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Blockade! Live Updates: U.S. military blockade on Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz begins By Brian Dakss, Lucia I Suarez Sang Updated on: April 13, 2026 / 1:42 PM EDT / CBS News A U.S. blockade of Iran’s ports and a partial blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for shipments of oil, […]
Straits, Monster, and ammo
Opening with the Straits of Hormuz. They are a) open b) closed or c) some weird combination of the above. Depends who you talk to. Now, the Iranians say they are open to civilian ships who pay their “toll” but not military ships. The US says we are reclosing them (which makes us different from […]
Daily FGS
Magnum Research Big Frame Revolver Good Guy with a Gun Shoots, Kills Alleged Assaulter in Parking Lot AWR Hawkins A good guy with a gun drew his firearm while under attack in the parking lot of Austin, Texas’s Cabana Club on Friday night, killing an alleged assaulter. FOX 7 reported that police were called about […]
Stupid people of the week
Man Was Stripping Floors with Acetone and Lit Cigarette. Resulting Explosion Caused Wall to Collapse and Left Him Injured He must have missed the Top’s floor buffing safety brief. A person was using acetone to strip the floors inside a building in Tennessee and lit a cigarette. The explosion caused a wall to collapse and […]
Sunday FGS
Benelli M4 Postal Worker Stops Scam LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) — A postal worker stopped a scam Tuesday and saved an older woman from mailing $25,000 to a scammer. The money was stuffed in magazines inside a box about to be shipped to California. Jennifer Tolbert owns Premier Postal in Long Beach. She noticed something […]
US-Iran Talks Fail
Iran Elects to Receive Vance says US-Iran talks end without deal after 21 hours of negotiations The vice president said Iran refused to commit to not developing a nuclear weapon during talks in Islamabad By Michael Sinkewicz Vice President JD Vance said Sunday that high-stakes talks between the U.S. and Iran ended without a deal […]
Never-ending repairs… ended
We have mentioned in multiple earlier columns how major refits on Navy ships have been running years behind schedule. While COVID no doubt played a role, it seems that simple lack of shipyards and capacity are more to blame. (I suspect changing specs plays a role too, knowing how government works. “What, we are replacing […]
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