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8 replies on “The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 243”
Carrie Fisher died in 2016. Could the problem with her appearance be, in part, that old footage was cobbled together, not very well? I’ve read that there was some CGI, too. (No, I haven’t wanted to see the new movies.)
What bothered me wasn’t her looks but her speech. She sounded just like Martha Stewart. Her jaw was frozen in place and all of her diction was placed too far forward, plus it sounded like she smoked a pack a day. Blech. But RIP, Carrie, and thank you. (Rant about what they did to Princess Leia’s character omitted.)
If the things really hit the fan, we’ll need you here to re-take Austin.
Howdy, neighbor!
Howdy! I’m not actually in Austin. I’m in Manor. Told my real estate agent, NOT AUSTIN.
Well, actually I’m nowhere near Austin, but all Texans are neighbors!
“Drizzle, Drazzle, Druzzle, Drone, time for zis vun to come home,” was said by Mr. Wizard to Tooter Turtle. They were part of a show called “King Leonardo and His Short Subjects.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q81A_mZtF7c
And did anyone find Episode 241?
The so called rules of engagement was nothing but handcuffs and shackles that made it impossible to achieve even a stalemate let alone a win. If you engage and enemy in war, the war has to be total, unforgiving, certain, and devastatingly immediate. If war can’t be total, don’t fight the war. Give up and live or die with the consequences.
What war can’t be is a bunch of half assed pulled punches and begging the enemy to love us. Because this was the case, the Korean war was a stalemate, Vietnam was a loss, and Desert Storm One and Two were total failures to achieve the stated goals. If war can’t be total, don’t fight the war. Give up and live or die with the consequences.
A just war is based upon the principle that we have an absolute right to our lives, our liberty, and our freely chosen pursuit of happiness. If these rights are threatened, total war is MORALLY justified. Otherwise, *poof* there goes even the pretense of protecting our fundamental rights. There is no such thing as the right to violate rights. Those who believe they have that right must have their faulty expectations forcefully changed without reservation or mercy.
But…but…but how about the “innocent” citizens of enemy nations? As far as I am concerned, there are no “innocent” citizens. At best, they are slaves of the nation to be used, abused, and discarded by their so called nation. As such, they have no moral claim on being protected from the consequences of the war against their nation. Especially and particularly if they are used as human shields by the enemy combatants. What happens falls on the shoulders of the enemy combatants. The enemy combatants MUST be eliminated even at the cost of the human shields. There can be no expectation that we are to give up our lives to protect those who refuse to protect their own lives.