Thursday, November 13, 2025

Trying to understand the 43 day govt shutdown.

In a concession to Democrats, the bill reverses Trump's recent layoffs of federal government that he made during the shutdown.
The six Democrats who voted for the bill are:
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Henry Cuellar, D-Texas
https://www.aol.com/articles/6-house-democrats-voted-republicans-023809142.html

I was just wondering how it must have felt for Aung Zeya (later King Alaunghpaya) as a boy growning up in the Kabaw Valley to experience a Manipuri raid and I found this.

It's all there, except the sounds, the mud, the dirt, the screams, the rapes--the fear, the tears, common to war. https://www.youtube.c...