I'll be 6 feet in the dirt before I root for the Norges.
#SverigeForever🇸🇪
(Y'all are a lot of fun to watch though, and I'll absolutely tune in for the viking rows)
Now that the US is knocked out, I am formally extending an invitation to the American people to support Norway.
Why?
1: The Vikings discovered America before Columbus.
2: There are more ethnic Norwegians in the US than in Norway.
3: Next weekend we can pillage the English peasants together.
4:
This game sucked so bad it doesn’t even deserve the fake hacked tweet. What a bummer. Was fun getting swept up in the USMNT hype but the levels to this are abundantly clear.
52 days till CFB
America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.
The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.
Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.
Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.
Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.
These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.
So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.
114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.
@RedDirtSport This concept looks so close to what Illinois did in 2008, deeper top deck though. It was really unpopular at the time unless you had donor bucks, but proved pretty prescient for the Illini. They've been able to add seating for the poors too, just can stack us up in the horseshoe
Teddy Roosevelt would literally beat the ever living shit out of Donald and anyone else dumb enough to play into this corrupt administration.
Like his father, a man of justice, honest reform, of duty to his fellow man and his country.
Keep his name out of your filthy mouths.
"Theodore Roosevelt reminds us all that to be a great nation & to be a free nation we must have courage.
As America turns 250 years old, we look at this remarkable man & we recall that with effort, determination, & drive there's nothing that Americans of competence cannot do."
U.S. Grant was a gracious man. A merciful victor. A true LEADER.
Things entirely foreign to anyone in this administration.
Keep his name out of your God damned mouths.
Bp. de Galarreta, main consecrator, asked at the beginning of ceremonies:
"Do you have the apostolic mandate?"
The notary unrolled the scroll-like apparent bull and says: "It is the Catholic and Roman Church, ever faithful to the traditions received from the apostles, which, in utterly exceptional circumstances, demands of us that we provide for the safeguarding of these traditions—that is, of the deposit of faith—and that we adopt the necessary means to transmit them faithfully to all men for the salvation of their souls. From the Second Vatican Council until our own days, the authorities of the Church have been animated by a spirit contrary to the faith and have acted against the holy Tradition. They will no longer tolerate sound doctrine."