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Interestingly enough the run-up to Operation Linebacker I that was launched in response to the PAVN's "Easter Offensive" into South Vietnam called for a grand total of 210 B-52s to be allocated for the campaign to airbases in Thailand and Guam, about half of the B-52s that were under SAC at the time. The large number of bombers that were swamping Andersen AFB's taxiways made one 8th Air Force planner to remark: "We kept waiting for the northern end of the island to sink."

Looking at photos of all these white supremacist rallies, I can't help but mirror Jesse Custer's sentiments:

Pretty much in line with Howard Stern's comments on the matter, who for my money is about the one person who knows Trump best outside of his family circle.

"Kinda makes you wonder doesn't it? Whether she's naked under that toga. She's French, you know that?"

We're not even asking you to like it. Does it offend your sensibilities? Just bring a notepad and a pen and doodle. occasionally raising your head to nod and smile. I find meetings the perfect time for me to knock out some thumbnail drawings at work.

Proportions and mannerisms sort of reminds me of Al Pacino in |)ick Tracy.

It would also include the number of people who live in surrounding suburbs since while the majority of Americans work in cities real estate actually within them is restrictively expensive. Those living in suburbs surrounding the big cities are usually of the white collar professional class (dad works 9-5 cubicle farm job commuting to the city, mom is homeowner who takes kids to soccer games in SUV, or as is increasingly the case working herself, and kids with aspirations for university or a professional job).

Number of Americans living in towns of under 25,000 is about 30 million, equivalent to 10% of the US population and the combined total population of metropolitan New York and Philadelphia. Now should there be more discourse between those segments of the population? Absolutely, but all this nonsense about the "metro-elite bubble" sounds to me like fetishising a way of life that's been atypical since the 1930's.

Had an amazing week last week, making excellent progress on my personal projects and getting a side-gig that puts me another step closer to my dream job, among other things. However recognising that fact kind of jinxed things and made the next week somewhat of a bummer. One of the nicest and most nurturing bosses I've ever had is leaving our company for greener pastures, as well as one of the old-timers in our department, which unfortunately leaves me and three other people in a department of about a dozen as the only old-timers since I started working here about two years ago. That on top of me scrambling to compile a résumé and portfolio material for an internal promotion for a position that was posted weeks ago but was only informed of just yesterday.

Sam Shepard:

It's a USAF F-15C Eagle. Frankly given France's love affair with protectionism the French would eat a jellyfish venom mousse at a Shenyang reception before buying another foreign-made fighter, the last time that happened being the F-8 Crusaders for their Clemenceau carriers back in the Cold War.

Fascinating video on Chinese military uniforms over the decades: I'd also like to point out that for some odd reason the original post of this thread keeps getting liked by low-post count users with tags consisting of random letters. NSA marking the topic as a communication of interest? Russian troll bots being sicked on me in some misguided attempt of gathering sensitive military documents? Who knows, but if this keeps up my like count will be in the five figures in no time.

A debate on the F-35. On one side is a former F-16, F/A-18, F-22, and F-35 driver, Marine Corps FAC, and TOPGUN instructor. On the other is an over the hill music producer*. Results are what you might expect: Part 1 Part 2 *Okay, maybe that's a bit unfair given that he used to work at the Pentagon, but he did suggest things as absurd as to produce the F-16 without a radar and was rather dismissive of the computer revolution in the '80s which produced JTIDS, JSTARS, and modern PGMs,

Had one of those nasty calf cramps in bed, which woke me up right quick this morning. Tried hiding my very noticeable limp when walking around at work today, my co-workers being quite sporty and not remarking on it when I passed by them.

Prepare for disappointment. Disappointment that a new low has been reached by the man? I somehow doubt that. Everything that has happened thus far is consistent to the opinion of the man my family and I have developed over the ~30 years we had to hear about him in the news.

Excerpt from WaPo piece detailing Trump's legal travails: I suppose his lashing out at Mueller of late is an indication that he knows he's in deep doodoo.

Could be worse. At least the US Navy doesn't name ships for their mother-in-law.

https://youtu.be/h-jfLIssw0E “Say what you will about Elon Musk, but with his new plan to bring people to Mars, nobody is a more creative serial killer.” July 25th can't come soon enough.

To me as dumbass ideas go it's up there with "the reason why the Engineers hate us is because two-thousand seventeen years ago we killed one of their own they sent back to Earth to teach us peace and love".

To the un-initiated, 'Busas are about as close as you can get to the bikes in Akira and Bubblegum Crisis in real life.

The relative silence over Liu Xiaobo's death reminds me of this opening from Norm Macdonald's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgFKLtv0ijw