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OK, what about that rusty drinking fountain I had to drink from at Ft Leonard Wood in 1981?

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Things that make you go hmmmm?

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He made a porn film after the successful reattachment of his penis.

I think it was called "John Bobbitt, Uncut."

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degreasers and solvents were all knowingly dumped in the local storm drains at the ARMY base between 1952 and 1987, contaminating the local water supply for 35 years.”

Camp LeJeune is a MARINE base, NOT an army base........there is a BIG difference......trust me........ask ANY MARINE (current or former)

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In the 1980s, I wrote some software for the Marine Corps to track their prisoners. He was in it for domestic abuse prior to the undickening. All the LeJeune guys I associated with at that time were pretty normal, but there was no dry cleaning fluid in the brigs.

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In my day, we drank our dry cleaning solvents straight from the hose and we turned out ok.

Simpler times, such cherished memories.

Comment "AMEN" or "so true" if you are a fucking idiot.

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Cleanup of PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals on Pearl Harbor base could take decades | Stars and Stripes

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-04-15/pfas-chemicals-pearl-harbor-hawaii-13561618.html

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I guess even a broken cock is right once a century.

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My grandfather was stationed there in the early 50s. Grandma was from one of the neighboring towns. I think my eldest uncle was born there. My grandparents are both gone now, though, they both lived longer than my parent who they spawned.

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Apr 16·edited Apr 16

We had two big scandals at this time. The other was Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuoco, with Amy as a teen shooting Joey B's wife in a rage of jealously. You couldn't get away from these stories.

I also conflated the two after a while and at one point convinced myself it was bitten off.

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Thank you for this. Every day, I get spam inviting me to join this or that fund suing with respect to the Camp LeJeune scandal, and none of them ever tells me what exactly happened there. (You ask, why do you read your spam? Well... Microsoft Outlook is kind of random about what it sends to my spam folder, so every time I log on I have to check said folder to make sure Microsoft isn't trashing stuff I want.)

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There's a grim short novel by Nathaniel (The Day of the Locust) West entitled "A Cool Million" and subtitled "The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin," and it's about how capitalist American culture destroys people bit by bit. In West's novel, this is literal, as Pitkin loses an eye and a leg and other body parts. So if there's ever another shot for Bobbitt at doing more films, this might be a good one should a film version be proposed.

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Talk about corrupt judges:

Justice Clarence Thomas, who returned to the bench after an unexplained absence on Monday, asked whether the government was engaging in a kind of selective prosecution. “There have been many violent protests that have interfered with proceedings,” he said. “Has the government applied this provision to other protests?”

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OT. In SCROTUS news:

"Supreme Court casts doubt on obstruction charges against hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters"

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-04-16/supreme-court-obstruction-charges-jan-6-rioters

Yeah. You know who's first against the wall after a revolution, John Roberts? The revolutionaries. You'll have to provide your own last cigarette and blindfold.

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Anyone who claims to remember the nineties is probably in therapy.

... in not much more serious, I worry sometimes about all the crap I was probably exposed to, but it’s kinda neat to think maybe my body won’t even need to be embalmed.

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