You are correct. Ataturk intended it to be the safeguard to secular democracy.

He’s most likely spinning in his grave. What a shame. His legacy is ashes now.

Fuck.

Erdogan has been replacing top generals who retire or leave with his handpicked guys. It’s been happening the entire time he’s been in office.

He must have realized he got past the tipping point and engineered his fake coup to purge the rest.

Bastard.

I keep hoping the ghost of Ataturk will appear and rip out his black…

Except, you know, the Turkish military has turned power back over to civilian control each time.

Ataturk was adamant that the Turkish military was supposed to step in and ensure Turkey had a secular government if it strayed towards theocracy or religion having a role in government. That was its role: maintain secular…

I am former Navy, come from a Navy family and am straight as hell and have zero problems with this.

Mr. Milk served honorably as both an enlisted man and officer, then was murdered because he was living openly as something not accepted at the time by society. He wasn’t shy about it and that took courage to run for…

It’s not like you jackhole leftist twats aren’t going to vote for whatever the DNC puts up as their candidate anyway.

Your rage at having the light shone upon the shenanigans of your masters in the DNC and glee when it happens to their opponents is ludicrous.

This is, quite possibly, the most hypocritical thing I’ve…

Your definition of a ‘happy ending’ with only Newt and Ripley unwounded, Bishop and Hicks maimed, and everyone else we’ve gotten attached to dead is...odd.

You may consider it formulaic only because it BECAME the formula so many other movies copied after the fact.

Good gravy you sound like a pompous and pretentious twit…

I’m hoping for a good show because that is one DAMNED ugly looking ship.

Ugh.

I think Steve is wearing the Croix de Guerre which means this is the Lafayette Escadrille time before the USA entered the war...which means a crazy, Flying Circus batch of misfits, drunks, and crazy men flying cloth covered wooden aircraft as Wondy’s support/sidekicks.

It looks great, really great!

Haha, that is the exact same thing my wife said!

Palpatine is going to kill her via Force Lightning, right in front of Vader, as she begs Anakin for help.

When Palpatine does the same to his son who has appealed to his good side and is also begging him for help, the nobility that lives in every man, sleeping but never dead, will emerge.

Maybe?

Big Sugar has run Florida for generations and still does.

I’m from Key West originally and lived in Miami and Orlando.

They have shaped the state and the water policies for over a century, the bastards.

“What do you mean they’re low on ammo? They’ve got bayonets, don’t they?”

Same!

She’s the Captain America of my heart!

I tried, and I failed.

Genndy has really gotten some grey hair, though, wow.

I guess all the money from the ‘Hotel Transylvania’ movies means he can go without the Grecian Formula for Men.

Hell, we had weevils in our biscuits and in the Raisin Bran when I was in the USN in the 1990s.

Especially the Raisin Bran, wow. If it went too long you really, REALLY got some extra protein. We would make jokes about the swimmers in the milk.

Not a sea story, not bullshit, either.

And the Enterprise, which is a heavy cruiser, is treated like tissue paper once again.

Bleh. This is not worthy of the 50th anniversary of Trek.

That’s probably the only time someone can claim to be ‘hot stuff’ in a cardigan and actually be correct.

I agree with you, and I think Campbell’s performance as Elvis is actually, somehow, respectful of The King.

I’ve read this twice, and I can’t find any part of it I disagree with.

At one of the tech expos my company hosted (one for company employees only so we can all get an idea of what different programs do) one of the demo teams was remotely turning on webcams and audio at their booth.

We’re a defense contractor with a focus on cyber/intel.

It’s not baloney.