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Jose Garcia
8 years ago

How do you figure the Saiga AK-74, allegedly the weapon used by the shooter, survive the blast relatively undamaged, scope intact and in place.

SlowBro
SlowBro
8 years ago
Reply to  Jose Garcia

Isn’t it interesting that the media isn’t making this out to be the gun’s fault when it’s an old SKS, yet it’s all about the gun when it’s an MCX. Hm.

SlowBro
SlowBro
8 years ago

I don’t know, just my point is the differing media reaction.

Tom
Tom
8 years ago

Yeah I remember seeing a video of grenade test seeing if your odds are better above ground vs in the water. The dummy that they put in the water pool suffered tremendous shock from an underwater explosion. The surface dummy with surface explosion was better off.

Caddy
8 years ago

Good logical analysis of the Dallas incident. A thought that occured to me is that the shooter probably murdered a lot of native freedom fighters in Iraq as part of his army ‘mission’ there. That probably damaged him mentelly, in his anger at the government that sent to Iraq he made the unfortunate Dallas police officers the object of his anger. I wouldn’t have cared if he had attacked the Wall Street bankers or their puppet politicians but I think he did not have the intelligence to see who his real enemies were, instead he murdered hard working police officers. May they rest in peace.

VW Caddy
8 years ago

Yes it probably is that simple in this case.
Some of the media over this side of the Atlantic are telling us that he was working for the Russians ! That I didn’t believe for one moment. I actually dumped the TV in a recycling centre in the past and wont be replacing it, so in away I am not as up to date on these events as before. However my mind is more free and I am actually getting loads of tasks done while wearing an ear piece to an old Samsung Gallaxy 3 phone while listening to various Podcasts, burning off more calories too. I hadn’t realized until I changed over how unproductive watching TV is. Many people don’t realize that one can burn off a lot of callories just pottering around in the garden verses sitting in front of a TV.

Alex Shrugged
Alex Shrugged
8 years ago

Regarding labels, my granddaughter is black, but she doesn’t like the label. She finds it odd that because of her skin color that people assume that she is sympathetic to people of the same skin color. She now calls herself “white”. If some white woman can identify herself as black and run the NAACP then my granddaughter can identify as white.

She is also Jewish.

Alex Shrugged
Alex Shrugged
8 years ago

Regarding the definition of deist, Penn Jillete calls himself a deist and he is one of many that I respect, but I’ve noticed that the list of what a deist believes will vary. Apparently, it is a range of beliefs and non-beliefs. The unifying theme seems to be that it is practical.

Jack talked about G-d as a non-corporal entity. (I’m paraphrasing.)

Jews traditionally do not (or should not) believe in a corporal G-d. Thus God is neither male nor female. When “the hand of G-d” reaches out to save someone, it is a figure of speech. A Jew should not think that G-d has an actual hand. You get the idea. This is one of the major elements that separate Jews and Christians. I’ve noticed that many Christians (though not all) believe in Jesus as G-d. Since Jesus had real hands and feet, etc, that violates the whole Jewish idea that G-d doesn’t have real hands and feet. The disagreement won’t start a war, but it creates a separation that is difficult to bridge.

FYI, I am an Orthodox Jew.

Tina Paxton
Tina Paxton
8 years ago
Reply to  Alex Shrugged

Just to clarify: the Trinitarian Christian belief is that God the Father and God the Holy Spirit are spirits…no bodies. God the Son (Jesus) upon his incarnation took on a physical form. He mains that form (with a glorified body) now and forever. How that actually works within the Godhead we don’t fully understand but will one day.

Alex Shrugged
Alex Shrugged
8 years ago

I thank Jack for picking up on the idea that government will often tax the people for a specific purpose, such as paying for a road, but after the road is paid for, the government continues to tax us. I’m still paying the 1936 tax for the electrification of rural communities! As I drive through the countryside, I see lights in all the major areas. That job is done, but the government has seen fit to bring broadband Internet to rural communities. 100 years from now, my great, great, great grand children will be paying to build backyard nuclear power plants in rural communities.

It never ends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act

Alex Shrugged
Alex Shrugged
8 years ago

Regarding segregation… it was President Woodrow Wilson who segregated the military and many other government agencies. Not Calvin Coolidge.

“segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.” — President Woodrow Wilson (I think around 1918).

“Whether in the military service, or in the vast mobilization of industrial resources which the war required, the Negro did his part precisely as did the white man. He drew no color line when patriotism made its call upon him. He gave precisely as his white fellow citizens gave, to the limit of resources and abilities, to help the general cause. Thus the American Negro established his right to the gratitude and appreciation which the Nation has been glad to accord.” — President Calvin Coolidge, 1924.

josh in GA
josh in GA
8 years ago
Reply to  Alex Shrugged

Right on Alex! We need more Calvin Coolidge’s today and less Woodrow Wilson’s!

Caddy
8 years ago

Hi Jack, Alex, my dentist is an Irish Jew, an excellent dentist, totally dedicated to his clients like no other service I have ever met, I have been with him over 20 years. He once mentioned to me on the subject of diet that Jews do not eat any creature which had its skeleton outside its body ‘exo-skeleton’, for example a lobster, however he did not know the exact reason why this came about. Can anyone here tell me the origion of this, was it for health reasons?

VW Caddy
8 years ago

Makes sense thanks

Micky
Micky
8 years ago
Reply to  Caddy

Jews I think follow the rules of Leviticus. Lobster, shrimp, crabs, etc are considered scavenger animals are considered to be unclean.

Alex Shrugged
Alex Shrugged
8 years ago
Reply to  Caddy

FYI, the Bible gives no reason for following kashrut (the laws of being kosher). G-d simply lists the criteria for identifying an animal that is kosher. Split hooves and chews its cud. Various birds but not the really big ones, and fish with fins and scales. Do not mix meat and milk. That is about it.

The rabbis have added to the list or more closely defined it. The rules only apply to Jews, however. For non-Jews, the rule is… don’t eat anything that is still alive.

SlowBro
SlowBro
8 years ago
Reply to  Alex Shrugged

Even so I see lots and lots of logic for the kosher list. Though I am not Jewish I follow it. I find it to be an apologetic for the authenticity of the Bible as well; Thousands of years (for example) before science demonstrated that shellfish clean up polluted waters and suggested that it’d be wise not to ingest these poisons, an ancient nomadic people possessed this knowledge, knowledge that I have great doubts they could have understood on their own. I just don’t see that possible unless the Creator of the earth gave them that knowledge. I marvel at Permaculture, and I marvel even more at the God who invented the mechanisms for it.

Dave
Dave
8 years ago

Instead of putting your hands on the wheel and wallet on the dash, take out your carry permit and license out and hold them out the window with both palms facing the officer. This will instantly put him at ease. I have never gotten a ticket when doing this. Also relax and talk to them like they are regular people without all the sir’s and I’m sorry’s, and don’t try to bull shit them. Treat them like they are people and they will almost always treat you like a person instead of a suspect or a criminal.

K.
K.
8 years ago

Great show and loved the video/audio on labels.

I have a question about buying eggs locally. What do I need to know and are there any questions I ask (washing?) before working with someone who has posted on a buy/sell Facebook group? I’d also appreciate more information on how to source local meat, etc. Our family has been conventional with groceries and I’d like to learn more about the balance of buying organic, buying local and doing so for the best values. Any existing shows on that? Thanks.

Candy
Candy
8 years ago

The discussion on government schools is interesting. I’m living in Oklahoma and the schools that native Americans were forced to attend were referred to as government schools. They may have dressed them up now, but the program is still the same: indoctrination, compliance, and destruction of individual thinking and initiative.

K.
K.
8 years ago

Could I please get a link to the video/audio message from this episode? Thanks again.

SlowBro
SlowBro
8 years ago

She must mean the Facebook video about labels

Freddie Lee
Freddie Lee
8 years ago
Les
Les
8 years ago

Neal Boortz was calling them government schools a LONG time ago. I was listening to him in the 90’s and he was using that term.

here’s a quote from 2009 –

They’re government schools, not public schools. They’re owned by the government: located on government property, staffed by government employees and funded with money the government seizes from taxpayers.

And, like most things government, they are complete disasters. Notice, please, I referred to government schools as disasters, not failures. The sad fact is these government schools have performed exactly the way our politicians and industrialists planned for them to perform 100 years ago.

They manage to educate our children only to the point that most become subservient government subjects and good employees and not much more. ( If you want to learn the truth about government schools, just read “The Underground History of American Education” by John Taylor Gatto.)

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/opinion/neal-boortz-government-idiocy-in-action-at-schools/nQZPG/

Gary Eitel
Gary Eitel
8 years ago

Your facts about the teacher are a little off. He did not have a conceal carry permit. the officer stopped them because he fit the description of a person that did an armed robbery the day before and his girlfriend was actually carrying the same carton of cigarettes that were taken in the robbery. Not saying he did the robbery but we have to wait for the FACTS!!!

josh in GA
josh in GA
8 years ago
Reply to  Gary Eitel

Exactly! It was a BOLO case, which I’ve just learned means “Be On The Lookout”. Was NOT a taillight malfunction at all. Man, we are quick to judge, in this case, it’s that cop being slimed, again. Similar to Darren Wilson the cop in the “Hands up, Don’t shoot” fraud.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/07/12/higher-resolution-images-show-philando-castile-handgun-at-scene-of-shooting/

This guy, Sundance, at The Conservative Treehouse is simply a researching maniac when it comes to this stuff.

josh in GA
josh in GA
8 years ago

Indeed, but more than just randomly pulling a black guy over for a “broken taillight” as the media would have us believe.

Seems to me this is what profiling SHOULD be about. Dude, looked similar to perp in an armed robbery. is this the perp? pull him over and find out. Just cause he said something ab his nose, oh well, you look pretty doggone similar to the perp at large.

Was it not profiling the dude in the cammo pants, gas mask AND body armor? Of course it was. Did it make sense? of course.

SlowBro
SlowBro
8 years ago

“Porter Stansberry is the kind of guy who should have a cheese grater inserted into his anus and tied to a building that you set on fire so he has to run and jerk it out as he runs.”

Why don’t you really tell us how you feel, Jack? 😉

Paul (statesofmind)
Paul (statesofmind)
8 years ago

“Learn to be Still”… still working on it, but I will get there. Thanks for playing the request Jack!

SlowBro
SlowBro
8 years ago

Also, I tried making an Android phone GPS/dash cam a few weeks ago. Worked beautifully until the phone overheated and shut down. It works as long as the phone stays cool (e.g. car is running and A/C is flowing), but in Florida summer that’s not working for us. Perhaps it’s because my 12V outlets do not switch off with the key? They are always on, and the phone might get too hot?

Anyway today I bought a standard GPS off eBay and may be looking into a dash cam. They sell them on eBay for less than $10. Perhaps some phones can handle heat better than mine, I dunno. Here’s one such dash cam:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-4-LCD-1080P-Car-Auto-DVR-Vehicle-Dash-Camera-Video-Recorder-Night-Vision-Cam-/252456966160?hash=item3ac79b9810:g:QaUAAOSwzJ5XfdTe

Needs a microSD card but those are cheap.

Love what you said about racism. The end of racism takes a BIG step forward when more people realize we are ALL sinners who need a Savior. “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” ~Paul

Al
Al
8 years ago
Reply to  SlowBro

Hey, I’m the guy that wrote in about the dash cam. I agree that the phone can get hot while recording, but so far mine has yet to shut off. And my 12v outlet runs off the key, so it wouldn’t record constantly like your setup. Another reason mine wouldn’t get as hot is because it’s always on airplane mode.
I do like your cam though, and the price is right to give it a try. I’d like to install a second cam facing backward as I’ve nearly been rear ended twice by drunk drivers coming home at night.
I’ll second your recommendation of Bambuser. I have it on my main phone (not dash cam). I’ve only played with it a few times, but it seemed to work ok.

SlowBro
SlowBro
8 years ago
Reply to  Al

Yah mine’s in airplane mode, perhaps the difference is mine just doesn’t cut off and is always running even in a hot car. Or a difference in make/model? Mine is an LG Ultimate II. Also mine runs a GPS app so that’s always running, and the GPS antenna is always running. These things may make the difference.

I got tired of messing around with it so I bought a dedicated GPS yesterday, one that’s built for heat. Thinking about buying the cam but haven’t got it yet.

Oh and for phone mounts, check the local flea market. Mine is fab and cost me $4.

SlowBro
SlowBro
8 years ago

Oh and you mentioned recording and uploading. A good app for that is Bambuser. You can kick off the recording then lock your phone. As long as you’ve got a signal it’ll stream and upload to the cloud. They can throw your phone in the river but it’s still saved the data safely. It uploads to the Bambuser site and you can specify that the recordings be private, for your eyes only.

Trad Cat
Trad Cat
8 years ago

What no comments good/bad on the cops taking away this bad guy’s right to a trial by killing him when they could have waited him out and at the same time making sure that not a person existed where could get a shot off at them. Put the cops in APC’s and remove all other persons from with downtown Dallas if necessary (which I know would not be necessary) and wait him out even if it took days.

SlowBro
SlowBro
8 years ago

I see your logic Jack but how does that work with the 5th Amendment? Go easy on me as I’m not into law at all, just asking 🙂

“No person shall be (..) deprived of life (..) without due process of law…”

Trad Cat
Trad Cat
8 years ago

Min 39+- Spot on Jack.

Carol
Carol
8 years ago

I might be talking out of my ass, but couldn’t they have used a flash bang to stun him or one of those sound machines to disorient him?

Ron
Ron
8 years ago

So, agents of the government used a Remote device to deliver an explosive payload to a threat. why not just use a Hellfire from a predator drone?what is the real difference between the two? In my opinion this is a terrifying precedent. don’t get me wrong… This guy needed to take a dirt nap, but I can’t think of any other time that the government has bombed American citizens on American soil. if they feel they can do this in that circumstance, what is to hold them back in the next? In an attack where there’s a guy with a gun at least have a chance… But I don’t have a chance against the government bombing American citizens.

Tina Paxton
Tina Paxton
8 years ago

Jack, I have a question for you. You talked about a 3rd term for Obama and I agree that that scenario isn’t going to happen. I have heard another version bit am not sure of its feasibility: let’s say there is widespread chaos such that it is “necessary” to declare nationwide martial law. In such a situation, would that prevent the elections and a new prez until ML was ended? It does seem like various cities are being “tested” for volatility to that or some other end. If not to prevent the elections…do you have a theory on why cities seem to be being “tested” for pushbutton issues and ease of flare up? Or am I reading too much into the events of the past year?

And a quick note: I saw a picture of UN jeeps on a cargo truck heading to Charleston SC. The person didn’t catch that they were heading toward a harbor not from it. I think logic says those were going to a ship to head somewhere else. But that is the type of thing conspiracies are made of.

Tina Paxton
Tina Paxton
8 years ago

Sorry to have bothered you with a sincere question. I thought just maybe you could answer about martial law but you are too busy being a smartass. One reason I stopped being a member of the support brigade.

Tina Paxton
8 years ago
Reply to  Tina Paxton

You need to learn to read, Jack. I wasn’t saying the Blue Helmets were coming. I was commenting that someone was suggesting such since they saw UN Jeeps on a cargo truck heading to Charleston, SC. Charleston is a HARBOR –those jeeps are heading somewhere else. Likely built here for use in other countries. I was pointing out the person didn’t connect the direction they were heading. You assumed because you didn’t like my first comment that my second was “equally stupid”. Neither are stupid. You may disagree but as they say “opinions are like assholes, everyone as one.”

Alex Shrugged
Alex Shrugged
8 years ago

Regarding third terms, I heard this same rumor after President Bill Clinton’s two terms in office. It seems that as a people, we still find it incredible that such a transition of power can take place, so we tend to believe in such rumors.

Power-grabbing is the norm, but it’s not going to happen with President Obama… and even if it was, what would we do about it? We would do the same thing we are doing now… preparing for the most likely disaster, and the next most like disaster and so forth. This disaster is fairly low on the list, right after preparing for Neal Boortz to retire from radio.

What? He already retired??!!

Thanks, Obama.

🙂

joshinga
joshinga
8 years ago

Could not agree more with Jack’s assessment about looking within to change. Best thing about giving up drinking was going to AA and learning that I control me, noone else does. If I want to be angry, pissed, etc. it’s on me. If I want to be happy, compassionate, loving it’s on me too. It’s a constant fight of course.

“we fight against evil
we fight against sin
our battle’s not outward
our battle’s within”
-flatfoot 56 brotherhood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hewehdywdaA