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RHMerriman

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November 22, 2018

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my fellow misguided children who were injected, inspected, detected

infected, neglected and selected!

Hope you all have a Thanksgiving dinner that COULDN’T BE BEAT!

[link:https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/21/18104601/alices-restaurant-arlo-guthrie-thanksgiving|]

As the bard himself said:

“It’s celebrating idiocy you might say,” Guthrie said in 2005. “I mean, thank God that the people that run this world are not smart enough to keep running it forever.”

Peace out and Happy Thanksgiving.

November 2, 2018

Operation ENDURING BOREDOM


Great story from Mother Jones laying out the realities of the operational situation at the US-Mexico border.

[link:http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/operation-enduring-boredom-what-troops-will-actually-face-when-caravan-members-eventually-arrive/|

Trump's orders will be dragging these soldiers away from their families at Thanksgiving and from training for their next actual deployment over the winter.

If it weren't so sad, it would be fucking comical.

What if you had an "invasion" and nobody came?
October 27, 2018

Fox Sports staff are idiots


Don't know if this will post, but apparently they mistook Sandy Koufax for Bill Nye at last night's Boston-LA game.

[link:http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-live-dodgers-world-series-fox-sports-mistakes-sandy-koufax-for-1540675551-htmlstory.html#nt=card|]
October 21, 2018

Today's highlight from the campaign trail...

If an actual Democratic candidate, rather than Trudeau's character Melissa, started talking like this...

[link:http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/|

October 17, 2018

Trump admits he's a coward...

AP asks why he has yet to visit US forces in a combat zone:

And he defended his decision to break from his predecessors and not yet visit a military base in a combat zone, claiming it was not “overly necessary.”


See:
[link:http://apnews.com/8f4baf7aaddc442dad0a726f3ebe7fff|

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American citizen, veteran, liberal, and a proud Democrat.

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