Play Nice Random Chat Thread V

[Val Keating]

Base or salt?

I’m guessing salt. Doesn’t the salt have to be removed for it to be base?

 

[Snake_Baker]

I’m guessing salt. Doesn’t the salt have to be removed for it to be base?

In simple terms, yes. Generally.

 

[Val Keating]

That's quite morbid tbh.

The bear probably had the best time of its life........and then died. Have you ever seen other animals eat mushrooms and trip out? That shits funny. They do it all the time. Iirc Jaguars like eat mushrooms and trip out. Deer’s do the same. I’m sure there’s many examples.

Morbid is the kids that stumbled across a load of dropped coke, they were killed, their bodies placed on railway tracks and the authorities said they were killed by a train but the autopsies showed otherwise

 

[Val Keating]

In simple terms, yes. Generally.

Let’s not have an educational on how to make crack lol.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Let’s not have an educational on how to make crack lol.

Why not, I'm sure we all need the extra cash. I'm sure our ASIO watchers will help us out...

 

[ferball]

Let’s not have an educational on how to make crack lol.

Eat too much and don't buy new pants.

 

[Snake_Baker]

The bear probably had the best time of its life........and then died. Have you ever seen other animals eat mushrooms and trip out? That shits funny. They do it all the time. Iirc Jaguars like eat mushrooms and trip out. Deer’s do the same. I’m sure there’s many examples.

Morbid is the kids that stumbled across a load of dropped coke, they were killed, their bodies placed on railway tracks and the authorities said they were killed by a train but the autopsies showed otherwise

I doubt it. The adrenaline rush would have been very intense very quickly, and then the internal carnage would have set in.

At least I suspect so, as a mammal.

 

[Val Keating]

The bear probably had the best time of its life........and then died. Have you ever seen other animals eat mushrooms and trip out? That shits funny. They do it all the time. Iirc Jaguars like eat mushrooms and trip out. Deer’s do the same. I’m sure there’s many examples.

Morbid is the kids that stumbled across a load of dropped coke, they were killed, their bodies placed on railway tracks and the authorities said they were killed by a train but the autopsies showed otherwise

Deep Inside the Clintonian Reich: Mena Arkansas Drugs, Money, and Murder - Ether Zone

Tucked away in the western part of Arkansas is a little town known as Mena. A town of 5,400 people that harbored the airport for one of the busiest drug smuggling in operations in the world. When a C-123K military cargo plane crashed in Nicaragua on October 5, 1986 with weapons and CIA...

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MURDER AND COVER UP​

On August 23,1987 two boys were found dead on a railroad tracks near Mena. The bodies were Kevin Ives, 17 years old and his friend, Don Henry, 16 years old. Their deaths at the time were ruled accidental by Clinton-appointed state medical examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak. The presumption was, that the boys fell asleep on the tracks and the train ran over them.What initially appeared to be a grossly incompetent investigation was actually an orchestrated cover-up. Residents reported small, low-flying airplanes coming in at slow speeds over the tracks in the middle of the night with their lights off just prior to revving up and flying away. Linda Ives, Kevin’s mother became suspicious of the boys deaths with all of these rumors. After fighting the Arkansas justice system for several years she won exhumation and re-autopsy. An out-of-state examiner said the cause of death was clear: murder by beating and stabbing before they were placed on the railroad tracks. Malak was exposed as an incompetent fool, yet Governor Bill Clinton supported him, in spite of his being a political liability.

The murder case was assigned to police investigator John Brown. From the get go, the case file was in shambles. Key crime scene photographs were missing. The entire list of any evidence was gone. It also appeared that no one from 1987 to 1993 had interviewed anyone of any significance in the case. John Brown’s investigation was shut down and he resigned, but not before the following pieces could be put together.

Apparently, the boys were deer hunting that night. They had no idea that the tracks were used by Mena pilots as a site for dropping off drugs and money, and that a drop had gone missing three nights previously, causing panic at Mena. The concern was not the missing $400,000, but the missing transmitter that was in the case with the money. If someone found this, it would be traceable right back to Mena. In a classic case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Kevin and Don stumbled right into a police protected drug drop site, where Law enforcement officials and drug smugglers were waiting to see who might show up. The boys were chased down and taken to another location. At that point they were beaten and stabbed. Then there bodies were placed on the track in hopes that all evidence of the murder would be distorted by the train mangling the bodies.

A US Senate subcommittee in 1989 called the available evidence about Mena sufficient for an indictment on money laundering charges. But the feds scraped a five year probe of Mena and interfered in local investigations The state police were taken off the case. Clinton refused a request from one of his own prosecutors to pursue the matter any further.

In spite of the evidence, every investigator who has tried to expose the crimes of Mena has been professionally destroyed. After six investigations, no one to date has been indicted for the train murders or any other crime that has occurred at Mena.

 

[Groucho]

The Brearley Letter

April 13, 2021

Dear Fellow Brearley Parents,

Our family recently made the decision not to reenroll our daughter at Brearley for the 2021-22 school year. She has been at Brearley for seven years, beginning in kindergarten. In short, we no longer believe that Brearley’s administration and Board of Trustees have any of our children’s best interests at heart. Moreover, we no longer have confidence that our daughter will receive the quality of education necessary to further her development into a critically thinking, responsible, enlightened, and civic minded adult. I write to you, as a fellow parent, to share our reasons for leaving the Brearley community but also to urge you to act before the damage to the school, to its community, and to your own child's education is irreparable.

It cannot be stated strongly enough that Brearley’s obsession with race must stop. It should be abundantly clear to any thinking parent that Brearley has completely lost its way. The administration and the Board of Trustees have displayed a cowardly and appalling lack of leadership by appeasing an anti-intellectual, illiberal mob, and then allowing the school to be captured by that same mob. What follows are my own personal views on Brearley's antiracism initiatives, but these are just a handful of the criticisms that I know other parents have expressed.

I object to the view that I should be judged by the color of my skin. I cannot tolerate a school that not only judges my daughter by the color of her skin, but encourages and instructs her to prejudge others by theirs. By viewing every element of education, every aspect of history, and every facet of society through the lens of skin color and race, we are desecrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and utterly violating the movement for which such civil rights leaders believed, fought, and died.

I object to the charge of systemic racism in this country, and at our school. Systemic racism, properly understood, is segregated schools and separate lunch counters. It is the interning of Japanese and the exterminating of Jews. Systemic racism is unequivocally not a small number of isolated incidences over a period of decades. Ask any girl, of any race, if they have ever experienced insults from friends, have ever felt slighted by teachers or have ever suffered the occasional injustice from a school at which they have spent up to 13 years of their life, and you are bound to hear grievances, some petty, some not. We have not had systemic racism against Blacks in this country since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, a period of more than 50 years. To state otherwise is a flat-out misrepresentation of our country's history and adds no understanding to any of today's societal issues. If anything, longstanding and widespread policies such as affirmative action, point in precisely the opposite direction.

I object to a definition of systemic racism, apparently supported by Brearley, that any educational, professional, or societal outcome where Blacks are underrepresented is prima facie evidence of the aforementioned systemic racism, or of white supremacy and oppression. Facile and unsupported beliefs such as these are the polar opposite to the intellectual and scientific truth for which Brearley claims to stand. Furthermore, I call bullshit on Brearley's oft-stated assertion that the school welcomes and encourages the truly difficult and uncomfortable conversations regarding race and the roots of racial discrepancies.

I object to the idea that Blacks are unable to succeed in this country without aid from government or from whites. Brearley, by adopting critical race theory, is advocating the abhorrent viewpoint that Blacks should forever be regarded as helpless victims, and are incapable of success regardless of their skills, talents, or hard work. What Brearley is teaching our children is precisely the true and correct definition of racism.

I object to mandatory anti-racism training for parents, especially when presented by the rent-seeking charlatans of Pollyanna. These sessions, in both their content and delivery, are so sophomoric and simplistic, so unsophisticated and inane, that I would be embarrassed if they were taught to Brearley kindergarteners. They are an insult to parents and unbecoming of any educational institution, let alone one of Brearley's caliber.

I object to Brearley’s vacuous, inappropriate, and fanatical use of words such as “equity,” “diversity” and “inclusiveness.” If Brearley’s administration was truly concerned about so-called “equity,” it would be discussing the cessation of admissions preferences for legacies, siblings, and those families with especially deep pockets. If the administration was genuinely serious about “diversity,” it would not insist on the indoctrination of its students, and their families, to a single mindset, most reminiscent of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Instead, the school would foster an environment of intellectual openness and freedom of thought. And if Brearley really cared about “inclusiveness,” the school would return to the concepts encapsulated in the motto “One Brearley,” instead of teaching the extraordinarily divisive idea that there are only, and always, two groups in this country: victims and oppressors.

l object to Brearley’s advocacy for groups and movements such as Black Lives Matter, a Marxist, anti family, heterophobic, anti-Asian and anti-Semitic organization that neither speaks for the majority of the Black community in this country, nor in any way, shape or form, represents their best interests.

I object to, as we have been told time and time again over the past year, that the school’s first priority is the safety of our children. For goodness sake, Brearley is a school, not a hospital! The number one priority of a school has always been, and always will be, education. Brearley’s misguided priorities exemplify both the safety culture and “cover-your-ass” culture that together have proved so toxic to our society and have so damaged the mental health and resiliency of two generations of children, and counting.

I object to the gutting of the history, civics, and classical literature curriculums. I object to the censorship of books that have been taught for generations because they contain dated language potentially offensive to the thin-skinned and hypersensitive (something that has already happened in my daughter's 4th grade class). I object to the lowering of standards for the admission of students and for the hiring of teachers. I object to the erosion of rigor in classwork and the escalation of grade inflation. Any parent with eyes open can foresee these inevitabilities should antiracism initiatives be allowed to persist.

We have today in our country, from both political parties, and at all levels of government, the most unwise and unvirtuous leaders in our nation’s history. Schools like Brearley are supposed to be the training grounds for those leaders. Our nation will not survive a generation of leadership even more poorly educated than we have now, nor will we survive a generation of students taught to hate its own country and despise its history.

Lastly, I object, with as strong a sentiment as possible, that Brearley has begun to teach what to think, instead of how to think. I object that the school is now fostering an environment where our daughters, and our daughters’ teachers, are afraid to speak their minds in class for fear of “consequences.” I object that Brearley is trying to usurp the role of parents in teaching morality, and bullying parents to adopt that false morality at home. I object that Brearley is fostering a divisive community where families of different races, which until recently were part of the same community, are now segregated into two. These are the reasons why we can no longer send our daughter to Brearley.

Over the past several months, I have personally spoken to many Brearley parents as well as parents of children at peer institutions. It is abundantly clear that the majority of parents believe that Brearley’s antiracism policies are misguided, divisive, counterproductive and cancerous. Many believe, as I do, that these policies will ultimately destroy what was until recently, a wonderful educational institution. But as I am sure will come as no surprise to you, given the insidious cancel culture that has of late permeated our society, most parents are too fearful to speak up.

But speak up you must. There is strength in numbers and I assure you, the numbers are there. Contact the administration and the Board of Trustees and demand an end to the destructive and anti-intellectual claptrap known as antiracism. And if changes are not forthcoming then demand new leadership. For the sake of our community, our city, our country and most of all, our children, silence is no longer an option.

Respectfully,

Andrew Gutmann

Sounds like a cool school

 

[Snake_Baker]

Let’s not have an educational on how to make crack lol.

1) It would require little in the way of education when you see some of the folks who have supposedly done it.
2) It is probably illegal to do so.
3) Crack is so "passe".

 

[Del191229]

If you continue to go to "the state", then you're just going to end up with the same monster we have seen many times before.

When it gets to a certain point, the best intentions in the world are eventually decimated by collectivism, and it's virtually impossible to apply the handbrake to it once it gathers momentum.

Collective action and "the state" are not the same thing though.

It was collective action that brought down the Communist regime in East Germany for example.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Collective action and "the state" are not the same thing though.

If it's a mob of people telling others what to do via the mechanism of force, then it ultimately becomes "the state", however you want to brand it.

 

[Del191229]

You are going to honestly suggest that contemporary Australian society is systematically racist right now?

You mean the sharp spike in COVID deaths and recent escalation in cases in India due to poor policy had nothing to do with it all...

That was literally not my point. My point was the difference between how Indians coming to Australia are being treated v how Americans/Brits were treated in the same situation.

I've noticed you do this retreat from the debate thing when it gets heated/doesn't go your way.

I'll respect that mate, won't reply to your posts.

 

[Del191229]

1) It would require little in the way of education when you see some of the folks who have supposedly done it.
2) It is probably illegal to do so.
3) Crack is so "passe".

Having seen it done in some less than ... laboratory ... settings, I agree.

I do wonder if it will ever become a thing here though. Probably only serious economic downturn would be it economically viable.

 

[Del191229]

If it's a mob of people telling others what to do via the mechanism of force, then it ultimately becomes "the state", however you want to brand it.

Have to agree to disagree there.

 

[Val Keating]

Having seen it done in some less than ... laboratory ... settings, I agree.

I do wonder if it will ever become a thing here though. Probably only serious economic downturn would be it economically viable.

I’m reliably informed most of our coke is rubbish anyway.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Having seen it done in some less than ... laboratory ... settings, I agree.

I do wonder if it will ever become a thing here though. Probably only serious economic downturn would be it economically viable.

My view is that it caught on somewhat in the U.S. due to the community constraints that go with L.A. gang neighbourhoods which was then conveyed in popular culture. For example, In the southern states the drug of choice appears to be meth.

Crack cocaine is just a more bioavailable version of the cocaine that is snorted, and both cocaine and meth work via the same physiological processes, with meth having a longer half life in the body. I read somewhere that European drug users prefer straight amphetamine.

 

[Del191229]

I’m reliably informed most of our coke is rubbish anyway.

Nah, not in my experience.

In the UK now they actually sell it at different grades.

Like 40 quid bags for not great stuff that you feel but basically keeps you drinking and dancing and talking shit.

Then 100 quid bags that are the real good shit, top quality gear.

Ours tends to be closer to the 100 quid a bag level.

 

[Del191229]

On another note, I find it hilarious that this mob poses as being in favour of "freedom" and that people fall for their shit.

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[Snake_Baker]

..........and Trump was supposed to be a monster!

 

[Val Keating]

Nah, not in my experience.

In the UK now they actually sell it at different grades.

Like 40 quid bags for not great stuff that you feel but basically keeps you drinking and dancing and talking sh*t.

Then 100 quid bags that are the real good sh*t, top quality gear.

Ours tends to be closer to the 100 quid a bag level.

There’s a lot of weak coke here, and yeah people pay more for it. A lot of it is stepped on with caffeine so it seems stronger but it’s still shit. A good connect can get decent stuff...those days are over for me anyway . The real shame is what’s happened to the googs, they’re all shithouse these days...apparently

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

..........and Trump was supposed to be a monster!

Huh? You were talking him up. Promoting his tweets and his supporters tweets.

You even went on a pissy little rant about Trump's critics lacking masculinity or some shit you vomited up after binging on news corp for hours.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Huh? You were talking him up. Promoting his tweets and his supporters tweets.

You even went on a pissy little rant about Trump's critics lacking masculinity or some sh*t you vomited up after binging on news corp for hours.

No mate, I was being contrary and exposing the hypocrisy of the alternative.

You're just so far down the rabbit hole these days that you can't tell the difference any longer.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Buy my anti-woke, anti-corporate book...on Amazon.com.

They've tried to cancel it...by stocking it at all major retailers.