• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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Great post, not by me, but someone should sit the Executive Branch down and teach them about congressional budgets, acquisition law (unbelievably cumbersome) and sub-supplier timelines. Subs aren’t making stuff because of varying budgets and multi year buys are extremely uncommon.

Back in the 90's and early 2000's I was working with a Lockheed Martin division that was largely financed by DOE and DOD. Many times to procure a product the buyer had to follow guidelines of these two departments, all well and good except often they would have conflicting requirements. They had to meet certain recycled/minority/ and who knows what else stipulations. The hoops they would have to jump through, the wink winks, and Quid pro quo's would eventually allow us to get things done. But costly and time wasting.

And since it was a nuclear facility with the Navy, and percentage buys were by the dollar, we really had to dig to help them out as there isn't much diversity/recycled in nuclear and reactor product purchases
 
Back in the 90's and early 2000's I was working with a Lockheed Martin division that was largely financed by DOE and DOD. Many times to procure a product the buyer had to follow guidelines of these two departments, all well and good except often they would have conflicting requirements. They had to meet certain recycled/minority/ and who knows what else stipulations. The hoops they would have to jump through, the wink winks, and Quid pro quo's would eventually allow us to get things done. But costly and time wasting.

And since it was a nuclear facility with the Navy, and percentage buys were by the dollar, we really had to dig to help them out as there isn't much diversity/recycled in nuclear and reactor product purchases
Look no farther than the zealots and idiots enacting conflicting regulations not for the good of the products and services required, but, for non-workable personal political beliefs. I.e., recycling nuclear waste or thinking providers have product aisles at HDepot and Lowes.
 
those who control Government are on top of it...

This Ancient Ritual Reveals EXACTLY How Christmas Controls Your Reality​

Everything is energy. Christmas feels powerful, but not in the way most people think. This video explores what happens, not from superstition or fear, but from history, psychology, and observable patterns that have been repeating for thousands of years.

Long before modern culture, ancient civilizations understood how seasonal rituals shape human behavior, memory, and collective emotion. Those same mechanisms still operate today — often unnoticed — especially during December.

This isn’t about rejecting tradition or attacking beliefs.
It’s about seeing clearly how repetition, symbolism, and emotion influence identity and how awareness changes the experience entirely.

Once you understand how rituals work, you don’t lose meaning.
You gain choice.

Watch with an open mind.
Pause where needed.
Nothing here asks for belief, only observation.

Video Timestamps
0:00 – Why December Feels Different Every Year
3:42 – Ritual vs Tradition: What’s the Difference
7:58 – The Winter Solstice and Human Psychology
12:41 – Ancient Festivals Beneath Modern Holidays
18:06 – Memory, Emotion, and Identity Programming
23:55 – Why Collective Emotion Feels So Powerful
29:44 – The Role of Symbols and Repetition
35:21 – Why January Motivation Fades
41:09 – Awareness vs Unconscious Participation
47:02 – Choosing Meaning Without Obligation
53:14 – Redefining December on Your Terms

 
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The detained former Prosecutor General of Ukraine in France had 90,000 euros in cash, about three kilograms of gold, and 18 luxury watches with a total value of over one million euros seized from him.

According to the source, Piskun was unable to confirm the origin of the cash, provide bank documents for the purchase of gold bars, or customs documents confirming the legality of importing expensive watches into France. After this, he was detained by French police.

The French authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the legalization of funds obtained by criminal means and are considering pressing charges. According to information from the former Prosecutor General's entourage, he was released, but the investigation is ongoing.

There's still more to dig up - he's a fat cat, he's clearly stolen something else from the Ukrainian people.

(you mean stolen from the American taxpayer)

Corruption investigating corruption? France is super hard up for money.
 

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