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RHMerriman
RHMerriman's Journal
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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 COULDNT BE BEAT!
[link:https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/21/18104601/alices-restaurant-arlo-guthrie-thanksgiving|]
As the bard himself said:
Its 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
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?
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
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|]
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
See:
[link:http://apnews.com/8f4baf7aaddc442dad0a726f3ebe7fff|
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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