DnD Picture Thread: Post a Picture or get Probated Okay

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > DnD Picture Thread: Post a Picture or get Probated Okay

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

# ¿ Jun 25, 2015 05:28

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 4, 2024 12:45

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

"In spring 1954, as the Supreme Court was deliberating on Brown v. Board of Education, President Dwight D. Eisenhower invited Chief Justice Earl Warren to a stag dinner at the White House. He seated Warren at the same table as John W. Davis, the lawyer who had argued against school desegregation before the court. Eisenhower proceeded to tell the chief justice what a �great man� Davis was.

As it happened, Eisenhower had authorized his Justice Department to file an amicus brief in the case opposing Davis and public-school segregation. And he specifically allowed his solicitor general, Lee Rankin, to tell the justices during oral argument that �separate but equal� schools were unconstitutional. Yet he sympathized with the segregated South. �These are not bad people,� he told Warren at the dinner. �All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big, overgrown Negroes.� Warren was appalled and wrote in his memoirs that he never forgave Eisenhower for that remark."

Random question: Could we see another Earl Warren? As in, could we see a "Almost stereotypical Republican: passionately anti-Communist, pro-business, anti-New Deal, anti-gambling, anti-pornography, and tough on crime" turn around to become one of the most powerful forces for Progressive causes this country has even seen?

# ¿ Jun 28, 2015 00:28

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Orange Harrison posted:

poo poo, I didn't know Calhoun was in a movie outside of the Back To The Future franchise. What was it?

Amistad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWXsb4mfqVo

# ¿ Jun 28, 2015 00:59

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Found this while looking for pictures of the USS Recruit.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2015 19:17

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Have some random WW2 Japanese propaganda.

" You are still alive! What a miracle! And marching, too. But WHERE? To the Philippines? To Tokyo? But do you know what awaits you in the Philippines? Let me tell you. It is the Japanese forces with the combined support, both moral and material, of all the awakened Asiatics--the Manchukuoans, Chinese, Filipinos, Annamese, Thailanders, Burmese, Indians, Malayans and Indonesians. And the Japanese are there to pound you incessantly and relentlessly as you should have known. Perhaps they may retreat temporarily, but only to attack you again with double fierceness after your reinforcements have arrived. Day in and day out the Japanese troops are also pushing to the front in ever-increasing numbers. And remember, entire Asia is behind them! As long as you persist in marching west, the attacks will continue. Innumerable strongholds are all set to give you the hearty welcome from the land, air and sea. The reverberation of their rousing welcome must even now be in your ears.

But this is not all. There is still another thing in store for you along the Philippines front. What is this thing? I will again answer you. It is a grave. YOUR GRAVE! Nobody can say where it exactly is, but it is certain that it does exist somewhere in the Philippines, and you are bound to find it sooner or later, far or near. Today? Tomorrow? Who knows? But one thing is positive. You are heading west for your grave--as positive as the sun sets in the west. Officers and men, you still insist on marching west? If so, I shall have to carve an epitaph for you.

There are only two definite things on earth. LIFE and DEATH. The difference between LIFE and DEATH is absolute. One cannot rely upon the dead; no one can make friends with the dead; the dead can neither speak nor mingle with the living. If you insist on marching west, we (by we I mean all living things) must bid you goodbye and stop bothering with you, because we, the living, are too busy to have anything to do with the dead.

Your politicians are among those who survive and are enjoying life comfortably at home. General Marshall and General MacArthur can enjoy their reputation as heroes only because they are alive. But you... you continue to march westwards to sure death, to keep your rendezvous with the grave. The same holds true for your comrades-in-arms who are pathetically struggling to escape their ultimate fate. The graves await you. So again goodbye, American soldiers!..... Farewell!..... Farewell!....."

# ¿ Jul 22, 2015 04:50

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Nckdictator fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Aug 3, 2015

# ¿ Aug 2, 2015 16:39

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

# ¿ Aug 5, 2015 18:12

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Rand alPaul posted:

This was posted on a friend's wall by a Baby Boomer who was making a really bad argument that Millennials are responsible for the position they're in today.

What are Cake Eaters?

I had to look up. I thought it meant fat people but turns out I was wrong.

quote:

CAKE-EATER n. (plural cake-eaters)

1. (slang) This usage of the term dates from the 1920s, when it vied in popularity with 'sheik' to indicate a slick young Romeo who wows the flappers and likes the high life. A Cake-Eater, when he's not trolling for jazz-babies at the local speakeasy, likes to loiter at a girl's house and be pampered, especially by being served his sweetie's baked goods-- and of course, some degree of sexual metaphor might be inferred.
2. (slang) someone of upper-class background, or who has been excessively well-off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOxxZywX4b4

# ¿ Aug 6, 2015 03:55

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

# ¿ Aug 7, 2015 02:20

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Been reading the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund website and this seriously made me laugh for some reason.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2015 06:00

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

# ¿ Aug 20, 2015 20:22

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4171120/

quote:

The OUTSPOKEN SAMURAI with Kim Jong Un hairstyle challenges conventional wisdom.

Exploitation of women and the egregious violation of human rights has no place in todays world, YT asserts, and continues. but on what basis can the Koreans and the western corporate media unilaterally condemn Tokyo for kidnapping 200,000 women and placing them in sexual slavery!? What if this was nothing but a false allegation, like the notorious Scottsoboro Boys case which resulted from the public's imagination when hearing of a white women raped by black men, but in this case innocent girls being molested by Japanese troops?!

Yujiro Taniyama challenges to shed a light on the untold side of this divisive issue, which 99% of the western mainstream media choose to ignore and keep largely hidden from the public in their own countries.

Comfort Women deniers are the worst.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2015 05:17

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

I love that book cover.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2015 03:15

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

# ¿ Aug 26, 2015 16:31

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

The fact that we've had a Native American Vice President never ceases to blow my mind.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2015 05:43

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

It's seriously hosed up that one of the US's oldest ships is rusting away due to a lack of donations.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2015 01:58

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

JawKnee posted:

there are a bunch more things in the US that are more hosed up than this, who cares

I didn't realize it was possible to only care about one thing at a time. That's pretty much the same argument as "Why should we care about women earning less then men in the workplace, there are women being stoned to death in Saudi Arabia?"

Historical preservation is a huge deal.

Nckdictator fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Aug 31, 2015

# ¿ Aug 31, 2015 16:41

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Have a bunch of old pictures of DC

1942

1880's

1928

1920

1925 (I see tacky giftshops are timeless.)

# ¿ Sep 5, 2015 00:02

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

So,i'm the kinda person that spregs out about logos, I came across this -

- on Wiki and was curious, because I'd never heard of the agency, so I did a Google search and found...

http://articles.philly.com/2013-04-23/news/38738603_1_united-nations-assistant-commissioner-boston-marathon

quote:

IT BEGAN AS a sad tale set in foster care and hospital rooms.

Burned as a 10-year-old in a boiling bathtub in South Philly, Brandon C. Jones-McGeer says his adoptive mother inspired him to transform the pain into something positive while growing up with her in Chestnut Hill.

Today, he goes by His Excellency Brandon C. Jones-McGeer, the Commissioner for Burns and Head of Delegation (at the United Nations, he says). He says he has come to the aid of fire departments, burn victims and impoverished nations. He issues official statements on hurricanes, on firefighters who died in the line of duty and, most recently, on the Boston Marathon bombings.

"The City of Boston Marathon is a time-honored tradition and for this to have happened makes us completely apprehensive about the future and the endurance of humanity," Jones-McGeer wrote, his official seal affixed, last Monday on the Office of the Commissioner for Burns' (OCB) website.

But official seal notwithstanding, an examination of his claims, titles and accolades shows that Jones-McGeer, 30, is not what he appears to be. The Daily News has learned that he was never employed by the United Nations. The UN Department of Public Information said he has been told to "cease and desist" from misrepresenting himself.

Jones-McGeer founded a nonprofit group called the United States Burn Support Organization. On its website, the organization accepts "tax deducible [sic]" donations via PayPal and at a Philadelphia post-office-box address. But the IRS says its nonprofit status expired in May 2010 for failure to file yearly reporting.

A $10.5 billion request

Jones-McGeer has strict policies about being respected, and boasted in an interview of being funded at the UN by the "Russians, the Chinese, the Israelis, the Germans and the Brits." Recently, he proposed a $10.5 billion budget for the coming year, the OCB website says. His official "state dress" includes a uniform made by the "Russian Federation," flags made by Romanians and an official ring given to him by the Vatican.

He said that in his UN capacity, he recently ordered 200 kerosene stoves to be delivered to Haiti.

"It's impossible for people to believe someone like me can have such a job," Jones-McGeer said during the interview at City Hall last month.

Perhaps that's because his story is part mystery, a work of both fiction and nonfiction that's still being written, in which he plays the victim, the hero and, for many, the antagonist.

"I really can't say anything about Brandon," said "Her Excellency, Princess Karen Cantrell," his former "Assistant Commissioner for Protocol & Public Information."

Jones-McGeer requested that he be interviewed at City Hall because his office is "off-limits" to visitors for security reasons, he said.

He displayed dozens of pictures of himself in private planes, in meetings at what appears to be the UN, and posing with dignitaries. He has a photo of himself alongside actor Danny Glover, but none capturing the "couple of times" he claims to have met President Obama and the first lady.

"It's not about being rich and famous, it's not about a status for me," he said. "It's about doing something my mother would have expected of me."

Since the interview, Jones-McGeer has stopped answering emails and returning phone calls from the Daily News.

Jones-McGeer said three people could discuss his work: a woman listed as the deputy commissioner of the OCB, a Philadelphia firefighter listed as chief of staff, and a former bakery owner listed as chairman of the board at U.S. Burn Support. None returned phone calls seeking comment.

Cantrell, who claims to be the seventh great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin, said she resigned from the OCB months ago. She declined to elaborate.

And those flags from Romania? Dee Marks of NorthStar Flag and Flag Pole Co. in North Carolina said Jones-McGeer ordered them from her in 2011.

"And I spent the next year bugging the crap out of him, trying to get $3,300," she said.

Marks said she still hasn't been paid. Spokesmen for a bus company and a limo service said they hadn't been paid for services rendered to Jones-McGeer either. And last October, a Georgia-based airline, FlightWorks, won an $88,000 judgment against Jones-McGeer in Philadelphia over four chartered flights he never paid for, the company's attorney said. The judgment was ordered by default because he didn't show up in court.

Harry Timmons, whose Florida company builds emergency-communications systems, said that he haggled over an order with Jones-McGeer for months and that the two had a last-ditch attempt to hash things out at a Penn's Landing hotel last year. Timmons got his equipment back, although he said he inadvertently paid for Jones-McGeer's dry cleaning and never heard from him again.

"I don't think anything he ever told me was true," Timmons said. "He put me on hold one time, because he said he had a call coming in from Hillary Clinton."

Jones-McGeer said he knew nothing about the alleged debts but admitted he's been called a "scam," and said that some people think he burned himself.

"That's the greatest insult you can actually call a burn victim - besides being called a 'crispy critter,' " he said.

A scalding bathtub

In his bio on the U.S. Burn Support website, Jones-McGeer says that an aunt and her boyfriend placed him in a scalding bathtub inside her home on Ritner Street in December 1992, after deliberately turning up the hot-water heater.

"I remember blacking out after the first 6 mins," he writes.

Court records show that the aunt, Emma Oliver, was arrested on charges including aggravated assault, kidnapping and child endangerment.

Unable to become a firefighter because of the burns, Jones-McGeer volunteered in other ways with fire companies in Whitemarsh, Montgomery County.

But he left those departments on bad terms, filing complaints with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission alleging racial discrimination and retaliation. Those departments declined to comment.

In Chester, firefighters said Jones-McGeer showed up last year and ingratiated himself with Fire Commissioner James Johnson. An article in the Chester Spirit weekly newspaper said Jones-McGeer was using an office at the fire department headquarters to do "charitable work."

Firefighters there said that Jones-McGeer obtained thousands of dollars worth of smoke detectors and carbon-monoxide detectors for Chester, but that they had not been paid for and were returned.

"I really don't know what his motives were and what he wanted to accomplish," said Chester fireman John Barbato. "It was all really, really strange."

On July 30, Chester police arrested him for receiving stolen property and possession of a controlled substance for a rental SUV that been reported stolen and painkillers he had in his possession. According to court records, he spent several days in prison.

The charges were dismissed after he produced prescriptions and settled with the car-rental company, a spokeswoman for the Delaware County District Attorney's Office said.

Johnson, whom Jones-McGeer said he considers a "best friend," didn't return phone calls and emails seeking comment.

'Some good things'

The Daily News last spoke with Jones-McGeer on April 3, while he was in a Delaware County hospital under treatment for recurring infections from his scars. He said he'd be hospitalized for two weeks, but an OCB schedule said he was departing for Kenya on April 9.

Jones-McGeer claims to live in Chestnut Hill, where he was raised by his adoptive mother, Jacqueline McGeer. But court records show his current address as a Pennsylvania Corporation for the Aging apartment tower in West Philly, and his name is on the tenant directory in the lobby.

The Overbrook Farms home he has used as a mailing address for the OCB belongs to Marcia Levinson, a professor at Thomas Jefferson University who met him when he was a boy attending Camp Susquehanna, a special camp for burn victims.

Levinson said that she saw Jones-McGeer "do some good things" but that they no longer speak. She declined to say why.

She said she told Jones-McGeer to stop using her address and said his organizations have no affiliation with the camp.

Oddly, Emma Oliver - the aunt who went to jail after he was burned in her bathtub - was more than happy to talk about him.

Oliver said Jones-McGeer was placed in her care by the Department of Human Services because her sister couldn't care for him. She said she wasn't prepared to care for him either, but was responsible for his well-being.

"I do understand that there was some level of mistake made on my part," she said.

But Oliver, 44, said she never put her nephew in the scalding bathtub that day and never heard him call out in pain. He got into the tub on his own, she said. Once she saw what happened to him, Oliver said, she contacted police and was given bad advice. Instead of taking him to the hospital, she said, she naively tried to treat the burns herself.

Oliver pleaded not guilty but was convicted of endangerment and sentenced to five years in prison. She said that her nephew's story is sad, and that his scars run deeper than the flesh.

"I'm glad you're doing a story on him," she said. "He knows what he did."

http://ocaun.org/

Nckdictator fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Sep 13, 2015

# ¿ Sep 13, 2015 22:11

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Here, have a bunch of random panels from the first comic book written and published entirely by African-Americans.

(full thing here http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=21983)

Nckdictator fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Sep 16, 2015

# ¿ Sep 16, 2015 03:32

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Bunch of pictures of the 1939 World's Fair, the color ones are fairly astounding.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2015 23:14

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Rahm, nooo.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2015 18:54

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

http://www.washingtonian.com/projects/JFK-AF1/layout1.html#story

quote:

...Kennedy�s assistant press secretary, �Mac� Kilduff, hurried into the cabin, spotting Stoughton with a look of relief. �Thank God you�re here,� Kilduff said. �The President�s going to take his oath. You�re going to have to make the pictures and release it to the press.�

Kilduff was barely holding it together. JFK aide Kenneth O�Donnell had told Kilduff earlier that fall that he should start looking for a new job�the White House didn�t want him around anymore. The swing through Texas had been meant as Kilduff�s final presidential trip before leaving�and now he found himself the ranking press aide on the trip, ushering in a new administration, while O�Donnell, his antagonist, mourned the fallen idol...

At one point, well after Air Force One�s departure from Dallas, the Air Force in Washington called the presidential plane as it sorted out whom to expect in Washington.

�Air Force One�this is the Air Force Command Post,� the radio squawked. �If possible, request the names of the passengers onboard, please.�

�We have 40-plus,� the plane responded.

�Forty people! Is that affirmative?�

�Affirmative.�

�Can you tell me in regard to number one and number two�the top people?�

�Roger,� Air Force One explained. �The President is onboard. The body is onboard, and Mrs. Kennedy is onboard.�

Never before or since has Air Force One carried two Presidents at once�one dead, one alive. Never before or since has a Vice President witnessed the murder of his President. Never before or since in the nuclear age has an assassination forced the government into a panicked transition from one chief executive to another. And never before or since have the aides of the fallen President and the incoming President been locked together for hours in an aluminum tube, with one another and their own thoughts.

In fact, we may never know precisely how many people were aboard Air Force One as it took off for Washington�a sore point for conspiracy theorists in the dec�ades since. A steward�s handwritten flight manifest, which now lies in the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, was obviously done hastily while the plane was still on the ground in Dallas�it lists �Capt Stoughton� as a passenger. The 41 people aboard are listed in an orderly manner, line by line, grouped by rank and organization�and then handwritten in the left margin are the names of the two journalists brought who made the flight: M. Smith and C. Roberts.

Scrawled at the bottom of the page by a hand obviously unsure where to place such a tragic piece of information are words that make a reader pause: �Also body of Pres. K�.�

It's honestly slightly scary to read how disorganized the Presidential team was after JFK was shot.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2015 19:20

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Played one of the election simulators as Bush with Powell as my running mate, ran as a full Rockefeller Republican (Shockingly I didn't lose any protest votes to Buchanan after more or less endorsing Federal hate crime laws)

Candidate Electoral Votes Popular Votes Pop. Vote %
George W. Bush 352 ,53,326,682 ,50.36
Al Gore 186 ,48,398,436 ,45.70
Ralph Nader 0 ,2,482,060 ,2.34
Pat Buchanan 0 ,1,690,954 ,1.60

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/

http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/30888

Nckdictator fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Oct 31, 2015

# ¿ Oct 31, 2015 02:56

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

Octatonic posted:

You know, at this very moment, seeing those pictures, it really strikes me how much a dad Obama is. There really aren't many dadly pictures of his predecessor, are there?

What a unibrow though. drat.

Have some charming stories about Presidential children.

quote:

...Then there was Bennie. This was the Pierce�s surviving son, age 11 at the time his father was elected President. In January 1853, as the President-Elect and his family were traveling on a train through Andover, Massachusetts, an axle broke on the train and the car slid down the hill. When it crashed to a halt, Bennie Pierce was hideously decapitated. Franklin and Jane watched the whole thing. No one else on the train was injured. It was only six weeks before Franklin�s term of office was to begin...

quote:

...President Coolidge doted on Calvin Jr. Without jealousy or resentment, John Coolidge freely acknowledged that Calvin Jr. was their father�s favorite.

After a few more photographs, the teens were eager to change out of their suits and put on some less formal clothing. Both boys were enjoying their summer vacation from school and on this final day of June, the sunny White House tennis courts looked very appealing for an afternoon match.

While their father returned to his work inside the White House, the Coolidge brothers hit the courts on the South Grounds of the Executive Mansion. John and Calvin Jr. battled through several games of tennis, and we can assume that they spared no effort to defeat each other � teenage boys, especially brothers separated in age by less than two years, know no other way. Calvin Jr.�s foot started bothering him at some point, so they ended their contest and headed back inside the White House.

Calvin Jr. � whether it was from the haste of changing out of his formal clothing for the photographs or the neglect of a 16-year-old more focused on fun than safety � had competed all afternoon in tennis shoes without wearing socks. The constant movement led to a blister on one of his toes, and while teenagers frequently develop blisters in their hectic, athletic adventures, this was different. The blister on the toe of the President�s youngest son quickly became infected and Calvin Jr. spiked a fever.

The next few days were a blur for the President, his family, and an anxious nation. Calvin Jr.�s blister and infection had led to severe blood poisoning. Much like Abraham Lincoln when his favorite son was dying of typhoid fever in the midst of the Civil War, President Coolidge tried to fulfill his duties while worrying about Calvin Jr. As the 16-year-old�s health continued to deteriorate, the President seemed to be in shock, zig-zagging constantly through the White House from his office to Calvin Jr.�s sickbed.

July 4, 1924 was the nation�s 148th birthday and President Coolidge�s 52nd birthday, but nobody was celebrating. A day earlier, Calvin Jr. had been moved to Walter Reed Medical Center as some of the country�s top doctors tried to save the life of the President�s son. Noting that Independence Day was his birthday, President Coolidge wrote a short letter to his father in Vermont. "Calvin is very sick,� the President wrote, �so this is not a happy day for me." Still holding out hope, Coolidge added, "Of course he has all that medical science can give but he may have a long sickness with ulcers, then again he may be better in a few days.�

On July 7, 1924 � just a week after the happy, healthy First Family posed for their photographs at the White House � Calvin Coolidge, Jr. died. He was 16

Many Americans thought of President Coolidge as the taciturn, expression-less, unemotional caricature in political cartoons and newspaper gossip, but in the day�s after Calvin Jr.�s death, everyone was stunned by the open demonstration of the President�s grief. Coolidge wore a black armband for weeks. Visitors to the Oval Office often found him to be inconsolable. One friend found Coolidge sobbing at his desk while muttering �I just can�t believe it has happened�I just can�t believe it has happened."... President Coolidge was still in the middle of a Presidential campaign, but he didn�t make any effort to win votes. To many of his friends or colleagues, it seemed as if Coolidge no longer cared. When he easily defeated John W. Davis in November to win election in his own right, Coolidge didn�t celebrate. The First Lady offered strength and support, but everything changed for Coolidge after Calvin Jr. died. His health began to suffer. Grace said that the President "lost his zest for living�...

quote:

.. A Secret Service agent woke him at two a.m. on Friday, August 9 to report that Patrick was struggling. As the president hurried to the elevators the nurses in the corridor looked away. He saw a severely burned infant in one of the wards and stopped to ask a nurse for the name of the child�s mother so he could send her a note. Holding a piece of paper against the ward window, he wrote, �Keep up your courage. John F. Kennedy.�

For several hours he sat on a wooden chair outside the hyperbaric chamber, wearing a surgical cap and gown and communicating with the medical team by speakerphone. Near the end they wheeled Patrick into the corridor so he could be with his father. When the boy died at 4:19 a.m. Kennedy was clutching his little fingers. After saying in a quiet voice, �He put up quite a fight. He was a beautiful baby,� he ducked into a boiler room and wept loudly for ten minutes. After returning to his room he sent Powers on an errand so he could cry some more. He broke down outside the hospital and asked an aide to beg a photographer who had captured his grief not to publish the picture...

Wait, those aren't charming.