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[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

This is an important day for our extended family. We had begun to lose hope we would ever know who did this evil crime.

[JLR© @JLRINVESTIGATES]

Authorities arrest Jeffrey Norman Crum for the murder & kidnapping of 12-year-old Jennifer Odom.
Hernando County & Pasco County Florida.
Case was unsolved for 30 years.
DNA nailed him.
I'm LIVE @ press conference.
WATCH 👇
https://t.co/sqa2QC6DXv

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@GigaChad_4547 @JohnRogers71774 @RealJamesWoods That assumes that the Trump political appointees had control over the permanent bureaucracy.

There is evidence that wasn't true. At least, that's how the argument goes.

We do know that the Capitol Police was not under Trump control and were the ones to fire the first flashbang.

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@Super70sSports Second, Mission Impossible.

In this one, the 5/4 beat is based on the Morris code for M and I. It also is unique in showing pictures from that night's episode in the opening credits.

https://t.co/qdAkVBrRr1

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@Super70sSports So many good ones in this thread, I will add two:

First, The Wild Wild West. I always liked how each act would fade into an image that would replace a pane on the cartoon and that would be the backdrop for the closing credits.

https://t.co/HTlDQuqOic

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@lee_barret4840 @HighwayVoices @LSUReport Nobody is saying 2019 LSU is better because they beat a 7-6 Georgia Southern and a 7-6 Utah State (led by an NFL starting QB, Jordan Love.)

Bama fans are saying they were better because they beat a 3-7 Arkansas and a 3-7 Tennessee.

We're not the same.

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@lee_barret4840 @HighwayVoices @LSUReport Bama in 2020 played against teams that had large numbers of op-outs and limited practice time, meaning that defense was awful for everyone. Those skew the stats you rely on.

Meanwhile, 2019 LSU drug a full-strength Bama defense up-and-down the field.

Advantage 2019 LSU.

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@bonchieredstate We continue the mistake of thinking Pakistan is an ally.

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

https://t.co/waGsBTtn3b

[Brick Suit @Brick_Suit]

Hanging out with the Big Boys today!
Explaining the 4-8-8-4-1-68 numbers
4 pilot truck wheels
8 drive wheels
8 drive wheels
4 trailing truck wheels
1 = first series of big boys built
68 = 68" drive wheels
24 24 = width of drive cylinders (inches)
32 = stroke of drive cylinders (inches)
540 = weight of 540,000 pounds

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@KonstantinKisin Jimmy Carr touched on the way AI makes surveillance easier and cheaper in this interview (starts at 1:10).

"Why did more Jews die in Holland than France? Better records."

https://t.co/vNCHcp8RvQ

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

Why are modern dental appointments like dating someone who needs constant reassurance? I have to confirm the appointment three times before the date. Like, yes, dental appointment, I am still into you.

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@PriscillaRippe1 @jdflynn I've read those stories too.

It was obvious to me that they were fiction.

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@Andercot "Peace? Pshaw!"

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@JoshuaTCharles The best part is that both Mary and Elijah were assumed into heaven, so if the plane went down for some reason, maybe the angels would just take the whole row. You know, just in case.

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

https://t.co/ETCHXA2FPB

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@IdiotSanctum @miles_commodore "Billy Ray Valentine?"
"Yeah."
"You made bail."
"I did?"

"Karate men bruise on the inside."

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@TheStingisBack Something tells me this a call-back to Ray Bradbury stopping his college lecture tours because the Q&A would turn into arguments with people trying to tell him what "Fahrenheit 451" was all about.

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@infantrydort I hated going to Bagram.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

I’ve never watched to a @jockowillink podcast before. So I dove into his episode 192 recently.

He started off going into this powerful monologue. Spitting absolutely warrior poet fire. Frankly I was taken aback. I mean this was POWERFUL stuff.

Then he says one line that hit me hardest:

“Eventually you and the men by your side have lived lifetimes worth of life in a matter of months. And those men, the ones that survive, become your brothers. And the ones that don’t survive, become your heroes.”

After reading a little more from the paper he was looking at, he reveals those are the words of Sean Parnell @SeanParnellASW from the book ‘Outlaw Platoon’.

Absolutely epic warrior prose.

And given the current environment where we are arguing over how to remember the GWOT, it hits harder than ever.

The ones that didn’t survive became our heroes.

We would do well to remember that and act accordingly.

All we ask from our countrymen is to be Americans worth giving the last full measure of devotion for. So that if there is no choice for us but to charge into the abyss, we do so knowing it isn’t all in vain.

And that we do it for more than because the law tells us to.

The law can compel obedience. Only love of country compels righteous sacrifice.

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

@AGHuff I went through their feedback website. Is that going to be good enough, or do I need to write a letter as well?

(I do intend to contact my VFW comrades and work it through them as well.)

[Thorny @TigersBrain27]

So well put! Thank you very much.

[Andrew G. Huff, Ph.D., M.S. @AGHuff]

My letter to the Commission.