A Cannon in a Hamas Mosque
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Here’s an IDF video showing the weapons, ammunition, and hate propaganda discovered in a Gaza mosque—including an anti-aircraft cannon.
877 comments
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phoenixgirl Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:04:05am |
what next, hiding in the basement of a hospital? firing rockets from a school? /
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SWPaul Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:05:15am |
They keep finding bigger and bigger weapons in there. It's only a matter a time before they find a battering ram or something. BTW, those bullets to that thing were HUGE!
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Kragar Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:05:15am |
Rusted out POS. You would think for a people dedicated to the destruction of Israel, they would take care of their tools better.
/Yes, I'm still bitching about this.
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karmic_inquisitor Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:05:18am |
How dare Israel enter a sacred Mosque! War crime!
/
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pegcity Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:05:19am |
im sorry but i thought Anti Aircraft guns were just part of your standard Mosque decor?
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Dizzy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:05:25am |
Sorry if this has been posted before. It is a literal human shield. Video at Elder of Ziyon.
IDF, most awesome!
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scottishbuzzsaw Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:05:30am |
It's there only to help facilitate worship.
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Wyatt Earp Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:06:00am |
Someone should tell the terrorist's "fodder." Heh.
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:06:16am |
That's not a cannon.. its just something they got in the mail in a CAIR package!
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SWPaul Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:06:26am |
re: #3 phoenixgirl
Holding their mothers in a choke-hold while firing pot shots at IDF soldiers.
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Last Mohican Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:06:26am |
That's not an anti-aircraft cannon. It's a pipe organ. It just happens to only play one note.
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quickslow87 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:06:29am |
Clearly, the Zionists planted it. Hamas only desires peace.
/sarc
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:06:33am |
Not a canon?
Hmmmm, how 'bout THAT!
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Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:06:37am |
Looking at that AA gun, I can't help thinking - How come my shul don't got one?
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Oh no...Sand People! Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:06:39am |
They have replaced the loud speakers for calling people to prayer with firing the cannon. I promise. That's what Mr. Hamaslamist told me.
/
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:07:34am |
The thing looks ancient.
Do the Palis not know about oiling their weapons?
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Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:07:44am |
re: #5 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Rusted out POS. You would think for a people dedicated to the destruction of Israel, they would take care of their tools better.
/Yes, I'm still bitching about this.
Hey, from what I hear, that's about par for the course over there. Seems that maintenance just ain't on their to-do list. Ever.
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pegcity Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:08:07am |
the muslim call to worship has now been replaced with 50 caliber machine gun blasts,
coming to London, Paris and Oakland soon.
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doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:08:27am |
What, you guys don't keep cannons in your church basement? Last year, we had a swell picnic and set off a bunch of mortars in the general direction of the Presbyterian church. They were pretty steamed, but you know our motto: Ecumenical Understanding through Superior Firepower.
/
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DaddyG Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:08:41am |
...but ...but it wouldn't fit in the collection box.
/
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Dainn Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:09:50am |
That is not a gun. It's a holy artifact of justice. Add this to the long list of crimes against the Zionist state.
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:10:13am |
So what's the big deal? We have a canon in our church...
what, not the same kind?
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Dainn Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:10:50am |
re: #21 doppelganglander
Interfaith dialogue the middle eastern way.
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lawhawk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:11:20am |
I just had someone commenting on my blog that they were not Hamas supporter, but that Hamas serves other useful purposes:
...establishing hospitals, education systems, libraries and other services...
I just finished ripping the guy a new one - noting that Hamas has no problem using schools, businesses, residences, hospitals, and mosques as ammo dumps to carry out their war against Israel. It makes no reason to attempt to argue that there's a difference between political and military wings of Hamas because both have the same goals, and both are answerable to the same people. The endgame sought by both is the same - Israel's destruction and the imposition of Islamic law.
Hamas does what it does precisely because it needs to further indoctrinate another generation in Islamist ideology, and putting out a few schools achieves that goal. Building a hospital (which actually was an Israeli built hospital, but which Hamas now uses as a command and control center and ammo dump) doesn't alter the fact of who Hamas is and their ultimate goals.
These videos just highlight that Hamas has only one goal in mind, and it isn't peaceful coexistence with Israel.
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Randall Gross Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:11:24am |
If there are weapons there, then it's mosque nix to me.
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:11:27am |
re: #9 scottishbuzzsaw
You may remove the sarc tag, because you are absolutely, 100% correct.
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CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:11:31am |
Oh, all mosques have those. Why the one right here in town has-
Hey...
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alegrias Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:11:53am |
re: #7 pegcity
im sorry but i thought Anti Aircraft guns were just part of your standard Mosque decor?
* * * *
It's really a large pipe in the organ to play Pachelbel's Canon.
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angrymimi Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:12:22am |
Their ignorance continues to amaze me....how can a group of people so backassward do anything with success?
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lawhawk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:12:44am |
[Salim Abu Aziz reveals a nuclear weapon]
Salim Abu Aziz: Do you know what this is?
Harry: I know what this is...
[Salim smiles]
Harry: This is an espresso machine.
[Salim frowns]
Harry: No, no wait. It's a snow cone maker.
[Salim approaches Harry]
Harry: Is it a water heater? /True Lies
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DaddyG Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:12:48am |
Q. What do you call a Mosque with an Anti-aircraft Cannon?
A. Target aquired!
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SasquatchOnSteroids Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:13:05am |
They'll be begging for the "right of return" for that altar ornament in about 3 seconds.
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:13:28am |
All this is only "amazing" if you think the Devil does not exist.
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opnion Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:13:42am |
They only store weapons there in case the Crusaders come back, you know the Templars or something.
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Buck Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:13:56am |
Come on guys.... there are no weapons in the Mosque... that would be wrong.
Who are you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?
/daily kossak
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angrymimi Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:14:10am |
re: #40 Taqiyyotomist
All this is only "amazing" if you think the Devil does not exist.
Ahh...right...good point....
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CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:14:12am |
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lawhawk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:14:17am |
re: #32 alegrias
No no no... It's just the Hamas Symphony Orchestra's homage to the 1812 Oveture in 50mm cal.
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Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:14:40am |
maybe they pray to the cannon like they prayed to the ICBM in beneath the planet of the apes. or one of them ape movies.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:14:47am |
re: #33 seekeroftruth
Hey CNN - How about showing this video?
You DO mean, don't you ... this video of Israeli soldiers emplacing one of their own anti-aircraft guns inside a Muslim mosque?
*GASP* ... th' HORROR of it!
/
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:14:51am |
re: #41 opnion
They only store weapons there in case the Crusaders come back, you know the Templars or something.
Your lips ---> God's ears.
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experiencedtraveller Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:15:01am |
It is an old weapon. Looks like a .50 calibre. My first guess is old Russian (originally tank mounted?) weapon modified with a new mount.
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doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:15:42am |
re: #41 opnion
They only store weapons there in case the Crusaders come back, you know the Templars or something.
Which is a legitimate concern, if you believe the History Channel.
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angrymimi Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:15:44am |
I was looking at the drawings on the floor - the one in particular with the the fist, fist with index finger pointed up and the fist with a "peace" sign...anyone know what that is meant to say?
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bulwrk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:15:51am |
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:16:04am |
One day, hopefully soon, the historical image of the Crusades will be rehabilitated in the eyes of the (kuffar, civilized, rational) world.
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Boxy_brown Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:16:30am |
re: #13 Last Mohican
That's not an anti-aircraft cannon. It's a pipe organ. It just happens to only play one note.
I heard Arafat played the skin-flute.
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:17:18am |
I gotta go. Before I post more on what I really think.
God bless you all, God bless Israel.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:17:21am |
I'm a little rusty on the Crusades, but didn't they start after the Moslems took Jerusalem? In other words, didn't the Moslems start it?
Kinda like Hamas and the rockets?
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experiencedtraveller Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:17:32am |
re: #52 lawhawk
Hamas really has a hard on for the 1812 oveture.
You should probably remind them that Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 Overture in response to a big victory: the Russian defeat of Napolean.
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alegrias Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:17:44am |
re: #46 lawhawk
No no no... It's just the Hamas Symphony Orchestra's homage to the 1812 Oveture in 50mm cal.
* * *
Does the Hamas Mosque "Orchestra" use Russian or Chinese percussion "accompaniments"?
Hope & changey inquiring minds want to know, because this piece is traditionally played in Washington DC after the fireworks on the Mall!
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DaddyG Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:17:51am |
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wrenchwench Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:18:01am |
The convergence of mosques and weapons always remind me of this post. Especially comment #2.
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angrymimi Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:18:14am |
re: #58 Taqiyyotomist
I SO understand. Have a good afternoon!
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phoenixgirl Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:18:16am |
i can't hear vid's from youtube, my speakers work, and the sound is up on youtube and my computer....anyone else having this problem? any solution?
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:18:36am |
Clean that thing or it may blow up in your face!
Maybe that wasn't true but I was always trained to clean every firearm after use.
IDF must have Hamas on the run to leave a weapon in that filthy state.
Seems as though it won't be long now before Hamas is totally repudiated as the ''strong horse'' of Gaza.
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opnion Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:19:02am |
re: #53 doppelganglander
Which is a legitimate concern, if you believe the History Channel.
Well, the Templars have morphed into Free Masons & Shriners as I understand it are part of it. I can see a bunch of guys on tricycles, wearing Fez's attacking the Palistinians. It could happen.
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:19:18am |
re: #59 subsailor68
All of the lands in the Levant invaded by the Crusaders were previously Christian lands that were occupied by Muslim invaders.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:19:49am |
re: #68 Kenneth
All of the lands in the Levant invaded by the Crusaders were previously Christian lands that were occupied by Muslim invaders.
Thanks! That's what I remembered.
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:19:52am |
re: #13 Last Mohican
That's not an anti-aircraft cannon. It's a pipe organ. It just happens to only play one note.
Well, the four barrel 40mm of WWII was referred to as a "Chicago Piano".
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Age Of Freedom Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:20:07am |
That's a defensive Cannon found in a defensive Mosque.
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Dianna Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:20:21am |
re: #59 subsailor68
I'm a little rusty on the Crusades, but didn't they start after the Moslems took Jerusalem? In other words, didn't the Moslems start it?
Kinda like Hamas and the rockets?
After a substantial interval, yes.
Runciman's three-volume history is quite good.
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:20:26am |
re: #35 angrymimi
Their ignorance continues to amaze me....how can a group of people so backassward do anything with success?
That's the point. They don't do anything with success.
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:20:52am |
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DaddyG Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:21:09am |
re: #72 Age Of Freedom
That's a defensive Cannon found in a defensive Mosque.
I find the defensiveness of Hamas and the MSM offensive.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:21:18am |
re: #73 Dianna
After a substantial interval, yes.
Runciman's three-volume history is quite good.
Good heavens, I'd forgotten Runciman. Thanks so much for the reminder...I've got to find a set again.
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dhg4 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:21:30am |
re: #46 lawhawk
No no no... It's just the Hamas Symphony Orchestra's homage to the 1812 Oveture in 50mm cal.
Calvin's favorite piece of classical music. :-)
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opnion Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:21:44am |
re: #59 subsailor68
I'm a little rusty on the Crusades, but didn't they start after the Moslems took Jerusalem? In other words, didn't the Moslems start it?
Kinda like Hamas and the rockets?
It has become a Liberal article of faith that the European Crusaders were gangsters. There were definitely excess's but the Crusades can be read as Christian Europe pushing back.
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Boxy_brown Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:21:51am |
re: #66 mean Gene
Clean that thing or it may blow up in your face!
x-nay on the een-klay, let nature take it's course. You routinely see these idiots blowing themselves up on internet videos. More proof of Darwinism for Charles.
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little boomer Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:21:59am |
Now it's a legit target. Blow up the mosque.
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jcbunga Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:21:59am |
Religion of Peace.
I don't think it means what they think it means.
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:22:39am |
re: #63 wrenchwench
Wow! great archival post! Note the date: April 16, 2001. Charles was wondering about what was going on inside the mosque. Well, in less than 5 months time, he found out.
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DaddyG Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:23:01am |
Perhaps its there to defend against ManBearPig?
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beblebrox Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:23:03am |
re: #70 Son of the Black Dog
Well, the four barrel 40mm of WWII was referred to as a "Chicago Piano".
Is that derived from the fact that a tommy gun during Prohibition was called a "chicago typewriter"?
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:23:17am |
re: #79 opnion
It has become a Liberal article of faith that the European Crusaders were gangsters. There were definitely excess's but the Crusades can be read as Christian Europe pushing back.
Yeah...what was that turgid piece of crap movie, "Kingdom of Heaven"? I couldn't even get through it.
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reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:23:23am |
re: #52 lawhawk
Hamas really has a hard on for the 1812 oveture.
[Video]
two of the buildings in that video were in Baton Rouge, where I live, and one of them was a building where I worked for many years, and was on the State Capitol steps when they brought it down.
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:23:26am |
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angrymimi Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:24:23am |
re: #74 LGoPs
Have any idea on the drawings on the floor and their interpretation?
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jcbunga Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:24:44am |
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Dainn Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:24:44am |
re: #74 LGoPs
That's the point. They don't do anything with success.
They have succeeded in currying the favor of the world media while losing every possible military battle and blatently using thier nation as a platform for launching terrorist attacks on a democracy.
That has to count for something.
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Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:24:47am |
re: #92 angrymimi
Have any idea on the drawings on the floor and their interpretation?
Looks like Sunday School gone very, very wrong.
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Age Of Freedom Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:25:21am |
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Peacekeeper Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:25:24am |
What's the connection between Islam and weapons? Puzzling.
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Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:25:43am |
I have been trying to enlighten two idiots on the Electric campfire, luckily Mean gene has helped some, but as of last night I gave up. For them it is always those evil Jooos and they should never be there in the first place, when I reminded them about Moses, David and Saul they write it off as fiction, I now know why they say "don't cast your pearls before swine" I would rather be here with the educated folks, at least you guys "get it"
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:25:46am |
re: #59 subsailor68
I'm a little rusty on the Crusades, but didn't they start after the Moslems took Jerusalem? In other words, didn't the Moslems start it?
Kinda like Hamas and the rockets?
They were a very human response to Centuries of Islamic takeover. Muslims expanded into Europe quite non-peacefully, for hundreds of years, sowing nothing but destruction, dhimmitude, and death. That the Crusaders attached the Cross of Jesus Christ to their HUMAN endeavor is irrelevant. They did need a rallying point. Whether Christ would have done what the Crusaders did is beside the point. Humans can only take so many centuries of the brutality that is Islam. Think "Braveheart", only all across Europe, and over a MUCH longer timespan. Longshanks was Amish compared to the Ottoman horde. The Crusades were not "Christian", they just appropriated the image. They were a reasonable human reaction to a few hundred years of murderous rampaging Muslim aggression.
I spit copious quantities of hawkkkk-pthyu on those who use the Crusades as an excuse for Islam's current "back-to-the-basics" approach to the Jihad. "Well, Christians did it, so why don't you shut your hole all religions are the same yadda yadda yadda BANG"
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angrymimi Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:25:54am |
I was looking for some great ideas!
re: #95 Guanxi88
Looks like Sunday School gone very, very wrong.
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notutopia Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:25:54am |
50 cal machine gun with incendiary rounds
[Link: vids.myspace.com...]
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:26:03am |
re: #92 angrymimi
Have any idea on the drawings on the floor and their interpretation?
Sorry, my video is blocked....can't see any of it.
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:26:07am |
re: #6 karmic_inquisitor
How dare Israel enter a sacred Mosque! War crime!
/
I hope they took pigs with them.
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Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:26:49am |
re: #97 Peacekeeper
What's the connection between Islam and weapons? Puzzling.
Like the Sikhs, who wear the small silver necklace pendant knife? Same idea, just a little bigger.
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alegrias Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:26:53am |
OT, "Catholic" leaders crushed islam--though it took 800 years on the plains in Spain. King Ferdinand & Queen Isabel rallied their troops to take back cannon-filled minarets and convert them to cathedral bell towers.
La Giralda in Seville Spain is a beautiful converted former minaret, next to the Seville Cathedral.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:27:04am |
re: #99 Taqiyyotomist
Thanks! I really like your take on it.
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Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:27:39am |
re: #105 Guanxi88
Like the Sikhs, who wear the small silver necklace pendant knife? Same idea, just a little bigger.
Purely symbolic, you understand.
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:27:41am |
re: #94 Dainn
They have succeeded in currying the favor of the world media while losing every possible military battle and blatently using thier nation as a platform for launching terrorist attacks on a democracy.
That has to count for something.
Although their ammunition supply of suicide bombers will eventually run out. There ain't no reloading mechanism for a splodeydope.......
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:28:34am |
re: #86 beblebrox
Is that derived from the fact that a tommy gun during Prohibition was called a "chicago typewriter"?
Yep.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:28:51am |
re: #92 angrymimi
Have any idea on the drawings on the floor and their interpretation?
That's um....errr... a representation of jihad as an internal struggle.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:29:22am |
re: #110 LGoPs
Although their ammunition supply of suicide bombers will eventually run out. There ain't no reloading mechanism for a splodeydope.......
Kind of like the German pilots during the Battle of Britain? IIRC, the RAF boys would bail out over England and fly again, but the Germans ended up in either the Channel or a British POW camp.
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angrymimi Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:30:12am |
or is it?
re: #112 SasquatchOnSteroids
That's um....errr... a representation of jihad as an internal struggle.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:30:37am |
Well, to clarify, I'm not comparing the German pilots to splodeydopes.
:-)
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debutaunt Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:30:49am |
re: #46 lawhawk
No no no... It's just the Hamas Symphony Orchestra's homage to the 1812 Oveture in 50mm cal.
1812 Swingle Singers version -
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opnion Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:30:57am |
re: #87 subsailor68
Yeah...what was that turgid piece of crap movie, "Kingdom of Heaven"? I couldn't even get through it.
That movie was flat out awful. Riddley Scott gave CAIR the editing privileges that they demanded.
Did you see it far enough to hear the Balin character try to rally the troops to defend Jeruslem?
He said crap like , our shrines & holy things are no more holy than theirs, will you stand with me?
Not exactly Rockne firing up at half time.
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Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:31:02am |
re: #107 taxfreekiller
Marvo76
-67
seems your getting the education
I just get more ammo from here, I always believed in Israel. The Uss Liberty is another one of their reasons to hate the Jooos. I personally hope they do make a decisive victory, and the sooner the better, since I have seen an article today which says they are getting ready to hit Iran in the coming days leading up to the inaguration, I bleieve this is new info, and not what was shown a few months ago
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:31:44am |
re: #118 opnion
That movie was flat out awful. Riddley Scott gave CAIR the editing privileges that they demanded.
Did you see it far enough to hear the Balin character try to rally the troops to defend Jeruslem?
He said crap like , our shrines & holy things are no more holy than theirs, will you stand with me?
Not exactly Rockne firing up at half time.
LOL! Or Henry V's Saint Crispin Day speech.
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Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:31:58am |
Avatar test for newsjunkie.
/Miss Izzy1
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:32:03am |
re: #113 subsailor68
Kind of like the German pilots during the Battle of Britain? IIRC, the RAF boys would bail out over England and fly again, but the Germans ended up in either the Channel or a British POW camp.
Exactly....one of the advantages when you're defending home base, so to speak. An interesting bit of trivia is that it's arguable that the Battle of Britain was lost because of the lack of an auxiliary/droppable fuel tank on the ME-109. They were short legged and thus didn't have any appreciable loiter time over England to fully protect their bombers......
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carefulnow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:32:16am |
re: #84 Kenneth
Wow! great archival post! Note the date: April 16, 2001. Charles was wondering about what was going on inside the mosque. Well, in less than 5 months time, he found out.
No wait. That date couldn't be from 2001. There's a glitch. I didn't start reading this blog until after September 11th. This post is from 2002 or later. Charles? Wasn't there a vast reregistering in 2004? Did that bump off the date of the above post?
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MJ Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:32:20am |
OT:
Clinton rules out negotiations with Hamas
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Tuesday ruled out negotiations with the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas unless it drops its extremist stance, saying her position is "absolute."
"On Israel, you cannot negotiate with Hamas until it renounces violence, recognizes Israel and agrees to abide by past agreements. That is just for me an absolute," Clinton told a Senate confirmation hearing.
"That is the United States government's position. That is the president-elect's position," she said after a senator suggested it is "naive and illogical" to pursue diplomacy with governments opposed to Israel.
She echoed the stance of the outgoing administration of President George W. Bush which is supporting Egyptian efforts to mediate a ceasefire following an 18-day Israeli war to stop Hamas rocket attacks.
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
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lukas Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:32:41am |
Will the UNRWA clowns demand an investigation of this? I am sure they can find a good reason for this large piece of ordnance in a mosque.
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smokefire Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:32:45am |
[Link: switch3.castup.net...]
Gaza cam is up again
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:32:56am |
re: #101 notutopia
50 cal machine gun with incendiary rounds
[Link: vids.myspace.com...]
Guy doesn't have the headspace set correctly, or he wouldn't have to keep pulling the charging lever to chamber a fresh round.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:33:09am |
re: #122 LGoPs
Exactly....one of the advantages when you're defending home base, so to speak. An interesting bit of trivia is that it's arguable that the Battle of Britain was lost because of the lack of an auxiliary/droppable fuel tank on the ME-109. They were short legged and thus didn't have any appreciable loiter time over England to fully protect their bombers......
Very interesting. I knew the ME-109's had a short time on target, but didn't know it was because of the fuel tank configuration. Thanks.
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opnion Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:33:30am |
re: #99 Taqiyyotomist
They were a very human response to Centuries of Islamic takeover. Muslims expanded into Europe quite non-peacefully, for hundreds of years, sowing nothing but destruction, dhimmitude, and death. That the Crusaders attached the Cross of Jesus Christ to their HUMAN endeavor is irrelevant. They did need a rallying point. Whether Christ would have done what the Crusaders did is beside the point. Humans can only take so many centuries of the brutality that is Islam. Think "Braveheart", only all across Europe, and over a MUCH longer timespan. Longshanks was Amish compared to the Ottoman horde. The Crusades were not "Christian", they just appropriated the image. They were a reasonable human reaction to a few hundred years of murderous rampaging Muslim aggression.
I spit copious quantities of hawkkkk-pthyu on those who use the Crusades as an excuse for Islam's current "back-to-the-basics" approach to the Jihad. "Well, Christians did it, so why don't you shut your hole all religions are the same yadda yadda yadda BANG"
As well put as I have ever heard it.
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:34:08am |
Cant say I've ever seen anyone store ammo and weapons quite like Arabs do. "Hey Achmed, just dump them new shells over in the corner there. Yeah, don't mind the C-4. Excuse the mess, the maid can't come in this week due to the raids you know."
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Conservative in Liberal Hands Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:34:17am |
But seriously, to my uneducated eyes the weapon appears to be portable (barely). The bottom of the tripod has a tire on it. Does Hamas move their inventory around?
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doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:34:23am |
re: #67 opnion
Well, the Templars have morphed into Free Masons & Shriners as I understand it are part of it. I can see a bunch of guys on tricycles, wearing Fez's attacking the Palistinians. It could happen.
They're a real menace standing in the intersections around here, collecting money so poor children can go to the circus. And dear God, the clowns! The CLOOOOOOOOWNS!
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:34:47am |
re: #108 subsailor68
No, thank you. It is a very layman's take on it, just my opinion. I haven't read any scholarly three-volume, ponderous, ten-pound tomes on the issue.
I once tried to read a three-volume set from the late 1800s on the Protestant Reformation. I got to page 20.
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Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:35:27am |
saw this article today, see what you think...
[Link: www.newsmax.com...]
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:35:28am |
re: #131 Iron Fist
What the hell is he shooting at? The top of the mountain? And he had a lot of jams or failure to feeds. M-2s are generally pretty reliable. Either the gun is dirty, the ammo is dirty, or the gun needs some work.
Maybe his head space and timing are off....? Although that would likely blow the gun apart. We were always warned about that.
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Vicious Babushka Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:35:44am |
re: #87 subsailor68
Yeah...what was that turgid piece of crap movie, "Kingdom of Heaven"? I couldn't even get through it.
What really bugged me most about that movie was Baldwin the Leper, with no lips and half a tongue, speaking like a BBC announcer.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:36:22am |
re: #132 Outrider
Cant say I've ever seen anyone store ammo and weapons quite like Arabs do. "Hey Achmed, just dump them new shells over in the corner there. Yeah, don't mind the C-4. Excuse the mess, the maid can't come in this week due to the raids you know."
Heh. I had a friend years ago who did some contract work in the Middle East. He came back and bitched about how unreliable the trucks were. Every time something broke, the Arabs wouldn't try to fix it, they'd just say "It's Allah's will."
My friend's conclusion: "Allah don't fix nothin."
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wrenchwench Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:36:30am |
re: #117 debutaunt
1812 Swingle Singers version -
I gotta admit, I fast-forwarded through the middle, but that was great, in a bizarre sort of way.
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:36:52am |
re: #135 buzzsawmonkey
The exploding Korans are available from Mahmoud's Joke & Jihad, along with rubber scimitars, chattering false teeth, the Civilian-to-Jihadi-to-Civilian Transformation Kit, the rubber practice ventriloquism face that looks like Bill Maher, and a host of other exciting items. Check out our website!
LMAO!@!
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:36:53am |
re: #124 MJ
OT:
Clinton rules out negotiations with Hamas
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Tuesday ruled out negotiations with the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas unless it drops its extremist stance, saying her position is "absolute."
"On Israel, you cannot negotiate with Hamas until it renounces violence, recognizes Israel and agrees to abide by past agreements. That is just for me an absolute," Clinton told a Senate confirmation hearing.
"That is the United States government's position. That is the president-elect's position," she said after a senator suggested it is "naive and illogical" to pursue diplomacy with governments opposed to Israel.
She echoed the stance of the outgoing administration of President George W. Bush which is supporting Egyptian efforts to mediate a ceasefire following an 18-day Israeli war to stop Hamas rocket attacks.[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
Meanwhile, the 0's people are setting up ways of talking behind her back.
Is it true that the campaign worker who called Hillary a "monster" is on the State Dept transition team?
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shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:37:09am |
Only we in the West make a distinction between sacred and secular, or government and god. The sooner the West sets aside its self-imposed naivete about Mohammedanism, the sooner we will see the beginning of the end to this 1400 year-old monstrosity.
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Joan Not of Arc Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:37:12am |
No! I don't believe it! Only Americans defile mosques. This must be some sort of Illuminati trick!
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newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:37:20am |
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bloodnok Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:37:30am |
re: #123 carefulnow
No wait. That date couldn't be from 2001. There's a glitch. I didn't start reading this blog until after September 11th. This post is from 2002 or later. Charles? Wasn't there a vast reregistering in 2004? Did that bump off the date of the above post?
It must be pre September 11, because Charles would have known EXACTLY what the significance of the event was if it took place after 9/11. Or I could be wrong.
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yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:37:30am |
re: #124 MJ
OT:
Clinton rules out negotiations with Hamas
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Tuesday ruled out negotiations with the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas unless it drops its extremist stance, saying her position is "absolute."
"On Israel, you cannot negotiate with Hamas until it renounces violence, recognizes Israel and agrees to abide by past agreements. That is just for me an absolute," Clinton told a Senate confirmation hearing.
"That is the United States government's position. That is the president-elect's position," she said after a senator suggested it is "naive and illogical" to pursue diplomacy with governments opposed to Israel.
She echoed the stance of the outgoing administration of President George W. Bush which is supporting Egyptian efforts to mediate a ceasefire following an 18-day Israeli war to stop Hamas rocket attacks.[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
We'll see how much of that survives, and for how long, amongst the Arabists at Foggy Bottom!
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:37:32am |
re: #138 Taqiyyotomist
No, thank you. It is a very layman's take on it, just my opinion. I haven't read any scholarly three-volume, ponderous, ten-pound tomes on the issue.
I once tried to read a three-volume set from the late 1800s on the Protestant Reformation. I got to page 20.
Now that's a hoot! Congrats on getting to page 20....I'm waiting for the musical.
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Age Of Freedom Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:37:45am |
Looks like the Nazi tradition of fascist caricatures and drawings are taken to the next level in the arab world. Amazing what the IDF soldiers found in what would is the center worship of the Religion Of Peace MA™.
But since the MSM jumped on the Maximum Jihad bandwagon then we'll see (a lot) more of ROPMA™.
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:38:34am |
re: #142 subsailor68
Heh. I had a friend years ago who did some contract work in the Middle East. He came back and bitched about how unreliable the trucks were. Every time something broke, the Arabs wouldn't try to fix it, they'd just say "It's Allah's will."
My friend's conclusion: "Allah don't fix nothin."
When I was in the emirates during my AF time we used to pray that none of our guys would have to be medevaced by the locals because of that very reason. Lookingback now I gues it wa silly because everyone knows they have defense contractors to deal with maitenance. Arabs wouldnt get their hands dirty and there's not passage in the Koran about rotor blades.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:38:38am |
re: #141 Alouette
What really bugged me most about that movie was Baldwin the Leper, with no lips and half a tongue, speaking like a BBC announcer.
Aren't those traits of all BBC announcers?
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:39:13am |
re: #142 subsailor68
Heh. I had a friend years ago who did some contract work in the Middle East. He came back and bitched about how unreliable the trucks were. Every time something broke, the Arabs wouldn't try to fix it, they'd just say "It's Allah's will."
My friend's conclusion: "Allah don't fix nothin."
May all their weapons need "Allah"s fixing.
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:39:30am |
re: #113 subsailor68
Kind of like the German pilots during the Battle of Britain? IIRC, the RAF boys would bail out over England and fly again, but the Germans ended up in either the Channel or a British POW camp.
The limiting factor on how many fighters the RAF could put up to face the Luftwaffe wasn't how fast they could build aircraft, but how fast they could train pilots.
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Vicious Babushka Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:39:41am |
re: #154 subsailor68
Aren't those traits of all BBC announcers?
BBC announcers have only half a brain.
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:39:46am |
re: #135 buzzsawmonkey
The exploding Korans are available from Mahmoud's Joke & Jihad, along with rubber scimitars, chattering false teeth, the Civilian-to-Jihadi-to-Civilian Transformation Kit, the rubber practice ventriloquism face that looks like Bill Maher, and a host of other exciting items. Check out our website!
Is this where I can get an Achmed "I keel you" puppet?
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MJ Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:40:07am |
re: #145 Kosh's Shadow
Meanwhile, the 0's people are setting up ways of talking behind her back.
Is it true that the campaign worker who called Hillary a "monster" is on the State Dept transition team?
Yes, Samantha Power is on the transition team:
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]
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Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:40:18am |
Avatar test for newsjunkie.
/Miss Izzy2
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scottishbuzzsaw Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:40:33am |
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:40:43am |
re: #151 subsailor68
Now that's a hoot! Congrats on getting to page 20....I'm waiting for the musical.
Well, thing is, I'm really interested in history, but it seems that historians, and especially theologians from the late 1800s, "are to riveting, engaging writing as Mt. Rushmore is to animation." to paraphrase some wit. I say I made it to page 20, but I was asleep by page 15.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:40:51am |
re: #157 Son of the Black Dog
The limiting factor on how many fighters the RAF could put up to face the Luftwaffe wasn't how fast they could build aircraft, but how fast they could train pilots.
Yep...did you ever get to see the British mini-series from years ago - Piece of Cake? I loved it - sad as it was.
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Oh no...Sand People! Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:40:52am |
re: #118 opnion
That movie was flat out awful. Riddley Scott gave CAIR the editing privileges that they demanded.
Did you see it far enough to hear the Balin character try to rally the troops to defend Jeruslem?
He said crap like , our shrines & holy things are no more holy than theirs, will you stand with me?
Not exactly Rockne firing up at half time.
If you have to rely on the 'pseudoandreia' you may as well make it worth it.
/Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield reference...FYI
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Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:40:52am |
re: #63 wrenchwench
The convergence of mosques and weapons always remind me of this post. Especially comment #2.
But things sure have changed since comment #1.
I knew there was a reason why I have never allowed my son to have any type of toy gun or anything that ever resembled while growing up
Right, lady. The problem was caused by playing with toy guns. /
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Buck Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:40:55am |
Seriously... how do you get that through a tunnel?
I mean how did they get that into Gaza?
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debutaunt Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:41:10am |
re: #160 MJ
Yes, Samantha Power is on the transition team:
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]
Any visible tire tracks on her?
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doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:41:22am |
re: #106 alegrias
OT, "Catholic" leaders crushed islam--though it took 800 years on the plains in Spain. King Ferdinand & Queen Isabel rallied their troops to take back cannon-filled minarets and convert them to cathedral bell towers.
La Giralda in Seville Spain is a beautiful converted former minaret, next to the Seville Cathedral.
Yes, it is. However, in the case of the Mezquita at Cordoba, the modifications were not an architectural improvement. The Renaissance nave and other features look out of place in an otherwise beautiful building.
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:41:28am |
re: #122 LGoPs
Exactly....one of the advantages when you're defending home base, so to speak. An interesting bit of trivia is that it's arguable that the Battle of Britain was lost because of the lack of an auxiliary/droppable fuel tank on the ME-109. They were short legged and thus didn't have any appreciable loiter time over England to fully protect their bombers......
When Goering was informed that American fighter planes had been spotted over Hamburg, his response was, "We have lost the war."
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:41:39am |
re: #167 Buck
Seriously... how do you get that through a tunnel?
I mean how did they get that into Gaza?
That was part of the Humanitarian Aid From Iran.
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shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:41:46am |
re: #152 Age Of Freedom
Mohammedans are a caricature of the Nazis.
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Opinionated Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:41:48am |
One of Israel's - and likely NATO's too- dangerous foreign policy delusions is that they have a friend in Muslim Turkey.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday reiterated his harsh criticism against Israel Operation Cast Lead aimed at restoring calm to the South of Israel.
Speaking to the Turkish Parliament in Ankara in a session that was carried by local television, Erdogan said his words were "less harsh than the white phosphorous shells used by the Israeli army."
"Whoever does not express resentment over the killing of civilians, including women and children, loses his self respect," Erdogan was quoted by Israel Radio as saying.
Erdogan said his criticism did not stem from anti-Semitism and emphasized that in the past he had termed anti-Semitism a crime against humanity.
BUT of course, villains are the Jews and their media:
But he then continued to say that "media outlets supported by Jews are disseminating false reports on what happens in Gaza, finding unfounded excuses to justify targeting of schools, mosques and hospitals."
[Link: www.jpost.com...]
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treefish Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:41:49am |
The religion of peace. Peace of hardware that is.
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:41:50am |
re: #146 shiek al beif salami
Only we in the West make a distinction between sacred and secular, or government and god. The sooner the West sets aside its self-imposed naivete about Mohammedanism, the sooner we will see the beginning of the end to this 1400 year-old monstrosity.
Islamicists do too. Sacred is Islam, and anything that advances Islam; everything else is secular. Everything secular must be made sacred, or destroyed.
And that includes the use of force to kill nonbelievers or make them convert. The tools for such force are quite holy.
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newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:42:01am |
It's on threads such as this that I lurk. Were I to post my feelings I would get the banning stick.
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Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:42:17am |
re: #167 Buck
Seriously... how do you get that through a tunnel?
I mean how did they get that into Gaza?
Brought in an ambulance? A UN "humanitarian aid" truck?
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:42:25am |
re: #159 Outrider
Is this where I can get an Achmed "I keel you" puppet?
Why Dunham doesn't have a fatwah on him is a mystery.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:42:40am |
re: #163 Taqiyyotomist
Well, thing is, I'm really interested in history, but it seems that historians, and especially theologians from the late 1800s, "are to riveting, engaging writing as Mt. Rushmore is to animation." to paraphrase some wit. I say I made it to page 20, but I was asleep by page 15.
Man, I love that analogy...guess that's why there's a Bulwar-Lytton (sp?) contest, eh?
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:42:47am |
re: #153 baconeatingkaffir
When I was in the emirates during my AF time we used to pray that none of our guys would have to be medevaced by the locals because of that very reason. Lookingback now I gues it wa silly because everyone knows they have defense contractors to deal with maitenance. Arabs wouldnt get their hands dirty and there's not passage in the Koran about rotor blades.
I used to fly Saudia a lot when I worked over there. One time on a trip to Jeddah we had to turn around almost at the halfway point of the trip because the pilots discovered that maintenance hadn't put enough fuel in to make it to Jeddah........prayed a lot when I was flying over there......
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:42:55am |
re: #160 MJ
Yes, Samantha Power is on the transition team:
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]
OK. Obama is setting up Hillary to be stabbed in the back. I'm sure of it now.
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MJ Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:43:06am |
re: #150 yma o hyd
We'll see how much of that survives, and for how long, amongst the Arabists at Foggy Bottom!
Yeah. Still don't know who Obama will name as his Arab/Israeli Special envoy. The NYT is promoting Miller, the worst of the bunch, but even they realize he doesn't have much of a chance:
[Link: www.nytimes.com...]
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:43:14am |
re: #166 Silhouette
Yes, I was also taken aback by that. I wonder if she's still with us, under a new nic, and if so, if her stand on firearms has changed since '01.
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opnion Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:43:20am |
re: #120 subsailor68
LOL! Or Henry V's Saint Crispin Day speech.
Right it balin's speech had nothing to do with a "Band of Brothers"
It was more like, "Ya know I mean we're here & this Saladin guy is coming anyway, so ya know maybe we shoud try to stop him , but they're not really that bad." I am only mildly exaggerating.
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:43:37am |
Israel hitting Gaza with disputed shells
(AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
They have provided some of the more dramatic photos of the nighttime Israeli attacks on Gaza: Shells that burst above Gaza City and send bright smoky tentacles out over the neighborhoods.The shells not only provide dramatic photos, they also appear to contain controversial white phosphorus, which is banned from use as a weapon against civilians.
Note the reporters name, and then you can understand why he is confused about which weapons are "banned from use as a weapon against civilians" ...Isralei white phosphrus is banned, ...while apparently Hamas rockets are OK for "use as a weapon against civilians".
By the way: white phosphorus is not a banned weapon.
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:43:39am |
re: #167 Buck
Seriously... how do you get that through a tunnel?
I mean how did they get that into Gaza?
Piece by piece? By boat?
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:43:47am |
re: #131 Iron Fist
What the hell is he shooting at? The top of the mountain? And he had a lot of jams or failure to feeds. M-2s are generally pretty reliable. Either the gun is dirty, the ammo is dirty, or the gun needs some work.
See my No. 128.
/lots of rounds through a .50
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:43:54am |
US/Israel arms shipments are being thwarted, like this one:
US cancels Israel arms shipment over Greek objections
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US military has to had to cancel a planned shipment of munitions from a Greek port to a US warehouse in Israel due to objections from Athens, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday.
"I think the Greek government had some issue with the offloading of some of that shipment in their country and so we are finding alternative means of getting that entire shipment to its proper destination in Israel," spokesman Geoff Morrell told a news conference.
"I don't think we've come to a final resolution on how or when that will take place."
The shipment had been agreed last summer before the current Israeli offensive in Gaza, he said.
He said the United States had operated the munitions stockpile for nearly 20 years and that Israel "can ask for permission to access" the munitions.
He said he did not know the nature of Greece's objection and whether it was related to security or political concerns.
[Link: www.google.com...]
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debutaunt Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:44:08am |
re: #181 subsailor68
Man, I love that analogy...guess that's why there's a Bulwar-Lytton (sp?) contest, eh?
[Link: www.bulwer-lytton.com...]
Hilarious contest!
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:44:09am |
re: #142 subsailor68
Heh. I had a friend years ago who did some contract work in the Middle East. He came back and bitched about how unreliable the trucks were. Every time something broke, the Arabs wouldn't try to fix it, they'd just say "It's Allah's will."
My friend's conclusion: "Allah don't fix nothin."
yup. It's always InsaAllah or masaAllah. Pretty much covers the range of things not happening, bad things happened or you want to happen.
Relieves one of responsibilities don't you know.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:44:22am |
re: #186 opnion
Right it balin's speech had nothing to do with a "Band of Brothers"
It was more like, "Ya know I mean we're here & this Saladin guy is coming anyway, so ya know maybe we shoud try to stop him , but they're not really that bad." I am only mildly exaggerating.
Jeepers, that gets the blood a'boilin.
:-)
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:44:49am |
re: #182 LGoPs
I used to fly Saudia a lot when I worked over there. One time on a trip to Jeddah we had to turn around almost at the halfway point of the trip because the pilots discovered that maintenance hadn't put enough fuel in to make it to Jeddah........prayed a lot when I was flying over there......
A friend of mine was telling me about flying saudia back from Thailand to Riyadh. The 747 had a mosque in the back of the plane. Alot of people were going back and forth and it want prayer time. He stuck his head in the curtains later on and saw 2 empty whiskey bottles.
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:45:12am |
I'm worried about the inevitable outrage as offended Muslims pour into the streets to protest this violation of the sacred mosques by Hamas as weapons bunkers and military firing positions.
Not.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:45:16am |
re: #192 debutaunt
[Link: www.bulwer-lytton.com...]
Hilarious contest!
Oh thanks for that link! (Bookmarked it.)
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CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:45:17am |
re: #135 buzzsawmonkey
The exploding Korans are available from Mahmoud's Joke & Jihad, along with rubber scimitars, chattering false teeth, the Civilian-to-Jihadi-to-Civilian Transformation Kit, the rubber practice ventriloquism face that looks like Bill Maher, and a host of other exciting items. Check out our website!
AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *BREATH* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *SNORT* *Chuckle*
*ahem*
Heh!
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newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:45:23am |
re: #183 Kosh's Shadow
OK. Obama is setting up Hillary to be stabbed in the back. I'm sure of it now.
I can see that happening. Get her out of the senate then clobber her. She hasn't resigned her senate seat yet though has she?
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Steve Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:45:28am |
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debutaunt Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:46:24am |
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:47:08am |
re: #193 Outrider
yup. It's always InsaAllah or masaAllah. Pretty much covers the range of things not happening, bad things happened or you want to happen.
Relieves one of responsibilities don't you know.
So they should realize it is Allah's will that they're getting their asses kicked in Gaza. And in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973.
Allah loves his servants so much he wants them all to join him in paradise.
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:47:21am |
re: #195 baconeatingkaffir
A friend of mine was telling me about flying saudia back from Thailand to Riyadh. The 747 had a mosque in the back of the plane. Alot of people were going back and forth and it want prayer time. He stuck his head in the curtains later on and saw 2 empty whiskey bottles.
I wouldn't be surprised. There was a common perception that the Saudi's believed that Allah could only see them while in the Kingdom. Once you were wheels-up I guess anything could go........
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Buck Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:47:21am |
re: #191 mean Gene
US/Israel arms shipments are being thwarted, like this one:
US cancels Israel arms shipment over Greek objectionsWASHINGTON (AFP) — The US military has to had to cancel a planned shipment of munitions from a Greek port to a US warehouse in Israel due to objections from Athens, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday.
This is exactly why Israel has to make their own.... When a real crunch comes down, we can depend on no one.
"Those trains full of jews? Vacationing jews...."
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:47:25am |
re: #169 Iron Fist
The only M-2s I've ever been around were at Knob Creek. There must have been over a dozen of them there (including a quad-.50 AA site). I didn't see any of them jam or fail to feed, and they were going at it pretty hot and heavy. If it were an FAL doing this, I'd suspect that the gas regulator wasn't set right, but I don't think an M-2 has one of those.
And head-space issues would potentially make the gun dangerous to shoot. I like a .50, but I don't even know where I'd put one if I could afford it :-(
on the back of your pick up truck
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doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:47:34am |
re: #166 Silhouette
It's bizarre to see a thread with only 3 comments, and the preceding and subsequent threads with none at all. If that thread was posted today, Catherine would have gotten schooled.
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yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:47:37am |
re: #183 Kosh's Shadow
OK. Obama is setting up Hillary to be stabbed in the back. I'm sure of it now.
Heh.
If there's to be backstabbing, my money is on Hillary!
Lets not forget - she's got Bubba.
Obama - who's he got? WAB?
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:47:48am |
re: #188 Kenneth
No sh**. Wow. Are there any weapons that have been ok'ed for use against civilians? That is a surreal quote.
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Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:47:54am |
Avatar test for newsjunkie.
/Miss Izzy2 (take 2)
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notutopia Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:48:10am |
re: #167 Buck
Seriously... how do you get that through a tunnel?
I mean how did they get that into Gaza?
Taken down, in pieces, one man can easily carry it. The stand in that mosque is another issue. It was rolled into place and set up. Had to be transported in a truck.
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:48:26am |
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:48:40am |
re: #208 yma o hyd
Heh.
If there's to be backstabbing, my money is on Hillary!
Lets not forget - she's got Bubba.
Obama - who's he got? WAB?
WAB's CBF is pretty scarey.
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jcm Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:48:43am |
So, what the problem?
Everyplace of worship should have anti-aircraft capabilities!
//////
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:48:48am |
re: #180 MandyManners
Why Dunham doesn't have a fatwah on him is a mystery.
maybe they consider it flattering? ;-)>
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:48:58am |
re: #164 subsailor68
Yep...did you ever get to see the British mini-series from years ago - Piece of Cake? I loved it - sad as it was.
No, but I'll look to see if I can get it on DVD. Thanks.
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Last Mohican Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:49:01am |
re: #209 Taqiyyotomist
No sh**. Wow. Are there any weapons that have been ok'ed for use against civilians? That is a surreal quote.
Qassam rockets. Katyusha rockets. The U.N. has approved these for use against civilians.
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:49:03am |
re: #145 Kosh's Shadow
Meanwhile, the 0's people are setting up ways of talking behind her back.
Is it true that the campaign worker who called Hillary a "monster" is on the State Dept transition team?
Samantha Power.
Yes, she quit the campaign after calling Hillary a ''monster.''
She also openly hates Israel.
The Baltimore Jewish Times, MD - Dec 30, 2008 said that the ZOA has slammed Obama’s transition team for including strident Israel critic Samantha Power.
But there's more.
According to this:
[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]
Power is part of a transition team helping Clinton assume her duties as secretary of state.
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Age Of Freedom Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:49:13am |
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MJ Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:49:25am |
re: #208 yma o hyd
Heh.
If there's to be backstabbing, my money is on Hillary!
Lets not forget - she's got Bubba.
Obama - who's he got? WAB?
He would have had Richardson whose a record as a backstabber is pretty impressive but he got caught before he could get in.
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Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:49:30am |
re: #183 Kosh's Shadow
OK. Obama is setting up Hillary to be stabbed in the back. I'm sure of it now.
LOL who says she isn't getting ready to do the same to him? She IS a Clinton after all....
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shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:50:07am |
re: #176 Kosh's Shadow
I recently moved back from a former Soviet republic in central Asia that boasted, according to them, several of Islam's most holy sites. I never learned how the holiness rating system worked, where it was housed institutionally, and under whose authority it operated, but after a thorough googling of the topic, I felt authorized by myself to call islamic holiness what it is: bullshit. For all I know, my dog's ass is a Mohammedan holy site.
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:50:10am |
re: #183 Kosh's Shadow
re: #160 MJ
Yes, Samantha Power is on the transition team:
[Link: [Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]...]OK. Obama is setting up Hillary to be stabbed in the back. I'm sure of it now.
Now she's on Obama's team.
Think about it.
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Opinionated Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:50:19am |
re: #196 Kenneth
I'm worried about the inevitable outrage as offended Muslims pour into the streets to protest this violation of the sacred mosques by Hamas as weapons bunkers and military firing positions.
You sir, do not understand Islam.
Any sort of weapon inside a Mosque is permissible. A cartoon depicting a weapon inside a Mosque is blasphemous.
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subsailor68 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:50:45am |
re: #216 Son of the Black Dog
No, but I'll look to see if I can get it on DVD. Thanks.
Hope this link works for ya:
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Vicious Babushka Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:50:50am |
Much more so than any movement in Islam, right Eurodhimmis?
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Peacekeeper Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:51:04am |
Many of you claim that Islam is backward and stuck in the seventh century. This proves you're wrong! How many flak cannons does the vatican have?
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:51:06am |
re: #209 Taqiyyotomist
No sh**. Wow. Are there any weapons that have been ok'ed for use against civilians? That is a surreal quote.
'Sploding bodies have been given the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval by the lunatic left.........
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opnion Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:51:08am |
re: #137 doppelganglander
They're a real menace standing in the intersections around here, collecting money so poor children can go to the circus. And dear God, the clowns! The CLOOOOOOOOWNS!
They can clown the Pali's to death. Everybody hates clowns.
I even hated the speaker at Jack in the Box.
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:51:13am |
re: #209 Taqiyyotomist
No sh**. Wow. Are there any weapons that have been ok'ed for use against civilians? That is a surreal quote.
You're not paying attention: if the Arabs use them against Jews, then anything goes. Geesh, do I have to explain everything?
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:51:27am |
re: #202 Kosh's Shadow
So they should realize it is Allah's will that they're getting their asses kicked in Gaza. And in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973.
Allah loves his servants so much he wants them all to join him in paradise.
nice touch. ;-)>
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Peacekeeper Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:51:47am |
re: #223 Iron Fist
I thought that if your headspacing was wrong, the case could rupture. That would be bad on any gun, but on a .50 that would be disasterous.
One of the neat things they had a Knob Creek was a sawed-off .50. It had maybe a twelve or fourteen inch barrel. It created a massive fireball everytime as it fired. Not real practical, but still impressive.
Sometimes impressive is practical...
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:51:47am |
re: #226 Opinionated
You missed my sarcasm. But I agree with you.
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Opinionated Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:52:01am |
re: #214 jcm
So, what the problem?
Everyplace of worship should have anti-aircraft capabilities!
//////
Even if not for worship and least for BINGO night.
When someone wins, they fire off a round.
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jcm Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:52:04am |
re: #209 Taqiyyotomist
No sh**. Wow. Are there any weapons that have been ok'ed for use against civilians? That is a surreal quote.
Wrong question.... ;-)
It depends on WHO is using them. Only Israelis and Americans are precluded from using weapons, everyone else? Go for it, the worlds is a free fire zone.
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sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:52:06am |
re: #199 newsjunkie_ky
I can see that happening. Get her out of the senate then clobber her. She hasn't resigned her senate seat yet though has she?
No. She's too smart to give that up before being confirmed!
On that note, isn't it great that we'll now have 3 senators (Dems, of course) that weren't elected (Hillarys Obamas and Bidens seats), with 2 of them really questionable! One 'appointed' by Blago and the other 9New York) to be appointed by a governor that wasn't elected !
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Last Mohican Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:52:13am |
re: #223 Iron Fist
You're talking about the Knob Creek Gun Range, right? "Home of the nation's largest machine gun shoot and military gun show"?
How close is that to the distillery where they make Knob Creek bourbon?
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:52:16am |
re: #174 Opinionated
Israel HAD a friend in Turkey, when they had a secular government.
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lawhawk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:52:20am |
re: #188 Kenneth
The only ones disputing the shells are the human rights groups that couldn't find an international law that they couldn't misapply or misread as long as it applies to Israel.
No where do these same groups apply any measure of logic or international law to the terrorists in Hamas, whose every action constitutes war crimes and calls to genocide - a crime against humanity.
Hamas' charter demands genocide and ethnic cleansing. Yet these groups are silent.
WP is a legal and permissible weapon, and but for Hamas attacking Israel, WP would not be even fielded (along with the Israeli forces that are now engaged in killing Hamas in and around Gaza).
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:52:38am |
re: #224 shiek al beif salami
I recently moved back from a former Soviet republic in central Asia that boasted, according to them, several of Islam's most holy sites. I never learned how the holiness rating system worked, where it was housed institutionally, and under whose authority it operated, but after a thorough googling of the topic, I felt authorized by myself to call islamic holiness what it is: bullshit. For all I know, my dog's ass is a Mohammedan holy site.
Ithink I was in the museum in topkapi where they have the Imam reading the koran24/7 and one of ol mo's sweaters and shoes. That said... FOLLOW THE SACRED GOURD OF JERUSALEM! (apologies to the life of bryan)
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Opinionated Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:53:01am |
re: #237 Kenneth
You missed my sarcasm. But I agree with you.
I didn't miss your sarcasm. Just attempted to add to it.
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Texas Heathen Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:53:09am |
re: #169 Iron Fist
I like a .50, but I don't even know where I'd put one if I could afford it :-(
In your place of worship or your local elementary school of course.
/
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shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:53:33am |
re: #214 jcm
They believe Jesus will return on a cloud and they want to be ready to shoot him down before he messes up the whole allah thing.
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yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:54:17am |
re: #213 MandyManners
WAB's CBF is pretty scarey.
Without doubt - thats why Bubba will beat her hands down: charm gets results, CBF just puts people's backs up.
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CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:55:16am |
re: #195 baconeatingkaffir
A friend of mine was telling me about flying saudia back from Thailand to Riyadh. The 747 had a mosque in the back of the plane. Alot of people were going back and forth and it want prayer time. He stuck his head in the curtains later on and saw 2 empty whiskey bottles.
A friend of mine worked on the interior design for King Fadh's personal 747. Sucker had three bars in it! When he asked about it he was told that the prohibition on alcohol only applied 'on earth', so when you're flying it's OK to drink 'cause you are not 'on earth'.
/RIGHT!
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redc1c4 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:55:22am |
re: #169 Iron Fist
The only M-2s I've ever been around were at Knob Creek. There must have been over a dozen of them there (including a quad-.50 AA site). I didn't see any of them jam or fail to feed, and they were going at it pretty hot and heavy. If it were an FAL doing this, I'd suspect that the gas regulator wasn't set right, but I don't think an M-2 has one of those.
And head-space issues would potentially make the gun dangerous to shoot. I like a .50, but I don't even know where I'd put one if I could afford it :-(
didn't watch the video, but you can have the headspace correct, but still have the timing FUBAR.
if the timing is off, Ma Deuce get's cranky.
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carefulnow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:55:54am |
re: #149 bloodnok
It must be pre September 11, because Charles would have known EXACTLY what the significance of the event was if it took place after 9/11. Or I could be wrong.
Hmmm. I stand corrected.
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jcm Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:56:09am |
re: #249 shiek al beif salami
They believe Jesus will return on a cloud and they want to be ready to shoot him down before he messes up the whole allah thing.
See it's a freedom of religion thing! The juice are deny them that!
////
Just a quick stop. Gotta run.
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:56:28am |
re: #250 yma o hyd
Without doubt - thats why Bubba will beat her hands down: charm gets results, CBF just puts people's backs up.
Who are WAB and CBF? I tracked back thru the string but couldn't riddle it out.....
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yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:56:37am |
re: #221 MJ
He would have had Richardson whose a record as a backstabber is pretty impressive but he got caught before he could get in.
Heh.
Obama not off to a good start, is he!
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:56:37am |
re: #243 Iron Fist
I don't think it'd fit in my convertable, and my other car is a Harley. It'd look impressive as hell, but I'd think the recoil would be a bitch...
just had this mental image of a M2 mounted on a bike/sidecar and just what would happen when that .50 cut loose. ROFL
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Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:56:59am |
re: #178 newsjunkie_ky
It's on threads such as this that I lurk. Were I to post my feelings I would get the banning stick.
/checketh your e-mail for dog avatars
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MJ Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:57:12am |
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:57:21am |
re: #257 Outrider
just had this mental image of a M2 mounted on a bike/sidecar and just what would happen when that .50 cut loose. ROFL
Yeah but I still think it would be easier to find a parking space.
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:57:33am |
re: #251 CIA Reject
A friend of mine worked on the interior design for King Fadh's personal 747. Sucker had three bars in it! When he asked about it he was told that the prohibition on alcohol only applied 'on earth', so when you're flying it's OK to drink 'cause you are not 'on earth'.
/RIGHT!
see my # 203. You just confirmed it........
:)
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right_wing2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:58:03am |
It's there to help the explosive growth of Islam
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:58:13am |
Only an a moonbat academic could think the idea of sending a huge US army to occupy Israel, Gaza & the West Bank to enforce a 2 state solution and "build" an independent Palestine is a not only a good idea, but even remotely feasible. Insanity.
Nice to see she's one of Obama's closest advisers!
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:58:27am |
Speatking of Muslims and their seperate but equal has anyone seen this yet? Muslim Google
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:58:57am |
re: #226 Opinionated
You sir, do not understand Islam.
Any sort of weapon inside a Mosque is permissible. A cartoon depicting a weapon inside a Mosque is blasphemous.
Yes, I forget the twisted reasoning but the Koran forbids saying anything disparaging about a Muslim or Islam EVEN if it is TRUE!
I had seen this used by Muslims in the same business on the same street to literally KILL the competition!
The mob doesn't wait for a legal arrest, trial and conviction, they just murder the supposed ''disparager'' on the spot.
In that instance it was Muslim-on-Muslim crime so.
But the principle certainly applies to the dhimmi or the infidel, right?
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Kragar Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:59:08am |
re: #257 Outrider
just had this mental image of a M2 mounted on a bike/sidecar and just what would happen when that .50 cut loose. ROFL
Just remembered an old GI Joe comic where one of the Joes used to go around firing an M-2 from the hip.
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CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:59:09am |
re: #204 buzzsawmonkey
That much enjoyment deserves an upding.
ANYTHING that mocks that smug little schmuck Maher is hilarious.
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:59:30am |
re: #206 Outrider
on the back of your pick up truck
About a year ago I saw an ad where some guy in Indiana was selling a full military Humvee, complete with an (inop) .50. Now THAT'S something that would get you some respect in traffic.
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:59:33am |
re: #265 Kenneth
Only an a moonbat academic could think the idea of sending a huge US army to occupy Israel, Gaza & the West Bank to enforce a 2 state solution and "build" an independent Palestine is a not only a good idea, but even remotely feasible. Insanity.
Nice to see she's one of Obama's closest advisers!
especially from a group against the whole Armies, violence, warfare, etc type thing anyway. Except when it furthers their agenda apparently.
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CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:59:36am |
Good Afternoon everyone!
I just got back from a visit to a zoo where I was allowed to play with a new lion cub. A friend took these pics, he is gorgeous. Not named yet. It was a blast.
http://s327.photobucket.com/albums/k455/hlgavigan/
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yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 11:59:58am |
re: #229 Peacekeeper
Many of you claim that Islam is backward and stuck in the seventh century. This proves you're wrong! How many flak cannons does the vatican have?
Excellent point - a similar question was asked by Stalin, iirc, as well.
Vatican - still standing.
Soviet Union - not so much ...
ROP - we'll see!
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:00:20pm |
re: #225 Kenneth
Now she's on Obama's team.
Think about it.
I've been thinking about it. And when I bring up what I fear, I am told,
"Ah, that will never happen."
I get that response about a lot of things which I see trends towards.
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:00:25pm |
re: #266 baconeatingkaffir
Speatking of Muslims and their seperate but equal has anyone seen this yet? Muslim Google
Can you see what it gets that isn't in the English version of Google, on a search of jews and pigs for instance?
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right_wing2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:00:42pm |
re: #258 Iron Fist
A college friend & I are heading there in April. The budget's a bit tight to do the shooting either one of us would like to, but it'll be worth the trip. Maybe things will look a little better cash-wise next year.
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Steve Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:00:50pm |
re: #266 baconeatingkaffir
Speatking of Muslims and their seperate but equal has anyone seen this yet? Muslim Google
I googled "PIG" and got:
[Link: www.muslumangoogle.com...]
Anybody know what it means?
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:01:10pm |
re: #268 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Just remembered an old GI Joe comic where one of the Joes used to go around firing an M-2 from the hip.
That would sure never happen in real life. Well maybe one round before the guy got knocked into next week........
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shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:02:06pm |
re: #251 CIA Reject
On flights from the middle east, I was always amazed at how few of the abayehs that walked onto a plane ever walked off in Europe. And the cart full of miniatures was usually depleted by flight's end.
I wonder if Fadh's 747 has a "I Heart Islam" sticker on the back bumper? And I also wonder if he still has to drive his '06 747 because of the collapse of oil prices?
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:02:19pm |
re: #275 buzzsawmonkey
OT
Israel needs to train security teams and send them covertly to Europe and North America and India. The governments can not defend the Jews, Israel must
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bloodnok Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:02:23pm |
re: #275 buzzsawmonkey
OT
“For Palestine For Gazza (sic) For Hamas.”
They want to give Palestine to an English footballer?
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Opinionated Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:02:30pm |
re: #267 mean Gene
When a picture is worth a thousand posts.
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redc1c4 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:02:44pm |
re: #128 Son of the Black Dog
Guy doesn't have the headspace set correctly, or he wouldn't have to keep pulling the charging lever to chamber a fresh round.
sounds more like a timing issue....... i can't get the video to play to tell for sure.
heaspace being off gives you a much more exciting issue than just having to pull back the charging handle lots. %-)
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:02:50pm |
Poor Hillary.
I hope she hasn't already given up her Senate seat, because she's not long for the 0bama administration.
TV news just showed her saying absolutely she would never negotiate with Hamas until they gave up violence, changed their charter to recognize Israel and agreed to more.
Samantha Powers will have her job in weeks if not months.
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:02:51pm |
re: #277 lifeofthemind
I googled "yahudi" which is turkish for jew and wthis is what I got
Yasak
Bu web sayfasına erişim izniniz yok veya bu web sayfası Hizmet Şartları ihlalleri nedeniyle devre dışı bırakılmış.
Yasak means forbidden.
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:02:52pm |
re: #270 Son of the Black Dog
About a year ago I saw an ad where some guy in Indiana was selling a full military Humvee, complete with an (inop) .50. Now THAT'S something that would get you some respect in traffic.
sure make them damn soccer moms and their freaking mini vans back the hell off. ;-)>
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Kragar Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:02:53pm |
re: #280 LGoPs
That would sure never happen in real life. Well maybe one round before the guy got knocked into next week........
Nope, the joys of comic books. He would fire full belts from the hips.
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:02:54pm |
re: #255 LGoPs
Who are WAB and CBF? I tracked back thru the string but couldn't riddle it out.....
WAB is WhneyAssBitch and CBF is CatButtFace.
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Ayatollah Ghilmeini Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:02:55pm |
It is precisely because they don't respect their own houses of worship that they lose. If you don't respect your self and where you worship, your motivation for fighting is weak and you don't come through in the clutch.
Hamas is going to have to send their troops back to the fire hoops for extra practice!
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:03:23pm |
re: #253 carefulnow
Hmmm. I stand corrected.
"I could be wrong"
"I stand corrected."
"What are 'phrases you'll never see at DKos or Huffpo', Alex?"
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:03:32pm |
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yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:03:51pm |
re: #255 LGoPs
Who are WAB and CBF? I tracked back thru the string but couldn't riddle it out.....
Ahh - they are Mandy's poingnant acronyms for Obamas wife, created during the election campaign:
WAB = Whiney A*** Bitch
CBF = Cat Butt Face.
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MJ Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:03:59pm |
re: #275 buzzsawmonkey
OT
"...As battles raged in Gaza on Tuesday, Jan. 6, an anti-Israel computer hacker altered the Web site of the Bay Ridge Jewish Center so that visitors were greeted with this message: “Death to Israel.”
Anti-Israel hacker? I thought the Left and the MSM keep telling us that Jews and Zionists are two different things? That you can be anti-Zionist but not be Anti-Jew? So why would this poor, misguided individual attack a Jewish Center's web site?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:04:16pm |
When I go to church, why am I always the one that has to sit next to the warhead? Everybody sits on the other side, stares at me, and flinches every time I sit or stand.
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:04:23pm |
re: #289 baconeatingkaffir
I googled "yahudi" which is turkish for jew and wthis is what I got
Yasak
Bu web sayfasına erişim izniniz yok veya bu web sayfası Hizmet Şartları ihlalleri nedeniyle devre dışı bırakılmış.Yasak means forbidden.
Thanks, that makes everything perfectly clear
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:04:43pm |
re: #223 Iron Fist
I thought that if your headspacing was wrong, the case could rupture. That would be bad on any gun, but on a .50 that would be disasterous.
Too little headspace will result in a failure to fire and/or feed the next round. Too much headspace (a lot too much) could give you a case rupture, although more likely you'd get a failure to fire because the bolt wouldn't seat.
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:05:11pm |
re: #301 lifeofthemind
Where are the google lawyers when you need them?
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:05:16pm |
re: #218 Last Mohican
Qassam rockets. Katyusha rockets. The U.N. has approved these for use against civilians.
No, because the UN doesn't believe there are any Israeli civilians. Even a newborn will be in the IDF, so he's not a civilian.
/well, the UN hasn't said it, but Hamas has.
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:05:46pm |
re: #303 baconeatingkaffir
Where are the google lawyers when you need them?
Cashing cheques from China.
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Steve Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:06:01pm |
re: #289 baconeatingkaffir
I googled "yahudi" which is turkish for jew and wthis is what I got
Yasak
Bu web sayfasına erişim izniniz yok veya bu web sayfası Hizmet Şartları ihlalleri nedeniyle devre dışı bırakılmış.Yasak means forbidden.
thanks I was wondering what Yasak means. Got the same thing when I googled 'pig.'
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:06:17pm |
re: #289 baconeatingkaffir
I googled "yahudi" which is turkish for jew and wthis is what I got
Yasak
Bu web sayfasına erişim izniniz yok veya bu web sayfası Hizmet Şartları ihlalleri nedeniyle devre dışı bırakılmış.Yasak means forbidden.
everything I entered, I got the same thing.... the Yasak thing. must be that kaffir thinking
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:06:17pm |
re: #303 baconeatingkaffir
Where are the google lawyers when you need them?
On the other side
"Do no evil"
spit
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:06:19pm |
re: #304 Kosh's Shadow
No, because the UN doesn't believe there are any Israeli civilians. Even a newborn will be in the IDF, so he's not a civilian.
/well, the UN hasn't said it, but Hamas has.
As have the 60 countries in the UN where Sharia Law is the law of their land.
They're getting close to a majority.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:06:40pm |
Is anyone else here watching the Gaza webcam?
I've tried three links. All are showing the same scene, BUT no audio.
Anyone else getting audio?
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CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:07:04pm |
re: #262 LGoPs
see my # 203. You just confirmed it........
:)
Yup! And that's another thing that annoys me about islam- "religions" that reduce the relationship between G*d and man to some kind of "gotcha" game are really irritating...
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:07:07pm |
re: #306 Steve
It also mentions something about the "prophets teaching" or sothing like that. I thought google was a "non-prophet " organization?
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redc1c4 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:07:09pm |
re: #270 Son of the Black Dog
About a year ago I saw an ad where some guy in Indiana was selling a full military Humvee, complete with an (inop) .50. Now THAT'S something that would get you some respect in traffic.
one year someone called the CHP because our BN scout platoon, in their gun jeeps, was outposting all the freeway interchanges to make sure the cinvoy stayed on track....
| 314 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:07:20pm |
re: #310 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Is anyone else here watching the Gaza webcam?
I've tried three links. All are showing the same scene, BUT no audio.Anyone else getting audio?
All I got was a Hamas hospital propaganda video
| 315 |
Opinionated Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:07:23pm |
| 316 |
Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:07:34pm |
re: #294 buzzsawmonkey
That's disgusting.
That's worse than disgusting - that's freakin' disturbing. Hey, just a heads-up - you frum out there, you're dangerous, you get it? You are the problem according to these guys, not the folks howling for your blood, but you. And guys like me, who aren't so observant, we're suspect, evidently.
I know the L-rd spared Sodom for Lot's sake, but He eventually go him out of there, and let justice be done. Just saying, maybe a trip abroad is in order?
| 317 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:07:43pm |
re: #285 bloodnok
“For Palestine For Gazza (sic) For Hamas.”
They want to give Palestine to an English footballer?
And alcoholic (yes, its sad) ex-footballer, at that ...
| 318 |
opnion Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:07:44pm |
re: #286 Opinionated
When a picture is worth a thousand posts.
[Link: mypetjawa.mu.nu...]
Beheadings & now Crucifixions. I don't see why we can't do business with these people & really should have more immigrate.
| 319 |
Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:07:59pm |
Official Hamas Youtube channel?
AlQassamTube
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newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:08:04pm |
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Kragar Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:08:10pm |
re: #309 mean Gene
As have the 60 countries in the UN where Sharia Law is the law of their land.
They're getting close to a majority.
Restore the Caliphate! Then give the Caliphate 1 seat in the UN and tell the rest to GTFO. Fuck their majority.
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Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:08:11pm |
re: #304 Kosh's Shadow
No, because the UN doesn't believe there are any Israeli civilians. Even a newborn will be in the IDF, so he's not a civilian.
/well, the UN hasn't said it, but Hamas has.
Say something once, why say it again?
| 323 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:08:15pm |
re: #310 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Here let me help.
COCKLE-DOO-DLE-DOOOOOO!
BOOM!
RAT-A-TAT-TAT!
CALL TO WORSHIP!
COCKLE-DOO-DLE-DOOOOOO!
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Leonidas Hoplite Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:08:15pm |
re: #129 subsailor68
Very interesting. I knew the ME-109's had a short time on target, but didn't know it was because of the fuel tank configuration. Thanks.
The Luftwaffe was designed to support the operations of the army, thus short range fighters and twin-engine bombers. If they had possessed a true long-range strategic capability the continent would still be goose-stepping. Of course, the way things are going that is likely to happen anyway.
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Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:08:26pm |
Judging by the bent wheel, it doesn't look like that ancient, poorly maintained 40mm anti-aircraft "cannon" is readily mobile, if even operable.
/it's certainly not in a firing position and I didn't see any rounds for it
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:08:27pm |
re: #298 MJ
Anti-Israel hacker? I thought the Left and the MSM keep telling us that Jews and Zionists are two different things? That you can be anti-Zionist but not be Anti-Jew? So why would this poor, misguided individual attack a Jewish Center's web site?
according to the photos Zombie took, all that went away. They were finally using the word Jew, as well as Zionist. Lots of anti-Jewish sentiment in those photos.
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Ayatollah Ghilmeini Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:08:45pm |
re: #272 CapeCoddah
Good Afternoon everyone!
I just got back from a visit to a zoo where I was allowed to play with a new lion cub. A friend took these pics, he is gorgeous. Not named yet. It was a blast.
http://s327.photobucket.com/albums/k455/hlgavigan/
corrected linky
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Big Steve Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:08:45pm |
re: #312 baconeatingkaffir
It also mentions something about the "prophets teaching" or sothing like that. I thought google was a "non-prophet " organization?
Google Non Profit......oh that was a good one. I sure hope note in that I own some of their stock. You might, if you weren't being sarcastic, be referring to Wikipedia.
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shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:08:53pm |
re: #315 Opinionated
They got it mostly right, though. If they changed "to" to "from", they'd be dead-nuts on.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:09:16pm |
re: #314 lifeofthemind
All I got was a Hamas hospital propaganda video
Yeah, I got that earlier. Now they're showing the real stuff -- a very fierce fire burning in the distance, growing larger by the half-hour.
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:09:26pm |
re: #313 redc1c4
one year someone called the CHP because our BN scout platoon, in their gun jeeps, was outposting all the freeway interchanges to make sure the cinvoy stayed on track....
I remember as an SP augmentee doing a convoy in Gfermany and some guy weaving in and out of the deuce and a halfs in a ford cortina. One of the Southern boys in our truck popped up with his weapon and Herman ze German left about a mile of skidmarks on the autobahn not tomention what he must have left in his pants.
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alegrias Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:09:27pm |
re: #145 Kosh's Shadow
Meanwhile, the 0's people are setting up ways of talking behind her back.
Is it true that the campaign worker who called Hillary a "monster" is on the State Dept transition team?
* ** *
Samantha Powers! Harvahd professor!
| 333 |
Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:09:36pm |
re: #306 Steve
thanks I was wondering what Yasak means. Got the same thing when I googled 'pig.'
same when goggling naked women. Even when putting it into arabic. ;-)>
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:09:46pm |
re: #322 Guanxi88
Say something once, why say it again?
Are you saying there are psycho killers around?
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:10:02pm |
re: #285 bloodnok
“For Palestine For Gazza (sic) For Hamas.”
They want to give Palestine to an English footballer?
Works for me
Boss we think we have a plan.
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Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:10:14pm |
re: #334 Kosh's Shadow
Are you saying there are psycho killers around?
Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire.
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Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:10:17pm |
re: #275 buzzsawmonkey
So the helpful headline writer diluted "Death to Israel" to just a "pro-Hamas message?"
"Golly, Martha. A pro-Hamas message don't sound too bad. Wunder wut they wrote?"
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:10:27pm |
This is so sad./
Image: r1645453159.jpg
Hardline demonstrators burn posters of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, during a demonstration in support of the people of Gaza, in front of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran January 13, 2009.
REUTERS/Stringer (IRAN)
I don't think empty-handed talking with them will be enough anymore.
Poor foolish American voters.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:10:34pm |
re: #323 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Here let me help.
COCKLE-DOO-DLE-DOOOOOO!
BOOM!
RAT-A-TAT-TAT!
CALL TO WORSHIP!
COCKLE-DOO-DLE-DOOOOOO!
Thank you VERRRRY much.
I feel better already.
(-:
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:10:43pm |
re: #311 CIA Reject
Yup! And that's another thing that annoys me about islam- "religions" that reduce the relationship between G*d and man to some kind of "gotcha" game are really irritating...
Ed Zachary. Somebody upstream mentioned the abayeh's coming off on flights to Europe. Same in reverse...I always knew we were approaching the Kingdom when the women, dressed in western attire, would disappear and then reappear all blacked out.........some beautiful women by the way....
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yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:11:12pm |
re: #288 mean Gene
Poor Hillary.
I hope she hasn't already given up her Senate seat, because she's not long for the 0bama administration.
TV news just showed her saying absolutely she would never negotiate with Hamas until they gave up violence, changed their charter to recognize Israel and agreed to more.
Samantha Powers will have her job in weeks if not months.
Save you compassion - I seriously doubt that Samantha will be able to stand up to a Hildebeast in the full regalia of SecState.
Samatha may be a moonbat icon - Hillary does have experience of 'life in Washington'.
Very unequal contest.
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:11:37pm |
re: #321 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Restore the Caliphate! Then give the Caliphate 1 seat in the UN and tell the rest to GTFO. Fuck their majority.
Promise them that and stand back to watch the carnage as they fight for who gets to be the Caliph!
That'll keep 'em busy for a couple of generations at least!
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:12:00pm |
re: #330 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Yeah, I got that earlier. Now they're showing the real stuff -- a very fierce fire burning in the distance, growing larger by the half-hour.
Thank you, now I have it for what it is worth that is fierce
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:12:00pm |
re: #325 Killian Bundy
Judging by the bent wheel, it doesn't look like that ancient, poorly maintained 40mm anti-aircraft "cannon" is readily mobile, if even operable.
/it's certainly not in a firing position and I didn't see any rounds for it
I saw the IDF fellows laying out a couple of belts on the floor.
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Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:12:14pm |
re: #342 yma o hyd
Save you compassion - I seriously doubt that Samantha will be able to stand up to a Hildebeast in the full regalia of SecState.
Is that the one with the spiky helmet?
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:12:17pm |
It's 10:12. Do you know where your rooster is?
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Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:12:43pm |
re: #323 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Here let me help.
COCKLE-DOO-DLE-DOOOOOO!
BOOM!
RAT-A-TAT-TAT!
CALL TO WORSHIP!
COCKLE-DOO-DLE-DOOOOOO!
And yet I watched it for 2 hours last night, facinated.
What is wrong with me?
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Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:12:51pm |
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:12:58pm |
re: #313 redc1c4
one year someone called the CHP because our BN scout platoon, in their gun jeeps, was outposting all the freeway interchanges to make sure the cinvoy stayed on track....
California for you. Back in the mid 80s, we had an exercise in Texas that encompassed the entire state. III Corps went to the outer reaches on all four sides for a playing field and the civilians loved it.
There were convoys out on the far back roads as well as interstates. Many ranchers made land available for armor and mechanized operations. Choppers and aircraft were all over the skies.
| 352 |
bloodnok Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:13:05pm |
re: #348 MandyManners
It's 10:12. Do you know where your rooster is?
Please pay attention to the giant clock. Do what it says.
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Opinionated Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:13:07pm |
Who has to die in the United States before the great hope of humanity makes a comment denouncing the occurring and calls to violence against the American Jewish community?
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CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:13:33pm |
re: #282 shiek al beif salami
On flights from the middle east, I was always amazed at how few of the abayehs that walked onto a plane ever walked off in Europe. And the cart full of miniatures was usually depleted by flight's end.
I wonder if Fadh's 747 has a "I Heart Islam" sticker on the back bumper? And I also wonder if he still has to drive his '06 747 because of the collapse of oil prices?
Another friend of mine says the only thing that will pacify the middle east is if we can supply every Arab household with air conditioning, cable TV, and Budweiser. I think he may be on to something....
| 355 |
Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:13:41pm |
re: #321 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Restore the Caliphate! Then give the Caliphate 1 seat in the UN and tell the rest to GTFO. Fuck their majority.
Amen. I've been thinking that for years. The OIC is what, 53?, 57 nations? 57 seats at the UN. That's BS. They should have one.
The other bonus to an Official re-establishment of The Caliphate? We can Officially declare war upon it. Therefore, it will never happen.
| 356 |
Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:14:01pm |
re: #345 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I saw the IDF fellows laying out a couple of belts on the floor.
/those are .50 cal rounds
| 357 |
wiffersnapper Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:14:02pm |
I thought mosques were used for Islam, the religion of peace, not pieces!
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:14:11pm |
I may have fixed something on my spell checker. Is the spell check in LGF or in MY computer? Obama is my President Elect. May I say Oy?
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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:14:38pm |
Man escapes stoning, awaits second attempt......
Men stoned to death for adultery in Iran
Officials say two men in Iran have been stoned to death for adultery and murder, while another escaped death only by digging his way out of the hole where he was buried to face a similar fate, according to media reports.The sentences follow sharp criticism by human rights groups of Iran's use of such punishments.
Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi Tuesday told reporters about the stonings, which took place in the northeastern city of Mashhad about 20 days ago, the reports said.
According to the Mashhad prosecutor, the men had committed various crimes, including adultery and murder, Jamshidi said.
In the practice, the men are buried up to their chests and people pelt them with stones until they die.
A third was supposed to have been stoned to death, however he went free by climbing out of the stone hole. He still awaits punishment.
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:14:41pm |
re: #311 CIA Reject
Yup! And that's another thing that annoys me about islam- "religions" that reduce the relationship between G*d and man to some kind of "gotcha" game are really irritating...
I saw enough hypocricy over there to fill me for a lifetime. And I won't get holier than thou about it because I'm a pretty poor Catholic myself, but......I don't insist that you follow my religion or I'll cut your head off either. And that makes all the difference......
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:15:12pm |
re: #343 mean Gene
Promise them that and stand back to watch the carnage as they fight for who gets to be the Caliph!
That'll keep 'em busy for a couple of generations at least!
Naah we shoudl givem all lifetime subscriptions to hustler and playboy. That'll keep em busy. My brother was tellng me that during his last tour in Iraq 2 year ago they were using some baathist guy's abandoned apartment for an Observation Post and as curious GIs do.. they nosed through all his stuff and found the whole Ron Jeremy collection on dvd. He said it made for an interesting 2 days.
| 363 |
bloodnok Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:15:28pm |
re: #359 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I may have fixed something on my spell checker. Is the spell check in LGF or in MY computer? Obama is my President Elect. May I say Oy?
Drugs are bad mmkay?
| 364 |
CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:15:43pm |
re: #302 Son of the Black Dog
Too little headspace will result in a failure to fire and/or feed the next round. Too much headspace (a lot too much) could give you a case rupture, although more likely you'd get a failure to fire because the bolt wouldn't seat.
Can you adjust headspace on the M-2?
| 365 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:15:46pm |
Picturing clueless MSM effort to find a story that excuses weapons in Mosques.
Maybe it was being demilitarized, you know sanctified as a symbol of the struggle, like a knights sword hanging on the wall or on his tomb in a cathedral, sure that works
| 366 |
Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:15:48pm |
re: #326 Outrider
according to the photos Zombie took, all that went away. They were finally using the word Jew, as well as Zionist. Lots of anti-Jewish sentiment in those photos.
I saw a sign at another site (in the links, from a protest) which said "Upgrade to Holocaust 2.0" These people need imprisonment.
| 367 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:15:49pm |
Obama is my President Elect. May I say Oy?
Well I'll be danged. The spell check is in my computer. Got tired of seeing Obama underlined every time I typed his name. Yay!
| 368 |
lawhawk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:15:50pm |
re: #360 Killgore Trout
Under Islamic law, if you escape a stoning, you are considered free and not subject to another stoning for that crime. They're progressive, you see. /snicker
| 372 |
sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:16:33pm |
Palastines New Battle Cry
A Cannon In Every Mosque and a Rooster For Every LiveLink
| 373 |
bloodnok Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:16:39pm |
re: #367 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Obama is my President Elect. May I say Oy?
Well I'll be danged. The spell check is in my computer. Got tired of seeing Obama underlined every time I typed his name. Yay!
Ah, I see.
| 374 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:16:45pm |
re: #368 lawhawk
Under Islamic law, if you escape a stoning, you are considered free and not subject to another stoning for that crime. They're progressive, you see. /snicker
Double Jihady?
| 375 |
doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:17:04pm |
re: #354 CIA Reject
Another friend of mine says the only thing that will pacify the middle east is if we can supply every Arab household with air conditioning, cable TV, and Budweiser. I think he may be on to something....
I concur, but I think they deserve something better than Bud.
/Beer thread!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:17:28pm |
My intuition says the IDF just might be going on the low side with their Hamas kill-count -- especially with the IAF strikes.
If I was a fly-on-the-cosmic-wall, I wouldn't be surprised to see twice the number that the IDF is claiming.
/I hope I'm not projecting my desires
| 377 |
Desert Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:17:31pm |
re: #368 lawhawk
Under Islamic law, if you escape a stoning, you are considered free and not subject to another stoning for that crime. They're progressive, you see. /snicker
Yes, they just stone the guy that brought the stones to the stoning
| 379 |
CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:18:26pm |
re: #361 LGoPs
I saw enough hypocricy over there to fill me for a lifetime. And I won't get holier than thou about it because I'm a pretty poor Catholic myself, but......I don't insist that you follow my religion or I'll cut your head off either. And that makes all the difference......
Amen!
| 380 |
sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:18:51pm |
re: #378 buzzsawmonkey
The Gazacam doesn't have just one rooster. There are many roosters.
Who has the rooster roster?
Roger the Dodger Runs the Rooster Roster
| 381 |
bloodnok Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:19:11pm |
re: #378 buzzsawmonkey
The Gazacam doesn't have just one rooster. There are many roosters.
Who has the rooster roster?
Roscoe has it at his rostrum.
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bloodnok Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:20:17pm |
| 384 |
mjwsatx Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:20:28pm |
I think this video pretty much puts to rest the canard that the religious wing of Hamas is separate from the military wing. In Hamasastan all wings fly together.
| 385 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:20:41pm |
| 386 |
lawhawk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:20:48pm |
re: #367 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Obama is my President Elect. May I say Oy?
Well I'll be danged. The spell check is in my computer. Got tired of seeing Obama underlined every time I typed his name. Yay!
You could always join the LoyalOppositionTM, formed November 5, 2008, and remaining in effect until Obama is out of office. Country first.
| 387 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:20:49pm |
re: #373 bloodnok
Did you know that? I didn't know that.
| 388 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:21:17pm |
Looking at that webcam I know that the Hamas supporters look forward to the night that it is pointing North and that glow on the horizon will be Tel Aviv under nuclear attack.. An image just like this may be what we see.
| 389 |
CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:21:18pm |
| 390 |
CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:21:21pm |
re: #375 doppelganglander
I concur, but I think they deserve something better than Bud.
/Beer thread!
Not on my dime they don't! If my tax dollars are gonna keep anybody in Hacker or Warsteiner it's gonna be me! :-)
| 391 |
Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:21:36pm |
re: #376 pre-Boomer Marine brat
The astonishing thing is how few people have been killed. After 18 days of fighting, and only 1000 killed? If the Israelis really did intend on "wiping out the Palestinians" as Abbas claimed, they're doing a piss poor job of it.
| 392 |
bloodnok Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:21:39pm |
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bloodnok Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:22:01pm |
re: #387 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Did you know that? I didn't know that.
I always thought it was a LGF thang.
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alegrias Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:22:01pm |
re: #365 lifeofthemind
Picturing clueless MSM effort to find a story that excuses weapons in Mosques.
Maybe it was being demilitarized, you know sanctified as a symbol of the struggle, like a knights sword hanging on the wall or on his tomb in a cathedral, sure that works
* * * *
Yes, NPR's Garrison Keillor will use the old protestant hymn "A Mighty Fortress" to excuse Hamas' war crime of weapons storage in religious buildings.
| 396 |
shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:22:47pm |
re: #375 doppelganglander
The only sure way to pacify the Middle East is with goats, lots of goats.
Otherwise, they'll lose that lovin' feeling.
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:22:55pm |
Anyone ever seen a progressive cable TV channel called "Free Speech TV"?
It's a marxist production, the anchors look like they're on quayludes, and each and every story is so far to the left it makes MSNBC look like a bastion of conservatism and rationality.
The funniest thing a friend and I noticed about the "news" station, was the "crawl" at the bottom of the screen, how un-freakin-believably S-L-O-W it goes. Moonbats have reading problems? You should see it...it's about 1/4 the speed of the CNN or FOX ticker. Maybe slower.
| 398 |
Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:23:17pm |
Which reminds me, has anybody checked what's in the basement at the Little Mosque on the Prairie?
| 399 |
scottishbuzzsaw Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:23:20pm |
re: #389 CapeCoddah
Well, thanks, that is one of five shots. I always have a nasty time with those link things, any ideas on how to get the other four up there, I am not sure how else to do it?
You can scroll through the rest, upper right at link...very cute lion cub, by the way.
| 400 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:23:22pm |
re: #393 bloodnok
Me too. Now I can go and add somethings to my dictionary that it checks every time. Like showc & href for replies, etc.
| 402 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:23:48pm |
Who is in charge of the barbeque sauce for all those roosters, they will need some one to take charge of basting them but Hamas should be full of skilled specialists for that work.
| 403 |
Peacekeeper Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:24:00pm |
Gives a new meaning to the term: "canon law".
| 404 |
LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:24:27pm |
re: #396 shiek al beif salami
The only sure way to pacify the Middle East is with goats, lots of goats.
Otherwise, they'll lose that lovin' feeling.
Be careful, You might be goating them into more violence....
| 405 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:24:42pm |
| 406 |
Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:24:56pm |
All right, on the Gaza cam - is that thing on a loop, is there some sort of big-ass flare on the ground, or did one of the innumerable piles of refuse that litter every Arab city catch fire?
| 407 |
bloodnok Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:25:14pm |
Jeremiah Wright was once a very prolific rooster.
| 408 |
CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:25:16pm |
re: #395 Iron Fist
Yeah, I guess the Obamessiahh qualifies as a Marxist, but at the same time, he is religious, which is a big no-no to Marxists. It's kind of hard to worship yourself as a god and still claim to be an atheist. We've got, what, seven more days? Then four long years. I couldn't be dreading it much more if I were facing lockup in a super-max hell-hole.
After next week those folks may be a lot safer than those who work in NYC or DC.
| 409 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:25:52pm |
re: #401 buzzsawmonkey
A Mighty Fortran is Our Code.
Fortran left me feeling weak, like I had a Code in de Dose.
| 410 |
LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:25:52pm |
re: #397 Taqiyyotomist
Anyone ever seen a progressive cable TV channel called "Free Speech TV"?
It's a marxist production, the anchors look like they're on quayludes, and each and every story is so far to the left it makes MSNBC look like a bastion of conservatism and rationality.
The funniest thing a friend and I noticed about the "news" station, was the "crawl" at the bottom of the screen, how un-freakin-believably S-L-O-W it goes. Moonbats have reading problems? You should see it...it's about 1/4 the speed of the CNN or FOX ticker. Maybe slower.
That's 'cause "Libtards are Illiterate".......
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alegrias Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:26:10pm |
re: #406 Guanxi88
All right, on the Gaza cam - is that thing on a loop, is there some sort of big-ass flare on the ground, or did one of the innumerable piles of refuse that litter every Arab city catch fire?
* * *
Yes, garbage collection might as well be advanced rocket science!
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Ben Hur Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:26:12pm |
re: #8 Dizzy
Sorry if this has been posted before. It is a literal human shield. Video at Elder of Ziyon.
IDF, most awesome!
I'm pretty sure that's not from this military campaign.
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CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:26:13pm |
re: #399 scottishbuzzsaw
You can scroll through the rest, upper right at link...very cute lion cub, by the way.
Ah, so you can! thanks a million, I hate putting those things together, they never work properly for me!
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:26:26pm |
| 415 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:26:27pm |
re: #401 buzzsawmonkey
A Mighty Fortran is Our Code.
I C you're back at it.
How long did it take you to cobol that one together?
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:26:35pm |
| 417 |
DeafDog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:26:36pm |
re: #395 Iron Fist
Yeah, I guess the Obamessiahh qualifies as a Marxist, but at the same time, he is religious, which is a big no-no to Marxists. It's kind of hard to worship yourself as a god and still claim to be an atheist. We've got, what, seven more days? Then four long years. I couldn't be dreading it much more if I were facing lockup in a super-max hell-hole.
My TV is smart. When Obama comes on - the channel gets changed.
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:27:03pm |
re: #364 CIA Reject
Can you adjust headspace on the M-2?
Yeah, there's supposed to be a gauge that comes with the receiver, held on by a metal chain. When changing barrels, you screw the fresh barrel up to where it touches the gauge, then back off to the next detente. A WWII/Korea infantry vet taught me how to set it without the gauge, if you really needed to.
Note to all: my experience with the .50 is now more than 40 years old.
| 420 |
Kragar Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:27:06pm |
re: #406 Guanxi88
All right, on the Gaza cam - is that thing on a loop, is there some sort of big-ass flare on the ground, or did one of the innumerable piles of refuse that litter every Arab city catch fire?
By setting their buildings on fire, Hamas hopes to foil Israeli night vision equipment and prevent the IAF from bombing those buildings.
DOH!
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DaddyG Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:27:24pm |
re: #402 lifeofthemind
Who is in charge of the barbeque sauce for all those roosters, they will need some one to take charge of basting them but Hamas should be full of skilled specialists for that work.
Basting not blasting.
| 422 |
Texas Heathen Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:27:31pm |
re: #352 bloodnok
Please pay attention to the giant clock. Do what it says.
Whoa. I read that a little differently (another word for rooster)
| 423 |
shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:27:32pm |
re: #404 LGoPs
Now I'm thinking chains, whips, leather, Yassir's brother Nossir, and a goat.
Is this what is known as the Middle East piece process?
| 424 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:27:40pm |
re: #376 pre-Boomer Marine brat
My intuition says the IDF just might be going on the low side with their Hamas kill-count -- especially with the IAF strikes.
If I was a fly-on-the-cosmic-wall, I wouldn't be surprised to see twice the number that the IDF is claiming.
/I hope I'm not projecting my desires
I'm thinking to meself that this latest increase in boots-on-the-ground (reservists) might mean that the special forces are now in with a good chance of success. Thus we'll have a lowish count for the time being because the IDF can't claim these dead hamassholes as due to airstrikes.
But I'm sure there's some fierce silent taking-out of them thugs going on right now.
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Peacekeeper Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:27:40pm |
Ask the Imam special Gaza edition
Dear Imam:
By Mohammed most holy! Jewish soldiers have entered our mosque and touched sacred armaments with their filthy hands. Is it allowed to fight with these weapons after the UN gives them back to us?
| 426 |
CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:27:56pm |
| 427 |
Render Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:28:00pm |
Russian KPV/ZPU-1 14.5mm heavy machine gun. Technically not a cannon, as it doesn't fire explosive shells.
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
A leftover from long ago, but still very dangerous.
The North Vietnamese/VC used theirs expressly for hunting helicopters. In single and twin mounts they provided the backbone of the Soviet era light AAA, until replaced by the 23mm. Even after being "replaced" they are still in use all over the world. Very common in various African conflicts. Well noted for their range and hitting power.
Several nations still make ammo for them, including Egypt and China.
This one looks kinda like it was modified from a late 40's ground mount, removed from an older BRDM/BTR-70 turret, or pulled from a ZPU-2 or ZPU-4 mounting. The mount it's on is not standard, and although the wheels are present, the standard AA gun sight is missing.
Hey, if you don't actually aim your guns when you fire them, who needs a gun sight?
The round breach, conical flash hider, and 40 round belts are the key identifiers here.
IVAN'S
HAMMER,
R
| 428 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:28:06pm |
Ground ops going on over yonder?
Don't know why else a parachute flare would be dropped.
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:28:12pm |
re: #395 Iron Fist
Yeah, I guess the Obamessiahh qualifies as a Marxist, but at the same time, he is religious, which is a big no-no to Marxists. It's kind of hard to worship yourself as a god and still claim to be an atheist. We've got, what, seven more days? Then four long years. I couldn't be dreading it much more if I were facing lockup in a super-max hell-hole.
He's only religious as far as it helped his street cred.
| 430 |
alegrias Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:28:23pm |
re: #414 Kenneth
* * *
Coming Soon to Broadway or Near You!
They want to be in America,
Everything's free in America
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:28:28pm |
Was that one of those apartment buildings we saw last night on Gazacam?
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:28:32pm |
re: #419 Son of the Black Dog
Yeah, there's supposed to be a gauge that comes with the receiver, held on by a metal chain. When changing barrels, you screw the fresh barrel up to where it touches the gauge, then back off to the next detente. A WWII/Korea infantry vet taught me how to set it without the gauge, if you really needed to.
Note to all: my experience with the .50 is now more than 40 years old.
Mine's about 20 years old but you are correct.....
| 434 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:28:48pm |
| 435 |
bloodnok Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:29:00pm |
| 436 |
doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:29:09pm |
re: #390 CIA Reject
Not on my dime they don't! If my tax dollars are gonna keep anybody in Hacker or Warsteiner it's gonna be me! :-)
I wasn't going to go that far. I just think we might get better results with, say, Sam Adams.
| 437 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:29:13pm |
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sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:29:15pm |
re: #397 Taqiyyotomist
Anyone ever seen a progressive cable TV channel called "Free Speech TV"?
It's a marxist production, the anchors look like they're on quayludes, and each and every story is so far to the left it makes MSNBC look like a bastion of conservatism and rationality.
The funniest thing a friend and I noticed about the "news" station, was the "crawl" at the bottom of the screen, how un-freakin-believably S-L-O-W it goes. Moonbats have reading problems? You should see it...it's about 1/4 the speed of the CNN or FOX ticker. Maybe slower.
You've gottren ot wrong. It's not that the veiwers are slow readers, it's that those at the TV station are slow thinkers and typists!@
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:29:21pm |
re: #410 LGoPs
Well, I did think, maybe it's that slow because a lot of non-English-speaking people watch it. Then I thought, no...non-US moonbats can probably speak and read English better than our domestic variety. Nope, my first instinct was right, I'll bet my last quatloo. FSTV was inundated with calls and emails from frustrated Paulians and moonbats, telling them to slow down the crawl.
| 440 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:29:30pm |
re: #419 Son of the Black Dog
Yeah, there's supposed to be a gauge that comes with the receiver, held on by a metal chain. When changing barrels, you screw the fresh barrel up to where it touches the gauge, then back off to the next detente. A WWII/Korea infantry vet taught me how to set it without the gauge, if you really needed to.
Note to all: my experience with the .50 is now more than 40 years old.
They still work the same way, same gun.
/they don't make 'em like that anymore... B-52 and M1911 neither...
| 441 |
mattm Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:29:44pm |
So that's what my church is missing.
/sarc
I'm sure the MSM will cover this.
| 442 |
Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:29:45pm |
re: #437 lifeofthemind
They need a Boss Baster
Well, I think there's bound to be at least one Master Baster in their ranks, no?
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sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:30:09pm |
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yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:30:24pm |
re: #388 lifeofthemind
Looking at that webcam I know that the Hamas supporters look forward to the night that it is pointing North and that glow on the horizon will be Tel Aviv under nuclear attack.. An image just like this may be what we see.
If thats what they wish for - God forbid it ever happening! - then they'll pay for their wish, in the highest currency.
Of that I am certain, should it happen.
| 447 |
Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:30:27pm |
re: #409 lifeofthemind
Fortran left me feeling weak, like I had a Code in de Dose.
I C this pun thread will SNOBOL.
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alegrias Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:30:37pm |
re: #441 mattm
So that's what my church is missing.
/sarc
I'm sure the MSM will cover this.
* * *
You know how empty the average "Fellowship Hall" is!
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shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:30:48pm |
re: #438 sattv4u2
Or the alternative energy they broadcast (narrowcast?) with is slow.
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bulwrk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:30:50pm |
re: #397 Taqiyyotomist
The funniest thing a friend and I noticed about the "news" station, was the "crawl" at the bottom of the screen, how un-freakin-believably S-L-O-W it goes. Moonbats have reading problems? You should see it...it's about 1/4 the speed of the CNN or FOX ticker. Maybe slower.
Look at their target audience when stoned it appears to scroll at normal speed
| 451 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:31:00pm |
re: #416 MandyManners
I'm thinking about the one with the bomb at the altar....
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:31:16pm |
A jet, I betcha, and fairly close by.
| 453 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:31:37pm |
I swear pulling that little juvenilia out of everyone was like pulling teeth, I work for my dings.
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:31:47pm |
re: #398 Kenneth
Which reminds me, has anybody checked what's in the basement at the Little Mosque on the Prairie?
No, but the landing pattern for the Indianapolis airport goes directly over the biggest mosque in the state. Very low over.
| 455 |
CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:31:54pm |
re: #419 Son of the Black Dog
Yeah, there's supposed to be a gauge that comes with the receiver, held on by a metal chain. When changing barrels, you screw the fresh barrel up to where it touches the gauge, then back off to the next detente. A WWII/Korea infantry vet taught me how to set it without the gauge, if you really needed to.
Note to all: my experience with the .50 is now more than 40 years old.
Cool! I didn't know you could do that, makes sense though- thanks!
| 456 |
Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:31:54pm |
re: #425 Peacekeeper
Ask the Imam special Gaza edition
Dear Imam:
By Mohammed most holy! Jewish soldiers have entered our mosque and touched sacred armaments with their filthy hands. Is it allowed to fight with these weapons after the UN gives them back to us?
Nominated for Comment of the Day. You should go to Ask the Imam and really post that question, and see if they answer. That's just perfect.
We really need a Comment of the Day.
| 457 |
Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:32:29pm |
re: #427 Render
Russian KPV/ZPU-1 14.5mm heavy machine gun.
That's not what's in the video.
/look at the size when the soldier's head is next to the barrel, more like 40mm
| 458 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:32:46pm |
re: #446 yma o hyd
If thats what they wish for - God forbid it ever happening! - then they'll pay for their wish, in the highest currency.
Of that I am certain, should it happen.
It is hard to deter those who want to die
| 459 |
Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:33:40pm |
re: #414 Kenneth
I think we should return them to their home countries from about 20,000 feet, with one of them acme parachutes packed with an anvil.....
| 460 |
Leonidas Hoplite Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:33:42pm |
re: #457 Killian Bundy
That's not what's in the video.
/look at the size when the soldier's head is next to the barrel, more like 40mm
Those aren't 40mm shells in the belt, though the ammo could be for another weapon
| 461 |
Texas Heathen Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:33:50pm |
| 462 |
Ford_Prefect Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:34:21pm |
A Cannon in a Hamas Mosque
I don't know why everyone is pointing fingers at Hamas. Those weapons are clearly a plant by the infidel juice.
////
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baconeatingkaffir Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:34:42pm |
re: #459 Marvo76
I think they could swim home or row home in a rubber dinghy. Its a long way to peshawar baby!
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:34:43pm |
You know... if those pesky Juice didn't fly their jets inside mosques, they wouldn't need AA there.
Juice are tricky people. Skilled, too.
| 466 |
Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:34:44pm |
| 467 |
thefallingman Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:35:04pm |
Is this really a story? I remember that mosques were the jihadis favorite place to cache weapons back in Iraq. Usually we'd send Iraqi Army troops into mosques we knew had them and they'd come back out with truckfuls of munitions. Probably holy weapons.
On a tangent, I hope everybody knows that the word is pronounced "cash" and not "cash-ay" as so many people say it.
| 468 |
bulwrk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:35:11pm |
re: #457 Killian Bundy
The think it might be an old Russian 23mm,the ammo box sitting on the hopper tray is too small for 40mm.
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CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:35:15pm |
re: #459 Marvo76
I think we should return them to their home countries from about 20,000 feet, with one of them acme parachutes packed with an anvil.....
Hold the chute, just the anvil
| 470 |
Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:35:20pm |
| 471 |
Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:35:24pm |
re: #460 Leonidas Hoplite
Those aren't 40mm shells in the belt, though the ammo could be for another weapon
/those are .50 cal rounds
| 472 |
Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:35:27pm |
re: #401 buzzsawmonkey
A Mighty Fortran is Our Code.
I'm afraid that most people on the web have no clue about FORTRAN, COBOL, or punchcards. (My spellcheck doesn't even recognize the word "punchcards".) How soon we forget where we came from.
| 473 |
CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:36:01pm |
re: #436 doppelganglander
I wasn't going to go that far. I just think we might get better results with, say, Sam Adams.
OK, but only Boston Lager and THAT'S IT! :-)
| 474 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:36:18pm |
re: #452 pre-Boomer Marine brat
A jet, I betcha, and fairly close by.
I'm getting a different view now.
What I don't understand - why are thre so many lights on? I thought they had no electricity?
| 475 |
sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:36:18pm |
re: #467 thefallingman
On a tangent, I hope everybody knows that the word is pronounced "cash" and not "cash-ay" as so many people say it.
Make sure you tell that to John "Jenjis Kahn" F'n Kerry!
| 476 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:36:27pm |
| 477 |
CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:36:44pm |
| 478 |
Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:36:50pm |
re: #450 bulwrk
The funniest thing a friend and I noticed about the "news" station, was the "crawl" at the bottom of the screen, how un-freakin-believably S-L-O-W it goes. Moonbats have reading problems? You should see it...it's about 1/4 the speed of the CNN or FOX ticker. Maybe slower.
Look at their target audience when stoned it appears to scroll at normal speed
Oh, I don't know about all that. We watched it while stoned. In fact, it is highly (no pun) recommended that you be on something if you watch that garbage. Not acid. FSTV would probably result in a really bad trip.
Seriously though, even stoned, we could only take about 10 minutes of that utter insanity (to be mild).
| 479 |
Ben Hur Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:36:57pm |
re: #294 buzzsawmonkey
That's disgusting.
I agree.
Jews do not share European values.
European values have drowned Europe, Africa, etc in blood.
| 480 |
Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:37:09pm |
re: #468 bulwrk
The think it might be an old Russian 23mm,the ammo box sitting on the hopper tray is too small for 40mm.
/what ever it is, it's a relic piece of junk
| 481 |
sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:37:33pm |
re: #474 yma o hyd
I'm getting a different view now.
What I don't understand - why are thre so many lights on? I thought they had no electricity?
I'll bet there are thousands of small generators around. Lots of the smoke I've seen looks like it could be coming from strikes on diesel reserves
| 482 |
LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:37:51pm |
"Mohammed, I told you to bring me a Canon: a regulation or dogma decreed by a church council b: a provision of canon law.......not a Cannon......you stupid head"......
| 483 |
Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:37:52pm |
re: #454 Son of the Black Dog
No, but the landing pattern for the Indianapolis airport goes directly over the biggest mosque in the state. Very low over.
I didn't know they had one that close, I thought the biggest one was down in Blomington...not far from IU
| 484 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:38:20pm |
re: #481 sattv4u2
I'll bet there are thousands of small generators around. Lots of the smoke I've seen looks like it could be coming from strikes on diesel reserves
So much for the standard practice of dropping the electrical grid first...
| 485 |
redc1c4 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:38:22pm |
re: #351 Outrider
California for you. Back in the mid 80s, we had an exercise in Texas that encompassed the entire state. III Corps went to the outer reaches on all four sides for a playing field and the civilians loved it.
There were convoys out on the far back roads as well as interstates. Many ranchers made land available for armor and mechanized operations. Choppers and aircraft were all over the skies.
well, one weekend we were going south to Camp Pendleton and some wise acre wrote "Next stop Nicaragua" on the last truck in the convoy......
everyone was wondering why we were getting all the strange looks. %-)
/5th Amendment
| 486 |
Desert Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:38:40pm |
re: #480 Killian Bundy
/what ever it is, it's a relic piece of junk
I agree, and that machine gun in that mosque is pretty junky too
| 487 |
jaunte Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:38:40pm |
There's a drawing in the video of some hands chained (to the al Aqsa mosque?). Does anyone here know what that's supposed to represent?
| 488 |
Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:38:42pm |
re: #366 Taqiyyotomist
I saw a sign at another site (in the links, from a protest) which said "Upgrade to Holocaust 2.0" These people need imprisonment.
their cloak of using euphemisms has been yanked off and they are revealed for he anti-Jewish crowd we have always known they are.
Same with the leftists and their agenda of destroying the traditional family life, that too has come into the open.
Now what has happened in the last few months that would cause these people to reveal their true feelings? ;-)>
| 489 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:38:45pm |
re: #472 Son of the Black Dog
I'm afraid that most people on the web have no clue about FORTRAN, COBOL, or punchcards. (My spellcheck doesn't even recognize the word "punchcards".) How soon we forget where we came from.
And when most people watch a movie like "Run Silent, Run Deep", and see a officer spinning wheels on some big thing with lots of dials, do they have a clue as to what that was?
| 490 |
Tardis Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:39:03pm |
re: #376 pre-Boomer Marine brat
My intuition says the IDF just might be going on the low side with their Hamas kill-count -- especially with the IAF strikes.
If I was a fly-on-the-cosmic-wall, I wouldn't be surprised to see twice the number that the IDF is claiming.
/I hope I'm not projecting my desires
They may only be counting those that are confirmed either with eyes on the ground, or through a drone camera. Others in a vehicle or building or spider hole were not visualized and so not included.
| 491 |
redc1c4 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:39:11pm |
re: #457 Killian Bundy
That's not what's in the video.
/look at the size when the soldier's head is next to the barrel, more like 40mm
IIRC, they can come with a water jacket..... i agree with Render.
14.5MM
| 492 |
sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:39:41pm |
re: #484 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
So much for the standard practice of dropping the electrical grid first...
I wouldn't abandon that practice. It eliminates electricity to the majority. From the night scenes I've seen 'lectricity looks spotty, at best, indicating generators
| 493 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:39:46pm |
re: #481 sattv4u2
I'll bet there are thousands of small generators around. Lots of the smoke I've seen looks like it could be coming from strikes on diesel reserves
Good one - that hadn't occurred to me ...
| 494 |
Peacekeeper Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:39:57pm |
Al Jazeera interview:
Q; Have you always been devoted to the struggle?
A: By the beard of the prophet yes! I remember as a small boy we would go down to the mosque basement to get away from the heat. There we would play with the stacks of rifles and rockets. Sometimes I would sit in the gunner's chair and spin the cannon around like that western whore June Fonda....
| 495 |
redc1c4 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:40:09pm |
re: #480 Killian Bundy
/what ever it is, it's a relic piece of junk
since it's russian, i'll bet you it'd w*rk if you cleaned it up.
| 496 |
Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:40:29pm |
re: #490 Tardis
Others in a vehicle or building or spider hole were not visualized and so not included.
Is that what those "visualize world peace" stickers on Volvos and Subaru's are talking about?
| 497 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:40:39pm |
re: #490 Tardis
That's precisely what I'm thinking.
| 498 |
doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:40:40pm |
re: #473 CIA Reject
OK, but only Boston Lager and THAT'S IT! :-)
Deal. Let's schedule a meeting of the Beer for Burkhas Committee so we can sample the donations before we ship them over. All are welcome.
| 500 |
sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:40:44pm |
re: #487 jaunte
There's a drawing in the video of some hands chained (to the al Aqsa mosque?). Does anyone here know what that's supposed to represent?
GUESS ,,, the Zionists holding the Palis hostage in their own land!
| 501 |
Leonidas Hoplite Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:41:01pm |
re: #489 pre-Boomer Marine brat
And when most people watch a movie like "Run Silent, Run Deep", and see a officer spinning wheels on some big thing with lots of dials, do they have a clue as to what that was?
Isn't that a range-finding computer? Think I saw one on the fleet boat at Pearly Harbor. Something similar in the main turrets in the Massachusetts and New Jersey.
| 503 |
funky chicken Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:41:08pm |
| 504 |
Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:41:15pm |
re: #472 Son of the Black Dog
I'm afraid that most people on the web have no clue about FORTRAN, COBOL, or punchcards. (My spellcheck doesn't even recognize the word "punchcards".) How soon we forget where we came from.
LOL I can remember Mom made a wreath for Christmas one year out of old punchcards, the thing was actually quite pretty...
| 505 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:41:19pm |
re: #492 sattv4u2
I wouldn't abandon that practice. It eliminates electricity to the majority. From the night scenes I've seen 'lectricity looks spotty, at best, indicating generators
Oh, I wasn't advocating dropping the SOP... only disliking the idea that the perps have glommed onto a workaround.
That pisses me off.
| 506 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:41:32pm |
22:20 Italy Jews: Pope Benedict`s recent remarks negate 50 years of interfaith progress
Anybody know what the Pope said?
| 507 |
scottishbuzzsaw Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:41:43pm |
| 508 |
Tardis Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:41:45pm |
| 509 |
Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:42:03pm |
re: #489 pre-Boomer Marine brat
And when most people watch a movie like "Run Silent, Run Deep", and see a officer spinning wheels on some big thing with lots of dials, do they have a clue as to what that was?
Hey, I cranked up a Victrola today. Sounded really nice, although the records were pretty scratchy. First time I'd ever heard one.
| 510 |
Tigger2005 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:42:06pm |
| 511 |
Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:42:06pm |
re: #479 Ben Hur
I agree.
Jews do not share European values.
European values have drowned Europe, Africa, etc in blood.
Europeans have values? who'da thunk it?
////
| 512 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:42:27pm |
Poor gaza roosters. How can they get any sleep with big glowing fires and things going whump all night? PETA will get right on this.
| 513 |
alegrias Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:42:31pm |
re: #467 thefallingman
Is this really a story? I remember that mosques were the jihadis favorite place to cache weapons back in Iraq. Usually we'd send Iraqi Army troops into mosques we knew had them and they'd come back out with truckfuls of munitions. Probably holy weapons.
On a tangent, I hope everybody knows that the word is pronounced "cash" and not "cash-ay" as so many people say it.
* * *
Thanks for your service.
Just knowing American troops' experiences in Iraq are similar to the IDF's against Hamas' tactics is comforting.
Hamas' tricks are so busted.
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Guanxi88 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:42:35pm |
re: #495 redc1c4
since it's russian, i'll bet you it'd w*rk if you cleaned it up.
True that, just look at those crappy mosin-nagants - they still shoot, even after being issued to Soviets.
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:42:40pm |
re: #485 redc1c4
well, one weekend we were going south to Camp Pendleton and some wise acre wrote "Next stop Nicaragua" on the last truck in the convoy......
everyone was wondering why we were getting all the strange looks. %-)
/5th Amendment
did you get Down South?
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sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:42:54pm |
re: #506 Nevergiveup
22:20 Italy Jews: Pope Benedict`s recent remarks negate 50 years of interfaith progress
Anybody know what the Pope said?
"MazelTof" ?
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so.cal.swede Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:43:29pm |
re: #506 Nevergiveup
22:20 Italy Jews: Pope Benedict`s recent remarks negate 50 years of interfaith progress
Anybody know what the Pope said?
probably something along the lines of "The Muslim spiritual leadership should open their arms to a wider dialogue between religious leaders".
how dare he?
/
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CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:43:38pm |
re: #472 Son of the Black Dog
I'm afraid that most people on the web have no clue about FORTRAN, COBOL, or punchcards. (My spellcheck doesn't even recognize the word "punchcards".) How soon we forget where we came from.
I used to interview applicants for jobs that required "low level" programming knowledge. As a test I kept a plastic write ring from a 9 track tape in my desk drawer. If I was relatively sure an applicant knew his stuff, but wanted to make sure, I'd drop it on the desk and ask "what's that?"
All of the old-timers knew immediately, the youngsters not so much...
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Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:44:15pm |
re: #495 redc1c4
since it's russian, i'll bet you it'd w*rk if you cleaned it up.
/it'd be suicide to try and fire something like that at Israeli aircraft
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:44:15pm |
re: #432 LGoPs
Mine's about 20 years old but you are correct.....
re: #440 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
They still work the same way, same gun.
/they don't make 'em like that anymore... B-52 and M1911 neither...
The other night I pointed out a .50 on the TV. My wife couldn't believe that they predate WWII.
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uncc_compman Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:44:22pm |
re: #512 lifeofthemind
Poor gaza roosters. How can they get any sleep with big glowing fires and things going whump all night? PETA will get right on this.
Speaking of PETA, we can't call fish "fish" anymore, they are sea kittens.
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yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:44:37pm |
re: #512 lifeofthemind
Poor gaza roosters. How can they get any sleep with big glowing fires and things going whump all night? PETA will get right on this.
Heh - he's just called!
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:44:42pm |
re: #520 Killian Bundy
/it'd be suicide to try and fire something like that at Israeli aircraft
Right up their ally, then!
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Green Helmet Guy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:44:43pm |
It was their Madfaa Ramadan (Ramadan cannon), you know the one that they fire to end the fast...Duh!
/
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alegrias Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:44:44pm |
re: #482 LGoPs
"Mohammed, I told you to bring me a Canon: a regulation or dogma decreed by a church council b: a provision of canon law.......not a Cannon......you stupid head"......
* * *
They do have a canonically obligatory state of war against we infidels.
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:44:52pm |
re: #504 Marvo76
LOL I can remember Mom made a wreath for Christmas one year out of old punchcards, the thing was actually quite pretty...
A third of a century ago I worked with thousands of punch cards, running data sets through an AMDAHL under MVS-XA
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Render Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:45:02pm |
re: #457 Killian Bundy
[Link: www.fas.org...]
Note the round breach in the second link.
===
Got WaW yet? I have my MG-42 back...
WELL
FEARED,
R
| 529 |
sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:45:06pm |
re: #522 uncc_compman
Speaking of PETA, we can't call fish "fish" anymore, they are sea kittens.
But can I still say "It tastes just like fish"?
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:45:23pm |
re: #521 Son of the Black Dog
The other night I pointed out a .50 on the TV. My wife couldn't believe that they predate WWII.
WW1, too, right... as in M1902?
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Taqiyyotomist Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:45:33pm |
re: #510 Tigger2005
Huh?
This comes as no surprise at all to those who know who the spirit behind it all is. The greatest deceptions the world has ever known: Islam is peaceful, Israel is Nazilike, the Globe is Warming and its all Your Fault, Communism is Good. All have one architect, and he's convinced a large portion of the world he doesn't exist.
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:45:34pm |
re: #504 Marvo76
LOL I can remember Mom made a wreath for Christmas one year out of old punchcards, the thing was actually quite pretty...
hey, I remember them wreaths. Ma made a couple of them too. And they did look pretty good when done.
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Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:46:04pm |
re: #504 Marvo76
LOL I can remember Mom made a wreath for Christmas one year out of old punchcards, the thing was actually quite pretty...
We made hundreds of those for the PTA one year. My dad was president and I remember the garage full of punchcards, and we'd all work on them. Staple, staple, staple. I remember they were bingo prizes.
It reminds me of the people who use CDs as decoration, such as hanging from a rearview mirror. I went to a Cherokee festival, and a couple of the young lads had CDs woven into their dance costumes. I'd never noticed that CDs have their own beauty.
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Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:46:13pm |
re: #18 pre-Boomer Marine brat
The thing looks ancient.
Do the Palis not know about oiling their weapons?
Hamas was not paying attention in weapons class...oil, oil, oil...Twits!
PVT ACHMED CLEAN THAT WEAPON!
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CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:46:22pm |
re: #477 CapeCoddah
No cherry wheat?
....mmmmmm Cherry Wheat.........
*SNAP* Ah, no, no fancy stuff! Not on the taxpayers anyway. Maybe they can con it out of the UN.
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Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:46:30pm |
re: #518 CIA Reject
I used to interview applicants for jobs that required "low level" programming knowledge. As a test I kept a plastic write ring from a 9 track tape in my desk drawer. If I was relatively sure an applicant knew his stuff, but wanted to make sure, I'd drop it on the desk and ask "what's that?"
All of the old-timers knew immediately, the youngsters not so much...
That is wickedly funny.
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:46:32pm |
re: #521 Son of the Black Dog
The other night I pointed out a .50 on the TV. My wife couldn't believe that they predate WWII.
Heck, 1911's predate WWII by about 30 years. And I carried one as my sidearm until the late 80's, early 90's. Good weapon and sorry the Army went to Baretta's...
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so.cal.swede Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:46:41pm |
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Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:46:50pm |
re: #522 uncc_compman
Speaking of PETA, we can't call fish "fish" anymore, they are sea kittens.
IN the words of B. Bunny, "what a buncha maroons"
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:46:54pm |
re: #534 Dustyvet
Hamas was not paying attention in weapons class...oil, oil, oil...Twits!
PVT ACHMED CLEAN THAT WEAPON!
It's Russian. Prolly works better covered in rust and filth.
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:46:56pm |
re: #506 Nevergiveup
22:20 Italy Jews: Pope Benedict`s recent remarks negate 50 years of interfaith progress
Anybody know what the Pope said?
Huh?
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:47:18pm |
re: #530 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
WW1, too, right... as in M1902?
We have the Maxim gun and they have not
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right_wing2 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:47:27pm |
re: #336 Iron Fist
The .50 must be less than I was expecting. I was guessing something close to $10/round!
I've got a 9mm that I'll bring and the cash that I can afford to spend. It'll be more for the experience of being there than actually blowing holes in things. :)
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Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:47:32pm |
re: #534 Dustyvet
Hamas was not paying attention in weapons class...oil, oil, oil...Twits!
PVT ACHMED CLEAN THAT WEAPON!
"This my weapon, this is my gun"
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:47:34pm |
re: #526 alegrias
* * *
They do have a canonically obligatory state of war against we infidels.
What's this we you speak of kemosabe.....?
:)
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:47:35pm |
re: #489 pre-Boomer Marine brat
And when most people watch a movie like "Run Silent, Run Deep", and see a officer spinning wheels on some big thing with lots of dials, do they have a clue as to what that was?
TDC - torpedo data computer. Allowed the sub to calculate where the torpedo should go based on the bearings, angle on the bow, calculated speed of the target, etc., and communicated the gyro angle to the torpedo.
Somewhere on the web are or were the technical manuals for the Fleet Boats.
| 548 |
Vicious Babushka Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:47:46pm |
re: #522 uncc_compman
Speaking of PETA, we can't call fish "fish" anymore, they are sea kittens.
So that would make cats what, cannibals?
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CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:47:55pm |
re: #522 uncc_compman
Speaking of PETA, we can't call fish "fish" anymore, they are sea kittens.
They should go sleep with the fishes...I mean sea kittens
| 550 |
Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:47:56pm |
re: #512 lifeofthemind
Poor gaza roosters. How can they get any sleep with big glowing fires and things going whump all night? PETA will get right on this.
Look! It's dawn. (crow) Wait, there is sunrise again. (crow). And again. (crow)
Dark, light, dark, light. How's a poor fowl to get rest?
| 551 |
jaunte Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:48:39pm |
re: #525 Green Helmet Guy
Now that's pretty funny:
One relates that the Ramadan cannon dates back to 859 AH (Hijri), when the ruler of Egypt was busy toying with his new cannon in the open courtyard atop the Citadel overlooking Cairo. The cannon went off accidentally and a loud boom reverberated everywhere. It was Ramadan at sunset.
| 552 |
kcladderman Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:48:56pm |
re: #506 Nevergiveup
22:20 Italy Jews: Pope Benedict`s recent remarks negate 50 years of interfaith progress
Anybody know what the Pope said?
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Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:49:17pm |
re: #533 Silhouette
speaking of CD's I saw where someone was using them( old ones) to make a parabolic reflector for a solar water heater. Made sense to me...
| 554 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:49:40pm |
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:49:47pm |
re: #533 Silhouette
We made hundreds of those for the PTA one year. My dad was president and I remember the garage full of punchcards, and we'd all work on them. Staple, staple, staple. I remember they were bingo prizes.
It reminds me of the people who use CDs as decoration, such as hanging from a rearview mirror. I went to a Cherokee festival, and a couple of the young lads had CDs woven into their dance costumes. I'd never noticed that CDs have their own beauty.
by drilling little holes in the CDs you can make a mobile out of them and hang them in the garden. They work super well at keeping birds, to include crows out of the gardens. And they look pretty cool to boot. (hah! pun unintended)
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:49:53pm |
re: #527 lifeofthemind
A third of a century ago I worked with thousands of punch cards, running data sets through an AMDAHL under MVS-XA
I still have a box of punched cards in the basement, from when I used an IBM 1130 in high school. I doubt the cards are readable any more, even if the equipment could be found.
| 557 |
CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:50:05pm |
re: #498 doppelganglander
Deal. Let's schedule a meeting of the Beer for Burkhas Committee so we can sample the donations before we ship them over. All are welcome.
Include me in.
*burp*
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:50:31pm |
| 559 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:50:32pm |
re: #547 Kosh's Shadow
And that generation was gear-driven -- totally mechanical.
| 560 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:50:42pm |
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:50:45pm |
re: #550 Silhouette
Look! It's dawn. (crow) Wait, there is sunrise again. (crow). And again. (crow)
Dark, light, dark, light. How's a poor fowl to get rest?
"Eminent worthies" are perfectly capable of having a meeting to discuss this issue as a product of Israel's senseless aggression against innocents, while ignoring the rockets landing on Sderot.
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Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:51:01pm |
re: #506 Nevergiveup
22:20 Italy Jews: Pope Benedict`s recent remarks negate 50 years of interfaith progress
Anybody know what the Pope said?
"Turns out it said we are to remain a celebrant."
| 563 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:51:01pm |
re: #556 Kosh's Shadow
Have a problem with OCD/Hoarding?
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Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:51:21pm |
re: #528 Render
Right, now look at the video where the soldier is standing next to the barrel.
/it has a greater diameter than what you're posting
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:51:25pm |
re: #483 Marvo76
I didn't know they had one that close, I thought the biggest one was down in Blomington...not far from IU
Naw, I was flying through Indy one day and saw it out the window when we were on approach, and thought, "DAMN - that's a MOSQUE". Later checked, and found that there's lots of Muslims in the Indy area.
| 568 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:51:26pm |
Webcam moved! focused on flare now shifted left
| 569 |
96RoadKing Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:51:44pm |
Ahhhhhh. The logic and peace found in Lizard World. I feel my blood pressure lowering after dealing with my petty personal problems.
How wonderful...
| 570 |
Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:52:05pm |
re: #559 pre-Boomer Marine brat
And that generation was gear-driven -- totally mechanical.
Yes, as were the computers in the ships. There were also computers used to guide the big guns of the surface Navy, everything from 5" to 16". They were all mechanical, using cams, and were even capable of firing the guns while the ship was rolling, when the angle was right.
| 571 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:52:11pm |
Removing cats to protect birds backfires on island
[Link: www.jpost.com...]
MEMO to the Global Warming crowd: Don't fuck with mother nature!
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beblebrox Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:52:35pm |
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Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:52:48pm |
re: #524 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Right up their ally, then!
But I sir I fired at the IAF Aircraft...
You hit the the frigging market place idiot!
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Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:53:08pm |
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Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:53:09pm |
re: #559 pre-Boomer Marine brat
And that generation was gear-driven -- totally mechanical.
the fire control for a Battleship was totally gear driven, but they could drop shells from the ship over 18 miles inland within a thousand feet of the target...It worked good, but just like the armor plate of that era, i doubt we have the technology today to recreate it...
| 577 |
Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:53:16pm |
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so.cal.swede Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:53:19pm |
re: #573 beblebrox
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world
/old Binary code joke
those who understand binary, and those who don't?
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reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:53:38pm |
re: #506 Nevergiveup
22:20 Italy Jews: Pope Benedict`s recent remarks negate 50 years of interfaith progress
Anybody know what the Pope said?
No, but Cardinal Renato Martino made some really atrocious and stupid statements.
And the Times Online seems to think those comments may put the visit in jeapordy.
| 580 |
uncc_compman Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:53:52pm |
re: #574 Dustyvet
But I sir I fired at the IAF Aircraft...
You hit the the frigging market place idiot!
Good thing we can always blame it on the IAF!
//
| 581 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:53:54pm |
re: #570 Kosh's Shadow
Yes, as were the computers in the ships. There were also computers used to guide the big guns of the surface Navy, everything from 5" to 16". They were all mechanical, using cams, and were even capable of firing the guns while the ship was rolling, when the angle was right.
Heard that Rickover had a rule that all the controls in his subs had to be analog, he wanted his operators in control and not passive spectators, except for the nuke plant the ships looked old deliberately
| 582 |
Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:54:02pm |
| 583 |
Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:54:06pm |
re: #563 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Have a problem with OCD/Hoarding?
Part of my computer museum.
Abacus (modern)
1920's typewriter and adding machine
newer typewriters
slide rules
PDP-8e (need a teletype for it)
Apple ][
C64 (no monitor right now)
| 584 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:54:16pm |
re: #574 Dustyvet
But I sir I fired at the IAF Aircraft...
You hit the the frigging market place idiot!
I think you are describing a higher level of leadership than really exists in Hamas.
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Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:54:51pm |
re: #567 Son of the Black Dog
Naw, I was flying through Indy one day and saw it out the window when we were on approach, and thought, "DAMN - that's a MOSQUE". Later checked, and found that there's lots of Muslims in the Indy area.
Next wave at me if you come in from the Motheast, I live about 30 miles from the place on the approach route, up in Anderson...
| 586 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:55:05pm |
re: #582 Silhouette
I folded and I mutiliated, but I swear, I never spindled.
We're Baptists.
Oh the humanity of it...:)
| 587 |
Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:55:13pm |
re: #556 Kosh's Shadow
I still have a box of punched cards in the basement, from when I used an IBM 1130 in high school. I doubt the cards are readable any more, even if the equipment could be found.
Probably readable .. just not feed-able - the cards would have absorbed moisture from the air and increased in thickness. Thus jamming at the throat knife in any unit record card reader.
| 588 |
redc1c4 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:55:15pm |
re: #566 Killian Bundy
Right, now look at the video where the soldier is standing next to the barrel.
/it has a greater diameter than what you're posting
but look at the flash cone at the muzzle..... not that big at all.
| 589 |
Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:55:26pm |
re: #563 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Have a problem with OCD/Hoarding?
Although I consider the cards part of my computer museum (forgot disk platters from 14" dia, 1 MB drives, magtape, and DECtape), my wife would agree with you.
| 590 |
Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:56:25pm |
re: #518 CIA Reject
I used to interview applicants for jobs that required "low level" programming knowledge. As a test I kept a plastic write ring from a 9 track tape in my desk drawer. If I was relatively sure an applicant knew his stuff, but wanted to make sure, I'd drop it on the desk and ask "what's that?"
All of the old-timers knew immediately, the youngsters not so much...
Good test!
| 591 |
DaddyG Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:56:27pm |
re: #488 Outrider
their cloak of using euphemisms has been yanked off and they are revealed for he anti-Jewish crowd we have always known they are.
Same with the leftists and their agenda of destroying the traditional family life, that too has come into the open.
Now what has happened in the last few months that would cause these people to reveal their true feelings? ;-)>
Uh... I uh dunn-O?
| 592 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:56:40pm |
re: #575 Dustyvet
Yup...:)
I wonder how many investigations and charges would be filed if a DI performed that speech in today's military?
I can see Gunny Hartman serving 20 to life for sexual harassment, alone. Big rocks into little ones...
| 593 |
Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:56:50pm |
re: #581 lifeofthemind
Heard that Rickover had a rule that all the controls in his subs had to be analog, he wanted his operators in control and not passive spectators, except for the nuke plant the ships looked old deliberately
I can understand. I get nervous with fly-by-wire with no backup. And I work with computers. (Maybe that's why I'm nervous!)
| 594 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:56:59pm |
re: #584 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
I think you are describing a higher level of leadership than really exists in Hamas.
No disrespect intended LT, but I just flashed on a Hamas 2nd LT...:)...I going to have bad dreams the rest of the day.
| 596 |
Oh no...Sand People! Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:57:45pm |
re: #251 CIA Reject
A friend of mine worked on the interior design for King Fadh's personal 747. Sucker had three bars in it! When he asked about it he was told that the prohibition on alcohol only applied 'on earth', so when you're flying it's OK to drink 'cause you are not 'on earth'.
/RIGHT!
Is that for REAL!?
| 598 |
Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:57:57pm |
re: #583 Kosh's Shadow
I actually could use a slide rule at one time, I took Electronics in the mid 70's and our teacher was an old school guy who thought using a caluculator made you lazy (that and a Texas instruments cost over $50 at the time)
| 599 |
Sunlight Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:58:18pm |
I love it. Joe the plumber says that the U.S. and international media is asking him for his opinion and then they show Joe trying to get a German reporter to say anything about Hamas destroying the green houses Israel left behind in Gaza. She refused. They're afraid and not courageous. So they get Joe to say things.
| 600 |
ear-to-hear Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:58:22pm |
re: #9 scottishbuzzsaw
It's there only to help facilitate worship.
/
Exactly. Why would anyone be surprised to find this in their house of worship? These people worship death (they say it themselves), and by extension, they worship the god of death, who is not the God of Israel.
'Them that hate Me, love death'.
| 601 |
RoughRider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:58:23pm |
re: #6 karmic_inquisitor
How dare Israel enter a sacred Mosque! War crime
Not to mention defiling the 6,547,312th holiest site in Islam with their Zionist presence.
| 602 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:58:26pm |
re: #573 beblebrox
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world
/old Binary code joke
In economics they had Leontieff input output analysis, the limiting factor that decided how many inputs ad outputs would be tracked turned out to be the tolerance of his graduate students working it out with adding machines.
| 603 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:58:26pm |
There's some serious ground fighting going on over yonder.
| 604 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:58:37pm |
I just had a sign saying 'Access blocked' on the roostercam - and now its gone Kiwi!
(Thats All Black for those who don't know their rugby!)
| 605 |
alegrias Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:58:43pm |
OT, Thank George Bush for this:
Evening at the Embassy of Iraq
Wednesday, February 4 Price Increases 5 pm Friday
Now an ally of the United States, tonight we step onto Iraqi soil as we experiences centures of Iraqu culture. Tonight, sample Iraqi food, drinks, music, film, and art. We'll hear a special greeting from the Ambassador and will meet him and other Iraqi diplomats.
(Click here for details)
from: events@thingstodoDC.com
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Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:59:02pm |
re: #530 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
WW1, too, right... as in M1902?
I'm not sure about the M-2 design itself, but the .50 round was a German WWI development.
| 607 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:59:05pm |
| 608 |
Digital Display Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:59:09pm |
re: #581 lifeofthemind
Heard that Rickover had a rule that all the controls in his subs had to be analog, he wanted his operators in control and not passive spectators, except for the nuke plant the ships looked old deliberately
Fire control in a nuclear sub is very advanced..There is nothing analog to it..
| 609 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:59:17pm |
re: #592 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
I wonder how many investigations and charges would be filed if a DI performed that speech in today's military?
I can see Gunny Hartman serving 20 to life for sexual harassment, alone. Big rocks into little ones...
Holding up my stress card...:)
Had a friend that the first time he has handed a stress card, he ate it right in front of the kid who produced it.
| 610 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:59:22pm |
re: #594 Dustyvet
No disrespect intended LT, but I just flashed on a Hamas 2nd LT...:)...I going to have bad dreams the rest of the day.
You mean the most dangerous man in the world with a map and a compass?
/except a Hamas 2LT wouldn't be able to read the map or use the compass.
(I don't take offence at LT jokes... been there, done that... got the nom de guerre "LT Commo Wire" once myself just crossing a friggin' road.)
| 611 |
reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:59:26pm |
re: #604 yma o hyd
I just had a sign saying 'Access blocked' on the roostercam - and now its gone Kiwi!
(Thats All Black for those who don't know their rugby!)
Yma - I'm getting the Roostercam video at this link.
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:59:34pm |
re: #595 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Dude; get help.
The Boston computer museum closed, so even if I want to give the stuff somewhere, there is no place near to take it.
And I forgot the old manuals -
IBM 704, 705, 709, 7040, 7090,
and Maniac II.
Those I could probably donate somewhere. There are projects that keep items like these to show how computers developed over time.
All I'd need are scanned images of them. Much easier to store stuff on the computer.
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 12:59:38pm |
re: #593 Kosh's Shadow
I can understand. I get nervous with fly-by-wire with no backup. And I work with computers. (Maybe that's why I'm nervous!)
You don't want Homer Simpson "flying" the plane?
| 614 |
opnion Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:00:15pm |
re: #601 RoughRider
Not to mention defiling the 6,547,312th holiest site in Islam with their Zionist presence.
I thought that was Peoria.
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doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:00:59pm |
re: #531 Taqiyyotomist
This comes as no surprise at all to those who know who the spirit behind it all is. The greatest deceptions the world has ever known: Islam is peaceful, Israel is Nazilike, the Globe is Warming and its all Your Fault, Communism is Good. All have one architect, and he's convinced a large portion of the world he doesn't exist.
Keyser Soze?
| 616 |
Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:01:57pm |
re: #537 LGoPs
Heck, 1911's predate WWII by about 30 years. And I carried one as my sidearm until the late 80's, early 90's. Good weapon and sorry the Army went to Baretta's...
Carried an M1911A1 all over Vietnam as a courier. Agree with you - would still carry one in preference to a 9mm.
| 617 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:01:58pm |
re: #612 Kosh's Shadow
Just because something is old; does not make it antique.
I am the king of "haven't used it in 6 months? Throw it out!"
Somewhere between you and me there is probably a sensible thought process.
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yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:02:12pm |
re: #611 reine.de.tout
Yma - I'm getting the Roostercam video at this link.
Thanks - I refreshed the page - its back now.
Was just so amazed to see this 'No access' sign!
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:02:16pm |
re: #608 HoosierHoops
Fire control in a nuclear sub is very advanced..There is nothing analog to it..
Rickover is gone, the traditionalists hated him, his photo in his Naval Academy yearbook was on a detachable page.
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:02:45pm |
re: #609 Dustyvet
Holding up my stress card...:)
Had a friend that the first time he has handed a stress card, he ate it right in front of the kid who produced it.
Dear Lord... it is worse than I thought. Gotta protect the little goons from any hardship... not like they are getting ready for people trying to kill them or anything. As it is, I'm preparing myself for the day in the coming weeks when DADT disappears and gays can serve openly, though I shudder to find out what that really means, perhaps assless-chaps.
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Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:02:46pm |
re: #604 yma o hyd
I just had a sign saying 'Access blocked' on the roostercam - and now its gone Kiwi!
(Thats All Black for those who don't know their rugby!)
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:03:02pm |
re: #583 Kosh's Shadow
Part of my computer museum.
Abacus (modern)
1920's typewriter and adding machine
newer typewriters
slide rules
PDP-8e (need a teletype for it)
Apple ][
C64 (no monitor right now)
wonder if any kids can even identify an abacus or slide rule.
Hey there's no power plug on this Underwood!
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Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:03:59pm |
re: #588 redc1c4
but look at the flash cone at the muzzle..... not that big at all.
/upon further review, I'll admit it's too small to be a 40 mm, but the ammo they found with it is larger than 14.5mm
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LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:04:03pm |
re: #616 Son of the Black Dog
Carried an M1911A1 all over Vietnam as a courier. Agree with you - would still carry one in preference to a 9mm.
I have a very nice S&W Model 645 that's a fairly close approximate. Except its clip holds 8 rounds, not 7. Nice weapon.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:04:18pm |
Somebody who's not A.D.D. able to watch the cam long enough to see an explosion and count the seconds before it is heard to give some distance to the explosions?
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Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:04:24pm |
What the sam hell is a stress card? At great lakes they just sent you to IT to work out the stress LOL...
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:05:04pm |
re: #622 Outrider
wonder if any kids can even identify an abacus or slide rule.
Hey there's no power plug on this Underwood!
Children used to learn mechanical drawing, excellent skills, now they just learn to play with CAD
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:05:09pm |
re: #625 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Somebody who's not A.D.D. able to watch the cam long enough to see an explosion and count the seconds before it is heard to give some distance to the explosions?
I'm cued up to do that.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:05:57pm |
re: #622 Outrider
wonder if any kids can even identify an abacus or slide rule.
Hey there's no power plug on this Underwood!
Sat my son down at a late version IBM Selectric about 5 years ago. He laughed and laughed. But, I still think it was a pretty good joke.
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Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:06:09pm |
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CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:06:25pm |
re: #581 lifeofthemind
Heard that Rickover had a rule that all the controls in his subs had to be analog, he wanted his operators in control and not passive spectators, except for the nuke plant the ships looked old deliberately
A lot of the gear on submarines appears "old" because of the outrageous shock requirements it has to meet and remain functional. The crew may all be dead, but by G*d that pot is still gonna make coffee! :-)
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Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:06:29pm |
re: #617 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Just because something is old; does not make it antique.
People are often VERY disappointed when they find out grandma's stamp collection with those "really old" stamps from the 1930s are worth little more than face value.
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:06:42pm |
re: #626 Marvo76
What the sam hell is a stress card? At great lakes they just sent you to IT to work out the stress LOL...
Apparently something a recruit can pull out when they feel the DI is pushing too hard and they need them to back off.
/by definition, this is a bad thing unless its one of those extremely rare cases where you have a DI who is unprofessional and gets into S&M...
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reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:06:43pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:06:43pm |
re: #629 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Thanks! Wanna go ride a bike?
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:07:06pm |
re: #626 Marvo76
What the sam hell is a stress card? At great lakes they just sent you to IT to work out the stress LOL...
thought that was what push ups were for?
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Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:07:08pm |
I know we used it to figure log/anilog and do formulas for calculating resistance power, inductance and capacitance.....It was kinda fun but now my eyes are to the point I don't think I could read the lines right....
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Digital Display Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:07:11pm |
re: #627 buzzsawmonkey
You might as well give up now.
Truth to tell, I never learned to properly use a slide rule--to my father's deep disappointment. I do, however, believe that students should still be forced to learn how to use one rather than be permitted to use calculators; the slide rule is a tool in which the intellect has to be engaged, while the calculator merely does the work for you and spits out the answer.
The former is a means for education; the latter moves the student down the road of laziness and stupidity.
GAK! *Head explodes!*
slide rule? slide rules should be against the law..except maybe in China.
| 642 |
vagabond trader Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:07:29pm |
So sick of these guys, but Hil's gonna fix everything.
sarc/
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DaddyG Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:08:09pm |
re: #630 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Sat my son down at a late version IBM Selectric about 5 years ago. He laughed and laughed. But, I still think it was a pretty good joke.
I did most of my undergraduate writing on one of those things. Avacado green with a type ball. I was thrilled with the auto-correct function (one letter at a time) because it was such a time saver. Of course if you ran out of correction ribbon you had to do it manually with a slip of correction paper, or white out the page and re-type.
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:08:13pm |
re: #633 CIA Reject
A lot of the gear on submarines appears "old" because of the outrageous shock requirements it has to meet and remain functional. The crew may all be dead, but by G*d that pot is still gonna make coffee! :-)
I once knew a fellow who's Father is on the Thresher.
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Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:08:20pm |
re: #622 Outrider
wonder if any kids can even identify an abacus or slide rule.
Hey there's no power plug on this Underwood!
I had a two-yr-old in the store the other day, who looked at the bead thingy and said, "Ab'cus."
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:08:23pm |
re: #598 Marvo76
I actually could use a slide rule at one time, I took Electronics in the mid 70's and our teacher was an old school guy who thought using a caluculator made you lazy (that and a Texas instruments cost over $50 at the time)
Got a slide rule for college; used it freshman year. At the time, a "scientific" calculator, the SR-10 (scientific in that it had square root and scientific notation), was over $100.
For the next year, I had an SR-50, with all the functions we take for granted in a $15 scientific calculator today, only for $150. Of course, it had rechargeable batteries, because LEDs used so much power.
Senior year, I got an HP-67, which had a magnetic card to store programs and data.
Still have the slide rule and calculators.
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CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:08:23pm |
re: #596 Oh no...Sand People!
Is that for REAL!?
That's what he was told by the contracting rep who was, I assume, acting for the Royal Family.
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Spare O'Lake Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:09:01pm |
re: #556 Kosh's Shadow
I still have a box of punched cards in the basement, from when I used an IBM 1130 in high school. I doubt the cards are readable any more, even if the equipment could be found.
LOL. You should have kept a few Mickey Mantle Rookie cards instead.
In my introductory computer class in Grade 10 we designed and wrote simple little elementary programs using Fortran IV. We did not have a computer on site, or even a card punch machine, so we used to fill in dots on the cards using special pencils. Then the cards were shipped to another school which had an IBM 360. There was a turn-around time of 3 or 4 days, and then we would get our cards back with a print-out from a huge mechanical printer. Once during the term we were given a tour of the computer room at the other school - the computer filled up half of the room and the card reader alone was the size of a bread box.
It was all so impressive.
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Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:09:08pm |
re: #625 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Somebody who's not A.D.D. able to watch the cam long enough to see an explosion and count the seconds before it is heard to give some distance to the explosions?
Someone estimated the distance of 3-4 miles a couple of days ago.
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lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:09:11pm |
re: #638 buzzsawmonkey
Mechanical drawing was easily the toughest class I took in high school.
The kids always looked real cute with their T-squares sticking out of the book bags
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tokyobk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:09:38pm |
re: #641 HoosierHoops
Abacusesus es, er abaci, called soroban in Japan, are actually kind of cool and if you learn to use them it makes mental math really easy.
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Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:10:27pm |
well all, gotta get off here and get some stuff ready to take to my grandparents,they are shut ins and we made a big batch of turkey and noodles last night for dinner, gonna take them some in a care package....then back to work diggin the floor out of my rental so I can replumb....joy joy joy...(///)
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DeafDog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:10:40pm |
re: #643 DaddyG
I did most of my undergraduate writing on one of those things. Avacado green with a type ball. I was thrilled with the auto-correct function (one letter at a time) because it was such a time saver. Of course if you ran out of correction ribbon you had to do it manually with a slip of correction paper, or white out the page and re-type.
The worst part - at least for me - was having to write everything out long hand before I could type it. It's a huge timesaver to be be able to draft on the PC instead.
| 656 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:10:41pm |
| 657 |
LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:10:52pm |
re: #646 Kosh's Shadow
re: #598 Marvo76
I actually could use a slide rule at one time, I took Electronics in the mid 70's and our teacher was an old school guy who thought using a caluculator made you lazy (that and a Texas instruments cost over $50 at the time)
Got a slide rule for college; used it freshman year. At the time, a "scientific" calculator, the SR-10 (scientific in that it had square root and scientific notation), was over $100.
For the next year, I had an SR-50, with all the functions we take for granted in a $15 scientific calculator today, only for $150. Of course, it had rechargeable batteries, because LEDs used so much power.
Senior year, I got an HP-67, which had a magnetic card to store programs and data.
Still have the slide rule and calculators.
Hell, all I had me was an abycuss.....you spoled rich kids..........
:)
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yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:10:55pm |
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:10:58pm |
re: #630 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Sat my son down at a late version IBM Selectric about 5 years ago. He laughed and laughed. But, I still think it was a pretty good joke.
I'm one of those "keep it because I may need it" types. I still have the old mechanical drawing box sets, slide rules, mechanical typewriters, electric typewriter, Vic- 20, C-64, Apple IIe as well as everything that went with them.
| 660 |
Digital Display Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:11:04pm |
re: #644 lifeofthemind
I once knew a fellow who's Father is on the Thresher.
Boy..that was bad..sorry to hear that.
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Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:11:23pm |
I challenge you to try to write SHELL OIL on your slide rule.
| 662 |
doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:12:07pm |
re: #643 DaddyG
I did most of my undergraduate writing on one of those things. Avacado green with a type ball. I was thrilled with the auto-correct function (one letter at a time) because it was such a time saver. Of course if you ran out of correction ribbon you had to do it manually with a slip of correction paper, or white out the page and re-type.
The first time my kids went to the National Gallery Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, they were utterly mystified by this work by Claes Oldenburg.
| 663 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:12:27pm |
| 664 |
tokyobk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:12:30pm |
re: #653 buzzsawmonkey
And if you don't learn how to use them you start abacussing a blue streak.
Hey Ho! I dinged you up at least in case no one else does!
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:13:15pm |
re: #645 Silhouette
I had a two-yr-old in the store the other day, who looked at the bead thingy and said, "Ab'cus."
excellent. Who trained her? ;-)>
| 667 |
Soona' Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:13:23pm |
re: #620 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Dear Lord... it is worse than I thought. Gotta protect the little goons from any hardship... not like they are getting ready for people trying to kill them or anything. As it is, I'm preparing myself for the day in the coming weeks when DADT disappears and gays can serve openly, though I shudder to find out what that really means, perhaps assless-chaps.
Crotchless boxer shorts.
//:p
| 668 |
Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:13:24pm |
re: #643 DaddyG
I did most of my undergraduate writing on one of those things. Avacado green with a type ball. I was thrilled with the auto-correct function (one letter at a time) because it was such a time saver. Of course if you ran out of correction ribbon you had to do it manually with a slip of correction paper, or white out the page and re-type.
Mine was done on a Smith-Corona manual portable. No electric cord, either. Used the correction tape or white-out.
Although three of us used the DecSystem 10 to write a project. Printout was all upper case. They changed the rules after we did it. First case of Word Processing that I know of, but TECO was certainly not WYSIWYG.
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DaddyG Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:13:50pm |
re: #655 DeafDog
The worst part - at least for me - was having to write everything out long hand before I could type it. It's a huge timesaver to be be able to draft on the PC instead.
What is this "draft" you speak of. ;-)
| 670 |
loppyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:14:02pm |
Just got home, flipped on the TV and saw this.
Senators Raise Questions About Geithner's Nomination at Treasury
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is raising questions about a housekeeper who worked briefly for Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner without proper immigration papers, and multiple years when Mr. Geithner didn't pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for himself.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D., Mont.) has summoned committee members to his office this afternoon to air the matter ahead of any public confirmation hearing.
Team O has put out a statement which I will link when I locate...
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Digital Display Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:14:09pm |
re: #659 Outrider
I'm one of those "keep it because I may need it" types. I still have the old mechanical drawing box sets, slide rules, mechanical typewriters, electric typewriter, Vic- 20, C-64, Apple IIe as well as everything that went with them.
If your computer ever dies you can hook up the Apple iie and a 300 baud modem and dial back into LGF.
| 672 |
Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:14:53pm |
re: #662 doppelganglander
The first time my kids went to the National Gallery Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, they were utterly mystified by this work by Claes Oldenburg.
The funniest thing was when my kids heard a 'dialup connection' noise and asked, "What's that?"
Never mind always having the internet; they had never known a world without wireless.
| 673 |
bombarafat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:15:20pm |
Ummm that's not a cannon that's part of the pipe organ for the chorus.
| 674 |
Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:15:24pm |
re: #576 Marvo76
the fire control for a Battleship was totally gear driven, but they could drop shells from the ship over 18 miles inland within a thousand feet of the target...It worked good, but just like the armor plate of that era, i doubt we have the technology today to recreate it...
Once saw a visual of the shot fall from an Iowa class overlaid on the outline of the Pentagon. Every round was inside, or mostly inside, the outer ring.
| 675 |
midwestgak Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:15:30pm |
re: #641 HoosierHoops
GAK! *Head explodes!*
slide rule? slide rules should be against the law..except maybe in China.
Head turns to see who called.
| 676 |
Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:15:37pm |
re: #665 buzzsawmonkey
The impressiveness was largely due to that gray crackle-finish paint on the metal housings; you knew you were in the presence of something technical and scientific.
Whatever happened to that gray crackle-finish? I'd love to see it on a laptop.
How about those huge consoles with lots of blinking lights? I want an old IBM 360 panel.
That showed you were really using a COMPUTER!
| 677 |
A.W. Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:15:52pm |
Dang, i thought i had a clever joke about the canons of islam. but about 300 bastards beat me to it.
| 678 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:15:53pm |
| 679 |
Tardis Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:16:00pm |
| 680 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:16:16pm |
| 681 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:16:22pm |
re: #670 loppyd
Just got home, flipped on the TV and saw this.
Senators Raise Questions About Geithner's Nomination at Treasury
Team O has put out a statement which I will link when I locate...
Gee I don't really know anything about this guy, but if he is qualified, lets not go down the nanny road again. Fine him and move on. There are so many other UNQUALIFIED Obama appointees out there.
| 683 |
LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:16:52pm |
re: #674 Son of the Black Dog
Once saw a visual of the shot fall from an Iowa class overlaid on the outline of the Pentagon. Every round was inside, or mostly inside, the outer ring.
Make a helluva sniper weapon. As long as your target is a small town....
| 684 |
Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:16:53pm |
re: #671 HoosierHoops
If your computer ever dies you can hook up the Apple iie and a 300 baud modem and dial back into LGF.
I have a 1200 baud modem, just in case I don't want to deal with the 300 baud acoustic coupler one.
| 685 |
A.W. Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:16:53pm |
Now look, all they wanted to do was play the 1812 overture. is that so wrong?
lol
| 686 |
loppyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:17:00pm |
re: #681 Nevergiveup
Gee I don't really know anything about this guy, but if he is qualified, lets not go down the nanny road again. Fine him and move on. There are so many other UNQUALIFIED Obama appointees out there.
It's not just the nanny. He failed to pay his OWN taxes.
| 687 |
Digital Display Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:17:03pm |
re: #675 midwestgak
Head turns to see who called.
Hiya! Cold today isn't it..Thursday is supposed to be real bad.
| 689 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:17:19pm |
| 690 |
jcm Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:17:20pm |
re: #659 Outrider
I'm one of those "keep it because I may need it" types. I still have the old mechanical drawing box sets, slide rules, mechanical typewriters, electric typewriter, Vic- 20, C-64, Apple IIe as well as everything that went with them.
There is a company in Seattle that makes money "recovering" data from old media. Company upgrades and an old format is unreadable either software, or hardware changes, then the company needs to access the old files they go to this recovery outfit.
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exredtory Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:17:28pm |
The ammo and gun looks like maybe the "Dushka" which is the Russian counterpart to the .50 cal @ 12.7-mm: [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
IIRC, the "Chicago piano" was the quad array of 1.1" guns used for AA on U.S. ships until superceded by the quad 20-mm oerlikon and 40-mm Bofors (neutrality is profitable): [Link: www.navweaps.com...]
"Chicago typewriter" referred to the chatter of the Thompson .45, but the musical portmanteau may have evolved from the movie cliche of gangsters concealing their Tommy guns in violin, or more likely, the larger viola cases. I supposed you'd need a double-bass viol case to tote an M2 around in.
I guess that thing ended up in the stairwell as the goons were trying to get it to the roof.
Allahu Ack-Ack!
| 692 |
Soona' Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:17:42pm |
re: #627 buzzsawmonkey
You might as well give up now.
Truth to tell, I never learned to properly use a slide rule--to my father's deep disappointment. I do, however, believe that students should still be forced to learn how to use one rather than be permitted to use calculators; the slide rule is a tool in which the intellect has to be engaged, while the calculator merely does the work for you and spits out the answer.
The former is a means for education; the latter moves the student down the road of laziness and stupidity.
And I can just hear the old farts when the slide rule was invented. "Lazy bastards, can't cut notches on their legs anymore. Bah"!
//
| 693 |
Peacekeeper Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:17:48pm |
Gaza vs Mogadishu. The title may sound moonbattish, but its being ironic. A very thoughtful piece.
| 694 |
CIA Reject Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:17:58pm |
re: #644 lifeofthemind
I once knew a fellow who's Father is on the Thresher.
Funny you should mention that. Years ago I worked with a guy who once worked on a 3 man civilian contractor team that tested sonar gear on submarines during sea trials. One man would ride on the sub to tend the gear and the other two would ride on a "chase" ship on the surface. My friend (being all of 5' 2" tall) usually rode in the submarine, but they had a new guy they were breaking in on this one cruise so they decided, on the plane up to the shipyard, that the new guy would ride the sub on that trial and my friend would ride the surface ship.
The submarine was the Thresher and the sea trial was her last mission.
Makes you think...
| 695 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:17:59pm |
Hamas reinforcments being sent in.
| 696 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:18:13pm |
re: #686 loppyd
It's not just the nanny. He failed to pay his OWN taxes.
Oh well that's a horse of a different color. Never mind.
| 697 |
CapeCoddah Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:18:17pm |
re: #670 loppyd
Just got home, flipped on the TV and saw this.
Senators Raise Questions About Geithner's Nomination at Treasury
Team O has put out a statement which I will link when I locate...
Hey Loppy, E-mail me when you get a chance, we should start planning a N.E. lizard meet!
| 698 |
DeafDog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:18:31pm |
| 699 |
LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:18:31pm |
re: #682 MandyManners
What does a slide rule do?
Slide Rule # 1: If you enter at the top, you come out at the bottom.....
:)
| 700 |
bulwrk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:18:51pm |
re: #682 MandyManners
Really I thought a slide rule was something like you can't go down backwards.
| 701 |
Bloodnok Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:18:58pm |
| 702 |
doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:19:09pm |
re: #672 Silhouette
The funniest thing was when my kids heard a 'dialup connection' noise and asked, "What's that?"
Never mind always having the internet; they had never known a world without wireless.
Your kids must be a bit younger than mine. We had a dial-up in the mid-90s. I remember the first time we got on line, via CompuServe, and saw an exhibit of dinosaurs at the University of Hawaii. They were all under 7 and extremely impressed.
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midwestgak Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:19:13pm |
re: #687 HoosierHoops
Hiya! Cold today isn't it..Thursday is supposed to be real bad.
It will be bitter. Iv'e been shoveling even the least little bit of snow away from my garage door because it is going to turn to stone real soon.
| 704 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:19:17pm |
re: #660 HoosierHoops
Boy..that was bad..sorry to hear that.
Bright kid, he went to St Johns, drank like a fish, knew important people
| 705 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:19:18pm |
re: #695 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Hamas reinforcments being sent in.
Can you see if their taller then 4' 2"...?
| 707 |
Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:19:25pm |
re: #682 MandyManners
What does a slide rule do?
It adds logarithms, which means it multiplies.
Here is a site on them
Used before the days of electronic calculators. Wearing one on the belt was the badge of a geek.
Reminds me, I still have a circular one I used in high school. When I'm famous, it will be in a museum somewhere.....
| 708 |
gmsc Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:20:02pm |
OT: "Ann coulter should be drawn and quartered." - bizarre political discussion on a discussion board geared toward performing magicians.
| 709 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:20:08pm |
re: #700 bulwrk
Really I thought a slide rule was something like you can't go down backwards.
Unless it's a government job then ass backwards faces front?
| 710 |
DaddyG Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:20:12pm |
re: #682 MandyManners
What does a slide rule do?
I'm seeing Johnny Carson holding an envelope to his head that says "How did the constipated engineer work out his problem?"
| 711 |
UberInfidel67 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:20:15pm |
re: #589 Kosh's Shadow I have an old IBM 386 with 16K if you are interested. lol Seriously, I have one : /
| 712 |
lawhawk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:20:30pm |
re: #670 loppyd
Is the Obama statement basically "It's Bush's fault?!"
Geithner is the current chair of the NY Fed.
| 713 |
filetandrelease Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:20:33pm |
re: #529 sattv4u2
But can I still say "It tastes just like fish"?
I always release the ones I catch anyway.
| 714 |
loppyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:20:54pm |
Team O not ready to throw Geither under the bus just yet:
Geithner Made Honest Mistakes On Taxes, Obama Spokesman Says
WASHINGTON -- Tim Geithner, President-elect Barack Obama's nominee to head the Treasury Department, made "honest mistakes" on taxes and is the right person for the job, an Obama spokesman said Tuesday. "He made a common mistake on his taxes, and was unaware that his part-time housekeeper's work authorization expired for the last three months of her employment," incoming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement. Earlier Tuesday, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, raised questions about the housekeeper and multiple years when Geithner didn't pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for himself.
Riiiiiiight.
| 715 |
jcm Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:20:55pm |
re: #674 Son of the Black Dog
Once saw a visual of the shot fall from an Iowa class overlaid on the outline of the Pentagon. Every round was inside, or mostly inside, the outer ring.
You want a cool fire mechanical fire control computer....
Torpedo Data Computer from the WWII fleet boats.
Keyport Undersea Warfare Museum has a working one.
| 716 |
Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:20:56pm |
re: #688 buzzsawmonkey
If you want to really blow their minds, make them use a dial phone.
I DID! We had one in the lobby at a hotel in DC. I made them dial our home phone number just to show them how long it took. They kept messing up, too (didn't go all the way around or it slipped) so I made them start over until they got all 11 numbers in a row correct.
Make 'em appreciate the modern age.
| 717 |
KenJen Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:21:05pm |
re: #169 Iron Fist
The only M-2s I've ever been around were at Knob Creek. There must have been over a dozen of them there (including a quad-.50 AA site). I didn't see any of them jam or fail to feed, and they were going at it pretty hot and heavy. If it were an FAL doing this, I'd suspect that the gas regulator wasn't set right, but I don't think an M-2 has one of those.
And head-space issues would potentially make the gun dangerous to shoot. I like a .50, but I don't even know where I'd put one if I could afford it :-(
Next machine gun shoot at Knob Creek April 3,4,5. Fun stuff!
| 718 |
notutopia Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:21:07pm |
For those of us asking what can we do to help Israel win against Hamas......
This just posted by Ymedad.
The citizens of Israel.
[Link: myrightword.blogspot.com...]
| 719 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:21:10pm |
re: #701 Bloodnok
It dirties a baserunner's pants.
Unless your Ty Cobb, then it leaves a few scars in your groin.
| 720 |
doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:21:27pm |
re: #686 loppyd
It's not just the nanny. He failed to pay his OWN taxes.
Another graduate of the Leona Helmsley School of Tax Accounting?
| 721 |
loppyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:21:38pm |
re: #712 lawhawk
Is the Obama statement basically "It's Bush's fault?!"
Geithner is the current chair of the NY Fed.
Makes it even more egregious.
| 722 |
Soona' Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:21:41pm |
re: #686 loppyd
It's not just the nanny. He failed to pay his OWN taxes.
Isn't that considered acceptable character by the dems?
| 723 |
Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:21:49pm |
re: #711 UberInfidel67
I have an old IBM 386 with 16K if you are interested. lol Seriously, I have one : /
No, that is too new for my museum.
Thanks, though.
| 725 |
Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:22:31pm |
| 726 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:22:33pm |
re: #722 Soona'
Isn't that considered acceptable character by the dems?
I don't know, I'll have to ask Charlie Rangle?
| 727 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:22:41pm |
So, I am gathering that at many Lizards houses McGuyver could basically find enough crap to save the world from just about anything.
| 728 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:22:43pm |
re: #678 Dustyvet
Well done Wales!
We had them on the rack in the first half - but being the All Blacks, they came out in the second half all guns blazing.
They had to play their best rugby of their season to beat us - and they did us the honour of fielding their top team.
The English, next week, got beaten far worse, and the All Blacks just fielded their third string.
Yeah, losing is bad, but making the victors work flat out for it, and getting compliments after the match for giving them the best game they had all season is pretty good.
| 730 |
Bloodnok Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:23:50pm |
re: #720 doppelganglander
Another graduate of the Leona Helmsley School of Tax Accounting?
And the Mitt Romney Domestic Hiring Service.
| 731 |
Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:23:56pm |
re: #706 buzzsawmonkey
Properly used, a slide rule can be used to work out anything from simple multiplication and division up through advanced calculus.
I'm confused. The only straight answer came from buzz?!
| 732 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:24:00pm |
re: #682 MandyManners
What does a slide rule do?
Slides and rules?
Rules to slide?
I never could figure out how the damn things worked ...
| 734 |
notutopia Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:25:16pm |
re: #717 KenJen
Next machine gun shoot at Knob Creek April 3,4,5. Fun stuff!
[Link: www.machinegunshoot.com...]
| 735 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:25:26pm |
re: #682 MandyManners
What does a slide rule do?
Well actually if truth be told: It put a man on the moon!
| 736 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:25:34pm |
re: #728 yma o hyd
We had them on the rack in the first half - but being the All Blacks, they came out in the second half all guns blazing.
They had to play their best rugby of their season to beat us - and they did us the honour of fielding their top team.
The English, next week, got beaten far worse, and the All Blacks just fielded their third string.Yeah, losing is bad, but making the victors work flat out for it, and getting compliments after the match for giving them the best game they had all season is pretty good.
This dummy once walked into a Leeds United shop, and asked to purchase a Manchester United coffee mug...:(
| 738 |
Render Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:26:11pm |
re: #566 Killian Bundy
Walk around pictures of a ZPU-1 on its original ground mount.
[Link: svsm.org...]
It's a big massively overbuilt gun. Typical of Soviet era weapons, it's actually much bigger and heavier then it needed to be.
KB, you don't wanna bet me on this...
The Russians never made a 40mm weapon. They made several different 37mm weapons prior to and during the war, but those were withdrawn from production and service soon after the war.
===
Soviet 14.5mm rounds are closer in size to the 12.7mm/50cal then to 23mm. Soviet 23mm rounds are quite large.
The ZPU-1, although very large for its caliber, can be broken down into several smaller loads for transport.
===
I'd lay money that this was an Egyptian weapon, declared obsolete and smuggled to HAMAS by a friendly/corrupt Egyptian military officer. Or, it's a leftover from the Egyptian occupation.
I'd also lay money that the ammo belt in the video are of Egyptian production.
NEW
KEYBOARD!,
R
| 740 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:27:00pm |
re: #691 exredtory
The ammo and gun looks like maybe the "Dushka" which is the Russian counterpart to the .50 cal @ 12.7-mm: [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
IIRC, the "Chicago piano" was the quad array of 1.1" guns used for AA on U.S. ships until superceded by the quad 20-mm oerlikon and 40-mm Bofors (neutrality is profitable): [Link: www.navweaps.com...]
"Chicago typewriter" referred to the chatter of the Thompson .45, but the musical portmanteau may have evolved from the movie cliche of gangsters concealing their Tommy guns in violin, or more likely, the larger viola cases. I supposed you'd need a double-bass viol case to tote an M2 around in.
I guess that thing ended up in the stairwell as the goons were trying to get it to the roof.
Allahu Ack-Ack!
Dangerous place Chicago
| 741 |
Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:27:07pm |
re: #671 HoosierHoops
If your computer ever dies you can hook up the Apple iie and a 300 baud modem and dial back into LGF.
sure. log in, go out and burn one. Type a comment, go out and burn one. Type in new comments and go out and burn one. lol
| 742 |
midwestgak Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:27:15pm |
re: #735 Nevergiveup
Well actually if truth be told: It put a man on the moon!
I always thought it was a rocket and lunar lander that did that. Huh. Who knew?/
| 743 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:27:16pm |
re: #735 Nevergiveup
Well actually if truth be told: It put a man on the moon!
Gee and hear i thought all these years it was a LEM...:)
| 744 |
Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:27:23pm |
re: #735 Nevergiveup
Well actually if truth be told: It put a man on the moon!
Aye, and created the world's first nuclear bomb.
Something the Iranians have worked for decades on, with computers, AND all the technology already invented.
| 745 |
Spare O'Lake Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:28:01pm |
World media: Israel 'endangers roots of our civilization'
Sounds to me like a veiled threat of a holy war.
| 746 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:28:12pm |
re: #742 midwestgak
I always thought it was a rocket and lunar lander that did that. Huh. Who knew?/
GMTA...:)
| 747 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:28:39pm |
re: #736 Dustyvet
This dummy once walked into a Leeds United shop, and asked to purchase a Manchester United coffee mug...:(
Oh-mi-gawd!
Did the dummy walk out alive?
| 748 |
Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:28:53pm |
re: #487 jaunte
There's a drawing in the video of some hands chained (to the al Aqsa mosque?). Does anyone here know what that's supposed to represent?
The Muslim myth of replacement theology has enslaved the people to a violent death cult.
| 749 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:29:01pm |
testing new avatar. Thanks to Killian Bundy.
| 750 |
scottishbuzzsaw Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:29:07pm |
re: #708 gmsc
OT: "Ann coulter should be drawn and quartered." - bizarre political discussion on a discussion board geared toward performing magicians.
Go Scott!
I'm just sorry we've reached the point where supporting basic Constitutional rights is deemed "being on a high horse".
| 751 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:29:27pm |
Sky is getting lighter and the fire is slowly increasing , I think today will be a big push
| 752 |
Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:29:33pm |
re: #676 Kosh's Shadow
How about those huge consoles with lots of blinking lights? I want an old IBM 360 panel.
That showed you were really using a COMPUTER!
how about entire freezing cold rooms filled with consoles with tapes? I was assigned to Augsburg, Germany in '73 and there was an enormous room full of nothing but.
| 753 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:29:38pm |
re: #747 yma o hyd
Oh-mi-gawd!
Did the dummy walk out alive?
Well yeah...:) After the shop keeper told me where to go...:)
| 754 |
midwestgak Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:29:49pm |
| 755 |
Soona' Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:30:22pm |
re: #728 yma o hyd
We had them on the rack in the first half - but being the All Blacks, they came out in the second half all guns blazing.
They had to play their best rugby of their season to beat us - and they did us the honour of fielding their top team.
The English, next week, got beaten far worse, and the All Blacks just fielded their third string.Yeah, losing is bad, but making the victors work flat out for it, and getting compliments after the match for giving them the best game they had all season is pretty good.
(Yawn)
| 756 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:30:38pm |
| 757 |
Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:30:44pm |
re: #688 buzzsawmonkey
If you want to really blow their minds, make them use a dial phone.
the huge, heavy black ones? lol
| 758 |
Digital Display Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:30:47pm |
re: #731 Silhouette
I'm confused. The only straight answer came from buzz?!
That's not the Buzz I knew! under the Bus you go!
| 759 |
Tardis Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:30:58pm |
re: #682 MandyManners
What does a slide rule do?
Rule 1. One at at time.
Rule 2. Feet first.
Rule 3. No climbing up the slide.
| 760 |
Kragar Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:31:17pm |
| 761 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:31:34pm |
re: #756 yma o hyd
Its still the old one ...
Hit refresh, I did and it changed to Izzy.
Let me know.
| 762 |
KenJen Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:31:57pm |
re: #734 notutopia
[Link: www.machinegunshoot.com...]
Thanks. Im still learning how to re: to a comment. Bad I know.
| 763 |
loppyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:32:01pm |
re: #722 Soona'
Isn't that considered acceptable character by the dems?
He's supposed to pay MORE so someone else can pay less?
| 765 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:32:05pm |
re: #759 Tardis
Rule 1. One at at time.
Rule 2. Feet first.
Rule 3. No climbing up the slide.
Those are girl rules right?
| 766 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:32:09pm |
"So, little boy, what do you want for Eid-al-Fitr?"
An official Red Army KPV/ZPU-1 14.5mm range model heavy machine gun with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time!
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid."
| 767 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:32:14pm |
re: #753 Dustyvet
Well yeah...:) After the shop keeper told me where to go...:)
I bet he didn't use refined, polite expressions!
;-)
| 768 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:32:15pm |
Everyone is feeling geeky today, Belmont Club has a thread on tiny networked sensors
| 769 |
midwestgak Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:32:16pm |
re: #757 Outrider
the huge, heavy black ones? lol
LOL but not compatible. The phone cord was permanently attached.
| 770 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:32:22pm |
| 771 |
yochanan Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:32:27pm |
re: #702 doppelganglander
reminds me when i used the term 'broken record' and my kid pipped up and said WHAT'S A RECORD and he wasn't kidding. he had never seen one.
| 772 |
Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:32:32pm |
re: #686 loppyd
It's not just the nanny. He failed to pay his OWN taxes.
Treasury Secretary is over the IRS. Not paying one's taxes is probably a no-no for this position.
| 773 |
jcm Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:32:46pm |
OH BLOODY HELL!
Washington Court: Teachers Can Have Sex With 18-Year-Old Students
That's the decision of a three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals, which on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of a case brought against Hoquiam High School's former choir teacher.The teacher, Matthew Hirschfelder, was charged with first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor. He challenged a judge's refusal to dismiss his case. The appeals court unanimously agreed that the state law is vague, and that the Legislature only intended to forbid sexual contact between school employees and students who are 16 or 17.
Hirschfelder was 33 in 2006, at the time of the alleged relationship with the young woman. He resigned the next year.
| 774 |
reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:33:01pm |
re: #731 Silhouette
I'm confused. The only straight answer came from buzz?!
I just visisted this site. Check it out.
| 775 |
bulwrk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:33:40pm |
re: #764 buzzsawmonkey
Yes, with the nice, slow return action on the dial.
And make them dial a number with lots of zeros in it.
| 776 |
loppyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:33:44pm |
re: #772 Son of the Black Dog
Treasury Secretary is over the IRS. Not paying one's taxes is probably a no-no for this position.
But team O says it's cool.
| 777 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:33:44pm |
re: #755 Soona'
(Yawn)
Oi!
You all talk about football - one little remark about my favourite sport doesn't do any damage, now does it!
| 778 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:33:48pm |
| 780 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:34:06pm |
re: #772 Son of the Black Dog
Treasury Secretary is over the IRS. Not paying one's taxes is probably a no-no for this position.
Oh I don't know about that, we are about to have a CIA head who has no INTELLIGENCE experience?
| 782 |
filetandrelease Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:34:35pm |
re: #729 Iron Fist
I like to tell my PETA friends that nothings dies of old age in the ocean. Then again my truck bumper sticker usually does the trick.
PETA People for Eating Tasty Aminmals.
| 783 |
Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:34:42pm |
re: #707 Kosh's Shadow
It adds logarithms, which means it multiplies.
Here is a site on them
Used before the days of electronic calculators. Wearing one on the belt was the badge of a geek.
Reminds me, I still have a circular one I used in high school. When I'm famous, it will be in a museum somewhere.....
Let us not forget the venerable Curta ... [Link: www.vcalc.net...]
| 784 |
Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:34:47pm |
re: #727 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
So, I am gathering that at many Lizards houses McGuyver could basically find enough crap to save the world from just about anything.
I think it is a safe bet to say there are one hell of a lot of geeks on LGF. ;-)>
And the combined knowledge pool is awesome!
| 786 |
scottishbuzzsaw Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:35:01pm |
re: #768 lifeofthemind
Everyone is feeling geeky today, Belmont Club has a thread on tiny networked sensors
That's because Geeks are Sexy...
| 787 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:35:09pm |
| 788 |
Ben Hur Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:35:14pm |
Behold!
Aushwitz!
[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]
Strange. They don't seem to fear being exterminated.
| 789 |
loppyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:35:15pm |
re: #773 jcm
OH BLOODY HELL!
Washington Court: Teachers Can Have Sex With 18-Year-Old Students
Sounds like the legislature needs to change the law to any student, regardless of age...
| 790 |
MJ Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:35:21pm |
Despite CNN, the BBC, the NYT, Boston Globe, LA Times, MSNBC News, etc.:
Voters Still Say Palestinians to Blame, But 50% Say Israel Should Accept Truce
Two weeks of military action in the Gaza Strip has done nothing to move public opinion in America.
Today, 56% of voters nationwide say that the Palestinians are to blame for the current situation in Gaza while 13% say the Israelis are at fault. Two weeks ago, a nationwide survey of adults found that 55% placed the blame on the Palestinians and 13% pointed the finger at Israel.
| 791 |
doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:35:44pm |
re: #757 Outrider
the huge, heavy black ones? lol
There's a new commercial out for the Mormon Church in which a woman uses a rotary phone (similar to this one) to ring up God and get all the answers. (The rest of us, apparently, are supposed to talk to the operators standing by to get a free copy of the Book of Mormon.) My daughter and I thought it gave the impression that the Lord is simply not up on the latest technology, and that kids today probably want the next generation in religious communications. I think God totally should have an iPhone.
| 792 |
MJ Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:35:46pm |
re: #790 MJ
Link:
[Link: www.rasmussenreports.com...]
| 793 |
Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:35:52pm |
| 794 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:35:58pm |
re: #761 newsjunkie_ky
Hit refresh, I did and it changed to Izzy.
Let me know.
Yay!
Thats so sweet!
Truly cuddlesome!
| 795 |
Spare O'Lake Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:36:10pm |
re: #665 buzzsawmonkey
The impressiveness was largely due to that gray crackle-finish paint on the metal housings; you knew you were in the presence of something technical and scientific.
Whatever happened to that gray crackle-finish? I'd love to see it on a laptop.
The metallic finish sure was really cool.
And the data tape spools were also magnificent. Maybe Microsoft could design an "alta cucker" mode for their next operating system.
| 796 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:36:12pm |
re: #767 yma o hyd
I bet he didn't use refined, polite expressions!
;-)
God protects children and fools. It is unlucky to hurt them. In Chicago I walked past the Blackstone Rangers and got chinese take-out. I was safe if I went alone and ate a cookie. If I had tried to look savvy I'd have been dead.
| 797 |
loppyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:36:16pm |
re: #788 Ben Hur
Behold!
Aushwitz!
[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]
Strange. They don't seem to fear being exterminated.
The dude in the leather jacket has his hands behind his back like he's watching a parade.
| 798 |
Ayatollah Ghilmeini Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:36:50pm |
| 799 |
SDC Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:36:53pm |
As mentioned previously, the "cannon" is actually a 14.5mm (about .60 caliber) KPV heavy machine gun, designed by Vladimirov in Russia, but manufactured around the world in the former East Block countries and their one-time allies (like Egypt). This one is mounted on an improvised anti-aircraft mount, but they're normally seen as the secondary armament on BMPs and tanks, but have also been produced in infantry and AA-specific mounts.
| 800 |
Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:36:55pm |
re: #774 reine.de.tout
I just visisted this site. Check it out.
Nifty.
I've used one, but never owned one. They handed them out on the first day of engineering, with the idea that everyone-should-know-how-to-use-these-now-go-back-to-your-calculators. We used them that day and never again.
| 801 |
jcm Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:37:27pm |
re: #774 reine.de.tout
I just visisted this site. Check it out.
If you don't have a slide rule, but want to play with one.
UniVirtual Slide Rule Emulator
| 802 |
lawhawk Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:37:27pm |
re: #788 Ben Hur
Behold!
Aushwitz!
[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]
Strange. They don't seem to fear being exterminated.
Ummm... anyone want to take a gander at that photo. Has it been edited or adjusted in some way, because I do see pixelation around the bombs.
| 803 |
Amer-I-Can Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:37:54pm |
"Oops... too much ordinance to carry out, we will just have to blow it in place..." hehehe
| 804 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:37:56pm |
re: #778 Dustyvet
Your right...:)
Heh.
That figures ...
Soccer, see - and English.
I shall refrain from saying more on that subject .
:-)
| 805 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:38:28pm |
re: #772 Son of the Black Dog
Treasury Secretary is over the IRS. Not paying one's taxes is probably a no-no for this position.
What about people in charge of writing the tax code? What about them? (Pssst. Charlie. Over here.)
| 806 |
Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:38:34pm |
re: #780 Nevergiveup
Oh I don't know about that, we are about to have a
CIA headPresident who has noINTELLIGENCEexperience
| 807 |
jcm Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:38:56pm |
re: #789 loppyd
Sounds like the legislature needs to change the law to any student, regardless of age...
What every happen to case law? Where those in positions of authority over others, teachers, doctors, etc... had a different standard.
These black robe tools just tossed that.
| 808 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:39:01pm |
re: #790 MJ
Despite CNN, the BBC, the NYT, Boston Globe, LA Times, MSNBC News, etc.:
Voters Still Say Palestinians to Blame, But 50% Say Israel Should Accept Truce
Two weeks of military action in the Gaza Strip has done nothing to move public opinion in America.
Today, 56% of voters nationwide say that the Palestinians are to blame for the current situation in Gaza while 13% say the Israelis are at fault. Two weeks ago, a nationwide survey of adults found that 55% placed the blame on the Palestinians and 13% pointed the finger at Israel.
Holy Father, you have a phone call, and it's good news and bad news.
Pope: Give me the good news first!
Priest: God's calling.
Pope: and the bad news?
Priest: it's collect from Salt Lake.
| 809 |
LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:39:03pm |
re: #802 lawhawk
Ummm... anyone want to take a gander at that photo. Has it been edited or adjusted in some way, because I do see pixelation around the bombs.
Now wait a minaret......
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doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:39:18pm |
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Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:39:33pm |
re: #806 Kenneth
I guess your not a big fan of community organizers?
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Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:39:50pm |
re: #804 yma o hyd
Heh.
That figures ...Soccer, see - and English.
I shall refrain from saying more on that subject .
:-)
LOL, can I have a Yorkie Bar...:)
| 813 |
reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:40:09pm |
re: #688 buzzsawmonkey
If you want to really blow their minds, make them use a dial phone.
I do have an old dial-phone, and when daughter was young - well, it did indeed blow her mind, particularly how slow it was compared to push-button dialing.
She also one day asked me what sort of movies we rented and watched when I was a kid LOLOLOL!
She couldn't believe it when I said we had only one TV channel, and a black and white TV - and movie rentals were unheard of!
| 814 |
DeafDog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:40:21pm |
re: #772 Son of the Black Dog
Treasury Secretary is over the IRS. Not paying one's taxes is probably a no-no for this position.
You would think the same for the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, too,.....but don't confuse yourself with logic.
| 815 |
loppyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:40:30pm |
Franken going to court to get seated
Attorneys for Minnesota Democrat Al Franken said they have filed a petition with the Minnesota Supreme Court to get their candidate seated in the Senate.The move came a day after Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) and Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie (D) rebuffed the campaign’s request to certify Franken's election.
Franken’s lawyers are citing federal law and the Constitution, which state that the governor and secretary of state must sign off on the winner of an election, and that a state should have two senators, respectively.
| 817 |
Kenneth Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:40:45pm |
re: #811 Nevergiveup
They used to be called "communist agitators" didn't they?
| 818 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:40:48pm |
re: #808 Dustyvet
Priest: it's collect from Salt Lake; and She told me to get you right now!
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Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:40:58pm |
re: #782 filetandrelease
I like to tell my PETA friends that nothings dies of old age in the ocean. Then again my truck bumper sticker usually does the trick.
PETA People for Eating Tasty Aminmals.
bet you were one of the "Nuke the whales" bumper sticker crowd. lol
Then again there is always the , "Eat a beaver, save a tree" bumper sticker philosophy.
| 820 |
Soona' Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:41:07pm |
re: #777 yma o hyd
Oi!
You all talk about football - one little remark about my favourite sport doesn't do any damage, now does it!
I never said or even insinuated that you couldn't talk about.....whatever you were talking about.
//;)
| 821 |
jcm Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:41:23pm |
| 822 |
loppyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:41:42pm |
re: #807 jcm
What every happen to case law? Where those in positions of authority over others, teachers, doctors, etc... had a different standard.
These black robe tools just tossed that.
For sexual harassment cases, yes. But I only know the MA laws.
| 823 |
Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:41:45pm |
re: #816 buzzsawmonkey
I may be going a little too apocalyptic here, but I figure that if the country really falls apart under a combined series of terror attacks, knowing how to use a slide rule will be, perhaps not as necessary in the short run as knowing how to use a gun, but necessary for rebuilding society without having to rely on batteries.
That's okay. If that happens, I'll just go to that website and learn how.
/
| 824 |
Digital Display Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:41:45pm |
re: #761 newsjunkie_ky
Hit refresh, I did and it changed to Izzy.
Let me know.
Look! It's Izzy the newsjunkie!
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jcm Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:41:55pm |
re: #819 Outrider
bet you were one of the "Nuke the whales" bumper sticker crowd. lol
Then again there is always the , "Eat a beaver, save a tree" bumper sticker philosophy.
NUKE ALL THE UNBORN GAY WHALES FOR JESUS!
| 826 |
experiencedtraveller Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:42:02pm |
The long threads make my tiny vista laptop SCREAM IN PAIN.
| 827 |
reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:42:10pm |
re: #816 buzzsawmonkey
I may be going a little too apocalyptic here, but I figure that if the country really falls apart under a combined series of terror attacks, knowing how to use a slide rule will be, perhaps not as necessary in the short run as knowing how to use a gun, but necessary for rebuilding society without having to rely on batteries.
And also, some people will need to get over being finicky about how their food gets to their tables.
| 828 |
LGoPs Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:42:13pm |
re: #780 Nevergiveup
Oh I don't know about that, we are about to have a CIA head who has no INTELLIGENCE experience?
Yeah, but Sarah Palin didn't have experience either and she spent a lot of money on clothes.......so there.
///
| 829 |
Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:42:18pm |
re: #791 doppelganglander
There's a new commercial out for the Mormon Church in which a woman uses a rotary phone (similar to this one) to ring up God and get all the answers. (The rest of us, apparently, are supposed to talk to the operators standing by to get a free copy of the Book of Mormon.) My daughter and I thought it gave the impression that the Lord is simply not up on the latest technology, and that kids today probably want the next generation in religious communications. I think God totally should have an iPhone.
eh, He has always been "wireless". ;-)>
| 830 |
wrenchwench Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:42:23pm |
re: #816 buzzsawmonkey
I may be going a little too apocalyptic here, but I figure that if the country really falls apart under a combined series of terror attacks, knowing how to use a slide rule will be, perhaps not as necessary in the short run as knowing how to use a gun, but necessary for rebuilding society without having to rely on batteries.
My brother may be glad to hear that. He has one framed in his office (at one of our National Laboratories) with a sign underneath that says "In case of emergency, Break Glass."
| 831 |
reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:42:49pm |
re: #830 wrenchwench
My brother may be glad to hear that. He has one framed in his office (at one of our National Laboratories) with a sign underneath that says "In case of emergency, Break Glass."
Smart guy, your brother.
| 832 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:43:29pm |
re: #816 buzzsawmonkey
I may be going a little too apocalyptic here, but I figure that if the country really falls apart under a combined series of terror attacks, knowing how to use a slide rule will be, perhaps not as necessary in the short run as knowing how to use a gun, but necessary for rebuilding society without having to rely on batteries.
I'll just force you at gunpoint to do all that math stuff for me, smartypants.
| 833 |
Silhouette Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:43:51pm |
re: #827 reine.de.tout
And also, some people will need to get over being finicky about how their food gets to their tables.
Yes, I tell them, I know exactly what goes into a hot dog, and they're delicious.
| 835 |
Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:44:06pm |
re: #813 reine.de.tout
I do have an old dial-phone, and when daughter was young - well, it did indeed blow her mind, particularly how slow it was compared to push-button dialing.
She also one day asked me what sort of movies we rented and watched when I was a kid LOLOLOL!
She couldn't believe it when I said we had only one TV channel, and a black and white TV - and movie rentals were unheard of!
I was reading the other day (no link) there are still lots of old folks out there still renting them black phones from the phone company?
| 836 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:44:08pm |
| 837 |
filetandrelease Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:44:16pm |
re: #819 Outrider
Nah, I just find PETA particularly annoying. "Got Beer" and all their nonsense. If they got their way most of the people in the world would starve.
| 838 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:44:23pm |
| 839 |
wrenchwench Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:44:25pm |
re: #831 reine.de.tout
Smart guy, your brother.
Yeah, maybe. He also gave me one for my birthday, 35 years ago tomorrow....
| 840 |
loppyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:45:32pm |
Have I mentioned lately how much I loathe Huckleberry Hound?
Via Hot Air
Oh my: Couric and Gibson were perfectly fair to Palin, says Huckabee
Huckabee, diplomatic and biblical, says the Alaskan governor “energized” the party. I ask him if she was treated fairly by the media. “There were a lot of unfair things. Sexist things that would never have been asked of a male candidate.” He pauses. “Now I must say I did not think that either the Charlie Gibson interview or the Katie Couric interviews were unfair. In fact, if anything, Katie Couric was extraordinarily gentle, even helpful. [Palin] just…I don’t know what happened. I can’t explain it. It was not a good interview. I’m being charitable.”
| 841 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:45:39pm |
re: #816 buzzsawmonkey
I may be going a little too apocalyptic here, but I figure that if the country really falls apart under a combined series of terror attacks, knowing how to use a slide rule will be, perhaps not as necessary in the short run as knowing how to use a gun, but necessary for rebuilding society without having to rely on batteries.
If things get bad transistors will not work, one of the many many many bad things that happened to the US Navy is that they got rid of the Signalmen rating. Flags and morse code and semaphore will work when nothing else does.
| 842 |
Creeping Eruption Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:46:12pm |
re: #837 filetandrelease
Nah, I just find PETA particularly annoying. "Got Beer" and all their nonsense. If they got their way most of the people in the world would starve.
Peta and Beer?! Everyone knows that Peta goes best with a nice Chardonnay.
| 843 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:46:16pm |
re: #820 Soona'
I never said or even insinuated that you couldn't talk about.....whatever you were talking about.
//;)
Good-oh!
If it was all gobbledegook to you, I'd be happy to explain!
:-))
| 844 |
Outrider Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:46:35pm |
re: #833 Silhouette
Yes, I tell them, I know exactly what goes into a hot dog, and they're delicious.
same here. definitely not fussy about what goes on my plate, how it is made, or even if I have a plate.
Only caveat, I prefer it to not still be moving. ;-)>
| 845 |
reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:47:06pm |
re: #835 Outrider
I was reading the other day (no link) there are still lots of old folks out there still renting them black phones from the phone company?
My grandmother had one of those phones.
It was some kinda heavy. Would have made a great weapon, if you had need of something to throw at somebody.
The receiver alone was heavy to hold. I wish I knew just how much the entire thing weighed.
| 846 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:47:16pm |
re: #834 buzzsawmonkey
Then you're really in trouble. I've always been terrible at math.
You'll get better as I switch to menacing you with successively heavier calibers.
| 847 |
Efoster Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:48:38pm |
Guys, really. It's not a bad thing to have an AA gun in a religious structure. They use it for when they do their yearly concerts. Didn't you know it's the best thing to use for the Overture of 1812.
-Sorry, I just choked on my words....even I don't buy that.
| 848 |
formercorpsman Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:48:40pm |
re: #791 doppelganglander
There's a new commercial out for the Mormon Church in which a woman uses a rotary phone (similar to this one) to ring up God and get all the answers. (The rest of us, apparently, are supposed to talk to the operators standing by to get a free copy of the Book of Mormon.) My daughter and I thought it gave the impression that the Lord is simply not up on the latest technology, and that kids today probably want the next generation in religious communications. I think God totally should have an iPhone.
Hey, I am not picking on anyone Mormon, but you have to admit, that is pretty damn funny.
| 849 |
jcm Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:48:49pm |
re: #816 buzzsawmonkey
I may be going a little too apocalyptic here, but I figure that if the country really falls apart under a combined series of terror attacks, knowing how to use a slide rule will be, perhaps not as necessary in the short run as knowing how to use a gun, but necessary for rebuilding society without having to rely on batteries.
David Gelernter, Comp Sci prof at Yale (uni-bomber victim) stresses first principals, and doesn't like the early introduction of calculators and computer to students. He thinks, (and I agree) we need to understand whats going on inside the box, before we should use the box. Essentially it's a critical thinking argument, you have to be able to know the box is giving you a reasonable answer. That box is tool to make life easier, not replacing thinking about what's happening.
| 850 |
Son of the Black Dog Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:48:55pm |
re: #816 buzzsawmonkey
I may be going a little too apocalyptic here, but I figure that if the country really falls apart under a combined series of terror attacks, knowing how to use a slide rule will be, perhaps not as necessary in the short run as knowing how to use a gun, but necessary for rebuilding society without having to rely on batteries.
Or after an EMP attack.
| 851 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:49:21pm |
re: #834 buzzsawmonkey
Then you're really in trouble. I've always been terrible at math.
I use digital technology to do math
waves fingers
| 853 |
Soona' Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:50:40pm |
re: #827 reine.de.tout
And also, some people will need to get over being finicky about how their food gets to their tables.
And the type of food that gets to their tables.
| 854 |
Spare O'Lake Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:51:03pm |
re: #764 buzzsawmonkey
Yes, with the nice, slow return action on the dial.
Oh yeah man, and the accompanying mechanical whirring sound.
| 855 |
lifeofthemind Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:51:23pm |
re: #849 jcm
David Gelernter, Comp Sci prof at Yale (uni-bomber victim) stresses first principals, and doesn't like the early introduction of calculators and computer to students. He thinks, (and I agree) we need to understand whats going on inside the box, before we should use the box. Essentially it's a critical thinking argument, you have to be able to know the box is giving you a reasonable answer. That box is tool to make life easier, not replacing thinking about what's happening.
My troops could do micro mini repair on the fire control computer, they knew what made the radar work. Now things go down and they send out for a part.
| 856 |
notutopia Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:52:40pm |
re: #799 SDC
As mentioned previously, the "cannon" is actually a 14.5mm (about .60 caliber) KPV heavy machine gun, designed by Vladimirov in Russia, but manufactured around the world in the former East Block countries and their one-time allies (like Egypt). This one is mounted on an improvised anti-aircraft mount, but they're normally seen as the secondary armament on BMPs and tanks, but have also been produced in infantry and AA-specific mounts.
Pix please. Who is still making .60 cal ammo?
| 857 |
doppelganglander Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:53:16pm |
re: #848 formercorpsman
Hey, I am not picking on anyone Mormon, but you have to admit, that is pretty damn funny.
I thought so. I do hope no Mormon lizards are offended.
| 858 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:53:44pm |
re: #836 yma o hyd
Banging on computer trying to get the hard drive to spit out...:) Thanks you made my day.:)
| 859 |
exredtory Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:54:31pm |
re: #757 Outrider
the huge, heavy black ones? lol
Hey, I still use mine at home ("from my cold, dead hands") - but it is a bit of a handicap when I reach locations that don't have the "stay online for a representative" option. Then
I use my cell.
Had a tradesman in once who needed to use my phone, and was flummoxed for a moment when confronted by the dial.
I still have my dad's old slide rule, too
| 860 |
KenJen Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:55:37pm |
| 861 |
buzzdroid Tue, Jan 13, 2009 1:56:54pm |
GAZACAM - ROOSTER IS EARLY!
must be getting in quick before the IDF fireworks start.
| 862 |
Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 13, 2009 2:00:14pm |
re: #783 Bobibutu
Let us not forget the venerable Curta ... [Link: www.vcalc.net...]
I friend of mine has one of those. It saved the designer from the gas chambers; he designed in a concentration camp. There was a Scientific American article on it a while ago
| 863 |
Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 2:02:56pm |
re: #780 Nevergiveup
Oh I don't know about that, we are about to have a CIA head who has no
INTELLIGENCEexperience?
That is just about eveyone in his cabinet isn't it?
| 864 |
Marvo76 Tue, Jan 13, 2009 2:08:38pm |
re: #815 loppyd
"But Judge, I cheated fair and square and they still won't let me have my way!" WAAAAA
| 865 |
Colonel Panik Tue, Jan 13, 2009 2:19:49pm |
re: #856 notutopia
Pix please. Who is still making .60 cal ammo?
That thing is the Communist Bloc equivalent of a Browning M-2 "Ma Deuce" .50 cal and was widely used among Warsaw Pact and Asian communist countries. I'd imagine ammo in that caliber is still being produced in Russia, "People's" China, L'il Kim's Hermit Kingdom, and a number of East European countries that may still field machineguns in that caliber.
| 866 |
SDC Tue, Jan 13, 2009 2:23:43pm |
re: #856 notutopia
Pix please. Who is still making .60 cal ammo?
You can see pics of the PKP (infantry) and ZPU (anti-aircraft) versions of the KPV at [Link: world.guns.ru...] ; this is a heavy machine gun chambered for the 14.5x115mm Soviet round, and 14.5mm translates to .57/100ths of an inch
| 867 |
SDC Tue, Jan 13, 2009 2:27:17pm |
Actually, the Soviets had TWO heavy machine guns for specific uses; one was the 12.7x108mm DShK (and it's simplified version, the DShKM), and the other is the 14.5x115mm KPV/KPVM seen above. Both of these were developed before WW2, and versions of both are still in current production.
| 868 |
suitepotato Tue, Jan 13, 2009 2:31:18pm |
Islam is a warrior's religion so using human shields, martyrdom, putting weapons in mosques, these are not too surprising and most of the people ignoring these news reports have at least a subliminal sense of that, so their reaction remains, "so what".
If you're a sci-fi type and having flashbacks to you know not what, go re-read Dune. Remember the reports made by the Harkonnen and Sardaukar about the Fremen under Paul. Every last man woman and child fighting for G-d is still held privately in many quarters to be the greatest thing. It's an absolutist and nihilist sense, but it's also entirely human which is why it is so frightening. You can see exactly where the thinking that leads to it starts and why it is so hard to resist.
| 869 |
Render Tue, Jan 13, 2009 2:42:50pm |
re: #856 notutopia
Egypt, China, and Romania, among others.
Since they all still heavily use the KPV/ZPU series 14.5mm guns, it would stand to reason that they would still make the ammo for them.
Considering how many other third world nations and terrorist groups that are still using the KPV/ZPU series, there is a market for the ammo.
If you search my nic on this thread, you'll find several pics...
As heavy machine guns go, the KPV/ZPU series really isn't all that old. It was designed in 1949 and remained in Soviet first line service right up until the early 1980's.
The round breach is the biggest tell-tale.
REALLY,
R
| 870 |
Render Tue, Jan 13, 2009 2:51:28pm |
re: #129 subsailor68
Another interesting piece of trivia...
The ME-109's last known combat operations were flown by the Israeli Air Force in 1948. It was called the S-199 in IAF service and was a flying death trap.
CRAZY
WORLD,
R
| 871 |
Green Helmet Guy Tue, Jan 13, 2009 3:04:44pm |
re: #551 jaunte
One relates that the Ramadan cannon dates back to 859 AH (Hijri), when the ruler of Egypt was busy toying with his new cannon in the open courtyard atop the Citadel overlooking Cairo. The cannon went off accidentally and a loud boom reverberated everywhere. It was Ramadan at sunset.
Now that's pretty funny:
And that my friends was one of the first "Work accidents" in Islamic history. However...it would not be the last...
| 872 |
So? Tue, Jan 13, 2009 3:40:49pm |
re: #38 DaddyG
Q. What do you call a Mosque with an Anti-aircraft Cannon?
A. Target aquired!
Mosquito
/you know how pesky they can be
| 874 |
Grandma Tue, Jan 13, 2009 4:51:44pm |
Not for nuttin’, a mosque translates to me anymore as an armory. And if the Gazan citizens permit these Islamic Gangbangers (Hamas) to store their explosives, munitions, drugs, guns, and other booty, etc. in their mosques, homes and schools, they are no less “innocent” than their counterparts here in the U.S. who allow themselves in so many of our inner cities to be ruled by the Crips, Bloods, Latin Kings, MS-13, Mongols, Hell’s Angels, etc. They’re not innocent because they’re all looking for something from those rotten groups for their own gain, a gain which they cannot figure out for themselves. Well that’s just unfortunate for them. They chose Hamas.
They’ve all sent their little boys (I guess they don't make little girls) in parades with black and green costumes and hateful chants and toy guns to promote the violence. Now, they want to be “innocent”. I don’t think so. And as far as “humanitarian aid” goes, first I want to find a real decent human being there that has earned that compassion. Then I'll buy into the humanitarian aid. I’ll not be standing on tiptoe waiting for that to appear. C’mon, Mainstream Media, get real, for crying out tears, and expose these gangbangers and their supporters in/and the population for who they really are.
So thanks for listening to Grandma’s version of anger tonight, and have a nice day.
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Thin Blue Line Tue, Jan 13, 2009 9:54:05pm |
Picnic Directions:
Turn left at the bottom of the stairs near the cannon, and then a quick right near the ammo boxes. Just push the Ak's aside and place the fruit salad on the table.
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