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by Burning Petard
Mon Mar 23, 2026 2:12 am
Forum: News & Suggestions
Topic: The Board Rules
Replies: 72
Views: 166621

Re: The Board Rules

Ray's birthday is soon. I will post a reminder on that date. With some kind of comment on tha ambience of his last address.

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by Burning Petard
Fri Mar 20, 2026 9:59 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up
Replies: 1508
Views: 246624

Re: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up

In the fall of 1972 I was working 12 hour shifts five days a week, from noon to midnight, with a 25 mile commute each way. Once I left the company parking lot at Glasgow, Delaware about 1am, headed for Rt 40 South to Maryland. Suddenly I saw the lights of the tolls both at a bridge in Perryville, Ma...
by Burning Petard
Thu Mar 19, 2026 7:02 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up
Replies: 1508
Views: 246624

Re: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up

IMNSHO, Mrs DJ Trump is incredible. I give her no credit for anything, beyond perhaps, being a human being.

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by Burning Petard
Thu Mar 19, 2026 6:58 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Ciboire à deux réservoirs, is EVERYONE a sexual predator?
Replies: 11
Views: 352

Re: Ciboire à deux réservoirs, is EVERYONE a sexual predator?

I moved to Delaware in 1972. I learned that here the legal age for a woman to get married was 14, with parental consent. I was told this had been recently changed from 12. In that kind of legal environment, I cannot imagine what 'statutory rape' might have been,. I did become friends with a woman be...
by Burning Petard
Wed Mar 18, 2026 9:42 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Ciboire à deux réservoirs, is EVERYONE a sexual predator?
Replies: 11
Views: 352

Re: Ciboire à deux réservoirs, is EVERYONE a sexual predator?

I have had training in how to train--both people and dogs. The commonality is that pain is a useful lever. But love is more efficient if one is looking for long-term results. If learning is defined as changed behavior, the student must be convinced that the pleasant or unpleasant experience is the r...
by Burning Petard
Wed Mar 18, 2026 9:11 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Stolen or Conquered Land
Replies: 10
Views: 387

Re: Stolen or Conquered Land

Thank you, MajGenl. Succinct and on point as usual.

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by Burning Petard
Wed Mar 18, 2026 11:59 am
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: What Kind of Fuel Am I?
Replies: 124
Views: 17854

Re: What Kind of Fuel Am I?

Costco at Christiana, DE is $3.29 this morning. it is just under 5mi from my home. I try to manage my trips so I buy fuel there while on my way to/from someplace else.

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by Burning Petard
Tue Mar 17, 2026 12:26 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Clown shoes for the clown show
Replies: 3
Views: 191

Re: Clown shoes for the clown show

I have a pair of those Florsheim's, after more than 20 years they still look good and actually fit properly. I paid $49 for them. They have lived in my closet, mostly untouched since I retired. I rarely wear them because I rarely wear a suit and tie any more. Sometimes for a funeral, but then I pref...
by Burning Petard
Tue Mar 17, 2026 12:16 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Beware the zombie torsos walking among us
Replies: 10
Views: 370

Re: Beware the zombie torsos walking among us

"I understand he's a navy seal," If by he you mean our Secretary of War, You are badly miss-informed. Hegseth served in the military but all Army. He began in the National Guard but did time with the 101 Airborne division. After time in the sandbox, he returned to Army National Guard/Reserves when h...
by Burning Petard
Mon Mar 16, 2026 1:18 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Beware the zombie torsos walking among us
Replies: 10
Views: 370

Re: Beware the zombie torsos walking among us

HL Menken must be proud of America. The CinC declares we might bomb again, just for fun. The Secretary of War affirms there is no 'Rules of Engagement;' and we will Give no Quarter, No Mercy,. This is all self confession of War Crimes Against Humanity, and Hegseth is in violation or our own military...
by Burning Petard
Sat Mar 14, 2026 11:41 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran
Replies: 85
Views: 2654

Re: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran

I agree that they are important questions. Let me take a crack at the 80 year question. I just finished reading a recent book called "Family of Spies" by Christine Kuehn. It is 'true' and about a German family with ties to the very highest leaders of the Nazi government and that family participation...
by Burning Petard
Sat Mar 14, 2026 2:47 pm
Forum: The Arts
Topic: Oscars 2026
Replies: 8
Views: 394

Re: Oscars 2026

Have not seen any of them. Based on remarks here, I went to Wikipedia to read about Eddington. I like a quote there from Brian Tallerico: Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying that the film was "not just about the divisiveness of 2020; it's designed...
by Burning Petard
Wed Mar 11, 2026 4:45 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran
Replies: 85
Views: 2654

Re: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran

I do believe American has been killing Palestinians, Kurds, Armenians, and many others, for decades. Please note that the last legally elected democratic government in Iran was deposed by America and the autocratic Shaw installed.

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by Burning Petard
Wed Mar 11, 2026 4:17 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up
Replies: 1508
Views: 246624

Re: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up

‘This cannot be sustainable’: The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, the CBO says" That puts the ballroom, the Trump Arch, right up there with the Trump Atlantic City Casino. Will the Yellowstone National Park be included in the bankruptcy sale? Sure glad the GOP is the party...
by Burning Petard
Fri Mar 06, 2026 3:50 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: They're stealing our jobs!!!!!
Replies: 5
Views: 200

Re: They're stealing our jobs!!!!!

Oh for the good-old days when Sugar Creek Missouri was the geographic center of Midwest Crystal Speed. The constant smell from the Standard Oil refinery in Sugar Creek covered up the smell of meth cooking and the only problem was the occasional clumsy chemist blowing up the dilapidated 20's former c...
by Burning Petard
Fri Mar 06, 2026 3:46 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran
Replies: 85
Views: 2654

Re: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran

Stop spread of Nuclear weapons? Why would one think the present USofA Commander in Chief can be trusted with them?

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by Burning Petard
Thu Mar 05, 2026 11:40 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Revisiting the standard time vs. daylight saving time debate
Replies: 5
Views: 251

Re: Revisiting the standard time vs. daylight saving time debate

That works for China, and the US military have been doing it for many decades--they call it Zulu Time. (the same number is called Greenwich time for civilians) Simultaneity for meetings is easier to arrange, and local time is whatever the locals find convenient. One adjusts to using two different re...
by Burning Petard
Thu Mar 05, 2026 10:54 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran
Replies: 85
Views: 2654

Re: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran

From my time as an enlisted man when officially we were not shooting at anybody, just 'preparing', I perceived there were two types who stayed and made a career of the military: Very stupid who recognized the formal procedures of the military organization gave them a security and a release from pers...
by Burning Petard
Thu Mar 05, 2026 1:14 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up
Replies: 1508
Views: 246624

Re: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up

Andy, could this 'memorial garden' been his graduation project as an apprentice of the Trump?

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by Burning Petard
Wed Mar 04, 2026 11:01 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran
Replies: 85
Views: 2654

Re: USA & Israel launch illegal war on Iran

Mr., Liberty, you need to do a little of your own research as to what fundamentalist christians have been doing at the US Air Force Academy since before the beginning of this century

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