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266 days in combat is nuts…


Serving on a giant boat with no enemy capable of harming you in the least is combat? Some bad menu items and inadequate toilette?

How about 366 days: no toilet, food from a can, interrupted sleep on the ground, shower every couple of weeks from a used oil drum with holes in the bottom, 90 degrees and/or flooding rain, constant unexpected scary loud noises, debilitating physical exhaustion…oh, and the daily distinct possibility that you might be killed or mutilated.

I do not mean to disparage these guys and I know flight operations can be very grueling. I’m also sure that the media has taken the opportunity to inflate these complaints not out of sympathy with sailors or their families, but because of the adverse shade it throws on the current administration.

However, these people volunteered and whoever bitched about the conditions in question just gave the jackals a piece of meat to run off with and should be ashamed.
You can go strolling leisurely along in 95 degree weather inhaling exhaust from four to six lanes of high speed traffic admiring the architectural wonders.
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even then they just seemed to have 5 members.


And, three of them were FBI agents and the other two were informants.
Steven Wright. Let him give cryptic, puzzling and surrealistic answers to every question.

re: Florida Republican Primary Today

Posted by beachdude on 8/19/26 at 12:26 pm to
I would post this story, but there would be a paywall. The Washington Post coverage of multiple races in the 2026 Florida primary was published this morning. The “journalists” involved were Matthew Choi, Teo Armus, and Praveena Somasundoram. (All looked just like you’d expect.). The article contained the following sentence: “… election will herald the end of DeSantis’s ironfisted leadership in Florida “. Now, that’s what I call unbiased and fair reportage.
I think Daniels is somewhat immature and got bad personal and legal advice. He and some rep from the LSU Athletic Department need to sit down and make this go away quietly. Daniels doesn’t need the bad press and LSU doesn’t need the big legal fees their favorite law firm will generate to screw this up.

re: Urban decay—Rental issue

Posted by beachdude on 8/18/26 at 11:03 am to
Holy run on sentences, Batman.
“Russia is never as strong as it seems. Russia is never as weak as it seems.” WSC.
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Clint Eastwood.


Ditto, but he’s only about 20 years older than me.

re: To Kill A Mockingbird……

Posted by beachdude on 8/12/26 at 9:42 pm to
When I was a boy, I noticed that my dad had a drawer in his desk at home that always seemed to have several wristwatches the numbers of which fluctuated over time. We also periodically got deliveries of fresh corn, beans, tomatoes, mangos and melons from different men (black and white). My dad was a lawyer and he accepted these items in lieu of fees that his clients could not pay. He invariably and without exception returned the wristwatches to his clients after a few weeks or months and only accepted them in the first place to make the other man feel like he wasn’t a charity case. We ate the food and always thanked them for it. In the 10th grade, I read To Kill a Mockingbird and saw the film. That’s when I realized my dad was Atticus Finch and when I decided to be a lawyer.
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It pulls more viewers per game than the NHL


I do not believe that is true. NHL salaries are near those of MLB. Way more by far than WNBA. Those hockey players would not be making $$$$K/yr without television viewership.

re: AOC is now single

Posted by beachdude on 8/11/26 at 6:09 pm to
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Rhodes scholar…


What?
I feel so much dumber for watching and listening to that that I need a cup of coffee.
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I think it’s important for us as leaders…



You are not a leader. You are a representative of your constituents and you work for the people.
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Am I the only SOB that realized…


No. You’re not. I saw the ad when it first ran in 1964 and even as a teenager, realized it for the bullshite that it was. I scrolled through the responses to the OP to see if anyone caught the “reference”. You did. Thanks. However I was in post mode so I wrote this anyway.
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Need to start arresting for assault.


No more National Hockey League.

re: A Joke

Posted by beachdude on 8/8/26 at 12:24 pm to
Someone needs to remind the English that “1984” was a scathing critique of this type of society, not an instruction manual.
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Americans today could never handle being responsible for Dresden or Tokyo.


American politicians couldn’t handle blowing up ports, infrastructure, dikes, roads and bridges in North Vietnam in the late 1960’s which would have ended the war in a hurry and would have saved thousands of American lives.

If the politicians in DC are dictating strategy and tactics to our military planning, logistics, and execution, then we’re just repeating stupid mistakes of the past.

Seize Kharg Island, shut down Iran’s oil industry and let them suffer the consequences if you wish to bring them to heel.
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Speaker Hakeem may even pack the Supreme Court…


How?