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[Thumpalumpacus]

Canada has joined a major European Union defense fund, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office said Monday, as the country looks to diversify its military spending away from the United States.

https://apnews.com/article/canada-eu-def...2dc8152c59

This is what happens when you show yourself an untrustworthy ally.

[Deesse23]

Very well, Canadistan is close to EU latitude(s) anyway. 

[Thumpalumpacus]

ASHLAND, Va. (AP) — The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf, where the scotch and whisky were stored. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed, a ceiling tile collapsed and alcohol pooled on the floor.

The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he’s a raccoon.

On Saturday morning, an employee at the Ashland, Virginia-area liquor store found the trash panda passed out on the bathroom floor at the end of his drunken escapade.

“I personally like raccoons,” said Samantha Martin, an officer who works at the local animal control. “They are funny little critters. He fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything.”

Martin said she took the raccoon back to the animal shelter, though she had her fair share of giggles along the way.

“Another day in the life of an animal control officer, I guess,” she said.

The Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter commended Martin for handling the break-in, and confirmed the raccoon had sobered up.

“After a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury (other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices), he was safely released back to the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking and entering is not the answer,” the agency said.

https://apnews.com/article/drunk-raccoon...3798689fd0

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^I see two scenarios.

1) The raccoon in question had just graduated from raccoon high school and was celebrating with his dirt bag buddies who abandoned him when he passed out.

2) The raccoon had been sober for years. When his business went bankrupt and his wife left him (and got his collection of vintage baseball cards in the divorce), he relapsed.

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

Newsmax senior judicial analyst former Judge Andrew Napolitano said Tuesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should face trial over war crime allegations, after reports surfaced he directed the military to “kill everybody” during a strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean.

“It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say, because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News,” Napolitano said during an appearance on the Newsmax’s “National Report” show. “This is an act of a war crime — ordering survivors who the law requires be rescued instead to be murdered, there’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”

“Everybody along the line who did it, from the secretary of Defense to the admiral to the people who actually pulled the trigger should be prosecuted for a war crime, for killing these two people,” he added.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/56314...legations/

When such a conservative twatwaffle as Napolitano calls your actions a war crime, you're a goddamned war criminal.

[Paraselene]

Well, he is the self-proclaimed Secretary of War.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Newsmax senior judicial analyst former Judge Andrew Napolitano said Tuesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should face trial over war crime allegations, after reports surfaced he directed the military to “kill everybody” during a strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean.

“It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say, because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News,” Napolitano said during an appearance on the Newsmax’s “National Report” show. “This is an act of a war crime — ordering survivors who the law requires be rescued instead to be murdered, there’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”

“Everybody along the line who did it, from the secretary of Defense to the admiral to the people who actually pulled the trigger should be prosecuted for a war crime, for killing these two people,” he added.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/56314...legations/

When such a conservative twatwaffle as Napolitano calls your actions a war crime, you're a goddamned war criminal.

You would think even an incompetent douchenozzle like Hegseth would be familiar with the term hors de combat and the legal implications thereof.

Boru