VP Mike Pence Receives Remains of Korean War Dead in Hawaii

The North Koreans do seem to be attempting a show of respect, if not the genuine article.

.@POTUS asked that I travel to Hawaii to receive the remains of our US service members who fell in the Korean War. As the son of a Korean War combat veteran, it’s deeply humbling to be part of this historic moment. We’ll never forget the sacrifices of these brave service members. pic.twitter.com/Lmddn0C4GS
— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) July 27, 2018

This is not everything, but it's also not nothing.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 04:30 PM

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1 Welcome home, dear patriots. RIP.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2018 04:30 PM (5jVnA)

2 I was napping. Damn it!

Posted by: Judge-King Kamehameha V at July 27, 2018 04:32 PM (vDqXW)

3 Good start.

Now bend the knee, Kim.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2018 04:32 PM (AzW6q)

4 This is not everything, but it's also not nothing.
Posted by: Ace of Spades at 04:30 PM

It's orders of magnitude more than any other president in 65 years has done.

G-d bless their memory.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 04:32 PM (G4W16)

5 I need to find my staff....

You SHALL NOT PASS!!!

Posted by: Judge-King Kamehameha V at July 27, 2018 04:32 PM (vDqXW)

6 Obama got back the bodies of war dead! Course he had to create them first - Ambassadors and everything!

Then stood over coffins and lied.

Now THAT is a President. Yessiiiireeeeeeee bobcattail

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 27, 2018 04:33 PM (37IEG)

7 Reviewing the battle of Guadalcanal I note the Japanese used Koreans as slave labor at what became known as Henderson Field. Just tossing it out there.

Posted by: DanMan at July 27, 2018 04:33 PM (QMG5F)

8 God bless their souls and welcome home, soldiers.

Posted by: Sponge at July 27, 2018 04:33 PM (F4u7C)

9 Can we get Fr. Emil Kapaun back?

Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 04:33 PM (e7oj4)

10 I think history will be kind to us re Korea - a noble fight.

Posted by: rammajamma at July 27, 2018 04:34 PM (xceTB)

11 Negotiations as a series of improving measures obtained at low cost, as opposed to a single over-sold deal that dramatically underdelivers.

Feeling good about the Trump negotiations at almost all points internationally. If the Iranians and Palis aren't very worried... they bloody should be.

Posted by: trev006 at July 27, 2018 04:34 PM (jji54)

12 But that does make it kind of glaring that Trump is about the only President to get the NorK's to give us back the bodies.

Must be a fluke. They were GOING to do that, but Obama was soooo busy saving everyone from everything he just didn't have time to take their calls offering to do it.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 27, 2018 04:34 PM (37IEG)

13 But COHEN!!!!

Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2018 04:34 PM (O2RFr)

14
It's something. It's certainly not a pallet of cash headed to North Korea.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 27, 2018 04:34 PM (LOgQ4)

15 7 Reviewing the battle of Guadalcanal I note the Japanese used Koreans as slave labor at what became known as Henderson Field. Just tossing it out there.
Posted by: DanMan at July 27, 2018 04:33 PM (QMG5F)

A lot worse than that. Medical experiments as bad or worse than Mengele at Auschwitz.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 04:34 PM (G4W16)

16 the Lord bless and keep them; shine His face on them and grant them peace

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at July 27, 2018 04:35 PM (fDmLV)

17 13 But COHEN!!!!
Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2018 04:34 PM (O2RFr)

Donny put two scoops on that Cohen...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 04:35 PM (G4W16)

18 Eight years and obama never asked North Korea once for this. Sorry but he literally and actually hated America and our Military especially.

Posted by: The Girthy Trunk of Ganesha at July 27, 2018 04:35 PM (JUOKG)

19 It looks like the GOP warmonger fuckholes passed a bill that prohibits military to military cooperation with Russia.

Trump had signaled he wanted to work with Russia to solve the Syria crisis.

You know the GOP sure likes to see Americans killed in pointless wars.

Assholes.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 27, 2018 04:35 PM (FquqN)

20 Will the remains be verified and identified?

Posted by: josephistan at July 27, 2018 04:35 PM (Izzlo)

21 Trump allegedly banged hot women and paid for their silence about it.

THE HORROR!!!!!

Clinton raped women, frequented pedo island and left a trail of bodies everywhere.

HERO!!!!

Fuck the left.

Posted by: Sponge at July 27, 2018 04:35 PM (F4u7C)

22 6 Obama got back the bodies of war dead! Course he had to create them first - Ambassadors and everything!

Then stood over coffins and lied.

Don't remind me I'm still seething over this. He and Hillary lying their fucking heads off... And getting away with it...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2018 04:35 PM (O2RFr)

23 I guess we could just say Obama was a f*ing a**hole of a President and be done with it.

But that wouldn't be any fun.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 27, 2018 04:36 PM (37IEG)

24 Mr. Trump...I say...uuuuuuuuh...you ... uuuuuhhhhh ... didn't build that.

Posted by: Whammy Obammy at July 27, 2018 04:36 PM (vDqXW)

25 Will the remains be verified and identified?

Yes. There will be real forensics done in Hawaii.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 27, 2018 04:36 PM (fuK7c)

26 I wonder if the military's MIA program has already taken DNA samples of all the families of missing soldiers. That could prove useful hundreds of years in the future when further remains are uncovered.

Alos, maybe it should be standard practice to take DNA of new recruits for this same purpose.

Posted by: Serious Car at July 27, 2018 04:36 PM (aNP7B)

27 I keep saying it, this guy is going to liberate Korea.

Posted by: Leonard Pinth-Garnell at July 27, 2018 04:36 PM (7A6l6)

28 If trump gets impeached. pence becomes president. Does pence get to name a VP?

What if he names Trump as VP. Life insurance.

Posted by: Simplemind at July 27, 2018 04:36 PM (Cihva)

29 Would SJW's little minds blow if they were educated enough to see the racist attitudes between groups of what they consider to be the homogenous 'Asians?'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM (oVJmc)

30 Will the remains be verified and identified?

As best they can... They are supposedly not sure how many are Americans and not Canadian, British, or Korean...South Korean

Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM (O2RFr)

31 North Korean Collusion!! OMG.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM (2LelM)

32 27 I keep saying it, this guy is going to liberate Korea.

Posted by: Leonard Pinth-Garnell at July 27, 2018 04:36 PM (7A6l6)

Reunite. Iran will be liberated.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM (G4W16)

33 I think the return of those hostages being held a few months ago and now this, bodes well for peace talks.

The frantic left keeps saying Trump walked away with nothing from his talk with Kim.. but they forget about the release of those Americans.. and now this..

Gestures.. yes.. but good ones.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM (so+oy)

34 28 If trump gets impeached. pence becomes president. Does pence get to name a VP?

Yes

Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM (O2RFr)

35 Cavuto interviewed the daughter of one of our MIA. Her dad was a pilot whose plane went down, and there were stories of the Soviets taking some of our POW's back to the USSR.

She just wants to know if her dad died....or worse.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM (ptqGC)

36 Humbling indeed.

My father flew the F-86 Sabre Jet in Korea. He made it home but so many he knew didn't.

Posted by: Cheri at July 27, 2018 04:38 PM (oiNtH)

37 No more nuke tests, no more missle tests, and our war dead are coming back to us. Yeah, I'm calling this a win.

Posted by: pookysgirl at July 27, 2018 04:38 PM (XKZwp)

38 seeing the blue boxes brought tears to my eyes.

Posted by: LMD Outer Banker at July 27, 2018 04:38 PM (YuQLm)

39 And because I'd like to lighten it up a little...

Here is Cesar Santos demonstrating how he paints a portrait of Jordan Peterson.

https://tinyurl.com/y8gz4sho

Posted by: Kreplach at July 27, 2018 04:38 PM (FquqN)

40 She just wants to know if her dad died....or worse.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM (ptqGC)

Back from the midget shelter?

Posted by: Sponge at July 27, 2018 04:38 PM (F4u7C)

41 God bless them. This gives some closure to their families.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at July 27, 2018 04:38 PM (RD7QR)

42
Alos, maybe it should be standard practice to take DNA of new recruits for this same purpose.
Posted by: Serious Car at July 27, 2018 04:36 PM (aNP7B)

They've been doing that since the early 90s, if memory serves.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 27, 2018 04:38 PM (eXA4G)

43 18 Eight years and obama never asked North Korea once for this. Sorry but he literally and actually hated America and our Military especially.
Posted by: The Girthy Trunk of Ganesha at July 27, 2018 04:35 PM (JUOKG)

--History should see the Zero regime recognized as a bad two-night stand.

Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 04:39 PM (e7oj4)

44
30 Will the remains be verified and identified?
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Yes. The US Army has a Graves Registration unit in Hawaii that does DNA analysis on all remains and can confirm the service member is who he is based on family DNA. We won't have any Unknown Soldiers in the future.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 27, 2018 04:39 PM (2LelM)

45 Its possible that North Korea might have been willing to do this stuff before, but nobody would talk to them or listen. In any case, this seems to be a good step in the right direction.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2018 04:39 PM (39g3+)

46 It looks like the GOP warmonger fuckholes passed a bill that prohibits military to military cooperation with Russia.

Trump had signaled he wanted to work with Russia to solve the Syria crisis.

You know the GOP sure likes to see Americans killed in pointless wars.

Assholes.
Posted by: Kreplach at July 27, 2018 04:35 PM (FquqN)

The Commander in Chief holds a lot of options when it comes to the military.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 27, 2018 04:39 PM (y8Foj)

47 Ford named a VP. Nelson Rockefeller.

Rumsfeld wrote a book about Ford's Presidency. Rockefeller was a meddling leftist goon and choosing him was Ford's biggest mistake.

I hope Pence does better.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at July 27, 2018 04:39 PM (fDmLV)

48 36 Humbling indeed.

My father flew the F-86 Sabre Jet in Korea. He made it home but so many he knew didn't.
Posted by: Cheri at July 27, 2018 04:38 PM (oiNtH)

Beautiful plane. I think there will be one flying at the Honor Flight at the NAS Oceana Air Show that I'll be at in September.

Posted by: josephistan at July 27, 2018 04:39 PM (Izzlo)

49 If trump gets impeached. pence becomes president. Does pence get to name a VP?

Yes
Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM (O2RFr)
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Too lazy to look up the specifics, but nobody can be VP who can't be POTUS. I somehow don't think you can just run again if you are impeached.

Of course, that would be awesome, if the Dems impeached him, and tanked everything like they are good at, and Trump had 2 more terms....

Posted by: Whammy Obammy at July 27, 2018 04:39 PM (vDqXW)

50
The frantic left keeps saying Trump walked away
with nothing from his talk with Kim.. but they forget about the release
of those Americans.. and now this..

Gestures.. yes.. but good ones.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM (so+oy)

As opposed to threatening us more. Like they did the entire time Big Ears was President.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 27, 2018 04:40 PM (37IEG)

51 If trump gets impeached. pence becomes president. Does pence get to name a VP?

Yes
Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM (O2RFr)

Donald Trump Jr.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 27, 2018 04:40 PM (y8Foj)

52 47 Ford named a VP. Nelson Rockefeller.

Rumsfeld wrote a book about Ford's Presidency. Rockefeller was a meddling leftist goon and choosing him was Ford's biggest mistake.

I hope Pence does better.
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at July 27, 2018 04:39 PM (fDmLV)

Before there was RINO, there was Rockefeller Republicans.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 04:40 PM (G4W16)

53 It's maddening see the MFM and Progs (but I repeat myself) rooting against the de-nuclearization of North Korea. It's as if they WANT a nuke to go off in this country. What's a few thousand (or more) dead Americans if it makes Trump look bad?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (ptqGC)

54 They've been doing that since the early 90s, if memory serves.
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We also do it and facial, eye scans and fingerprints for all 'natives' we run into in country. Its called Biometrics. All the data is stored in a secret cave in Virginia. I'd tell you more by they'd kill me.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (2LelM)

55 Its possible that North Korea might have been willing to do this stuff before, but nobody would talk to them or listen. In any case, this seems to be a good step in the right direction.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2018 04:39 PM (39g3+)
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Trump's a big win-win guy--if it can be done.

Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (vDqXW)

56 "This is not everything, but it's also not nothing."

It actually is just about everything to a very large number of people. There are over 80,000 service members still listed as "Missing" since (and including) World War II. That's 80,000 families who received the worst news possible but have received closure.

Even decades after a death in the military the identification of remains and their repatriation can finally allow a family to heal. Trump does this because he can and not for praise. It is something that will resonate with a huge number of people in America.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (BfOXk)

57 Rockefellers are best enjoyed in a New Guinean stew.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (fDmLV)

58 From the side bar about Lincoln:

"Historically, Boritt shows that America had tariffs from Hamilton's time through the end of the 19th century, and it was during this period that America grew most rapidly and became the largest economy in the world, surpassing Great Britain."

This is what I keep bringing up. The gilded era had an America funded by tariffs. If they are so evil and corrosive, why did it work so well in the past?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (39g3+)

59 What a great thing for the families. G-D Bless our soldiers.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (raGdO)

60 What's a few thousand (or more) dead Americans if it makes Trump look bad?
Accurate.

Posted by: Roland THTG at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (xBSm0)

61 Korean war was like 60 years ago man...
The Left

Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (LiyEm)

62 Won't be much on the MSM about this I guess but lots of families will care.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2018 04:42 PM (pHfeF)

63 Best Dogfights episode ever:

MiG Alley:

https://youtu.be/YSyhaCOOCYs

Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 04:42 PM (e7oj4)

64
Before there was RINO, there was Rockefeller Republicans.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 04:40 PM (G4W16)

At least they were upfront about it, referring to themselves as "The Liberal Wing" of the party.
See Jacob Javits.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 27, 2018 04:42 PM (y8Foj)

65 "Crumbs!" -- Nanzi Palsi

Posted by: ShainS at July 27, 2018 04:42 PM (H8auu)

66 The resist lofos don't even know how much the Dems and centrist Pubs could be getting done with this President.

Good for conservatives that they just refuse to deal with the The Don.

Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2018 04:42 PM (vDqXW)

67 Tornado hit to the NE of us. Storm passing over us now, moving offshore. Ugh.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 04:42 PM (ptqGC)

68 57 Rockefellers are best enjoyed in a New Guinean stew.
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (fDmLV)

Rocky died Happy, er, NOT Happy...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 04:42 PM (G4W16)

69 Someone got the difference between Obama, the MSM and liberals generally and Trump Nation. "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

Posted by: rammajamma at July 27, 2018 04:42 PM (xceTB)

70 The tweets on his timeline are deranged.

Seriously. I've worked in psych units and those poor souls get a bad rap. They're legitimately sick.

These hyenas and jackals who spew on a timeline that should be treated with utmost respect...are just hate-filled demon spawn.

This country needs a mass exorcism...STAT

Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2018 04:43 PM (kD8Fh)

71 North Korean Collusion!! OMG.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM

Rumor is they bought the entire stock of US soybeans -- souly to prop up Trumps GPD numbers!

Posted by: Comraderie at July 27, 2018 04:43 PM (LOgQ4)

72 @26 -I know for sure my husband's DNA is in military records. It may have been recorded at BMT, but they definitely needed it for his job.

Posted by: pookysgirl at July 27, 2018 04:43 PM (XKZwp)

73 32 Roger on both counts.

Posted by: Leonard Pinth-Garnell at July 27, 2018 04:43 PM (7A6l6)

74 61
Korean war was like 60 years ago man...

The Left

Posted by: steevy at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (LiyEm)

Well, first it wasn't a war, right? Heh - and then it never ended.so, technically the not-war is still going on.But being as historically ignorant as they are.....

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 27, 2018 04:43 PM (37IEG)

75 I heard Trump had a chicken sandwich last month while discussing North Korea with Mike Pompeo. Is this a impeachable offense ????

Posted by: Dr. Strangelove at July 27, 2018 04:43 PM (qM84C)

76 If trump gets impeached. pence becomes president. Does pence get to name a VP?

I don't think he has to, though. And Ford was a pretty squishy Republican, very moderate, so he picked a similar VP. Although all things considered, he'd have been a better choice than Jimmy "stagflation, give away the Panama Canal, lose Iran, chased by bunnies" Carter in 1976.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2018 04:43 PM (39g3+)

77 It's maddening see the MFM and Progs (but I repeat myself) rooting against the de-nuclearization of North Korea. It's as if they WANT a nuke to go off in this country. What's a few thousand (or more) dead Americans if it makes Trump look bad?
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Well. Maybe that's what somebody does want.

A boogie man. At least. We have to act in a certain predictable way as a result. Troop placement, spending, etc.

Posted by: Simplemind at July 27, 2018 04:44 PM (rs+yk)

78 I know for sure my husband's DNA is in military records.

I think they only started doing this in the 90s, for this exact reason: identification.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2018 04:44 PM (39g3+)

79 Must be a fluke. They were GOING to do that, but Obama was soooo busy saving everyone from everything he just didn't have time to take their calls offering to do it.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 27, 2018 04:34 PM (37IEG)

managing a declining economy was very time consuming, yo

Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2018 04:44 PM (kD8Fh)

80
Nelson Rockefeller also was a key player in sabotaging Barry Goldwater's '64 campaign along with that skunk Bill Scranton.

These are the golden age cucks of yesteryear.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 04:44 PM (G4W16)

81 I heard Trump had a chicken sandwich last month while discussing North Korea with Mike Pompeo. Is this a impeachable offense ????
Posted by: Dr. Strangelove at July 27, 2018 04:43 PM (qM84C)
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Depends on what he tweeted about it.

I'll get on it!

Posted by: Robert Mullet at July 27, 2018 04:44 PM (vDqXW)

82 I guess we could just say Obama was a f*ing a**hole of a President and be done with it.But that wouldn't be any fun.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 27, 2018 04:36 PM (37IEG)

It is much more fun to call him Ex-Prez'nit Cock-Curious, The First Pinhead-American President, as well as Emperor Shit Midas, which are all objectively true statements.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 27, 2018 04:45 PM (BfOXk)

83 71
North Korean Collusion!! OMG.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM

Rumor is they bought the entire stock of US soybeans -- souly to prop up Trumps GPD numbers!

Posted by: Comraderie at July 27, 2018 04:43 PM (LOgQ4)

In exchange for nukular silos in Alaska I heard! A source with knowledge at CNN said a source with information who works for the White House janitors office had a conversation with a guy in a bar who knows some people who were related to people who were in the meetings that were held by other people who have information about this! Trump is a traitor!

Posted by: Shep Smith at July 27, 2018 04:45 PM (37IEG)

84
Trump I suspect is a guy who engages in getting ducks in a row. In sequence.

This is part of a sequence. Moving forward.

No matter what inane bullshit the MSM will 'leak' tomorrow.

Posted by: Comraderie at July 27, 2018 04:45 PM (LOgQ4)

85 This is what I keep bringing up. The gilded era had an America funded by tariffs. If they are so evil and corrosive, why did it work so well in the past?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (39g3+)
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Historicalfacts are a social construct, comrade.

Posted by: ShainS at July 27, 2018 04:46 PM (H8auu)

86 Rockefellers are best enjoyed in a New Guinean stew.
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (fDmLV)

Rocky died Happy, er, NOT Happy...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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Is that a Happy meal? What say you cannibal Bob - where are you . . .

Posted by: Simplemind at July 27, 2018 04:46 PM (aOvdk)

87 What have we given the North Koreans so far in this? I mean I'm not saying we haven't given them anything, but with how Trump criticized Obama for sending planeloads of cash to Iran I can't see the Derp State not leaking that "OMG Trump gave North Korea XXXX!"

So other than suspending what seems to now be mostly pointless military exercises have we given them anything?

Posted by: buzzion at July 27, 2018 04:46 PM (lKs2v)

88 A boogie man. At least. We have to act in a certain predictable way as a result. Troop placement, spending, etc.

"We need another Gulf of Tonkin!"
--DoD and CoC cucks

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2018 04:46 PM (39g3+)

89 It is much more fun to call him Ex-Prez'nit
Cock-Curious, The First Pinhead-American President, as well as Emperor
Shit Midas, which are all objectively true statements.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 27, 2018 04:45 PM (BfOXk)
I stick with Big Ears, because the rumor was that actually bothered the thin skinned little shit.

Posted by: Shep Smith at July 27, 2018 04:46 PM (37IEG)

90 Trump does this because he can and not for praise. It is something that will resonate with a huge number of people in America.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (BfOXk)

Also it is a meaningful gesture. This allows North Korea to act in a manner that shows it is trying to act like an actual, civilized country while also allowing Trump to show that he means it when he says he puts American citizens above all else.

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at July 27, 2018 04:46 PM (dEQP3)

91 I would think with DNA testing every remains can be identified

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2018 04:47 PM (pHfeF)

92 I heard Trump had a chicken sandwich last month while discussing North Korea with Mike Pompeo. Is this a impeachable offense ????
Posted by: Dr. Strangelove at July 27, 2018 04:43 PM

Fear not, fear not.

Posted by: Mike Pompeo's girthiness at July 27, 2018 04:47 PM (EzdLW)

93
Sock off. But Oysters Rockefeller is something that I've never made but should be delicious. And nutritious.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 27, 2018 04:48 PM (LOgQ4)

94 49 If trump gets impeached. pence becomes president. Does pence get to name a VP?

Trump is getting impeached? Even if he does, he stays Prez until convicted. Or whatever the correct term would be. Clinton was impeached.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 04:48 PM (G3Kkn)

95 From the images in this Daily Mail post. It appears the North Koreans are showing respect during the transfer.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yara9gnk

Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 04:48 PM (xwvYG)

96 So VP Rockerfeller is the only VP to have an appetizer for a son. Kewl.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 27, 2018 04:49 PM (2LelM)

97 If I ever think of barky, it is with the fly on his face.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2018 04:49 PM (raGdO)

98 This is not what a real president should be wasting his time with. He should be concerned about the living people being Nazied at the borders, not dead American fascists!

Posted by: Joe Scarbutthurt at July 27, 2018 04:49 PM (vDqXW)

99 Over ruled!
*pounds gavel*
Send 'em back!

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at July 27, 2018 04:49 PM (EzdLW)

100 26 Alos, maybe it should be standard practice to take DNA of new recruits for this same purpose.
Posted by: Serious Car at July 27, 2018 04:36 PM

Yup, DNA records have been standard for military personnel for decades. As an Army member, at least, it's listed along with a bunch of medical data I can review online. Immunizations, physicals, HIV test, and DNA record on file.

Posted by: Ace of Spades Lawbringer at July 27, 2018 04:49 PM (x7i4k)

101 So other than suspending what seems to now be mostly pointless military exercises have we given them anything?

Posted by: buzzion at July 27, 2018 04:46 PM

Freedom from a massive thermonuclear strike that would reduce the country to rubble.

Just that little thing, I suppose.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 27, 2018 04:49 PM (LOgQ4)

102 80
Nelson Rockefeller also was a key player in sabotaging Barry Goldwater's '64 campaign along with that skunk Bill Scranton.

These are the golden age cucks of yesteryear.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 04:44 PM (G4W16)

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IIRC Mitt's father George Romney was part of that cabal. A chip off the old cuck ... The cuck doesn't fall far from the tree ...

Posted by: ShainS at July 27, 2018 04:49 PM (H8auu)

103 Welcome home and rest in peace.

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 27, 2018 04:50 PM (a0IVu)

104 My God, I made the mistake of reading the tweets on Pence's Twitter feed. Jesus H. Christ, these people are mentally ill. Damn them all to Hell. Nasty fuckers.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2018 04:50 PM (9YBqo)

105 Look, Trump got our dead, brave soldiers remains back. But Obama brought home a real live traitor on the battlefield, who cost the lives of others. Obviously, Obama did better.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 04:51 PM (G3Kkn)

106 Twitter is a shit hole.

Posted by: Roland THTG at July 27, 2018 04:51 PM (xBSm0)

107 I know for sure my husband's DNA is in military records.

I think they only started doing this in the 90s, for this exact reason: identification.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2018 04:44 PM

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Neither I nor the Wife had a DNA swab done and we retired in 1999. I think it came in later. I recall reading a NAVADMIN about it when I was working as a Civilian for DON.

Posted by: The Girthy Trunk of Ganesha at July 27, 2018 04:51 PM (JUOKG)

108 My God, I made the mistake of reading the tweets on Pence's Twitter feed. Jesus H. Christ, these people are mentally ill. Damn them all to Hell. Nasty fuckers.
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Don't forget, you go to work and pay taxes to support many of them.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 27, 2018 04:51 PM (nILVB)

109 A chip off the old cuck ... The cuck doesn't fall far from the tree ...
Posted by: ShainS at July 27, 2018 04:49 PM

lol

If it looks like a cuck and quacks like a cuck...

Posted by: Hands at July 27, 2018 04:51 PM (EzdLW)

110 So Feinstein wants to drag Don JR. back in for interrogation, I mean questioning, because Cohen said Trump knew about a meeting that was legal? Enough with this shit

Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2018 04:52 PM (O2RFr)

111 So other than suspending what seems to now be mostly pointless military exercises have we given them anything?

Ummm...who here would have called joint exercises with South Korea "mostly pointless" a year ago?

Trump went quickly to it saves us money, but practicing war against someone you might go to war with is traditionally viewed as useful.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 27, 2018 04:52 PM (fuK7c)

112 My God, I made the mistake of reading the tweets on Pence's Twitter feed. Jesus H. Christ, these people are mentally ill. Damn them all to Hell. Nasty fuckers.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2018 04:50 PM (9YBqo)

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I was going to, but knowing what I was going to see, I passed. Sorry you saw all that.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 27, 2018 04:53 PM (YRtrf)

113 I would think with DNA testing every remains can be identified

As long as they have something on file (blood or some such) or a surviving family member, they can do so, yeah.

Neither I nor the Wife had a DNA swab done and we retired in 1999. I think it came in later.

Probaby in the naughties then. I remember them bringing it up early on NCIS so at least by 2003.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2018 04:53 PM (39g3+)

114 So other than suspending what seems to now be mostly pointless military exercises have we given them anything?
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Recognition.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 27, 2018 04:54 PM (MIKMs)

115 Tonight I shall raise a glass to Absent Comrades who have finally returned home.
Rest easy on Fiddler's Green.
God Bless!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2018 04:54 PM (0tfLf)

116 Trump is getting impeached? Even if he does, he stays Prez until convicted. Or whatever the correct term would be. Clinton was impeached.
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Well terminology issues galore here.

I think you get voted on by house and senate. That is the impeachment process. I think its foggy on what some people mean when they say you have been impeached. Its a process, but it may not also mean you are convicted. I think Clinton went through the process on one charge. All the way to senate but the senate did not convict. If they convict they have another vote to see if the punishment should be that you are barred from holding office. Its not automatic. The other charges against Clinton never made it out of the house. I think.

Its pretty confusing and people throw the term around meaning different stuff. I meant in the sense of him being kicked out of office. Sorry.

Posted by: Simplemind at July 27, 2018 04:54 PM (V38jh)

117 96 So VP Rockerfeller is the only VP to have an appetizer for a son. Kewl.
Posted by: Jiffy at July 27, 2018 04:49 PM (2LelM)

Seriously, what happened to his son is tragic and really not mock-worthy.

There's plenty of fodder about Nelson and his career all by itself.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 04:54 PM (G4W16)

118 112
My God, I made the mistake of reading the tweets on Pence's Twitter
feed. Jesus H. Christ, these people are mentally ill. Damn them all to
Hell. Nasty fuckers.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2018 04:50 PM (9YBqo)

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I was going to, but knowing what I was going to see, I passed. Sorry you saw all that.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 27, 2018 04:53 PM (YRtrf)
And if Pence moved to block these assholes, HE'D be the villain.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 27, 2018 04:54 PM (37IEG)

119 Good news. The only people in whose estimation this won't raise the President are the subset of loons in CA who actively hate the military.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 27, 2018 04:54 PM (/qEW2)

120 Trump went quickly to it saves us money, but practicing war against someone you might go to war with is traditionally viewed as useful.

I figure by now we're pretty well practiced after nearly 70 years of it. I agree, the exercises weren't pointless but they aren't exactly painful to give up, either.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2018 04:54 PM (39g3+)

121 If trump gets impeached. pence becomes president. Does pence get to name a VP?

Yes
Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM (O2RFr)

Johnny Quest.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2018 04:55 PM (5jVnA)

122 DanMan, Japan used Koreans in lots of roles, construction workers on their Pacific installations (as you mentioned, what became Henderson Field on Guadalcanal). I think some of the very few survivors at Tarawa were Korean construction workers.

Also, in low-level military roles - camp guards, for example. Many POWs dealt with Korean guards. And the famous guy who was impressed into the Kwangtung Army (Manchukuo), who was captured by the Soviets and used in the Red Army, then captured by the Germans and ..... well, let's say he's probably the only legit case of someone serving in 3 separate armies, on different sides, in the war.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2018 04:55 PM (QDnY+)

123 My God, I made the mistake of reading the tweets on
Pence's Twitter feed. Jesus H. Christ, these people are mentally ill.
Damn them all to Hell. Nasty fuckers.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2018 04:50 PM (9YBqo)

Good grief. I made the same mistake. The "cartoon" of PDT golfing on one of the caskets is unreal. They keep mistaking him for the dusky emperor.

These idiots live among us, and are so full of hate for the president and his supporters it's frightening. I hope the Secret Service have cleaned up their act since they were doing hookers and blow on Choom Boy's watch.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 04:55 PM (ptqGC)

124 So Feinstein wants to drag Don JR. back in for interrogation, I mean questioning, because Cohen said Trump knew about a meeting that was legal? Enough with this shit
Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2018 04:52 PM

Then drag Glenn Simpson back in for interrogation, I mean interrogation, I mean interrogation, about FusionGPS's relationship with honeypot lawyer Veselnitskaya.

The Left made these rules. May they choke on them.

Posted by: Hands at July 27, 2018 04:55 PM (EzdLW)

125 120
Trump went quickly to it saves us money, but practicing war against
someone you might go to war with is traditionally viewed as useful.

I figure by now we're pretty well practiced after nearly 70 years of
it. I agree, the exercises weren't pointless but they aren't exactly
painful to give up, either.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2018 04:54 PM (39g3+)

Money better spent practicing for China, or Iran.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 27, 2018 04:55 PM (37IEG)

126 The North Koreans do seem to be attempting a show of respect, if not the genuine article.

At some point, a show of respect is indistinguishable from actual respect.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 04:55 PM (8DwPe)

127 9 Can we get Fr. Emil Kapaun back?
Posted by: logprof
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Thank you for remembering him.

Posted by: Furious George at July 27, 2018 04:56 PM (9vQJW)

128 Look, Trump got our dead, brave soldiers remains back. But Obama brought home a real live traitor on the battlefield, who cost the lives of others. Obviously, Obama did better.
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He served with HONOR AND DISTINCTION!!!

Posted by: susan rice at July 27, 2018 04:56 PM (rs+yk)

129 My God, I made the mistake of reading the tweets on
Pence's Twitter feed. Jesus H. Christ, these people are mentally ill.
Damn them all to Hell. Nasty fuckers.

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Don't forget, you go to work and pay taxes to support many of them.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 27, 2018 04:51 PM (nILVB)
If I typed what I'd really like to do to them, I'd be banned from the universe. And beyond. Bastards.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2018 04:56 PM (9YBqo)

130 If trump gets impeached. pence becomes president. Does pence get to name a VP?

Yes
Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2018 04:37 PM (O2RFr)

Sarah Sanders. BOOM.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 04:56 PM (G4W16)

131 111 So other than suspending what seems to now be mostly pointless military exercises have we given them anything?

Ummm...who here would have called joint exercises with South Korea "mostly pointless" a year ago?

Trump went quickly to it saves us money, but practicing war against someone you might go to war with is traditionally viewed as useful.
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Bandersnatch, by suspending the exercise he is communicating with both North and South Korea. Remember, Trump is also realigning our commitments in Asia and Europe. Backing off allows the two Koreas to talk without the US or ChiComs in the room.

I'm pretty sure after 60 years of exercises with the ROKs we can skip a year or two and not lose anything. Oki is just around the corner.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 27, 2018 04:56 PM (2LelM)

132 113 I would think with DNA testing every remains can be identified

As long as they have something on file (blood or some such) or a surviving family member, they can do so, yeah.

I could see them offering something like a DNA test for families of MIA from the Korean War to see if the returned remains are of that person. I wonder how many still have their dog tags as well with the remains?

Posted by: buzzion at July 27, 2018 04:57 PM (lKs2v)

133 Definitely a positive step.

Repatriation of the remains of US service members should continue.

And the Norks should also return the USS Pueblo!

Posted by: Ersatz at July 27, 2018 04:57 PM (44PTs)

134 This is what I keep bringing up. The gilded era had an America funded by tariffs. If they are so evil and corrosive, why did it work so well in the past?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2018 04:41 PM (39g3+)

Less regulation, massive westward expansion opening up new resources, an influx of immigrant labor, and the rise of the industrial revolution.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 27, 2018 04:58 PM (/3v/C)

135 He served with HONOR AND DISTINCTION!!!

Posted by: susan rice at July 27, 2018 04:56 PM (rs+yk)
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I'm sure some of his fellow soldiers found him distinct as an asshole.

Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2018 04:58 PM (vDqXW)

136 67 Tornado hit to the NE of us. Storm passing over us now, moving offshore. Ugh.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 04:42 PM

Remember Jane...if you look out the window and see and old crone riding a bicycle in the wind, look to see if she really is wearing an exoskeleton under thre mu-mu.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2018 04:58 PM (0tfLf)

137 Obviously, Obama did better.

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He served with HONOR AND DISTINCTION!!!

Posted by: susan rice at July 27, 2018 04:56 PM (rs+yk)

Who can ever forget his daring nighttime x-Box game with Joe Biden and Hillary, taking out that Irish war lord - O'Brian's Been Loaded!.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 27, 2018 04:58 PM (37IEG)

138 7 Reviewing the battle of Guadalcanal I note the Japanese used Koreans as slave labor at what became known as Henderson Field. Just tossing it out there.
Posted by: DanMan at July 27, 2018 04:33 PM (QMG5F)

Same thing at Tarawa.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 04:59 PM (8DwPe)

139 When our fallen from Benghazi reached American soil, we were lectured about the sin and evils of YouTube blasphemy by a sick, drunken treasonous whore from State.

Times change.

Posted by: Fritz at July 27, 2018 04:59 PM (wjHbC)

140 Good news. The only people in whose estimation this
won't raise the President are the subset of loons in CA who actively
hate the military.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 27, 2018 04:54 PM (/qEW2)

I live in coastal GA, with several military bases in my vicinity, and a nuclear sub base just to the south. Believe me, there are loons here who despise the military. They're outnumbered, but still.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 04:59 PM (ptqGC)

141 Bandersnatch, by suspending the exercise he is communicating with both North and South Korea. Remember, Trump is also realigning our commitments in Asia and Europe. Backing off allows the two Koreas to talk without the US or ChiComs in the room.

Yeah. No problemo. Just saying it's not nothing.

Could be a master stroke. FFS, Dennis Rodman is a visionary now. Anything is possible.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 27, 2018 04:59 PM (fuK7c)

142 111 So other than suspending what seems to now be mostly pointless military exercises have we given them anything?

Ummm...who here would have called joint exercises with South Korea "mostly pointless" a year ago?

Trump went quickly to it saves us money, but practicing war against someone you might go to war with is traditionally viewed as useful.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 27, 2018 04:52 PM (fuK7c)

I'm going by what I have heard some military guy said that wasn't in a hair on fire mode about the suspension of those exercises, and they sounded like they were heavily reduced exercises to the point that holding them was about as useful of not holding them. So that is why I called them mostly pointless.

Posted by: buzzion at July 27, 2018 05:00 PM (lKs2v)

143 Remember Jane...if you look out the window and see
and old crone riding a bicycle in the wind, look to see if she really is
wearing an exoskeleton under thre mu-mu.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2018 04:58 PM (0tfLf)

If she slams into a tree, I'll make sure to get video.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:01 PM (ptqGC)

144
Ummm...who here would have called joint exercises with South Korea "mostly pointless" a year ago?

We've been rehearshing the same scenarios over the same ground for over 65 years.I think we can skip one or two.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 27, 2018 05:01 PM (10vO4)

145
I wasn't afraid of DJT. I was in business for decades. The goal in business should *always* be constant incremental improvement. This may not be huge, but it's a sign of incremental improvement.

Phat Boy is in the game.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 27, 2018 05:01 PM (LOgQ4)

146 138 7 Reviewing the battle of Guadalcanal I note the Japanese used Koreans as slave labor at what became known as Henderson Field. Just tossing it out there.
Posted by: DanMan at July 27, 2018 04:33 PM (QMG5F)

Same thing at Tarawa.
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Dittos Iwo.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 27, 2018 05:01 PM (2LelM)

147 This is not what a real president should be wasting his time with. He should be concerned about the living people being Nazied at the borders, not dead American fascists!

reminds me I need to check my traps for feral central american toddlers tonight, there's been a lot attention paid to keeping them in cages lately

Posted by: DanMan at July 27, 2018 05:01 PM (QMG5F)

148 Beautiful plane. I think there will be one flying at the Honor Flight at the NAS Oceana Air Show that I'll be at in September.

Posted by: josephistan

Awesome! My dad had a model of his aircraft made when in Japan. It is beautifully mounted and it is quite the keepsake.

Posted by: Cheri at July 27, 2018 05:01 PM (oiNtH)

149 I wish his first sentence in his statement was omitted. This should not appear to be used for politics. Everyone already knows it was because of Trump.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 27, 2018 05:01 PM (ODr92)

150 That's a refreshing change, isn't it?

Posted by: Gingy at July 27, 2018 05:01 PM (bQXMb)

151 So other than suspending what seems to now be mostly pointless military exercises have we given them anything?
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And the suspension isn't much of a suspension, as the next wargames aren't scheduled for another year.

Posted by: josephistan at July 27, 2018 05:02 PM (Izzlo)

152 Waiting for Jake Tapper to let us know whether VP Pence's reception of the remains is patriotic or not.

Posted by: Hands at July 27, 2018 05:02 PM (EzdLW)

153
These idiots live among us, and are so full of hate for the
president and his supporters it's frightening. I hope the Secret Service
have cleaned up their act since they were doing hookers and blow on
Choom Boy's watch.
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Some of us are 29 enough to recall Nixon. Even into the 90s, I had acquaintances who would not speak his name without spitting. Compare and contrast: Nixon vs Obama. That era seems remarkably quaint.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 27, 2018 05:02 PM (MIKMs)

154 Hey, I got a new hash!

Posted by: josephistan at July 27, 2018 05:02 PM (Izzlo)

155 Joint exercises can be switched on and off pretty easily. No big deal. Easy gesture to make.

And for anyone wondering "wait, why would we ever be in a war with North Korea?", you're on the right track. We've taken/are taking big steps to reduce our commitment to a true trip-wire sort, but in context the question is a good one. NATO's a little bit more obvious (i.e. today's arrangement reflects almost entirely ancient history + inertia), but the burden in Korea as well is on the side of explaining "why?".

Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2018 05:02 PM (QDnY+)

156 My earliest childhood TV memories are not of Buffalo Bob, or Howdy Doody, but of black-and-white news coverage of guys getting ready to go over the top of bomb craters in Korea. They looked cold, as I recall, and it looked very unpleasant. Barack would have let them rot there for a thousand years. Thanks, Donald.

Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:03 PM (PEcU2)

157 141 Bandersnatch, by suspending the exercise he is communicating with both North and South Korea. Remember, Trump is also realigning our commitments in Asia and Europe. Backing off allows the two Koreas to talk without the US or ChiComs in the room.

Yeah. No problemo. Just saying it's not nothing.

Could be a master stroke. FFS, Dennis Rodman is a visionary now. Anything is possible.
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We need to clone Rodman. Then our defense will be both invincible and colorful.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 27, 2018 05:03 PM (2LelM)

158 Look, Trump got our dead, brave soldiers remains back. But Obama brought home a real live traitor on the battlefield, who cost the lives of others. Obviously, Obama did better.
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He served with HONOR AND DISTINCTION!!!
Posted by: susan rice at July 27, 2018 04:56 PM (rs+yk)

Exactly! lol

To this day, that is one of the craziest Rose Garden displays I have ever witnessed. That clarified the mindset of Obama and staff for me. Even the adoring press seemed slightly confused.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 05:04 PM (G3Kkn)

159 I think some of the very few survivors at Tarawa were Korean construction workers.

Sorry. Just saw this, but you are correct. Just last night I read Robert Sherrod's "Tarawa: the story of a battle," and he discusses that.

I found the book, which was published in 1944, among my father's things. It's interesting in the redactions in it ("we left Base X ...") for security reasons, but also, from a personal perspective: my father read it before landing on Iwo Jima the following year.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 05:04 PM (8DwPe)

160 There's going to a peace agreement signed between SK and NK before the end of the year.

Posted by: simplemind at July 27, 2018 05:04 PM (KAYUb)

161 I live in coastal GA, with several military bases in my vicinity, and a nuclear sub base just to the south. Believe me, there are loons here who despise the military. They're outnumbered, but still.

Well, living too close to a base you start to get pissed at some of the shenanigans. Soldiers drunk driving or driving like maniacs after hours isn't fun. When I was a gate guard we had to watch out for soldiers trying to sneak in young girls for sexy time. We're talking like 13 years old young.

Don't get me wrong. I love our military. Both my parents, two of my grandparents, and my brother all served. But still, a bunch of usually very supervised young guys suddenly finding themselves unsupervised can get up to some ill-conceived acts.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2018 05:04 PM (9qZ3S)

162 Same thing at Tarawa.
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Dittos Iwo.

just got done with Truk Atoll on battle 360, I'm getting there

That series on the Enterprise is pretty fascinating. Sponsored by employees of Enterprise Car Rental.

Posted by: DanMan at July 27, 2018 05:04 PM (QMG5F)

163 Bandersnatch, by suspending the exercise he is communicating with both North and South Korea. Remember, Trump is also realigning our commitments in Asia and Europe. Backing off allows the two Koreas to talk without the US or ChiComs in the room.

Well...there are exercises and then there are Exercises. I did a number of them over my career and while each one offers a training opportunity for the new guys, a missed one here or there doesn't mean much. You can get the same learning experience elsewhere and in other modes.
And the South Koreans are great to train with...these guys know their stuff. Syncing up with them to face down the north is not in the too tough box.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2018 05:04 PM (0tfLf)

164 God Bless their souls and their families.

I wonder how the VFW leadership feels about PDT today?

Posted by: Under Fire at July 27, 2018 05:05 PM (r9UYA)

165 American Greatness how far will the left go all-the-way
Michael Walsh thinks the Left will never stop

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2018 05:05 PM (pHfeF)

166 157 ---------------
We need to clone Rodman. Then our defense will be both invincible and colorful.
Posted by: Jiffy at July 27, 2018 05:03 PM (2LelM)

Weird as this sounds, I think Dennis Rodman deserves to have a warship named after him more than Gabby Giffords. And certainly the Molokai Kenyan stoner.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 05:05 PM (G4W16)

167 Dennis Rodman has done more to deserve a nobel peace prize than Jugears every did.

Posted by: simplemind at July 27, 2018 05:06 PM (KAYUb)

168
God Bless their souls and their families.
I wonder how the VFW leadership feels about PDT today?

Posted by: Under Fire at July 27, 2018 05:05 PM (r9UYA)
Our son was recently elected Sr. Vice Commander of the local VFW post. They love PDT.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:07 PM (ptqGC)

169 >>Weird as this sounds, I think Dennis Rodman deserves to have a warship
named after him more than Gabby Giffords. And certainly the Molokai
Kenyan stoner.

This. He did more to soften up the Norks then any prior administration.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 27, 2018 05:07 PM (r9UYA)

170 165 American Greatness how far will the left go all-the-way
Michael Walsh thinks the Left will never stop
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2018 05:05 PM (pHfeF)

They haven't stopped since 1900. And with Obama and Clinton, they were a red nether hair's breadth away from putting the nail in the coffin for good.

Momma Sefton always said "evil never rests." And the closest thing to evil we have are the twin bastards of Leftism and Islam. Eternal vigilance.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 05:08 PM (G4W16)

171 It should be shouted in the faces of the NeverTrumpers (regardless of party) -
What he did was facilitated bringing home our honored dead, or KIA and MIA. Something no president has been able to do since hostilities ended. SO show me again on this doll where PDT hurt you.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 27, 2018 05:08 PM (jxbfJ)

172 Alos, maybe it should be standard practice to take DNA of new recruits for this same purpose.
Posted by: Serious Car at July 27, 2018 04:36 PM (aNP7B)

They do.

Posted by: Executive Outcomes at July 27, 2018 05:08 PM (H5ZlJ)

173 If she slams into a tree, I'll make sure to get video.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:01 PM

I'll bring the popcorn!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2018 05:08 PM (0tfLf)

174 Jay, that's cool about the book. I have to see if that's on my list of 1,392 WWII books currently waiting to read. I think there is at least one Tarawa book on there.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2018 05:08 PM (QDnY+)

175 Weird as this sounds, I think Dennis Rodman deserves
to have a warship named after him more than Gabby Giffords. And
certainly the Molokai Kenyan stoner.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 05:05 PM (G4W16)

Can you imagine typing those words a few years ago? Interesting times, indeed!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:08 PM (ptqGC)

176 If Trump is impeached, the last thing that Dems will be thinking about is who the new veep is.

People will fight for Trump. It won't be pretty.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 05:08 PM (HOdKy)

177 That doesn't mean I necessarily want a warship named after Rodman. But by comparison, etc.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 05:09 PM (G4W16)

178 Weird as this sounds, I think Dennis Rodman deserves to have a warship named after him more than Gabby Giffords. And certainly the Molokai Kenyan stoner.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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The USNS Harvey Milk. Which is an oiler. Someone in the Nav has a sense of humor.

"Oh, you want us to name a ship after him? Okay..."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 05:09 PM (CDGwz)

179 The Olympics in South Korea and the inclusion of North Korea, especially in lighting the flame, was huge in making some changes there between the leaders.

So there are a few moving parts right now, not just Trump's influence. It is a rare moment in history. I don't know how things will evolve, but it is the best chance I've seen in my lifetime to make some kind of improvements. I can just as easily see Fat Boy slide back. Only time will tell.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 05:09 PM (G3Kkn)

180 The timing and the optics are certainly less than ideal.

Posted by: Ben Shapiro at July 27, 2018 05:09 PM (ucNQA)

181 Our son was recently elected Sr. Vice Commander of the local VFW post. They love PDT.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

The leadership was upset that the VFW post booed CNN the other day at the PDT rally.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 27, 2018 05:09 PM (r9UYA)

182 175
Can you imagine typing those words a few years ago? Interesting times, indeed!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:08 PM (ptqGC)

The crap I and we have witnessed and lived through since 2009 is just mind boggling. And here we are.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 05:10 PM (G4W16)

183 Rodman wants Kanye West to go with him to N. Korea.

A two-fer!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:10 PM (ptqGC)

184 Can you imagine typing those words a few years ago? Interesting times, indeed!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:08 PM (ptqGC)

As someone said during the Singapore Summit.

"We've got Dennis Rodman on TV crying and praising President Donald Trump for his negotiations with the North Koreans, while wearing a hat advertising a cryptocurrency backed by weed. This is the most 2018 thing ever."

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 27, 2018 05:10 PM (/3v/C)

185 JJ, interesting (and actually valid) point there.

I'm imagining the USS Rodman (it would have to be a warship, not an auxiliary). Special camo. I'm picturing rainbow-colored "Dazzle" pattern from WWII Atlantic fleet ships (was it just the Royal Navy that did that? can't recall).

Some non-functional, decorative metal hoops in/out of the superstructure (homage to Dennis' face tackle).

Yeah, this could work.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2018 05:11 PM (QDnY+)

186 "We've got Dennis Rodman on TV crying and praising President Donald Trump for his negotiations with the North Koreans, while wearing a hat advertising a cryptocurrency backed by weed. This is the most 2018 thing ever."
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 27, 2018 05:10 PM (/3v/C)

BitKush?

Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:11 PM (ucNQA)

187 Husband enlisted in 2007, so yeah, it was in the "oughts." Even if it wasn't standard practice for the military, it would be a good idea for anyone on my husband's plane. Atheists praying that the brakes would work was a regular occurance.

Posted by: pookysgirl at July 27, 2018 05:11 PM (XKZwp)

188 The leadership was upset that the VFW post booed CNN the other day at the PDT rally.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 27, 2018 05:09 PM (r9UYA)

Oh boo-hoo.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM (ptqGC)

189 I don't begrudge Barry smoking a little herb. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, etc. But the guy is a fucking communist! There's no get-out-of-jail free card for that kind of delusion. Get a rope!

Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM (PEcU2)

190 Weird as this sounds, I think Dennis Rodman deserves to have a warship named after him more than Gabby Giffords. And certainly the Molokai Kenyan stoner.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 05:05 PM (G4W16)

And a damned sight more than that pervert Harvey Milk.

OTOH, I guess we're lucky that there isn't a USS John Wayne Gacy.

Yet.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM (8DwPe)

191 185 JJ, interesting (and actually valid) point there.

I'm imagining the USS Rodman (it would have to be a warship, not an auxiliary). Special camo. I'm picturing rainbow-colored "Dazzle" pattern from WWII Atlantic fleet ships (was it just the Royal Navy that did that? can't recall).

Some non-functional, decorative metal hoops in/out of the superstructure (homage to Dennis' face tackle).

Yeah, this could work.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2018 05:11 PM (QDnY+)

Where are you going to find a wedding dress big enough to fit over it?

Posted by: buzzion at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM (lKs2v)

192 Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 27, 2018 05:10 PM (/3v/C)

The inmates have taken over the asylum but the asylum staff was mostly made up of Nurse Ratchets so it's a wash .

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM (ODr92)

193 182 The crap I and we have witnessed and lived through since 2009 is just mind boggling. And here we are.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 05:10 PM (G4W16)

It's a hell of a ride! Someone should sell tickets!

Posted by: Ersatz at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM (44PTs)

194 189 I don't begrudge Barry smoking a little herb. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, etc. But the guy is a fucking communist! There's no get-out-of-jail free card for that kind of delusion. Get a rope!
Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM (PEcU2)

I've never smoked weed, so *throws stone*

Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM (ucNQA)

195 I don't think the USS Rodman would be such a good idea.

Did you ever see the guy try to shoot in a basketball game?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM (HOdKy)

196 The leadership was upset that the VFW post booed CNN the other day at the PDT rally.
Posted by: Under Fire at July 27, 2018 05:09 PM (r9UYA)

Time for new "leadership."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 05:13 PM (8DwPe)

197 195 I don't think the USS Rodman would be such a good idea.

Did you ever see the guy try to shoot in a basketball game?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM (HOdKy)

So a support vessel then.

Posted by: buzzion at July 27, 2018 05:13 PM (lKs2v)

198 >>I'm imagining the USS Rodman (it would have to be a warship, not an
auxiliary). Special camo. I'm picturing rainbow-colored "Dazzle" pattern
from WWII Atlantic fleet ships (was it just the Royal Navy that did
that? can't recall).

Some non-functional, decorative metal hoops in/out of the superstructure (homage to Dennis' face tackle).

Yeah, this could work.

The chaff cannons would be spectacular.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 27, 2018 05:13 PM (r9UYA)

199 Tee hee he, the all female Ghostbusters is on FX already

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2018 05:14 PM (pHfeF)

200 I don't share the love for Rodman. The Olympics and Trump were more important than Rodman. In hindsight his actions look better, but at the time it was not looked at positively. Obama should have talked with him though, even as an info gathering exercise on the down low. He would have had it been Beyonce and Jay-Z. It was the wrong celebrity.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 05:15 PM (G3Kkn)

201 199 Tee hee he, the all female Ghostbusters is on FX already
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2018 05:14 PM (pHfeF)

You can watch the real one on Netflix.

Posted by: buzzion at July 27, 2018 05:15 PM (lKs2v)

202 The USS Rodman would be a mine sweeper.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 27, 2018 05:15 PM (ODr92)

203
All this for some dead white men?

Posted by: Michelle Obama at July 27, 2018 05:15 PM (T0cef)

204 /SALUTE

Posted by: Don Q at July 27, 2018 05:15 PM (NgKpN)

205 1st MarDiv brought their dead from the Chosin out with them on the retreat and buried them in a mass grave in Hungnam before boarding ship. I wonder if those are some of the remains?

Semper Fidelis

Posted by: That Deplorable SOB Van Owen at July 27, 2018 05:15 PM (lApJ5)

206 The first Bugs Bunny cartoon was released today in 1940.

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at July 27, 2018 05:15 PM (dEQP3)

207 That warship would be a real MF under the hoop. You don't get to look as beat-up as him without going to where the ball is. Every crewmember would have a nasty tattoo and a gold earring. And a big knife strapped on.

Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:16 PM (PEcU2)

208 The USS Rodman could be christened with a bottle of Malt Liquor.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 27, 2018 05:16 PM (r9UYA)

209 Good job by all........God Bless the fallen and their families.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2018 05:16 PM (EoRCO)

210 It's a hell of a ride! Someone should sell tickets!
Posted by: Ersatz
------------

If it were being broadcast to another planet, it could be billed as a kind of weird comedy, say, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and would be amusing. But, it isn't, and, it isn't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 05:16 PM (xSo9G)

211
I've never smoked weed, so *throws stone*

Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM

Maybe you should. We need the money.

Posted by: Your State Goverment at July 27, 2018 05:17 PM (LOgQ4)

212 That doesn't mean I necessarily want a warship named after Rodman. But by comparison, etc.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

If one is named Rodman it has to have a Rail Gun. Since it would become a great meme.

Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 05:17 PM (xwvYG)

213 The USS Rodman would be a mine sweeper.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 27, 2018 05:15 PM

**golf clap**

Posted by: Hands at July 27, 2018 05:17 PM (EzdLW)

214 >>>I don't think the USS Rodman would be such a good idea<<<

They didn't call him the Worm for nothing. Maybe some sort of a science vessel dedicated to unmanned exploration of the depths of the abyss would be in order. Carmin Electra could have her own honorary station on the bridge.

Posted by: Fritz at July 27, 2018 05:18 PM (wjHbC)

215 So a support vessel then.

Posted by: buzzion at July 27, 2018 05:13 PM (lKs2v)

....

He wasn't known much for the assist either.

Strong on defense and perhaps used for blockades....not sure how that would correlate.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 05:18 PM (HOdKy)

216 211
I've never smoked weed, so *throws stone*

Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM

Maybe you should. We need the money.
Posted by: Your State Goverment at July 27, 2018 05:17 PM (LOgQ4)

I'd probably be a happier person but it's still not legal here for recreational use.

Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:18 PM (ucNQA)

217 I've never smoked weed, so *throws stone*
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM (ucNQA)

Yeah, right! lol!

Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:18 PM (PEcU2)

218 The first Bugs Bunny cartoon was released today in 1940.
Posted by: alexthechick
-----------

Thus influencing the consumption of carrots for two generations.

Posted by: What's Up Doc? at July 27, 2018 05:18 PM (xSo9G)

219 199 Tee hee he, the all female Ghostbusters is on FX already
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2018 05:14 PM (pHfeF)

I saw that too!

Movies on cable have turned into a bit of a minefield. I saw Ghostbusters and got all excited, then reminded myself I need to check WHICH ONE.

Have to do that a lot. Manchurian Candidate, Taking of Pelham 123 . . . lots of classics where I have to avoid the dog-turn remakes.

Actually sat through the recent remake of "The Thing" as an experiment. I was not disappointed in my disappointment.

Posted by: Ersatz at July 27, 2018 05:18 PM (44PTs)

220 217 I've never smoked weed, so *throws stone*
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM (ucNQA)

Yeah, right! lol!
Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:18 PM (PEcU2)

Dead serious. Never have.

Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (ucNQA)

221 I think we need to create a special category for Trump's list of growing deeds:

I hereby, proclaim the creation of the "F*CK YOU, I'M DOING IT" category.

1. We'll never see a growth of the economy exceeding 2.5% again (F*ck You, I'm doing it)

2. You'll never get your tax cuts through Congress (F*ck you, I'm doing it)

3. You'll never get unemployment below 5% (F*ck you I'm doing it)

4. You'll never budge ISIS, they're too well dug in. (F*ck you I'm doing it, and it will only take a few months)

5. North Korea isn't interested in working out a peaceful remedy (Hold my beer, and f*ck you, I"m doing it).

Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (RWgN4)

222 Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 05:15 PM (G3Kkn)

It wasn't Rodman's public pronouncements that he should get credit for. I surmised when the summit was first announced that Rodman , who personally knew Trump through his participation as a contestant on The Apprentice, assured Fat Boy that Donald was a righteous dude and that a meeting would be cool. Fat Boy likes celebrities.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (ODr92)

223 I seem to remember orientals of dubious origin captured by the Allies at Normandy. They were finally identified by a Korean-American soldier as Korean slaves of the Japanese who somehow ended up captured by Russians, then Germans. They were in German uniform when captured by us. And boy, were they relieved.

Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (zLDYs)

224 The first Bugs Bunny cartoon was released today in 1940.

My sense of time passing still puts 1940 at 60 years ago. It shakes my brain that 1940 is almost 80 years ago.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (9qZ3S)

225 If trump gets impeached. pence becomes president. Does pence get to name a VP?

What if he names Trump as VP. Life insurance.
Posted by: Simplemind

Trump gets impeached.
Pence becomes president. Pardons Trump.
Appoints Trump VP. Pence Resigns.
Trump becomes President. Appoints Pence as VP.

Liberals heads explode.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (7/YOc)

226
Rodman scored Carmen Electra. Dude has something.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (LOgQ4)

227 I'm imagining the USS Rodman (it would have to be a
warship, not an auxiliary). Special camo. I'm picturing rainbow-colored
"Dazzle" pattern from WWII Atlantic fleet ships (was it just the Royal
Navy that did that? can't recall).

Some non-functional, decorative metal hoops in/out of the superstructure (homage to Dennis' face tackle).

Yeah, this could work.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2018 05:11 PM (QDnY+)

Instead of wearing oversized, engraved gold bars, the Bull Ensign has to get a nose ring.

Posted by: Bert G at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (yzxic)

228 Dead serious. Never have.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (ucNQA)M

Me either.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 27, 2018 05:20 PM (ODr92)

229 "I've never smoked weed, so *throws stone*
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:12 PM (ucNQA)"

----------

In that case I also am eligible to throw that stone.

Many years ago we were going home from a party and my husband said their place reeked of weed. There were lots of smells there so I wished he told me earlier so I could identify it as I still don't know what it smells like.

Posted by: Decaf at July 27, 2018 05:20 PM (CJmlv)

230 152 comments on SFC Lilyea's passing.
https://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=80829

Oh wait 155 comments.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 27, 2018 05:21 PM (aB+tO)

231 Has the media started their imbecilic shrieking about how bad this is?

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at July 27, 2018 05:21 PM (eAMlh)

232 Bugs Bunny birthday reminded me a old co-worker who passed away long ago was born the same day.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2018 05:21 PM (pHfeF)

233 Marine Ranger Hall of Famer and patriot Mueller knows this is all a smokescreen to cover for Trump's shameless conspiracy to commit Presidenting and boost American exports.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 27, 2018 05:22 PM (fA1SL)

234 Yeah, right! lol!

That's unbelievable?

Well, strap yourself in. Not only have I never smoked weed, I've also never drank alcohol.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2018 05:23 PM (9qZ3S)

235 228 Dead serious. Never have.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (ucNQA)M

Me either.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 27, 2018 05:20 PM (ODr92)

I'm not really sure how to spell Pinocchio, but I seem to recall that he grew a dick where his nose used to be.

Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:23 PM (PEcU2)

236 Another Cuck Cruise cabin boy: Bret Stephens sez he's at the NYT "to oppose Trump."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:23 PM (ptqGC)

237 Rodman scored Carmen Electra. Dude has something.

....

Carmen Electra....yum.

You are taking me back to the Daisy Fuentes days of my youth. Exciting time to be alive and hormonally charged.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 05:23 PM (HOdKy)

238 Have to do that a lot. Manchurian Candidate, Taking of Pelham 123 . . . lots of classics where I have to avoid the dog-turn remakes.

Actually sat through the recent remake of "The Thing" as an experiment. I was not disappointed in my disappointment.
Posted by: Ersatz at July 27, 2018 05:18 PM (44PTs)

A lot of old movies are available on Youtube, which is a good way to avoid the Communist-inspired crap that Hollywood has excreted for the last 20 years or so.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 05:23 PM (8DwPe)

239 I wished he told me earlier so I could identify it as I still don't know what it smells like.

Posted by: Decaf

For me it smells like paranoia. I've tried it a couple times and each time was not an enjoyable experience.

Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 05:24 PM (xwvYG)

240 Drumpf desecrated the lives, remains, and memories of our beloved veterans, their families, and humanity in totality by meeting with Kim. Drumpf is revealing yet again the traitor within.

Posted by: This... Is CNN at July 27, 2018 05:24 PM (6eEQ+)

241 I suspect certain elements of the Democrats party is unhappy at this news. To them - These are evil Americans who did evil imperialist things to Korea.

Posted by: William Eaton at July 27, 2018 05:24 PM (MuTTO)

242 235 228 Dead serious. Never have.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (ucNQA)M

Me either.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 27, 2018 05:20 PM (ODr92)

I'm not really sure how to spell Pinocchio, but I seem to recall that he grew a dick where his nose used to be.
Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:23 PM (PEcU2)

Believe whatever you want but it's the truth.

Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:24 PM (ucNQA)

243 Orson -

6. Appeasement and paying the Danegeld are 'Smart Diplomacy' (F*ck you, and I'm NOT doing it)

Posted by: What's Up Doc? at July 27, 2018 05:24 PM (CDGwz)

244 Has the media started their imbecilic shrieking about how bad this is?

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at July 27, 2018 05:21 PM (eAMlh)

Read the twitter responses to Pence's tweet. And then go take a long, hot shower.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:24 PM (ptqGC)

245 Posted by: Ersatz at July 27, 2018 05:18 PM (44PTs)
=====

I watched the most recent "Murder on the Orient Express" last night.

It was awful. How do you f up Murder on the Orient Express, you may ask? You work race and racism into it for one....

Just. No.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (nILVB)

246 Eromero, as I noted here once not long ago, think it was at Utah beach where all sorts of non-German "German" prisoners were being taken (surrendering quickly), German-speaking intel officers couldn't communicate with them, and finally a young soldier went to a more senior officer and asked "just who are we fighting here, sir??" Koreans, some Central Asian former Red Army guys, probably accounted for the Asians. But there was a smorgasbord of European non-German guys as well. The Reich had a fair number of volunteers in their uniform, but lots of impressed people too.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (QDnY+)

247 I'd probably be a happier person but it's still not legal here for recreational use.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:18 PM (ucNQA)

I wouldn't recommend it. It is a gateway drug to Taco Bell.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (5jVnA)

248 223 I seem to remember orientals of dubious origin captured by the Allies at Normandy. They were finally identified by a Korean-American soldier as Korean slaves of the Japanese who somehow ended up captured by Russians, then Germans. They were in German uniform when captured by us. And boy, were they relieved.
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (zLDYs)

True story: Mother's brother was a doctor stuck behind the Iron Curtain in Hungary. He actually trained NorK medics and doctors during the Korean war. Afterwards, he came back th Hungary and was about to leave when the Hungarian Revolution was crushed and he stayed there until 1961 when after literally being forced to leave all his possessions except the clothes on his back (much like California, Illinois and New York are plotting), he made it to the States. And he had to go through American medical school for several years to get retrained/certified.

He was the last family member to be reunited with my mom and the rest. They were all deported in '44 to various camps. At least they all miraculously survived so 17 years apart is not so bad all things considered.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (G4W16)

249 You are not going to get a participation trophy that way!

Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (PEcU2)

250 Trump gets impeached.
Pence becomes president. Pardons Trump.
Appoints Trump VP. Pence Resigns.
Trump becomes President. Appoints Pence as VP.

Liberals heads explode.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (7/YOc)

Impeachment is not getting kicked out of office. Remember, Clinton was impeached.

I'm starting to feel like this will be like the thread where I had to keep saying "Turkey is not in the EU." lol

Impeachment is not losing office. There's a long process after that. However, it is an energy sucking process and it would be meant to cripple Trump's accomplishments and Presidency.

Still, impeachment does not mean he is out of office.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (G3Kkn)

251 There were lots of smells there so I wished he told me earlier so I could identify it as I still don't know what it smells like.

It's a sort of skunky smell. I know that because I was a missionary and I knocked on a lot of doors that reeked of weed. I became very familiar with the smell.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (9qZ3S)

252 I believe you, Insomniac and Lance.

I avoided Reefer Madness too.

Posted by: Ersatz at July 27, 2018 05:26 PM (44PTs)

253 223 I seem to remember orientals of dubious origin captured by the Allies at Normandy. They were finally identified by a Korean-American soldier as Korean slaves of the Japanese who somehow ended up captured by Russians, then Germans. They were in German uniform when captured by us. And boy, were they relieved.
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (zLDYs)

Yang Kyoungjong - he was drafted into the Japanese army, was captured by the Russians in the brief Nomonhan War between Japan & Russia just before WWII, was pressed into service to fight for Russia when Germany invaded, was captured by Germany, and since he was technically a citizen of a fellow Axis country, was allowed to join the Wehrmacht, and was captured by Americans at Normandy. The movie "My Way" was based on his incredible experiences.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kyoungjong

Posted by: josephistan at July 27, 2018 05:26 PM (Izzlo)

254 Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:24 PM (ptqGC)

I feel that I do much better when I don't read any Tweets accept those by Trump and James Woods and don't read the responses.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2018 05:26 PM (AllCR)

255 Read the twitter responses to Pence's tweet. And then go take a long, hot shower.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:24 PM (ptqGC)

---------------

Nnooo thank you. I've already heard about the gist of them.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 27, 2018 05:26 PM (YRtrf)

256 Lots and lots of people have never smoked weed. Those who find that surprising need to get out more.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2018 05:27 PM (QDnY+)

257 News babe alert... Trish Regan is pretty hot on "The 5."

That is all.

Return to your normal duties.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2018 05:27 PM (iiixZ)

258 I'd probably be a happier person but it's still not legal here for recreational use.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:18 PM (ucNQA)

I wouldn't recommend it. It is a gateway drug to Taco Bell.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (5jVnA)

lol

No Insomniac...you would be one of the people who smoke it and have a paranoid experience. I just know it.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 05:27 PM (G3Kkn)

259 Impeachment is not getting kicked out of office. Remember, Clinton was impeached.

I'm starting to feel like this will be like the thread where I had to keep saying "Turkey is not in the EU." lol

Impeachment is not losing office
Posted by: platypus

I know. But post that of Facebook and watch people lose their shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2018 05:27 PM (7/YOc)

260 Casualties of the Korean War by UN country and Communist country

http://www.korean-war-medals.com/united_nations/casualties.shtml

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 27, 2018 05:28 PM (aB+tO)

261 People smoke dandelions and such?
Get outta here.
No way.

Posted by: teej - mom's apple pie type kid from Kansas at July 27, 2018 05:28 PM (Z7oqE)

262 206 The first Bugs Bunny cartoon was released today in 1940.
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at July 27, 2018 05:15 PM (dEQP3)

--Also the end of the police action in Korea in 1953

Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 05:28 PM (e7oj4)

263 I watched the most recent "Murder on the Orient Express" last night.

It was awful. How do you f up Murder on the Orient Express, you may ask? You work race and racism into it for one....

Just. No.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (nILVB)

This is why I eschew virtually all Hollywood products of the last 20 years.

For one thing, it's clear that Hollywood has run out of ideas, and just keeps remaking the same movies over and over, merely adding an SJW patina in the process.

No thanks.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 05:28 PM (8DwPe)

264 It's a sort of skunky smell. I know that because I was a missionary and I knocked on a lot of doors that reeked of weed. I became very familiar with the smell.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (9qZ3S)

I like the smell of cigars, pipes, and even cigarettes. But the smell of pot, I hate. I even prefer skunk to it.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 05:29 PM (G3Kkn)

265 Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (G3Kkn)

Platypus, gg, I just looked at a e-mail from someone who conveyed your news from last night that a loved one was in the path of the fires and might need to be removed, and that you were asking for prayers. Just wanted to know the latest news. Thx.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2018 05:29 PM (AllCR)

266 My sense of time passing still puts 1940 at 60 years ago. It shakes my brain that 1940 is almost 80 years ago.

****************

As a fellow 29 year older, i know how you feel.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at July 27, 2018 05:29 PM (+dsLj)

267
probably be a happier person but it's still not legal here for recreational use.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:18 PM (ucNQA)

It can make depression worse over time.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 27, 2018 05:29 PM (10vO4)

268 No Insomniac...you would be one of the people who smoke it and have a paranoid experience. I just know it.
Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 05:27 PM (G3Kkn)

Very likely. That's one of the reasons I would never drop acid. I'd be guaranteed to have the bad trip to end all bad trips, experience a psychotic break as a result, and end up in the state mental hospital for life.

Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:29 PM (ucNQA)

269 Impeachment is not losing office. There's a long process after that. However, it is an energy sucking process and it would be meant to cripple Trump's accomplishments and Presidency.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (

EM-ENERGY-SUCK FOADDY-FI!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' baseball bat at July 27, 2018 05:29 PM (EzdLW)

270 People smoke dandelions and such?
Get outta here.
No way.

....

And banana peels!

Posted by: The Dead Milkmen at July 27, 2018 05:29 PM (HOdKy)

271 For me it smells like paranoia. I've tried it a couple times and each time was not an enjoyable experience.

Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 05:24 PM

See you have to have a plan. A plan to get laid, or listen to a new album, or eat some really tasty junk food and get really fat.

Barring that plan of action, you're going to be peering through the drapes waiting for the police to arrive. Or so I've been told.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 27, 2018 05:30 PM (LOgQ4)

272 Anyone who would even think about putting an avocado into a blender, with a pile of some kind of chips near by, is a likely candidate for enslavement via a gateway drug. Ban avocado! Save the children!

Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:30 PM (PEcU2)

273 Read the twitter responses to Pence's tweet. And then go take a long, hot shower.

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Twatter is the equivalent of handing every resident of every mental institution in the country a megaphone.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at July 27, 2018 05:30 PM (+dsLj)

274 OT: a news chyron here (probably taken from the Canadian Press wire-service or the AP) states, "The U.S. economy surged in the April-June quarter to an annual growth rate of 4.1%."

Posted by: andycanuck at July 27, 2018 05:30 PM (Evws/)

275 Anyone who would even think about putting an avocado into a blender, with a pile of some kind of chips near by, is a likely candidate for enslavement via a gateway drug. Ban avocado! Save the children!
Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:30 PM (PEcU2)

your point ?

Posted by: runner at July 27, 2018 05:31 PM (bUjCl)

276 256 Lots and lots of people have never smoked weed. Those who find that surprising need to get out more.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2018 05:27 PM (QDnY+)

--Same here. Never smoked.

Edibles once, though . . .

Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 05:32 PM (e7oj4)

277 My sense of time passing still puts 1940 at 60 years ago. It shakes my brain that 1940 is almost 80 years ago.

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As a fellow 29 year older, i know how you feel.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen
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I am no longer certain what 'A long time ago' is. I'm routinely surprised to recall something that I think of as recent, and then realize it was 15-20 years ago.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 05:32 PM (CDGwz)

278 Trump stepped on his dick big-time. The economy only grew at 4.1%. Obama's economy grew at probably 0.42 %. We need Obama's economic numbers to show Lichtenstein who is the world leader !!!

Posted by: Dr. Strangelove at July 27, 2018 05:32 PM (qM84C)

279 "I watched the most recent "Murder on the Orient Express" last night. "

I have only seen the one from 1974 with-among others-Albert Finney and Lauren Bacall. I thought that was pretty good.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2018 05:32 PM (AllCR)

280 Barring that plan of action, you're going to be peering through the drapes waiting for the police to arrive. Or so I've been told.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 27, 2018 05:30 PM (LOgQ4)

And by god, don't go to 7/11 to get chili cheese nachos and a big gulp. Because THEY KNOW.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2018 05:32 PM (5jVnA)

281 Sorry to rain on everyone's Trump as Pence's VP parade but Pence would nominate Trump as his VP and he'd need to be confirmed via the Senate. I cannot imagine a situation where the Senate has just remove Trump as President turning around and confirming him as VP.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at July 27, 2018 05:33 PM (xQfPr)

282 I am no longer certain what 'A long time ago' is. I'm routinely surprised to recall something that I think of as recent, and then realize it was 15-20 years ago

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I still think the 1980s was only ten years ago.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at July 27, 2018 05:33 PM (+dsLj)

283 Don't smoke pot if you've never smoked pot.

Especially today's pot.

None of it is shwag weed for beginners. It's all the sh*t that killed Elvis, so to speak.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 05:33 PM (HOdKy)

284 "The U.S. economy surged in the April-June quarter to an annual growth rate of 4.1%."
Posted by: andycanuck
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Hardest hit - Paul Krugman

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 05:34 PM (CDGwz)

285 "I watched the most recent "Murder on the Orient Express" last night. "

I have only seen the one from 1974 with-among others-Albert Finney and Lauren Bacall. I thought that was pretty good.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2018 05:32 PM (AllCR)

don't waste your time on the new one - it is terrible.

Posted by: runner at July 27, 2018 05:34 PM (bUjCl)

286 I have only seen the one from 1974 with-among others-Albert Finney and Lauren Bacall. I thought that was pretty good.
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The more recent BBC version with David Suchet is my favorite.

I do like the 1974 movie - Lauren Bacall is great.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 27, 2018 05:34 PM (nILVB)

287 Weed, that might explain that ZZ TOP lyric about a naked cowgirl in a 7/11.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 27, 2018 05:34 PM (aB+tO)

288 Pot's quite stinky. I've noticed it smells like other plants' burned leaves with extra musty overtones. Not a pleasant smell at all, but once you smell it, you'll recognize it. Can't say I know what non-burning pot smells like, but go to a rock concert (or any concert for the under 29s) and you'll get doses of it.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 27, 2018 05:34 PM (6eEQ+)

289 Granny smoked crawdads.

Posted by: adobe juan kenobe at July 27, 2018 05:34 PM (K07Ez)

290 I still think the 1980s was only ten years ago.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen
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Our 'new' car is a 1998.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 05:35 PM (CDGwz)

291 For you, insomniac.
Lifetime Piling Up
Talking Heads

https://youtu.be/zdVMdORveRg

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 27, 2018 05:35 PM (fA1SL)

292 your point ?
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2018 05:31 PM (bUjCl)

Thank you. I hit that one deep into the corner.

Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:35 PM (PEcU2)

293 You are taking me back to the Daisy Fuentes days of my youth. Exciting time to be alive and hormonally charged.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 05:23 PM (HOdK

Who is married to Richard Marx now.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 27, 2018 05:36 PM (cGqiy)

294 The more recent BBC version with David Suchet is my favorite.

He's made a career of playing Poirot so I expect it would be good.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2018 05:36 PM (AllCR)

295 Read the twitter responses to Pence's tweet. And then go take a long, hot shower.

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People who post on the internet are nuts, man.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 27, 2018 05:36 PM (+y/Ru)

296 Weed... in HS is was the "in thing." In college it was the "in thing." In early employment it was a surefire way to get fired. In retirement, it will be the "in thing."

Everything is cyclical.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2018 05:36 PM (iiixZ)

297 your point ?
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2018 05:31 PM (bUjCl)

Thank you. I hit that one deep into the corner.
Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:35 PM (PEcU2)

corner of what ?

Posted by: runner at July 27, 2018 05:37 PM (bUjCl)

298 Especially today's pot.

None of it is shwag weed for beginners. It's all the sh*t that killed Elvis, so to speak.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 05:33 PM (HOdKy)

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I haven't smoked any for about 25 years. Friends who do have warned me not to now, as 1-2 hits would knock me all the way on my ass.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 27, 2018 05:37 PM (YRtrf)

299 Pot's quite stinky. I've noticed it smells like other plants' burned leaves with extra musty overtones. Not a pleasant smell at all, but once you smell it, you'll recognize it.

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Pot's legal around here, and people worship the fucking thing like it was furiously rubbed between Aphrodite's boobs before it was handed down to mere mortals by Zeus.

It's a goddamned fucking plant get over yourself assholes.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at July 27, 2018 05:37 PM (+dsLj)

300 He's made a career of playing Poirot so I expect it would be good.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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It is. Suchet was perfectly cast, and he played the character perfectly.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 05:37 PM (CDGwz)

301 284 "The U.S. economy surged in the April-June quarter to an annual growth rate of 4.1%."
Posted by: andycanuck
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Hardest hit - Paul Krugman
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 05:34 PM (CDGwz)

I'm laughing at the Dems in the MSM trying to give Obama credit for it.

/facepalm

Posted by: Don Q at July 27, 2018 05:37 PM (NgKpN)

302 278 Trump stepped on his dick big-time. The economy only grew at 4.1%. Obama's economy grew at probably 0.42 %. We need Obama's economic numbers to show Lichtenstein who is the world leader !!!
Posted by: Dr. Strangelove at July 27, 2018 05:32 PM (qM84C)

Roy Lichtenstein is dead?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2018 05:37 PM (G4W16)

303 David Suchet IS Hercule Poirot

(But I did like the Albert Finney movie too)

Posted by: Ersatz at July 27, 2018 05:37 PM (44PTs)

304 The U.S. economy surged in the April-June quarter to an annual growth rate of 4.1%."
Posted by: andycanuck
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Hardest hit - Paul Krugman
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 05:34 PM (CDGwz)

I think he and Bill Maher had a head on collision.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 27, 2018 05:37 PM (cGqiy)

305 "But COHEN!!!!
Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2018 04:34 PM (O2RFr)"

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Cohen is the stick Dems and the media are using this instance with which to beat, in the first instance, the president and then anyone who isn't on their side. It is no longer even acceptable to be neutral.

The dem side is replete with all these psychologists and psychiatrists yet none of them seem able to notice what is going on in our society and to predict what could be the next step.

When half or more of your population starts to think that they cannot get justice before the law you are heading for a societal level breakup.

The Cohen tapes release makes a mockery of the client-lawyer privilege regardless of it being legal in NY, it is not anywhere else.

These sort of violations of rights only happen to one side. This is what makes it casus belli.

Posted by: Decaf at July 27, 2018 05:37 PM (CJmlv)

306 Jeez, incomplete video earlier.

*This* is the MiG Alley video:

https://youtu.be/ADXTxMQ_r8w

Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 05:38 PM (e7oj4)

307 My father flew the F-86 Sabre Jet in Korea. He made it home but so many he knew didn't.
Posted by: Cheri at July 27, 2018 04:38 PM (oiNtH)

The commie Rosenbergs went to the chair for stealing atomic secrets; less well known is that their spy ring stole F-86 test data allowing the Soviets to build the MiG-15 resulting in the deaths of many American pilots. The yellow-toothed limeys let them license the Rolls Royce engines completing the betrayal.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at July 27, 2018 05:38 PM (bML9A)

308 Our 'new' car is a 1998.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 05:35 PM (CDGwz)

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My ride is an even younger 1999 model which makes it only 3 years old.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at July 27, 2018 05:38 PM (+dsLj)

309 People who post on the internet are nuts, man.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Morons, the lot of them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 05:38 PM (CDGwz)

310 Sorry to rain on everyone's Trump as Pence's VP parade but Pence would nominate Trump as his VP and he'd need to be confirmed via the Senate. I cannot imagine a situation where the Senate has just remove Trump as President turning around and confirming him as VP.
Posted by: Laughing in Texas

They wouldn't. But libs don't use critical thinking skills. That's what makes it so fun.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2018 05:39 PM (7/YOc)

311 None of it is shwag weed for beginners. It's all the sh*t that killed Elvis, so to speak.

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I thought fried peanut butter sandwiches killed Elvis.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 27, 2018 05:39 PM (+y/Ru)

312
The more recent BBC version with David Suchet is my favorite.

He's made a career of playing Poirot so I expect it would be good.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2018 05:36 PM (AllCR)

He did a wonderful show on the Holy Land. Can't remember if it was the History Channel or Travel Channel.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:39 PM (ptqGC)

313 corner of what ?

His mom's box.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2018 05:39 PM (9qZ3S)

314 My ride is an even younger 1999 model which makes it only 3 years old.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen
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That's the spirit!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 05:39 PM (CDGwz)

315 265 Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (G3Kkn)

Platypus, gg, I just looked at a e-mail from someone who conveyed your news from last night that a loved one was in the path of the fires and might need to be removed, and that you were asking for prayers. Just wanted to know the latest news. Thx.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2018 05:29 PM (AllCR)

Thank you. It was my sister and her son. This is the sister dying of a mysterious, incurable lung disease. She is selling her house bcz of it and now this.

They have been evacuated, so they are safe so far, but obviously if her house is burned down that complicates an already horrific situation. Not to mention the further damage to her lungs from this air and ash.

I don't mean to go on about this, I just so wish I was out there to take care of her. It would been better if they had left and gone to my brother's in Danville, but they didn't think it would jump the Sacramento river.

Okay, bbl, now I've got the waterworks going. But ty for asking. It was so kind.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 05:39 PM (G3Kkn)

316 So I went back and read my translated Gunm manga to be up on my Battle Angel Alita and was gobsmacked this originally came out in 1992. The anime in 1993.

So dipwad has been sitting on this property for over twenty years to make a movie?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 27, 2018 05:39 PM (aB+tO)

317 308. '97 Corolla, by me. Thing just won't die.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 27, 2018 05:40 PM (fA1SL)

318 "Another Cuck Cruise cabin boy: Bret Stephens sez he's at the NYT "to oppose Trump."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:23 PM (ptqGC)"

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That's true. They are certainly not paying him for any insightful opinions.

Posted by: Decaf at July 27, 2018 05:40 PM (CJmlv)

319 239 For me it smells like paranoia. I've tried it a couple times and each time was not an enjoyable experience.

Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 05:24 PM (xwvYG)

Same here. It's just as well that I hate the stuff as I'm subject to a piss test on demand at work.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 27, 2018 05:40 PM (NL6wI)

320 296 In retirement, it will be the "in thing."

Everything is cyclical.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2018 05:36 PM (iiixZ)

It already is. Last year I moved my mom into a retirement community (in CA). My sister told me she could smell the pot all up and down the halls. (I wouldn't know!)

Posted by: Ersatz at July 27, 2018 05:41 PM (44PTs)

321 His mom's box.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2018 05:39 PM (9qZ3S)

yeah, well, who hasn't ?

Posted by: runner at July 27, 2018 05:41 PM (bUjCl)

322 See you have to have a plan. A plan to get laid, or listen to a new album, or eat some really tasty junk food and get really fat. ----

First time I tried it I was in High School (no pun intended). All those things were a plan constantly except for the fat one. But I was also fairly sure I would live forever then too. Thoughts change as one gets older.

Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 05:41 PM (xwvYG)

323 Maybe this will be the divisive issue that will give the progressives a way to hook a fingernail under the scab. This weed thing. That would be tragic and sad. Premarital sex would fall into the same category, and they could also use that to divide us. It doesn't matter, it's nothing but memories anyhow.

Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:41 PM (PEcU2)

324 It's all the sh*t that killed Elvis, so to speak.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 05:33 PM (HOdKy)
..............

Gotta hunk o burnin m-m-munchies!

Posted by: Fat Elvis at July 27, 2018 05:42 PM (HgMAr)

325 premarital sex killed Elvis ?

Posted by: runner at July 27, 2018 05:43 PM (bUjCl)

326 Suchet was perfectly cast, and he played the character perfectly.

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I saw a short interview of him speaking like a normal person without a ~~French~~ Belgian accent. Did not compute.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 27, 2018 05:43 PM (+y/Ru)

327 I haven't smoked any for about 25 years. Friends who do have warned me not to now, as 1-2 hits would knock me all the way on my ass.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 27, 2018 05:37 PM

I remember my now departed BIL. Stage four metastatic cancer. Colostomy bag after they took half a football field out of his colon. Said he was so stoned after two hits he couldn't move for 20 minutes.

At that point I asked myself, 'Let the Mexican cartel control the field or state government?' I think the answer is easy.

It's not for me. Except maybe once a decade.

Maybe less.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 27, 2018 05:43 PM (LOgQ4)

328 Froderick Wonkensteen: "It's a goddamned fucking plant get over yourself assholes."

Yeah, people who smell like pot smell like sh*t. Not literally but really, really bad. I'll say this about tobacco smoke. While it's acrid and sharp, at least it doesn't smell like pot.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 27, 2018 05:43 PM (6eEQ+)

329
Gotta hunk o burnin m-m-munchies!
Posted by: Fat Elvis

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I think that's "hunka-hunka"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 05:43 PM (CDGwz)

330 *scratches head*

This is the first time I have heard the Sovs stole data from the F-86, of course which version of the Sabre? The XP-86A? The F-86E? The F-86F with the hard wing. Or maybe the F-86D Sabre Dog?

The British debated reneging on the deal to give a copy of the Nene engine to the Sovs but decided to honor their word.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 27, 2018 05:44 PM (aB+tO)

331 325. No, Elvis died stopping a revenant mummy from killing everyone in his nursing home. JFK also died in that fight.
Jayzus. Does nobody teach history any more?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 27, 2018 05:44 PM (fA1SL)

332 268 No Insomniac...you would be one of the people who smoke it and have a paranoid experience. I just know it.
Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 27, 2018 05:27 PM (G3Kkn)

Very likely. That's one of the reasons I would never drop acid. I'd be guaranteed to have the bad trip to end all bad trips, experience a psychotic break as a result, and end up in the state mental hospital for life.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 05:29 PM (ucNQA)

I do cocaine!

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at July 27, 2018 05:45 PM (JpIFY)

333 Never did any drugs or smoked weed in my life but I sure would like to know what a line of cocaine would be like. I'll never know.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 27, 2018 05:45 PM (cGqiy)

334 Bubba Ho-Tep for the win.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 27, 2018 05:45 PM (aB+tO)

335 While it's acrid and sharp, at least it doesn't smell like pot.

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Cigar smoke in particular smells like toxic masculinity to me, which is just fine.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at July 27, 2018 05:45 PM (+dsLj)

336 No, HIS mom's box. And yours.

Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:45 PM (PEcU2)

337 Yeah, people who smell like pot smell like sh*t. Not literally but really, really bad. I'll say this about tobacco smoke. While it's acrid and sharp, at least it doesn't smell like pot.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel
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I spent part of my squandered youth employed by a university. Having stoners breathing dope breath into your face during conversation was repulsive.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 05:45 PM (xSo9G)

338 I thought fried peanut butter sandwiches killed Elvis.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 27, 2018 05:39 PM (+y/Ru)

....

Elvis liked PB and Banana, Fried Peanut Butter Sammiches and most famously the Fool's Gold Loaf (which you should all research... teaser: it has a pound of bacon!).

There is only one explaination as to what could drive a man to such cavernous cravings....smoking the sh*t that killed Elvis.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 05:45 PM (HOdKy)

339 "There were lots of smells there so I wished he told me earlier so I could identify it as I still don't know what it smells like."

It's a sort of skunky smell. I know that because I was a missionary and I knocked on a lot of doors that reeked of weed. I became very familiar with the smell.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (9qZ3S)

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You got me there, I don't know what skunk smells like either.

Posted by: Decaf at July 27, 2018 05:46 PM (CJmlv)

340 Never did any drugs or smoked weed in my life but I sure would like to know what a line of cocaine would be like. I'll never know.
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Call me.

Posted by: Barry O. at July 27, 2018 05:46 PM (nILVB)

341 334. Finest historical documentary in decades.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 27, 2018 05:46 PM (fA1SL)

342 I like the comedian line ' I don't believe in smoking weed'. (pause) it screws up my heroin high.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 27, 2018 05:47 PM (cGqiy)

343 No, Elvis died stopping a revenant mummy from killing everyone in his nursing home. JFK also died in that fight.
Jayzus. Does nobody teach history any more?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters

Bubba Ho-Tep was a monster.

Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 05:47 PM (xwvYG)

344 323 Maybe this will be the divisive issue that will give the progressives a way to hook a fingernail under the scab. This weed thing. That would be tragic and sad. Premarital sex would fall into the same category, and they could also use that to divide us. It doesn't matter, it's nothing but memories anyhow.
Posted by: goon at July 27, 2018 05:41 PM (PEcU2)

Those white women who are teachers and soccer moms want crave that 12-17 year old dick. And cocaine.

Universal aufferage was a mistake. So are white women under 45.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at July 27, 2018 05:47 PM (JpIFY)

345 Carmen Electra....yum.

You are taking me back to the Daisy Fuentes days of my youth. Exciting time to be alive and hormonally charged.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 05:23 PM

I always wanted to strap on my tool belt and go fix Farrah's faucet.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2018 05:48 PM (0tfLf)

346 No, Elvis died stopping a revenant mummy from killing everyone in his nursing home. JFK also died in that fight.
Jayzus. Does nobody teach history any more?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 27, 2018 05:44 PM

*fist bump*

Posted by: Sebastian Haff at July 27, 2018 05:48 PM (EzdLW)

347 I thought fried peanut butter sandwiches killed Elvis.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 27, 2018 05:39 PM (+y/Ru)
..............

I really didn't think eating one while I sat on the pot would be a problem.

Posted by: Fat Elvis at July 27, 2018 05:48 PM (HgMAr)

348 Wife was asking why Kimberly wasn't on, told her she left and was looking that up. There are stories of the usual suspect Leftist rags she left before sexual allegations came up.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2018 05:49 PM (pHfeF)

349 Never did any drugs or smoked weed in my life but I sure would like to know what a line of cocaine would be like. I'll never know.

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Get a little drunk and eat a massive dose of no-doz. That'll get ya pretty close.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2018 05:50 PM (AzW6q)

350 Those white women who are teachers and soccer moms want crave that 12-17 year old dick. And cocaine.

Granted it's seem like there are more and more teachers having sex with sex with kids, but I think on the whole, mothers of kids who are between 12-17 don't want to have sex with kids the age of their own kids. Couldn't speak to the cocaine issue.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2018 05:50 PM (AllCR)

351 Has the media started their imbecilic shrieking about how bad this is?

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at July 27, 2018 05:21 PM (eAMlh)

Read the twitter responses to Pence's tweet. And then go take a long, hot shower.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2018 05:24 PM (ptqGC)

I had to take a long cold shower to cool off my Hungarian/Slovak temper. Sick, sick, people. Damn them all to Hell.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2018 05:51 PM (9YBqo)

352 Nood?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2018 05:51 PM (5jVnA)

353 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2018 05:51 PM (7/YOc)

354 Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp: "Never did any drugs or smoked weed in my life but I sure would like to know what a line of cocaine would be like. I'll never know."

And curiosity killed the cat. That's the ultimate danger of some of these drugs. You try it once and, if your chemistry is "right", you'll desire it until you die. I'll never tempt my biochemistry with Russian Roulette.

I'll just have to depend on self-manufactured endorphins et al. to experience normal highs and lows. Never wanted to tempt fate unnecessarily.

Besides, who has the budget for this stuff? Kinda spendy as far as a habit goes.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 27, 2018 05:52 PM (6eEQ+)

355 I don't know what skunk smells like either.

Wow! Are you outside North or South America?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2018 05:52 PM (9qZ3S)

356 Froderick Wonkensteen: "It's a goddamned fucking plant get over yourself assholes."

>>>>>>>

*adds Froderick to the list of participants for testing new vaccines, SSRI's, and spiking his water supply with Tylenol without his consent or knowledge*

Posted by: Big Pharma at July 27, 2018 05:52 PM (JpIFY)

357 Never did any drugs or smoked weed in my life but I sure would like to know what a line of cocaine would be like. I'll never know.

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Get a little drunk and eat a massive dose of no-doz. That'll get ya pretty close.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2018 05:50 PM (AzW6q)

....and give away all your worldly possessions to perfect strangers; that will get him that much closer

Posted by: runner at July 27, 2018 05:52 PM (bUjCl)

358 Jayzus. Does nobody teach history any more?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 27, 2018 05:44 PM

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My brother was in line behind a teenage couple at the bookstore a few years back, when the book "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter" came out.

The girl turned to the boy and said in all seriousness: "Abraham Lincoln was a vampire hunter? See, this is the kind of stuff they don't teach us in school!"

He told me the look she got from her boyfriend was sufficiently bad, that he's pretty sure he broke up with her later that day.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2018 05:53 PM (AzW6q)

359 I'm imagining the USS Rodman (it would have to be a warship, not an auxiliary). Special camo. I'm picturing rainbow-colored "Dazzle" pattern from WWII Atlantic fleet ships (was it just the Royal Navy that did that? can't recall).

Some non-functional, decorative metal hoops in/out of the superstructure (homage to Dennis' face tackle).

And drums of cannabis oil for generating a smoke screen.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at July 27, 2018 05:54 PM (fVubI)

360 ....and give away all your worldly possessions to perfect strangers; that will get him that much closer
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2018 05:52 PM (bUjCl)

....

...and imagine everything you say is most interesting thing that anyone ever said.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 05:55 PM (HOdKy)

361 Wife was asking why Kimberly wasn't on, told her she left and was looking that up. There are stories of the usual suspect Leftist rags she left before sexual allegations came up.
Posted by: Skip

I read some of the stories and they appear to not match what I know of Kimberly's character. The only kinda credible accuser is Judge Jenine. But she may just have gone nuts for publicity to sell her new book or jealous of Kimberly's boobs.

Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 05:56 PM (xwvYG)

362 Figures I'm practically willowed

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2018 05:57 PM (pHfeF)

363 Froderick Wonkensteen: "Cigar smoke in particular smells like toxic masculinity to me, which is just fine."

Cigars are in a whole different class. Yeah, stogies can get pretty rank, but some of the "flavored" cigars? Many of them smell nice, which doesn't really seem possible.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 27, 2018 05:57 PM (6eEQ+)

364 Back in my much younger years I had a commercial license so I did carry some people around in an airplane. Some young squirts sat in the back and lit up as soon as I took off. I told them to knock it off, of course they ignored me. At least it wasn't the really strong stuff that filled the cabin and made me high.

Posted by: Colin at July 27, 2018 05:57 PM (CFLCe)

365 221
I think we need to create a special category for Trump's list of growing deeds:

I hereby, proclaim the creation of the "F*CK YOU, I'M DOING IT" category.

1. We'll never see a growth of the economy exceeding 2.5% again (F*ck You, I'm doing it)

2. You'll never get your tax cuts through Congress (F*ck you, I'm doing it)

3. You'll never get unemployment below 5% (F*ck you I'm doing it)

4. You'll never budge ISIS, they're too well dug in. (F*ck you I'm doing it, and it will only take a few months)

5. North Korea isn't interested in working out a peaceful remedy (Hold my beer, and f*ck you, I"m doing it).

Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2018 05:19 PM (RWgN4)

that's T-shirt material right there!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 27, 2018 06:00 PM (UsCnO)

366 "The more recent BBC version with David Suchet is my favorite.

He's made a career of playing Poirot so I expect it would be good.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2018 05:36 PM (AllCR)"

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I saw that one and loved it. I saw the 1974 version as well and thought it was too Hollywood-y.

Posted by: Decaf at July 27, 2018 06:00 PM (CJmlv)

367 251
There were lots of smells there so I wished he told me earlier so I
could identify it as I still don't know what it smells like.

It's a sort of skunky smell. I know that because I was a missionary
and I knocked on a lot of doors that reeked of weed. I became very
familiar with the smell.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 27, 2018 05:25 PM (9qZ3S)

In the Seattle area, there are licensed growers, who are the only legal growers. They have a large list of state requirements. Warehouse, with fencing, security cameras, etc. You can be a few blocks away driving, with the window down, and it hits you. If you have ever driven by a large commercial bakery when they are baking bread, and the fresh bread smell for blocks, it is like that.

Except it is that overwhelming smell of growing MJ. It isn't faint, instead it knocks one over with its intensity.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 27, 2018 06:10 PM (UsCnO)

368 The remains of 55 American soldiers from North Korea is not a lot---but it's also not nothing. US troops got chased all the way south to the tip of the Korean Peninsual at Pusan in the first few months of the war. Things got better and we went almost all the way to the Yalu that winter. Then the ChiComs came. Thee were a lot of dead US soldiers and Marines littering the fields of North Korea. The Corps made it a point of honor to bring their dead back with them. The Army not so much. So 55 is a start, but there's a lot more where they came from. A late friend of mine managed to be both at Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942 and Chosin Reservoir in the winter of 1950 with a few island assaults sprinkled in between.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 27, 2018 06:14 PM (Sda6L)

369 30: in re Korean War dead. There may be some Turks and other nations too. Honor where it was earned.

Posted by: Le Garde Vieux at July 27, 2018 06:27 PM (swldI)

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