Posted on 02/22/2021 7:51:08 PM PST by weston
Supporting Q isn’t anywhere near as bad as supporting the Russian hoax.
I like your idea about sending pictures. 2 kids out of state, 2 in. Most of the grandkids live out, so my grandma’s house toys are not getting much use. I am thinking this is a good time to divide up the toys and send out for the grands to have at their house. Legos, trucks, etc. I’ll keep a few.
We’ve got stuff from our parents/grandparents here too. I’m pretty sure most of it will not be wanted by the kids either. As I go through stuff, I can send pics out to see if there’s anyone interested and if not, I can remove with clear conscious.
and UK strain and Brazil strain...
Great question.
According to Bill Gulley, former director of the White House Military Office, in his 1980 book Breaking Cover: “There are four things in the Football. A 75-page black book of retaliatory nuclear-strike options printed in black and red ink, another black book listing classified site locations to shelter and secure the president, a manila folder with eight or ten pages stapled together giving a description of procedures for the Emergency Broadcast System, and a three-by-five inch card with authentication codes.” Additionally, an antenna may be seen poking out of the world’s most top-secret football, suggesting there is likely communications equipment more elaborate than a burner phone tucked inside
There’s a credit-card-sized piece of plastic nicknamed “the biscuit” that the president carries at all times—well that’s the plan anyway. This small top-secret document contains the codes needed to order the launch of nuclear weapons and it can be a five-alarm fire, figuratively speaking, if the biscuit goes missing.
Alarmingly, the biscuit has, quite famously, gone missing a few times throughout the Nuclear Football’s half-decade lifespan according to Timeline.com.
Jimmy Carter is said to have inadvertently lost his version of the biscuit his when a suit was sent to the dry cleaners.
After the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, the 40th president’s biscuit was dumped in a plastic bag at the hospital along with the clothes he was wearing at the time of the shooting.
And, according to General Hugh Shelton, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, “The Nuclear Football codes were actually missing for months,” during Bill Clinton’s presidency.
A recent fumble in China
The Nuclear Football was in the news recently when the satchel nearly caused an international incident during President Trump’s visit to China. According to The Guardian, security details of both countries clashed when Chinese agents tried to stop the football from entering Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. Shoving ensued involving then Chief of Staff John Kelly, but thankfully the fracas was de-escalated quickly.
https://www.rd.com/article/nuclear-football/
I don’t know how reliable this info is, but it makes a lot more sense than memorizing and reciting. And the President doesn’t launch it directly, he communicates it to command Center.
>>What the heck are they going to do with all that information if I said yes to everything<<
take your guns away...or put you on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) restricted list...
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That would be popcorn time!
Sounds good! Thanks for posting.
Bingo!
Breaking911
@Breaking911
BREAKING: Mexican officials say that the Biden administration is quietly pressing Mexico to limit the flow of illegal immigrants coming to the U.S., an action imitating the Trump administration -NYT
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1372655129397190664
>>At my retirement party several of them wanted a signed copy of my book of stories when I had it published.<<
hey kiddo...if there is a said book, how do i get a copy ?
Column: Why do so many Mexican Americans defend Speedy Gonzales?
He blazed through my childhood like a sombrero-clad comet, terrorizing gringo villains in the name of us downtrodden Mexicans.
His war cry went straight from our televisions and movie screens into our hearts and minds. My family and so many others cheered on his exploits, imagining ourselves as soldiers in his brigade. Polite society told us we shouldn’t worship this bad hombre because he made Mexicans look bad. So they tried everything possible to dim his star — but we Mexicans always fought loudly against any attempts to cancel our compadre.
Pancho Villa? Emiliano Zapata? Vicente Fernandez?
Try Speedy Gonzales.
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The Warner Bros. cartoon mouse debuted in 1953 and immediately became a hit on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. His plots were always simple — Speedy antagonized Sylvester the Cat and other assorted felines, usually in a dispute involving cheese — but effective. The raza rodent quickly picked up awards (four Oscar nominations and one win in just six years) but also critics who saw Speedy for what he is:
Problematic. A stereotype. No doubt about it.
Speedy turned into a pariah in the decades after his heyday, placed by Hollywood executives and pundits in the same racist purgatory of Old Hollywood as Stepin Fetchit, “We don’t need no steenkin’ badges,” and Charlie Chan. ABC banned him from its airwaves during the 1980s “because the title character presents a stereotypical image that is not offset by any other Latino television characters,” according to a 1981 Los Angeles Times story. The Cartoon Network did the same in the late 1990s. Recently, New York Times columnist Charles Blow said Speedy cartoons “helped popularize the corrosive stereotype of the drunk and lethargic Mexicans.”
And yet time and time again, Mexicans — the very group you’d think would hate Speedy the most — rose to defend his honor.
During the 1990s, college students cast Speedy as a proto-Zapatista who fought against American imperialism before it was cool to do so. In 2002, the League of United Latin American Citizens asked the Cartoon Network to free Speedy from his jail — a spokesperson told Fox News, “How far do you push political correctness before you can’t say anything about anything anymore?”
In the wake of Blow’s columns, Mexicans famous and not spoke out on social media against those who dared decry their man. “U can’t catch me cancel culture. I’m the fastest mouse in all of Mexico,” tweeted comedian Gabriel Iglesias, who’s voicing Speedy in the upcoming “Space Jam” reboot.
I’m no spoilsport or wokoso (a portmanteau of “woke” and a mocoso — a snot-nosed brat) about the cute rascal. I never saw a stereotype when I first saw his cartoons as a boy — I saw my culture at a time when the English-language media didn’t bother with us outside of crime and immigration. He danced our dances and dressed like a jarocho (a native of Veracruz) and sounded like my country cousins, to be honest. He was the only Mexican in Hollywood I knew who never lost — well, him and Cheech and Chong.
>>It is very dangerous to have the President of the United States be a person with dementia<<
especially if he all of a sudden he remembers the nuke codes...
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thanx for that
now they are concerned about the chain of custody?
Sorry you’re having problems, but lol your story.
I haven’t written it. I’ve been thinking about starting with a chapter about the (mis)adventures of Moreno, one of my horses.
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