Then there's those clearly anti-Semitic pyramids...

Oh, geez......

21 million people in the city.

That’s good to know, does anyone else we know say it?

@Jolly said in The Generals:

@taiwan_girl said in The Generals:

The code says:
“Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”

But, what is contemptuous words exactly?

Anything disparaging, especially any type of public utterence.

Interestingly, if you look at the article, all of the 'contemptuous words' come from retired personnel, and not subject to court-martial. None of the active members of the military said anything contemptuous.

Ask them for a version of the job description in Mandarin.
Might be fun.

I hope they are careful not to hurt anybody's emotions.

I enjoyed reading that article.

Wow... 2020, the year when the Onion headlines weren’t actually a joke

OK, so now I thought maybe Mik's wife's name is Chloe.
She's not though, right?

@Mik
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Oops just replied with this in Jolly’s thread:

A man fighting cops, stealing their taser, running away and turning and pointing the taser at the cops...gee, what do you think would happen if YOU did that, black or white or any color?

@George-K thats funny!

C'mon. It's Saturday.

I don't believe it is ethically appropriate for an old white male to be the subject of any of our cultural compassion and empathy at this time. I have decided to redirect all sympathies I would normally have for this old while male to the unjustly murdered Black man in Atlanta, and I call on all of us with good and just hearts to do likewise.

@Catseye3 said in 57 Resign:

Well, what in hell possessed the woman to kneel with the protesters???

The police chief obviously hates police.

Y'know, Bolton is too smart and too knowledgeable to have made that error. I do not believe all is as described, or he has something different in mind.

The cabbage will go all mushy. I wouldn't. Just eat it up in a couple days, which won't be a problem because that is DEE-licious.

Freezing seems to be the order of the day. I just picked up an order at Kroger. I ordered one pound of green beans and got a four pound bag! I love green beans but we won't eat that in a month.

So I guess I will flash freeze them on a cookie sheet then put them into a freezer bag.

@Catseye3 said in Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone:

I just spent a couple of minutes watching the action. Crowds, energy, lots of capering around like kids released from school for summer break.

I'm with Loki. That novelty excitement will die down pretty quick. People will start recalling the crap that infiltrated their lives before: Annoying boy/girlfriends, annoying parents, fear of parental punishment when they go back home, job loss (money) worries -- all the boring mundane stuff that they in their initial effervescence were too glad to escape will loom real once again. Especially as the inconveniences encroach more. "Eh, what's a little street gravel" will turn into, "Eww, what's that?"

I don't feel quite as disapproving as some in here, maybe because I still remember these shows from when I was also young and wild. Okay, I was never wild; wildish. I never took part in them myself, but I smoked with 'em, you bet, and I remember the joyful recklessness in their faces.

Feeling kind of nostalgic, actually.

Yes, I think their commitment will wane very shortly and they will miss their own futons. This is a tantrum, and poorly designed at that.

Yes, they are, for all intents and purposes, today's hippies. Even when I rather looked like one I disliked hippies. Naive and loopy, the kind of idiots who were astonished when they were actually arrested for various and sundry illegal things. But I was much more of a street kid anyway.