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Gov Whitmer Blasts Trump as ‘Complicit’ in Militants’ Foiled Plot to Kidnap Her

An FBI complaint details militants’ failed plot to kidnap or assassinate Michigan’s Democratic governor

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Biden QAnon is bizarre and embarrassing supporters should seek mental health treatment

Biden said the QAnon phenomenon was humiliating for the country and condemned President Donald Trump for failing to denounce it.

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099 – vN The Machine Dynasty Book I

Amy is a Von Neumann humanoid – grown in a stable family environment, with her robot mother and human father. But alone of all her kind, known as the von Neumanns, her human-protecting failsafe has stopped working. Soon she is on the run from the law, and worse – everyone’s after her, some to use her as a weapon, others to destroy her.

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Intelligence Officials Reportedly Struggle To Brief Trump Because Hes Like A Giant Toddler

The president has blamed the intelligence community for failing to alert him to the coronavirus threat, but officials say he rarely reads briefings and can’t pay attention.

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AMC Theatres Sued by Florida Landlord for Not Paying Rent

AMC Theatres was sued on Wednesday for failing to pay the April rent to the owners of a shopping mall in Hialeah, Fla. AMC informed landlords last month that it would not be paying rent because all…

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Description of National Stockpile Changed to Align With Jared Kushner’s Claim It’s Not for States

Maybe don’t entrust a failed real-estate developer with the federal government’s response to a pandemic

He Cant Make Any Big Decisions As the Crisis Escalates Trump Experiments With a Pivot

With his “wartime president” posture failing to stop the slide and his presidency in the balance, Trump toys with reopening the economy early.

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Racist Trump Defends Using ‘Chinese Virus’ to Describe Coronavirus Pandemic

With the public focused on Trump’s early failures to take COVID-19 seriously, the administration is using racist terms and searching for scapegoats

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Effects of the 15 trillion stock market booster

That money would’ve been better spent on containing the virus and making sure people could still pay rent while not working (if they’re not crucial workers). Instead, Trump wanted to save the stock market for the sole purpose of winning re-election. And it failed. Welcome to your personal Watergate, Donnie!

Trump declares a national emergency to combat coronavirus

President Donald Trump said Friday he was declaring a national emergency — “two very big words” — to free up $50 billion in federal resources to combat coronavirus even as he refused to take personal responsibility for administration failures early in the outbreak.

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I’ve got a bad feeling about this… STAR WARS JEDI RAP

I made this song for Jedi: Fallen Order rap before Christmaas but thanks to a BS copyright claimn by CDBaby, who then failed to respond in any meaningful way…

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Star Trek PIcard The Last Best Hope

An original novel based on the new Star Trek TV series!

A thrilling novel leading into the new CBS series, Una McCormack’s The Last Best Hope introduces you to brand new characters featured in the life of beloved Star Trek captain Jean-Luc Picard-widely considered to be one of the most popular and recognizable characters in all of science fiction.

I was really hoping that this book would be more than a checklist of things that needed to be set up to be mentioned in the first episode of the series, but ultimately that’s all this turned out to be. The federation is nearly unrecognizable in this story, we’re told that stuff is going on but never really get to see it, and this is the second Trek book in a row where the author just straight up forgot to describe the ships that were involved at all. I know from the comic book series that Picard’s ship is actually the new flagship class ship that was featured in the “Star Trek: Online” game, but there was no mention of the unique styles of the ship or even that it was the new flagship class.

I’m also somewhat confused by the decision by the story team to change the events from the movies and comics that have come before, primarily that it was a star named Hobus that had a unique property to it, and when it went super nova it had unique effects through SubSpace and not just normal space. There’s also some significant changes to the story for Spock, in that in the movies he was an active participant in the attempt to save Romulus, but in this story, he’s only mentioned once, and in a way that makes it clear he had nothing to do with the saving of the system or the failure to save it as shown in the 2009 Star Trek film.

If you’re watching the series, there’s nothing in this book that will help your understanding of what you’re seeing on screen. If you want something that might do that, read the latest Star Trek: Picard comic series, then you’ll at least find out where the two Romulans on Picard’s winery come from.

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Sonic the Hedgehog

Directed by Jeff Fowler. With Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter. After discovering a small, blue, fast hedgehog, a small-town police officer must help it defeat an evil genius who wants to do experiments on it.

I went to Sonic Burger before hand, because if I was going to have to sit through yet another failure of a video game adaptation to the movie format, I might as well have a delicious Sonic Burger in my belly. I had a Diet Coke during dinner, which definitely quenched my thirst and gave me a slight energy boost from the 42 mg of caffeine, which I was sure I would need to stay away during what I expected to be a slog of heavy handed video game references.

Turns out though, I didn’t need that energy boost, Sonic: The Movie starts off fast and never lets off the peddle, with a story that felt genuine and never felt overly pandering to the fans of a franchise that frankly needed something that would reward them for decades of aimless wandering. The only complaint that I could possibly make is that the product placement is way over the top. In fact, there’s one for Zillow in the movie that’s so over the top I straight up laughed at it for a good 30 seconds after the bit was done.

This was a good film to watch in the theater!

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Joker

Directed by Todd Phillips. With Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy. In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: the Joker.

A mediocre attempt at telling the origin story of The Joker. It mostly fails to stick it’s landing, feeling both unnecessary and overwrought.

It made a billion dollars though, so I’m sure we’ll see a sequel.

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Star Wars Resistance

Created by Carrie Beck, Dave Filoni, Kiri Hart. With Christopher Sean, Scott Lawrence, Josh Brener, Suzie McGrath. Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot for the Resistance, is tasked with a top secret mission to investigate the First Order, a growing threat in the galaxy.

After only two seasons, it’s done and the best I can say is that it didn’t completely fail in it’s story telling. It never really found it’s footing and never found it’s place in the Star Wars Universe.

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Star Wars Rise Of Skywalkers Rotten Tomatoes Score Is A Travesty

The critical reception to ‘Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker’ is baffling in the extreme.

The failure to recognize that this was it, this was the final chance, that’s the reason that the critical response was so hostile. The Phantom Menace had the benefit of being the first new Star Wars content in decades, where as Rise of Skywalker is just another misstep in a long series of missteps.

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Satanic Panic

Directed by Chelsea Stardust. With Rebecca Romijn, Arden Myrin, Hayley Griffith, Ruby Modine. A pizza delivery girl at the end of her financial rope has to fight for her life – and her tips – when her last order of the night turns out to be high society Satanists in need of a virgin sacrifice.

A movie that strives to be a shitty b-rated film, but fails upwards with too many good hooks and clever editing.

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7 Car Myths Stupid People Fall For

7 Car Myths Stupid People Fall For, DIY and car repair fails with Scotty Kilmer. Car myths busted. Don’t do this to your car. Things not to do in a car. What…

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The Witcher

Created by Lauren Schmidt. With Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra, Mimi Ndiweni. Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

An interesting first season with some pretty big failures but in the end proves itself to be a solid entry in the fantasy television pantheon. My one big complaint is the silly time shifting mechanic that worked so well for shows like Arrow, but unlike Arrow, everything and nearly everyone looked the same, no matter what time period you were in.

It’s only 8 episodes long, so if you get the chance, I suggest checking it out.

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Half in the Bag Terminator Dark Fate FULL SPOILERS

Mike and Jay talk about the 6th (3rd) film in the endlessly failing Terminator franchise.

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Venom

A failed reporter is bonded to an alien entity, one of many symbiotes who have invaded Earth. But the being takes a liking to Earth and decides to protect it.

Bought it in 4k in a cheap sale, but man this movie is both good and bad. If you forget that the character was a mass murderer in the comics and routinely killed people just for the sport of it, then forget that there’s a man in there under all that goop, sure it’s an ok movie.

But it’s hard to forget those things, isn’t it?

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“We Were Wrong” Behind Fox’s ‘Dark Phoenix’ Debacle

Despite an effort to not reproduce the failures of ‘Apocalypse,’ the studio’s creative team had trouble selling the vision for a finale: “When definite awareness of ‘Rocketman’ is higher than an X-Men movie, you know you’re in strange territory.”

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Aquaman 4k Digital Code For CANADA

I have a CANADIAN code for Aquaman that can only be redeemed by CANADIAN accounts WHILE IN CANADA.

I chose to believe that I would be able to get around the CANADIANESS of the code with a VPN, but I failed in my task.

If you’re IN CANADA and you have a CANADIAN google play account, swing by the chat room using the handy link in the header of this very site and tag me in a request for the code. I’ll give it to you directly.

Amy McGrath announces bid to take on Sen Mitch McConnell in 2020

Kentucky Democrat Amy McGrath, a former fighter pilot who rose to national prominence last year in her failed campaign for Congress against Republican Andy Barr, is turning her sights on a new target: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst

Automation is often presented as an inexorably advancing force, whether it’s ushering in a threat to jobs or a promise of increased leisure or larger profits. We’re made to imagine the robots rising, increasingly mechanized systems of production, more streamlined modes of everyday living. But the truth is that automation technology and automated systems very often fail. And even when they do, they nonetheless frequently wind up stranded in our lives.

Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst originally appeared on Internet-D on March 8, 2019.

Google shuts down April 2 all data will be deleted

Google’s failed Facebook clone will be scrubbed from the Internet.

Intimate jewelry

Intimate Jewelry… But what if clamps loosen or fail?

Teen Titans GoTo Movies

When the Teen Titans go to the big screen, they go big! It seems to the Teens that all the major superheroes out there are starring in their own movies—everyone but the Teen Titans, that is! But de facto leader Robin is determined to be seen as a star instead of a sidekick. With a few madcap ideas and a song in their heart, the Teen Titans head to Tinsel Town, certain to pull off their dream. But when the group is sidetracked by a seriously super villain and his maniacal plan to take over the Earth, things really go awry. The team finds their friendship and their fighting spirit failing, putting the very fate of the Teen Titans themselves on the line!

Why wasn’t the original show this is from this good? Why aren’t any of the other DC movies this great?

Who knows! But Teen Titans Go! To The Movies is a masterpiece of DC Animation. I hope they do more, if only for songs like this:

North Miami earlyvoting site runs out of MiamiDade ballots Miami Herald

Printers fail at the North Miami early-voting site, causing long lines, voters report waits topping three hours. Poll workers briefly run out of ballots for nearby precincts. Miami-Dade seeing record early voting for a mid-term election.

The President Is Pushing the Exact Conspiracies Cited by the Pittsburgh Shooter 5 Days After the Attack

Trump is pushing propaganda about immigrants, fueling anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and failing to address political violence.

Steel Storm Steel Legion Book 2

A routine sentry mission discovers a human colony where only bones remain, and the hostiles are nowhere to be found. Days later a fusion bomb devastates the defending forces on the desert planet Squire. Hordes of the insectoid Kadan flood the planet with the technology of the ancient Emflife. They advance to crush the human lines but stop just short of victory. Colonel Cole Clarke and his battalion of convicts must discover what the Kadan are really doing. Their untested armor is the only thing that can stand up to the Emflife tanks, and that’s if they’re lucky. They’re outgunned, outmatched, and stretched thin. If they fail, the alien invasion won’t stop until they’ve burned their way into the heart of human space. Terra. Sent on an impossible mission with no support, the 19th ACR strikes out alone.

Another good book from Casey Calouette, it was pretty interesting to see two sides of the same battle, one from orbit in spaceships that are only just barely flying, and one from the ground where tanks are pounding away at each other. It’s been about three years since this book came out, the second in a series, and while I understand the author is busy with life, it would be great if he could write me some sequels. I do recognize that he has had several other books come out and has been dealing with recovering from cancer treatment, so I guess I’ll have to be happy with reading absolutely everything else this guy has written. I’m series, he’s among my favorite authors at this point, only two books in!

Heads up, if you sign up for his email list on his website you’ll get a free book. You’ll also get a free copy of the book if you go to amazon.com and click “give me the free copy“. No idea if you need to be a Prime member or not for the amazon version of the free book.

FL schools required to display US motto In God We Trust on all campuses

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.(WTXL)- Beginning this school year the words “In God We Trust” must be posted somewhere on the campus of every school in the state of Florida.

A failure of leadership from multiple community leaders.

Spokesman For GOP Senate Nominee Called MajorityBlack Cities Stholes

“Far Left liberals and weak Republicans play the race card to shut down all debate, and meanwhile we can’t even have a conversation about how to improve the economy for blacks who ? as a direct result of decades of failed federal government programs ? haven’t seen economic growth in the last 50 years,” he told HuffPost in a statement.

Putin eats Trump’s lunch in Helsinki — This is no way to win against Russia

President Trump, and our country for that matter, can only win against Putin if we are assertive about American goals and our values. Trump failed to accomplish that in Helsinki on Monday.

Soon I Will Be Invincible A Novel review

Doctor Impossible—evil genius, diabolical scientist, wannabe world dominator—languishes in a federal detention facility. He’s lost his freedom, his girlfriend, and his hidden island fortress. Over the years he’s tried to take over the world in every way imaginable: doomsday devices of all varieties (nuclear, thermonuclear, nanotechnological) and mass mind control. He’s traveled backwards in time to change history, forward in time to escape it. He’s commanded robot armies, insect armies, and dinosaur armies. Fungus army. Army of fish. Of rodents. Alien invasions. All failures. But not this time. This time it’s going to be different… Fatale is a rookie superhero on her first day with the Champions, the world’s most famous superteam. She’s a patchwork woman of skin and chrome, a gleaming technological marvel built to be the next generation of warfare. Filling the void left by a slain former member, we watch as Fatale joins a team struggling with a damaged past, having to come together in the face of unthinkable evil. Soon I Will Be Invincible is a thrilling first novel; a fantastical adventure that gives new meaning to the notions of power, glory, responsibility, and (of course) good and evil.

Published back in 2007, I’m sad to see there’s been no follow ups or sequels, this story is absolutely fantastic! I spent an entire weekend reading the book, every time I put it down I wanted to get back to it so quickly, it absolutely hit several of my literary interests. Super powers, powerful villains, robots, alternate dimensions, and a TON of misdirection that all gets directed in the perfect way in the third act. If you like comic books and want some longer form fiction, boy howdy is this the book for you.

Doctor Strange review

From Marvel Studios comes DOCTOR STRANGE, the story of world-famous neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose life changes forever after a horrific car accident renders his hands useless. When traditional medicine fails him, he travels to remote Kamar-Taj in search of a cure, but instead discovers the mystical arts and becomes a powerful sorcerer battling dark forces bent on destroying our reality.

I enjoyed seeing his magic stuff in Infinity War, so I went back to watch this on Netflix. I guess I should start buying the Disney/Marvel movies while they’re $10 each since they’re going to eventually pull the movies for their own streaming services, though I might pay for that for a bit, rumor is there’s going to be a Star Wars series streaming new.

Solo A Star Wars Story review

During an adventure into the criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future copilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebellion.

Worlds better than Star Wars: Episode 8: The Last Jedi, Solo feels destined to fail at the box office, largely in part to it’s massive budget (they essentially filmed the movie twice!) and because there’s only been six months since the release of the last Star War movie, of which in my humble opinion was a complete misstep for the franchise.

Solo is what we needed: a Star Wars story with no head tilting winks and nods with plenty of back story and great set pieces that results in a great look into the universe surrounding the Jedi without mentioning the goofy religion even once. I’m pretty deep into the lore of the franchise and I was still surprised at the third act shadow cabinet reveal of who was really pulling the string behind the scenes.

This was a good movie, and of the four Star Wars movies Disney has released, this is the second best.

Here’s how I think they actually all line up, from best to worst :

• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Ep 7: The Force Awakens
• Star Wars Holiday Special
• Ep 8: The Last Jedi

Legends Of The Fall review

This is an epic story of three brothers bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love. Brad Pitt stars as Tristan, the wildest of the Ludlow sons, whose failure to protect his brother puts his entire family on a path of betrayal and self-destruction. From the battlefields of Europe to the farthest reaches of civilization, LEGENDS OF THE FALL follows Tristan’s turbulent journey from boyhood to manhood to legend. Also starring Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond and Henry Thomas.

Great actors, great acting, settings, and story, but holy moley it’s a sad story.

2018-05 Previews Order

Here’s the comics I’m going to be lookin at soon:

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Beyond Skyline review

When the population of Los Angeles is sucked off the face of the earth, Detective Mark Corley (Frank Grillo) storms his way onto an alien ship to rescue his estranged son. After the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, Mark must forge an alliance with a band of survivors to discover the key to saving his son and taking back the planet once and for all.

I had no intention of watching two Frank Grillo movies in a row, in fact I had no clue he was even in this film, a film that I was only watching to see what kind of a trainwreck it would turn out to be. It’s a sequel to an absolutely horrid movie that I didn’t like at all, but I watched in theaters nearly eight years ago. Maybe it wasn’t actually as bad as I remember it, but there’s a huge different between a movie you pay $15 to see and a movie that’s included in your $15 a month Netflix subscription.

My point is, this movie is about as stupid as the first one, but due to Frank Grillo, the improvement of low budget movie graphics, and I assume a sizable grant to film on the same sets as The Scorpion King 4, I don’t have the same low opinion of Beyond Skyline as I do of the original film. Sure, they’re literally punching the aliens to death (after using guns and rockets, but failing), but that’s just what happens when you get the same stunt team as The Raid or Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Sure, the heroin chemist in the dank dark tunnels has a DNA sequencer and can merge human and alien blood, but that’s to be expected, right? Maybe the giant mechs were a step too far, but truly, is there any step with a movie that can be considered “too far”?

My favorite line from the movie makes no sense at all:
“we did more than just survived, we evolved”.

Bedroom Golf

Q: Bedroom Golf

A: THE RULES OF BEDROOM GOLF!

1. EACH PLAYER SHALL FURNISH HIS OWN EQUIPMENT FOR PLAY – NORMALLY ONE CLUB AND TWO BALLS.
2. PLAY ON A COURSE MUST BE APPROVED BY THE OWNER OF THE HOLE.
3. UNLIKE OUTDOOR GOLF, THE OBJECT IS TO GET EH CLUB IN THE HOLE AND KEEP THE BALLS OUT.
4. FOR THE MOST EFFECTIVE PLAY, THE BLUCH SHOULD HAVE A FIRM SHAFT. COURSE OWNERS ARE PERMITTED TO CHECK SHAFT STIFFNESS BEFORE PLAY BEGINS.
5. COURSE OWNERS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO RESTRICT CLUB LENGTH TO AVOID DAMAGE TO THE GOLE.
6. THE OBJECT OF THE GAME IS TO TAKE AS MANY STRIKE AS NECESSARY UNTIL THE COURSE OWNER IS SATISFIED THAT PLAY IS COMPLETE. FAILURE TO DO SO MAY RESLULT IN VBEING DENIED PERMISSION TO PLAY THE COURSE AGIAN.
7. IT IS CONSIDERED BAD FORM TO BEGIN PLAYING THE HOLE IMMEDIATLY UPON ARRIVAL AT THE COURSE. THE EXPERIENCED PLAYER WILL NORMALLY TAKE TIME TO ADMIRE THE ENTIRE COURSE WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO WELL FORMED BUNKERS.
8. PLAYERS ARE CAUTIONED NOT TO MENTION OTHER COURSES THEY HAVE PLAYED, OR ARE CURRENTLYU PLAYING, TO THE OWNER OF THE OURSE BEING PLAYED. UPSET COURSE OWNERS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO DAMAGE PLAYER’S EQUIPMENT FOR THIS REASON.
9. PLAYERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO BRING PROPER RAIN GEAR FOR THEIR OWN PROTECTION.
10. PLAYERS SHOULD ENSURE THEMSELVED THAT EHIR MATCH HAS BEE PROPERLY SCHEDUALED, PARTICULARLY WHEN A NEW COURSE IS BEIGN PLAYED FO THE FIRST TIME. PREVIOUSE PLAYERS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO BECOME IRATE IF THEY DISCOVER SOMEONE ELSE PLAYING ON WHAT THEY CONSIDERED TO BE A PRIVATE COURSE.
11. PALYERS SHOULD NOT ASSUME A COURSE IS IN SHAPE FOR PLAY AT ALL TIMES. SOME PLAYERS MAY BE EMBARRASSED IF THEY FIND THE COURSE TO BE TEMPORARILY UNDER REPAIR. PLAER ARE ADVISED TO BE EXTREMELY TACTUFUL IN THSI SITUATION. MORE ADVANCED PLAYERS WILL FIND ALTERNATIVE MEANS OF PLAY WHEN THIS IS THE CASE.
12. THE COURSE OWNER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MANICURING AND PRUNING ANY BUCH AROUDN THE HOLE TO ALLOW FOR IMPROVED VIEWIN OF, ALIGNMENT WITH, AND APPROACH TO THE HOLE.
13. PLAYERS ARE ADVISED TO OBTAIN THE OURSE OWNERS PERMISSION BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO PLAY THE BACK NINE.
14. SLOW PLAY IS ENCOURSGED. HOWEVER, PLAYERS HSOULD BE PREPARE TO PROCEED AT A QUICKER PACE, AT LEAST TEMPORARILY, AT THE COURSE OWNER’S REQUEST.
15. IT IS CONSIDERED OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE, TIME PERMITTING, TO PLAY THE SMAE HOLE SEVERAL TIMES IN ONE MATCH.from Tiki Humor www.tikiwebgroup.com/32043/bedroom-golf/

Murphys Laws of Combat Operations

Q: Murphy’s Laws of Combat Operations

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1. Friendly fire – isn’t.
2. Recoilless rifles – aren’t.
3. Suppressive fires – won’t.
4. You are not Superman; Marines and fighter pilots take note.
5. A sucking chest wound is Nature’s way of telling you to slow down.
6. If it’s stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid.
7. Try to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo and not want to waste a bullet on you.
8. If at first you don’t succeed, call in an airstrike.
9. If you are forward of your position, your artillery will fall short.
10. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself.
11. Never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself.
12. Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
13. If your attack is going really well, it’s an ambush.
14. The enemy diversion you’re ignoring is their main attack.
15. The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions:
    when they’re ready.
    when you’re not.
16. No OPLAN ever survives initial contact.
17. There is no such thing as a perfect plan.
18. Five second fuzes always burn three seconds.
19. There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.
20. A retreating enemy is probably just falling back and regrouping.
21. The important things are always simple; the simple are always hard.
22. The easy way is always mined.
23. Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy other people to shoot at.
24. Don’t look conspicuous; it draws fire. For this reason, it is not at all uncommon for
    aircraft carriers to be known as bomb magnets.
25. Never draw fire; it irritates everyone around you.
26. If you are short of everything but the enemy, you are in the combat zone.
27. When you have secured the area, make sure the enemy knows it too.
28. Incoming fire has the right of way.
29. No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection.
30. No inspection ready unit has ever passed combat.
31. If the enemy is within range, so are you.
32. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
33. Things which must be shipped together as a set, aren’t.
34. Things that must work together, can’t be carried to the field that way.
35. Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support.
36. Radar tends to fail at night and in bad weather, and especially during both.)
37. Anything you do can get you killed, including nothing.
38. Make it too tough for the enemy to get in, and you won’t be able to get out.
39. Tracers work both ways.
40. If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will get more than your fair share of objectives to take.
41. When both sides are convinced they’re about to lose, they’re both right.
42. Professional soldiers are predictable; the world is full of dangerous amateurs.
43. Military Intelligence is a contradiction.
44. Fortify your front; you’ll get your rear shot up.
45. Weather ain’t neutral.
46. If you can’t remember, the Claymore is pointed towards you.
47. Air defense motto: shoot ’em down; sort ’em out on the ground.
48. ‘Flies high, it dies; low and slow, it’ll go.
49. The Cavalry doesn’t always come to the rescue.
50. Napalm is an area support weapon.
51. Mines are equal opportunity weapons.
52. B-52s are the ultimate close support weapon.
53. Sniper’s motto: reach out and touch someone.
54. Killing for peace is like screwing for virginity.
55. The one item you need is always in short supply.
56. Interchangeable parts aren’t.
57. It’s not the one with your name on it; it’s the one addressed “to whom it may concern” you’ve got to think about.
58. When in doubt, empty your magazine.
59. The side with the simplest uniforms wins.
60. Combat will occur on the ground between two adjoining maps.
61. If the Platoon Sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.
62. Never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down, never stay awake when you can sleep.
63. The most dangerous thing in the world is a Second Lieutenant with a map and a compass.
64. Exceptions prove the rule, and destroy the battle plan.
65. Everything always works in your HQ, everything always fails in the Colonel’s HQ.
66. The enemy never watches until you make a mistake.
67. One enemy soldier is never enough, but two is entirely too many.
68. A clean (and dry) set of BDU’s is a magnet for mud and rain.
69. The worse the weather, the more you are required to be out in it.
70. Whenever you have plenty of ammo, you never miss. Whenever you are low on ammo, you can’t hit the broad side of a barn.
71. The more a weapon costs, the farther you will have to send it away to be repaired.
72. The complexity of a weapon is inversely proportional to the IQ of the weapon’s operator.
73. Field experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
74. No matter which way you have to march, its always uphill.
75. If enough data is collected, a board of inquiry can prove anything.
76. For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. (in boot camp)
77. Airstrikes always overshoot the target, artillery always falls short.
78. When reviewing the radio frequencies that you just wrote down, the most important ones are always illegible.
79. Those who hesitate under fire usually do not end up KIA or WIA.
80. The tough part about being an officer is that the troops don’t know what they want, but they know for certain what they don’t want.
81. To steal information from a person is called plagiarism. To steal information from the enemy is called gathering intelligence.
82. The weapon that usually jams when you need it the most is the M60.
83. The perfect officer for the job will transfer in the day after that billet is filled by someone else.
84. When you have sufficient supplies & ammo, the enemy takes 2 weeks to attack. When you are low on supplies & ammo the enemy decides to attack that night.
85. The newest and least experienced soldier will usually win the Medal of Honor.
86. A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.
87. Murphy was a grunt.
88. Beer Math –> 2 beers times 37 men equals 49 cases.
89. Body count Math –> 3 guerrillas plus 1 probable plus 2 pigs equals 37 enemies killed in action.
90. The bursting radius of a hand grenade is always one foot greater than your jumping range.
91. All-weather close air support doesn’t work in bad weather.
92. The combat worth of a unit is inversely proportional to the smartness of its outfit and appearance.
93. The crucial round is a dud.
94. Every command which can be misunderstood, will be.
95. There is no such place as a convenient foxhole.
96. Don’t ever be the first, don’t ever be the last and don’t ever volunteer to do anything.
97. If your positions are firmly set and you are prepared to take the enemy assault on, he will bypass you.
98. If your ambush is properly set, the enemy won’t walk into it.
99. If your flank march is going well, the enemy expects you to outflank him.
100. Density of fire increases proportionally to the curiousness of the target.
101. Odd objects attract fire – never lurk behind one.
102. The more stupid the leader is, the more important missions he is ordered to carry out.
103. The self-importance of a superior is inversely proportional to his position in the hierarchy (as is his deviousness and mischievousness).
104. There is always a way, and it usually doesn’t work.
105. Success occurs when no one is looking, failure occurs when the General is watching.
106. The enemy never monitors your radio frequency until you broadcast on an unsecured channel.
107. Whenever you drop your equipment in a fire-fight, your ammo and grenades always fall the farthest away, and your canteen always lands at your feet.
108. As soon as you are served hot chow in the field, it rains.
109. Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.
110. The seriousness of a wound (in a fire-fight) is inversely proportional to the distance to any form of cover.
111. Walking point = sniper bait.
112. Your bivouac for the night is the spot where you got tired of marching that day.
113. If only one solution can be found for a field problem, then it is usually a stupid solution.
114. If the enemy is in range so are you.
115. Field experience is something you never get until just after you need it.
116. All or any of the above combined.

from Tiki Humor www.tikiwebgroup.com/32042/murphys-laws-of-combat-operations/

Despicable Me 3 review

Illumination, who brought moviegoers Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, and the biggest animated hit of 2015, Minions, continues the story of Gru, Lucy, their adorable daughters—Margo, Edith and Agnes—and the Minions in Despicable Me 3. After he is fired from the Anti-Villain League for failing to take down Balthazar Bratt, the latest bad guy to threaten humanity, Gru finds himself in the midst of a major identity crisis. But when a mysterious stranger shows up to inform Gru that he has a long-lost twin brother—a brother who desperately wishes to follow in his twin’s despicable footsteps—one former super-villain will rediscover just how good it feels to be bad.

I’m happy with what they did in this film. It’s yet another Despicable Me movie and it’s exactly what you would think it would be.

Traveling For The Holidays?

I’m going to be traveling for a little bit of the holidays, luckily not as much as in the past where I was driving all over the state of Florida.

Without fail though, I’m sure that I’m going to run into some asshat that thinks 5 feet is enough clearance behind me while we’re doing 80 miles an hour on I-10.  The last trip I took there were a couple of idiots doing 90+ on the road flashing their lights at anyone that wouldn’t get out of their way.

I didn’t get out of their way and blocked them in for about 10 miles with the help of a semi truck.

So, I ask of you, what’s the most mind numbing stupid thing you’ve seen  on the road during a holiday trip, either done by someone else or done by yourself?

Star Trek Discovery Episodes s01e01 and s01e02 review

Star Trek is back on TV, and for better or worse they’ve updated the universe to fit in better with the other content that’s on television. Lots of explosions and lasers and awesome space battles, I really do suggest that you check it out and try not to pay too close attention to the series’s canon nor the science that they try to mention. I have no real complaints, this is likely the best pilot episode of any of the Trek series, all of them were rough or had content that made no sense.

I do have complaints though. I suggested above that you check it out, and that’s where most of my complaints come from. Here’s your options:

Option One:
Watch it live on CBS. Your time to do this has come and gone. CBS ran the first episode on broadcast television, there will be no other episodes on broadcast TV. This particular episode was delayed by 18 minute so CBS could run 15 minutes of commercials for ONLY CBS properties and put in a couple segments from Oprah’s first segment on 60 Minutes. That segment was her moderating a panel of people discussing Trump and the various things have been going on with the Trump presidency. Infuriating to watch and a complete failure on her part to listen to people saying demonstrably false things and not pushing back or showing them the proof of their ignorance or educating them on just how Russian interference would effect everyone in our country. I was legit angry by the time the 60 Minutes broadcast was finished. What a failure on CBS to have that kind of content, what a failure for Oprah to not be able to control the crowd, what a failure for our country to have people that would rather stick to their guns than investigate the world outside of their tiny political bubbles. Shameful of CBS to advertise Star Trek to start at one time and then intentionally push it back to force advertisements for their content out. They had complete control of this process and it’s unforgivable that they would do this. I can’t imagine that any of the local CBS Affiliates were happy with the situation either.

Option Two:
Stream it on the internet. If you’re in the USA, your only choice is CBS All Access. CBS-AA has no free tier and costs either $6 a month for advertisement supplemented content or $10 a month for an “Ad-Free Experience”. I tried out the 48 hour free test of the ad-free version, and while the app is snappy and among the best streaming apps I’ve tried, there’s not nearly enough content on it to justify even a $1/month subscription. I’m already subscribed to Netflix with thousands of interesting series (all the other Trek series are on Netflix) and I’m already subscribed to Amazon Prime (which also has all the Trek series, two of them in HD, the CBS-AA app does not have the HD versions), so why would I want to subscribe to CBS-AA for just one series? None of the other content interests me.

If you’re not in the US, you can stream it on Netflix. You can try to VPN out to a country that Netflix hasn’t blocked yet and try streaming it that way, then at least you’ll be counted as someone that officially and sorta legally watched it.

If you do buy the CBS-AA subscription you should be aware there are only going to be a total of 16 episodes in the first season of STD (yes, that’s the acronym) and they plan on splitting it up into two different segments, the first 8 running from September to November, the second half sometime in Q1 of 2018, so if you’re there just for STDs, you’ll have a few months were there are no new STDs to consume.

So to sum it all up: CBS is screwing the pooch on this series on the business side. Star Trek has always been a broadcast series and it deserves to be in the public eye and not behind a paywall. It’s worth it to watch though, so try out the free 48 hours of ad-free service to see how you feel about it.