Guard Dog Posted August 23, 2017 Posted August 23, 2017 (edited) I appreciate that Grom but the truth is we are all reading the same books. The folks who revise history tend to be the ones who didn't read about it first. Lee did not leave a published memoir behind but there are many letters and eye witness accounts of him. As for the statues, one would be forgiven for wondering if it were all billows in a ladle. Just a distraction from other things. Edited August 23, 2017 by Guard Dog "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted August 23, 2017 Posted August 23, 2017 And just like that we've gone too far: http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/espn-moves-announcer-named-robert-lee-off-virginia-game/ar-AAqz0tG?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Malcador Posted August 23, 2017 Posted August 23, 2017 And just like that we've gone too far: http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/espn-moves-announcer-named-robert-lee-off-virginia-game/ar-AAqz0tG?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp Doubt anyone would be so subtle as to assign him there as a message, but better safe than sorry Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Hurlshort Posted August 23, 2017 Posted August 23, 2017 And just like that we've gone too far: http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/espn-moves-announcer-named-robert-lee-off-virginia-game/ar-AAqz0tG?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp Geez, sounds like something out of the Onion.
Guard Dog Posted August 23, 2017 Posted August 23, 2017 And just like that we've gone too far: http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/espn-moves-announcer-named-robert-lee-off-virginia-game/ar-AAqz0tG?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp Geez, sounds like something out of the Onion. Actually ESPN is such a precarious place to work right now Mr. Lee is probably thinking his lucky stars they didn't fire him. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Malcador Posted August 23, 2017 Posted August 23, 2017 Not even Canada is safe. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/hamilton/confederate-flag-firing-1.4257178 A pursuant conversation on Reddit about this had an amusing fact that no one had a problem with the Confederate flag before 2015. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Hurlshort Posted August 23, 2017 Posted August 23, 2017 Not even Canada is safe. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/hamilton/confederate-flag-firing-1.4257178 A pursuant conversation on Reddit about this had an amusing fact that no one had a problem with the Confederate flag before 2015. That one makes a little more sense. That is a pretty obnoxious statement, I'm not really fan of flying any flag behind my vehicle. Then he drives it to work and gets into shouting matches, and is surprised when he loses his job.
Gromnir Posted August 23, 2017 Posted August 23, 2017 (edited) D&D Rules Developer's 9 Insider Hacks For Players and DMs HA! Good Fun! ps the actual link is at: http://kotaku.com/d-d-rules-designers-9-insider-hacks-for-players-and-dms-1798345147 is few actual 'hacks.' is mostly Captain Obvious kinda stuff. Edited August 23, 2017 by Gromnir "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Azdeus Posted August 24, 2017 Posted August 24, 2017 D&D Rules Developer's 9 Insider Hacks For Players and DMs HA! Good Fun! ps the actual link is at: http://kotaku.com/d-d-rules-designers-9-insider-hacks-for-players-and-dms-1798345147 is few actual 'hacks.' is mostly Captain Obvious kinda stuff. At first I laughed, and then I got disappointed sadly. Thanks for the laugh though. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Volourn Posted August 24, 2017 Posted August 24, 2017 "We encourage freedom of speech but" Why lie? Why such a coward? Freedom of speech is not 'only speech I agree with is allowed'. People are scumbag liars who simply don't believe in freedom fo speech. I saw nothing there that should get him fired. Someone verbally assaults him yet he gets fired? LMAO 1 DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.
Raithe Posted August 24, 2017 Posted August 24, 2017 Found on research related to "signs of a cult leader"... 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Guard Dog Posted August 24, 2017 Posted August 24, 2017 Wow... we're in f-----g trouble "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Malcador Posted August 24, 2017 Posted August 24, 2017 Found on research related to "signs of a cult leader"... Sounds like.....every project manager I've ever had. 2 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Gfted1 Posted August 24, 2017 Posted August 24, 2017 Sounds like it was just typed up this morning. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Gromnir Posted August 24, 2017 Posted August 24, 2017 (edited) Sounds like it was just typed up this morning. is actual relative old. list is attributed to a guy named rick ross and the list in question has 'been 'round for a decade or more. is not new, but mr. ross is kinda sketchy, though his work has been cited by breitbart more than once, so... HA! Good Fun! Edited August 24, 2017 by Gromnir 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
rjshae Posted August 24, 2017 Posted August 24, 2017 We should probably check the warning signs for his followers: https://www.culteducation.com/warningsigns.html "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
Gromnir Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 (edited) Will Statues of a Doctor Who Experimented on Enslaved People Come Down Next? also Why the Can Opener Wasn’t Invented Until Almost 50 Years After the Can The first ‘can opener’ was a hammer and chisel and for gd The True Story of the Short-Lived State of Franklin HA! Good Fun! ps if you have the time, we recommend the following: connections: eat, drink and be merry the video explains how food canning were part o' the curious chain o' invention and chance which led to the Apollo 11 launch. 50 minutes total. Edited August 25, 2017 by Gromnir 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Guard Dog Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 I like this one too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_West_Florida "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Gromnir Posted August 26, 2017 Posted August 26, 2017 warning: the link will be disquieting to more sensitive readers. http://all-that-is-interesting.com/moroccan-teens-rape-donkey-rabies am not drunk (Gromnir doesn't drink), so we got no excuse for why we posted. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
ShadySands Posted August 27, 2017 Posted August 27, 2017 (edited) Texas Becoming A Magnet For Conservatives Fleeing Liberal States Like California Edited August 29, 2017 by ShadySands Free games updated 3/4/21
rjshae Posted August 29, 2017 Posted August 29, 2017 Cannibal 'tired of eating human flesh' turns himself in to South African police. Blehhhhh.... Guess he was fed up with people. 1 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
Gromnir Posted August 29, 2017 Posted August 29, 2017 not certain if it qualifies for the funny thread. http://ew.com/tv/2017/08/27/snoop-dogg-martha-stewart-reenact-ghost-scene/ HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Agiel Posted August 29, 2017 Posted August 29, 2017 Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
Raithe Posted August 29, 2017 Posted August 29, 2017 Sometimes, you need a little whimsy... How to build an epic blanket fort "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
ShadySands Posted August 29, 2017 Posted August 29, 2017 My wife had never built a blanket fort before we met and now we do it several times a year 1 Free games updated 3/4/21
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