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Darwin award if there ever was one.

Marc, yer like a Timex. Ya take a lickin' and ya keep on tickin'. I have to give him credit for that. Assuming he is not a Russian/Breitbart troll-bot. He just keeps coming back. Too bad he didn't have athletic gifts as he would have been a world champion.

Commander Of Navy's 7th Fleet Dismissed After Series Of Ship Mishaps "Adm. Scott Swift, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, today relieved the commander of Seventh Fleet, Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command. "Rear Adm. Phil Sawyer, who has already been nominated and confirmed for the position and promotion to Vice Adm., will assume command immediately." Aucoin's removal follows four accidents involving Navy ships in the Pacific this year. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/23/545423389/commander-of-navys-7th-fleet-to-be-removed-after-collisions-reports-say

More of the same pandering to the base, the Pied Piper of Hamelin comes to mind. Except in this case its not Hamelin Germany, its America. Its not rats, it all the undesirables that America loves to hate. Blacks, Mexicans, gays,transgender US military personnel,liberals, HRC, etc. Of course its not going to end well for those who hear the music of trump. Like the children of that were led down the garden path. It all ends BAD. trump enjoyed the coverage of all the major networks and substantial international coverage. As Ron suggests in another post about Blacks, trump plays the victim. Trump paints himself as the real victim of Charlottesville in angry speech https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/23/donald-trump-arizona-rally-phoenix Trump explained that the biggest victim in the Charlottesville violence last weekend was, in fact, himself. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/trump-goes-off-script-in-hour-long-public-meltdown Poor trump the media and everyone against him...and against his supporters, of course. The whole world looks on with a mix of horror and amusement. World leaders get confirmation of their understanding of him when he comes knocking on their doors for help in Afghanistan, help on N. Korea, help in the fight against "Radical Islamic Terror".

Not defending the RWR. Simply pointing out that LWR were pretty violent after the election. 1 crazy radical doesn't represent all of them. I count one act in a baseball field. Please check with darkbart and advise of all the other violent actions by the left. Meanwhile nothing about the bombing of the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington.

I see them as all just pulling our collective legs. It's just a cool club where they get to make up funny theories to explain their "belief". They are laughing at all the people trying to convince them of the facts. It's an inside joke. Agree. They likely sit around in the evenings drinking single-malt. Dreaming up new schemes to stir the pot all the while laughing about the publicity they are receiving.

Seems like he's listening to his advisers. I agree that leaving the area would endanger it to AlQ, Taliban, ISIS filling the gap and gaining a stronghold. At that point we'll never get back in short of another 9/11 or ISIS level event. Yes but he has a temperament of flip-flopping. It won't take long for it to happen on this issue. He is right about Pakistan as a breeding ground for terrorism, educating Taliban in the " All of these groups are rooted in a network of seminaries, or as the term is called in the local vernacular, "madrassa." My argument was that the main source of funding for these groups is Saudi Arabia. In fact, this whole phenomenon that we are confronting, which Al Qaeda is a part of, is very closely associated with Saudi Arabia's financial and religious projects for the Muslim world as a whole. " http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/analyses/madrassas.html The defence secretary, Jim Mattis, is reviewing plans “for a path forward”. He and the national security adviser, General H.R. McMaster, both served in Afghanistan. Their instinct will be to recommend that Mr Trump set a bolder objective than Mr Obama was willing to endorse and refrain from setting timetables that ignore military reality. Even then, Mr Cordesman argues, Mr Trump will also have to pep up Afghanistan’s political leaders. Corruption, as much as insecurity, has stymied international efforts to revive Afghanistan’s sickly economy. Without some progress on that front, no amount of external military support will kill off the insurgency. https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21717835-will-he-pull-out-or-double-down-donald-trump-holds-afghanistans-future-his-hands As usual this is a far more complex issue than trump is capable of digesting. Pakistan, a corrupt nuclear power, has suffered tens of thousands of civilian and military casualties fighting the Taliban. While the government and population to a greater and lessor degree support the Taliban. Radical Islam support from the Saudi's private sponsorship of these schools in Pakistan are the training grounds of the new cannon fodder for US troops.

I should have been much more precise in that statement. I said they don't care about BLM, the movement. On the face of it it would suggest that whites don't care about blacks. I should have been more direct in the intent that those on this forum that suggest that its a racist movement with political objectives. Ideas that arise, from the likes of Breitbart, etc. IMO whites do care about Black lives, about police brutality against Blacks. There is a political overtone to BLM the movement. But its not anti-white and not racist itself. Its to change police and public perceptions about a anti-black bias in police actions. Thanks for pointing that out.

Authored just for you. The Showdown Over How We Define Fringe Views in America AUG. 21, 2017 Today in the United States, sweeping majorities of the public say they support fair housing laws and the ideal of integrated schools. Nine in 10 say they would back a black candidate for president from their own party, and the same say they approve of marriage between blacks and whites. That last issue has undergone one of the greatest transformations in polling over the last 50 years. In 1960, just 4 percent of Americans approved.... More than a triumph over private prejudice, these numbers reflect changing social norms. The country hasn’t extinguished racism. But society — universities, employers, cultural institutions, the military — has made clearer over time that people who hold racist views had better nurse them off in the corner... That fight is being waged by opposing protesters across the country and by pundits daily on TV. ... “They are explicitly trying to do that,” Tina Fetner, a sociologist at McMaster University in Ontario, said of members of white supremacist groups. Until recently, they were ignored. But now the president is repeating their memes and the distorted versions of history that prop up their views, she said. As a result, the news media is broadly covering them, too... “This is exactly the process of how social change happens,” Ms. Fetner said. “It’s not because all of a sudden there is more racism now than there was a few weeks ago. It’s that the absolute condemnation of those most abhorrent views is crumbling away because the president isn’t fulfilling that role.”.. [ Hence the danger of trump and those in similar positions of power be it federally or state governments] Social scientists know that political leaders and institutions play an essential role in establishing norms. The American Psychological Association began to shift people’s views in the 1970s when the group declared that homosexuality is not a mental illness. The United States military did the same with racial equality when it began to desegregate in the late 1940s. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/upshot/the-showdown-over-how-we-define-fringe-views-in-america.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Yes, but I do believe that is a mental illness. According to sociologist Phil Zuckerman, broad estimates of those who have an absence of belief in a God range from 500 to 750 million people worldwide.[1] Other estimates state that there are 200 million to 240 million self-identified atheists worldwide, with China and Russia being major contributors to those figures.[3] According to sociologists Ariela Keysar and Juhem Navarro-Rivera's review of numerous global studies on atheism, there are 450 to 500 million positive atheists and agnostics worldwide (7% of the world's population), with China having the most atheists in the world (200 million convinced atheists).[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism So if this is accurate 93% of the planets population believe in a god of some sort and according to you are mentally disabled!!?? Furthermore, both you and I are in a very small minority.

Actually, passing laws does have an effect. It doesn't stop racism, but it reduces it. It provides an incentive to not do it and it provides a recourse to those who are discriminated against. Standing up to the Nazis and KKK has an effect too. It's not just black people doing it either (not even "mostly"). It drives them underground. It provides consequences for the action. How many of those idiots are facing job loss and other consequences after their faces showed up all over the internet? BLM brought the killing of blacks by police to the front of the nation's conscience. Honestly, I don't know that many white people who are "up in arms" about BLM, outside of the racists. Some are overt, but most are 'closeted racists', that is they hold opinions and positions that are pretty clearly racist to anyone paying attention, but deny it up and down. ] To put it another way, not everyone who criticized Obama is/was racist. But most of the "Birthers" were. Most of the ones who claimed he was a "secret Muslim" were. And removing the statues won't "cure" racism. But removing statues that represent hatred and bigotry (both in the history of the person the statue is of and in the history of the reasons behind the placement of them) will keep it from being shoved in the faces of everyone who despises it. Both black and white. Keep in mind that there are a lot of white people who think that equal rights are important for everyone (there are a lot of men in favor of equal rights for women, too). Do remember that the three poll workers killed in Mississippi (as depicted in the movie "Mississippi Burning") were white. White people don't give a rats ass about BLM. I hazard a guess that Blacks look at the clan and Neo-Nazis as some white clowns, with racist ideas who look at Jews, Indians, Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, all in the same boat as them. Therefor feeling relatively safe. Oh! and most whites as well. Well non republican ones anyway! The threat to society is a racist President with all the authority that his office brings to the equation.

Homemade submarine maker: I buried missing reporter at sea HELSINKI -- Danish police say the owner of a home-built submarine has told investigators that a missing female Swedish journalist died onboard in an accident, and he buried her at sea in an unspecified location. Copenhagen police said Monday that submarine owner Peter Madsen will continue to be held on preliminary manslaughter charges. Police declined to provide more details.... Kim Wall, a 30-year-old journalist reported to be aboard Madsen's submarine UC3 Nautilus on an assignment, disappeared more than a week ago. Madsen has denied any wrongdoing, and initially denied any role in her disappearance. The sub sank Aug. 11. Madsen previously said he last saw Wall when he dropped her off on an island off Copenhagen on August 10 after she conducted an interview with him on the submarine. Police said Monday that Madsen "told police and the court that there was an accident onboard the sub that led to the death of Kim Wall, and that he subsequently buried her at sea in an undefined location of the Køge Bay," according to The Guardian of Britain. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homemade-submarine-peter-madsen-missing-journalist-kim-wall-buried-at-sea-accident-denmark/ Madsen made headlines when he successfully financed the building of the 40-tonne, 18-metre Nautilus through crowdfunding, completing it in 2008.... Kristian Isbak, who had responded to the navy’s call to help locate the ship, sailed out immediately Friday and saw Madsen standing wearing his trademark military fatigues in the submarine’s tower while it was still afloat. “He then climbed down inside the submarine and there was then some kind of air flow coming up and the submarine started to sink,” Isbak said. “[He] came up again and stayed in the tower until water came into it”, before swimming to a nearby boat as the submarine sank, he added. Madsen “told us he had technical problems” to explain why the submarine failed to respond to radio contact, Damgaard said. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/aug/13/submarine-maker-held-as-search-for-kim-wall-continues Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

Thats because the quant guys in each airline and the software guys that write the pricing codes try to maximize every dollar on any available flight to take advantage of the price elasticity of travelers.

That is the definition, root, and main purpose of religion. There is some truth in your statement. The object is to seek relationship with Christ by the Holy Spirit. If you have to move ten inches to make contact you do not know the Lord. Some people simply need to be conned. Guess which political party I think they prefer. I would slightly modify my statement. It's not fair to just refer to "gullible" people. The need for answers and understanding is deeper than that. Organized religion is a way to harness and use that need. For some folks it supplies the answers for that need. As an atheist, I agree with Ron on this one. Televangelism gives US religion a bad name. But i know many Christians, a couple Mormons and others who believe in "God" that don't have a dishonest, uncompassionate, part of their being. People that go with church groups to third world countries to help with charities. At great personal expense. I think Ron is getting a bit of a hard time on this because of his personal political views. Of course him throwing politics into the argument doesn't help his cause. Given trump and all.

Once is a indication that something is very wrong. This is not a bridge where a single sailor is tired after a long 12 hour watch. Twice??? Some senior admirals who are overseeing command selection should be answering some questions. Serious career ending type questions.

USS John McCain collides with merchant ship east of Singapore, 10 sailors missing, US Navy says http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-21/uss-john-mccain-collides-with-merchant-ship/8826298 Barely a week after disciplinary actions were handed down in the Fitzgerald collision.

I know there are some BPA regulation supporters here somewhere. Thankfully they have managed to keep their ageism views to the BPA boardrooms where elitism belongs.

Ron, you are extra "full of shit" today. That is well documented at Liberty Hall. Let me ask you a question, Ron. If you were my slave, answerable to my every single whim with no repercussions for me, and no rights of your own, would you be OK with that - even if I treated you really well? That is what the Progressive Liberal Democrats are seeking. The want us to work at government regulated business, pay most of our wages in taxes, get high in our free time and fornicate and trust the government to care for us. I am a slave to Christ Jesus and I am treated really, really well. Thanks for asking. You are not alone in this forum for having a distorted view of slavery and what it means. I'll accept this response are merely a deflection of the question because you didn't want to answer it. Slavery is a dollar or two premium on keeping children with their mother because any black lactating woman can nurse any baby. Children can start picking cotton at 5 or 6 years of age. Of course the quota will be less than a healthy male. After 35 years or so medical care is a waste on any slave because you can't get anything at auction for them anyway. Defenders of slavery show a complete lack of understanding of the entire system and conditions surrounding it.

Why do people like you have to ruin things for some people? What for example if interplanetary interactions, the very interactions of astrophysics was a Christian action. Not Allah, or any other religion? Theology See also: Religious cosmology, Hellenistic philosophy and Christianity, and Orphism (religion) In theology, the cosmos is the created heavenly bodies (sun, moon, planets, and fixed stars). In Christian theology, the word is also used synonymously with aion[6] to refer to "worldly life" or "this world" or "this age" as opposed to the afterlife or world to come. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos I'll have to leave further discussions to you and Ron. Quasars, pulsars etc. are all very confusing to me!!

IMO the political atmosphere brings out the lone, unstable, almost always male, who looses touch with reality. - 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. of Maumee, Ohio, a Vanguard America supporter who was the car driver in Charlottesville https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/vanguard-america - James Hodgkinson, 66, from Belleville, Illinois, the Alexandria, Obama supporter with no known affiliation with any hate group, Virginia shooter of GOP baseball players. Both typical, one from the left side and one from the right side of the political spectrum.

GOP senator: 'It feels like violence is coming' A GOP senator on Friday evening warned that "it feels like violence is coming" and the president won't be able to calm the nation in the face of it. In an extensive Facebook post, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) shared thoughts he said were prompted by the violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Va. that left three dead and multiple injured. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/347205-gop-senator-trump-cannot-calm-the-nation-after-charlottesville Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War? A day after the brawling and racist brutality and deaths in Virginia, Governor Terry McAuliffe asked, “How did we get to this place?”... President Trump “modeled violence as a way to advance politically and validated bullying during and after the campaign,” Mines wrote in Foreign Policy. “Judging from recent events the left is now fully on board with this,” he continued, citing anarchists in anti-globalization riots as one of several flashpoints. “It is like 1859, everyone is mad about something and everyone has a gun.” http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-america-headed-for-a-new-kind-of-civil-war Kevin Boyle, an American history professor at Northwestern University, watched it unfold, the feeling in his gut both horror and a sense that the racial tension bubbling for years had finally, almost inevitably, begun boiling over. "Given our political moment, I'm not surprised that we've come to this point," he said. "I'm terribly depressed we've come to this point but I'm not surprised. It didn't come out of nowhere." Historians and political scientists have been warning that American politics had become a pressure cooker, full of racial tension building once again to the point of a deadly clash, like the one in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday that claimed three lives. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/political-violence-didnt-49200760 Well was this the start of something larger? JUNE 14, 2017 Steve Scalise Among 4 Shot at Baseball Field; Suspect Is Dead ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A lone gunman who was said to be distraught over President Trump’s election opened fire on members of the Republican congressional baseball team at a practice field in this Washington suburb on Wednesday, using a rifle to shower the field with bullets that struck four people, including Steve Scalise, the majority whip of the House of Representatives. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/us/steve-scalise-congress-shot-alexandria-virginia.html?mcubz=3

I agree with Rob and you. I can see the day when 182s and turbine ac are 99% of whats flying on DZs.

Stephens began acquiring land and slaves. By the time of the Civil War, Stephens owned 34 slaves and several thousand acres On March 21, 1861, Stephens gave his famous Cornerstone Speech in Savannah, Georgia. In it he declared that slavery was the natural condition of blacks and the foundation of the Confederacy. He declared that relative to the U.S. Constitution, "Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."[24]... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_H._Stephens I can see how such ideas are popular with trump and his similar thinking supporters. Check out the latest book by Donald trump "Building Business though the smart Purchase and Management of Slaves"

Imagine. A Black slave born into slavery. Who mistakes good treatment because he doesn't know freedom and equal rights. Imagine a slave ship filled with people who want slave owners to love. Compare that to to those who would rather "Live free or Die"

Sure it was. There are a lot of Southerners who find the actions of the "neo-Confederates" abhorrent. Should we call those who worship the idea of the Confederacy "Rebel-Lovers"? Or how about "Traitor-Lovers"? And your attachment is bullshit. https://www.facingsouth.org/2015/07/busting-the-myth-that-congress-made-confederate-ve All I had to do was enter "Confederate Veterans" into the search and it auto-finished with the questions "Are confederate veterans considered US veterans?" Above link is just the first result. If you don't like it, there is plenty of other sources for it. Perfect example of how FAKE NEWS and Breitbart distribute stories for receptive minds ready to believe. Fundamental intellectual curiosity has vanished even with the power of the internet and search engines. I had the link and the story but you beat me to it. I think that Bannon will be just as effective outside the WH. He will still have direct access to trump, his protege. trump as always will wait to "get his facts straight", i.e. when Breitbart publishes them.