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  1. Judging by the final.round contenders and the winner I think the course did its job identifying the best players in the world.
  2. You're incredibly ignorant, its really impossible having a discussion with you. Probably won't even try after this. Point is: how do you identify all these people in advance? Your assumption is that we have perfect information on who will go postal with enough time to arrest and medicated them before they actually do. Incredibly, stupidly, embaressingly, naive.
  3. He didn't say it doesn't happen at all, only that "It doesn't happen in other places with this kind of frequency' He's spot on
  4. Obama is merely stating facts The United States has more guns and gun deaths than any other developed country in the world, researchers found. A study by two New York City cardiologists found that the U.S. has 88 guns per 100 people and 10 gun-related deaths per 100,000 people - more than any of the other 27 developed countries they studied. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/09/19/u-s-has-more-guns-and-gun-deaths-than-any-other-country-study-finds/
  5. No its your logic (if something so naive can be called logical) they should all be incarcerated and medicated.
  6. Sources for wikileaks article on French assistance for US war of Independence David Hackett Fischer (2005). Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas. Oxford UP. pp. 185–88. Stacy Schiff (2006). A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. Macmillan. p. 5. Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, eds. Diplomacy and Revolution: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778 (United States Capitol Historical Society, 1981) "Journal of the American Revolution, The Gunpowder shortage (September 9, 2013).[1] Lloyd S. Kramer, "America's Lafayette and Lafayette's America: A European and the American Revolution," William & Mary Quarterly (1981) 38#2 pp 228-241.in JSTOR Georges Édouard Lemaître (2005). Beaumarchais. Kessinger Publishing. p. 229. Thomas G. Paterson et al. (2009). American Foreign Relations, Volume 1: A History to 1920. Cengage Learning. pp. 13–15. Henry Lumpkin (2000). From Savannah to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South. iUniverse. p. 235. Richard B. Morris, The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence (1975) Peter S. Onuf (1991). Establishing the New Regime: The Washington Administration. Taylor & Francis. pp. 30–31. Library of Congress (2002). The Impact of the American Revolution Abroad. The Minerva Group, Inc. pp. 21–23. Stacy Schiff (2006). A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. Macmillan. p. 5. Jonathan R. Dull, The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774-1787 (1975)
  7. Worse than wide right. That was a miss from 47 yards. This was a 3 putt from 12 feet. Im pretty much a casual observer, but I don't recall anything like that happening in major championship golf before, and perhaps all of championship sport
  8. Make it? Probably Advance? Probably not It's all bull pen aces the deeper you go
  9. So lets explore this: anyone who a) expressed racist views, and b) professes an attachment to guns, would be a candidate for arrest and medicating. Which implicates nearly every right wing poster on this board. And given this is just a small sample, implicates millions nationally. Not to mention the inability to afford such mass arrest and treatment, you've now given the government carte blanch authority to arrest individuals on a whim, and Medicate and brainwash them...the very entity your most fearful of. I'm afraid your "remedy" is so ludicrous as to be embarrassing.
  10. Hard to understand the context of what's going on....was it self defense? Who/what instigated it? He's outnumbered by a group that keeps attacking him ...did they do that for self defense of something he did/kept doing, or was it within his rights to defend himself in a pretty threatening situation? In the opening scene, anyway, the aggressor is the guy in blue trunks
  11. Speith, Johnson, Day is a good leaderboard
  12. French farmers ? During the American Revolutionary War (American War of Independence; 17751783), France recognized and allied itself with the United States in 1778, declared war on Great Britain, and sent its armies and navy to fight Britain while providing money and matériel to arm the new republic. French intervention made a decisive contribution to the U.S. victory in the war. Motivated by revenge for its losses in the Seven Years' War, France began secretly sending supplies in 1775. Spain and the Netherlands joined France, making it a global war in which the British had no major allies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War But more importantly your grossly inaccurate comment speaks to a major error in thinking that supports the current madness; that is that privately armed citizens can resist the government. If people have pistols, the government has tanks. If people get tanks, the government has atomic weapons. There's no way to deal with the threat of government (real or imagined) by violent force, even if you think that that's morally legitimate. Guns in the hands of American citizens are not going to make the country more benign. They're going to make it more brutal, ruthless and destructive...which pretty much characterizes our situation versus most of the advanced world
  13. Let's sign him and then trade to Minnesota for a bunch of picks
  14. It's pretty clear that, taken literally, the Second Amendment doesn't permit people to have guns. But laws are never taken literally, including amendments to the Constitution or constitutional rights. Laws permit what the tenor of the times interprets them as permitting.
  15. It looks pretty cool to me. Aren't the quirky features based on the old, classic courses in the British isles? And what high handicap will play it 7,900 yards? Hasn't player heard of front tees?
  16. I see you have no real interest in discussing the forces that predominate world affairs. Just want to post stuff like "you're an idiot", " Obama's a socialist", etc Not for you, but others, some insight into how the kingdom manipulates Arab media ________ Documents reveal the extensive efforts to monitor and co-opt Arab media, making sure to correct any deviations in regional coverage of Saudi Arabia and Saudi-related matters. Saudi Arabia's strategy for co-opting Arab media takes two forms, corresponding to the "carrot and stick" approach, referred to in the documents as "neutralisation" and "containment". The approach is customised depending on the market and the media in question. "Contain" and "Neutralise" The initial reaction to any negative coverage in the regional media is to "neutralise" it. The term is used frequently in the cables and it pertains to individual journalists and media institutions whose silence and co-operation has been bought. "Neutralised" journalists and media institutions are not expected to praise and defend the Kingdom, only to refrain from publishing news that reflects negatively on the Kingdom, or any criticism of its policies. The "containment" approach is used when a more active propaganda effort is required. Journalists and media institutions relied upon for "containment" are expected not only to sing the Kingdom's praises, but to lead attacks on any party that dares to air criticisms of the powerful Gulf state. One of the ways "neutralisation" and "containment" are ensured is by purchasing hundreds or thousands of subscriptions in targeted publications. These publications are then expected to return the favour by becoming an "asset" in the Kingdom's propaganda strategy. A document listing the subscriptions that needed renewal by 1 January 2010 details a series of contributory sums meant for two dozen publications in Damascus, Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Kuwait, Amman and Nouakchott. The sums range from $500 to 9,750 Kuwaiti Dinars ($33,000). The Kingdom effectively buys reverse "shares" in the media outlets, where the cash "dividends" flow the opposite way, from the shareholder to the media outlet. In return Saudi Arabia gets political "dividends" an obliging press. An example of these co-optive practices in action can be seen in an exchange between the Saudi Foreign Ministry and its Embassy in Cairo. On 24 November 2011 Egypt's Arabic-language broadcast station ONTV hosted the Saudi opposition figure Saad al-Faqih, which prompted the Foreign Ministry to task the embassy with inquiring into the channel. The Ministry asked the embassy to find out how "to co-opt it or else we must consider it standing in the line opposed to the Kingdom's policies". The document reports that the billionaire owner of the station, Naguib Sawiris, did not want to be "opposed to the Kingdom's policies" and that he scolded the channel director, asking him "never to host al-Faqih again". He also asked the Ambassador if he'd like to be "a guest on the show". The Saudi Cables are rife with similar examples, some detailing the figures and the methods of payment. These range from small but vital sums of around $2000/year to developing country media outlets a figure the Guinean News Agency "urgently needs" as "it would solve many problems that the agency is facing" to millions of dollars, as in the case of Lebanese right-wing television station MTV. Confrontation The "neutralisation" and "containment" approaches are not the only techniques the Saudi Ministry is willing to employ. In cases where "containment" fails to produce the desired effect, the Kingdom moves on to confrontation. In one example, the Foreign Minister was following a Royal Decree dated 20 January 2010 to remove Irans new Arabic-language news network, Al-Alam, from the main Riyadh-based regional communications satellite operator, Arabsat. After the plan failed, Saud Al Faisal sought to "weaken its broadcast signal". The documents show concerns within the Saudi administration over the social upheavals of 2011, which became known in the international media as the "Arab Spring". The cables note with concern that after the fall of Mubarak, coverage of the upheavals in Egyptian media was "being driven by public opinion instead of driving public opinion". The Ministry resolved "to give financial support to influential media institutions in Tunisia", the birthplace of the Arab Spring. The cables reveal that the government employs a different approach for its own domestic media. There, a wave of the Royal hand is all that is required to adjust the output of state-controlled media. A complaint from former Lebanese Prime Minister and Saudi citizen Saad Hariri concerning articles critical of him in the Saudi-owned Al-Hayat and Asharq Al-Awsat newspapers prompted a directive to "stop these type of articles" from the Foreign Ministry. https://wikileaks.org/saudi-cables/buying-silence
  17. Who gets to make the "official" definition? The authorities or rednecks who fit it around their biases?
  18. Clearly an act of terror per FBI definition, and enabled by our liberal gun laws But hey rather than addressing the problems right here at home, let's spend gazillions on the mideast every year
  19. This ought to be good. Time to expose what those creeps have been up to WikiLeaks publishing Saudi diplomatic documents http://nypost.com/2015/06/19/wikileaks-publishing-saudi-diplomatic-documents/
  20. I wouldn't enjoy myself for that much. For one thing I'd want to make sure I finished everything out to get my money worth. No gimmes etc...round would take a long time Norman is a weanie. He kept going off how tiger was embarrassed after topping the 3 wood, didn't know where he was, etc etc. Truth be told it was Norman who would have fallen to pieces because he was insercure and image conscious. For most pros (especiallya mentally strong one like tiger) its just another poor shot
  21. Police on Thursday captured the racist madman who fatally shot nine black people at a historic South Carolina church while shouting “I have to do it!” and “You have to go!,” authorities and a survivor said.
  22. And then tops a 3 wood from fairway on 18. He plays a game with which I'm familiar
  23. This? TABGHA, Israel Israeli police say they have arrested 16 Jewish settler youths after a Catholic church near the Sea of Galilee was heavily damaged by an arson attack Thursday. A fire broke out at the Church of the Multiplication in the middle of the night, causing extensive damage to the inside and outside of the building, said Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. A passage from a Jewish prayer, calling for the elimination of idol worship, was found scrawled in red spray paint on a wall outside the church. http://nypost.com/2015/06/18/israeli-youths-arrested-after-arson-attack-on-catholic-church/
  24. just missed about a 2 footer to cap off a triple bogey confidence is a funny thing in golf, even a low level hack like me. at one time i played pretty decent, and then took a big gap backwards for which i have no explanation. But I can tell i wont get it back it either. seems mental more than physical
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