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Its bad here in Northern VA and i wouldn't pay to do anything outdoors in this crap.

Pretty bad but not feeling this is the thing I mean, stroke a check and avoid having to testify. That's fun.

Tulsi out... Still not feeling like the thing though.

But the cowboy hat!

This is bad but I don't think this is it. Damning Pentagon leak reveals huge blow to US defenses

That plan is in the cooker for sure.

Been reading Mark Bowden's excellent "Hue 1968" and that MOP/MOE always comes up. One of the more interesting historical questions I came away with thus far: Walter Cronkite and Creighton Abrams had a conversation during Cronkite's visit to the Hue battlefield in which he came away and did his "war is unwinnable" report. Abrams was friends with Cronkite during WWII and Abrams had good press in comparison to the Westmoreland who was basically every French General during WW1 . Westmoreland sued CBS in the 1980s. I wonder if anyone did a more in-depth book on that Cronkite/Abrams relationship and its impact on the course of the War.

i.e., body count in Vietnam

Well, i'm just speculating that it will be some deal he cut with MBS or some such foreign despot to import a couple hundred blond girls 12-15 yrs old for indentured servitude which will net the Trump family some cash. Is that too far fetched? I mean he is a Pedo who does things to get paid.

Around 4pm we will see something insane they have been holding off releasing for the Friday before a holiday weekend.

People in that top 20 have so little interest in emigrating to the United States for some reason. Slovenia is a surprise actually. Former communist countries tend to still be lower on the list but Czechia, Slovenia good on you. The East German reunification was and remains turbulent but still.

That is surprising

The monster in the room is citizens united. Its allowing Orban and Putin to fund all sorts of terrible things. There is no returning to normality as defined by anyone. The only path is synthesis as taught by the harsh lessons of this criminal gang in power right now.

I miss the upward trajectory

There is also a scene from the R. Lee Ermy vehicle "Siege of Firebase Gloria" that is similar -- but too gross to show here. He's got the severed heads of two guys in his hands and he's lecturing the defensive perimeter that Corporal Miller (whose severed head is in his right hand being held by his hair) allowed the gun pit to be captured and that he no longer has any respect for Corporal Miller. Its a movie of course and for Vietnam era fodder a pretty decent B movie.

He's going to be celebrated Fox News Weekend anchor and given several male prostitutes to serve as his sex thralls.

I got to say we were musing today about the Cuban drone strikes on Mar-a-lago being a biblical judgement...you almost want that to happen so they kharmic sodom and gomora judgement occurs.

i guess we will see who stands up to this

I was thinking about the idea of a US vet criticizing other US Mil. Its not fun to see it but its pretty damn common.

Cassidy and Cornyn I'd imagine.

Cannot say.

The doctrine shift needs to happen fast.

HOLY CRAP! F-15s, F-35, MQ-9 Reaper Drones: US Report Says 42 Aircraft Lost In Iran War The actual combat aircraft not as shocking. Its combat, what are you going to do. The support aircraft is a shocking number. 7 KC-135s! 1 AWACS 2 MC-130