Besides f- this guy I'd like to add one to all the people who claim they forgot. Most are probably lying but either way they all deserve some time in jail and a permanent ban on firearm ownership.

>Last year, the Transportation Security Administration seized a record 6,542 guns at airports around the country. Most people who are stopped for having a gun at an airport checkpoint say they forgot they had the weapon with them.

A commander responsible organizing and planning the deaths of how many hundreds or more? Causing fear and suffering throughout the region.

I'm not minimizing our casualties. I live near an army base that's home to a lot of special operations people. My first thought was a worry for a friend. Or his friends. I've seen what TBI's can do people walking around on an artificial leg when I just go to get groceries.

I don't appreciate you that last line of yours though. it sounds flippant and disrespectful. And as I've pointed out ignores how much death and maiming he was responsible for.

Not likely. When I lived in japan I met and spoke with people who lived through the war. For the most part they expressed a genuine thankfulness for the US bringing the war to an end, freeing them from a military dictatorship and the very surprising to them at the time kindness of American troops and macArthur's GHQ. Giving trainloads of grain to people who are starving will do that.

One man was a boy through it all and had very fond memories of playing baseball with GI's and being given chewing gum. He led a Buddhist Temple and we hit it off quite well. : )

hiroshima and nagasaki are more complex but largely viewed with sadness rather than resentment or anger. And of course a commitment to try to prevent the use of nuclear weapons ever again.

There are right wing nationalists of course who see the war very differently. And they will sometimes let you know it in drunken rage slurs.

It's a complex situation and unlike the Germans the Japanese have a bad habit of just wanting to forget the war years and focus on the rebirth of their country afterwards. From my eight years there I can't imagine any but the extreme nationalist showing or expressing any disrespect to war grave of our sailors.

Yes. I was hoping someone would mention that horrible fact.

Y'all even have cheap healthcare for horses?!! I'm gonna get a buddy and horse suit and be right down! And don't ya dare say neigh!

Yes there were reports recently that France was thinking of sending Mirage's.

To be fair those were desperately needed and very useful for helping Ukraine slow and stop the russian advance.

Very good shit that matters on the ground. Serious hat tip to Lithuania!

All i care about is they be long enough to go to the bathroom, load up on snacks and grab a beer. But not so long i have to watch much.

Ah, so in this case it's only being completely misinformed and ignorant of their primary job responsibility. If you're cashier that's not good. If your job is overseeing executions it's a wee bit more egregious. Right up there with an incompetent short order cook at Waffle House. /s The threads of civilization unraveling.

I would like to share some observations from working in library. Some people have insanely controlling parents who won't let their children read harry Potter because they think it's satanic. Magic is real and dangerous to them. Libraries are also a refuge for many homeless people. To keep warm, to keep cool, to not get harassed and arrested for sitting down. I met too many young adults who were kicked out on the street at 16 or so for being gay.

There were women we never checked ID for because they were in a shelter for abused women as their ex's might well have kidnapped and even killed them. had a long talk with a woman who was violently raped. Plenty of people fear the stigma of a mental illness like depression and others.

If someone has to check out a book it goes in the system and if someone in their family gets their library card number, as controlling people will do, they can look up every item checked out.

My point is there very much is a need.

I understand that may seem crazy to you, but too many people are forced to survive as best they can in very crazy and bad situations. Giving them access to information to help them survive and escape is a necessary service.

I'm actually getting a bit upset from recalling some of the suffering I saw. While working as a librarian. On the funnier side someone managed to take a poop in an aisle of books. That was a bit of a surprise.

The Federal Guidelines the school admin is blaming for their horrible decisions require the students be provided an education. That could be in their home, or at an alternative school where troubled and disruptive students are sent.

I think they should have ankle bracelets and be confined to their homes. But we had the same thing happen in a nearby Kentucky town. Group of 4 o5 raped a boy with a broom handle punctured his intestine. But locally their families had influence. They did go to jail eventually, but then the Republican gov pardoned them after he lost reelection. The south and places like WV have some very corrupt places.

> For a fireplace you want pretty long yellow fire,

I get that many or most people want just the appearance of a fire. I'm on the side of wanting heat. But I also love the smell of a real wood fire and the crackling and popping, which is most likely way less efficient than you could get with the proper mixture from a gas one.

Americans tend to be historically challenged so to most the people I know 400 years ago is 'ancient.' Have to write for your audience I guess. A friend had his editor review what he wrote and was told to dumb it down to a 5th grade reading level. Then there's the old saw that compares years and miles/Kms in other places vs the US.

Looks delicious! Reminds me of a meal I had at an 'American style' restaurant in Japan but better lol. Being from midwest cattle raising country the steak's smaller than I'm used to but also a healthier serving size lol. The veggies and presentation look wonderful! I'd have to skip all but a taste of the rice as with the fries that'd be too many carbs for me now that I've gotten older. I've had devoured it all when I was a young man though. : )

They look comfy and obviously feel safe!

The port of Brest was occupied until the end of the war. And Caen wasn't the only place that got hammered into rubble. The rail lines and locomotive stock were trashed. The nazis had deported a lot of their working age men for forced labor as well. "600,000 to 650,000 French workers were sent to Germany between June 1942 and July 1944." More than 75,000 jews were deported and 72,500 of them murdered. Military and civilians deaths were 567,600

Those kind of things really hurt your GDP. There were also quite a number fighting in Free French divisions who weren't working. This is very similar in ukraine right now. They've got men and women serving at the front and in the military who are not contributing to normal economic activity. Ukraine is fighting heroically but it comes at great cost in so many ways when your country is a warzone. That's why it's so important to continue aid in not just weapons but financial support.

Having a friend who was in the system and another who did DCS work, just typing up the reports, not even having to see the child victims of abuse in person, I can't emphasize enough that some of that shit is traumatic. Maybe it's just hate the world, can't eat or sleep until you can block it out. But that shit piles up.

The helplessness of not being able to do anything to give those hurt and neglected children the kind of life and circumstances that would help them heal or even just close to normal is brutal.

Having a friend who was in the system and another who did DCS work, just typing up the reports, not even having to see the child victims of abuse in person, I can't emphasize enough that some of that shit is traumatic. Maybe it's just hate the world, can't eat or sleep until you can block it out. But that shit piles up.

The helplessness of not being able to do anything to give those hurt and neglected children the kind of life and circumstances that would help them heal or even just close to normal is brutal.