Mogensthegreat

My grandfather's F-86 Sabre that he flew in Korea and shot down a Mig-15 in, his was #881, in the front of the picture.

US Presidents shake hands with scumbags all the time.  It's part of the job description.
 
The one who looks like he's trying not to cry at the terrible visage of John Kerry is Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, to give his full, made-up Africanized name:
 

 
Teodoro Nguema is not a nice man.  The only good thing anyone can say about him is that he's a much nicer person than his uncle, whom he killed to take power in Equatorial Guinea.  While Francisco Nguema was a flamboyant supervillain who ordered men dressed as Santa Claus to machine-gun his opponents in a sports stadium while Mary Hopkin's Those Were The Days played on loudspeakers, his nephew, after he pulled a Hamlet, proved to be a boring, run-of-the-mill corrupt autocrat.
 
Teodoro Nguema personally steals the majority of his nation's GDP.  The people of his country suffer from diseases that are trivially preventable like polio.  The country isn't poor; it has a miniscule population and produces almost as much oil as Libya.  The government is just laughably corrupt and awful.  In a right and just world, Equatorial Guinea would be invaded by a stronger, somewhat less corrupt neighbor and have its entire government fed to sharks feet-first on live TV.  But if you do that sort of thing there would be gigantic hue and cry in the UN defending the rights of Equatorial Guineans to be arbitrarily jailed and tortured by a man who steals all their mineral wealth.
 
Here is Teodoro Nguema looking upset to be shorter than Michelle Obama, who could probably kick his ass:


 
And here he is again with Secretary of State Rice:


 
Here is President Obama with Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow:


 
Berdimuhamedow is a megalamaniac, but he's got goddamn nothing on the previous president of Turkmenistan.  Saparmurat Niyazov, who ruled until 2006, named the month of January after himself, and had a golden statue of himself that rotates to face the sun built, was definitely setting the standard for eccentric despots.  Again, his successor is just sort of run of the mill oppressive and corrupt, but the US plays nice with him because it needs bases in Turkmenistan to support operations in Afghanistan.
 
Here's Nixon meeting with Mobutu:


 
Most won't remember, but Mobutu was a darling of the Western press early in his reign.  Presumably this is because journalists were just as fucking stupid back then as they are now, although their writing was considerably more polished at that time.
 

 
The man on the left is Robert Mugabe, who was when this picture was taken already notorious for using child soldiers.  The man on the right who looks like he wants to get on his knees and gag himself unconscious is of course, the Peanut Farmer.  Three years after this picture was taken Mugabe was ordering mass rapes and ethnic cleansing.
 
Here's the shrub with Islam Karimov:


 
Karimov is notable, among other things, for having people executed by boiling them to death.
 
 
 
 
I could go on.  My point is, Ruhollah Khomeini called the USA the Great Satan, and the USSR the Lesser Satan.  And we fucking earn it.  So suck it Russia!  We're the biggest Satan in the world!

We had a lot of winners marching in Seattle today.
 

 
During the Emerald City’s march, we asked protesters one simple question: why are you marching for science today?
 
Emi Montenegro: “To raise awareness for the fact that science is a very patriarchal institution. And a lot of the progress – or so-called progress – that comes out of science comes at a really high cost, especially for marginalized communities and people of color and indigenous people.”
 
 

As long as the police are setting aside areas for political extremists to fight each other (props on selecting Berkley), wouldn't it make more sense to supply both sides with weapons to ensure some degree of fairness?

Nice.

Nice.

Nice.

Alright, here goes:
1. Pro-Trump supporters hold a rally
2. Communists start a counter-protest, calling pro-Trumpers "Nazis"
3. "Nazis" kick the shit out of Communists, despite Communist usage of fireworks and smoke bombs
 
I do think it's funny that the Communists will call ANYONE who is right-wing a Nazi, just to rally support against them
 
Also, one of the Communist "fighters" was a 5'1,
98 lb pornstar who thought shed be somehow good in a fight.
 
 

Nice.

Amazing. There are people stupid enough to be scammed twice by the same god-damn thing.

Please tell me Kamchatka Man is friends with Florida Man.

I really feel like that is a sketch.

Greenland was a Viking Age real estate scam. 

Cowboys vs Aliens.
 
A story of a fairly typical day in the lives of men and women in the South Western part of the United States as they deal with the overwhelming number of illegal immigrants moving through their lands and towns.

I have precisely no detailed knowledge of how nuclear fission works, so I am unqualified to speak to the major content of this post.
However, as a (barely) qualified gene-jockey and grizzled GMO warrior I can personally attest to the fact that hippies are simply the worst. Further, I know from bitter experience that they simply cannot be placated, reasoned with or bargained with.

Serial ferret killings higher than ever...
 
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/dec/30/you-have-to-kill-more-than-a-ferret-to-make-a/
 
also, this article demonstrates more hippy idiocy... 
 
"All serial killers “started with animals,” she says. “It’s a documented fact."
 
"One indignant writer argued via e-mail that the ferret deaths should have evoked the same outrage as if a similar number of preschoolers had been murdered at a day-care center."
 
"Smith equates the ferret deaths with coming home and finding that some fiend had killed “your entire family."
 
"Why does society draw “the line between two-legged and four-legged?” asks Serena Kilmer. “A life’s a life."
Christ...

"Don't start any serious project without shithooks and nine wire."

-My father.

I like this guy lately:
 

 
Low on production values, but he has simplified visuals that help to convey things that are difficult for your average person to imagine in their mind.

I hereby declare this to be official Star Wars canon.
 

I believe that is the Star Wars canon that the exhaust port was designed that way by some sleeper cell Jedi agent. I recall reading that in one of the books.

I was expecting a shield for Calvary horses against arrows, spears, or bullets.