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He deliberately declined to send an official Rep to Thatcher's funeral. He filibustered a resolution to honor Margret Thatcher when he was in the Senate. He turned a state dinner with Gordon Brown into a campaign event for the Democrats. At that dinner he was heard telling Gordon Brown "There is nothing special about Britain. You're just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn't expect special treatment". The state gifts he game to Brown and Tony Blair were rather insulting. There were other things too.

Obama harbored a serious case of animus towards the UK his whole life. Sometimes it bubbled up during his Presidency. I'm not sure why. Maybe he got that from his father.

What?! You.... you didn't like The Sea Wolf? I'm shocked sir... shocked! Actually it's one of my all time favorites. Although the ending was a little weak. I would have gone for a more Joseph Conrad ending if it were me.

It's not unprecedented, US interferes in foreign elections all the time. And Ted Kennedy traveled to the Soviet Union to collude with the communists to interfere in US election. Really? What election since the Cold War ended has the USA directly interfered in? Vietnam, Israel several times, Honduras, Panama, Italy (after WW2), Nicaragua, Chile, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Haiti... should I go on?

I'm glad she did the right thing according to what happened. Yes there is always ****, but I'm glad we still have people like her upholding the right protocol in this case. Also am I the only one laughing my ass off about California's travel bans? Funny how everyone was up in arms and still are for Trump's travel bans, but it's okay for California to do so bc LGBT protection..... nevermind that the countries Trump is trying to ban for a bit is way worse towards LGBT community. Awww the hypocrisy is so funny af lmao. Also BruceVC, I'll give u a reason why NO ONE gives a flying **** about Russia hacking the DNC and releasing untampered emails that didn't vote for Hillary. Wanna know why? Because in the end, all it was basically was a smear campaign except with truth. We Americans get smear campaigns Everytime there is an election. That's it. That was their end result. Why do I not give a **** about the DNC getting hacked? I'll give several. 1. It wasn't an election booth or election result that got hacked. 2. If the politicians weren't so damn careless, there's a really good chance that they wouldn't have gotten hacked. 3. We actually got a smear campaign that was truthful. That's an achievement in getting when dealing with media/politicians. Next time it should be both, so we can see the truth about BOTH parties. 4. It embarrassed a politician, especially one that was rigged to win by the media. We Americans LOVE seeing someone that's high and mighty fall. Especially during a time when any doubts about her as a politician resulted with with labeled as a sexist. So glad to see that blow up in their face. 5. Because the media STILL says the Russians hacked the election. We still can't get the truth still. Yes my friend but domestic media hyperbole and US politicians trying to undermine other politicians is normal ...this was a foreign country directly interfering in your elections Its unprecedented and I find it highly inappropriate and irritating To be fair they didn't interfere with the election, they interfered with the DNC. Not the same thing. They tried to interfere with voting systems but that is impossible to do. And Redneckdevil is 100% correct. Had the DNC practiced even a modicum of the professionalism working Americans take for granted there would have been nothing embarrassing to reveal. Their arrogance, their nastiness, their sneering condescension was as much their downfall as the Russians. No one is saying they hacked the actual voting system, they attempted and in some cases influenced public opinion through Wikileaks and the timed release of emails and yes the hacking of the DNC. They were instrumental in embellishing fake news stories and encouraged distrust of anything Clinton said That's just it Bruce, the news wasn't fake. Her campaign really was collaborating with the media to undermine Sanders. The media really was giving her the debate questions ahead of the time. These thing really were going on. And to be honest surprised no one when they came out. If you look in a rats nest you are not surprised to find rats there.

Someone from Lord of the Rings or any of Issac Asimov's work would be appropriate. My honest answer would be John Galt from Atlas Shrugged or Wolf Larsen from The Sea Wolf. I don't think either would endear me to an employer however. So I'd probably go with Robert Jordan from For Whom the Bell Tolls. The virtuous prototypical hero who does his duty, saves everyone with a self sacrifice in the end, etc. etc. Something they won't have to think too hard about.

I'm glad she did the right thing according to what happened. Yes there is always ****, but I'm glad we still have people like her upholding the right protocol in this case. Also am I the only one laughing my ass off about California's travel bans? Funny how everyone was up in arms and still are for Trump's travel bans, but it's okay for California to do so bc LGBT protection..... nevermind that the countries Trump is trying to ban for a bit is way worse towards LGBT community. Awww the hypocrisy is so funny af lmao. Also BruceVC, I'll give u a reason why NO ONE gives a flying **** about Russia hacking the DNC and releasing untampered emails that didn't vote for Hillary. Wanna know why? Because in the end, all it was basically was a smear campaign except with truth. We Americans get smear campaigns Everytime there is an election. That's it. That was their end result. Why do I not give a **** about the DNC getting hacked? I'll give several. 1. It wasn't an election booth or election result that got hacked. 2. If the politicians weren't so damn careless, there's a really good chance that they wouldn't have gotten hacked. 3. We actually got a smear campaign that was truthful. That's an achievement in getting when dealing with media/politicians. Next time it should be both, so we can see the truth about BOTH parties. 4. It embarrassed a politician, especially one that was rigged to win by the media. We Americans LOVE seeing someone that's high and mighty fall. Especially during a time when any doubts about her as a politician resulted with with labeled as a sexist. So glad to see that blow up in their face. 5. Because the media STILL says the Russians hacked the election. We still can't get the truth still. Yes my friend but domestic media hyperbole and US politicians trying to undermine other politicians is normal ...this was a foreign country directly interfering in your elections Its unprecedented and I find it highly inappropriate and irritating To be fair they didn't interfere with the election, they interfered with the DNC. Not the same thing. They tried to interfere with voting systems but that is impossible to do. And Redneckdevil is 100% correct. Had the DNC practiced even a modicum of the professionalism working Americans take for granted there would have been nothing embarrassing to reveal. Their arrogance, their nastiness, their sneering condescension was as much their downfall as the Russians.

I love that question for an interview. Definitely better than some of the Dale Carnegie questions I've heard. Like you it's not a question I'd have been able to answer honestly.

Nice to see that "new tone" in US politics is coming right along: http://fox42kptm.com/news/local/nebraska-democratic-party-official-ousted-after-controversial-audio-recording-surfaces

I'm glad I didn't vote for him.

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That's true of a lot of books. I could not choke down The Count of Monte Cristo until I read the Robin Buss unabridged version. The Gutenburg Free Press translations are pretty good too I've heard.

https://youtu.be/joqm2pjRJIA

The Grizz didn't have a pick until the traded for one yesterday. They ended up getting Ivan Rabb from UC. His stock fell a lot after a bad season. It's hard to say where his ceiling is but he's only 20. He's a defensive player and suits Grit N Grind pretty well. But I'm reading in the paper today they are likely to send him to the G league for a season or two, http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Ivan-Rabb-7245/

Hmm, not sure he's the best example to use, given his recent claims about the president being incapable of obstructing justice, never mind that he felt a little differently when it came to just that for Bill Clinton. I'm not saying Gingrich, or O'Neil, or Vandenberg for that matter were good people, or even just not idiots. But those are three examples of Congressmen/ Senators who led the Congress in opposing Presidential overreach and asserting it's place as a co-equal branch of the government. I don't have a terribly high opinion of Gingrich as a man. Add to that the fact he was on the Trump train from the get go I don't have a terribly high opinion of his judgement either. But the 1990's were his finest hour and he did do the country a service when it was needed. And then went too far and f----d the whole thing up. But that is another story.

On a lighter note:

Exactly why I get so angry when the President usurps the powers of the legislature and Congress does nothing. We NEED Congress to remember that is is a co-equal branch of the government. That is can and must be a check on the President even when, hell especially when, the President is in the majority party. Sadly there are no Arthur Vandenergs, Tip O'neils, or Newt Gingriches around these days.

Never mind

Looks like Ron Howard is taking over the Han Solo movie. Apparently the other two directors were turning it into a comedy. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-han-solo-movie-ron-howard-steps-direct-1015674

Well, let's think about this for a minute. 2800 fps is muzzle velocity. The bullet traveled 3450 meters, 11,300 ft rounding. It took 10 seconds to cover the distance so the average speed for the whole trip was 1130 fps. That's a little over super-sonic right there. Without digging too far into the physics (like looking up bullet mass, cross-sectional areas, etc) and assuming wind resistance and drag was 0 (it wasn't) the bullet would have dropped to sub-sonic, 1116 fps, about 2/3 of the way to the target give or take. If it was quiet he might have heard it coming. Not likely since the sound would be behind the projectile rather than in front. And even if he did there wouldn't be enough time to react.

"Hey what's that sound?" SPLAT I'm surprised the projectile had enough momentum left to do the job actually. If that ISIS guy was wearing body armor he'd have a souvenir and a cool story to tell that no one would believe.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-dissolving-illinois-kass-met-20170620-column.html Get out now Gfted1. While you still can!

Canadian Special Forces sniper in Iraq makes longest confirmed kill in history. 3450 meters with a TAC-50 rifle. .50 caliber over a distance of nearly 2.25 miles? He must have used some serious windage to complete that shot! Pretty good shooting eh? https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadian-elite-special-forces-sniper-sets-record-breaking-kill-shot-in-iraq/article35415651/

Most of it will end up at the farmers market in Covington. They pay $12-$14 per bushel and sell the corn for $0.75 an ear. I'll probably get 25-30 bushels. I'll keep one for myself and one to make chicken feed and end up making $300 give or take. I had a thought to try my hand at making whiskey when I plants all this but that is a hell of a lot of trouble. I could never sell it (it's illegal still for some reason) and I'd likely never drink it more that to taste it. So why bother.

Came home early today to start picking corn. Good lord is there a lot of it!