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Open thread 12/4/2025 — 14 Comments

  1. A very funny skit. Have seen it often.
    Cold here in my part of CO. Now, at my house about 9, not sure how cold it did get. We had around 5 inches of snow yesterday. Very much needed.

    So they got the DC Pipebomber. Lets hope.

    It is not a War Crime.

  2. “They got the pipe bomber”.
    It was ignored for so long, I’m convinced it was a (D-contolled) government psy-op.
    Did this guy do it, or is he a patsy?
    At this point, I don’t trust anything being said.

  3. This might be very interesting, shed some light, etc. (She’s already unloaded on Canada’s Carney…):

    “Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss launching new show on Just the News podcast network“—
    https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/hld8a-former-british-prime-minister-liz-truss-launching-new-show-just-news

    (Wasn’t sure whether to post it here or in the next thread—who knows, maybe she’ll talk about her digs…)

    + Bonus (talk about shedding light…)

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5632354-shapiro-harris-memoir-dispute/

  4. The “pipe bomber”, if he knows anything they’ll move heaven or hell for him, if he. knows nothing he’ll burn.

  5. The issue about survivors of the attack on the drug boat reminded me of something…

    A Japanese fighter pilot said the when other Japanese pilots had to bail out over their own country, American fighters would regularly machine-guy them while they were hanging from their parachutes.

    The justification for this was presumably that the Japanese pilots were not and could not be surrendering, since they were over friendly territory, and hence they could return to combat.

    And indeed, I believe American forces did at least sometimes rescue Japanese sailors and airmen at sea after their ships had been sunk or their planes had been shot down.

  6. David Foster:

    As I recall, the massacre of Japanese sailors after a successful strike on their ship was a plot beat in Wouk’s “War and Remembrance.”

  7. On-topic: Yorkshiremen are like Scotsmen who’ve had their generosity squeezed out.

    @David Foster, @huxley: The US practiced unrestricted air and submarine warfare in the Pacific in WWII–meaning attacking any ships whatever without warning and without attempting to rescue survivors, even going so far as deliberately sinking their lifeboats, even though they ended up killing over 10,000 Allied POWs and slave laborers in addition to Japanese soldiers, sailors, merchant seamen, and fishermen. As one American soldier said in a different war

    You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.

    American war crimes in WWII are not fiction or revisionism. It’s good that we make more efforts to avoid them and punish them nowadays, but wars aren’t won by saints and angels.

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