On today's date in 1977 astronomers discovered a faint but distinct ring around Uranus, which is a true sentence I want you to savor. ...
The military and political history of the cruise missile, a weapon and a tool of foreign policy that became an irresistible temptation to a string of American presidents eager to "show resolve" and blow stuff up without putting American lives at direct risk. This one's worth your $2.
We lobbed 400 of them at Iran in a single 36-hour period, by the way. 10% of the entire stockpile, which replaces slowly (100-200 per year max). So there's that, too! ...
Congratulations to our newest cabinet secretary for somehow finding a way to escape the life trajectory to which all previous humans named "Markwayne" have been limited (dying while trying to set a speed record in a boat painted to look like a pack of Marlboros) ...
Mo says:
Fucking That Straw Man, a ripping Winger fanfic yarn
Best comment about the author:
"if he doesn't stop typing stories like this he's going to go blind."
Dbp says:
The right wing is just as appalled by the refugees as they are by Isis. Isis beheads people, but the refugees are brown and over here, well in Europe and the middle east but those places are too close for comfort.
wetcasements says:
Those pussified Euro wussies like France and Germany and the UK are taking in _hundreds of thousands_ of refugees, while our Republican governors can't be bothered to take in 10K.
The greatest lie the GOP ever told itself (and believed 100%) is that they were a pack of Realist He-Men.
In fact, they're the worst sorts of cowards. Complete cravens.
HoosierPoli says:
Wetcasements: If Germany and company could have made the decision whether to take refugees or not, you bet your britches they would have said no.
I live in Passau, hundreds of thousands of refugees have come through here since the summer. The refugees are HERE and now we have to decide what to do with them; there was no decision-making process beforehand. We just ignored the problem until it was on our doorstep.