Author: BigCountryExpat

Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
Appreciate all the nice sentiments and whatnot on our current shit-show here at Casa El Grande Campesino… been a loooong curse filled weekend that’s for damned sure…

As in “What Mummy’s Tomb did I piss on when I was in Egypt? I was sure didn’t pee on anything critical!!!” I mean I went out of my way to only piss in what I (thought) were/was ‘safe’ spots, meaning no curse laden A.O.s that could possibly come back to haunt me…

<Le Sigh>

Anyways… Time to get back in the groove….

Wisco Dave sends me a daily dump of memes and ‘other’ things… we got a pretty good email chain happening with Me, Wirecutter and a few others… one of the things he sent me was a link to this… watch it and then I’ll discuss:

Imagine thinking you could run from these or blast them with birdshot when they can go 125mph in less than a second and carve like this. AI guidance with a marble sized explosive or a small tungsten dart and we’re living in a Black Mirror episode. pic.twitter.com/WnWbwATu5a

— 𝙼𝚁. 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚂𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶𝙴𝚁 (@Lead_Flinger) December 4, 2023

DAMN!!!
OK… now… according to Leadslinger, this isn’t ‘sped up’ nor is it Hollyweird Special Effects… those are for-real racing drones…

Of course I had to verify, so I found this from NBC on YouToob:

DAMN x2!!!!
So, I’ve already linked a bunch of the Russian and Krainian Drone attacks where individual troops on both sides have become ‘drone meat’… Now mind you, these are C.O.T.S. Drones… which means “Commercial Off The Shelf” drones bough by both DotMils because there wasn’t a significant analog in any DotMil, to include the US…

We have drones… have had them quite a spell, however, none of them had offensive capabilities like we’ve now seen. Not sure if it was the Russians who did it first, or the Krainians… I know I’m biased, as the Krain is nothing but a 70+/- IQ’d semi-retarded bunch of grifting morons who’s never had an original idea in their collective lives… Whereas Ivan tends to act stupidly to begin with, and then “adapt, improvise, and overcome” like pure-dee motherfuckers.

I’d hanker it was Russia who done dood it first.

Maybe I’m wrong… let me know in the comments. Reason I say it was them, was they supplied Armenia drones during the Nagorno-Karabakh war(s). It helped them to dump accurate Artillery Fire onto oncoming Azerbaijani grunts… the vidyas from that are out there if you look…

At some point, someone realized they could add bombs, even as simple as an F1 Soviet Era Frag onto a drone, and drop them with pretty good accuracy and take out individual grunts on the ground. As time went on, the Russians then added larger drones to the matrix, and rigged many of them with RPG Warheads… and when that worked, they graduated to substituting the RPG round with what essentially were ‘airborne claymore’ fragmentation mines. They’d take a foot long, lightweight plastic cylinder, put another smaller one inside it, the smaller one being packed with Semtex, and then, they’d fill the ‘gap’ between the two with a kilo and a half of ball bearings…

And man, effective? No shit Aye?

So, of course the usual “I kin shewt one of them there down!” morons (actually quite a few) started piping in, that “They shoot doves on the reg!” which apparently are supposedly harder to hit than a 90+ MPH drone…

Pull the other one Jethro.

Thing of it is?
The current Guinness World Record for “Fastest Drone”?

AVERAGE speed of 165.2MPH
Top End? Flat-The-Fuck-Balls-Out? 179.78 MPH

My ass you can shoot that down.

Think about it.
It’s fucking terrifying.

A small drone, like the Drone Racing Leagues Racer Mark 4:

0-90MPH in slightly less than a second
Ninety Fucking Miles Per Hour.

So of course “But Big Country, these are small sports drones, they’re tiny, and have no lift capability!!!”

No shit Sherlock, it doesn’t fucking need one.

It’s called Commotio Cordis, which sounds like a Harry Potter spell. It’s a result of impact to the chest. It can compress your ribcage a bit, essentially bouncing your ribs off your heart in such a way as to interrupt the hearts natural rhythm. Imagine the heart tries to expand in the moment of impact and is unable to do so because of the compression of the ribs. This is pretty rare, cause the blow would need to be struck with that exact timing and would need to hit almost dead center of the left ventricle of the heart. Still, it basically kills you outright. Breathing will stop and the heart will be in V-fib. With that perfect blow, in that perfect moment, an otherwise completely healthy person is now having a heart attack. They are likely to die without immediate CPR and AED treatment.

Now mind you, that’s a punch that can cause Commotio Cordis… sometimes ball players have had it happen getting hit with a fastball to the chest… very rare, however…

What if you have a swarm of these drones. ALL programmed to seek a thermal imaged human sized target? Launch and release 40 of them before you storm an objective. Each one closes with the target so fucking quickly the hit would be instantly either fatal or completely incapacitating… you wouldn’t even need to worry about Ye Olde Heart Pump… a drone doing 90 MPH impacting a limb I’m sure is going to tear that fucker clean the fuck off Aye?

Telling you, I have seen the future, and it’s Lethal Combat Drones… In fact when you go to the Drone Racing League website (look for the link yourself you filthy animals, I can’t always do all the heavy lifting as I’m writing this while making dinner…) the website has a LOT of links to the US Chair Farce…

Tells you where and what they’re thinking amiright?

So, thoughts in the comments
More Later
Big Country

…that I have NOT fucking lost my collective shit and started a full on “Florida Man with Flamethrower goes completely Apeshit, Torches Town, Hundreds Dead, Women and Minorities Most Affected, Film at 11:00!!!”

Oh Holy Fuck where to start…

SO when last we had heard from The Intrepid Reporter™ his wife was trapped in a bad part of town, with the Hoopty was in “no work no more” mode with a possibly blown engine. The car is a 2020 Hyundai with only 80k miles on it, (high miles on the highway due to the whole back n’forth to Tennessee for the Adriana Saga) Normally this’s a completely unexpected thing as The ole I.R. is damned near religious about making sure the oil and filter and PMCS is done on the regular…

So, I borrow Sapper’s pickup.
Down to the darkest part of Tampa… And let me tell you, I Love me some drunken blaq diversity (at 9 the fuck A.M. mind you) getting belligerent ‘cos I didn’t have any spare change… and then? When he got a case of the stupids and started yelling at me, (“You cheap assed Honky” or some shit like that) I ripped off my sunglasses and me blood red peepers and general “One of us is going to get seriously fucked up here, and it sure as fuck ain’t me!” attitude had him run across 4 lanes of heavy traffic to get the fuck away from the unwashed barbarian who was lusting dumb diversity blood at that point… I didn’t even say a word… just the ‘Death Stare™’ and radiating the “You. Are. Dead.” vibes positively washed over and inundated even his deteriorated cortex… He ran for his life… and to be truthful, at that particular movement in time? I think if he went from ‘stupid’ to ‘full retard’ I would have beaten him to death, as I was that angry at the world at that particular moment…

Anywhoo…

I called AAA and had a tow set up to haul the DRT (dead right there) vehicle to the Dealership. By the time I got there Gretchen had taken over (without consulting me of course) and had called corporate of the Take 5 Oil Change biddness who blew them the fuck up… got alllllll sort of promises… tow, rental car you name it, you got it…

Yeah so when I got there the Triple A truck was there and Gretchen sent him off… Because you can trust the company that probably broke our shit to be purely and absolutely impartial
<queue crazy unbelieving laughter>

Oh boy….

So then instead of following through on all the ‘happy gas’ they blew up Gretchen’s febrile female mind, instead of doing what they promised, Take 5 sent a “Manager” from the local nearest Take 5, who came out and pronounced “Not our problem, it’s got oil, and no leaks! Have a nice day!”…………………….

Volcanic Eruption in 3…2…1…

Oh yeah baby…
The voices started telling me it was time to let “Bad Big Country” out of the Mental Metaphorical Cage I keep that particular version of me locked away… TBH I don’t talk about that part of my personality… let’s just leave it that that is one BCE you never want to be on the ‘bad side’ of… he’s a combo of Dexter, John Matrix, (older fatter and slower but still) and a touch of Hannibal Lecter for good measure… I keep him ‘locked down’… It’s the only way to keep shit cool… soooooo couldn’t go nuts…. not yet….

So instead I Whoo-saaa’d like a motherfucker…

I called Triple A again and re-set up the Tow… Problem was Sapper called and said, “Bro, I know you got a lot going on, but I need my truck ASAP, I just got the two hour notice!” Sapper’s job requires him to be on-call 24-7… he makes HUGE bank because of it, but it’s some times inconvenient, like this amiright?

So now, the Quandary:
I need a rental car. Nearest place open is Tampa International. My usual ‘if I need a rental’ I go through Budget. Got a biddness account and everything. So I scheduled a one day rental, ‘cos on TOP of all OUR problems, Mom is still in the hospital, Dad is crippled and alone and we need to GTF up there ASAFP.

Any wonder why I’m stressing?
And yeah, Lord Fuck a Duck, Dad was positively blowing up the phone: “When you getting up here!?!”

Yeah………….mo-ther-fuck-er……
I can’t catch a fookin’ break as Gran would’ve said
Aye….

So while Gretchen was broke down, she had to go into one of the shops in the strip mall she’d literally broke down in to use the shitter. It was one of those small-ish computer/phone shops owned by a immigrant family (Romanian) and she got treated pretty damned well by the woman who runs the place. Gave her Water, let her sit in the AC, commiserated with her, you dig?

Well, now… Problem: We need to get Sapper his truck ASAP. I also need to get to the Aeroporto to get the rental. The car can be towed to the dealership, and the driver can handle the drop off as the place is closed until Monday, so no issue there.

Nice Romanian Lady tells me she’s closing up shop early, and do I want a ride to the Airport to get the rental?

OH Fuck Yeah
Lord love people like that. Even offered her gas cash which she got insulted about. (TBH she had a Tesla no shit) The Tow truck showed just as I was leaving, Gretchen got it unfucked this time (Fuck you Take 5… just wait to see how I deal with them motherfuckers, I got Lawyers on the payroll…) and then Gretch started hauling ass to the house.

Me?
Nice Romanian Lady drops me off at the airport… the ride took about 20 minutes and we started talking in German, as it was a common language and she was alllll sorts of cool AF… BTW, she highly recommends we all check out Romania and Hungary as a potential ‘bail and hide’ locale…

So anyways,
I go to Budget………….

No car for you because apparently, unlike the last 4 times I’ve rented, they no longer take a debit/credit card for the $250.00 deposit, only a plain credit card. Me? I’m maxxed on any remaining cards I have because as ALL of you who follow the bouncing ball know, the Adriana Saga broke me to the point I’m organizing what the fuck is it? Chapter 13? Whatever, I’m fucked.

No Rental For You!

God. Damn. It….

So, NOW…I’m Trapped at T.I.A.

I call for an Uber… it starts coming and TBH, $35 to the house… which is pretty good… Gretchen then again throws a fucking wrench in the works, I had called her and had told her we were utterly fucked for now, and let me get home to re-organize and regroup… ‘cos mind you at this point I’d been ‘on the bounce’, painfully hungover, and getting the fickle finger of fate pounded right up my ass since 7am, which means now at 2pm, it’s been alllllll day long…

Gretchen tells me to ‘cancel the Uber, ‘cos Old Neighbor Sara is coming to get me… our old neighbor Sara and G-Ma who moved to Lakeland, Gretchen and Sara are like BFFs and Gretchen got the idea to call her as it’s an emergency, and “…can you help us out?”

Soooo without thinking I cancelled the Uber (cost me $7 in cancellation fees) and Call Sara to Co-Ordinate.

Turns out she’d rather get me AND Gretchen at the house to drive us to The Villages, and “…hey can you get and Uber and meet me at the house?” For the record, she was right, as T.I.A. is waydafuq out of the way from Lakeland…

<Le Fucking Sigh>

Sooooooooo I re-do the Uber… (two minute difference mind you) and instead of $35 before tip, it’s $59.00 before tip.

Some days it doesn’t pay to wake the fuck up.

I’m going to start cutting this down a bit, but, long/short, I made it home, managed to get a shower and shave, and Sara drove us to Mom and Dads. Had a good night too… I got loaded on some beers (“must consume mass quantities”) and Dad and I spent the night grossing Gretchen out with DotMil Stories…

Dad was in the Navy and got out right before Korea kicked off and was a E-5 Machinist Mate 2. In fact his Christmas gift is a Plaque with his awards and patches that I custom ordered… they’re not going to be exactly the same, but they should look good…. I’ll poast them as I can.

Gretchen had no idea that Dad had frequented ‘Houses of Ill Repute’ during Liberty when he went into port… whereas she knows full well when I was in Germany, I used to go to “The Wall” in Nurnberg and “…see the plumber about cleaning the pipes” on the reg… Used to give me an advantage by getting laid in a whorehouse before the clubs opened… because I’d already been ‘serviced’ I didn’t reek of desperation like the other Joes did… hence part of my success with the ladies as I didn’t give a fuck if they wanted to get with me or not… Purely made me a ‘wanted man’ so to speak…

So, Today:
Mom got out of the hospital, and it’s been a shitshow. I knew it was going to be, so at 8am I called Sapper, who’d just gotten off work, (“I guess I’m not allowed to sleep ever” was his bitch to me) and I told him to evacc me ‘cos I knew that shit was going to go sideways… Meaning Mom is so fucking stubborn and being a dumbass in refusing help like a home health aid to assist at least two, maybe three times a week…

I knew I had to fucking leave or I’d kill her… LITERALLY as a lot of you know, I haven’t had a vacation since their accident, I used ALL my vacation days after it last year helping from the shit, and almost every weekend is a shytteshow of the Nth degree… so I had Sapper get me ‘cos I’m fucking done. I just got awarded my two weeks due to my anniversary with Glorious People’s Tractor Factory #206, and I will be damned if I don’t get to use this vacation on Gretchen and myself… I mean FFS we never even had a honeymoon as shit keeps piling up on us Dammit.

And yeah, she got home, got on her high horse and I got on the phoner and laid it out in no uncertain terms that she either gets her head out of her ass, or I’ll have her involuntarily committed –somewhere– as WE have legal power of attorney.

Gretch is working it
I feel bad, but TBH I’m burned the fuck out… hence my TMI- while-drinking rant here… Sapper knows it, but is tired of the bullshit too… he had ZERO sleep, had to get me, and then go right back into work SO he too, is done…

Anyways, I’ll follow up with y’all.
I might have to do a GiveSendGo IF they fuck me on the new engine… I’ll keep everyone updated… In the meantime, it’s time to see what I got that I can sell God Damn It…

If it wasn’t for Shit-Luck, I’d have none at all Aye?
More Later
BCE

“Yah, Dat Me!”

I repeat:

AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

This blogger will self destruct in

3…

2….

1….

≤queue my head exploding≥

My new-ish car had An oil and filter change yesterday at ‘Take-5’ oil change place… Gretchen had a bridal gig this AM.

Coming home the engine blew da fuck up then seized DRT

I am SO Over this week

More Later (provided I don’t lose my shit completely)

BCE

Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
OK… lets see… Mom (ackchully Gretchen’s Mom) is now in the hospital… My thanks to everyone for the good thoughts and prayers… tis much appreciated!

Now, as far as the croakers? They have no idea what the problem is but the pain is out of control… I mean the hip is jacked, we knew that… problem is that it’s the one she had replaced many years ago, so I’m thinking some nerve entanglement(?) pinching severely(?) or something…

To give you an idea, Gretchen first started off when we reported for duty (and found out she’d fallen, and didn’t fucking tell us again) that all we knew was she was in pain, so we had her chew 2x of my Oxys that the VA gives me… less for me by month end but hey?

Didn’t scratch the surface. So we gave her HER Vicodin, and between the two of those, me at 310 pounds currently, I -know- I’d have been in happy-la-la land. Her? Nothing… didn’t even scratch the surface of agony she was in… that was when we found out she’d fallen, and tried to hide it from us…

So the Ambulance showed, and she was screaming in pain when they loaded her up to the meatwagon. Bad enough they gave her a ‘taste’ of that emergency Fentanyl patch… I figured THAT would have done it…

I have no idea what the hell is going on, because nothing seemed to have worked. They gave her almost 1/2 a grain worth of the ‘pure quill’ (straight morphine) at the E.R. and NOW have her on a drip, which is finally getting shit under control.

I’m jealous… the local junkie is jealous… ANY dope fiend out there would be jealous… Right now I think if she donated blood, and you were the recipient of said-blood, you’d be high AF for a week…

Can’t imagine what’d happen to the mosquito that might decide to have lunch on her… jes’ sayin’… lil bug’d be triiiiiiiiiiiippin’…

So we’ll find out… Mad tests, MRIs CAT scans, ALL the tests…
We’ll update as we go…

So, I got a parcel; in the mail from one of my Brit Readers… for muh birfday. Seems he has a ‘line’ on the rations that the Kraine have been getting flooded with. Sent me the following as a Birfday Gift:

Menu #20, Beef and Veg Canuckistan Ration…

Ought to give JL (the Bitter Centurion) some bad/good maybe? Flashbacks from his time in boots with the Canuck Army… I’m….intrigued in that it’s a very small Ration… like half the weight of a normal US MRE. Looks like it’s light on ‘extras’ and we’ll see what we see in the near future…

The one that blew my mind?
THIS Dutch gorilla-sized motherfucker:

Dutch ration…
ALL 4 POUNDS OF IT
Fucking thing is GINORMOUS

That’s the other side when I flipped that heavyweight motherfucker over…
24 Hour Ration…
With ALL the ‘bells and whistles’

Pasta, Chili, Apple/Blueberry Granola and a slew of extra shit… to include swole-milk… AKA a protein energy drink powder like Muscle Milk that you’d have after a particularly hard steel throwing session… Not sure how or IF I’m going to review THAT big Bastard as it’s from what I can tell, enough to keep me in my ‘eat on’ for two/three days in a real emergency… date on it said it’s good til 2025…

Have to see..
What say you?
So, more later this weekend. I’ve got some tactical stuff to go over now that we’re back at the house, plus a gear review/suggestion or two.

More Later
Big Country

Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
Had and have an ongoing family emergency happening. This time it was Mom who fell and broke her hip.

Always a fun time around here!
Sheesh
More Later Tonight
BCE

Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
First off, a confirmation (of sorts) for the fuckstain commenter BFYTW who’s obviously a Krainian Cheerleader who’s comment “Source: Trust me bro!!” Well here’s the proof:

Go fellate Krainfeld, or better yet have him suck your dick as it’s obvious from the earlier stuff I’ve poasted about him, that’s his ‘thing’…. and btw, YER BANNED. Only had two people I’ve ever banned from commenting, you’re #3.

That was taken from Andrei Martynov’s Website (link HERE) who’s not been exactly a cheerleader for either side. I was incorrect on the sourcing, in that it wasn’t a higher higher who was being interviewed, but one of the Krainian Grunts who was doing a ‘tell all’ which I’m sure at this point he’s in a shallow grave, thanks to Krainfeld’s Gestapo.

1,126,652 Killed in Action / Missing in Action…

Yeah I got that wrong too… it wasn’t wounded… it was missing

And judging from the vidyas I’ve been watching, some from Russian Sources, some from Krainian Forces, let me tell you, the number of ‘stacked dead in windrows’ are all Krainian at this point. The myth of Russian soldiers doing ‘human wave’ assaults have gone the same route as “Jews made into soap/lampshades/babies baked in ovens”

Complete and utter Judaic BULLSHIT

Also, Yay Me!
I was right… seems that the Jane’s Intel folks stated that the ‘spotted Abrams in the Wild?’ It is an export model… specifically that had been set up to go to Morocco. This export model is the “…M1A1 AIM v2, also known as the M1A1SE (Situational Awareness) – an export version that was destined for Morocco, with a thermal imager on the TC Weapon Station(CROWs), but is not equipped with the uranium armor on the front glacis of the vehicle.”

As Razorfist so aptly puts it:

“Fuck You I was Right! Fuck You I was Right!”

(That’s if the vidya doesn’t load)

Yeah, love being ahead of the power curve.

Speaking of “Jews made into soap/lampshades/babies baked in ovens” we get this story about the hardships endured by the hostages taken by Hamas:

The “horrors” endured?
Sleeping on plastic chairs?
Barely any food?
Waiting to be executed while in a tunnel?

Sounds like what I’d call “Tuesday” at Mortaritaville, AKA Camp Anaconda (the Biggest Airbase we had) in Iraq circa 2004 to 2008….

Sleeping on plastic chairs? Check; that’s all they had at the airfield.. check in, and wait… and wait… and wait… however many hours it took to catch a flight to Germany and/or Kuwait… days sometimes… in un-air-conditioned rooms at some points…

Barely any Food? Yah… MREs IF they had them, more often than not these shitty ‘lunch in a bag’ Tuna or PB&J wannabe MREs that a REAL MRE would have been preferable…

Waiting to be executed while in a tunnel? Anyone who ever was under fire in Mortaritaville (Anaconda) well, it was called Motaritaville for a reason… 90% of the ‘bomb shelters’ were half pipe 4 foot wide half buried in the ground with some sandbags… you hoped like hell the Haj were exceptionally bad in their aim, otherwise, yeah, it would have been an execution in a tunnel…

I’m surprised they haven’t re-issued the ‘masturbation machines’ or ‘fed them to lions’ or some such shit…

Look, not to make light of it, being a hostage purely sucks I’m sure… however, the first two or three old ladies that got released? Before the Mossad or whatever could stop them, they made statements saying that they were, overall, treated nicely and decently…

Which goes against the narrative…

Mind you them 3 old ladies have positively disappeared after this… any bets that they kil’t ’em rather than let them keep telling the truth? I’m sure that Nutjobyayhoo wants them in a shallow grave posthaste. Probably listed them as “died due to the stress of their capture” or some such bullshit….

Can’t fuck with the narrative now can you?

Just like ¡Genocide Joe! can’t be seen as weak, they’ve been desperately hyping that 4 year old Dual Citizen baby who got recovered as an “American”. Despite reality is the kid speaks no English, and ONLY has ‘Murican Shit-Tye-Zen-Ship as the parents made sure that Mom’s US Citshit was used for instances just like this. Meaning IF shit went completely sideways the kid would have an American Bolt-Hole to run to…

How’d that work out for ya?

IRL, Hamas has not released any US Shit-Tye-Zens as an absolute Fuck You to ¡Genocide Joe! AND the US of A.

My bets is that we won’t see any releases until ¡Genocide Joe! promises to keep funding Hamas… which at this point, Nutjobyayhoo has already said that as soon as he’s done dealing with this shit, he’s going to get back on the ¡genocide! train full time…

Gonna be some interesting times ahead…¡Genocide Joe! is looking worse and worse as time goes on, even more frail and brain dead than usual… how this doesn’t count as elder abuse is beyond me…

The Trials AFTER the Krain Ends/Settles for Crimes Against Humanity against ¡Genocide Joe! and Boris Badhair are going to be EPIC. Thing is, they’ll either put Joe in the ground (hard to try a dead guy) OR if they had the balls, go after his cunt of a wife and ALL of his ‘controllers/advisors’ and hit them with ALL the charges…

Either way, (((certain folks))) can’t be too upset that over what’s probably a million, million and a half Orthodox Christians have been killed off… And then they wonder why everyone seems to have ‘turned’ on them? Talk about a lack of self-awareness, and a lack of personal responsibility…

Any bets the next Inquisition starts in Kiev?
I’m saying it here first.
Got a hunch when ALL is said and done, the Future Pogrom in the Krain is going to make all previous ones look like a spring picnic.

Jes’ Sayin’

More Later
Big Country

Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
A rainy couple of daze here around the casa. I wasn’t feeling too well… methinks it was just plain exhaustion. Running flat out is for the young, and as we’ve seen I’m no longer in THAT category by far.

Haven’t been writing much about the International scene as of late as well it -was- the Holidays, and just making sure my own are taken care of is hard enough. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been keeping up and track of some of the events.

One of which is now the second photo of what appears to be an M1A1 Abrams in Krainian Possession.

The reason(s) I say an M1A1 (standard, probably export model) are the following using the pic with annotations:

The Red Circle: That’s the bore-evacuator. Catches the fumes from the main gun firing. That’s the fatter, rounder model which means that the gun on this is a 120mm Rheinmetall M256 main gun, the same one that bonked me on the nugget and got me medically retarded out of the Army (10,000 pounds to the grape’ll do that)
The Green Arrow: That’s the CROWs system for the .50cal M2 Browning Machine gun. That stands for Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station which allows the T.C. (tank commander) to remotely fire his .50 without becoming exposed.
The Blue Arrow: Shows part of why it’s NOT an A2 and that’s the TC Thermal Viewer Station. It looks like this and is inside the blue circle:

Yellow Arrow(s): The lack of heavier armor on the front glacis of the turret shows this’s a Standard M1A1, and not the M1A1H, ‘H’ for ‘Heavy’. Mid 90’s they added more plate on the front which leaves a raised and distinct outline that can be seen. The pic above BTW is an M1A2 BTW, and has the heavier armor incorporated into it… those are I.R. marker panels to help with Friend or Foe ID through IR.

Not that this’s going to help them. Word is that they’re in the rear around Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast.

No idea if they’re ever going to let them out to ‘play’ but my guess is “Oh Hells Noes!” as like before, the Leo2’s got positively obliterated, the Bradleys, and then the Challengers as well. Western Tech ain’t it’s all cracked up to be…

That being said, word is out now, even in Western Wishful Thinkingville that the Krainians are trying to bail out of Avdeevka… specifically the big fortified factory that they’ve been digging into since 2014. The Russians, despite taking casualties have made some pretty aggressive moves and are doing the ‘inch-at-a-time’ house-to-house fight, rather than plastering the dug in Krainians with bodies and firepower. Octobers Casualties have run between 200 low, to 500 high, mix of KIA/WIA.

Now, on the other side.

Somebody is in trouble
Seems that much like that cell phone company a few months back who did the whole ‘send a text to a dead fucker thanking him’ promo, the Main TV Station for the Kraine, “Inter”,

also known as “1+1” (as it was the first commercial television station in the Kraine) well…

Somebody done fuuuuuuuucked up
Quite spectacularly.
During an interview with the various talking heads, the ‘ticker’ on the bottom showed the number of “Missing and Killed Armed Forces officers/men:

1,126,652 Killed/Wounded
–SO FAR–

Within a few minutes the ticker was cleared, and later the channel began to apologize for this figure… I’m sure that said apology was heartfelt I’m sure. When the Cell Phone company fucked up, that was when the numbers were about 500,000 known dead…

The cemeteries don’t lie… my understanding is you can no longer get ‘recent’ pictures of the BIG DotMil Cemeteries around Kiev… that and what graves they are digging, they’re now down to dis-interring Russian Soldiers from graves from World War 2, which is an abomination and about as dishonorable a shit thing they could do, they’re piling 3-4 stiff in each hole.

That’s even IF the stiffs are recovered. Plenty of TikToks out there from highly pissed off Babushkas asking about their sons, and soon enough their daughters methinks… Lots of vids of dead Krainian Chicks in trenches as of late…

One unit Colonel who’s on the run now officially, got caught writing off his dead as still ‘on the books’ as the way they pay the troops (IF they even get paid at all) is the money goes to the Commanders, who then ‘feed it down the chain’… this Battalion Commander bastard kept LOTS of guys on the rolls as still alive, and was pocketing the $$$$.

I’m not even going to go into the whole GI Insurance, or their version of it so to speak, and the scamming going on… They’re going to write books about this shit and what went on after…

“The Last Great ‘Gasp’ of a Dying Empire” with a cast of millions and starring Whomever is Grifting Hardest At The Moment.

One Point One Million
The mind boggles.
Have to see how it plays out. Right now it looks like Krainfeld is ‘all in’ on the whole “Game of Thrones” against his General Zahluzny (Bless You!) and they’re all going back and forth in a complete haze of bullshit and hubris… how they think they’re going to recruit 20k a month, get them ‘suited and booted’ and out on the battlefield? It’s insanity… all the while the Grift goes on. Especially in Greater Britishstan and here in the Imperial DotGov who have no fucking idea nor grasp of just how this’s going to play out… I mean they really think that THEY are going to dictate terms to Putin?

It is to laugh. They’re so far gone it’s no longer funny… in fact clearly delusional and quite possibly genuinely General Ripper levels Insane. Ah well. Don’t forget, Raffle is still going on, and so far I’ve only had like a handful of entries. $10 a pull gets you a new Gerber Rifle Tool and a Brand New Surefire Helmet Light. I’d call it a good deal…
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Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
So, been running around alllll over Hells Half Acre today… Gretchen ‘wanted to spend some “quality time” together’ which meant since she had a gig in Orlando, I was the chauffeur.

On my Birfday itself (today’s the ackchooal day)
On a Friday Afternoon
Back and forth on I-4
Black Friday no less.

3 hours each way due to volume of traffic and “stupid”

Ugh.

So her and Sapper have decided to take me out on their dime to a Chiaroscuro Brazilian Steakhouse. OMG!! Great food! Usually out of my league. Kind of place MomUnit usually likes to spring on me…

But anyways… I did get a giftie in the mail today from Reader ER out of Colorado (MANY MANY Thanks E!!!!):

A “Block One” (1981-1983) MRE Menu #9 Chicken ala King.

Better known as Chicken ala Thing…
It has Accessory Packet ‘A’ which means it’s got the basics… no candy or anything like hot sauce either. A basic-basic MRE. Don’t know if I’ll open it, or save it as it -is- a bit of a collectors item… Not many Brown Wrapper Block Ones are out there… unless they’re in a toxic waste dump that is…

That’s a screen shot from some Aussie dude who actually opened and tried to eat it… only thing that was still edible was of all things, the Fruitcake, which as I recall was not edible even when it was still fresh and new…

So instead of eating/not eating that, I’ll get back with you maybe later after some good food.
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Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
No joke, I woke up today at 15:00 after going to bed Tuesday night at about 23:00. I -only- got up to take a squirt or two, kiss Gran#1 goodbye when she left, and beyond that? Sleepy-Dreamland time.

When you’re tired at that level? Oh yeah…
Thankfully no one bugged me. That meant that when I -did- wake up, I had to get my diner prep on as we’ve been eating on the leftovers from Sunday alllll week, and well, it is the actual Thanksgiving Day, so….

Again I hit the new grill… this time with a thicc-assed boneless Ribeye. Smothered it in caramelized onions, with Tater tots as the side.

Damn if’n it wasn’t good.

No veggies this time as I was literally just throwing this thing together. I mean I think I’ve gone over and above the past week or two with the cooking…

Now tomorrow is MOAR cleanup… the floors around here are so sticky from Gran#1 spilling ‘stuff’ and not telling us or not cleaning it up correctly… I swear some parts of the tile in the living room feel like a movie theater floor… mad ‘ik’ factor there.

Now, on alt-news ‘stuff’…
As expected “The Marvels” totally shit the bed. New records for lows… Lowest Opening Weekend, and then it did do a ‘highest’ score of sorts, The Highest Drop Off week-to-week from it’s opening… meaning say it opened at 100 million total for the opening weekend… (it didn’t… just work with me on these numbers) then the next weekend? There’s one of two ways it can go… if it’s a ‘sleeper’ the second weekend makes more than the first, OR more commonly it drops… usually juuust a bit.

In this case it was a cliff dive… like say from 100 mil the first weekend to less than 10 mil the second weekend. And this on a movie that they spent over a half a billion dollars on making and advertising it… Fucking Go Woke, Go Broke indeed.

Not that I’m a big follower of anything out of the Hollyweird side of things. I -do- watch it for the laughs (shytte like this in particular) as well as the intel bits one can gather from successes and failures…

So seeing that this’s like the 4th or 5th major flop that’s lost money over the past 6 months, I’d say that the money laundering out of Hollyweird has gotten to the point where it’s no longer working. Just like the Kraine, it’s reached the end of it’s useful lifespan. And like the majority of ‘things’ like that, well, depending on who’s really in charge, that means it’s time for the ‘insurance claims’ to begin… i.e. the “Jewish Lightening” that always seemed to happen in my old home town after a bad beach season…

Believe it or not, t’was MomUnit who first used that term… “Jewish Lightening” was something that happened to a business that had consistently underperformed, and was losing the owner money… the place was usually very well insured, and as soon as the season was over, “Oh my gosh! A bolt of lightening hit, and started a fire and burned the place to the ground!” The term “Jewish Lightening” came from the fact that invariably, said-business seemed to always be owned by a member of the Tribe…

Talk about a “Cohencidence” Aye?

In fact, some of the ‘burns’ were so professional, so damned precise… you had to admire it. One memory in particular stands out… Up in Portsmouth, New Hampshire we had a Chinese Restaurant, “Moe’s Asia”. Everyone knew or went to Moe’s… The Asia was the Chinese sit-down restaurant to go to throughout the 80’s.

Then hard economic times hit, there were newer and better, less expensive choices, and Moe’s fell to the wayside. It was just sort of ‘there’ for a few years until a bad storm… well, Moe’s caught a hit of lightening and burned to the foundation. Thing of it was, there was ZERO evidence of arson, but even in the local news, it was joked about how well the burn had been done, as the little decorative trees that lined the front of the building? Like right up against the wall?

Not even scorched.

Hell, a few weeks after the fire, one could drive by and see the lil bushes thriving, outlining where the front of the building used to be. Talk about a professional bit of Arson there Aye?

So I’m watching to see where and what happens next… so many of the projects out there have the wheels coming off. Jewish Supremacy is now being called into question. The very fact that they’ve turned the ENTIRITY of the slaughter of innocent Gazan Children into a Binary “If you don’t support us killing two year old babies, then you are an Antisemite!!!” is backfiring spectacularly.

Which it should.

The whole story of “Babies Baked In The Ovens” has backfired as well, and is now leading to “What else have the Jews lied to us about as well?” That’s where they’re getting terrified, as well they should be… The very fact of the “Six Gorrillion Kil’t” has always been dubious in nature as the reality of the technology at the time has now proven that it was probably not done in the fashion that they have claimed it was. I mean when the German DotGov starts complaining that even with their very best cremation machinery That they were wholly unable to keep up with the COVID Deaths.

The very legitimacy of their “Higher Moral Purpose” of “Never Again”, by all rights should extend to ALL of humanity, and not just them… in fact, the very claim of “Never Again” needs the addendum added “Not to Us Anyways” as a fact. Their very actions show them and have now exposed them and their supporters as nothing more than the hypocrites they are.

My main reason for my current disgust is seeing the pics of alll them hurt/dead kids… So far, the ‘free press’, all of which have been called ‘Propaganda arms of Hamas’ mind you, have shown the actual cost of this war vis-a-vis the lil lives being lost…

Whereas the Enemedia here? The Ministries of Lies and Propaganda HERE? The only picture we’ve seen so far, turned out to be a heavily photoshopped pic of what had been a puppy, and then turned into one of the ‘supposed baked babies’ that looked more like an overdone fucking brisket experiment.

At this point, I trust Al Jazeera and Russia Times faaar more than any of the ‘usual sources’ here. Fuck them murderous motherfuckers… every. last. one. of them.

So, gotta go… I got Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chips in the oven.
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Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
Telling y’all… keeping an AD-HD Nookular Powered Redhead busy and entertained is a mite strenuous to say the least… to say I’m tired has to be the understatement of the year…

Coloring, crafts, baking cookies and rocketry today of all things. Got me a three-pack of Estes Model Rockets off the Zon for about $25+/-

FedBro and I had a rocket launching set when we were kids and had a hell of a good time playing with it. It was another $10 at Hobby Lobby for the rockets, and I already have all the ‘other’ needed equipment that I use for fireworks and whatnot… wasn’t hard to convert one of the igniter to shoot a 9v ‘squirt’ to the flameless initiator that Estes engines use…

I let her ‘decorate’ the rockets themselves after we had put them together. This was HER fav:

Now, when we launched it, and mind you it’s been 40 years since I’ve done a ‘recoverable’ model rokkit, Ye Olde Memory still ‘had it’ and we set everything up quite nicely in a HUGE field up the road from here. Unfortunately, Gretchen didn’t get it on video, despite that being her one job.

It’s better that we didn’t though. Had a “Challenger Moment” so to speak… I’m still not sure if the engine was faulty or what, but it launched, got about 25 feet in the air and blew the fuck up.

As you can see, that’s the top part, with the parachute and all still packed in the rocket itself. Took a few minutes to find the ass end of it, which was all melted and blown out:

Bad Engine?
Not sure…
I managed to put it all back together again so’s she can take it home to put on her bookshelf if she wants… I mean it is her first rocket amiright?

Hell we got two more available for tomorrow if she wants to try Round Two. Afterwards, we did dinner on my Birthday Gift:

Gretchen, Sapper and her ‘Rents all contributed to get me a Weber Grill. Been needing a new grill for quite a spell. Been cooking the ‘grillables’ on the Ninja XL Air Grill or the Forman grill… which has been great. However

Nothing beats a real charbroiled piece of dead animal flesh.

Like ab-so-fucking-loot-lee nuthin’

As such, Point Proven:

Best Hamburger I’ve had in a looong minute.

So we drop off Gran#1 later tomorrow IF I haven’t died of exhaustion. Either way, it’s been a blast but I sure could use the rest.

Now
Lets do a broad overview of “Things in the World That We Have NO Say In”… Time to get it stuck in Aye?

GAZA
The Gaza Slaughter is still kicking, although Nutjobyayhoo is talking about some form of ceasefire to exchange hostages or something… which strikes me as odd because the whole “We never negotiate with Terrorists” started with the Israelis… And because of this willingness to call a pause in the ¡Genociding! tells me that there’s one of two things going on here:

1) They’re calling for a ceasefire as public opinion is getting waaay beyond their ‘normal narrative control’ methods. I mean when the fucking Rwandans come out and start saying that “You’ve gone too far!“, you got issues that the ‘normal’ Jewspin of “Muh Holocaust” and Kvetching just ain’t going to stop… I mean when a coalition of Hutus and Tutsis are saying you’ve literally worse than Hitler? Yeah, you ain’t coming back from that one anytime soon bro…

And then there is, what in MY opinion is the real reason that BadBibi wants to cop a rest, is

2) That the IDF has been getting their kosher asses handed to them, one fat chunk of asscheek at a time. What few vidyas I have seen show a very large body of work of Hamas kids (and I do mean kids… we’re talking 12-16 year old flip-flop wearing kids toting RPGs) coming out of a disguised tunnel, and firing off what appears to be some newer model RPG round(s) into Merkavas…
Namely one, introduced in 1988, the PG-7VR:

Anyone want to guess who currently has a metric fuckton of these and has been using them since February of 2022? A country who’s >ahem< moral character is somewhat less than stellar?

That and one of the Doctors from Docs Without Borders let it slip that he, personally, had counted over 400 dead IDF kids where HE worked… that was in one week. Both the interview and story have been scrubbed, and for that matter, according to Le Monde (he was a Frog) the Doc himself is currently listed as MIA… “Whereabouts unknown.” Which is Mossad/Spook-Speak for ‘dead in a shallow grave and we’ll blame Hamas later IF they find his stiff….’

Like ALL of the NATO equipment, and ALL the hype of the superiority of the training, the weapons, the support and the all-around mythos of the Invincibility of both the JewArmy and the US DotMil, the hubris that was gained by essentially beating on smaller, weaker opponents that ‘burnished the reputations’ of the fighting prowess of the aforementioned folks, when in reality?

Well, as they say, in many cases, it’s been “Fucked Around, Found Out” on a near continual basis. The US DotMil got its ass beat in and chased out, tail betwixt legs from Affy, and the IDF has been pretty only been a slightly better armed police force for the past 20 years. Both outfits are Best Known for (metaphorically speaking that is) ‘rousting the neighborhood drunks’ and acting like badged overblown bullies that 99% of our cops have become… It’s a whole different ball game when the heavy hitters come out to start swinging…

It’s one thing when Barney Fife arrests and pushed around good ole Otis Campbell in Mayberry… it’s an entirely different situation when Barney decides to -try- and intimidate a just-released-from San Quentin Prison inmate who did a stretch for murder, and then decide that he’s going to arrest said-killer because he can…

Somehow I -don’t think said-con is going to put up with Barney’s shit, one bullet or not.

Hamas has been very quietly building up over the past ten or so years. And because of The Kraine, they timed this Op perfectly. It left Krainfeld completely in the wind, with ZERO chance of getting any money and/or weapons. Mainly because our “true masters” have spoken:

Hell, Krainfeld is ALSO in the wind in the respect that someone in his chain of command was the one who authorized the sale and transfer of allll them tank killing RPG rounds. (The PG-7 variant round I’m talking about and have seen in the vids are designed to take out tanks like the Merkava with Reactive Armor specifically)

Got me a hunch his fellow (((co-religionists))) aren’t too happy with his ass right now. I know -I- sure AF wouldn’t be, profit or no profit…

Then on the home front, well… truthfully not a hell of a lot going on….
…………………..(pause ‘cos I literally fell asleep)…………………
OK… I got to go to bed… no joke my head went off the KB and just woke me up. I am officially worn the fuck over and out.
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