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Politics / Re: The 2024 Circus
« Last post by WLJ on Today at 09:45:17 AM »
Trump is "employing the language of Nazi Germany"

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    Donald Trump told Republican donors at his Florida resort this weekend that President Joe Biden is running a “Gestapo administration,” the latest example of the former president employing the language of Nazi Germany in his campaign rhetoric.

    The remarks Saturday at Mar-a-Lago were described by people who attended the event and spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private session.

    The “Gestapo” comment, one person said, came as Trump renewed his complaint that Biden’s White House is behind the multiple criminal prosecutions of the presumptive GOP nominee, including his ongoing hush money and fraud trial in New York and additional cases stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Talk about twisting things

AP Reports on Donald Trump Using Another Nazi Reference
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/05/06/ap-reports-on-donald-trump-using-another-nazi-reference-n2395956

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Politics / Re: Chicago Teacher's Union contract demands...
« Last post by HankB on Today at 09:31:46 AM »
Quote from: Boomhauer on May 06, 2024, 11:14:08 PM
The shitty books and idiotic assignments handed down in the “traditional English curriculum” that universally sucks across schools is purposefully designed by the school systems to ensure most students hate it.

Quote from: K Frame on Today at 08:23:04 AM
. . . some of the "classics" we had to read?  Holy *expletive deleted*ck. I LOVE to read, and some of those books made me HATE reading.

I can relate - this has been a problem with reading/English classes for a LONG time.

Quote from: Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1931
Last year I followed the English course prescribed for my two sons, who are in college. The required reading seemed to have been selected for the sole purpose of turning the hearts of young people against books.

In elementary school, one of the books we read was Uncle Tom's Cabin. The teacher was rather upset when a student (not me . . . this time) asked the teacher an unexpected question: How we could go about starting a Simon Legree fan club?
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The Roundtable / Re: Lost on the Appalachian Trail
« Last post by 230RN on Today at 09:29:54 AM »
Quote from: Bogie on May 06, 2024, 07:43:14 PM
My scoutmaster had been a nav or bombadier over Germany, and got shot down, spent the rest of the war in a POW camp. He didn't really like camping.
 
You can start a fire with two sticks as long as one of them is a match, and you have gasoline. But he did teach us how to do it the "right" way too. We also cooked in the coals, and the man did like food. And when he retired to his personal pup tent, you did not disturb him... I think that was helped by the bourbon. The Colonel was a great man, and patient.


My Scoutmaster was a Radioman and was in the Battle of the Bulge.  He had a Springfield rifle  and a very hush-hush top secret swore us to secrecy 9mm pistol he showed us.  This was New York City, you understand.  Wasn't a Luger, but I forget what it was.  Lost touch with him when we moved to Colorado.  "Erfurth?"  Does that sound right?   Vague recollection from the late 1950s but I seem to recall it had the same kind of look as a 1911.
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Politics / Re: Israel Under Attack
« Last post by Ben on Today at 09:08:54 AM »
"Students" at Columbia:

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As the mob invaded Hamilton Hall in the early hours of April 30, a facilities worker was photographed pushing a demonstrator against a wall.

Later, it emerged that the protester was a 40-year-old trust fund kid named James Carlson, who owns a townhouse in Brooklyn worth $2.3 million. The man who tried to hold him back was Mario Torres, 45, who has worked at Columbia—where the average janitor makes less than $19 an hour—for five years.

https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2024/05/07/swarmed-by-an-angry-mob-janitor-at-columbia-university-speaks-out-to-the-free-press-n2395974
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The Roundtable / Re: Central Oklahoma in High Pucker today
« Last post by 230RN on Today at 09:02:48 AM »
Mother nature wakes up grumpy in spring.

Scary in OK and northeast  of there.  I guess that's why they call it tornado alley.

Mid-CO east slope: high wind warnings the past couple of days... today, 40 mph gusts from the west, some rain and or snow possible, high 60°.

In other words:  everything.

Hoping for the best for you.

Mother nature wakes up grumpy in spring.


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Politics / Re: Chicago Teacher's Union contract demands...
« Last post by K Frame on Today at 08:23:04 AM »
There were a couple of good books assigned in my English lit courses in high school... All Quiet on the Western Front and the Great Gatsby, but yeah, some of the "classics" we had to read?

Holy *expletive deleted*ck. I LOVE to read, and some of those books made me HATE reading.

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Politics / Re: Israel Under Attack
« Last post by K Frame on Today at 08:19:01 AM »
And, an anti-Israeli encampment popped up at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

From the Fox blurb...

"Officers used batons and shields as they moved into the demonstration, beating some of the protesters and pulling down tents, video from the scene aired by national broadcaster NOS showed. Police also used a mechanical digger to rip down barricades."

That's how you do it. Wood shampoo.
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The Roundtable / Re: Babylon Bee
« Last post by WLJ on Today at 08:18:27 AM »
Kristi Noem Attends Kentucky Derby To See If Any Horses Need To Be Put Down
https://babylonbee.com/news/kristi-noem-attends-kentucky-derby-to-see-if-any-horses-need-to-be-put-down
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The Roundtable / Re: Babylon Bee
« Last post by WLJ on Today at 08:17:32 AM »
Trump Forced To Wear Hannibal Lecter Muzzle For Gag Order Violations
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-forced-to-wear-hannibal-lecter-muzzle-for-gag-order-violations
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Politics / Re: Israel Under Attack
« Last post by K Frame on Today at 08:15:42 AM »
UCLA is vowing to work with LA prosecutor's office to bring those who attacked the anti-Israeli encampment to justice...

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/may-7-anti-israel-protests

Given how soft the LA DA's office is on actual real crime, how hard do you think it's going to come down on these people?

I'm thinking they're going to be going for huge prison terms and possibly even the death penalty, because we just can't have violent pro-Israelis roaming the streets in packs. The murderers and rapists they've released might be endangered.
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