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Post by artraveler on Feb 15, 2024 20:47:58 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 16, 2024 5:50:17 GMT -8
Confirmation of what we said.
I have been seeing all sorts of articles about this woman and her KC boyfriend for a couple of months. They are a mainstay of even the Daily Mail. Ya think that maybe the NFL has been paying media to hype this story? Who but silly girls would care about the relationship between two such persons?
I also heard that the KC guy got paid $20 million to promote the illegal-ineffective-deadly-experimental-gene therapy. Maybe that was also a ploy to get silly girls to go out and get the jab. You know, "Ooooo. If Taylor Swift's guy says we should, then it must be ok."
P.S. I am proud to say I did not watch one second of our national Bacchanal.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 16, 2024 8:03:35 GMT -8
I remain the most cynical about all that Taylor Swift/Travic Kelce stuff. I see it as a marketing ploy. And apparently it worked.
But I do admit, when they embraced each other after the win, it actually looked like they liked each other. Who knows? Using each other for one's own purposes is as old as time. It's just this whole cult-of-personality thing that gives me the creeps. I guess she's the secular equivalent of the Pope...and probably just as liberal.
Who indeed.
All things considered, you didn't miss much. In a way, it's funny to watch a guy-centered sport become feminized. Oh, they still hit each other, even when they are wearing pink shoes. But for decades now the NFL has had a desire to attract more women viewers. I guess it's working.
You and I, of course, would probably see a zero-sum game in this. Thinking of the Bud Light fiasco, does it really pay to gain 1 "transgender" weirdo drinker of your product if you lose 3 current drinkers? And that's how I potentially see the NFL. How many traditional viewers (men) will they lose in order to attract the women?
The cynical part of me thinks that men have been so indoctrinated into "you go, girl" feminism that they will go along with it...until the day comes (and it may come) when belching, farting, or scratching yourself is made illegal. At some point, the Vulgarians may indeed encounter barriers that make them chafe. In theory. Don't hold your breath.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 16, 2024 8:14:13 GMT -8
I had never heard of the USS Jacob Jones or its significance in WWI. Nor the story of Lt. Kalk. Thanks for that bit of history, Artler. It is worth pausing and noting such great ships and acts of heroism.
In the end, the Brits turned out to be our bosom friend. Even the cunts in the EU haven't been able to scuttle that.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 18, 2024 13:29:28 GMT -8
Now even the left-wing rag Politico is in on it. The Demonrats and their captive media are stepping up the coordinated effort to get rid of Biden before the November election. They are getting desperate. Frankly, I am surprised the old criminal has lasted this long. News Flash-The Biden Family Is Corrupt
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 18, 2024 16:48:41 GMT -8
I didn't read all of that because it was a lot. But one wonders who Politico prefers in Biden's place.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 18, 2024 20:18:30 GMT -8
I didn't either, but I find it telling that Politico is now spreading the message. I still believe the Demonrats want to run Big Mike as their candidate.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 19, 2024 7:47:57 GMT -8
Big Mike is Michelle Obama? I had to Google that one. I hadn't heard of it before. She says she doesn't want to run. And the reasons she gives sound believable. But it is the natural way for Barry to have a third term.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 19, 2024 10:23:10 GMT -8
Here is a rarely seen photo of Big Mike.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 19, 2024 10:28:12 GMT -8
I know as right-wingers, we're supposed to despise these people. And I do thoroughly despise Barry. But Michelle, like so many blacks, has been fed a rather noxious mix of Marxism. It's a form of abuse, although it is tough to feel sorry for someone with so much fame, money, and power. But there are tens of thousands of unknown Michelles out there (white or black) who have been politically date-raped by the Democrat Party and their surrogates.
At the end of the day, our fellow Americans are being used and abused by a toxic ideology. On that level we might have some sympathy.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 19, 2024 10:50:52 GMT -8
One doesn't have to despise them, but one must see them for the threat they are. I don't despise a child running around with a loaded gun, but I certainly don't allow her to continue to do so. Before teaching the basics of gun etiquette, I relieve her of the gun.
I will save any sympathy I might have for them until after we have crushed them politically. Till that time, they are a mortal danger to the republic.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 19, 2024 11:31:58 GMT -8
I think you are badly mistaken about Big Mike. He is a dyed-in-the-wool leftist. Here is information which puts on display the complete phoniness of Big Mike.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 25, 2024 10:50:12 GMT -8
This is a very interesting short video in Japan. Muslims out! When I first lived in Japan, in 1979, there were very few foreigners living there. As I recall, there were something like 40,000 Westerners living in a country of about 120 million. I rarely saw any Westerners, unless it was one of the other Gaijin working in international companies which were located in the central area of Tokyo, where I worked. They did not allow "guest workers" such as Philippina maids, or cheap labor from Latin America. There were two groups of foreigners which one might encounter. The first were Chinese, most of whom originated from Taiwan, which had been a Japanese colony. As I recall, there were about 60,000 such people in Japan. The other group were Koreans, which were split between those originating and loyal to the North, and those from the South. I believe there were something like 800,000 such people in Japan at that time. Korea had also been a Japanese colony. One could not see much, if any, difference between those from Taiwan and South Korea. A good number of them had been born in Japan, but due to Japanese law were still not Japanese citizens. Those attached to N. Korea were very easy to see, at least the younger girls and ladies who often wore traditional Korean dress. They were also not citizens although most had been born in Japan. Japan's isolation and refusal to open its borders started to change in the 1990s. I think it might have happened first with the temporary importation of females from the Philippines who worked as bar hostesses. It expanded from there to others for general labor. The Japanese were familiar with the Philippines so it was not such a big stretch for them to allow some into Japan. But I had no idea that the Japanese were allowing a good number of Muslims into their country. This is a big mistake. The cultures are so different than problems are bound to arise.
Why the protests started.
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Post by artraveler on Feb 25, 2024 11:27:12 GMT -8
Japan. I never had the opportunity to live in Japan. I knew a number of Japanese students in Sacramento, for the most part, they were tolerant of other religions. However, I can understand the outrage over desecration of a religious monument. Imagine how outraged the south is over the destruction of our monuments! Best thing Japan can do is get the Moslems out.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 25, 2024 13:53:44 GMT -8
It was my experience, and various studies have confirmed it, that the Japanese are about the least religious people in the world. I would put them somewhere in the same league as the Scandinavians. But they are very proud of their culture. In fact, they are fascinated by themselves as a nation. At least they were when I lived there.
So I would guess that they are extremely irritated by "guests" who have come into their country and go around desecrating the Japanese culture. These guests are both ungrateful and barbaric. By the way, Shinto is about as amorphous a religion as one can find. When the foreigners opened Japan in the second half of the 19th century, some Japanese built up Shintoism to be some sort of national religion uniting all Japanese in a warrior cult in order to expel the Gaijin. There were certainly a lot of warriors (Samurai) in Japan at the time, but I have never seen any record that would indicate Shinto was aggressive before the late 19th/early 20th century.
This Muslim would appear to be of the type that I have occasionally run across here. When they bitch about the USA, I point out that they left their own lands to either 1) get away from something, or 2) get to take advantage of something that is not in their country. So why are they complaining and trying to make the USA the same as where they came from? Of course, there is also the possibility that they are jihadis trying to take over the USA and make it an Islamic nation.
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Post by artraveler on Feb 25, 2024 14:52:54 GMT -8
So I would guess that they are extremely irritated by "guests" who have come into their country and go around desecrating the Japanese culture. The Japanese I have known were mostly 2nd and 3rd generation, but they shared one common trait, someone who was impolite was anathema and to be looked down upon. I can't think of anything considered more inpolite then desecrating any monument, here or in Japan. When I was a teen I took Kendo for two years. The first six weeks of the beginners class had nothing to do with using a sword but a six week course on Japanese culture and history, focused on the Sameri era.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 25, 2024 16:15:47 GMT -8
Very Japanese. In order to learn properly, one first has to get one's mind right. This also helps to separate the wheat from the chaff. Someone serious about learning Kendo will accept his Sensei's moral and mental teachings before the physical starts.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 3, 2024 15:30:11 GMT -8
A nice story about young men fighting fires in the Texas panhandle. My only question is, "Why no mention of the fathers?" There would seem to be some dichotomy (dissonance) of thought. The writer wants to praise young males, but doesn't mention any males related to the families involved. I don't know, perhaps they are from single-mother families. Unfortunately, we have reached the point where I do not take anything in a newspaper at face value. Texas Teens Fight Fires
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 11, 2024 15:42:05 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 11, 2024 17:53:21 GMT -8
I don't put Boeing in the same category as the Clinton Crime Family. But their headquarters is, after all, in Chicago.
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