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Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, ~~you're~~ we're welcome

We've been able to endure a parade of characters through the White House because of our three legged stool, checks and balances, style government. The problem now is congress abdicated so there's only two legs. It can be done but dangerous as hell.

Do you mention a three legged stool because it will sit solid on an uneven floor.

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Well I guess it's a good thing he died then ain't it?

I mean, somebody does or says something ya disagree with, they're as good as dead anyway, right?

So, who's baking the cake?

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 1020021)

Yeah I thought he was deserving of criticism back in the day until I saw the types of Republicans who followed him. He's a fucking saint on comparison.

Reposted for truth. I never thought he was all that bad, but given the sort of shitheads we've now got on the R side, I'd vote for someone like him in a heartbeat.

RIP George. Hope you and Babs have hooked up again in the great hereafter.

He's in the top two of the last six Republican presidents.

Better than his boss.

GHWBush's Secret Service code name was 'Timberwolf'.

old saying, " the living deserve respect, the dead, the truth,"

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I'd say that the other way 'round.

There have been alot of presidents I did't like and a few that were ok, none even close to perfect. But most people don"t think what it would be like to wake up every morning and about 50 people are trying to feed you a SH*T sandwich for breakfast. The average persone doesn't take time to think about what our leaders have exposure to, the information they receive minute by minute, the decisions they have to make that affect millions of people, and doing your best to keep it all together. Some take the job to satisfy their ego, some think they can repair a broken system, and some to quench thier thirst for power and to line their pockets.
Treat them with respect and after they pass the truth always comes out. For good or ill.

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Originally Posted by Hopalong48 (Post 1020474)

There have been alot of presidents I did't like and a few that were ok, none even close to perfect.

Because tw wasn't elected. :nuts:

help me out, TW?

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Just call him dubya and he'll be happy to help you out.

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Originally Posted by Hopalong48 (Post 1020511)

help me out, TW?

Why didn't ya just put a pistol in ya mouth?

:headshake

Hopalong48 - "tw" is the username of a particularly long-winded and politically aggressive member of the Cellar who frequently goes on tangents connecting whatever he's arguing about to General Motors, cigarette smoking, Nixon, Saddam, and how only children have emotions.

Thx, I couldnt come up with a polItician with the initials TW.

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Sorry for the confusion. Wow, you've been here 2 months and haven't been molested by tw yet? Amazing. :haha:

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 1020552)

Connecting?!

And don't forget business school graduates, and that a business' purpose is not to make money.

I will just tell him to ,"GET OFF ME!"

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That'll work about as well as it does with mosquitoes.

His boy Monty seems sufficient for the task.

I'd kick his... psst, he's in Australia, right... good... ass. :haha:

Joe Osborn, one of the bass players associated w/The Wrecking Crew, died on the 14th, pancreatic cancer.

He bassed on Glen Campbell's By the Time I Get to Phoenix, The Mamas & the Papas' California Dreamin', Richard Harris' MacArthur Park, and the 5th Dimension's Up, Up and Away and Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, S&G's Bridge Over Troubled Water, America's Ventura Highway and many, many others, including tv theme songs and commercials.

:bass:

Penny Marshall

She shall be missed. Another piece of my childhood is gone.

Yup I woulda screwed Penny Marshall if I had the chance. She wasn't pretty and a voice like fingernails on a blackboard, but she was the homey type that I like.

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Originally Posted by captainhook455 (Post 1021322)

...but she was the homey type that I like.

She was the funny type I like. Rich and funny.

And:

Hello Moto!

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 1021341)

She was the funny type I like. Rich and funny.

And:

Hello Moto!

A new phone to play with it took awhile just to figure how to post pics again.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...059d1d1434.jpg

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Whatchya gonna do with all that phone?

Kat pikshurs?

Mrs. Dr. Suess died. The most recent Mrs. Dr. Suess.

She was 97.

That's all I got.

I didn't confuse him, or her, with anyone.

I just can't speel.

So glad to make your day.

Dr Seuss's wife has in fact died. Fish: she was old.
https://www.bustle.com/p/dr-seuss-wi...ge-97-15560127

Sister Wendy passed the day after Christmas.

No confusing who her husband was...

June Whitfield Gran in Ab Fab among many, many other things.

I think this is the last time I saw her work:

Super Dave, Bob Einstein, has left us.

https://ktla.com/2019/01/02/bob-eins...ies-at-76/amp/

I kinda liked ol' Super Dave. Unique.

Albert Brooks brother? That explains a lot.

Daryl Dragon, the Captain of Captain and Tennille.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/03/68184...lle-dead-at-76

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Pro wrestling announcer/commentator "Mean" Gene Okerlund died, also on Jan 2.

Okerlund had received three kidney transplants, and had suffered a fall in the weeks before his death.

They should put his smiling face on the cover of the Rolling Stone.:yesnod:

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 1022365)

They should put his smiling face on the cover of the Rolling Stone.:yesnod:

I can see it now, he'll be up in the front, smilin, man.
Ah, beautiful.

Remember the college dean's wife in Animal House? No?

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Remember the soiled dove/slattern in High Plains Drifter?

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Well, her name was Verna Bloom, and she died, from complications of dementia. She was 80.

I heard that this morning, and learned she's from Seattle.

Learning learning learning....

It just never ends!

I thought Ms. Channing had been dead for a few years.

Re: Newman

We just lost our oldest WWII vet a few days/weeks ago.

For a classic pieces, find "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In' episode where Carol Channing and Goldie Hawn celebrate a song called "Blonds" written by Billy Barnes.

Yes, she is better known for Hello Dolly. But she was always a classicly entertaining performer.

Retired Air Force Col. Joe M. Jackson, a Medal of Honor recipient, a veteran of three wars and Air Force legend, has died. Jackson, a native of Newnan, Ga., was famous within the aviation and special operations community for his daring rescue of a team of Air Force combat controllers who were stranded at the besieged airfield of an abandoned Army Special Forces camp during the Tet Offensive.

His exploits saved the lives of three men, but risked his own, as the airfield had been the site of multiple U.S. aircraft shootdowns and aircrew fatalities over the past 24 hours.

Although Jackson has passed, his exploits and the significance of the battle he took part in were recorded in the Southeast Asia Monographs, Volume V-7, at the Airpower Research Institute of Maxwell Air Force Base, as well as first-person accounts archived by the Library of Congress.

Pause and give salute and prayer for this old warrior. He won't be featured on the news, but he was truly a legend. I'm attaching a copy of the famous artist rendering of the rescue.

https://i.ibb.co/VYFYqBg/miracle-at-kham-duc.jpg

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Originally Posted by Big Sarge (Post 1023311)

Retired Air Force Col. Joe M. Jackson...

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Korean War/Early Cold War accomplishments:

Discovering a formulaic method of navigating an aircraft back to base in poor weather

Developing Standard Jet Penetration, a popular method of landing a jet aircraft with low ceilings and low visibility

Developing mass transoceanic ferrying flights

Creating a bomb-throwing method allowing nuclear weapons to be delivered by fighter aircraft

Planning and directing aerial reconnaissance over Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962

Becoming one of the first Air Force pilots to fly the U-2 Dragonlady reconnaissance aircraft

MoH citation:

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For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Lt. Col. Jackson distinguished himself as pilot of a C-123 aircraft. Lt. Col. Jackson volunteered to attempt the rescue of a 3-man USAF Combat Control Team from the Special Forces camp at Kham Duc. Hostile forces had overrun the forward outpost and established gun positions on the airstrip. They were raking the camp with small arms, mortars, light and heavy automatic weapons, and recoilless rifle fire. The camp was engulfed in flames and ammunition dumps were continuously exploding and littering the runway with debris. In addition, eight aircraft had been destroyed by the intense enemy fire and one aircraft remained on the runway reducing its usable length to only 2,200 feet. To further complicate the landing, the weather was deteriorating rapidly, thereby permitting only one air strike prior to his landing. Although fully aware of the extreme danger and likely failure of such an attempt. Lt. Col. Jackson elected to land his aircraft and attempt to rescue. Displaying superb airmanship and extraordinary heroism, he landed his aircraft near the point where the combat control team was reported to be hiding. While on the ground, his aircraft was the target of intense hostile fire. A rocket landed in front of the nose of the aircraft but failed to explode. Once the combat control team was aboard, Lt. Col. Jackson succeeded in getting airborne despite the hostile fire directed across the runway in front of his aircraft. Lt. Col. Jackson's profound concern for his fellow men, at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Air Force and reflect great credit upon himself, and the Armed Forces of his country.

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From Wiki:

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On January 16, 1969 [Fifty years ago today!], President Lyndon B. Johnson presented Jackson with the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony. Also receiving the Medal of Honor that day was fellow Newnan, GA native Stephen W. Pless, a Marine Corps aviator who, like Jackson, had earned the decoration for an airborne rescue operation. Legend states that, upon realizing that both Pless and Jackson were from the same small Georgia town, President Johnson quipped "there must be something in the water down in Newnan."

Definitely worth a moments pause to consider.

Movie producer Andrew Vajna died today (Jan 20). He was 74.

Even if you've never heard of him, you've seen a bunch of his movies.

Singer James Ingram died today. Brain cancer.