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All at the same time...and they signed a basketball, right?

George Thorogood can write his name? Let's see...I've got Thurman, Kelly, Bruce, and Andre, all on one helmet. Jeff Wright, House Ballard. Dennis Miller. Couple of political figures I won't mention, a few authors. And I've signed some as "Alec Baldwin," "Nathan Fillion," and "Jesse Armistad," because people are ***** idiots. ("You look familiar...do you play football?" "No." "You play linebacker for the Giants, don't you?" "No." "Yes, you do, can I have your autograph?" "Sure, what the hell...the Giants play in Dallas on Sunday, so I don't know why the hell I'd be in Salt Lake City on Friday afternoon, but I'm sure you're right and I'm wrong..."

This is great. I've been waiting for a buying opportunity for two years.

Dammit, I wish this thread was an implanted memory.

You do know you don't have to be famous to do that?

Twas the night before Christmas And all through the house Not a creature was stirring Because we're all in the living room watching a Die Hard/Lethal Weapon double-feature.

I'm just shocked Spacey groped an adult...

What Army did you serve in again? The Salvation Army?

Sure, I'll get right on that after I finish listening to Tom Petty's "Christmas All Over Again."

I'm sure they'll name CVN84 the USS Hillary Rodham Clinton, because she won the popular vote and it was her turn, goddammit! In fact, I hope they do, so they can nickname it "The B word." Better than having the USS Donald J Trump nicknamed the "Candied Yam." (And put the ship's server farm in the heads, of course.)

I'm not entirely surprised...but I thought I'd just read a few months ago they were trying to get a limited tour put together - 10 cities or so, enough to have fun without killing themselves.

Yes. Because I haven't received any in five years, so they remind me of when people cared about me, and why I hated it so goddamn much.

They're going to name a carrier after him, not an SSBN. Of course, that ship's nickname will be "Slick Willie," which is just as good. "Who are you, and what's your ship?" "Seaman Swallows, Slick Willie, sir!"

BREAKING NEWS: Father time catches up with Brady, flagged for roughing the passer, suspended indefinitely by Goodell.

Aw, hell. Not the Dollar General Bowl!

You do know what the TR's call sign and nickname are, right? "Rough Rider," and "the Big Stick." Where else would you assign Seaman Swallows?

GPS first. Communications satellites are higher, and harder to get, and GPS is more critical. Knock out GPS, and you don't just impact map reading. You turn back the clock 30-50 years on the DoD's inventory of precision standoff munitions. And EVERYTHING is a standoff PGMs these days - Tomahawk, ALCMs, ATACMS, JDAMs, WCMD, JSOW, any artillery platform larger than a mortar...anything not aimed by eye, laser, or radar has its accuracy cut by a factor of 10. Even the SLBM fleet. Losing the communications satellites would be a disaster. Losing GPS would be catastrophic.

Please tell me he was stationed on the USS Roosevelt.

I really want to slap that hat off Boot's head.

As do I...but c'mon, the Air Force may dress in powder-blue smurf BDUs, their day may end promptly at 5pm for cocktails at the club, they may have after-dinner mints in the mess halls...but which service takes 110 men, calls them "seamen," and locks them in a steel phallic symbol underwater for 90 days at a time?

The Navy, that's the real homoerotic service. Don't see the Chair Force hot-bunking, do you? No one ever made a movie about Red Flag featuring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer oiled up playing beach volleyball, did they?

If you can find it. It was on YouTube - free, subtitled - when I saw it a few years ago. It is very Japanese. Not very "Japanese made for American audiences." Very Japanese. Even the Bull Halsey analogue character from the cartoons is Japanese.

No, people don't pull for their own self-interest. Rich liberals frequently vote for higher taxes, poor conservatives frequently vote to cut Medicaid and SNAP. People pull for their own self-identity. That's very often counter to their self-interest.

This is a very conservative viewpoint...