Oh, he's met them. He dodged doing their work as hard as possible and still wants to cosplay.
Commissioned in 2004, did none of the hard schools.
Multiple deployments post-9/11 as an infantry officer and never commanded anything but a Gitmo guard shift, spent all his time in Civil Affairs.
This is a guy with DEUS VULT tattooed on his bicep and a giant Jerusalem Cross on his chest.
His opinions on non-Christians are well known.
Yep. I've been playing some form of this silly game for ~30 years now and I still have to stop and stare at the map for a second before declaring my turns unless I'm playing a melee class where the entire game loop is 'roll to hit, maybe roll damage, next player'.
So no one who's ever played D&D then. :D
I reached out to the Flag Heritage Foundation, who served as publisher, and they replied immediately and were kind enough to provide me with a PDF version for research purposes.
I am extremely grateful for their efforts in keeping this niche material available.
Same goes for other niche academic publications! After a class I attended online I went looking for a copy of Japanese Heraldry and Heraldic Flags by David F. Phillips. Unfortunately Mr. Phillips passed in 2020 and the book is very out of print.
Used copies were starting over $100.
I think everyone's pretty well aware of OSC, though. He's precisely what you'd expect from a devoutly Mormon American conservative, he just started being more open about it ~20 years back.
These days he's a mask-off (no pun intended) extremist and homophobic bigot, but that's nothing new.
OSC frustrated me, but didn't *surprise* me, if that makes sense.
If SSPX goes ahead after being warned, I think it's not going to matter. It's a latae sententiae excommunication for both the ordaining and ordained authority, and last time they did this St. John Paul II recognized it formally as schismatic.
They'll feel the need to be seen to stand against that.
Florida Man strikes again!
Yep. I've still got one somewhere in my garage. White that went yellow on one side from UV because it was by the window in the kitchen.
I think the USCCB might be getting cold feet on the US conservative movement. Especially with the SSPX looking to get excommunicated again for making their own bishops.
An angry Jesse Custer from Garth Ennis' Preacher comics yells at a chinless, balding KKK member as several other Klansmen stand in the background looking stupidly on. "WHY IS IT THE GREATEST CHAMPIONS OF THE WHITE RACE ALWAYS TURN OUT TO BE THE WORST EXAMPLES OF IT? YOU!" "wh-wh-wh?" "WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR CHIN?"
Ennis' crack from Preacher never fails to pan out:
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I'd rather be waterboarded with expired Yoohoo.
“How would a ninth-grader’s slumber party in the Oval Office go?”
Yeah, and it's absolutely men like this guy who have the most utterly fragile sense of masculinity, and constantly obsess over how they're perceived.
Reading about the case, some kids they're suing over were barely teens. Who gives a kid that age Amazon access and doesn't notice them ordering research grade chemicals?
Amazon's algorithm reportedly suggesting it with assisted suicide literature is unbelievably grim.
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Gotta agree.
Admitting long COVID is a thing means not being able to pretend there aren't going to be massive consequences from the current policy of treating it like influenza, aka pretending it's not a concern.
So, so many people desperately want to be able to pretend it doesn't exist.
Funny how that 'being a prisoner of his recorded past' bit was so prescient, given how credit records and criminal history are used to effectively marginalize people out of mainstream society.
Fair!
Admittedly, it's mostly on the strength of a couple scenes being hilarious. John Leguizamo chewing on the scenery as Tybalt was fun.
Absolutely. I thought Shakespeare was incredibly dry and boring until I saw it done by a company who were wiling to engage with the work.
Of all things, the Baz Luhrmann Romeo + Juliet had some of the best use of it, showing how the insults and jokes flowed on stage instead of falling flat.
No analogy involved there, just a straight statement that what you're describing did in fact happen. It may seem nonsensical, but much of history does in retrospect, because people make irrational decisions that seemed like a good idea all the time.
I think we'd prefer it not have a modern repeat.
Why? That's precisely how it has happened before.
Hitler was never elected to lead the German Republic. He was appointed to head a coalition government with a centrist vice-chancellor who thought he could control him, and invented a state of emergency to become a dictator with a one-party state.
We hope they wouldn't. There's a reason 'crossing the Rubicon' entered the vernacular.
I've met far too many people in the military who are all for a dictatorship to impose their personal idea of social order. Same reason they're not having too much trouble finding a few post-9/11 vets for ICE.
Legitimacy flows from the barrel of a gun. If the military accepts that they're taking orders from that Congress, then they're as legitimate as they need to be.
If we've gotten to that point, legitimacy no longer matters.
Not that they'd be willing to anyway, the Democratic Party values norms and decorum far too much to convict a President and not let the VP serve out the term.
Leftists do know how the government works. The push is to simply keep collecting scalps until they hit someone who isn't complicit in high crimes.
As you note, this may take quite a lot of sequential empty chairs, and isn't something the Dems currently have the votes to do.
That'd be normal for cops. Even legal in many cases. Civil asset forfeiture (as they term it) is a mult-billion dollar industry.
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