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J64TWB
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| Gybe doesn't know the first thing about weather or global warming. The snow in Denver is the exact same system that is bringing you 95 degree heat! Watch the weather channel dude.. Unprecedented moisture levels are flowing in from the gulf. It's a slow moving 4000 mile system. We are all connected DS. Learn something. |
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mac
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Nobody calls names like Trump--your buddy. As for nasty Ann, she's a provocateur for profit. She bailed because the college Republicans wouldn't pay her. We tolerate Westbrook. Ann could have spoken for free on the plaza, or when a suitable room would have been available. Of course you won't hear that from Fox.
The last defender of the British raj has quit calling me names. His BFF was Churchill--one of the architects of Gallipoli. The big fool said to push on. Churchill was a lush--and a famous (and clever) name caller. I guess he's forgotten about "The White Man's Burden." About the same era that the British arctic expedition lost every man. |
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coboardhead
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| mrgybe wrote: | | Spare a thought for Cobo. The global warming march in Denver had to be cancelled due to heavy snow. Hope he had his massive 4 wheel drive with him. |
Lol. I don't live anywhere near Denver! Six hours!
My Massive 4x4 is on a beach in Padre Islan where I have kited ninteen days in a row and my wife was blown off the water on a 4.1 three of the last four days! |
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coboardhead
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Now that we've satisfied Mrgybe's curiosity about where my 4x4 is..
The Gulf of Mexico set a record for the highest coldest temperature on record..73 degrees. The water is freakishly warm off the coast of Texas. Those are the numbers that matter.
Oh...and Brown Recluse spiders are now in Michigan! |
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MalibuGuru
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, 2 summers ago the water temperature in Malibu was 75 degrees. Today it was 52.....air temperature at noon was 86 degrees, and air temperature at sunset was 62. |
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mrgybe
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| Oh dear! The man from Berkeley, whose career pinnacle was supervising a handful of even lower level government workers at a grubby, polluted port facility, now dismisses one of the world's greatest statesmen as a fool and a lush while berating others for name calling. He can't help himself. |
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mrgybe
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| coboardhead wrote: | | LOL. I don't live anywhere near Denver! Six hours! |
Wait just a minute!! You laugh at the suggestion that you might have driven 6 hours to save the world from imminent destruction, yet you are more than happy to drive three times that distance to go............kiting!! Where are your priorities? It's a good job that 4x4 is powered by the solar panels on your roof. A gas powered vehicle would have churned out large mount of pollutants and made preaching on the topic quite difficult. |
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MalibuGuru
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| Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| mrgybe wrote: | | coboardhead wrote: | | LOL. I don't live anywhere near Denver! Six hours! |
Wait just a minute!! You laugh at the suggestion that you might have driven 6 hours to save the world from imminent destruction, yet you are more than happy to drive three times that distance to go............kiting!! Where are your priorities? It's a good job that 4x4 is powered by the solar panels on your roof. A gas powered vehicle would have churned out large mount of pollutants and made preaching on the topic quite difficult. |
Are you referring to Al Gore, who's carbon footprint is equal to 200 men? |
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mac
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Heroes with feet of clay. Churchill and Gallipoli:
| Quote: | As 1914 staggered to its bloody conclusion, the “Great War” dissolved into a horrific grind along the 500 battle-scarred miles of the Western Front. Britain and France had suffered nearly a million casualties in the war’s first four months alone, and the deadly stalemate in the trenches increasingly frustrated Britain’s 40-year-old First Lord of the Admiralty who asked the prime minister, “Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders?” That rising star of British politics, Winston Churchill, believed he had the solution for breaking the impasse—a second front.
Although the political head of the Royal Navy, the ambitious Churchill also fancied himself a military strategist. “I have it in me to be a successful soldier. I can visualize great movements and combinations,” he confided in a friend. The young minister proposed a bold stroke that would win the war. Abandoning his earlier plan to invade Germany from the Baltic Sea to the north, he now championed another proposal under consideration by the military to strike more than 1,000 miles to east. He proposed to thread his naval fleet through the needle of the Dardanelles, the narrow 38-mile strait that severed Europe and Asia in northwest Turkey, to seize Constantinople and gain control of the strategic waterways linking the Black Sea in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Churchill believed the invasion would give the British a clear sea route to their ally Russia and knock the fading Ottoman Empire, the “sick man of Europe” that had reluctantly joined the Central Powers in October 1914, out of the war, which would persuade one or all of the neutral states of Greece, Bulgaria and Romania to join the Allies.
Britain’s war cabinet backed the plan, which had been under consideration even before the Ottoman Empire joined the war. The first step would be an attack on the Gallipoli Peninsula on the northern side of the Dardanelles, an operation that Churchill, who now became the plan’s chief advocate, knew would be risky. “The price to be paid in taking Gallipoli would no doubt be heavy,” he wrote, “but there would be no more war with Turkey. A good army of 50,000 and sea-power—that is the end of the Turkish menace.”
The British War Office, however, refused to send as many troops as he wished, but Churchill sent in the fleet anyway. The attack on Gallipoli began on the morning of February 19, 1915, with long-range bombardment of the peninsula by British and French battleships. Despite initial success, the attack stalled as the weather grew worse and Allied minesweepers drew heavy fire. Under pressure from Churchill to continue the attack, the British naval commander in the region, Admiral Sackville Carden, suffered a nervous collapse and was replaced by Vice-Admiral John de Robeck. Days later on the morning of March 18, British and French battleships entered the straits and launched an attack. Again, the Allies had the upper hand in the initial hours until undetected mines sank three ships and severely damaged three others. With half of his fleet out of commission, de Robeck ordered a withdrawal. Churchill wanted his commander to press on, but de Robeck wanted to wait for army support forces, which were now being provided after all. As the fleet hesitated, it lost the advantage.
In the wake of the failed naval attack, the Allies launched a major land invasion of Gallipoli on April 25. The month-long delay allowed the Turks to rush reinforcements to the peninsula and boost their defenses, and the British, French and members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) could make little progress from their beachheads. The turquoise waters of the Aegean Sea turned crimson as the stiff Turkish resistance struck down the waves of Allied forces that washed ashore. The Battle of Gallipoli became a slaughter and quickly morphed into a stalemate just as bloody, just as pointless as that on the Western Front. In the first month after storming the peninsula, the Allies lost 45,000 men. The ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign lasted nine months before the evacuation of the last Allied troops in January 1916. Each side sustained 250,000 casualties with 46,000 Allied troops and 65,000 Turkish troops dead.
The invasion had been scuttled by incompetence and hesitancy by military commanders, but, fairly or unfairly, Churchill was the scapegoat. The Gallipoli disaster threw the government into crisis, and the Liberal prime minister was forced to bring the opposition Conservatives into a coalition government. As part of their agreement to share power, the Conservatives wanted Churchill, a renegade politician who had bolted their party a decade earlier, out from the Admiralty. In May 1915, Churchill was demoted to an obscure cabinet post. |
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mrgybe
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| Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 11:54 am Post subject: |
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| Everyone has seen the fat slob in the stands, swilling his popcorn and hot dogs down with yet another beer, while yelling at a wide receiver that he is absolutely useless because he just dropped a pass..........a player who has a 100 times the drive, determination and athletic ability of his corpulent critic. Little men with limited accomplishments often try to compensate for their shortcomings by weakly attempting to diminish those of immeasurably greater stature. See above for an example. |
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