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UpperWestside

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  1. Who could’ve guessed he would do this on a national level. TFG is the most on-brand thief that our country has ever had.
  2. @Macanudo These stories I feel have been overlooked when it comes to remembering the history of that day. It is the individual stories of the witnesses that still bring these events to life. Thank you for sharing that. I am glad that I am able to chart a career path that will involve the war heavily in anything I do until I kick the bucket. I want to hear as many stories as possible from the few survivors left front at time as well as their families that know them. One of my main goals is to be able to get to talk with people in New Guinea, Kiribati, The Solomons, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Guam etc about the experiences of their families during the war. Those stories are not near as well documented and while I understand why it is still a shame more wasn’t written about it the people whose islands were turned into bloody battlefields.
  3. Met a woman today who was on the Big Island on December 7th, 1941. Her recollections of that day as a 9 year old are still as clear in her mind as they were when it happened. She remembered feeling something akin to aftershocks during the bombing. Her brother, then 15 years old, was over at Hickam that morning and saw the Zero pilots flying right above him. He had no idea they were Japanese until someone in uniform pulled him inside to tell him they weren't American planes and they were under attack. She also shared with me about how life changed on all the islands during the war. They had mandatory blackouts at night over on the Big Island, they built bunkers in case of another attack and she vividly recalled carrying a gas mask with her to school every day. A chance meeting like that was not going to happen in New York. I am really thankful she took the time to share that with me today. She barely spoke above a whisper, but she was so sweet to talk to. She had two family members with her. I gave her a fist bump and took a picture with her. Could not have been more gracious to speak with me after I told her why I was in Hawai'i.
  4. Wouldn't the biggest group of fans for Kerr be in Japan? The Iron Claw had people in the US that were familiar with that story. Kerr I had never heard of before this movie. Bad box office numbers aside, it's a pretty good movie and I'll bet several of y'all that wait to watch this at home will enjoy it.
  5. Ty Johnson played his first game for Crean Lutheran after sitting out five games as a transfer from Lampasas. The 4 star WR scored the first two touchdowns for Crean and was able to play in the secondary for the first time in his high school career in a 40-14 win. I think he’s probably enjoying having Caden Jones, a highly recruited 4 star QB, throwing him the football. Crean is 6-0 right now and Johnson is the 2nd highest rated WR in California at the moment. I think he’s a top 15 recruit for the state. It’d be cool to see he and Jones go to the same college.
  6. Optimism? No. I use history as a guide in how I look at the world. He's another bad actor in a world that's been filled to the brim with them throughout the existence of human beings. Like every other fascist government this one will fall as well. They all do. They crash and burn. It's just how much time elapses between now and that point that determines how much destruction they get to bring into being. I don't like using the nazis as a comparison, but it's the easiest to do because it's the version of fascism people remember the most.
  7. Not often that the chance is presented to talk about him. He is wrecking the NBL right now. I follow the league and McGee is doing whatever he wants there. The StonerSportsNetwork commentary is always great. Follow their IG is you want some good laughs on their highlight comments.
  8. Burr can kick rocks for taking money from the Saudis to perform there. What a worthless clown. Actually all of them that performed in Riyadh and took the money are all one and the same.
  9. I feel like Stephen Miller will be the one who gets the longest prison sentence once this eventually ends. The next 2-3 generations will be talking about him the way people talk about Goebbels right now.
  10. Boy did she. He’s trying to get clean and she’s going out and getting drunk. Did lead to a funny scene where he was talking to his sponsor while she was yelling at him.
  11. All of this information used in a presidential campaign in normal times would be sufficient to get the presidency back for the Democrats. We have crossed into fascism though so all of that is as out the window as the Weimar Republic after 1933 or how Japan was before it got hijacked by a bunch of young hotheads in the Imperial Japanese Army who thought greater Asia revolved around them. We are in the midst of fascism getting its roots deeper in the soil at the moment. Yeah that obviously is not a good thing, but we're there now. Using facts and logic to convince 78 million people to see they are being conned will not work. Lies are the currency that works in America in 2025. Again these types of governments do not have lasting power, but Good Lord do they do some lasting damage once they collapse.
  12. I enjoyed it. The Rock really did Mark Kerr justice. The violence of those early fights were just brutal. Emily Blunt was good as well. Annoying a bit at times with the self-centered stuff, but she had good chemistry with him. Having actual fighters portraying the main two opponents was cool too.
  13. Have not seen it. Let me see if I recognize any of the people in it. Dormer I remember from GoT and Lynch I have seen in shows before. The rest of the cast does not quickly come to mind. If it has made it three seasons it is probably worth a watch though.
  14. Unforgotten Season Six was fantastic in all the ways that show is consistently good. The writers of that show are just great at their job. How they connect all the different lives together into one ending each season is absolutely brilliant.
  15. I've met her before. She's pretty cool and lives a really good life because, and this is important, she believes in helping others.
  16. I'll meet someone in Temecula that doesn't like Reese's Pieces.
  17. I leave movies early as well. I usually give them 30-45 minutes before I'm out. Very rarely do I bail on one quicker than that. Not every movie is for everyone. There are really good movies that I do not connect with so I get it. I think that this movie veers quite a ways away from how it began. Someone in this thread said it felt like three different movies if I remember correctly. Do I think you missed out on some cool stuff? Sure. Col. Lockjaw was worth watching just by himself. It's you and your wife's time though so who am I to tell you to stay for a movie you did not want to stay for?
  18. Always the unintended consequences that get us. Imagine inventing something that you think will be beneficial to human beings once upon a time only to watch human beings do what we excel at.
  19. If only there was this way people could learn about history. Too bad we don’t have books or Ereaders or anything like that for 78 MILLION clowns to go read about what they unleashed on everyone.
  20. I thought about this a good deal due to my mother’s dad being a Jew. He was not a practicing one and I am not sure he ever really cared much about things that had to do with Israel. Still he has the Star of David on his tombstone and so does his eldest son buried near him. I have not supported anything Israel has done, but I no longer support Israel’s right to exist as a state. Anyone that is willingly starving a population is inherently evil. If not for our continued backing of Israel they would absolutely not exist as a country. When this world finally gets its act together and realizes Israel is not a rational actor, they need to be cut off from the rest of the world and left to die on the vine. What they are doing to those Gazans is beyond comprehension. Just eight decades ago they saw an end come to their holocaust experience with the Nazis. It appears the only thing they learned from that horrific experience is that they have to be every bit as cruel to the Palestinians as the Nazis were to them. We all have such a short time to exist and Israel’s government is hellbent on wiping out every single person in Gaza if they can. We can all point to other similar situations right now in the world, but from a country that knows the horrors of being targeted to be wiped out? This is truly barbaric and anyone that supports this is no one I ever want to spend any time around. I hope Palestine gets recognized as a country and that Israel once again ceases to exist for the brutal crimes against humanity they brazenly commit each and every day.
  21. Art Briles Memorial 28- Ruston, LA 12. Quite the different score from last year when they got pistol-whipped by Ruston.
  22. Are there people who actually care what she thinks? I hope Bad Bunny not only reps Puerto Rico during the show, but that he ends it singing the Mexican National Anthem with El-Tri and the Mexican President Sheinbaum standing on stage with him.
  23. Went back for a 2nd viewing in IMAX last night. This film will hold up well over time. What a great, great film. Everything just worked so well. The music throughout was really cool as well.
  24. Lampasas 42-Lorena 35. Lorena's last two drives ended in endzone INT's with the last one coming as time expired. Listening to the DCTF broadcast team, they said their site had named Lampasas coach Troy Rogers as the 4A mid-season coach of the year. Pretty cool for him to get that acknowledgement I think considering he graduated 31 seniors last year and lost his best player to a transfer to a school in California. Nice to see the hometown guy do well. Easily the best coach in Lampasas history with this being his greatest coaching performance in having almost an entirely new team at 6-0.
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