That's just it.
In the world as we know it, and as we don't, Diplomacy has always failed.
Otherwise there would have never been violence to ........(*ahem*, for lack of any other term), solve the issue.
No matter which side thinks they were right.
Just my almost half a nickle.
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"We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we've got to stop this."
-- Rev. Al Sharpton
Gee Al, You play for the Rutger's woman's basketball team now?
Anti-U.S. cleric calls on supporters to fight Americans, not each other
look you stupid fuck, that is the whole idea. If you fucking idiots would stop fighting each other, then we could leave.
just some observations from Soup.
-- Rev. Al Sharpton
Gee Al, You play for the Rutger's woman's basketball team now?
Anti-U.S. cleric calls on supporters to fight Americans, not each other
look you stupid fuck, that is the whole idea. If you fucking idiots would stop fighting each other, then we could leave.
just some observations from Soup.
Happy 2015!
Thousands of anti-U.S. protesters march Monday in the holy Shiite city of Najaf at the urging of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
now I am not the smartest guy alive, but does this not mean all of the insurgents have gathered in one spot to protest our presence? now I am just spittballing here, but if maybe someone, say George Bush, picked up the phone and called hmm maybe an Airforce base, and than say maybe put a couple of daisy cutters onto a B52, fly said B52 to Najaf... you get where I am going with this?? wars over bring the troops home...
now I am not the smartest guy alive, but does this not mean all of the insurgents have gathered in one spot to protest our presence? now I am just spittballing here, but if maybe someone, say George Bush, picked up the phone and called hmm maybe an Airforce base, and than say maybe put a couple of daisy cutters onto a B52, fly said B52 to Najaf... you get where I am going with this?? wars over bring the troops home...
Happy 2015!
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I'm with you 100% on that one, buddy!Soup4Rush wrote:
Anti-U.S. cleric calls on supporters to fight Americans, not each other
look you stupid fuck, that is the whole idea. If you fucking idiots would stop fighting each other, then we could leave.
just some observations from Soup.
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Heh heh heh heh...........................heh. 
And some sad news.............................
Ex-KISS Guitarist Dies
Mon Apr 9, 8:44 AM
He didn't have the onstage theatrics of Ace Frehley or the fret fireworks of Vinnie Vincent, but Mark St. John was more than a foot solder in the KISS Army. The guitarist, who followed Frehley and Vincent in the legendary band's early 1980s lineup, died Thursday from an apparent brain hemorrhage. He was 51.
St. John, who's real name was Mark Leslie Norton, was the band's third lead guitarist, taking over for Vincent after he was fired by band leaders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley following a tour in March 1984.
Originally a studio session player and guitar teacher, St. John participated in the recording of KISS' 1984 album, Animalize, generally considered to be the band's best album during their unmasked period in the '80s.
St. John's stint was short-lived, however. After playing three live shows and appearing in the video for "Heaven's on Fire," the musician was diagnosed with Reactive arthritis, aka Reiter's Syndrome, during rehearsals for a world tour. The condition caused his hands and arms to swell.
Supreme Court KISSes Vincent Goodbye
KISS Army Rocks Hall
Gene Simmons Settles Up
E! Online In December 1984, Simmons and Stanley replaced St. John with Bruce Kulick, who remained in the KISS roster through the rest of the decade.
St. John is the second former KISS member to die of brain hemorrhage. Eric Carr, who replaced drummer Peter Criss for a stretch, died on Nov. 24, 1991 (the same day as Queen singer Freddie Mercury) after suffering two cerebral hemorrhages.
Born on Feb. 7, 1956 in Hollywood, California, St. John spent his childhood and teen years in the SoCal city of Garden Grove, where his interests ran more toward jockdom than rock 'n' roll.
"I played all sports, in fact I played sports before I got into music, especially basketball. I mean I tried all sports but basketball is what I excelled in," he told fanzine KISS Strike.
In 1972, during his sophomore year of high school, he took up the instrument that would change the direction of his life, grew his hair out, and joined a band.
"I remember watching television and seeing the Beatles and the Rolling Stones on The Ed Sullivan Show," St. John once told KISS Force in an interview. "They didn't have tubas, they had guitars and everyone was going crazy and that put a spark in my mind. The guitar is rock 'n' roll. That's what it's all about...the guitar is what's happening."
He taught guitar and played in a cover band called Front Page, before getting the call to join what at that time was one of the biggest rock acts in the world.
While his tenure with KISS was short, so was his bout with arthritis. St. John eventually formed his own metal band, White Tiger, in 1985 with younger bro Michael on bass and former Black Sabbath singer David Donato on vocals. The outfit released an independent album, which sold a tepid 50,000 copies.
St. John continued to collaborate with various musicians in the studio and onstage, including Criss, with whom he shopped a demo. The guitarist also appeared at KISS conventions and even surfaced in a music video for David Hasselhoff.
His most recent solo effort was a 2003 instrumental album Magic Bullet Theory.
St. John is survived by his brother Michael and a younger sister. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Being the KISS fan I am, I am saddened by this.
And some sad news.............................
Ex-KISS Guitarist Dies
Mon Apr 9, 8:44 AM
He didn't have the onstage theatrics of Ace Frehley or the fret fireworks of Vinnie Vincent, but Mark St. John was more than a foot solder in the KISS Army. The guitarist, who followed Frehley and Vincent in the legendary band's early 1980s lineup, died Thursday from an apparent brain hemorrhage. He was 51.
St. John, who's real name was Mark Leslie Norton, was the band's third lead guitarist, taking over for Vincent after he was fired by band leaders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley following a tour in March 1984.
Originally a studio session player and guitar teacher, St. John participated in the recording of KISS' 1984 album, Animalize, generally considered to be the band's best album during their unmasked period in the '80s.
St. John's stint was short-lived, however. After playing three live shows and appearing in the video for "Heaven's on Fire," the musician was diagnosed with Reactive arthritis, aka Reiter's Syndrome, during rehearsals for a world tour. The condition caused his hands and arms to swell.
Supreme Court KISSes Vincent Goodbye
KISS Army Rocks Hall
Gene Simmons Settles Up
E! Online In December 1984, Simmons and Stanley replaced St. John with Bruce Kulick, who remained in the KISS roster through the rest of the decade.
St. John is the second former KISS member to die of brain hemorrhage. Eric Carr, who replaced drummer Peter Criss for a stretch, died on Nov. 24, 1991 (the same day as Queen singer Freddie Mercury) after suffering two cerebral hemorrhages.
Born on Feb. 7, 1956 in Hollywood, California, St. John spent his childhood and teen years in the SoCal city of Garden Grove, where his interests ran more toward jockdom than rock 'n' roll.
"I played all sports, in fact I played sports before I got into music, especially basketball. I mean I tried all sports but basketball is what I excelled in," he told fanzine KISS Strike.
In 1972, during his sophomore year of high school, he took up the instrument that would change the direction of his life, grew his hair out, and joined a band.
"I remember watching television and seeing the Beatles and the Rolling Stones on The Ed Sullivan Show," St. John once told KISS Force in an interview. "They didn't have tubas, they had guitars and everyone was going crazy and that put a spark in my mind. The guitar is rock 'n' roll. That's what it's all about...the guitar is what's happening."
He taught guitar and played in a cover band called Front Page, before getting the call to join what at that time was one of the biggest rock acts in the world.
While his tenure with KISS was short, so was his bout with arthritis. St. John eventually formed his own metal band, White Tiger, in 1985 with younger bro Michael on bass and former Black Sabbath singer David Donato on vocals. The outfit released an independent album, which sold a tepid 50,000 copies.
St. John continued to collaborate with various musicians in the studio and onstage, including Criss, with whom he shopped a demo. The guitarist also appeared at KISS conventions and even surfaced in a music video for David Hasselhoff.
His most recent solo effort was a 2003 instrumental album Magic Bullet Theory.
St. John is survived by his brother Michael and a younger sister. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Being the KISS fan I am, I am saddened by this.
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Albanians... does that mean they all had pale skin and pink eyes? They should have been pretty easy for the FBI to spot.FORT DIX, N.J. - May 8, 2007 - Six ethnic Albanians have been arrested in a plot to storm the U.S. Army's Fort Dix installation in Burlington County and attack soldiers.
Five of the suspects were arrested in Cherry Hill.
They will be arraigned later today in federal court. Officials say it will happen in Camden.
ABC News is reporting that Fort Dix was selected because one of the suspects, a delivery driver for a local pizza joint, had unfettered access to the base.
Investigators say the suspects planned to use automatic weapons to storm the base and kill solders. The men were lured into a secret meeting to purchase AK-47s from an arms dealer, who was secretly cooperating with the FBI.
Officials say the suspects worked on a number of targets, including the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Fort Monmouth in Eatontown, and several Coast Guard stations.
Federal agents made the arrests when the suspects zeroed in on Fort Dix.
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Corrales dead in motorcycle accident
LAS VEGAS ? Diego Corrales, a former world
champion boxer who scored one of the most
memorable knockouts in boxing history, died
Monday in a three-vehicle accident near his
Las Vegas home.
Corrales was driving a 2007 Suzuki 1000
motorcycle, traveling northbound on Fort Apache
Road in the southwest part of the city, when it
inexplicably struck the back of a 1997 Honda
Accord, Las Vegas police spokesman Sgt. Tracy
McDonald said.
McDonald said the motorcycle careened into the
Southbound lane and, at some point, he was
tossed off the bike.
A 2004 Mercedes-Benz traveling in the
Southbound lane was unable to brake in time.
McDonald said the driver, who was not identified,
"was unable to avoid striking the motorcycle and
possibly the operator of the motorcycle also."
"Diego Corrales lived an 'X Games lifestyle,' "
his promoter, Gary Shaw said. "He was a true
warrior. He did everything hard and fast. He loved
anything to the extreme. He was the kind of guy
in the ring you never had to worry about quitting.
I don't know how many times he would say,
'They'll have to kill me first.' "
Corrales' wife, Michelle, who is seven months
pregnant, was on the scene and identified the
body shortly after 11 p.m. PT. The accident occurred
at approximately 7:30 p.m. McDonald said there
was no outward evidence of drugs or alcohol
involved.
He could not say how fast the motorcycle was
traveling.
"There is still a lot of evidence to go through,"
McDonald said.
Corrales, who was 40-5 and held world
championships in both the junior lightweight
and lightweight divisions, was the victor in one
of the most storied bouts in the sport's history.
On May 7, 2005, he and Jose Luis Castillo
engaged in a toe-to-toe slugfest for nine rounds
at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Twice Castillo
knocked down Corrales in the 10th round and
appeared on the verge of knocking him out.
But Corrales arose after the second knockout
and fought back with a fury, and he wound up
stopping Castillo in what would become the 2005
Fight-of-the-Year. It also would be his last victory.
"No one who ever saw that fight will ever forget
it," Shaw said. "There weren't that many people
in the arena that night, but I know there are
hundreds of thousands of people who now say they
were there because that was one of those nights.
He belongs in the Hall of Fame based on that fight alone."
In a June 2, 2006, story in the Las Vegas
Review-Journal, Corrales spoke of his love of extreme
sports. He told a story of jumping from a plane at
14,000 feet, snowboarding on rocky terrain and
scuba diving with a school of sharks.
He said he liked the rush he got from those types of sports.
"I'm only young once, and unless someone hasn't
told me something yet, I only get to live once,"
Corrales told the Review-Journal. "If I couldn't do
this stuff now, stuff I always wanted to do, I would
never get a chance to do it."
The father of five children, Corrales struggled
through the last part of his life. He had financial
difficulties and used part of a signing bonus he had
received from Golden Boy Promotions to pay back
taxes he owed.
However, Golden Boy was seeking the money back
because it turned out he was not free to sign with
the company and still was under contract to Shaw.
Corrales had signed a legal document promising to
repay the money.
The knockout win over Castillo turned out to be the
last of his career. He was knocked out in the fourth
round of the Oct. 8, 2005, rematch with Castillo, a
bout marked by a controversy when Castillo failed
to make the lightweight division limit of 135 pounds.
Corrales agreed to fight at 147 pounds so as not to
disappoint fans who had purchased tickets. But
Castillo then failed to make weight for a planned
June 3, 2006, rubber match, and that bout was
canceled.
Corrales then didn't make weight for an Oct. 7, 2006
bout with Joel Casamayor and wound up losing his
title on a split decision. In his last bout, on April 7,
he was soundly beaten in a welterweight match by
Joshua Clottey.
"He gave every ounce of himself every time he
was in there," his manager, James Prince, said.
"He was a fearless guy, and I'll always remember
how hard he fought no matter what the circumstances."
LAS VEGAS ? Diego Corrales, a former world
champion boxer who scored one of the most
memorable knockouts in boxing history, died
Monday in a three-vehicle accident near his
Las Vegas home.
Corrales was driving a 2007 Suzuki 1000
motorcycle, traveling northbound on Fort Apache
Road in the southwest part of the city, when it
inexplicably struck the back of a 1997 Honda
Accord, Las Vegas police spokesman Sgt. Tracy
McDonald said.
McDonald said the motorcycle careened into the
Southbound lane and, at some point, he was
tossed off the bike.
A 2004 Mercedes-Benz traveling in the
Southbound lane was unable to brake in time.
McDonald said the driver, who was not identified,
"was unable to avoid striking the motorcycle and
possibly the operator of the motorcycle also."
"Diego Corrales lived an 'X Games lifestyle,' "
his promoter, Gary Shaw said. "He was a true
warrior. He did everything hard and fast. He loved
anything to the extreme. He was the kind of guy
in the ring you never had to worry about quitting.
I don't know how many times he would say,
'They'll have to kill me first.' "
Corrales' wife, Michelle, who is seven months
pregnant, was on the scene and identified the
body shortly after 11 p.m. PT. The accident occurred
at approximately 7:30 p.m. McDonald said there
was no outward evidence of drugs or alcohol
involved.
He could not say how fast the motorcycle was
traveling.
"There is still a lot of evidence to go through,"
McDonald said.
Corrales, who was 40-5 and held world
championships in both the junior lightweight
and lightweight divisions, was the victor in one
of the most storied bouts in the sport's history.
On May 7, 2005, he and Jose Luis Castillo
engaged in a toe-to-toe slugfest for nine rounds
at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Twice Castillo
knocked down Corrales in the 10th round and
appeared on the verge of knocking him out.
But Corrales arose after the second knockout
and fought back with a fury, and he wound up
stopping Castillo in what would become the 2005
Fight-of-the-Year. It also would be his last victory.
"No one who ever saw that fight will ever forget
it," Shaw said. "There weren't that many people
in the arena that night, but I know there are
hundreds of thousands of people who now say they
were there because that was one of those nights.
He belongs in the Hall of Fame based on that fight alone."
In a June 2, 2006, story in the Las Vegas
Review-Journal, Corrales spoke of his love of extreme
sports. He told a story of jumping from a plane at
14,000 feet, snowboarding on rocky terrain and
scuba diving with a school of sharks.
He said he liked the rush he got from those types of sports.
"I'm only young once, and unless someone hasn't
told me something yet, I only get to live once,"
Corrales told the Review-Journal. "If I couldn't do
this stuff now, stuff I always wanted to do, I would
never get a chance to do it."
The father of five children, Corrales struggled
through the last part of his life. He had financial
difficulties and used part of a signing bonus he had
received from Golden Boy Promotions to pay back
taxes he owed.
However, Golden Boy was seeking the money back
because it turned out he was not free to sign with
the company and still was under contract to Shaw.
Corrales had signed a legal document promising to
repay the money.
The knockout win over Castillo turned out to be the
last of his career. He was knocked out in the fourth
round of the Oct. 8, 2005, rematch with Castillo, a
bout marked by a controversy when Castillo failed
to make the lightweight division limit of 135 pounds.
Corrales agreed to fight at 147 pounds so as not to
disappoint fans who had purchased tickets. But
Castillo then failed to make weight for a planned
June 3, 2006, rubber match, and that bout was
canceled.
Corrales then didn't make weight for an Oct. 7, 2006
bout with Joel Casamayor and wound up losing his
title on a split decision. In his last bout, on April 7,
he was soundly beaten in a welterweight match by
Joshua Clottey.
"He gave every ounce of himself every time he
was in there," his manager, James Prince, said.
"He was a fearless guy, and I'll always remember
how hard he fought no matter what the circumstances."
Don't start none...won't be none.