I actually thought he was doing okay until he ran out of patience and threw his helmet at the explody drone.

It’s a good thing that Russian troops are so poorly trained.

I hate to say this, but the only way to save US democracy is for Biden to use this new “absolute immunity” to arrest or assassinate the SCOTUS and DJT and other enemies of pluralistic democracy.

I doubt that DJT and his allies would hesitate to do the same to their perceived “enemies”

Correction: Looked like a self propelled gun.

Currently looks like chunks of smoking debris.

Bob Ross’ show ended 30 years ago, and PBS and NPR funding has declined even more as a proportion of operating costs since then.

That’s what NPR and PBS were supposed to be, but they’re so perpetually underfunded that they’re almost commercial stations. edit: with corporate sponsors and viewer funding pledge drives.

Some public stations have been taken over by right wing orgs that came in with massive funding.

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For those interested, before the Very Special Military Operation, the 83rd Airborne Brigade had about 40,000 men.

Without fuzes, which are only screwed in just before firing, modern artillery shells are really difficult to set off.

If you think about it, the act of firing a shell out of a cannon and sending it miles away is pretty violent, but the shells don’t explode in the cannon.

Without the correct fuzes, the shells won’t even explode when they land.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-an-artillery-projectile-not-explode-and-destroy-the-artillery-that-fired-it

Is “Have you had an abortion?” going to be on Texas college application forms?

If so, will there be room for an accompanying essay?

I don’t get it. Is Pembrose the couch?

I’m saying for his next disinformation show

Depends on how likely your bank thinks you are to default on your mortgage…

Tell your bank, you’ve lost your job, going to prison, and you’re newly divorced with large alimony payments. /s obviously.

Waitaminit…

If a bank sells a mortgage, there obviously has to be a buyer.

Any buyer who does their due diligence is going to see a mortgage on a commercial office property, and weigh the risks of the borrower defaulting on their mortgage, or the borrower not being able to refinance when the mortgage is due.

So given the current environment for commercial offices, any reasonable buyer is going to offer to buy commercial office mortgages at a discount, maybe even at a significant discount, which likely means a financial loss for the bank anyway.

So what’s the difference if the bank holds on to the mortgage, and if the borrower defaults, then seizing the building, i.e. the real asset, and auctioning it off for whatever it can get?

Wouldn’t the loss on a mortgage default and asset seizure, likely the be about same as the loss as selling to a prospective buyer for the mortgage, a buyer who had properly calculated a discount for the risk into their purchase price?

That is highly likely what Jones will do, unfortunately.

As well as hide his income behind all kinds of shell corporations

Sorry Abe, the modern Republican Party is not in your image…

US courts can still try him in absentia, i.e. if he’s not present in the courtroom.

If he’s in a country with an extradition treaty with the US, e.g. the UK, he can be extradited to the US for the trial or with a conviction.

Good knowledge, but these guys with skulls displayed on their spears don’t look like shrunken-head type headhunters.

Maybe they keep their shrunken heads in humidity controlled, UV filtering display cabinets off camera like I do.

This is one of my favorite strips!

But thinking about it, how much of his head is flesh?

His face isn’t much bigger than normal.

Unless his jawbone has a 1.5 foot chin, most of the head under his mouth is going to be skin and fat.

And if his skull is normal sized, his neck bones must be extremely distended, and his neck muscles must be extremely strong to support the weight of the entire head.

The strip is just better to contemplate as a fanciful idea and move on.

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The official reason for the introduction of the six-day work week is that there is a shortage of skilled workers on the Greek labor market as the population keeps shrinking and the country losing scores of thousands of workers who fled during the economic and austerity crisis in search of jobs in other countries.

So “The austerity and beatings will continue until morale improves.”

I’ve been saying this for years: The US economy is not “growing” not because we’re making more and better products, but because we’re commercializing social support systems that we used to get at low cost, or for free, from our families, relatives and neighbors: Health care, child care elder care, live-at-home spouses and homemakers, even talking with your neighbors and friends has been replaced with social media.

The cost of birthing and raising a child is even commodified in the health care system.

Is it any wonder why wealthy countries’ birthrates are falling? Asides from environmental factors, like microplastics and climate change.

The reasons why the US population is growing are related to immigration: Both directly counting immigrants, and those who still retain enough social capital in their communities to have families.

The so called post-capitalism economy is not productivity growth and making lives better for everyone.

It’s making the production of wealth increasingly meaningless for the average person.

It’s mining social and middle class wealth into the pockets of the wealthy elite and non-human corporations.

But what happens when the wealth in the mines is all gone?

Don’t blame the writers, some of whom are long dead, and some titles are long out of print.