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Subject: Amazing Stuff That Doesn't Make Evening News Pt.3 Posted by: Baldwin - [4261155] Wed, Nov 27, 2002, 13:45 Here is the news you are likely to hear.: "People from UNRWA are screaming about the death of Iain Hook, brushing aside Israeli claims that Palestinian gunmen were firing at IDF troops from inside the UN compound:" Rene Aquarone, a spokeswoman for the U.N. agency, said Tuesday in Geneva that Hook was shot in the back while he was trying to arrange for the evacuation of U.N. staff, and that the Israelis prevented an ambulance from reaching him for some time. Paul McCann, another U.N. spokesman, said allegations that Palestinian gunmen were inside the compound were "incredible." The compound is sealed by an 8-foot cement block wall topped with another 6 feet of fencing, and closed to anyone without U.N. permission Here is the part the media doubtless won't report: "Hook himself apparently called the IDF shortly before he was shot, to tell them that Palestinians were breaking into the compound. The term the caller used to describe the youth was "shabab," an Arabic term for youth that often refers to armed gangs." [IDF Capt. Peter] Lerner's voice mail service automatically dated the call at 12:53 p.m. on Friday, less than an hour before Hook was shot and killed. The caller said, '“'Hi Peter, it's Iain here. I'm just making a progress report, really. We're pinned down in the compound. The shabab [armed Palestinian youths - B] have knocked a hole in the wall, which I'm not happy about at all. I'm trying to keep them out, and I will just keep my people pinned down in the corner until I hear from you. OK? Over." | |||||||
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| 120 | Bungers Leader ID: 389553115 Thu, Feb 20, 2003, 17:10 | Zenny Youngman stikes again. | ||||||
| 121 | Baldwin ID: 4261155 Thu, Feb 20, 2003, 21:30 |
Really let's take a look at the post that started this nonsense from MBJ...Priest from hell - "Ntakirutimana [a Seventh Day Adventist pastor]...Now I ask you, can anyone say I was trying to fool anyone into believing this particular man was Catholic? I didn't need to include that parenthetic comment after all, sheesh. 'Priest from hell' just sounds more funny than 'pastor from hell'. That's all there was to it. One less syllable is all. Thank you Steve for settling the strict sense of the word issue. | ||||||
| 122 | Baldwin ID: 4261155 Sat, Feb 22, 2003, 19:15 |
Islamist Monty Python fan... recites the holy handgrenade skit | ||||||
| 123 | Baldwin ID: 4261155 Sat, Feb 22, 2003, 19:29 |
Since we are frequently reminded jihad is an internal struggle one is left to wonder where he intends to put this grenade. | ||||||
| 124 | Baldwin ID: 4261155 Sat, Feb 22, 2003, 19:39 | "I move for no man." - Black knight | ||||||
| 125 | Pancho Villa Donor ID: 46113919 Sat, Feb 22, 2003, 20:10 | LOL, Baldwin. Good to see your sense of humor hasn't deserted you. | ||||||
| 126 | Baldwin ID: 4261155 Sat, Feb 22, 2003, 20:12 |
The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. 'Tis one of the sacred relics Brother Maynard always carries with him. | ||||||
| 127 | Baldwin ID: 4261155 Sun, Feb 23, 2003, 12:23 | Drawn freely from Little Green Footballs. That site has been great lately. | ||||||
| 129 | James K Polk ID: 51010719 Sun, Feb 23, 2003, 17:59 | Don't tell me this thought didn't at least cross your mind | ||||||
| 130 | James K Polk ID: 51010719 Sun, Feb 23, 2003, 18:37 |
A link for Baldwin btw, am I the only one whose thread view is freaking out right after #128? | ||||||
| 131 | culdeus Donor ID: 321352115 Tue, Feb 25, 2003, 14:47 | Attack of the Snow Penii | ||||||
| 132 | Baldwin ID: 125312919 Thu, Sep 06, 2007, 07:17 |
Wait for it... Hillary's passion for one world government. Somehow the media didn't think this was relevent or of interest to their viewers. | ||||||
| 133 | Boldwin ID: 2410291417 Sat, Nov 15, 2008, 18:01 | Great website: wikileaks. | ||||||
| 134 | Boldwin ID: 2155174 Wed, Feb 17, 2010, 06:17 |
Liberal Islamofascism enabling has made more progress... ...in the Netherlands. | ||||||
| 135 | Boldwin ID: 16637151 Fri, Jul 15, 2011, 09:37 | America's unlikeliest export. | ||||||
| 137 | Boldwin ID: 35615181 Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 02:26 | International Talk Like A Pirate Day, well 1.5 hrs ago it was anyway. | ||||||
| 138 | weykool ID: 343561414 Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 19:42 |
Heh, I worked in an office with a guy who celebrated Talk like a Pirate day. AAARRRG. | ||||||
| 139 | Boldwin ID: 35615181 Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 19:37 | I don't really like pirates but the facebook pirate option was kinda fun. | ||||||
| 140 | sarge33rd ID: 48402311 Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 15:46 |
Faster than light? OK, we all know that according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, FTL (faster than light) is not possible. Why not? Theory is that if we travelled faster than light, we would move backwards thru time. Why? Since what we see, is a reflection of light off a surface, the face of the clock would APPEAR to be running or have run backwards. OK, THAT clock. What of the one on the wall of our vehicle, or the watch we are wearing? What if, we moved in one direction at 1/2 speed of light PLUS 1 mph, and a clock went in precisely the opposite direction 180 degrees, also at 1/2 spd of light PLUS 1 mph? We'd be moving away from that clock at faster than light speed (by 2 mph), and it would APPEAR to be running backwards. But would it in FACT be running in reverse? | ||||||
| 141 | Boldwin ID: 35615181 Sat, Sep 24, 2011, 11:29 |
1. Stunning find. I am not on my main computer anymore and thus haven't been checking my science bookmarks often enuff or I sure would have posted this. 2. I believe in your thot experiment, that the light from the clock receding from you would never reach you and thus would not appear anything at all, to all appearances having disappeared from the universe from your frame of reference. 3. The universe is in fact performing this experiment as we speak since the furthest bounds of the universe are in fact receding from us faster than the speed of light relative to our speeding frame of reference. This is why space appears dark. | ||||||
| 142 | Boldwin ID: 35615181 Sat, Sep 24, 2011, 18:40 |
Land of the Free?“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd;”Wisconsin Judge's ruling and new legal precedent. If you can't grow and eat food what freedom to pursue happiness is there? | ||||||
| 143 | sarge33rd ID: 118582410 Sat, Sep 24, 2011, 19:32 |
well, the judge is right with the 1st statement, We DONT have the right to own a dairy herd. Else, those of us that dont own one, could suit someone for violating our right TO own one. From there though, I sort of think he jumps the ship and gets all wet. | ||||||
| 144 | Perm Dude ID: 5510572522 Sat, Sep 24, 2011, 20:53 |
The raw milk issue is one that smacks right up against some very intrusive government regulations, IMO. Most places that I've seen just kinda turn a blind eye to the practice of selling it. But government really should not have the right it does to regulate it to that granular level. | ||||||
| 145 | Boldwin ID: 35615181 Sun, Sep 25, 2011, 08:24 |
Not meaning to cut off the current discussion but I just noticed that the le Carre novel 'The Mission Song' which I purchased and devoured on one day recently, is the perfect fleshing out of post#94. Reading le Carre's entire body of work should be required reading for this board's regulars. No one gets the absurd contradictory darkly humorous craziness of each country and geopolitical situation quite as well as he does. He is one of my three favorite writers, who also include the writer of the Fletch series, Gregory Mcdonald, and Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. These authors have a gift of being able to write an entire book without ever writing a sentence which is predictable from the preceding sentence. The result is this breathtaking, head whipsawing, breakneck rollercoaster ride of delightful surprise and rare insight. You read their books in a state of mid-laughter. You will not be sorry you picked up 'The Mission Song'. | ||||||
| 146 | Boldwin ID: 35615181 Sun, Sep 25, 2011, 08:25 | Liberals can even read him as he went over to the dark side a long time ago. | ||||||
| 147 | Perm Dude ID: 5510572522 Sun, Sep 25, 2011, 08:56 |
Le Carre is a great writer, though dated--all those Cold War espionage novels are, at this point, though many are very good. His novels are pretty complex, which is why I like them better than, say, Fleming or Ludlum. But I read them all. The Constant Gardener was an amazing book, and had an injustice done to it by the movie. | ||||||
| 148 | Boldwin ID: 35615181 Sun, Sep 25, 2011, 09:20 | He's got twenty years of post-cold war novels based on settings all over the world and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is still possibly the greatest TV production of all time. It holds up just fine. | ||||||
| 149 | Boldwin ID: 35615181 Sun, Sep 25, 2011, 09:23 |
! Look what I just discovered! In 2011, The movie released on the 5th September 2011 in Venice film Festival and was released for the public in the UK on 16 September 2011 as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) Guess I'm not the only one who thinks it holds up just fine. | ||||||
| 150 | Perm Dude ID: 5510572522 Sun, Sep 25, 2011, 09:35 |
I'm not talking about the movies--I'm talking about the novels. He is a great writer, but the themes in those Cold War novels are no longer timely. For someone still in the 60's, however, they must seem quite fresh--prescient, even... | ||||||
| 151 | Boldwin ID: 35615181 Sun, Sep 25, 2011, 09:39 |
LOL...like you're not stuck in the sixties. Tailor of Panama was indispensible and timely reading, no? | ||||||
| 152 | Perm Dude ID: 5510572522 Sun, Sep 25, 2011, 12:59 | Absolutely--somewhat satirical, if I recall correctly. Like I said, his novels are incredibly rich and complex. I hated the movie version of The Constant Gardener because the nuances of that novel were either lost of glossed over. They did as good a job as they could with it, but it just wasn't a work that translated well into the screen. | ||||||
| 153 | bibA ID: 48627713 Sun, Sep 25, 2011, 16:37 |
All this time I thought Tailor of Panama was by Graham Greene. I guess they both wrote similar books. Speaking of Greene, I thought The Quiet American was as good as writing gets. I'm sure you guys saw the Alec Guiness' BBC version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. That was as good as television gets. I enjoyed it more than the book, which is not something one can often say. | ||||||
| 154 | Boldwin ID: 510591420 Sun, Dec 21, 2014, 18:24 |
The CDC is monitoring 1,400 suspected cases of ebola in the USA today. But that's politically inconvenient for the palace guard so you won't be hearing about it. | ||||||
| 155 | Perm Dude ID: 431013412 Sun, Dec 21, 2014, 19:47 | Ha! More imaginatively-based fear. | ||||||
| 156 | Boldwin ID: 510591420 Mon, Dec 22, 2014, 12:48 |
*roll* The 'reality based' PD thinks the CDC's work is imaginary. How anti-science of you. | ||||||
| 157 | biliruben ID: 561162511 Mon, Dec 22, 2014, 15:07 |
I'm not going to click through to the faux news clip, because I don't want to become dumber, but that's about as truthy a headline as can exist. Pure fear-based nonsense. You owe PD and apology. If you actually want your knowledge to grow rather than twist and rot your brain, here's the relevant MMWR. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6349a5.htm?s_cid=mm6349a5_w | ||||||
| 158 | Boldwin ID: 510591420 Mon, Dec 22, 2014, 17:42 | There's another vote for the O Admin preventing a reporter from getting the truth out. | ||||||
| 159 | Boldwin ID: 510591420 Mon, Dec 22, 2014, 17:47 | We are not quarantining. We are releasing all possible carriers into the wild and hoping they self-report adequately. | ||||||
| 160 | Boldwin ID: 510591420 Mon, Dec 22, 2014, 17:50 | Obama didn't have her computer hacked because he was afraid of faux news. He did it because he was afraid of her getting the truth out. | ||||||
| 161 | Perm Dude ID: 431013412 Mon, Dec 22, 2014, 23:14 |
Delusional. Baldwin hasn't a clue what "truth" is anymore, except that it has something to do with weaponizing words to use against Obama. Sad, really. His God must be so proud of him. | ||||||
| 162 | Boldwin ID: 510591420 Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 16:49 |
There wasn't anything contradictory between Sheryl Attkisson's account and the CDC report bili pulled up. There is something sadly anti-science about the libs who can't read it and see it. | ||||||
| 163 | Perm Dude ID: 431013412 Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 17:09 |
So the CDC is secretly tracking 1400 people. And she was able to get this top secret out of them (which isn't found anywhere else)...by calling them up on the phone. Let's let that stew for awhile... | ||||||
| 164 | Boldwin ID: 510591420 Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 17:21 | It's amazing what a Dem admin can get the MSM to spike. | ||||||
| 165 | biliruben ID: 105572020 Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 19:07 | The truthy part is your term "suspected cases of Ebola". Thafz total bulldanky, and makes it sound as if they are likely carriers. | ||||||
| 166 | Boldwin ID: 510591420 Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 22:06 |
"Sure, go ahead and circulate among the crowd...but if it wouldn't be too much trouble, check yourself for ebola now and then and call me maybe." If that's how you think preventing one of the deadliest most contagious plagues works, please get back on your unicorn, stow the magical thinking, and let someone who actually cares about survival run things. | ||||||
| 167 | sarge33rd ID: 390471112 Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 23:29 | most contagious? WTF are you talking about? | ||||||
| 168 | Boldwin ID: 510591420 Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 23:44 | Nothing to worry about obviously, if you ask team O. | ||||||
| 169 | sarge33rd ID: 390471112 Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 22:38 | 430 LY out, a planet 10 to 40 times the size of Jupiter, with rings 200 times the size of Saturns | ||||||
| 170 | Perm Dude ID: 431013412 Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 23:42 | You get a little closer to it, and you'll hear this from the planet's sound system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xTGrfs5TXM | ||||||
| 171 | Boldwin ID: 49572022 Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 17:43 | |||||||
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