Here He is in July getting some flight hours after he had soloed..When people don't know what you mean,
They may laugh at you and call you green,
They say your words are stupid and your plans are only schemes
Truth is simple, but seldom ever seen,
Let nothing stand between
Simple Man, Simple Dream.
-J.D. Souther
We were in the 57 FIS, the Black Knights of Keflavik, 20 years apart.I used to link to LGF, until something happened over there -- and I'm still not certain what it was. I still visit,read it, and agree with a lot of LGF, but I'm just about convinced that CJ's biggest problem is he's far more afraid of fringe Christianists and wacko conspiracy theorists (there's a Venn diagram to those categories) than he is of the actual funded, organized and radical socialist/fascist agenda being played out in right in front of him.In the past couple of weeks, it has become even weirder over there. The most bizarre is an attempt to lowball the headcount at the 9/12 march in Washington DC. While mocking the ridiculously high 2 million marcher count, LGF in bizzare fashion pushes for the equally ridiculous low end of the estimates. In addition, while posting and linking to every photo of marginal hangers-on (and possible Mobys) at the march, LGF has studiously avoided significant coverage of the majority at the march - a majority clearly shown at other sites.
Yet if one weighs the life of a single young woman against the accomplishments of the man President Obama has called the greatest Democratic senator in history, what is one to think?
Yet if one weighs the criminally irresponsible taking of a young woman's life against the 'accomplishments' of the man President Obama has called the greatest Democratic senator in history, what is one to think?As the question is originally phrased (and in the finest modern liberal tradition) the question is only reality-based. One doesn't weigh the life of a young woman against the so-called deeds of a man. One weighs the misdeeds against the deeds of the man. And in the American (borne from Judeo-Christian traditions at a minimum) society, Ms. Oates, there is very little worse in the 'misdeed' category than what Ted Kennedy did to Ms. Kopechne.
"The senator’s actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tells us something ugly about American public life."...and that is only the conclusion. Read it all here.
Police had been watching Vincent Goff for years, convinced he was the masked man who sexually assaulted couples at gunpoint on the Mississippi coast. But before investigators closed in, they say Goff picked the wrong victim and was beaten nearly to death with his own rifle......Judicious application of just the right amount of force. Well done!
....Goff allegedly approached a man and woman last Thursday afternoon on an isolated logging road in Harrison County and forced them into the woods with a rifle, Sheriff's Maj. Ron Pullen said Wednesday. They were forced to strip off their clothes and told to perform sexual acts when the male victim,
described as a physically fit member of the military in his mid-30s, wrestled the gun away."He beat him until the stock broke over his head and then continued to beat him until he thought he had him incapacitated," Pullen said.
Idiots.[Mr. Donatich]...quoted one of the experts consulted by Yale — Ibrahim Gambari, special adviser to the secretary general of the United Nations and the former foreign minister of Nigeria — as concluding: “You can count on violence if any illustration of the prophet is published. It will cause riots, I predict, from Indonesia to Nigeria.”
"Many policy makers and journalists dismiss the military option on the basis of a false sense of futility. They assume that the U.S. military is already overstretched, that we lack adequate intelligence about the location of covert nuclear sites, and that known sites are too heavily fortified.General Chuck Wald knows that of whence he speaks. Read it all.
Such assumptions are false."
Other than flat-out liars ("Arab legislators?") , the only people who could actually think otherwise are the same kind of idiots ("Arab legislators?") who would also believe a falling crime rate in the presence of a rising prison population is some kind of paradox."The security barrier won't be dismantled," he stressed. "I hear people saying that since there is quiet, the fence can be torn down. My friends, the opposite is true. Because we have the fence, there is quiet.
"The separation fence will remain in place and will not be dismantled," Netanyahu said in a speech in parliament.
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The most vocal opposition to Netanyahu's speech undoubtedly came from the Arab lawmakers, who called out throughout his remarks. Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin ordered ushers to remove MK Muhammad Barakei (Hadash), who broke loose
and attempted to return to the floor for one last comment - and was grabbed and removed once again. After him, MK Taleb a-Sanaa (United Arab List-Ta'al) was also removed, at which point the other Arab legislators rose and left the chamber.
