Posts by Simon

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WHERE do I live? Some people call it COWTOWN

by Terry in

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where do i live?.

people say: cowtown.

i say: it ain't.. i've lived in fort worth all but ten of my seventy-five years.. nobody ever asked me why fort worth is called cow town.. i would guess it is self-evident.. how many of us who live in fort worth realize those two words are gleaming with history?.

Simon

We're in Calgary, also called "Cowtown" :)

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14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

by jojorabbit in

another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

Simon

Oh man, the police story keeps changing and it keeps getting worse and worse. Kids were calling 9/11 from inside the classroom while police loitered outside, not even going to get the key to get in...

Fucking unbelievable levels of bumbling incompetence. I want to see some firings and pensions cancelled. This is unforgivable.

Remember, when seconds count the police are only an hour and a half away. Pizza would have been delivered quicker!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61613177

Police made the "wrong decision" by failing to storm a classroom in Robb Elementary School as a gunman killed 19 children inside, the chief Texas safety official has said.

"If I thought it would help, I would apologise," Steven McCraw said during a heated press conference Friday.

He confirmed a 40 minute gap from the police unit's arrival to when they entered the classroom.

Pupils inside made multiple calls begging for police to come.

The delay in response, now confirmed in a new timeline offered by authorities, has raised even more questions about why 18-year-old Salvador Ramos was inside the school for so long before he was killed - not by local officers, but by a tactical unit led by US border agents.

The gunman crashed his car near the school at about 11:30 local time, Mr McCraw disclosed, and entered the school shortly after - but it was not until 12:51 that a tactical unit breached the door, entering and killing him.

The delay happened in part because the commanding officer on scene believed the situation was no longer one involving an "active shooter", he said.

The description is at odds with the disclosure that at least four emergency 911 calls were made from within the school - apparently from children barricaded inside the classroom where the gunman was firing - begging for police to come.

Mr McCraw confirmed that as many as 19 police officers had gathered outside the classroom but they made no effort to get inside.

They thought "no [more] kids were at risk" by then and "there was time" to get the classroom keys from the school janitor.

After the gunman was shot dead, police found as many as 1,657 rounds of ammunition in his possession.

They later ascertained he had forewarned of some of his actions in private messages to a Facebook friend.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

I'm like a puppy, wanting a pat on the head. Tell me I "did good"?

Erm, "good Vintage" (?)

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

But his personal life is none of my business.

It's not his personal life - he takes money off people based on a lie and he has no business whatsoever being near any CSA victim.

He's a bully and an abuser of women and its absolutely right to call him out and warn people.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

For reference:

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

Sorry, but WTF? Who has photos of the governing body in gilded frames on their desk?

It's. Beyond. Weird.

Even for a JW, but for an "anti-WTS activist"?

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Serena Williams thinks she is a JW LMAO

by jojorabbit in

i saw a post pop up on some click bait where serena williams saying she was praying for armageddon to come and that the jws have said we are living in critical times hard to deal with.this was her response to the texas school shooting.

another cult catch phrase.

i am sorry williams you aint no jw.

Simon

If more sisters were like this, I might have stayed

Really? That's one ugly woman IMO.

She also seems like an ugly personality (was it her that ruining someone's first grand-slam win?). If you watch F1, there are often celebs doing the grid walk and there seems to be a mix of some who are friendly, approachable, real humans and those who are ... well, arrogant entitled self-important pricks / bitches.

She seems like the latter.

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14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

by jojorabbit in

another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

Simon

Or go shoot up a grocery store. Or go shoot up a night club. Or go shoot into houses at random. Or go do some drive-by shootings. Or go shoot at a birthday party. Or . .

All places more likely to have someone else who could shoot them.

The aim should be to remove schools as the obvious soft target.

I'd rather have half a dozen adults shot than 20 kids, and the evidence is that they rarely shoot that many because people can and do shot back.

No infamy, no one remembers you, no incentive.

But a person advocating for gun rights while the bodies are still warm is perfectly acceptable and reasonable?

Again, it's not advocating for gun rights. It's being practical. You are simply not going to remove weapons from the US, so any solution that involves waving a magic wand to remove them is childish and unhelpful. You certainly don't get to be critical of people who are putting forward workable solutions and impugn their motives.

Start with the problem and goal:

You cannot remove the guns from society, ao assume that "bad guys" will get access to them
You want to prevent massacres of school-children who are a soft target

The only options are to protect them more, by making schools more secure and / or have someone there to make them less of a soft-target by letting them fire back.

You are assuming that if someone can't attack the soft-target of a school that they will go attack someplace else. Which means you ignore WHY they go shoot up a school, which takes us to the media - why did we see this shit-stain's photo? Sports media don't show pitch invaders because it removes one of the incentives for people doing it. They shouldn't be allowed to be irresponsible ... but then does anyone believe they don't really want things like this? They rub their hands 'cause it will be a ton of clicks and views.

Take it to an extreme: do people ever try to do mass shootings at police stations? If not, why not?

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Mark Toutjian International Gilead Child Molester...

by cyberjesus in

in the 80s there was an bethel elder in the mexico branch, he was graduated along with his wife ruth becerril from gilead school.

he was in charge of meps and the whole computer department... he then started had sex with a 14 year girl in his congregation in the city of texcoco mexico.... he was then df and kicked of bethel but his wife stayed.

he then moved to usa took the girl with him and married her and a couple of years later was re appointed an elder again.. i saw a news article that an elder ex bethelite computer consultant from concord ca with the same name was charged on 1999 by the fbi for having sex with a minor in texas.. both from the same city elders jw and computer consultants.... i wonder what happened with his case..

The classical gold standard.

Money became fiction, to be manipulated and devalued at the whims of politicians.

Now they can steal your wealth without the inconvenience of having to knock on your door.

https://www.gold.org/history-gold/the-classical-gold-standard#:~:text=The%20classical%20Gold%20Standard%20existed,specie%2Dbacked%20bank%20issue%20notes.