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Being watched by this guy outside my window early last summer.

At the risk of getting myself hurt, AB wearing fire gear at a demonstration during a school assembly. She was the teacher the kids chose. 2007.

Camp Patriot, Kuwait, about mid-day, sometime during the summer of 2008.

Turkeys taking a leisurely stroll through our yard last year.

Alpo's Cool Photo thread got me to thinking about what cool photos other Saloonatics might have taken themselves. No specific subject matter, just photos you have taken that you find interesting or cool. Maybe add a brief explanation of what, when, where. That sort of thing. I suppose I would also grudgingly accept photos taken by spouse, child or family member, so long as it is a personal photo, not professional. Of course, I'll start with what I think is the coolest I've taken. P-51 Mustangs fly into the sunset at the "Gathering of Mustangs and Legends" at Rickenbacker International Airport. September 2007. 35mm film photo.

AND! Upon establishment of a bureaucracy, the first goal of the bureaucracy is the continuation of the bureaucracy.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1156993475396945?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v Best description of the Army ever. Sorry non-Facebookers

Yeah... About that...

We both did. November 17, 1990. We decided we would get married when we would have a week's break in college so we could go on a honeymoon. Saddam Hussein and Uncle Sam decided honeymoon's aren't really that important.

He landed with Canadian troops on D-Day, and after fighting through the day, was shot by a nervous sentry after having a cigarette. One bullet was deflected by a cigarette case given to him by his brother. Here is what makes him a hero in my book:

Someone at our office gave that puzzle as a gift at our office Christmas party last year. It's actually much bigger.

Negative there, Skippy!

Easy, just remove the reference to "the Hegelian Dialectic," and leave the remainder. Point made, problem solved!

Hegel was generally thinking of logic, and was using the dialectic process to work toward what I will call "truths" by reconciling the thesis and antithesis. On the other hand, I would proffer that colleges and the professors that push a communist perspective do so as Marx and Engels did. They have an endpoint in mind, and use the process to get where they want to be.

It's not that they didn't get it detailed, they got it wrong.

That would be the Marx and Engels approach, not Hegel.

That is not the Hegelian Dialectic as I learned it way back when in college philosophy class. I mean, maybe if you squint one eye and close the other, and cant your head to the side, it might kind of, sort of, almost resemble the Hegelian Dialectic, but it is a stretch. At its very simplest, there are premises. One is a "thesis," or positive statement, and an "antithesis," or a negative statement contradicting the first. Unlike Plato and others, who would discard both, Hegel asserted a third option, "synthesis," which reconciles the two premises creating a new "higher truth." If we take the synthesis as the new thesis, this can go on ad infinitum. Hegel applied the dialectic process to both logic and things such as understanding the consciousness. This brief explanation doesn't really do the process justice, but it gets the point across. It is perhaps interesting to note that Marx and Engels were critical of Hegel and his philosophy, but essentially used it to say that in the contest between capitalism and socialism (thesis & antithesis) the result would be communism, hence ending the need for further dialectic. Again, they were more in depth, but the above is probably closer to their thoughts than Hegel's.

Kind of the point

I'm still trying to figure out why our American is driving a right hand drive vehicle.

For context, the full quote is "Not wishing to be left behind by Hank Azaria, I would like to apologise on behalf on Monty Python for all the many sketches we did making fun of white English people We're sorry for any distress we may have caused." This after Azaria apologized to "every single Indian person" for voicing Abu on The Simpsons. Very much tongue in cheek.

Operation Dessert Storm

Overcompensation?