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Encinitas milfs are the best.
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Some plastic surgeons have before and after photos on their websites. The befores can be bad. The afters can be better but leave them looking like Chucky in some cases.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/politics/hegseth-pentagon-leadership.html In the spring, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decided not to promote a senior Army officer who had led troops over five tours in Afghanistan and Iraq because Mr. Hegseth suspected, without evidence, that the officer had leaked sensitive information to the news media, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. When Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Sims II was cleared of the allegations, Mr. Hegseth briefly agreed to promote him, only to change course again early this month, the officials said. This time, Mr. Hegseth maintained that the senior officer was too close to Gen. Mark Milley, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whom President Trump has accused of disloyalty. Mr. Hegseth’s sudden reversal prompted a rare intervention from Gen. Dan Caine, the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He urged Mr. Hegseth to reconsider, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Mr. Hegseth met with General Sims one final time but refused to budge. General Sims is expected to retire in the coming months after 34 years in the military, officials said. Through a spokesman, General Sims and General Caine declined to comment. A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment on Mr. Hegseth’s role. The standoff over his promotion reflects an ongoing clash between Mr. Hegseth’s highly partisan worldview, in which he has written that the Democratic Party “really does hate America,” and the longstanding tradition of an apolitical military that pledges an oath to the Constitution. Mr. Hegseth’s actions could shape the military’s top ranks for years to come. His insistence on absolute loyalty, backed with repeated threats of polygraphs, also creates uncertainty and mistrust that threaten to undermine the readiness and effectiveness of the force, officials said. The tension between top military officers and their civilian leaders has been persistent since the earliest days of Mr. Trump’s second term, when senior administration officials ordered the removal of General Milley’s portrait from a Pentagon hallway. General Caine, who pressed Mr. Hegseth on General Sims’s behalf, got the job of Joint Chiefs chairman after Mr. Hegseth and President Trump fired Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., his predecessor. Mr. Hegseth accused General Brown, who is Black, of prioritizing diversity over the combat effectiveness of the force. Also removed during the first months of the new administration were the first woman to command the Navy, Adm. Lisa Franchetti; the first woman to command the Coast Guard, Adm. Linda Fagan; Mr. Hegseth’s senior military assistant, Lt. Gen. Jennifer Short; and the U.S. military representative to the NATO military committee, Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield. All were dismissed as part of a campaign to root out diversity, equity and inclusion from the military and restore what Mr. Hegseth has described as a “warrior ethos.” cont'd
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Paul Wesley replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
You could post this observation on every thread on this board, and you'd be hammer-hitting-nail almost every time. -
George Kooymans of Golden Earring
Vanilla Strange Gato replied to Harrison Stafford's topic in Music
I was there. Was a freshman in high school. I think it was my third concert ever (Asia and Van Halen were 1 and 2)? The drummer for Golden Earring was pretty ballsy. He did a really good solo during their set. Not something you see from an opener. And not many drummers are going to do a solo ahead of Neil Peart doing his later. Rush always had good openers, and they were never butthurt and thought “we don’t want to bring a band that might take away from what we do”. Looking at you, Van Halen, with the rockabilly band you brought out on the 1984 tour. Or the aging BTO you brought out on the 5150 tour. Or freaking After The Fire and “Der Kommisar” in 1982. Golden Earring was solid. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Billy Pilgrim replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
The episode where the guy who loves to read goes into a bank vault to read during his lunch break and survives a nuclear war is greatness. Don’t want to spoil the ending. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
RomaVicta replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I keep repeating something I read a long while back, the country changed when people started thinking of themselves as taxpayers rather than citizens. I finally got off my lazy ass and ran it down. I think the place I read it must have been quoting this piece in Harpers 2016. The article is: Save Our Public Universities In defense of America’s best idea by Marilynne Robinson -
Never watched a minute of Breaking Bad, and I never got into the Sopranos. The Wire is somewhere in my top 5. And I need to watch it again, but it's an investment.
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Professional Softball: What’s with the black pants?
Bullneck replied to Napoleon's topic in Other Sports
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George Kooymans of Golden Earring
Vanilla Strange Gato replied to Harrison Stafford's topic in Music
They had seven females once. -
American = in the "bread and circuses" stage of the Fall of Rome. Irony is dead.
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Epstein files update (there are no Epstein files)
gernblansten replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
Oh, so it’s true. High ranking democrats are satanist pedophiles who suitcases Epstein and since Trump is back in charge Maxwell is now safe from being suicided and can speak out. -
I recommend “All Day Pizza” in Hyde Park. Sell by the slice and basically two slices is half a pizza. They have Meanwhile Brewing in can and some others on tap. Pizza is more thin crust with a thicker, doughy edge. It is really good pizza.
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The party of family values.
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I thought that Shrek was green.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
RomaVicta replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
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I enjoyed it. Laughed multiple times.
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"You were the greatest golfer of the 90s. Besides me and Tiger."
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Chopper replied to Reagan1k's topic in Business and Markets
Some of you seem to not understand that raising or maintaining high interest rates is one way the Fed slows the growth in the supply of money. It's one tool. Bank reserve requirements are another but the fact that they're going lower is indicative of who controls what in our current governance. -
These cars create so much spray. I just hope we don’t have another cancelled race behind the safety car like a couple years ago. It sucks these cars can’t actually race in the rain.
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Laugh if you want, but how else are you supposed to make homemade Nutter Butters?
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Well Written Content OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
Hagbard Celine replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
i'm going to keep reminding everyone that gardere was a dog in all 4 wins (thanks to @MaxHorn for that new bit of trivia just learned the other night) weird shit happens in fair park - we do not walk in there expecting to cut them to pieces we walk out of there happy with a win of any kind aggy on the other hand, this year, anything less than 78-0 will be acceptable -
Israel's own military came to the same conclusion. No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say Israel has long restricted or completely blocked aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control over the population. For nearly two years, Israel has accused Hamas of stealing aid provided by the United Nations and other international organizations. The government has used that claim as its main rationale for restricting food from entering Gaza. But the Israeli military never found proof that the Palestinian militant group had systematically stolen aid from the United Nations, the biggest supplier of emergency assistance to Gaza for most of the war, according to two senior Israeli military officials and two other Israelis involved in the matter. In fact, the Israeli military officials said, the U.N. aid delivery system, which Israel derided and undermined, was largely effective in providing food to Gaza’s desperate and hungry population. Now, with hunger at crisis levels in the territory, Israel is coming under increased international pressure over its conduct of the war in Gaza and the humanitarian suffering it has brought. Doctors in the territory say that an increasing number of their patients are suffering from — and dying of — starvation. More than 100 aid agencies and rights groups warned this past week of “mass starvation” and implored Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian assistance. The European Union and at least 28 governments, including Israeli allies like Britain, France and Canada, issued a joint statement condemning Israel’s “drip-feeding of aid” to Gaza’s two million Palestinian residents. Israel has largely brushed off the criticism. David Mencer, a government spokesman, said this week that there was “no famine caused by Israel.” Instead, he blamed Hamas and poor coordination by the United Nations for any food shortages. Israel moved in May toward replacing the U.N.-led aid system that had been in place for most of the 21-month Gaza war, opting instead to back a private, American-run operation guarded by armed U.S. contractors in areas controlled by Israeli military forces. Some aid still comes into Gaza through the United Nations and other organizations. The new system has proved to be much deadlier for Palestinians trying to obtain food handouts. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, almost 1,100 people have been killed by gunfire on their way to get food handouts under the new system, in many cases by Israeli soldiers who opened fired on hungry crowds. Israeli officials have said they fired shots in the air in some instances because the crowds came too close or endangered their forces. The military officials who spoke to The New York Times said that the original U.N. aid operation was relatively reliable and less vulnerable to Hamas interference than the operations of many of the other groups bringing aid into Gaza. That’s largely because the United Nations managed its own supply chain and handled distribution directly inside Gaza. cont'd:
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Epstein files update (there are no Epstein files)
BrickHorn replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
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