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Diego Pavia - The Chihuahua that thinks he's a Mastiff
- Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Well, I was wearing a tee shirt, so she stuck her stethoscope down the front of my shirt. "Take a deep breath", (deep breath, she moves hand down), "again" (deep breath, moves hand down further), "again ... what's wrong?" By this time, her elbow is at my throat, and her eyes were this close mine. "Life is not defined my the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away."- Русский корабль - иди нахуй
On a personal note, PTINS has been busier w/ more in your face kinds of things, like getting used to the idea of being single and not married. I've dealt with attorneys most of my professional life, but the idiocy prevalent in the divorce arena is structured for the sole purpose of delaying results and increasing billable hours. An unexpected side benefit of my new status, was my new insurance choose an in network Doctor for me. "Oh, shit!" I thought. I did my homework. The honey blonde smoke show Doctor came in wearing her sky blue scrubs and yellow socks, which matched my tee shirt very well. We had a very cordial and open dialogue, the kind you want to have with your doctor. When she was done, she brought some of the staff over to see my shirt. I will not compromise by posting pics, but damn. During our visit, when she was doing her job ... I know, total bullshit, but I guy can dream. She went to UT Medical School when Dr. Red Duke was there. He was famous for many things, but she shared a funny story. Dr. Duke was on staff at Parkland Hospital when President Kennedy and Governor Connally were brought in. After some time, he stated something to the effect of, "That son of a bitch is dead! Y' all get over and let's work on the one that's alive." "From The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, ... I'm Doctor Red Duke!"- Русский корабль - иди нахуй
By bad for not posting recently, but this covered about 80,000 posts ago, and ~ every 5,000 posts since then. It's Groundhog Day all over again. I return after an extended absence, and i see the same shit i read last time I was here. I expect the increase is as simple as unsanctioned tankers coming and going v. sanctioned tankers. It was stated as in increase in exports, not production.- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Aliquippa, FIFY Of course you already knew that Tony Dorsett played HS football in Aliquippa, PA. Said witch may have used all her juju on Tony.- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
- Greenland
To get a resident hunting license in Colorado, there is a mandatory 8 hr Hunter Safety Class. The word Texan sure came up a lot. Guys going hunting in the back country above the tree line (~10,000 ft), totally unprepared; long johns & 1 liter bottle, water bottle? Check! Yeah, dude, your probably dying on the mountain. You have to hydrate your body for days to acclimate to the altitude and ~ 0% humidity. You can't drink enough water, and you damn sure can't carry it up the mountain.- Greenland
"You see, there's two kinds of people in this world, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig."- Things not going well in Venezuela
Former Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield. I don't think so. Exxon bought Pioneer in 2024 for ~ $60 Billion. I can't imagine he would, or can, take a flyer on a high risk venture in Venezuela that competes with Exxon.- Greenland
Greenland: new shipping routes, hidden minerals – and a frontline between the US and Russia? A boat travels though a partly frozen sea inlet outside Nuuk, Greenland Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Key maps show the growing strategic importance of Greenland as Arctic ice melts under global heating By Ashley Kirk, Lucy Swan, Tural Ahmedzade, Harvey Symons and Oliver Holmes, The Guardian Lying between the US and Russia, Greenland has become a critical frontline as the Arctic opens up because of global heating. Its importance has been underscored by Donald Trump openly considering the US taking the island from its Nato partner Denmark, either by buying it, or by force. The climate crisis is shrinking Greenland’s ice sheet, along with the wider Arctic sea ice, opening new sea routes and exposing valuable resources. Trump’s threats, previously dismissed as bluster, are now being seen as an early signal of how melting ice is turning Greenland into a valuable geopolitical flashpoint. The maps below show how this is developing. Sea ice is meltingThe average extent of sea ice in the Arctic over the last five years was 4.6m sq km. This is roughly equivalent to the size of the EU. But this is a 27% drop compared with the average of 6.4m sq km between 1981 and 2010, according to data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The sea ice lost is roughly equivalent to the size of Libya. The shrinking Arctic ice means that, in the summer, the ice cap no longer reaches the Russian and Canadian coasts. And because there is no land beneath the north pole it is exposing seas that were once inaccessible. Arctic shipping routes are becoming more viableThis is opening up new shipping routes. As the polar seas become navigable for longer periods, routes once limited to icebreakers have become commercial corridors. The Russian nuclear icebreaker Yamal breaking through sea ice in the Arctic. Photograph: Sue Flood/Alamy The most developed is the northern sea route, which overlaps the north-east passage and runs along Russia’s Arctic coast from Europe to Asia. It is central to Moscow’s ambitions. Further west, the north-west passage cuts through Canada’s Arctic archipelago, while a central Arctic route across the north pole is also emerging in long-term planning. This is redrawing the global trade map, adding routes that could provide alternatives to the Suez canal and cut the journey from western Europe to east Asia by almost half. In 2025, the container ship Istanbul Bridge became the first liner vessel to travel from China to Europe via the northern sea route, also known as the “Polar Silk Road” shortcut. The ship travelled from Ningbo, China, to Felixstowe, UK, in about 20 days. Data from the Marine Exchange of Alaska, a maritime monitoring organisation, showed there were 665 transits through the Bering trait, which separates Russia from the US, in 2024, a 175% rise from 242 in 2010. These routes are not without risks, which affect their commercial viability. Serafima Andreeva, a researcher at the Norway-based Fridtjof Nansen Institute, says Moscow is aiming for “year-round” use of the north-east passage from Europe to Asia and is investing heavily in nuclear icebreakers. But ships are still getting stuck in the ice, Andreeva says, adding: “Even now there are occasional issues with use of the route even in the ‘summer’.” Rising tensions around the ArcticSeveral Arctic nations have claims in the Arctic: Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the US. The UN’s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) makes recommendations to coastal states on these claims. The US already has a military presence in the Arctic and in Greenland specifically. The remote Pituffik base in north-west Greenland hosts missile warning, missile defence and space operations for the US and Nato. Pituffik space base in northern Greenland. Photograph: Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images Russia has opened several military bases in the last decade, as well as restoring old Soviet infrastructure and airfields. In 2018, China declared itself a “near-Arctic state” in an effort to gain more influence in the region. Andreeva says: “There has been an increased military interest in the Arctic over the last 10 to 15 years, and the landscape has changed significantly since 2022 [when Russia invaded Ukraine].” She adds that Finland and Sweden’s recent accession to Nato has reshaped the security landscape, increasing the focus on the Nordics as a collective. This has entrenched Russia’s desire to assert control over areas such as the Kola peninsula and the Barents bastion. Even though Russia’s focus has been on Ukraine since 2022, it has maintained its presence in the Arctic. Nato countries have been reinforcing their Arctic naval presence and there have been announcements on increased icebreaker building. With Nato’s Nordic expansion, Denmark’s air force has become more integrated with Finland, Norway and Sweden. In 2024, China deployed three icebreaking vessels to the Arctic. Interest in Greenland’s critical mineralsGreenland is also important in the global race for critical minerals. The island ranks eighth in the world for rare earth reserves, estimated at 1.5 million tonnes by the US Geological Survey. It hosts two of the largest known deposits, at Kvanefjeld and Tanbreez. Foreign interest in these is growing. China’s Shenghe Resources is the largest shareholder in the Kvanefjeld project, holding a 12.5% stake, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. No rare earth mining has taken place as yet because of inaccessibility. Only about 20% of Greenland is ice-free, and much of the island is inaccessible for large parts of the year. But as with the shipping lanes becoming more viable, global heating is also beginning to alter this equation, and retreating ice is exposing new mineral resources.- Transfer OL Jonte Newman
- 2026 Texas Baseball
- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Woodcock Guy? Boom!!! So much more fun when I open Surly, and the first thing I see is that we got Coleman, and flipped Hollywood from 'bama. Allowed me to speed reed 20+ pages of $9.95 by skimming the normal dribble.- Transfer RB Hollywood Smothers
- 2026 Transfer WR Cam Coleman
- 2026 Transfee LB Justin Cryer
- Things not going well in Venezuela
From Julia Davis, January 8, 2026 A Sobering New Year for Russia’s Propagandists A Sobering New Year for Russia’s Propagandists, Russia’s new year is off to a rocky start, as its hopes and dreams are dashed by reality. Just one month ago, Sergey Karnaukhov, who hosts the program Karnaukhov’s Labyrinth on the Solovyov Live channel, confidently boasted that the Kremlin fortified its Venezuelan Comrade, President Nicolás Maduro. Using words he later came to regret, he said: “Maduro made the right decision: he started to rely on Russia . . . If it wasn’t for Russia, Venezuela would be on fire right now.” Karnaukhov predicted that if there was any attempt by the United States to act against Venezuela, it would be able to sink all the American ships, using an array of Russian weapons. He added, “How did we do it? At some point in time, movies will be made about it, books will be written about it.” In January, after an audacious US raid on Venezuela that ended with Maduro’s capture, Karnaukhov’s humility was restored. He meekly surmised: “If Russia stands in America’s way, it will crush us too.” Head of RT Margarita Simonyan expressed jealousy about US capabilities, apparently referring to Russia’s multiple failed attempts to kidnap or assassinate the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in contrast to Maduro’s rapid extraction to the United States. Appearing on a radio show, In More Detail, political scientist Alexander Kazakov advised the Russians to lean into the principles of the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza: “Do not weep; do not wax indignant.” Host Marat Bulatov chimed in and urged fellow Russian citizens to stop demanding a statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin in response to America’s recent actions. He said, “Don’t look for our president, since many are asking right now, ‘Where is the president of Russia? What happened?’.” Bulatov correctly anticipated that Putin wouldn’t rush to say anything. Instead, in his televised remarks during the Orthodox Christmas celebrations, the Russian president inferred that his country’s invasion of a neighboring country is not merely a “special operation,” but a crusade directed by God. This reaffirmed that recurring statements by government-directed state media about a “holy war” are a state-approved propaganda narrative. The events of the new year have sobered Russia’s regime mouthpieces. In December, the decorated state TV host Vladimir Solovyov was thrilled with the outcome of the meeting between US President Donald Trump and President Zelenskyy. He predicted that Ukraine would be sidelined and the US would ally with Russia against Europe. Instead, the United States, with support from the British armed forces, seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic on January 7. The Marinera is described as part of a shadow fleet carrying oil for Venezuela, Russia, and Iran to circumvent US sanctions. The state media outlet TASS reported demands from Russia’s Foreign Ministry directed at the United States: “Taking into account reports that there are Russian nationals among the crew, we demand the American side ensure proper and humane treatment of them, strictly observe their rights and interests, and put no obstacles for their soonest return to the Motherland.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the crew might be subject to prosecution in the US. During his show on January 7, Karnaukhov noted: “The reaction in Russia to the arrest of our ship is very boisterous, especially among the experts. They are starting to demand harsh measures from the government. People say that everything starts with small things. If we respond solely with notes of protest, gesticulating with our hands and drawing our red lines that faded long ago, Americans will understand that everything is permissible.” During his show Gasparyan on January 8, host Armen Gasparyan reported “mighty discontent” among his viewers over Venezuela and the ship seizure. They had been writing to the show in significant numbers to express their upset, and to complain that “Donald Trump failed to meet their expectations,” he said. He said viewers were angry because some state propagandists (who he referred to as “certain fools”) had convinced them that the US-UK relationship was broken, something contradicted by the joint military operation to seize Marinera. According to Gasparyan, Russians believed “deteriorating relations between Buckingham Palace [sic] and Trump” were so severe that “this alliance was dead.” Russia’s influential and extreme “Z-bloggers” were so disturbed by the latest turn of events that some asked whether the American president should be “allowed to physically live out the remainder of his term.” In a post on Twitter/X, the ultra-nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin remarked: “The so-called [Ukraine] peace deal was impossible from the very beginning. It was a pure waste of time. Russia is now morally prepared for a radical, full-fledged war with the West”. Julia Davis is a columnist for The Daily Beast and the creator of the Russian Media Monitor. She is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Screen Actors Guild, and Women In Film.- Transfer LB Rasheem Biles
- Jaime Ffrench 2025
Re Ffrench; He was ranked as a Ffive Star until shortly before signing day. Why???- Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
You work at a gas station?- Transfer G Dylan Sikorski
Since I started posting Elisha on the recruiting posts again, we are getting more of them. And I don't care if she's photoshopped, implanted, from Canada, or in her 40's.- Things not going well in Venezuela
Citgo gave money to Trump? Funny! I have no idea what exactly is sanctioned and how that impacts Citgo & PDVSA, and Venezuela. Exxon & Conoco are still owed $$$/??? for their assets that were renationalized, so they may have a lien of sorts, or first dibs, on some of these assets. CITGO has ~ 800,000 BPD of US Refining capacity, ~ 4% of the total capacity, including the big one in Lake Charles. I am also confident you have looked at this graphic longer than Team Trump. I would not be surprised if some tankers loaded "sanctioned" oil from Venezuela, transferred it into an unsanctioned tankers on the high seas, and unloaded the "unsanctioned" oil in the US. We aren' t cornering shit. Current Venezuela production is ~ 25% of the former capacity. If it isn't being produced now, it won't be missed. The oil complex is a worldwide, zero sum game, driven by macro supply-demand fundamentals. It is mature, with nationalized and private companies buying and selling a commodity with well defined benchmarks; the epitome of supply-demand fundamentals at work. Economics 101, at its core, but quickly transitioning into probably the most complex trading platform that exists. The "bunker fuel" used in marine transportation is the bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, between low grade diesel and tar. It is cheaper, and the among the worst environment friendly fuels. Most of the newer marine transportation ships have propulsion from cleaner burning engines, or engines that run on LNG, or batteries. Some refineries (a lot of the US) are designed form the heavy/sour crude slates, which sell at big discounts to the Oil Market Benchmarks (WTI, West Texas Intermediate, and /Brent (North Sea) grades. That means they are more efficient and profitable refining the lower cost grades, but within reason, they can refine anything. Conversely, refineries that aren't designed top refine heavy/sour crude cannot refine heavy/sour crude. Nobody builds refineries to make tanker fuels, it is the after birth of refining; Aviation fuel > gasoline > diesel >> marine fuels. China's new 400,000 BPD Guangdong Refinery that just came on line is designed to refine heavy/sour crude. The refinery is owned 60/40, between PetroChina/ & PDVSA. Hmmm? The corollary to the Belt & Road initiative; China will build infrastructure in China, to help monetize natural resources assets in Venezuela. Interrupting the Venezuela supply will affect operations, short term, but they will go into the world market to replace it, from Canada and Mexico and the other producers of heavy/sour crude. Good thing Canada & Mexico love us. Oh, wait. The US policy of blocking the Keystone Pipeline was stupid from the word go. It will only get worse. It was a fit for purpose, direct pipeline, from the Canadian production to the US refineries on the Gulf Coast. We forced Canada to find other outlets for their crude oil, so they did, and built an over the mountain pipeline and a huge oil export terminal on the Pacific, which is now the closest source of American heavy/sour crude for China. Not American as in US, but American as in North, Central & South America. I'm guessing China was getting ready to inject steroids into Venezuela's oil production, and since Xi stiff armed the Donald, the Donald took his ball and attacked Venezuela. One more point; While the world oil market is mature, the NGL marketplace is not. It is driven by a handful of US companies, and the development of worldwide gas processing and NGL trading, in and by foreign countries, is in its infancy. The PetroChina Complex also includes a new world class petrochemical plant that turns Natural Gas Liquids (NGL, ethane and propane) into plastics. There is probably limited interaction between the actual Refining and Petrochemical assets in Guangdong. Colocating them provides synergies in infrastructure, shared utilities, import/export terminals, and operating and maintenance functions and personnel. PetroChina's NGL imports come primarily (all?) from ... the US. I don't doubt that some of the China petrochemical complex is owned by subsidiaries of US companies. US companies controlling the supply of NGL in the US and exporting the NGL to subsidiaries abroad, away from the legal, environmental, and general NIMBY mindset in the US. The companies earmarked to come fix Venezuela are probably Exxon, Chevron and Conoco/Phillips. Conoco and Phillips are 2 separate and distinct companies, from the combined companies assets of Conoco and Phillips, that were spilt apart between Conoco, the production company, and Phillips, the refining and petrochemical company. They are separate entities, but joined at the hip, contractually. These are the same companies behind a significant portion of the NGL trading with China. They are in the middle of taking away China's heavy/sour crude supply from Venezuela and supplying China's NGL's/Pet-Chem business. They didn't ask to be put in this place, but it goes with the territory.- Transfer DL Zion Williams
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