another pin on the map
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2026 11:39 am
I just sent a 3-pc. stainless steel mouthpiece (plus an extra rim) to Singapore.
As known, I'm old, so I may have (??) forgotten, and perhaps this is NOT the first mouthpiece I've ever shipped there, but I think it may be.
minutia:
- The cheapest postage was about $35.
- They will be required to pay a bit over $40 in tariff fees...I sent them a notice to that effect (to avoid unpleasant surprises).
Speaking of that part of the world... (re: a censored-by-many-outlets very important current event)
orange-man just made a deal with Indonesia for complete US military flyover privileges - "blanket access" (including the Strait of Malacca (a super-duper important PRC shipping lane - whereby EIGHTY PERCENT of the oil that China buys passes through the Strait of Malacca)...LOL...I wonder how long it might be before China (just as does Japan) starts opening up America-based factories (other than food processing).
Some of y'all watch pretend stories on cable (or entertainment conflicts...as opposed to real ones - such as foobaw, bassebaw, etc.), download it from the web, or watch it on rabbit-ears TV. This (real and realtime) stuff is more fascinating to me, as well as the nonsense propaganda narratives that the talking heads want us to believe about all of it.
Notice that CNN has NOTHING on this https://www.cnn.com/search?q=Strait+of+ ... l§ion= , and (via a search on their site) only shows all their stories on "Hormuz" when typing in the word "Strait".
Stuff like this (that the old guard propaganda outlets will not cover) are puzzle pieces of the "4D chess" thing, which those who simply allow "information" to be jammed into their brains (rather than doing any research on their own) do not equip themselves to understand.
As known, I'm old, so I may have (??) forgotten, and perhaps this is NOT the first mouthpiece I've ever shipped there, but I think it may be.
minutia:
- The cheapest postage was about $35.
- They will be required to pay a bit over $40 in tariff fees...I sent them a notice to that effect (to avoid unpleasant surprises).
Speaking of that part of the world... (re: a censored-by-many-outlets very important current event)
orange-man just made a deal with Indonesia for complete US military flyover privileges - "blanket access" (including the Strait of Malacca (a super-duper important PRC shipping lane - whereby EIGHTY PERCENT of the oil that China buys passes through the Strait of Malacca)...LOL...I wonder how long it might be before China (just as does Japan) starts opening up America-based factories (other than food processing).
Some of y'all watch pretend stories on cable (or entertainment conflicts...as opposed to real ones - such as foobaw, bassebaw, etc.), download it from the web, or watch it on rabbit-ears TV. This (real and realtime) stuff is more fascinating to me, as well as the nonsense propaganda narratives that the talking heads want us to believe about all of it.
Notice that CNN has NOTHING on this https://www.cnn.com/search?q=Strait+of+ ... l§ion= , and (via a search on their site) only shows all their stories on "Hormuz" when typing in the word "Strait".
Stuff like this (that the old guard propaganda outlets will not cover) are puzzle pieces of the "4D chess" thing, which those who simply allow "information" to be jammed into their brains (rather than doing any research on their own) do not equip themselves to understand.
Amarillo by morning...