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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/researcher-finds-a-dramatic-decline-of-christianity-in-europe/
@ Chicago Sun Times
Good morning, This Chicago Sun Times article about the decline of Christianity in Europe.
As an example there is only a 1% difference in the UK between self identifying Anglicans and Muslims.
Millennial in the U.S now think that it is hip to identify as an Atheist, I see it.
Nature hates a vacuum, so as Christianity declines what aggressive faith will rush to fill the void?
Let me think.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-lawyer-burns-himself-to-death-in-protest/ar-AAvTG9i?ocid=spartanntp
A social justice lawyer committed suicide over… fossil fuels.
BTW- there’s a website called ‘theblogmocracy’.
@ RIX:
Scientology?
/s
right_wing2 wrote:
He set himself on fire believing the pain of burning would end when he died, and hoping that his death would result in change. Odds are, the pain of burning only got worse once he died, and nothing will change. Being sincere in ones beliefs does not make ones beliefs true.
The Environmental Movement was hijacked back in the 1960’s by radical Marxists who have used it to cripple the non Marxist worlds economies. In the 1920’s the worlds leading Marxist intellectuals created a institute in Germany to further Marxist theories on how to dominate the world via Marxist ideology. This institute is/was known as Institute for Social Research, aka the Frankfurt School.
When Hitler came to power in Germany the Frankfurt School relocated to Harlem in New York City and became associated with Columbia University. Yup, Columbia University is a hotbed of Marxist treasonous propaganda, but you all already knew that.
One of the things that Hitler’s rise to power in Germany convinced these Marxist Intellectuals of, was that as long as any nation had a thriving middle class, a Marxist up rising and overthrow of that nations government was impossible.
In other words, they discovered that people will not overthrow their own governments unless the majority believe that things are so bad that they have nothing to lose by overthrowing the goverment.
This is where Saul Alinsky enters the picture. Alinsky conceived of the strategy of dividing America by feeding on America’s minorities fears and resentments. Their fears that the social injustices of the past were not being addressed, that their social standing in America was never going to improve and that a return to the oppression of the 19th century was always at hand.
When Alinsky’s tactics did not bring about the desired results as quickly as he and the other Frankfurt School Marxist Intellectuals had hoped, they devised another plan which they began enacting in the 1960’s. They began forcing environment regulations on the economy that were not designed to save the planet, but to cripple the American economy.
Remember, they had concluded in the 1940’s that a healthy middle class would never permit a Marxist revolution, so they had to destroy the middle class, and in order to destroy the healthy middle class, they had to destroy the economy, and every social institute that underpinned the health of the middle class.
Dr Patrick Moore smacks this issue right out of the park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hhvvChRGLA
lobo91 wrote:
We have a winner! Missy, show the man what he’s won.
doriangrey wrote:
opops wrong link. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.global-warming/o6i8obtqDbM
right_wing2 wrote:
Dear God… Please honor his life, by copying his example, set yourselves on fire and save the earth.
What could possibly go wrong?
D.C. Council member introduces legislation to lower voting age to 16.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/give-a-lower-voting-age-a-try/2018/04/13/d124b0ea-3e82-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.050634f3b036
I dunno. Make sure they can read the ballot first, maybe? Just a thought.
doriangrey wrote:
could they just walk into the ocean and recycle themselves by becoming fish food or something? Self-immolation is messy
@ eaglesoars:
Richard Pryor had an observation,
“when you are running down the street on fire, people will get out of your way!”
eaglesoars wrote:
shhhhhhh !
By seeing himself on fire his body fat melts and their becomes self sustaining producing LOTS of that great plant food CO2.
Don’t tell these bozos however as that might put them off … offing themselves!
🙂
setting = seeing.
I hate predictive!
🙂
doriangrey wrote:
This is an example of not only a two-per but that rare breed …. a three-year
This idiot was not only a LGBTQWERTY+, and a radical greenie …. he was a lawyer as well.
I’m losing track of the scoring system here. Does that count as one…. or three?
🙂
I really REALLY must do something about predictive text
Grrr
🙂
So HBO made a ‘Paterno’ movie starring Al Pacino??
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
yeah. I can’t wait. I love Pacino and my memories of Coach (as we called him in my time) are all good. Once, I was walking between comp centers carrying a rather large load of printouts and manuals. He grabbed everything and walked them in for me. A good quarter mile. Told me if I kept it up, he’d let me try out for the team.
about half an hour ago a freeper posted that R. Lee Emory has died
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh shit, I sure hope not, I loved that man. He was one of my hero’s.
@ eaglesoars:
@ doriangrey:
Shit… His twitter account is saying its true.
https://twitter.com/search?q=R.+Lee+Ermey&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch
God Bless you Gunny, may the Lord Jesus Christ welcome you into his embrace.
@ doriangrey:
‘fraid so
‘Full Metal Jacket’ actor R. Lee Ermey dies at age 74
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/04/15/full-metal-jacket-actor-r-lee-ermey-dies-at-age-74.html
@ doriangrey:
Death smiles at Marines.
Marines smile back.
@ doriangrey:
Time to let out a genuine Klingon Death howl to let the after-world know that a USMC Gunnery Sargent is coming.
That’s depressing. On the other side of reality, Art Bell died too.
eaglesoars wrote:
He was on the drill field at MCRD San Diego when I went through boot camp. Our paths actually crossed.
We didn’t have a meaningful discussion or anything, but we did cross paths.
@ RIX:
I met him at the NRA Annual Meetings in Phoenix in 2009. He always worked at the Glock booth
RIX wrote:
lucked out on that one, didn’t you?! I get the impressions that ‘meaningful discussion’ is marine talk for seriously unpleasant stuff.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
on Friday the 13th. Of Course.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep. fitting.
RIX wrote:
I’m a Navy brat from San Diego (you knew that) I got my start as a professional musician playing the Navy and Marine Corp Enlisted bars here. NTC and MCRD were huge venues for me back in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
I never met R Lee, I was friends with Col. David Hackworth. I not only grew up around, but was raised by men like Gunny and the Hack. Some of them, like Gunny, serve less as themselves to me, than as symbols of all of those men.
eaglesoars wrote:
I was never in the Marine Corps, so cannot speak from that side of the statement, however, growing up in San Diego I had a lot, and I do mean… LOT of friends who were in the Corps. And my understanding of a “Meaningful conversation” with an on duty USMC Sargent, is any conversation that did not specifically include the questions, “Who do I kill sir” or “When can I come down” (When a USMC Sargent tells you to jump, you do not ask him how high, you jump, wait a while, then ask him if its ok to come back down yet).
@ doriangrey:
Hackeorth & Ermy and that ilk were great guys, a rare breed.
I would not be surprised if I saw you play in one of those bars. Did you do Oceanside?
lobo91 wrote:
He seemed like a real character. He did personify the Marine Corps.
eaglesoars wrote:
It could most certainly mean that. He was not a D.I for my platoon. but another platoon in our series.
doriangrey wrote:
Amen. He will be missed.
RIX wrote:
I met a good number of celebrities at that particular convention. Gunny, Oliver North, John Stossel, Wayne LaPierre
lobo91 wrote:
That sounds like quite a convention. I met James Carville at a convention. Was not impressed.
RIX wrote:
Yes. We played every USN and USMC enlisted club from Imperial Beach to China Lake. Including 29 Palms (Holy Shit does it get hot out there). Probably played Pendleton about a hundred times between 1977 and 1983.
@ RIX:
I met him and his wife at a reception after a talk they gave one night at UNM. His TV persona is all an act.
Loretta Lynch just hung Comey out to dry in time for his interview on CBS
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I have known James Comey almost 30 years. Throughout his time as Director we spoke regularly about some of the most sensitive issues in law enforcement and national security. If he had any concerns regarding the email investigation, classified or not, he had ample opportunities to raise them with me both privately and in meetings. He never did.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29459/breaking-loretta-lynch-releases-statement-slamming-ryan-saavedra
lobo91 wrote:
Right, it is theatre. His wife Mary Marlin was with him, they were schilling a book that he wrote & she edited.
RIX wrote:
I keep trying to tell people the same thing about Juan Williams. I watched a video of Juan that was on Youtube for a while. It was some kind of “Charlie Rose” kind of interview with Juan. If you didn’t already know who he was from TV, you would swear that Juan is to the right of Barry Goldwater.
James Carville is someone I have wanted to sit down privately with and have a few beers with for many years. I have seen enough interviews with him to recognize 2 things. 1) his democrat demagoguery is an act, and 2) the man is damned intelligent.
doriangrey wrote:
My mother, the New Orleans belle, adored him. But she knew what he was and said “That Mary Matalin didn’t marry a fool”
Did I remember to post this? I think I did, but in case you missed it…
Japan just found a ‘semi-infinite’ deposit of rare-earth minerals — and it could be a ‘game-changer’ in competition with China
http://www.businessinsider.com/rare-earth-minerals-found-in-japan-2018-4
Researchers have found a deposit of rare-earth minerals off the coast of Japan that could supply the world for centuries, according to a new study.
The study, published in the journal Nature on Tuesday, says the deposit contains 16 million tons of the valuable metals.
doriangrey wrote:
Where did you play in Ridgecrest? I’ve done some time out there in the past.
all sorts of stuff going on…
New membrane extracts lithium from fracking waste water
https://chargedevs.com/newswire/new-membrane-extracts-lithium-from-fracking-waste-water/
from February
My Pork Shoulder has been cooking for 4 hours… It’s not done yet… I blame Mrs Cold Warrior. If she had been her to give that pork shoulder a proper scolding, it would be at 190 degrees already instead of a paltry 170.
eaglesoars wrote:
That could be a huge deal for things like neodymium and other metals for which we are now dependent upon China. Although we could get some of that from California if we could overturn what the EPA did there.
doriangrey wrote:
There is no question that Carville is a smart guy. So he is a far left guy who marries a far right woman?
Carville &. Matalin are like a choreographed act.
Well, dayum….
Sept 2017
Trump, Ghani agree U.S. can help develop Afghanistan’s rare earth minerals
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-minerals/trump-ghani-agree-u-s-can-help-develop-afghanistans-rare-earth-minerals-idUSKCN1BX06G
I’m reading that there are lots in California too but….California
AZfederalist wrote:
Honestly, I do not remember. We played every Navy and USMC base enlisted bar that would let us in the door. We were in the 18 – 19 age bracket, Navy brats, and honestly, we played the enlisted clubs… Because it was a) the crowd we knew, having grown up with a lot of them, and b) the only bars in California where we could drink while we played. (Navy Dependence ID hath its privileges).
doriangrey wrote:
was it at room temp when you put it in the oven? Remember Miss Trixie? Professional chef at one time. She clued me in to that one after I got so frustrated I was about to buy a new oven.
@ RIX:
Carville, to the extent that he has a personal ideology, is center left. He only cares about winning. That’s why he got along with Bill Clinton so well.
RIX wrote:
I read their book (“All’s Fair”, I think is the title). They’re just both passionate about politics.
AZfederalist wrote:
Some? The deposits in Mountain View and the surrounding mountains and deserts are the richest on earth. We had 80 percent of the entire worlds REE market until the Clinton’s intentionally betrayed America to China and used the EPA to shut all production down.
The mountains and deserts between northern San Bernardino Country and southern Imperial County have an unbelievable natural resource abundance. BUT… most of it is State owned land, so the state prohibits exploitation. Fucking Green Weenie Marxist environmentalist bastards of course.
lobo91 wrote:
oath political animals.
eaglesoars wrote:
Not really. I brought it pretty much straight home from the store cooler. It was maybe 55 degrees when it went in. Its a 4.85lbs Pork Shoulder, travel time from store to home, 10 minutes or so. It went in the crock-pot within 5 minutes of getting home. So, not frozen, but not room temp yet either.
eaglesoars wrote:
They gave a tandem speech at our convention. That is what I am referring to. If had the ring of a contrived act.
doriangrey wrote:
crock pot.
those can be difficult to time until you get to know your particular device fairly well.
doriangrey wrote:
we should invade
RIX wrote:
Oh, you mentioned that before, I believe. Yeah, I can see it. They’ve got to get tired of it after awhile, too, I imagine.
eaglesoars wrote:
I love my crock pot, it works pretty damned good. It reached 180, so now its on warm for the rest of the night.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ll bet they do. He got off one pretty good joke about his time as a student at LSU. “ I got a D one semester. I guess that I concentrated too much on one subject “
doriangrey wrote:
ROTFLMAO… oops, sorry, I’m not lobo91 (who smokes 15-lbs briskets when he can’t find anything larger) , no we ate some, but 5-lbs of pork shoulder is more than we can eat in one sitting, so the remaining 2/3rd is staying in the crock-pot to become pulled pork in the morning…
James Carville aka the Ragin’ Cajun aka ‘Serpenthead’.
La Aurora ADN Dominicano. Don’t usually like Dominicans but I’m going give this one a shot.
eaglesoars wrote:
so important
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
oh my, there are some wonderful dominican cigars.
Conservative Treehouse is outlining the case that the ‘unverified info’ was found on Weiner’s laptop and concerned Hillary and Epstein and trips to ‘sex island’, money laundering, etc., all found by the NYPD. Lynch threatened them with re-opening the Eric Garner case if they didn’t pipe down
And then there’s this:
Lastly, I cannot help but be reminded of a post-election event where an FBI official from the same NY field office had her vehicle broken into and a laptop stolen which included “National Security information“. Everything was recovered, except the laptop.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/04/15/trail-of-james-comeys-dirt-on-loretta-lynch-discovered-within-ig-report-on-andrew-mccabe/#more-148094
@ eaglesoars:
Flyboy loved to listen to “Coast to Coast” – the shadow people….
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
Heh, I used to listen to it on the ride home (I worked a swing shift back then) back when I lived in the city but, it was Coast to Coast with George Noory, not Art Bell. I don’t think I ever caught any of the Art Bell shows.
I used to laugh my ass off listening to it.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
I assume you’re referring to Art Bell. I’d never heard of the man until he died. Had to look him up. I’m sorry I missed him, I love weird stuff.
@ doriangrey:
Used to listen to the show back when I was a security supervisor driving around the city. Some shows were interesting, others were just weird, some were stupid. George Noory was the host most of the time. Every now and then though Art Bell would do a Saturday or Sunday night show. Good times.
@ doriangrey:
Oh! Before I forget…I was reminded of something you posted the other day about Islamic culture and it’s evaluation of trust/morals, etc. I’m reading “Enhanced Interrogations…” written by a psychologist who interrogated some of the captured terrorists at various locations around the world. One of them was Al Nashiri, who masterminded the bombing of the USS Cole. Here’s an excerpt from the book I thought you’d enjoy
Al-Nashiri told me he found a cargo ship and outfitted it. He said his jihadi brothers were unable to pilot it because of its size and because they weren’t familiar with the controls that operated it. He said he hired a crew of Yemeni pirates to sail the vessel for him. But that didn’t work out, because while his operatives were still trying to find the small boats to use to ram the oil tankers, the pirates he had hired took the cargo ship out for a test run and never came back. “They stole your ship?” I said, hardly believing what I was hearing. Al-Nashiri shrugged. “They were Yemeni,” he said, as if that explained everything. “They can’t be trusted.”
Mitchell, James E.. Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying To Destroy America (pp. 101-102). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
This is interesting. Most of us have heard that KSM was waterboarded much more than any other detainee. He was able to withstand it very well and this is one of his methods:
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was somehow open his sinus passages and let the water enter through his nose and pour out of his mouth as fast as we poured it on the cloth. I don’t know how he did it. It looked like a magic trick.
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If they could figure out how he did it, they could train our guys to do it as part of their SERE training, right?
eaglesoars wrote:
The term anthropomorphism describes when humans attribute to things that are not human, human characteristics and motives. We really need a term that does the same thing, except as a descriptor where one group attributes to another completely different group characteristics and motives of their own group upon this “Other” group.
What we have, is this Otherpomorphism where, otherwise highly intelligent individuals foolishly insist on attributing our societies cultural moral and ethical values and motives on Islamic practitioners.
Because Arab Muslims are human, our so called leaders and their intellectual elite keep insisting on attributing the moral and ethical values and motivation of Western Civilization on Islamic culture.
This will lead to disaster every single time, because at its most fundamental level Islam is predicated upon a completely different and antithetical set of moral and ethical values principals and motivations.
At it core, Islam is a betrayal social order. Everyone’s rank and position in society is predicated upon who they have betrayed, and who they still can betray. Its very similar to the episode in the original Star Trek where Spock had a beard.
Kirk and his transport party found themselves in an alternate universe where the Federation didn’t exist but was instead a vicious violent Empire where everyone advanced their career by killing their superior officer and raising through the ranks by betrayal and murder.
Well, that is Islam. Mohammad was an uneducated utterly ruthless murderer, thief and liar who begun his career by poisoning the owner of the caravan he grew up in, and blackmailing the caravan owners wife into marrying him.
He had no understanding of business what-so-ever, so he rather quickly transformed one of the most financially successful caravan in the middle east into a bankrupted rag tag group of thieves and murderers.
It was only when the residents of Medina finally had enough of Mohammad and the 40 thieves that they set out with the dogs to catch him that he literally fell upon the idea of first pretending to fall to the ground and have a seizure, and then pretend that Allah was talking to him.
In Islamic theology, Allah when you die, will put your sins on one side of a scale, and your good deeds on the other. If your sins out weight your good deeds, its off to hell with you.
Seems simple enough, right? Except there is a catch. Islam got a pretty significant amount of its theology from both Judaism and Christianity, except, it got most of those parts wrong.
Tragically, one of the few things it got right, was Christianity/Judaisms “Original sin” concept. Which for a Muslim, means without extraordinary effort, your sins will always out weight your good deeds.
This I believe was very intentional on Mohammad’s part, as he also created a special loophole, anyone who died while performing Jihad, the struggle to advance Islamic supremacy, got an automatic pass and all of not only their sins forgiven by Allah, bit all of their family’s sins as well.
This gave Mohammad an army of individuals willing to die in the quest to conquer the world for Mohammad. It was their chance to avoid an eternity burning in hell while saving their families as well.
Western civilization with its Judaeo-Christian theological heritage has a completely different escape clause. Confess your sins to Christ and ask for forgiveness, and its granted.
Then add in atheism with its non believe in God or eternal punishment and you have a society predicated not on betrayal, but on survival through co-operation.
The two systems are so antithetical and diametrically opposed as to be completely incompatible. Tragically, to the atheist mind, this is an inconceivable conflict, since atheist beliefs demand that the only thing worth personal sacrifice of ones life, is in this order, 1) the continued survival of ones own bloodline, 2) the continued survival of ones own society, and finally, 3) the continued survival of the human race.
Remember, for a rational logical and sane atheist, there is no God, no Heaven, no Hell. Hell, for an atheist, is the extinction of the human race, and prioritized as self, family, friends, nation and species. The only sin for an atheist, is failing to protect self, family, friends, nation and species.
The tragic consequence of this, is that atheists simply cannot comprehend that anyone who sacrifice their life for any other reason. Because they are incapable of grasping that Muslims, Christians and Jews will sacrifices their lives in order to please God, or to avoid going to hell, they are unable to comprehend how profoundly different, antithetical and diametrically opposed the fundamental foundations of Judaism and Christianity are from Islam.
To atheists, Muslims, Christians and Jews are all the same, thus, their values are the same, and consequently, Muslims can be negotiated with just like Christians and Jews can. What they cannot grasp, is that a Muslim is absolutely ALWAYS looking for an opportunity to betray anyone who isn’t a Muslim, or, who isn’t practicing Islam the way they were taught to practice it.
Every single Muslim on earth is taught to lie to and deceive every non Muslim until that individual either converts to Islam, or can be killed for the sin of refusing to convert to Islam.
One of Islam’s half truths, is that Jihad is not specifically waging war against infidels. They will tell you, “Jihad” means “to Struggle”. That statement is a half truth. Jihad is a) an internal struggle to follow the laws of Mohammad, b) a struggle against anyone within the Islamic community who is not perfectly following the laws of Mohammad, c) all Infidels with a special prejudice against Jews and the people of the Book “Christians”.
This is why ruthless bloody violence is as prevalent among Muslims against other Muslims as it is against Infidels.
@ doriangrey:
I think you have a very valid thesis here. It explains how the left can think itself allied with islamists and that it can advance its cause through that mechanism. The leftists themselves are completely comfortable with betrayal in advancement of their cause — look at Bolshevism and Maoism and Alinskyism. I would argue though that Mahmoud didn’t make this stuff up on his own, he was treacherous, but not that bright. My premise is that islam is inspired, just not divinely inspired. Luther once opined that “Satan was God’s Ape”, not meaning that Satan was a hairy Simian, but that Satan mimicked God, only imperfectly. Thus, as you say, islam imperfectly mimics some of the tenets of the Judeo-Christian religion. As far as 1/2-truths go, the islamic statement that we are all born muslims and then, if converted to islam, revert back to that is as true as the statement by Satan in the Garden that Adam and Eve would become like God, knowing good and evil if they ate the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We are all born dead in our trespasses and sins and are objects of God’s wrath, so what the islamists say is perfectly true. Reverting back to that state of original sin is an objective that Satan wishes on all who have come to faith.
Yes, hacking is wrong and all that, but c’mon…points for ingenuity, yes?
Hackers once stole a casino’s high-roller database through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank
http://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-stole-a-casinos-database-through-a-thermometer-in-the-lobby-fish-tank-2018-4
Haul Zuckerberg’s ass back before that committee in shackles and make him eat this report
Facebook has banned Frontpage Editor and Glazov Gang host Jamie Glazov for seven days. Jamie’s crime is posting/reporting on his Facebook page a physical threat that was made to him personally on his FB page by a member of the Religion of Peace.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/381826-islam-critic-reports-threat-by-muslim-fanatic-to-facebook-gets-banned/
Sean Hannity is one of Michael Cohen’s clients
@ eaglesoars:
It’s DISGUSTING that we know that.
Judge needs hung.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Hannity is saying he’s never retained Cohen, he did consult him on some issues but never paid him a fee for anything.
I just got back from walking Willow, I’m not sure how that got out.
@ eaglesoars:
This is out and out marxist tactics. The days of the Politburo have descended upon the US
doriangrey wrote:
The only place I will disagree is that our current marxist atheists will actually sacrifice anything including their own families to advance the agenda. That’s why after a school shooting they have no problem preening for the cameras. It could be the abortion culture of the left that makes life so cheap, but to them any sacrifice is acceptable for the advancement of their belief system.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
That really gives too much respect to what their purpose is. Their only operating principle is ‘will to power’
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
@ eaglesoars:
Ah… but you see, their agenda is… The salvation of humanity. Which is why any atrocity committed in achieving it is justifiable.
Has anyone seen a picture floating around Facebook supposedly of Trump being briefed on Syria? Pence is at the briefing at the same time he was supposedly in Peru.
@ eaglesoars:
From what I’ve read, the judge ordered Cohens lawyer to divulge that information.
I don’t know how that works.
doriangrey wrote:
even they don’t believe that crap
I just got back from running errands…I am soooooooo tired of this weather. People in our neighborhood are in the process of having their roofs repaired from the wind storm we had 2 weeks ago. We had torrential rains last nite and now all their partially repaired roofs are shot again and they’ve got leaks to contend with. We’re all tired of it.
@ lobo91:
It’s the Duranty Prize
@ eaglesoars:
Seems to me they should give one to the Weekly World News. After all, their series on Bat Boy is just as “possible” as the Russian collusion story
@ lobo91:
Do they have to give it back when the ‘story’ turns out to be a crock?
right_wing2 wrote:
They never have before
@ right_wing2:
Actually, there was a WaPo reporter who gave one back, now that i think of it. Janet Cooke, back in the ’80s. Won for a totally fabricated story:
lobo91 wrote:
And that was before we knew that there was no way he could have got into the hospital room of CIA director Bob Casey and Casey’s doctor called him a liar on Hugh Hewitt’s show. And it was also before we knew that the flowerpot he supposedly moved around on his balcony to signal Deep Throat could not be seen from the vantage point he described.
So why should you review a story for authenticity BEFORE it gets nominated, because if it actually wins, those little discrediting details get lost in the mists of time.
bedtime. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
You are clearly not paying attention, it isn’t about authenticity or truth. Its about what the media decides you are required to believe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpgUdet6jYQ
They Aussie Defence Forces new rifle now coming into service. Got to love the grenade launcher with sensor tech that explodes overhead enemy behind cover!
🙂
… and by the way it’s NOT pronounced Lith-Cow, it’s pronounced Lith-Co Arms
🙂
The produced the Lee Enfield in 1896 the the 1899-1902 Boer War in South Africa as well as the same .303 cal Lee Enfield used in both WWI and WWII.
As a school cadet we were trained to shoot using the Lee Enfield. Our body weight was so light at the tender age of 13 that it used to push us backwards off the mound after about 1 mag of ammunition (10 rounds)
🙂
Lithgow Arms has been around for quite a while.
eaglesoars wrote:
Some do, for most its their path to power.
doriangrey wrote:
Exactly. And for the others, it’s acceptable if they gain something from it.
Powstanie Broadleaf Churchill. Hope to try the Habano some day.