Chelb posted:

cormorants, probably double crested but not gonna look it up

yellow rumped warbler im guessing by the little yellow stripe

Chelb posted:

Rodatose posted:

black bellied whistling ducks and a white ibis

Hollismason posted:

State finally agreed to send aid that they were suppose to send this quarter to bad I already had to take out a loan to cover it


Decided to say gently caress everything and apply for this Masters Program in Disability Organization and Studies

Avshalom posted:

my father's whole russian language class at university failed, including him and several actual native speakers, and in the end he alone got a token credit because he failed the least badly and the university marking system demands that you pass at least one student

Randler posted:

Nah, I think he's going for an "All Americans are nationalists, so why single out the white ones." woke-strafe.

rear end struggle posted:

a lot of native speakers also seem to be able to speak fluently but when it comes to spelling are horrific


strange seeing as russian is almost phonetic

rear end struggle posted:

isnt this what grouchio is gonna do after undergrad?

Swan Oat posted:

Unstressed vowels are impossible imo, speaking as a non native speaker anyway

rear end struggle posted:

grouchio is trying to make his autism a career

Matoi Ryuko posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU

Arrgytehpirate posted:

Should I go with my parents to visit my grandma? Leave Friday and come back sometime Sunday. There isn't poo poo to do in Ohio but then again there isn't poo poo to do in Morgantown on break either sooooo

Swan Oat posted:

do you like your grandma? is she healthy and/or relatively young for a granny? these are the considerations. but probably you should go, old people appreciate seeing their grandkdis.

Arrgytehpirate posted:

She's getting ready to move from Ohio to a community in Virginia. It's sort of this pick what you want assisted living place. You live in an apartment and are free to do as much or as little as you want. Like, you can cook or not, do your own laundry or not, drive or not. It's actually a pretty neat place. I think I'm gonna go since she's really getting up there in age. She's also selling the house so my parents are going up to help her sort through paperwork, like grandpa saved every tax return they've ever done and poo poo. I guess I could probably be useful moving boxes and poo poo.

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The Americans published daily body counts. This horrified liberals, but delighted the American people, who for too long had had no good news nor any way to measure success. And the Americans took few prisoners. Most of those they captured they handed off to the Iraqis; the lucky ones were shot quickly. The President had accepted the finding of the Department of Justice that all ISIS fighters were unlawful combatants not subject to Geneva Convention protections. They were like pirates of old, and piracy was stamped out only when governments began hanging them. So when American forces caught a band of ISIS fighters who had beheaded two captured American pilots, they were tried by a Marine court martial – the videotape they had unwisely made documenting their atrocity being the main evidence – and were shot by firing squad the next morning. The media was horrified when the President told a press conference, “If you murder Americans, you will die. Period.” His popularity rose to 70%.

It had been critical for ISIS to maintain its caliphate, a physical nation state-like territory where it could govern, where it could plan and train, and where the fools and psychopaths who bought into its sick philosophy could gather. The Wildman understood this, and he set out to ruthlessly dismember the Islamic State, to kill its members, and to demonstrate to a Middle East that doubted American power and resolve under the feckless Barack Obama that America was still the proverbial strong horse. There would be no half-measures, no ambiguous ending. America would crush ISIS; there could be no other outcome.

When the war ended after two months, the President’s popularity was 80% and the final body count was 26,763 ISIS fighters dead. The Islamic State was just a terrible memory. Iran, North Korea, Russia and China all saw and understood that they would need to govern themselves accordingly in the face of a post-Obama America. And it would be years before any terrorist group dared again threaten the United States.

Swan Oat posted:

all this talk of mad dog mattis is making me think of this amazing kurt schlichter jam from last year http://ijr.com/opinion/2015/11/250238-what-defeating-isis-would-look-like/


hahahahaha