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I bought some from Harper’s Old Country Store at Seneca Rocks back when I worked in DC, brought them to the office and they were a hit. Like someone else mentioned, you can get them in gas stations and they’re not terrible.

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Wasn’t a fan of Izmir, Turkey.

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Kemeralti, Alcanzak, plenty of good locations there. You shoulda got out more, Baw.

We’ve been involved in Great Power Competition with China and Russia for decades. It’s only reached broad national awareness during the current administration. Russia and China, and to an extent North Korea, Iran, and Cuba, have been waging information operations and non kinetic activities to undermine our economic and civil institutions; in the past 12-14 years it has ratcheted significantly. Our media has been complicit in amplifying those nations’ efforts when they champion identity politics and divisive ideology.

Not many people knew that DOD funded the United States Information Agency, established under Eisenhower and disbanded during Clinton’s Presidency, which had a $2B annual operating budget and prevented disinformation and the spread of divisive ideology at home and abroad, most of which was (and continues) to be spread by our adversaries, enabled in part by career politicians and complicit media.

Seconding Upton and adding Ranald S. McKenzie, John Gibbon, Nelson A. Miles, and A.P. Hovey for consideration. Not “Leaders” who are widely remembered at the operational level, but hard fighters who excelled at the tactical level and were the “go to” men when Hancock, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, etc., were in a fix. McKenzie, for example, graduated West Point in the War’s second year and commanded a Cavalry Corps by its end. Although I mentioned Hovey explicitly, there were quite a few Division and Brigade Commanders in the Army of the Cumberland, Army of the Tennessee, and Army of the Ohio who were on equal if not better footing than their opposites, especially during the Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Atlanta Campaigns.

KNOE “How to” for NAACP sponsored Uber rides to polling sites

Geaux Vote, Louisiana!

If you live in one of these cities take advantage. Awesome initiative by one of our state organizations to get Louisianans- regardless of party affiliation- to the polls.

ETA: I think the link works now

Volksfest in Stuttgart is second only to Munich in size and it’s 3 hours by train from there to Paris. Salzburg is also a cool town but it’s not known for any nightlife scene, plus it’s in the opposite direction. Bertchesgarten, Neuschweinstein, Linderhof, etc are cool destinations but you’d need to explore car options and they’re all in remote areas. Last thing- when you order your first beer or two ask for a sauerradler, which is half sparkling water and half beer. There’s a difference in being hammered and time traveling. Macht Spass!

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If you happen to find yourself at the Regina Trench Cemetery,

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That’s still a bit of a hike north and west of here. We are mainly sticking to the 1st Army’s line of advance for the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. After today’s Armistice event we visited Vauquois Hill, near the big victory memorial on Montfaucon. 4,000 Soldiers (German and French) according to records are still buried somewhere in the hill. I’ll follow up with some pics once we’re home; staying in a tiny French town (think Georgetown size for you CENLA baws) with spotty internet connectivity until tomorrow.

Great read. Just finished Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger (German first hand account of war on the Somme, Flanders, etc.) and got a sense that both sides lived in horror of the daily human and material costs of that war. Sad these leaders (i.e. cousins) couldn’t figure out how to avoid global conflict. Assholes. Princes included.

Was told the kid is originally from Texas, and this Summer was doing a 500lb squat. Could be his generation’s Roosevelt Potts.

Mizuno MP-64s. I'm playing at +7 right now and I can hit them well whether I am playing often or not. I agree with the previous poster who recommended you get fitted. If I'm not mistaken these are the same type Adam Scott was using when he first started out (and before his titleist endorsement).