Re: Contemporary Fighting Arts
On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 11:16 AM, WillyTex wrote:
The Art and Science of Stick Fighting
Amazon reviews: "This is a good introduction to a way of using the cane for defensive purposes; properly and efficiently illustrated with the indispensable photographs in the Kindle version. Very advisable for beginners in this practice.""In this book "Cane Fighting", Sammy Franco developes a basic variety of cane blows that we might call a "big stick fencing", very suitable for the self-defense of people with little phisical training, because it uses always both hands, and a very thick stick."
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Re: Contemporary Fighting Arts
The legal carry self defense weapon is Cane Jitsu.
The Art and Science of Stick Fighting: Complete Instructional Guide
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Contemporary Fighting Arts
Samurai called it Hanbo Jutsu, where "Force = mass * acceleration". Often a lighter cane can be swung a lot faster delivering at least the same strike force as a heavier cane. YMMV.
Cane Fighting: The Authoritative Guide to Using the Cane or Walking Stick for Self-Defense
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Amphibious Housing Reports
"According to the United Nations, around 74% of all natural disasters between 2001 and 2018 were water-related, and by 2050 some 2 billion people will be at risk of extreme flooding."
How amphibious housing is transforming lives
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 11:31 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
Or half the human population is alien but they don't know it.
We do know some things. There is nothing from this earth that can travel at 100 knots upwind, with the wind blowing at 120 knots - and then dive into the ocean. YMMV. "Where is everybody?" - Enrico Fermi
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Re: Nothing To See Here Move Along
This is starting to look like a coverup.
According to what I've read, "We do not know for sure if the COVID-19 virus escaped from the Wuhan lab, another lab, or jumped from animals to humans. What we do know for certain is that the U.S. government and other governments conduct research which requires the manufacture and storing of deadly viruses and infectious bacterial strains."
The Wuhan Institute for Virology (WIV) needs to be ruled out as a source of the COVID-19 virus. Bottom line, it has not been.
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On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 12:20 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
Friends who visited a week ago tow around a new Ford SUV hybrid which seems to be nice.
Ford will reveal a new pickup truck next week. This is the first official photo of what will be called the Maverick:
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Re: Don’t forget to sign up, everyone!
The Trump family, in a nutshell, the crazy runs deep
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On Jun 4, 2021, at 8:08 AM, awb via < abater@...> wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 05:07 AM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
Donald Trump, Madman
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The scale of Trump’s delusion is quite startling. This is not merely an eccentric interpretation of the facts or an interesting foible, nor is it an irrelevant example of anguished post-presidency chatter. It is a rejection of reality, a rejection of law, and, ultimately, a rejection of the entire system of American government. There is no Reinstatement Clause within the United States Constitution. Hell, there is nothing even?approximating?a Reinstatement Clause within the United States Constitution. The election has been certified, Joe Biden is the president, and, until 2024, that is all there is to it. It does not matter what one’s view of Trump is. It does not matter whether one voted for or against Trump. It does not matter whether one views Trump’s role within the Republican Party favorably or unfavorably. We are talking here about cold, hard, neutral facts that obtain irrespective of one’s preferences; it is not too much to ask that the former head of the executive branch should understand them.
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Just how far out there is Trump’s theory? Consider that, even if it were true that the 2020 election had been stolen — which it is absolutely not — his belief would?still?be absurd. It could be confirmed tomorrow that agents working for a combination of al-Qaeda, Venezuela, and George Soros had hacked into every single voting machine in the country and altered the totals by tens of millions, and it would remain the case there is no mechanism within the American legal order for a do-over of any sort. In such an eventuality, there would be indictments, an impeachment drive, and a constitutional crisis.
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American politicians do not lose their reelection races only to be reinstalled later on, as might the second-place horse in a race whose winner was disqualified. The idea is otherworldly and obscene.
There is nothing to be gained for conservatism by pretending otherwise. To acknowledge that Trump is living in a fantasy world does not wipe out his achievements or render anything else he has said incorrect. It does not endorse Joe Biden or hand the Republican Party over to Bill Kristol or knock down an inch of the wall on the border. It merely demands that Donald Trump be treated like any other person: subject to gravity, open to rebuttal, and liable to be laughed at when he becomes so unmoored from the real world that it is hard to know where to begin in attempting to explain him.
I just hope that the media ignores trump's propaganda tours and the no one comes. Both hopes are bound to be dashed however...
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Re: Don’t forget to sign up, everyone!
On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 05:07 AM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
Donald Trump, Madman
?
The scale of Trump’s delusion is quite startling. This is not merely an eccentric interpretation of the facts or an interesting foible, nor is it an irrelevant example of anguished post-presidency chatter. It is a rejection of reality, a rejection of law, and, ultimately, a rejection of the entire system of American government. There is no Reinstatement Clause within the United States Constitution. Hell, there is nothing even?approximating?a Reinstatement Clause within the United States Constitution. The election has been certified, Joe Biden is the president, and, until 2024, that is all there is to it. It does not matter what one’s view of Trump is. It does not matter whether one voted for or against Trump. It does not matter whether one views Trump’s role within the Republican Party favorably or unfavorably. We are talking here about cold, hard, neutral facts that obtain irrespective of one’s preferences; it is not too much to ask that the former head of the executive branch should understand them.
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Just how far out there is Trump’s theory? Consider that, even if it were true that the 2020 election had been stolen — which it is absolutely not — his belief would?still?be absurd. It could be confirmed tomorrow that agents working for a combination of al-Qaeda, Venezuela, and George Soros had hacked into every single voting machine in the country and altered the totals by tens of millions, and it would remain the case there is no mechanism within the American legal order for a do-over of any sort. In such an eventuality, there would be indictments, an impeachment drive, and a constitutional crisis.
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American politicians do not lose their reelection races only to be reinstalled later on, as might the second-place horse in a race whose winner was disqualified. The idea is otherworldly and obscene.
There is nothing to be gained for conservatism by pretending otherwise. To acknowledge that Trump is living in a fantasy world does not wipe out his achievements or render anything else he has said incorrect. It does not endorse Joe Biden or hand the Republican Party over to Bill Kristol or knock down an inch of the wall on the border. It merely demands that Donald Trump be treated like any other person: subject to gravity, open to rebuttal, and liable to be laughed at when he becomes so unmoored from the real world that it is hard to know where to begin in attempting to explain him.
I just hope that the media ignores trump's propaganda tours and the no one comes. Both hopes are bound to be dashed however...
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Re: Don’t forget to sign up, everyone!
? ?Donald Trump, Madman
? The scale of Trump’s delusion is quite startling. This is not merely an eccentric interpretation of the facts or an interesting foible, nor is it an irrelevant example of anguished post-presidency chatter. It is a rejection of reality, a rejection of law, and, ultimately, a rejection of the entire system of American government. There is no Reinstatement Clause within the United States Constitution. Hell, there is nothing even?approximating?a Reinstatement Clause within the United States Constitution. The election has been certified, Joe Biden is the president, and, until 2024, that is all there is to it. It does not matter what one’s view of Trump is. It does not matter whether one voted for or against Trump. It does not matter whether one views Trump’s role within the Republican Party favorably or unfavorably. We are talking here about cold, hard, neutral facts that obtain irrespective of one’s preferences; it is not too much to ask that the former head of the executive branch should understand them.
Just how far out there is Trump’s theory? Consider that, even if it were true that the 2020 election had been stolen — which it is absolutely not — his belief would?still?be absurd. It could be confirmed tomorrow that agents working for a combination of al-Qaeda, Venezuela, and George Soros had hacked into every single voting machine in the country and altered the totals by tens of millions, and it would remain the case there is no mechanism within the American legal order for a do-over of any sort. In such an eventuality, there would be indictments, an impeachment drive, and a constitutional crisis.
American politicians do not lose their reelection races only to be reinstalled later on, as might the second-place horse in a race whose winner was disqualified. The idea is otherworldly and obscene. There is nothing to be gained for conservatism by pretending otherwise. To acknowledge that Trump is living in a fantasy world does not wipe out his achievements or render anything else he has said incorrect. It does not endorse Joe Biden or hand the Republican Party over to Bill Kristol or knock down an inch of the wall on the border. It merely demands that Donald Trump be treated like any other person: subject to gravity, open to rebuttal, and liable to be laughed at when he becomes so unmoored from the real world that it is hard to know where to begin in attempting to explain him.
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On Jun 3, 2021, at 2:47 PM, Sal Sunshine <salsunshineiniowa@...> wrote:
? ? Trump is a classic psychopath with enough superficial “charisma” to fool desperate and angry people into believing he actually gives two shits about them, people he loathes so much he doesn’t even want to shake their hands, people he wouldn’t be caught dead associating with at Mar a Lago, his golf club or anywhere else. ?Even he complained about how “low class” the insurrectionists looked, as they were storming the Capitol, willing to risk prison time and even death for someone who wouldn’t employ them to clean his toilets.?
The description of him as a poor man’s idea of a rich man, and a stupid man’s idea of a smart man is perfect. ? ?He can’t comprehend loss because he’s been able to twist every loss (the broken families, the broken children, the scam university and on and on) into some kind of a demented ?win, failing upward for decades and scamming the system at truly epic levels. ? <image0.jpeg>
On Jun 3, 2021, at 9:09 AM, awb via groups.io <abater@...> wrote:
?On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 07:01 AM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
How this will end? Hopefully with him in a prison cell or a mental institution... as indictments get closer I fully expect the crazy to ramp up even more, if that’s possible. ?Hopefully nobody else will be willing to risk prison in defense of their ever-more-unhinged fearless leader. ?
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His family clearly could care less what becomes of him as long as the grift continues.?
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FWIW his blog is now effectively down... that was fast. ?No worries though, the contribution link is still up. ?
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I just love this meme. Back when it appeared none of us realized how apropos it would prove to be. The guy is bonkers and a million times more of a loser than just losing the election. His inability to handle loss is beyond anything I have ever witnessed. He is a true example of a small and damaged human who had zero ability to serve the people in any capacity. Good riddance and I sincerely hope he is finally brought to justice.
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Re: Don’t forget to sign up, everyone!
? Trump is a classic psychopath with enough superficial “charisma” to fool desperate and angry people into believing he actually gives two shits about them, people he loathes so much he doesn’t even want to shake their hands, people he wouldn’t be caught dead associating with at Mar a Lago, his golf club or anywhere else. ?Even he complained about how “low class” the insurrectionists looked, as they were storming the Capitol, willing to risk prison time and even death for someone who wouldn’t employ them to clean his toilets.?
The description of him as a poor man’s idea of a rich man, and a stupid man’s idea of a smart man is perfect. ? ?He can’t comprehend loss because he’s been able to twist every loss (the broken families, the broken children, the scam university and on and on) into some kind of a demented ?win, failing upward for decades and scamming the system at truly epic levels. ? 
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On Jun 3, 2021, at 9:09 AM, awb via groups.io <abater@...> wrote:
?On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 07:01 AM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
How this will end? Hopefully with him in a prison cell or a mental institution... as indictments get closer I fully expect the crazy to ramp up even more, if that’s possible. ?Hopefully nobody else will be willing to risk prison in defense of their ever-more-unhinged fearless leader. ?
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His family clearly could care less what becomes of him as long as the grift continues.?
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FWIW his blog is now effectively down... that was fast. ?No worries though, the contribution link is still up. ?
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I just love this meme. Back when it appeared none of us realized how apropos it would prove to be. The guy is bonkers and a million times more of a loser than just losing the election. His inability to handle loss is beyond anything I have ever witnessed. He is a true example of a small and damaged human who had zero ability to serve the people in any capacity. Good riddance and I sincerely hope he is finally brought to justice.
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On 6/3/21 9:23 AM, WillyTex via
groups.io wrote:
On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 09:04 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
The
Pentagon is expected to release a report this month on UFO
sightings.
Do you trust them? ;-)
The media and the government cannot be trusted, obviously.
So, I'm a born skeptic myself. However, the main thing to think
about is what if the aliens are already here, but we can't detect
them because they are using cloaking devices? Also, they obviously
have mastered time travel to get here. Then, you've got to ask
yourself, why would aliens come here to see us? They say seeing is
believing. Go figure.
In India they say it's all just a mirage anyway. YMMV.
Or half the human population is alien but they don't know it. ?
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On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 09:04 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
The Pentagon is expected to release a report this month on UFO sightings.
Do you trust them? ;-)
The media and the government cannot be trusted, obviously. So, I'm a born skeptic myself. However, the main thing to think about is what if the aliens are already here, but we can't detect them because they are using cloaking devices? Also, they obviously have mastered time travel to get here. Then, you've got to ask yourself, why would aliens come here to see us? They say seeing is believing. Go figure. In India they say it's all just a mirage anyway. YMMV.
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Re: Don’t forget to sign up, everyone!
On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 07:01 AM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
How this will end? Hopefully with him in a prison cell or a mental institution... as indictments get closer I fully expect the crazy to ramp up even more, if that’s possible. ?Hopefully nobody else will be willing to risk prison in defense of their ever-more-unhinged fearless leader. ?
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His family clearly could care less what becomes of him as long as the grift continues.?
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FWIW his blog is now effectively down... that was fast. ?No worries though, the contribution link is still up. ?
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I just love this meme. Back when it appeared none of us realized how apropos it would prove to be. The guy is bonkers and a million times more of a loser than just losing the election. His inability to handle loss is beyond anything I have ever witnessed. He is a true example of a small and damaged human who had zero ability to serve the people in any capacity. Good riddance and I sincerely hope he is finally brought to justice.
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On 6/2/21 3:47 PM, WillyTex via
groups.io wrote:
The Pentagon is expected to release a report this month on UFO
sightings.
Do you trust them? ;-)
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Re: Don’t forget to sign up, everyone!
On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 12:24 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
Good observations... while I agree of course that voting remains our best path back to some version of normalcy, there’s too long in between elections and the GOP is obviously hell-bent on doing as much damage as they can in the meantime. Like what they’re doing right now, in broad daylight, with an army of fanatics cheering them on.??They’re using the trappings of democracy to destroy democracy. ?
This is it in a nutshell, isn't it and why it's so difficult to stop.? They're bad faith actors.?? ?
If they have to share the country they’d rather wreck ?it first. ?Not sure if our government can withstand this much rot from within, looks like we’re about to find out. You really think Putin has that kind of power? ?I’m putting my faith on the fact that Biden is trying to negotiate with him at this upcoming meeting... hope it’s not misplaced.?
Putin = Russians. I think the Russians have figured out how to hack into our outdated private and crumbling public cyber security infrastructure and they have been flexing, quite successfully I might add.? I absolutely think he's launching shots across the bow.? Biden isn't afraid of him, like Rumpy is.?
If Trump does go back to his rallies this summer...if he’s still able to tie his shoelaces ?by then... he’ll undoubtedly do it with Gaetz and Greene who I assume are sort of keeping his place warm, that is if Gaetz is still free. ?Wouldn’t that be something? ?New movie out this summer, Two Perverts and a Wacko, coming soon to an airport hangar near you. ??
?Dios mío!?
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The Pentagon is expected to release a report this month on UFO sightings.
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Re: Don’t forget to sign up, everyone!
? ? Good observations... while I agree of course that voting remains our best path back to some version of normalcy, there’s too long in between elections and the GOP is obviously hell-bent on doing as much damage as they can in the meantime. Like what they’re doing right now, in broad daylight, with an army of fanatics cheering them on. ?They’re using the trappings of democracy to destroy democracy. ?If they have to share the country they’d rather wreck ?it first. ?Not sure if our government can withstand this much rot from within, looks like we’re about to find out.
You really think Putin has that kind of power? ?I’m putting my faith on the fact that Biden is trying to negotiate with him at this upcoming meeting... hope it’s not misplaced.?
If Trump does go back to his rallies this summer...if he’s still able to tie his shoelaces ?by then... he’ll undoubtedly do it with Gaetz and Greene who I assume are sort of keeping his place warm, that is if Gaetz is still free. ?Wouldn’t that be something? ?New movie out this summer, Two Perverts and a Wacko, coming soon to an airport hangar near you. ??
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On Jun 2, 2021, at 10:45 AM, Emily Mae via groups.io <emily.mae50@...> wrote:
?On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 07:01 AM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
How this will end?
The POT/RNC has one goal:? put that loser back in the Whitehouse using any means possible.? Take over the government using any means possible.? Destroy democracy using any means possible.? Stay in power using any means possible.? They are scheming on a grand scale.? I can't believe that 1 Senator (any 1) could be responsible for the demise of our democracy.?? Our best hope lies in voting, no matter what.? And we can pray that Rump goes to prison.? If he dies, he'll be martyred.? He quit the blog because he's about to go on the road and whip up his 2nd Amendment army, is my guess.? He's plotting with the dark forces behind the scenes about how he's going to return to power via a blaze of gunfire and with Russia's help.? He's telling us he's shooting for August.? Before the grand jury finishes.? He's going further and further off the rails right along with the Q's. He will stop at nothing to avoid going to jail.? Ugh.? The Trump nightmare is nowhere near over.? ?Our electrical grid will probably go down next.? A cyber attack just took down the ferry service in Massachusetts.? Putin is telling us that he has the ability to take down the things we depend on; the guy is a psychopath and tRump and the Republicans welcomed him in.? "Are you ready to vote?? Have you voted? Go and vote like you've never voted before. Vote, vote, vote." And, what do we do when they negate the election results??? ? ?? ? --
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Re: Food Shortages Reports
On 6/2/21 7:39 AM, WillyTex via
groups.io wrote:
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 11:41 AM, WillyTex wrote:
Meat Eaters Hit Hardest as Inflation Sweeps U.S.
Grocery Aisles
Alex. Stock up. It might be a good idea to get a backup freezer
and portable generator, just in case. Avoid the danger that lies
ahead. YMMV.
MEAT HACK SHAKES GLOBE
BUYERS SCRAMBLE
RANSOM PAID?
Largest meat producer getting back online after
cyberattack
Probably a scam to make everyone anemic. ?
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Re: Don’t forget to sign up, everyone!
On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 07:01 AM, Sal Sunshine wrote:
How this will end?
The POT/RNC has one goal:? put that loser back in the Whitehouse using any means possible.? Take over the government using any means possible.? Destroy democracy using any means possible.? Stay in power using any means possible.? They are scheming on a grand scale.? I can't believe that 1 Senator (any 1) could be responsible for the demise of our democracy.?? Our best hope lies in voting, no matter what.? And we can pray that Rump goes to prison.? If he dies, he'll be martyred.? He quit the blog because he's about to go on the road and whip up his 2nd Amendment army, is my guess.? He's plotting with the dark forces behind the scenes about how he's going to return to power via a blaze of gunfire and with Russia's help.? He's telling us he's shooting for August.? Before the grand jury finishes.? He's going further and further off the rails right along with the Q's. He will stop at nothing to avoid going to jail.? Ugh.? The Trump nightmare is nowhere near over.? ?Our electrical grid will probably go down next.? A cyber attack just took down the ferry service in Massachusetts.? Putin is telling us that he has the ability to take down the things we depend on; the guy is a psychopath and tRump and the Republicans welcomed him in.? "Are you ready to vote?? Have you voted? Go and vote like you've never voted before. Vote, vote, vote." And, what do we do when they negate the election results??? ? ?? ? --
Em
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