Valin Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Vladimir Pozner Bob Costa will cover the Olympics. Must See TV! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Dear Kanye West I am honored to be writing such an important star. I am a mere Internet sensation. Im not sure I am worthy to address you, although the Huffington Post did say I was Humorous and Insanely Popular. I dont pay much attention to those things. Anyway, please excuse my interference in your life for a quick second. I read your interview and also watched it on video. You said: Im just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally..and I think about it. I think about my family and Im like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something. I want to thank you for putting your life on the line for all of us every day. I know that being a rapper is tough work. I have tried to rap, and it is very difficult to keep up with the pulse of the rhyme flowalthough when Ice Ice Baby comes on the radio, I can usually keep up with ol Vanilla. Anywho, your job is just some very dangerous work. Most people dont consider if you rap really fast, without a chance to inhale, you could pass out and hit your head. That last paragraph was covered in sarcasm. Im letting you know, just so you do not think I agree with your very ignorant assessment of your career (or any other performer)as it relates to a person in the military or a police officers service. You sir, are as misguided as they come. I do have a suggestion for you. Since you are accustomed to danger, from your life as an international rapper, I am strongly encouraging you immediately abandon you career as a super star and join the military. After joining, I would like you to volunteer to be deployed in Afghanistan or one of the numerous other forward locations where our men an women are currently serving. When the Taliban starts shooting at you, perhaps you could stand up and let the words flow. It could be something like Im Kanye West, wearing a flak vest. Im sure they would just drop weapons and surrender. You could quite possibly end all wars, just from the enemy being star-struck. Your line of thinking is part of the problem in the world today.which include entertainers thinking they are something more than just entertainers. I know it is supply and demand and the demand for your services is high. I get economics. What I do not get is you EVER comparing what you do for a living to our heroic military members, who are always in harms way and my brother and sister police officers who have to go to work carrying weapons and wearing a bullet-proof vest to protect themselves. Check yourself, before you wreck yourself.Chief Oliver. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Very good. And what was it again that Tom Cruise said? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 News You Can Really Use. No No...that's ok no need to send me money. Just trying to be of service. of course if you insist on sending money..what can I do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Observations for a Friday Afternoon Steven Hayward Is it possible that Speaker Boehners attack on Tea Party groups is really a devious, double-back plot to reinvigorate them? Stranger things have happened. . . (I know what youre thinking: Steve, stop drinking sherry and reading Mickey Kaus in the morning. . .) (Snip) And if you havent already heard about it, our crack security theater agents known as the TSA have averted a potential airline terror plot by . . . confiscating a tiny toy pistol from a toy cowboy sock monkey. Because you know an entire flight crew could be fooled by such a thing. Actually I thin genuine armed monkeys would be a more sensible job of screening passengers than the feds. The latest potential Al Qaida terror threat . . . averted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Via Wirecutter 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Snow balls in Hell Cairo! First Snow Fall In Cairo In 112 Years http://weaselzippers.us/2013/12/13/cairo-snow/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 DiannyRants via iOTW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Snow balls in Hell Cairo! First Snow Fall In Cairo In 112 Years http://weaselzippers.us/2013/12/13/cairo-snow/ And global warming strikes again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Snow balls in Hell Cairo! First Snow Fall In Cairo In 112 Years http://weaselzippers.us/2013/12/13/cairo-snow/ And global warming strikes again. I Blame George Bush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 The Week in Pictures: Selfie Edition Steven Hayward Why is anyone surprised that our supremely self-regarding president should want to snap a selfie at a solemn event like Mandelas funeral? It perfectly matches his totally selfie political philosophy which, as George Will pointed out this week, seems to have never noticed that government bureaucracies behave like . . . bureaucracies. One day hes going to discover, like Jimmy Carter in 1979, that dictators behave like . . . dictators. (Snip) President Narcissus in action. (Snip) (Snip) (Snip) (Snip) The caption possibilities here are endless. (Snip) (Snip) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Red Shirts! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 The Tweetable Guide To Media Myths And Left-wing Violence As Andy noted this morning, the Denver Post was busy scrubbing the Colorado school shooter's socialist beliefs from its own reporting. On Twitter, I reviewed the media's history of convenient speculation and outright lies when it comes to the perpetrators of violence. (snip) H/T Right Scoop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Strengthen the Presidency WARNING: may cause painful headaches and an almost uncontrollable desire to grab a rifle and head for the nearest tall building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 http://youtu.be/lnvgE0CEWhI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Now he belongs to the gauges....Or.... Why Yes It Is All About me! He's not conceited...he's convinced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Sen. Mark Udall (D, Colorado) lied about #obamacare: watch him get called on it here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Sen. Mark Udall (D, Colorado) lied about #obamacare: watch him get called on it here. I've sent Udall several letters.....politely worded, but with emphasis on this & other topics....and he always sends a 'canned' letter back. He's an elected elite from the "Republic of Boulder" and unfortunately.....will probably be re-elected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTexan Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 This story update "burns me up"! USATODAY Mandela event signer was in group that burned men to deathJOHANNESBURG (AP) — A relative and three friends of the bogus sign language interpreter at the Nelson Mandela memorial service say he was among a group of people who accosted two men found with a stolen television and burned them to death in 2003. They told The Associated Press that the group placed tires around the men's necks and set them ablaze. Unlike two other suspects who went to trial in 2006 for the killings, the four said on Monday that Thamsanqa Jantjie never did because authorities determined he wasn't mentally fit. Jantjie and Obama... two pea (heads) in a pod. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTexan Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 You gotta give the CNN "News Reporters" credit... They never fail to ferret out at least one race baiting story for their front page every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestVirginiaRebel Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Ladies and gentlemen, our Secretary of State. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Ladies and gentlemen, our Secretary of State. Should I have a LARGE glass of whiskey before I click? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Australian scientists grow mini-kidney in lab 12/16/13 The kidney as seen in a petri dish. Photo: UQ A mini-kidney has been grown in an Australian laboratory from what were originally skin cells, boosting hopes for the future treatment of kidney disease. The study adds support to a science-fiction-like goal of taking skin cells from a patient, using them to grow a kidney and then implanting it into the same patient, circumventing problems with transplant rejection. The result of the work was a kidney measuring in the millimetres. The next step will be finding ways to increase its size. The team who grew the mini-kidney: Professor Melissa Little, Dr Jessica Vanslambrouck and Dr Minoru Takasato. Photo: UQ (Snip) And No Humans were killed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Ladies and gentlemen, our Secretary of State. Should I have a LARGE glass of whiskey before I click? I'm gonna need a double! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 This story update "burns me up"! USATODAY Mandela event signer was in group that burned men to death JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A relative and three friends of the bogus sign language interpreter at the Nelson Mandela memorial service say he was among a group of people who accosted two men found with a stolen television and burned them to death in 2003. They told The Associated Press that the group placed tires around the men's necks and set them ablaze. Unlike two other suspects who went to trial in 2006 for the killings, the four said on Monday that Thamsanqa Jantjie never did because authorities determined he wasn't mentally fit. Jantjie and Obama... two pea (heads) in a pod. @NCTexan! Necklacing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing Necklacing, otherwise also known as 'Horse Collaring', is the practice of summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tire, filled with petrol, around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The victim may take up to 20 minutes to die, suffering severe burns in the process. In South Africa The practice appears to have begun in the Cape area of South Africa in the mid-1980s, and to have arisen from the practice of burning the bodies of anti-apartheid activists killed by the police, or suspected collaborators killed by anti-apartheid activists. One incident sometimes cited as the first recorded instance of necklacing took place in Uitenhage on 23 March 1985 when a group of people killed Benjamin Kinikini, a local councillor who was accused of having links to a vigilante group. Kinikini and members of his family were dragged out of their house, stabbed to death, and their bodies set on fire.[1] Two of those judged to be the perpetrators, Wellington Mielies, 26, and Moses Jantjies, 23, were hanged on 1 September 1987.[2] But in this case the victims were killed by stabbing, and not by burning tyres. Something similar seems to have happened in the killing of Matthew Goniwe and his fellow anti-apartheid activists by the police in July 1985.[3] By the end of 1985, however, it seems that in many instances a burning tyre alone was used to kill, and soon afterwards the perpetrators began to taunt the victims by saying "We're going to give you a pretty necklace." Necklacing "sentences" were sometimes handed down against alleged criminals by "people's courts" established in black townships as a means of enforcing their own judicial system. Necklacing was also used by the black community to punish its members who were perceived as collaborators with the apartheid government. These included black policemen, town councilors and others, as well as their relatives and associates. The practice was often carried out in the name of the ANC, although the ANC executive body condemned it.[4][5] In 1986 Winnie Mandela, then-wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, stated "With our boxes of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate this country" which was widely seen as an implicit endorsement of necklacing,[6] which at the time caused the ANC to distance itself from her,[7] although she later took on a number of official positions within the party.[7] The number of deaths per month in South Africa related to political unrest as a whole from 1992 through 1995 ranged from 54 to 605 and averaged 244.[8] These figures are inclusive of massacres as well as deaths not attributed to necklacing. The first victim of necklacing, according to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was a young girl, Maki Skosana, in July 1985.[9] 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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