Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, dies at 105
By Associated Press
Published Dec. 28, 2024, 1:54 a.m. ET
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After Upton’s death, there are only 15 still alive.
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Sad day in history with only a few left.
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After a very frustrating day of “escalations”, broken return calls promised, and countless connect / disconnect / in case / out of case / reconnect, I gave up.
This product is not ready for prime time, I felt like an alpha tester.
Argh! ** 3
They hyped the “hearing test” so much I really wanted it to work.
Frustrated to the full extent.
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Did Heinlein advocate the apparently militaristic, if not fascist society of Starship Troopers?
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In the classic 1959 Sci-Fi novel Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein lays out a view of the future where only the military is allowed full citizenship and suffrage. He presents democracy as intrinsically flawed and physical punishment as an essential part of child-rearing. The novel is often seen as advocating militarism if not fascism.
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“Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.” ~ Albert Einstein
Perhaps we’d have peace if we sent all the politicians and bureaucrats who want a war, to go fight in the first wave.
Probably be a lot more peaceful and circumspect about the whole topic.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women’s rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 for one term, then was elected again in 1940. Rankin remains the only woman ever elected to Congress from Montana.
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Give her credit, it took real courage to vote your conscience. And, in retrospect, she was correct about the reasons for both wars.
Wonder how vets would vote?
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https://www.fark.com/comments/13494756/175388094?f=Fbjk9mpT0wsasZqUb92Wa3pw_oGgAw5zU7Q88#c175388094
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In 1981, we drew names and everyone had to go to a garage sale and buy the ugliest thing there – the kind of thing that the seller put $.25 on just so someone would think it had *some* value and wasn’t just junk.
My dad ended up being given an 18″ tall plaster bust of Queen Nefertiti from someone’s ceramics class. It was painted in light blue with a bright red jewel in her headpiece.
The next year, it was given to someone else, but we recorded with a black sharpie who it had been given to each year.
The rule is that if you receive it, you have to display it in your house in a prominent place. No sticking it in a closet.
It’s been passed down every year with few exceptions (Covid being one and a well-meaning but ill-advised prank being the other).
Somewhere along the way we started recording births and deaths on it.
CSB: My mother has threatened to smash iat several times – not because she hates it, but because she’s gotten it the least.
CSB 2: Was in a store and found several duplicates once. If I’d had the money, everyone would have gotten one.
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I just thought this was a great idea!
Made me laffffff, and glad I don’t have “family” traditions.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-fights-back-we-wont-get-patent-trolled-again/
Open source fights back: ‘We won’t get patent-trolled again’
Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor
Nov. 14, 2024 at 12:41 p.m. PT
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Edge Networking is a patent troll. This means it buys up patents — not to use them but to extort money from anyone who might want to use the patent. Let’s say you’ve posted a job listing for a Kubernetes engineer. An Edge bot will spot this, assume you must be using Kubernetes, and then slap you with a cease-and-desist note claiming you’re violating its Kubernetes patent and you must pay them a licensing fee. Welcome to the wild, wonderful world of 21st-century patent trolls!
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So, here we have the root of the problem — the USPTO. And, vultures use the USPTO flaw to extract wealth from the finances of companies.
Too expensive to fight so they just fold and pay,
Seems like the Gooferment needs to rebalance the scales of justice in this case.
When the USPTO invalidates a patent, it should charge the patent holder a fee for the wasted effort.
If the patent troll has several patents invalidated, the Federal District Attorney should review the facts for an abuse of process claim.
It’s only fair.
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Biden commutes death sentences of child killers and mass murderers 2 days before Christmas
By Steven Nelson
Published Dec. 23, 2024, 5:00 a.m. ET
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President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row — a list that includes at least five child killers and several mass murderers — in a stunning act of clemency just two days before Christmas.
Biden, 82, gave the reprieve to the nation’s most violent murderers — nine of whom were found too dangerous to live after butchering fellow inmates — as part of his effort at “ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” the White House said.
President Joe Biden speaks during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Dec. 16, 2024. 7
President Biden speaks during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Dec. 16, 2024. AP
“Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden said in a statement.
“But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”
Biden, who opposes the death penalty, lowered each of the 37 sentences to life in prison without parole. He did not say why specifically he considered the original penalties unjust.
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If he commuted EVERYONE, then I could believe that this is his moral decision. (Which BTW I’d agree with!) By his other actions, killing people and not extending commutation to everyone, I doubt his sincerity.
Some of these commutations cover a convict that is too dangerous to keep confined. (This is my exception to the “no death penalty” policy.)
So, I don’t understand his partial view of morality. And, he doesn’t explain his “in good conscience” rationale.
Befuddled and befuddling.
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Fiend accused of burning woman to death on NYC subway is illegal migrant from Guatemala who sneaked into US after he was deported
By Jennie Taer and Joe Marino
Published Dec. 23, 2024
Updated Dec. 23, 2024, 9:37 a.m. ET
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The Guatemalan migrant accused of setting a sleeping F train passenger on fire and then watching as she burned to death sneaked into the country illegally after being deported — and then stayed in the New York City shelter system, multiple sources confirm to The Post.
He first entered the US at the Arizona border in 2018, when he was nabbed and deported just days later for crossing illegally, multiple sources told The Post.
He then re-entered the US at a subsequent unknown date, sneaking past US authorities. It’s unknown how long he has been in New York.
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Clearly, DJT47 will have his “deportation” chore firmly in mind. Why do we have to tolerate such behavior? It’s a stain on all the good people who want to come here.
Argh!
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https://nypost.com/2024/12/21/entertainment/bing-crosby-struggled-to-sing-white-christmas-to-troops/
Bing Crosby struggled to sing ‘White Christmas’ to troops, ‘most difficult thing’ in his career
By Brie Stimson, Fox News
Published Dec. 21, 2024
Updated Dec. 21, 2024, 10:16 a.m. ET
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I asked Uncle Bing one time, ‘What was the single most difficult thing you ever had to do in your career?’ We were out playing golf one day, and I didn’t know what he was going to say,” Howard told Fox News Digital. “I didn’t know if he was going to say, ‘Well, it was, you know, learning lines for the movies or working with a difficult director.’”
He continued, “He didn’t have to think about it at all. He said, ‘Well, 1944, we were over with the USO troupe.’ And he said, ‘We gave an open-air concert for 15,000 GIs and British Tommies in an open-air field in France.’”
His uncle told him Dinah Shore and the Andrews Sisters were at the show “‘and we had a lot of laughs and the boys were having a wonderful time, great fun.’ But he said at the end of the show, ‘I had to sing “White Christmas.” And I had to get through the song with 15,000 guys in tears and not break up myself.’”
“And a lot of those boys died the next week in the Battle of the Bulge,” Howard added.
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But he said, ‘If I’m entertaining troops, I’m not going to wear anything phony like a toupee. Forget it.’ So he went onstage without a toupee for the troops, but he also insisted that the front rows at those shows were reserved for the enlisted men. No officers or higher-ups sitting in the front rows. Those were all for the guys on the front lines.”
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Noblesse oblige
And, why war is terrible on everyone.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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From AntiWar.com
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Many American leaders are more interested in using war to fight for peace. Unfortunately, they have convinced many Americans into believing that war is the only path to peace. They do that by using fear and lies.
Antiwar.com works to inform people about what is really going on, and to show them alternatives to the plans of war-hungry politicians.
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I’m upset that I am paying for Israel to kill children in Gaza.
I’m upset that I am paying for a war in Ukraine that has wiped out a generation of young men there.
I’m upset that the Military Industrial Congressional Complex keeps finding new wars for the USA to fight.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9, NIV).
Seems like we can never just have peace.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/trump-to-leave-nato-as-brussels-attacks-musk/
Trump to leave NATO as Brussels attacks Musk?
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
November 11, 2024
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America first, no foreign wars, protect America’s borders.
US out of NATO and the UN. Put the troops on the Mexican border.
NATO threatened Elon not to have the twitter space with Trump, we should leave NATO.
I want to stop Ukraine and Russia war and NATO should indeed need to reevaluate
There is no NATO, there is the United States. We shoulder pretty much all the burden.
Leaving NATO and threatening to leave NATO is a bargaining chip for negotiations.
Good. Kick out the UN next.
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No “alliances”. Period! Full Stop!
NATO is an idea who’d time has passed. Let Europe defend itself.
The UN was a Wilson pipe-dream. It has failed to bring peace and, in fact, their “peacekeepers” are a problem.
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