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2026-08-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Tanker hit by unknown projectile in Strait of Hormuz: UKMTO

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1 Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario 'Lake America'

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-08-28 02:06|| 2026-08-28 02:06|| Front Page Top

2 Priorities, Grom.

Posted by European Conservative 2026-08-28 05:23|| 2026-08-28 05:23|| Front Page Top

3 😰

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-08-28 06:13|| 2026-08-28 06:13|| Front Page Top

4 Canada's Mark Carney tries to give Trump a 'reality' check as he rejects the renaming of Lake Ontario

Posted by Skidmark 2026-08-28 06:32|| 2026-08-28 06:32|| Front Page Top

5 unknown projectile retaining the possibility of a meteor strike.

Posted by Bobby 2026-08-28 09:56|| 2026-08-28 09:56|| Front Page Top

6 It was a Houthi trebuchet.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-08-28 10:49|| 2026-08-28 10:49|| Front Page Top

7 renaming Lake Ontario 'Lake America'

Giving the excitable sillinesses to get excited about while the real work gets done in the background, unnoticed.

ICE is still rounding up criminal illegal immigrants, federal government employment numbers continue to fall, DOGE-type investigations continue pinpointing programs to shut down, Israel continues clearing out Hamas and Hezbollah nests in Lebanon and Gaza security zones, voter rolls are cleaned of the dead, the moved, and the non-citizens, while those who voted illegally are caught and prosecuted — an expanding list of tasks queued up and ticked off while nobody is paying attention.

President Trump put that four-year break to very good use in figuring out what he’d done wrong the first time in terms of approach, personnel, and execution.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-08-28 15:03|| 2026-08-28 15:03|| Front Page Top

8 This is becoming farcical, soon, a guy in a speedboat with an RPG can disrupt world energy supply, the system has become parody.

If ever there needed to be a perfect example of how even the most complex systems can be vulnerable to a single point of failure, it is the Hormuz example.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2026-08-28 15:35|| 2026-08-28 15:35|| Front Page Top

9 Real fun would have been to name the lake Niigani-gichigami and then watch the Canadian commies try to rationalize why the indigenous native name was unacceptable. Racists! /sarc

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-08-28 16:33|| 2026-08-28 16:33|| Front Page Top

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