Trump 5 deferments. Didn't Cheney get 5 as well?

Toward end didn't Cheney get some by getting married and having a child?

Both W and Quayle went into National Guard. AND W didn't serve out his full term. He went AWOL the last several months after he was relocated to GA (?).

And Kerry got 'swiftboated' although he actually served. As did Gore; he was pulled out of dangerous post because his dad was an important congressman.

Important Brish novel about the effects of WWI--Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth

I read this yrs ago. Riveting book.

Has anyone here read it?

Children early 1900s and now--ex from Tarkington's Penrod Jasper

Have you read the Penrod series--Penrod, Penrod and Sam, and Penrod Jasper??

In the 3rd Penrod wants to be a detective and is writing a diary as if he is a detective. He explains to his buddy Sam that he wants to study and solve crime.

BUT.....Penrod pronounces the word 'shrime'!!

He is a 12 yo boy of the upper middle class in the Midwest of the early 1900s and he has never heard anyone pronounce the word 'crime'!!

Booth Tarkington grew up in that world and apparently thought that was normal for a boy of that class in that time and place.

Today every 3yo has doubtless heard the word pronounced.

Site sells coloring book labelled 'for all ages'!!!??

Any RW spin on T punting WWI cemetary visit? Fox? Rush?

Who won MN attorney general race?

Do I need something more than membership to access DU this evening? Lost link to admin note.

Thanks for your help!

Voted bit after 10 in OK. Seemed like longer line than in 16. 1 hour roundtrip.

I have a walker. This time I found the process pretty difficult. Guess it's absentee ballot from now on. Getting old is maddening!

?!?! 40 million Evangelicals elected Brazil's new leader!!!!

From Oct 31 post by slacktivist at patheos.

Became Evangelicals through American missionaries!!

Evangelicals are preaching this election as a Holy War! T's opponents are demonic!

I don't believe we've ever before had this Holy War aspect of a US election.

This is very dangerous. Anything and everything is ok when you're fighting demons for your very soul and for the soul of your family, church, and nation.