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  1. We are apparently planing on going after more tankers.
     

    Earlier story from the WSJ 

    The move came just hours after Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado left the country on a boat, an escape that potentially gave the Trump administration an opening to take more aggressive action against the Maduro regime.

    “As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela—a large tanker, very large. The largest one ever seized, actually,” Trump said during an event at the White House on Wednesday afternoon.

    Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Coast Guard executed a seizure warrant for the tanker with support from the Defense Department. In a video she posted on social media, uniformed men can be seen fast-roping onto the ship from helicopters and entering the bridge with guns raised.

    “For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” Bondi wrote on social media. The vessel had been used to transport “sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran,” she said.

    A Pentagon official said the move was a warning to other tankers waiting to dock and load up Venezuelan crude. 

    Maritime tracking data shows around a dozen off the Venezuelan coast, but the official said others have their Automatic Identification System turned off to avoid detection.

    The U.S. has sanctions in place that prohibit companies from trading Venezuelan oil, though it has given exemptions to some companies, including Chevron, which this summer received a narrowed license to operate in the country. Trump has warned that he will level hefty tariffs on countries that buy oil from Caracas.

    Asked about the seizure at the White House, Trump joked that journalists should follow the tanker with a helicopter and said he assumed the U.S. would keep the oil. He also said that information about the ship’s owner would be forthcoming.

    Brokers in Singapore told The Wall Street Journal that a tanker called the Skipper was the vessel seized off Venezuela. The tanker, formerly called the Adisa, had been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for carrying Iranian crude

  2. 45 minutes ago, miguelito said:

    I know a guy that enjoyed their show in Bandera a while back.  Unless that was a different central Texas midget wrestling outfit.  

    Were they nude?

  3. 1 hour ago, Vertuzzi said:

    Is there a more annoying cunt than attention whore Candace Owens? At this point she’s accused about half of the world of conspiring to kill CK. Just another mouth-breathing moron throwing more shit into the void that is social media. 

    These are the same people that were claiming Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks were trafficking young kids for their fluids so that they could stay young even though Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks both look like they’re in their 70s and 60s. They are not the brightest people.  

    They would’ve been better off picking Paul Rudd as their poster boy for not aging  

     

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  4. 14 hours ago, bluto said:

    Is that trump or Lou holtz

    I’m enjoying seeing him decline both at his rally and in his social media posts.  The fact that he’s telling all of us that for some reason he’s having to take cognitive tests with rooms full of doctors is awesome.  It’s gonna be fun to see how MAGA handles his decline.

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  5. Ughh..only 55. Knew this was coming, my wife liked her books.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2025/12/10/sophie-kinsella-dead-confessions-of-a-shopaholic-author/74013655007/

    Sophie Kinsella, the USA TODAY bestselling English rom-com author of the "Shopaholic" series, has died. She was 55.

    Kinsella's family announced her death in a post to Instagram Dec. 10: "We are heartbroken to announce the passing this morning of our beloved Sophie (aka Maddy, aka Mummy). She died peacefully, with her final days filled with her true loves: family and music and warmth and Christmas and joy

    …..

    Kinsella announced in April 2024 that she had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, a form of aggressive brain cancer, at the end of 2022. She said she had undergone a "successful" surgery and continued to receive radiotherapy and chemotherapy at the University College Hospital in London.

  6. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    That was the only thing I actually thought was a cool addition to the series. 

    It’s clear the series didn’t have the budget to do a space epic right and so it turned into a lot of characters talking to each other. The books are OK for long plane rides. 

    Getting Lee Pace was the best thing they did.  

    I’m still shocked that we got as many seasons as we did,

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  7. 11 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

    I started reading The Godfather and it matches quite a bit, including multiple lines transferred directly to the script. Naturally since Puzo worked on both.

    Although in many areas the book dialogue is really clumsy and feels very inauthentic and lacking truth and natural speech.

    There's much more Johnny Fontane, including being all of "Book 2", which at least so far I'm glad the movie excised. Maybe it ties back in further along.

    Still going, but my take so far is the movie elevated this work considerably.

    7 hours ago, Superhero said:

    It’s been a long time, but agree that Godfather the movie matched the book 100% until it didn’t. I don’t remember the exact scene, but I consciously thought it deviated from the book. The fantastic movie eventually went back to the fantastic book. God reminder!

    I hope you all watched The Offer on Paramount, about making The Godfather.

     

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  8. 1 hour ago, kevwun said:

    Healthy people definitely have to take cognitive tests every week.  That's totally normal.  Nothing to see here at all.  

    He won't be able to speak in public by the end of this term.

    He’s fucking terrified of The NY Times for some reason.  Really terrified.  He’s trying to get somebody to do something about them.

    Wonder what they know and if they’ll wait to share it until he’s out of office.  

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  9. 19 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    A question that may become relevant in the next three years, if things keep progressing this way: Is Surly considered social media? 

    Yes.  Along with Reddit, YouTube, etc.

  10. 21 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Good job, Trump voters. You stupid fucks. You fucking selfish idiots. Fuck you. 

    Even if the administration doesn't pull this off, they are trying to destroy everything. 

    Going to kill off a lot of tourism, hurt the airlines, hurt all kinds of businesses.

    leonardo dicaprio bravo GIF

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  11. 4 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

    pretty forward CG and perhaps a payload too heavy for the engine as well.

    Probably.  The center of gravity did seem a little off, and the arming mechanism was non-existent based on my recollections as a kid launching balsa wood airplanes with lit pop bottle rockets attached to the wings.  And the result was fairly close to mine, only I yelled “fuck” in English.

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  12. Go after the Catholics Ole Donnie Boy

    I Dare You Do It GIF
     

    Pope Leo XIV: “I haven’t read the whole thing. I think, unfortunately, some parts of it that I have seen make a huge change in what was for many, many years a true alliance between Europe and the United States. The remarks that were made about Europe also in interviews recently, I think, are trying to break apart what I think needs to be a very important alliance today and in the future.“

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