The Frankish Reich
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2 minutes ago, sherpa said:
Is anyone else thinking this is just a silly exercise?
No illegal orders have been directed.
Nobody needs to tell military personnel that are are not to abide by illegal orders.
They know that, certainly at the commissioned officer level, where such things would originate.
Looks to me like an attempt to orchestrate a completely political exercise for publicity.
On to the next crisis.
Yes, it's a political exercise.
And of course El Presidente has just insured that it will work as intended through his comic overreaction.
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32 minutes ago, sherpa said:
I never suggested in any way that Kelly did anything wrong
When someone does something illegal, let me know.
So far nothing.
I certainly knew the rules, and didn't need a reminder.
Well, the bombings of the "drug smugglers" in the Gulf and Pacific are of very questionable legality. I'd say illegal unless I see a better justification than what Trump has given.
The DOD lawyers have apparently written a memo (not released to the public) providing this justification (which is quite different from Trump's public one):
- Drug smuggling activity funds the Mexican/international cartels, which in turn have been characterized as international terrorist organizations; hence, the bombings are aimed at international terrorism. It's a very, very shaky theory that's never been tested in anyone's courts.
Trump's justification is just flat-out not a justification at all.
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So I take it Ben Franklin knew about the Iroquois confederacy. So when we drafted the Articles of Confederation it probably was at least a tiny bit influenced by it. That’s all.
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9 hours ago, JDHillFan said:
It was the “profoundly” part. Maybe you missed it. I suspect he rebounded rather quickly. You should go back to tying the patriotism of others to a Ken Burns documentary.
Yes, he got over the profound sadness. Whew!
Scold.
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8 hours ago, SectionC3 said:
Keeping the fatties in line is a tall order at Thanksgiving. Be on the lookout for stretch pants or jogging pants. You see those — the Thanksgiving pants — and you know they’re there to load up on the stuff that isn’t green. The only thing that’s worse than a glutton is a glutton you have to pay for, especially in this economy.
You can have all the turkey and trimmings you want.
But the nice wine and spirits are strictly rationed in my house.
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19 minutes ago, Wacka said:
My sister and her husband are having me, my nephew and his daughter over. Her daughter is living in Germany and her other son has passed. We used to have about double, but with some passing and my brother going to his wife's kid's house that is what we have. We have a turkey roll for the white meat and deep fried turkey fried in the driveway far away from the house.
Deep fried is great! Smoked even better, but I don’t have the equipment for that big of a turkey. Enjoy it!
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32 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
No further thanks necessary. Your posting the every detail of your holiday meal are all the thanks anyone could possibly want.
Ahh, the day after turkey day.
so remind me, are groceries cheaper now than they were last year?-
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1 hour ago, Coffeesforclosers said:
Reading books. I'm working through Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy's The Men Who Lost America. Dean Snow's 1777 is very good. Just re-read Jonathan Grenier's The First Way of War...actually does Burns cover the Gnaddenhutten Massacre at all?
The correct approach.
It is a history of the American Revolution. Not the history. There probably is no such thing as the history. Adults understand this. Children want to be told.
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I'm a little worried. I've got like 12-15 people for Thanksgiving this year. The Kroger Butterball for .99/lb deal only applied to 10-20 lb turkeys. Clearly I need at least 23. Two smaller turkeys? Lame. But get the bigger one and I'm at $1.99/lb. What to do? Should I blame Biden? Trump? Please inform.
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The Neville Chamberlain Peace in Our Time Award goes to ... Donald J. Trump, for his extraordinary efforts to reward Russian aggression.
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The Trump-Mamdani lovefest: I called it. A great bs artist will always admire the next great bs artist. They are both campaign slogan first, actual policy initiative second guys.
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28 minutes ago, Nihilarian said:
Elway, in the end, was similar to Peyton Manning in that he simply no longer had that supreme arm talent at the end. Elway was helped with an RB by the name of Terrell Davis, who rushed for 1750 yards in 1997, for 2000 yards in 1998, and the Broncos ran the ball more than they threw it in those last two Super Bowls.
Manning, in his last SB, was helped by a #1 defense while their offense was middle of the pack.
The current Buffalo Bills have the right idea with the run game and now need to upgrade their passing attack with more innovative schemes. That power run game is supposed to help protect Allen and not throw him under the bus... 8 SACKS
True. That's the problem here: we've already done the Elway-Shanahan thing, moving toward a run-first, throw second approach to take some of the burden off Josh.
I'm in the camp that says that when you have a HOF QB, the solution is always to shift the burden back onto the QB.
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Oh, I think some nutcase from North Georgia sees an opportunity to cash in while Trump is still in office. Simple as that.
MTG Live on Youtube.
Or MTG on Fox News.
Or MTG everywhere.
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I've watched Ep 1. It was good. I learned some things, took a moment to rethink some things.
Well worth watching the whole thing.
Disagreement? Let's let some scholars raise some points, and then we'll argue about them like grown adults.
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11 hours ago, JDHillFan said:
FINE!!sigh
A Herculean effort!
Actually, more of a Sisyphean effort.
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1 hour ago, wnyguy said:
Gotta agree with you Frankish, it's not a good look for Trump and the administration. It's like all politicians are crooks or something.
Thanks.
The whole pardon thing, from whichever side, bothers me. When I was a relatively new lawyer for the feds, I got one of those dreaded assignments - reviewing case files in response to pardon requests. I probably overdid it. I really dug into a few cases and wrote really solid memos for the DOJ Pardon Attorney (there is such a thing, although it's now very politicized). I never really followed up on what happened; they weren't high-profile cases. But nothing was political. We were instructed to look at things like acceptance of guilt and evidence of rehabilitation, and the view of the prosecuting agency and the victims of the crime, and the value of a pardon for restoring certain civil rights like voting or owning a gun. I took my work seriously and left it to the Pardon Attorney to make his or her final recommendation to the President.
So it saddens me to see a President just ignore that process and ran through pardons for political or other (including political contributions) reasons. It is easy to make fun of the bureaucratic process, but without it, this is what we get. People - not the Pardon Attorney after full review - sticking Pardon letters into the autopen or in front of the President to apply a sharpie signature without even knowing the first thing about what he's doing or who it impacts.
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Not since his rookie season have we seen Allen look this helpless
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And Shakir breaks a tackle to prove me wrong!
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Has anyone other than Cook broken a tackle tonight?
And that includes Allen
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Just now, BuffaloBaumer said:
I never thought I would hate a coaching staff more than Dick Jauron
There's a really good argument that Dick Jauron did more with the talent he had than McD is doing with the talent he has.
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Just now, buffblue said:
Thursday Night Football is an absolute abomination
Exactly.
This game will not prove anything about the relative merits of these teams.
I hate, hate, hate football on Thursday.
Eff college, just play on Saturday night.
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Oh man. This is getting ugly
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1 minute ago, Nihilarian said:
WHAT, no screen to Shakir?
Don't give up so quickly.
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3 minutes ago, schoolhouserock said:
Perhaps unpopular opinion: The rookies and 2nd year players are keeping this defense afloat. Anyone that got paid is letting the defense down.
Rousseau? MIA this year.
Bernard? Didn't we think he was, like, good last year? Or better than Edmunds?
The DTs: disappeared, or injured.
Bosa: pass rush, yes; subpar Von against the run.
Benford: injury risk = injury reality.
Milano: playing out the string.
Epenesa: already in his decline phase? Without ever really being good?
Highly recommend all true patriots watch Ken Burns American Revolution documentary
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All of these various influences (Calvinism, the Iroquois confederation, etc, etc) can be found in the thinking of the founding fathers. Everyone sees a little of what they want to see. Liberal bleeding hearts see respect for native American governance; religious righties see hardcore protestantism.
But the one giant who towers above all others combined? Montesquieu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montesquieu