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I am old, fat and arthritic, and I laugh about it. I am a Christian. Patty and I have been married 46 years, and boy did I luck out there. We have 3 children and 10 grandchildren. I served in the Corps (there is no Corps but the United States Marine Corps and Chesty Puller was its prophet). I worked as a computer programmer and database administrator.

I read a lot of history. I like to kayak. I like to draw.

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Harvey Weinstein is in poor health. Karma? Anybody sending him a get-well card? [castanet.net]
timon_phocas comments on Apr 13, 2021:
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...
Do you see the propagation of young earth creationism as the only biblical view of creation as ...
timon_phocas comments on Apr 1, 2019:
One of the first classes I took in college was basic astronomy. The first lecture in that class was that, with two exceptions, the constellations were optical illusions. Those two exceptions were the Pleiades and Orion. They were the only constellations whose stars were actually close to one another. The Pleiades are a cluster, formed together but are drifting apart. Orion is in a parallel arm of rhe galaxy. It will always present the same image to us as we orbit the galactic core. The next year I read this in Job 38:31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, Can you loose the cords of Orion? And it blew my socks off... Classical Hebrew poetry is one of contrasting or complementary images. So the Creator is asking Job if he can gather stars that God has scattered and scatter stars God has gathered. And so it conforms to the rules of Hebrew poetry. But the knowledge behind that statement is staggering. There are 88 constellations in the sky. The odds of choosing the only two that aren't illusions is about one out of three-thousand. Pretty impressive odds. The odds of identifying the Pleiades as stars in motion and Orion as stars that will always look the same are literally incalculable. The first telescopes weren't invented until the 1600s. Thousands of years after Job. We did not know about galaxies until the 1930s. We had no ideas about spectranalysis or Doppler shifts in light. In short, at the time Job was written nobody except the Creator Himself could have made that statement. And for thousands of years afterwards, for that matter. Now if God is so surgically precise in a couplet of poetry, why would His creation account be any less accurate?
Natural Gas - Southern Africa. [onafhanklik.com]
timon_phocas comments on Apr 6, 2021:
Howdy @JennaGardner, Mozambican natural gas partnered with South African Industry, that could be profitable for everyone involved.
Human Stock
timon_phocas comments on May 12, 2021:
You know how to tell the difference between the two pictures? The intelligent expression on the cow's face...
Archeology: 1,200-Year-Old Canoe Recovered in Wisconsin. [archaeology.org]
timon_phocas comments on Nov 6, 2021:
They can tell it's really old because it's made from fiberglass instead of carbon-fiber?
Everyone is as free as they choose to live.
timon_phocas comments on Jul 14, 2019:
The great Vlaclav Havel (Czech diissident and later president) said everyone could choose to live as a free man. He said this when he was still the leading dissident in Communist Czechoslovakia. It was a statement of singularly perceptive courage.
Looks like more evidence is coming out that conflicts with the Russian Government's story regarding ...
timon_phocas comments on Apr 5, 2022:
Howdy @SpikeTalon, The 8 year half-war since Russia's 'little green men' first seized the Crimea and Donbas united Ukrainians against Russia The calculated ferocity against Ukrainians in this war steeled them for a struggle for survival. I think the deliberate atrocities being revealed may trigger a merciless war against the invaders. Russian lies do not surprise me. They are led by a KGB colonel. Lies were an essential ingredient of the Soviet regime the KGB defended. Lies were only condemned if they did not work. I see western rhetoric being ramped up. This may signal more kinds of aid being sent to Ukraine.
Just finished reading "FlyBoys" by James Bradley.
timon_phocas comments on Aug 28, 2019:
History is complex and multifaceted and it's often best told in novels. I think it's been that since Homer.
California Adds Five States to State Travel Ban Following New LGBT Discrimination Laws ...
timon_phocas comments on Jul 5, 2021:
Pretty soon California state travel will be limited to the Pacific Coast, New York and Illinois.
Colorado's Democrat Governor joins Abbott and DeSantis in shipping migrants to New York City
timon_phocas comments on Jan 6, 2023:
Howdy @sqeptiq, Jared Polis is very intelligent, canny, ideological and very rich. I'm pretty sure he's planning to run for president (as soon as he was elected governor he bought a 'Polis for President' website). In addition to being ideological, he sometimes throws in actions from the libertarian wing of leftism. For example, he came out against mask mandates in December of '21 when Biden was talking about his 'dark winter of disease and death' Hard to discount him
Pentagon makes up diversity “nonsense” to attack Tucker Carlson: Joel Pollak with Ezra Levant - ...
timon_phocas comments on Mar 18, 2021:
Howdy @WorldSigh, There are few times I've ever been ashamed of my Marine Corps. This is one. The Corps kept its silence on political issues for 245 years. It was silent when it was ill used and dismissed. We always let battlefield results do our talking for us. That's principle, not policy. Now flag officers and Information Offices feel they can abandon that hallowed principle. It's not only deeply wrong, but it's ridiculous. Tucker Carlson said the Corps was lowering its combat readiness standards. And the official USMC response is, effectively, "Tucker's been mean to me." Yep, ridiculous.
Daily Dose of Europe: Paris' Sainte-Chapelle - by Rick Steeves Notre-Dame has been on ...
timon_phocas comments on Sep 17, 2020:
Beautiful, gorgeous, a masterpiece of art and worship. Thank you.
The future of men and marriage is bleak, Suzanne Venker [washingtonexaminer.com]
timon_phocas comments on Jun 16, 2019:
Before Freud people were souls before their God. After Freud people became sexual beings, frustrated by the restrictions of society. Under the old regime sex was part of family. Freud made it for fulfillment. Hugh Hefner led the charge for sex as pleasure and pleasure was fulfillment. Feminists fell for this hook, line and sinker. Now men and women see no reason to harness themselves into families. It is destructive to men, to women and to society.
Hi, I am nothing and no one, I've never had political veiws or understood politics, I never thought...
timon_phocas comments on Apr 13, 2019:
Howdy MWhite, Don't feel like the Lone Ranger about being a "nobody." I don't think anybody in this forum invented the light bulb or landed on the moon. Instead, we do the right things as God gives us the light to see what is right (paraphrasing here). What you're saying sounds like the basis for some good conversations.
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timon_phocas comments on Jun 3, 2019:
They honestly believe the Iran deal is their legacy, thier finest accomplishment. It is, of course, which is what makes it so sad. Nuclear weapons are an eighty year old technology. It is a complex, hideously expensive project but if North Korea can do it, so can Iran. Revolutionary Iran always had a nuclear weapons program and they always lied about it. The fatal weaknesses of the Iran nuclear deal are that it accepted the legitimacy of the Iranian weapons program and coupled it with an inspection regime controlled by Iran. Its goal was not to prevent nuclear weapons from being developed, but to delay their advent until Obama was out of office. Like so many of Obama's "accomplishments," it was all publicity and posturing.
Cassini's best pictures of Saturn [abc.net.au]
timon_phocas comments on Jun 14, 2019:
We live in an incredible age of discovery. Seeing these images is like getting to peek over Magellan's shoulder
Something to Pay Attention to .
timon_phocas comments on Dec 7, 2019:
Very interesting, thank you.
Fairly Short with References to Historical Examples … [m.youtube.com]
timon_phocas comments on Sep 8, 2021:
Howdy @Bay0Wulf, Thanks, interesting, thought provoking video. I appreciate the references to Vaclav Havel. He was a man of sustained moral vision, an understated hero. We welcomed Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn until we realized he was a harsh prophet of all kinds of materialism, even ours.
The Five knocks Janet Yellen for 'lying' about IRS spying The "collection shortfall" would not ...
timon_phocas comments on Oct 13, 2021:
I think what's happening is people are quitting jobs, getting government dollars and then getting a job where they get paid under the table. Yelling wants to track these dollars. They make it unprofitable to work openly. It never occurs to them that people will respond rationally to maximize their own financial rewards.
Joe Biden’s Job Approval Crashes to 36 Percent I thought his approval was already at 36%.
timon_phocas comments on Dec 28, 2021:
Howdy @Garsco, There are so many different polling orgs with so many different sampling techniques that you just have to take them all with some scepticism. I've read some polls that have him at 28% and some (left leaning) in the low forties.
Are we witnessing the beginning of the end for FOX News? [redstate.com]
timon_phocas comments on Dec 21, 2020:
If one news outlet is CNN and the other news outlet is a CNN imitation, why bother watching the imitation?
I thought this was the perfect venue for this article.
timon_phocas comments on Jan 18, 2020:
@Facci, Gee, thanks
This might be satire.... [babylonbee.com]
timon_phocas comments on Jul 17, 2021:
And it might be hilarious, too! Especially if it's from the BabylonBee...
SA logistics sector under threat. [youtu.be]
timon_phocas comments on Jul 31, 2021:
Howdy @JennaGardner, We're seeing this in all container ports, even without cyber attacks. The COVID lockdowns slowed processing and created huge backlogs in loading and unloading. When backlogs occur they only disappear gradually. It's a real choke point in the world civilization.
Thinking unapproved thoughts is a violent activity.
timon_phocas comments on Sep 16, 2022:
Howdy @SpikeTalon, The Left seems to have created their thought bubble where common sense never intrudes. Have they been so successful in the social media giants that they think they can extend their control over the rest of society?
Epstein found dead in his cell. Now there's a surprise!
timon_phocas comments on Aug 10, 2019:
Epstein knew he was going to be found guilty. All the people he had dirt on wanted him dead. He knew he had the life expectency of a fruit fly if he was ever released into the general prison population. Even if he was kept in solitary confinement in a supermax, he would be the only inmate in the system who needed a food taster. He did not have much reason to live. Epstein escaped human justice only to stand before the most terrifying Judge in the universe. We use "beyond a reasonable doubt" as a defense. Before that Judge it is a damning endictment. That Judge will repay loss for loss, pain for pain and injustice for injustice. That is why it is so terrifying to end this life only to stand before an all knowing God.
South Africa moves step closer to land expropriation without payments [af.reuters.com]
timon_phocas comments on Dec 6, 2019:
Rhodesia was the called the breadbasket of Africa. Zimbabwe is a basket case. Land expropriation was the cause.
VDH writes chilling article on Year Zero [nationalreview.com] the start of a revolution.
timon_phocas comments on Jul 8, 2020:
I am in agreement with VDH's division into thirds. ...Are there now three Americas? One of white guilt and penance, one of black anger and victimization, and another seething in silence as they see their 244 years of history written off as something worse than the pasts of Somalia, Peru, Iran, or Serbia... Remember, however, that as the French revolutionaries became more and more radical they roused more and more counterrevolutionaries. In America that includes over half of the people.
Why do many Leftists fervently believe Trump is a reincarnation of Hitler?
timon_phocas comments on Jul 26, 2020:
The Left has been very 'liberal' about bestowing fascist accusations on their opponents. The ashes of WWII were barely cool when Harry Truman called Dewey and Republicans "front men for fascists." Eisenhower escaped this accusation. He was, after all, the leader of the armies that crushed fascism. Every other Republican president has been excoriated as a racist, fascist warmonger, and (inevitably) Hitler-like. There was a peak of vituperation with Nixon (Vietnam War and Watergate). There was another with George W. Bush (Iraq War) and today's raging creshendo with Trump.
[hermancain.
timon_phocas comments on Jan 2, 2020:
Couldn't happen to nicer guys
Federalist: Thanks To Leftist Corruption, U.
timon_phocas comments on Jun 30, 2022:
The Biden administration castigates the military as full of white supremacists. They slur the families of potential recruits as bigots. Families with a tradition of military service are a distinct, self-perpetuating subculture. You excoriate everything they believe in and then wonder why they're not enthusiastic about joining. Real marketing genius there...
Russian troops fleeing "in panic" and disarray from Kharkiv defeat -- which the Kremlin ...
timon_phocas comments on Sep 16, 2022:
Howdy @SpikeTalon, Spent so many years fearing the Soviets. The joke was that Soviets aren't 10 feet tall, they're 8 feet and growing. That dread carried over to their Russian inheritors. No more, it seems...
Any Sleuths out there have any info on the Virginia shooter?
timon_phocas comments on Jun 3, 2019:
If the murderer was a Republican, a NRA member, any of the MSM's list of boogymen groups, it would have flooded the airwaves. The silence surrounding the murderer leads me to suspect he is part of one or more favored victim groups.
21.08.15.0636Su IS TIME A STUMBLING BLOCK TO ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE?
timon_phocas comments on Aug 15, 2021:
Howdy @1914wizard, Love the Uncommon Knowledge series. Thank you. I went back to college when I was about 50 to learn nursing. It was a fascinating journey. I was an IT guy, and biology was unknown territory to me. I was astounded by molecular biology, especially DNA. My belief in the statistical impossibility of random, undirected evolution was confirmed by what I learned.
Ummm .
timon_phocas comments on Mar 25, 2021:
Oregon was never a slave state.
Lousy degenerate is from my home state no less.
timon_phocas comments on Aug 7, 2022:
Howdy @SpikeTalon, Everybody wants to be George Soros, trumpeting the need for higher taxes (to reduce the deficit, don't ya know) while hiding their own wealth.
At the risk of being labeled a whacko even more than I already am, who believes we landed on the ...
timon_phocas comments on Jan 5, 2022:
Howdy @Andyman, I believe the Apollo program put astronauts on the Moon. Hundreds of thousands of people worked for the space program. Thousands were worked on launch and mission monitoring. Twenty-four people went to the moon and twelve walked on it. Don't forget there were backup crews for each of those missions. So a massive conspiracy necessary to theatrically stage Apollo landings would leave massive footprints behind. Let's look at a historical example. The Watergate break-in happened on 17 June, 1972. They were caught and arrested. A maimum of twenty people knew of "the Plumbers" unit. Yet investigators figured out the scope of the conspiracy within weeks. It trickled into general knowledge in spite of strenuous efforts to squash the stories. If twenty people can't keep a conspiracy secret for a month, how could hundreds of thousands keep a secret for fifty years?
[rumble.
timon_phocas comments on Jan 28, 2021:
I have checked both conservative and liberal news aggregator sites and seen no confirmation of this video's assertions.
[populist.
timon_phocas comments on Feb 15, 2021:
Does the Supreme Court even hear original cases? All the lower courts dismissed the cases on the basis of procedural standing. They've never even heard the evidence. And now it's supposed to be heard in the Supreme Court? Won't they instead be remanded to lower courts for the trials and then ping pong back a forth through the appeals process?
It's one of the lamestream media sources we're talking about here, so doesn't surprise me any.
timon_phocas comments on Aug 7, 2022:
Howdy @SpikeTalon, Nationalist China was systemically corrupt when the Japanese invaded in the 1930s. Ethiopia was feudal and systemically corrupt when Italy invaded in the 1930s. Poland was systemically corrupt when Germany and Russia invaded in 1939. Did any of that corruption justify any of the invasions? I think not.
[youtu.
timon_phocas comments on Oct 23, 2019:
A calm voice in a hurricane of invective
Bad news: Dr.
timon_phocas comments on Aug 19, 2021:
Thank You, Father God, for the things we want and the things we don't. Thank You for raising up Michael Heiser. Thank You for blessing him.
Hi everyone, I’ve been AWOL for sometime now.
timon_phocas comments on Dec 6, 2020:
Jump right it. The water's fine.
Yup, SpaceX is definitely playing with big boys now; very impressive for such young company (12 ...
timon_phocas comments on Nov 26, 2020:
I don't think using Starships as hypervelocity helicopters is tactically viable. Anybody with a shoulder launch, IR anti-aircraft missile could shoot the lander down. The rocket engines have a huge IR signature. Perhaps if the assault troops eject and paraglide to the ground.... Space Command cannot be dependent on a single provider, so it will continue to support less efficient launch providers like ULA. I think they also have a headstart on space tugs.
"How to safeguard your community and family in South Africa" [firearms.co.za]
timon_phocas comments on Jul 16, 2021:
Howdy @JennaGardner, I hope you still have that get-away home to retreat to. Build your kibbutz and work with people to build lives and protect each other.
Arnold Ahlert: China Rewriting the Bible to Align It With Communism — The Patriot Post
timon_phocas comments on Oct 10, 2020:
Thomas Jefferson tried it. Every totalitarian country if the 20th century tried it. North Korea basically cloned it to create a hagiagraphy of Kim Il Sung and his dynasty. Nothing new under the sun, to coin a phrase.
[politico.
timon_phocas comments on May 3, 2019:
Alan Dershowitz, no conservative stalwart, says no president can be charged for obstruction of justice for exercising powers given the president in article two of the Constitution. Firing subordinate members of the executive branch is one such power. He cites two relevant cases as proof. One is against Nixon the other against George H.W. Bush. Nixon suborned purjury, paid hush money and destroyed evidence. George H.W. Bush pardoned Cap Weinberger. Nixon's actions were criminal, not constitutional. Bush's pardon of Cap Weinberger is included as a presidential power in the Constitution. Alan Dershowitz' article does not address motive but the law. https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/441726-alan-dershowitz-barr-is-right-mueller-is-wrong
SOCIETY How America’s Elites Lost Their Grip [time.com]
timon_phocas comments on Dec 5, 2019:
Interesting to see how progressives string disparate facts together to form narratives. It's like watching bad students work through an equation until they prove two equals three. Painfully bemusing. The author calls our system 'hyper capitalism.' It's anything but. A system where elites bend government to guarantee their own profits is cronyism, not capitalism.
Gosh. Where do we begin?
timon_phocas comments on May 11, 2020:
We can't humiliate the first African-American president, the sainted Barrak Hussein Obama. You're right, somebody else will have to take the fall.
Why are the Far left so violent, Antifa, Communists, and Nazi's all left wing and all violent?
timon_phocas comments on Jul 10, 2019:
First of all, they harness hatred for political purposes. People disagreeing with them are enemies, not fellow citizens or even opponents. I think another factor is the current trend to identify heterodox speech as violence. If someone is saying something you disagree with, then they are doing actual violence to you. And violence in one form deserves violence in response. If heterodox speech does actual violence, then it must be eliminated, it must never be allowed to be uttered. It is not enough to censor it. It must be exterminated.
California's Largest Recycling Business Shuttering Hundreds Of Centers - YouTube
timon_phocas comments on Aug 15, 2019:
Another progressive fairy tale crumbles when it hits reality.
One important lesson learned over the past 4 years is that city police are simply paid goons in the ...
timon_phocas comments on Jul 1, 2020:
They only get upset with radical lawbreakers when they are personally threatened. Just like the couple in the gated St Louis community. He is a criminal defense trial lawyer. Very liberal, supports leftist causes. But when it's his house, he gets out front with an AR-15.
I have been reading a little about Ernest Meissonier and here is a lovely painting by him titled "A ...
timon_phocas comments on Mar 6, 2022:
Howdy @Supervixen, Thanks for the 'guided tour' of the painting. Fascinating.
TheDrive: Ukrainian Su-27s Bomb Occupied Snake Island In Daring Raid.
timon_phocas comments on May 9, 2022:
A fascinating aspect of this is the careful preparation of the target environment. Snake Island has been under nearly continuous attack by TB2 Bayraktar drones. They eliminated AA guns and missiles. Sinking the Moskva eliminated the most capable radar and AA platform. All these cleared the way for the Ukrainian Su-27s to bomb the island.
‘The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
timon_phocas comments on Aug 29, 2020:
There is a piece down in Colorado Springs, an enormous painting where the artist portrayed the wall of a Colorado canyon in sunset. All browns and ochers, with red and orange highlights, black and brown veins show texture. The artist caught the gauzy diffraction of Colorado mountain sunlight. Very subtle. It's not so much beautiful as it is very, very impressive. It takes up a whole wall in a museum in Colorado Springs. The painting made me look at canyon walls differently, with some of the excitement I had when climbing them.
The Remarkable Life Of Violet Bonham Carter, The Outspoken Grandmother Of Helena Bonham Carter ...
timon_phocas comments on Dec 1, 2021:
Howdy @Naomi, Sometimes, who your enemies are is just as important a measure of character as who your friends are.
What do you think I should put on the wall above this? All ideas and suggestions are welcome.
timon_phocas comments on Dec 5, 2021:
Is it a Brown Bess? Perhaps something from Arthur Wellesley?
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters: Andy Ngo Attacked by Antifa Mob [youtu.be]
timon_phocas comments on Jun 3, 2021:
Howdy @Krunoslav, First Confirmation that Andy Ngo is alive and recovering. Thank you.
Up to 60 feared dead after Russia bombs Ukrainian school converted into shelter- [dailywire.com]
timon_phocas comments on May 9, 2022:
Howdy @SpikeTalon, This war is devolving into the putrefying cesspit of hatred I feared it would become. The Ukrainians will hate Russia for generations. Putin is making astonishing propaganda points for Ukraine. It's gratifying to know that one of his goals in this invasion was 'to defend Christian culture '
People have been seeking the fountain of youth since the beginning of time.
timon_phocas comments on Nov 9, 2021:
Howdy @Familyman777, The Scriptures' promise of a new and improved body was not so important back in my 'salad years.' After all, I was training for triathlons to stay in shape for mountain climbing. My existing body was doing just fine, thank you very much. These days, however, my body is a lot more humble, and a lot more painful. That promise of a new body, "where we shall see Him as He is," is a very precious nowadays. Interesting how the years bring wisdom.
[breitbart.
timon_phocas comments on Jan 9, 2020:
Woof! CNN is not used to actually debating it assertions. They haven't had to for decades.
Biden vows to mandate smart guns if elected... [bearingarms.com]
timon_phocas comments on Jun 20, 2019:
Smart firearms. Great, we'll have pistols smarter than the president...
[youtube.
timon_phocas comments on Mar 31, 2022:
Howdy @MosheBenissac, Well now it's official. Democrats losing their majorities in Congress is an existential threat the country, on par with a world war. Or perhaps it just means Joe Biden has a room-temperature IQ and the attention span of a gnat.
WHY DO SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS NOT TEACH THEIR PUPILS ABOUT HENDRIK VAN DER BIJL?
timon_phocas comments on Nov 7, 2022:
Howdy @JennaGardner, President Truman said, "The only thing new in the world is the history you haven't read." That was history I hadn't read, thank you.
In the name of "equity," a Virginia high school principal opposes rewarding academic achievement
timon_phocas comments on Jan 8, 2023:
Howdy @sqeptiq, Equity for whom? Will I feel equitably treated when the doctor in the OR is chosen to meet racial quotas rather than knowledge and aptitude?
Does it matter that Kamala Harris is descended from a slave owner?
timon_phocas comments on Aug 15, 2020:
I don't think her adoring press will bring up the subject. I don't think it's an important issue for conservatives.
Tomorrow is 'Victory Day' in Russia but Vladimir Putin is losing, so what does he offer Russia?
timon_phocas comments on May 9, 2022:
Howdy @SpikeTalon, I don't know. Victory Day is the biggest patriotic holiday in Russia. Russians approach it with the fervour and reverence that our Civil War generation did with Memorial Day. They're 8 or 9 hours ahead of us, so we should be seeing headlines pretty soon.
Are we nearing to peak wokeness?
timon_phocas comments on Jul 20, 2022:
Howdy @MosheBenissac, It's summer and it's hot. In five months it will be winter and cold. These are crises?
Question: Why is it that the left wants our coal mines closed down and us to be forced to buy solar ...
timon_phocas comments on Jan 16, 2021:
It's back to Alice's Wonderland of climate change. From the man who brought you Solyndra... I can hardly wait.
Aw, what a shame (insert sarcasm).
timon_phocas comments on May 1, 2022:
Howdy @SpikeTalon, The Russians still haven't fixed their communications problems. I had read that Gerasimov was going to Izyum to spur on the faltering Russian attacks.
Brent Cooper Trial and appellate counsel for Cooper & Scully (1993–present)Thu What are ...
timon_phocas comments on Mar 25, 2023:
Howdy @WayneHawthorne, This war is an unmitigated disaster for Ukraine and Russia. It is so sad. And the only way out is through more killing.
Will the Iranian Navy Require Sinking?
timon_phocas comments on Jun 16, 2019:
That's what happened in 1988. Iraq and Iran were at the tail end of their meat-grinder of a war. Iraq was launching Exocet missiles at tankers. Iran was laying mines. Iraq quit after they hit a US destroyer at a UAE dock. Iran kept laying mines. The 5th fleet attacked oil ptatforms serving as IRGC bases. Then surface units went into Iranian naval bases, sank half the Iranian navy and withdrew. It was the US Navy's first missile engagement. And the first fleet surface action since WWII. "Proceedings" had a good article on it in 1989. Ironically one of the ships in the 5th fleet, the USS Kidd, was originally built for Iran's navy. When the shah was deposed and the US embassy occupied, the ships being built for the shah's navy were taken unto the US Navy. Collectively, they were called the "ayatollah class."
‘You’d Think Somebody Would Have Read Macbeth’: Cruz Educates NBC News, WaPo Reporters Who ...
timon_phocas comments on Feb 12, 2021:
"It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound & fury, Signifying nothing.’” Well, with Andrea Mitchell and Jennifer Rubin, at least we know the "idiot" is...
This was posted by “adonatac” below .
timon_phocas comments on May 2, 2021:
Thanks, @Bay0Wulf. Calm, Informative video
Zelensky Signs Controversial News Media Regulation President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has ...
timon_phocas comments on Jan 1, 2023:
Howdy @Garsco, Harsh actions are taken in the midst of great wars. The linked article discusses Lincoln's suppression of press freedoms *Must I shoot a simple soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?’* asked Lincoln *On April 27, 1861, President Lincoln, fearful that Southern troops might overtake the capital, suspended the writ of habeas corpus and declared martial law in Maryland. Shortly afterward, Union soldiers captured John Merryman, a cavalryman who had burned bridges and destroyed telegraph lines. Merryman challenged his military detention. On May 26, 1861, Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting circuit, ruled that Lincoln had acted unconstitutionally — only Congress could suspend the Great Writ. Lincoln ignored the order and continued to seize and hold adversaries without a hearing. He did likewise in other states, such as Missouri.* In 1864 *Lincoln ordered the two newspapers closed and their owners arrested and imprisoned. The Independent Telegraph System, which had transmitted the story, was seized by the military and its transmissions stopped.* https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/2009/02/11/civil-war-tested-lincolns-tolerance-for-free-speech-press/
[youtu.be] The U.N is a Failing Institution | Prof Anne Bayefsky | 7 of 8
timon_phocas comments on Aug 10, 2019:
The United Nothing is kleptocrat's club
I was watching Tim Pool/TimcastIRL, and he had an interesting theory on what happened to the white ...
timon_phocas comments on Aug 22, 2020:
Like all totalitarian movements, and they need an enemy. They're willing to manufacture an enemy if need be. The neo- nazis are a miniscule fragment of a minority, but if they're willing to say "hail Trump" and give a stiff arm salute, they'll have enthusiastic TV coverage. Moreover, this way the MSM can excuse Leftist outrages by says they're only a reaction to the looming threat posed by fascists.
Indoctrination of young minds is so toxic.
timon_phocas comments on Feb 8, 2021:
Howdy @Naomi, George M. Cohan, fabulous showman of the early 20th century, visited England and said, "they've got so much history here. If I had been born here, I'd have killed myself just waving the flag " Perhaps, just perhaps, the lad was easily indoctrinated because he was never taught how great England's history really is. When you don't believe in anything you're an easy target for someone who is a passionate believer.
'OK Boomer!' A Planted Tool By Neo-Bolsheviks To Demonize Elders Harkening Back To Communist ...
timon_phocas comments on Dec 9, 2019:
So what. Young hippies derided the WWII generation as "squares." There are writings from ancient Egypt saying the young generation is disobedient and sarcastic. It's a problem as old as humanity.
"South Africa lays out conditions to seize land, says investors will be reassured" ...
timon_phocas comments on Oct 13, 2020:
Hardly reassuring to me, even less to any white South African.
Opinion: The U.
timon_phocas comments on Aug 24, 2019:
wow, markets work! Somebody tell Adam Smith! Better yet, tell the Democrats!
Jihad-Rep Ilhan Omar Tells Congressional Black Caucus Crowd God ‘Expects’ Them To Vote a Certain...
timon_phocas comments on Sep 21, 2019:
Well, at least her positions are consistent with her stated faith. The Koran and Sharia hate democracy, hate Jews and Christians, hate equality and toleration. I don't like it, but she's consistent. Buttigeig contorts the Bible to invent divine support for his positions.
I grew up in Indiana around guns, and I carried a gun sometimes while in the U.
timon_phocas comments on Aug 22, 2020:
Howdy @KeithThroop, I purchased an antique Russian rifle just after Obama was inaugurated. I bought it because I could purchase ammo for it in vacuum packed, 440 round cans. In 2015 I bought a pistol because I thought Hillary might get elected. Peter Stzrok wasn't the only one looking for an insurance policy. My wife is encouraging me to get a CCP and our Sheriff has lowered the fee to $52.00. not only that, but our church hosts CCP instruction by deputies. So yes, it's going around.
It appears Trump's newly establish Space Command has something to keep it busy with as Russia on ...
timon_phocas comments on Apr 17, 2020:
Howdy @kresica, The US Space Force is taking a page from SpaceX and switching communications sats from a handful to constellations. The first official USSF launch was for the first batch of its constellation. I think it will also switch recon and electronic listening sats to constellations. It's one thing to take out a KH-11, it will be an entirely different task to eliminate twenty smaller sats doing the same task.
ISLAM CREATES PEOPLE WITH MENTAL & ETHICAL ISSUES!! Rep.
timon_phocas comments on Oct 9, 2019:
What a piece of work! She's lucky that Republicans and Jews don't believe in stoning adulteresses. We leave that to advocates of the "religion of peace."
CityJournal: Epstein's Death is very Strange [city-journal.org]
timon_phocas comments on Aug 12, 2019:
Oh boy! The FBI and the Justice Dept IG will be investigating! We can expect their reports to be released on Labor Day of 2070...
People .
timon_phocas comments on Dec 30, 2019:
People outsourcing their IT departments are surrendering their company's information to third and fourth hand strangers. Anything can happen.
A Good, Relatively Short Refutation of the Re-Writing of American History known as the “1619 ...
timon_phocas comments on Mar 21, 2020:
This agrees with what I've read of the writings of people of the times. George Washington had slaves. He considered them inferior workmen to free men as they had no hope of gain from their labors. Jefferson had slaves and was deeply conflicted. He was torn between his ideals and the very practical issue that freeing his slaves would would bankrupt his family. As a general issue, American slavery was at best barely profitable at the time of the Revolution. Many slaveholders (like Jefferson) were anxious to to find a way out of this dilemma. The New York Times 1619 Project is based upon lies and deliberate distortions. It is a vile travesty, little different from the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
Rush Limbaugh is speculating that Michelle Obama might announce her candidacy for President in 2020.
timon_phocas comments on Jul 24, 2019:
Well, I did wonder about that sudden "poll" extolling Michelle.
Biden Has Been Voted ‘Worst American President Since World War II’ In Gallup Poll
timon_phocas comments on Oct 26, 2021:
Howdy @sqeptiq, And since modern polling started in the 1920s and 30s, Joe Biden's fall in the polls is the worst in the history of polling.
Brazil, where, "Where hearts were entertaining June", is now recorded as a COVID-19 death.
timon_phocas comments on May 19, 2020:
This is the same kind of 'stampede to panic' coverage I've seen here in the US. Same song, different country. Aristotle used the concept of a 'first unmoved mover' to argue for divine creation. The media use a varient to blame Trump as prime mover for all evil. In Brazil it's Bolsonaro. Same song, different country.
Denver Mayor Declares Emergency, Says City ‘On Verge of Reaching Breaking Point’ Amid Influx of ...
timon_phocas comments on Dec 17, 2022:
Howdy @sqeptiq, If Denver (population 500,000) is at a breaking point, what about Tucumcari, New Mexico, or Yuma, Arizona, or Del Rio, Texas? Denver proudly proclaimed itself to be a 'Sanctuary City' when there was no cost in doing so. I guess it sucks, having to actually pay for your virtue signaling.
Non-Nuclear Weapons of Today - Population Control on Steroids! GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast...
timon_phocas comments on Apr 10, 2022:
Howdy @Sensrhim4hizvewz So I'll have to stand really far away to toast my marshmallows?
The Race to Mars: Are we running in the wrong direction? [issuu.com]
timon_phocas comments on Dec 16, 2019:
The article's assertion that Americans aren't interested in space exploration is false. American explorers and adventureers like Jim Bridger or Charles Lindbergh had avid press coverage. A NASA dedicated to weather monitoring, however, generates no enthusiasm. It hasn't had a sense of national mission since Werner von Braun. It's a whole lot more CYA than "boldly go..." It should be noted that while Jim Bridger had his personal motives for wandering in the American frontiers, he trapped and sold pelts to the American Fur Company. Likewise, Lindbergh pioneered South American air routes for Juan Trippe and his Panamerican Airways. Exploration has always worked best with government favoring it, but private companies risking their own capital. Lastly, the article ignores China's space program, which is arguably the largest in the world.
IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor — ProPublica
timon_phocas comments on Oct 3, 2019:
We have friends who were financially ruined by the IRS. They had a successful business (a car repair shop) and owned their home outright. One day they found their business and home padlocked and their bank accounts seized. The IRS said they had been cheating on their taxes. Nobody would hire them because they were "IRS tax cheats." And, of course, other businesses were afraid of attracting the IRS's ire. They moved into a friend's garage. He turned wrenches for friends under the table. Friends and relatives sent care packages and gift certificates. After two years the IRS admitted there was not any cheating. In the meantime, however, their house and business had been sold for pennies on the dollar. They were told by the IRS that if they persisted in asking for damages, the IRS would hound them for the rest of their lives. I am not sorry the Republicans reduced funding for the IRS. The difference between the IRS and the Mafia is that the Mafia has scruples.
Trump campaign manager blasts Democrats, calls Iowa caucuses a 'train wreck' [foxnews.
timon_phocas comments on Feb 4, 2020:
Wow, what a cluster bleep! First they cancel pre-caucus polling because it might unduly influence the caucus results. Then they screw the pooch on a caucus process that's been running well for over a century. I think something underhanded happened and they're using incompetence as a cover story.
Madrid, Spain’s secret service alleged to have carried out Barcelona terror attacks The ...
timon_phocas comments on Jan 15, 2022:
Howdy @Krunoslav, So the FBI disease is in Spain, too
'Scary': Christian Baker Who Won After Refusing Gay Wedding Cake Shares Tough Journey (18:21) ...
timon_phocas comments on Oct 27, 2022:
Thank You, Father God
Just Saying
timon_phocas comments on Aug 24, 2019:
Although only an Italian would think of doing it nude...
Trump’s lawyer calls the media out on their deceptive practices and outrageous defense of the ...
timon_phocas comments on Feb 15, 2021:
and the fact that members of Congress, sworn officers of the Constitution, are willing to blatantly perjure themselves on national television makes it even more reprehensible.
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