...are two cans short of a six pack.

it didn't last long, as I cracked another one open and became 3 cans short

I feel your pain...in that when that happens to hubby, I have to go out, rain, sleet, or snow, and refill his stash.

My wife has a drink once in a blue moon. I never send her for beer. I get what I need, and if it isn't enough then tough on me.

'Telegraphing' of plan to retake Mosul not unprecedented, may be strategic

"U.S. Marines publically declared their intentions months in advance to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2004. The announcement allowed insurgents to "escape" and prepare for one of the deadliest operations of the Iraq War.

In weeks leading up to the American and Afghan invasion of the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in 2010, coalition commanders all but announced the time and date of the invasion.

"It's no secret we're going there,” Marine Gen. Larry Nicholson told Reuters two months before the assault began. “There's an inevitability that there's a date with destiny with Marjah and we're moving toward that."

Leaflets were dropped by helicopter all over the remote Afghan city warning civilians and insurgents that an offensive was coming, while Afghan and ISAF officials were quoted in Western newspapers and on Afghan TV and radio saying an operation involving thousands of U.S., British and Afghan troops was imminent.

In 2010, like today, U.S. military commanders explain that modern communications make it all but impossible to hide or keep undercover large military operations. As a practical matter, the effort to conceal what insurgents already expect may not be worth the effort, they say. And perhaps more importantly, some U.S. military planners believe the publicity for the offensive outweighs the secrecy. In a day and age where protecting non-combatants is paramount, telegraphing an assault provides civilians an opportunity to flee."

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First they report on fake 7 foot ISIS fighters videos...now this?

Atoning for Bilbo?

and a whole host of other things.

Obviously, I'd have to problem if any of those things were true, but to them it's endless proof that he's EVIL personified.

*sigh*

who else is he gonna feed to the lions?! #notmyjoke

he needs their firstborns for sacrifice.

An elderly right-wing relative of mine insisted she could tell that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were good selfless Christian men who would never lie to the American people and how dare I question their pure patriotic intentions. She died right before the 2008 elections, the results of which probably would've killed her.