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“Air fryer (less than $50 on sale at JCPenny) gets used almost daily, sometimes multiple times a day. If we had a convection oven, it would get a lot less use, so factor that in if applicable.”

I have them.

-Pressure cooker for roasts ~45 mins. The pressure really helps infuse the marinade and seasoning.

-Air fryer for most everything.

-Convection oven for pizza, cake and lasagna.

-Toaster for bagels and toast

Did similar with a pellet gun. Used it to shoot squirrels in their backside to shoo them out of the trees above my house. They had great amusement picking acorns from the oak trees and throwing them down onto the roof. They’d stop when I came outside. A few weeks of pellet gun rebuking and they got the message and stayed out of the trees. I rewarded them by filling up the deer feeder 2 months early.

“Again, you lie. That tired old line that if we don’t agree with you”

Who’s the “we” troll?

You lie. You say don’t support UKR defending against invasion cuz you don’t want to support “warmongering” yet you refuse to acknowledge that Russia started and perpetuates the war. Yeah, don’t interrupt the bully is essentially supporting wars for conquest.

You’re a amoral, not recognizing what is just, civil or stable. Redrawing borders through invasion and conquest is grossly unstable and immoral. It will get millions killed. You of course know this and do not wish for it to be opposed. YOU are the warmonger and liar.

Is your name Neville Chamberlain III? Because you are a coward and act the part.

“No, we just invaded Ukraine and annexed it. Then we set up shop there.”

Annexation is a bit extreme. Territories always self-govern best. I like where you’re going tho.

I say we just make UKR a deployment center for the push thru to Vladivostok. Now that Russian armor is attritted under replacement levels we bring in the NATO stores, put nukes in over-watch, cut a deal with China and roll.

The thing about tyranny. You eventually run out of friends and everyone is your enemy.

Bye!

Had a coworker who, when he was in his 20s, would pick a cruise, go down to the cruise port with his GF and ask about last minute cancellations. He’d always go for a suite but sometimes had to settle for a balcony. He said he’d haggle with them right up to last boarding and could usually get around 80%+ off a cancelled suite.

Pre-Biden of course

Bump.

The Stamp Act really set them off.

“The former dictator was dragged from a drainpipe, where he had been hiding after his convoy was hit by fire while trying to flee Sirte as the town fell.

But Mahmoud Shammam says violence towards Gaddafi was to be expected.

“If a group of revolutionaries capture a killer who shed their blood for 42 years, do you think they would kiss his head?” he said.

“He killed young men and described them as rats, he launched Grad missiles against them, aircraft bombed them and tanks shelled them, he raped their women.

“What else do you think they would have done to Gaddafi?”

With Gaddafi now buried and much of his family in exile or dead, his son and one-time heir Saif al-Islam Gaddafi appears to be the last family member still on the run.

Wrong. I oppose invasion and re-drawing borders by force whereas you condone it. ‘Split-the-difference’ amorality ALWAYS favors the worst aggressor.

“Read my posts, nowhere have I ever condoned or supported Russia’s actions. That’s the usual lying accusation from the warmongering crowd. It’s false and a crazed stretch.”

WTF! You describe supporting a nation defending itself against invasion as warmongering!

Proves you side with the belligerent and support redrawing borders thru invasion.

FKN FSB Troll account

Trump...
Respects my liberties
Protects my freedoms
Keeps his hands off my money

Desantis...
Respects my liberties
Protects my freedoms
Keeps his hands off my money

But some ppl find ways to disparage one or the other.

Tools of tyranny

BS.

Morality is neither disgusting nor a lie. It is the basis of civilization.

You condone Russia invading and annexing Ukraine to expand it borders?

Then China - South Korea and Taiwan; Venezuela - Guyana, etc.

Dupe or troll. I don’t care. You’re too stupid to live in a civilized world. So you don’t.

“The Navy’s role seems to be minimal at best. I’m not sure the Navy has any role”

Mobile launch platforms for cruise missiles are not a joke. Russian naval vessels are and will remain priority targets of defensive operations.

The invader loses attack assets. Boo-Hoo.

Oh, so Russia invades and conquers its neighbors (Chechnya, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Crimea) the West provides arms to its current victim, and you consider that “pushing for war with Russia”?

Because what... Russia has the right to invade, conquer and annex nations?

And exactly ‘what’ did adherence to Dynamic Borders (if I can take it I own it) do for the NAs over 300 years? It got a lot of them gone, with the survivors sent to reservations, surrounded by guard towers.

Civility requires self-control. Every nation and people in the world went thru a time of ‘dynamic ownership’ and they all have laws and enforcement methods as a result. Most respect those laws, yet others still do not. Fine. Just as the impulse to steal and kill is fundamental so is the determination to protect against it. One is more enduring than the other.

Not surprising you side with Russia then.

Maybe the ground crew were told “put mo’ gas in”. Instead of JP-8 they put in Mogas (mil spec gasoline).

Happened many times before

https://www.youtube.com/@prestondennett577

This guy’s channel has hundreds of stories.

From my contracting days out on the (other) island...

All-white = the owners are petty nutcases.

Held pretty true over the years.

I’ll give them credit and say their interior decorator is the B-S crazy. Looks like a cheap hotel interior. Furnishings by Ikea.

The crux of the article:

“Yet the IDF has absolutely no intention of using the clear-hold-build COIN tactics the West tried in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

Tried? Sorry, but used to great effect in Iraq.

Wasted on AFGN.

In Iraq it took the US and Coalition forces 12 years to defeat an insurgency and a half dozen terrorist organizations to the point where Iraq is now a peaceful self-governing representative republic, not engaged in warfare with its neighbors or experiencing continual armed strife and conflict.

Attempting to get out in front of criticism.

COIN works -for some.

You want citations of Russian infiltration? Sure. Just look at Free Republic’s postings from FSB-directed posters, accounts and dupes.

Here are some more:

United States v. Ionov, et al.

According to the superseding indictment returned in the Middle District of Florida, Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, a resident of Moscow, was the founder and president of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (AGMR), an organization headquartered in Moscow, Russia, and funded by the Russian government. Ionov allegedly utilized AGMR to carry out Russia’s malign influence campaign. Ionov’s influence efforts were allegedly directed and supervised by Moscow-based FSB officers, including indicted defendants Aleksey Borisovich Sukhodolov and Yegor Sergeyevich Popov.

“The prosecution of this criminal conduct is essential to protecting the American public when foreign governments seek to inject themselves into the American political process,” said U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg for the Middle District of Florida. “We thank our partners at the FBI for their tireless investigation of these events and their commitment to ensure justice is done.”

Among other illegal activities, the superseding indictment alleges that Ionov, Sukhodolov and Popov conspired to directly and substantially influence democratic elections in the United States by clandestinely funding and directing the political campaign of a particular candidate for local office in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 2019. For instance, the superseding indictment alleges that Popov expressly referred to this effort on behalf of the FSB as “our election campaign,” and Ionov referring to the candidate as the “candidate whom we supervise.” Ionov and Popov allegedly intended that this election interference plot would extend beyond the 2019 local election cycle in St. Petersburg, and subsequently discussed that the “USA Presidential election” was the FSB’s “main topic of the year.”

Moreover, from at least November 2014 until July 2022, Ionov allegedly engaged in a years-long foreign malign influence campaign targeting the United States. As a part of the campaign, Ionov allegedly recruited members of political groups within the United States, including the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement (collectively, the APSP) in Florida, Black Hammer in Georgia and a political group in California (referred to in the superseding indictment as U.S. Political Group 3), to participate in the influence campaign and act as agents of Russia in the United States, including the following indicted defendants:

Omali Yeshitela, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri, who served as the chairman and founder of the APSP;
Penny Joanne Hess, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri, who served as the leader of a component of the APSP;
Jesse Nevel, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri, who served as a member of a component of the APSP; and
Augustus C. Romain Jr., aka Gazi Kodzo, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Atlanta, who served as a leader of the APSP and a founder of Black Hammer in Georgia.
One focus of Ionov’s alleged influence operation was to create the appearance of American popular support for Russia’s annexation of territories in Ukraine. For example, in May 2020, Ionov allegedly sent a request he stated was from “Russia, the Donetsk People’s Republic” – an apparent reference to a Russian-occupied region in eastern Ukraine – to Yeshitela and members of other U.S. political groups to make statements in support of the independence of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, a Russian-backed breakaway state in eastern Ukraine. Ionov later allegedly touted to the FSB that Yeshitela’s video-recorded statement of support was the first time that “American nonprofit organizations congratulated citizens” of the occupied region.

Ionov’s use of the APSP to promote Russian propaganda relating to Ukraine allegedly continued after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022, Ionov allegedly emailed Nevel an “URGENT MESSAGE” which contained pro-Russian talking points in support of the invasion. Thereafter, throughout March 2022, the APSP repeatedly hosted Ionov via video conference to discuss the war, during which Ionov falsely stated that anyone who supported Ukraine also supported Naziism and white supremacy, and Yeshitela and another APSP member allegedly made statements of solidarity with the Russian government.

Ionov, Sukhodolov, Popov, Yeshitela, Hess, Nevel and Romain are charged with conspiring to have U.S. citizens act as illegal agents of the Russian government within the United States without providing prior notification to the Attorney General, as required by law. If convicted, they each face a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Yeshitela, Hess and Nevel are also charged with acting as agents of Russia within the United States without such prior notification. If convicted, they each face a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. If convicted, a federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Daniel J. Marcet and Risha Asokan for the Middle District of Florida, Trial Attorney Menno Goedman of the Justice Department’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, and Trial Attorney Demetrius Sumner of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section are prosecuting the case.

United States v. Burlinova....

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-citizens-and-russian-intelligence-officers-charged-conspiring-use-us-citizens-illegal

What happens to inventors who developed ‘free energy’ devices?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL3Yyv-Wt1M