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NFL Week 15 Open Thread 2
by huckfunn ( 45 Comments › )Filed under NFL, Open thread at December 16th, 2012 - 9:12 pm
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Tap, Tap, Tap, is this thing on??
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Yes, but your’s is broken.
eaglesoars wrote:
Must have been an officer. You usually don’t see that kind of idiocy from enlisted unless they are supporting him for “racial” reasons.
huckfunn wrote:
Wouldn’t surprises me at all. I’m always running out of duct tape around here. Now where’s that darn can of WD-40…
Mars wrote:
Problem is, that it is not just comrade zero. He has help, lots of help.
citizen_q wrote:
And capable handlers that are very bad intentioned.
Never saw this chart before. Nicely put together. Should be about 10 times this size at the end of this term.
Mars wrote:
Or looking for a favorable promotion based on ass-kissing.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
There is some of that. Still winds up being mostly the officers playing that game though.
Mars wrote:
Yes. He’s a very good guy. He’s been deployed but no combat. It embarasses him.
It’s odd. You can walk to Ft Belvoir from our house. I meet many soldiers at the local CVS drugstore when I go shopping and they see me buying stuff that is obviously for soldiers (baby wipes, etc). The ONLY combat-experienced troops I’ve met are enlisted.
The few -- maybe 5 -- who were willing to talk to me about it -- don’t like Patraeus as leader.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ve known some great officers. Most of the ones who get combat experience are pretty good. It’s the ones who only go to get the experience for their resume (so they can get their star) are usually worthless.
So glad those officials got those golden pensions…
off to do some reading -- nite everyone
Oh. One more thing. Please forgive another Molly story --
so we had our Christmas party yesterday. SOMEBODY (that would be me) made the mistake of giving the beagle some beef wellington.
Now she won’t eat the chicken I make for her. The damn dog lays by the fridge and if I haul anything out but the leftover beef wellington I am a complete and utter failure.
God help me.
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/03/the-republican-party-must-restore-its-legacy-of-expanding-freedom/
http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6165344/oh-the-places-youll-actually-go
I submitted my application/resume yesterday for the other insurance job. Unfortunately, I didn’t find it until it’d been listed for about 3 weeks, so I may be S.O.L. I hope to hear something this week, though. From the ad, it looks fairly similar to what I’m doing, but more for benefits for a company than as an agent. It’d be a nice raise, too- almost back to where I was before I got canned a few years ago.
@ mfhorn:
Good luck
@ mfhorn:
I hope you get it!
Fodder for lefty forums on gun control
@ lobo91:
@ Bumr50:
Thanks.
@ darkwords:
With the murder of 20+ people at a school in China from stabbings, should we also ban knives?
mfhorn wrote:
Only in China.
The 49ers are destroying The Patriots.
mfhorn wrote:
The genius Teddy Kennedy once put forward a bill that due to bad research and writing by his people would have banned all edged metal objects in this country.
@ Mars:
I wish the Republicans would attack Democrats for being anti-Video Games.
@ lobo91:
Maybe we should ban Chinese-made knives.
Rodan wrote:
Yep. And yet every forum I go to thinks the republicans are behind the bans.
Really Jack Thompson, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Lieberman were the most vocal about bans. All were dems at the time.
@ Mars:
That idiot should have been jailed for his role in the death at Chappaquiddick. Of course, being a Kennedy, and a liberal Democrat, means nothing is off limits.
protect kids from risk but dont neuter the world to do it. educate.
Maybe ban HAMAS and state why at the UN and splash it across the world media. We want kids to be safe.
@ Mars:
I would hang this statement on the Dems.
mfhorn wrote:
Very true. Instead he got elected for life.
This is what is bothering me the most about our current political culture.
Unless you resign, the press does a hatchet job on you, or some other circumstance presents, you are in office for life if you are in the house or senate.
@ Mars:
Republicans get blamed for the nonsense over song lyrics, too.
last time I checked, Tipper Gore was a Democrat.
Rodan wrote:
I don’t want to see it.
Rodan wrote:
It should be, but with a compliant media it won’t happen.
We can shout it to the stars, but we’re shouting into a vacuum. I’ve tried correcting people on the forums about this kind of stuff, but they all get vulgar and repulsive and refuse to accept the truth.
lobo91 wrote:
Yep that’s the number one thing I bring up. Sure we have people on our side that open their mouths and condemn things. But, only one party acts to ban them. Yet the public at large (including here) can’t see the difference.
The conservatives could go on a vow of silence and the press would still report that we are attacking people.
The dem party has always been the party of prohibition, from their beginnings in this country as religious socialists through actual prohibition, up to their modern attempts to ban music, games, tobacco, alcohol, sugar, and fat.
Mars wrote:
Oh and of course guns, conservative political thought, alternative schools, religious freedom, medical choices, and cars that are not capable of achieving unreachable standards.
mfhorn wrote:
Florida man accused of killing neighbor with a hammer
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/16/florida-man-accused-killing-neighbor-with-hammer/?test=latestnews#ixzz2FHJUMNAC
we know the home improvement lobby is behind keeping hammers legal//
@ mawskrat:
AAAAHHHH! Ban hammers! 15 day waiting period! No hammers that are too large, or that can drive more than 4 nails in a row in.
Question, though: Since the 2nd Amendment mentions ‘A well regulated militia…’, what would you consider ‘well regulated’?
mfhorn wrote:
According to the Constitution, that’s up to Congress to decide.
http://constitution.org/cons/wellregu.htm
Better than I could phrase it.
@ mfhorn:
Article I, Section 8:
lobo91 wrote:
That’s part of it, but I wonder if the well regulated referred to another part since Hamilton says in the Federalist Papers:
Since they wanted an armed populace, then it seems this would speak against them being military trained.
“well-regulated” Militia…..a militia that has a high fiber diet