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Will Kyrie Irving be in the follow-up to this? If so I’m in. He has the intellect of someone that’s been repeatedly concussed when he’s talking. It’s easy to see how he gets pulled into the conspiracy vortex.

I loved reading this book. James Hornfischer did a masterful job painting a picture of what that battle was for those men. It was absolute hell on those waters near Savo Sound. It’s a shame cancer took Hornfischer two years ago. I believe he was living in Austin and had two degrees from UT as well. He had so much more to write and was just exceptionally good at writing. I will shortly be reading another book of his. I am including a picture of a small passage in this book. The humanity shown by the Japanese sailor is something I think we should all take to heart. Even in the absolute worst circumstance this man ever found himself in at that point he did what was best regardless of who they were. The final two pages are also a hard read.

Oh there’s a definition. Craven greed, no adherence to anything within the Constitution and last but not least make everyone hurt economically that cannot fight back. That’s the definition of the party and anyone choosing to vote for that is a pretty sad human being because you are willingly hurting fellow Americans.

I have no idea exactly how this latest act in their never ending war with each other goes other than a whole bunch of people are going to die. Many of them will be children solely because so much of the Palestinian population is so young. That is the worst part to me. Children who are in the infancy of their life will die. Many will be Palestinian children, but we have already read about scores of Israeli children that have perished in this latest flare-up. The deaths of the children just really stick with me. We all get just one chance at life and for so many to end before they have experienced much of anything is so incredibly sad.

You know if they’d just scrap that newfangled offense of theirs and install RC’s patented Gulf Coast Offense they’d be back to putting up their usual 41 points in no time.

My mom goes back on Thursday to see if she can be taken off her medication. It causes her some severe issues if she gets in the sun for too long and it contributes to issues she can have with going to the bathroom. She has chronic myeloid leukemia and while her medication has kept her around I am hoping she can at least get a break from it for a few months. She has had this cancer now for five years I believe and before that in 2014 she overcame being diagnosed with stage three non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. She also had a small bit of what the doctor believed to be skin cancer on her cheek that she had removed in between having the other two cancers. My mother is the toughest human being I know and I would like her to fullly be able to enjoy the two grandchildren she has under her roof. She’ turned 74 last month so a 4 year old and 18 month are a lot for her, but she loves every minute with them. Just hoping for some good news for her, but if she has to stay on her meds then so be it. I have many more baseball games to take her to and I hope she can go to one game with her grandkids even if it’s the Astros or Rangers since those are closest to her.

This guy is definitely in Gritty’s crosshairs now. His finding out is going to be a fireworks-filled spectacular. You know there are going to be more people come forward with more stories of fraud he has committed as well as more odd lies like being on a college volleyball team. This guy is stunningly brazen in his ignorance.

The country run by soulless mongrels is absolutely responsible for this. If they did not have nukes they would not exist in any meaningful form right now. I suspect when the history of this current time is written that many acts like this will all be put together as the reason there wound up being a larger war outside of just Ukraine. You cannot reason with people who act like time stopped about three or four centuries ago. Despots will keep on pushing your buttons until you bully them back. It is the only language they understand.

It’s such a good read. One of the passages was from before the war talking about a Japanese man who told an American that, and I’m paraphrasing this as best I can from memory, “The Americans treat dealing with us Japanese like we are adults when we are in fact like children.” The idea being conveyed was that the US understood western-style diplomacy, but the Japanese did not. This book really underscores the diplomacy issues each faced just trying to understand the customs of each other, not counting how Japan really was not up to speed on how to conduct modern diplomacy. Several parts did read like something happening within the confines of a kindergarten class. So interesting to read the entirety of this book.

I think it is fair to say that there probably are some Russian operatives on the ground that helped train them.

Gritty is really backed up at the moment on handing out finding out punishment. Give Gritty some time to do its thing.

I would hope not. I fear for a whole bunch of civilians that are going to die in this war as well as the spread of a war to neighboring areas which, obviously, would not be a good thing. I think Hamas probably ceases to exist as a functioning organization though after the IDF is done with them.

Well you see we have a lot of guys who are experts in everything. If they don’t let you know their expert opinion how can you know what the right thing to do is?

I am not going to go back and forth with you on this. You believe what you believe and that’s it.

Absolutely. The men are dominant theme in their construct of society is both extremely outdated as well as harmful to society as a whole because of the actions it leads to them taking in the name of God. The distortion of what is written and what actually occurs through the actions of these religious terrorists is astounding.

Would somebody please go and take it or at least shut off the wi-fi there.

You should’ve killed them. Problem solved. I do believe we have plenty of people doing good when it comes to Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Baha’i…etc. I learned that at a certain point you cannot convince a person who thinks you are culpable for the actions of others you have no influence over that, indeed, you really have no influence over them. I cannot make a lunatic and unhinged evangelical Baptist see the error of their ways. All each of us can do is all we can do and that’s it. You do your best to help others and perhaps the example is followed.

Good times reading this article about him from 2022 and then what he has now done. He seems just a bit too involved in the social lives of the students. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/communities/livingston_tangipahoa/walker-high-school-principal-jason-st-pierre-wins-national-principal-of-the-year/article_925a9cfe-ee68-11ec-87d7-5730e483155b.html#:~:text=Jason St. Pierre%2C principal of Walker High School%2C has,ceremony webcast on June 15.

Reading about this principal leads me to believe he’ll eventually be found out to either have pedophiles for friends or he is one. Or both for that matter. Trying g to exert control over a teenage girl and invoking God’s name to do it should be grounds for instant termination. That is if this was anywhere but in the safe confines of white terrorist nationalist territory. Somehow this guy was named principal of the year in 2022 if I read the correct article about him. Just disgusting seeing religion used to attempt to control the behavior of this young woman.

Good. Put him away for a nice 20 years or so.

The horrific people, not the actual written word, are the issue and have been since day one. Jesus asked people to show love to everyone. The abomination that has followed through the centuries are pretty much right in line with how humans inevitably treat others.

I mean it’s just incredible that that ever became a story. We have some really, really poorly educated people in this country that you can convince that stuff like this is true.

A religion being hijacked by racist terrorists does not equate the religion to being originally one based in hate. People have twisted it into this. This is a human being problem and unfortunately the human beings that wield the hatred for others have a pretty loud voice. This is like people who pointed at Islam being a religion of hatred after 9/11. It’s the religious terrorists in that faith that twisted words and wielded it into an instrument of hate. People are always the issue.

I think she should walk back into school tomorrow and do just that.

The Christian nationalists/terrorists get to me as much as they do you, but this is not accurate. You know this.