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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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« Reply #47760 on: August 20, 2020, 01:49:45 AM »

Fires are back in CA as well. I’ll be dodging them up and down the state this weekend.

Hope successfully.

Thanks. I’ll try to be careful.
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« Reply #47762 on: August 20, 2020, 02:11:46 AM »

You can't even cut the hands off dead enemy fighters in Afghanistan if you're Aussie troops, without 'war crime' being cried out.

You are too funny for words.

It IS a war crime, Bambi.
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« Reply #47763 on: August 20, 2020, 02:16:33 AM »

Mrs bambu noticed when she travelled around America 2 years ago that very few people would say they voted for Trump.
Many people voted for him, but were very reluctant to say so,  she thinks because they were fearful of being shunned by their friends, family, work colleagues etc.

Fewer than 1 in 5 Americans voted for him, Bambi. That might explain it more than your theory.

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« Reply #47764 on: August 20, 2020, 02:17:10 AM »

How can anyone watch Barack Obama speak, and then watch the fucking inept fascist clown in the White House and not recognize the difference between what a President sounds and looks like and what a President does not...

Preach the truth Barack!


Barry has always been a fine reader.

He read all about Marx, reportedly.

And watched his movies, I hear.
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« Reply #47765 on: August 20, 2020, 02:21:04 AM »

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/geneva_conventions_and_their_additional_protocols

You might want to learn about these, Bambi.

In case you are ever taken captive, you can beg them to treat you better than you would have treated them.
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« Reply #47766 on: August 20, 2020, 03:17:00 AM »

You can't even cut the hands off dead enemy fighters in Afghanistan if you're Aussie troops, without 'war crime' being cried out.

What is this the Belgian Congo circa 1890?
You might want to ask why there are Australian troops in Afghanistan killing people there.
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« Reply #47767 on: August 20, 2020, 03:19:32 AM »

You can't even cut the hands off dead enemy fighters in Afghanistan if you're Aussie troops, without 'war crime' being cried out.

What is this the Belgian Congo circa 1890?
You might want to ask why there are Australian troops in Afghanistan killing people there.

They wanted to chop off hands and it's frowned upon by the Australian constabulary.
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« Reply #47768 on: August 20, 2020, 03:26:35 AM »

You can't even cut the hands off dead enemy fighters in Afghanistan if you're Aussie troops, without 'war crime' being cried out.

You are too funny for words.

It IS a war crime, Bambi.

Aussie troops are required to take finger prints and retina scans of dead enemy fighters.
A corporal  thought a good idea would be to cut off the right hands of two deceased insurgents with a doctor's scalpel...finger prints.
Eventually no action was taken against him.
Federal cops and Defence dept held a long investigation.


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« Reply #47769 on: August 20, 2020, 03:30:28 AM »

Mrs bambu noticed when she travelled around America 2 years ago that very few people would say they voted for Trump.
Many people voted for him, but were very reluctant to say so,  she thinks because they were fearful of being shunned by their friends, family, work colleagues etc.

By then it was already quite clear that the imposter was grossly fucking up his stolen presidency and that he was utterly irredeemable and only going to get worse.

If you won’t personally consider it a war crime, I will happily cut off both of your hands for you Bambi. You don’t seem to be doing any good with them anyway.

I'm not yet deceased.
I could be though, all I have would have to do is leave home and touch a door knob or lift button...or have someone breathe on me.
Dead, I would no longer need my decomposing hands.
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« Reply #47770 on: August 20, 2020, 03:40:08 AM »

Fires are back in CA as well. I’ll be dodging them up and down the state this weekend.

Hope successfully.

Thanks. I’ll try to be careful.

The CA fires were just on my tv news, horrible, homes lost, thousands of lightning strikes, worst fires in many years.
You would be very wise to stay home... or take shelter in the nearest town where the fires will not be coming to.
Hire a boat, take to sea.
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« Reply #47771 on: August 20, 2020, 03:48:47 AM »

You can't even cut the hands off dead enemy fighters in Afghanistan if you're Aussie troops, without 'war crime' being cried out.

What is this the Belgian Congo circa 1890?
You might want to ask why there are Australian troops in Afghanistan killing people there.

ANZUS Alliance.
Prime Minister Howard was in NYC on 9/11, saw America attacked, saw Americans slaughtered.
He signed Australia up to the US President's ...Coalition Of the Willing.

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« Reply #47772 on: August 20, 2020, 07:01:07 AM »

Some intrigue around the Israel-UAE peace deal.
Apparently part of the deal might have been for the US to sell F35 stealth bombers to UAE.  The US was planning to retire these barely used /useful suckers, but for $100M a piece will sell them to UAE.  A real fancy toy for oil sheikhs.  And regionally impressive weapons of war.   

Netanyahu pretending(?) he knew nothing about this; his coalition partner Gantz angry he really knew nothing about this.  Netanyahu likely to publicly oppose such sale, while privately letting the US & UAE know it's fine.
Sec of Defense Mark Esper used to run Lockheed Martin's F-35 program.
So he turns a program that was going to be scrapped into one that will generate tens of millions of dollars of profit.  Nice save.

Otherwise, the UAE claims that Israel agreed not to annex WB territory, while Israel says it only agreed to a temporary halt.  Someone is lying to obtain cover so that their citizens don't get upset.
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« Reply #47773 on: August 20, 2020, 07:04:52 AM »

ANZUS Alliance.
Prime Minister Howard was in NYC on 9/11, saw America attacked, saw Americans slaughtered.
He signed Australia up to the US President's ...Coalition Of the Willing.

20 years ago.  Did you forget to leave?

Trump and the US are basically handing things back over to the Taliban.
Well, Kabul will remain an island of corruption for a few more years ...

$1 Trillion just doesn't get you much these days ...
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« Reply #47774 on: August 20, 2020, 07:09:49 AM »

Hey Misleading Headline Police.
Here's one you seem to have missed:

Sweden’s disease expert says just wearing face masks could be ‘very dangerous’ – New York Post

What he said was it could be very dangerous if everybody wears masks and thinks that's enough and don't take other precautions.   It's a dumb and misguided approach, but Tegnell also says Swedish don't need to wear masks even on buses and other public transport.  Some people feel when they are wrong they might as well be wrong down the line.

Basically after the lockdowns, China relied almost entirely on near 100% mask usage.  And did little with regard to social distancing or handwashing.

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He completely brushed off the prospect of wearing masks last month, saying, “With numbers diminishing very quickly in Sweden, we see no point in wearing a face mask in Sweden, not even on public transport.”

You don't let up on simple and effective public precautions when cases become low.  You want to end transmissions. 

Tegnell can huddle up with Trump's new medical advisor and mislead people in tandem.
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