Ironhold

I've been talking to a *lot* of Star Wars fans lately, and the general consensus seems to be that having Finn as the lead would have made for a far more compelling story arc, what with "former storm trooper turned Jedi knight" being seen as essentially a kind of redemption arc.

The fact that this was a lunchtime matinee and people all around me were falling asleep does more to condemn this film than anything I could ever write in a family publication.

Copies of the film are very prolific in the wild, yes. Are you just wanting to know who's seen it, or asking for reviews?

By way of contrast, here's a Canadian ration currently in service:

2 for 1 in which he reviews a brand-new US military ration *and* the menu it replaced:

This is his take on a trio of light-weight emergency preparedness rations:

This is a guy on YouTube whose channel is dedicated entirely to military rations and their civilian counter-parts, past and present. If you're thinking about doing military rations as part of your food storage, you might want to give some of his videos a watch. This one, for example, his him trying three meals out of this case of twelve to show off what they have.

Full title of the work as listed on the title page: Midway The Battle That Doomed Japan The Japanese Navy's Story by Mitsuo Fuchida Former Captain, Imperial Japanese Navy and Masatake Okumiya Former Commander, Imperial Japanese Navy The edition I have was put out by Ballantine Books in 1955 and features a foreword by Admiral Spruance himself. It was translated by the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, who if I read it right have the copyright as of the date of publication. As Fuchida explains at the beginning of the book, the loss was so devastating that for a full decade it was illegal for anyone to publicly discuss the battle, let alone the full details. The reason why he used an early draft of his report as the basis for the book was that his final draft, upon submission to his superiors, seemingly vanished; he has no idea where it went. The only reason he even had this early draft was because he'd absentmindedly stowed it in a foot locker and forgotten about it until such time as he was cleaning the foot locker out some time later. Essentially, the original Japanese release of the book was the first time most Japanese civilians even knew the battle had taken place, let alone how it turned the war for the United States. For obvious reasons, when the United States Navy found out about the book, they quickly bought the rights to produce an English-language version so that they could study the Japanese side of the battle. The annotations are in place to note differences in the American and Japanese accounts, especially since Japanese intelligence was so poor and at least one key witness Fuchida relies on in a scene contradicts other witnesses whose recorded statements were in US Navy possession.

I have a book written by one of the Japanese naval officers who was at the battle; it's based on an early draft of his official report, and was translated & annotated by the US Navy. If anything, the film understates how badly unprepared the Japanese were for Midway. The Japanese military leaders figured that Midway would be an easy victory, and so they completely ignored anything and everything that could even hint at failure because they felt it to be unrealistic. Couple this with their poor intelligence (not only did they not realize the US had done a rush job of getting a damaged carrier operational, they hit the same carrier twice during the battle without even realizing it and presumed it sank both times), and you can see why they were so vulnerable to utter destruction.

"Always preach the gospel. Use words if necessary." Sometimes, the best way to spread the gospel is to actually live it. Answer questions here and there, talk with people as the situation allows, but generally just live as you preach. That's the big thing. ...And yes, sometimes that means "knowing when not to say anything". You don't want to be a bore or spam every conversation you have with religion.

Generally, the issue is "Are you maintaining your hair?". There are no actual restrictions in place concerning hair length, but if you have across the board poor grooming and personal care habits then it can potentially be disruptive to others, just like in any public gathering.

Not only that, but the movie was finished early! It was a Thanksgiving release, but wasn't originally slated to actually debut until March of the next year. But because it was done early and another Thanksgiving release was running late it was slotted in place of the other movie. ...And a good thing it was. I was having a pretty miserable day before I went to see it (backed-up toilet, arguments with family, drama at work, et cetra) and it was about the only thing that made it all better.

Speaking as someone who *is* on YouTube? Every time there's a whiff of controversy or scandal, the powers that be freak out and make devastatingly bad choices. Couple this with the sheer number of people who false-flag other peoples' videos (including over-zealous music companies and people who just want to silence opposing viewpoints) and individual content moderators who have been caught abusing their positions, and you've got a situation where "becoming an astronaut" is actually more plausible in many ways than making it big on YouTube. Simply put, even *if* your first few videos end up being smash hits, you're still looking at having to produce 3 - 5 videos every day, with those videos being about 10 minutes in length or more, in order to produce enough content to potentially qualify for revenue-sharing from the advertisements on your content... assuming, of course, someone doesn't arbitrarily decide that your content is "sensitive" in nature and so doesn't qualify to have ads in the first place. And once you get this rhythm of content going, you have to start advertising yourself because YouTube won't; if you aren't already getting massive viewer counts or you don't know someone, you won't get pushed by YouTube. You need a minimum number of people watching a combined minimum hours of content over a given period, and if you can't make that you won't get paid. And even if you do qualify for pay, you only get disbursements in $100 increments... if you remember to sign yourself up for revenue-sharing in the first place. It would actually be more plausible for someone to become a successful pilot than to become a successful YouTube channel host at this point because of this.

If you have MS Paint, then you can load your image into that and simply mark over your details. Once done, you can manually save the image under a new name.

If you get the chance, check out Get Religion [dot] org, a website run by a group of veteran religion reporters who analyze how various media outlets cover different stories. They write as if they were journalism professors, noting strengths and weaknesses to the various approaches taken in an article. A general conclusion they come to, however, is that because so few outlets take religious news seriously these days, too few journalists are being trained in how to properly handle various topics and so are clearly in over their head.

Do yourself a favor and don't watch the deleted scenes. One deleted scene makes her out to be a straight-up villain in her own movie. And yeah - Captain Marvel was awful, Spider-Man was bleh, and Endgame pretty much wrapped up everything important. If not for my being a movie reviewer I'd be done with the MCU as well.

Spider-Ham hails from an alternate universe where everyone is a "funny animal" character like Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck. If memory serves, he's been hanging around since the 1980s.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/demand-president-trump-label-antifa-domestic-terrorist-organization There's now a petition on the White House website demanding that Antifa be declared a domestic terror organization. Given that Ngo was an openly homosexual man of Vietnamese descent and yet Antifa claims that they only target alt-right, white supremacist, and fascist groups, people are finally starting to realize that something's seriously wrong.

According to the Wikipedia article, the play was first staged in 1993 and is allegedly an updated version of the 1890s "La Boheme", which was similarly about a group of ne'er-do-wells.

Meanwhile, in my part of Texas, a store that has been "going out of business" for over a year now put up a sign saying "new inventory available". It's at the intersection I take to my preferred comic shop, so I see it quite a bit.

Modern-day "feminists" only get up in arms if a *woman* is being sexualized... especially if the woman is more attractive than they are to begin with. The whole "crabs in a bucket" bit? That's feminists with a woman who is attractive in the traditional sense (whether physically, emotionally, or otherwise).

Clothing - Regardless of how "fair" it is or isn't, the truth of the matter is that people *will* judge one another on the basis of what they wear. For example, when I went to a job fair back in college, a recruiter offered me a position, pending graduation, for the simple fact that I was the only applicant that day who came in wearing a suit. This would be an office job with an insurance company, and as ill-fitting as my suit was it was still a suit and still the most presentable thing anyone wore that day. (The recession hit right as I was going to graduate, and so the company cancelled plans to expand into my area. Oy.) That's right. At the various job fairs I was attending, one could readily find people who were wearing anything *but* professional clothing. This included one person who showed up wearing a track suit and a young woman who showed up wearing hip-huggers and no belt; long story short, when she squatted down to fill out some paperwork, she ended up accidentally mooning an entire row of recruiters. Believe it or not.

There is a *massive* media push to make this film as successful as possible, and to accordingly label anyone who doesn't like it as a "hater". When this happens, facts are inconvenient to the narrative.

Freezer - Spent most of the day waiting for the repair tech to come, and he finally showed up around 4:30 PM... meaning I could have gotten a lot done if I'd have known he'd have been this late. Basically, something took out the thermostat. We had the extended warranty, so it was covered. Car - I got it to run, but it stumbles and stutters if it idles too long (like at a traffic light with a long cycle) or I put it in reverse. It may not have too much longer. Oklahoma - Got stuck behind *two* vehicles with Oklahoma plates today, once while entering a shopping center and again while leaving it.

My car hasn't been working right since right after Christmas when I hit a deep, water-filled pothole. I had a feeling I should avoid that stretch of road, but my dad's work keys were missing and it was all hands on deck trying to retrace his steps; that road was the most direct course between A and B. My dad's the only one who can drive it right now without it stalling out, but because he can get it to run without stalling out he presumes everyone else can. I've been through a massive run-around trying to get the final document I need for my taxes (my insurance company and the Exchange are going back and forth as to who should have sent it to me), my hours at work have been cut back, the family desktop spent a week in the shop because the motherboard and power supply finally went after 7 years, the upright freezer went out, one of my brothers is coming down in a few days to make my dad finally sign the paperwork he needs to sign so that he can retire, et cetra.