[plsjr]

Ann, speaking her mind as usual, from her Galt place -the "Van Down By The River".

I keep praying that somehow the core of what was the United States of America will rise up and say "THAT'S ALL I CAN STANDS, I CAN'T STANDS NO MORE" (and kick the living crap out of bluto).

[darth]

Part of the problem is that Idiocracy was not a comedy, it was a DOCUMENTARY!

[Repeal The 17th]

“Stardust”
...as performed by Nat King Cole...

And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that we’re apart

You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust of yesterday
The music of the years gone by

Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely night dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
But that was long ago
Now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song

Beside a garden wall
When stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
A paradise where roses bloom
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love’s refrain

[gaijin]

Sad, isn’t it?

I think that NO ONE now in the US military is questioning their orders. It’s either anti-depressants, or features of social media, or the decades-long State war on Christianity, but I think that as long as people now have a nice cell-phone and a cool page, then they’re good.

Tell them to do anything?

Well, is my PHONE ok..? My page is OK...? OK then I’ll do it..!

Seriously you could tell them to do ANYTHING, and with the Age of Aquarius in power and at the controls, you can be very sure that they WILL.

[Old Sarge]

Anyone in the military, even from MY era, knows that simple truth.

NO field-grade officer or higher (or senior NCO for that matter) is going to do anything to jeopardize that pension - the Holy Grail of military service.

It’s the same as a Congresscritter: as long as they are guaranteed their taxpayer-funded pension, their taxpayer-funded health care, and their dacha by the lake - just like their Soviet counterparts of another era.

[pa_dweller]

The 14th most depressing thing is people who make their living with words not knowing how to spell. Besides that, it's the wrong word.

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