An Arkansas Elementary school descended into chaos and mayhem when a bunch of parents got into a huge melee over a Kindergarten graduation.  The fight escalated to the point where kindergartners were screaming at their parents to STOP!!

All I can say is (well, not "all") who the hell can find a reason to get into a fistfight at a Kindergarten graduation?????  What kind of a crazy person would ever do this???  And, what world do these people live in where this is acceptable behavior???  Unbelievable! What is the IQ of a person like this?

Kindergarten Graduation descends into Chaos!

Edit - And, it's a pretty SAD statement when 'kindergartners" have to scream at their parents to stop fighting!! Like really? Kindergartners!!

(a comment in another thread inspired this post).  

So, lots of little kids had a pushbike when they were super young, before they learned to ride a real bicycle.  If you're unfamiliar with a pushbike, these look like regular bikes but without pedals.  So basically a kid gets on one of these bikes and uses his legs to power it forward.  Great idea for tuckering out Junior.  Anyway...

I was noticing that in various places around the world they have pushbike races.  These are races for little kids where they compete against each other, usually on some kind of a course set up in a parking lot with cones for obstacles.  Okay, cool, makes sense, right?

Well, we should know that parents are not gonna' leave it that simple.  No, their kid not only has to race, but has to WIN!  Right?  So, just having pushbike races was not enough.  Next, they started having pushbike "training" classes where Mario Andretti of the pushbike world shows your kid how to race to WIN!  But not even that was good enough.

Enter the pushbike trainer.

Yes, as unbelievable as it may sound, there is such a device in existence (and not just one of them either).  These are basically a treadmill on the back end, where the kid's feet go, and the front part has a bracket to hold the front wheel pushbike in place.  Now you can put Junior on the pushbike trainer for 40 minutes, doing timed sprints, or long distance, so the kid can become the Lance Armstrong of the pushbike world!  

But maybe the parents forgot one small detail.  Everyone gets a trophy now days.  Well, most places anyway.

I'm not sure I fully understand the differences in roles between MI-5 and MI-6.  As I understand it, MI-5 is basically focused on domestic issues / crimes within the UK.  They also have some other roles which perform some of the duties of the US Secret Service.  So, if I were to draw a rough analogy, MI-5 is akin to the FBI and the SS rolled into one.  Is this close?  And, do they do anything beyond this.

MI-6, on the other hand, is principally focused on international issues outside the UK.  However, they also perform a national intelligence gathering role.  So, if I were to draw another rough analogy, MI-6 is like the CIA and the NSA rolled into one.  Is this close?  And, do they perform other roles too?

I see a lot of references to MI-5 get thrown around in UK media, and don't see much about MI-6 except on rare occasions being discussed in any media, so I could be off base here, hence my questions.

I guess maybe a different way to ask these same questions would be...is there any coordination between these two agencies and/or do they have hard boundaries of jurisdiction, where one agency has to hand something off to the other based on the location of whatever it is they are investigating.

Lastly, is MI-5 a law enforcement arm (i.e. can they arrest and charge people), or do arrests have to be performed by the 'police' based on information from MI-5?  Same question for MI-6(?)

TIA

Quote:Hermeus has officially taken flight with their Quarterhorse Mk 1 technology demonstrator, marking a significant step toward their goal of fielding fully reusable hypersonic aircraft to come in the Quarterhorse Mk 3 and beyond.

I wasn't sure where to put this thread, so I stuck it here.

The title of a news article today says..."3 City-killing asteroids could strike Earth within weeks - generating a million times more damage than Hiroshima"...  That's the actual headline, I kid you not!  You can read it for yourself (here)

3 City-killing asteroids could strike Earth within weeks

So, I guess we should all prepare to DIE! 

I wonder, do we have enough time to TAX ourselves to death before the asteroids incinerate the planet???  Can we stop worrying about global warming now?  Do I have to pay my Amex bill this month?  Hang on while I call Domino's Pizza and order (5) triple sausage pies and a couple fifths of Jack Daniels...gonna' party like it's the end of the freaking world!

But WAIT!!

Well, for those who took the time to READ the WHOLE article, and not just the first 64 characters (which seems to be the World's attention span these days), there's a twist.  You see, if you made it to the last sentence of the entire piece, it says...the orbits of these asteroids won't become unstable (the thing which "might" (i.e. maybe) send them in our direction) for another 150 years.  Wait WHAT??  But, but...you said "within weeks", right; what gives!?!?  Well, you see, IF the asteroids head towards Earth (150 years from now), then it will only take them 'weeks' to get here.  Frigging DOOM PORN media!  This is a perfect example of it too; the media twisting the English language to get people all spun up over nothing. 

(yes, I'm ranting)

So, the only responsible thing I see for the residents of Earth to do right now is...RAISE TAXES!  In these dire times, we need to undertake staggering actions, and raising taxes by 90% is the ONLY responsible thing to do.

Can I cancel my Domino's order now???

/extreme sarcasm

That is all.

Christmas ornaments, Drywall and Jeffrey Epstein.

I'll take..."Name 3 things which don't hang themselves", ...for $500, Alex



I'd love to take credit for this one-liner, but credit goes to none other than Senator John Kennedy (R. - Louisiana) at a Congressional hearing.

Quote:Southerners have a way with words.  Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy; the Will Rogers of our time.
 
"I’m a good ol' southern boy telling it like it is". . . actually, he may be the smartest person in government!
 
Kennedy graduated Magna cum Laude from Vanderbilt, has a Law degree from the University of Virginia and a degree from Oxford in England .  He is no country bumpkin; he is very insightful & a bit humorous.


Comment about Andrew Cuomo lecturing us. "It's like a frog calling you ugly".
 
This election in Ga will be the most important in history.  You have nothing to worry about unless you are a taxpayer, parent, gun owner, cop, person of faith, or an unborn baby!
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana describes Democrats as the “well-intended arugula and tofu crowd.”
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 You can only be young once, but you can always be immature.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
Americans are thinking, there are some good members of Congress, but we can’t figure out what they are good for.  


Others are thinking, how did these morons make it through the birth canal.”
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 It’s as dead as four o’clock.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 Always follow your heart.....but take your brains with you.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 The short answer is ‘No.’   The long answer is ‘Hell No.’
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 It must suck to be that dumb.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy


When the Portland mayor's IQ gets to 75, he oughta sell.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 I keep trying to see Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer's point of view, but I can't seem to get my head that far up my ass.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy


 Go sell your crazy somewhere else...we are all stocked up here.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 She has a Billy goat brain and a mockingbird mouth!
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
Sen. John Kennedy (R., La.) said on Wednesday that he trusted most Middle Eastern countries as much as gas station sushi.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 You can get a goat to climb a tree, but you’d be better off hiring a squirrel.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 This has been going on since Moby Dick was a minnow.


 Don't stand between a dog and a fire hydrant.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 Our country was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots..                            


 --Louisiana Sen John Kennedy


It appears that he might do the right thing, but only when closely supervised and cornered like a rat.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 This is why space aliens won't talk to us.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
Democrats are running around like they found a hair in their biscuit.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
 What planet did you parachute in from?
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
Just because you CAN sing doesn’t mean you should.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy
 
Senator John Kennedy on Nancy Pelosi, “She can strut sitting down!”
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

Chuck Schumer just moo’s and follows Nancy Pelosi into the cow chute.
 – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

That tapping you hear is more nails going into the coffin of the Big Bang theory , its been confirmed James Webb has again found the oldest Galaxy in the known Universe dating back to just 280 million years after the supposed Big Bang , MoM-z14 is estimated to be about 500 light-years in diameter, dense and possibly minus a Super Massive Black Hole (although I doubt that) but so soon after the beginning of the Universe it really shouldn't be there.

Meet MOM -Z14.

Quote:View of the MoM-z14 galaxy obtained with the NIRCam camera with three filters. In terms of remoteness among galaxies, it is the new record holder, as of 2025. JWST measured its spectrum and detected several emission lines, fixing its status as originating when the Universe was only 282 million years old.
https://universemagazine.com/en/the-olde...-big-bang/

Since Tommy removed the video he was sent to prison for showing and posting on X the court decided to remove the 4 month punitive sentence he received on top of his contempt charge for the X post meaning he was eligible for early release , the video on X racked up over 167 million views so job done.

Political prisoner No 1 is free from solitary confinement now political prisoner No 2 , Lucy Connolly , needs to be released along with the other concerned British citizens locked up for using their voice or typing words.

Statement from Tommy outside HMP Woodhill.