Re: Newsom's 'Compassion' for Wildfire Victims

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 02:12:22 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:

On Jul 15, 2025 at 6:58:18 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

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(Incidentally, the base was renamed Fort Cavazos during the post-Floyd
spasm of political correctness that pervaded all levels of government,
but Trump has nullified that and it's now Fort Hood once again.)

 
I looked him up. John Hood had one hell of a bloody war record.

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I never stopped calling it Fort Hood whenever I was back home and it came up
in conversation. Just like I still call that tall building Chicago the Sears
Tower.
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That tends to be the way of things. Fort Benning is always going to be
Fort Benning. Been around that place too many years to think of it as
anything else no matter the reason for the name change. Hell, that NFL
team in Washington DC will always be the RedSkins to me. We humans
tend to be like that with our connections to places and people formed
over the years.

Even the President of the United States of America can't force people
to think of a certain body of water as anything else but connected to
Mexico no matter what he wishes.