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I don't know about you all but I am impressed with [MENTION=4486]Boris[/MENTION] full transformation from Russian, to American to Hillbilly in the way he types.
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Ebonics should be next then the transformation will be complete. Welcome back aint!
 
Stoked said:
I don't know about you all but I am impressed with [MENTION=4486]Boris[/MENTION] full transformation from Russian, to American to Hillbilly in the way he types.
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Boris thinks he will play role of 13 year old boy next. Sounds fitting.
 
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/opinions/trump-harvey-response-was-perfect-opinion-stanley/index.html

Headline
Trump's response to hurricane was perfect
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(CNN)Hurricane Harvey was a revelatory moment in the early presidency of Donald J. Trump. We got a glimpse of Trump without the cultural politics: Trump as he could be. As Hurricane Irma approaches, Congress returns and North Korea shakes its nuclear fist -- this is the Trump the world needs. Competent and disciplined.
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This is NOT a CNN article. but one linked to in the "paid content" section of CNN

http://inmilitary.com/a-french-sold...an&utm_campaign=Blog - In Military - LT - AMU

Recently, we stumbled upon a French newspaper that had an op-ed from a French soldier that had served with US soldiers and marines in Afghanistan. His appraisal of U.S. servicemembers is gushing with praise; so much so that many commentators claim that this is simply a propaganda piece by U.S. interests. The debate continues! We invite the reader to decide for yourself.

What follows is an account from a French ISAF soldier that was stationed with American Warfighters in Afghanistan sometime in the past 8 years. This was copied and translated from an editorial French newspaper and was originally posted last year at the American Veteran site Warrior Lodge. Due to its popularity, dozens of other military-themed websites started re-publishing it, some giving proper attribution to Warrior Lodge and others stealing it outright.
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A NOS FRERES D’ARMES AMERICAINS
“We have shared our daily life with two US units for quite a while – they are the first and fourth companies of a prestigious infantry battalion whose name I will withhold for the sake of military secrecy. To the common man it is a unit just like any other. But we live with them and got to know them, and we henceforth know that we have the honor to live with one of the most renowned units of the US Army – one that the movies brought to the public as series showing “ordinary soldiers thrust into extraordinary events”. Who are they, those soldiers from abroad, how is their daily life, and what support do they bring to the men of our OMLT every day? Few of them belong to the Easy Company, the one the TV series focuses on. This one nowadays is named Echo Company, and it has become the support company.
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They have a terribly strong American accent – from our point of view the language they speak is not even English. How many times did I have to write down what I wanted to say rather than waste precious minutes trying various pronunciations of a seemingly common word? Whatever State they are from, no two accents are alike and they even admit that in some crisis situations they have difficulties understanding each other. Heavily built, fed at the earliest age with Gatorade, proteins and creatine- they are all heads and shoulders taller than us and their muscles remind us of Rambo. Our frames are amusingly skinny to them – we are wimps, even the strongest of us – and because of that they often mistake us for Afghans.

And they are impressive warriors! We have not come across bad ones, as strange at it may seem to you when you know how critical French people can be. Even if some of them are a bit on the heavy side, all of them provide us everyday with lessons in infantry know-how. Beyond the wearing of a combat kit that never seem to discomfort them (helmet strap, helmet, combat goggles, rifles etc.) the long hours of watch at the outpost never seem to annoy them in the slightest. On the one square meter wooden tower above the perimeter wall they stand the five consecutive hours in full battle rattle and night vision goggles on top, their sight unmoving in the directions of likely danger. No distractions, no pauses, they are like statues nights and days. At night, all movements are performed in the dark – only a handful of subdued red lights indicate the occasional presence of a soldier on the move. Same with the vehicles whose lights are covered – everything happens in pitch dark even filling the fuel tanks with the Japy pump.Here we discover America as it is often depicted: their values are taken to their paroxysm, often amplified by promiscuity and the loneliness of this outpost in the middle of that Afghan valley.
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And combat? If you have seen Rambo you have seen it all – always coming to the rescue when one of our teams gets in trouble, and always in the shortest delay. That is one of their tricks: they switch from T-shirt and sandals to combat ready in three minutes. Arriving in contact with the enemy, the way they fight is simple and disconcerting: they just charge! They disembark and assault in stride, they bomb first and ask questions later – which cuts any pussyfooting short. Honor, motherland – everything here reminds of that: the American flag floating in the wind above the outpost, just like the one on the post parcels. Even if recruits often originate from the hearth of American cities and gang territory, no one here has any goal other than to hold high and proud the star spangled banner. Each man knows he can count on the support of a whole people who provides them through the mail all that an American could miss in such a remote front-line location: books, chewing gums, razorblades, Gatorade, toothpaste etc. in such way that every man is aware of how much the American people backs him in his difficult mission. And that is a first shock to our preconceptions: the American soldier is no individualist. The team, the group, the combat team are the focus of all his attention.

(This is the main area where I’d like to comment. Anyone with a passing knowledge of Kipling knows the lines from Chant Pagan: ‘If your officer’s dead and the sergeants look white/remember it’s ruin to run from a fight./ So take open order, lie down, sit tight/ And wait for supports like a soldier./ This, in fact, is the basic philosophy of both British and Continental soldiers. ‘In the absence of orders, take a defensive position.’ Indeed, virtually every army in the world. The American soldier and Marine, however, are imbued from early in their training with the ethos: In the Absence of Orders: Attack! Where other forces, for good or ill, will wait for precise orders and plans to respond to an attack or any other ‘incident’, the American force will simply go, counting on firepower and SOP to carry the day.

This is one of the great strengths of the American force in combat and it is something that even our closest allies, such as the Brits and Aussies (that latter being closer by the way) find repeatedly surprising. No wonder is surprises the hell out of our enemies.)
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We seldom hear any harsh word, and from 5 AM onwards the camp chores are performed in beautiful order and always with excellent spirit. A passing American helicopter stops near a stranded vehicle just to check that everything is alright; an American combat team will rush to support ours before even knowing how dangerous the mission is – from what we have been given to witness, the American soldier is a beautiful and worthy heir to those who liberated France and Europe.
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To those who bestow us with the honor of sharing their combat outposts and who everyday give proof of their military excellence, to those who pay the daily tribute of America’s army’s deployment on Afghan soil, to those we owned this article, ourselves hoping that we will always remain worthy of them and to always continue hearing them say that we are all the same band of brothers”.
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Everyone complains about the quality of ‘the new guys.’ Don’t. The screw-ups of this modern generation are head and shoulders above the ‘high-medium’ of any past group. Including mine. So much of ‘The scum of the earth, enlisted for drink.’
This is ‘The Greatest Generation’ of soldiers.
They may never be equaled.
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I would have liked to see CNN praise Utah police for their actions in shooting that armed black teen the other day. Wait, you didn't hear about it? Of course not.

The officer used some serious constraint in the heat of the moment. He only fired off two bullets instead of emptying his clip, then officers were very gentle and did everything they could to save the kid's life. All caught on body cam.

That's what I'd like to see from the media, but I won't so I don't watch it.

And WTF is Black Lives Matter supporting the police in this sort of incident? Nowhere to be found.
 
franklin said:
I would have liked to see CNN praise Utah police for their actions in shooting that armed black teen the other day. Wait, you didn't hear about it? Of course not.

The officer used some serious constraint in the heat of the moment. He only fired off two bullets instead of emptying his clip, then officers were very gentle and did everything they could to save the kid's life. All caught on body cam.

That's what I'd like to see from the media, but I won't so I don't watch it.

And WTF is Black Lives Matter supporting the police in this sort of incident? Nowhere to be found.
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I did hear about it, on the SLTrib webiste. Check the comments there. I praised the officer. It was 100% handled correctly.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/09/...olice-officer-shooting-and-wounding-juvenile/
 
franklin said:
I would have liked to see CNN praise Utah police for their actions in shooting that armed black teen the other day. Wait, you didn't hear about it? Of course not.

The officer used some serious constraint in the heat of the moment. He only fired off two bullets instead of emptying his clip, then officers were very gentle and did everything they could to save the kid's life. All caught on body cam.

That's what I'd like to see from the media, but I won't so I don't watch it.

And WTF is Black Lives Matter supporting the police in this sort of incident? Nowhere to be found.
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i also didnt hear as much about the black dylan roof copycat!

exact same crime but yet just a slight mention in mainstream media

a guy of a different racial group attacks a chrurch filled of another racial group, screaming racist slurs!
 
Bulletproof said:
I did hear about it, on the SLTrib webiste. Check the comments there. I praised the officer. It was 100% handled correctly.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/09/...olice-officer-shooting-and-wounding-juvenile/
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Yeah that is a good example of how to handle that situation. The kid very obviously reached for his pocket after the cop told him to stop and all that jazz. And even after he was on the ground he reached for his pocket. They claim they found a gun on him, but that wouldn't even be necessary for it to be handled properly as the officer had to assume he was reaching for a weapon regardless of what was out of sight in his pocket.
 
This story and the camera footage was shown on the local Fox news and on KSL news.
 
The deafening silence of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Harvey Weinstein
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/politics/harvey-weinstein-obama-clinton/index.html

Five days after the New York Times broke the news that Weinstein, the head of Miramax and a major Democratic donor, faced a series of allegations of inappropriate behavior toward women over a several-decade span, neither Bill or Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama has said a single word about the incidents.

What's remarkable about that silence is that Weinstein isn't, really, denying the allegations. In a long statement released in response to the Times story -- in which he quoted Jay Z and said he would take a leave of absence to focus on fighting the NRA -- Weinstein acknowledged: "I appreciate the way I've behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologize for it."
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[video=youtube_share;M4dHf6jnwaU]https://youtu.be/M4dHf6jnwaU
I have a feeling Spacey isn't the only one in Hollywood who molested young boys. I hope Corey Feldman will name some.
 
It is disturbing how the rich and famous get away with criminal behavior for decades.
 
Archie Moses said:
[video=youtube_share;M4dHf6jnwaU]https://youtu.be/M4dHf6jnwaU
I have a feeling Spacey isn't the only one in Hollywood who molested young boys. I hope Corey Feldman will name some.
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Wonder how far this will spread. I have heard of 5 others besides Weinstein being named as having done similar things. Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Piven, Ben and Casey Affleck and some director whose name I cannot remember.
 
Looks like another terrorist attack in New York after a truck plows through a crowd in Manhattan (it hasn't been confirmed a terrorist attack, but the media is reporting speculation.) Just this week alone, there have been 444 people around the world killed by terrorist attacks.
A foreign U of U student was shot and killed at the U last night in an attempted car-jacking. I don't understand how one could so carelessly take someone's life. ****ing disgusting.
 
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