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This seem to be more about hiding behind tenure. Something neither a judge nor CEO has. Is the case against her still ongoing?

Maybe compare someone in the private sector that is as high profile as a judge - such as a CEO or small biz owner. If vocal, both will suffer the backlash.

I think it means what it's always meant. You can say what you want, but there are consequences. Even as a state employee, funding sources will always vary, but you are still operating under the umbrella of a state institution.

This. Is this even a question?

Spent a few weeks in the UK so as usual on most every other thread, I don't know shit. I did have a damn fine fish/chips at a cafeteria from one of the boys academies we visited. In London, I did have the best veal Bolognese I've ever had, but that was not a native dish. All the breakfast dishes were crap. Fuck your baked beans. A good Shepherds pie is hard to beat and of course beef wellington is decent when done properly. It might be the only steak I had that wasn't overcooked. Indian dishes slammed hard, but again, not native.

There's someone, somewhere, with a mullet and a trailer-adjacent proximity saying to himself, I can make that shit fit in my leased Dodge TRX

Follow a few recent/younger GWOT vets on IG. Last year or two some of those salty old WWII dogs have done static line, tandem jumps over Normandy with recent vets. Jumped out of C-47's and everything apparently

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

Dammit. Good catch...

I'd pay 30-40k NOT to have to go to Disney...

I think a lot of that comes from the parents - it's "cooler" to be able to brag about your D1 athlete than your kid taking microbiology and acing their labs.

Maybe. Whole family is obsessed with gold minus myself. I think it's more of a social sport you don't have to be very good at to enjoy and it's something you can play up into your "golden years". Pops play with a group of old guys that consistently shoot their age. Get's them out and about and they can spend time together

I've read larger by both metrics - number of ships at sea as well as men. You also have to remember the Navy at Normandy was largely safe from attack. Okinawa was not. They got pounded, especially by Kamikaze's Okinawa

Know them both as they are sitting on the shelves right now. Beevor's book on Stalingrad. Makes the Battle of the Bulge seem like a tea party by comparison

Any parent that bitches about the time it takes to invest their kids in sports had better not bitch around cheer parents. Oh boy. Neighbor does that. They travel the country. Competitions that they have to spend 6-8hrs at for a 2 minute, 30 second routine. No thanks. Swimming is a close second.

The kid has to want it on their own. That's what you can't "teach". My son pivoted and it going in another direction from sports. The other is a complete little psychopath I have to reign that one back to keep from redlining all the time. Both will be successful (I pray) in whatever fields they go into. Sports teaches a lot. One oft overlooked facet is just good old fashioned grit. If you have to scream at the kids to get them to perform, it's the coaching equivalent of a sugar-rush. It works initially, but quickly wears off and doesn't provide much staying power. Teach them about goals. Setting them. Achieving them. From talking to other parents who have walked the walk through D1 athletics, also be careful what you wish for. There's a reason there are so few of them out there. It's fucking hard and can grind you into moon dust. They also can get hurt. Now what? What's the fallback plan? You can lose an ACL. Grit is harder to come by. I love seeing Texas players make it to the NFL. What I love even more, players that were marginal or got hurt, and you find out later they have graduate degrees and are crushing it in life off the field.

das wasis.....

See ags, this is the problem. On paper, the Challenger-17 is a good thing. It's a yearly tribute to the fallen astronauts that perished on the Challenger. But then you gay it up with all your turd bullshit, and these pics come out the other side. Why the hell are you posing self aggrandizing pics for some rub & tug corps bullshit you and your group participated in? NASA tribute

This. If you actually go beyond the college BS and serve, then fine. If this is all window dressing and pseudo-fraternity gomer shit, fuck right off. Nobody gives a shit that you "got your boots" or whatever shit they do. Case in point - so my kid is going to AR and ROTC. atm was initially high on his list (bunch of friends were going there). We visited and the fucking corps are what turned him away. This is a kid WANTING to go into the ROTC. He wants to serve.....not act/look like someone that serves....which is how he described them

If social media is a drug, this is an addict in real time

Obviously growing up in Texas neither animal was in my purview much. I used to love Les Stroud's alone in the wild shows (Survivorman). The only time I saw him really lose his shit and be visibly scared was in deep brush with bull Moose around him and he couldn't see where they were and a jaguar that tracked him in S. America. He said the same thing, that moose will stomp you into grade jelly with extreme prejudice.

Texas middle and high school football - it's kind of a big deal. Film at eleven.

I know I bring it up all the god damn time, but everyone needs to read Bodyguard of Lies. The logistics, intelligence games played, and the cloak/dagger shit that went into the invasion is still mind bottling all these years later. Before any invasion could be entertained all German spies/sympathizers had to be identified. Before they could be identified the Enigma codes had to be broken. To break the codes you had the infamous Blechley Park smart dudes with Turin. Once codes were broken, communication lines established, you then had to capture and turn each spy. One by one. These double-agents fed Germany mountains of false information. As the grandfather of "fake news", you had an entire garrison (operation Quicksilver) that create a fake army out of thin air for Patton to command. Blow-up equipment like rubber tanks/planes. trucks, fake supplies, letters home, training schedules, injury reports, promotions, chow schedules, everything. All this had the Germans convinced they had a strong understand of who would command the landings and where. And all that, and it wasn't the largest landing of the war. Okinawa was.

This seems as obvious as gravity and wet water. Take out politics, but if your data on casualties comes from a group that has a large incentive to elevate numbers, maybe take those numbers with a grain of salt.