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Spin Zone / Re: Fifty killed in gun-free zone
« on: July 15, 2016, 08:26:03 PM »
Quote from: Jaybird180 on June 29, 2016, 10:31:37 AM
The towers didn't go limp.  The heating in the building would be uneven due to where the airplane impacted, causing that portion of the building to soften.  Also, from what I understand the center structure wasn't hit by the airplane and should have been intact.

Paraphrased as best I can from Bobby: 'Concrete undergoes an explosion (can't recall the term he used) from the boiling and expansion of the trapped water at temperatures below that of molten steel, this didn't occur in the videos.  Also the black smoke at the bottom is indicative of where the pressure forces exist....I would have expected to see fire on the roof of Tower #7 but that didn't happen.'

The towers were made of steel and it didn't have a structural center section as I understand.  The structural strength was about the outside, considering vertical steel members.  Once 20,000+ gallons of flaming Jet A was introduced into the center section, it acted primarily on the flooring and the attachment bolts.  When the floors started to fail, one fell on the floor below, the exterior beams lost their support and started to bow out causing them to fail on compression and the upper floors came crashing down.  The lower floor couldn't carry the weight and it just pancaked downward.

The problem with these conspiracies it always requires a degree of cleverness and that a cast of hundreds keep their mouth shut.  It is amazing that the same people who think our government is incompetent can also think them able to pull off such a grand, dastardly conspiracy.

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Spin Zone / Re: Castile Stop: Other Side Of The Story
« on: July 15, 2016, 12:26:58 PM »
Quote from: Jaybird180 on July 15, 2016, 08:34:00 AM
You underestimate the degree to which the mindset of White Supremacy has infected society and the world.

What do you mean by White Supremacy?  Most of us go through our day without thinking about the color of our skin or that of anyone else's. 

The whole racism thing is a bit of a misnomer in my mind.  Humans are still fundamentally tribal.  Until we can have an honest conversation about that, then groups will keep fighting with other groups.  Which side has the White Supremacy thing happening when Irish Protestants are killing Irish Catholics?  How about the Japanese?  They think they are better than everyone.  Is that White Supremacy?  Where was the White Supremacy when the Hutus were slaughtering the Tutsis in Rwanda?  In generations past in this country, WASP's looked down on Jews, Catholics, Irish, Italians, etc.

The problem with putting everything in the context of skin tone is that is doesn't get to the heart of the issue and perpetuates an excuse for the poor to stay poor and justify taking the handouts as something owed.  In our society, we have at least gotten as far as any from a rigid class structure.  Here, money rules and there are opportunities for all to get some.  Admittedly, some have to work harder than others, but if you are completely trapped in our society, then the chains are those they have put there themselves.

The opinions expressed here are of the commentator alone and do not necessary reflect those of this forum's management or staff, or in fact, most of the human race.  :)

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Spin Zone / Re: Castile Stop: Other Side Of The Story
« on: July 10, 2016, 09:56:54 PM »
Quote from: Number7 on July 10, 2016, 07:19:04 AM
The new progressive normal is to make shit up and then start a riot.
The leftist lie machine is aided and abetted by the  lames stream and the pig in the white house.

There there!  Put on your white robes and burn a cross.  You will feel better.

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Spin Zone / Re: Fifty killed in gun-free zone
« on: June 12, 2016, 04:53:05 PM »
Quote from: Dav8or on June 12, 2016, 04:39:56 PM
OK, so Islam might explain the problem with this monster, but what about all the home grown mass shooters before him? It seems there is a certain number of people that want to go out an massacre defenseless people with, or without religion. They just need an excuse and religion is but one of many to choose from.

As I said, upbringing and community.  I didn't limit my comments to Islam, though certainly that has been a factor in some of these mass killings.  We need to do something about our mental health care system as the first priority.

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Spin Zone / Re: Change of Pace - BrExit...what do you think
« on: June 12, 2016, 02:34:51 PM »
Quote from: JeffDG on June 10, 2016, 01:32:30 PM
Where do you guys stand on this issue?  Should the UK withdraw from the European Union, or remain in?

Taking "guys" in the gender neutral manner it is oft used, I will weigh in.

Britain, for centuries, was the center of western and classically liberal thought.  From Britain the concept of government by the people and for the people was hatched.  It will be sad if the UK now dispenses with that for its own people and leaves its former colony as the primary beacon of the concept that the people should be able to government themselves through elected officials.

I didn't know how the EU was set up before this debate.  I always thought it was some trade thing, but obviously, the EU has grown to have much more control than would a free trade zone.  When I looked at the structure of the EU, it is clearly run by an oligarchy of bureaucrats and technocrats who own no allegiance to the citizenry.  Even assuming that a United States of Europe was a desirable or practical objective, the EU structure of governance would have to change unless Europe wants to create by consent, what neither Hitler nor Napoleon could create by force -- an autocratic ruler of all of Europe.

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Spin Zone / Re: Whoops! DOJ Just Destroyed Women's Sports
« on: June 02, 2016, 01:02:49 PM »
Quote from: bflynn on June 02, 2016, 07:46:18 AM
I would define myself as a knowledgable person.  I educated myself both because of meeting good people and later because Charlotte pushed an agenda to which the NC legislature reacted.

OK!  You have read some articles about this issue since the NC legislature waded it and you have been to bars.  Thus you are knowledgeable.  I have only read articles.  I am not knowledgeable, according to you.  I guess you got one hell of an education on those bars.  I will bow to your superior, er, experience on at least the nitty gritty.

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Not aware that I'm "making up definitions", although there are so many that I will agree it's possible I may have used an incorrect word in the past.  Are you arguing semantics of something that you yourself didn't know about when this thread started?


 You define "transvestism" as anyone who wears the clothes of the opposite gender.  The dictionary and the DSM don't define it that way.  I was going on what I read, but maybe that was something else I missed out in the bars of SF.

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You are incorrect, this did not start with Charlotte.  It started in other places, such as Toronto and Washington state, both of which have or are trying to walk back their laws because of problems what resulted from them.  Did you even bother to look or did you just decide for yourself that there's no problem?

You misunderstand my point completely.  Prior to this latest wave of attempting to define what is male and female and which restrooms each should use, putatively to protect us poor little helpless females, there were few, if any laws that attempted to define who should use which restrooms.  Granted there was overwhelming custom in the matter, but as far as I can tell, and no one has yet corrected me, most jurisdictions historically did not have laws about who could use which restrooms.

This point is relevant to the claim that the good burghers of NC, et al, needed to make this law to prevent hoards of perverts from descending on the women's rooms of America and raping every female in sight.  Since it was never illegal for a male to be in the women's restroom in the first place, and the faux parade of horribles had yet to materialize, this justification is pure BS.

Now admittedly, it was the lefties that opened up pandora's box with their misguided attempt to legislate the issue in the first place which would have been better left to the schools to try and sort out themselves.  However, as Mom always said, you can't remove BS with more BS.

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Spin Zone / Re: Why Cruz announced Carly then bailed...
« on: May 14, 2016, 11:50:31 PM »
Quote from: nddons on May 14, 2016, 04:34:01 PM
Who pissed in your Cheerios today? What makes her a dirtbag?  She didn't stiff vendors. It just took time to pay off.

I contributed a small amount to Scott Walker recently to help pay off his debt. That's how this works.

Where in the world is it OK to take six years to pay off your vendors when all she had to do was lend her campaign the money to pay them and then she could collect it back through our usual system of graft.  Why is it OK to force the vendors to be her banker?  Dirtbag fits.

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Spin Zone / Re: Strangers in our Own Party
« on: May 10, 2016, 08:58:36 PM »
Quote from: Little Joe on May 10, 2016, 04:14:57 PM
I was replying to Sooner Aviator! 
Are you saying you two are the same people?  Why would you do that?

No.  I am Later Aviatrix.  :)

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Spin Zone / Re: Interesting Case in NJ
« on: May 05, 2016, 04:05:08 PM »
Quote from: iryan on May 05, 2016, 03:32:26 PM
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/05/video_troopers_arrest_woman_for_remaining_silent_d.html

This story is getting some good press in NJ. I often read Jbirds race threads and I am curious what he and others think about this case. It's more the comments on the page that make me shake my head and realize we have the government we deserve. My brother who is a cop called me and couldn't believe the troopers got reprimanded. Me as a lawyer couldn't believe they tried and will probably get away with this without any sanctions.

Thoughts?

I will be interested to see how far the "good faith" defense to a civil rights violation flies.  I expect to hear a judicial thud.

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Spin Zone / Re: Bye bye Cruz
« on: May 03, 2016, 07:14:21 PM »
Quote from: Mase on May 03, 2016, 07:09:27 PM
I am not concerned with Republicans voting for Hillary.  I am concerned about Republicans staying home.

Exactly.  The Senate must stay in GOP hands.  That is the most important.

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Spin Zone / Re: Is the 14th Amendment a threat to the Bill of Rights?
« on: May 02, 2016, 10:44:09 AM »
Quote from: bflynn on May 02, 2016, 10:11:39 AM
Nope.  Just experienced, going back to the early days of usenet, after Algore invented the internet, before Berners-Lee invented the web.  I've seen your personality multiple times.  If we drill away at this for 5-10 years, we will eventually arrive at a place where we all learn that the liberal wants what the liberal wants and never mind that things conflict.   

But you don't hold my interest to want to go that long.

Your ignorance is only exceeded by your arrogance.

I go back to Compuserve, before the Usenet was in vogue with the masses.  That experience doesn't qualify anyone to psychoanalyze another.

Of course, your diagnosis of me as a flaming liberal shows that either your reading comprehension is woefully lacking or your memory is insufficient to store and process the hundreds of posts I have made.

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Spin Zone / Re: Is the 14th Amendment a threat to the Bill of Rights?
« on: April 28, 2016, 10:18:37 PM »
Quote from: bflynn on April 28, 2016, 02:28:59 PM
And no, I did not attend law school but I was taught by law school professors from UNC and Campbell in both undergrad and masters program.

Apparently you covered more of the history of its enactment than considered the evolution of Constitutional interpretation.

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True or false - "No laws may contradict any of the Constitution's principles"?

It could depend on what you mean by "principles", but if that means the text then the answer is:

True only if it is an exam question in a survey course.  In the real world, it is false.

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Spin Zone / Re: Electoral votes
« on: April 27, 2016, 08:21:43 PM »
The WH is lost to the GOP.  Neither Cruz nor Trump has the proverbial snowball's chance in hell.  Trump will either win the nomination or he will have the plurality of delegates.  If the RNC denies him, a goodly percentage of Trump supporter are likely to sit out the election in anger at the establishment.  Even without that, once the Dems and the business community turn their attention and money on negative Cruz ads, he will be lucky to win any but the most solid red states which is not nearly enough.

Trump will lose too, but at least if he is the nominee the GOP will not be as badly split and they would stand a better chance of holding the Senate and House.  Splitting the party by denying Trump threatens the GOP will loss of at least the Senate.  If that happens, Hillary will be appointing young socialists to the SCOTUS and there will be no one to stop her.  That would be a disaster.

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Spin Zone / Re: Black Churches Taught us to Forgive White People
« on: April 27, 2016, 07:54:50 PM »
Quote from: Jaybird180 on April 27, 2016, 05:10:26 AM
I think the answer depends on how much zoom is on the lens. In order to adequately discuss the matter, I think it's difficult for people to first deal with how a derived answer would affect them personally- objectivity is severely compromised.

What is sorely misunderstood is that in globalism where racism is concerned, nobody gets away unaffected. We have a systematic model that pits one against the other and the competition floor is skewed in such a way that any semblance of a meritocracy is serverly crippled.

I think you are saying -- whether you mean to be or not -- that everyone the world over is racist.  If you substitute fear of the other for "racism", I think you would be correct.  Racism is, at most, as subset of fear of the outsider and the nature competition that occurs between groups.  Color of the skin might be a shorthand for the "other", it is clearly not a sina qua non, given the slaughter taking place on the tribal level in Africa, often driven by religion.  It is also not a factor when Protestants and Catholics are killing each other in Northern Ireland.

One can look at the world through the lens of epidermal pigmentation, but I am not sure where it gets one other than an excuse for whatever disappoints one harbors.

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Spin Zone / Re: Where is Palestine on the map?
« on: April 24, 2016, 01:45:29 PM »
Quote from: Anthony on April 24, 2016, 07:14:50 AM
I believe the Phillies are the losingest team in MLB history.  Yes, they've won a few World Series, but they were bad for years, and are bad again.  Yes, I am a Phillies fan.

You have the best mascot.  That has to count for something.

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