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And he did this re-arming in the face of serious opposition from people who did not want to consider going to war again and when there were very serious demands on the nation's finances to recover from the Great War. 
 
In my Golden Age campaign, he is a Professor X type character, building up the UK's superhero programme as a hedge against not having enough mundane war materials and aggresively delaying the onset of war by forcing Hitler to engage with appeasement overtures, wasting the nazi's time by giving them easy wins that appear to humiliate the British while furiously working behind the scenes to deliver a core resilience.

Not mentioned by the article, starting in 1935 Neville Chamberlain began rearming the UK in preparation for a possible coming war.  Consequently, when England finally did fight that were much better prepared to do so than they were at the beginning of Chamberlain's term as PM.

Mr. Trash Wheel celebrates tenth birthday

This is an article by Kevin D. Williamson of The Dispatch.   It was behind a paywall so I'm reposting it without permission.  Makes an excellent point, I think.

 
 

I apologize it I misunderstand what you are saying, but of course most of the Republicans will vote to keep Johnson.  The vast majority of Republicans voted to keep Kevin McCarthy.  The only reason that McCarthy got ousted was because the Democrats voted as block to remove him and the Twitter faction crossed party lines and joined them.  
 
Also, rumors notwithstanding, if Johnson gets ousted Jeffries won't become Speaker.  The job will wind up going another Republican, and they will know that if they do bipartisan legislation with the Democrats, they will be repaid by those same Democrats stabbing them in the back when the most extreme members of the own party come after them.
 
Edit:  I saw footage of Hakeem Jeffries commending Mike Johnson by name, so I don't think Johnson has to worry about being ousted.

On a side note, the man who set himself on fire died from his injuries.  

Second grader tries to organize classmates to adopt a horse as class pet.  (Longish tiktok video but you have to watch till the end.)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-trump-debt-remarks-2024-b2516386.html
 

The University of Memphis is public institution, and as such counts as a government entity. 

The University of Memphis is public institution, and as such counts as a government entity. 

The University of Memphis is public institution, and as such counts as a government entity. 

The University of Memphis is public institution, and as such counts as a government entity. 

Oreo cookies > Sweets > Munchies > Pigging out > Pig > Bacon > Kevin Bacon.

There's your seven degrees of separation.

Apple orders TV series based on Neuromancer by William Gibson

It was inevitable that the executives would self-insert at some point.

See, I actually LOVE when it gets pointed out that the Civil War had a fair sized group of Southerners stay as Unionists.. THOSE are the guys we should have statues of up more often in our parks etc.

Whoah! When did Doonesbury get all political?

Dammit...
 
Mojo Nixon, ‘Elvis Is Everywhere’ Singer, Dies After Performing on Country Music Cruise

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/13/2223296/-My-Thoughts-on-Biden-As-Someone-With-Actual-Cognitive-Dysfunction?detail=emaildkre&pm_source=DKRE&pm_medium=email

Journal of the American Medical Association: Rape-Related Pregnancies in the 14 US States With Total Abortion Bans
 
 
For those of you who are related to at least one woman.

The Supreme Court disallowed Biden's plan to forgive a huge debt amount in one shot. So he set about doing it piecemeal, in incremental amounts that are unlikely to be challenged. That shows a degree of adaptability that I've rarely seen in US presidents.

Long Covid explanation in new study possibly paves way for tests and treatments

In honor of Martin Luther King Day--
 
I Dream A World
By Langston Hughes
 
I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!