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I’m not very good at crosswords, but I’m not going to get two down about it.

The FBI had an open position for an assassin. After all the background checks, interviews and testing were completed, they had narrowed the field down to 3 possible agents. 2 women and a man. For the final test, the FBI agents took the 3 of them to a large metal door and handed them a gun. ‘We must know that you will follow your instructions no matter what the circumstances.’ Inside the room you will find your spouse sitting in a chair… we need you to kill them’. The 1st woman said, ’You can’t be serious. I could never shoot my husband.' The agent said, ’Then you’re not the right person for this job. Take your husband and go home.' The 2nd woman was given the same instructions. She took the gun and went into the room. All was quiet for about 5 minutes. The woman came out with tears in her eyes, ’I tried, but I can’t kill my husband.' The agent said, ’You don’t have what it takes. Take your husband home.' Finally, the man was given the same instructions, to kill his wife. He took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one after another. They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the walls. After a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the man, wiping the sweat from his brow. ‘Some idiot loaded the gun with blanks’ he said. ‘I had to kill her with the f-ing chair’.

I can’t believe my deaf best friend and my deaf girlfriend have been having an affair. To be honest though, I should have seen the signs.

We only had three Yorkshiremen when I were a lad.

As the video I posted shows, there are two large ammo depots in the vicinity of Moscow. A successful drone attack on one, or both, of them would really send a message to Russia. No way for Putin to hide that one from the Muscovites when the fires and explosions are visible and audible from the city.

An interesting YouTube comment on the above video was that a 2016 US Army issued handbook stated: "Russian forward ammunition dumps are quite possibly the most unsafe places in any warzone. By doctrine, there are very little storage requirements, no minimum safe areas, little munitions segregation, and many of the munitions are still from the Soviet period or early 1990s and about to expire." So I looked it up. Sure enough, it's on page 31 of the link below. It also goes on to say: "Fuel depots are no better. Poorly trained conscript logistics soldiers, combined with these poor storage procedures make these supply depots a tinderbox ready to explode. Russia has suffered several catastrophic supply depot fires and explosions in the past 2 years of combat in Ukraine and Syria. Priority targeting of these areas will cause a serious logistics strain on the Russian system and impact their ability to use maneuver and fires." Looks like Ukraine has been doing some background reading. Or "someone" suggested these targets? AWG-RussianNewWarfareHandbook.pdf (publicintelligence.net)

Looks like another Russian ammo depot has gone up in smoke. No confirmation, but a sizable fire and the repeated sound of explosions would suggest it's the case. Kursk is in the centre of the map, so no doubt much, if not all, of the ammo was planned to be used against Ukrainians taking part in their Russian incursion.

"The 2024 Election Ballot Walk will see a large, non-partisan group of Americans walk down down Witthayu (Wireless Road) from the Au Bon Pain (in front of GPF Tower) at midday with their ballots, and deposit their ballots in the official US Citizen Services drop box in front of the Embassy." That's one hell of a walk. I hope they all make it.

But their flag is a big plus.