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He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

The revolution will be supervised.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Found liable for massive fraud, is required to post a massive bond, gets a break, then files a *fraudulent* bond!

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Bark louder, little dog.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

It could be worse. Vance could have said “post-menopausal sows.” Waiting for that audiotape to surface.

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Bob Hope and Arlington

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Bob Hope will be turning 100 on the 29th of May, and it made me wonder whether it would be possible, if he desired, for him to be buried in Arlington National Cemetary. I don’t believe he ever served officially in the military, but I would be hard pressed to think of someone who has done more for our military over the years than Hope.

Does anyone know what the requirements are? Are there loopholes/exceptions?

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  1. 1.

    Ricky

    There can be exceptions & Presidential waivers, but it is “holy ground” for the military, so a Prez must be careful. However, I think that Hope would be almost universally welcomed in Arlington by vets (IMO, of course).

    Of course, for a Democratic administration, all it takes is a wad of cash & your “word” that you served in the merchant marines & the admin won’t even check, but will fight for your placement – until they’re found out, of course.

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    Andrew Lazarus

    Ricky, I don’t think the resume fraud you refer to is limited to Democrats. I’ve seen several conservatives pretend to be in the military, including one of the leaders of the anti-anti-Iraq movement. (I think he quit.) Hasn’t the military lost a lot of WW2 records to fire?

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    John Yuda

    Ah, yes, of course. You know you’ve won an argument with the left when they have the audacity to present facts.

    Back to topic, though: Bob Hope could get in easily if somebody who’s en route to a plot gave it up, I believe.

    I’m inclined to think that Mr. Hope wouldn’t want to be there, though. He’d probably find it as being presumptuous on his on part.

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    Seth

    I think it’d be a political no-brainer and a good idea. If nothing else, he’s probably the luckiest man alive – what other human being has been in virtually every combat zone in the world since 1940?

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