winsor

Your position is crystal clear. We had best appease the psychopaths if we want Peace in Our Time, eh Neville?

Because it's quite legal and fully justified to make fun of psychopathic perverts in this country. The fact that said psychopathic pervert has many followers that are just as pathologically violent is an even stronger case for ridicule. Charlie Chaplin had it nailed. Those who censored his work were at fault. BSBD, Winsor

Thoughtcrime?

Imagine a German Army run by the generals instead of the IDIOT. A lot of our technology in weaponry has a starting point right back to German weapons of WWII Much of it was copied from work done at my school. In the 1930s, the Verein für Raumschiffahrt published German translations of every relevant U.S. Patent granted to the Valedictorian of the Class of 1907 (though he taught across town, his research was not done there). The first operational prototypes of the V-1 and V-2 flew in the US of A. BSBD, Winsor I am sure that was lost on all the Sherman or Pershing crews who went up in flames when going up against Panzers, Panzer2's or Tiger's with an 88mm or the thousands of GI's who had to deal with MG-42's in front of them with higher rates of fire than our outdated .30 Cal. Imagine if the Idiot had not been allowed to go to Poland in 1939..... or to the Soviet Union in 1941. It would be a far different world had their scientists and arms industries been given a few more years... The point is.. they had superior weapons... luckily we had production capacity to overwhelm that with sheer numbers since they had no way to lessen that production as we were trying to do theirs... with limited results I might add ( it caused the deaths of many thousands of US and British aircrews). They always seemed to up their production through out the war till even the late stages. I will not dispute for a second that any armor we fielded was junk, particularly the vaunted M4 Sherman (which was to armored warfare what the Big Mac is to food). The low velocity 75mm gun was at best annoying to the Germans, it ran on gasoline so it tended to explode when hit, it had a high profile so it was easy to hit, and its armor was barely sufficient to decelerate the round when it was hit. The superiority of the MG 42 was not by dint of its rate of fire so much as its superior design. The .30 caliber Browning worked fine, but was nowhere near as flexible. The M1 Garand had it all over the K98 Mauser, and the 1911A1 beats anyone's 9x19. The 88mm Flieger Abwehr Kanone was a brilliant piece of equipment. The combination of range, accuracy and punch put it head and shoulders above anything we had. In any event, my point was that the Panzerfaust came from my school, as did jet aircraft, cruise missles and the liquid fueled rocket. The Area Rule that put Century Series fighters on the map came from our Aerodynamics Department - but we are also responsible for such technological turkeys as the catalytic converter and the Segway (Kaman was a dropout, but so was Atwater Kent). Don't get me wrong, I am not pleased that Germany went all Godwin in the 30s. My family would have been a lot larger if they had taken a different approach (or maybe we would ALL have been wiped out...). BSBD, Winsor

Imagine a German Army run by the generals instead of the IDIOT. A lot of our technology in weaponry has a starting point right back to German weapons of WWII Much of it was copied from work done at my school. In the 1930s, the Verein für Raumschiffahrt published German translations of every relevant U.S. Patent granted to the Valedictorian of the Class of 1907 (though he taught across town, his research was not done there). The first operational prototypes of the V-1 and V-2 flew in the US of A. BSBD, Winsor

Maybe or maybe not. It could also be argued that he as a younger man was in competition with others to fill a role that others were also seeking to fill, and he won the competition to the top. Sometimes the man makes the times, and sometimes the times make the man. By comparative analogy, had Stalin not won the competition to be the brutal successor to Lenin, someone else would have. Beria was a real charmer.

Irony, Winsor. Irony. You may want to ask yourself these deep, probing questions sometimes. Good point. I do, however, try to focus on content. I also am not responding with the claim that there is no reason to respond (so far as I can tell).

Better to attack the style than the content, eh? Except there was no content. Not by regulator at least. I can't really have a conversation with the guy who actually wrote the piece. He's not a part of this group. Regulator wants to simply copy and paste, sorry, but all I really CAN do is call him out for not having an original thought. Seriously. How should one respond to a mindless copy and paste posting with no original content? Should I just mindlessly copy and paste in return? How boring. Or you could show some class and forego calling him out. His post was not addressed to you, so why you felt compelled to provide a snarky response to a post that you consider to be without merit escapes me.

Better to attack the style than the content, eh?

I've said it before as a result of a different White House Correspondents' Dinner, the one held just hours before the US killed bin Ladin, do NOT play poker with Obama. He has the best poker face on the fuckin' planet. He's so kewl.

This is not supported in the Bible. He walked up to individuals, administered no test of faith, simply healed them. All that faith healing was overrated at best.

Entering into a dialogue with someone who spews an endless stream of vitriol (e.g. Ann Coulter) is pointless. A one-dimensional viewpoint is hardly a basis for dialogue. Inconceivable as it may seem, the world is not broken down into Sweetness and Light Liberals and Reich Wing Conservatives. Anyone who espouses one extreme or another is likely full of shit.

1) Like it or not, Logic is Math. 2) There is no Math requirement per se for either Law School of the Bar. It us thus no surprise that most attorneys are mathematically, and thus logically, illiterate. 3) The typical legal case is an endless string of logical fallacies, formal and informal. The side that prevails is often the one with the most compelling fallacious argument (e.g., Argumentum ad Miseracordium vs. Arcumentum ad Baculum). 4)) The Supreme Court is subject to the same rules as is any other part of Government; the scum rises to the top. BSBD, Winsor

And if they start ISIS Inc. they'll get corporate welfare, like other big corporations, so they can pay $millions in bonuses to their execs. As Long as they are indoctrinated to vote liberal, Obama would welcome it. All those Wall St. CEOs - definitely pillars of the liberal establishment. You are so astute. ...and we have things like this... http://www.model1sales.com/ Chuck And ISIS Inc. can take a tax deduction for them. No! We need something to defend ourselves with down here on the border. Chuck Agreed I figured you had already joined at least one militia.... so move out there Mr MilitiaMan .... go patrol the north bank of the Rio-not-so-Grande. I hear ISIS is just across the river....... are you willing to protect the Texican Homeland??? We don' need no stinkin' militia! Chuck Until we do. Mind your cache! Chuck I'm just curious to see what happens if we keep "quoting" this entire post... Turtle's original comment that started the string seems to get smaller and smaller...My theory is that if it disappears, it will create a vortex and suck SC into oblivion... ...and would we all go with it? Chuck Would that be the Rapture? The Tribulation starts with the ISIS invasion. Then Jesus appears and .... Yeah, until he doesn't http://cdn.agilitycms.com/first-canadian-place/stores/Food/mucho-burrito-500x500.jpg Thank you for that Canadian content. Burritos are Canadian, eh? Wrong border.

Sorry my English I guess, but tea 'baggers' is gay guys, si? Tea 'partyers' is politic group, si? Is seem you say they same thing. Could please explain? Slater She was making a funny.

It's a rude thing to do, what your son did, and just designed to elicit exactly that response. Once you were done with the cop (as any good mother would)..... Were you just as pissed at your son or use the situation to have that discussion with him? I'd be ok with the mall cop (or anyone else, including a 'real' cop) if his response was strictly verbally stating his opinion on the hat and chastizing your son for his disrespect. So if I had a flag on my helmet and I was backflying, you'd think it rude and disrespectful? If it's the Union Jack, who could tell?

Not to put too fine a point on this, but our goal is rise above quasi-anarchy. American Exceptionalism = American Albanianism? Evner Hoxa lives!

I like the approach attributed to Louisiana. It seems that they view burning or desecrating a U.S. flag to be protected free speech. They did, however, put a $5 limit on the fines that could be imposed on someone who beat the living shit out of a person burning or desecrating a U.S. flag. Works for me.

The 'Patriot Act' is amazing in that its supporters do not have the good taste to be ashamed of it. They make NAMBLA look like honorable and decent by comparison.

FIFY

I think it was in Azerbaijan. It's right next to Georgia, so it's easy to confuse the two.

Source: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/global/2015/3 Full report: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2015/3 Hopefully we can stop with the "but the earth stopped warming in blah, blah, blah year" now. The point here is, it has not stopped warming. What my real fear now has become, we've gone past the point of no return, we're screwed, but there isn't quite the quality of data to prove it satisfactorily to the still skeptical people, the deniers, yet even though we're beyond it. "Sorry, Venkman, I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought."

I've flown a gyrocopter. Prolly safer than skydiving and certainly safer than BASE. That's like saying Russian Roulette is safer with a revolver than a semiauto. Having said that, gyrocopters are particularly safe. Autorotation is inherent.

Irony, Windsor. Irony. I'm fairly certain one side has to be at more fault than the other. I find it highly improbable they are both precisely equally at fault. No 'd.' I did not indicate anything to do with precision, nor with anyone being "at fault." My point is that all the name calling (Republifucktardconserviscumbag...) does not enhance any attempt at credibility, and the suggestion that one side of the aisle has a greater percentage of dreadful human beings than the other is naive. FWIW, the ironic thing about the Alanis Morissette song is that it does not include one example of irony. I am no more in lock step with the current administration than I was with the last. BSBD, Winsor

The fact that you appear to think one side of the aisle is more deserving of criticism than the other says it all. Your choice of verbiage tends to discredit any stance you take. Steven Colbert plays a shithead on the right to make the left appear better by comparison, but I suspect you are serious.