Just think: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson never knew that dinosaurs had existed. It wasn’t until 1842 that a British scientist went public with an announcement of the discovery of bones of a previously unknown animal.
In 1989 my family visited a rest stop on a highway (not an interstate) between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. A sign in the grass said “Watch for rattlesnakes.” And in the restrooms were signs saying don’t drink the water, it’s not fit for human consumption. Oddly, the restroom signs were in both English and Spanish, the rattlesnake sign was in English only.
I never noticed the name of Eddie’s boat before and Googled it. Turns out “Anoesis” is an actual word; it means “consciousness that is pure passive receptiveness without understanding or intellectual organization of the materials presented.” Well, that’s Eddie.
Yeah, Combover Caligula can’t stand it when someone brings up how his daddy got him a draft exemption by diagnosing “phantom” bone spurs. So he decided he’d prove he was the greatest soldier-statesman since George C. Marshall. He ended up looking more like George Armstrong Custer.
For their sakes he’d better NOT have the military, because he has fantasized before about sending troops to the Rio Grande with orders to shoot anyone wading across from Mexico. Shooting unarmed civilians in peacetime is a crime against humanity, and “I was just following orders” won’t work as a defense any more than it did at Nuremberg.
Trump negotiated the withdrawal agreement, and he never held a transition meeting with Biden. Also, Biden was a private citizen when he ran against Trump, which meant he didn’t have a security clearance. So no one in Trump’s administration or in the Pentagon was going to tell him what was in the agreement, and risk losing their own jobs. Once he became president, Biden could have said he wasn’t going to abide by the agreement — but that would have put us in open war with the Taliban again. And just like in Vietnam, our soldiers wouldn’t have known whom to shoot because the enemy didn’t wear uniforms.
Just think: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson never knew that dinosaurs had existed. It wasn’t until 1842 that a British scientist went public with an announcement of the discovery of bones of a previously unknown animal.