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I asked Japanese kids a question:
“What is the most American thing you can imagine?”
“An enormous hamburger!”
“A giant pickup truck!”
“A cowboy with a hat!”
“An NBA player!”
Then one boy thought for a moment and said:
“Maybe it’s when Americans help people they’ve never even met.”
I asked him why.
“Because my teacher told us about American volunteers who helped Japan.”
I had no clever response.
Sometimes the simplest answers stay with you the longest.
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So a mall closed 24 years ago and a company wants to come in and drop 5 billion dollars into this community.
An activist would rather keep it abandoned, generating no taxable income.
Years from now, she will complain about how it was the white man’s fault and that she is still living in poverty.
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Thank goodness we kept that empty abandoned giant concrete pad rather than creating more jobs and generating more tax revenue.
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$$$ 2nd Draft of Harvester is finally complete. Current length after the first complete pass using my wife's feedback: 277.5k words.
Going to take the rest of the night off, maybe tomorrow, and then I'll go through all the beta feedback and see what needs tweaked. I have definitely learned just how inadequate my ideas were to speeding this up at the start of editing. Bleh.
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At a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store in North Carolina, I saw an eighty-year-old man sitting alone by the fireplace wearing a navy blue cap with gold letters that read: USS Kitty Hawk CV-63, Yokosuka Japan.
In Japan, every kid growing up near Tokyo Bay knew the giant silhouette of the Kitty Hawk, the conventional aircraft carrier that called Yokosuka home for ten years.
I walked over before my country fried steak arrived, bowed slightly, and said, "Excuse me, sir. I am from Japan. Thank you for standing watch in Yokosuka."
The old sailor looked up over his reading glasses, and his whole face lit up like a porch lamp. He introduced himself as Mac, a former aviation machinist's mate.
"Well, pull up a chair, son!" Mac said, waving the waitress over. "Darlin', bring this gentleman some hot biscuits and sawmill gravy on me!"
Mac reached into his worn leather wallet and pulled out a laminated snapshot from more than twenty years ago, showing a young American sailor with his arm around a smiling Japanese shipyard mechanic in front of a Yokosuka ramen stall.
"That's Kenji," Mac said, tapping the photo with a calloused finger. "Best machinist I ever met. When my wife and I had our first baby in Navy housing and my car broke down in the rain, Kenji drove his tiny white truck over at 6:00 AM with a pot of hot chicken soup his wife made."
A young American couple at the next table stopped playing the wooden triangle peg game to listen.
"People on TV talk like the world is falling apart," Mac told me, gripping my forearm with surprising strength. "You tell folks back in Japan that this old squid in North Carolina still prays for Yokosuka every single night."
1.real photo
2.AI-image
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Ya know, I’d probably have a lot easier time believing there wasn’t an issue of wokeness/left-leaning politicization among officers if they didn’t all immediately run for Congress as Democrats once they leave.
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🚨 BREAKING: HISTORY JUST HAPPENED
In an electrifying ceremony that will be remembered for generations, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stood face-to-face with American heroes… and personally pinned upgraded valor awards onto the chests of U.S. Marines who ran STRAIGHT INTO HELL at Abbey Gate.
These warriors held the line during the catastrophic 2021 suicide bombing — knowing death was coming — while the previous administration quietly DOWNGRADED their awards to bury the truth of that disastrous withdrawal.
They were thrown under the bus.
Their courage was diminished.
Their sacrifice was soft-pedaled.
Not anymore.
Today, on the exact fifth anniversary of the attack that took 13 American lives, Hegseth looked those Marines in the eye and gave them what they were always owed: full recognition of their valor.
No more hiding.
No more bureaucratic insults.
Just pure, hard-earned justice for the men who ran TOWARD the blast when everyone else ran away.
God bless these absolute legends.
America finally stood up for its warriors. 🇺🇸🔥
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.
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Circa 2006, a Muslim man brings the body of his daughter in a wheelbarrow to the gates of the larger FOB that supplies our outpost.
He tells the gate guards that US forces killed her accidentally when we dropped bombs on the wrong location. It happens, but not often.
Long story short, the US Military does a full investigation because we actually take this shit seriously. Our JTAC and the pilot involved are both required to cease operations and go to Kandahar (KAF) for an interview with authorities.
It takes about five or six weeks before he returns and our Commander gets the report...
The investigation found that the girl's body was burned and mutilated post mortem, that she had died from blunt force trauma to the head.
Furthermore, she was not his daughter. She was his wife. I guess there was probably about a 30yr age difference. She must've been no more than 12yrs old, from what I was told.
Finally, his homestead is near the site we dropped the ordinance on, but it was not within a dangerous proximity of the impact site. The ordinance was dropped off-target, for sure. But still hundreds of meters away from his home.
Turns out the authorities immediately involved in the whole thing could tell this was bullshit from the beginning because the girl was clearly beaten, she smelled like a wood fire and not a chemical one which would be expected with phosphorus, the bomb wasn't incendiary in any way, and the off-target drop had already been reported and inspected using GPS and they knew it hadn't destroyed his home as he'd claimed.
Still, the Commander at that base authorized thousands of dollars worth of local currency to be given to the man before he left without the body of the girl he claimed was his daughter. He literally dumped it off the road in front of the gate, which is how our guys got ahold of it and got the surgeon's opinion on her wounds.
That same guy was later captured during a raid in another location. He was working with the Taliban, and we only made the connection because he began shouting about how we killed his daughter.
Muslims cannot be trusted.
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🚨 They didn't lose the child's age. They were trained to leave it out.
Under federal immigration law, sexual abuse of a minor is an aggravated felony. For a noncitizen, it means mandatory detention, deportation and a permanent bar from ever coming back. In my 24 years at ICE ERO, those were the cases we never let slide.
The key element is the child's age. Take the age out of the conviction and you take out the aggravated felony.
According to the House Judiciary Committee report, the Bronx DA's 2019 plea-bargaining guide told prosecutors in these cases to "offer something that does not have the child's age as an element."
Think about what that means. A grown man commits a sex crime against a child. He pleads to something that, on paper, could have been against an adult. The record that reaches ICE no longer shows a child victim. The removal case falls apart, and he stays here.
The child didn't get a plea deal. The child gets to live with it, and maybe in the same neighborhood as him.
This came out Oct. 26. Two weeks later there's been no outrage from the Bronx DA, the AG or the networks. Nothing. @claudiatenney @JudiciaryGOP @Jim_Jordan @itsyourgov @NMalliotakis @EliseStefanik
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There has been a lot of that going around these days.
Like the "blue mud flood."
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Gee I guess all that high-handed sneering at the US and their "war of choice" and your extensive efforts to evade sanctions bought you exactly zero goodwill. Is it your problem now, you smarmy pricks?
