Stonewalls time of death could have been dragged out a few more years if the damned fool hadn't ridden out in front of his lines.....in the dark.....in the middle of an ongoing battle.
@Zouave; Right you are. I would have been proud to serve under a commander the likes of himself. Feeling invincible and being fearless aren't always the same thing.
I find this interesting. There has always been the conspiracy theory that FDR knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor the day before it happened and did nothing to notify Pearl Harbor. That theory has been pretty much debunked by facts.
However, based on an operational plan written 20 years before the attack, the U.S. military should have been forewarned. Ironically, the plan was the basis for how the U.S. conducted the war in the Pacific.
And the ATF is wrong again. Our second amendment is a right without regard for government approval for anything. This is wrong. 2A actually prevents government intervention on this right to keep and bear arms. These rules are for THEM not us.
@PappyJoe I think we have contingency plans for everything from alien invasion (the interplanetary type) to the USSR invading Florida--not sure if that would constitute a "prediction" or just good sense to have one. You're article is interesting though.
Good post, but I'm going to take the liberty of rephrasing that:
"We live in a time where smart people are being silenced so intelligent people don't get offended"
To me, being "smart" is the skill of using common sense, being "intelligent" is book smarts and therefore pertains mostly to the "woke" class. I know a ton of intelligent people that are dumber than a box of rocks because they've never lived a single day off of a school campus--they graduated high school and went straight to college, got their under graduate degree and went straight to grad school, got their PhD and now they're professors...but have zero idea of what "real life" is all about because they've never 'left' their bubble of academia.
I would much rather be smart than intelligent if I had to decide between the two.
@vtgrad2003 Ditto. Which is why I don't have Dr. before my name. Was close though I'm not going to lie. However, for me, it would be different through my real experience. I will never fall in that classification. Thank God for that.
If anyone wants a short and cogent answer why society is so f--ed up today, to me, this data says it all. The last statement below
is particularly interesting—there used to be a time when it was an
embarrassment to have parents paying for crap…now they just “ride the wave”.
More than three in 10
(35%) adults admit they still have at least one bill on their parents’ tab.
In fact, almost
one-quarter (24%) of millennials polled say their parents cover their rent.
About three-quarters of
those respondents (72%) plan to take on these bills themselves within the next
two years, but 30% admit they will be riding the wave until they’re told
otherwise.
@vtgrad2003 I would like to posit a theory about your post concerning millennials living off their parents. It is our (old parents) fault. Consider that while we lived in simpler times, many of us also lived in leaner times where we didn't all enjoy the same luxuries as our more well-off friends. My family didn't own a tv that I remember until I was about 11 years old. I remember sitting at my next door neighbor and watching the news about Kennedy assassination on their black & white tv. There are other examples I could state but I won't.
One of the things that somehow was ingrained into me was that a parent's job was to do what they could to make sure that their progeny had it better than they did. This included giving our children things which we did not have and "protecting" them from the negatives that we endured. (One of this was corporal punishment in school when we did something we weren't supposed to. I grew up in the age of wooden paddles with air hole drilled though them, for example).
Anyway, I think us "boomers" took it too far and failed to teach personal responsibility to our offspring. We bought into the prevailing school of thought on parenting at the time at the time of over protecting or shielding our children from the real world. We didn't want them to be "left out" by not providing them with the things that other children had. We were over-indulgent and this lead to millennials being over dependent on their parents.
We conditioned them to expect everything to be given to them instead of them having to work for it.
Does any of that make sense? I probably should have waited until my third cup of coffee to reply.
@PappyJoe It makes perfect sense and you're spot on. What you said has built up an "entitlement" class that expects everything for nothing. That's how things like Antifa and such come about.
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I have enough Tobac Jarred to last me if I live to be 150. Which i plan to do!
God help all who will have to deal with me.
If we lived our lives like that, we would truly live our lives!
Right you are. I would have been proud to serve under a commander the likes of himself. Feeling invincible and being fearless aren't always the same thing.
How else could things be so screwed up?
However, based on an operational plan written 20 years before the attack, the U.S. military should have been forewarned. Ironically, the plan was the basis for how the U.S. conducted the war in the Pacific.
https://www.military.com/history/marine-predicted-all-of-world-war-ii-pacific-20-years-pearl-harbor.html?ESRC=mr_230123.nl
I think we have contingency plans for everything from alien invasion (the interplanetary type) to the USSR invading Florida--not sure if that would constitute a "prediction" or just good sense to have one. You're article is interesting though.
Good post, but I'm going to take the liberty of rephrasing that:
"We live in a time where smart people are being silenced so intelligent people don't get offended"
To me, being "smart" is the skill of using common sense, being "intelligent" is book smarts and therefore pertains mostly to the "woke" class. I know a ton of intelligent people that are dumber than a box of rocks because they've never lived a single day off of a school campus--they graduated high school and went straight to college, got their under graduate degree and went straight to grad school, got their PhD and now they're professors...but have zero idea of what "real life" is all about because they've never 'left' their bubble of academia.
I would much rather be smart than intelligent if I had to decide between the two.
Ditto. Which is why I don't have Dr. before my name. Was close though I'm not going to lie. However, for me, it would be different through my real experience. I will never fall in that classification. Thank God for that.
More than three in 10 (35%) adults admit they still have at least one bill on their parents’ tab.
In fact, almost one-quarter (24%) of millennials polled say their parents cover their rent.
About three-quarters of those respondents (72%) plan to take on these bills themselves within the next two years, but 30% admit they will be riding the wave until they’re told otherwise.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/27/almost-25-of-millennials-parents-cover-their-rent-poll/
Wow.
I would like to posit a theory about your post concerning millennials living off their parents.
It is our (old parents) fault.
Consider that while we lived in simpler times, many of us also lived in leaner times where we didn't all enjoy the same luxuries as our more well-off friends. My family didn't own a tv that I remember until I was about 11 years old. I remember sitting at my next door neighbor and watching the news about Kennedy assassination on their black & white tv. There are other examples I could state but I won't.
One of the things that somehow was ingrained into me was that a parent's job was to do what they could to make sure that their progeny had it better than they did. This included giving our children things which we did not have and "protecting" them from the negatives that we endured. (One of this was corporal punishment in school when we did something we weren't supposed to. I grew up in the age of wooden paddles with air hole drilled though them, for example).
Anyway, I think us "boomers" took it too far and failed to teach personal responsibility to our offspring. We bought into the prevailing school of thought on parenting at the time at the time of over protecting or shielding our children from the real world. We didn't want them to be "left out" by not providing them with the things that other children had. We were over-indulgent and this lead to millennials being over dependent on their parents.
We conditioned them to expect everything to be given to them instead of them having to work for it.
Does any of that make sense? I probably should have waited until my third cup of coffee to reply.
Your definitely not wrong. Much has changed in the world today but yet nothing has changed.
I'm going let that sit there as is without writing a missive from my phone.
What @Londy3 said.
It makes perfect sense and you're spot on. What you said has built up an "entitlement" class that expects everything for nothing. That's how things like Antifa and such come about.
...yet we continue to allow this all to happen