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Do you think a Congressional commission can make a difference? Without turning into a s--t show partisan circus. It's not the 1960's anymore. Nor the 80's. Few members of Congress today put the institution above their own agendas and games. I don't know. Perhaps my own bias clouds my judgement here. I don't hold the institution nor many of it's members in particularly high regard. The majority party is far more likely to collaborate and decide the outcome before the first meeting and then direct all efforts to realizing that outcome rather than any kind of fact finding process. I hope I'm wrong. But I doubt I am.

Braves OF arrested for domestic violence Marcel Ozuna is a POS

I watched the 2019 version of Midway today. It wasn't bad actually. I was expecting to hate it for a hot mess of heavily fictionalized Hollywood history. Especially since it was directed by the same guy the made that terrible Mel Gibson disaster The Patriot. But in terms of historical accuracy it was pretty good. My only complaint it it tried to do too much. It covered Paarl Harbor, the Marshall Islands, the Dolittle Raid, Coral Sea AND Midway. So a lot of important details about the actual Midway battle were left out or glossed over. I still liked the 1970's Charlton Heston version better (because it was laser focused and detailed) but this one wasn't terrible. Historical accuarcy in movies is kind of a big thing with me. It's why I hated Gladiator and especially Braveheart. Jeez they even had the freaking year wrong in that one!

The month of May summarized in 20 minutes

I’m not sure why we need a commission to investigate what happened on January 6. Some idiot down the street gave a speech and said “let’s go to the capital“ and a bunch of other idiots did it. and calling that an insurrection is a joke. They didn’t have a plan. They didn’t know what they were doing. They had no idea of overthrowing the government. It was a bunch of idiots who did an idiot thing and most of them are going to spend a few years in jail for their trouble. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch. Firing on fort Sumter was an insurrection. Firing on the British at Concord was a insurrection. Calling that mob on January 6 and insurrection is giving a bunch of yahoos too much credit.

Videos and editorial cartoons too. Vote for the Bear Gromnir.

I have decided to officially endorse a candidate for the governor of California.

Sunny is not the smartest dog I’ve ever met. But she knows how to get comfortable. She walked down to the creek and sat down in the 2’ deep bowl I dug out for minnows to spawn. Just her head was out of the water. That that water is icy cold. Feels good on a hot morning. She is awesome

Good for you LC. You make your own decisions.

USA USA USA

Remember boot camp? EVERYONE went to one church service or another because that was an hour each week no one f---d with you!. That first Sunday in Forming Week the DI on duty that day said we could either go to church ot stay there in the squad bay... with him. He implied we wouldn't like that much. Of course know how that worked with everyone gone he could relax for a bit and watch TV or something.

Deep-rooted racism, discrimination permeate US military I cannot speak for anyone’s experience other than my own. And I only served in one branch not all of them. But I’ve been hearing this a lot and I have to say it sounds like a cart full of horses—t. Yes the soldier at the center of the story was treated poorly. But I don’t know if it is systemic racism or systemic poor discipline. Military discipline exist for a reason. In the moment you start letting it slip for the little things you segue into the bigger things like this. All I can say is it will be inconceivable for her to be treated in this fashion in the Marines. The other Marines who participate on this board may have had different experiences than I did. But if an enlisted men treated an officer the way she was treated she would not have to write him up for NJP. There would be a small platoon of NCOs ready to do it for her.

Shaquille O'Neal pays for a stranger's engagement ring Maybe he couldn't hit a free throw but Shaq is a good dude. This is not the first story I've seen where he's done something like this. Not the second or the third either.

Off duty cop & a Coastguardsman team up to save 4 teens Nice work!

Well... this just... it SUCKS! It just f——-g sucks

Vinyl is making a come back. Who would’ve predicted.

Well my list just got a little bit shorter

Tattoo artist offers to cover hate images free of charge

Gorilla mother and human mother bond over their babies

Over 60 Australian and New Zealand companies to radically reduce plastic waste

100-year-old tortoise confirm to be from an “extinct” species. Guess he didn’t get the email

Why Militias Are So Hard To Stop Interesting article. I have a hard time taking the whole notion of militias being a threat seriously. A bunch of overweight and overage adolescents dressing up in camo and playing soldier on the weekends with overpriced semiautomatic rifles is more absurd that fearsome. More pathetic than dangerous. Then a couple of them thought it would be a good idea to kidnap the governor of Michigan. Stupid. Now all the groups who did nothing wrong that day are a target. As the article points out you are running down a rabbit hole if you are policing ideology. Start cracking down on different groups who may or may not be doing something wrong and you’re going to breed radical groups. You have a handful of people telling everyone the government is a monster that wants to take everything away from them. The absolute worst way to respond to that is to become that monster. That is why BLM has been so effective. The things they were protesting against were actually happening. Every one could see it. The best way to go is what the FBI has been doing: recruiting informants. Any kind of collective crackdown only proves the radicals were right.

I hope nobody messes with Iceland or Greenland. They are number one and number two on the list of countries I plan to flee to if that ever becomes a necessity. Ireland is a distant third.

Baby manatee separated from mother rescued from Florida river.