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re: What are you reading?

Posted by beachdude on 6/8/24 at 9:49 pm
Read Our Man in Tokyo by Steve Kemper the story of Joseph Clark Grew our ambassador to Japan for most of the 1930’s and the lead up to war. Kemper impressed me enough to read another of his books A Splendid Savage, the biography of Frederick Russell Burnham who I can tell you is one of the most ama...
[quote]…and think about reading a book or two.[/quote] And, one of them should be How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman. ...
[quote]Columbia…too far north for gators…[/quote] Don’t bet the ranch on that. There were two found in the Columbia Canal and some local lake this past March....
Uh…there was a full auto in there at the beginning. Don’t know what it was, but that kind of rate of fire can be absolutely lethal and indiscriminate. How did they miss?...
No more retrograde force exists in the modern world than Mohammedism. Winston Churchill 100 years ago....
[quote]If this is the same story I’m remembering…[/quote] It happened on Gulf Islands National Seashore at Langdon Beach opposite Langdon Battery about five miles west of Pensacola Beach and a mile east of Ft. Pickens. I think the boy lost so much blood he suffered from lack of oxygen to the bra...
Trump has not been convicted yet. He has been found guilty by a jury. When and if the judge applies the verdict and sentences him, he is deemed convicted....
She makes the Indy 500 Look like a Roman chariot race now....
Worst: FSB Charlie-2, northern Quang Tri province, Vietnam or some other nasty hill around there. Best: Ft. Lewis, near Tacoma, WA....
[quote]We always have one or two of these in June…[/quote] I’ve lost count over the years of how many times in June I’ve been at the beach in the Florida panhandle and had three or four days straight of solid tropical rain and wind. ...

re: Trump will be found guilty

Posted by beachdude on 5/30/24 at 1:35 pm
[quote]the judge will issue a directed verdict of “guilty”.[/quote] The judge cannot do that in a criminal trial. ...

re: Pictures from days gone by....

Posted by beachdude on 5/27/24 at 7:36 pm
[quote]…moves into a trailer in Pasadena, TX…[/quote] And, his buddy behind him in the black hat with the ‘stache goes on to coach the Cleveland Indians....
[quote]…trot out their doddering septuagenarian…[/quote] Biden is an octogenarian....

re: CBDC ban passes house

Posted by beachdude on 5/23/24 at 3:44 pm
You are conflating the United States House of Representatives and Central Bank Digital Currency with the Louisiana House of Representatives and cannabis/hemp product marketing. Or, you were just being funny. (Not you, augie. The other dude you replied to.)...
Doesn’t the State of Louisiana have anything better to do? If they’re going to pull shite like this, it would be better if the Legislature met less frequently. Like every fifty years. You’d still have 5 cent pay phones and an 18 year old drinking age....

re: What are you reading?

Posted by beachdude on 5/21/24 at 9:57 pm
[quote]The Wide Wide Sea.[/quote] This is unquestionably one of the best nonfiction works I have read in quite sometime. It flows like a novel and the sometimes startling and amazing events described are engrossing. ...
Didn’t Fani Willis say under oath in court that she used cash presumably from election funds that she had at her house to pay for her sojourns with her paramour whom she gave a taxpayer funded legal representation contract to?...

re: They will find Trump guilty

Posted by beachdude on 5/21/24 at 8:06 pm
[quote]Tried cases for decades. Never had a lawyer on a jury.[/quote] Ditto. 40 years. Saw it once. One lawyer, certainly not two. Must be a ton of lawyers in the Big Apple....
[quote]The New York AG is a f**king retard.[/quote] She may very well be, but she did not bring this case. The prosecutor is the DA for Manhattan. Who may also be one of what you referred to or just a calculating, political sleazeball....