The United States is a friggin mess.

[mtpockets]

You and the little gang with Dr. Fucci and Jezzel freestyle celebrate fitness gurus can all now wear yo phucking goggles now for protectum. What will the little clown come up with next.

How many trash cans did guys like me throw yo @sses in and roll down the steps to still be such sissies?

[LWW]

That’s very amusing, and now I see what you were up to in the Air Force.

I told you once I knew a sharp strapping young man whom joined the Air Force, he was damn near a MAN @ 18 when going in, when he got out, well, he don’t seem to know what the hell his is now?

[Desparado]

I spent some time in Bosnia and the FYR of Macedonia in the 90's. I have two close friends who lived through the early 90's in BH and Croatia.

Few things scare me more than civil unrest.

Grew up in the 70s and 80s in Italy where we had far right and far left terrorism galore. They were called "the lead years" for a reason. They'd bomb trains and train stations, public squares, anything. They'd get into shooting matches in the streets with the opposite factions. They kidnapped and killed or maimed business owners. Heck they kidnapped and killed the frigging prime minister! Oh and while all this was going on, we had the Palestinian terrorists hijacking every other plane and bombing airports. It was a frigging zoo. We even had a couple of failed armed attempts at overthrowing the government. At some point you just made peace with the idea that every time you took a train or a plane it could all go pear shaped.

Then in the 90s we had the mafia wars where different mafia families were "genociding" each other, killing every single member of the other family up to the 5th degree of relation. Women, children, elderly folks, wives, in-laws, anyone. Then the government said "enough of this chit" and put the military in the streets to stop the carnage. So the mafia went first on a killing spree of any prosecutor, law enforcement, reporter, and judge involved in mafia prosecution, including blowing up an entire section of the freeway to kill one judge. Then they went on a random terrorist spree with random bombings. I remember the judges, prosecutors, chief of police etc in their armored cars with army escort in toe zooming through the city sirens blaring, not stopping at anything: stop signs, traffic lights, pedestrian crossings, you name it. Fully armed soldiers at every corner.

So when people ask me if I'm scared of covid, I feel like laughing.

Sounds familiar. The random bombings was the scariest of them all. That was also the first time I've heard and experienced Martial Law. Eomrat, I agree with you 100%. Not scared of many things but, yes, civil unrest is a different beast.

[Desparado]

Lol..it's like the left side is the 035 and then there's LWW in every thread like...

I lol'd for real.

[sy2502]

You're a bad ass! Thanks for posting this as it puts some things in perspective. Sorry you had to live through that, but glad you came out the other side a stronger person.

On spread.

No, I'm not, it's not like I had a choice. The only praise I may have some right to is the fact my best friend's husband was the personal bodyguard of the last judge in line to get the job after all his predecessors had been murdered by the mafia. They lived in the same apartment building of the judge in question. His predecessor had been killed by bombing his mom's apartment building.



The judge before that was the one killed by blowing up a piece of freeway


Nobody wanted to be in that building, nobody even wanted their kids to play with the judge's kids because of this stuff.I thought it was really chitty to leave people who were doing something really good and brave completely alone and isolated, so my husband and I were the only people who would regularly go visit. I think regular people have to do their part even if it's just something small like giving their support.

Incidentally the judge is still alive and well to this day and all the mafia bosses that did that crap ended up in jail so sometimes the good guys win.

[eomrat]

No, I'm not, it's not like I had a choice.

Looks like east Baghdad

[sy2502]

Looks like east Baghdad

It was intense, let's put it that way

[mtpockets]