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  1. 3 hours ago, Helobious said:

    Im not really big on politics, so I’m unfamiliar with many of the big players. When I read the name “Ronny Jackson” today, I was expecting someone that looked, uh... different than he does. 

    There is a Tax and Accounting company in Charlotte, NC called Mel Jackson Taxes. When I first heard of the place I was picturing something completely different than what it actually looked like.

     

     

  2. It's crazy how these psychos can "retire" and blend into society for years after doing this shit.

    I used to work as a network engineer at a server hosting company a long time ago. I often worked the 3rd shift and would occasionally interact with the customer support group in the building next door. The midnight support center manager was a quiet old guy that walked with a cane and seemed to always be eating a sack lunch. Nothing stood out about him other than he appeared to be an odd pathetic gimpy old man.

    It turns out he was a serial rapist and murderer in the 70s/80s. He was eventually busted when DNA from an old murder case was tested by the police. It took 20 years to catch him. Finding out who he really was freaked the shit out of me. All those late nights, he had to be thinking about doing shit.

  3. On 4/23/2018 at 12:09 AM, Mileslong said:

    Unless I’m mistaken, the new security guy is Floki the ship builder from Vikings

     

    Yeah, I kept expecting him to make some cryptic statement about the gods and then giggle to himself like a fucking weirdo.

     

  4. On 4/18/2018 at 10:07 AM, TrashMaster G said:

    So, either she admits she forgot the chicken or she says she thought a cooler could chill food indefinitely.  

    And she opts for the magic cooler theory.

    [Spock] Fascinating....  [/Spock]

    Well, there is reality then there is a woman's reality and never shall the two meet.

     

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  5. 20 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    We''ve definitely been in Afghanistsn too long. But it was a foregone conclusion when we went in that, whether we stay for five years or fifty years, the Taliban are taking over again as soon as we leave. We botched the mission at Tora Bora and everything since has been a waste of time. The problem is that whichever president takes the troops out will be blamed for handing Afghanistan back to the terrorists. 

    But my point stands that the CIA and military have to also play a role in the fight against our enemies just as the FBI does. Unfortunately, other than the invasion of Afghanistan until Tora Bora, the Bush/Cheney  administration bungled our response to 9/11 about as badly as possible. Bring in more troops at Tora Bora and achieve a decisive and complete victory, and stay the fuck out of Iraq, and we could've actually declared "Mission Accomplished." If you attack us you will die. And soon. That would've been a strong deterrent. Maybe the Taliban wouldn't be so quick to let terrorists train there again. 

    I agree. It's not that I think they shouldn't have a role, it's just the way they have been used as a blunt instrument that I am criticizing.

  6. 15 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    How would the FBI have gone about invading Afghanistan to go after Bin Laden & Al Qaeda after 9/11? I'm all for treating terrorists as criminals but if you can't bring them to trial in a U.S. court then you've got to kill them in the field and that's outside the FBI's jurisdiction. 

    I didn't have an issue with the initial response in Afghanistan but it's been over 16 years and we still have over 14,000 troops there fighting the war on terror. I've never bought into the fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here narrative. The initial response made sense but we've gone way beyond the original goal.

     

     

     

     

  7. The last time I was at Dairy Queen it was the one in Dripping Springs. There was an older couple bitching about the tea. "We came here for the tea and it don't taste right!" Anyways, the woman waddles past our table bitching about the tea and right as she is next to our table she lets out a horrendous belch.

    My son starts rambling, "I can smell it, I can smell that fat lady's burp! It smells, like that gas has been building up in her gut forever. Fat people burps are the worst, she just let it rip..."

    I'm dying from laughter because son went on a minute long tirade about the burp. The woman gives him a dirty look which sends us both into uncontrollable laughter.

    Anyways, we ended up leaving because that was pretty gross and the steak fingers were greasy and unsatisfying. Should have went to the Whataburger across the street.

     

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  8. One Summer during Little League All Stars, me and my son made it a goal to eat at every Dairy Queen in the hill country. We were in the hill country district and had to travel all over the place.

    Best: Boerne, TX.

    Worst: Mason, TX.

    Actually the place in Mason was probably the worst fast food place I've ever been to in my life.

     

  9. I assume part of it has to do with saving a shit ton of time and money by skipping the R&D process in order to close the gap with Western competition. When they eventually catch up they will need to take care if this for themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if they just hired a bunch of Westerners to fill that skill gap. Then we can do to them what they did to us.

    By the way, didn't the Japanese start off by copying American products with cheap ripoffs?

     

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  10. A couple of books that can shed some light on this subject are White Protestant Nation and Christianity's Dangerous Idea. White Protestant Nation covers the evolution of the American Right throughout the 20th century and how it was shaped by faith, particularly the Protestant faith. The other book covers the chameleon nature of Protestantism due to a particular idea of Luther's, Sola Scriptua.

    Imo, a reason why we see a marriage between the evangelicals and conservative movement is due to the nature of generic Protestantism that allows everyone to interpret scripture and form theology as it suits their needs. This is partially why we see culture heavily influencing evangelicals but not the Catholic church.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    This is a legitimate complaint and problem.  It’s a generally lack of mutual accountability from our elected officials.  Again, this problem is on us for electing these POS politicians that treat the IC as their own personal bloodhounds. 

    Look I get it, many people are anti-state/IC because of mistakes in the past but what is the alternative? No IC? Just let the local police handle violence from extremist groups and international bad actors?

    I don't lump the FBI in with the CIA/NSA. I've always supported the idea that terrorism should be treated as a law enforcement problem and that the FBI should be leading the fight and not the military and Intelligence agencies.

     

  12. 45 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    The most disgusting hypocrisy is the people that chant up and down the street that they “support our troops” and in the same breath shit all over the FBI/CIA. 

    Or those that marched against the Iraq war, Patriot Act and CIA's torture program flipped stances because of an election.

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  13. 23 minutes ago, softlynow said:

    Leaking is like any kind of civil disobedience. Be prepared to do the time.

    They go unpunished because our politics is fucked. Tell me how the law that protects RW would operate. What would the objective elements of a defense to 18 U.S.C. Section 793(e) be that might be applicable here? Or, what's your argument that 18 U.S.C. Section 793(e) should be repealed?

    My biggest gripe is whistle blowers are charged under the Espionage Act which does not take into account the public service that is being done by the leak. However, political operatives leak information all of the time for purely political purposes but go unpunished.

    If leaking is done on behalf of the ruling polity it's kosher but if it's a grunt leaking information that shines light on illegal activities it's suddenly a high crime. Different rules for different classes. Grunts should know their place in the world I guess.

     

     

     

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