@GhostsOfWar50 @FrankCannon Funny you should mention that. My brother's DI was black.

@GhostsOfWar50 Yup.

@FrankCannon @GhostsOfWar50 https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_tommy.htm

@misslovelymess You better believe it. I sense a HIPAA violation.

@FrankCannon @GhostsOfWar50 Quote from the Vietnam era. My brother underwent advanced infantry training at (back then) Fort Benning. He was riding a bus into town, on a weekend pass, with his drill instructor (a multi-tour veteran) when they overheard a conversation between two women in which one woman said to the other..."If only the war will keep going two more years, Bob and will have the house paid off."

Big business. The DI lost his shit right then and there.

Oh, this gets funnier and funnier. I had my wife give me the phone number of the health department guy who called her initially. I called him and we discussed it. It turns out that the REPORT and associated information (the name, our address, and my wife's phone number) came from the local hospital...reporting an animal bite.

The same hospital that my wife spent most of her weekend in (ER and ICU) due to pneumonia and a UTI.

WTF? Anyway, the guy apologized nicely.

@NorthernInvader Hard to say. We only interact with three sets of neighbors. The people directly across the street, and the people to either side of us. And we get along with them famously.

Get this. This morning my wife got a call from the county health department. They wanted to speak to a Janet (not our last name). Someone had reported being bitten by a cat, and gave them our our address and phone number, together with a presumably phony name. And we don't have a cat. Haven't for 25 years.

My wife straightened them out, then 2 hours later a county animal control officer was in our driveway, wanting to "take our cat into custody". Sheesh, red state bureaucrats are morons.

@holon42 No clue. They had a couple of columns going, and from what I could see they kept swapping members. Never seen that many in one place before. Gathering to migrate maybe?

@holon42 This morning there was an ENORMOUS flock of vultures wheeling over our neighborhood. Easily a hundred birds.

VERY interesting video my wife was listening to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt-gPjjQw1M

@Soldier_Solitude Painting a leopard black and white doesn't make it a Holstein cow.

Conservatism is crooked by nature. It fosters greed, corruption, and criminality. So acting surprised when a "former" Conservative hoists the Jolly Roger again is just silly....and dangerous.

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@Soldier_Solitude I view all turncoat conservatives as liars and opportunists. People don't like it when I remind them that our "ally" Liz Cheney had "Democrats support post-birth abortion" as a talking point on her campaign website until the day before she came out against Trump.

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