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Everything posted by romad1
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His wikipedia page is amazing. Lots of "but Wexner was found innocent of this" tagged at the end of a lot of crimes he was near and around including assassination and cocaine smuggling.
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Re: Trumpstein The name that hasn’t come under enough scrutiny is this Wexler guy from Victoria’s Secret. You can imagine how they used his pull to entice young girls into “modeling”
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I rewatched “Anthropoid” on my flight back from DTW the other day and it strikes me just how oppressive the Germans were to the Czechoslovakians. Imagine having that as a neighbor country 80 years on. Imagine if the response to the JFK assassination was instant reprisals, wiping off the map entire villages and rounding up hostages and lots of the sort of torture that i didn’t want on my ipad screen on a flight. We talk a lot about patriotism in this country but those who live elsewhere love their countries and their own identities just as much.
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U Chicago bombarded my son with glossy mailers ever since his PSAT came out and ultimately it was all a circle jerk to up their application numbers and lower ratio for the admittance numbers. I'm relieved my daughter is very interested in in-state Virginia schools. She's not about that stress. She's been told that she won't get her inheritance unless she graduates with an actual brick and mortar 4 year undergrad degree (plus she has to spend a night in a haunted house). If she can accomplish that and get an actual university education without killing my retirement so much the better.
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there is a lot to the notion of sports spending being an arms race for no real benefit besides to those who benefit from the money in the first instance. I've always been a person who thinks this stuff provides an incalculable public benefit. I remember on the old board doing the calculations to what Magglio Ordonez' 2006 Game 4 ALDS home run was worth. It was worth how much in terms of public good. There was some sort of insane multi-attribute garbage analysis going on but the idea was to quantify the qualitative.
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same story you had i think...sorry for stepping on yours
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If you ask the Falun Gong/Shen Yun types in America you'll hear that Xi is no longer alive or is no longer in control. If you look at Drudge you'll see a lot of alarmist stuff. Its shrugs from me. My preference is they are kept off the warpath because they fear we smack them hard enough to cause regime collapse. That's what they fear.
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The distances here are not small though. The US Marine base in Australia is in Darwin area in the Northern Territories (the area anyway) and the rest of civilized Australia is down south and east along the coast. So, basically the back of beyond. The base is a staging area for a bunch of systems that would further forward deploy to the islands in the western Pacific in the event of a ...thing with the PRC. There are a couple of these already deployed to the Philippines and may be deployed to Japan which are causing the PRC leadership to lose their minds. This would be the Typhon (not typhoon) missile system. Muy bueno for us system. edit: looks like kegsbreath and the Japanese decided to deploy to Japan. https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2025/09/15/us-army-reveals-typhon-missile-system-in-japan/
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Australia has a very large US military presence on the north coast. It would be an immediate target of PRC attack in a WWIII scenario. As does Guam (presuming that is the blue dot in the western Pacific).
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The new rules would seem to make it possible to win within the rules. I mean he's got a death star of money. Unless OSU suddenly (and I am not trying to manifest this) becomes Peter Thiel or Elon Musk's favorite program. You'd have to think having Larry Ellison of Oracle backstopping the program would be a nice guarantor of the budget.
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I'm sure the Bill Barr DoJ was absent of all corruption.
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Curious what kind of replies she had on Elon's micro-blogging site.
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If there were only some way to do a cross-over show where English small towns with exceedingly clevery detective type civilians, often elderly pensioniers (played by an Alec Guinness or Maggie Smith type) help the kindly local bobbies solve MURDERs and the Bayeux of Louisiana where people are getting got all the time.
