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The whole Petraeus scandal is dying down which make this a little dated, but today being Thanksgiving brought me back into south Tampa to have dinner with my dad. On the way there from the yacht club, I snapped the following picture of Jill Kelley's home. It's a $1,500,000 house on Bayshore Boulevard, which happens to be the most expensive street on Tampa to live on. It's not, however, the best place to live - that's a little closer to downtown, on Harbour Island. The mayor and a few political types live there, as do the owner and coach of the Buccaneers. I'm told that she and her husband - he is a surgeon of some sort - have lived there for a few years but haven't made a single mortgage payment since 2010. Somehow they're still in there despite the fact that more than a dozen neighboring homes on Bayshore have been sitting empty for months after being foreclosed on. One of the things this scandal happens to be doing, on a local level here in Tampa, is exposing the weird and hosed up way our little local society operates. Related fact, I actually happened to talk to a cop stationed outside Kelley's home on Gasparilla (a local Mardi Gras type thing with a pirate theme) early this year. At the time I didn't know it was hers, I was just looking for a cop to come arrest this drunken rear end in a top hat that was groping underage girls along the parade route near where my group of friends were. I got into an argument with a cop outside her house because he said he was under orders to stay there and protect the house. I was pissed because I saw this as the city placing a higher priority on the protection of property than on the protection of its citizens. As it turns out, no, not so much. He didn't explain why, but it turns out that the reason Kelley's house had protection from the police department was because she was hosting David Petraeus for the celebration and someone somewhere decided he needed to be more heavily protected. So, yeah. That's a thing that happened. For the record my father is friends with Admiral McRaven and they've socialized numerous times off-base and never needed police protection, so, what the hell. This whole goddamn thing is like a stupid loving soap opera. I can't loving believe that these stupid pricks have the goddamned free time to party with stupid loving Bayshore housewives instead of, you know, running the loving war. Chantilly Say posted:
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War on Terror! ~1965-ongoing I was showing my parents how to use the scanner I gave them a while back, and my dad has hundreds of Kodachrome slides he took in 64-66 over there. Some of em are pretty cool. I'm going back home in the morning, but next time I'm here at their place, I'll go through what he's scanned in and pick out the cool ones. ReidRansom fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Nov 23, 2012 |
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ReidRansom posted:War on Terror! ~1965-ongoing drat I used to have the premium saltine crackers tin in my kitchen growing up.  The prominent military-political analyst Yoram Peri wrote with disgust that the army’s task is not to defend the state, but “to demolish the rights of innocent people just because they are Araboushim (“niggers,” “kikes”) living in territories that God promised to us.”
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Rand alPaul posted:drat I used to have the premium saltine crackers tin in my kitchen growing up. Edit: The link is now working fine for me. Man, I love me some Noam. As it is my first time posting in here (though I've been lurking and loving it a ton), I don't want to do it wrong, so here is some content: This is a video from Al Jazeera (English) featuring one of my favorite critics of Israel, Rabbi Yisrael Dovid Weiss, explaining some talking points of a while back, but more importantly, the evils of Zionist imperialism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUppu2OHVTY Again, hope I'm posting correctly. I'm unsure if this has been posted before, as I haven't been able to go through every single link. Terra-da-loo! fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Nov 23, 2012 |
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Lee Atwater with George Bush in 1988. Aside from being commonly associated with his famous southern strategy quote, he was also the architect behind some of the most brutal campaigning in history. He was able to get inside Bob Dole's head in the primaries, which contributed to his loss, and made absolutely despicable accusations about Dukakis in the general, with such ads as these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io9KMSSEZ0Y Notice the race of the one prisoner who makes eye contact with the camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmwhdDv8VrM Here he is in 1991, shortly before his death. A tumor was able to get inside his head.  Just watched a documentary about his life named "Boogie Man." It's well worth the watch. Supposedly it's on netflix, but I can't confirm that. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262863/
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Volkerball posted:Just watched a documentary about his life named "Boogie Man." It's well worth the watch. Supposedly it's on netflix, but I can't confirm that. http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Boogie_Man_The_Lee_Atwater_Story/70100713?trkid=2361637 
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 Improved Nazi-graffiti:  "A friend and I took care of a graffitied swastika in our town the only way we knew how" 
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A day late, but it's never too late for William S. Burroughs to remind us what Thanksgiving is all about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSveRGmpIE
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this was posted on bitt tromblie's facebook page. i don't think it would have had any effect on the election but man, posting more lovely pictures like this would have worked wonders in his battle against the BEEP BEEP BOOP narrative. 
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GirlBones posted:this was posted on bitt tromblie's facebook page. i don't think it would have had any effect on the election but man, posting more lovely pictures like this would have worked wonders in his battle against the BEEP BEEP BOOP narrative. I look at that and all I can think is, "Man, for such a rich guy he sure has a boring kitchen." 
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Zeroisanumber posted:I look at that and all I can think is, "Man, for such a rich guy he sure has a boring kitchen." thats just the kitchen in the master bathroom. 
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 Eleanor Roosevelt with Soong Mei Ling, China's first lady at the time. Eleanor had this to say after their meeting: “She can talk beautifully about democracy. But she does not know how to live democracy.”
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School in Gaza HUGE PUBES A PLUS fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Nov 24, 2012 |
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Here's a bit of fine, white salt to sample
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Nope, we won't. We really, really never needed "you" white males. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2eWlHEPwI Deceitful Penguin posted:Here's a picture of the muslim ethnic group she's ignoring as they slowly die of starvation, disease and poverty and quickly when buddhist extremists try to kill them. God drat it. 
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The online version of the Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" did a great short piece about ethnic/nationalistic graffiti in Vienna recently: http://dastandard.at/1350260581640/Kanak-go-home-trifft-kroatisches-Hakenkreuz?_slideNumber=1&_seite= I'll repost it here and translate/summarise the texts. All of the following graffiti were found in Vienna within a radius of only 300 metres.  This is the so-called "Serbian Cross", a cross with four C's (C=S in the Cyrillic alphabet). The letters stand for "samo sloga Srbina spašava", meaning "only unity will save the Serbs". The sign goes back to at least the 15th century.  Today the cross is associated with Serbian ethnicity as well as with the Chetniks, a WWII militia that fought for "Greater Serbia", collaborated with the Nazis and was known for mass murder of civilians. While they were banned under Tito, their memory was revived in the 90s and today the surviving Chetniks are regarded as war veterans by the Serbian state. Although the Serbian Cross is clearly associated with nationalistic and fascist ideology (it could be found in the badge of the special forces unit "Skorpije" as well, which did participate in the 1995 massacre of Srebrenica), it is still seen by many as "just" a symbol of Serbia which has been misused.  Not so with this graffito - the "Croatian swastika", a U with a cross in it. This was the official symbol of the Ustaša, a fascist movement that controlled Croatia (and Bosnia-Herzegovina) from 1941 to 1945 as a puppet state of the Nazis. The cross stands for the closeness to the Catholic Church, as the Ustaša-controlled state was a typical example of clerical fascism.  Ustaša-Croatia introduced race legislation modelled after the Nazis and maintained concentration camps as well, where many thousands of Serbs, Jews and Roma were murdered. The Ustaša symbol is officially banned in Croatia, but can still be seen on concerts of right-wing bands or memorial services for veterans.  A "graffiti war" in action - on the ground in red you can see the Cyrillic Делије (Delije), a fan club of the Serbian football club Red Star Belgrade, comblete with the Serbian Cross. "Torcida" was sprayed over it, the name of the largest and oldest fan club of the Croatian club Hajduk Split, together with the Ustaša symbol.  Moving on to Turkish nationalistic symbols, we find the three crescents of the Turkish "Party of the national movement" (MHP) which in turn borrowed them from the Ottoman war flag. The members of the MHP are also known as "Grey Wolves" and are notorious for their ultra-nationalism, rascism, antisemitism and emphasis of the Islamic nature of Turkey ("Islam is our soul, Turkey our body"). The best known member probably is Mehmet Ali Ağca, who tried and failed to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981. Who exactly did pull the strings then is still unclear.  Türkei=Turkey in German In its annual report, the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution (basically its MI5) remarks upon the "alarmingly great appeal" the Grey Wolves seem to have among Turkish migrants and expatriates, with 10,000 known members in Germany alone and many more in associations and clubs close to the MHP.  UÇK stands for the Kosovar "liberation army" that existed from 1994 to 1999 and is continued by various successor organisations up to today. The UÇK was a paramilitary unit fighting for an independent Kosovo; parts of it also fought for "Greater Albania" as well. In 1998, KFOR estimated the UÇK to have about 15,000 members. It participated in illegal organ trade, contract killings and other crimes. From 1996 to the beginning of 1998, the UÇK claimed responsibility for 21 murders.  The double-headed eagle is still part of the Albanian flag and comes from the seal of Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg, an Albanian national hero that led Albania in a rebellion against Ottoman occupation in the 15th century. At the end of the 19th century it grew highly popular again, together with and as a symbol of Albanian nationalism. The "KS" in the middle stands for Kosovo - since at least 1943, Albanian nationalists want to incorporate the Kosovo into an ethnically cleansed "Greater Albania".  And finally: "Kanak go home!" The Kanaks originally are the inhabitants of New Caledonia in the Southern Pacific (cf. Hawaiian kanaka, "human"), but in the German language their name has turned into a derogatory term for immigrants from southern countries in general. This specific example is a variation of "Ami go home!", which in turn used to be the slogan of the European pacifist and leftist/communist movements in their protests against US-American military presence in Europe. In no other European country, as many people say they don't want to have immigrants as neighbours as in Austria. System Metternich fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Nov 24, 2012 |
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Assorted propaganda:    "One fight, one will, one goal - Victory at any price"  This one is extra awesome to me. It's nazi propaganda to get Dutchmen to collaborate and fight against our old enemy the English. Remember what dicks they were to us in the third Anglo-Dutch war?  "The same enemy every time! Fight with us!" 
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Here, have a last bit of post-election schadenfreude. Posted on a Facebook friend's wall with "It seemed like they had a lot of these they wanted to get rid of."
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System Metternich posted:Not so with this graffito - the "Croatian swastika", a U with a cross in it. This was the official symbol of the Ustaša, a fascist movement that controlled Croatia (and Bosnia-Herzegovina) from 1941 to 1945 as a puppet state of the Nazis. The cross stands for the closeness to the Catholic Church, as the Ustaša-controlled state was a typical example of clerical fascism. Hell, why stop there? Not content with just ethnic cleansing and concentration camps, the Ustaša gained notoriety even within the ranks of Nazi collaborators by establishing their own extermination center at Jasenovac. It was the only full-on death camp not run by the Nazis, and targeted ethnic Serbs primarily, with Jews and other undesirables as secondary victims:  At Jasenovac, killings were performed by shootings and later gassings, but also on a much more personal basis as well, as the Ustaša guards apparently had a penchant for throat-slitting, so much so that they invented a more-efficient tool for doing so, the so-called "Serb-cutter" bladed glove:  In total, somewhere between 300k and 800k people were murdered at Jasenovac, particularly in the late-war massacres that took place as Tito's partisans drew close and the guards liquidated all remaining prisoners, throwing so many bodies into the nearby Sava river as to leave it choked with corpses. 
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Black Friday in the Twin Cities, Best Buy, Midnight (via Star Tribune):
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ekuNNN posted:Assorted propaganda:  
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What's the D&Dest game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY57ErBkFFE
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I knew this was going to be the result of the new "Red Dawn".
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That 70s Shirt posted:I knew this was going to be the result of the new "Red Dawn". Who said jingoism was dead? 
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Crasscrab posted:Who said jingoism was dead? No one on this board, or at least no one worth bothering with. 
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A few days ago this appeared on a hill overlooking Belfast. A good hill
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ekuNNN posted:Assorted propaganda: 'Well you see, Freedom From is a positive right and those lead to Soviet Tyranny...'
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Broken Knees Club posted:What's the D&Dest game? Neocolonialism: A Game of Global Financial Ruin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObyQkTd0h9w '...you are role playing as finance capitalists. Your goal is to extract as much money from the world as possible.' (and transfer it to your Swiss bank account)
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Looking for two images (+ their source) that used to get posted all the time around here, but I haven't seem them in a while. They're greyscale animations in a vintage style, one showing a woman popping out (literally) a whole bunch of kids, the other a bunch of people dancing in a room while everything outside gets bombed to poo poo. To contribute:      
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Reminds me of a scene in the Malcolm X movie.
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Angry Avocado posted:Looking for two images (+ their source) that used to get posted all the time around here, but I haven't seem them in a while. They're greyscale animations in a vintage style, one showing a woman popping out (literally) a whole bunch of kids, the other a bunch of people dancing in a room while everything outside gets bombed to poo poo. Is this what you're thinking of?  From the Fallout 3 trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZpR51XgW0
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Speaking of, saw this in a truck stop bathroom in Luling, Texas today.
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