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    Quote Originally Posted by Zetsubou View Post
    No wonder the Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross were created by the time Dan Daly deserved a third medal.

    Yes, instead of a third Medal of Honor, he got a Navy Cross and a Distinguished Service Cross. He also received three Letters of Commendation; Good Conduct Medal with two bronze stars; China Relief Expedition Medal; Philippine Campaign Medal; Expeditionary Medal with one bronze star; Mexican Service Medal; Haitian Campaign Medal; World War I Victory Medal with Aisne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, and Defensive-Sector clasps and Citation Star; Médaille militaire; Croix de Guerre with Palm; and the Fourragère (the last three awards are from the French government)

    But Daly was a marine not a soldier. So he was actually the most decorated marine in the U.S. Marine Corps. Do you also know who was the most decorated soldier in the U.S. Army?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel...ons_and_honors
    My gut was to say Audie Murphy, which actually appears to be correct looking it up. As an aside, the most decorated pilot is Eddie Rickenbacker and the most decorated unit is the 442 infantry battalion - made up almost entirely of Asian-Americans and Japanese Americans in particular. Looking it up, it also seems the most decorated ship is not the Enterprise, but the USS Parche, a 1970's submarine whose specificc are still classified. But she did earn 9 Presidential Unit Citations, 10 Navy Unit Commendations, and 13 Navy Expeditionary Medals.

    I had to double check all that but I knew about Dan Daly from watching Indy Neidell's The Great War channel. Mostly just the Q&A, C&Arsenal specials, and extras - I haven't yet had the time to watch the week by week of the war.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wjowski View Post
    For how conservatives love pointing out how liberals are too easily wrapped in culture wars they sure love rolling in the same mud just as much once one of their pet issues is the focus.
    I wouldn't actually be surprised if it was true - many of the conservatives I know consider anything other than jingoistic worship of the flag and anthem to be high treason.

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    Why are conservatives so worried about being politically correct when it comes to the national anthem?
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    Quote Originally Posted by catbellysqueezer View Post
    Why are conservatives so worried about being politically correct when it comes to the national anthem?
    It’s surely to some extent pretence...otherwise Roseanne would never have got out of that stadium alive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    They're not just not showing the protests. They're not showing the anthem at all. They're doing what they used to do, which was cut to commercial during the anthem. Because you know, advertising beer honors the American way more then airing the National Anthem.
    Shhhh.... Some people need to crop out parts of reality so that the world fits their narrative better.
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    O'er the la-a-nd of the freeee* and the home of the braaaaaave

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    Anyone know if the religious freedom squad will be protecting these folks?

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world...ech-rally.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by catbellysqueezer View Post
    Anyone know if the religious freedom squad will be protecting these folks?

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world...ech-rally.html
    The satanists have been trolling religious freedom laws for years. It's hilarious.
    Most of them probably aren't even real satanists.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KNIGHT OF THE LAKE View Post
    And this all happened with every President being a Democrat and Congress having a Democratic majority with a left leaning Supreme Court. So every person has to dogmatically put their own interests and personal values aside to vote for Democratic candidates they don't find commonality with to appease the incontrovertible truth that the absolute worst defcon one scenario is that the byproduct of supporting a third party means Democrats might lose.

    OH WAIT...
    *Sigh* All of the progress I listed came about because people supported the progressives who actually won their seats. Progressives who, today, would not be pure enough for some people on the left. By winning seats, even for 'lesser' progressives, progress was made in the US government, and thus, his claims that there had been no progress in 100 years are utterly false.

    It's...almost like taking a post out of context lets you pretend that you're witty, when you really just come across as deliberately obtuse, and lets you pretend that what was being said was whatever you want, instead of the very specific thing that post WAS saying...

    C'mon, man. I know you're better than that, because I have seen you posting here for a while now, and while I don't often agree with you, I thought you were better at this...
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    Welp, I tried to get this thread back to news...
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    Quote Originally Posted by zinderel View Post
    *Sigh* All of the progress I listed came about because people supported the progressives who actually won their seats. Progressives who, today, would not be pure enough for some people on the left. By winning seats, even for 'lesser' progressives, progress was made in the US government, and thus, his claims that there had been no progress in 100 years are utterly false.

    It's...almost like taking a post out of context lets you pretend that you're witty, when you really just come across as deliberately obtuse, and lets you pretend that what was being said was whatever you want, instead of the very specific thing that post WAS saying...

    C'mon, man. I know you're better than that, because I have seen you posting here for a while now, and while I don't often agree with you, I thought you were better at this...
    The forty hour work week?

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    Looks like that Michelle Wolf show is a goner...

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...ow/1025018002/

    'The Break with Michelle Wolf,' 'The Joel McHale Show' canceled at Netflix

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    It was three years ago on this date that "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published our profile of Tye “Glenn” Champ, a GOP candidate for governor of California in 2014 who just so happened to have a record as a felon for soliciting underage prostitutes and committing manslaughter, who after faring surprisingly well in the primary (finishing better than ten other candidates), managed to later get into an argument with a neighbor where Champ fired off several rounds at the neighbor and his son, instead missing wildly and killing a horse. He is now back in prison, and as such, seems unlikely to be politically relevant for some time (but nice job inviting him to your state party convention, California Repubicans!)
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    In 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" profiled U.S. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who in 2010, had colorful campaign discussions that included pushing back against calls to increase the statute of limitations on sexual abuse in Wisconsin, leaving victims of abuses years ago unable to seek justice, labeling Social Security "a Ponzi scheme", saying that the 97% of climate change scientists who say the phenomenon is man-made were "crazy", the real cause of climate change was sunspots, and that Greenland is covered in snow and ice because we're actually witnessing "global cooling". In 2013 that Ron Johnson answered criticism from the League of Conservation Voters that he denied climate change by accusing them of waging “environmental jihad and has compared politicians and activists trying to prevent climate change to Joseph Stalin, Hugo Chavez, and Fidel Castro.

    Johnson also was against marriage equality, and was pro-life to the extent where he considers that life begins at conception (which means he's also against most forms of birth control). Johnson also showed quite a bit of hypocrisy, railing against the economic stimulus packages passed by Congress to help the American economy, that as it turned out, his business had accepted funding from. Or perhaps he showed a great deal of personal bias for attacking the Obama administration for trying to take BP Oil to task after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill for the environmental damage he caused, by categorizing it as "launching an assault on BP" and after some digging, the media found out that Ron Johnson had hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock in BP Oil, and he made the excuse of not selling it because he was waiting for the stock market to be better so he could get more money out of it. And that was just what we discussed from BEFORE him reaching office in the 2010 Tea Party Wave in an upset victory over three-term Senator Russ Feingold. Since reaching office, Johnson has stayed to party lines in almost every obstructing vote in the Senate, voting against increasing the debt ceiling, the new version of the Violence Against Women Act (which he said was “unconstitutional), and disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy, just to name a few choice “blocks”. Heck, he voted for the 2013 Government Shutdown and then voted to keep the government closed when the time came to end it. Inexplicably, he also tried fear-mongering to the fringe elements of the GOP prior to the 2014 elections during the outbreak of Ebola Virus in Africa, warning that ISIS might deliberately infect its own followers with the disease and send them to the United States to deliberately spread it (which is not a viable form of suicide attack, considering people afflicted with Ebola are far from mobile as their body starts getting wracked by the disease, and they have to get blood or feces on anyone they’re attacking without being noticed). Sen. Johnson was one of the “47 Traitors” in the GOP who tried to meddle in the State Department’s negotiations with Iran, presented a photo of President Obama and President Rouhani shaking hands as proof they were “chummy” that was actually photo-shopped, and wasted time in a Senate hearing asking Secretary of State John Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz questions about an “EMP Bomb” that doesn’t actually exist outside of movies. And speaking of movies, Johnson even went on record to rail against, of all things, The Lego Movie, because he felt the villain, Lord Business, was a demonization of rich corporations. He has blamed a rise in mass shootings on the media for reporting them, paid tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after his death by stupidly posting a picture of actor Edward Gero, who starred in a play about Scalia and his court decisions called “The Originalist”, and whose solution to help combat the prescription opioid drug abuse epidemic… bring back those “War on Drugs” ads where your brain was compared to an egg in a frying pan that did nothing to curtail even ordinary drug abuse in the 1980s.

    Johnson compared his own hard battle for re-election in 2016 to the choice of passengers on Flight 93 on 9/11 to storm the cockpit, and as outrageous and disgusting as that comparison might be (not just to the victims but to his opponent Russ Feingold), with a lot of help from the voter suppression tactics employed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his cronies in the Wisconsin state legislature, managed to actually win a second term in 2016. And that was even after how on the week of the election, unprompted, he decided to discuss impeaching Hillary Clinton. I mean, counting your impeachment chickens before they’re hatched much, Ron?

    Now, since Sen. Johnson’s shocking re-election, he has done little to stand up to the Trump administration, voting for every unqualified member of his “Cabinet of Horrors”, as well as voting for the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. As frustrating as that is to see, there has only been one big vote on legislation since January in the U.S. Senate, and that would have been on healthcare repeal… Ron Johnson, in late July, was saying he would vote against any attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, because Sen. Mitch McConnell and leadership in the Senate were being too secretive about what was actually in the bill, and that he would vote to block it from coming to the floor. Two days later, Johnson voted to repeal. Two days. That’s all it took to contradict himself.

    And how upset was Sen. Johnson that he couldn’t burn down the American healthcare system and whiz on the ashes? Enough so that he responded to the dramatic “no” vote by Senator John McCain by grousing about how Sen. McCain’s “brain tumor may have factored in” to his vote. Well, isn’t that sweet of you, Ron.

    We’ve covered before that Ron Johnson is a moronic conspiracy theorist, so current events in our country mean he’s really reveling in the moment, what with a conspiracy theorist at the White House. And what with Donald Trump and a lot of conservative “media” sources rambling on with paranoid delusions about a “secret society” within the government sabotaging the Trump administration, that Sen. Johnson would join in the chorus on Fox News:
    And… that was stupid enough that fellow GOP Congressman Charlie Dent all but accused Johnson of having brain damage.

    We’re honestly thinking that’s not hyperbole. In April of 2018, Johnson started whining about supposed “unprecedented obstruction” about Democrats, and then literally, a minute later, started praising Mitch McConnell for leading the Senate GOP to block the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. Just… f***. F***.

    On July 4th weekend, you may have seen a report about several Republican Senators and one member of the GOP House spending the celebration of American independence by going to Russia to meet with their foreign counterparts. Commentators and pundits thought that maybe the optics of going on a diplomatic visit to the country that meddled in the 2016 election on arguably its most patriotic holiday weren’t good. But, it was worse than that Three days later, Johnson suddenly was arguing against sanctions on Russia because “they aren’t working that well”. Three days. That’s all it took for Ron Johnson to flip on his on country. This… this ***hole really does telegraph how easily he’s bought, doesn’t he?

    Barring any sudden resignation or karma having him developing brain tumor on his own end, Ron Johnson is now cemented in the Senate like the dumb bag of rocks he is until 2022. Just… goddamn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by numberthirty View Post
    The forty hour work week?
    While the 8 hour day, or 40 hour week, was instituted in various forms throughout the Industrial Revolution as a way of combatting the excessive hours many businesses demanded of their workers (workers rights = progressive goals), it was with the 1937 proposal of what would become the Fair Labor Standards Act as part of the New Deal (progressive movement in government in what a form of socialism) that the 40 hour work week became the maximum an employer could demand of a worker. Though companies were still permitted to have people work past that limit, they were required to pay the workers a higher wage for those hours, in the form of overtime. Of course, in the last 30 years, regressives like those running the Republican party and some who claim Democratic membership have worked to lessen or remove that restriction, and many companies manipulate and work around it thanks to 'right to work' laws (which are no more logically named than a bill promoting mass suicide being called a 'right to life' bill, but I digress). But the fact remains thatvthe 40 hour work week was a progressive win in the last 100 years.

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