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  1. A prescient post from 2006:

    A difficult lesson

    When I was in the Navy, I once witnessed a bar fight in downtown Olongapo (Philippines) that still haunts my dreams. The fight was between a big oafish Marine and a rather soft-spoken, medium sized Latino sailor from my ship.

    All evening the Marine had been trying to pick a fight with one of us and had finally set his sights on this diminutive shipmate of mine… figuring him for a safe target. When my friend refused to be goaded into a fight the Marine sucker punched him from behind on the side of the head so hard that blood instantly started to pour from this poor man’s mutilated ear.

    Everyone present was horrified and was prepared to absolutely murder this Marine, but my shipmate quickly turned on him and began to single-handedly back him towards a corner with a series of stinging jabs and upper cuts that gave more than a hint to a youth spent boxing in a small gym in the Bronx.

    Each punch opened a cut on the Marine’s startled face and by the time he had been backed completely into the corner he was blubbering for someone to stop the fight. He invoked his split lips and chipped teeth as reasons to stop the fight. He begged us to stop the fight because he could barely see through the river of blood that was pouring out of his split and swollen brows.

    Nobody moved. Not one person.

    The only sound in the bar was the sickening staccato sound of this sailor’s lightning fast fists making contact with new areas of the Marine’s head. The only sound I have heard since that was remotely similar was from the first Rocky film when Sylvester Stallone was punching sides of beef in the meat locker.

    Finally the Marine’s pleading turned to screams…. a high, almost womanly shriek. And still the punches continued relentlessly.

    Several people in the bar took a few tentative steps as though they wanted to try to break it up at that point, but hands reached out from the crowd and held them tight. I’m not ashamed to say that mine were two of the hands that held someone back.

    You see, in between each blow the sailor had begun chanting a soft cadence: “Say [punch] you [punch] give [punch] up [punch]… say [punch] you [punch]were [punch] wrong [punch]”.

    He had been repeating it to the Marine almost from the start but we only became aware of it when the typical barroom cheers had died down and we began to be sickened by the sight and sound of the carnage.

    This Marine stood there shrieking in the corner of the bar trying futilely to block the carefully timed punches that were cutting his head to tatters… right down to the skull in places. But he refused to say that he gave up… or that he was wrong.

    Even in the delirium of his beating he believed in his heart that someone would stop the fight before he had to admit defeat. I’m sure this strategy had served him well in the past and had allowed him to continue on his career as a barroom bully.

    Finally, in a wail of agony the Marine shrieked “I give up”, and we gently backed the sailor away from him.

    I’m sure you can guess why I have shared this story today.

    I’m not particularly proud to have been witness to such a bloody spectacle, and the sound of that Marine’s woman-like shrieks will haunt me to my grave. But I learned something that evening that Israel had better learn for itself if it is to finally be rid of at least one of its tormentors:

    This is one time an Arab aggressor must be allowed to be beaten so badly that every civilized nation will stand in horror, wanting desperately to step in and stop the carnage… but knowing that the fight will only truly be over when one side gives up and finally admits defeat.

    Just as every person who had ever rescued that bully from admitting defeat helped create the cowardly brute I saw that evening in the bar, every well-intentioned power that has ever stepped in and negotiated a ceasefire for an Arab aggressor has helped create the monsters we see around us today.

    President Lahoud of Lebanon, a big Hezbollah supporter and a close ally of Syria, has been shrieking non-stop to the UN Security Council for the past two days to get them to force Israel into a cease fire.

    Clearly he has been reading his autographed copy of ‘Military Success for Dummies Arab Despots’ by the late Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. Ever since Nasser accidentally discovered the trick in ’56, every subsequent Arab leader has stuck to his tried and true formula for military success:

    Instigate a war.
    Once the war is well underway and you are in the process of having your ass handed to you… get a few world powers to force your western opponent into a cease fire.
    Whatever you do, don’t surrender or submit to any terms dictated by your enemy. That would ruin everything! All you have to do is wait it out and eventually the world will become sickened at what is being done to your soldiers and civilian population… and will force a truce.
    Once a truce has been called you can resume your intransigence (which probably caused the conflict in the first place), and even declare victory as your opponent leaves the field of battle.
    This tactic has never failed. Not once.

    In fact it worked so will for the Egyptians in 1973, that to this day they celebrate the Yom Kippur War – a crushing defeat at the hands of Israel – as a military victory! No kidding… it’s a national holiday over there!

    President Lahoud has already begun to shriek like a school girl to the UN Security Council to “Stop the violence and arrange a cease-fire, and then after that we’ll be ready to discuss all matters.”

    Uh huh. Forgive me if I find that a tad hard to swallow. He allowed Hezbollah to take over his country. He allowed the regular Lebanese army to provide radar targeting data for the Hezbollah missile that struck the Israeli destroyer. He has turned a blind eye while Iranian and Syrian weapons, advisers and money have poured into his country.

    And now that his country is in ruins he wants to call it a draw.

    As much as it may sicken the world to stand by and watch it happen, strong hands need to hold back the weak-hearted and let the fight continue until one side finally admits unambiguous defeat.

    https://bogieworks.blogs.com/treppenwitz/2006/07/thanks_i_needed.html

    Posted by David Bogner on July 16, 2006

    1. Good read.
      Thanks!

      What has changed this time is technology has REALLY ADVANCED immensely as the US fleets have aged and the Western Nations have better things to blow their bucks on than keeping up with these technologies.
      Boots on the ground is instant death and not any available technology that can prevent that as millions of rockets, drones and monitoring systems are engaged.

      Being reliant on other countries for fuel for your fleet is also incumbersome.

    2. Sooke – I had to stop reading and remind myself that your post was 2006, not 2023.
      We are at the stage where the Marine has just sucker-punched the little guy. Even Canada’s ambassador to the UN, Bob Rae, is concerned about the crime of war Hamas has carried out by taking hostages. Rae says that “No level of frustration (by Hamas) can justifies what happened yesterday (rape and murder of civilians),…(it is) not something the world could tolerate or that the world would expect Isreal to say ‘Let’s get back to the bargaining table (in response).”
      When Isreal respnds work it’s full war machine, we will see how long it takes before the usual gang screams like a little girl marine to interfere and stop the fight.

      Some of the war crimes are mentioned here:
      https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadian-progressives-celebrate-israel-war/wcm/10bec04e-c7db-46f2-b37d-42aa2f93f251/amp/

      1. When Israel DOES completely and disproportionately flatten all of Gaza in response to “Muslims simply doing what Muslims do” … I plan to hand out sweets to little children as I march through the streets shrieking frightening uvulatory screams. Yeah …everyone will call it “Halloween” … but you’ll know better

      2. That outrage might last to the end of the week, by which time our government will have pledged billions in humanitarian aid that can never be traced.

        I would think Israel could destroy every last source of fresh water in minutes if they desired. If that hasn’t happened then this is all show….

    3. Excellent post. Thanks so much.

      I’m not going to bother following what goes on. As you’ve pointed out, we’ve seen this play before.

    5. You are much nicer than I am. I would start loading the Gazans onto busses and shipping them to the West Bank.

      “From the border to the sea, that part of Israel is now free.”

      I’m just feeling a little outraged watching terrorists shouting their triumph while standing of the corpses of children.

    6. Ya know, ya take a month off , no computer, no email, no phone, just a long drive to a different place, beer with new old guys, conversation devoid of idiocy and come home to find nothing has changed, in fact basically, everything has gotten worse. What a freaking zoo.

        2. So did “Pootin go in” while Trump was president?

          No he did not. Trump did his job holding back the swamp and Putin from conducting his “Special Military Operation” to de-militerize and de-nazify. No foreign entanglements.

          Aside from the atrocities committed on the Russian speaking Ukrainians by the Azov’s, which is well documented during this period, many more Ukrainians got to live their lives peacefully. Not so much today.

          5. Yes, Trump held back Pootin,that is the only part that is true. The rest of what you said is usual delusional nonsense (swamp, Azov blah blah blah). Since 2014 orcs have been committing atrocities against Ukrainians in occupied parts of Ukraine.

          7. “That’s what Obama believed at the time. It’s obviously false.”

            LOL

            We’ll I guess we just need to hope the Russians see it your way.

    2. “Warning: the following video will cause thermonuclear cognitive dissonance meltdowns among UnMes, Pootin Fellators, Trumpets, Never Trumpers, Vatniks and St Petersburg bots:
      https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1710740791419707857?”

      And ONCE AGAIN, here is our resident mouth-breathing bloodthirsty PIECE OF HUMAN FILTH, desperately trying to swerve the conversation back to Russia and Vladimir Putin. The depth of his obsession is pathetic.

      Like nothing else that happens in the world and no subject that the rest of us want to discuss is the least bit important….only what HE wants.

      1. “…trying to swerve the conversation…”

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahrBOvz1jzA
        I am starting not swerving the conversation short bus.

        “Like nothing else that happens in the world and no subject that the rest of us want to discuss is the least bit important….only what HE wants.”

        Yes I start discussions on topics I want to discuss. Amazing and shocking, I know. That is how it works, you are free to ignore the discussions I started and read a page or two from Logic for Dummies instead.

        1. “Yes I start discussions on topics I want to discuss. Amazing and shocking, I know. That is how it works, you are free to ignore the discussions I started and read a page or two from Logic for Dummies instead.”

          No, idiot…you “started” nothing. You HIJACKED (once again) an EXISTING conversation on a completely different topic to satisfy your own childish obsession with Russia. Grow up, loser. And once again…get someone smarter than you to explain this to you in simpler terms and smaller words (any 14-year-old should suffice).

          1. Can someone what crayons and a lot of patience explain to Freddie how the threads work here. He is still clearly confused.

    1. lowerCOLON
      Yer ignorance and stupidity has been well noted for a long time, by many, now you can stop proving it. You used to be entertainment, now you are just a government employed pain in the ASS.

        1. Heh, so much for “savages” who only have outhouses. The worst part of any Russian city doesn’t hold a candle to Sanfransicko or the ghetto streets of any democrat run city.

          I’ve seen a few documentaries on some of the impoverished rural parts of Russia’s borderlands and they basically resemble allot of Canadian & US Indian reserves I’ve travelled through.

          “Trip to the Most Dangerous Place in Russia: Poverty, Drunk People & Crime | Tuva, Travel Documentary” – Ilya Varlamov

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RxAf5auCbI&t=1411s&ab_channel=IlyaVarlamov

        2. Wow russians built an apartment building, everybody look, they don’t all live in log houses with no indoor plumbing. Amazing it is like they all of a sudden teleported a part of their country to mid 20th century.

          Idiots who want credit for not every russian eating shit not all the time.

      2. Yes there are mostly empty of customers luxury shopping centers in Gaza or Haiti as well. Those countries are still utter shitholes populated by impoverished savages, just like russia is.

          1. Whatever russia is an impoverished turd world shithole, tour any turd world country and you will find groceries, but for russia it is apparently a huge achievement.

      1. Q: What is worth less than cent?
        A: A russian rubble (wonder if they can get 150 per 1USD by the end of the year).

        Of course $100 will get you a lot in a shithole of a country as impoverished as russia.

      1. ITT russian propagandists posting films of Potemkin villages to mask what an utter shithole russia is, always was and always will be.

        2. Colonialista: My only suggestion is that you confront your demons head on: as a Pole, I believe that you may be able to travel to Russia without a visa. What do you say, about a quick trip there. A few days in Moscow and St. Pete and maybe a booming regional centre like Tyumen? Experience the wonderful hospitality of Russians and experience a beautiful and amazing country. That contact with reality will maybe mute the loud, shrieking voices that you are constantly hearing in your head. How about it?

          1. @DCH

            As a Pole Colonesta would be just fine, it’s the gay bit that matters more, he simply needs to stay out of any Muslim area’s and no overt rainbow crap anywhere. Oh, and no Nazi talk either.

          2. No thanks, I would rather take a barefoot tour of washrooms in venereal disease clinics in any Western City than set my foot anywhere in the cesspool of russia while wearing a hazmat suit. But I would be happy to send all Canadian russian supporters to russia. One way trip of course.

          3. So, from your comment above – you refuse to have any contact with reality and wish to remain subjugated by your fantasies and delusions?

          4. Idiotic orc demagogy, I know reality very well, I know what Orcs have done in Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol and every chance they had before. That is why they need to be neutered not toured.

  4. Why Danielle Smith will outlast Justin Trudeau

    “You know, the thing I find a little frustrating, is that in my very first conversation with the prime minister, and what I’ve been saying all along, is that we’re aligned on reaching carbon neutrality by the 2050 target,” Danielle reports.

    Targets are negotiated with industry, abatement milestones set, on a pathway to 2050, she continues, and every time we make progress and achieve our targets, the federal government steps in to set new guideposts that are “unrealistic, unreasonable, unachievable and increasingly unconstitutional.” Her voice remains steady.

    https://nationalpost.com/news/danielle-smith-outlast-justin-trudeau/wcm/b72ecc70-752a-4295-8291-a0a03c6022b7/amp/

    1. Bullshlt double speak by Smith. Just call agw the utter and easily provable fraud that it is, and get policies moving in supporting that.

      She’s only digging a deeper hole doing this.

      1. Agreed Wrd; this is a mistake often made by people who disagree withtt he Blarney Science but want to be or sound “reasonable”. The problem is, they cede the central ground to the fools. They accept the central lie of man made global warming, even if “for the sake of argument”. Never yield, never cede.

        1. “Never yield, never cede”
          Exactly, and never use their language and assumptions either.
          Hydrocarbons.
          EV’s are not zero emission. Zero emission is a myth like the Net Zero stupidity.
          CO2 is plant food, the earth is greening up. Ice cores prove it has nothing to do with global temperature.
          The “crisis” is, this nonsense is being taught to kids and they are terrified.
          Wind farms and solar need to be outlawed as they are ecological disasters. Plus they don’t work.
          Climate activists are committing crimes against humanity by making cheap energy unaffordable, threatening our property rights, disallowing poor nations from building and gaining cheap reliable electricity from natural gas. This one thing would raise many countries out of poverty and end many conflicts. But it’s being denied because of “climate change”. It’s all about control, nothing about the environment.
          What utter nonsense.

      2. Precisely, Ward.

        By merely moving the date back 15 years, she is legitimizing their argument, fully agreeing with them & merely negotiating the terms.

        Invoke the notwithstanding clause & tell the lot of ’em to FOAD, en route to the Independent Republic of Buffalo.

  5. In 8 hours of news coverage of the Hamas (Iranian) war on Israel … I’ve seen more ACTUAL real-time war footage than I’ve seen in 2 years of Russia’s minor incursion into Ukraine.

    Thank you CNN !! Thank you Fox News !!

    1. Maybe you should get a telegram account and stop relying on your regular news providers, whether you think they are unbiased or not.(Every one has a bias even if they believe they are impartial and also it’s helpful if you can track the funding for a site. Sometimes nothing is as it seems)
      I suggest channels from both sides of any conflict, although it is helpful if you have a good bs meter.
      Personally I’m sitting back with a big bag of popcorn waiting for the really big one that’s coming. They always come in three’s.

    2. “In 8 hours of news coverage of the Hamas (Iranian) war on Israel … I’ve seen more ACTUAL real-time war footage than I’ve seen in 2 years of Russia’s minor incursion into Ukraine.

      Thank you CNN !! Thank you Fox News !!”

      Inexplicable, isn’t it? Almost like we are being deliberately denied the truth about the situation in Ukraine.

    3. Yeah, you cretins have been spamming this idiotic meme on every channel. It really is just a confession of your ignorance. Funny thing is, Israel hating leftist are saying a very similar thing.

  6. Muslims and communists had a rally for Palestinians in Ottawa. So Freedom Convoy in Ottawa bad. Palestinian terrorists and communists in Ottawa good. Got it.

    2. The mistake Canadians make when showing up to protest is that they come unarmed and defenseless. It’s the same reason christianity is disappearing from the west. They don’t fight back.
      Canadians grovel on their knees like good little ‘citizens’ instead of picking up a stick and beating their oppressors.
      Don’t believe me? Watch what happens the next time the state arrests a priest and imprisons him for preaching. I’ll tell you now so you don’t have to live in suspense.
      Nothing.

      1. Exactly!!

        There were a lot of huge protests worldwide against the vaxx passports. You could still find them before Instagram got really good at censoring everything. Hundeds of thousands in the streets in many countries.

        But the mobs didn’t go to destroy and kill which was their mistake. And the government is always on the side of people against civilization. Our side doesn’t even litter…. We never even approached the line that destroys everything, much less dreamed of crossing it.

        Yet. Let’s see how things go as the number of jabbed dead keep piling up….

    4. “Muslims and communists had a rally for Palestinians in Ottawa. So Freedom Convoy in Ottawa bad. Palestinian terrorists and communists in Ottawa good. Got it.”

      Will any charges be laid for ‘hate crimes’?

      1. “Will any charges be laid for ‘hate crimes’?”

        Most likely yes, on anyone who disagrees with the Palestinian “protesters” in Blackface’s personal terrorist sanctuary. Probably any counter protesting “trouble making” Jews to start judging by the warm reception he gave the Waffen SS a few days ago.

  8. An Idiot Guide to Why Russia and Ukraine Are Fighting
    Your typical low-info lefty “knows” one thing about the war: Putin bad, Zelenskyy good. Never mind those centuries of Eastern European political tumult that led to the situation we are now paying for.
    I DO know Joe Biden and his family have made mad stack from a Ukrainian company called Burisma, and some people say it was all very corrupt.
    Maybe the West should have let Putin and Zelenskyy adhere to the Minsk II accords and allow peace. But then how would the Washington, D.C., swamp-dwellers launder their money? Then there is the military-industrial complex. They want their dough, too.

    https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2023/10/08/an-idiots-guide-to-why-russia-and-ukraine-are-fighting-n1733166

    1. “In case you were wondering about those wikipedia edits”

      I wasn’t. Wikipedia is utterly useless for any topic with a political component (climate, gender, natives, etc…). It is only useful for quickly finding out the plots of movies, the dates of historical conflicts, the structure of governments, the GDP of countries, the tensile strength of certain materials, etc. etc…

      Anything the least bit political is horribly biased and completely useless as reference material. I laugh every time I go there and they beg me for money.

    2. I’ve pretty much given up on Wikipedia. I’ve tried to very systematically maintain a few pages of amateur sports leagues and some history pages with very detailed precise information. Periodically some asshole with shit for brains with the grammar of a moron will come along and edit perfection for no other reason than they can.

  13. You Canucks are nothing but a cowering bunch of spineless sniveling cowards. More than willing to allow bloodthirsty Nazis in your midst spouting vile blatantly racist shit, what do you do? Shift blame and then ban the person pointing out your hypocrisy. *spit*

  14. What I see with this war against Israel is that western weapon supplies, which Israel depends on , as depleted. So Israel may run out before they completely defeat the terrorists. Could Israel then turn to BRICS for supplies, and maybe even join them permanently?

    Interesting times!

    1. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: LTC residents have been dying from neglect long before WuFlu, mostly malnutrition and dehydration. I witnessed it for years while my mom was in LTC. After she had been hospitalized with dehydration, my siblings and I arranged that one of us would be with her for dinner every weeknight. I saw more food and fluids trashed than were consumed. Mercifully, she passed away on New Year’s Day 2020 before all the Covid hysteria.

  19. Canada Plans to Regulate Search and Social Media Use of Artificial Intelligence for Content Moderation and Discoverability
    https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/10/canada-plans-to-regulate-search-and-social-media-use-of-artificial-intelligence-for-content-moderation-and-discoverability/

    … The regulation plans are revealed in a letter from ISED Minister François-Philippe Champagne to the Industry committee studying Bill C-27, the privacy reform and AI regulation bill. The government is refusing to disclose the actual text of planned amendments to the bill…

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