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2023-08-22 Afghanistan

US Stopping Countries From Returning Afghan Aircraft: Official

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-08-22 02:53|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
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#1 Parked for a year.
No dust, lubrication or fuels maintenance.
Let them go. They won't last long.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-22 13:01|| 2023-08-22 13:01|| Front Page Top

#2 It's more about a big F U than any practical considerations. Too bad a big F U is all we got, apparently.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-22 13:25|| 2023-08-22 13:25|| Front Page Top

#3 No worries, Inshallah Maintenance will solve everything. Deus Vult!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-08-22 14:30|| 2023-08-22 14:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Sometimes nothing is the best thing you can do.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-08-22 15:06|| 2023-08-22 15:06|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ And that is so Zen that it's completely beyond the grasp of most people and all politicians.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-22 15:41|| 2023-08-22 15:41|| Front Page Top

#6 If I still remembered Latin, I would translate that slogan and commission an appropriate coat arms to match. Maybe a white commode on a brown shield with scrollwork that is actually a pattern of full and empty toilet paper tubes.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-22 16:52|| 2023-08-22 16:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Ok, I threw the Internet at that. Translate.com comes up with:

Interdum nihil est optimus res vos can operor

Throwing that at Translateking as a back-check comes up with:

Sometimes nothing is the best thing you can do.

Still, an actual Latin scholar would probably say it better, as befits a heraldic motto.

Ya gotta start somewhere.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-22 17:10|| 2023-08-22 17:10|| Front Page Top

#8 ^.thank you. One of my favorite scenes from the Life of Brian is the centurion correcting the grammar of the graffitists

Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-22 18:20|| 2023-08-22 18:20|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^ Mine, too. "Conjugate the verb 'to go'!"

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-08-22 23:35|| 2023-08-22 23:35|| Front Page Top

#10 From the Tao Te Teddy:

"Do nothing, well; then give 'em hell!"

Posted by Guillibaldo Ghibelline1297 2023-08-22 23:55|| 2023-08-22 23:55|| Front Page Top

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