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Ex-journalist writing a shitty novel. Key West literary beach bum. Anti-fascist Leftist. Cleveland guy in Detroit. Filled with japery, rage, soup. Libertine degenerate descended from Welsh coal miners. Unhinged. No gods, no kings. Essays: Billshea.com
Which feels like 1965 mission creep -- we need a couple of Marine battalions to protect the airbase at Da Nang ... sigh.
My hope here is they just want the additional airframes on station and the 31st MEU is simply a floating threat intended more for the negotiating table. But they may have backed themselves into a corner and now have to send in the grunts to control the boat/drone launch sites.
The 31st MEU is built around the approx 2,200 Marines of 1/7, if it's at full strength. Gonna need a lot more grunts than a single infantry battalion, some Ospreys, and the support battalion for a job that big. Fingers crossed for them.
Ugh. Best wishes for the 31st MEU and especially the boys of 1/7. Suicide Charlie headed back into the shit.
An old drunken reactionary pick-me shrew ranting and raving at the press like I imagine she does at waiters, many many bartenders and sommeliers, valets, doormen, housekeeping staff, clerks, etc.
Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-questions-what-girls-were-doing-in-school-to-begin-with/
The single biggest, most craven, unprincipled coward in modern history. It's been a delight watching him wriggling to try to salvage his presidential aspirations
From the story: Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
"We're waste deep in the big muddy and the big fool said push on." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxg5...
Welcome back Coastal Artillery Corps, ADA was an unworthy successor
Is Trump, the recipient of the FIFA Peace Prize, threatening to kill the Iranian men's soccer team if it participates in the upcoming World Cup co-hosted by the United States?
They openly lust for state media. All of the Cold War USSR bogeymen we were warned about -- the surveillance state, secret police, no due process, cult of personality, totalitarian propaganda, insane lies, militarism -- is the core of Trump and MAGA.
This classic ignoramus sport take has broken containment to reach women's sports, too. The venerable "Alabama could beat the Jets" is now "The UConn women could beat every WNBA team!"
No, they couldn't. They'd get smoked. And the worst Jets (or Browns) team would obliterate any Crimson Tide squad.
This is very good and better articulates my feelings on this topic than I could (maybe I need Grammarly?)
The Republican obsession with Israel, as displayed by Lindsay Graham (R-Closet), is rooted in the evangelical end-times belief in an apocalypse that heralds Jesus' return. They see Jews/Israel useful for that, and for killing Muslims. Once Christ returns, then it's off to hell for the Jews, too.
Fascinating conflation-of "the Jewish people" with "the Jewish state," in 1 breath-as being blamed for the war in Iran. Israel IS to blame for the Iran war! They're one of the nations waging it! The only people who agree with him conflating Jews with that are anti-Semites (who are everywhere lately)
They offer nothing but naked, ignorant sadism and death. That is the limit of their imagination and intellect. A dismal regime of corroded, rotten souls interested solely in killing, plunder, retribution to mask insecurity and inadequacy.
The Trump regime failed to plan for this, which is a shocking level of incompetence even for these feckless assholes.
I am howling
Weird that Putin would benefit from this war that seems beneficial to no one else
I know one Wilt record that'll never be broken
Tell me it isn’t true:
Why is his jaw quivering like that? Is her perhaps just nervous on camera in a solo setting? Or did he just learn something in the situation room.
Drove around for an hour tonight look for sodium street light shooting locations with my film school kid. Found maybe a dozen. It's become a harsh white LED world faster than I'd realized. I now long for the yellow-orange glow and buzz of sodium street lamps from my lost youth.
🎬 Oscars Per Capita – Top 10 Countries 🌎
🇳🇿 New Zealand – 4.23
🇺🇸 USA – 3.60
🇩🇰 Denmark – 3.39
🏴 Wales – 3.23
🇸🇪 Sweden – 3.00
🏴 Scotland – 2.55
🇮🇹 Italy – 2.50
🇮🇪 Ireland – 2.16
🇫🇷 France – 1.93
🏴 England – 1.79
#AcademyAwards #Oscars
"Operation Epic Fury is being waged without the people who understand the region...Career diplomats are not ornamental. They are the institutional memory of American statecraft...negotiate ceasefires, secure the release of political prisoners, and build coalitions that kept our troops out of wars."
Of course I got the 2016 Topps Heritage News Flashbacks Che Guevara, too!
2008 Topps Heritage Fidel Castro trading card, with the late great Welsh actor and serial Elizabeth Taylor husband Richard Burton for scale. El cheapo ebay find. May get it graded. I occasionally collect weird non-sports cards.
I am very happy I was able to get my camera phone out fast enough to take that photo when that episode of Antiques Roadshow aired awhile back on Detroit Public Television. It's a very useful image.
A statement from Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan: