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Here's the link for the Summer Finals Thread!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215873302Please keep kicked and thanks to everybody!
***September Photo Contest: Summer*** Finals Thread
Here are the ten photos that made the finals! Please vote for the one that you think best embodies the idea of Summer.
This poll will run 72 hours and then I will announce the winner and runners-up.
Please leave comments as we do love to hear what you think!
Summer time and the livin' is joyous
Summer Sunset
Sun in Splendour
Storm rolling in on Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina
Hot Summer Daze
Frog on Lilypad
Urban Summer Garden (Kinda)
Butterflies and Flowers
Milkweed
Summer Storm
Just felt a pretty sharp earthquake here in the South Bay near LAX.
Haven't looked it up yet, but I will.
Out of nowhere!
This e-card is for Solly Mack, as she recovers! Please come and sign it! Thanks to all of you. ♥
Op-Ed in the Washington Post by Jennifer Rubin is well worth reading!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/15/milley-revelation-leaves-us-with-five-questions/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F34b152b%2F614368f79d2fda9d41cf2f25%2F5be88d8dade4e2323ef2d753%2F17%2F72%2F614368f79d2fda9d41cf2f25We already knew the disgraced former president was suffering from the delusion that he won the 2020 election. We knew he tried to twist arms to overthrow the election. And we knew he refused for hours to call off the insurrectionists whom he inspired to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6. What we did not know is how irresponsible so many other Republicans were and continue to be in tolerating and enabling him.
The Post reports: “Twice in the final months of the Trump administration . . . Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, that the United States would not strike, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political reporter Robert Costa.”
Woodward and Costa also reveal that Milley took special care to instruct the chain of command not to carry out an order for a nuclear strike in the waning days of the Trump administration. They also relay a candid conversation in which Milley and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) agreed that the commander in chief was unstable. All of this leaves us with five questions:
First, what guarantees must be put in place to prevent an unstable president from setting off a nuclear war? Milley is right that, as chairman of the joint chiefs, he is to be included in a decision to authorize a nuclear strike. Beyond that, Tom Nichols, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, explains, “No one can countermand [a nuclear strike order from the president]. But the commander of STRATCOM could say ‘this is an illegal order and I am not bound to follow it.’” Nichols adds, “[The president] can then start relieving people until he gets to someone who will follow the order.” (This view was affirmed in a critical Senate hearing in 2017.) Plainly, an order to authorize a nuclear strike without provocation would violate the laws of war, which among other things require proportionality.
The rest at the link.
Here's the links for the three threads:
Thread One:https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215861893
Thread Two:https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215861892
Thread Three:https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215861890
Please keep 'em kicked and enjoy! Thanks everybody!
***September Photo Contest : Summer***Preliminary Thread One of Three
Please vote for the photo that you believe shows what Summer is all about!
There are three threads. Please vote in each one and leave comments, as we love to read them!
These preliminary threads will run for 72 hours. They are posted in GD with the permission of the Administrators.
Link to Thread Two: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215861892
Link to Thread Three: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215861890
Summer Sunset
This is living.
Sun in Splendour
Lilypads
Erie Angler
Summer time and the livin' is joyous
Summer Honey
Old Wood, New Wood
Mild the mist upon the branch
Oak Leaf Hydrangea in June
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Name: PeggyGender: Female
Hometown: Manhattan Beach, CA
Home country: USA
Current location: At home
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