Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

Giving up is unforgivable.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Consistently wrong since 2002

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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Today, pictures from valued commenter Litlebritdifrnt.

I thought I would send some more photographs from my trip to the National Arboretum as I mentioned some of them in the captions but did not attach photos because of the limit of 5.

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This gives a good overview of the expanse of the site. Like I said previously it could get days to visit all of the memorials.

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While the men were serving overseas the women stepped in and took over these important tasks. It was a little known effort in the wars but fortunately there was an excellent BBC drama several years ago that depicted the girls from cities that joined up and learned farming. It was hard work, long days, and little or no reward, but it kept the nation fed.

Taken on 2018-06-10 00:00:00

It was very simple, but beautiful.

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This was another one that hit me hard. I lost several friends during the conflict and I still shed a tear when I think of them.

Taken on 2018-06-10 00:00:00

National Service was our version of the Draft.

 

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    Central Planning

    So Litlebritdifrnt… are you aware you tilt your phone to the right when taking pictures? I turn on the grid lines on my phone to help me get pictures level.

    Anyway, the National Arboretum looks like an interesting place to visit. Thanks for the pics!

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    HeartlandLiberal

    Excellent photos with very moving and historically informative content. Thanks for sharing. We hope to travel to UK within next coupe of years to spent a few weeks, two days in London in 2015 on our way back from several weeks in Europe was hardly time to really get a feel for life there.My family traces back to Cheshire, my forefathers came over in mid-1600s to America. My wife has roots in Wales over two centuries back. Again, excellent photos, thanks for sharing.

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    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    Thanks for these. The granite Star of David memorial is heart-grabbing in its beautiful simplicity.

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    raven

    I had it in my mind that at least one SAS trooper lay still and froze to death rather than give up his position but I can’t find it anywhere?

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    stinger

    Wonderful photos of what looks like a beautiful place. I googled it the last time you posted photos of it, and apparently the National Memorial Arboretum is more or less smack dab in the middle of the country (such as you can have with an irregularly shaped island). That’s nice, making access relatively equal for all Britons. If ever I get back to GB I’ll make a point of visiting it.

    I want to be a Lumber Jill!

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    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Central Planning: Actually I don’t have a camera on my phone so these were with my actual camera and have to admit to just very shoddy photography skills.

    @raven: I had never heard that! However one of my favorite stories was this: A British Army Platoon was using a small hut in the middle of nowhere and were led by a very wet nosed, chinless wonder 2nd Lt., with his Sgt. Major “minder”. At some point they were plotting their next move in the hut when some long haired, bearded, swarthy types walked in the door and told the troops to vacate the premises as this was “their” hut. 2nd Lt. got all uppity and started with “I say good man, I don’t know who you are but you are not going to order us around” The men glared at him. Sgt. Major said “no problem mate were out of here” 2nd Lt. “Sgt. Maj. I will not…..” at which point the Sgt. Maj. tugged on his arm, and whispered in his ear “They’re fucking SAS Sir” The troops left.

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