Dale Owen

Retired teacher. Sports fan. Penn State. Notre Dame. 'Cuse. Lifelong Yankee fan. Scuba. Kayak. Sons @mowenranger @ryanowen7.

[Travelandgossip 🇮🇪 @Travelandgossip]

Temple Bar Dublin 📍

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

Call me crazy but I don't think it's a good idea to make someone Speaker of the House if they do things like have secret meetings with Kushner (a literal traitor that paid a hitman to kill a journalist) to plan how our country can serve Israel.

Especially considering the rebuke of pro-Israel candidates that gave us the majority to begin with.....

[Kerry O’Donnell @valkyrieskerry]

“All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times!”

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

If you’ve ever been to the spot at Arlington where Hegseth got reprimanded, you know it’s one of the most solemn, heaviest, emotional places in America. Most would never dream of being loud or laughing while we are there. But Hegseth, on Vet’s Day of all days, is a classless ass.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

In 1944, thousands of Japanese on Saipan hid in caves, sure the Americans would torture them if they came out. Many families chose the cliffs instead.

An 18-year-old American Marine from East Los Angeles walked up to those caves at night, alone, and called to them in Japanese.

His name was Guy Gabaldon. He was a Mexican American kid who had grown up partly in the home of a Japanese American family, the Nakanos. That is where he picked up his Japanese. When the war came, the Nakanos were sent to internment camps. Their twin sons, Lane and Lyle, joined the U.S. Army anyway and served in the 442nd.

Fifty years later, he still said it plainly: "These were Americans."

On Saipan, Gabaldon was a scout with the 2nd Marine Regiment. Right after landing, he slipped off on his own and came back with prisoners. His commanding officer, Capt. John Schwabe, threatened him with a court-martial for leaving his post.

The next night, he came back with about fifty.

After that, they let him go out alone.

He crawled to the cave mouths in the dark and promised the people inside water, medical care, and that nobody would hurt them. Night after night, ten or twenty at a time, they followed him out.

On July 8, by his own account, about 800 came out in a single day. Schwabe remembered that day too. It was the day they tagged him the Pied Piper of Saipan.

Not everyone listened. At the cliffs, he begged a mother not to kill her child. He watched her throw the baby and jump. He was still talking about it fifty years later.

His Navy Cross citation says that on Saipan and Tinian he brought in "well over one thousand enemy civilians and troops."

Schwabe recommended him for the Medal of Honor. He received the Silver Star. Sixteen years later, after Hollywood made a movie about him, the Navy upgraded it to the Navy Cross.

He died in 2006 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

I am Japanese. Those caves were full of my people, frightened, starving, and certain that the Americans were monsters.

An American teenager walked toward them in the dark and offered them water.

On this Veterans Day, Japan should know his name.

[Kentucky Fried Electrician @AyatollaCorolla]

You asked us to show up and vote.
We expect the same courtesy.

[The Cybersmile Foundation @CybersmileHQ]

Today’s thought 💭

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

ABSOLUTELY INSANE.

THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC ****WHIP**** WAS THROWING THE FUNDRAISING BASH THAT KEPT DEMOCRATS FROM VOTING TO SEND THE HEGSETH IMPEACHMENT VOTE TO THE FLOOR.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Hegseth notes that everything he did was "ordered by the commander in chief"

(he was just following orders, you see)

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I do have a message to the troops. This secretary has used our troops to go seize oil for large corporations in America. You shouldn't be used like that. You signed up to pledge your life for this country if need be, and that obligation shouldn't be diminished to stealing oil for big corporations."

[curt @casbeataol]

Wanting to kill your fellow Americans is another reason why you dumb fucks lost the election. Keep it up.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

El-Sayed on Trump and Stephen Miller: "He decides to hire the most broken man to continue to run the most dysfunctional White House we've seen. I don't know what Stephen Miller has actually contributed to our culture, our society, in any real way, except to make us more angry and stoke the worst kind of fear and vitriol."

[‏ً @justjargons]

HE OFFERED THE WRONG DANA WHITE THE JOB ON THE SIX YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING SOMEONE PINCH ME

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

"I demand you clean up our mess immediately."

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

El-Sayed: "People don't trust our party because too often we're funded by the very same people who fund Republicans... Can we actually cut the cord that we've had to corporate money and start governing like we give a damn about working people?"

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

I don’t give a fuck if @SecRubio resigns.

I’m going to dedicate my time to making sure that craven, weathercocking, cuckholding elephant eared coward NEVER, EVER, becomes president.

Mark my word, Lil Marco.
Mark my fucking word.

[🇲🇽 Sabreezie 🇮🇪 @sf_gamerbabe118]

Yeah you’ve been an absolute angel Stacey

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Want to be clear that in 2024 Elon was so sure he was a political mastermind everyone loved he felt confident enough to do a winky nazi salute twice on national television, and then since then he totally failed in his role in the White House, lost a wisconsin special election, burned half a billion dollars losing the midterms, and is now pretending he never said anything all. What a massive downfall

[Maxou Rona 🎸🇫🇷 💙💛 #TAEM #PFM @Madximilian]

Michigan Senator Abdul El-Sayed is calling for an investigation into U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over staff reductions at American health agencies.Finally, a real doctor demanding accountability in public health.

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Home boy is in big trouble .