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Good on TV is definite requirement. Either of the VA senators fit that? Is Tammy Duckworth that? She has a compelling story.

Schumer works out with those guys and thinks they are all good down under.

The opposition party needs to understand that the GOP is doing nothing in good faith.

I think Murphy is a possible candidate. He's been on the problem.

did she FAFO? By existing.

Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis could read the phonebook and it would be good watching. I'm down.

But how would he have fared at Kohima or Vicksburg?

we are def on that one. So good. My son and I are reading the books as well.

He's mentally imbalanced and taking more and more drugs. So, its really a question of what is the most irrational self-defeating thing he can do...he doesn't lack for imagination in this area.

bam...I just reminded myself to watch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People again.

The Wire is catnip for people in the investigative field. They don't make the crooks out to be infallible but they also learn from the moves the cops make. To quote Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (also a great series in this genre) everyone is a half-angel fighting a half-devil.

He's so damn good Jason: "It was quiet uptown for Gleyber Torres." Carlos: "I was in the room where it happened"

the Dems/the opposition need a wartime consiglieri. Part of the reason the British and the Americans struggle in the first part of wars but eventually won was the leadership shakeout period. You have to dump your McClellans and your Fredenhalls or your Noel Irwin to replace them with US Grant, DD Eisenhower or in the latter case with Bill Slim. The Dems need to get rid of Sky Marshall Dienes with Sky Marshall Maru. "To beat the bug you have to understand the bug" Mere aggression and "can do spirit" won't work.

I like this Vancouver International Auto Show removes Tesla, citing safety concerns at event | AP News They probably mean picketing and acts of vandalism but they should mean the cars are unsafe to drive.

well duh https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=119923733 https://archive.is/Yp8Hf#selection-677.0-681.217 USAID employees better not speak with accent or have tattoos or they will be sent to El Salvador.

oh nice

My god. Ubergruppenfuhrer Martin is pretty devious to swat the US Institute of Peace.

More on Dropkick Murphys. I'll be doing a deep dive on The Pogues and the bagpipe Green Day cover band Green Daye shown in the first season of "Community" next.

Nice if true

Reading "Island Infernos" from James McManus about the US Army in the Pacific War. Why this is interesting to me: most WWII history of the pacific dwell on the USMC and USN to the exclusion of the Army. About 50% through this. Most interesting insights: MacArthur's Army commanders Kreuger and Eichelberger were as different as US Army generals could be and hated each other. McManus always raves about the tremendous logistical footprint of the US in the Pacific in the podcasts I listen to with him, and here he also goes into detail about the numbers a lot...one of those details was the number of baseball and softball leagues on Bouganville which was an important staging base in the Solomons. He covers the war in Burma and the Merrils Marauders campaign which appears to have been a creation to empower General Stilwell to say that US troops were engaged in the fight to rebuild the Burma Road. The unit was abused heavily by both Merrill and Stilwell and were basically combat ineffective from being forced to do things in the Jungle terrain you just can't repeat from a European or eastern United States climate template. Its interesting how many of these generals understood China from the inter-war years. Talking about General Wainright's POW experience. How much these leaders were consumed by depression over having to surrender and having no agency over their men's lives in Japanese POW camps. McManus goes into a lot of interesting detail on the f'ups these legends of history make. That alone is worth the read. Island Infernos: The U.S. Army’s Pacific War Odyssey, 1944 | JohnCMcManus.com

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ahh...

My blood, my anger...is that of Lincoln's right now.

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