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Donward

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  1. In the wake of sanctions from the US and Europe, it looks like Venezuela is trying to hawk its oil to India who seems happy to continue doing business with the Maduro regime. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-oil-venezuela/venezuelas-pdvsa-seeks-to-barter-its-oil-with-india-idUSKCN1Q00XY
  2. Remember. This isn't a Reign of Terror. At Sturgeon's House, we allow the condemned a five minute smoke break while digging their own graves.
  3. And meanwhile in Seattle's Snowpocalypse... https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article226125595.html A woman was arrested in Seattle on Sunday night after video caught her driving into a group of people having a snowball fight, according to police. Police performed a field sobriety test on the woman and discovered she was under the influence of marijuana, KIRO reports. Wieser’s video shows that after the woman drove toward the crowd, she got out of her car — not at all dressed for the weather — and ran toward people outside. She was apparently angry that a snowball had been tossed into her vehicle.
  4. It snowed on Hawaii. https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/Hawaii-recorded-what-may-be-the-lowest-elevation-13607099.php On Sunday, Maui's 10,000-foot Haleakala received a thick dusting and snow also accumulated at 6,200 feet in Polipoli State Recreation Area. Officials at the Department of Land and Natural Resources say this could mark the lowest-elevation snowfall ever recorded in the state.
  5. I see Mahk is taking a swipe at Gillette!
  6. It looks like they have tracked down "Patient Zero" for the measles outbreak in Washington State. https://komonews.com/news/local/patient-zero-identified-in-measles-outbreak?fbclid=IwAR3al2VnhEPI3F2OYuztjSQRDnH7WaUOcxpU4-_1pDW_2X9saOo491Fce_Y State health officials say the first person to contract measles in the latest outbreak was someone from outside the country. That person, according to State Epidemiologist Dr. Scott Lindquist, came into contact with a large group of un-vaccinated children. "All those kids that were un-immunized went to public places like Ikea, Costco and a Portland Trailblazers game," he said. ... Editorializing here, but generally the sort of people who are gung-ho about not vaccinating their kids are also the ones totally OK with opening the borders to whoever wants to come across. Given the voting habits of Clark County, I feel my hypothesis is fairly accurate.
  7. I'm kind of glad this little thread got resurrected for at least a little bit, if only as a reminder how superior most of the American (and much of the Allied) equipment was compared to their Axis adversaries. And even if there is a debate over whether a weapon was "overrated" it wasn't necessarily bad, and was certainly better in most cases than contemporary Axis equipment, assuming the Axis even had anything that was contemporary to it to begin with.
  8. Portland businessman who shot to death homeless camper agrees to pay $400,000 to settle lawsuit https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/02/portland-businessman-who-shot-to-death-homeless-camper-agrees-to-pay-400000-to-settle-lawsuit.html In the afternoon, Petersen walked into Chan’s insurance agency at 5821 S.E. 82nd Ave., told Chan he’d camped on the porch the previous night and asked what happened to his belongings, according to Chan’s account to police. After Chan told Petersen he threw the belongings away, Petersen threatened to kill him and torch his business, Chan said. Chan told police that he shot Petersen with his .22-caliber revolver as Petersen was coming at him to assault him -- and that Chan had no time to warn Petersen that he was about to shoot. Chan said he didn’t intend to kill Petersen. Chan, who is 5-foot-6, told investigators that he thought Petersen was much bigger and could overpower him. An autopsy report lists Petersen at 5-foot-7 and 145 pounds. Police said Petersen had schizophrenia. ... A Portland insurance agent who shot to death a homeless man -- after the man apparently camped out on the doorstep of his business -- has agreed to pay the dead man's estate $400,000. Insurance agent Charlie Win Chan agreed to settle the case with the estate of Jason Gerald Petersen after fatally shooting him in the torso on Feb. 20, 2017. A lawsuit was filed later that year for $1.1 million, but the amount sought was later increased to $15.9 million.
  9. Yeah. Ol' Amalynn doesn't understand what the term "overrated" means. Not a surprise.
  10. Chick-Fil-A Commits To Using 100% Born-Again Chickens https://babylonbee.com/news/chick-fil-a-commits-to-using-100-born-again-chickens So this is probably the reason why Chick-Fil-A chicken is so bland and tasteless.
  11. In the other hand, a turtle's penis can be one-half the length of its body... https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/terrifying-sex-organs-of-male-turtles/#googDisableSync
  12. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/oxford-scientists-successfully-recreated-a-famous-rogue-wave-in-the-lab/ In this latest experiment, the Oxford scientists generated two sets of waves in a circular water tank at the University of Edinburgh and made sure they crossed each other at various angles, the better to recreate the conditions under which the Draupner wave had formed. In these conditions, the wave doesn't break like you'd normally expect. Wave breaking usually serves to limit a wave's maximum height, but that limiting factor doesn't occur when waves cross each other at large angles. The sweet spot turned out to be an angle of 120 degrees: when the groups of waves crossed at that angle, they formed a wave that scaled neatly with the height and length of the Draupner wave (albeit at 1/35th the size of the original). ... Despite numerous anecdotal eyewitness accounts about rogue waves, there wasn't any hard scientific evidence for them, so such claims were dismissed as myths or legends. In fact, a French naval officer in 1826, Jules Dumont d'Urville, reported seeing a 108-foot-high wave in the Indian Ocean and was roundly ridiculed by physicist François Arago for his trouble. At the time, scientists didn't think waves could be higher than 30 feet. ... In 1995, a powerful rogue wave slammed into an offshore gas pipeline platform operated by Statoil in the southern tip of Norway. Dubbed the "Draupner wave," it generated intense interest among scientists, since the platform's various sensors and instruments provided precise details about the wave's dynamics. Rogue waves had long been considered a myth, so those readings—combined with damage to the platform consistent with a wave some 84 feet high—provided crucial evidence for the phenomenon
  13. I'm confused. So there was a black guy... being arrested by white cops with guns... and he complied with police orders... and wasn't shot dead for sport? I thought this was America!
  14. I've pulled stumps with trucks before. *Shrug* Edit: Now the dude trying to pull an old growth stump with a Landcruiser was special... Edit Edit: Also fuckers are standing too close to the tow chains/straps...
  15. Russia.gif https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-russia-exclusive/exclusive-kremlin-linked-contractors-help-guard-venezuelas-maduro-sources-idUSKCN1PJ22M Private military contractors who do secret missions for Russia flew into Venezuela in the past few days to beef up security for President Nicolas Maduro in the face of U.S.-backed opposition protests, according to two people close to them.
  16. No longer a rumor. https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1088146315979251717
  17. And the best Designated Hitter in history has finally been voted in. http://sports.mynorthwest.com/591892/2019-hall-of-fame-edgar-martinez/
  18. Oh... YEEEEE-AAAAAHHH, BITCHES!!! YouTube's most knowledgeable Communist frog puppet military theorist weighs in on the subject we've all been thinking about .
  19. And meanwhile, if you went ANYWHERE in Portland this week, you probably were exposed to measles. https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/01/18/25553745/someone-with-measles-came-to-a-blazers-game-but-still-no-reported-cases-in-oregon https://multco.us/health-officer/measles-outbreak-winter-2019-oregon-exposures The likely culprits appear to be Washingtonians living across the river from Portland in Clark County, which has 19 confirmed cases. https://www.clark.wa.gov/public-health/measles-investigation Here are the details of the confirmed cases: • Age • 1 to 10 years: 15 cases • 11 to 18 years: three cases • 19 to 29 years: one case • Immunization status • Unverified: three cases • Unimmunized: 16 cases
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