choose an operational approach that played to the strengths of Soviet forces, ultimately guaranteeing a victory that fell short of the Soviet regime’s initial political goals. Yet it was a military victory nonetheless. At the operational level of war, the Soviet high command chose a deliberate strategy of attrition to methodically wear down the Finnish defenders. At the tactical level of war, the successful adaptation of combined arms maneuver by Soviet ground forces proved to be the key to dislodge the Finns from their entrenched and fortified positions along the Mannerheim Line. What tied the operational and tactical levels of war together was the Soviet emphasis on massive firepower against an entrenched defender under circumstances where maneuver was exceedingly difficult to achieve their military-strategic objectives. The combination of the two, rather than Soviet quantitative superiority alone, ultimately led to the relatively swift collapse of Finnish resistance and the breaching of the Mannerheim Line in February 1940.
The initial Soviet strategy devised by the commander of the Leningrad Military District, Kirill Meretskov, called for an overwhelming ground assault that would overawe the Finnish defenders, breach their defenders, and enable Soviet armored formations to conduct “deep battle” operations in the depth of the battlefield. In detail, this meant the 7th Soviet Army would break through the Mannerheim Line on the Karelian Isthmus in a frontal assault and then rapidly move on toward Helsinki, while the Soviet 8th Army was to support this attack north of Lake Ladoga and sweep southwards in a pincer movement landing in the rear of the Mannerheim Line defenses. Two other Soviet armies were to operate further north, but it was clear to both sides that the war would be decided on the Karelian Isthmus. This was not supposed to be a fire-heavy campaign. The later Soviet chief marshal of artillery, Nikolay Voronov, tasked with organizing ammunition supplies for the Soviet artillery, was told by his superiors at the time that his fire consumption estimates should be based on the campaign lasting no longer than 12 days. (Stalin insisted on a swift strike campaign lasting no longer than three weeks.) One reason for the war optimism sweeping some Soviet officers and the political leadership were swift Soviet victories over Polish forces and the Soviet defeat of the Imperial Japanese Army in Khalkin Ghol in 1939. Another was the belief, propagated by Andrei Zhdanov and other Leningrad communist party officials, that fifth columnists and large elements of the working class in Finland would revolt and help overthrow the government once the attack commenced.
Once it became evident by the end of December 1939 that the Red Army was incapable of conducting such a lightning combined arms campaign in Finland, the Soviet high command reevaluated the military situation. The reasons for the failure where manifold but included the severe weather — the subarctic winter of 1939 to 1940 in Finland was the second coldest on record in the country since 1828 — and a total lack of preparedness in the Red Army for such wintery conditions, and the terrain — forest after forest split by lakes, rivers, and swamps, with only a few unpaved roads passing through this inhospitable environment, making large-scale rapid troop movements difficult. The frontal assaults along the Mannerheim Line and other Finish defenses were stopped as a result. An earlier more conservative campaign plan, designed by Soviet Chief of the General Staff Boris Shaposhnikov, but dismissed by Stalin, was dusted off triggering an important switch in Soviet strategy in the first days of January 1940.
Most importantly, from an operational perspective, attempts at implementing Soviet deep battle doctrine, based on deep armored thrusts into the enemy hinterland, were all but suspended. In its place, the Soviets adopted a geographically more limited strategy of attrition with the narrow Karelian Isthmus as its center of gravity — in particular, around the town of Viipuri, a logistical key hub for the Finnish forces and the gateway to Helsinki. There, Soviet artillery would overwhelm the Finnish defenders of the Mannerheim Line with superior firepower, while armor in combination with infantry would continue to probe the defenses for weaknesses to exploit with larger armored formations held in reserve to support any breakthrough.
To implement this strategy in detail and assume operational command, Stalin appointed Semyon Timoshenko along with Georgi Zhukov, the victor over the Imperial Japanese Army in Mongolia, as chief of staff on Jan. 7, 1940. Timoshenko bluntly summarized his new attritional strategy the following way: “In frontal attack no enemy nor combination of enemies can hope to compare with us. By making a succession of direct attacks we shall compel him to lose blood, in other words to lose something he las less of than we have. Of course, we shall have enormous losses too, but in war one has to count not one’s own losses but those of the enemy.” This often-quoted public statement, however, stands in contrast to the actual Soviet strategy of attrition for this next phase of the war, which was primarily built around firepower — not human wave assaults. Timoshenko merely meant to signal to his foes in Finland that the Soviet Union would be willing to endure any price in blood to finish the war successfully. In the first week of January 1940, the newly appointed commander was given 25 days by the Soviet high command to prepare his force for new large-scale offensive operations in Finland. To give his troops some respite, the Soviet air force embarked on a 10-day long intensive bombing campaign to harass Finish forces and the civilian population while intense planning and preparations commenced.
Linkage is good for you:
- The Neo-Tsar has some very sensible words about the need for immigrants to learn Russian and accept Russian cultural norms;
- Tarik Cyril Amar analyses the darkening mood around Project Ukraine, in the wake of recent, despairing, articles from the Western lugenpresse;
- Here is a great piece about Admiral Sergei Gorshkov and how he helped shape the modern Indian Navy – and how the Pajeets even taught him a few things about naval tactics;
- Russian Market reckons the surge in gold and Bitcoin prices indicates some very serious problems with the Western monetary systems;
- Larry Johnson gave an interesting speech in Moscow to an international seminar on the evolving multipolar world, and it seems he really enjoyed his trip;
- Really interesting long read here from Steve Kirsch about the latest data leaked from the NZ Ministry of Health, which indicates the not-vaxxes kill one person per 1,000 doses;
- The president of the COP28 climate conference is a truly BASED Arab, and boy did he ever cause some ass-pain with his comments about the necessity of fossil fuels;
- Rolls-Royce in the UK has built a concept of a mini-nuclear reactor that could one day power colonies on the Moon;
- The US government is really pissed about Nvidia exporting its graphics cards to China, which could give the Chinks a serious lead in AI;
- Some insane genius figured out how to hack the UEFA draw using pornographic noises, which is just hilarious;
- A Millennial millionaire – something of a rarity these days – points out that the love of money is indeed the root of all evil, and explains how to avoid it;
- Unfortunately, elder Millennials are caught between a rock and a hard place with their finances, thanks to inflation and failures of social engineering;
- The number of people returning to the office has stabilised, which means working from home is here to stay, and amen to that;
- Gen-Z is using WFH better than anyone else to work to live, instead of living to work, and that is a very good thing;
- Also, Gen-Z apparently isn’t interested in middle management, because it means more responsibility with no greater pay (CAN CONFIRM);
- The Universe keeps pulling rabbits out of hats to challenge the Standard Model’s understanding of its age – almost like God has a sense of humour…;
- A dude in his sixties managed to score a girlfriend in her twenties, which led to some rather inevitable backlash;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Andrew McCarthy writes correctly about the difficulty in actually winning the war against Hummus in Gaza – though his perspective is radically different from my own;
- Amazog is keeping suspiciously schtum about their Israeli engineer currently being held hostage in Gaza;
- There is a curious story circulating about how someone made major bets shorting Israeli stocks just before the Oct 07 attacks, and it is strange indeed;
- Netherflix has sponsored its share of bombs, to be sure, but few bombed as hard as Conquest, which never even aired;
- For the few of you who still think PommieBastardLande has any hope of survival, this story about a pensioner facing prison for knocking down his own wall might change your mind;
- This story about robbers stealing from an Uber Eats driver, and then rejecting his phone because it wasn’t from Apple, will make you both laugh and scream;
- Remember that Steve Kirsch post from earlier? The guy who leaked that data has been arrested, and the story is even worse than you might think;
- The Venezuelans seem to be getting all uppity about a place called Guyana, but are unlikely to invade – though we’ll see about that, given recent developments;
- To the surprise of precisely no one except hardcore Commies, capitalist societies are HAPPIER and MORE GIVING than non-capitalist ones;
- We’ve all had shitbag airlines cancel flights on us, but what if you sold your home to fund your dream vacation – and then the cruise line cancelled it on you?;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar announced he was running for President of Russia in 2024, at a very special place and at a very particular time:
As I wrote in my Telegram channel:
There was absolutely nothing “casual” about it. The Neo-Tsar is an exceptionally intelligent and extremely calculating man – he never says or does anything without a reason.
The fact that he “casually” let that slip during a meeting with soldiers, who, as I said yesterday, are his true source of power, is not accidental in any way, shape, or form. He is letting his people know he will see through the conflict he is asking them to fight.
That is the act of an emperor telling his men that he will not abandon them, just as they have not abandoned him.
Your Русская Культура (Russian Culture) moment of the week – via Grandpa Grumpuss, here is a video showing the evolution of the beautiful city of Kazan’, the capital of Tatarstan and one of Russia’s greatest cities, over the past 13 years:
HALO Nation
Cro Grof reckons you should give HALO Infinite a shot in Season 5:
I am so far behind in playing that game, it isn’t even funny. But I might have to give the extended content a shot at some point.
And now, let’s watch slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz do his thing:
KILL! MAIM!! BURN!!!
DA SCHOLAR’S LORE BE ‘SPLAININ’ ERRYFINK WOT YA GITZ EVAH NEEDZ TO KNOW ‘BOUT DA ORKY BOYZ, AN’ DAT’S DA ZOGGIN’ TROOF RIGHT DERE, MATEY!!!
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
We start with some DANK MEMES from The Male Brain:
[Printer made by Microsoft, no doubt – Didact]
Here is an adapted joke:
A boy stands in the street crying: “My dad doesn’t love me!”. People come over and ask him:” What’s wrong”. The boy sobbing with tears repeats what he said.
The folks shake their head and say: “Child. Every father likes his son”.
The boy keeps on sobbing and tell them: “My dad died 4 years ago. Since then he voted Democrats at every election twice and did not come to visit me even once. My dad doesn’t love me”.
And some Hanukkah pics and memes too:
It wasn’t the holiday, it was the kids who sent it into a spiral.
Right, then:
TECHNICALLY not true – the places that are the shittiest, are often also the most homogeneous in terms of race. They just happen to be homogeneously Dindu.
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to the living legend, John Haack:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Gunning with God
“And on the Sixth Day, God created the AR-15, and He saw it was good” – Didacticus 12:10
Drumlines
Mighty Wings
Jump-Starts
There Goes Lunch…
Gingervitis Injections
Russian, with a beautiful singing voice, hugely talented with many instruments, AND with red hair.
Lord, have mercy.
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
Right, finally, here we go with your Instathot to get the week off to the correct and proper start. This here is Sonja Milschbaum from Saarland, somewhere in Germanistan, age unknown but probably in her early twenties, who does… stuff. No idea what, exactly, but she’s awful cute.
Right, that’s all, back to work now, boys.
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the nice thing about coffee is that it actually tastes pretty decent cold. You cannot say the same thing about tea.
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i can say you ain’t making tea right. as a fer instance, if you’re making British tea you’re already wrong. make a spearmint tea and use a decent amount of sugar. my grandmother used to make spearmint suntea and i tell you what, there was nothing better than coming in out of the field after slinging hay bales and slamming down several glasses of iced spearmint.
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https://youtu.be/yByP88jUQH4?si=EntjA3Scnuw9RDrr&t=50
and there’s a very good reason why i don’t intend to take up recreational skydiving:
if i ever had catastrophic chute failure i don’t want to spend 60 seconds screaming at myself about what a fackin moron i am while waiting for the Earth to hit me. i would SO pissed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeaeqIpopvI
Mate… herbal “tea” is not tea, full stop. That is axiomatic. And that’s before we get to the ruination of tea by adding sugar to it.
Proper tea of the highest grade involves tea leaves and hot water. Nothing beats a good cup of Earl Grey – or, better yet, Darjeeling.
ah-hee.
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you know it’s one thing to rip on Ugly Americans ( i do my part to hold up the side ), that’s like a 100 level course. but now you’re not only telling the English they can’t put sugar in their tea ( “one lump or two” ) but you’ve moved on to telling Asians they can’t ice it? this is definitely a 300 level course now. Haiyaaa, Uncle Roger going to be so disappointed in you he’s going to weep for your ancestors.
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https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/tea-blog/one-lump-or-two
“In 1664, Sir Kenelm Digby noted down a recipe for a tea caudle that he had learned from a Jesuit priest returning from China.
“To near a pint of the infusion, take two yolks of new-laid eggs, and beat them very well with as much fine sugar as is sufficient quantity of liquor; when they are very well incorporated, pour your tea upon the eggs and sugar, and stir them well together. So drink it hot.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHnKbqFP5HM
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you wait here for 10 minutes, i’m going to need some popcorn for this nerdwar.
How the Niflheim DID you Whites ever manage to conquer the Earth with such awful taste?!?!?!
granted, it has occurred to me that the 1664 recipe from the Jesuit might have been the Catholics corrupting the Han rather than the other way around.
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you can’t watch those Jesuits too closely.
Hard foods create strong men.
To the original debate: sugar is gay. All teas without sugar/sweetener are valid.
a – i never asserted that unsweetened teas weren’t valid or that you shouldn’t drink them.
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b – i don’t think you’re half the man my farmer grandfather was. so you can explain to him why drinking sun tea makes him soft.
I picked up Infinite again after a long hiatus. The game seems like it’s in a good place. There are lot of new playlists along with tons of new content. It’s pretty rare for me to get a map that I’ve played before, which is nice. You also usually start with a Bandit instead of a pistol now, which is like a DMR with fewer rounds.
Speaking of mighty wings, have you ever played any of the Ace Combat games? I got the first one (for the original PlayStation) in a Craiglist deal forever ago, and finally fired it up. I am HOOKED. You fly tons of real jets in a fictional world, and do everything from dogfighting to bombing ground targets. They’re closer to After Burner than DCS, but I just wrapped up the fourth game on PS2, have five more to go, and am not tired of them yet. 7 and all of its DLC (including planes from Top Gun: Maverick) was recently on sale for like 20 bucks.
Here’s one of my favorite missions from #4, where you have to bomb a bunch of air bases and hit the deck every so often when the enemy superweapon fires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2PsGs4w4rs
Hannukah, Festivus, Kwanzaa, and Wintereenmas are all just fake, made-up holidays that are excuses to shut up kids screaming that their parents don’t buy them Christmas presents because of ideology.
the ‘magic story’ behind Hannukah is about as realistic as rabbinical stories about golems or Islamic djinn crap. The long and short of it was that they celebrated acting like terrorists and refusing to respect or obey yet another host nation’s rules. A habit that has gotten them evicted hundreds of times.
Jews are simply rude guests who refuse to leave after stealing all the snacks, knocking up the host’s daughter, calling the police to get the host arrested for a fight they started, and breaking all the furniture.
And if a host gets pissed off and kicks them out? They scream ‘never again’ and pretend some magical number got murdered.