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@CFBHome @FreddyLA7 @JJWatt Bold of you to assume we're letting him leave.

@FreddyLA7 @JJWatt Freddy leaving America be like

Our room for the coming days in Houston. I don’t even know what to say about this. This is just unreal. No words. Huge huge thank you to JJ Watt for giving me and my friends the opportunity to stay at a place like this🙏🙏🙏

@Anglian_Reed @GrayConnolly @BradWilcoxIFS My nephew does travel baseball at the junior high level, and I don't wanna think what my sister spends.

@GrayConnolly @BradWilcoxIFS Someone mentioned this article to me recently. I've no idea how correct the claim is though. unherd.com/2026/06/why-th…

The World Cup is spotlighting the global appeal of soccer but, here in 🇺🇸, kids' soccer is ticking down, probably as a consequence of: ✔️ Cost of play ✔️ Digital revolution

@BravoTwoKilo @Jason_Jorjani @arash_expat The formatting looks good at first glance....

@Jason_Jorjani @arash_expat yeah like the Marine Corps would just write that all up for a Memorandum. In 2021.

They lied about the wet market bat soup. They lied about masks, to stage a humiliation ritual. They lied about Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. Worst of all, they lied about the mRNA vaccines forced on kids. This is the same government that lied about Paperclip, Roswell, UFOs, the abduction and implantation of your children, MKUltra, the Kennedy Assassinations, the MLK Assassination, the Apollo program, Vietnam atrocities, Agent Orange, COINTELPRO, CIA drug trafficking, the 9/11 false flag, two unnecessary wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (which facilitated the rise of ISIS and strengthened the Taliban), and is also lying about why a deal is being made with the most anti-American Islamic tyranny in the world that just genocidally massacred the most pro-American population on the planet and is now trying to sell the hair of the tens of thousands of Iranian women who were raped, tortured, mutilated, and killed. It’s enough already. At this point, overthrow of the United States Government is LEGALLY justified, and called for, under the American Declaration of Independence. If you still don’t see that, you’re a SLAVE who belongs in CHAINS. You’re not even human anyway, just an NPC. You might as well be a useful battery, since you’re aiding and abetting a tyranny that is oppressing free spirits.

@SandyofCthulhu Now to be fair, I went in the kitchen and took a match to a spoonful of the extra virgin just to be sure.

@SandyofCthulhu I had to tell a guy today that I was editing that he couldn't do an arson in Roman Sicily with olive oil.

Dumb uses of fire in D&D Number One: using oil flasks as molotov cocktails is idiotic. Glass bottles were super-expensive. Oil would be kept in leather pouches or possibly clay pots, and no one's carrying clay pots into battle. Also the oil you had would be tallow, lard, or olive oil. Not gasoline. Whale oil in Scandinavia. Possibly hemp in Asia. An olive oil fire isn't a rating conflagration. If you need to fry a bad guy, cast your damn fireball 1/4

@JohnLeidorf @HelmerVA I had to find a place for a lady friend of mine that would do Tiffany blue cerakote.

@WiseguyThreeOne @HelmerVA A pink one?

As a gun owner and Army veteran, I know military-style weapons don't belong in our communities. That's why I spent the last seven years fighting to pass Virginia's Assault Weapons Ban. This law will save lives and make our families and communities safer.

@yawratebeepbeep @ThunderCrate6 And something cheap we can train Third World partner forces on.

@ThunderCrate6 It has a different mission than the A-10. It’s an ISR asset, not a light attack platform

I think they named the OA-1K the skyraider II in order to get Hog bubbas on-board. Didn't work. In fact, I like it less now. I'd call it the Grasshopper... or even Locust if you wanted to make it sound better. About 10 years ago, I did an informal study on light attack and compared four platforms: the OV-10X, A-29B, AT-6, and this thing. What became the OA-1K was, in my opinion, the last place option. So it makes perfect sense that Big Blue picked it number one. Look, I know that great Americans will do great things with this thing because that's what we do. But it's no Hog, and it's certainly no Skyraider. follow @WonBier for more!

@RoyDeaconQualls Awesome story.

I've often looked forward to an upcoming sortie with great anticipation. This wasn't one of those times. To understand why, a little background is required. When my youngest daughter was ten weeks old, I deployed to Iceland. Because my "I'm in crew rest" argument had failed to gain traction with my nursing wife, I arrived in Keflavik a wee bit behind the power curve. After several nights of near hibernation, I was feeling refreshed and volunteered to lead a four-ship sortie the next day—a bit prematurely as it turned out. During mission planning, I discovered the forecast was rock solid—in a bad way. A frontal passage would blanket our airspace in thick clouds from the surface to 50,000 feet. Fighter pilots call these missions "Pigs in Space.” They’re a great proof of concept for the capability of the Eagle’s APG-63 radar. Everything else about them sucks. No visual maneuvering. No dogfighting. No scenery. Just staring at a scope while wearing a poopy suit over water so cold some pilots didn't bother arming their ejection seats until they reached land. I studied the weather map and searched for an escape. Nothing. The operations officer walked by and I nodded at the forecast. I took a shot. “Hey, the weather tomorrow looks—” "Don't bother. You're flying." “But a front is—” "We need the hours." I sighed. "Pigs in space it is." "Don't forget the tanker,” he said. “He's got six thousand pounds apiece to offload." Perfect--Pigs in space AND refueling in the soup. Who did I piss off? “Sir?” It was our token lieutenant, so new he didn't even have a callsign yet. “What is it, FNG?” "I was looking at tomorrow's weather.” “So you know it sucks.” “I just realized that the tanker—” “Look, I know you had some issues on the boom last time.” I waved my hand dismissively. “You’ll get the hang of it. Not to worry.” “It’s not that. I mean, I was just looking—“ A slightly bedraggled major that smelled faintly of rum from the previous night’s festivities pushed open the door. “I hear we’re doing pigs in space tomorrow.” “Looks that way.” I nodded toward our weather guy. “Little Miss Sunshine says we’ll be socked in all day.” He groaned as he sank into a chair. The LT spoke up again. ”We could go to Greenland.” The room got quiet. I turned to the newbie. “What?” “After frontal passage, Greenland will be clear." I stared at him. “It's four hundred miles away.” "We've got a tanker." "The tanker track is in the wrong place." "Then move the tanker." The room got even quieter. The lieutenant kept going. "We could top off, climb to 45 thousand, then descend right into a fjord.” I looked at the map. Then at the lieutenant. “We’d have plenty of fuel for …” He thought for a moment. “… a two or three hundred mile low-level right up the coast.” I looked at the map again. The annoying thing was... ...he was right. The next morning the tanker agreed to the plan. A few hours later, four F-15s were cruising toward Greenland at 45,000 feet. We descended through high clouds and suddenly the world changed. Greenland was clear and a million. We entered a fjord at 500 feet and 500 knots in line-abreast formation. It was 2004, and my cutting-edge digital camera produced video with all the resolution of a witness-protection photo. I filmed anyway. Icebergs floated below us. Cliffs rose thousands of feet above us. Ancient glaciers spilled into the water. Several times we watched enormous chunks of ice break free and crash into the sea. By this point, FNG's stock was rising rapidly. We turned north and followed Greenland's eastern coastline for nearly two hundred miles. Nobody said much on the radio. There wasn't much to say. Mile after mile of scenery that looked untouched by human beings—so spectacular it was almost distracting. Eventually we climbed back to 45,000 feet and pointed toward Iceland—where the weather was exactly as advertised. We shot approaches down to minimums and landed without incident. That night we sat in the squadron bar—the Whiff—sipping on adult beverages and reliving the flight. It had started as the sortie nobody wanted. It ended as one of the grandest flights of my career. And it happened because a lieutenant nobody was listening to had the courage to raise his hand and say: "We could go to Greenland.”

@1911homestead @terryschappert Dude, if I'm the most famous, that's saying something, because I'm about J-list in a GOOD month. monsterhunternation.com/2014/07/24/the…

@WiseguyThreeOne @terryschappert He was a good one. If it makes you feel any better you’re the most famous writer to follow me back.

This is a really good articulation about why combat has such an appeal for guys like us. Read what he writes. So accurate. After being out for four and a half years, I came back in the month after after 9/11 for another 16 years in the National Guard Special Forces. When I got home after my first roll downrange in the GWOT, my parents were there to greet us when we landed in the US. My Mom looked at me and said, "I haven't seen you this happy in a long time." I remember looking her right in the eye and saying, "I'm back with my Tribe, Mom." She just nodded.

@DerkPerscert @Ole_Memes @FreddyLA7 Welcome to the devaluation of the US dollar.

@Ole_Memes @WiseguyThreeOne @FreddyLA7 They cut the tender size basically in half, that’s when I knew they were fucked

What if I told you there are gas stations in Mississippi with better chicken than Cane’s @FreddyLA7

@RoyDeaconQualls @R3_Cubed Which is extremely Russian.

Compare Belenko’s story to this book about Alexander Zuyev’s defection. Fulcrum: A Top Gun Pilot’s Escape from the Soviet Empire. Pretty sure they were both at the Reno Air Races in 1994. I was there with the F15 Demo Team as narrator. I bought a bottle of MiG Pilot Vodka from one of them. Word is they hated each other.

I remember reading about a Russian pilot who flew a MIG to Japan and defected to the US. He wasn't impressed by our buildings, monuments, or cars... but when the agent escorting him around D.C. made a quick stop for his wife at a grocery store, the pilot broke down and cried.

@DiehlsaSteph @almostheavenBC @FreddyLA7 Jerry's in Prince Frederick. I know it, but I've never actually eaten there. Now try the cream of crab at Angler's in Solomons and see what you think. Dad likes it better than the Lighthouse. More seasoning.

@WiseguyThreeOne @almostheavenBC @FreddyLA7 That is good…but not as good as the cream of crab at Jerry’s—which is about 15 miles north of Solomon’s Island. Right area—but wrong top puck. The crab cakes at Jerry’s are mind blowing awesome.

This is so insane😭😭😭

@Ole_Memes @FreddyLA7 There was a group shot of the marching band on the wall in there that I was in. Went back in in '10, twelve years after I finished, and it was still up.

@WiseguyThreeOne @FreddyLA7 RIP Abner’s one of the greats

@AngryBDG @groundhopper_fc Demand for formerly regional delicacies has driven up skirt steak and brisket prices.

@WiseguyThreeOne @groundhopper_fc Was the cheapest cut of steak, followed by flank - which is insanely expensive now. I use skirt steak to make carne asada and that's crazy too, now.

I went for the “ Flat Iron “ 10OZ steak for 20$. It literally said on the menu “ Cowboys choice” so I had to… and yeah- best steak I have ever had🤣 Thanks guys, I love it so far ❤️🇺🇸

@BackwoodsEnginr @CyberdyneC @SandyofCthulhu @monsterhunter45 @MorlockP And I suck at putting Twitter IDs to people- ask @swamp

@BackwoodsEnginr @CyberdyneC @SandyofCthulhu @monsterhunter45 @MorlockP Dude, you could have come. Get there earlier this next time.

I read a story in which the author, whose hero was Texas, mentioned someone taking a "slice" of Frito pie, and thus exposed himself as a poseur. In a different story, by a different author, the hero went to Waffle House and bought a Belgian waffle - making it clear he had never in fact visited a Waffle House. In the Walking Dead, they go from Florida to South Carolina and can't find a single firearm in any house. "Huh" I thought. "The screenwriters are from Los Angeles." What examples can you give of a writer unintentionally giving away his lack of knowledge?

@DiehlsaSteph @almostheavenBC @FreddyLA7 Lighthouse Inn in Solomons is on the list, partly because the cream of crab soup prelude sets the tone.

@almostheavenBC @FreddyLA7 No..haven’t been so no disrespect to Jimmy’s—my place, ironically enough, is called Jerry’s. 😂

@Schwalm5132 @largacty3 "Underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower." Add underfed to that list.

The absolute madlad who invented the cheese and onion roll: "Right, I want a big cold lump of warm milk that’s gone solid, a couple of raw onion slices so thick they could be used as weapons, and I want my breath to smell like a Victorian sewer for the next 14 hours. Oh, and shove it all in some bread. No toasting. No mercy. Serve it behind the bar next to the pickled eggs." And somehow it became a national treasure. Britain, never change.

The American mind cannot comprehend the pub cheese and onion roll