What's the big deal about a couple of tanks?

Not even close if anything you say about yourself is true.

interesting comment coming from somebody with gender confusion issues.

I am not confused at all. I am a girl, and that is something I have known all my life. There has never been a day that I have known something different.

What's been the imagery thus far? What about Easter? Christmas?

They seem quite peaceful to me?

@oldfella1962 wanted a red rider BB gun for Christmas.

He didn’t even invite any veterans, despite his claim that it’s meant to celebrate the military. He invited his donors.

If anything it’s you guys who seem confused about her. This is pretty clear stuff at this point, but you morons are acting like it the 1800s. You’re either low grade idiots or deliberately cruel for no reason. Either is shameful.

Edited for accuracy.

As Tererun points out, veterans typically make for more level-headed law enforcement officers.

In my (considerable) experience, the amped-up, "us against them" cops have typically never served but like "playing at" soldier.

I' thinking the difference might well be environmental.We don't see anything like the emphasis on tactical policing you guys do, so maybe it's a question of horses for courses.

I'm led to believe that having served in the military can actually count against someone in the selection process here (don't quote me) and my experience of working with ex military types in law enforcement is quite the opposite. Apples and oranges though.

Of course not. Veterans are just suckers who could not get their daddy to pay for doctors to say they had bone spurs to him. Why would he want to speak to any of those people? It is not like he is going to see them on the Mar a Lago golf course.

Incidentally, weather reports were predicting thunderstorms in D.C. Instead, it's currently 32 degrees. Yes, you read that right. Thirty-two degrees, in the middle of the day, in July, in D.C., where it's more likely to be 92 degrees. Donnie Boy's Special Friends are gonna freeze their fat butts off.

And I was so looking forward to playing Streisand's "Don't Rain on My Parade"...

I think you mixed up Farenheit and Celsius because the current temp in DC is 89F with a high/low predicted to be 90/74.

Friggin' Weather.com. They've since corrected it, and there's still a 30% chance of rain. Fingers crossed.

if you say so!

in all actuality I very well might "put my eye out" with that. Broken thumb from a frisbee - that pretty much sums up my safety record.

I agree! Vets on average have "been around the block" a time or two. And thanks to almost 20 years now in "the sandbox" there are a lot of combat experienced vets taking cop jobs.

yeah I called bullshit on 32 degrees too - DC gets similar weather patterns as Augusta GA this time of year, just a few degrees cooler.

Jesus fuck. Pentagon giving the parade troops PR bulshit to recite.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/pentagon-military-fourth-of-july_n_5d1e08a2e4b01b834732bfb4

newsflash matthunter - it's not uncommon for troops to recite/sing prepared material for public events. This is nothing remotely unusual. Maybe your military does things differently. Perhaps you can ask the military folks in your circle of family & peers about it.

Meh. It's cheesy, but I get why they did that. They don't want PFC Snuffy to say something embarrassing while they're out there.

I wouldn't expect matthunter to draw that obvious conclusion.

Ouch. at least you didn't catch it with your face.

I was going to ask you what kind drugs you were on. I’m in northern Virginia, I wish it was 32 degrees.

For some of us that would be a hot 305

I would, but Dad died in 1997. Though I doubt a - shit, what's the Navy equivalent of a sergeant? - could get him to stop speaking his mind if the Nazis and my mother couldn't.

He had even less time for narcissistic cunts like Trump than I do.

LOL Trump tweeted that maybe even Aircraft One would be part of the flyover.

1) It's called Air Force One.... Which he flies on routinely and yet doesn't know the fucking name of.

2) Aircraft One is actually the callsign of another Presidential plane... Putin's.

Happy birthday USA.

funny coincidence - my son broke his thumb (same hand too!) and it didn't heal up all the way just like my thumb did not. So we both have a weird looking jutting out thumb now! However all the other bones I broke are not the same bones he broke thru the years - so far anyway.

Awww, poor widdle pumpkin! Even God's had it with him.

Okay, now I get to play this. This one's for you, Donnie Boy:



Now, be a good boy or I'll play the one from Glee.