Darryl already did a Veteran’s Day Open Thread, but since I wrote this yesterday and was going to post it today, here it is, a bit late:
It’s Veteran’s Day, and so it’s Armistice Day. On this day On this day 98 years ago, a madness of war ended. Mechanized slaughter stopped. The War to End All War didn’t, obviously, so we still mint new veterans. But while all war didn’t end, that war did. And today’s conflicts will end. What we replace them with is up to us.
So here’s to a Veteran’s Day in the future where there are no veterans. Where war has been eliminated for so long that the idea becomes impossible to imagine. Here’s to a future where we don’t send people off to mechanized slaughter or whatever the fuck else we can dream up.
Until that day, a thank you to the veterans who read this.
You’re welcome. If you need me again, just call.
Thank you Veterans. I wish you all the best. Only the best.
Well, this was to be expected.
” … Trump ran on a platform of overhauling the lobbying industry …. The real estate developer is adding lobbyists and corporate consultants to his transition team despite his vows to weaken their power, according to The New York Times.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wi.....-watchdog/
Welcome to the United Klaverns of America, now that the Racist Party is in charge:
“In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, reports of racist incidents are emerging from the nation’s schools and universities, including students who chanted ‘white power’ and called black classmates ‘cotton pickers.'”
http://www.seattletimes.com/na.....-election/