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DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY: West Point Association of Graduates Announces Recipient of 2024 Sylvanus Thayer Award: Barack Obama

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Navy Seals also don’t randomly wander into caves and happen on to terrorists, either.
It was Shakil Afridi who found bin Laden, and who was promptly imprisoned in Pakistan. Despite Obama being urged to intercede on his behalf, he shamefully did not.
 
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I still pronounce it in my head as hyper-bole.
What? Hyper bole like the Super Bowl? :) I like to pronounce behemoth as be he moth.
We all misspeak, sometimes in front of large gatherings;
That's not misspeaking. He did it at least 4 times on two different occasions. Obviously he thought that's how it's pronounced.
getting called out for it, 15 years later, is priceless.
He was president. He has a legacy. He's fair game forever. I'll call him out for accepting this "good citizenship" award for doing nothing. I'll call him out for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing. I'll call him out for being a pothead and eating dogs and...I could go on.
 
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It was Shakil Afridi who found bin Laden, and who was promptly imprisoned in Pakistan. Despite Obama being urged to intercede on his behalf, he shamefully did not.
Well that’s certainly a version of what happened, I suppose.
 
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That's not misspeaking. He did it at least 4 times on two different occasions. Obviously he thought that's how it's pronounced.

He was president. He has a legacy. He's fair game forever. I'll call him out for accepting this "good citizenship" award for doing nothing. I'll call him out for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing. I'll call him out for being a pothead and eating dogs and...I could go on.
It’s nice to have a hobby.
 
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I still pronounce it in my head as hyper-bole.
We all misspeak, sometimes in front of large gatherings; getting called out for it, 15 years later, is priceless.
Macabre got me the other day. I’m a whole-word reader and I get nuked all the time.
 
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Macabre got me the other day. I’m a whole-word reader and I get nuked all the time.

When I first came across the written word "disciple", in my head, it was "diss-sipple" (learned to read in Houston with that accent). I never had any call to say it out loud so no one ever corrected me. I had heard the word said and just thought the two were synonyms for the longest time.

I know I pronounce words wrong when I write them the way I say them and get that red underline over and over.
 
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"In 20 years a lot of people are going to deny voting for Trump"

Stephen King
I know a few who’ve quietly stopped bringing him up lately when just last year and for the last several years they couldn’t shut up about the guy and had so much to say about the last president but have seemingly become totally apolitical now.

Go figure.
 
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Macabre got me the other day. I’m a whole-word reader and I get nuked all the time.
I think of macrame when I see “macabre”, just to torture myself, as I do.
 
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I know a few who’ve quietly stopped bringing him up lately when just last year and for the last several years they couldn’t shut up about the guy and had so much to say about the last president but have seemingly become totally apolitical now.

Stopping the doing of something, where it’s becoming clear that one’s decisions aren’t really panning out, is a sign of sanity, though, ridicule doesn’t “help”
 
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