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I hope you are being sarcastic. I hope the democrats sue the administration to stop all these benefits.
While I don’t like the executive branch acting without the legislature, I can’t fault it in this case.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1888]“The Japanese were amongst the most racist/ ethnocentric people on the fucking planet. Right up there with the Germans.” Been to Japan twice. Once for work, the second for the Olympics in Nagano (spur of the moment). During the business trip, me and my white compatriots were refused entry into several establishments. “No Gaijin!” was the emphatic cry. . . .[/quote]
I can hear it now: “It’s ok. It is just their culture to be racist. And, besides, we dropped the bomb on them so their hatred is justified.”
I’m very keen to understand and learn from history, and with that said, the Japanese had it coming. The Japanese warrior culture was based on a racial superiority thesis. It was no different than Nazi Germany’s.
While American “anti-racists” today worry about whether wiping their face with a brown paper napkin is a micro aggression, the real racists in China, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East laugh their asses off in private.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Neo beat me to it. Stocks are all there is in this environment. Sitting in cash is agreeing to be inflated out of your wealth. The usd is down about 10 percent since March.
Berkshire can sit on a bunch of cash because they are able to acquire at a discount to everybody else. It is their strategic super power. So, holding that cash gives them the ability to make outsize gains on M&A vs most of the rest of the world.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Wait until they realize how expensive it is to mount a legitimate criminal defense.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1843]I subscribe to a YouTube channel called, “Active Self Protection”. I didn’t own a firearm before 2016. Now I advocate CCW and CQC for friends and family. The pendulum might just be swinging toward frontier justice and vigilantism for a season. Hope I’m wrong, but better to be prepared than caught off guard.[/quote]
Yep. The first responder is you.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1822]Susan Rice and Kamala Harris are taking turns, Frat Boy. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren is wiping the other end.[/quote]
TMI
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Of course. All the blue areas are pursuing more draconian lockdowns and, of course, many of them have much higher representation of blacks vs whites. In other words: thanks Dems!
Crazy how they can reinforce their own narratives and their constituents don’t even notice.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think he has no good choice. Of course, that often happens when you artificially narrow the candidate pool by selecting on race and gender.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Saw this. My thoughts exactly. People are destroying parts of his city and he’s worried they are being used as pawns by the president. That says it all.
It’s almost as if he only cares about the politics. The feds reached a deal to withdraw and these rioters are still going. It was all about Trumps troops. Now what is it?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1790]Personally, I unequivocally support Truman’s decision. Nonetheless I think any opportunity to reflect on the horrors associated with armed conflict is a good thing. Our values and past experiences should be a continuing focus for thoughtful reflection. Our experiences in the subsequent 75 years confirm the importance of self reflection…so we can dismiss those who sing “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, or suggest we need to keep troops in Syria.[/quote]
Sure, reflect on it, but don’t let people second guess the decision so aggressively as to vilify the decision makers. That’s the game these days: Lodge criticism from the comfy position provided by those whom you critique.
A “dark day” which actually and directly led to the end of the war. That’s lame.
A “dark day” would have been the day the U.S. decided it lacked the guts to go for the jugular with nukes and just continued to bleed marines and army guys island hopping up to Japan. The Japanese were not going to surrender without a 2X4 to the head. It was never going to happen. Experiences in countless island campaigns proved that: Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, etc.
Don’t forget that the Japanese leaders had days between the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb and the Nagasaki bomb…days in which they decided to endure nuclear bombing and continue the war effort. These guys weren’t going to stop easily, and even after they did stop, they only claimed to have stopped to save overall humanity.
In other words: Dear revisionists: Don’t try to piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Darkest day? Shit we lit that place up like Vegas.
It is to laugh.
Ask the Chinese whether the Japanese “did anything wrong” in wwii…
Or the residents of Pearl Harbor…
Or the veterans of Bataan…
Or the denizens of countless Japanese prison camps…
revisionist history is dangerous. I would have dropped the bomb without remorse…so would Japan.
To quote Obama: “We won!”
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yes. Yes he does.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1744]From the end of 2019 season to start of 2021 season. OMG, if we start counting seasons since we’ve had a high powered quality team….2015? Heard the Bill Walsh family wants his body moved to midfield at Stanford Stadium. Bill’s last wish was to be buried as far away from college football as possible.[/quote]
Rimshot.
Ok. I get it. I am suspecting we will see a suspension of this season as well, but wasn’t sure I missed the announcement.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)24 months? Did I miss something or is that a comment on quality of play?
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