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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 9, 2019 15:23:35 GMT -8
And I think puppies should be petted, you should give way at crosswalks to pedestrians, and go easy on red meat. And none of the things, including "white racism," have the least to do with the issue at hand.
"Oh, look. Someone just stole $50,000 from the bank. But I do think white racism is a problem."
Timothy, you resemble French in dissembling such lightweight material.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 9, 2019 16:36:09 GMT -8
I don't think French would say that white racism is a minor problem. Like most pundits and pols, he would talk of what a serious problem it is. Actually, black racism is probably a bigger problem than white racism. We saw its consequences at Crown Heights and Freddy's Fashion Mart as well as the LA riots and the Long Island Railroad mass shooting, and on many occasions since.
But it is a problem, as the Charleston church atrocity showed, and possibly El Paso. Since I don't (and really can't) keep a list of mass/spree/serial killers and their motives, I can't say how often it actually happens. (The Atlanta child murders nearly 30 years ago were committed by another black, which really wasn't much of a surprise given the unlikelihood that so many black kids would go away with a white man).
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 9, 2019 19:29:33 GMT -8
Morrow's article on French is spot on. There is something profoundly phony or off about French. I sensed this almost from the first time I read him.
French's call for unifying the country is just another platitude. He sounds like some old woman on the street who was accosted by a reporter asking for a comment after some or other crime has been committed. Her reply has nothing to do with anything. It is a type of phony marketing ploy to pretend that someone (any nearby warm body will do) has some special insight into the crime. And it is also a time filler for the TV news.
In fact, it is a relatively rare thing for the country to be united. Unfortunately, throughout our history the thing that has most united the country, until it split the country apart, has been war. And the country has made more bad decisions and the citizens have lost more freedoms during wars than just about any other time.
David French is a phony conservative, but a genuine jerk off.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 9, 2019 20:02:11 GMT -8
Everyone talks about unity, and no one admits that you can only have unity when everyone agrees on every issue of significance. And you certainly can't have unity when one major faction hates the other. So unity is basically a pipe dream (I figure a drug reference is appropriate here).
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 10, 2019 8:05:32 GMT -8
Wasn’t this guy in the military or something? You’d think he’d understand that battles are never won by surrendering.
We should call it “Nice Guy Conservatism.” It’s the political movement that tries its hardest to show that it’s not all the things that its opponents accuse it of. Or you can call it the “Thank you sir, may I have another” party.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 10, 2019 9:07:07 GMT -8
I saw Animal House back then, so that scene is familiar to me. For some reason, I remember the ritual line as "Thank you, sir, may I please have another?" Maybe it's because that would even be better. Many have compared what Kurt Schlichter calls the fredocons (after Fredo Corleone, of course) to that scene.
Way back when, MAD Magazine had a parody of fraternities in matching scenes -- what they say and what the reality is. One involves initiations. The "what they say" mentions the stunts and gags of initiation rites, and shows some blindfolded guy carrying an egg in a spoon on a plank between a pair of sawhorses. The "reailty" shows someone in a black hood getting something out of cauldron, with the caption, "In wartime, 'stunts and gags' like these are called atrocities." It was my favorite from the article, which might seem odd since I never even attempted to join a fraternity (or a sorority, which boys can do today in some places).
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 10, 2019 11:31:29 GMT -8
As I recall, French was a lawyer in the military. Somehow that does not rate the same as being a squad leader in the Battle of Fallujah.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 10, 2019 12:02:20 GMT -8
I checked on wikipedia, and French (a reservist) served in Iraq in the Judge Advocate Corps. He even got a Bronze Star, which brings up the question of how on earth a lawyer earns a medal like that. I doubt even the lawyer in The Caine Mutiny qualified.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 10, 2019 12:14:21 GMT -8
Medals become progressively less meaningful as time goes on. Staff Officers seem to need as many of these pieces of metal and enamel to show they have done something while not on the battlefield.
As an example of what a joke this type of thing has become, you may recall the case of the Navy Seal who was accused of murdering a dying jihadi boy in Iraq. He was hounded by the Navy JAG, particularly a small group prosecuting his case. In the end, he was found not guilty on all counts except for having his photo taken next to a dead jihadi.
Well those scum-bags who tried to prosecute him were given medals just after they lost the case. But then Trump got wind of this and had the Navy revoke those medals.
I have always believed the Navy to be the worse military branch when it comes to such type of politics.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 10, 2019 12:31:05 GMT -8
A friend of mine who occasionally appeared in ST, Joseph Major, likes to tell about Veracruz regarding the Medal of Honor. The Navy decided to hand out a whole bunch of them, and it became something of a joke. On one occasion, during an inspection, an officer noticed that one man had the Medal of Honor, and asked, "Veracruz?" When he found out the chap had gotten it elsewhere, he brought in a lot of colleagues. "Here's a guy who got the Medal of Honor and it wasn't at Veracruz."
A similar (but presumably fictional) incident in the Army can be found in the Gary Cooper movie They Came to Cordura, about an officer on detached duty to find soldiers he thinks merit the Medal of Honor during the pursuit of Pancho Villa. (One of the soldiers was portrayed by Dick York.)
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 13, 2019 13:56:49 GMT -8
Last night, when reading Durant's "The Age of Faith," I was reminded that drugs played a part in previous political murders. Specifically, hashish was the dope of choice for that merry band of brothers known as the Assassins, a name which is derived from "Hashshasheen" meaning drinkers of hashish. These Ismaili Muslims were famous for the many political assassinations which they performed.
If he was not immediately killed after performing the act, the culprit would commit suicide in the firm knowledge that he was soon to be in paradise. Many of our modern-day assassins seem to believe that they will achieve some some of paradise of fame. |
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Post by timothylane on Aug 13, 2019 14:05:41 GMT -8
The Assassins were founded by Hassan bin Sabah in 1090 as I recall, and were overthrown by the Mongols of Hulagu, founder of the Ilkhan Dynasty, who took Alamut from a weak successor. I read that they couldn't do much with the Knights of the Temple because the knights had no key leader. Kill one, and another would take his place. Marco Polo reported encountering them (and a TV movie on him included the scene).
I first heard of them in Mission: Tank War, second in a trio of books by Michael Kurland about a military think-tank called Weapons Analysis & Research, Inc. (i.e., WAR, Inc.). Fun book, and the third (A Plague of Spies, which deals with Fu Manchu) is even better.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 13, 2019 14:24:50 GMT -8
Durant calls the Assassins, "the strangest sect in history." That covers a lot of ground, but is probably true. Al-Sabbah and his following grand masters of the sect were called "The Old Man of the Mountain" by the Crusaders. Since their stronghold, the Eagle's Nest, was some 10,000 feet up in the mountains, it is no wonder that it took the Mongols to conquer it.
Durant writes;
According to Marco Polo, who passed by Alamut in 1271, the Master had arranged behind the fortress a garden peopled like the Mohammedan paradise with "ladies and damsels who dallied with the men to their hearts' content." The candidates for admission to the order were given hashish to drink; when stupefied by it, they were brought into the garden; and on recovering their senses they were told that they were in paradise. After four or five days of wine, women, and the good food, they were again drugged with hashish, and were carried from the garden. Waking, they asked for the lost paradise, and were told that they would be readmitted to it, and forever; if they should obey the Master faithfully, or be slain in his service.
I would say that is a pretty good way to inculcate obedience to a political agenda under the guise of religion. Sounds familiar doesn't it. Knowing this, one can understand the difficulty in countering modern-day jihadis who seem to believe the same thing.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 13, 2019 15:13:24 GMT -8
Indeed. I massacred a dozen people to "save the planet" and all I got was this stupid t-shirt.  |
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 13, 2019 15:16:56 GMT -8
LOL. That was really my belly-laugh for the day.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 15, 2019 12:30:14 GMT -8
Here is more data on drugs and mass shootings. This guy would have fit in well with the assassins. Dayton Shooter Doped UpYou will see that the police shot this asshole 24 times. Maybe some off-target shots, but I believe it is also likely that the drugs in this monster's system helped keep him going longer than had he been sober. I was told over ten years ago that many of today's criminals were high on PCP and other drugs so that it was hard to bring them down. Trying to wound them was often not effective, as they did not feel the pain. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 26, 2019 20:04:48 GMT -8
The link is to an article which reports that almost 900 abortion clinics no longer receive federal funds because of a Trump edict.
This is not reported widely and is a very "conservative" move on Trump's part. It is not someone I would normally associate with a New York billionaire, but Trump is turning out to be more conservative than I ever dreamed.
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Post by artraveler on Oct 26, 2019 20:21:07 GMT -8
I saw the same story. The media, which really is the opposition, not the democrat party. Will ignore any information that does not fit their twisted narrative. It is my belief that the democrat party and many RINOs take their marching orders from the MSM not the other way around. Their greatest power is the ability to ignore and set their own narrative.
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Post by timothylane on Oct 26, 2019 21:14:33 GMT -8
One reason fewer Tophets are receiving taxpayer money is that many are being closed down as sensible states require them to follow good medical standards. No Gosnells need apply. A closed Tophet is a Tophet that no longer leeches off the taxpayers.
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