It's a real geopolitical problem for Russia. Russia got screwed by geography in terms of natural harbors that don't freeze over in the winter. It's why they've always had a crap navy, going way back into the imperial days.
Right now, the Russian Navy is based in Murmansk (brrrr. limited routes to get out into Atlantic) and the Black Sea. The Black Sea is bad for them because Turkey (a NATO member) makes sure to maintain total control of what passes through the Bosphorous.
Part of what Russia did in Syria during the civil war netted them a lease on a base on the Mediterranean. That could have had some use for power projection, but I think they lost it when a certain opthalmologist was expelled.
Anyhow, it's hilarious when the trolls posing as MAGA Americans bring this up, because real Americans just take their total abundance of ports that don't freeze over completely for granted. That's why I point out secondary, less busy port cities on the Gulf of Mexico, where the water is actually pretty warm (instead of just not freezing over). Just to highlight how good the US has it. Even if we were forced to give up Norfolk and Coronado, there are plenty of other suitable places we could have naval bases.
we have officially submitted upstream pull requests to the historical source repositories of Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III
Zork was originally developed for the PDP-10. It was split into titles I, II, and III for the home microcomputer market. I'd love to learn about just how many revision control systems this code has been through.
In semi related news, Greg Bovino, the El Paso sector chief turned tactical commander of Operation Midway Blitz, has personally been found to be a non-credible witness by a federal judge.
This is a finding of fact. It's presumptively admissable evidence in any future legal case he might testify in. On appeal, it can only be reversed for "clear error."
Yep. And remember folks, every secret service, FBI, DEA, or ATF agent out on the streets abducting brown people is one less agent working their regular counterfeiting, terrorism, public corruption, money laundering, drug trafficking, or weapons cases.
Each circuit is assigned to a justice who initially handles emergency motions from that circuit. Alito is assigned to the 5th circuit, which contains Texas. Jackson handled the recent SNAP funding case because she is assigned to the 1st circuit which contains Massachusetts.
So Alito's stay will be redecided by the full court. He set the response deadline on Monday, so it could be any time after that. It could be real fast or it could be a month.
Speaking on the merits of this application, it seems kind of rich to me to say that the court challenge is too close to the election, but it's not too close for the legislature to change the map like a month earlier.
I think it bears mentioning that the Coast Guard is the only military service branch organized under Dept. of Homeland Security, rather than Dept. of Defense.
TAL did a different episode along a similar line where two babies were accidentally switched around in the hospital nursery, so they were raised by the wrong families.
I'd like to conclude with a quote from Woody Guthrie:
There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me.
Sign was painted, said, "Private Property"
But on the back side, it didn't say nothing.
This land was made for you and me.
And just to be clear, Polaris is not actually the "North Star" all the time. North Stardom rotates around on a 26,000 year period, as the earth precesses. That's crazy lightning fast spinning on the time scales we're taking about.
Earlier in his Army career, Custer attended the Confederate surrender at Appomattox (as a Union officer). He decided to keep the white dish towel that Lee used as a flag of truce (aka the true last and final Confederate flag), as a souvenir. Custer's wife bequeathed that dish towel to the Smithsonian quite a bit later.
Back then, the point of the coins was to represent that they contained a certain weight of metal, without forcing people to weigh them out all the time.
In July 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a speech at Gettysburg to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle. 25 veterans from the original battle attended. They were filmed, on movie film, walking in the parade.
The gov is doing this thing with the signs because "trespassing" into the 100 ft.-wide "military base" is a much more serious crime than just crossing the border not at a port of entry.
The civilian chucklefucks they hired to put the signs up apparently failed to notice where they crossed the mouth of the river.
Each one of those bullet points is potentially a way for Comey to get his whole case thrown out. In addition to that, Comey has 4 other motions to dismiss pending right now, and they're pretty good arguments. At this point, Comey has so many different ways to win, that it is really hard to imagine that he won't win on one of them. (In which case he still has an entire trial to defend himself on).
The issue where there's no case law is a pretty narrow one, I think: The grand jury voted to approve the words of the charges (except that the charge numbers were different), but not the specific piece of paper that the words ended up typed out on. Is that important for the formal charging process or not? Either way this gets decided, it won't effect very many people, because any competent prosecutor will just re-run the new piece of paper past the jury to make sure. And it may not get decided at all if Comey's case is dismissed on any of the other reasons.
EDIT: If it's not true. If it turns out that the grand jury no-billed all three counts, then we'd be looking at a forged indictment. And that would be a serious crime.
It's a real geopolitical problem for Russia. Russia got screwed by geography in terms of natural harbors that don't freeze over in the winter. It's why they've always had a crap navy, going way back into the imperial days.
Right now, the Russian Navy is based in Murmansk (brrrr. limited routes to get out into Atlantic) and the Black Sea. The Black Sea is bad for them because Turkey (a NATO member) makes sure to maintain total control of what passes through the Bosphorous.
Part of what Russia did in Syria during the civil war netted them a lease on a base on the Mediterranean. That could have had some use for power projection, but I think they lost it when a certain opthalmologist was expelled.
Anyhow, it's hilarious when the trolls posing as MAGA Americans bring this up, because real Americans just take their total abundance of ports that don't freeze over completely for granted. That's why I point out secondary, less busy port cities on the Gulf of Mexico, where the water is actually pretty warm (instead of just not freezing over). Just to highlight how good the US has it. Even if we were forced to give up Norfolk and Coronado, there are plenty of other suitable places we could have naval bases.