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Favorite team:	US Army
Location:	Resident Ethicist
Biography:	Husband, Dad, Son, Brother, Grandfather ... lover, fighter, wild bull rider. Men wanna be me, women wanna bang me. La vita é bella, it really is friend.
Interests:	Gamecock Sports, hunting, fishing, shooting, rescuing dogs, reloading, physics (big & little stuff), Jazz, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, William Price Fox. Admirer of Tucker Carlson, Camille Paglia and Thomas Sowell.
Occupation:	I oversee the moral/ethical aspects of the SECr empire and share my observations with Chicken regularly when he requests my input. The official name of my Department is The Department of Optics & Cerebral Design.
Number of Posts:	40977
Registered on:	7/12/2012
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re: The "What did you do last week" email has already been sent

Posted by scrooster on 2/22/25 at 11:24 pm

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If they work as hard as you say they do. Then they shouldn't have trouble filling out the form. Just because you work for the Government doesn't make you a patriot.

Elon posted this just a few minutes ago ...

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re: All fed employees will receive email requesting to understand what they got done last week

Posted by scrooster on 2/22/25 at 11:23 pm

You beat me to it ... he posted that less than 5 mins ago.

re: If you were performing at a high level

Posted by scrooster on 2/22/25 at 11:22 pm

Elon posted about this just a few minutes ago ...

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re: Director of FBI just named Acting Director of ATF

Posted by scrooster on 2/22/25 at 11:15 pm

There are no Cons to this, only Pros.

Patel is going to neuter the ATF. They overstepped their boundaries under Biden and SCOTUS' slap down of Chevron Deference should have cooled their jets ... but it didn't.

Now comes the thunder. They've had it coming for a lonnnnnnnng time.

When they executed that guy in Little Rock who worked for Bill and Hillary, they pre-destined their own fate.

re: R/ Politics always good for a laugh… call for LGBQTBHF to start a Civil War

Posted by scrooster on 2/22/25 at 11:11 pm

There are also a lot of calls on X for an armed uprising by the libtards.

I hope they try it.

In the meantime, the replies to this one assclown have been fun to read ...

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re: Popeye McCain v. Greenwald.

Posted by scrooster on 2/22/25 at 11:07 pm

Eyepatch McCain is an assclown.

Greenwald is absolutely 100% correct.

This one is over ... unless Europe and we put boots on the ground and drive Russia out of the Donbass, which we could do at great cost, but that's not gonna happen under this administration.

Keith Kellogg made that abundantly clear to Zelensky before his staff and he flew out of there this morning.

Crenshaw is a joke ... he's an embarrassment in all of the circles in which he claims to be respected. No one is talking to him ... he's been declared persona non grata and that is a fact. People are being told not to return his calls, not to acknowledge his existence, to completely ignore him.

re: Col. Allen West on the firing of CQ Brown

Posted by scrooster on 2/22/25 at 10:54 pm

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He moved from FL to TX and ran for TX gov. Not sure if he plans to return to politics.

He's not going to run for office again.

He's filled a niche in the fundraising power broker pundit RNC side of things, especially on the speaker's circuit.

I'll see him again at Bragg in May for our reunion where they've asked the surviving members of our old unit to march in Division Review.

re: Col. Allen West on the firing of CQ Brown

Posted by scrooster on 2/22/25 at 10:49 pm

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Narax
Allen West is legendary.

He and I served together in Italy back in the early 80s, in Vicenza, with the 1/509th and 4/325 Airborne Battalion Combat Teams under Nuke'm Needham.

While I was FDC, Allen was Bn RSO ... we ran a lot of fire missions together, jumped out of a lot of aircraft together.

He is a legend for holding an M9 to the head of an Al Qaeda POS and promising to blow his fricking raghead off if he didn't talk.

re: South Carolina trolls LSU hoops player with deceased father’s song

Posted by scrooster on 1/25/25 at 9:32 pm

That's it. I'm done. Y'all make shite up as you go. I'm too old for this, this is wrong on so many levels. This is as false narrative as it gets.

I'm done. You kiddies have a good life, God bless you, but grow the frick up.

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re: South Carolina trolls LSU hoops player with deceased father’s song

Posted by scrooster on 1/25/25 at 9:28 pm

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That's flaujaes father

Who is her father? The guy from Savannah?

So a volunteer video and sound man working for Jack in central control is a fan of her father and he plays something in honor of him and she calls it trolling?

This is some old school Mizzou DDS from back in the day right here. This is pathological shite. Some of y'all LSU people need fricking help.

I heard all about this at the game today and y'all are making this out to be something it was not.

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re: South Carolina trolls LSU hoops player with deceased father’s song

Posted by scrooster on 1/25/25 at 9:23 pm

LSU fans ... some of y'all are really getting tiresome.

It's always the refs, or BHam plotting, or a tarp, or the announcers, or another coach or a fricking guy in the sound and video room of the CLA .... it never fricking ends.

This is really getting pathetic.

This is not the LSU fan base from the old days. Something has happened to y'all.

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re: South Carolina trolls LSU hoops player with deceased father’s song

Posted by scrooster on 1/25/25 at 9:20 pm

It's already been looked into.

It wasn't trolling .... it was an homage to some guy named camouflage from Savannah.

Who is it claiming it was trolling?

I swear this whatever the frick generation it is are a bunch of pussies. It's really tiring.

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re: Are these newly released MLK files? Pretty wild.

Posted by scrooster on 1/24/25 at 2:55 pm

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We need another Malcom X movie. I feel like he has gotten a bad wrap and should not have..........His teachings, if read carefully, are to not trust the leftist.

Malcom X's legacy has been badly tarnished by his conversation to Islam (and the terrorism associated with Islam since his assassination) and his friendship with and membership in The Nation of Islam. Ironically, allegedly, it was probably Farrakhan who ordered his assassination with the approval of Elijah Muhammad.

Malcom X's FBI file is another one that should be released along with JFK's, RFK's and MLK's, imho.

re: Are these newly released MLK files? Pretty wild.

Posted by scrooster on 1/24/25 at 2:36 pm

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Thomas Sowell is a great man, an incredible lecturer and writer ... but not a great orator.

Most underrated human over the last 90 years.

Absolutely 100% agree. I've read all of his books, they're permanent fixtures in my library. And I personally traveled to attend three of his lectures back in the day.

There is an interesting parallel between Sowell and Frank Lucas, the notorious drug king pin portrayed in the movie American Gangster.

Both were born in NC, not far from one another, in 1930. Both ended up in Harlem .... but the two chose different paths.

Lucas had a movie made about him and he was glorified by the left. He died in 2019.

Sowell is one of the greatest thinkers and most prolific writers of our time. He shunned the democratic party and their socialist rantings and went on to become one of the most staunchly black Conservatives we've known.

If you ask most black Americans who Lucas is, they will tell you in a second. If you ask them who Sowell is, they've not a clue.

That says a lot about where we are today.

With that said ... Denzel has played Lucas and Malcom X. I'd like to see him do a biopic on Thomas Sowell.

:cheers:

re: Are these newly released MLK files? Pretty wild.

Posted by scrooster on 1/24/25 at 2:22 pm

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A little while ago you told me you'd never heard the quote. Now I give it to you and you tell me it's often misquoted.

The quote I gave is Churchill's quote, VERBATIM.

Quit wasting my time. Your thoughts on this subject are of ZERO interest to me. I responded to you out of courtesy, nothing more. Run along

Actually my exact words were, "Yours is an adage that I've never heard before," ... because it's not an adage, (as you claimed it to be). Yours was a play on words, a misquoted quote of Churchill's that when presented as you did has two entirely different meanings. And yes, Churchill's words are often misquoted as you did. I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt after you were forced to make the correction, not as a courtesy but in defense of your "there's an adage" claim.

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There's an adage that great men are seldom good men. I think that was the case with King. A great man, but not a good man

Followed-up with ...

The saying is from Winston Churchill. I believe the actual quote is "Great and good are seldom the same man."

You started out saying it was an adage, then you doubled-down that it was simply a "saying," and when called on it you finally admitted that you had made a play on words using an actual quote of Churchill's. Taken completely out of context to defend MLK's actions.

Five people in this thread, including myself, questioned your claim ... your play on words, knowing full well the context in which Churchill uttered those words. Anyone who has ever read a book on Churchill is aware of the quote, the context and how it was applied by Churchill. Churchill uttered the words to bolster his claim that, in war things are done as a means to justify an end. Bombing, mass destruction, Dresden ... this was the question he was answering.

He was not referring to virtue and morals. He was not making excuses for infidelity, pedophilia, gratuitous and perverted sexual practices while claiming to be a morally superior man of God.

Therefore, you not only misquoted Churchill, you misrepresented his intent when applying his words to MLK.

How was King, according to you, not a good man but rather a great man? How so? Your claim is sophmoric.

Oh, and before I "run along" as you ordered me to do young man, allow me to first offer you a lesson on the words you chose to misuse.

adage - noun
An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use.
An old saying, which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim.
A saying often in metaphorical form that typically embodies a common observation.

quote - intransitive verb
To repeat or copy (words from a source such as a book), usually with acknowledgment of the source.
To repeat or copy the words of (a person or a book or other source).
To cite or refer to specifically and in context for illustration or proof (of words spoken by historical figures).

No further replies from you are necessary young man.

Regards

re: Did you know that Mexico is building a competitor to the Panama canal?

Posted by scrooster on 1/24/25 at 1:10 pm

Nicaragua has the best chance to build a superior canal there at the lake Managua pass.

We should help do it before China makes their move.

re: Are these newly released MLK files? Pretty wild.

Posted by scrooster on 1/24/25 at 1:08 pm

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OTOH, he was the spiritual and emotional leader of the America Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s, which was one of the most transformative movements in American history. I believe that would make him a great man.

Did you know that Barrack Obama listed to King's speeches over and over again and endeavored to emulate his style and delivery?

Why do I make that point?

Because, just like Mao, Hitler, Lennin, et al., with exaggerated deliveries meant to rile emotional crowds (and there were others before them, we can rest assured of that - they were simply not recorded) .... King was a communicator. King could present the words and ideas given to him by others.

I think that makes him an influential communicator .... but not a great man. We tend to confuse the two.

Billy Graham, Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill were great communicators AND great men.

Ironically, Churchill's words are often misquoted.

Trump is not a great communicator. He's nasally and monotone and he has no voice inflection skills ... but his actions speak far more than does his words,which imho makes him a great man. He does what he says and no one tells him what to say.

King was a puppet of the left, the communists, socialists, marxists ... the democrats. That doesn't make him a great man imho. Neither was he a good man. He was, at best, an average man and an above average orator.

Some also say that was Slick Willie's special talent.

Thomas Sowell is a great man, an incredible lecturer and writer ... but not a great orator.

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are coattail-hangers of MLK ... neither are either good men or great men. And therein lies the frailty of the human condition when everything is about race and religion.