Filed under One-Shots.

Claw machine games are Rio de Janeiro’s new public enemy
AP | 29 Aug 2024 | David Biller

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro — already notorious for street muggings, corrupt politicians, ruthless militias and Kalashnikov-toting drug traffickers — has a new public enemy: plushies. Or, more specifically, the joystick-controlled claw machines that dispense them….

Officers seized claw machines, laptops, tablets, cell phones, a firearm and — yes — furry friends. They are investigating whether organized crime groups may be the invisible hand behind the claw…

The fate of the stuffed animals seized Wednesday was still unclear…..

Voters can get stuffed!

Centrifuge – A bunch of things that point in the same direction.
Substack – Tell Me How This Ends | 26 Aug, 2024 | Chris Bray

Three of the US Army logistics vessels that participated in the absurd Gaza aid pier operation can’t get home under their own power. The Military Sealift Command is soliciting bids from contractors who can bring the boats back to Norfolk on float-on/float-off vessels. So the JLOTS mission has rendered a portion of the “army’s navy” inoperative, or marginally operative, limiting the army’s logistics fleet for months — at least.

Let’s just use the same sentence again: If anyone can find what’s left of Joe Biden, it would be interesting to hear him slur his thoughts about this.

Way to think ahead, Army!

They might want to study the posters on the wall. (Because our posters are usually off the wall.)