@NetRunner

Unfortunately for Dr. Paul, no matter how he explains (or fails to explain) liberal accusations of being a racist, he can't win.

Paul has said his aides told him he has to take responsibility for the newsletters' content, whether or not only "a few" statements were terrible, and whether or not he was the author (it's generally conceded he was not, but as you and others will readily point out, his name was in big letters on the top and he was the publisher).

The problem with labeling anyone a racist is that in 2012 it's the equivalent of crying wolf. It's so overused as to be meaningless. In Dr. Paul's case, because the drive-by media refuse to do their damned jobs, you get jabs like this:

RoPaul voted AGAINST awarding Rosa Parks a Congressional Gold Medal! OMG RACISM!

No one bothers to note that Paul also 'opposed giving the medal to Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II as well, so it doesn’t appear race had anything to do with his stance.

'Paul has generally applauded lawmakers for wanting to issue the Gold Medal, but he insists they should put up their own money instead of asking taxpayers to foot the bill, which typically runs about $30,000 for each award.'

What I'm saying in too many words is that the entire anti-Paul/anti-libertarian brigade is howling about an ace hidden in Dr. Paul's sleeve, while every game in their casino is rigged.

You say whether Obama, Wright and you (and/or me) are racist has no bearing on whether Paul is racist. Well, if we're ALL 'racist' then what does it matter?

We're looking for a President, not a saint. LBJ was crazier than a sh1thouse rat, but to the left he was some kind of hero for pushing the Civil Rights Act. Yet LBJ is also quoted as saying "I'll have those n*gg*rs voting Democratic for the next 200 years."

I didn't go looking for Dr. Paul's writing on the moral evils of discrimination. As he is a believer in individual rights (and responsibility) I don't see how he could be either an overt or closet racist to the extent you're describing. He's against Drug Prohibition, which is inherently racist, and more questionably, against "wars" because minorities, according to him, have it harder in the military.

Our common framework is you're going to find plenty of dirt to dislike him, and peeps like me will see enough good in him to atone for any misgivings, despite Paul's wacky, totally unrealistic worldview where we recall ALL our troops from all over the world (allowing red china to easily take over). Again, we're electing a ripe-for-corruption American President, not a saint.

Yes, excellent stuff.

Robert T Frederick, the first CO of the Devil's Brigade, is my personal hero. Winston Churchill called him "the greatest fighting general of all time" and said "if we had had a dozen more like him we would have smashed Hitler in 1942". His biography, The Last Fighting General is definitely worth a read.

Also quite coincidentally, I found out New Year's Eve that the father of a family friend was in the Devil's Brigade. He hadn't told anyone until shortly before he died... They truly were amazing men.

In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
Complete coincidence, but I just watched "The Devil's Brigade" 3 nights ago. Really great vintage WWII movie, realistic or not.

If you haven't seen it yet I recommend checking it out at your local Bittorrent multiplex.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062886/

In reply to this comment by Skeeve:
Interesting discussion from someone who knows what he's talking about.

I once got to hold one of the V-42 Fighting Knives issued to the 1st Special Service Force. Amazing being able to hold that kind of historical artifact.

Interestingly, some of the soldiers in the 1st SSF ground down the tips so they didn't get stuck in the ribs when they stabbed someone - the needle tip was making it difficult to kill someone and even more difficult to withdraw the knife.

Complete coincidence, but I just watched "The Devil's Brigade" 3 nights ago. Really great vintage WWII movie, realistic or not.

If you haven't seen it yet I recommend checking it out at your local Bittorrent multiplex.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062886/

In reply to this comment by Skeeve:
Interesting discussion from someone who knows what he's talking about.

I once got to hold one of the V-42 Fighting Knives issued to the 1st Special Service Force. Amazing being able to hold that kind of historical artifact.

Interestingly, some of the soldiers in the 1st SSF ground down the tips so they didn't get stuck in the ribs when they stabbed someone - the needle tip was making it difficult to kill someone and even more difficult to withdraw the knife.

>> ^Kofi:

And there has now been an official investigation into this exact incident and one fire officer has been stood down temporarily for disobeying instructions given to the public by the fire brigade itself, namely driving through water of indeterminate depth. How dare firemen risk their lives to help others?!


God when will the stupidity stop? Do people just not think anymore? Who ever bitched about it needs to STFU and let these men do their job. I think there are better ways to spend money than investigating people out saving lives. I guess if one of those who complained or did the investigation ever has a fire they can say "Sorry we can't get to you. There is water on the ground."

You can see the snorkel just behind the cabin in the last few seconds of the video.

>> ^conan:

>> ^BoneRemake:
Where is the snorkel ? ?

I also wondered. How the hell does this thing work without air? Or is Isuzu pioneering fuel cell fire trucks? :-)

>> ^BoneRemake:

Where is the snorkel ? ?


I also wondered. How the hell does this thing work without air? Or is Isuzu pioneering fuel cell fire trucks? :-)

And there has now been an official investigation into this exact incident and one fire officer has been stood down temporarily for disobeying instructions given to the public by the fire brigade itself, namely driving through water of indeterminate depth. How dare firemen risk their lives to help others?!

This is not how I want things to be, but it's how they are.

Even if by a miracle Paul won, he'd find himself paralyzed. Obamarx initially had a lot more support, but (fortunately for freedom) failed his moonbat brigades on almost every count.

The Fed will not end in even eight years of a Paul presidency, nor will all US troops be recalled (so red china can take over the rest of the world). It's just the way things are.

Put another way, violent revolution is far more likely than a Paul presidency, and at this point we have a fairly good chance of having the former. Still, if Paul somehow gets the nomination, he's got my vote.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'new york, nyc, fire, brigade, 1893' to 'new york, nyc, fire, brigade, 1893, Pathe' - edited by Boise_Lib

Over one grammatical error? It's good to see (did I use it right that time? = P) that the sandy vagina brigade never rests.

Perhaps either of you would care to discuss the topic rather than being fucktards?

>> ^Fransky:

>> ^ant:
And..? McDonald's is popular, but it's food is still crap...

It's = It is.

Thank you.
Goddam kids these days

>> ^hpqp:

Now where are all those who got their knickers in a twist over that video in which the cop kept the person pulled over at distance and at gunpoint, eh?


I notice something about the two videos and both the "oorah" brigade and the "police are assholes" brigade;

In this video, the policeman has no real view on the lunatic, he approaches him whilst he's sat in his car (he could have a fucking bazooka in there and he wouldn't know), he seems very relaxed as though he hasn't got a hint of guard up and even after attempted shot goes wrong he seems utterly surprised and almost as though he doesn't believe it's happening until he finally reacts. The policeman has no real alternative but to shoot at the guy because the guy's a clear and huge danger to everyone. And perhaps he always was a nutcase, but perhaps if the officer would have been more cautious no shot would have been fired and the nutcase would have ended up where he belongs.

In the other video, the man voluntarily gets out of his car and walks around, he takes his hands out of his pockets. The policeman is clearly expecting danger (perhaps a bit TOO much if you ask me), he's issuing clear commands and appears to be going to great lengths to minimise the risk to himself (and not necessarily others). Personally, i know there are solutions which are used by british police at times which involve letting a person *who is clearly acting outside the law due specifically to police pressure* escape (or think they've escaped) only to turn up later at their house and take them safely and calmly for everyone involved; i would have preferred such a solution but i don't know if it's feasible in that part of america.

Why must the nutjobs AND anti-police people live at the extremes? We don't have to have one or the other, we can have a nice mixture of safety and respect for both the officer AND the individual. BOTH videos are examples, imo, of it being done wrong by the officer. And i don't mean job-regulations wrong, i mean basic common sense/common decency wrong. You know, that thing everyone stopped having around 1970.

I thought I was playing Bastion again with a new narrator. Turns out this new guy's pretty good. Blunt, but good. The Redneck Skateboarding Announcer Brigade™ would have picked him up in half a heart beat, except for his drinkin' problems.

/sorry, too much playing

I'm still searching the Japanese news sites for the truth about what went down at this meeting, but according to some people on the Japanese YouTube version of this video, this may have been a setup. The reason for all the cameras and shouting was supposedly because the majority of the audience in attendance that day were members of "Green Action" and "Greenpeace" who weren't even residents of the affected area. They basically came to further their own anti-nuclear agenda and brought the urine with them knowing that it wasn't these guys jobs to test it. Again, I'm not sure of the truth of all that. If I find out more I'll post again.

EDIT: Did a bit more research and found children from the Fukushima area have had their urine tested back in June, but only trace amounts of Cesium were found--not at any levels that would affect health (0.41~1.13 becquerels per liter of urine).

EDIT2: Yeah, it was a total setup. The whole meeting was organized by an NGO called Friends of Earth Japan (FoE), who have a strong anti-nuclear agenda (the page I linked to is their public announcement of the meeting, including handouts that detailed their strategy for the meeting). They called out to other groups like No Nukes More Hearts who share similar goals. On the No Nukes More Hearts web page that I linked to they encourage all members of the group, whether they are residents or not, to attend the meeting. Other groups that seem to be involved were the Fukushima Protect Children from Radiation Association, Fukushima Fukuro Club (similar to Greenpeace) and Greenpeace Japan, further stacking the audience.

These groups apparently invited government representatives for "negotiations" about the rights of people living in the stricken areas. Realizing the groups were there to grandstand and not actually discuss anything, the government officials eventually withdrew from the meeting--after nearly 2.5 hours of patiently trying to answer questions! The NGO groups quickly edited down and translated the original video of the meeting to further their own purposes, deleting the two hours of the video in which the government members listen to speeches given by various group leaders and try to answer questions from the audience.

You can see the original unedited video of the meeting here. It looks like the attending government officials were only given copies of the questions they would be asked moments before the meeting started (although in fairness if they had gone to the websites I linked to above they would have known what they were walking in to). Before the meeting even begins, the Fukushima Protect Children from Radiation Association drops a petition demanding all children be evacuated from Fukushima. Throughout the meeting, as the government officials try to patiently answer questions from the audience they are routinely interrupted by others who stand up and give speeches (there's a lot of talk about "protecting the children" which always gets a lot of applause).

So yeah, these guys got ambushed. It was basically a successful troll for these NGO groups.

EDIT 3: In the link to the original (uncut) meeting video, you can go to 1:02:00 to see where this clip starts. Notice this clip has been heavily edited and the government officials actually stuck around for ANOTHER HOUR to answer questions before being accosted by the urine-wielding brigade.

So why has videosift deleted the Oslo killers video? One of his biggest gripes was the PC brigade.

This is awesome for so many reasons.

1 - There's an organisation called the PIE BRIGADE.
2 - The guy who does it has the most hilarious outrage voice ever.
3 - Somebody's like what's you're name and he's like EWAN BROWN BITCH.
4 - Guy talks about people being force fed genetically modified food and the cows moo in dissaproval.
5 - There's a fucking montage of pie-facing at the end.
>> ^BoneRemake:




THAT IS HOW YOU DO IT !