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I kind of found this pretty easy.
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I also just heard the news and was deeply saddened. She was such a joy to watch in Grease, and we still stop and watch it every time we see it on TV.

The world just lost a wonderful woman.

May she RIP

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Can this be right?

Quote from: Jolly Blue Giant on August 08, 2022, 11:06:30 AM

I recently spent $16,500 on this registered Black Angus bull.

I put him out with the herd but he just ate grass and wouldn't even look at a cow.

I was beginning to think I had paid more for that bull than he was worth.

Anyway......I had the Vet come and take a look at him.

He said,, the bull was very healthy, but possibly just a little young, so he gave me some pills to feed him once per day.

The bull started to service the cows within two days....... all my cows!

He even broke through the fence and bred with all of my neighbor's cows! He's like a machine!

I don't know what was in the pills the Vet gave him ...

... but they kind of taste like peppermint.

Maybe I'm dumb today but I had to read it several times before the proverbial light bulb went off.

        

I can see how a good discussion can deteriorate into this.

Anyway, that is false that Japan was ready to surrender before the bombs were dropped. The Emporer had no intention of surrendering and their top generals were preparing the general public to take up arms to fight till the death to protect their homeland. Surrender was not even considered.

Truman did issue a warning to Japan, to surrender or face the utmost dire consequences. That said he did NOT mention what he had in store for them and was criticized for that. But I doubt Japan would have listened anyway.

As far as what Admiral Halsey said, later on, I have told this many times, I had a great friend who was on the USS Missouri when the Japanese surrendered. My friend was a Marine assigned to that ship and every day they were training to invade Japan. When word came that the Japanese were going to surrender and after they did, Admiral Halsey addressed the crew and basically said 'Thank God for those bombs as they saved who knows how many lives both American and Japanese. This damn war is finally over.

No one really thinks of how many Japanese lives were saved by not invading Japan. As I said, Japan was already arming the general public to defend Japan and if so, they predicted more civilians would have died in the invasion and afterward, then died because of the bombing.

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For me just a complete lucky guess with unused letters. No strategy involved just trying to throw some out there and see what sticks. Pleasant surprise when they all turned up green.

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Quote from: Ed Vette on August 07, 2022, 01:44:24 PMHe did but remember Walt hid it in behind the cover of the electric outlet and used it on the woman who put a hit on him at one time. He almost did it earlier but then she sold him in her distribution network.

 You asked how Huell was involved in this. I think I answered that.

Quote from: Ed Vette on August 07, 2022, 12:28:04 PMHow did Huell help Walter poison the kid? Walter used the Lillies in his back yard to produce the poison on the kid but kept the vial of Ricin hidden and finally used it on that psycho bitch.

Just from my memory, I think Huell pickpocketed the ricin cigarette and gave it to Saul.

Better Call Saul Finally Resolves One Of Breaking Bad's Greatest Cliffhangers

Nice article

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/recaps/better-call-saul-finally-resolves-one-of-breaking-bad-s-greatest-cliffhangers/ar-AA10gHsJ?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=f0a0f58ffdec42c498bde2f231d442fd

 I was never a huge fan. When the original came out I was overseas and never got to see that, but when I married, my wife was a huge fan, so we watched all the originals, and, by now I have seen most of them several times.
I watched Star Trek The Next Generation for the first couple of years but then I sort of drifted away and never really came back.
I did start watching Star Trek Discovery and saw most of season 1, but again, I got lost somewhere and always meant to continue but never did.

 Maybe I am not understand something here, are you saying it was wrong to drop those bombs?

If so, would it have been better to have us invade Japan and end up having maybe
 a million casualties because that was the estimate that Truman got when he inquired about it?

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-invasion-japan-would-have-left-maybe-millions-dead-185884#:~:text=The%20result%20was%20more%20than%2050%2C000%20U.S.%20casualties%2C,would%20have%20made%20Okinawa%20look%20like%20a%20picnic.

As I said, it was a no-win choice for Truman, and he showed tremendous courage when he decided to do what he did. Japan was the enemy, he gave them every chance to surrender, yet they refused. Whatever the consequences, Truman did the right thing--American lives, at that time, were much more important than the enemies.
And, does anyone really believe,had Germany or Japan had their own nuclear weapon, they wouldn't have used it?

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There were several good choices for that 2nd letter, I chose one and it worked.

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Great pixs as always Lou.

Which yacht was yours?

A very hot Saturday and no place to go but sit in the nice AC room and watch a couple of movies.

#1-- a brand new movie on Hulu--"The Prey"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11866324/.

It is a very interesting premise. I don't know if anyone is or was a fan of the Predator movie series. I know I saw the first one with Arnold S and possibly the second one. After that, I really wasn't interested. So they have brought it back with a surprisingly interesting twist. It takes place in 1707 and deals with this Preditor involved with Indians, mostly the Commanche nation. It got a very good write-up in our daily paper, so I figured, what the heck, sounds interesting enough and I was not disappointed. As most know I am a huge fan of westerns, Cowboys, and Indians, and this had a lot of Indians. Anyway, not to go into too much detail, but I found the novelty of having this creature fight Indians and others to be quite interesting and enjoyable. There is some blood (nothing too graphic)and lots of action and the young lady who plays the lead of the Indians was quite good. If this is your thing, a really enjoyable couple of hours.

The second movie I had wanted to see for a while--"Unforgivable" starring an almost unrecognizable Sanda Bullock.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11233960/

It is a very dark movie, not a chuckle in it which is quite a change for Ms. Bullock, but she was just great in her role.

The movie is about a woman, just getting released from prison for murdering a sheriff. Not everyone is happy she is being released. It follows her journey dealing with her parole agent, getting and holding a job, where she has to live, and most of all trying to find out about a younger sister who was sent elsewhere when Ms. Bullock was jailed and Ms. Bullock never knew where he sister was. As I said, a very dark and sometimes depressing movie, but I found it fascinating, almost feeling how Ms. Bullock must feel dealing with the everyday hardships of being an ex-con and the wrath she is getting from the police, etc. Ms. Bullock's performance is truly remarkable. I like this movie a lot.

From what I've read and learned, Truman knew he would take tremendous heat, both positive and negative when he gave the order to drop the bomb.
Again, just from my knowledge, at the time, we only had the two bombs ready and if Japan didn't surrender after the second, Truman bluffed that there would be more, but he knew there wasn't another, at least for a while, and the invasion would have taken place anyway. It all worked out for the best, at least for us, that Japan finally surrendered.

Not to change anything here, but years ago, while I worked I used to listen to a walkman (remember those) and I always listened to Imus in the morning. He was mostly fluff and stuff, but he was truly a great interviewer. One morning he had on the Captain of the plane which dropped the second bomb, on Nagasaki. He had written a book on it and he was on to promote it. That interview lasted about 45 minutes without a commercial and it might have been the most fascinating interview I have ever listened to. I forgot the Captain's name, but the story he told of being on the runway, waiting to take off, supposed to go to a different target but it was cloudy so it was changed to Nagasaki, dropping the bomb and having to make a certain turn to get out of the way of the shockwave. The most interesting thing he said, he went to visit Nagasaki about 3 weeks after the bomb, Japan had surrendered and he wanted to see the damage. He said he asked his fellow officers if he should wear his side gun, and they told him, what for, there is nothing left down there.