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Excellent group OUC! Thanks!

Agree completely with that rainman!!

Spock is missing the nose ring, half purple hair, and face tattoo.

I've been yelled at before by women, but it was always the upper orifice that did the yelling. I think if the lower one started yelling at me, I'd get dressed and get the hell out of Dodge.

LOVE the Star Trek! Link Dino, loved the original series. Did not like the Next Gen as well since the changed the iconic "where no Man has gone before"

An excellent collection - Bones with his pick up line was special, and Ryker with his sweater....

Thanks for the posting!!

Great collection, Dobrien, thank you! Amusing and true messaging, LOL! I think Comy got that right, proving even a blind squirrel can get a nut now and then (yeah, I know it's just a meme, but it's funny). Pelosi's night raid getting caught, LMAO. I agree with Dino - push 'em in!

lol. too many are great to pick one

ALL AWESOME, OUC!!! ROTFLMAO!!! "Damn It Gym" and "Frank Einstein" really hit it. Yeah, you're probably correct about woke Spock - I figure he's gay, too. "Sweater" - what is there to say? LOL

Thanks again, OUC, for a great start for my day!

You got that RIGHT !

“Many things breaking all at once” that my friend describes a controlled demolition. That is exactly what Trump is an expert at.
Precarious for the Deep State leaches. USAid and their money laundering cut off , Maduro and Iran Deep state terror proxy countries Gone………….
Iran has informed the U.S. that, despite troublemaking Fake News reporting to the contrary, there are “NO TOLLS, NO INSURANCE COSTS, & NO OTHER CHARGES OF ANY KIND BEING SOUGHT OR RECEIVED BY IRAN ON SHIPS TRAVELING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.” If this is false information, negotiations would end, immediately! Additionally, no money has been given to Iran, or released from their money to them, by the U.S. We will be releasing some of their money, that is totally controlled by us, to our Farmers and Ranchers, for the purchase of Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, and more. Food is desperately needed in Iran, and we will be purchasing it for them exclusively from the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Extremely infected with TDS.

Recently had a bad experience with some vehicular mechanic. My accelerator later jammed. It's worrying to think of the number of people in our world who are, at times, lethally incompetent.

Me dino woulda been tempted to push those algae lovers in.

Me dino became very familiar with the original Star Trek cast for watching my favorite TV show during the Sixties.
That's why I found Bones and Jim in front of the "DAMN IT GYM" to be particularly funny.
Too bad it led a second row fulla moaners and groaners.

Been collecting these for a while now.

Yep. 👍

I understand that slightly different then you, I heard that Venezuela and Middle Est oil are similar enough to be processed at current facilities. Its our light crude from shale that require a retooling of the processing facilities. AI answer:

You're actually onto something real here, but the picture is more nuanced than a simple equivalence. Here's how it actually breaks down:
You're right about U.S. shale vs. heavy crude
Before the shale boom, U.S. refiners were designed to process heavy, lower-value crude from Canada, Venezuela, and the Middle East. They underwent over a decade of modifications to run more U.S. light-sweet shale grades. So your intuition is correct — it's actually the American shale crude that's the odd one out in the current refinery landscape. Bloomberg
But Venezuela ≠ Middle East crude — they're both "heavy sour" but not identical
This is where your premise needs a small correction. While both are classified as heavy sour, Arabian Gulf crudes are easier to run, require less blending, and offer more predictable yields. U.S. refiners can process Venezuelan crude, but often only within narrow operating windows and with higher costs. Arab News
Venezuelan crude is actually heavier and dirtier than most Middle Eastern grades. Merey crude from Venezuela's Orinoco Belt has among the lowest API gravity and highest sulfur content globally, requiring specialized refinery units to break down the heaviest molecules and remove impurities. Less than half of U.S. refineries have a coker. OilPrice.com
The strategic logic still holds, though
U.S. refinery capacity is designed to process heavy crude oils like Canadian or Venezuelan crude. The refineries that can handle Venezuelan oil — particularly Valero, Exxon, Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, and PBF Energy, which have the most coking capacity — are the same ones built to handle Middle Eastern heavy sour grades. So Venezuelan crude competes with and can substitute for Middle Eastern oil in many facilities, even if it's not a perfect drop-in replacement. Visual CapitalistBloomberg
The real bottleneck
The limitation isn't refinery compatibility — it's Venezuelan production capacity itself. Venezuelan crude exports have typically fluctuated between 700,000 and 900,000 barrels per day when flows are relatively stable. At this scale, Venezuelan crude cannot replace Arabian Gulf supply — even if every Venezuelan barrel were redirected to the U.S., it would only supplement U.S. heavy sour intake rather than replace it. Arab News
And of course, last night's earthquakes hit a country whose pipeline network had not been updated in 50 years, with PDVSA estimating it would take $58 billion to get pipelines back to peak condition — before any earthquake damage is factored in. OilPrice.com
So the short version: your instinct about refinery compatibility is largely correct — the heavy sour infrastructure is the common thread between Venezuelan and Middle Eastern crude, and U.S. light shale is actually the disruptor. But Venezuela is more of a supplement to Middle Eastern supply than a true replacement, and the earthquakes have just made even that supplement harder to realize.

Iran is more desperate to sell oil and move it out through Hormuz.
Compared to WW2, this is nothing.
Venezuela's "oil" is not similar to the Mideast oil.
It's extremely heavy oil.
It is more difficult (expensive) to get and must be refined in very different facilities.
It was not thought to be a reliable resource in the short term by those who understand it.
Lots to be done to reassure the oil companies that investment in Venezuela is worthwhile.

Precarious times, I see many things all breaking at once….

I like this post by Dob.
Now I do not have any inside sources, I rely on the usual media, exclude NYT, BBC and such of course, but Dob's descriptions rings true.

Statements from Trump need interpretation. But stand back and it appears he knows what he is doing.
Statements from IRGC or the Iran government appear scattered, as if they neither know what they are doing nor what is happening.
"deeply corrupt". Yes, some/many of them. We read about the antics of family members in LA, the Riviera and other flesh-pots. We see behavior indicating much money but no culture, no responsibilities, no shame.

There was a time when I had a number of friends and acquaintances from Iran, all were decent and cultured. Perhaps Trump can end this 50-year long nightmare for the good people of Iran, as well as end the threats.

The real game playing out is something else entirely, and people should be looking elsewhere to understand what’s truly happening.
Few days ago, one faction of the regime’s gangsters has been faking letters supposedly from Mojtaba Khamenei to claim that negotiations with the US were personally approved by him.
Others quickly learned the trick and started playing the same game. Today, one of the rivals claimed they have access to Mojtaba’s confidential letters with the current negotiating team. It turned into a full-blown public shitshow.
Honestly, it was both ridiculous and entertaining. The pigs are turning on each other. Let me lay out the full picture for you. Khamenei, to coup-proof his rule, massively empowered the IRGC and turned it into a powerful state-within-a-state. But then he became afraid of his own creation, so he deliberately prevented power from concentrating in any single hand and allowed different competing cartels to form inside the IRGC.
Most of the top figures in these cartels are deeply corrupt, ideology is just a facade for them. At the same time, he personally cultivated a loyal base from the poorest and most broken layers of society: fanatical, powerless people who were extremely loyal to him personally and would attack anyone on his command like rabid dogs. After his death, the IRGC clearly took full control of the country, but they are far from united.
They’re now openly fighting each other for the real seat of power.
Trump, with his deal-making style and the huge carrot of money, especially after the naval blockade pushed them into real poverty and begging, has brilliantly pushed these corrupt elements forward. This has created open clashes with the more ideological factions.
One of these hardliner cartels belongs to Saeed Jalili and includes figures like the cleric Mahmoud Nabavian, a sitting MP.
Today, Nabavian went on state TV and announced he wanted to reveal Mojtaba Khamenei’s confidential letters criticizing the negotiating team and the current deal. He started reading them live, but they cut him off mid-sentence. The network later called it a serious violation, announced legal action, and even one of the directors resigned and was rebuked.
This was their last desperate attempt to stop the negotiating team from reaching Geneva. But it failed. Just hours later, the other side, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and his crew, still made it to Geneva.
A few days ago, they even put the approval of this Memorandum of Understanding to a vote in the Supreme National Security Council. Everyone approved it except one person, and many believe that lone dissenter was Saeed Jalili, from the same cartel as Nabavian.
Meanwhile, another IRGC cartel, Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, tried to sabotage the surrenderist negotiators’ trip to Geneva by claiming they had closed the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM immediately clapped back and said the Strait is wide open (and ships are moving freely).
Perfect own-goal. Trump knows exactly what he’s doing. He understands these animals better than anyone. He’s weakening the regime from within, without firing a single shot. Just as he predicted, as soon as the corrupt ones smelled real money, they sold out the entire regime and its ideology without hesitation. Let the man cook, trust the process.

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An excellent post. It helps keep things clear in mind, instead of just counting on the clips gotten from media.

Thanks -

No offense to you. Yes the midterms are the focus. The only way to remove the corrupt judges is for congress to impeach them. Voter ID,Paper ballots, same day hand counted, no mail in votes. Save America!!!

Both articles are a great read! I learned a lot in a short time and the history makes more sense.