A member of the joint services military honor guard collapsed in the heat before carrying the flag-draped casket of US congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis to lie in state at the US Capitol in Washington, DC 27 July 2020. © AFP 2020 / Doug Mills
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One of the first things you learn in boot camp is to bend your knees slightly whenever standing at attention or parade rest.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise that happens.
That is right. Maybe he did and fell anyway. It would be useful to do a study on the clothing and physiology of it. Ergonomics books say that women can withstand a humid heat better than men. Maybe we should have had a female honor guard out there since it was so heart. Okay, all kidding aside would a different fabric have been "breathed" better? Generals worry about how uniforms look and tinker with it constantly. They worry about wrinkles. But have they studied heat loads soldiers have with different uniforms and different fabrics. Maybe Americans are near stuck up about uniforms as Muslims are about female clothing. Other countries have shorts in their uniforms. Virginia has a semi-tropical climate. Some militaries in tropical countries wear shorts. For a Muslim to see well turned ankle of a woman sends them into fits of joy. Would seeing a knee send a general into a fit of apoplexy or go to SCOTUS to ask for a definition of smut?
ReplyDeleteBet those uniforms were synthetic to keep a crease and not cotton.
Much easier nowadays to simulate a heat load for a person given different fabrics and environmental stress with computer software.
I am not blaming the soldier. I am looking first to the organization. After he fell on top of heat exhaustion or heat stroke he could have brain bleed from the fall and they are standing at attention? How fast is he getting aid?
One more thing.
ReplyDeleteThose masks make it a lot harder to breathe and shed heat.
So score another casualty for Fauci, the asshole.
3 former presidents attended the services for Lewis. Not Trump
ReplyDeleteSmart way to get the minorithy vote and to honor a great man
Be honest Fred Lapides. If Trump would have went the Democrats would have said he was not wanted and made a big stink about it. You know that to be true.
ReplyDeleteThe Washington Post opined:
"In feud with John Lewis, Donald Trump attacked ‘one of the most respected people in America’"
I also note that just because you were a hero before does not mean you are a hero now. Lewis was a hero in the 1960s. Well Benedict Arnold was a hero at Saratoga and not at West Point. Or are you going to tell me that Arnold was a hero at West Point?
John Lewis will go down in infamy with Ted Kennedy and John McCain as an aristocrat. Like them he was a septuagenarian/octogenarian, who relinquished his elected office when they pried it from his cold dead hands. He was 79 years and 10 months and a few days old when he was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer/ What did he think was going to happen? Who was taking care of his constituents for the last 6 months?
I notice in John Lewis's long, long Wikipedia page that it did not list his policy positions. Interesting.
"In January 2001, Lewis boycotted the inauguration of George W. Bush by staying in his Atlanta district. He did not attend the swearing-in"
John Lewis boycotted Trump's inauguration. Trump is personal and transactional. You do him right and eh will do you right. He lives by the Golden rule.
Trump did give his condolences:
“Saddened to hear the news of civil rights hero John Lewis passing,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter after finishing a game of golf. “Melania and I send our prayers to he and his family.”
"Given their tense history, how Mr. Trump would comment on Mr. Lewis’s passing was an open question. Shortly before Mr. Trump posted his tweet about Mr. Lewis’s death, Representative Karen Bass, Democrat of California, urged the president to not comment at all."
So like I said above. If Trump would have went to the visitation or funeral, Democrats
would have made a stink as would you have. I am glad Karen Bass, a possible VP, played bounder.
Too many people in the Democrat Party in general and the Black Caucus have just beat the shit out of people for being white. What is a recent immigrant for the USSR (or any recent immigrant), who moved to Bright Beach (or elsewhere) in the 1980s supposed to make of it. Are they suppose to say "Thank you sir may I have another"? Are you nuts Fred?
I also note that RussinSoCal and the anons before your post talked about heat stress and formations. Other people at this blogsite talk about weapons, tactics, strategy and other things as well as politics. You however always seems to stridently talk about nothing but politics. You are a one trick pony, who is not well informed or having much experience.
Can you at least bring a C game?
Floyd threatened a pregnant mother by holding a gun to her belly and threatening to shoot.
ReplyDeleteThat makes him a paragon of virtue in they eyes of a Democrat voter.
a note hardly appropriate when three former presidents and many in both parties extend condolences...it was a meager statement and heartfelt or not, not very wise for the head of our govt and also, as noted, not wise for a man running for office again. But nice try to make Trump look decent
ReplyDelete11:35 aka Fred
ReplyDeleteA note of condolence was the best that could be done under the circumstance. Those circumstances being that the Democrats are racist, supremacist, fascist and more.
Did you not read that Rep Bass (D) said don't show up or say anything.
If Trump had remained silent, he gets criticized.
If Trump sends condolences, he gets criticized
If Trump shows up, he gets criticized.
So Democrats have set up this circumstance, where they get to have their cake and eat it too, while everyone else has to eat their shit.
On the contrary Trump is very magnanimous given that Lewis just gave Trump shit for 3 straight years.
Fred can you name the prostitutes that peed on the bed?
You cannot, but I can name most of the people, who made up the Russian hoax and their parts in the scam. Soon we will be down to all the dates, meeting and emails.
Christofer Steals primary source was a Russian lawyer living in the US. Explain that one intel clerk.
Trump could no more go to John Lewis's funeral than to John McCain's funeral. People like Meghan McCain complained about Trump and then nonetheless get the shit kicked out of them by liberals on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteAdmit it. You wanted Trump to request to attend the funeral only to be denied. You would have snicked just like you snicker every time Lucy pulls the football out away form Charlie Brown.
You called yourself out by name (nickname; The Parrot). Furthermore, you linked to your site.
About your site: I just read another atrocious CNN POC. So since you are a devout and religiously observant liberal are you going to refer to the women on your site as women or "individuals with cervixes"? I think you should do the latter. I would not want you to violate the precepts of your religion and zinn. Also, so as to be inclusive and anti-racists are you going to include individuals without cervixes in your line up?
CNN Doesn’t Name ‘Women’ – Only ‘Individuals with Cervixes’ – in Cancer Screenings Story
PS: How come you made the mistake of typing mommies instead of mommy's?
I don't expect much from you in the way of logic, worldliness, or good sense, but given your background could we at least have proper spelling?
"A profile of Bass published this week by the Atlantic to inoculate her on being a young communist, details her history in the 1970s of working with the Venceremos Brigades and her many trips to Castro’s Cuba."
ReplyDeleteYes, some people keep their inoculations up to date by reading the politically correct newspapers. It protects them against the truth, you see.
continue sniping like girls on rag...your reveal more and more about who and what you are and we laugh at you and your odd behavior
ReplyDeleteWhat a loser, the patch cord parrot.
DeleteProfesor, ¿conoce su esposa los insultos femeninos que usa?
ReplyDeleteПрофессор, знает ли ваша жена женские пятна, которые вы используете?