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Occasional Reader
5/31/2021 6:52:58 AM
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May we restore and preserve the Republic that all of these brave souls fought to protect.
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buzzsawmonkey
5/31/2021 7:28:49 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1: +++++++++
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Occasional Reader
5/31/2021 8:13:40 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 3:
“ Democratic state Sen. Shevrin Jones said he wants DeSantis to do more than just pray. He’s calling on the governor to sit down with Democrats to discuss meaningful ways of addressing gun violence. “Thoughts and prayers have been going on for years and thoughts and prayers haven’t done a damn thing inside the Black community — or any community when it comes to gun violence,” Jones said.” Golly, here’s one idea that might help: stop shooting each other.
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buzzsawmonkey
5/31/2021 9:45:15 AM
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In #6 Occasional Reader said: Biden and Harris both apparently think that memorial day is simply a “long weekend“. I think of their administration as a long, weak end.
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Occasional Reader
5/31/2021 10:36:22 AM
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In #7 buzzsawmonkey said: I think of their administration as a long, weak end. Also, kind of a “Lost Weekend”, in the Ray Milland sense; but they’re going to leave US (and even more so, our descendants) with the hangover.
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JCM
5/31/2021 11:34:41 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6: You'd think they'd be self aware enough not to use a pic of President Dementia chatting up a sweet young thing.
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buzzsawmonkey
5/31/2021 11:42:34 AM
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If people want to lighten the mood, while keeping in the spirit of the day, I suggest that they consider watching the Preston Sturges comedy "Hail the Conquering Hero." It's a complex film---and, I confess, I didn't "get" it the first time I saw it, but have since come to find it quite moving. The lead is played by Eddie Bracken, who was born right as his father, a Marine sergeant, fell at Belleau Wood in WWI, and who grew up in the shadow of his fallen, heroic father. When WWII breaks out, he tries to enlist in the Marines, but is rejected for chronic hayfever. None of the other services will have him either, so he takes a job working in a shipyard, but lies to his mother about what he is doing. He's in a bar at the beginning of the film when he hears that six Marines, veterans of Guadalcanal (William Demarest plays their sergeant) are ordering one beer between the six of them because they're broke, and he pays their bill. It turns out that Demarest knew his father at Belleau Wood, and, largely for the sake of his father, they decide to take him home and pass him off as a Marine so that he can go back to his home and mother. Bracken fights against this imposture, but the Marines, who are vicariously enjoying the adulation Bracken is receiving, refuse to let him tell the town the truth---and the town decides that they want their hometown hero for their mayor. Bracken, in the end, confesses before the entire town that this is all stolen valor---but Demarest steps forth to tell the town that he considers this a genuine heroism, and in the end the town decides they still want him. It is a funny, and very moving, film---and quite an achievement in that it was made in 1944, while WWII was still on.
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Occasional Reader
5/31/2021 2:48:35 PM
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Discussion question: are the Progs trying to rebrand this as “Tulsa massacre memorial weekend“?
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buzzsawmonkey
5/31/2021 3:13:04 PM
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In #13 Occasional Reader said: Discussion question: are the Progs trying to rebrand this as “Tulsa massacre memorial weekend“? Interesting thought. I'd merely been thinking that since the Left found three doorstops who had lived through the event as children, they were trying to use them as a fulcrum for leveraging the "reparations" narrative that they're pushing.
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Kosh's Shadow
5/31/2021 3:18:20 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 13: I pay so little attention to the prog (should be trog, but that would be insulting to cavemen) media I wouldn't know.
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Kosh's Shadow
5/31/2021 3:20:40 PM
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In #15 Kosh's Shadow said: (should be trog, but that would be insulting to cavemen) A few years ago, I saw a TV show, "I, Caveman", in which around 10 volunteers had to live as cavemen. They had it easy, as experts had already made their huts, spears, clothes, etc. Cavemen would have found a use for people like modern day progs - bait.
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Kosh's Shadow
5/31/2021 3:53:00 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 16: OTOH, progs are like cavemen in they believe in magic and incantations.
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Kosh's Shadow
5/31/2021 4:23:29 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 17:
Proglodytes
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