mbillips.bsky.social
Actor, handyman, retired Navy officer and former newspaper reporter. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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We bombed North Korea into sand, so much that the Air Force ran out of targets, and it had very little effect on ending the war. Gaza is just a big Stalingrad now, and Israel doesn’t have the troops or the will to invade and control it.
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I had whooping cough in 2006 and I am wishing it on that asshole so hard.
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I’m pretty sure pitching a baby would be a violation of the MLB rules and the umpire would stop play.
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Cool mom works, too. Mine introduced me to Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, and Firefly. My dad was mainly into history, which I kinda picked up on my own after reading old/historical fiction.
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Accidentally is doing a lot of work here.
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“The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” although I didn’t read it until long after he died.
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Probably “Under the Skin” with Scarlett Johansen as the bait for a carnivorous house. Very little dialogue and what there is is delivered in incomprehensible Scots.
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Possibly Wall of Vets volunteer there to protect the march from armed whackadoodles. Which it appears they did, while hitting a good guy as well. Who knows how many the armed guy they shot might have killed.
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Hahahaha! I feel bad now because I have been talking shit about JTF-NCR, who plan and execute the inaugural parades and state funerals. So not their fault, I see.
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It was a disaster. I know quite a bit about event planning; I worked both of Obama’s inauguration and that was pathetic. People should get fired.
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This was strictly an Army thing and I dunno why the bands were in cammies. My theory based on 20 years’ experience working with them in joint environments is that Army PA is bad at their job and White House probably insisted on inserting contractors into a show that should have been run by JTF-NCR.
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Apparently they’re trading in their dress uniforms and some people have only the old ones and others only the new ones. They wore civvies to rehearse iianm because PT gear isn’t authorized as a uniform on the National Mall. It’s a DC thing, like having to wear dress uniforms to the Capitol.
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They were from out of town, so they wouldn’t have had all their gear with them. The inaugural parade rehearsal is practiced in civilian clothes.
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They weren’t given a proper cadence to march to. The tempo of “Fortunate Son,” aside from being wildly inappropriate, is too fast for the Army’s normal marching pace. They’re not a drum and bugle corps.
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I’m straight, but I can do a single Windsor, double Windsor AND hand-tie a bow tie.
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Iran is not in the slightest bit scared of TACO.
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I worked two Obama inaugural parades and it’s not THAT much lamer than the military part of those. It’s hard to get people through the mags in time to fill the seats. But who would want to watch this crap? There’s zero buzz for the Army turning 250 and even Trumpers don’t gaf about his birthday.
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Fuckers can’t even march in step. I’ve seen better ceremonies at a boot camp graduation.
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Trump’s going to insist on a gigantic bribe from Israel. And then won’t deliver anything more than air strike refueling support and maybe some Patriot batteries.
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Because it’s the Army and they are OBSESSED with wearing their pajamas. They started wearing them in the Pentagon after 9/11 and they have to be forced into dress or even service uniforms like a struggling toddler. Hegseth probably thought it looks more alpha.
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LAPD had black tape across their badges. Dunno who they’re mourning but it does a great job of concealing the numbers.
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I glanced at it just as an obscure mounted unit from the Philippines Insurrection rode by and Trump looked bored and miserable.
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My take on this would require trigonometry and I swore that off when I dropped out of engineering school.
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One good thing about Trump is that he’s a gigantic coward who fears being assassinated, so he is way less likely to start a war with Iran. They’re the scary bugaboo from the era his pudding brain is trapped in, roughly 1972-85.
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That at the very least means “hungover af.”
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You jerks need to stop trying to top @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
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Tonight only from Chicago, the Blues Brothers rhythm and blues review for your dancing pleasure…
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$50 billion. C’mon, people, math ain’t that hard.
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They fear their iron-fisted monarch’s wrath.
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I was on a bus in New York and saw Jessica Hecht pushing her baby in a stroller across the street. She looked hot and tired.
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Has anyone sued over the Marines? Tougher to figure out who has standing or what court should hear it.
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Biden nixed their attack last October and they listened to him. Trump could do the same but he wants them to strike Iran as long as he isn’t held responsible. Because he’s afraid of being assassinated by Iran.
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Criminals executing their evil plan of taking the tomato pickers’ jobs, the perfect cover for…. tomato jacking?
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I used to own a PT Cruiser. Technically it was a minivan.
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Must be a complete frame under there now that I think of it, because PT Cruisers are FWD. More of a funny car than an engine swap.
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Jayzus. Hope they beefed up the unit body or at least the front subframe. Those things are way less stiff than a Neon because they’re basically a rectangular box. Hellcat torque could twist it into a spiral.
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Younger people have more subcutaneous fat in their faces, even when they’re thin. Once you get into your later 20s it starts to go away and people turn to fillers and whatnot. That’s why Isabella Rossellini said she had to choose between her waistline and her face, and chose her face.
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A, she doesn’t and B, she’s very thin, which tends to make people look older.
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Am I a dog in this hypothetical?
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That guy is a fucking idiot.
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Oh, no! Well, anyway.
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Also they’re robots stealing pretty good blue-collar jobs. Burn them all.
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Good luck with that, dipshit. The only Russian naval arm that has ever been the TINIEST bit effective is submarines, and your broke ass can’t afford them.
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This is 100% your call and you should decide what feels right and when.
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Dammit, don’t make me feel bad for them.
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The only good robot car is a dead robot car and that goes double for those robot delivery carts blocking the goddam sidewalk.