PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Rush on April 26, 2024, 04:06:23 AM
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The biggest message I get from this is you better have the strongest military. Somebody should tell the woke fruitcakes in our DoD. Property rights are meaningless unless you can defend them.
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What’s mine is mine, if I can keep it.
One must remember that mikey demands we all surrender our property when challenged rather than protect it.
What’s yours is yours if I can’t take it.
I think that’s where Mikey is coming from.
What’s ours is ours as long as the liberals don’t decide it’s theirs.
Definitely in mikey territory, now.
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I love it when the British show up. 🤣
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Mikey and Stan both checked in on April 16th.
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Mikey and Stan both checked in on April 16th.
I’m real curious what Michael’s thoughts are on the pro-Hamas “Death to America” protests.
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I’m real curious what Michael’s thoughts are on the pro-Hamas “Death to America” protests.
As a secular Jew, he'd be fine with it, just like many other hypocritical, self-hating Jews.
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I’m real curious what Michael’s thoughts are on the pro-Hamas “Death to America” protests.
The leftist academics are fine with this, in fact they are the ones that have been brainwashing students for the past few decades with this garbage.
Here's some perspective.
Think It Can't Happen Here?
Ray DiLorenzo
Ignorance from Ivy League schools seems to be the norm today. Maybe it's the DEI hiring of professors, deans, and school presidents, or just low admission standards, or maybe it's all part of the plan. There is no doubt that student intelligence, or, should I say, student education, is well below par. These institutions of 'higher learning' seem to only advance socialist propaganda, and the birthing of Hitler youth, whether it be Marxist or Fascist.
The academic bubble is bursting. They no longer have the favor or aura they once had. Living in their cocoon, I would expect they're only now becoming aware that they can't hide it anymore.
Columbia students, like so many other students, regardless of their college ranking, are ignorant. They know little of what really goes on. Reality escapes their teachers, so it is not passed on.
The Arab-Israeli conflict is complicated, but we can simplify much of it.
Palestinians were nomadic. They never cared about or desired a state. Even the name Palestine was political. Rome bestowed the name upon Israel following its invasion in 70 AD. It was meant to give Israel's arch enemy, the Philistines, recognition. Palestine was neither a nation nor a people.
Before modern Israel, they had no government, no economy, and no currency. Even Mark Twain, who visited the Holy Land in the 19th century, said it was a desolate place with only a scattered remnant of Jews and Arabs. It was a depressed, forgotten land, except for being a small part of the Ottoman Empire.
When World War I ended, the Ottoman Empire was no more. Jews began returning to the land of their biblical forefathers, given to them by God, as foretold in Scripture. The British government promised to create a new Jewish state in 1917 (the Balfour Declaration).
International organizations like the UN intervened in drawing up boundary proposals for the new state. Jews agreed to all, Palestinian Arabs agreed to none. Unlike in Arab lands where Jews were being deported, the new Israel welcomed Palestinians and invited them to be part of a nation reborn. Anticipating a war, Palestinian leaders implored their people to leave their homes and fight alongside their Arab brothers. Many Arabs did, leaving their homes, hoping to come back when the new nation was aborted. Five Arab nations invaded, but lost. The Arabs that left their homes wanted back, but Israel said, 'Not so fast.' No nation with any sense would allow enemies to return and take root. Thus, Israel was born in 1948, taking up about 0.2% of the Middle East, the size of New Jersey. And yet, there are groups that want to further divide Israel.
No private property was ever confiscated from an Arab. Every piece of private property obtained from Palestinians was purchased.
Many of the statements made about Israel in print and on the streets are clever propaganda. The term genocide in relation to Israel is ludicrous. Of all people, accuse Jews of genocide? In this world, no state is a perfect state, but all Israel wants is to survive and live in peace. They, like any other country, will do what they have to do.
October 7, 2023, was a Holocaust-like event. Over twelve-hundred innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered, and over 240 taken hostage. Hamas raped and mutilated women without mercy. Among the bodies identified were found broken pelvises, bruises, cuts, and signs of sexual assault, with victims ranging from children, teenagers to the elderly.
Videos of eyewitnesses detailed bloodied naked women, gang rapes, mutilation, executions, and wombs ripped open with the fetus stabbed before killing the mother. Some Hamas killers even called their proud parents, keeping the line open, as they were killing Jews, asking for and receiving their blessing.
Journalists witnessed women raped and then shot in the head while still being assaulted. "One man we spoke to from the festival site said he heard the "noises and screams of people being murdered, raped, and decapitated" (BBC).
Of course, Hamas has denied any accusations that its men committed any rape.
The women that were carried away were either naked or partially clothed. The few women that survived the attack, whether by luck or by playing dead, are receiving intense psychiatric treatment. "Multiple photographs from the sites after the attack show the bodies of women naked from the waist down, or with their underwear ripped to one side, legs splayed, with signs of trauma to their genitals and legs" (BBC).
Israel's police chief, Yaacov Shabtai, said that many survivors of the attacks were finding it difficult to talk and that he thought some of them would never testify about what they saw or experienced. Many are now considered suicidal, with some having already taken their own lives.
Let's not play with fancy words or assume we understand. We don't. What we do understand is that Hamas declared war on Israel and war is what they are getting in return. But to a generation that does not understand war, their desire is for a sterile war where only the bad guys are identified and eliminated. It doesn't happen that way.
Mere hatred is not enough to explain the Islamic atrocities. It also requires a strong religious and political context. We can go back to when Islam was founded by Muhammad in the 7th century and was rejected by the Jews. But for another time.
Hamas was founded in 1987. They are an Islamic fundamentalist group, and by the very core of their being, they will never accept a Jewish state.
In 2005, Israel withdrew from Gaza, giving the Palestinians their own land. Some will remember news broadcasts of Israeli soldiers, sometimes forcefully, moving fellow Israelis out of their homes around Gaza and the West Bank.
It is important to note that every time Israel gave Palestinians land, it became a base of operations to attack Israel. It would be like giving Michigan to terrorists, then ducking missiles from Dearborn.
In 2006, the Palestinians voted, giving Hamas much more power than they had, a clear plurality. The Fatah Party of Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, was losing its grip on the people. In 2007, Hamas launched a bloody campaign against Fatah and took complete control over Gaza. Since then, Palestinians haven't held an election.
Hamas began conducting terrorist attacks in Israel, killing 506 and wounding thousands.
Hamas was designated a terrorist organization by the United States, Israel, the EU, Canada, Egypt, and Japan. Israel and Egypt imposed a blockade on Gaza, restricting travel and trade within and outside the Strip. After the blockade, the number of attacks plummeted.
Every Palestinian must or should have known that a vote for Hamas was a vote for war with Israel. Hamas is a sinister organization. Despite their propagandized whining about civilian deaths, the Palestinian people mean nothing to them. The deaths of the innocent are but a necessary story to be broadcast to the West far and wide, complete with crocodile tears.
The preamble of the first version of the Hamas charter in 1988 reads, "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."
The second version of their charter has a softer approach. When you say in the first version that we are going to kill Jews, you can't take that back and say, Well, maybe not. It doesn't work that way.
We've all heard the expression, War is Hell. War is neither fair nor just. It just is. In war, it's imperative to take action or face the consequences—kill or be killed. What is Israel to do? They have a determined enemy, consistently hiding behind women and children, in hospitals, schools, and nurseries, moving troops and weapons in ambulance vehicles and tunnels built for the same purpose, and playing to the nightly news about their dead that they could care less about. Top Hamas leader, Ismael Haniyeh, who lives in splendor in Qatar, after his three sons and several grandchildren were killed in an airstrike, said he "thanks God for the honor of their martyrdom."
And there goeth our student youth, risking a criminal record, suspension, and expulsion, making Hamas proud. All to defend an organization they know little or nothing about. All because their academic 'superiors' want them to feel rather than think, eliciting emotions instead of thinking critically. Is that what Rush Limbaugh meant when he spoke repeatedly of our youth—young brains filled with mush?
Our country and much of western civilization are headed for big trouble if we don't take command of this chaos and turn it around. We are not fighting stupidity. We are fighting ignorance. Israel is a reality. They are not going to pack up and move to Brooklyn. Don't expect Democrats to do anything. They are bottom feeders, feeding on the chaos they've worked so hard to create. Fully half of all Republicans are as worthless as the Democrat Party. Many of them perceive our country's disintegration and are simply taking what is left on the table. Then you get low-life's like Soros, who is funding much of the college protesting.
We know the history of Germany in 1938. Think it can't happen here? It can, and it is. Eisenhower warned that this could happen. Turn around and observe what our political parties, globalists, bureaucrats, media, academics, distant parents, corporate scum, and unlimited government types have created. Then you will understand.
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The psychotic muslims of hamas ARE the reason America. Weds President Trumps back where he should have been before the shit head democrat communist party assisted by the criminal cia, doj, and fuckwad fbi committed treason on election night 2020.
Between the traitors in congress and the senile pedo they installed after the coup, putin felt free to invade Ukraine and hamas scum attacked Israel.
I spit my contempt on liberal democrats for your ignorance, bigotry and lies.
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These college student brats weren’t even born when 9/11 happened. They have no fucking clue what they’re doing.
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These college student brats weren’t even born when 9/11 happened. They have no fucking clue what they’re doing.
Is that thing on her face to make it easier for someone to lead her around by the nose.
Just seeing that makes me want to give it a good yank.
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Is that thing on her face to make it easier for someone to lead her around by the nose.
Just seeing that makes me want to give it a good yank.
What’s with those nose rings? Why would anyone want the feeling of snot hanging out your nostrils all the time?
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Have a young lady that works at the movie theater we go to that has one of those. she seems very nice when we talk to her. Don't know why the ring though.
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Every time I see a nose ring it reminds me of when I was growing up on the farm we put nose rings in hogs to keep them from rooting under the fence.
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What’s with those nose rings? Why would anyone want the feeling of snot hanging out your nostrils all the time?
They all have them. Well, most, anyway. They think it makes them look cool and hip. Like the tattoos most of them have.
Want to be different and stand out? Don't get piercings and tatoos.
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My wife is mostly tolerant of tattoos and piercings and blue hair. But she draws a line at nose rings. If we are in a restaurant and the server has a nose ring she will (make me) ask for a different server or a different table. She feels like Rush said; it makes her think of snot coming out of the servers nose and she envisions it dropping on her food. (yecch).
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I have grown used to them as I see them all the time. They don't bother me.
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Nose rings, face piercings, huge ear holes. I don't get it. I don't understand what would make someone think a shiny ball bearing stuck to their faces, or a washer through the nose, or ear lobes stretched would make them more attractive or more interesting. I see lots of people with shiny things stuck to the sides of their noses like little blobs of solder. I want to say "Excuse me, you have something stuck to your nose." Never mind chunks of metal stuck through things that shouldn't have things stuck through. But then I also don't get the tattoo craze either. There is no artwork that I'd want on my body forever. And on most people it looks bad. Especially an otherwise gorgeous chick with tats and piercings. No. Guess I'm just an unpierced, unmarked rebel these days.
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Nose rings, face piercings, huge ear holes. I don't get it. I don't understand what would make someone think a shiny ball bearing stuck to their faces, or a washer through the nose, or ear lobes stretched would make them more attractive or more interesting. I see lots of people with shiny things stuck to the sides of their noses like little blobs of solder. I want to say "Excuse me, you have something stuck to your nose." Never mind chunks of metal stuck through things that shouldn't have things stuck through. But then I also don't get the tattoo craze either. There is no artwork that I'd want on my body forever. And on most people it looks bad. Especially an otherwise gorgeous chick with tats and piercings. No. Guess I'm just an unpierced, unmarked rebel these days.
Every single bit of that shit is all about getting attention.
Not much different than the make believe trannies today.
Lop off your breast, sticych on a fake penis, and see how much attention you can get and for how long.
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Every single bit of that shit is all about getting attention.
Not much different than the make believe trannies today.
Lop off your breast, sticych on a fake penis, and see how much attention you can get and for how long.
I think this is true , but it's also about being hip and cool to their peers, like we had long hair and ripped jeans.
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I think this is true , but it's also about being hip and cool to their peers, like we had long hair and ripped jeans.
Right. We had long hair (the men) and bell bottoms, the women went bra-less and got our ears pierced - ONE hole only per ear. Then maybe we wore big hoop earrings. We did all that to fit in and be cool.
Today, they're literally destroying their bodies permanently. I don't understand it.
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Right. We had long hair (the men) and bell bottoms, the women went bra-less and got our ears pierced - ONE hole only per ear. Then maybe we wore big hoop earrings. We did all that to fit in and be cool.
Today, they're literally destroying their bodies permanently. I don't understand it.
I never did any of that stupid shit.
Being poor tends to make you less fashion obsessed.
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I never did any of that stupid shit.
Being poor tends to make you less fashion obsessed.
Well I never went bra-less. ;D
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Well I never went bra-less. ;D
Aww, come on,
Dont ruin the visualization.
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Aww, come on,
Dont ruin the visualization.
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I never did any of that stupid shit.
Being poor tends to make you less fashion obsessed.
I had longish hair, not long by any stretch and I always wore straight leg pants and jeans, but some of my jeans were torn up and I wasn't poor. I also wore military clothing which was also a style at the time. Jackets mostly. Cheaply bought at the Army Navy store which had real surplus back then.
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I wore military style clothing from 1971 - 1975 :D
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I interrupt this thread for some meaningless wokeness. We went to my grandson's soccer game last night, state playoffs quarter final, and noticed a banner at the entrance to the school that appeared to announce the school play. My wife could make out the first two words but not th third word. She told me it said 12 Angry "something". Well, of course it seems Men would ne appropriate as we are, likely, all familiar with that tile. My youngest son, father of this grandson actually had the lead in that play at a local theater group. Too many letter though. when the light turned and we drove past, it became clear to me that last word was "Jurists", 12 Angry Jurists, brought to you by 21st century wokism.
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I interrupt this thread for some meaningless wokeness. We went to my grandson's soccer game last night, state playoffs quarter final, and noticed a banner at the entrance to the school that appeared to announce the school play. My wife could make out the first two words but not th third word. She told me it said 12 Angry "something". Well, of course it seems Men would ne appropriate as we are, likely, all familiar with that tile. My youngest son, father of this grandson actually had the lead in that play at a local theater group. Too many letter though. when the light turned and we drove past, it became clear to me that last word was "Jurists", 12 Angry Jurists, brought to you by 21st century wokism.
That kind of thing sends me into a rage.
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What’s with those nose rings? Why would anyone want the feeling of snot hanging out your nostrils all the time?
As a lifelong hay fever sufferer, it would drive me insane.
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As a lifelong hay fever sufferer, it would drive me insane.
Me too. I also have a violent allergy to most jewelry, because they alloy it with nickel. A nose ring would give me a horrible itchy oozing rash. Gross!!
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I wore military style clothing from 1971 - 1975 :D
I was 12 in 1971. Damn you people are old! ;D
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I was 12 in 1971. Damn you people are old! ;D
I was a sophomore in college in'71 and voted for Nixon in '72.
I have lost 40 pounds since August 02, 2023 and feel 30 years younger than I have in decades. I've stopped all meds. My BP, cholesterol, blood sugar and A1C are all dead center normal.
But I'm still deaf as a door nail without hearing aids and I'm (almost) blind as a bat in my right eye.
And I'm still old.
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I was 12 in 1971. Damn you people are old! ;D
Ok boomer.
;)
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I was 12 in 1971. Damn you people are old! ;D
I was born in 1970.
You are all old!
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I was born in 1970.
You are all old!
You are at the perfect age. Any one older than you is old and anyone younger is young. Enjoy it and make the most of it. (That is serious advice; don't waste these years).
But don't get cocky. Before you know it you too will be old and wonder what what the hell happened.
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I was 12 in 1971. Damn you people are old! ;D
I may be old but I refuse to grow up. It's kind of strange seeing my birth year coming around again.
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I was 12 in 1971. Damn you people are old! ;D
I have a belt and shoes older than you.
sigh…
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I was born the same year as Bill Maher.
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Life for us “old folks”:
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When I get told "OK Boomer" I simply reply "OK renter".
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I was a sophomore in college in'71 and voted for Nixon in '72.
I have lost 40 pounds since August 02, 2023 and feel 30 years younger than I have in decades. I've stopped all meds. My BP, cholesterol, blood sugar and A1C are all dead center normal.
But I'm still deaf as a door nail without hearing aids and I'm (almost) blind as a bat in my right eye.
And I'm still old.
That's great Joe. Good for you, losing that weight. About three years ago, I just decided one day to change my lifestyle and started a rigorous, daily exercise program and totally changed my diet.
I'm 6' tall, so at 185 lbs looked halfway normal. I've been stable at 150 lbs now for almost two years. No meds, feel great and have lots of energy.
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I was 12 in 1971. Damn you people are old! ;D
I was -7 in 1971. How are any of you still alive!?!?!?!
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I was -7 in 1971. How are any of you still alive!?!?!?!
Good grief, I probably changed your diapers!
Not really. I was in high school. I wouldn't have done that.
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I was -7 in 1971. How are any of you still alive!?!?!?!
Since my last remaining parent just passed away I realize I am now on deck.
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Good grief, I probably changed your diapers!
Not really. I was in high school. I wouldn't have done that.
My mom was in high school in 1971, too.
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1971 doesn’t seem that long ago.
Really.
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I was -7 in 1971. How are any of you still alive!?!?!?!
I was married in 1971.
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I was -7 in 1971. How are any of you still alive!?!?!?!
better living through modern chemistry.
Of course, that doesn't explain why I'm still alive (no drugs, no booze, no smoking)
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1971 I was one year home from Nam.
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1971 I was one year home from Nam.
In 1971 I was 14 turning 15 (birthday is in the summer) and getting interested in boys, and getting very angry hearing every night how many American "boys" were killed and wounded over there. It was around that time I read The Gulag Archipelago and decided I hated communism, but even though we were supposedly "fighting communism" it still did not make sense to me why our boys were fighting over there because that was the other side of the planet. That's where my head was in 1971. A confused teenage girl.