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    Now they're seizing airguns. Not mega-powerful, hi-caliber airguns mind you, but .177-cal airguns. BB guns with rifled barrels.

    Oh, and did I mention New Zealand's Prime Minister once was president of the International Union of Socialist Youth? If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

    And the leader of a New Zealand criminal organization known as the Mongrel Mob says they ain't no way they're giving up their guns. Hell, they need them to protect themselves from other criminals.
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    Hey, sorry to get way off topic, but it does deal with killings. Did you see in Los Angeles that white cops killed some black rapper by the name of Nipsey . . ?

    Damn racist profiling, there they go AGAIN.

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    Hey, sorry to get way off topic, but it does deal with killings. Did you see in Los Angeles that white cops killed some black rapper by the name of Nipsey . . ?

    Damn racist profiling, there they go AGAIN.
    ???

    He was shot over a personal dispute by someone he knew.
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    Lol! And someone pulled out a gun at the vigil and caused a stampede of retards...

    This reminds of when Kenny Rogers got shot by a rival gang member.

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    Really? Another friend (black?).

    Makes sense.

    So that's why there were hasn't been any anger, protests, etc. that I've read about - or no Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton. Just another day in the hood.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Proximal View Post
    Really? Another friend (black?).

    Makes sense.

    So that's why there were hasn't been any anger, protests, etc. that I've read about - or no Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton. Just another day in the hood.

    Yes and kenny rogers wasnt shot by a rival gang member (nor any country singer) because he aint about dat thug life, nor is his genre of 99.999% whitey.

    Which is funny because it is the oldest American genre.

    Another rapper reaps the benefits uh dem streets.
    How "gangsta"...
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    Agreed. But my point is that the response by the black community is muted.

    Where is the anger? Where are the protests? Where are the kneeling black athletes during the National Anthem?

    I am not fascist, but the inconsistency pisses me off. Error, I meant to have wrote that I am not racist.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Proximal View Post
    Agreed. But my point is that the response by the black community is muted.

    Where is the anger? Where are the protests? Where are the kneeling black athletes during the National Anthem?

    I am not fascist, but the inconsistency pisses me off.
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    What today is called "racial profiling" used to be called "common sense." Re-branding is what socialists/progressives do whenever one of their plans falls flat on its ass. Which happens a lot. Remember "global warming?" It's now "climate change" because earth's climate has been changing for four point three billion years, so no one can deny it's happening, right? So when they want to remove the stigma from the antisocial behavior prevalent in racial minorities, they re-brand the recognition of this behavior as "racial discrimination."

    Do you know what "discrimination" is? Discrimination is the ability to recognize a difference. Traffic lights only work because motorists can discriminate red from green. "Discrimination" only takes on a negative cast when socialists re-brand it.

    Before you can get onto any airline flight into or out of Israel, you have to undergo an interrogation. They call it an "interview" but it's interrogation by another name.

    TODAY, if you're 91 years old, a woman, your passport gives your surname as Horowitz and you have a crudely-tattooed six-digit number on your left forearm, the interview lasts 11 seconds, tops, and ends with an apology from the interrogator.

    But if you're 23, a man, your passport gives your surname as al-Musawi and you're flying in from Tehran, Iran, ... the interview could take two hours. If you're lucky. If you're not lucky, or if you give the interrogator some persecuted muzzy attitude, the interview might be continued at Club Gitmo, and might not end until your children are old enough to follow in your footsteps to become homicide bombers.

    That's why airline security in the US is so fucked up. We keep trying to not offend the muzzies so they won't go all aloha snakbar on us. If they want to travel by air, strip them naked, x-ray the fuck out of them, then if nothing looks suspicious nail them in a wooden crate and let them fly in the cargo hold. They can have their clothes back when they've arrived at Dearbonistan.

    We didn't used to be this stupid. The 80s are still known as "the terror decade" because you had the PLO, the Greens, the IRA, the ETA, the Baader-Meinhoff group, the Red Army Faction, the Shining Path, the American Indian Movement, and about a hundred other splinter groups blowing up shit every time network TV aired a hair care products advertisement featuring Farrah Fawcett. I know this shit from first-hand experience because that's how long I've been fighting terrorism.

    Back then there also was a rash of Cubans hijacking US airline flights and diverting them to Cuba. Which I never understood anyway. First of all, Cuba struggles to keep people in, not out. You'd think they would subsidize tickets for immigrants. Second, if you've got the price of a plane ticket to Poughkipsie, Havana is only another $14. So why risk life in prison over charges of air piracy? Doesn't speak to highly of the intellect of the Cuban hijackers, if you ask me.

    Anyway, in 1979 I was flying back from a scuba vacation in the Bahamas and was standing behind a Hispanic man about my age in the departure customs line at Grand Bahama airport. It was taking a long time to get to the front of the line and when there still were two or three people ahead of us, he turned to me and said, "Why don't you go in front of me?" I asked him why I would do that and he said, "It's going to take me a lot longer. I have a Cuban passport."

    Back then it made sense that young Cuban men got extra scrutiny before they got on a commercial flight, so they did it. "They" meaning the government. Which inconvenienced Cuban dude, but not me. Which was as it should have been.

    I went into Iraq a couple of months after the 2003 "invasion" began and didn't come home for almost four years. And when I did, I got strip searched before I could board a domestic commercial flight for home.

    I came in on an Air Force transport and landed at Fort Bliss (as misnamed a place as there is on this planet). I hadn't been on American soil for more than 1000 days. Fort Bliss and the city of El Paso jointly use the same airfield, so I flew in to Fort Bliss and out of El Paso on the same runway. But before I could leave I had to be skin searched, one step away from a body cavity search.

    Why? I was a man traveling alone on a one-way ticket with a US destination paid for in an Arab country. I fit their profile, at least in part. The fact that I was just returned from the motherfuckingwariniraq cut exactly zero muster with the TSA because they feared they might "radicalize" some imaginary muzzy on the edge who otherwise might have become CEO of Westinghouse. If we only wouldn't piss him off, he'd become a productive and contributing member of the American infrastructure.

    Back in those days there had to be dozens if not hundreds of Americans coming through the El Paso airport in the same predicament every goddam day. But better they all be inconvenienced than the one potential terrorist on the brink.

    Can you imagine the rage that put me in? Not just me but the other tens of thousands of Americans subjected to the same treatment? I'd been putting my ass on the line, dodging bullets and (mostly piss-poorly-aimed) Soviet-made artillery, eating sand and shitting cinder blocks for years -- YEARS -- so that Americans could shop at Walmart without worrying that there are bad people in this world. And trust me, at that moment in my life I was not in the habit of letting murderous rages pass quietly.

    Soldiers coming home from Vietnam were spat upon at the airport by San Francisco's finest. Me, on the other hand, I got groped by a government employee in El Paso.

    What's important is not that it happened to me but that it's still happening every day to tens of thousands of American civilians, almost 18 years after 9/11. Eighteen years later, there's no fucking doubt where the danger emanates from. And it's criminally stupid not to acknowledge that the muzzies are the problem and to stop inconveniencing the rest of the population.

    97% of the Muslims in the world today will tell you with utmost sincerity that they're not radicals and they don't support the Islamo-Fascists. And that's the exact same song they'll sing until the day that the other 3% take over the world. At which point the song will be, "We were behind you all along."

    There's no one on earth who is under such imminent and perpetual danger from the Arab Muslims as the Israelis are. Fuck the progressives' re-branding of "discrimination," we should be following the Israelites' lead on this one and profiling young Arab men.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beetlegeuse View Post
    What today is called "racial profiling" used to be called "common sense." Re-branding is what socialists/progressives do whenever one of their plans falls flat on its ass. Which happens a lot. Remember "global warming?" It's now "climate change" because earth's climate has been changing for four point three billion years, so no one can deny it's happening, right? So when they want to remove the stigma from the antisocial behavior prevalent in racial minorities, they re-brand the recognition of this behavior as "racial discrimination."

    Do you know what "discrimination" is? Discrimination is the ability to recognize a difference. Traffic lights only work because motorists can discriminate red from green. "Discrimination" only takes on a negative cast when socialists re-brand it.

    Before you can get onto any airline flight into or out of Israel, you have to undergo an interrogation. They call it an "interview" but it's interrogation by another name.

    TODAY, if you're 91 years old, a woman, your passport gives your surname as Horowitz and you have a crudely-tattooed six-digit number on your left forearm, the interview lasts 11 seconds, tops, and ends with an apology from the interrogator.

    But if you're 23, a man, your passport gives your surname as al-Musawi and you're flying in from Tehran, Iran, ... the interview could take two hours. If you're lucky. If you're not lucky, or if you give the interrogator some persecuted muzzy attitude, the interview might be continued at Club Gitmo, and might not end until your children are old enough to follow in your footsteps to become homicide bombers.

    That's why airline security in the US is so fucked up. We keep trying to not offend the muzzies so they won't go all alahu akbar on us. If they want to travel by air, strip them naked, x-ray the fuck out of them, and if nothing looks suspicious, nail them in a wooden crate and let them fly in the cargo hold. They can have their clothes back when they've arrived at Dearbonistan.

    We didn't used to be this stupid. The 80s are still known as "the terror decade" because you had the PLO, the Greens, the IRA, the ETA, the Baader-Meinhoff group, the Red Army Faction, the Shining Path, the American Indian Movement, and about a hundred other splinter groups blowing up shit every time network TV aired a hair care products advertisement featuring Farrah Fawcett. I know this shit from first-hand experience because that's how long I've been fighting terrorism.

    Back then there also was a rash of Cubans hijacking US airline flights and diverting them to Cuba. Which I never understood anyway. First of all, Cuba struggles to keep people in, not out. You'd think they would subsidize tickets for immigrants. Second, if you've got the price of a plane ticket to Poughkipsie, Havana is only another $14. So why risk life in prison over charges of air piracy? Doesn't speak to highly of the intellect of the Cuban hijackers, if you ask me.

    Anyway, in 1979 I was flying back from a scuba vacation in the Bahamas and was standing behind a Hispanic man about my age in the departure customs line at Grand Bahama airport. It was taking a long time to get to the front of the line and when there still were two or three people ahead of us, he turned to me and said, "Why don't you go in front of me?" I asked him why I would do that and he said, "It's going to take me a lot longer. I have a Cuban passport."

    Back then it made sense that young Cuban men got extra scrutiny before they got on a commercial flight, so they did it. "They" meaning the government. Which inconvenienced him, but not me. Which was as it should have been.

    I went into Iraq a couple of months after the 2003 "invasion" began and didn't come home for almost four years. And when I did, I got strip searched before I could board a domestic commercial flight for home.

    I came in on an Air Force transport and landed at Fort Bliss (as misnamed a place as there is on this planet). I hadn't been on American soil for more than 1000 days. Fort Bliss and the city of El Paso jointly use the same airfield, so I flew in to Fort Bliss and out of El Paso on the same runway. But before I could leave I had to be skin searched, one step away from a body cavity search.

    Why? I was a man traveling alone on a one-way ticket with a US destination paid for in an Arab country. I fit their profile, at least in part. The fact that I was just returned from the motherfuckingwariniraq cut exactly zero muster with the TSA because they feared they might "radicalize" some imaginary muzzy on the edge who otherwise might have become CEO of Westinghouse. If we only wouldn't piss him off, he'd become a productive and contributing member of the American infrastructure.

    Back in those days there had to be dozens if not hundreds of Americans coming through the El Paso airport in the same predicament every goddam day. But better they all be inconvenienced than the one potential terrorist on the brink.

    Can you imagine the rage that put me in? Not just me but the other tens of thousands of Americans subjected to the same treatment? I'd been putting my ass on the line, dodging bullets and (mostly piss-poorly-aimed) Soviet-made artillery, eating sand and shitting cinder blocks for years -- YEARS -- so that Americans could shop at Walmart without worrying that there are bad people in this world. And trust me, at that moment in my life I was not in the habit of letting murderous rages pass quietly.

    Soldiers coming home from Vietnam were spat upon at the airport by San Francisco's finest. Me, on the other hand, I got groped by a government employee in El Paso.

    What's important is not that it happened to me but that it's still happening every day to tens of thousands of American civilians, almost 18 years after 9/11. Eighteen years later, there's no fucking doubt where the danger imitates from. And it's criminally stupid not to acknowledge that the muzzies are the problem and to stop inconveniencing the rest of the population.

    97% of the Muslims in the world today will tell you with utmost sincerity that they're not radicals and they don't support the Islamo-Fascists. And that's the exact same song they'll sing until the day that the other 3% take over the world. At which point the song will be, "We were behind you all along."

    There's no one on earth who is under such imminent and perpetual danger from the Arab Muslims as the Israelis are. Fuck the progressives' re-branding of "discrimination," we should be profiling young Arab men.
    I profile all.
    People outside my race wont get an equal opprtunity to be buds with me. It used to be called nature but now its called intolerant.
    This is great because it weeds out the 20% of my race that I dont want to talk to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Obs View Post
    I profile all.
    People outside my race wont get an equal opprtunity to be buds with me. It used to be called nature but now its called intolerant.
    This is great because it weeds out the 20% of my race that I dont want to talk to.
    I judge everyone pretty harshly. We differ in that I do give those outside of my race or religious beliefs a chance, but my tolerance of bs from anyone is very low.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Proximal View Post
    I judge everyone pretty harshly. We differ in that I do give those outside of my race or religious beliefs a chance, but my tolerance of bs from anyone is very low.
    I give all a chance.
    It is not equal opportunity though.

    People are fulla shit.
    Those that say they dont profile or discriminate would not survive the places I have been.
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    Thank you sir, you have nothing but my respect.
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    They have the greatest one liners of all time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beetlegeuse View Post
    What today is called "racial profiling" used to be called "common sense." Re-branding is what socialists/progressives do whenever one of their plans falls flat on its ass. Which happens a lot. Remember "global warming?" It's now "climate change" because earth's climate has been changing for four point three billion years, so no one can deny it's happening, right? So when they want to remove the stigma from the antisocial behavior prevalent in racial minorities, they re-brand the recognition of this behavior as "racial discrimination."

    Do you know what "discrimination" is? Discrimination is the ability to recognize a difference. Traffic lights only work because motorists can discriminate red from green. "Discrimination" only takes on a negative cast when socialists re-brand it.

    Before you can get onto any airline flight into or out of Israel, you have to undergo an interrogation. They call it an "interview" but it's interrogation by another name.

    TODAY, if you're 91 years old, a woman, your passport gives your surname as Horowitz and you have a crudely-tattooed six-digit number on your left forearm, the interview lasts 11 seconds, tops, and ends with an apology from the interrogator.

    But if you're 23, a man, your passport gives your surname as al-Musawi and you're flying in from Tehran, Iran, ... the interview could take two hours. If you're lucky. If you're not lucky, or if you give the interrogator some persecuted muzzy attitude, the interview might be continued at Club Gitmo, and might not end until your children are old enough to follow in your footsteps to become homicide bombers.

    That's why airline security in the US is so fucked up. We keep trying to not offend the muzzies so they won't go all alahu akbar on us. If they want to travel by air, strip them naked, x-ray the fuck out of them, and if nothing looks suspicious, nail them in a wooden crate and let them fly in the cargo hold. They can have their clothes back when they've arrived at Dearbonistan.

    We didn't used to be this stupid. The 80s are still known as "the terror decade" because you had the PLO, the Greens, the IRA, the ETA, the Baader-Meinhoff group, the Red Army Faction, the Shining Path, the American Indian Movement, and about a hundred other splinter groups blowing up shit every time network TV aired a hair care products advertisement featuring Farrah Fawcett. I know this shit from first-hand experience because that's how long I've been fighting terrorism.

    Back then there also was a rash of Cubans hijacking US airline flights and diverting them to Cuba. Which I never understood anyway. First of all, Cuba struggles to keep people in, not out. You'd think they would subsidize tickets for immigrants. Second, if you've got the price of a plane ticket to Poughkipsie, Havana is only another $14. So why risk life in prison over charges of air piracy? Doesn't speak to highly of the intellect of the Cuban hijackers, if you ask me.

    Anyway, in 1979 I was flying back from a scuba vacation in the Bahamas and was standing behind a Hispanic man about my age in the departure customs line at Grand Bahama airport. It was taking a long time to get to the front of the line and when there still were two or three people ahead of us, he turned to me and said, "Why don't you go in front of me?" I asked him why I would do that and he said, "It's going to take me a lot longer. I have a Cuban passport."

    Back then it made sense that young Cuban men got extra scrutiny before they got on a commercial flight, so they did it. "They" meaning the government. Which inconvenienced him, but not me. Which was as it should have been.

    I went into Iraq a couple of months after the 2003 "invasion" began and didn't come home for almost four years. And when I did, I got strip searched before I could board a domestic commercial flight for home.

    I came in on an Air Force transport and landed at Fort Bliss (as misnamed a place as there is on this planet). I hadn't been on American soil for more than 1000 days. Fort Bliss and the city of El Paso jointly use the same airfield, so I flew in to Fort Bliss and out of El Paso on the same runway. But before I could leave I had to be skin searched, one step away from a body cavity search.

    Why? I was a man traveling alone on a one-way ticket with a US destination paid for in an Arab country. I fit their profile, at least in part. The fact that I was just returned from the motherfuckingwariniraq cut exactly zero muster with the TSA because they feared they might "radicalize" some imaginary muzzy on the edge who otherwise might have become CEO of Westinghouse. If we only wouldn't piss him off, he'd become a productive and contributing member of the American infrastructure.

    Back in those days there had to be dozens if not hundreds of Americans coming through the El Paso airport in the same predicament every goddam day. But better they all be inconvenienced than the one potential terrorist on the brink.

    Can you imagine the rage that put me in? Not just me but the other tens of thousands of Americans subjected to the same treatment? I'd been putting my ass on the line, dodging bullets and (mostly piss-poorly-aimed) Soviet-made artillery, eating sand and shitting cinder blocks for years -- YEARS -- so that Americans could shop at Walmart without worrying that there are bad people in this world. And trust me, at that moment in my life I was not in the habit of letting murderous rages pass quietly.

    Soldiers coming home from Vietnam were spat upon at the airport by San Francisco's finest. Me, on the other hand, I got groped by a government employee in El Paso.

    What's important is not that it happened to me but that it's still happening every day to tens of thousands of American civilians, almost 18 years after 9/11. Eighteen years later, there's no fucking doubt where the danger imitates from. And it's criminally stupid not to acknowledge that the muzzies are the problem and to stop inconveniencing the rest of the population.

    97% of the Muslims in the world today will tell you with utmost sincerity that they're not radicals and they don't support the Islamo-Fascists. And that's the exact same song they'll sing until the day that the other 3% take over the world. At which point the song will be, "We were behind you all along."

    There's no one on earth who is under such imminent and perpetual danger from the Arab Muslims as the Israelis are. Fuck the progressives' re-branding of "discrimination," we should be profiling young Arab men.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Obs View Post
    I give all a chance.
    It is not equal opportunity though.

    People are fulla shit.
    Those that say they dont profile or discriminate would not survive the places I have been.
    Couldn't be a statement any more true.
    Well I can't speak for the places you've been because I don't know but shit ya'll know what I mean
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beetlegeuse View Post
    What today is called "racial profiling" used to be called "common sense." Re-branding is what socialists/progressives do whenever one of their plans falls flat on its ass. Which happens a lot. Remember "global warming?" It's now "climate change" because earth's climate has been changing for four point three billion years, so no one can deny it's happening, right? So when they want to remove the stigma from the antisocial behavior prevalent in racial minorities, they re-brand the recognition of this behavior as "racial discrimination."

    Do you know what "discrimination" is? Discrimination is the ability to recognize a difference. Traffic lights only work because motorists can discriminate red from green. "Discrimination" only takes on a negative cast when socialists re-brand it.

    Before you can get onto any airline flight into or out of Israel, you have to undergo an interrogation. They call it an "interview" but it's interrogation by another name.

    TODAY, if you're 91 years old, a woman, your passport gives your surname as Horowitz and you have a crudely-tattooed six-digit number on your left forearm, the interview lasts 11 seconds, tops, and ends with an apology from the interrogator.

    But if you're 23, a man, your passport gives your surname as al-Musawi and you're flying in from Tehran, Iran, ... the interview could take two hours. If you're lucky. If you're not lucky, or if you give the interrogator some persecuted muzzy attitude, the interview might be continued at Club Gitmo, and might not end until your children are old enough to follow in your footsteps to become homicide bombers.

    That's why airline security in the US is so fucked up. We keep trying to not offend the muzzies so they won't go all alahu akbar on us. If they want to travel by air, strip them naked, x-ray the fuck out of them, and if nothing looks suspicious, nail them in a wooden crate and let them fly in the cargo hold. They can have their clothes back when they've arrived at Dearbonistan.

    We didn't used to be this stupid. The 80s are still known as "the terror decade" because you had the PLO, the Greens, the IRA, the ETA, the Baader-Meinhoff group, the Red Army Faction, the Shining Path, the American Indian Movement, and about a hundred other splinter groups blowing up shit every time network TV aired a hair care products advertisement featuring Farrah Fawcett. I know this shit from first-hand experience because that's how long I've been fighting terrorism.

    Back then there also was a rash of Cubans hijacking US airline flights and diverting them to Cuba. Which I never understood anyway. First of all, Cuba struggles to keep people in, not out. You'd think they would subsidize tickets for immigrants. Second, if you've got the price of a plane ticket to Poughkipsie, Havana is only another $14. So why risk life in prison over charges of air piracy? Doesn't speak to highly of the intellect of the Cuban hijackers, if you ask me.

    Anyway, in 1979 I was flying back from a scuba vacation in the Bahamas and was standing behind a Hispanic man about my age in the departure customs line at Grand Bahama airport. It was taking a long time to get to the front of the line and when there still were two or three people ahead of us, he turned to me and said, "Why don't you go in front of me?" I asked him why I would do that and he said, "It's going to take me a lot longer. I have a Cuban passport."

    Back then it made sense that young Cuban men got extra scrutiny before they got on a commercial flight, so they did it. "They" meaning the government. Which inconvenienced him, but not me. Which was as it should have been.

    I went into Iraq a couple of months after the 2003 "invasion" began and didn't come home for almost four years. And when I did, I got strip searched before I could board a domestic commercial flight for home.

    I came in on an Air Force transport and landed at Fort Bliss (as misnamed a place as there is on this planet). I hadn't been on American soil for more than 1000 days. Fort Bliss and the city of El Paso jointly use the same airfield, so I flew in to Fort Bliss and out of El Paso on the same runway. But before I could leave I had to be skin searched, one step away from a body cavity search.

    Why? I was a man traveling alone on a one-way ticket with a US destination paid for in an Arab country. I fit their profile, at least in part. The fact that I was just returned from the motherfuckingwariniraq cut exactly zero muster with the TSA because they feared they might "radicalize" some imaginary muzzy on the edge who otherwise might have become CEO of Westinghouse. If we only wouldn't piss him off, he'd become a productive and contributing member of the American infrastructure.

    Back in those days there had to be dozens if not hundreds of Americans coming through the El Paso airport in the same predicament every goddam day. But better they all be inconvenienced than the one potential terrorist on the brink.

    Can you imagine the rage that put me in? Not just me but the other tens of thousands of Americans subjected to the same treatment? I'd been putting my ass on the line, dodging bullets and (mostly piss-poorly-aimed) Soviet-made artillery, eating sand and shitting cinder blocks for years -- YEARS -- so that Americans could shop at Walmart without worrying that there are bad people in this world. And trust me, at that moment in my life I was not in the habit of letting murderous rages pass quietly.

    Soldiers coming home from Vietnam were spat upon at the airport by San Francisco's finest. Me, on the other hand, I got groped by a government employee in El Paso.

    What's important is not that it happened to me but that it's still happening every day to tens of thousands of American civilians, almost 18 years after 9/11. Eighteen years later, there's no fucking doubt where the danger imitates from. And it's criminally stupid not to acknowledge that the muzzies are the problem and to stop inconveniencing the rest of the population.

    97% of the Muslims in the world today will tell you with utmost sincerity that they're not radicals and they don't support the Islamo-Fascists. And that's the exact same song they'll sing until the day that the other 3% take over the world. At which point the song will be, "We were behind you all along."

    There's no one on earth who is under such imminent and perpetual danger from the Arab Muslims as the Israelis are. Fuck the progressives' re-branding of "discrimination," we should be profiling young Arab men.
    Another problem I see is these Progressive stupid Americans are actually voting these Muslim extremists into office now. WTF?
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    What today is called "racial profiling" used to be called "common sense." Re-branding is what socialists/progressives do whenever one of their plans falls flat on its ass. Which happens a lot. Remember "global warming?" It's now "climate change" because earth's climate has been changing for four point three billion years, so no one can deny it's happening, right? So when they want to remove the stigma from the antisocial behavior prevalent in racial minorities, they re-brand the recognition of this behavior as "racial discrimination."

    Do you know what "discrimination" is? Discrimination is the ability to recognize a difference. Traffic lights only work because motorists can discriminate red from green. "Discrimination" only takes on a negative cast when socialists re-brand it.

    Before you can get onto any airline flight into or out of Israel, you have to undergo an interrogation. They call it an "interview" but it's interrogation by another name.

    TODAY, if you're 91 years old, a woman, your passport gives your surname as Horowitz and you have a crudely-tattooed six-digit number on your left forearm, the interview lasts 11 seconds, tops, and ends with an apology from the interrogator.

    But if you're 23, a man, your passport gives your surname as al-Musawi and you're flying in from Tehran, Iran, ... the interview could take two hours. If you're lucky. If you're not lucky, or if you give the interrogator some persecuted muzzy attitude, the interview might be continued at Club Gitmo, and might not end until your children are old enough to follow in your footsteps to become homicide bombers.

    That's why airline security in the US is so fucked up. We keep trying to not offend the muzzies so they won't go all alahu akbar on us. If they want to travel by air, strip them naked, x-ray the fuck out of them, and if nothing looks suspicious, nail them in a wooden crate and let them fly in the cargo hold. They can have their clothes back when they've arrived at Dearbonistan.

    We didn't used to be this stupid. The 80s are still known as "the terror decade" because you had the PLO, the Greens, the IRA, the ETA, the Baader-Meinhoff group, the Red Army Faction, the Shining Path, the American Indian Movement, and about a hundred other splinter groups blowing up shit every time network TV aired a hair care products advertisement featuring Farrah Fawcett. I know this shit from first-hand experience because that's how long I've been fighting terrorism.

    Back then there also was a rash of Cubans hijacking US airline flights and diverting them to Cuba. Which I never understood anyway. First of all, Cuba struggles to keep people in, not out. You'd think they would subsidize tickets for immigrants. Second, if you've got the price of a plane ticket to Poughkipsie, Havana is only another $14. So why risk life in prison over charges of air piracy? Doesn't speak to highly of the intellect of the Cuban hijackers, if you ask me.

    Anyway, in 1979 I was flying back from a scuba vacation in the Bahamas and was standing behind a Hispanic man about my age in the departure customs line at Grand Bahama airport. It was taking a long time to get to the front of the line and when there still were two or three people ahead of us, he turned to me and said, "Why don't you go in front of me?" I asked him why I would do that and he said, "It's going to take me a lot longer. I have a Cuban passport."

    Back then it made sense that young Cuban men got extra scrutiny before they got on a commercial flight, so they did it. "They" meaning the government. Which inconvenienced him, but not me. Which was as it should have been.

    I went into Iraq a couple of months after the 2003 "invasion" began and didn't come home for almost four years. And when I did, I got strip searched before I could board a domestic commercial flight for home.

    I came in on an Air Force transport and landed at Fort Bliss (as misnamed a place as there is on this planet). I hadn't been on American soil for more than 1000 days. Fort Bliss and the city of El Paso jointly use the same airfield, so I flew in to Fort Bliss and out of El Paso on the same runway. But before I could leave I had to be skin searched, one step away from a body cavity search.

    Why? I was a man traveling alone on a one-way ticket with a US destination paid for in an Arab country. I fit their profile, at least in part. The fact that I was just returned from the motherfuckingwariniraq cut exactly zero muster with the TSA because they feared they might "radicalize" some imaginary muzzy on the edge who otherwise might have become CEO of Westinghouse. If we only wouldn't piss him off, he'd become a productive and contributing member of the American infrastructure.

    Back in those days there had to be dozens if not hundreds of Americans coming through the El Paso airport in the same predicament every goddam day. But better they all be inconvenienced than the one potential terrorist on the brink.

    Can you imagine the rage that put me in? Not just me but the other tens of thousands of Americans subjected to the same treatment? I'd been putting my ass on the line, dodging bullets and (mostly piss-poorly-aimed) Soviet-made artillery, eating sand and shitting cinder blocks for years -- YEARS -- so that Americans could shop at Walmart without worrying that there are bad people in this world. And trust me, at that moment in my life I was not in the habit of letting murderous rages pass quietly.

    Soldiers coming home from Vietnam were spat upon at the airport by San Francisco's finest. Me, on the other hand, I got groped by a government employee in El Paso.

    What's important is not that it happened to me but that it's still happening every day to tens of thousands of American civilians, almost 18 years after 9/11. Eighteen years later, there's no fucking doubt where the danger imitates from. And it's criminally stupid not to acknowledge that the muzzies are the problem and to stop inconveniencing the rest of the population.

    97% of the Muslims in the world today will tell you with utmost sincerity that they're not radicals and they don't support the Islamo-Fascists. And that's the exact same song they'll sing until the day that the other 3% take over the world. At which point the song will be, "We were behind you all along."

    There's no one on earth who is under such imminent and perpetual danger from the Arab Muslims as the Israelis are. Fuck the progressives' re-branding of "discrimination," we should be profiling young Arab men.
    Hey man you went too far! I know like.. 3 Muslim people who havnt Allah akbard when I saw them, they are nice people im telling you! Just because a very unreasonable percentage of them would love to kill everyone else doesn't make it ok to dislike them!!! - accepted 2019 logic. Fuck that shit, statistics are real.

    You're not allowed to state facts... that's racist! We need to ban facts asap.
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    Another problem I see is these Progressive stupid Americans are actually voting these Muslim extremists into office now. WTF?
    They also elected Sheikh Obama (piss be upon him). Twice.

    You can't fix stupid (but you can limit its lifespan).
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    Speaking to "the Left" and the subject of 'rebranding':

    "Every totalitarian power cult needs a vocabulary of vituperation—some way to talk about the enemies of the people: those wreckers, saboteurs, and counter-revolutionaries who are always trying to slow or divert society’s righteous march forward to a radiant future."


    Whoooa! ...gotta write that one down!
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    Only 530 semi-automatic guns handed over, police say

    ... Figures released to Newstalk ZB by the New Zealand Police showed that, as of Sunday night, only 530 guns had been handed in since the ban on semi-automatic guns was finalised in early April.

    There are around 250,000 licenced firearm holders in New Zealand and it's estimated as many as 300,000 guns could now be illegal.

    It comes as gun owners are waiting on any details around compensation for their guns....

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    Gun owners 'angry and frustrated' and some say they won't hand in their now-illegal firearms

    20 Jun, 2019 4:20pm

    The Council of Licenced Firearms Owners is exploring legal action over the Government's gun buyback scheme over what it says are unfair prices.

    And council spokeswoman Nicole McKee said that while the council is urging its 40,000-odd members to abide by the law, some have told her that they don't intend to hand in their now-illegal firearms.

    "Some of the offered prices for higher-end firearms are well out of kilter. We're talking thousands of dollars," McKee said.

    "It may get down to a point where we have to look at court action on behalf of our members, and that is something we will be looking at under advice from our lawyers."

    This morning the Government released details of its gun buyback scheme, which covers more than 300 guns as well as high capacity magazines and other parts, but excludes business losses.

    It follows the gun law reform in April that banned most military-style semi-automatics (MSSA) and associated components in response to the Christchurch terror attack that killed 51 people.

    Police released an extensive list of guns, each with a price for poor condition (25 per cent of the base price), average condition (70 per cent of the base price), and new or near-new condition (95 per cent of the base price).

    The list also includes gun parts - including magazines, silencers, open sights and custom triggers - with a different price setting: 70 per cent of the base price for new or used, and 25 per cent of the base price for poor condition.

    Gun City owner David Tipple said the offered prices for the guns were about 25 per cent below what they should be, and the prices for the components were even worse.

    "The component prices are horrible robbery."
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    NZ Gun Ban: Mistakes Were Made, New Gun Control Group, New “BuyBack”

    Ammoland Inc. Posted on June 25, 2019 by Dean Weingarten

    The laws were pushed through, as usual, by people who knew almost nothing of firearms or firearms technology. They were pushed through based on emotion and one political act of terrorism. The perpetrator accurately predicted this to be a consequence of his actions. It appeared the laws would be somewhat less severe than those pushed through in somewhat similar circumstances in Australia, in 1997.

    For example, .22 rimfire semi-automatic rifles would not be banned. They have never been a common item used in mass killings, but are common all over the world for hunting small game.

    Most pump shotguns would not be banned. Pistols would not be banned. Here is a summation. From rnz.co.nz:

    A briefing from police was sent to the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, and her Cabinet colleagues on 19 March, making a number of proposals for amendments to the Arms Act, 1983.
    Enhancing the AR15 Standard

    The briefing, obtained under the Official Information Act, states that Cabinet had agreed in principle to “ban detachable magazines for firearms other than 0.22 calibre, ban all magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds, and ban magazines for shotguns capable of holding more than 5 rounds”.

    In response, police made a number of changes to the proposals, including a key change to the magazines that would be banned.

    “We refined the description of ‘the magazine' agreed to in the principle recommendations as this would have mistakenly banned all magazines, including those of pistols.”

    Police also refined the definition about what type of pump-action shotguns should be excluded from the ban and specified that A-category, rimfire 0.22 calibre or less rifles should be exempt.

    Critics of the firearms law changes said the process was too rushed, and not enough time was given for submissions on the amendments to the act.

    The documents show some early errors were picked up by police, while other concerns were dealt with when the bill was brought to Parliament less than two weeks later.

    The changes were merely common sense adjustments to an emotional pre-packaged response to a one time political event. But those who want societies disarmed were not satisfied. Another gun control lobbying group was founded. Founding members “have backgrounds in public health and public policy”. The new group is pushing for a total ban on semi-automatic firearms (why?) They called for registration of all firearms (previously rejected by New Zealand police as expensive and ineffective), and a three year limit on the registration. This would require New Zealanders to re-apply for the privilege of owning guns every three years. From scoop.co.nz:

    Co-founder Nik Green says “Gun ownership imposes risks on all of us, and our current laws still have many loopholes. Gun Control NZ wants effective gun laws that keep the entire community safe.”

    This is the standard line of gun prohibitionists. It is not a truism. There is no empirical proof that higher gun ownership results in higher homicide rates or higher suicide rates.

    Both Australia and New Zealand have been incredibly safe and law-abiding countries before and after their latest gun laws were enacted.

    Just a few hours ago, (20 June, 2019) the government of New Zealand announced they would be spending NZ $198 million to purchase guns confiscated from New Zealand gun owners. It shows the global conformity of those pushing citizen disarmament that this is referred to by the Orwellian term “buyback” in the Australian media (New Zealand reveals $198 million gun buyback scheme). To their credit, the New Zealand government does not use the term “buyback”. You cannot buy back something you never owned. From abc.net.au:

    Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Minister of Police Stuart Nash said in a joint emailed statement that NZ$208 million ($198 million) had been set aside to compensate owners of the banned semi-automatic firearms up to 95 per cent of the original cost.

    They would have until December 20 to hand in their weapons.

    “Police have detailed plans in place for the next step, which is the collection of firearms from the community,” Mr Nash said.

    New Zealand has a population of less than five million people, with about 3.6 million of them adults. The gun confiscation will cost about $55 per adult in New Zealand. Almost certainly, the same amount spent on public health, would result in multiple more lives saved than spent on confiscating guns.

    The laws are not based on logic, reason, or sound policy, but on the hatred and fear of guns by people who do not own them.

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    Kiwis Protest New Zealand's Gun 'Buy-Back' Scheme: 'The Government Kept Saying They Weren’t Going to Rip Us Off'

    ...In June 2019, Prime Minister Ardern set aside more than $208 million New Zealand dollars to compensate owners, for up to 95 percent of the original cost, of newly banned firearms in a gun “buy-back” scheme. The deadline for the “buy-back” scheme is set for December 20, 2019.

    Illegal firearms that have been owned without a valid firearms license are not given any compensation.

    Police estimated that only around 500 prohibited weapons have been handed in and around 3000 firearms have been marked for collection without compensation.

    Police also approximated that at least 14,300 military-style semi-automatics have been covered by previously passed legislation....
    ...The Council of Licensed Firearms Owners (COLFO) is gathering funds currently to mount a legal challenge against the government, although the Kiwi Party failed to effectively challenge the new gun laws in the High Court.

    Some members of the 40,000-member COLFO have already told the Council that they will refuse to hand in their now-illegal firearms. Affiliates of COLFO have also underlined that the gun “buy-back” is extremely unfair.

    Noting that the government is failing to pay a proper value for the firearms being returned, council spokeswoman Nicole McKee stated, “The Government kept saying they weren’t going to rip us off. They said they would pay full value. They’re not and 250,000 [firearms license holders] are starting to feel ripped off.”...
    ...The government is also only aware of roughly 13,500 recorded licenses for military-style semi-automatics, indicating that the number could be much higher.

    Police Deputy Police Commissioner Michael Clement indicates that there could be “tens of thousands” of unaccounted prohibited firearms, which could lead to a black market. In addition, thousands of New Zealand citizens could be left without military-style semi-automatics, whereas criminals and gang members do have them....

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    Number of weapons turned in in New Zealand's confiscation: 19,837

    Number of applicable weapons believed to have been in circulation: 200,000-ish


    Roughly four in five registered gun-owning Kiwis are telling the government to bugger off, far higher among the unregistered.
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    New Zealanders Face 5 Years In Jail For Not Handing-In Banned Firearms

    This despite the fact that the shooter himself said in his own manifesto that provoking mass gunfiscation was one of his intended goals. Mission accomplished.
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    Can you believe in 35 years our staunchest ally who was known for their tenacity, has abandoned all grit?

    What in the fuck happened to enlish tenacity!?

    In 35 years we went from John Tunstall's speech in "young guns" to Marcus300's faggot "open mindedness"

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    Fuck the euros and their lack of honor!
    I will be along shortly to hold their hand in hell!

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    Actually the Aussies are our staunchest ally. The Brits didn't send any 'regular' troops to Vietnam, only snake eaters. And they only did that because universal snake eater SOP is that SpecWarriors have to take advantage of every opportunity to gain combat experience, just to keep their hand in. Nothing to do with an alliance with the US. The Ozzies, OTOH, have sent 'regular' troops to fight with us in every engagement since they were declared a federated commonwealth in 1901, including Korea, Vietnam, and both Gulf Wars.

    Two things I have learned from wars, brushfires and multi-national military exercises on four continents, if you're hard up for a libation, look for the encampments flying the Southern Cross or maple leaf flags. Because the Aussies, the Kiwis and the Cannuks never go anywhere -- not even to war -- without beer (and damn good beer at that).

    Not to mention we've been to war with the British ... twice. We've never even come close to war with the Aussies ... except for the Yahoo Serious incident, and that was mostly a big misunderstanding.

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    The Aussies had their own compound on Camp Victory (Baghdad) during Gulf War II, just across the canal from Saddam's iconic Al Faw palace. They had their own gravity pool. And hosted some legendary parties. The US compound also had a couple of swimming pools but they were closed by order of the US command. There was one on the Al Faw palace grounds that was kept drained. No fun allowed.

    The Aussies, OTOH, had commandeered Saddam's twin-Merc ski boat. No fun my arse, Mate!

    I've got pictures to prove it. I'll have to see if I can scrounge them up.
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    Actually the Aussies are our staunchest ally. The Brits didn't send any 'regular' troops to Vietnam, only snake eaters. And they only did that because universal snake eater SOP is that SpecWarriors have to take advantage of every opportunity to gain combat experience, just to keep their hand in. Nothing to do with an alliance with the US. The Ozzies, OTOH, have sent 'regular' troops to fight with us in every engagement since they were declared a federated commonwealth in 1901, including Korea, Vietnam, and both Gulf Wars.

    Two things I have learned from wars, brushfires and multi-national military exercises on four continents, if you're hard up for a libation, look for the encampments flying the Southern Cross or maple leaf flags. Because the Aussies, the Kiwis and the Cannuks never go anywhere -- not even to war -- without beer (and damn good beer at that).

    Not to mention we've been to war with the British ... twice. We've never even come close to war with the Aussies ... except for the Yahoo Serious incident, and that was mostly a big misunderstanding.

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    The Aussies had their own compound on Camp Victory (Baghdad) during Gulf War II, just across the canal from Saddam's iconic Al Faw palace. They had their own gravity pool. And hosted some legendary parties. The US compound also had a couple of swimming pools but they were closed by order of the US command. There was one on the Al Faw palace grounds that was kept drained. No fun allowed.

    The Aussies, OTOH, had commandeered Saddam's twin-Merc ski boat. No fun my arse, Mate!

    I've got pictures to prove it. I'll have to see if I can scrounge them up.
    They are still on the forefront of forward thinking and a good chunk of the reason no one holds anything sacred or has any honor.

    My point was the Brits used to be known for their backbone and grit. Now they are the floppiest limp wristed pansies out there next to the french.

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    The good people of New Zealand have turned in about 32,000 of an estimated 175,000 banned weapons.

    And the lawmakers are crowing about how successful the new law is.

    We obviously are not the only democracy on earth whose tree of liberty could use a little fertilizer.

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    No shortage of semi-automatic guns as New Zealand rearms after March 15

    Thousands of semi-automatic firearms are being imported to New Zealand so gun owners can re-arm after weapons used in the March 15 Christchurch terror attack were banned.

    Gun dealers have responded quickly to sweeping law changes which banned most semi-automatic firearms in April, and have been granted licences to import nearly 7000 semi-automatic rifles which remained permitted.

    The number of import permits, issued by police, show firearms owners are keen to replace guns headed to the smelter with .22 calibre semi-automatic "bunny guns".

    The influx comes as Parliament considers further firearm regulations and a December 20 deadline for a gun buyback scheme looms.

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    Color me shocked: New Zealand Gangs refuse to surrender their weapons.

    Illegal guns are remaining in the hands of organised crime as gang leaders refuse to give up their weapons.

    Police have met with more than 50 gang leaders in an effort to get them to comply with firearm law changes before an amnesty ends.

    But it’s proving to be fruitless, as the patched members remain “very reluctant”, Police Commissioner Mike Bush told the Justice Select Committee on Thursday.

    Police meet with gang leaders to try and convince them to surrender guns during amnesty

    New Zealand was supposed to be the shinning example on how “Gun Control really really really works if we could only have the power” but instead it has become a huge joke. First Law Abiding civilians responded to the confiscation demand with a humongous F and U. More threats have simply gone ignored and now the political clown show went to appeal to the criminal class about pretty please surrender the guns you were not suppose to have in the first place.


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    Note that the term "patched" is now used as an adjective in news stories that needs no explanation, primarily thanks to the cultural impact of the TV show, Sons of Anarchy.

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    Color me shocked: New Zealand Gangs refuse to surrender their weapons.

    Illegal guns are remaining in the hands of organised crime as gang leaders refuse to give up their weapons.

    Police have met with more than 50 gang leaders in an effort to get them to comply with firearm law changes before an amnesty ends.

    But it’s proving to be fruitless, as the patched members remain “very reluctant”, Police Commissioner Mike Bush told the Justice Select Committee on Thursday.

    Police meet with gang leaders to try and convince them to surrender guns during amnesty

    New Zealand was supposed to be the shinning example on how “Gun Control really really really works if we could only have the power” but instead it has become a huge joke. First Law Abiding civilians responded to the confiscation demand with a humongous F and U. More threats have simply gone ignored and now the political clown show went to appeal to the criminal class about pretty please surrender the guns you were not suppose to have in the first place.


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    Note that the term "patched" is now used as an adjective in news stories that needs no explanation, primarily thanks to the cultural impact of the TV show, Sons of Anarchy.
    Its ok.
    They will get locked up one by one until the culture is dead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beetlegeuse View Post
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    The Aussies had their own compound on Camp Victory (Baghdad) during Gulf War II, just across the canal from Saddam's iconic Al Faw palace. They had their own gravity pool. And hosted some legendary parties. The US compound also had a couple of swimming pools but they were closed by order of the US command. There was one on the Al Faw palace grounds that was kept drained. No fun allowed.

    The Aussies, OTOH, had commandeered Saddam's twin-Merc ski boat. No fun my arse, Mate!

    I've got pictures to prove it. I'll have to see if I can scrounge them up.
    Found them.


    This was the Ozzie compound. The building in the back was their admin shop. Out of frame to the right was a small tower they used for barracks. They'd carved a larger-than-life-sized kangaroo (complete with boxing gloves) onto the first floor's wooden door.

    If you've absolutely got to go to war, this is a damn fine way to do it.


    Unless you were one of them, entry was a by invitation only. I shot this during the duty day, else they'd have been lounging about with any number of American "Sheilas" they had lured into their lair.

    The water in the background is an artificial lake Saddam created by siphoning off part of the Tigris river to surround the Al-Faw palace, his hunting and fishing "cabin." In Arabia, water is the most ostentatious way to show off your wealth.


    I mis-remembered. It's twin Yamahas, not Mercs.


    And I found a photo on another website of the empty swimming pool that's in the Al Faw compound:



    Notice the sign reading "CAUTION EMPTY POOL," which was necessary because we sometimes had Marines transitioning through the area. I thought the hardware in this photo might have been of interest to this denizens of this forum.

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    Gun buyback: Two-thirds of banned firearms still circulating - gun advocates

    Gun rights advocates claim around two-thirds of banned firearms are still circulating and they worry the weapons could end up in the hands of criminals...

    ...The council's national secretary Nicole McKee said the process had been very rushed and believed there could still be at least 170,000 prohibited firearms in circulation....

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    RE: The Aussies and beer, ...

    Australian Navy Delivers 800 Gallons of Emergency Beer to Bushfire-Hit Town


    The emergency delivery included 20 kegs and four pallets of beer and cider for a town that usually has a population of around 1,000.

    “A pub with no beer is bad enough at the best of times,” said Carlton and United Breweries CEO Peter Filipovic. “After what Mallacoota residents and firies have been through the least we could do is make sure they could enjoy a beer.”


    Down unda, where beer is one of the four major food groups.

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    Raid on New Zealand Activist's Home to 'Ensure Compliance' with Gun Buyback Is Absolutely Chilling


    About a thousand armed coppers raided the home of a vocal opponent to New Zealand's gun confiscation looking for the magazine to a Browning BL-22 rimfire rifle. They detained everyone on the property, separated and questioned each of them, and found ... nothing.

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