jodymarie aimee
jodymarie aimee's JournalI want each of you to watch this now...4 mins 49 seconds.....(PLEASE)
I want each of you to watch this now...4 mins 49 seconds......When Trump won, I asked our UW poly sci expert about this at our post election meeting and he poo poo ed me..Jody, it will never happen....
CNN just showed Trump's new 3 min old tweet...
really really really anti press...the worst one ever.....Stalinesque.....what country is this?
Sunday TV opens with "Melania is spatting with Don"...why is their soap opera news?
she issues a statement and the media goes nutso....In a zillion years the Obamas would not sink to this unsophisticated vulgar crap..but the media has got to discuss for days this soap opera.....stop buying into the way the Trumps want to President....shun this behavior...there's plenty more meat and pots to report on...
Credit Card hacked for the 4th time in as many months....any ideas??
this last time $7.10 at McDonald's in Egypt....I do not even take it outside...only use it to order online thru PayPal...supposedly safe way to pay...mostly use ebay and etsy.....
MY Bank of 30 years is stymied...they don't know why this is happening....they did tell me Friday that there are 3 major credit agencies banks use...the most secure on the planet, and one was hacked.
The local Rs hate my guts, I get death threats in the postal mail....but I don't think they would be smart enough to do this.....
Whatever you do, don't eat the apricots out of a C-ration can...
Random Murder, Rape, and Pillage’: A US Soldier Describes 1968 in Vietnam
Whatever you do, don’t eat the apricots out of a C-ration can.
By Nick Turse
Richard Brummett was born into a family of true believers—in Jesus, in war, and in a particular idea of America. He spent his youth at odds with, and trying to live up to, his father, a combat veteran of World War II and a Marine Corps drill instructor. He started down the path to be a Catholic monk, but then enlisted in the Army in 1966, eventually volunteering for service in Vietnam as the United States was rapidly escalating the war there. He was deployed to Southeast Asia in 1967, as a true believer in the US military.
Brummett didn’t speak Vietnamese, and the Vietnamese he met didn’t speak English, so violence became his language of choice. When a Vietnamese woman grabbed at his arm while he was in the process of burning down her village, he responded by slamming the flat side of his .45 caliber pistol into her forehead. That she understood, he thought to himself. Another time, when a group of Vietnamese civilians ignored his shouts to move, Brummett leveled his M-79 at them as if to fire. This time, his platoon sergeant stepped in. “Brummett, don’t you point your weapon at no civilians! What’s the matter with you?” the sergeant scolded. Too many other superiors, however, had no such scruples. His commanding officer, Brummett said, had a penchant for ordering tanks to destroy entire villages. Then there were the beatings and rapes and killings of noncombatants by other men of the unit. Brummett loaded the munitions that killed 13 people for nothing more than running. Maybe they were enemy snipers. Maybe they were just farmers frightened for their lives. In the end, they were dead and Vietnamese, so they were chalked up as enemy “kills.” All of it took a toll; 1968 changed Brummett forever.
“Get off it, Brummett,” said buddies when he later insisted that they were all complicit in the crimes being committed by their unit. He told a visiting Catholic chaplain about it and the priest replied: “These things happen in war.” Brummett soon traded Sunday mass for nights spent numbing himself with alcohol and weed. After loading a white-phosphorus shell—an incendiary tank round—that was fired into a distant village, Brummett recalled that his captain offered his congratulations. “You got arms and legs with that one,” he cheered. Incensed, Brummett grabbed his submachine gun and sat on the turret of his tank staring him down. At that moment, he considered killing his commanding officer.
He didn’t, but two years later, Brummett wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. He called on the former congressman from Wisconsin to take action against those responsible for the wanton violence he witnessed. Brummett told Laird that his unit
did perform on a regular basis, random murder, rape and pillage upon the Vietnamese civilians in Quang Tin Province…with the full knowledge, consent and participation of our Troop Commander.… These incidents included random shelling of villages with 90mm white phosphorus rounds, machine gunning of civilians who had the misfortune to be near when we hit a mine, torture of prisoners, destroying of food and livestock of the villagers if we deemed they had an excess, and numerous burnings of villages for no apparent reason.
I asked Richard Brummett to reflect on Vietnam, the war and the country, and to tell me a little bit about the year that transformed his life and what came after it.
https://www.thenation.com/article/random-murder-rape-pillage-us-soldier-describes-1968-vietnam/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekly%2008032018&utm_term=weekly
Barack and Michelle back on the scene to promote "greater empathy and understanding between peoples"
Barack and Michelle Obama will return to public life by way of a multiyear contract with Netflix to produce films, TV series, and documentaries that promote "greater empathy and understanding between peoples". Under the deal, whose financial terms were not released, the former President and First Lady are expected to split time in front of and behind the camera.Traditionally former presidents channel their message through book deal: Penguin Random House will publish the Obamas' White House memoirs for $65Million. But the 44th president, who has kept a low profile during Trump's presidency, will now have access to Netflix's 125Million global subscribers. The Obamas said they hope to use "the power of storytelling to help us open our minds and hearts to others".
WHY do they allow these fucks to lie on TV???
MSNBC noon hour opens with Kristin Welker at WH and she had a clip of her asking a Trump aide/didn't get her name... who said Trump is doing everything possible to prevent Russia from cheating in midterms.
Jesus God...
Our mentally ill @POTUS' approach to governing is Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome.
Try to destroy Obamacare so you can “save health care;” threaten war with North Korea, then fake peace; impose tariffs damaging to farmers, then pay off farmers; separate children, blame Democrats. Our mentally ill @POTUS‘ approach to governing is Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome.
KURT ANDERSEN.
I'd like to see some dirt on TRUMP. Six feet of it.
I’d like to see some dirt on Trump. Six feet of it. TWEET OF GOD.
SandyHook kid's parents had to relocate 7x in 5 yrs...death threats..damn Alex Jones...
In the 5 years since Noah Pozner was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, death threats and online harassment have forced his parents to relocate 7 times. “I would love to go see my son’s grave and I don’t get to do that," his mom said.
Fucking Alex Jones.
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