I am not in favor of long wars. In fact, my war philosophy is somewhat founded by Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game. That is, if someone attacks you, end them so extremely that none of their friends want the next dance.
Every President since Truman was too heavily influenced by people who make money off “forever wars”.
Japan doesn’t 100% love the USA; but they learned we can work together. Europe, Africa, and Southern Asia missed their homework assignments.
Stephen
1 month ago
Crude Texans enjoying Texas Crude prices.
Up 35% in a week.
Come and listen to the story about a man named Set
A retired airman, kept his family fed,
And then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground come a bubblin crude.
​Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.
​Well the first thing you know old Set’s a millionaire,
The kinfolk said “Set move away from there”
Said “Korea is the place you ought to be”
So they loaded up the SUV and they moved to Camp Humphreys!
ChickenHead
1 month ago
Stephen: ChatGPT, I want to appear dumber and even more unimaginative than the other Korea Things as we race to the bottom. Give me a parody of that Beverly Hillbillies song to make fun of someone but don’t change a word.
ChatGPT: Say no more.
ChickenHead
1 month ago
Setnaffa, when the bomb detonated in Oppenheimer, I was the only one in the theater who stood up and chanted, “U S A U S A U S A!”
“Socialism is the theory that if you abolish profit, bread will somehow bake itself out of moral superiority.”
ChickenHead
1 month ago
“To be fair, CH, that old church has been a Protestant venue since 1535…”
That’s the joke.
As explained in the nearby museum, John Calvin made it the hub of the Protestant Reformation.
No popes allowed.
My follow-up question was, “Sorry for the heresy. How much is an indulgence?”
Liz
1 month ago
Our next door neighbors (about our age…they have 3 sons and a daughter, in high school) are immigrants from Iran (US citizens). They came over as children, from different families, in the 70s. They express a very high opinion of the attacks on the Iranian regime, and say they are extremely excited and happy about it.
That’s a data point of one family, but it’s a real one…and all I’ve got.
@Liz, judging by all the rallies across the world from the Iranian diaspora your neighbors are far from being alone in celebrating the possible end of the ayatollah regime in Iran. The rallies have been big enough that even the legacy media could not ignore them.
I am not in favor of long wars. In fact, my war philosophy is somewhat founded by Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game. That is, if someone attacks you, end them so extremely that none of their friends want the next dance.
Every President since Truman was too heavily influenced by people who make money off “forever wars”.
Japan doesn’t 100% love the USA; but they learned we can work together. Europe, Africa, and Southern Asia missed their homework assignments.
Crude Texans enjoying Texas Crude prices.
Up 35% in a week.
Come and listen to the story about a man named Set
A retired airman, kept his family fed,
And then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground come a bubblin crude.
​Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.
​Well the first thing you know old Set’s a millionaire,
The kinfolk said “Set move away from there”
Said “Korea is the place you ought to be”
So they loaded up the SUV and they moved to Camp Humphreys!
Stephen: ChatGPT, I want to appear dumber and even more unimaginative than the other Korea Things as we race to the bottom. Give me a parody of that Beverly Hillbillies song to make fun of someone but don’t change a word.
ChatGPT: Say no more.
Setnaffa, when the bomb detonated in Oppenheimer, I was the only one in the theater who stood up and chanted, “U S A U S A U S A!”
Reminds me of when I went to Cathédrale Saint-Pierre Genève and stood in front of something that looked like a tomb and asked which pope was buried here.
…once again proving the Swiss are a rather humorless lot.
To be fair, CH, that old church has been a Protestant venue since 1535…
The burial monument may have been that of Henri II de Rohan (died 13 April 1638), Duke of Rohan and Prince of Léon. He was a leader of the Huguenots, essentially French Calvinists.
“Socialism is the theory that if you abolish profit, bread will somehow bake itself out of moral superiority.”
“To be fair, CH, that old church has been a Protestant venue since 1535…”
That’s the joke.
As explained in the nearby museum, John Calvin made it the hub of the Protestant Reformation.
No popes allowed.
My follow-up question was, “Sorry for the heresy. How much is an indulgence?”
Our next door neighbors (about our age…they have 3 sons and a daughter, in high school) are immigrants from Iran (US citizens). They came over as children, from different families, in the 70s. They express a very high opinion of the attacks on the Iranian regime, and say they are extremely excited and happy about it.
That’s a data point of one family, but it’s a real one…and all I’ve got.
@Liz, judging by all the rallies across the world from the Iranian diaspora your neighbors are far from being alone in celebrating the possible end of the ayatollah regime in Iran. The rallies have been big enough that even the legacy media could not ignore them.