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For the WWII Nerds - Best admirals voted by panel of peers in 1942
UpperWestside replied to Macanudo's topic in Daily Texan
Aww man thanks! This is a blessing to get to be on the ship four days a week. For me this is something that will never get old. Doing this is a way to educate people who show up from around the world, but also it’s a reminder to folks what the cost is of freedom was and is. I wish I had had the mentality when I was younger to have been able to have served, but since I didn’t this is a small way to give back to folks and keep memories alive of sailors and Marines that served on the Missouri. One guy that is new along with me is someone that helped tow the Mighty Mo from Long Beach to Bremerton in 92 when he was in the Navy. Having someone there to work with like that is pretty cool. -
H-E-B employees petition to ban non service animals in store
UpperWestside replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
I have only taken my dogs into one store and it was a Petco to get them some shots. I don’t take my dogs to the grocery store. I don’t mind seeing dogs at the grocery store though. I do understand people taking issue with seeing pets in a store where food is sold. If a store is willing to let them in though so be it. You won’t see my two in a grocery store or any other store outside of a pet store. -
Carlos Watson getting a pardon, well, that’s something right there.
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Man spoiler that. That’s nightmare fuel.
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Okay so what's her screenname on Surly?
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
UpperWestside replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Where's that spineless pissant coward @realgreggym? Defend these morons you worthless trash excuse for a human being. -
Let Them Eat Cake: The Billionaires Thread
UpperWestside replied to Firemans4Horn's topic in Cloak Room
Whole lotta folks there with more money than they could ever hope to spend. I did read the link above. Bezos and the child-tax credit is something that should upset American families that struggle just to make it on a daily basis. -
Let Them Eat Cake: The Billionaires Thread
UpperWestside replied to Firemans4Horn's topic in Cloak Room
Can we see the entire list of them posted here? I know I can google this, but a link or page listing them all might be helpful. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
I wake up being thankful for another day and choose not to give into the negativity on a day not promised to me or a single other soul. It is a choice made to take advantage of today because if this is it I would prefer to not go out being angry about life. Again my view is one shot at life that might be 80 years if all goes well in a universe that is about 13.6-7 billion years old. That lifespan is a speck of sand. You are darn right I am going to find it odd and say as much for anyone to be as negative as a few people constantly are on here when life is that short. None of us are living to be a million. -
Will you still live in the U.S. in 20 years?
UpperWestside replied to TexArcher's topic in Cloak Room
I remember when I was up in the mountains living around almost all conservatives. Stranger in a strange land at that point, but it sure was beautiful with the cleanest air I've ever taken in up in the High Rockies. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
I do not fool myself with anything. Every single generation of people thinks that what is happening to them is the absolute worst thing that has ever happened in history. This is not a good part of history, but it is not the worst and I am not going to get up each day thinking how awful this world is. A lot of human beings did not get to wake up today. Yesterday was it for them. I am thankful for today and thankful for the opportunity to do better than the day before. I have a finite amount of time on this rock like everyone else and I will make the best of it. Everyone gets to make that choice every single day. I just reached that point where all of the negativity is just pointless noise not worth participating in. I do not like what I see in Washington, but waking up with Brisket’s attitude is a backwards way to think. Expecting the worst out of everyone is toxic and accomplishes nothing good. -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
UpperWestside replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
I wish I had more time to read a book like that one. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
How very Mack Brown of you. That's the epitome of how he killed football at UT towards the end. Yes I choose to like people. I am not even naturally a people person. I'd rather just hangout with dogs or even go swimming with sharks again than spend copious amounts of time with people. That's just my personality. I do enjoy helping people and I run across enough good human beings to know there are plenty of them out there still. My neighbor the other day was going to wait to take the elevator because he had a bunch of stuff and had his wife and grandson with him. I told him to get in. We wound up talking for about 10 minutes and he tells me he's Marshallese. He asks me if I know where the Marshall Islands are and I say I do and I start talking about them. I tell I want to live there in the future as well as in Kiribati and he tells me his wife's family is from Kiribati. These are good people and there are so many of them out there. You want to keep to you and yours you do you. That does nothing to help move America is a good direction. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
That'd be cool too. Whatever he decides to do or is chosen for is cool by me. I have no say in what he does. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
She lost the electoral college in a blowout, which unfortunately is still what matters in elections here. She was not blown out at the ballot box, but she did lose there as well. For someone that had 100 or so days to run an election I thought she did okay. Not great, but okay. It's past now and nothing will change that though so you move forward.
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