memorial day

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marty's memorial day tribute

back when we mostly still pronounced "moscow" correctly — sergey baklykov ate there so frequently when they opened one in ufa that he killed his gallbladder... after i'd warned him a thousand times... vladimir putin made it so they could not poison their customers anymore and now so they're not even them anymore... a brilliant move that has saved russia from SO much grief....

we need these people desperately... so we abuse and kill them

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think about it for a minute

nobody thought it would be different

tesla

mission: remembering

good advice

mother medals

chris halali is working his butt off


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hank's memorial day tribute

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The Things They Carried....

They carried P-38 can openers and heat tabs, watches and dog tags, insect repellent, gum, cigarettes, Zippo lighters, salt tablets, compress bandages, ponchos, Kool-Aid, two or three canteens of water, iodine tablets, sterno, LRRP-rations, and C-rations stuffed in socks. They carried standard fatigues, jungle boots, bush hats, flak jackets and steel pots. They carried the M-16 assault rifle. They carried trip flares and Claymore mines, M-60 machine guns, the M-70 grenade launcher, M-14's, CAR-15's, Stoners, Swedish K's, 66mm Laws, shotguns, .45 caliber pistols, silencers, the sound of bullets, rockets, and choppers, and sometimes the sound of silence. They carried C-4 plastic explosives, an assortment of hand grenades, PRC-25 radios, knives and machetes. Some carried napalm, CBU's and largebombs. Some risked their lives to rescue others. Some escaped the fear, but dealt with the death and damage. Some made very hard decisions, and some just tried to survive. They carried malaria, dysentery, ringworm, jungle rot and leaches. They carried the land itself as it hardened on their boots.

They carried stationery, pencils, and pictures of their loved ones — real and imagined. They carried love for people in the real world and love for one another. And sometimes they disguised that love: "Don't mean nothin'!" They carried memories. For the most part, they carried themselves with poise and a kind of dignity. Now and then, there were times when panic set in, and people squealed or wanted to, but couldn't, when they twitched and made moaning sounds and covered their heads and said "Dear God" and hugged the earth and fired their weapons blindly and cringed and begged for the noise to stop and went wild and made stupid promises to themselves and God and their parents, hoping not to die. They carried the traditions of the United States Military, and memories and images of those who served before them. They carried grief, terror, longing and their reputations. They carried the soldier's greatest fear: the embarrassment of dishonor. They crawled into tunnels, walked point, and advanced under fire, so as not to die of embarrassment. They were afraid of dying, but too afraid to show it. They carried the emotional baggage of men and women who might die at any moment. They carried the weight of the world.

THEY CARRIED EACH OTHER.


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game show memorial day sunday

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as young as you feel

old timey morality

what'll it be today?

macgregor

supposed peace deal

russia invites journalists to starobelsk dormatory site

the retaliation isn't over

saudi arabia non-aggression pact with iran? [probably fairy dust]

a massie clip from a documentary about wwiii

the technocrats are really getting darn brutal

FAFO

the videos aren't spectacular... because when there's no explosive in oreshnik warheads, we only see dust clouds... the targets are turned to dust... little to no fire in kiev today

i love how optimistic pepe is for the fair world order

some freakin' awesome dialogue in this one

alex is in moscow today

you might not be able to follow this one — if you aren't knowledgeable or interested in thoroughbred racing and bloodstock... i don't think i know if it was worth my time, let alone yours....

he's just playing for time — i'm thinking they're working their butts off to determine where the juiciest hits have been hidden in iran and the minute they think they have all of them targeted, whammo... i mean, it's very long been established that NO HUMAN has a stronger will than any psychopath... they're really just like ai... with more experience....

trying to wrestle persians into hell

getting to be like a national herpes infection

add octane booster

my mother's hummingbirds....

this was actual... almost what you'd call "normal"... back in the day


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our thing memorial day saturday

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mob movies are the same as warring states... they go on and on and on

marty says it ALL about the massie election theft

yes you will

some double down news

he's right you know

thieving illigitimate junta

okay, gotta square quite a bit here — because that all clashes with everything before my morning napeverything — oh, oh, but but but yahoo! and tmz! — and sQavino and everyone we already know never to trust!

There's something about the fruits of a meditation practice, of spiritual awakening, where it's possible to get real breathing room, space, fresh air, stillness, between one's emotions and one's physical awareness. If I'm careful, I can create a sort of gently rolling stream of peace amid the bolts of hate and hope.

alex on tulsi, etc — I wonder if alex listens to benny — there's more scuttlebutt — ivanka is israel's secret weapon

death toll keeps rising by the hour

marandi — ignoring mindfucks, iran's ready

ever closer to elon's data center in space — where it provides its own power with solar panels and stays cool because it's cold up there and connects with starlink just like we do

he missed — and is out of his misery

21 bodies in the dormatory rubble — and there are reports and very crappy video of a barrage of hypersonic missiles coming from various directions and hitting in various spots near kiev tonight

getting around the piles of rubble [from the weaponized media]

violent saturday


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holiday weekend friday links

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no rest for the maniacal

speaking of maniacs

where angels fear to tread

robert mitchum

galloway nap massiebarron's a billionaire?

nice peaceful cruise

i wonder if robots are making them

if baldfaced lying is in your definition of "intelligence"....

miracle if we make it another ten years

maybe some hedy

i miss him

might be good to know

more robert mitchum — the movie that probably drained more convents than we can count

here, have a hearty heh

not going to link this stuff anymore because it is too terrible....

yellow badge of cowardice

le goblin vert taking lessons from crassus-caligula

news briefs from the not-in-havana times

actually cuban news

tucker

danny

macgregor

darn it, tulsi — scary, but also probably the relief from dc will help....

i lived through another trip to the grocery store... just... and, i really want to make a lawyer joke here, but will not because, hey, you knew what you were getting into, so, no....

i never dreamed it'd get even more humiliating and destructive than biden this fast, but, well, we're there....

nima and the larry's

about russia's answer to this morning's attack

a truly excellent essay — very mistakenly elevates sanctions instead of kinetic warfare — mistakenly asserts it despite all the evidence that it kills and immiserates as many and more humans than kinetic engagements — completely ignores that countries pushing each other around behind the veil of protecting their people are as starkly primative, brutal, terrorist, murderous as any thug in history — jimmy carter's WORST error was to convince people that it is more humane than war — more christian — BALDERDASH — elon's out there singing about how ai will be the thing that lifts us ALL out of this immortal slaughtering for more — is he wrong?


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links of thor

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the solid gold cadillac

counting machinesmore like reality

seriously good reason to make sure you get k2 with your d

i decided to listen to george's whole monologue

tucker last night

election fraud from skid row and probably every county's counting machine and, of course, our secretary of state... for already waaay too long

those boxes of ticks

pepemore pepe

macgregor

eric on the jre — might just have the epstein thing nailed — covert ops, not intel — gets to the nub about halfway into the episode

very laid back hit men

cuba


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wuh-wuh-wednesday

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I have become so intolerant of this severe actuality deficit information medium that it's daily harder for me to listen even to people whose opinions matter to me. I don't know how long it will persist.

but i found this video soothing

also renovation videos help cool my jets

nigeria's turn

very telling tidbit

meanwhile... he still thinks he deserves a peace prize

since voters are NOT stupid in kentucky....

i have to look at it like movement is the best for easing pain

we better have LOTS of poll watchers

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show biz hits the beaches

show biz according to kiriakou

truth-teller

o'henry vignettes


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choozdee links

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girl hadda be crazy — that gorgeous young man... with COWZ!

terminal sports fans

this song yanked me back and that man ended just like too many gorgeous souls do

they keep ignoring this part maybe they already learned the hard way, but the lid they have on reliable information is too heavy

it's illegal for the peasants to eat meat

another early david lean film

nerd out in the basement

goddammit — NO ONE will ever be able to convince me that wasn't rigged

i'm gonna try listening to jd — i'm pretty darn fed up with crassus-caligula and company, but maybe i can listen to jd for more'n a few seconds — i mean, he's the vp and so can't really ever say fully anything from HIS set of imperatives, but....

Okay. I made it ten minutes. WE don't get to dictate anything to Iran. WE are NOT the arbiters of life on this planet. Never mind that WE know for certain Iran is NO more dangerous with nukes than ANY other country. So this whole LIE they keep spitting needs to END. I don't care HOW smoothly he can deliver LIES. I'm looking for people who WON'T lie at all.

putin's in china — the ACTUALLY full red carpet treatment

hezbollah beating back the psychopaths

a real number

a real movement headed up by a real patriot


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saturnday links

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i think donald wants "trump" to follow "rothschild" on the list of planet owners

it's probably his algorithm, too

an old david lean movie

'bout covers it

cubais not friendless

russia was NOT kidding then and not kidding now

and who's going to stop them? — WE ARE [right?]

reminderbecause amnesia

his opinion of us starts blinking neon every time he opens his mouth

pepe — a little drunk but giving the skinny on the trump/xi meeting

this really happened

three guesses and the first two don't count

phffft

smoothie weighs in, and he knows his stuff... and scott, i hope, has already gotten an earfull....

pepe, sober, on brics and his latest piece on the summit

from the cradle — despite my visceral revulsion from her stupid voice

don't be so sure

uninterrupted lying fertilizes wild imaginations

yeah, something big is up

i knew i could count on mahmood — i'm thinking it might've been bibi loading nukes for tommorow or monday and something big went wrong.

alex walking and talking the daily overview


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accomplishing things

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I voted. I almost wasn't going to, but I decided I needed to vote against Democrats for having made such a clusterfuck out of my state... not enough to merely not vote for them when I could help send them a message.

I took my months of piling up laundry to the laundry service because my washing machine is broken... and I went back two days later and picked it up... took all my muscles both ways, but I'm not going to look so much like a bag lady now my laundry's been done.

I went to the supermarket. I went to the rez store. I paid my bills. I put pot lids over my stove burners so the mouse who hangs out there can't use those as entries and exits for rambles around my kitchen counter. I can hear that little fucker in there trying to lift the pot lids at this very moment. I am halfway through cleaning and disinfecting that counter and everything on it for the millionth time right now, but may put off the other half for after my morning nap.

I bought some postage stamps and mailed in my mileage form to my insurance company. I got some new pillows for my bed on serious sale because the old ones were just too goddam decrepit to remain serviceable. I still can't quite make myself go to the ER about this INSANE arthritis. It's got to happen soon, though, because if I can't park right in front of where I'm going I'm pretty well nearly dead before I can get in there.

I have been going out in my yard with scraps for the ravens daily. Soon will have to go out with water for my plants... but going outside is good for me and moving around is good for me.

But, basically, I just wanted to brag that I'm not completely non-functional yet and feeling a little smug about that goddam mouse being thwarted but good right now. It's a pain in the ass to have to keep those burners covered like that, but every time he rattles around under them in irked bewilderment, it makes me smile.


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frydegg's links

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the super pesci

craig ferguson was once considerably younger

early lucy

rant mastery

clown world

filthy

no queens

you need me

i love it when they're succinct

how hard can it be?

it works

futility incarnate — or incoherence incarnate... it's recognized globally that speaking with the agreement incapable is only good for perfecting patience... nothing else is ever gained....

i don't know how believable this is and i don't have the spit to run it down in case i'd ever have the wherewithal to upgrade... and there's also the matter of needing a new spine and hips....

and guess what, since day one of their imaginary country, not once in the many times they've used it have they cared AT ALL how much anyone bitches about it

owen benjamin

scott horton

miracle peptides

jfk files

stop scrapping like a buncha feral hyena pups


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