Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/pete-hegseth-generals-speech-veterans-react
What I think is funny is that the guy on the left is always referred to as SECDEF Pete H...
That's short for Secretary of Defense...
I guess the Name Change Failed...
And I replied: Thankfully I don't do my own shopping... The caregivers at my old folks home do all the shopping and all the cooking... But I am allowed to complain to management and they actually listen... I told him that I don't want to ever eat "American cheese" ... That horrible product is guaranteed to be 51% real cheese - from a cow - and 49% something else... Whatever that something else is makes it taste horrible...
But I don't believe that genetically modifying organisms is a bad thing... I'm in favor of genetic engineering and glad that they have invented the seedless watermelon for example...
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Unlikely friendship but so pure ✨#horse #dog #dogs #foryou #fyp - another video... Showing horses and dogs playing together...
and I replied:
Nice... When I went to college we read a book called "a language older than words" by Derek Jensen... It was all about inner species communication... Just like in this video... That was the interesting class... It was all about ecology... And the teacher rode a bicycle to work everyday... And I got to meet a lot of interesting young people that were not in the computer science department... Humboldt State University attracted a lot of hippies... And it was especially delightful to chat with the 20-year-old women... Me being 50...
So the first thing we did in class was rearranged the desks and chairs so they formed a circle... When we arrived they were in straight rows pointing at the front of the classroom... And then everybody talked whenever they felt like it... About the reading... But the teacher made sure that the loudmouths did not dominate the conversation by calling on shy people... Because in most circumstances some people dominate the conversation every time...
One conversation we had was about genetic engineering of humans... I was in favor of that... And the vast majority of the kids were opposed to it... Because who would decide what genes are better?
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And another friend asked:
What would you do if we had a boring, rational, good guy as president?
And I replied: I had 8 years of Obama and 4 years of Biden... And I posted what I thought were mistakes that they made... Biden spent $5 billion dollars to keep Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant running for an extra 10 years... I didn't think that was brilliant...
I was working for the county of Humboldt when ObamaCare launched the website... And we were trained on how to answer the phone when people called that needed help... That Obamacare website was a disaster and just by magical coincidence Michelle Obama's college roommate got the contract to build the website even though she was a Canadian... Idiotic corruption... And it was really hard to use... The worst part was that when you entered data and then clicked yes nothing happened for like 15 seconds... And so a normal person would click again... And again... And again... Now you've got four requests... Because the website didn't have the ability to tell you, hey I got it... And then display a spinning clock...