jimvan.bsky.social
Green Swamp dweller, Fear Nothing. "I ain't young like you, I'm old and give out." --Slingblade
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invoking originalism to say they would have "hanged" people for this. (A side of beef is hung, a man is hanged)
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“I can hear you back there. Breathe more respectfully.”
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One thing I learned from being a very junior non-com was “Don’t give an order that has no hope of being obeyed.”
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well, to be fair, there is a long history of suppressing peasant uprisings. I think it's pretty much the reason why kings wanted standing armies.
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Close! “Seat”
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When we went out the path to the overlook the herd of elk ladies were to one side of the path but when we came back they were both sides and their gentleman friend was RIGHT BESIDE THE PATH on the uphill side meaning he was about eighteen feet tall with HUGE TREES growing out of his head.
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but not until something about Catalina and Antonio and their doomed love. Ay! Catalina!
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a book! a book! please! please!
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Can I come over to your house?
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Eyelashes are like 90% of the squee over Luigi Mangione
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I'm in!
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dang it, why can't I ike this more than once?! *click* *click*
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remember time passes differently there. we're all fifty years older than you now
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we will be looking for dispatches from Fae
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One of the pioneers of Wearing The Same Hat In All His Westerns (See also Steve McQueen)
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He was at Guantánamo! He was a civil affairs officer! He's got a Bronze Star w/olc and I found the citation for the 2nd award. It was for re-writing a manual! (TBF the 1st may have been for not getting blown up in a Humvee, but I've not been able to find that citation.)(The RPG bounced off)
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He really is the S3 (Acting) who thinks he's the Division CG. "The military's job is to kill the enemy!" "No moron. The military's job is to make the enemy do what you want."
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After many years in the court system the sight of a lawyer displaying deep & abiding ignorance should be no surprise but—“B-but he’s Ivy League!” “Yeah they’re the worst.”
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El Greco reimagined by Vincent!
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I didn't think there were any others left!
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Yeah--jeezt. Hunter Thompson on Nixon's football expertise.
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One tooth, one eye, one ear!
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Back to 1968! Dump LBJ over the war and end up with—Hubert Humphrey?
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His big club-like feet! ”Peace hoo-mon. I will not harm you. I seek scritches. And a nap.”
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Hot dog! Somebody’s on it!
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what lighting!
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I think it highly likely that your school would pretty quickly lose its funding for wrongthink
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Ah! at first I was going to respond to this to say "Wanna bet?" and then it occurred to me that this may be that "sarcasm" or "irony" of whichI have heard of and may mean the OPPOSITE of what it says! So sneaky!
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hey, be fair! they shot one of those down! credit to the missile crews!
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????
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hey she's MY girlfriend!
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Mayonnaise wars!
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that can't be good.
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His flashing eyes! His floating hair!
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Also we're "entitled" to these things because we "worked" for them. "Entitlement" is not a dirty word: if you buy a car you get a "title" to it. Same for a house!
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What about the Kettenkrad?
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Carbon paper!
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There have be 13 popes who have taken Innocent as their name. Trump could be the first Pope Guilty.
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Baldasari Cossa would like a word