snafuYou’ve just accused me of being obtuse – which is it ?
Some answers are quite completely you – if we were baiting you then your replies wouldn’t be out of place with our desires (but we are not baiting you, I think). But you also don’t answer the gist of the question so frequently, so I have no problem with someone calling you obtuse and transparent. Buy the t-shirt and smile about it, be happy!
snafuI haven’t been able to find any published information that one might possibly call “evidence”.
Maybe such ‘evidence’ is being retained to make a case and the allegation has been made public to see if anyone else ‘suddenly’ remembers being assaulted?
snafuA man who had 99.9% of his body tattooed with dark spots over saffron yellow, has died.
A former soldier who became famous for the leopard spot tattoos that covered most of his body has died aged 80.
Tom Leppard – born Tom Wooldridge – was known as the Leopard Man Of Skye.
He lived in a bothy on the island for more than two decades but had moved to a care home in Inverness, where he passed away.
He was once recognised as the world’s most tattooed man by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Mr Leppard, whose Skye bothy was located by Loch na Bèiste, was known to travel to the mainland by kayak for supplies.
He lived a solitary life before moving back to the mainland, saying: “My life hasn’t changed much – I never bothered people when I lived in the bothy, and they didn’t bother me, and I’m not really that interested in what else is going on outside.”
http://www.scotsman.com/news/tattooed-ex-soldier-dubbed-leopard-man-of-skye-dies-at-80-1-4154919
snafuUmm, there is a link in my post. The same story that snafu just posted. That is condoning the massacre.
Ah. Don’t know about anyone else but that ‘link’ is dark blue on white, alongside the normal black on white, and doesn’t show up awfully well.
I still cannot get my head around the right to bear arms…
Have a look at this thread http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?135899-Only-in-America which might answer your questions. Or might not. But there are a few live gun nuts trying to defend their right to retain their phallic substitutes.
snafuLike I said, not absolutely sure.
The father did offer his sympathy to victims families – http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/omar-mateens-father-offers-condolence-to-families-of-massacre-victims-20160613
But then he would have been in shock that his son was dead, was the one who committed a mass killing, was having to deal with the enormity of the situation, the police and the press. Not defending him, if it is needed, but merely demonstrating that he would have had a lot on his mind.
But how about this:
SACRAMENTO – A few short hours after dozens were gunned down at a gay club in Orlando, on Sunday, the Rev. Roger Jimenez delivered his sermon from his Sacramento pulpit.
“Hey, are you sad that 50 pedophiles were killed today? No … I think that’s great. I think that helps society. I think Orlando, Florida’s a little safer tonight,” he said to the crowd of believers in front of him.
A link on his church’s Facebook page, Verity Baptist Church, directed viewers to the sermon on YouTube.
“It is unnatural for a man to be attracted to another man,” he said as he preached for more than an hour.
“The tragedy is that more of them didn’t die,” he said.
For members of Sacramento’s LGBTQ community, religious freedom is sacred, but leaders feel a vile line has been crossed.
“We as the gay community support you should be able to worship as you see fit, but it’s when you use the pulpit to incite violence or demean or discredit another class of people, just utter disgust,” said Donald Bentz, executive director of Sacramento’s LGBTQ Community Center.
FOX40 reached out to Jimenez at his church, by phone and at his home Monday to no avail.
A congregant who lives just a few doors down from him said she fully supported her pastor, but wouldn’t comment on camera about his message.
Throughout the sermon, Pastor Jimenez cited passages in the Bible from Judges 19:22, Genesis 4:1 and Romans 1:27 to back up his points.
Bentz countered that with a critique of the translation process.
“Most of those texts were originally written into Hebrew, translated into Greek, translated into Latin, translated into old English, new English and then back to English and every author that did the translations subjected them to the social mores of their time,” he said.
And while Pastor Jimenez has told the faithful of his flock that Orlando is now safer without what he calls the 50 predators eliminated by a terrorist’s gun, others believe the danger level in Sacramento has now increased.
“To know that this man’s church is within driving distance of my home and where I work and where I’m walking at night, and his congregation members are out on the street, it’s very scary,” said Bentz.
Now that is hate, wouldn’t you agree John?.
snafuNot got the first time or probably the last, you have me baffled. I never suspected that the French police were homosexual.
Get yourself informed…
The French government has denounced an “abject act of terrorism” after a man with a previous terrorist conviction carried out a gruesome knife murder of a police commander and his partner at their home outside Paris in the presence of their three-year-old son.
Larossi Abballa, a Frenchman previously convicted of taking part in a jihadi recruitment network and claiming allegiance to Islamic State, streamed a video of the fatal attack on Facebook Live.
Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, had returned to his home in the quiet residential area of Magnanville 30 miles (50km) west of Paris between 8pm and 8.20pm on Monday night in plain clothes, when Larossi lay in wait for him hidden behind a gate.
Salvaing first managed to escape and shouted at neighbours to call the police, but Abballa caught up with him on the pavement and repeatedly stabbed him in the stomach, killing him.
Abballa, 25, then ran into the house and held hostage the commander’s 36-year-old partner Jessica Schneider, who worked as a police administrator in a police station in nearby Mantes-la-Jolie, as well as the couple’s three-year-old son.
Elite police squads were called to the scene, evacuated neighbours, sealed off the area and cut off the electricity, plunging the street into darkness.
Police negotiators attempted to talk to Abballa, who said he was a soldier for Isis and had sworn allegiance to the group. He said that he had deliberately targeted police.The negotiations failed when Abballa first told police to stay away from the door then cut off communications. Shortly before midnight, loud explosions and shots were heard as police stormed the house and killed the attacker. They found Schneider dead from a knife-wound to the neck, and rescued the couple’s son alive but in a state of shock.
And why have you placed the word community in inverted commas? We (the LGBT community) ARE a community.
If you think this is anything other than the case, you know nothing.
Meet John Green, one of the forums Farages, with his forthright views on life and how Britain should be run.
Don’t be shy, say hello John.
I think the French also should ban assault weapons. If they had there never would have been a Paris massacre.
Indeed, but are assault weapons available in France, over the counter like America? Recent experience has shown that there is weapon smuggling across borders in Europe so, although guns wouldn’t be as easy to obtain as in the US, those who know know how to obtain them if they want them.
What is? Be more specific.
Not absolutely sure, but I feel it might be John and his suggestion that any potential victims of a particular sexual preference go back into hiding in the closet; not that this would stop potential attacks – we are all potential targets since IS at war with all of us and have made no secret of it.
snafuA guitarist who sessioned and toured with quite a few groups…
Henry McCullough, a rock guitarist who performed with Wings and Jimmy Hendrix, has died, aged 72.
The Northern Irish musician, who died on Tuesday morning, toured and recorded with Paul McCartney and Wings in the 1970s. He was invited to join the band following a number of jamming sessions with McCartney, going on to play guitar on Wings’ hit Bond theme ‘Live and Let Die’.
But it was McCullough’s guitar solo on Wings track ‘My Love’ which secured his place in rock history and gave him his first joint US no.1.
snafuOh good grief.
This is not general discussion – this is historic and that is where it should be so that it can discussed by those affected, or even interested.
If it cannot be handled there then shut it down – or maybe deal with it, there, rather than just export it.
If you must export it try the commercial section, it is rather quiet there and I’m sure they could use the footfall…
snafuIn the same way French police officers should?
snafuAnd…he was a regular visitor to the nightclub…
The gunman who killed 49 people in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando is said to have been a regular at the venue and had messaged several people on gay dating apps, according to reports.
An unnamed FBI official told the Associated Press on Tuesday that the bureau was investigating the claims.
At least four regular customers said they had seen killer Omar Mateen drinking at the nightclub on multiple occasions. “Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent,” Ty Smith told the Orlando Sentinel.
“We didn’t really talk to him a lot, but I remember him saying things about his dad at times,” Smith said. “He told us he had a wife and child.”
Jim Van Horn, 71, told the Associated Press Mateen was a “regular” at the Pulse nightclub where the murders took place. “He was trying to pick up people. Men,” he said. “He was a homosexual and he was trying to pick up men. He would walk up to them and then he would maybe put his arm round them or something … That’s what people do at gay bars. That’s what we do.”
Asked what went through his mind when he saw his picture, Van Horn, who lost three friends in the shooting, said: “We just went, ‘Oh. That makes sense. That’s Omar.’”
He added: “I think it’s possible that he was trying to deal with his inner demons, of trying to get rid of his anger of homosexuality. It’s really confusing to me. Because you can’t change who you are. But if you pretend that you’re different, then you may shoot up a gay bar.”
Asked by the Guardian about rumours his son was gay, Mateen’s father Seddique Mateen said: “It’s not true. Why, if he was gay, would he do this?”
Inner demons, ah yes, inner demons and guns: what a combination.
snafuThere is video to be found (hint: on LiveLeak) which shows the aircraft went in nose first into a car parked alone in the car park. Lousy CCTV quality, it is not graphic.
snafuAnybody else think the Yakfire looks like a Blackburn Roc?
That is a Roc, but could just as well be a Skua.
Wonder what the Ton class MCM is meant to be? They did look very much like the B/YMS minesweepers built in America, but since the first one wasn’t launched until 1941 (12 years before the first Ton was launched) I’m guessing they will take anything painted battleship grey… So much for accuracy.
snafuThere is something wrong with that Spit…I just can’t put my finger on it though.
snafuIf he had it supplied to him then maybe the employer needed to check his state of mind (could his employer be sued for their employees misuse of the supplied ‘tool’?), but the fact that weapons can be bought (more or less) over the counter would negate a terrorist group needing to smuggle their firearms into the country – that was my point.
snafuALF has died, as has Judy Jetson’s voice, the creator of the beehive, an actress you probably knew on sight than by name, and a defected grandmaster.
Mihaly “Michu” Meszaros, the 33-inch-tall actor and former circus star who played the title role in the 1980s sitcom “ALF,” has died, his manager told ABC News today.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/alf-actor-mihaly-michu-meszaros-died/story?id=39826177
Janet Waldo, who provided the voice of Judy Jetson on the show “The Jetsons,” has died, ABC News has confirmed.
Lucy Lee, Waldo’s daughter, confirmed that the actress died on Sunday morning.
According to Lee, Waldo had been diagnosed with a benign but inoperable brain tumor five years ago.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/janet-waldo-voice-judy-jetson-died/story?id=39821871
Margaret Vinci Heldt, who became a hairstyling celebrity after she created the famous beehive hairdo in 1960, has died at age 98.
Ahlgrim Funeral Home in the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst said on Monday that Heldt died on Friday at a senior living community.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/13/margaret-vinci-heldt-dies-age-98-beehive-hairstyle
Mary MacLeod, who has died aged 78, was a prolific character actor whose face was more familiar than her name. She left her most lasting impression in two of the establishment-baiting films of the director Lindsay Anderson.
First, she secured herself a place in screen history when she played the housemaster’s wife Mrs Kemp in the private school satire If …. (1968), starring Malcolm McDowell, in which she walked naked down a corridor and into the boys’ dormitory. It was only the second time that the British Board of Film Censors, as it was then named, had passed full-frontal female nudity (the first was in Blow-Up in 1966). The BBFC did a trade-off, agreeing to allow this in exchange for the deletion of male full-frontal nudity from a shower scene.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/13/mary-macleod-obituary
Viktor Korchnoi, who has died aged 85, was a chess grandmaster who defected from the Soviet Union, then twice challenged the USSR’s Anatoly Karpov for the world title. Their first contest, in 1978 in the Philippines, was the most bizarre in championship history, bitterly fought on and off the board.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/06/viktor-korchnoi-obituary
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