[Washington Examiner] On June 3, 1969, Steve Kraus was a 22-year-old signalman of the watch on board the USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea. It was 3:05 a.m. when he saw that the destroyer was on a collision course with an Australian aircraft carrier. He ran into the signal shop shouting that the ship was about to be hit.
"Three minutes later the forward section of our ship had sunk into the ocean, taking 74 of our sailors with it," Kraus told the Washington Examiner. Nearly 50 years later, Kraus has another mission ‐ to ensure that those 74 names are added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
Pentagon red tape stating that the disaster occurred outside the official Vietnam combat zone means none of the names of the "Lost 74" appear on the Vietnam wall. The ship sank just over one hundred miles outside the official Vietnam War theater.
"These guys died in support of their country," said Kraus. "We trained, we went over, we knew the purpose of this assignment was to participate in the Vietnam War, but now the Pentagon wants to discount it. Drawing an arbitrary line in the sand, or in the water in this case, is ludicrous. These men deserve the ultimate recognition of being on that wall with their fellow servicemen."
Kraus was one of the 199 survivors and today is the president of the USS Frank E. Evans Association. For nearly three decades, the group has battled with the Pentagon. As the 50th anniversary approaches this year, the idea is gaining support in Congress, with a liberal Democrat running for the White House and a pro-Trump Republican from the red state of Montana joining forces to lead the way.
[Breitbart] A U.S. Marine veteran won a 20-year fight against his homeowners’ association (HOA) to fly an American flag on his property.
Richard Oulton, a Vietnam veteran of the U.S. Marines who resides in Virginia, began his legal fight against his HOA in 1999, when the HOA told him he had to take down his flagpole because neighbors said his flag caused a disturbance to the community.
The Marine veteran took his case to court and lost his case the first time around. He took Old Glory down in 2003, but he continued to fight for his right to honor his fellow Vietnam veterans.
[Babylon Bee] SANTA CLARA, CUBA‐Is Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara too moderate for a 2020 run as a Democrat?
That's the question the left is asking after Guevara was resurrected by a leftist political action committee, Marxists for Equality, Socialism, and Stalinism. MESS activists arrived in Santa Clara earlier this week and summoned Guevara's spirit back from the dead using dark, demonic rituals, which are well-known to many Democrats. MESS then hastily photoshopped a birth certificate for Zombie Guevara so he would be eligible to run for president of the United States.
Guevara announced his run but was quickly denounced by many of his fellow candidates and other prominent Democrats.
"I'm just not sure Guevara is far enough left to be a viable Democratic candidate this election," said one political pundit on CNN. "He's really a centrist in the midst of this field of radical leftists, and we just don't think he's going to stand out this time."
Democrats pointed out that while Guevara was a mass murderer, he really needs to specifically come out as allowing murder up to and including the moment of birth if he's going to be accepted as a mainstream Democratic candidate. They also demonstrated that his brand of totalitarianist terror was a fine starting point, but he needs to show his willingness to silence anyone who even seems to slightly disagree with the left if he's going to get any traction.
"I just looked up the Wikipedia article on Che," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted while she was supposed to be working. "I don't see anything about him addressing climate change and wanting to destroy an entire economy based on wild-eyed apocalyptic predictions. I might have to throw away my Guevara T-shirts, to be honest."
Reached for comment on Guevara's official run, Bernie Sanders simply began ranting incoherently about how many flavors of Doritos there are at his local grocery store.
[Breitbart] Earlier this month during a discussion with Marvin Kalb at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Ted Koppel, the former ABC’s "Nightline," acknowledged the media were out to get President Donald Trump, saying Trump wasn’t "mistaken" in holding the belief.
According to Koppel, some so-called media organizations made the decision Trump was "bad" for the country.
"I turned to my wife, and I said [The New York Times] is absolutely committed to making sure that this guy does not get elected. So his perception that the establishment press is out to get him doesn’t mean that great journalism is not being done. It is. But the notion that most of us look upon Donald Trump as being an absolute fiasco ‐ he’s not mistaken in that perception, and he’s not mistaken when so many of the liberal media, for example, described themselves as belonging to the Resistance."
"We’re talking about organizations that I believe have, in fact, decided as organizations that Donald J. Trump is bad for the United States," Koppel added.
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However they get their collective underwear in a twist when he mocks them as 'enemies of the people' (as in 'We the people..').
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast. - William Tecumseh Sherman
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Ted Koppel, the former ABC’s "Nightline," acknowledged the media were out to get President Donald Trump, saying Trump wasn’t "mistaken" in holding the belief.
This is simply shocking (sarc). Good that it is coming from a MSM guy (Koppel). It might have a chance of surfacing in the MSM.
As the Lion Air crew fought to control their diving Boeing Co. 737 Max 8, they got help from an unexpected source: an off-duty pilot who happened to be riding in the cockpit.
That extra pilot, who was seated in the cockpit jumpseat, correctly diagnosed the problem and told the crew how to disable a malfunctioning flight-control system and save the plane, according to two people familiar with Indonesia’s investigation.
The next day, under command of a different crew facing what investigators said was an identical malfunction, the jetliner crashed into the Java Sea killing all 189 aboard.
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Pretty much across the board. Have you ever used every feature of your phone? Every feature of MS Word? Quickbooks? Of course none of them can kill ya...
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What kind of autonomous safety system puts the plane in crash mode? I don't get it.
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It seems the developer never thought the sensor might be in error!?!?
If something goes wrong, you just turn off the autopilot. It's super easy, barely an inconvenience. Just flip thru the flight manual to the appropriate page and run through the checklist. You turn off this switch here, flip those two switches over there, adjust the trim and the throttles and BLAM!, you're back in control of the plane.
... all while fighting with the autopilot that wants to kill you, with loud annoying warning sirens going off in your ear. Hey, maybe they need a Big Red Button - Give me control of the plane now now now.
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Nowhere in here is there a software problem. The computers & software performed their jobs according to spec without error. The specification was just shitty.
Now that's some serious blame dodging... Not sure smash into the ground at high speed was in the spec.
I'm a software guy too and if you were my employee and tried that bullshit you'd be getting a walk home or a serious one-on-one "chat" about attitude to quality.
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Well, these engineering "teams" are committees. The purpose of a committee is to diffuse accountability. We probably will not ever hear if some of the "questionable choices" were made by affirmative action or H1B hires and quietly agreed to by people who said "that's fucking nuts, but I retire in 18 months..."
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[AmericanThinker] In the 1800s, adulterated milk was common. Milk produced by swill herds, as muckraking journalist Robert Hartley wrote in 1842, was "very thin, and of a pale bluish color," the kind nobody in their right mind would buy. So distillers added flour, starch, chalk, plaster of Paris, or anything else they could get away with to make the milk look healthy. This adulteration only increased the bacteria in milk that we today would consider undrinkable.
The common theme in adulteration is that you pay for A but they give you B. It's not what you want. Additionally, it's likely to be dangerous to your financial health, your physical health, and your mental health.
Arguably, almost everything in K-12 is the equivalent of milk laced with "flour, starch, chalk, plaster Paris, or anything else they could get away with to make the milk looked healthy." Kids can't teach themselves. And most parents are apparently too distracted to find out what's going on. Bottom line, we need to get the parents up to speed. Hello, Mr. and Mrs. America, your kids are being abused right in front of you.
During the last hundred years, Progressive education systematically tried to eliminate traditional ideas which were by and large wholesome, like milk itself. Progressive educators don't seem to care about wholesome. They want their intellectual junk food if that can help their social engineering schemes. But, on the other hand, we have record female employment in teaching
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The gender disparity is overwhelming! What is the professional educators program to address is social injustice? And don't give me the crock about kiddies and guys.
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Adulterated means stuff added. Skim milk has stuff taken out.
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Though, it's worth mentioning that Jack Daniels is called Sour Mash rather than bourbon because the charcoal filtering is considered adulteration, so you could call it either way.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Washington Examiner] On June 3, 1969, Steve Kraus was a 22-year-old signalman of the watch on board the USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea. It was 3:05 a.m. when he saw that the destroyer was on a collision course with an Australian aircraft carrier. He ran into the signal shop shouting that the ship was about to be hit.
[Babylon Bee] SANTA CLARA, CUBA‐Is Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara too moderate for a 2020 run as a Democrat?
[Breitbart] Earlier this month during a discussion with Marvin Kalb at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Ted Koppel, the former ABC’s "Nightline," acknowledged the media were out to get President Donald Trump, saying Trump wasn’t "mistaken" in holding the belief.
