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OK, I have posted one rock artist who seems to have more respect for veterans than the Sec of Stage-Prancing Hegseth seems to have.

Here's another rock artist who, in this song takes an imaginary turn, but still expresses respect for a Marine.


Stan Ridgway - Camouflage (1986)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
I was a PFC on a search patrol huntin' Charlie down
It was in the jungle wars of '65
My weapon jammed and I got stuck way out and all alone
And I could hear the enemy movin' in close outside
Just then I heard a twig snap and I grabbed my empty gun
And I dug in scared while I counted down my fate
And then a big marine, a giant with a pair of friendly eyes
Appeared there at my shoulder and said wait
When he came in close beside me he said
"Don't worry, son, I'm here
If Charlie wants to tangle now he'll have two to dodge."
I said, "Well thanks a lot."
I told him my name and asked him his
And he said, "The boys just call me Camouflage."

[Chorus]
Whoa Camouflage
Things are never quite the way they seem
Whoa Camoufalge
I was awfully glad to see this big marine

[Verse 2]
Well I was gonna ask him where he came from
When we heard the bullets fly
Coming through the brush
And all around our ears
It was then I saw this big Marine light a fire in his eye
And it was strange but suddenly I forgot my fears

...

Verse 5]
And I knew there was something weird about him
Cause when I turned around he was pullin' a big palm tree
Right up out of the ground
And swattin' those Charlies with it from here to Kingdom Come

When he led me out of danger
I saw my camp and waved goodbye
He just winked at me from the jungle and then was gone
And when I got back to my HQ, I told 'em about my night
And the battle I'd spent with a big marine named Camouflage

[Verse 6]
When I said his name a soldier gulped
And a medic took my arm
And led me to a green tent on the right
He said, "You may be tellin' the truth boy
But this here is Camouflage
And he's been right here since he passed away last night."

In fact, he's been here all week long

But before he went he said, "Semper Fi,"
And said his only wish
Was to save a young marine caught in a barrage
So here, take his dog tag, son
I know he'd want you to have it now."
And we both said a prayer for a big marine named Camouflage
...


US Senator-elect Scott Colom (D-MS) is not an AIPAC pod-person like the harridan he just defeated.


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US Senator Chris van Hollen (D-MD) also correctly called D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Vindaloo Patel an "utter disgrace."

"FUNNY 2"

Top intel Dem unsure if Alice Huang is a Chinese spy or useful idiot' after classified briefing
www.politico.com

... Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the likely incoming chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is unsure whether a business executive who cultivated close ties with Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is a Chinese spy, based on information he received from U.S. intelligence officials in a classified briefing earlier this week.

In a wide-ranging interview on Wednesday, Himes told POLITICO he left the briefing given by heads of U.S. intelligence agencies to top lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees without clarity on whether Alice Huang knowingly cultivated information for the Chinese government on the $4 trillion U.S. chip company, or was a "useful idiot" unaware of China's wider espionage activities.

"What's the relationship with Alice Huang and the Chinese, and what do we know about what influence or information was traded? Because today, at least, I don't know," he said.

He noted that the classified briefing touched on multiple subjects, including the Nvidia CEO's relationship with Huang, who is associated with Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed. ...



Oh, this looks to be a growing issue for the Trump admin ...

'Answer in front of God and country': GOP turns on Lutnick over chips
www.politico.com

... The blast radius from Nvidia's espionage scandal is now spreading to the Commerce Department, potentially setting up Secretary Howard Lutnick or other agency leaders to be the Trump administration's scapegoats.

Recent reports that the Commerce Department failed to take action on Megaspeed, the Singapore-based firm at the center of the spying and chip-smuggling allegations, have intensified scrutiny of the agency's decisions to allow more foreign chip sales, particularly of Nvidia's advanced artificial intelligence chips. Over the past 24 hours, more than half a dozen Republicans have demanded answers -- and potentially congressional testimony -- from Lutnick and top deputies over whether they put private tech interests above national security.

"The obvious question is why did he choose to sell advanced chips?," Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said in an interview Wednesday. "Secretary Lutnick needs to answer that in front of God and country. If I were he, I'd call a press conference this afternoon and explain what happened and why he agreed to sell em chips, and I would stop doing it."

"I mean, there will be a congressional investigation," Kennedy added. "But I don't think he ought to wait on Congress."

Kennedy and other prominent Republicans are calling for Lutnick to explain the agency's lack of action to block Megaspeed from buying advanced chips, despite U.S. intelligence warnings that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was having an affair with a Megaspeed executive suspected of being a Chinese asset. ...


Pyramids: Solving the Mystery
smithsonianchannel.ca

... How were the pyramids built? And how have they stood up over time? Thanks to CGI imagery and footage filmed from the sky, this series sets out to relive the construction of the pyramids and to recreate Egypt as it was more than 5,000 years ago. ...


There's also this ...

North Korea posts revised constitution online on propaganda website
www.koreatimes.co.kr

... North Korea has reposted its full constitution on a state propaganda website, more than 2 1/2 years after taking the document offline following leader Kim Jong-un's declaration of a two hostile state policy.

The version posted on Naenara appears to be the text revised in March, which the outlet said was amended at the first session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly on March 23.

Previously, Naenara had pulled down the full text of the constitution in March 2024, along with its sections on modern history and overseas Koreans, which were believed to contain references to "unification" and "one nation."

The removal followed Kim's declaration at a party plenary meeting in late 2023 that the two Koreas are separate, hostile states, and his order in January the following year to strip expressions such as "peaceful unification" and "national unity" from the constitution.

At that time, Kim said he will no longer consider South Korea a counterpart for reconciliation and unification.

The website appears to have removed the old text because it conflicted with North Korea's new policy toward the South.

The text now on Naenara is largely identical to the version Seoul's unification ministry obtained and made public in May, which added a new territorial clause, dropped all references to unification with the South, elevated the leader's status and power, and granted him command of the nuclear forces.

There are some minor additions in the Naenara version, however, such as ...


Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (1985)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
This song was released in 1985 as the closer to the album of the same name and is the third single from it, reaching #16 in the UK that October. It did not chart in the US.

The song is about the brotherly bonds forged by the destructive fire and pains of war. A bond between soldiers on both sides of the trenches. It focuses on the Falklands War, which was going on when Dire Straits lead singer Mark Knopfler wrote the song in 1982. The Falklands War was a conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom over islands off the coast of Argentina that each country claims rights to. A new version of the song was released in 2007 by Knopfler in order to raise money to bring veterans of the war back to the Falklands as a way to treat their PTSD.

The video shows images of World War I, which corresponds with the theme of the song about war and brothers in arms.

The song is reported to be the first ever released as a CD single. It was released in the UK in 1985.

[Verse 1]
These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

[Verse 2]
Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battle raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms
...


#2. Public education IS the problem here. And the most impoverished districts receive the most funding.
Idiot.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger

Simply
Not
True

ex. NJ

www.google.com

Bergen County Special Services: Consistently ranks as the highest-cost district per pupil (around $97,000+ per student for specialized services).
Asbury Park School District (Monmouth County): $65,256 per student.
Brigantine Public School District (Atlantic County): $57,558 per student.
North Wildwood School District (Cape May County)
Cape May City School District (Cape May County)
Margate City School District (Atlantic County)
Long Beach Island School District (Ocean County)
Camden City School District (Camden County): $49,099 per pupil.
Somerset County Vocational and Technical School District: $48,372 per pupil.
Saddle River (Bergen County, K-6 non-special services): Close to $47,000

Bergen Co Special Services deals with special needs children
except for Camden the rest are middle to upper middle class towns

Some districts do get extra state and federal funding because their tax base is decimated by poverty

these are things called facts

Jeff is a lying piece of shit trash person a troll, a disgusting vile shit goblin

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