Okay, but to be on the safe side should I tell Simeon that I've reconsidered storing his surplus electronics and 50 pounds of blu-tack while he moves house?
(05-10-2019 07:08 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote: Okay, but to be on the safe side should I tell Simeon that I've reconsidered storing his surplus electronics and 50 pounds of blu-tack while he moves house?
You shouldn't be storing anything sketchy, the cops are about to raid you for all that additive-less salt you're buying, you dangerous radical.
Last Friday, President Trump took the historic step of ordering the “unsigning” of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty during his address to the NRA-ILA’s Leadership Forum. President Trump’s action effectively withdraws the United States from the most comprehensive effort towards international gun control.
Much of the intervening coverage on the ATT has focused on how the treaty did or did not constrain U.S. arms sales abroad, but many average law-abiding gun owners may be questioning how the treaty could or couldn’t have affected them.
NRA’s complaints regarding the treaty have always been based on its potential effect on law-abiding American gun owners. Those complaints have focused on the treaty’s requirements for end use verification, its sometimes-unintelligible vagueness, its ability to be amended without the consensus of all parties, and its proponents repeated refusals to clarify that it has no effect on the possession of small arms by civilians in the United States.
The treaty urges recordkeeping of end users, directing importing countries to provide information to an exporting country regarding arms transfers, including “end use or end user documentation” for a “minimum of ten years.” Each country is to “take measures, pursuant to its national laws, to regulate brokering taking place under its jurisdiction for conventional arms.” Data kept on the end users of imported firearms is a de-facto registry of law-abiding firearms owners, which is a violation of federal law. Even worse, the ATT could be construed to require such a registry to be made available to foreign governments.
I'm going to start neutral repping people who post Styx Hexxenhammer vids.
Have some dignity, dude. If you want to talk about something Trump-related there are plenty of other sources to post beyond that shirtless, bicep-less freak.
The Pentagon's inspector general has cleared the acting defense secretary of favoring Boeing, his former employer.
The judgment could mean acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan could soon be up for an official nomination for the job.
Quote: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US Defense Department's inspector general has concluded that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan did not seek preferential treatment of Boeing, his former employer, while at the Pentagon, a US official told Reuters on Thursday.
The decision potentially opens the door for US President Donald Trump to nominate Shanahan to be the next defense secretary.
Officials close to Shanahan have said they believe one of the main reasons he has not been nominated yet was because of the inspector general's investigation. Trump has had numerous opportunities during the past few months to nominate him but has not yet done so.
Shanahan, 56, who spent more than three decades at Boeing, is the longest serving acting defense secretary ever. He took over at the Pentagon on Jan. 1 after Jim Mattis resigned amid policy differences with Trump.
The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the inspector general found no evidence of wrongdoing and could put out the report publicly as early as Thursday.
The inspector general started the investigation in March after a watchdog group filed a complaint alleging Shanahan promoted aerospace firm Boeing in meetings and disparaged competitors.
The investigation was based on a complaint filed by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, which said Shanahan had appeared to violate the ethical rules by "promoting Boeing in the scope of his official duties at the Department of Defense (DOD) and disparaging the company's competitors to his subordinates."
If Hillary won and supposedly sent cards to cancer victims I'd be tweeting the same thing (if I used Twitter). Because if I believe she's a soul-less monster (and I do) then that analysis seems perfectly likely.
If you're some combination of white, male, Christian and regularsexual (start referring to it as regularsexual) then this is how they see you. So cynically that an act of total kindness will be viewed as an act of hostility (see the thread about the man having his life ruined for helping a stranded female motorist fix her car).
Harden your hearts and either write off the territory the insane people inhabit or be prepared to retake it from them by whatever means necessary because to them you are no different from an alien monster that exists to be destroyed.
(05-10-2019 07:08 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote: Okay, but to be on the safe side should I tell Simeon that I've reconsidered storing his surplus electronics and 50 pounds of blu-tack while he moves house?
You shouldn't be storing anything sketchy, the cops are about to raid you for all that additive-less salt you're buying, you dangerous radical.
Simeon wouldn't be storing much aside from perfectly legal self-defense weaponry that is directly proportional to what is required in the place I am residing. Currently in my place even a baseball bat is overkill as it's the safest place in the world aside from Japan.
Even if I were a guy on Superman level in power, then as Superman I wouldn't be doing some stupid terrorism crap, I would at best come at the upper-tier globalists directly in secret with the people not noticing jack-shit. The globalists have a great control network in place - if you could "convince" them of changing the big plans, then things would improve without the people noticing what the fuck has happened.
These presumptions about "infiltrated RVF community" is stupid. Real undercover cops who want to goad the guys here into doing some stupid shit are banned quickly. The truth of why some guys have become more aware of the issues is the impending doom of the West as well as the hatred heaped on us - as I quote here the 160-IQ black Renegade of Funk:
And he didn't come to those "far-right" realizations automatically. He was a normal US African-American Democrat liberal in his 20s only realizing the realities of life after lots of travel and now living in Japan. Oh - and obviously the guy can compete well in Japan, making a good living, speaking the language.
I guess this is the "extremism" we are talking about. Sharing of ideas that you don't like.
Mr MAGA has approved the US Army to return to the iconic WW2-era uniforms as its new service uniform.
So what? Does he think this is going to give US Army an edge over Russia and its hypersonic weapons?
Does he think China is going to scare and capitulate over Taiwan?
Does he think this is going to help ISIS and Israel against Syria?
Does he think Iran is going to surrender?
I just don't get it.
Not sure if these were already posted but some minor positive developments.
The 9th circuit appeals(of all places) have ruled that asylum seekers that come in through the entry points will have to stay in Mexico for their case to be resolved.
Also, the pentagon has diverted another $1.5 billion to the border wall and says they they have already secured some $3.5 billion for additional wall which will be rolled out in the next months.
There are reports of Miller trying to push for "expedited hearings" and family unit deportations but there seems to be some pushback since they don't want more media outrage like those kids in cages.
On the international front:
Syrian army mission to recapture idlib has not received much attention. Looks like they are rolling through with russian assistance and so far Trump isn't really interested. The faster Assad reasserts himself all over syria, the faster refugees can return.
European elections are coming up and the nationalists should make gains.
Hypersonic weapons? We're already testing and having success with laser weaponry that can kill missles. Hypersonic is fast, light is faster. Do any of you doubt that this technology won't be effectively deployed with the resources being pumped in to national defense? https://www.foxnews.com/tech/us-military...icle-beams
^^^Yes because the tech will evetually become cheaper, smaller and ubiquitous throughout many military platforms including aircraft. It's not far off. Until then, fire your missles we fire ours and we all die. I'm fine with that. Hypersonic or not there's still plenty of time to react with a retaliatory strike.
(05-10-2019 10:57 AM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote: I'm going to start neutral repping people who post Styx Hexxenhammer vids.
Have some dignity, dude. If you want to talk about something Trump-related there are plenty of other sources to post beyond that shirtless, bicep-less freak.
Wow you'd neutral rep me?
TERRIFYING. I am literally shaking at how scared I am of you possibly neutral repping me for sharing a video I don't like.
*Threatening to neutral rep people is teenage girl behavior.
Quote:Very true *but* the same has been true for every advanced weaponry through history.
"You've got 100 guys with muskets. I've got 2000 screaming savages with spears. Think you can stop us all?"
That doesn't diminish the value of advanced weaponry.
To a point. A lot of America's "advanced weaponry" was useless in the current conflicts and they know it. One example is that the Americans started reacting to heat-sensitive IEDs by putting these fancy decoys with IR LED's that hang in front of the vehicle. They cost thousands of dollars each.
The Iraqis adjusted within a matter of days by just angling the IED's slightly back so that they'd hit 15 feet or so behind whatever set the device off. It cost them zero dollars to counter this solution we'd implemented with some ungodly price tag attached.
(05-10-2019 10:57 AM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote: I'm going to start neutral repping people who post Styx Hexxenhammer vids.
Have some dignity, dude. If you want to talk about something Trump-related there are plenty of other sources to post beyond that shirtless, bicep-less freak.
Wow you'd neutral rep me?
TERRIFYING. I am literally shaking at how scared I am of you possibly neutral repping me for sharing a video I don't like.
*Threatening to neutral rep people is teenage girl behavior.