Subject: Things that make you go...WTF? (part three)
Posted by: Tree
- [2310201719] Fri, Nov 17, 2006, 21:22
nearly 500 posts in on the last thread, probably time to start a new one.
and let's start with a classic from our friend, Bill O'Reilly, who must seriously have lost his mind after the election a few weeks back...
he sort of goes on this whacky rant about OJ Simpson and George Tiller, then really starts to go off on the upcoming OJ Simpson TV special...
So here's what I'm going to do as a citizen. I'm not going to watch the Simpson show or even look at the book. I'm not even going to look at it. If any company sponsors the TV program, I will not buy anything that company sells — ever.
um, Bill does realize that FOX - who he acknowledges will be airing the show - also airs O'Reilly's show?? and that this whole rant is hosted on the FOX website?
so, um..is O'Reilly going to boycott FOX?
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Boldwin
ID: 591522719 Wed, Feb 27, 2013, 20:53
I didn't quote her saying "we are not at odds with the Ayatollah Komeini".
I inferred it because she pointedly refused to allow the presumption that she was among the former Iranian elite, and was persona non-grata. No no, it was just a misunderstanding, just an administration snafu or something was the tone she used. Why else would she be in denial mode?
I hadn't seen the part about the brother, but I had seen the rest of the quote.
Woodward: Obama's Decision Not To Deploy Carrier "A Kind Of Madness"
Also Woodward makes the point that Obama has conceded that he was responsible for the sequester which will come as a shock to PD and others around here.
When you see me say, In otherwords, you know that is me clarifying or summarizing coming up with a completely different meaning, one that suits my argument, regardless of whether it's accurate or not.
BTW, people who left Iran around the time of the revolution, don't have to explain. Everyone assumes they were more favorably disposed to the Shah and that their lives would be in danger there.
None of that for Amanpour, nope. Gotta make it clear her's wasn't the obvious reason.
Starting with the exact same starting point as my conversion to skeptic. No wingmarks on the pentagon. From there the whole media construct came crashing down for him.
China for the first time ever looks at N. Korea and sees it as the dangerous crazy state it is.
Formerly just deranged, now nuclear armed and potent they are becoming grandiose delusional. Half a year ago China was promoting cross border business. N.K. hasn't been returning their phone calls.
I don't read the Enquirer but I think the covers are a hoot. I imagine these writers getting together dreaming up the funniest stories they can imagine.
Illinois flooding is historic. I'm downriver from this failing dam. Break away barges banging on the dam. Wild stuff. Tho I'm high enuff I'm not directly threatened. A very prolonged rain recently but never seen spring flooding this late in the season so long after snows melted and ground had a good start thawing.
personally, i'm glad that bunker you're hunkering down in has internet access. because you are bringing the crazy, and i am entertained. thank you for being a loon.
"My interest, frankly, is to disprove that it's anything unusual or anything paranormal," Nolan said prior to beginning his DNA study of the small portions of Ata he was allowed to work with. "I would like to prove that this is human [and] just an interesting mutation. In every situation with scientists, your reputation's at stake. I have every expectation that even doing this is going to lead to some ribbing from some of my colleagues."
One of the leading theories going into the DNA testing was that Ata may have been an unborn fetus. But, even that turned out to be incorrect, according to Nolan's surprising (or not, depending on your point of view) conclusions of his investigation.
"The sequence that we got from the mitochondria [energy factories of cells] tells us with extremely high confidence that the mother was an indigenous Indian from the Chilean area. The other thing that immediately fell out of the analysis is that it's male. It probably died in the last century, if I were to make a guess."
Nolan concedes he entered this study thinking that DNA was the answer, but then realized there were other biology questions about Ata that still needed to be understood and answered. He plans to eventually publish his findings after more analysis.
I expected it to be a debunking and sure enuff it was. Nothing alien about it. Then what was truly crazy. The Stanford scientist casually puts in there that the baby lived to age 6-8.
Stanford's got a pretty good reputation. Harvard of the west.
The movie the investigation was included in, having been disappointed by DNA analysis, had to spin off into some 'if the baby wasn't alien then the energy technology involved was', hokum in which I have no interest or belief.
There is an abridged version (actually, a further abridged version) which cuts out most of that yucky stuff, like her liking a boy, etc. Makes her out to be more of a sexless Holocaust saint.
The witness who recorded it on her phone, sat surrounded by detectives in her home, seized the phone before the warrant arrived, threatened 'give phone up the easy way or the hard way'.
Father of four beaten to death by nine sheriffs while handcuffed behind his back.
if this is true, then we'll see it elsewhere. for now, i'll take with a grain of salt any news coming from a site called "Mr. Conservative" and with a banner touting the "breaking news" that British National Archives Confirm Obama Sr. Had A Child in 1961 Kenya
Would have loved to see this reviewed by Keith Ratliff in his enormously entertaining and popular FPSRussia website but he's mysteriously dead all of a sudden.
Or reviewed by Chris Kyle but he's mysteriously dead all of a sudden...
Or reviewed by John Noveske but he's mysteriously dead all of a sudden...
Gear & Gadgets / Product News & Reviews $17,000 Linux-powered rifle brings “auto-aim” to the real world
It has the potential to replace 'shoot stuff and mount' with 'share the shot with your buddies in realtime, and just not take the shot'. Catch and release for big game.
reviewed by Keith Ratliff in his enormously entertaining and popular FPSRussia website but he's mysteriously dead all of a sudden.
Or reviewed by Chris Kyle but he's mysteriously dead all of a sudden...
Or reviewed by John Noveske but he's mysteriously dead all of a sudden...
there's nothing mysterious at all about the deaths of the first two. they lived by the gun, they died by the gun. if guns are an important part of your life, it's reasonable to presume you might meet your end in a violent way.
Next time I point out RTBA advocates getting whacked in suspicious clusters, I'll include the caveat, 'or as Tree would consider it - appropriate gun deaths'.
'or as Tree would consider it - appropriate gun deaths'
which of course, would be another lie.
Kyle was killed because he was foolhardy with gun usage. he trusted someone he shouldn't have trusted.
Ratliff was shot in the head in his office. There have been numerous (unsubstantiated) reports on various blogs (sources that you use as if they are the end all, be all, but i'll use with the "unsubstantiated" disclaimer) that Ratliff scammed and defrauded quite a few people.
there are reports he was convicted of sexual assault a dozen or so years ago.
there have been rumors that he abused girlfriends prior to his marriage. there are stories of him not being faithful.
murder isn't appropriate, and even if he was guilty of all the above, he didn't deserve to be killed for any or all of them
but considering he wasn't robbed of money or any of the guns surrounding him when he died in his business office, it wouldn't shocking that someone who was pissed off put a bullet in his head.
again - let me be clear - this are all things from some random blog post i found by googling the guy's name. i don't particular consider that an indisputable source, but you often do, so in this case, what's good for the goose, is good for the gander.
This is a rather large and strangely hidden story.
One of the most successful false messiahs in Jewish history became a muslim in his last ten years of life [to save his life]. The effects were large because the following was large. These followers are still around having God knows what effect.
The Sabbateans.
Strange tales of kabbala, a possible connection with sufi islam, strange Albanian tales, accusations of people who were supposedly secret Sabbateans. The field left open for Hasidism by this figure turning islamic, the connection between Sabbateans and secularism...there are library shelves full of intrigue and interesting historical material here that have not reached the attention of the outside world.
If the Swedish system celebrates kids who are great at sports while all but punishing kids who stand out academically (“Excellence of bodies yes, brains no”), part of the reason is a fanatical devotion to equality of result, and part is an awareness that kids with first-rate minds are potential critics of the system. Hence socialism’s preference for mediocrity over excellence.
And, one might add, for social science over hard science. Yes, Sweden awards Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics, and medicine, but its educational system discourages an interest in math and science – because, you see, experts in these fields end up serving industry, which exploits workers and produces environmentally hazardous waste. For decades, consequently, Sweden has suffered a deficit of scientists, engineers, doctors, and technicians. Students who choose to enter these fields, furthermore, tend to be so ill-prepared that they “need remedial classes.” There’s also a lack of plumbers, construction workers, and other laborers – for just as Sweden’s social engineers distrust science, they look down on vocations involving manual labor.
Swedes...have been efficiently trained to view any expression of unease over state-run education as “deranged” and to accept the socialist proposition that children belong not to their parents but to the state.
Socialists recognize members of the middle class, who are all too frequently driven by an ambition to better their circumstances, as a potential threat to the authority of socialists, whose machinations make such ambitions harder to fulfill. How to nip this nuisance in the bud? Easy: impose sky-high taxes on them. For, as Sjunnesson points out, people who have been able to accumulate some savings in the bank are better positioned to “stand up against authority” and “rise with self-confidence”; they’re not “as servile as if they had nothing.” Sweden’s tax system, then, is designed to make it extremely hard for Swedes to save money – and it works: compared to other Western countries, “Swedes have unusually small amounts of savings.” And consequently, people who might otherwise be vocal critics of the socialist welfare state are very aware of being dependent on it, knowing that if they get sick or lose their jobs they won’t have their own resources to fall back on. Confiscatory tax, then, serves not only as a means of enriching and expanding the socialist state, but as a form, itself, of socialist control.
They’re afflicted with a “silent conformism,” the result of a “spiral of silence” driven by a “fear of exclusion” and a perceived need to maintain a social order founded on perceived consensus views. Whether the perceived consensus views actually are the consensus views doesn’t matter: “When no opposing views are heard, people do not believe there are any even if they themselves dissent.” Those who do dare to dissent are branded as extreme – even though those “extreme” views may be thoroughly mainstream in other Western countries – and are often targeted for violence by self-styled “anti-fascists” who behave exactly like fascists. Sweden is, note well, a country in which members of the anti-establishment Sweden Democrats Party are demonized for dissenting civilly and peacefully, while certain entertainers are celebrated for singing about their desire to commit acts of violence against Sweden Democrats.
the system rewards irresponsibility on the part of young unmarried mothers and the men who impregnate them. (“With a baby, a single parent sidesteps all waiting lines and the child may be the only means to an apartment for decades.”) About a national self-hatred so fierce that “schools have asked pupils not to wear [Swedish flag] t-shirts or wave the yellow and blue flag as it could be interpreted as racist.” About a country where adults admire and envy youth beyond all reason, and accordingly exhibit greater levels of hedonism and infantilism than their counterparts anywhere else on the planet. And about levels of anti-Semitism that made international headlines yet again just the other day, when Israel’s Eurovision delegation was harassed and threatened on the streets of Malmö.
In such countries, it’s taken for granted that there’s no need to place any limit on state power or to provide mechanisms to protect citizens from that power, because, by definition, as Sjunnesson puts it, “the state always is good.” We may mock the European Union for banning jugs or bowls of olive oil on restaurant tables, but this is what socialism does: the powers that be need to have their fingers in every pie, need to minimize the number of situations under which freedom may actually be experienced, need to accustom citizens to a society in which their lives are increasingly regulated. They need, in short, to create a country in which the land and the system are, in the minds of the general public, one – a country, that is, in which the people simply cannot imagine the nation itself without the socialist state.
No so-called democracy on earth has gone as far in this direction as Sweden. For the Swedish people, Sjunneson says, “the country is the welfare state…Swedes have have no home but the welfare state and no identity outside its yarn” – outside, in other words, its narrative about itself. Winston Smith, Orwell’s narrator in 1984, suggests that the only hope of overthrowing the totalitarian government of his native Oceania lies with “the proles”; Sjunneson, for his part, believes that his fellow Swedes are so brainwashed by welfare-state propaganda that the only way Sweden can save itself at this point is by admitting “one million new immigrants from India, China, Africa and Latin America” who have service skills or technical knowhow, who have no truck with jihadism or multiculturalism, who want to move to Sweden not for a handout but to study hard and work hard, and who will, in time, found more rigorous schools and start more vigorous businesses.
it's a pretty solid combination of things that are statistically not surprising (numerous), dubious at best (John Wilkes Booth being a "southerner" despite being born in Maryland which few people will actually consider the south), completely fictional (Kennedy did not have a secretary named Lincoln; booth was not born in 1839), and so forth.
it's one of the oldest memes around, preceding the term "meme" by decades. but it's still not really that impressive, considering all the inaccuracies and mistruths.
Belinda Padilla is the president and CEO of the U.S. division of German gun manufacturer, Armatix. Her company began marketing and trying to sell the first “smart gun” in the United States. The weapon, a .22 caliber handgun called the iP1 pistol, uses a radio frequency enabled stopwatch to identify the user. The user enters a five-digit PIN into the stopwatch which then allows the user to fire it. The gun also disables if it is more than ten inches from the watch.
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Padilla says she started receiving prank phone calls. People would call and leave irate voice mails. She said she no longer answers her phone when unknown numbers call. They also posted pictures of the address where she has a P.O. Box.
One poster wrote:
I have no qualms with the idea of personally and professionally leveling the life of someone who has attempted to profit from disarming me and my fellow Americans.
Personally leveling? That is most definitely a threat. Who exactly she is trying to disarm is not clear. The last time I looked, gun manufacturers were in the business of arming people. All evidence suggests she is actually trying to arm people. The problem is that gun nuts don’t want any safety devices on firearms."
This, is why most of the world thinks that we Americans, are out of our friggin minds.
Get real....nobody wears watches anymore sarge, they clash with the other bling, and the camo hunting gear. Besides, if you have to wear a watch, then how could you conceal that you are packing? Seriously?
The death threats all seem reasonable to me. Nothing premeditated there, its just provoked self defense.
Since 2001 Warren Buffet has donated $1.23 billion dollars to abortion groups. Enuff money to abort every human in Chicago, according to research from Media Research Center.
And a well rewarded crony capitalist I might add. "Yea verily did the tax seas part and a regulatory red carpet unfurled before he, laid out upon dry land."
a third thing that open carry does is make you a target to good guys as well.
if i've got a C&L, and some jabroni walks in with a shot gun around his shoulder, i'm not going to spend a whole lot of time trying to determine if he's just a moron, or he's a moron who wants to hurt me and my family.
As far as I can tell, open carry men do so (particularly these days) because they don't trust anyone. Which is ironic, because why should their paranoia make them trustworthy to me?
Not sure where else to put this, so I'll put it here.
There is a FB page, whose admin is openly offering a reward for the arrest/execution of "the criminal" Barrack Hussein Obama. The following link, goes to a letter in response, written by a retired Naval Officer.
To that Officer, is want to say "Good on ya sir. Good on ya!"