Peter Lucier

Does America stand by the Afghan Allies who stood by it?
 Mullin once suggested it should. Now he can prove it, I argue in WaPo. Gift link. wapo.st/4c2ZgnS

@brent_shavnore @_itmo_ @TheIntelFrog They say on cold dark nights, when the north wind blows, if you sit quietly in a portashitter, you can hear the phantom’s strained groans pushing against his next grumpy He’s out there somewhere. Always has been. Always will be. The ultimate trade and it’s oldest practitioner

@PeterLucier @_itmo_ @TheIntelFrog phantom shitters are the reason we lost our shower trailers in Iraq, TCN’s couldn’t figure out the drain was for water

There is a 0% chance this Marine hasn't bragged to at least several friends. If you, or someone you know, knows who this Marine is, NCIS would like to talk to you. You could be put in for a CirCom if you provide information leading to the identification and NJP'ing of the 'phantom shitter' plaguing the USS Boxer.

What idiot called it a biographical film about the guy who popularized the radical idea of looking at things cut and pressed on to slices and then viewed through crazy high magnification lenses And not a “microsco-pic”

Matt Damon’s wife not taking the World Cup loss well

What a ride 🎢

At the end of the second act she’ stumbles upon the male lead announcing a kids game at the park. he says he volunteers to because it makes the kids feel like stars. And also it reminds him that it’s a game. And it’s for these kids. she’ll see the game, and him, differently

She’s a football pundit, assigned the World Cup, who has forgotten how to love the beautiful game He’s a cocky former #9 sports talk panelist who doesn’t take anything seriously She’ll have to remember the heart of the game, and her own heart Into Touch (2030) by Hallmark

Hell of a tournament. Congrats to Spain. Incredible team performance wire to wire. And to everyone in the host countries who made the magic happen - a hearty thank you from a grateful world of football fans

I might be more worried for Spain now that they have a lead The magic man has ten minutes and now has a pressing need to do the thing he has done better than anyone in the history of the world

This is where Argentina gets you. Right now is where they are the most dangerous and seeing Spain start to look frustrated for the first time all tournament

@Byrdsmanse The broader restriction is on the federal government, which can only pass laws which regulate interstate commerce. States, with the general police power, and the 10th amendment, can do pretty much anything (kind of) unless the regulation favors one state over another

Please tell me how states blocking porn sites connected to interstate commerce is not a violation of a host of a couple of three parts of the constitution and amendments

MRW seeing Justin Bieber at the World Cup halftime show:

@_itmo_ @TheIntelFrog I came into the marine corps in 2008, so all my NCOs had been lcpls during the ringer years in Iraq, and there was a strong oral tradition of phantom shitters in those already storied places like Ramadi and Fallujah

@TheIntelFrog phantom shitter stories must be another common thing in all military establishments around the world.

I thought this halftime show was gonna be weird and wasnt sure how I felt about all the American commercial imposition onto the beautiful game. But the muppets and all the countries getting a chance to shine …. I think maybe it’s kind of incredible and works?

Seeing R9 out there fat and sassy just makes me happy

@ArmandDAngour Also if the Latin language was already around then, apologies, I have no idea, just worked for the joke.

@ArmandDAngour Apologies, professor, and thanks for the correction! Will fix myself in the future

The Odyssey begins “in media res” which is a real flaw in the movie, because that’s a Latin phrase, and Latin hasn’t been invented yet at the time the Odyssey is set in

@ElmerEdritch and Virgil was alive during the time the Odyssey is set in?

@PeterLucier Yeah, but no. I was forced to read Virgil's epic Latin poem as a youth.

i know it seems like France didn't even show up for this game, but i think its cany strategy, the trick is to give england a lead going into the 87th

The Odyssey is a more natural text to adapt for film, as a far smaller percentage of the total text is dedicated to long ass lists of hard gl pronounce Greek names of people who died