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#6021 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Feb 20, 2020 12:29 am

Oh for God's sake stop blathering crap here.

It is rumored that you were/ are a USAF pilot, If so with respect to you, Tell us as something interesting then about being a good chap, and not being a prick.

It rumored that you still fly rude flights like this...



If so with respect...

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#6022 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Feb 20, 2020 12:34 am

Though you remain
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#6023 Post by BenThere » Thu Feb 20, 2020 1:10 am

I was expressing my opinion, Goblin, not' blathering crap' as you characterized it. Why is it important to you to ridicule my post rather than argue the points I make? I'm particularly curious as to whether you feel a weakness in your positions or an anger at my positions. Which triggers your aggressive dismissal?

I was a USAF pilot for 30 years, 8 active duty and 22 more in the USAF Reserve. I fought (combat time in the last two) the Cold War, GW1, and Kosovo. Proud of it, too. I don't think you'll ever find the likes of me in the parachute photo you posted. I was taught to never jump out of a good airplane and I've never violated that advice.

To my knowledge, nobody I have ever worked with has ever considered me a 'prick'. I have a respect ethic that tends to preclude that, and served me well throughout my career.

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#6024 Post by llondel » Thu Feb 20, 2020 1:56 am

Looking at how they're dressed, they must all have been freezing up at 14,000ft like that.

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#6025 Post by barkingmad » Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:14 am

https://www.dailywire.com/news/warren-n ... d-lesbians

Hardly a very good sales pitch for a prospective candidate!? Sounds like he was one of Jack Nicholson’s escapees in the wonderful film “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”!

What are they up to over there West of 30W? It’s always been a worry in a country of approx 350 million folk that the cream which rises to the top trying to be the big chief very often turn out to be fruitcakes and nutters. And that the said ‘cream’ very often turns out to be very sour and ‘off’ when the nose gets within range!

Almost as bad as the Labour Party in UK and the Conservatives in UK hardly had an inspiring collection of candidates before Johnson popped up as the all-time recent favourite.

Or is it that you have to be somewhat abnormal before you’d actually WANT to be the big cheese. Maybe a psychologist or psychiatrist or therapist in this hallowed hall of experience could help solve this query?

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#6026 Post by prospector » Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:19 am

That statement by Warren is not to be accepted, there are More lesbians than horse faced ones. That surely is discrimination on her part111

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#6027 Post by BenThere » Mon Feb 24, 2020 8:41 pm

Bernie Sanders seems to be the choice of the early delegate selection states, Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. We'll know a lot more after South Carolina registers next week, and Super Tuesday, with several state primaries pretty much setting the slate going into the Democrat convention to select the party's candidate.

I find it interesting that Bernie Sanders is facing the same resistance Donald Trump did in 2016 from his own party. Now I'm reading about the plausibility of icing out Bernie in a brokered convention and nominating a Bloomberg-Hillary ticket. While I think President Trump would make mincemeat of any ticket Democrats could contrive, I'm looking forward to an entertaining and exciting election in November.

I anticipate an utter rejection of Sander's socialism but I could be wrong. If America goes that way I'm going to exit for a while until she comes back to her senses. Conservative presidents like Reagan and Trump come along once in a generation. They were and are slandered by the press, Hollywood and academics at all levels, but they perform cultural and economic miracles when they have the power to implement common sense government. I'm continually amazed at how many Americans haven't figured that out.

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#6028 Post by ian16th » Mon Feb 24, 2020 9:12 pm

I see many similarities between the the Democratic primary in the US and the election of the Labour leader in the UK.

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#6029 Post by prospector » Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:27 am

Who else but the Washington Compost could relate this violence to be caused byn Trump visit.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/wo ... spartandhp

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#6030 Post by BenThere » Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:15 am

Throwing this one in mostly for Boac. This video expresses President Trump's achievement while showing the energy of his base. He's going to be very tough to beat in November.

https://videos.whatfinger.com/2020/02/2 ... spiration/

I don't know if you are outside the US you get the opportunity to watch a Trump rally and speech. He seems to do one or two a week. The arena or stadium is always filled with people watching monitors outside the venue who couldn't get in - never an empty seat and the vibe is electric. And he's been doing these rallies since his first election campaign.

I've never seen any politician generate the electricity President Trump does.

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#6031 Post by bob2s » Thu Feb 27, 2020 4:28 am

Ben,The ability of Trump to fill a venue is due to the fact that people are seeing what the Democrats are offering as an alternative,they don't have much use for an ageing socialist that appears to be their leading candidate. Trump must be laughing all the way to the next election.

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#6032 Post by barkingmad » Thu Feb 27, 2020 8:53 am

bob2s, “laughing all the way to the next election” as per the UK at present? Unless Johnson does something really stupid which is not unknown. Zipwire tricks, lying in ditches, lying in front of bulldozers, all of these indicate open mouth wide and insert both feet before thinking.

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#6033 Post by llondel » Thu Feb 27, 2020 3:48 pm

Don't forget all the fridge jokes.

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#6034 Post by Boac » Sat Feb 29, 2020 7:25 pm

Recently from the Chump
“We have contained this and it’s pretty close to being airtight.” Then Trump said, “We are rapidly developing a vaccine for COVID-19 and will essentially have a flu like shot available in a fairly quick manner.”
Today, proving what a quick learner he is having to be, it is not quite so good. 1 dead and, I believe, the tip of the greta - sorry - iceberg with numerous infections. All of which, of course, remains a Democratic plot to upset the coming election.

Wow! Time for the Sharpie map showing where the infection is not going? Bet y'all very impressed.

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#6035 Post by Boac » Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:24 pm

I've just seen, 26/2 , The Chump:

“COVID-19 (Coronavirus) cases would be down next to zero in a couple of days.”

I make it 29/2.

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#6036 Post by BenThere » Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:33 am

Things can change but so far the impact of corona has been less on US than elsewhere. That could change, but for now our country is not in a panic about it. While Boac crows about 1 death, he doesn't mention the 100+ deaths from regular flu occurring every week in USA.

I'll go out on a limb and predict the coronavirus will be contained and life will go on, despite Boac's desires while Trump is president.

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#6037 Post by John Hill » Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:38 am

Trump has cancelled climate change so a little thing like a virus should be no bother to him.

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#6038 Post by BenThere » Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:43 am

Trump has cancelled climate change
Problem solved!

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#6039 Post by John Hill » Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:23 am

Like all Trumps problems!
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#6040 Post by Alisoncc » Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:40 am

BenThere wrote:
Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:33 am
Things can change but so far the impact of corona has been less on US than elsewhere.
Early days Sir, early days. At the height of the contagion in Wuhan, China built two one thousand bed hospitals and drafted in thousands of medical personnel. One got the impression that most of those beds were Intensive Care units. How is your local ICU with six beds going to cope once the virus takes off. Surely no one thinks that the Chinese mobilised all of those resources just because it seemed like a good idea.

With all of those resources at their disposal they have still lost 2700 patients. With those seemingly cured becoming re-infected, does the virus lie dormant, or does having had it once not instill any immunity from future attacks. If having previously had the disease doesn't instill an immunity, then the world has Buckleys chance of deveoping a vaccine that does.

Sorry Ben, it's my belief that what you are seeing is the calm before the storm. And what a storm when it arrives.
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