Priory_of_Sion

Gorka's out

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“We are scaring the literal hell out of demonic spirits.... If we get two more [Supreme Court justices], we will be able to overturn demonic laws and decrees that have held this nation in captivity,” said White.

NO!

Caught about 15 hellbenders yesterday

essentially 

new weird ass frog

new weird archosaur

1 hour ago, SergeantMatt said:

REMOVE HIPPIE

This guy claims to have invented Email 5 years after Email was invented

13 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

It sort of goes like this:

"You know, I've noticed black people commit murder at a rate eight times higher than white people."

 

"That's racist."

"Right, well. I must be a racist then. I guess I should go build a shrine to Hitler, or something?"

 

Compressed for comedic effect, obviously, but this is how it actually works. People get tired of being called racists, and - somewhat paradoxically - a small but significant minority end up deciding to just take it all the way. Cuz why not, if acknowledging simple fact gets you 80% of the way there anyway? Shame does work on most people, but it doesn't work on some, and the important thing to remember is that that minority it doesn't work on is way, way larger than the previously extant number of racists in this country. So if you shame people aggressively like that, you end up increasing the number of outright racists, not decreasing them.

This is also supposedly how Islamic terror gets some of its recruits too. 

Having read the Turner Diaries, there are connections between the Neo-Nazis and the more cultural conservative types on the right but there are some major hoops someone has to go through to actually start believing in the crap. I think the problem lies with the fact that there isn't really any intellectual right movement that is worth shit and the same goes to the left as well. 

How many of the statues that venerate the CSA actually have important historical information on them that isn't whitewashed? I don't think America is losing anything by taking down cheap and useless statues as compared to the iconoclasms under wahhabist rule. I do worry about the mob's mentality to go on to another target that is actually important, but statues of the CSA isn't going to be my hill to die on. 

The 2013 test and the 2016 tests both had an estimated 10-20 kt TNT yield, so their weapons are more or less as deadly as Fat Man. The Norks would need to have 3 direct hits on Guam to put the two airports and naval out of action if we assume that they don't have hydrogen weapons. NUKEMAP would put the fatalities of such a strike at 15,000+ on Guam. 

A 20 kt strike in downtown Tokyo kills 130,000+, but I don't know why the Norks would hit downtown Tokyo instead of JASDF/USAF bases first. 

On 8/7/2017 at 3:13 PM, Xlucine said:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-barred-grass-snake-species.html

 

A very common subspecies of one of the 3 or so common snakes in the UK turns out to be a different species! It has stripes, instead of a collar!

Darn species/subspecies concepts making everyone confused, at least they aren't salamanders though 

Mutualism between frogs and buffalo

President of Turkmenistan 

TIL about the Ugandan-Tanzanian War of 1978/9 including this on Libyan airstrikes on Tanzania*:

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Late on 1 April, a LAAF Tu-22 bomber, which approached at low altitude over Lake Victoria, attempted to hit the fuel depot at Mwanza. The bombs missed not only all of their targets but the entire city, and landed in a nearby game reserve, injuring one person and killing six antelope and several birds. Similarly, another attack by Tu-22s against one of the Tanzanian bases south of the border ended with Libyan bombs landing near Nyarubanga - inside Burundi. 

PLA Parade(going on live as of posting)

Pass

Wehraboos in my backyard 

It is either a replica or dummy turret, I thought it looked off when I saw it so I took a pic of it. 

23 minutes ago, Scolopax said:

Do you have more photos?

Some, I didn't take a whole lot but here's what I got

Some observations

Most of the M4s were in rough shape besides one A3 and a Canadian Firefly. 

I didn't see the following that I thought would be there: T28/T95, T29, Tiger II, Su-100

I caught a glimpse inside the warehouse they restoration team works and could see some of the old Mark V tanks and I suspect the missing tanks are also deep within it as well. 

Many of the cold war era vehicles had tarps over them, so you couldn't fully see some of the things like the M8 Buford, Chieftain, Leopard, AMX-13, or M60A2 Starships. 

They had a couple of modern MRAPs there that dwarf everything but the WWII LVTs. 

They let me in the tank restoration yard at Ft Benning earlier today