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M.E. Lawrence's avatar

I wonder whether Mattis was ever a "Doonesbury" fan? I remember Honey Huan's being ordered by Chairman Mao to pull down the Great Wall. She told Uncle Duke she'd duly reported back to the Chairman within 24 hours, saying that thousands of workers had been mobilized and destroyed the wall--whereupon he changed his mind and ordered it rebuilt. That, too, was accomplished overnight. ("He thinks I'm a genius," she assured Duke, who agreed that the Chairman was probably right.)

Is the Con now cognitively impaired as well as a lying grifter? Possibly; his father had Alzheimer's.

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george lastrapes's avatar

In one movement, he would bare his soul. Then the next would have to be a brutalitarian march to please Koba. The piece is premiered, and all await his reaction--- lives depend on it. I just listened to the first movement of the Fifth Symphony 'A soviet composer's reply to just criticism', it was subtitled. The mild modernism of the Fourth could well have gotten him a bullet in the head, and Stalin in those days favored the family plan for executions. It is a monument to despair, but so beautiful. I can't bear the second movement. I'd bet that Stalin loved it.

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fifthdentist's avatar

"One hundred forty fucking characters? What the fuck? I once wrote a sentence with 1,200 WORDS!" -- William Faulkner

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kmblue187's avatar

Amen.

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David Brian's avatar

Trump - Total Shit For Brains.

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Dianna Deem's avatar

Vanky vs. Bannon :: Cancer vs. Ebola

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mary5920's avatar

this has to be Woodward's best effort in quite a while. It is a small counter weight for the very horrible "Bush at War" book in which he gave the former idiots in the White House all kinds of gravitas.

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reynard61's avatar

The Old Man and his Sleaze.

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themidniteskulker's avatar

I believe he may have loaned the "football" to Putin, who told Trump he'd lost his.

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Apple Scruff's avatar

BINGO.

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Come here a minute's avatar

For sale: executive order, never signed.

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albabe's avatar

Gotta appreciate a deft hand with photoShop! Kudos!

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Sharing!!!!

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