Politics

[Wade J VanGinkel]

I started at 45. Long sleeve shirt to keep them covered but nothing above the shoulders.
Always have the urge for more but have held off for a couple years.

 

[Altitude sickness]

You’re better off getting them later in life. Less time to turn into a indiscernible blob

 

[steve white]

You’re better off getting them later in life. Less time to turn into a indiscernible blob

Or, as Robin Williams said, from barbed wire to a picket fence!

 

[John Wasmuth]

From the little bit of senate hearing I saw today Pete made quick work of the communist S bags attempting to discredit him. What I find hilarious is these bottom feeding scum act like they don’t have the morals of an ally cat……

 

[Neophyte]

I won't waste my time with a direct reply other than to say that the very content of your posts, specifically the examples you've provided, and ridiculous generalizations about law enforcement officers, tells me that any serious, meaningful, discussion or debate on this topic between us is not going to be possible....

Obviously, you have had a bad personal experience with law enforcement at some point in time in your life, but some of your commentary borders on rhetoric straight out of a Ted Kaczynski or a Timothy McVeigh manifesto... I am not sure if I should be more alarmed than amused... Best of luck with your issues going forward...

I truly hope you or a family member never need a cop in a situation where one of their lives are on the line. It would be a shame to have one of them sacrifice their own personal safety for someone who obviously cannot comprehend the selfless depth of such a commitment to duty. When you have a job where you kiss your wife and kids and walk out the door each day to protect strangers under the very real possibility that you may not come home, then get back to me and I will take your comments seriously... Until then, you should probably STFU...!

I won't waste my time with a direct reply other than to say that the very content of your posts, specifically the examples you've provided, and ridiculous generalizations about law enforcement officers, tells me that any serious, meaningful, discussion or debate on this topic between us is not going to be possible....

Obviously, you have had a bad personal experience with law enforcement at some point in time in your life, but some of your commentary borders on rhetoric straight out of a Ted Kaczynski or a Timothy McVeigh manifesto... I am not sure if I should be more alarmed than amused... Best of luck with your issues going forward...

I truly hope you or a family member never need a cop in a situation where one of their lives are on the line. It would be a shame to have one of them sacrifice their own personal safety for someone who obviously cannot comprehend the selfless depth of such a commitment to duty. When you have a job where you kiss your wife and kids and walk out the door each day to protect strangers under the very real possibility that you may not come home, then get back to me and I will take your comments seriously... Until then, you should probably STFU...!

Your reply is the typical defend all the apples in the barrel, even the rotten ones, when the entire barrel is spoiled.

I’m sure you are knowledgeable enough about some things and retardant in other things just like all of us. You knew the dangers of the job when you signed up as did I. If you don’t like it feel free to seek other employment. Then you can worry about not coming home after getting hit by a bus instead of because you’re a cop.

I provided real world examples of what transpires, from the extreme to the more typical. The incidents in Phoenix and Meridian are all too common and frequent. Law Enforcement training has thrown common sense out the window and elevated itself to demigods.

As for needing a law enforcement officer you’re only good for anything after the fact to draw chalk outlines around the body and be revenue collectors through tickets written. For too long the judiciary has given law enforcement the benefit of the doubt. I’ll call a lawyer long before I call a cop.

 

[Datchew]

Holy smokes! I just watched Senator Mullin defend nominee Pete Hegseth during Pete's Senate hearing. Senator Mulling points a strong finger toward those senators who think they are without sin.

This is worth watching!

That was impressive. Color me a fan of senator Mullin. We need about 20 more of him.

I found myself very impressed with Hegseth's performance overall.

 

[sgt_zim]

My wife waited until she was 51... and now she has 4...

be careful.. the heroin they put in the ink is addictive

Feel free to ask away (PM, separate thread, or wherever).. Im in my mid 50's, and have had tattoos my entire adult life (got the first one in my young twenties.. got the most recent one about 3 years ago.. may well get another few before I take the final dirt nap)... whats been key for me is no one sees any of mine unless its intentional (all inside the t-shirt line) with the exception of one, which is a small "wedding ring" that was put on my wedding ring finger by a very drunk local in French Polynesia in the middle of the den of his house.. where he spent half the time shooing off the chickens that lived inside the house with him lol (the tattoo was an adventure in and of itself lol)..

I have a wedding ring one. The Chi Rho is on my forearm.

I'm a year older than you (if your gmail account name is any indication), got them both about 3 years ago.

 

[WAB]

I won't waste my time with a direct reply other than to say that the very content of your posts, specifically the examples you've provided, and ridiculous generalizations about law enforcement officers, tells me that any serious, meaningful, discussion or debate on this topic between us is not going to be possible....

Obviously, you have had a bad personal experience with law enforcement at some point in time in your life, but some of your commentary borders on rhetoric straight out of a Ted Kaczynski or a Timothy McVeigh manifesto... I am not sure if I should be more alarmed than amused... Best of luck with your issues going forward...

I truly hope you or a family member never need a cop in a situation where one of their lives are on the line. It would be a shame to have one of them sacrifice their own personal safety for someone who obviously cannot comprehend the selfless depth of such a commitment to duty. When you have a job where you kiss your wife and kids and walk out the door each day to protect strangers under the very real possibility that you may not come home, then get back to me and I will take your comments seriously... Until then, you should probably STFU...!

Well said sir!

 

[Doug Hamilton]

I won't waste my time with a direct reply other than to say that the very content of your posts, specifically the examples you've provided, and ridiculous generalizations about law enforcement officers, tells me that any serious, meaningful, discussion or debate on this topic between us is not going to be possible....

Obviously, you have had a bad personal experience with law enforcement at some point in time in your life, but some of your commentary borders on rhetoric straight out of a Ted Kaczynski or a Timothy McVeigh manifesto... I am not sure if I should be more alarmed than amused... Best of luck with your issues going forward...

I truly hope you or a family member never need a cop in a situation where one of their lives are on the line. It would be a shame to have one of them sacrifice their own personal safety for someone who obviously cannot comprehend the selfless depth of such a commitment to duty. When you have a job where you kiss your wife and kids and walk out the door each day to protect strangers under the very real possibility that you may not come home, then get back to me and I will take your comments seriously... Until then, you should probably STFU...!

Have you ever heard of "Sovereign Citizens"? You can see them on YouTube. They take a few facts, then convolute them into something that no longer has anything to do with reality. Always saying that the cops that arrest them aren't following the constitution. Of course they're always wrong. This guy reminds me a lot of them.

 

[Neophyte]

Keep defending your tyrants.
Here’s another example for y’all to try to defend.

 

[spike.t]

West Africa could soon have a jihadist state – here’s why - defenceWeb https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/west-africa-could-soon-have-a-jihadist-state-heres-why/

 

[Altitude sickness]

We have had guys on the ground in those regions training indigenous forces for some time now. Always outmanned and outgunned.

US soldiers killed in Niger were outgunned, 'left behind' in hunt for ISIS leader

Four Army special operations soldiers killed in action during an ambush in Niger last October were part of a largely inexperienced and lightly-armed team.

abcnews.go.com

 

[WyoBull]

That was impressive. Color me a fan of senator Mullin. We need about 20 more of him.

I found myself very impressed with Hegseth's performance overall.

Completely agree with you. I almost found myself cheering out loud when Senator Mullin called out the holier than though democrats.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

FWIW I have an 8" Jerusalem Cross tattooed over my heart/left chest.. and got it many years before Hegsteth did... It was a symbol a team I went to Iraq with adopted in the early years of the GWOT and I wear it to honor and remember those I served with... Its also the symbol I use as a makers mark on every knife blade I make.. and the symbol I use as an avatar on other web forums I belong to (It was my original avatar here before I started using the buffalo)..

Im about the furthest thing on the planet from an extremist or a white supremist.. half the guys on the team that wore the cross that Im referring to were NOT white (we had blacks, hispanics, asians, whites, and a couple of kurds as well that all wore that cross on our gear, etc..etc.. back then).. and anyone that knows me that Im actually much more of a centrist than I am a right winger (very fiscally "right", but very socially centrist.. and truly more of a libertarian than a republican if you get right down to ideals and beliefs)..

Youve gotta love that the people that continually chant nonsense like Trump = Hitler are the ones that use Goebbels doctrine in an attempt to maintain control and quash dissent (ie. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.)...

Our church has a Jerusalem cross on the front of alter and ECUSA could hardly be considered anything but left leaning in modern times. Unfortunately a lot of politicians on that side of the aisle have simply assumed a broadly anti-Christian stance and I wish more left leaning Christians would wake up to that.

This is the front piece on our church’s alter.

 

[gbflyer]

I wonder how Prop 13 will play into the fire rebuilds in the Palisades area? My old CA friend tells me a lot of those places are generational being passed down over the years.

What a mess to fix with CA red tape. Hopefully some of it can be bypassed.

 

[Tbitty]

Keep defending your tyrants.
Here’s another example for y’all to try to defend.

50 states, 50 police heroes: Honoring our LEOs on National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day

See how law enforcement stepped up through acts of heroism to create some good this past year

www.police1.com

Keep hating the police. Here's 50 examples for you to try to berate.

 

[PARA45]

50 states, 50 police heroes: Honoring our LEOs on National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day

See how law enforcement stepped up through acts of heroism to create some good this past year

www.police1.com

Keep hating the police. Here's 50 examples for you to try to berate.

@Neophyte, there are bad apples everywhere, but you seem to pile up all LEOs and paint them all bad. There are bad people everywhere, don't generalize.

 

[Tanks]

I wonder how Prop 13 will play into the fire rebuilds in the Palisades area? My old CA friend tells me a lot of those places are generational being passed down over the years.

What a mess to fix with CA red tape. Hopefully some of it can be bypassed.

If the property is rebuilt exactly then Prop. 13 will still be in effect. However, if there are changes in square footage etc., then it will be reassessed.

 

[Doubleplay]

That was impressive. Color me a fan of senator Mullin. We need about 20 more of him.

I found myself very impressed with Hegseth's performance overall.

I wasn't impressed at all and he shouldn't be nominated.
There are much more qualified people to do the job.

 

[Tanks]

I wasn't impressed at all and he shouldn't be nominated.
There are much more qualified people to do the job.

Interesting that they were hitting him more with personal issues rather than his actual background and experience related to running basically the World's largest corporation.