alajones

In. Pork bellies are ready and waiting for company to show up.

FBD

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The rabble here will anoint him their God because he pushed a bad LSU team around, but his team sure as frick didn’t do that to Texas or Miami. Even with him closer to his best today, there’s still better and younger on the market.

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And LSU had been getting pushed around by Alabama for years.

Two things can be true

1. His time at LSU was over
2. CBK was a jerk who did him wrong

He was right in that there were communists in the state department. He was absolutely not "righteous".

He made up stuff out of whole cloth, he was a closeted homosexual, and he was an insane alcoholic. He did more harm to the anti-communist cause than he did good.

alajones2 wants to visit Alaska, see the whales, the glacier calving, do the Denali Train, etc. But gives two fricks about being on a boat. Is there a way to do the cruise type excursions all down the coast and end up in Victoria without doing the cruise? Would it be too cost prohibitive?

HBO used to show this a lot. It's probably terrible now that I'm not 14, but I remember laughing my arse off at Prior playing the suburban dad. All the guys that played the idiots in the movie really steal their scenes.



Another late 80's HBO regular. Probably terrible now that I'm older, but was basically Agatha Christie for a middle schooler. And I will always know what constitutes a metaphor.

It’s easy to forget how Alabama and Auburn traded places during the 80s and some of the 90s. Auburn had a few Iron Bowl streaks.

I’m not going to post his entire library

Robert Davi- first guy I thought of when I saw your title. I even had to look up his name.

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Maybe I’m heartless, but I’m honestly to the point where I’m just more interested in them trying to run a club and barely paying attention to the sad stories of locals.

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It's a tough call. I'm seriously just as disinterested in some of them, but last night's was interesting. I agree with you though about the priorities.

I feel like quite a few of the past episodes have been them scrounging up a lot of crap from the editing room floor and saying "oh look, this can be another episode."

3/4ths of those graduates used AI to do their academic work for most of their college careers. Hypocrites.

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MacArthur gets a lot of hate for the invasion of Peleliu,

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MacArthur gets a lot of hate on this board. Some is justified, a lot isn't.

MacArthur gets a lot of crap for the Philippines and Korea. Some of it is fair and some isn’t. Nothing could have been done to prevent the Philippines from falling to the Japanese. Military leaders knew this as early as 1904-5. MacArthur wasn’t given the necessary resources to properly defend the island. And he did a pretty shite job of it anyway. However, he was much more valuable to us as a General leading the Army than he would’ve been in a POW camp. He was one of the first to recognize how valuable land based air support would be and organically stumbled into a sort of island hopping campaign before it became the official strategy. As a commander, he knew what he was doing.

In Korea , he wanted to blow the bridges crossing the Yalu River and attack air fields in China where Soviet aircraft were being based, but Truman would not let him.

He also could be a massive dick. Like for no reason. And torpedoed officers careers if it looked like they might outshine him. He was obsessed with his family legacy and was also just kind of an oddball. But a genuine really intelligent person.

I think his legacy has rightly taken some hits over the last few decades. But he was still a very good commander.