Why?
Is it that every time there is a tv show or a story on tv news someone feels they have to tell everyone on GB about it? Do you think we all live back in the mountains and come out once a week just to check GB for news? I have five tv's and I get two news papers. I read Readers Digest and Time among others. I don't need old news! A lot of us knew about the things you are reporting before you were hatched!
GIVE IT A BREAK!!!
GIVE IT A BREAK!!!
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paboogers post about alias's and New Member Urassn9 made me wonder about this. We use WWW boards such as GB to communicate with fellow humans from around the world about all manner of topics. Which I find interesting, informative and often humorous. We can debate, share likes, dislikes and opinions on any subject matter we choose and never see each other.
These boards allow us to participate, in a removed sense, in one of the great social experiments, understanding different views and opinions. Mind you I did not say adopting different views and opinions. But it is possible that through this understanding process you can choose to change your position, views and opinions. After all, Is this not what we hope to do with the undecided or anti-gun person? Healthy debate is good for all, it puts a light on your position for inspection and is testimony to it's strength.
What I don't understand is why anyone would choose to get a second posting name so they can behave in a different manner.
If you have one shot...Accu-Shot Website0 -
Do the batteries in the thermostat die on the coldest day of the year in the middle of the night? 0 -
Does anyone really give a rats tookus?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3728030.stm
Don't "F" with kitty!! 0 -
why do they have brail on the key pad of a drive up atm? [:D] 0 -
I would like to know why people have to have 100 some odd pics in their signature?
Click on a post, start to read it, finish one, scroll halfway down the flippin page to get to the next one cause someone decided to throw in 50 pics of whatever in their signature..
Geeeeeezzzzzz...
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I was just looking at some brass that I fired with my Savage 111 .30-06, and I noticed that the firing pin impact point isn't exactly in the same place on any of the 5 casings. Why? 0 -
At the price why would Anyone buy one of these, cool yes, but sure is a waste of money.
http://www.airsoftatlanta.com/Echo-1-M134-Airsoft-Minigun-Package-p/48925.htm0 -
That is my only question. Why. 0 -
Did this guy get unlocked? He seems to be more worked up than before.
p3meltdown.
This is his style.
quote:It would seem that there are at least 2 other options, end the debate as a loser. Continue debating while losing.0 -
Why was my signature edited out of my profile? 0 -
Iam on vacation and other than a few problems with a glitch here, I am having fun. The problem is, I have seen a few guns I wanted but instead bought a child's rocker. I walked into a gun shop and found where the ammo is, even some 5mm. Yet I bought a 4 foot raggedy Ann doll. I think grand kids are are pain. I will tell them when I get home. Don 0 -
Why do men's hearts beat quicker, go weak in the knees, get dry throats and think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing!
BECAUSE SHE SMELLS LIKE A NEW TRUCK !!!0 -
Why is it on mornings I can sleep in, Fanci wont let me?...She bites my arm...not the "tougher part", but the part above my elbow....pull the covers up over and tuck them in and she gets under them...She will not leave me alone until I get up....
I get up and feed her/them, then lay on the couch or crawl back into bed and it starts all over again...or Lexi decides to lay on my chest and touch my face with her paw to get me to pet her...I really dont need a 10-11 pound cat on my chest...nooooooo thanks...gets heavy after a bit..
I could sleep till noon today, but ohhhhhh nooo, the flippin cats wont let me...0 -
Life is stressful enough, why add to it??????
Her Father Is a Phony SEAL
By Mark Divine
I looked at the email request from Christine. If I had a dime for every email I answered about the SEALs, I could have retired long ago.
Since launching the website NavySEALs.com in 1996, I have served as an unofficial Internet recruiter for the Navy, helping hundreds of young men gain information and insight through the process of obtaining orders to BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) training. The training is a six-month program, from which prospective SEALs must graduate (only one in five do).
Other inquiries come from students looking for assistance with school research projects, or to settle a bet. Those requests usually read, "My buddy and I argued over which is the toughest Special Operations forces. I said SEALs. He said Delta. Which is it?"
But this email was different. As I read, I had a sinking feeling. This was not the first time I've been asked this question, but it doesn't get any easier. Christine wrote: "Hi, Mr. Divine. My name is Christine and my father was a Navy SEAL in Vietnam. He does not say much about his SEAL days, except that he did a lot of top secret missions that he can't talk about. I am very proud of my dad, and would like to find out some information about what he did with the SEALs. Can you help me?"
Sounds simple enough. Dad is a Hero to most kids. And a dad who was a SEAL is downright legendary to those who learn about the origins of the once secret Navy commando force and their tremendous record of success in Vietnam and beyond.
The sinking feeling was from a problem about which Christine is unaware but something I know well. My concern is about the impact the truth will have on Christine's view of her father that caused me to search my heart before responding.
You see, Christine's Dad was never a SEAL. He is a fraud. A Fake. A Phony. And a loser for lying to his precious daughter.
To ensure I was right, I sent her father's name to AuthentiSEAL, which tracks Phony SEAL sightings. Retired SEAL Steve Robinson, who wrote No Guts, No Glory, the book on SEAL phonies (which details many of the approximately 10,000 fake SEALs the group has identified to date) confirmed my initial suspicion. The list is definitive and includes every man who has graduated from BUD/S since the beginning of time, before they were called SEALs, but were known as Naval Combat Demolition Units and Underwater Demolition Teams.
Christine's dad was not on the list. No mistake had been made by AuthentiSEAL. He was not part of some super-secret SEAL group working so deeply undercover that the Navy destroyed the records to protect his identity. Put simply, he was a fraud.
When she learns the truth, Christine's reaction will certainly be denial. Then anger, then acceptance and, hopefully, forgiveness, if he comes clean. If he perpetuates the lie, he will do even more damage to his family and drive a wedge of mistrust a mile wide between them.
Why did Christine's dad lie to her about something he did during Vietnam, claiming to be an elite Navy Commando?
I have long wonder why so many need to create falsehoods about experiences so easily debunked - Medal of Honor recipients, Green Berets, Rangers, Marine Recon, PhDs - then perpetuate the lie for years and even defend them when called to account?
I don't have the answer, but phony claimants anger veterans who paid the real price of admission. Particularly brutal are the consequences to relationships where trust is imperative, as with Christine and the other children, wives, friends and employers of phonies.
I pondered whether to write back to Christine and what to say for several days. Part of me wanted to tell her the truth. After all, I owe that to my real teammates. But a humane part of me held back. Why ruin Christine's image of her father, who was trying to impress her by being something he was not? Maybe he just did not think enough of his little girl. So I sat on it.
Respond or Delete? What is more important, the truth or Christine? Damn him!
About a week later, I ran into an old swim buddy from SEAL Team THREE at the SEAL training area. His sister-in-law was planning to marry a "SEAL" but her Mom was suspicious about the SEAL's story. My swim buddy checked the "wall of shame" via NavySEALs.com (where AuthentiSEAL posts verified fake SEALs). He was not there. However, a check of the databases confirmed the mother's hunch. He was a fake. The wedding is off, another relationship trashed by a lie. Phony SEAL number 10,001 identified.
Perhaps in this media sound bite, feel-good world people think that saying something makes it true. When a politician says he did not support the Iraq War, we accept that as truth. Yet a records check shows that he supported the war a few months ago.
Truth no longer seems relevant in our society. More important is perception, which is accepted as reality. People say they are SEALs, so they must be SEALs. Why would they lie?
The phony is not doing any harm. Who cares anyhow, right? Wrong! Christine cares. My swim buddy's sister-in-law cares. Real veterans care. I care. Do you care?
Mark Divine is founder and editor of NavySEALs.com, a website dedicated to military and Special Operations enthusiasts, particularly the Navy SEAL community. He is a veteran of the Navy SEALs, having served at SEAL Team THREE, SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team ONE and Naval Special Warfare Group ONE. He has been recalled to active duty for a year to support the War on Terror. He can be reached at mark@navyseals.com.
NSDQ!
"Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert; but that I never deserted her." -President Abraham Lincoln0 -
Don't they make 4-ply toilet paper? Just think of how much we could save if we didn't have to fold it over itself once or twice. 0 -
Why do members engage trolls?...[xx(] 0 -
Why isnt E-bay or GB selling Glock airsoft guns anymore? The only one GB has is Glock 17L, and the training ones. Does anyone know why? 0 -
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A western Kentucky man convicted of raping and murdering an honor student had his death sentence overturned by a federal judge who said Tuesday that justice demands a new hearing even though there's no doubt about the brutality of the crime.
U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell sent 34-year-old Robert Keith Woodall's case back to state court for re-sentencing. Russell found that the state judge improperly instructed the jury before sentencing and denied Woodall a chance to object to a black juror being dismissed.
"The crimes Woodall admitted to committing are revolting and despicable," Russell wrote in a 92-page ruling. "There is also no question that the victim and her family deserve justice. However, ours is a system of law that is concerned with justice for both the victim and the accused."
Woodall in 1998 pleaded guilty to killing 16-year-old Sarah Hansen after abducting her from a convenience store in Greenville in western Kentucky. A jury sentenced him to death for the murder plea and life in prison for kidnapping and rape.
Hansen, a member of the National Honor Society, vanished on Jan. 25, 1997, after going to the store to rent a movie with plans to return home and watch it with her boyfriend. About two hours later, police began searching for Hansen before finding the minivan she was driving at Luzerne Lake, about a mile and a half from the store.
Officers followed a 500-foot long blood trail from the van to the lake, where they found Hansen's unclothed body floating and her throat slashed. DNA, fingerprints and footprints led to Woodall. His case was later moved to Caldwell County because of pretrial publicity.
Russell's decision rapped the state court judge for failing to properly instruct the jurors on how to consider Woodall's decision not to testify at the sentencing hearing. Russell also found that the court should have held a hearing after prosecutors used a challenge to excuse the lone black person remaining in the jury pool.
Under federal law, it is impermissible to eliminate minorities from a jury pool, regardless of the race of the defendant.
Allison Gardner Martin, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Attorney General's Office, said prosecutors have 30 days to decide whether to appeal the ruling.
"There is no question a bout Robert Keith Woodall's guilt in this case," Martin said.
Ralph Vick, the commonwealth attorney whose office prosecuted Woodall, also declined comment.
Woodall's attorney, David Harshaw, said the ruling wasn't a surprise. Depending upon appeals, it could be some time before Woodall returns to court for resentencing, he said.
"We could be talking a period of years," Harshaw said. "It's difficult to say."
Someone tell me why the death penalty should be overturned simply because it was an all white jury. The POS admitted to killing the girl...hell there was a 500 foot long blood trail from the van to the lake. He should have been taken straight to the chamber from the court room.0 -
Why would somebody list a reserve auction starting a $.01 and then add a comment like this?
" NOTE TO BIDDERS. IF YOU BID 1 CENT OR SOME RIDICULOUS LOW BID YOU WILL BE BLOCKED FROM BIDDING ON THIS FIREARM "
I think I'm going to bid $.01 on all his auctions just to make a point!0 -
Why kick a guy when he's down?[V] 0 -
Why?
1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?
2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?
4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
6. Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
7. Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
8. Why do 'tug' boats push their barges?
9. Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?
10. Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?
11. Why is it call "after dark" when it really is "after light" ?
12. Doesn't 'expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?
13. Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wise guy' opposites?
14. Why do 'overlook and 'oversee' mean opposite things?
15. Why is phonics not spelled the way it sounds?
16. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?
17. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
18. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
19. If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?
20. Why is bra singular and panties plural?
21. Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?
22. Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?
23. How come abbreviated is such a long word?
24. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?
25. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
26. Why do they call it a TV set, when you only get one?
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Does Coke taste so good with a splash o' Bourbon in it? 0 -
If you are a slobbering idiot & enter a cage or an enclosure containing a Tiger, Lion, Black Mamba, Gorilla. or any number of dangerous animals & get killed or injured. Why should the animal be killed for doing what it is programmed to do since birth? This even applies to pit bulls & other dogs. I just don't understand the reasoning for doing this. 0 -
What would the advantages to this conversion
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=192117563
put it on watch list just to see if anybody bids0 -
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Okay, we have a politics forum, so why arent all the Obama/pres/whatever posts over there?...
And why can a mod ask a question about an auction, when no one else can?...
Yes I am being a bi***...deal with it..0 -
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/29/iraq-war-veteran-wife-assaulted-outside-florida-theater-teen-mob/#ixzz19X4fxoxi
Marine Home From Iraq War, Wife Allegedly Assaulted Outside Florida Theater by Teen Mob
How is it that a citizen of this great Nation is assaulted at a damn movie and it's a misdemeanor charge for the damn assailants, but add a LEO to the equation and all the sudden the same assaulters are now facing a felony?
So, average citizens are trying to enjoy a movie and are terrorized by these idiots and "oh well" it's a minor incident, but add a man who straps on his gear each day knowing he'll face idiots such as this, and its a felony? What gives?
This makes me mad on sooooo many levels.
Your thoughts?
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Why do so many people around here get into a snit over minor crap that really doesn't have one bit of bearing on them or their lives? What a bunch of wags! I think some of you must have really boring lives and your only excitement is conjured drama on the forum. Who gives a rat's ass about who was looking at photos and how he did it?
The only reason I even read some of this nonsense is that it makes me feel better about my pitiful, pathetic life.0 -
Why do all the people Ages 10-20 want to be gangsters[?] It is sickening! Being bad is good, being good is bad. It's like real role models got thrown out the door. Rap is the main music, Whitch is the worst. Pants are at hanging down. Skirts are getting smaller(I would not be complaning about this part, except the girls wearing them are only 15 years old. Dose this bother anyone else? 0
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