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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Hamilton Star Brandon Victor Dixon Advocated Interracial Rape?
[DangerAndPlay]
There is no memory hole on the internet.
Posted by: charger || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  St. Patty's day weekend is like Christmas for black dudes who like white chicks. Happy holidays boys. Brandon Victor Dixon Maybe this guy should checks his BVDs.

Does that mean Kwanzaa is like Christmas for "white dudes" who like black chicks?" Or is Christmas just Christmas and for the celebration of the birth of Christ?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/21/2016 9:54 Comments || Top||

#2  the implication is fairly clear

I understand it to mean that St Paddy's day means all the white girls are out getting drunk

so they're easy to pick up for a quick shag

it's like christmas!

It's not actually rape unless the female is too drunk to be in control of their choices

the implication though is certainly one of sexual predation and taking advantage of the free flowing alcohol

what is nasty about it is the implication of predation, of the women as just "colostomy bags for semen" as Gavin McInnes put it once. No intent to meet someone for a relationship, just use for sex.
Posted by: anon1 || 11/21/2016 17:37 Comments || Top||

#3  No intent to meet someone for a relationship, just use for sex

And there you have the main reason for the lack of 'fathers' in the inner cities.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/21/2016 22:05 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
At least 120 killed as train derails in India
[DAWN] Emergency workers raced to find any more survivors in the mangled wreckage of an Indian train that derailed Sunday, killing at least 120 people, in the worst disaster to hit the country's ageing rail network in recent years.

Shocked passengers recalled being jolted out of their early morning slumber by a violent thud as 14 carriages leapt from the tracks in a remote area near Kanpur city in Uttar Pradesh state.

Survivors also told of their desperate search for loved-ones on the train, which was carrying at least one wedding party with the marriage season in India in full swing.

"My 12-year-old daughter is missing, I have been looking for her for hours," a survivor told AFP at the accident site, breaking into uncontrollable sobs. "My wife has received serious head injuries and I have lost all my belongings. I am feeling so helpless, my whole world has turned upside down."
Posted by: Fred || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Saudi intellectual: Arabs block civilization
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Al Arabiya: Professor Ibrahim Albleahy, what was the formation of your ideology and what were the pivotal moments which led you to explore the Arab-Muslim community’s dilemma through philosophy?

Albleahy: In my childhood, I recognized that there was a huge gap not only between us as Arabs and Muslims, but between all the nations on the one hand, and the West on the other.

The West, and no one else, is the architect of this eminent civilization that is qualitatively different from everything that humanity has known throughout history. The evolvement of the nations that tagged along was proportional to what they were inspired by from the West, hence, I yearned to explore the dynamics that facilitated the West’s advancement and kept other nations lagging behind.
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Posted by: Fred || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  "Saudi intellectual" - contradiction in terms.
Posted by: Raj || 11/21/2016 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  I actually like this guy
Posted by: newc || 11/21/2016 4:27 Comments || Top||

#3  The West, and no one else, is the architect of this eminent civilization that is qualitatively different from everything that humanity has known throughout history.

Holy $hit!! There's a thought to twist the knickers of every proggie from Obumbles to Triggly Puff. From a Muslim no less.


Wait while I go catch some flying bacon.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/21/2016 7:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Perhaps they already reached their highest capacity and have been in decline for 1600 years.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/21/2016 11:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Your going to need a shotgun and a fine dawg Alan who will retrieve and not gulp on the spot. Split 50-50 and have boiled eggs in your pocket.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/21/2016 13:03 Comments || Top||

#6  "Then, I realized that people in all nations are still living in false states of consciousness,"

I think one partial sentence sums up the entire problem facing those of us who are not afraid of peanut butter and gluten!
Posted by: Goober Wittlesbach5685 || 11/21/2016 13:16 Comments || Top||

#7  I must be sick, Hemingway makes sense.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/21/2016 13:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Not Hemingway. It's our drunken poster.
Posted by: Pappy || 11/21/2016 14:31 Comments || Top||

#9  Saudi intellectual: Arabs block civilization

Another thing they have in common with the Left.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/21/2016 21:52 Comments || Top||


Britain
Queen to invite Trump to Britain for state visit
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Queen Elizabeth will invite US President-elect Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
for a state visit to Britannia next year to try to cement close ties between the two countries, The Sunday Times newspaper said.

Citing two ministers and a bigwig close to Downing Street, the Sunday Times reported that discussions between British officials and Trump's team would start soon to ensure that a date could be agreed for June or July next year.

Britannia is keen to reinforce its "special relationship" with the United States as the government of Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to leave the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, a divorce that will shape the country's standing in the world.

Trump invited May to visit him as soon as possible during their first telephone call since his election victory, the British prime minister's office has said. Aides for May have said as yet there is no date for the trip.

The Sunday Times said the British government hopes that an official state visit will be its "secret weapon" for cementing ties after Trump met leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage earlier this month - the first British politician to do so.

The newspaper also said the president-elect told May during their phone call last week that his late Scottish mother was a "big fan" of the Queen and asked the prime minister to pass on his best wishes to her.
Posted by: Fred || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Britannia is keen to reinforce its "special relationship" with the United States

Hmmm, I wonder who un-reinforced that relationship?
Posted by: Raj || 11/21/2016 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Perhaps she can (as a joke) "regift" the CD's of Zero's speeches to the Donald, who can then ceremoniously deposit them in the nearest circular file. (It'll never happen, but I can dream, can't I?)
Posted by: PBMcL || 11/21/2016 1:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe they can listen to them and make jokes - kind of like Science Fiction 3000 and old movies. Only this will be funnier.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/21/2016 1:14 Comments || Top||

#4  "Donald, I've got this smashing estate I never use. Perhaps you can set it up for a game of stick and willie."
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/21/2016 11:37 Comments || Top||


Tony Blair to return to Brit politics
Tony Blair is hunting for a new office near Westminster as he plots a return to frontline politics to influence the Government's approach to Brexit.

The former prime minister believes the Tories are 'screwing up Brexit' and views Jeremy Corbyn is 'a nutter,' according to a source who has spoken to Mr Blair.
So he's half-right, which was his usual batting average when he was PM...
He thinks there's a 'massive hole in British politics' that he can fill. Mr Blair is setting up a new institute that will seek to influence and advise the Brexit process.

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Posted by: Steve White || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hang it up; your political time has passed.
Posted by: Raj || 11/21/2016 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Looking to take the UK back to the glory years of Obama.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/21/2016 7:50 Comments || Top||

#3  He employs 130 people? Good gawd, is he like the Brit equivalent of the Clinton Foundation? Where does he get the money?

He WAS chummy with Bill. Now that there isn't a Hilarity power platform maybe 'the Foundation' plan B(for Brexit) has been engaged.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/21/2016 13:43 Comments || Top||


Europe
German Chancellor Angela Merkel to seek re-election
[DAWN]
Posted by: Fred || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Fillon and Juppé knock out Sarkozy in French primary
Dark horse François Fillon and fellow former PM Alain Juppé won through to the second round of the French presidential primary on Sunday, knocking out Nicolas Sarkozy in the process. Results for France's right wing primary showed François Fillon as the victor in the first round of the primary for next year's French presidential election, with ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy suffering a crushing exit.

Initial results suggested it was going to be a bad night for Sarkozy with Fillon enjoying a strong lead and Juppé in second place. As the results drifted in throughout Sunday evening it became clear Sarkozy's attempted comeback had ended in a humiliating way in the first round primary.

He conceded defeat around 10pm.

"I did not manage to convince the voters," Sarkozy said in a speech to supporters, before announcing he would give his support to François Fillon.

"Those who voted for me are free to do what they choose," said Sarkozy.

When the results are confirmed after all the votes have been counted it will mean that Fillon has pulled off a remarkable come-from-behind victory in the first round after trailing Sarkozy and Juppe in all but the final days of the two-month campaign.

Fillon, described in France as a Thatcherite for the radical economic measures he proposes, had gathered 44 percent of the vote, with over three quarters of the polling stations having declared. Alain Juppé the pre-vote favourite had picked up 28.1 percent and Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president, gathered 21.1 percent.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So now Sarkozy's free to keep banging other women.
Posted by: Raj || 11/21/2016 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  No Yankee carbon tax for you!

Come back, 2 years, have your order ready.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/21/2016 13:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Priebus: Trump considering fund cuts for sanctuary cities
My own municipal employer does this - time for a change
Posted by: Frank G || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Considering'?
Posted by: Raj || 11/21/2016 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Add to that holding them financially and criminally responsible for the actions of their 'wards' who they refused to turn over.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/21/2016 1:17 Comments || Top||

#3  The trouble with funding cuts is that the affected cities would just raise taxes to make up the shortfall.

IANAL, but it seems to me that "sanctuary city" mayors and city councils could be indicted/prosecuted for conspiracy to violate Federal immigration law. That could end this nonsense in a hurry.
Posted by: PBMcL || 11/21/2016 1:28 Comments || Top||

#4  You are legally bound for the Homicides and rapes you let happen while dis-arming your Citizens. This is far more than gross negligence. This is wanton lawlessness.
Posted by: newc || 11/21/2016 4:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Actually, this is reckless endangerment, in-voluntary manslaughter, and depraved in-difference.
Posted by: newc || 11/21/2016 4:43 Comments || Top||

#6  They can only raise so much in taxes. Cut off all federal funding to a city, and they are fucked.

I would also be in favor of arresting the heads of the city for breaking federal laws and also charge them as accessories to the crimes illegals so.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/21/2016 8:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Considering funding cuts to sanctuary cities?

If taxes are raised to cover the Federal shortfall because, maybe people will think twice about who they elect for office. They might realize that elections have consequences. Trump might also consider bringing lawsuits against individuals who promote and maintain such nonsense--make them pay personally. Do these cities provide sanctuary for conservative-minded people or Trump voters? Did they provide sanctuary for Kate Steinle and others? I didn't think so.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/21/2016 9:11 Comments || Top||

#8  #5 Actually, this is reckless endangerment, in-voluntary manslaughter, and depraved in-difference.

Criminal negligence. Examples of criminally negligent crimes are criminally negligent homicide and negligent endangerment of a child. Usually the punishment for criminal negligence, criminal recklessness, criminal endangerment, willful blindness and other related crimes is imprisonment.

The shoe fits.

Posted by: Tennessee || 11/21/2016 10:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Send a Federal Marshal with a simple document asking if they will enforce the relevant US Codes "(Y/N)?" to the Mayor and the heads of the law, legal and administration under them. We will see how many have the backbone to stand up and sign.
Posted by: magpie || 11/21/2016 10:10 Comments || Top||

#10  So maybe they are "Virtue Signaling", magpie?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/21/2016 10:16 Comments || Top||


Director Of The NSA Goes ROGUE, Travels To Meet Trump Amid Calls For His Ousting
[Daily Caller] A top U.S. intelligence official is being considered to take over for the very man who recommended his removal from office for administrative failures.

Admiral Michael S. Rogers, director of the National Security Agency and head of U.S. Cyber Command, is expected to become the Director of National Intelligence under the next administration, the Wall Street Journal revealed. In an unprecedented move, Rogers met with President-elect Donald Trump Thursday at Trump Tower without first notifying his superiors, reports the Washington Post. Rogers’ actions reportedly agitated senior administration officials already displeased with his performance and leadership.

Current Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter recommended last month that the White House relieve Rogers of his duties as head of the NSA and Cyber Command, the Washington Post reported Saturday. Clapper and Carter have criticized Rogers’ performance in the past, citing serious security breaches as well as a failure to react to the online activities of the Islamic State (ISIS).

Rogers took control of the NSA and Cyber Command in 2014 in the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks, a glaring embarrassment to the agency that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and required major operational adjustments. Rogers was tasked with preventing follow-up incidents but was unsuccessful.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rogers met with President-elect Donald Trump Thursday at Trump Tower without first notifying his superiors

Did they have a steak dinner?

Rogers was tasked with preventing follow-up incidents but was unsuccessful.

Didn't protect Hillary's server hmmm?
Posted by: AlanC || 11/21/2016 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Current Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter recommended last month that the White House relieve Rogers of his duties as head of the NSA and Cyber Command. I wonder if Carter and Clapper were expecting a Hillary administration-elect at this time.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/21/2016 9:42 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder if he knows the new vowel song? If so that is more than most!
Posted by: Goober Wittlesbach5685 || 11/21/2016 13:25 Comments || Top||

#4  With so many new stories cropping p with the NSA I was wondering if they could release the phone book stats on African Chinese with the last name Chin and African Russian with the last name Smirnoff?!? Doing a paper for school and stat class.
Posted by: Goober Wittlesbach5685 || 11/21/2016 20:54 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Qatari prince issued permit for hunting protected houbara bustard
[DAWN] The federal government has issued a number of special permits to hunt the internationally protected migratory bird houbara bustard in Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

during the hunting season 2016-17, according to sources.

They said that Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
i prince Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani is among those in whose name the permits have been issued.

According to the sources, this is not the first time that a special hunting permit has been issued to the Qatari prince.

The prince has lately been in the news following the submission of his letter in the Supreme Court in connection with the Panamagate case.

In his letter he has described his father’s business relations with the family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
and his involvement in the London apartments that are at the centre of the Panama Papers controversy.
Posted by: Fred || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The federal government has issued a number of special permits to hunt the internationally protected migratorians.

Headlines we'd like to see.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/21/2016 11:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Been awhile since we've had a Bustard post, I think the picture shows a late chick (I know late chicks).
Posted by: Shipman || 11/21/2016 13:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Better an old hen than pullet.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/21/2016 13:35 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jewish, Arab fertility rates in Israel on par for first time
As it has been said, the times, they are a-changin'.
[IsraelTimes] Arab rate drops, Jewish rate rises, and women in both groups now give birth to an average of 3.13 children, highest in OECD.

The fertility rates of Jewish and Arab women were identical for the first time in Israeli history in 2015, according to figures released by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday to mark International Child Day.

Jewish and Arab women had given birth to an average of 3.13 children as of last year, the report said.

In 2000, the fertility among the country’s Arab population stood at 4.3 children per woman, while the fertility rate of Jewish women was 2.6. Since then the gap has narrowed as the Arab rate dropped off and the Jewish fertility rates steadily increased.

At the end of 2015 there were 2.8 million children in Israel aged between 0-17, amounting to 33 percent of the population, of whom roughly two million (71.3%) were Jewish, 718,000 were Arab (25.7%) and 84,000 (3.0%) classified as others.

Israel’s fertility rate is the highest among the developed countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, according to data on the organization’s website. The youth population was the second highest in the OECD behind only Mexico in 2013, the most recent year with available data.

There were on average 2.4 children per household across the country. The city of Beit Shemesh had the highest average with 3.8 children per household, Bnei Brak next with 3.4 and in Jerusalem, the capital, there were three children per household. All three cities have large ultra-Orthodox populations who tend to have larger families than the national average.

The coastal city of Bat Yam had the lowest youth population with just 1.8 children per household.

The income of households with children was 1.3 times higher than homes without, NIS 17,658 ($4,595) a month compared to NIS 13,624 ($3,545), but the expenses were 1.4 times as high standing at NIS 14,677 ($3,819) compared to NIS 10,422 ($2,712).
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
U.S. Navy Accelerating Stealth Sub-Hunter
he Pentagon's research arm is extending testing of its sub-hunting drone able to travel autonomously for up to 90 days using sensors and sonar technology to search for enemy submarines and other airborne and undersea threats. The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, or DARPA, has awarded an $8.5 million contract extension to Reston, Virginia-based Leidos for continued test phase development of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel, or ACTUV program.

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Navy already has those, they're called fast attack submarines. What do you think all those "hydrologic surveys" were.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/21/2016 4:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I think these are more of a powerplant and decisioning control systems technology upgrade to the 'fire-and-forget' weapons than downsizing current attack-rated craft.

The hydrologic survey data provided a baseline for autonomous 'terrain-following' navigation. Early units will probably be turned to the task of 'bottoming' or subsurface feature mapping before they are weaponized.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/21/2016 12:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Kinda like a Roomba.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/21/2016 13:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Parking a few 1000 submersible drone stealth Roombas on the sea bottom and having them just listen & wait for further orders might be cheaper than creating far fewer devices engineered to travel long distances. Read Murray Leinster's old SF story, "The Wabbler"
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/21/2016 14:21 Comments || Top||


Restored World War II PT boat leaves museum for trip to Lake Pontchartrain
[New Orleans Advocate] Just after 7 a.m. Saturday, a 78-foot-long wooden patrol torpedo boat from World War II rolled through the Warehouse District, starting at the National World War II Museum. After it passed around and behind the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center to the Erato Street cruise ship terminal, a crane lifted the restored boat, PT-305, onto a Mississippi River barge that would take it to the Industrial Canal for sea trials and crew training. By April, museum officials hope to launch the boat on Lake Pontchartrain, where it will be housed in a custom-built boathouse and will be available for rides.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I am so going to take a ride. Wish they could have launched it from the site of the old Higgins boatyard near Lakeview Airport.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/21/2016 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I want to take a trip on that one, also.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/21/2016 14:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Bucket listed, that and the WWII LST in Evansville, IN.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/21/2016 15:18 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Gold Star family of soldier killed by suicide bomber BOOED by American Airlines first class
Delayed flight on way to pick up their dead son's body

Army Sgt. John Perry, 30, was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday when he stopped a suicide bomber from reaching his target

His father, Stewart Perry, says he and his family traveled on American Airlines from Sacramento to Dover Air Force Base to meet his remains

When they landed at a layover in Phoenix, the captain asked passengers to remain seated to let the family get off so they could make connecting flight. Perry said first class passengers booed and complained as they exited the plane, despite the captain saying why they were allowed to leave first.

Perry said: 'To hear the reaction of the flight being delayed because of a Gold Star family, and the first class cabin booing that was really upsetting'

The decorated solider leaves behind his wife of eight years, Julianne, and two young children - five-year-old Lena and four-year-old Gavin. His wife says he will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors and they started a GoFundMe to raise money
Wish I could have been there...
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You may have paid for a first class flight, but That Troop gets a first class stairway to Heaven.

Think about that the next time you camel your way into the gate...
Posted by: newc || 11/21/2016 2:45 Comments || Top||

#2  American Airlines passenger manifest hacked in 4, 3, 2...
Posted by: P2Kontheroad || 11/21/2016 9:04 Comments || Top||


College Stops Flying US Flag Entirely After Flag-Burning Incident
Hampshire College in Massachusetts has announced that it will no longer fly the U.S. flag at all in response to an incident where the flag was taken down and burned. The president of the college says that by getting rid of the flag the school will be able to focus on other issues like halting Islamophobia and promoting gay rights.
Not on teaching anybody anything worthwhile.
The mess for Hampshire College started a week and a half ago, after Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election. The school responded to Trump’s victory by keeping the U.S. flag at half-staff, as if in mourning, which upset some community members. Then, on the night before Veterans Day, somebody took the flag down and set it on fire. While the motive isn’t known, there have been many examples of students burning U.S. flags to protest Trump’s electoral victory.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/21/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any excuse...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/21/2016 4:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Tuition = $48k/year w/o financial aid

Tuition plus Room and Board = $62k/year w/o financial aid

total enrollment = ~1400

btw, its in Amherst
Posted by: lord garth || 11/21/2016 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3  halting Islamophobia and promoting gay rights

At the same time?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/21/2016 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Burn an American flag and nothing happens other than a proclamation of the need to protect Islamic and gay rights. Burn an Islamic flag or a rainbow flag and you might get off with something short of capital punishment if lucky.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/21/2016 9:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Bullingly rewarded. Expect more of it.
Posted by: P2Kontheroad || 11/21/2016 9:00 Comments || Top||

#6  One of the small but very rewarding experiences of my life was to walk into a bookstore on the Amherst town square and ask for a copy of Decision Points by W. I had never actually seen a head explode.
Posted by: Matt || 11/21/2016 9:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Burn the college down, plow it under and sow the furrows with salt.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/21/2016 9:30 Comments || Top||

#8  But the Mexican.flag would be ok right?

And the ISIS flag?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/21/2016 9:52 Comments || Top||

#9  You did it with malice afore though didn't ya, Matt you got a mean streak. I like that.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/21/2016 13:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Things they are a changing since the Battle of New Market:

The VMI Corps of Cadets fought as a unit at the Battle of New Market, Virginia, on May 15, 1864. The cadets, numbering 257, were organized into a battalion of four companies of Infantry and one section of Artillery. Ten cadets were killed in battle or died later from the effects of their wounds; 45 were wounded. The youngest participating cadet was fifteen; the oldest twenty-five.

Summary:

On May 10, 1864, the VMI Corps of Cadets was ordered to join Gen. John C. Breckinridge's Confederate forces near Staunton, Virginia. After marching nearly 85 miles northward, the Corps arrived at New Market on Sunday morning May 15, 1864. Gen. Franz Sigel's Union troops, positioned atop Bushong's Hill, raked the Confederate line with cannon and musketry creating a gap in the line. Remarkably, the cadets helped close the gap, allowing the Confederate forces to regroup and push back the Union army. Breckenridge forced Sigel and his men to retreat, securing the battlefield for the Confederacy. Many cadets lost their footwear in the freshly plowed soil, turned to thick mud after several days of rain. That section of the battlefield became known as the “Field of Lost Shoes.”
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