The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 5/31/21

Good morning kids. The meaning and purpose of this day, a time for solemn reflection and remembrance has become lost and muddled into merely the marking of the unofficial start of summer, and all the good and fun things that come with it. In the 76 years since the end of the Second World War, we went from a period of hardship and privation to the longest era of relative peace and prosperity that we had ever known. I suppose it is the human condition that makes us take things for granted. As the years have passed and the collective memory of those who made those sacrifices fades as they pass into history, we lose the connection to those who made it possible; the men and women who gave their lives in service so that we may enjoy the blessings of liberty.

The events of the past few years have made this Memorial Day, already one that gets more emotional as I've gotten older, even that much harder to bear for obvious reasons. But we have to go on. We have to remember them. For our own sake as well as theirs.

Taps at the Tomb of the Unknowns

Wait for Me

The Unknown Soldier

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 06:30 AM

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1 Well done, JJ

Posted by: Blutarski at May 31, 2021 05:35 AM (nnf6G)

2 Good morning, Horde!

Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at May 31, 2021 05:37 AM (4syQ9)

3 Good Morning all

Memorial Day does not feel the same with commies in Charge

Sigh

There is a deep sadness in my body today

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 05:40 AM (85Gof)

4 Thank you, J.J.

AAA
HB-Day!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 31, 2021 05:40 AM (snOKo)

5 Watching a movie on TCM about a marine who is raised by a Japanese family in LA. He learns to speak Japanese and volunteers to act as an interpreter in the Pacific. On either Saipan or Okinawa (I missed that part), he convinces about 400 Japanese civilians to come down from the mountains and surrender rather than commit suicide.

The first time I saw it I thought it was a ridiculously improbable story. Turns out it's true.

Posted by: Blutarski at May 31, 2021 05:44 AM (nnf6G)

6 Hooah, JJ.

*swallows lump in throat*

Damn Taps...

Posted by: SMH at May 31, 2021 05:44 AM (53ycu)

7 Hiya !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2021 05:46 AM (arJlL)

8 I will dust off the trumpet and join Taps Over America today at 3 PM.

The song always gets the air dusty.

Posted by: Bruce at May 31, 2021 05:46 AM (vd8XM)

9 Thank you J.J. Carry on we will....

Posted by: Flatville Bill at May 31, 2021 05:47 AM (tEsMf)

10 The first time I saw it I thought it was a ridiculously improbable story. Turns out it's true.
Posted by: Blutarski

Jeffrey Hunter, right ?

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2021 05:47 AM (arJlL)

11 I will be watching Gardens of Stone (1987) later on today.

James Earl Jones as a CSM is just...amazing.

And yet so terrifying.

Posted by: SMH at May 31, 2021 05:47 AM (53ycu)

12 Hiya SMH !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2021 05:49 AM (arJlL)

13 Hey JT.

Posted by: SMH at May 31, 2021 05:49 AM (53ycu)

14 Dusty in here.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 31, 2021 05:49 AM (jvt6t)

15 That Communists are in charge hasn't changed my mind for today.

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2021 05:50 AM (Cxk7w)

16 In the 76 years since the end of the Second World War, we went from a period of hardship and privation to the longest era of relative peace and prosperity that we had ever known. I suppose it is the human condition that makes us take things for granted.

'Nam. Korea. Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cold War over it all. And I'd argue that the acceleration toward the madness we see now started precisely when the Berlin Wall fell.

We needed an enemy - and the USSR provided admirably. Without a common foe, we searched for one and found each other.

Posted by: L.I.B. at May 31, 2021 05:51 AM (+w/uO)

17 The first time I saw it I thought it was a ridiculously improbable story. Turns out it's true.
Posted by: Blutarski
___

Reality tends to be much more insane.
2021 out front should have told ya.

Posted by: SMH at May 31, 2021 05:51 AM (53ycu)

18 "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."

G. K. Chesterton

God bless those courageous military who have given their all for us.

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe2021! at May 31, 2021 05:52 AM (wyw4S)

19 Jeffrey Hunter, right ?
Posted by: JT

Yes. I think it's call Hell to Eternity. Mr Sulu plays one of his brothers.

Posted by: Blutarski at May 31, 2021 05:53 AM (nnf6G)

20 Hey JT.
Posted by: SMH

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2021 05:54 AM (arJlL)

21 Amen, bluebell.

Posted by: SMH at May 31, 2021 05:54 AM (53ycu)

22 "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."

G. K. Chesterton

God bless those courageous military who have given their all for us.
Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe2021!

AMEN !

Hiya Bluebell !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2021 05:55 AM (arJlL)

23
Here's what's Fake Trending today: tulsa massacre.

No idea what that's about. Do not care.

What's not "trending" is Memorial Day.

Also, Big Tech is trying to hide joe biden's pedophilia this weekend by making the drink bleach hoax fake-trend, again, for the fifth time.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at May 31, 2021 05:58 AM (PH356)

24 Good morning all!

Happy Memorial Day to all

Posted by: Jmel at May 31, 2021 05:58 AM (bVhJi)

25 I remember my brothers and sisters that never came home.

Good Morning.

Posted by: weirdflunky at May 31, 2021 05:58 AM (cknjq)

26 Good morning all!

Happy Memorial Day to all
Posted by: Jmel

Thank you !

Backatcha !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2021 05:59 AM (arJlL)

27 Here's what's Fake Trending today: tulsa massacre.

I read that as tuba massacre

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2021 05:59 AM (arJlL)

28 Yasher koach JJ and good morning morons

May their memory be a blessing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 31, 2021 06:00 AM (EZebt)

29 Good Morning and Happy Memorial Day, Horde.

God Bless.

Posted by: acethepug at May 31, 2021 06:00 AM (qPKAe)

30 Also, Big Tech is trying to hide joe biden's pedophilia this weekend by making the drink bleach hoax fake-trend, again, for the fifth time.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales

There is an old Soviet era joke about their two news services. One was Izvestia and the other Pravda. One meant News and the other Truth in Russian, I don't remember which.

Anyhoo, the locals used to say "There is no news in the truth and no truth in the News." I know I've reached that level of Soviet cynicism about almost all of our institutions. Sad.

Posted by: Blutarski at May 31, 2021 06:03 AM (nnf6G)

31 I know I've reached that level of Soviet cynicism about almost all of our institutions. Sad.

Accurate cynicism is also called realism.

Posted by: L.I.B. at May 31, 2021 06:08 AM (+w/uO)

32 I know I've reached that level of Soviet cynicism about almost all of our institutions. Sad.

Accurate cynicism is also called realism.
Posted by: L.I.B. at May 31, 2021 06:08 AM (+w/uO)

AKA

A regular day

Posted by: weirdflunky at May 31, 2021 06:11 AM (cknjq)

33 mornin yall. A day to remember those that gave everything so that we may prosper. Never forget.

Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 06:14 AM (Tnijr)

34 almost all of our institutions.

Which one are you leaving out?

Posted by: Hawkpilot at May 31, 2021 06:14 AM (ZkqmB)

35 Remembering their sacrifice.

Remembering the country they fought for.

Posted by: Orange Man Bad (Rheeeeeees Be Upon Him) at May 31, 2021 06:15 AM (jV+aN)

36 Part 1:
When I was still on Twitter I would post this anecdotal remembrance every Memorial Day, now I only post it here with people I know that will understand. I now intend to post it on GAB as well.

There was one fine young man I knew for several years, not a relative, but I thought a lot of him as a person. A really nice gentleman farm-boy from Southern Virginia, the kind of man you would like as a friend and prefer as a neighbor!

The government "experts" showed us charts and graphs about why we should be in Viet Nam and he was one of many that voluntarily answered the call as he felt it was his duty.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 31, 2021 06:18 AM (hOUT3)

37 Part 2
Part 2:
Let his name not be forgotten:
WILLIAM WINTON WEBB
2LT - O1 - Army - Reserve
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on May 6, 1966
Casualty was on Jun 5, 1966
In , SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
MULTIPLE FRAGMENTATION WOUNDS
Body was recovered
Panel 08E - Line 13

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 31, 2021 06:19 AM (hOUT3)

38 Part 3

Thank you all for listening!

God bless all that that have served and will serve.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 31, 2021 06:19 AM (hOUT3)

39 Morning peeps. Going to put out the flag. For today.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2021 06:19 AM (3H9h1)

40 {{{SMH}}}

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 31, 2021 06:21 AM (hOUT3)

41 ...
Anyhoo, the locals used to say "There is no news in the truth and no truth in the News."
Posted by: Blutarski at May 31, 2021 06:03 AM (nnf6G)
===

See, this is why I always read "Young Communist
League Truth"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 31, 2021 06:22 AM (EZebt)

42 If you want tuba massacre listen mariachi music

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2021 06:23 AM (Cxk7w)

43 My Dad made sure as I was growing up that I got to see various battlefield cemeteries. He wasn't preachy. He didn't give the histories but let them speak for themselves.

I am very blessed.

Posted by: torabora at May 31, 2021 06:24 AM (9tV0B)

44 Wishing a quiet and thoughtful day for the Hoard. I'm not grilling steaks, but working a long night shift.....but I am grateful to have known the friends lost, directly or indirectly by the rigors and demands of military service. Not all wounds are either visible, nor combat related. Please keep in mind the service members, current and former, who suffered. Some died, from the toxic effects of the grind. I still miss you, Mike....Jasonj

Posted by: jasonj at May 31, 2021 06:27 AM (ocTOb)

45 Thank you to all who gave everything for this great nation.

God bless you all.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 31, 2021 06:30 AM (IYHxL)

46 And Taps still gets to me......

Posted by: jasonj at May 31, 2021 06:30 AM (ocTOb)

47 Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says accidental lab leaks "happen all the time".

Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 06:31 AM (Tnijr)

48 In the days following Nov. 3, I made a resolute vow to never put our flag out again, for the America that flag represents is gone. But I broke that vow for today only in honor of those brave soldiers who fought for me and for this country. I have it flying out front now. And today is the only day it will fly.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 31, 2021 06:31 AM (O+I8R)

49 Good morning, fellow Americans.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at May 31, 2021 06:33 AM (TqblR)

50 I believe Uncle Joe flies to Tulsa tomorrow to be in the tulsa massacre memorial with probably the Reverend Al Sharpton and other black celebrates. I'm sure the Presidents handlers will tell him what he is suppose to do. Give a short speech then glad hand the other black leaders there for the photo opportunity. I could go on, but you all know the drill.

Posted by: Colin at May 31, 2021 06:34 AM (riMq2)

51 Morning, JJ.

Morning, Horde.

*Sips coffee*

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2021 06:34 AM (rnll3)

52
Just another major screw-up. The show we thought was in Bloomington, Indiana today is actually in Bloomington, Illinois. So Her Majesty is 161 miles away with an hour before her ring time. I don't think she's going to make it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2021 06:35 AM (mht8P)

53 Good morning, fellow Americans.
Posted by: katya the designated driver at May 31, 2021 06:33 AM (TqblR)

Kind of nice to be at a place where you can say that and know it's true!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 31, 2021 06:35 AM (hOUT3)

54 https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=292995

LT Howard Pontuck. Killed in Action Vietnam.
I kinda knew him. I was about 8,9 when he was at West Point with my cousin.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 06:36 AM (85Gof)

55 By the way I am sick to my stomach that those fuckin commies are putting blm signs on embassies, especially on Memorial Day.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 06:36 AM (85Gof)

56 One third of Americans think WW2 involvement was a mistake:

https://tinyurl.com/2afsbzub

Of course they're correct, and that's a proportion that will only go up with time. As the old saying goes, "Truth is the daughter of time."

Posted by: rold at May 31, 2021 06:37 AM (HKvVn)

57 Planned to put flag out, it's not about the present a-holes anyway. Not sure I physically can, it's going to clear up later and get to 70s.

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2021 06:38 AM (Cxk7w)

58 I agree, NGU. It's just abhorrent those BLM flags are flying at our embassies. Truly shocking.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 31, 2021 06:38 AM (O+I8R)

59
1921: Whites burn down black neighborhood. Whites blamed.

2021: Blacks burn down black neighborhood. Whites blamed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2021 06:38 AM (mht8P)

60 Back in the 70's when I still lived in Maryland my parents took me, my brother and sister to Arlington on Memorial Day. Spent time wandering around, not really digging the whole cemetery thing then watched the changing of the guard ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown. That's when I got it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2021 06:39 AM (3H9h1)

61 Have you talked with any random person lately? One third of Americans couldn't tell you one thing about WWII. They likely couldn't even give you an approximate on the years involved. We're that dumbed down.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 31, 2021 06:40 AM (O+I8R)

62 It doesn't feel special anymore.

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 31, 2021 06:40 AM (iTXRQ)

63
They likely couldn't even give you an approximate on the years involved.

_________

But they've been taught that we're no better than the Nazis and that we dropped atomic bombs on peaceful, innocent Japanese.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2021 06:42 AM (mht8P)

64 Why are all the black civil rights grifters getting so worked up* about this Tulsa massacre thing when they didn't give two shits about it before?

*Be proud, Horde, that I managed to avoid saying "uppity" because that would have been raaaaacist.

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2021 06:42 AM (DQBo9)

65 It doesn't feel special anymore.
Posted by: DB- just DB
___

For those of us that lost buddies, the feelings never change.

Posted by: SMH at May 31, 2021 06:42 AM (53ycu)

66 President Biden will be a Arlington today. The important media networks will all cover it I'm sure. They will tell us how wonderful it is that the President is there.

Posted by: Colin at May 31, 2021 06:43 AM (riMq2)

67 >For those of us that lost buddies, the feelings never change.
Posted by: SMH

I know. What I meant was, Memorial Day used to be a shared experience among all Americans. I don't think it is anymore.

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 31, 2021 06:45 AM (iTXRQ)

68 The Mail poll lays out the battle space pretty well actually. 14% were against troop involvement in WW2. This is the enemy and likely the percentage of people who are causing our version of the troubles. They need to be eradicated. 18% are unsure. They need to be educated. Correctly this time.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at May 31, 2021 06:45 AM (xEIoY)

69 Do not care what the junta's puppet is doing.

He is a non-entity to me.

Posted by: SMH at May 31, 2021 06:45 AM (53ycu)

70 I know. What I meant was, Memorial Day used to be a shared experience among all Americans.
___

Still is.

Just the number of Americans is shrinking.

Posted by: SMH at May 31, 2021 06:46 AM (53ycu)

71 They will tell us how wonderful it is that the President is there.
Posted by: Colin at May 31, 2021 06:43 AM

Bullshit, when have they ever said anything nice about Trump?

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2021 06:46 AM (niibv)

72 If you want tuba massacre listen mariachi music
Posted by: Skip

lol

Ya feeling any better ?

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2021 06:47 AM (arJlL)

73
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 31, 2021 06:48 AM (DUIap)

74 I won't lie. It took me a while to put my flag back up after the election. Something about watching the government tell me that the levers of the voting machines are no longer attached to the levers of power and the SCOTUS telling me that they didn't want to make anyone mad because they liked their nice homes a lot and didn't want to risk having them damaged or risk no longer getting invited to DC parties was tough to bear in the understanding of what it meant for the republic.

It's flying today.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at May 31, 2021 06:48 AM (O3VVw)

75 I know. What I meant was, Memorial Day used to be a shared experience among all Americans.
___

Still is.

Just the number of Americans is shrinking.
Posted by: SMH at May 31, 2021 06:46 AM (53ycu)

Sigh yup

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 06:49 AM (85Gof)

76 Whenever Biden is called POTUS, I have an immediate reaction that I'm living in a parallel universe. Nothing more powerfully shows the perverse control of the deep state, the corruption of the media, the duplicity of the democrats, the power of big-tech, and the impact of decades of miseducation than the so-called Biden Presidency.

Posted by: iandeal at May 31, 2021 06:50 AM (vFaTN)

77 As a little boy, I remember there were some WW2 vets in the hometown Memorial day parade. This year the high school band will not be in the parade because the school says the band members might get sick from covid???? I was a band member back in the day, and we were proud to march and play. Taps at the local cemetery were something you never forget.

Posted by: Colin at May 31, 2021 06:50 AM (riMq2)

78 Thank you JJ. Very nice tribute.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2021 06:51 AM (45fpk)

79 know. What I meant was, Memorial Day used to be a shared experience among all Americans. I don't think it is anymore.

*

There was a good reason Karmella's initial and very purposeful tweet about Memorial Day was "enjoy your long weekend."

That wasn't accidental.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at May 31, 2021 06:51 AM (O3VVw)

80 Good morning.

Today, I'll pour one out for the guys from HMM 268 that crashed into the sea off Cubi point. Semper Fi, Marines.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 31, 2021 06:52 AM (AL0d+)

81 Anti-Netanyahu coalition hits snags in negotiations
The different parties have been fighting over minor portfolios and membership in the security cabinet.

It ain't over till the fat jewish lady sings

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 06:53 AM (85Gof)

82 Home of the free because of the brave.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 31, 2021 06:54 AM (flINI)

83 >>> There was a good reason Karmella's initial and very purposeful tweet about Memorial Day was "enjoy your long weekend."

She said that?

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2021 06:55 AM (45fpk)

84 JT barely getting around, back in bed, least painful spot to be.

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2021 06:55 AM (Cxk7w)

85 My Dad always had the flag up on the day. If it bothered him that coming back from Vietnam in 65 was different than it was in 70 (and it was), he didn't say. It didn't matter.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at May 31, 2021 06:55 AM (xEIoY)

86 The shithole town I live in has announced plans for a 4th Of July fireworks display. The call it the 'Freedom Bash', and they published a map of places you can go within a mile of the display to observe. No central event, mind you- just a map indicating which parking lots in the surrounding neighborhoods you'll be permitted to gather at to look upward.

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 31, 2021 06:55 AM (iTXRQ)

87 There was a good reason Karmella's initial and very purposeful tweet about Memorial Day was "enjoy your long weekend."

--

In her defense, that's really all it means to her. A long weekend.

Puddin Brain twatted something similar, I believe. I can't wait for these two communist dunces to display their anti-Americanism on the upcoming 20th anniversary of 9/11. It already makes me nauseous.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 31, 2021 06:55 AM (O+I8R)

88 >She said that?
Posted by: grammie winger

yeah
the VP gave you Monday off

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 31, 2021 06:56 AM (iTXRQ)

89 She said that?

--

Yes, she did. Then she must've taken some heat because she followed it up with blah blah "men and women" in the service blah blah.

What was hysterical was a reply to that from some mental case that she should've have said "men and women" because it was hurtful to the trans community.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 31, 2021 06:56 AM (O+I8R)

90 She said that?
Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2021 06:55 AM

She did, on Twitter, with a large photo of her with a rictus grin. But her pearl necklace was fabulous!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 31, 2021 06:57 AM (DMUuz)

91 Good morning.

Remembering a hometown girl:

1LT Sharon Ann Lane KIA

https://is.gd/sNWRtm

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2021 06:59 AM (Rvt88)

92 JT barely getting around, back in bed, least painful spot to be.
Posted by: Skip

Prayers up !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2021 06:59 AM (arJlL)

93 I always fly my Betsy Ross flag and will do so today, but the for the 4th and Labor Day my Trump 2024 flag goes up. Changes nothing but makes me feel better.

Posted by: Flatville Bill at May 31, 2021 07:00 AM (tEsMf)

94 Every year I tell the story of my pastor's little brother, Ricky Nelson, USMC. He was riding in a Humvee, Anbar province I believe, with two other Marines, when an IED exploded, killing Ricky and one other Marine. The young man who survived said that Ricky was singing Amazing Grace when the explosion took his life. He was singing the verse that says "When we've been there ten thousand years".

He was one week shy of his first wedding anniversary. His gift arrived home the day after his wife was notified of his death.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2021 07:01 AM (45fpk)

95 I remember being in the band in high school. I was even in a fife and drum corp in 1976. Any whoo in high school on Memorial Days our marching band would end at the cemetery. Once we hit the gates the drummers went rims only. The playing of taps was something. Two trumpets each on opposite sides of the cemetery played taps answering each other back from across the cemetery. Still get Misty thinking of those days. Kids are idiots nowadays and I am not looking forward to them deciding what happens to us old folks down the road.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:02 AM (NXGjq)

96 On Memorial Day I honor four men I never knew. From my father's WWII diary, describing the scene on the Anzio beachhead in Feb 1944. (emphasis added)

Feb 16, 1944
The "hot" beachhead suddenly became "hotter". Gerry hit with all the artillery he had at 0600 this morning. Our work here in CB ran wild. All the CPs and batteries seemed to be shelled at once.
Brig CP and rear area quite heavily shelled. Chaplain Wallace, McDaniel, Pratt and Metz were all killed by a single round. Irony of fate. Three out of the first four killed in the battery were listed as non-combatants.

**CB = counterbattery
CP = Command Post
Brig CP = Brigade Command Post

Posted by: Muldoon at May 31, 2021 07:03 AM (m45I2)

97 China changes birth limit from two kids allowed to three as their population also ages. I guess the WuFlu solution didn't go far enough.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 31, 2021 07:03 AM (UHVv4)

98 John (I will not let you down) Kennedy, R LA.

https://tinyurl.com/4dpzuuky

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 31, 2021 07:03 AM (AHq56)

99 I miss them. Every last one of them. Remember their names. Touch their gravestones today. Honor them. Thank their families. This is THEIR day.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2021 07:03 AM (tU3dj)

100 "I'm sure the Presidents handlers will tell him what he is suppose to do. Give a short speech then glad hand the other black leaders there for the photo opportunity."

One thing I hoped the Trump presidency would have accomplished was the end of this political theater BS, it didn't. We're right back to the same old cringeworthy photo ops and rehashed, generic politically approved speeches. Talk about the beltway "elite" not getting it.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 31, 2021 07:04 AM (4thlk)

101 ...Kids are idiots nowadays and I am not looking forward to them deciding what happens to us old folks down the road.
Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:02 AM (NXGjq)

Well...to be fair. If you'd only stop wasting the gov't's money by not dying,

everything would be fine.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 31, 2021 07:05 AM (dWwl8)

102 Whenever Biden is called POTUS, I have an immediate reaction that I'm living in a parallel universe.
Posted by: iandeal

I came across another data point of evidence of a stolen election recently. Evidently, on the day of the election, foreign betting services had odds of a Trump landslide at 8-1. Eight for and one against.

Eight. To. One.

I guess them furriners weren't in on the steal.

Posted by: Blutarski at May 31, 2021 07:05 AM (ZBbgL)

103 Natural fake. If I live to 99 like my grandmother I'll be a thorn in their side for another 40 years and most likely working. Something the ting don't apparently like to do.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:07 AM (NXGjq)

104 Oops something the young don't like to do. Need more coffee.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:08 AM (NXGjq)

105 I am not looking forward to them deciding what happens to us old folks down the road.
___

Almost feel sorry for them.

Posted by: SMH at May 31, 2021 07:08 AM (53ycu)

106 Vietnam to WuFlu test all nine million people in "Ho Chi Minh City" and become more restrictive due to new outbreak.

Funny how all of these new outbreaks, often of new strains, are happening on Red China's borders in states the Reds have been fighting against.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 31, 2021 07:09 AM (UHVv4)

107 Isn't flying the Betsy Ross flag illegal or something? My short memory remembers something about that last spring or summer. Was it a BLM thing or something about Betsy being a so and so.

Posted by: Colin at May 31, 2021 07:09 AM (riMq2)

108 It's flying today.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

****

Good on you, MR!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 31, 2021 07:09 AM (m45I2)

109 I see Texas democrats staged a walkout last night so there could be no vote on the new voting law. Cowards should all be taken out and tossed to the feral hogs.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 31, 2021 07:09 AM (JUOKG)

110 > Whenever Biden is called POTUS, I have an immediate reaction that I'm living in a parallel universe.
Posted by: iandeal

it does feel bizarre. It's like that Ray Bradbury story- somebody went back in time and stepped off the path.

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 31, 2021 07:09 AM (iTXRQ)

111 SMH. Yea I can't go that far. I'm the tail end of boomer and just wasn't able to cash in on all that boomer swag. Don't even remember the 60's other than learning it was a wasted decade of wasted losers who now rule the world.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:11 AM (NXGjq)

112 Not all who served and died did so on the battlefield. Three members of Little Winger's unit came back and could not overcome the demons that followed them home. I don't know where to put suicides into the context of Memorial Day. I will pray for their families.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2021 07:11 AM (45fpk)

113 Headed out in a bit for our community's Memorial Day service. It's held at the cemetery where my Pop is buried, himself a WWII veteran. I suspect there will be a marginal turnout, which makes me both angry and sad at the same time. I was going to blow it off after what has happened to my country here in the past two years but decided that's not acceptable. I've been attending every year for a long time and will continue to offer my gratitude and respect. Who knows how much longer we will be free to do so? Anyway, thanks for the post this morning, J.J. and thank you to those who gave all.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 31, 2021 07:11 AM (W4eKo)

114 Before the end of the day, we will see live or on TV a Memorial Day parade featuring a band with twirking majorettes and a BLM banner. Just about bet on it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 31, 2021 07:11 AM (I58tH)

115 I came across another data point of evidence of a stolen election recently. Evidently, on the day of the election, foreign betting services had odds of a Trump landslide at 8-1. Eight for and one against.

--

I thought I had seen some overseas reporting that was keeping tabs of the EVs in real time and how those EVs were racking up. Germany, I think? And up until the wee hours of the night, before the fraud wheels really kicked in, they had Trump winning in a blowout so big that Biden would've been ashamed to ever show his big, ugly veneers in public again. Come morning, it was all erased.

And nobody in places of power, questioned a thing. Totally on the up and up... /s

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 31, 2021 07:12 AM (O+I8R)

116 I'm cracking up about the cancelled commemoration of the Tulsa massacre. Does anyone know what that was? A 100 years ago. Apparently the survivors wanted 100k each to show up. When they raised it, the survivors said we want a million. They cancelled it.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:13 AM (NXGjq)

117 115 I thought I had seen some overseas reporting
That was connected with the Q psy-op. AFAICT it was complete untrue but it sucked in Flynn and Sydney Powell.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 31, 2021 07:14 AM (AHq56)

118 Aaaw. A baby bunny from my backyard just hopped past my front-door side window on the way to the hedge in the frontyard to scavenge under it.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 31, 2021 07:14 AM (UHVv4)

119 109 Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 31, 2021 07:09 AM (JUOKG)

Again donkey does whatever it takes to get their way....

and we get the Mitt Romney go-along gang.

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 07:15 AM (Lzpvj)

120 Information link is on my other tablet which I don't have in hand.
July 9, 1979 Col Tommy Thompson took off from RAF Bentwaters in a A-10 lauched by my crew chief Sgt Jackson, D. Ross and myself for a airshow appearance. He never returned to base.

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2021 07:15 AM (Cxk7w)

121 Mornin', all. I never paid much attention to whoever was in charge on Memorial Day, because it's not about them. My family members served under good and bad leaders. I'm thankful I don't know of any serving under the usurper. We will offer our Rosary today for the souls of the departed, and focus on appreciating those still with us. The Meat Puppet can take his lid as early as he likes. It's also kind of fitting that this is by far the coldest Memorial Day weekend I can remember in my mumblemumble years on Earth.

Have a faithful one, Horde!

Posted by: Catherine at May 31, 2021 07:15 AM (+CqU9)

122 That's the thing. I'm fine with one or two anomalies. They happen. It's what makes them anomalies.

For every anomaly to happen simultaneously? Sorry, no. You're a liar and traitors and have doomed the republic.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at May 31, 2021 07:15 AM (O3VVw)

123 116 Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:13 AM (NXGjq)

We need to give each of them a cool trillion.

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 07:16 AM (Lzpvj)

124 Thank you to those who gave their lives for our freedom.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V at May 31, 2021 07:16 AM (HabA/)

125 122 Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at May 31, 2021 07:15 AM (O3VVw)

Oh look we had five cities have the same pipe burst simultaneously....

//Donk-E

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 07:16 AM (Lzpvj)

126 >A 100 years ago. Apparently the survivors wanted 100k each to show up.

They must be pretty old by now!

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 31, 2021 07:16 AM (iTXRQ)

127 123. We already have. A few times over.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:16 AM (NXGjq)

128 Those family members had to be pretty young. Lol.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:17 AM (NXGjq)

129 I'm cracking up about the cancelled commemoration of
the Tulsa massacre. Does anyone know what that was? A 100 years ago.
Apparently the survivors wanted 100k each to show up. When they raised
it, the survivors said we want a million. They cancelled it.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:13 AM

That event was literally a joke. There is one "survivor" from that day and she didn't live in the neighborhood where the lynchings happened.

It's all about the grift.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 31, 2021 07:17 AM (JUOKG)

130 A grizzly bear is being put down in Alberta after a fatal attack last week.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 31, 2021 07:18 AM (UHVv4)

131 Tulsa massacre? Democrats love to constantly pull scabs off of old racial events to keep the Hate Machine ginned up and to keep Americans at each others' throats. No matter how long ago, we must keep those events festering and bloody. They sow discord and hate 24/7/365. It's what they do. Great people, they are.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 31, 2021 07:18 AM (O+I8R)

132 >It's also kind of fitting that this is by far the coldest Memorial Day weekend I can remember in my mumblemumble years on Earth.

I know- it's chilly and gray here too. Bonus: my furnace isn't working.

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 31, 2021 07:18 AM (iTXRQ)

133 126 Posted by: DB- just DB at May 31, 2021 07:16 AM (iTXRQ)

There really are 6 million American voters over 114 years old...

They work out.

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 07:18 AM (Lzpvj)

134 OFFS - my county sheriff's office posted a joke this morning about Memorial Day being a cow's favorite holiday - "Moomorial Day". As tone deaf as veep throat.

Looks like I'll be getting a visit later in the day.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2021 07:18 AM (Rvt88)

135 Does anyone know what that was? A 100 years ago.
Apparently the survivors wanted 100k each to show up. When they raised
it, the survivors said we want a million. They cancelled it.

*

Iirc they were all over 100 years old.

Nothing says racism like a country that helps black people live to be 106.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at May 31, 2021 07:19 AM (O3VVw)

136 130 Posted by: andycanuck at May 31, 2021 07:18 AM (UHVv4)

Wonder if any prairie rose got their full Treadwell on.

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 07:19 AM (Lzpvj)

137 Sven. They also vote Democrat. Even the ones who died 100 years ago.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:19 AM (NXGjq)

138 Our History channel is running some Tulsa crap too. I think a book came out for the anniversary and that's the impetus for coverage.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 31, 2021 07:19 AM (UHVv4)

139 I think they're using the term survivor loosely. Anyone who was related to the dead bit yet born wanted cash. Who knows.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:19 AM (NXGjq)

140 Cancelled commemoration of

the Tulsa massacre. So that means Uncle Joe can sleep in tomorrow?

Posted by: Colin at May 31, 2021 07:20 AM (riMq2)

141 God bless the fallen and remember them on this day.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 31, 2021 07:20 AM (R/m4+)

142 107 Isn't flying the Betsy Ross flag illegal or
something? My short memory remembers something about that last spring or
summer. Was it a BLM thing or something about Betsy being a so and so.

Posted by: Colin at May 31, 2021 07:09 AM (riMq2)
Yep. That's when I started flying it regularly. Eff'em.

Posted by: Flatville Bill at May 31, 2021 07:20 AM (tEsMf)

143 137 Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:19 AM (NXGjq)

My grandparents vote democrat to this day, sure while alive they were republicans but for the last 2 decades they switched parties.

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 07:20 AM (Lzpvj)

144 Veep Throat

good one

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 31, 2021 07:21 AM (iTXRQ)

145 It's so weird how Tulsa had a Democrat mayor right before the riots.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at May 31, 2021 07:21 AM (O3VVw)

146 Never a happy day for me. This year, especially bleak.

Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 07:21 AM (6Je/Q)

147 Local cops arrest asshole in TX who planned on shooting up a Walmart. (Locals and not F.I.B. you'll note.)

Posted by: andycanuck at May 31, 2021 07:22 AM (UHVv4)

148 It's a bitter pillow to swallow to know we are celebrating the sacrifice of millions of American soldiers just so that the political class could conspire to steal an election from the outsider who exposed the fact they've been milking taxpayers dry for decades.

Posted by: nobody at May 31, 2021 07:23 AM (dZAtt)

149 SFC David Nunez, 2008

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2021 07:23 AM (tU3dj)

150 Local cops arrest asshole in TX who planned on shooting up a Walmart. (Locals and not F.I.B. you'll note.)
Posted by: andycanuck

*****

Same remedy as for the grizzly bear?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 31, 2021 07:23 AM (m45I2)

151 Boko Haram kidnap another 200 schoolkids, killing one, in Nigeria.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 31, 2021 07:23 AM (UHVv4)

152 Sven. I wonder who got to them. Lol. My grandma voted Democrat her whole life. According to her they were for the working man. Plus they always served a nice spaghetti dinner when they came around to solicit support. Sad thing is I work with a woman my exact age who says the same thing. My grandma had a 5th grade education. My coworker doesn't. Says a lot about uninformed people today.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:24 AM (NXGjq)

153 > Local cops arrest asshole in TX who planned on shooting up a Walmart.

David Hogg plans to survive this... plan

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 31, 2021 07:24 AM (iTXRQ)

154 CPL Joseph Anzack, 2007

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2021 07:24 AM (tU3dj)

155 145 Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at May 31, 2021 07:21 AM (O3VVw)

That was before "the big switch" where we all switched parties...

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 07:25 AM (Lzpvj)

156 You know, one might almost think that the ability to freely and fearlessly be able to demand $1M from your government just to sit down at a party is a sign that the party and demand for reparations is pointless.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at May 31, 2021 07:25 AM (O3VVw)

157 138 The History channel is about history as much as today's journalists are about journalism.

Posted by: nobody at May 31, 2021 07:25 AM (dZAtt)

158 152 Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:24 AM (NXGjq)

The undertaker....

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 07:25 AM (Lzpvj)

159
They must be pretty old by now!
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 31, 2021 07:16 AM (iTXRQ

The youngest is 107.

In addition to the million each for the three survivors, they wanted $50 million for a "reparations" fund.
Over and above the 300 million they're suing for.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 31, 2021 07:26 AM (yfUzb)

160 Doesn't Tulsa fall on the 'Some People Did Some Things' spectrum?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 31, 2021 07:26 AM (snOKo)

161 SFC Steven Langmack, 2005

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2021 07:26 AM (tU3dj)

162 Ahh. Lol. Good one Sven.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 31, 2021 07:27 AM (NXGjq)

163 That was before "the big switch" where we all switched parties...

*

Them Democrats lurv them some Calvin Coolidge.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at May 31, 2021 07:28 AM (O3VVw)

164 I need to find some event in the distant past that my ancestors could plausibly have been affected by, and demand reparations

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 31, 2021 07:28 AM (iTXRQ)

165 About Chesterton's courage quote....

Courage only looks "paradoxical" like that if you think it's only about a strong desire for one's self to keep living.

Considered as a strong desire to preserve Life, anyone's life, and the decency and dignity of that life, the paradox goes away.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 07:28 AM (rDhLr)

166 160 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 31, 2021 07:26 AM (snOKo)

That only works in one direction....

when people of pallor raise hell it is THEIR fault.

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 07:28 AM (Lzpvj)

167 Ryanair flight from Ireland to Poland diverted to Berlin after crew warned of "potential security threat."

Newspaper says bomb threat.

Passengers and luggage switched to new plane after being searched; new flight finished flight. Plane being examined now.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 31, 2021 07:29 AM (UHVv4)

168 151 Boko Haram
Compared to what is going on in the US (see video @9

Boko Haram are of no concern at all.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 31, 2021 07:29 AM (AHq56)

169 "Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices."
- President Harry S. Truman

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2021 07:29 AM (tU3dj)

170 Well done J.J. Bit dusty here. I seem to have something in my eye. US Army (Ret)

Posted by: dingbat at May 31, 2021 07:29 AM (rNXR7)

171 Alternate universe > Wrong timeline

Either way the dumbest politician ever produced by this nation is its President

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 31, 2021 07:29 AM (EZebt)

172 video at #98 ... I keep forgetting how good the hamsters are at inserting smileys

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 31, 2021 07:30 AM (AHq56)

173 155 Good one Sven. Picture Marty Feldman throwing the switch in Young Frankenstein.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 31, 2021 07:30 AM (I58tH)

174 Today I'll watch Saving Private Ryan, but it's gonna be hard to pretend Tom Hanks wasn't one of the conspirators who instigated the covid panic on the US population.

I knew something was up when Hollywood "stars" quickly participated in helping spread the "don't visit your elders because muh covid" message.

Posted by: nobody at May 31, 2021 07:31 AM (dZAtt)

175 130 A grizzly bear is being put down in Alberta after a fatal attack last week.
Posted by: andycanuck at May 31, 2021 07:18 AM (UHVv4)

"Stupid grizzly. Why can't you be better, like your brother?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 07:31 AM (rDhLr)

176 Our History channel is running some Tulsa crap too. I think a book came out for the anniversary and that's the impetus for coverage.

What a coincidence - the Tulsa thing was a centerpiece last year of the Watchmen mini-series on Netflix. Coincidently - wearing masks was a big part as well. As was racism, reverse racism, and more than a little advanced bio-engineering.

Yep. Coincidence.

Posted by: L.I.B. at May 31, 2021 07:32 AM (+w/uO)

177 SSG Christian Longsworth, 2006

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2021 07:33 AM (tU3dj)

178 @140

Maybe white people should start commemorating the Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom massacres?

Or any number of massacres that were perpetrated by blacks or POCS?

As was said, if Deep Donk keeps picking at scabs there will be blood.

I despise these fucking monsters that have ceased power.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2021 07:34 AM (s25yH)

179 178 ceased
seized ?

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 31, 2021 07:35 AM (AHq56)

180 America will never forget their sacrifices."
- President Harry S. Truman
Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2021 07:29 AM (tU3dj)

Wanna bet?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 07:35 AM (85Gof)

181 66 President Biden will be a Arlington today. The important media networks will all cover it I'm sure. They will tell us how wonderful it is that the President is there.
Posted by: Colin at May 31, 2021 06:43 AM (riMq2)
-
What flavor of ice cream will he be eating there for the occasion? Everyone wants to know!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at May 31, 2021 07:36 AM (ESNix)

182 "Ryanair flight from Ireland to Poland diverted to Berlin"

it didn't get much coverage that I saw, just for one day. Belarus forced down (fighter was involved) a Ryanair flight going over Belarus under ruse of security threat, then they arrested a young journalist and his girlfriend, took them and still have them afaik. ... (he was an activist against the government ... they had a fake election ... like ours, it seems). ... Putin (no doubt) had approved the move ... testing weak Biden. ... EU has added some sanctions, flights now go around Belarus.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 31, 2021 07:37 AM (Cus5s)

183 Saving Private Ryan is the best 30 minute movie about D-Day ever made.

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2021 07:37 AM (Cxk7w)

184 Thinking of SO3 Denis Miranda. KIA 21Sep10, Afghanistan.

SEAL, warrior, friend.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, single and SuperStraight at May 31, 2021 07:37 AM (tpneH)

185 https://tinyurl.com/3h2jfzy3

SEAL Chad Williams testimony. It was on American Family Radio this morning. I know it's memorial day so I'll give the spoiler: the guy that motivated him, was intended to discourage him at the behest of his dad, was Scott Halvenston one the warriors that wound up swinging from a bridge in Fallujah. It's an hour long but really impactful.

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 31, 2021 07:37 AM (DB16e)

186 Sun is out, should get dressed and see if I can get outside

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2021 07:38 AM (Cxk7w)

187 "Wanna bet?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 07:35 AM (85Gof)"

Change your nic to "Quitter".

Many wont, and thats what will lead us through these times. Men who lead at the tip of the spear.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2021 07:39 AM (tU3dj)

188 For my cousin, the paratrooper, who, along with many others, died hanging in a tree in Vietnam, because some general thought it would be a good idea to make a parachute drop into a jungle.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 31, 2021 07:39 AM (3osvL)

189 Saving Private Ryan is the best 30 minute movie about D-Day ever made.

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2021 07:37 AM (Cxk7w)

My paternal grandfather was there. He saw the movie, against our advice, and said the only thing different was the smell.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, single and SuperStraight at May 31, 2021 07:39 AM (tpneH)

190 50 I believe Uncle Joe flies to Tulsa tomorrow to be in the tulsa massacre memorial with probably the Reverend Al Sharpton and other black celebrates. I'm sure the Presidents handlers will tell him what he is suppose to do. Give a short speech then glad hand the other black leaders there for the photo opportunity. I could go on, but you all know the drill.
Posted by: Colin at May 31, 2021 06:34 AM (riMq2)

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

Remember that episode of MASH where Harry Morgan played a general (before he returned as Colonel Potter)? Given Joe's current condition, I wouldn't be surprised if life imitated art.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 31, 2021 07:39 AM (CAJOC)

191 "Wanna bet?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 07:35 AM (85Gof)"

Change your nic to "Quitter".

Many wont, and thats what will lead us through these times. Men who lead at the tip of the spear.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 31, 2021 07:39 AM (tU3dj)

lighten up francis

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 07:40 AM (85Gof)

192 This is a new one, illiniwek, although maybe the Belarusians are shit-disturbing.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 31, 2021 07:40 AM (UHVv4)

193 Have a faithful one, Horde!
Posted by: Catherine

Thank you, Catherine !

Backatcha !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2021 07:40 AM (arJlL)

194 Remembering so many brothers no longer with us.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at May 31, 2021 07:40 AM (8C7+r)

195 We fought totalitarian, collectivist authoritarian psychopaths overseas, but we didn't do a very good job at all rooting them out here at home. The Soviets said they'd do what their ideological heirs are doing right now.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 31, 2021 07:41 AM (zCpUM)

196 My FiL was a D-Day vet, combat Engineer with 149th.

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2021 07:41 AM (Cxk7w)

197 190 Remember that episode of MASH where Harry Morgan played a general (before he returned as Colonel Potter)?
I remember the return. My gf and her younger sister both yelled "nostrils" when Morgan appeared on screen.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 31, 2021 07:41 AM (AHq56)

198 CBS has a special on the Tulsa massacre if you want to know more about it. Interviews with Survivors, who could have been millionaires.

Posted by: Colin at May 31, 2021 07:41 AM (riMq2)

199 133 126 Posted by: DB- just DB at May 31, 2021 07:16 AM (iTXRQ)

There really are 6 million American voters over 114 years old...

They work out.

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 07:18 AM (Lzpvj)

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

Sweatin' to the Oldies or the RBG Regimen?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 31, 2021 07:42 AM (CAJOC)

200 We fought totalitarian, collectivist authoritarian psychopaths overseas, but we didn't do a very good job at all rooting them out here at home. The Soviets said they'd do what their ideological heirs are doing right now.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 31, 2021 07:41 AM (zCpUM)

***

Looking back, the end of the cold war was the beginning of the end for us. 9/11 happened and that was all she wrote.

Did any agencies or departments get closed down or defunded after the USSR fell? Those folks had to justify their money somehow, didn't they?

Where did they turn?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at May 31, 2021 07:42 AM (Kt1w/)

201 Hiya Donna of the Ampersands !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2021 07:43 AM (arJlL)

202 Great post JJ. Thank you.

Flag is up here. Remembering who we lost and giving thanks for them.

Posted by: Muad'dib at May 31, 2021 07:43 AM (wuHiP)

203 180 they don't even know about their sacrifices, as history has been perverted and undermined.

Posted by: CN at May 31, 2021 07:44 AM (ONvIw)

204 CBS has a special on the Tulsa massacre if you want to know more about it.

**

I don't care particularly much about Democrats killing blacks in 2021. Why would I care about Democrats killing blacks 100 years ago?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at May 31, 2021 07:44 AM (Kt1w/)

205 Always Remember!

Posted by: Rick554 at May 31, 2021 07:44 AM (FmOIw)

206 I agree, Skip. I only lasted about 30 minutes after the landing before turning the channel; and caught the last 15 minutes or so of the ending after turning back. I'd much rather watch Band of Brothers episodes instead.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 31, 2021 07:44 AM (UHVv4)

207 'CBS has propagation on the Tulsa massacre if you want to know more about it. '

Fify

Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 07:44 AM (Tnijr)

208 I need to find some event in the distant past that my ancestors could plausibly have been affected by, and demand reparations
My mother's ancestors were Roman slaves, where do I file for my 40 acres and a mule?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 31, 2021 07:45 AM (3osvL)

209 CBS has propaganda on the Tulsa massacre if you want to know more about it. '

Fifm

Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 07:45 AM (Tnijr)

210 I must be truly ignorant. I don't remember the Tulsa Massacre being a thing before.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2021 07:45 AM (45fpk)

211 207 propagation
propaganda ?

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 31, 2021 07:46 AM (AHq56)

212 210 I must be truly ignorant. I don't remember the Tulsa Massacre being a thing before.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2021 07:45 AM (45fpk)

I've been 29 for a little while now, and i've never even heard of it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 07:46 AM (6FeV1)

213 I certainly think the nation should pay reparations for things like the Tulsa whatever. Maybe guaranteed free education for black kids until they're 18, with free college if they can manage a C or better at graduation.

That should help, shouldn't it?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at May 31, 2021 07:46 AM (Kt1w/)

214 mornin' y'all. Cool and dry in the swamp again 50s at sunrise and high in the low 70s. Perfect weather for making a brisket.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at May 31, 2021 07:47 AM (6Pqz7)

215 211 207 propagation
propaganda ?
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 31, 2021 07:46 AM (AHq56)

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

Propa!

Posted by: MC Hammer at May 31, 2021 07:47 AM (CAJOC)

216 I need to find some event in the distant past that my ancestors could plausibly have been affected by, and demand reparations
My mother's ancestors were Roman slaves, where do I file for my 40 acres and a mule?
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 31, 2021 07:45 AM (3osvL)

Get in line. I am suing the Egyptians for reparations for dem Pyramids my ancestors were forced to build and the interest is accruing. Man am I gonna be rich

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 07:47 AM (85Gof)

217 I've been 29 for a little while now, and i've never even heard of it.

***

See also: Saint George Floyd

This isn't accidental.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at May 31, 2021 07:47 AM (Kt1w/)

218 Morning everyone. Cloudy today and maybe rain. Will make a trip to the cemetary if Mother Nature allows.

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 31, 2021 07:48 AM (nxdel)

219 Remember that episode of MASH where Harry Morgan played a general (before he returned as Colonel Potter)? Given Joe's current condition, I wouldn't be surprised if life imitated art.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 31, 2021 07:39 AM (CAJOC)

When the sun goes down and the tide goes out,
the Darkies gather round and they all begin to shout,
Hey,hey Uncle Fudd and slap their big black feet on the Mississippi mud.....

Posted by: General Joe Biden Steele at May 31, 2021 07:48 AM (R/m4+)

220 206 I agree, Skip. I only lasted about 30 minutes after the landing before
turning the channel; and caught the last 15 minutes or so of the ending
after turning back. I'd much rather watch Band of Brothers episodes instead.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 31, 2021 07:44 AM (UHVv4)
Seconded. I'll watch Band of Brothers every time it comes on TV. The book, written by Stephen Ambrose, is an awesome read.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 31, 2021 07:48 AM (D3cJf)

221 I had an ancestor murdered by Yankee raiders. I want reparations from the Yankees.

Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 07:49 AM (Tnijr)

222 I won't be at all surprised if they try to turn Memorial Day into Black People Who Were Kilt By Democrats Memory Day.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at May 31, 2021 07:49 AM (Kt1w/)

223 221 I had an ancestor murdered by Yankee raiders. I want reparations from the Yankees.
Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 07:49 AM (Tnijr)

Hey, none of my ancestors were stateside yet in the 1860s, so leave me out of it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 07:49 AM (6FeV1)

224 @212 Even wikipedia has "Tulsa race riot" as the former name of the event.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 31, 2021 07:49 AM (AHq56)

225 Thanks JJ.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Irascible insurrectionist at May 31, 2021 07:50 AM (cjnJM)

226 Ha.

Iracism.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at May 31, 2021 07:50 AM (Kt1w/)

227 Hey, none of my ancestors were stateside yet in the 1860s, so leave me out of it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 07:49 AM (6FeV1)

But you perpetuated white privilege.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2021 07:50 AM (45fpk)

228 87 There was a good reason Karmella's initial and very purposeful tweet about Memorial Day was "enjoy your long weekend."

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In her defense, that's really all it means to her. A long weekend.
_________

Why would it mean any more? Daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, who were in the U.S. on student visas when they decided to screw each other and mommy got preggers and squeezed Kamaltoe out in a CA hospital. She has no American ancestors, no blood or sweat investment in this country. It's just a place on a map to her.

Birthright citizenship has always been a stupid idea.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at May 31, 2021 07:51 AM (k4dH2)

229 America has lost its' way,and the consequences are what we are living in now. I am thinking about when it began. I am afraid that our covering of protection has been lifted.

Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 07:51 AM (6Je/Q)

230
Today I'll watch Saving Private Ryan, but it's gonna be hard to pretend Tom Hanks wasn't one of the conspirators who instigated the covid panic on the US population.

I knew something was up when Hollywood "stars" quickly participated in helping spread the "don't visit your elders because muh covid" message.
Posted by: nobody

His wife had to make a point to deride chloroquine treatment, too, when they both caught the 'VID in Australia. Such good little prog narrative soldiers they were. Hie your ungrateful asses to Greece, you two.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 31, 2021 07:51 AM (aQfmB)

231 Hey, none of my IRISH ancestors were stateside yet in the 1860s, so leave me out of it.

**

You and your white privilege.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at May 31, 2021 07:51 AM (Kt1w/)

232 "This is a new one, illiniwek, although maybe the Belarusians are shit-disturbing." Posted by: andycanuck

yeah, I was thinking maybe it was "payback" or something, since (I think) EU was not allowing flights into or out of (?) Belarus now. A better EU response would be to bomb the base that put up the jet fighter to force the passenger jet down.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 31, 2021 07:52 AM (Cus5s)

233 Well, I'm turning in after a long shift in Covidland.....respect to those who served, are serving, and will serve.......USAF 1975-1988. 46290...AFSC

Posted by: jasonj at May 31, 2021 07:52 AM (ocTOb)

234 I read The Jungle in high school. I know what life was like for Eastern European immigrants (such as my ancestors) in the Midwest. I demand reparations!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 31, 2021 07:53 AM (CAJOC)

235 Why would it mean any more? Daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, who were in the U.S. on student visas when they decided to screw each other and mommy got preggers and squeezed Kamaltoe out in a CA hospital. She has no American ancestors, no blood or sweat investment in this country. It's just a place on a map to her.

**

And she'll somehow be eligible for reparations.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at May 31, 2021 07:53 AM (Kt1w/)

236 CBS trying it's damnedest to foment another race riot. LOOK!!! NEWS!!!!! A HUNNERT YEARS AGO!!!!! WAAAAA!!! WAAAAAAA!!!

Posted by: Getting the banned back together at May 31, 2021 07:54 AM (1lU/i)

237 Given Joe's dementia, how long until he drops an "N" word bomb on live TV? Being a racist Democrat, you know he is chomping at the bit to let one fly.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 31, 2021 07:55 AM (3osvL)

238
My Welsh forebears had to travel to this country in vessels that were awash in Irish fleeing the potato famine. Pay up!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 31, 2021 07:55 AM (aQfmB)

239 You and your pasty white privilege.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

fify

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2021 07:56 AM (Rvt88)

240 231 Hey, none of my IRISH ancestors were stateside yet in the 1860s, so leave me out of it.

**

You and your white privilege.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at May 31, 2021 07:51 AM (Kt1w/)

I'll have you know I only have one ancestor who was Irish. Well, he apparently lived in Ireland. He wasn't actually Irish. Possibly English? But he came from there. So....

What the hell were we talking about again?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 07:56 AM (6FeV1)

241 It's Clint Eastwood's birthday. He's 91.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2021 07:56 AM (45fpk)

242 239 You and your pasty white privilege.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

fify
Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2021 07:56 AM (Rvt8

Mmmmm.....

Pastry.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 07:57 AM (6FeV1)

243 240

I'll have you know I only have one ancestor who was Irish. Well, he apparently lived in Ireland. He wasn't actually Irish. Possibly English? But he came from there. So....

What the hell were we talking about again?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 07:56 AM (6FeV1)

Schemes to acquire unearned income, I believe...

Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 07:57 AM (6Je/Q)

244
"This is a new one, illiniwek, although maybe the Belarusians are shit-disturbing." Posted by: andycanuck

How does a flight from Ireland to Poland wind up in Belarus airspace in the first place?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 31, 2021 07:58 AM (aQfmB)

245 CBS trying it's damnedest to foment another race riot. LOOK!!! NEWS!!!!! A HUNNERT YEARS AGO!!!!! WAAAAA!!! WAAAAAAA!!!
Posted by: Getting the banned back together at May 31, 2021 07:54 AM (1lU/i)

**

Same way they and the Democrats tried to bang the drum on Democrats lynching black people in 2018, when the last even nearly possibly close to anything slightly resembling lynching happened in 1981, with the last actual lynching happening back in 1968 or so.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at May 31, 2021 07:58 AM (Kt1w/)

246 I'll have you know I only have one ancestor who was Irish. Well, he apparently lived in Ireland. He wasn't actually Irish. Possibly English? But he came from there. So....

What the hell were we talking about again?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 07:56 AM (6FeV1)

Schemes to acquire unearned income, I believe...
Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 07:57 AM (6Je/Q)

Oh. Are the Irish getting money now? Because in that case...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 07:59 AM (6FeV1)

247 243 240 *Trimmed for Pixy*

What the hell were we talking about again?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 07:56 AM (6FeV1)

Schemes to acquire unearned income, I believe...
Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 07:57 AM (6Je/Q)

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

1) Become a Democrat

2) Profit!!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 31, 2021 07:59 AM (CAJOC)

248 Maybe white people should start commemorating the Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom massacres?

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As a reader of true crime, and I've read a lot, that was one of the most horrific crimes I've ever read about. There are multitudes of horrific crimes of blacks against whites. They are never given the blanket coverage they deserve. Whites Don't Matter.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 31, 2021 07:59 AM (O+I8R)

249 Morning grammie! Hard to believe Clint is 91. I remember him on Rawhide. Yes I'm old!

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 31, 2021 08:00 AM (nxdel)

250 certainly think the nation should pay reparations for things like the Tulsa whatever. Maybe KILL ALL WHITE PEOPLE AND TAKE THEIR SHIT.

FIFY

Posted by: Getting the banned back together at May 31, 2021 08:00 AM (1lU/i)

251 If the DNC wants to dip into their war chest and make some payouts, I ain't gonna stop them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 08:01 AM (6FeV1)

252 250 certainly think the nation should pay reparations for things like the Tulsa whatever. Maybe KILL ALL WHITE PEOPLE AND TAKE THEIR SHIT.

FIFY
Posted by: Getting the banned back together at May 31, 2021 08:00 AM (1lU/i)

Aaaah... the Zimbabwe Gambit....

Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 08:01 AM (6Je/Q)

253 I had no idea what the story was with Tulsa... and have added that tidbit to the list of things I don't give a shit about.

This apparently is the MO now. Find something to be aggrieved about to overshadow whatever event is currently in the spotlight. If there's an angle in there somewhere to slam whitey, do it louder.

I'm way past the point of caring.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2021 08:01 AM (3H9h1)

254 Sigh

There is a deep sadness in my body today
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Amen

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Irascible insurrectionist at May 31, 2021 08:01 AM (cjnJM)

255 "How does a flight from Ireland to Poland wind up in Belarus airspace in the first place?"

the "hijacked" flight was a week ago or so ... it was overflying Belarus to get to ? whatever is North of Belarus.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 31, 2021 08:02 AM (Cus5s)

256 254 Sigh

There is a deep sadness in my body today
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Amen
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Irascible insurrectionist at May 31, 2021 08:01 AM (cjnJM)

Yeah, the country seems intent on doubling down on pissing God off....

Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 08:03 AM (6Je/Q)

257 I assume Mega Keating McBudweiser is smart enough to know that today isn't about 894.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 31, 2021 08:03 AM (y7DUB)

258 Aaaah... the Zimbabwe Gambit....
Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 08:01 AM (6Je/Q)

"Why did you put a little rubber grommet on my King?"

"Don't worry about it."

".... is that... lighter fluid?"

"Mate in two. *snick snick snnnick*"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 08:03 AM (6FeV1)

259 Hard to believe Clint is 91. I remember him on Rawhide. Yes I'm old!

Posted by: Jewells at May 31, 2021 08:00 AM (nxdel)

He was so handsome on that show. And we're barely 29!

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2021 08:03 AM (45fpk)

260 257 I assume Mega Keating McBudweiser is smart enough to know that today isn't about 894.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 31, 2021 08:03 AM (y7DUB)

I demand reparations from the Franks!!!!

Posted by: Warai-otoko's Saxon heritage at May 31, 2021 08:04 AM (6FeV1)

261 Boko Haram kidnap another 200 schoolkids, killing one, in Nigeria.

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Everything old is new again in the land of peace and prosperity of the Biden "administration!"

Time for Michelle to get out her stupid white cardboard and #bringbackourgirls.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 31, 2021 08:04 AM (O+I8R)

262
Morning grammie! Hard to believe Clint is 91. I remember him on Rawhide. Yes I'm old!
Posted by: Jewells45

Ditto.

Years later I saw him in an episode of "Maverick" where he played a gunslinger who had a beef with James Garner but was scared out of town by another gunslinger, played by Jack Kelly, who "gunned down" Garner in a fight where he fanned his revolver doing so. "You can't hit anybody while fanning a gun like that!" Eastwood proclaimed as he skeedaddled nonetheless.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 31, 2021 08:06 AM (aQfmB)

263 Maybe white people should start commemorating the Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom massacres?

Despite the enemedia covering it with a pillow, I won't forget it. Ever.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 31, 2021 08:06 AM (y7DUB)

264 Clint is 91?! Grammie, I'm with you. He was very, very handsome in those years. I just watched him in an old western I'd never seen just this weekend. It was called "Two Mules for Sister Sara." Even though I don't care much for Shirley Maclaine, it was good.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 31, 2021 08:06 AM (O+I8R)

265 Boko Haram kidnap another 200 schoolkids, killing one, in Nigeria.

**

Someone get a shemale with a magic marker and piece of paper to the White House Photographer's office STAT!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 31, 2021 08:07 AM (/BX3R)

266 Saturday I went for lunch at Hooters. None of the girls were wearing masks. I was so happy seeing all those young pretty faces, I knew how cows feel when they first see grass after wintering in a barn. https://tinyurl.com/4kxfba8h

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 31, 2021 08:07 AM (3osvL)

267 There is something so deeply insidious about all this "White Guilt" being foisted upon the culture by rich white marxists.

No, i don't just mean that it's prima facie stupid. I mean that it's mean to instill a culture of helplessness in minority cultures. To eviscerate them. To make them know feel down in their bones, as a reflex, that they are inferior and that Whitey can and will ruin their life at any turn. Also, that Whitey (at least, Good Whitey) is the only savior they can turn to to right past wrongs. The only hope they have for a somewhat tolerable future is to rely on the hand that giveth and the hand that taketh away.

It's disgusting.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 08:08 AM (6FeV1)

268 In 1988, Mrs. OB and I moved to Sunnyvale, CA for my first job after college. The first Sunday we went to church there was the day before Memorial Day. One elderly gentleman attended wearing his WWI uniform, complete with doughboy helmet. That was pretty touching.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 31, 2021 08:08 AM (nfrXX)

269 Saturday I went for lunch at Hooters. None of the girls were wearing masks. I was so happy seeing all those young pretty faces,

????

Hooter girls have faces?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 08:09 AM (85Gof)

270 269 Saturday I went for lunch at Hooters. None of the girls were wearing masks. I was so happy seeing all those young pretty faces,

????

Hooter girls have faces?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 08:09 AM (85Gof)

Yeah, that little owl where the two eyes make the "OO".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 08:10 AM (6FeV1)

271 Thanks to JJS for an excellent post today

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2021 08:11 AM (FeZn1)

272 270 269 Saturday I went for lunch at Hooters. None of the girls were wearing masks. I was so happy seeing all those young pretty faces,

????

Hooter girls have faces?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 08:09 AM (85Gof)

Yeah, that little owl where the two eyes make the "OO".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 08:10 AM (6FeV1)

Hooters has good wings.... their grilled cheese sandwich is good too. They have waitresses...

Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 08:11 AM (6Je/Q)

273 Kenyan Atheists suffer a blow.

Atheists In Kenya Society
@AtheistsInKenya
This evening, regretfully, our Secretary Mr. Seth Mahiga made the decision to resign from his position as Secretary of our society.

Seth's reason for resigning is that he has found Jesus Christ and is no longer interested in promoting atheism in Kenya.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 31, 2021 08:11 AM (VVEnO)

274 Clint also had the best hair!

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 31, 2021 08:11 AM (nxdel)

275 Yes, well done, JJ.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 31, 2021 08:11 AM (y7DUB)

276 It's so weird how the bad guys waited until Trump was out of office to start their sh*t back up.

Bad luck is the only explanation, I guess. Biden will handle it, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 31, 2021 08:12 AM (/BX3R)

277 Well Blues Clues now has a gay dolphin in a wheelchair and a drag queen.

Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 08:13 AM (Tnijr)

278 Going to read our Muldoon's To Save Us All From Ruin today.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Irascible insurrectionist at May 31, 2021 08:13 AM (cjnJM)

279 Atheists In Kenya Society

I will never step down from my position, not while there are so many things that are not on top of other things. We have much work to do gentlemen.

Posted by: President of the Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things at May 31, 2021 08:14 AM (JUOKG)

280 @267

Yes it's even more insidious when you consider that most American's living today trace their ancestry to after the civil war and have very little connection to the historical mistreatment of blacks.

And many immigrant groups like Italians, the Irish and others didn't exactly have the welcome mats rolled out for them.

It's all bullshit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2021 08:14 AM (s25yH)

281 Someone get a shemale with a magic marker and piece of paper to the White House Photographer's office STAT!
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 31, 2021 08:07 AM (/BX3R)

The Old Rugged Crossdresser

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 08:14 AM (6FeV1)

282 Well Blues Clues now has a gay dolphin in a wheelchair and a drag queen.

As recently as six months ago, I would have assumed you were joking. Now I don't.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 31, 2021 08:14 AM (nfrXX)

283 61 Have you talked with any random person lately? One third of Americans couldn't tell you one thing about WWII. They likely couldn't even give you an approximate on the years involved. We're that dumbed down.
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We watched 2 movies about Churchill this weekend (the Storm ones). I commented to Mrs Dingbat that I bet most people I'd ask would not have a clue who he was.

Posted by: dingbat at May 31, 2021 08:14 AM (rNXR7)

284 And we're just supposed to ignore the part where real dolphins are rapey pervs.

Bad luck is the only explanation, I guess.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 31, 2021 08:14 AM (/BX3R)

285 Have a great long weekend!

Posted by: Dumb Ass Kamalalalala at May 31, 2021 08:15 AM (FeZn1)

286 Hooters has good wings.... their grilled cheese sandwich is good too. They have waitresses...

Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 08:11 AM

Their smoked wings are good. Better than I can manage to make.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 31, 2021 08:15 AM (JUOKG)

287 None of the girls were wearing masks.

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That commercial where the deaf guy discusses his deaf family wearing his transparent mask is so annoying. We don't need to read his lips; he needs to read ours. And our masks are not transparent.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 31, 2021 08:15 AM (VVEnO)

288 Speaking of, Churchill's History of the English Speaking People is a really great set of books. A little pricey new, but you can find the hardbacks on ebay for $30 or so. Well worth it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 31, 2021 08:16 AM (/BX3R)

289 Seth's reason for resigning is that he has found Jesus Christ and is no longer interested in promoting atheism in Kenya.

That seems like a wistfully honest account of the exit; almost like "hopefully it will happen for the rest of us" was left unsaid.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 31, 2021 08:16 AM (y7DUB)

290 My ancestors from Europe came to the south and lived in what were termed the border states.... I have no responsibility for any of their actions.

Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 08:16 AM (6Je/Q)

291 "As recently as six months ago, I would have assumed you were joking. Now I don't.
Posted by: Oddbob "

Nope. I always got a pedo vibe from that guy on that show.

Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 08:17 AM (Tnijr)

292 They are taking me to a cemetery today to honor the Unknown Drag Queen.

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at May 31, 2021 08:17 AM (FeZn1)

293 287 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 31, 2021 08:15 AM (VVEnO)

Yeah....

evidently he has a lot to say and no need to listen to anyone.

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 08:17 AM (Lzpvj)

294 235. If I hear one more Marxist reporter call Harris an African American....

Posted by: Jen the original at May 31, 2021 08:17 AM (z+ylg)

295 This is why the good guys never win.

Kenyan former atheist is supposed to stay in the organization and initiate killing, gutting, and skin-suit making, until nobody in their right mind in Kenya would even consider being an atheist.

That's how it's supposed to be done.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 08:18 AM (6FeV1)

296 291 Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 08:17 AM (Tnijr)

Joe or Steve?

Joe strikes me as imitation Brandon Lee.

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 08:18 AM (Lzpvj)

297 We watched 2 movies about Churchill this weekend (the Storm ones). I commented to Mrs Dingbat that I bet most people I'd ask would not have a clue who he was.
Posted by: dingbat

Sherlock Holmes' arch nemesis?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 31, 2021 08:19 AM (VVEnO)

298 294 235. If I hear one more Marxist reporter call Harris an African American....
Posted by: Jen the original at May 31, 2021 08:17 AM (z+ylg)

Africa... by way of Jamaica by way of Delhi by way of Los Angeles....

Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 08:19 AM (6Je/Q)

299
I remember WWI veterans riding in parades in the 60s on vehicles decorated to resemble the French railways' "40 + 8" boxcars.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 31, 2021 08:19 AM (aQfmB)

300 Good morning Hordelings - and thank you JJ for the focused post.

Drove past Dover Air Force Base this morning. Said a prayer for the families and friends of all of the many fallen whose remains have been brought home through there. Despite the current state of this nation, their sacrifices still mean so much.

I'm reminded of the words on the facade at old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore...

TIME WILL NOT DIM THE GLORY OF THEIR DEEDS

Posted by: Doof at May 31, 2021 08:19 AM (mZUr4)

301 Churchill?

The guy who invented cigarettes? Or the guy who invented horse racing?

I'm pretty sure those are two different guys.

I think.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2021 08:20 AM (6FeV1)

302 Also, those grotesque little Rugrats are getting a lesbian mom.

Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 08:20 AM (Tnijr)

303 A salute to Uncle Fred, who was so enamored of Caen he decided to stay. and Cousin Harvey who felt the same of Pelileu.

And to each and every one who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 31, 2021 08:20 AM (KATBx)

304 Good morning Hordesters and fellow vets. No good morning for Cumalot Harris. She can go f'herself.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 31, 2021 08:20 AM (7Fj9P)

305 Nikole Hannah Jones is using Memorial Day to launch an attack on the University of North Carolina for not offering her a tenured job in their Journalism School, giving them until Friday to rethink their position and come across. That's her way to honor America's heroic dead.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2021 08:21 AM (FeZn1)

306 302 Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 08:20 AM (Tnijr)

The left's brains broke between 1996 and 2002, and 2016 drove them irreparably mad.

They are not coming back, and there is no deviancy or debauchery they will not venerate and celebrate as a "TAKE THAT!" to the culture they want dead.

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 08:21 AM (Lzpvj)

307 Well, it's not like people weren't told they were coming for the children.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 31, 2021 08:22 AM (H5knJ)

308 "Joe or Steve?
Joe strikes me as imitation Brandon Lee."

Heck I don't know. It's been probably 20 years since I seen it.
Did Joe ever punch Blue?

Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 08:22 AM (Tnijr)

309
Ward "Little Eichmann" Churchill?

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 31, 2021 08:22 AM (DUIap)

310 307 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 31, 2021 08:22 AM (H5knJ)

That's what I am saying, Karen Wine Mom wanted this evidently.

Thank God my son is grown.

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 08:22 AM (Lzpvj)

311 The pussification and declining in standards of the US military is going to be the most permanent damage done by the current cadre. It will haunt us for decades.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 31, 2021 08:23 AM (7Fj9P)

312 307 Well, it's not like people weren't told they were coming for the children.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 31, 2021 08:22 AM (H5knJ)

They pretty much have tthem now....

Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 08:23 AM (6Je/Q)

313 Last year, the national cemeteries wouldn't let the Boy Scouts put out flags because of the COVID scare. Wife saw something about Arlington letting troops (whether active, reserve, or NG I don't know) put out flags this year. I was at Ft. Sam Houston Nat'l Cemetery on Saturday afternoon and as of then, there were no flags.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 31, 2021 08:24 AM (nfrXX)

314 308 Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 08:22 AM (Tnijr)

No he was smug imitation Robert Downey Junior like Brandon Lee....

I watched it about 18 years back when lad wanted it on.

I used to vocally mimic blue being drunk and sing "sit in my drinking chair and drink, drink, driiiiiiinnnkkkk" to their tune.

Essentially it was sort of an indicator to me how far early development television had fallen.

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 08:24 AM (Lzpvj)

315 joe biden did his memorial day speech on youtube. He had a whopping total of 7,500 people watch it.

Remember this guy got 81 million votes, the most votes of any Presidential candidate in history.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 31, 2021 08:24 AM (JUOKG)

316 315 Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 31, 2021 08:24 AM (JUOKG)

"Well obviously the low numbers are indicative that like well cared for children the American people have no need for vigilance with the most popular leader in modern history at the helm."

//Your media and educrats

Posted by: sven at May 31, 2021 08:26 AM (Lzpvj)

317
Nikole Hannah Jones is using Memorial Day to launch an attack on the University of North Carolina for not offering her a tenured job in their Journalism School, giving them until Friday to rethink their position and come across. That's her way to honor America's heroic dead.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Fire her and present her with a severance check in the amount of $16.19.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 31, 2021 08:26 AM (aQfmB)

318 Fox News

Bob Hopes letters to American troops during WWII chronicled in book: It affected his entire life
The stars daughter Linda Hope and family friend Martha Bolton teamed up for Dear Bob: Bob Hopes Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2021 08:26 AM (85Gof)

319 Yesterday was what would have been my father's 99th birthday. He died in 2012 and he served in the Army Air Corps in the South Pacific in 1944-45. I miss him and I miss all those men who came home and built the world I was born into; their dying has left us missing the roof over our lives.

Posted by: SNAB a/k/a Whipsaw at May 31, 2021 08:26 AM (SY/6F)

320 294. And speaking of Marxist reporters Jonathan Karl said yesterday that the Wuhan lab should be investigated now because of the new evidence that Covid MIGHT have come from there.EVEN though Donald Trump said early on it did now that SERIOUS people have said SERIOUS evidence might show it we should look at it. That is not a 100% quote I cannot link from a phone. His actual statement is unbelievable in that he still labels Trump a lying idiot who sort of said something right.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 31, 2021 08:27 AM (z+ylg)

321 Nikole Hannah Jones is using Memorial Day to launch an attack on the University of North Carolina for not offering her a tenured job in their Journalism School, giving them until Friday to rethink their position and come across. That's her way to honor America's heroic dead.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2021 08:21 AM (FeZn1)

You can thank the self gassing Shitberger family for giving this historically illiterate hosebag the same Holocaust denying forum they provided Walter Duranty.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 31, 2021 08:27 AM (y7DUB)

322 "You can't hit anybody while fanning a gun like that!"

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I once saw a true crime show in which a woman had killed her husband. Her defense was that she thought he was a prowler. She emptied a single action revolver into his back. Although she had no familiarity with firearms, she contended it happened in a split second as she fanned the gun hitting him with every shot. The jury didn't believe her.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 31, 2021 08:28 AM (VVEnO)

323 Karl said that Trump said so many things one of them was bound to be right.

Posted by: f'd at May 31, 2021 08:28 AM (Tnijr)

324 Well Blues Clues now has a gay dolphin in a wheelchair and a drag queen.

As recently as six months ago, I would have assumed you were joking. Now I don't.
Posted by: Oddbob

Newton Minow (former FCC head) was right all along in 1960 (iirc), wasn't he?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 31, 2021 08:29 AM (Rvt88)

325 I'm fortunate to have all my veteran relatives survive their time in WW2 or later wars. I can't even think of any acquaintances that lost their lives after they went off to war in the last 20 years.

There are no doubt many of "our" finest that we shall never get the chance to know, we won't get to know their children. Given the current revealing of the evil men in the shadows, it almost seems like war is a method for them to remove any "resistors" from the Western population. (so many lost in Europe in WW2)

That is probably too cynical ... but "the fight" may be against principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places, it is manifest in real life. God bless those that serve and fight with honor, whether recognized or not.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 31, 2021 08:30 AM (Cus5s)

326
Art is up.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2021 08:30 AM (s2VJv)

327 Very nicely done, JJ. Excellent.

Posted by: Bama Bubba at May 31, 2021 08:30 AM (mAxkE)

328 Art needs to go back to bed, it's too early.

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2021 08:30 AM (GF3Jj)

329 >>Fire her and present her with a severance check in the amount of $16.19.

$17.76 would be better.

Posted by: bed head at May 31, 2021 08:30 AM (oMc1W)

330 Kids are idiots nowadays and I am not looking forward to them deciding what happens to us old folks down the road.
Posted by: Jaimo

I'm planning on emulating Duval and Caine in Second Hand Lion. Sitting on my porch with my shotgun waiting fer strangers to come up my road. I'll have my What every young man needs to know to grow up speech ready and waiting. Doubt they'll listen.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Irascible insurrectionist at May 31, 2021 08:30 AM (cjnJM)

331 China does not care that the United States is " looking into" the Wuhan Lab follies of 2019... what are we going to DO about it??? Why, nothing... corporations are heading back to China, after the " Trump Unpleasantness"...

Posted by: kraken at May 31, 2021 08:31 AM (6Je/Q)

332 His actual statement is unbelievable in that he still labels Trump a lying idiot who sort of said something right.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 31, 2021 08:27 AM (z+ylg)

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This captures his sentiment very well, and his "this is my serious face" look at the time he said it made it clear he is defensive even admitting this little much that Trump might have been right about something. I see similar hesitancy among Democrats I know; "moderate" Democrats are finding it very difficult to admit they can't entirely pretend reality away. It's a psychosis.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2021 08:31 AM (FeZn1)

333 Clint is 91?! Grammie, I'm with you. He was very, very handsome in those years. I just watched him in an old western I'd never seen just this weekend. It was called "Two Mules for Sister Sara."
Posted by: Lady in Black

Night before last we rented Wrath of Man (meh, I was a bit disappointed), but Scott Eastwood, Clint's son is in it. We all remarked how similar they look.

Then yesterday I watch a young Clint in Kelly's Heroes. Man, they REALLY look alike. Scott's face is bit more robust than Clint's but same eyes and nose.

Posted by: Blutarski at May 31, 2021 08:33 AM (nnf6G)

334 Again cannot link but Whatfinger has a link to Harris tweet and selfie of herself and the return fire from patriots on Twitter. One posted the heartbreaking photo from several years ago of a young women with a baby lying on a photo throw of herself and her beloved soldier on top of his grave at Arlington. Asked Harris if this woman is enjoying her three day weekend.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 31, 2021 08:35 AM (z+ylg)

335 Asked Harris if this woman is enjoying her three day weekend.

***

Again, it's on purpose. They are playing to their base, and the added benefit is that they know it angers and frustrates Trump voters.

The photo probably made the White House smile knowing that their plan worked so well.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 31, 2021 08:38 AM (/BX3R)

336 Very well done.

And you are particularly right about 76 years of peace and prosperity--for which I am VERY grateful. It has had its baneful side effects in the weakening and frivolity of contemporary society; but that is a small price to pay to have literally millions and millions of people still alive. Particularly husbands and fathers.

Posted by: Tom at May 31, 2021 08:40 AM (scMNZ)

337 Dusty in here...

Posted by: creeper at May 31, 2021 08:42 AM (XxJt1)

338 Agreed and nicely worded JJ.
I wrote about the change in the holiday since the stupid legislation of 1968 made it a three-day weekend - only done to spur travel and spending, pushed through by unions and the travel interests. Bah.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at May 31, 2021 08:45 AM (aBBMN)

339 Hubby fought in WWII...the war to end all wars. I'm almost glad he's not here to see how that turned out.

He fought his war to save our country. Democrats fight theirs to destroy it.

Posted by: creeper at May 31, 2021 08:48 AM (XxJt1)

340 I took my brother to lunch and then a drive along the St. Clair River. Small towns like Marine City have lightpost banners with photos and names of the fallen. Algonac's riverside park was lined with large flags. Really grand.

There were still Trump flags along with the star-spangled bunting.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 31, 2021 08:50 AM (/+bwe)

341 Awright, you folks have convinced me.

I just now put up the flag.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 31, 2021 09:28 AM (Om/di)

342 Yay, WeakGeek!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 31, 2021 09:34 AM (/+bwe)

343 Greetings: Part 1

Back in the summer of the last '68, I was doing my military service down in Texas, which, besides the Bronx, is the place I'd most like to be from. For several months, I was assigned to the base's funeral detail. We would provide pallbearers and a rifle squad for those requesting military funerals in the local area.

Military-wise, it wasn't bad duty. On the days when we weren't scheduled for a funeral, we would spend several hours practicing our "drill & ceremonies" and a couple more squaring away our uniforms and equipment. On funeral days, we would head out as early as necessary on a 44-passenger bus, often in civilian clothes or else fatigues with our first-class uniforms and equipment in tow. Often we would change into our duty uniforms at the funeral home, once in the casket display room, or on the bus itself.

Posted by: 11B40 at May 31, 2021 09:46 AM (evgyj)

344 Greetings: Part 2

It being Texas and the Viet Nam war being in full swing, we often had several funerals a week to perform. There was a certain spectrum from the World War graduates through the Viet Nam casualties. The former might involve a local veterans' group and an afterward BBQ or such. The latter were somewhat more emotionally raw as most of us were facing our own deployments in the near future.

Two funerals of the latter sort have stayed with me through the years. The first was of a young Private First Class who had been MIA for several months before his remains were recovered. I was on the pallbearer squad that day and when we went to lift the casket, it almost flew up in the air. There was so little of the young soldier left that we totally overestimated the weight we were lifting and almost looked decidedly unprofessional

Posted by: 11B40 at May 31, 2021 09:47 AM (evgyj)

345 Greetings: Part 3

The other was that of a Negro Specialist 4th Class. I was in the rifle squad that day. In the rendering of military honors, there is a momentary pause between the end of the (21-gun) rifle salute and the beginning of the playing of "Taps". It is a moment of profound silence in most cases. During that moment, the young soldier's mother gave out a yowl from the depths of her grief that so startled me that I almost dropped the rifle out of my hands. That yowl echoes within me still.

I'll readily admit that, as a result of my experiences, I became much imbued with a sense of duty and respect to and for our fallen. Hopefully, today, when our media do their reporting they will show some of the same and let "Taps" be played out in its entirety. It would be nice for a change.

Posted by: 11B40 at May 31, 2021 09:48 AM (evgyj)

346 Well, Moron Hoard....just put in four night shifts in Covidville, started drinking when i came home.....bout done with that. Memorial Day is difficult for me...I have so much respect for the men who came before me to provide the blanket of security we all sleep under to take this day lightly. One day last week, I stopped by the grave of my best friend Mike...just to say Hello, and remind myself that there are veterans in pain every day as we chat on the internet....all wounds do not result in visible scars... Why, Mike? I tried to help...but you could not be reasoned with.... PSA...suicide is NOT the answer...it leaves shattered families and friends, ...be a man. ask for help....I would have moved heaven and earth to help you, if you only asked......Jasonj...back to drinking...

Posted by: jasonj at May 31, 2021 06:36 PM (4Tpar)

347 Sorry if I am being a downer today...May is difficult for me....Why do people kill themselves? Depression, life? Bleech, I do not know..and, No, Hoard, i am not going off myself.. What is so painful, difficult, and fearsome that you cannot face it? I have dealt with serious shit, life changing, soul searing tragedy..pain, suffering, humiliations....but if you are alive...there is still a chance....reach out to a buddy, a stranger, anyone...do not eat that gun...it wastes a life full of promise.. Jeffery and Mike...not forgotten.....

Posted by: jasonj at May 31, 2021 06:51 PM (4Tpar)

348 I attended a family gathering last Saturday, the first one of any kind since 2019. I never realized how much I would miss the interaction with this group, even the ones that used to annoy me. We had a surprise visitor, the 20 year-old son of a former friend of my brother. The father is a former friend because he and his wife fell into the throes of addiction, and have de-evolved into complete loser scumbags. The father is a totally committed progtard, to boot. His son and daughter ended up raising themselves, moved out of the house, and have become thriving, productive citizens. Anyway, the reason that the visit by the son was so special is because he defied his junkie, proggie father and joined the Marines. He had the weekend free, and he came back to South Philly to see his friends and our family, who helped support him when his parents wouldn't. He is in impossibly good shape, is impossibly handsome, and the exact opposite of the stereotype of today's youth. I'm very proud of him.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at June 01, 2021 01:37 AM (KWbVO)

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