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He was a product of his "professional" environment, fame, and the media. Modern day gladiators, enslaved to drugs and trained in the destruction of their fellow, whilst cheered on by gambling, drunken revelers in massive coloseums built by taxes. It is no longer a game but a device of revenue sans pillared mansions and the lash.
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I think that's a bit harsh, Besoeker. Lots of people who never played in the NFL have committed murder and gotten away with it. Simpson went off the rails but most of them don't and when they do the law applies equally to them. Michael Vick, as you may recall, went to jail for his participation in dog fighting. Football is a sport like any other. Unlike many of the other sports it is big and it is rich but this is a big, rich country. It is a violent sport but a lot of rules have been enacted to protect the players from some of the nastier things that they might otherwise do to each other. In fact, the NFL has done a lot more to clean itself than a lot of other professional sports leagues. The players take regular drug tests and they are punished if those test results are positive. What would you rather watch when you turn on the television? Glee? Please, please don't take televised football games away from me.
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Ima thinking Ebbang's response was spot on, actually. Mice elf, I don't watch much of anything but football and the occasional movie on the tube/flat screen thingy.
(Prensa Latina) Bolivarian President, Hugo Chavez, said that nothing and no one would stop Bolivarian Revolution, a process of changes beginning more than a decade ago.
Chavez called for deepening the transformations audaciously undertaken in 1999, but on more detail principles pf planning and scientific nature.
We must create conditions to accelerate the expansion of socialism and to replace capitalism with the new model, he insisted.
During a meeting held yesterday with representatives elected by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Chavez urged the organization's members to work tirelessly with a view to the 2012 presidential election.
Referring to the Venezuelan parliament's new composition, who will take office in January 2011, he asserted that it will enact laws much more revolutionary than the current National Assembly
He reiterated that until then the legislature will continue to legislate according to the needs of society.
During his speech, broadcasted live on television, he called to reflect on the results of the elections on September 26, where the Socialists won 60 percent of parliamentary seats.
It's a landslide, President Chavez said; however, we have to criticize in depth to improve and recover where we lost where we became wake.
The officer called for improving self-criticism within the ranks of the organization with more than seven million members.
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Australian multi-culturism in action.
FOUR men suffered stab wounds as a day of intermittent violence following South Australia's first Miss Africa pageant erupted into a vicious all-in brawl. Up to one hundred Africans armed with with knives, tyre levers, clubs, makeshift batons and a bedpost fought a pitched battle in Adelaide's Bent Street near the Austral Hotel early today.
"Clearly they had prepared themselves with weapons in the event that they did come together, which they did," Chief Inspector John Gerlach told reporters.
Police eventually broke it up and arrested four men while four others were admitted to hospital with stab wounds. A 21-year-old man was stabbed in the abdomen and arm, a 19-year-old in the chest and stomach, a 19-year-old in the arm and a 20-year-old in the back.
"All four did receive surgery and are stable," Inspector Gerlach said.
The brawl was the culmination of 24 hours of violent clashes initiated by a fight involving 150 African people on Saturday night as they spilled out of a nightclub in Hindley Street. No injuries or arrests were reported from that initial clash or some smaller skirmishes reported to police in the 24 hours leading up to today's wild brawl.
Police believe many of those involved in the violence had travelled from interstate for the Miss Africa beauty pageant in Adelaide on Saturday. Inspector Gerlach praised the officers who responded promptly to the major brawl, saying their intervention had prevented more injuries.
"No doubt the management of the incident prevented further injury and possibly people dying as a result," he said.
Police have charged a 20-year-old man from Victoria with aggravated assault causing serious harm and affray. A 19-year-old man from Kilburn, in Adelaide's north, a 21-year-old man from Victoria and a 22-year-old man from Western Australia have been charged with behavioral street offences and weapons offences.
Why would you have a Miss Africa beauty pageant in Australia?
Why wold anyone in Australia hold a beauty pagent at the same time as the AFL Grand Final replay? I mean, would anyone be watching?
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What, you mean a bunch of territorial gangs all got together in the same place, and a conflict broke out because they all attempted to stake a claim? Say it isn't so!
Love the tribal weapons, too. But missing the rape and massive deaths of true African clashes.
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In the 70s the local Army policy was that personally owned knives with blades longer than 6" had to be secured in the arms room of the barracks. However, during most of the 'rioting' in the same period both bed post adapters and entrenching tools were the weapon of choice among the participants.
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Piece of tubing made of a good solid chunk of metal, somewhere between 9" and 12" in length, that fits nicely into the hand of the 'one adapting' or the 'one swinging'. Sort of on the lines of - Professor Plum in the bedroom with a lead pipe.
Germany's president celebrated the country's new-found national pride but also stressed that more needs to be done to integrate Muslim and other immigrants as he marked the 20th anniversary of reunification on Sunday. Muslims hate beer.
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Not to mention celebrating its 55th anniversary of failure the unify the world.
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Twenty years ago, I remember thinking that after WWII "Germany" (both of them) should have been dismantled as functional states, and the people scattered to the distant four corners of the world. Sigh.
I have no doubt that its cursed, evil, population will bring misfortune upon the world again, sometime in the not-too-distant-future.
#3
When the wall came down I had hoped it was the beginning of the end for collectivism.
Instead the collectivists ramped up their Gramscian strategy in the West and took over the education and entertainment industries, and now control the governments of most Western countries including our own.
It's depressing and disappointing.
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I must have missed Russia handing back East Prussia.
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Unfortunately some still hold that cultural and territorial aggrandizement is an ordained law of nature and the obligation of our betters. The belief, however mistaken, appears to know no boundries but prefers the tents of Europe.
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Basil Fawlty: Is something wrong?
German Guest: Will you please stop talking about the war?
Basil Fawlty: Me? You started it.
German Guest: We did not!
Basil Fawlty: Yes, you did, you invaded Poland.
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I must have missed Russia handing back East Prussia.
or Poland the former German Silesia.
Note well how the State Department seems to miss that little aspect of history and losing wars when dealing with the 'Palestinian' issue [which really wasn't an issue till after the 67 War when Israel took territory formally owned and operated by Jordan and Egypt.]
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I like that picture it has my two favorite things: Beer and err more beer! ;-) If I remember correctly under the unification charter the new unified Germany gave up territorial claims in Poland and Russia.
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Yes, Sarge they did, recognizing that both territories had been successfully ethnically cleansed since 1945 and there would be no 'right of return'.
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..and there is one school of thought that Germany wasn't so much unified in the 19th Century, but was gradually annexed by Prussia through the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars. The Kaiser was offered the crown of a federated Germany during the revolution of 1848, but declined to take it under the conditions, holding out to get it from the mouth of a gun with far less restraints upon his dynasty. With the destruction of the Prussian element, and its hundreds of years of militarism, within the German body, the modern unification and federation we have witnessed is closer to what was intended in 1848.
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"With the destruction of the Prussian element, and its hundreds of years of militarism, within the German body, the modern unification and federation we have witnessed is closer to what was intended in 1848."
And yet, they have sitzpinklers.
Oy.
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Its been 20 years already? Damn I'm getting way too old
[Pak Daily Times]As many as 200 lawyers, including Lahore Bar Association President Sajid Bashir, have been booked for beating policemen and journalists, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.
The journalists requested the police to book 200 lawyers including, Sajid Bashir, Usman Khalid, Mian Hafeez, Azeem A Sheikh, Mehar Ahsan, Tariq Sindhu, Lubna Haider, Safdar Bhutta, Jawad Shah, Zulfiqar Haider Manki, Nowsherwan Adil, Latif Sra, Munir Ahsan, Qasim Buttar, Shakil Gondal, Munir Chohan, Sarmad Ghani, MR Ranjha, Kamran Bhutta, Safdar Ranjha and Zia. However, no lawyer has been arrested so far. On Saturday, lawyers had thrashed reporters and policemen during a protest demonstration against police, the channel reported.
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File under "Man Bites Dog" or maybe just "Man Bites"
Lockheed Martin won a $6.9 million contract this week for the second phase of DARPAs One-Shot system, which will provide direct observations of a target, measure every variable that influences a bullets flight, and calculate the aim offset in a snipers rifle scope.
During the projects first phase, which started in 2007, Lockheed developed a down-range system that measured average crosswind; range to target; spotter scope position; air temperature, pressure, and humidity; and more, according to Military Aerospace. Using all those variables, the company calculated the ballistics for a .308 bullet at ranges as far as 3,600 feet.
While thats impressive, the system was too heavy and unwieldy, and it couldnt be used with standard rifle scopes. The phase-two design will be more compact and able to operate in real time and over longer distances.
It will measure atmospheric conditions, account for the weapons maximum effective range and include GPS coordinates. Its also supposed to communicate with the rifle scope, informing the gun itself of the aim point offset and expected crosswind.
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Meanwhile, sales are brisk on a small, imported electronic device that you hang around your neck, which emits continuous false crosswind data.....
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The remote weapon system my company offers has a lot of this stuff already built into it. You just lase the target to get range and it provides an offset reticle. While it doesn't take into account wind, temp and pressure, it still provides a capability equal to all but the best snipers.
Oh, and it is available right now, deployed right now and working (in the rain, cold, dust, etc.) right now.
Re: the automated towers...that too, but there is always a human in the loop to hit the trigger button. Not to say that it couldn't be automated, but that is not a legal option at present.
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DARPA may have been working on this already - last year a group got permission to come onto the local range "and measure bullet speed". Also very interested in caliber and wt. Kind of freaked when I fired off low power target rounds. They kind of wooshed instead of banged and sauntered to the target.
Says his faith in the Quran cements his belief I have no doubt of that ...
Arab world's most prominent space scientist working in NASA believes in supernatural creatures, but admits he has no evidence to prove otherwise except for his faith in the Quran.
Dr Farouq al-Baz, who worked 43 years in NASA, told Alarabiya.net that he was sure that the ghouls, Jinns and demons live among us and said that he came to the conclusion through his scientific predisposition meshed with his complete believe in Quran verses signifying their existence.
Quran denotes to Jinn as creatures created from fire, while humans are created from mud.
Dr al-Baz said that Quran is his best inspiration, adding that the Quran compels Muslims to think beyond and contemplate.
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The pre-Koranic invisible critter bestiary actually has some interesting thingys in it, as well as explanations why they were not so plentiful as they had been in the-then ancient past.
The most popular of these were the djinn, who liked to hang out in graveyards, pretend to tell the future, then lie like dogs about it. Allan didn't care for them much, so would smite them with meteorites and lightning bolts when He was in a bad mood.
Mohammed latched on to the Arab version of the Hebrew myth, attributing the end of the old ways first to the Hebrew King Saul, who outlawed and killed most of the sorcerers and witches; the King David, who did a bunch of other unnatural critter slaying; and most of all to King Solomon.
The latter was given a powerful gift by Allan, so he created some lead tubes, which he used to imprison most of the djinn, then he sealed the tubes with his signet, and cast them into the ocean.
One of the more interesting non-djinn thingys are the Abdala. Their myth today has been taken over by the Sufi sect, revised, updated and Disney-fied, but originally they were far more interesting.
As humans have covenants with Allan, their "rules", the Abdala have a *different* covenant with Allan, so they do not operate under human rules. Their purpose is to "maintain reality", keeping the order and continuity of the world for Allan.
An interesting bit is that this included a warning to humans to leave the Abdala strictly alone. Also odd that they have no physical description, or mentioned characteristics. What they do is not the business of humans.
Apparently the original myth became blended with a different one from the Far East, so has taken on a different context. But they are kind of unique as myths go. "They exist but leave them alone."
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The next step, obviously, is for the UN to appoint Dr. al-Baz special ambassador to Jinn, ghouls, zombies and other unpleasant critters.
It would be a perfect follow-up to their new office of Ambassador to Extraterrestrials, a job for which al-Baz might also be qualified if it comes open.
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...so he created some lead tubes, which he used to imprison most of the djinn, then he sealed the tubes with his signet, and cast them into the ocean.
#12
Declare is a great book, TFSM. I also recommend Charles Stross' Laundry series, The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue, and The Fuller Memorandum.
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Another reason NASA is in the shitter.
Actually he worked during NASA's glory days.
This is the guy they named one of the 'shuttlecraft' on Star Trek after.
He selected the landing sites for the Apollo moon landers and trained the astronauts
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And staying serious for a minute, I think NASA is in the %%%%%%% today mainly because of decisions they made back in their glory days; remember, the shuttle was developed and laid down back when Von Braun was head of NASA.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
(Prensa Latina) Bolivarian President, Hugo Chavez, said that nothing and no one would stop Bolivarian Revolution, a process of changes beginning more than a decade ago.
Germany's president celebrated the country's new-found national pride but also stressed that more needs to be done to integrate Muslim and other immigrants as he marked the 20th anniversary of reunification on Sunday. 
