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"Trump Says Troops Won’t Have to Pay Back Deferred Payroll Taxes -- If He Wins": "President Donald Trump pledged that service members and Defense Department civilians won't have to pay back the extra money that will be in their paychecks through the end of the year under the payroll tax deferral plan -- if he wins re-election in November." "In a Twitter post Thursday night, Trump wrote, "When we win I, as your President, will totally forgive ALL deferred payroll taxes with money from the General Fund." https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/09/11/trump-says-troops-wont-have-pay-back-deferred-payroll-taxes-if-he-wins.html

IMHO, Soleimani should've been targeted/killed long before the current POTUS ever took office. Also, I place most of the blame for these endless wars squarely on "Congress". When and under what authorization did we get stuck "Again" in the middle of this Iraqi/Syrian - Sunni/Shia/Kurd/Tribal/etc/etc endless Civil War? - When (Round 3/4?) = Operation Inherent Resolve (start date - 2014/end date - TBD). - Authorization - 2002 AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq).

Here's a list of "NEW" wars/conflicts the US has been involved in since the mid 1970's. President Ford was the last President to not get the US involved in a new war/conflict. POTUS Scorecard for getting the US involved in "NEW" wars/conflicts (I only covered the new war/conflict start dates not the war/conflict end dates). The timeframe covered is from President Ford to President Trump; - President Ford = He got the US involved in "Zero" New Wars/Conflicts during his term in office. President Carter = He got the US involved in "Two" New Wars/Conflicts (One Minor League Conflict and One Doozy with lots of blowback) during his term in office. - President Reagan = He got the US involved in "Seven" New Wars/Conflicts during his term in office. - President HW Bush = He got the US involved in "Five" New Wars/Conflicts during his term in office. - President Clinton = He got the US involved in "Three" New Wars/Conflicts during his term in office. - President GW Bush = He got the US involved in "Five" New Wars/Conflicts during his term in office. - President Obama = He got the US involved in "Seven" New Wars/Conflicts during his term in office. - President Trump = So far he has gotten the US involved in "Zero" New Wars/Conflicts during his term in office.

Here's a snapshot on how Michigan is tabulating the states total monthly deaths by select medical/health related causes. This chart also includes all COVID classified deaths since March 2020. I'm not sure how the other 49 states collect and publish this type data but for simple minded folks like me it's easy to see that COVID is probably the main reason there's been a spike in the Michigan death count since March 2020. "Number of Deaths by Select Causes of Death by Month, Michigan Occurences": https://www.mdch.state.mi.us/osr/Provisional/MontlyDxCounts.asp Year of Death Month of Death Number of Deaths Total Cancer Heart Disease COPD Stroke Pneumonia & Flu Septicemia COVID-19 2019 January 8,490 798 2,274 486 443 176 107 – 2019 February 7,712 665 2,064 452 386 144 93 – 2019 March 8,582 777 2,230 522 479 197 88 – 2019 April 7,987 719 1,984 510 422 203 117 – 2019 May 8,164 795 2,090 486 422 140 78 – 2019 June 7,711 729 1,971 468 374 116 90 – 2019 July 7,994 836 2,002 456 413 109 93 – 2019 August 7,811 797 1,948 431 403 89 93 – 2019 September 7,734 770 1,884 444 406 109 87 – 2019 October 8,292 862 2,112 472 446 100 86 – 2019 November 8,395 729 2,196 462 424 122 106 – 2019 December 8,777 861 2,394 512 474 136 96 – 2020 January 8,932 857 2,224 607 512 181 116 – 2020 February 8,227 708 2,148 497 478 229 111 – 2020 March 9,635 807 2,386 578 495 300 126 461 2020 April 13,031 753 2,535 544 505 254 125 3,197 2020 May 9,284 750 2,024 404 473 132 87 1,152 2020 June 8,163 773 1,883 381 429 90 89 249 2020 July 8,221 757 1,876 410 400 70 110 132 2020 August 2,472 86 243 62 67 9 11 42

This seems like a move from the original Tuskegee Airmen recruitment playbook: IMHO, the folks that came up with this idea need to attend this new USAF Microaggressions Course; https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/08/26/conversation-about-race-air-force-warns-troops-avoid-microaggressions.html

The initial speed of shock waves (I believe shock waves slow down over time/distance traveled) generated by explosives is complicated and somewhat based on the detonation velocity of the particular explosive involved (way to complicated for my old ass to remember/figure out). Here's a couple examples (relative effectiveness is based on a TNT equivalent = 1.0): - Ammonia Nitrate (fert grade), detonation velocity 2,700 m/s, relative effectiveness .42; - ANFO (explosive grade), detonation velocity 5,270 m/s, relative effectiveness .74; - TNT, detonation velocity 6,900 m/s, relative effectiveness 1.0; - C-4, detonation velocity 8,040 m/s, relative effectiveness 1.37; Some basics; If you're a good distance away from a large detonation but still within the hazard zone/footprint - typically the first thing to hit your location will be earth shock, followed shortly by the shock wave/boom - plus some frag. If you're really close to ground zero, everything happens so fast you won't remember what hit you first.

"US seizes four vessels loaded with Iranian fuel": - "U.S. officials reportedly seized four tankers loaded with Iranian fuel and are transporting them to port in Houston." - "A U.S. official confirmed the seizure of the four vessels, dubbed the Bering, Bella, Luna and Pandi, in a statement to the Wall Street Journal, and explained further that the craft were seized without the use of military force. It wasn't immediately clear where the seizures occurred or which U.S. agencies were involved." https://thehill.com/policy/defense/511963-us-seizes-four-vessels-loaded-with-iranian-fuel

No worries, the Secret Services has obviously upped their cock-blocking game since the mid/late 90's:<)

Here's what caused this massive explosion (about 2,500 heavy duty sacks full of AN):

This may be somewhat true for any smaller building located directly behind the grain elevator/concrete wall (within 20 ft or so) but even when that close the protected building will take a healthy pressure punch on it's roof and its side if the building is located near the corner of the protective wall. The best way to mitigate the blast effects during the positive pressure phase of a detonation is "distance". When the positive pressure wave hit the exposed grain elevator it went into the reflective pressure mode (the blast pressure went way up/this is particularly true when the wave hits a solid structure that's at a 90% angle to the approaching shock wave). This increased pressure wave (reflective pressure phase) will either cause the structure to fail and the pressure way will continue to move on down range or the pressure wave will go tightly over/around any still standing facility/obstacle and continue on its way, getting weaker as it goes outward from ground zero.

A few quick observation from this before/after photo: - Two ships are MIA (not sure if these MIA ships were actually pier-side when the explosion occurred?). - That large grain elevator is one tough structure/we might learn something on how to design our facilities that are located in LVIED hot spots around the world - maybe a new facility design for US Embassies:<) - Also, this incident could be a great opportunity to do a massive TBI study - while simultaneously providing medical/other assistance - TBD. - ?

I just watched the videos of the blast and the bigly reddish/orange cloud; Some commercial/mining explosives (particularly Ammonia Nitrate) produce nitrogen dioxide (NO2) when detonation occurs. This typically results in a reddish or orange cloud when mass amounts of Ammonia Nitrate are detonated (large surface detonation). There's also some commercial chemicals that when in involved in a fire/explosion produce NO2 and the same cloud colors (red/orange).

At $1,200 each - that's 3,333,333.33 dead potential voters.

Here's a couple Constitutional circle jerks/cures that could come into play during this 2020 election goat rope:<) - Contingent election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_election - Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution - Twentieth Amendment:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Rumor is one of them 3 wheels is flat (front wheel?). Possible blowout during landing?

Update/this sucks in so many ways: "Police Seize Gun From St. Louis Couple Threatened By Mob" "Police seized the rifle seen in footage of the central west end duo, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, both personal injury attorneys. The couple told police that the pistol brandished by Mrs. McCloskey was in their lawyer’s possession."

A few tidbits are starting to make the news (Take with a grain of salt): - "Shortly after his arrest, SSgt Carrillo may have revealed a motive for the attack. During his arrest, Steven Carrillo shouted at officers, "This is what I came here to fight. I'm sick of these goddamn police." He gets garbled, but then mentions police "use of force". Carrillo yelled, "Listen!" - "Carrillo's Facebook page has been taken down but his profile picture that lists him as Libertarian, and his friends have been sending me screenshots from the past month. It's clear Carrillo was growing increasingly upset about police excessive force. June 5th, he wrote, "Who need antifa to start riots when you have the police to do it for you..." - "On his Facebook page on May 31, Carrillo reposted a meme that said, "I'll never let racist white people make me forget about the dope white people I know exist. I love y'all." The post includes fist emojis of different skin tones, and both of the "whites" in the meme were crossed out. Carrillo wrote, "The only race that matters, the human race." - "Carrillo was also having a hard time with his wife's suicide in 2018. She was an Air Force Airman 1st Class, found dead in an off-base hotel in South Carolina."

That's what it looks like^^^(If this is the video?): "Light 'em up!" Tanya Kerssen video: National Guard, Minneapolis Police Department porch shooting"

"One Man Shot Dead As Police and National Guard Open Fire During Louisville Protests" https://time.com/5845972/man-shot-louisville-protests/

Shooting suspect identified as - "Adam Salim Alsahli". "UPDATED: FBI Says NAS Corpus Christi Gun Battle is ‘Terrorism Related’, 2nd Person of Interest at Large" https://news.usni.org/2020/05/21/shooting-at-nas-corpus-christi-security-force-member-injured-shooter-neutralized

Also, the same Judge that did the following back in 2009/IAW AG Eric Holders Holders orders (long); Executive Summary The investigation and prosecution of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens were permeated by the systematic concealment of significant exculpatory evidence which would have independently corroborated Senator Stevens’s defense and his testimony, and seriously damaged the testimony and credibility of the government’s key witness. Months after the trial, when a new team of prosecutors discovered, in short order, some of the exculpatory information that had been withheld, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) moved to set aside the verdict and to dismiss the indictment with prejudice. New prosecutors were assigned after U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan held two of the previous prosecutors in contempt for failing to comply with the Court’s order to disclose information to Senator Stevens’s attorneys and to the Court regarding allegations of prosecutorial misconduct which were made after trial by an FBI agent who had worked on the case. Judge Sullivan granted the government’s motion and dismissed the indictment with prejudice on April 7, 2009, finding that “There was never a judgment of conviction in this case. The jury’s verdict is being set aside and has no legal effect.” On the same day, Judge Sullivan appointed Henry F. Schuelke III, the undersigned, “to investigate and prosecute such criminal contempt proceedings as may be appropriate” against the six prosecutors who conducted the investigation and trial of Senator Stevens. The investigation lasted two years and required the examination and analysis of well over 128,000 pages of documents, including the trial record, prosecutors’ and agents’ emails, FBI 302s and handwritten notes, and depositions of prosecutors, agents and others involved in the investigation and trial. https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/325801/court-report-on-stevens-ethics-case.pdf

I'll avoid the naked guy fights.

This article covers the health issues of the Kim dynasty (25 April/5:37 PM EDT): - "Kim Jong Un weighs about as much as the average-size sumo wrestler, smokes like a chimney and comes from a family with a history of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes." - "North Korea’s dictator, believed to be 36, tips the scales at just about 300 pounds but stands only 5 feet, 6 inches. And he is a chain smoker, puffing on four packs of coffin sticks a day." - "The blubber comes from Kim’s love of cheese and wine, Newsweek reported a few years ago. He once had to take a breather from public life after he gobbled too much Emmental cheese that he had ordered from Switzerland. Six years ago, his booze budget topped $30 million, according to a UN report." - "Kim Jong Il dispatched dozens of scientists to create aphrodisiacs for himself. He had a harem of young girlfriends and was a heavy drinker and loved processed food. During Kim Jong II’s 17 years in power, North Korea was often the world’s largest purchaser of Hennessy Paradis cognac." - Etc, etc, etc. https://nypost.com/2020/04/25/kim-jong-un-has-a-long-family-history-of-heart-disease-diabetes/

Last round - history lesson on this Nork heir stuff: "Re-Engaging North Korea After Kim Jong-il’s Death: Last, Best Hope or Dialogue to Nowhere?" https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/0111_north_korea_revere.pdf

Little "fat ass" rocket man most likely has a few underlying health conditions, particular his heart. I wouldn't be surprised that his death (if he really is dead?) was via heart attack/failure, both his his daddy and grandfather officially died from a heart attack.