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  1. 55 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    Well shit... And this is where the Kenyans would probably be based. There is a large, unused camp at the airport. If the gangs take this facility, its over. Expect a massive migration out of the island as we have seen in the past.

    Gangs in Haiti try to seize control of main airport in newest attack on key government sites

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s prisons.

    The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was closed when the attack occurred, with no planes operating and no passengers on site.

    Associated Press journalists saw an armored truck on the tarmac shooting at gangs to try and prevent them from entering airport grounds as scores of employees and other workers fled from whizzing bullets.

    It is the biggest attack on the airport in Haiti’s history.

    I'm glad they clarified that.   I mean, we all know how often their airport is attacked.

  2. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    What everyone is skipping is that societies and cultures have LONG had a script for how to handle people who would upend the system by opting out of/doing an end-around on the rule of law.  It's a very simple script.  It has been written in blood, time and time again.

    The rule of law is, ultimately, ill-equipped to handle bad actors with sufficient power who simply say "naaah, don't think I'm gonna buy into that 'follow the law' shit."  That means that the players have opted out of the rule of law, and the solutions it can impose.  That's okay.  That opt-out simply means an opt-in to the alternative system.

    Here is how THAT system works:

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    That simple, binary choice: if you opt out of the rule of law, then you have necessarily opted in to rule of the gun, is the very fucking thing that many of us (ledge dwellers) have been sounding the alarm about for pushing 10 years now.  That's the entire point.  We're busy arguing whether the penalty should be clipping or unsportsmanlike conduct on the dude who just pulled a gun on the field and shot the opposing RB.  The system of rules and yellow flags and 15 yard penalties is not equipped to handle a LB who pulls a gun and shoots opposing players.  The only system that is equipped to handle that is a system of "meet lawlessness with lawlessness."  Which is, again, why much of our alarmist shouting has been at the fucking GQP voters who are CHOOSING this.  "Please don't choose this path, this is how it fucking ends, every fucking time!" has fallen on deaf ears.  We apparently are intent on fully FA, so we can fully FO.

    You and your Esso station fascination.    

     

    Hey, that would make a great band name...    Esso Station Fascination.    Can't decide if it should be an emo goth punk band or an edm dark wave rave DJ.

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  3. 55 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

    What's more American than using a stolen credit card to buy roller grill food from a truck stop at 3am?

     

    It could only have been more American if he'd gone back out to the parking lot to continue his job as a lot lizard like his mom.

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  4. 53 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    900,000 acres puts it as the #4 size wildfire by acres burned in U.S. history.  Am guessing it has a strong chance to pass #2, the 2020 August Complex fire in CA that burned 1,032,648 acres.  #1 is the 1825 Miramichi Fire that burned 3 million acres.

    I would never have guessed that the largest forest fire in North America was in northern New Brunswick almost 200 years ago.

  5. 1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Yup, looking like this will be the largest wildfire in this states history, by far

    So far.    

    I know quite a few people out in that area.  Most of them are in Amarillo proper but a few are north near Dumas and Borger.   All of them are spooked right now.  

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  6. I was all prepared to post the Darts scene for Ted Lasso but then "All the dreams, all the hopes for the national championship come down to this play" is, well, the best live call I've ever heard.   Keith Jackson is a TV God but Craig Way's radio call was something special.  

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