The bottom line for me is that I really want a POTUS who’s minimally medicated and routinely makes his sanity rolls. Given the hell-circus the world throws at him and the manias his staff works through, he needs to be one of the sane adults in the room. A clown with electrostatic hair and a weird sniffle just won’t cut it.
Trouble is, too many people love them some clowns (or owe favors to them). The New York Times, for instance, is starting to get called out for its tangerine-tinted coverage if the election, like they’re Faux News lite or something:
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/05/there-is-something-at-the-new-york-times/
]]>it was 'cliche ethnic Canadian' in tone
]]>I know Canada did the same thing around the same time, which meant that quite a few fishing grounds were no longer available to non-Canadian fishers. Including some US boats off the West Coast, who were of course furious. Insert all sorts of other weird little disputes here (i.e. the Whisky War with Denmark).
]]>@Dramlin: does this help? https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/23221121.hertfordshire-helped-fund-second-world-war-spitfires/
]]>Cipro and anthrax. Yes, I’m utterly unsurprised. Given the way the US works, I’d wonder if it didn’t happen. Indeed, you’ve made me wonder if the WH hoarded toilet paper in 2020, and if they did, whether they’ve depleted their hoard yet.
Well, probably AFTER the plumbers managed to get the toilets unplugged and removed all the classified documents 🙃
The bottom line for me is that I really want a POTUS who’s minimally medicated and routinely makes his sanity rolls. Given the hell-circus the world throws at him and the manias his staff works through, he needs to be one of the sane adults in the room. A clown with electrostatic hair and a weird sniffle just won’t cut it.
FWIW, I think there is some evidence that "Bolton, Rumsfeld, Cheney et al" weren't sharing the good stuff with Junior post 9/11.
Trouble is, too many people love them some clowns (or owe favors to them). The New York Times, for instance, is starting to get called out for its tangerine-tinted coverage if the election, like they’re Faux News lite or something:
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/05/there-is-something-at-the-new-york-times/
About the only good work regarding U.S. politics coming out of the NY Times these days is Paul Krugman.
They still (for now) remain a fairly reliable news source for NON-political events (to the extent anything is NON-political nowadays).
]]>Rep. Ronny Jackson was demoted by Navy after scathing Pentagon review, records show
"The former White House physician, who retired with a rank of rear admiral in 2019, is now listed as a retired captain.
Dr. Feelgood now represents Texas 13th Congressional District.
]]>The glamour machine of WW1 that took the place later occupied by the Spitfire in WW2 was the tank. After late 1916 they were no longer secret, and they caught the public's enthusiasm. So we had the same kind of "your town can buy its own war machine" thing with tanks as that article describes with Spitfires. (It's more accurate than our local paper's recap of the tank fundraising a hundred years on; they made that sound like the mayor had bought the thing as his own personal property from the local tank dealers and generously allowed the army to borrow it for the duration, to be returned when the war was over, here it is, thanks mate, we've filled the fuel up, sorry about the shell hole but don't fret, it'll T-Cut out.)
Later, we had the "Tank Banks", which were a kind of roadshow thing; they had I think five tanks each doing their own separate tours of the country, stopping at each town on their route for a week or a fortnight and putting on an exhibition, often accompanied by assorted captured German guns and planes for extra interest. They would sell War Bonds and cups of tea from a hatch in the gun sponsons, and generally bang the whole civilian fundraising drum.
Also popular in WW1 were "war postcards" with pictures of military subjects. Those which are genuine are a very useful historical resource, but lots of them were produced by some staggeringly crude photoshopping which nevertheless keeps deceiving modern local historians who should know better. It's difficult to find genuine pictures of the Tank Bank event of some towns, because the only thing around that is properly labelled as being that event is really yet another copy of the same picture of no. 113 "Julian" in Preston Flag Market with the background crudely erased, and the name of the town you're looking for inserted in the caption.
]]>Something bizarrely close to that happened during WWII. Mariya Oktyabrskaya, upon becoming a widow when her husband was KIA in 1941, decided to work through her grief by raising enough money to fund a tank, and somehow talked the government into letting her drive it personally so she could go off shooting at Nazis. So, yeah, in among the 19 year old boys was a 38 year old widow who was in no way the voice of prudence or common sense. Imagine Jack Churchill with a T-34.
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