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June 3rd, 2024 - 11:54 pm § in Misc.
Why this WW2 medic didn’t get a Medal of Honor
Denied admission to artillery officer candidate school because of his race, Waverly Woodson (photo, left), who died at age 83 in 2005, was trained to be a combat medic, given the rank of corporal, and landed with Omaha Beach’s third wave on D-Day. Woodson was wounded before getting ashore; a G[...]
June 2nd, 2024 - 10:01 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP wants to repeal no-fault divorce
When Republicans claim to be the “party of personal freedom,” the joke goes “freedom for them, not for anyone else.” They certainly don’t believe in reproductive freedom; they fought it tooth-and-nail from the day the Supreme Court decided in 1973 that abortion was a co[...]
Everything is Joe Biden’s fault!
Inflation is his fault, even though it’s global, and America has one of the developed world’s lowest inflation rates. The unfulfilled promise of student loan forgiveness is his fault, even though the Supreme Court’s rightwing justices struck it down. Hunter Biden’s shenanigan[...]
Trump, Jesus, and a parking brake didn’t save this bus
A parked “Trump Store” bus plastered with signs rolled downhill into a utility pole and gas station sign. It was en route to a Trump rally on Staten Island when the accident occurred on Sunday, June 2, 2024. My guess is the driver forgot to set the parking brake and left i[...]
June 2nd, 2024 - 2:16 pm § in Misc.
The reality of D-Day parachute drops
Before dawn on June 6, 1944, the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were dropped behind invasion beaches. First on the ground were 300 “Pathfinders” whose job was to mark the drop zones, followed by 13,100 paratroopers jumping from C-47 aircraft, and a small number of glider troops bringi[...]