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This lead me down another rabbit hole this morning. Those alumn who have been around here a while may remember William Speelman, aka Eastside Billie. Evidently his band recorded a song called Jim Walewander Blues that received a bit of airplay. Especially in Lakeland during Spring Training

September 9 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-9

September 8 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-8

I get that, but isn't there a current test for citizenship? Can't the Regime do selective "grading" if they choose. Still I'd tie it to requirements that candidates for state and federal offices take a comprehensive test on constitutional and historic subjects as a condition for running for office?

My whole point. Especially regarding those who want to "serve" us. If you can't pass a literacy test you don't deserve to govern. Elitist I know, but to quote JD Vance....

I can't argue with the concept of a tougher citizenship test. But I will propose all office seekers and appointees to federal offices also be required to take the test with the results being public.

September 7 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-7

I think Murrow saw this coming. Watch George Clooney's Good Night and Good Luck. Hopefully the Broadway edition they did on CNN is on YouTube or floating around somewhere. The highlight to me has always been his speech to the RTNDA ( now called the Radio TV Digitial News Association) back in the day it was the Radio Television News Directors Association. Now it seems that there is no news to direct.

Frankly if we reach DEFCON 1, I don't think it really matters. We need to start teaching our grandkids how to effectively Duck and Cover

Trying real hard for that Nobel Peace Prize thingy

I don’t understand why they keep bending themselves into pretzels to defend him

September 6 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-6 Happy Birthday Marquis de Lafayette (you can't miss him in these parts. He seems to be everywhere)

Very telling that L’agent Orange wasn’t invited

If this is anywhere near the truth then Trump would have been yelling it from the White House rooftop. Release the files and instead of redacting Trump’s name black out the victims.

Karma is a bitch....

Was having flashbacks to a minor league game I attended about 50 years ago. Freak accident where the right fielder dove for a short fly and collided with the second baseman. The kid's head hit the second baseman's knee (he was wearing a brace). Ironically the infielder, a organizational player, had signed the kid to his first pro contract

The Tiffany Network is now just fake jewelry with bad rhinestones

I trust people who actually know the law than some schlub on the internet or a talk show host with no qualifications to be Sec of War Corn, a law professor at Texas Tech University, noted that critics have condemned U.S. drone strikes since 2001 against militants in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries as extrajudicial killings, but those strikes were legitimate, he said, because the U.S. was engaged in an armed conflict under the laws of war against al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who is now at the International Crisis Group, said that designation of drug cartels as terrorist groups doesn’t authorize the use of military force against them. Rather it enables the U.S. to levy sanctions and pursue criminal prosecutions against individuals who support the groups. Nor can military action be justified under the law Congress passed authorizing the use of force against al Qaeda and related terrorist groups following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, experts said. For the military to use force, “there needs to be a legitimate claim of self-defense in international waters, an action that is necessary and proportional in response to an armed attack or imminent armed attack,” said Juan Gonzalez, who served as the National Security Council’s senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs during the Biden administration. “That clearly didn’t happen.”

I will type this very slowly so maybe you will understand. What was done was done illegally under International Law. The drug lords, if that was actually on the boat, are not at war with the US. The most expedient thing to do was to keep track of the vessel, and when it came into US waters have the Coast Guard board it, seize the contents and arrest everyone on the ship. In essence we stopped one shipload of drugs, killed a bunch of people.Big Deal. It's why we're losing the War on Drugs because of shortsightedness by people like you. But the bottom line is that was only one shipment. Go after the head of the snake, not the tail. This action only made the Drug Lords more determined.

Maybe if G Man could point out where in US or International Law the President has the sole authority to fire on a vessel in international waters without presenting proof. 1) Last I checked drug smuggling is not a capital crime. 2) Only Congress has the power to declare war Beside the fact it was outside International Law. I’s like using a shotgun to kill a gnat Trump will never get to heaven that way and I pray his apologists don’t either

Now do Fox and OAN

One question was anyone who was involved in the hiring of these individuals charged with anything. And why not?

Good for the NRA for coming out with this