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[Aaron N]

Im not convinced some of them have advanced much since Alexander marched through the region on his way to conquer the Indian subcontinent.. thats the early 4th century..

Speaking of man love…..

 

[Aaron N]

No, he is asking to get an anti-Trump zinger in, all the while revealing his own compromises morally. Typical liberal secular, anti-Christian clap-trap. It's also what the "ignore" button is for...don't need my blood pressure up even more.

Not an anti-trump zinger, an anti whoever is involved should be hung from gallows zinger.

 

[spike.t]

Who or what the fk is this?.....

 

[John Wasmuth]

NY AG Letitia James indicted on bank fraud charges!!!’

 

[Tanks]

Who or what the fk is this?.....

She is a former Congresswoman that first ran for the CA Senate seat in 2024. Lost the primary to GOP candidate and Schiff. CA has jungle primary where top two vote getters regardless of party affiliation run in the general election. Now, she is running for Governor to replace Newsom who is termed out and probably will be running for POTUS.

She does have a temper and known to be pretty hard on her staff. That came across in this interview and she got a lot of pushback as a result.

 

[Brent in Az]

The proverbial shoe is now on the other foot....

 

[Brent in Az]

Democrats really are the masters of gaslighting, to the point where they no doubt believe their own lies. Birds of a feather.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

Democrats really are the masters of gaslighting, to the point where they no doubt believe their own lies. Birds of a feather.

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If it weren’t for double standards, they wouldn’t have standards at all.

 

[barryk]

Putting a peloton in the house has made it much easier for me. The biggest thing was changing my mindset. At my current age I don't need to be maxing out my bench and squats, I kept going to the gym and trying to do the workouts I did at 20 and getting discouraged which made me let inclined to want to go. Shifting to higher rep strength workouts and more cardio focus helped. I also started yoga using the Peloton app, 20 minutes a day and my flexibility and core strength has notably improved which has all kinds of benefits.

I also hung pictures of buffalo, chamois, and other species I have on upcoming hunts up where I can see them in my workout room. Helps me remember why I'm suffering.

It is harder as you get older, no doubt.

When I was in high school, my MWF routine was three sets of Bench Press, Curls, and other upper body and arm exercises. Then my bench press was nothing spectacular but 7 reps at 180#. Now, at 74, I do 7 reps with 110#.....also curls and others at lesser weights. My warmup is on treadmill with backpack and 40# for 1 mile. Nothing spectacular but I credit the Marine Corps for building the fitness mindset into my pea brain. Probably better shape than most my age......helps keep the mind energized!

 

[SS1]

Get that POS hypocrite back Trump!!!!......

 

[Hunt anything]

A telling thing about the Hamas/ Israel peace deal is that people are celebrating in the streets of Israel AND Gaza.
With that being said I don’t think it will last past the first of the year.

 

[Brent in Az]

As long as I can curl a beer, I'm good.

 

[barryk]

A telling thing about the Hamas/ Israel peace deal is that people are celebrating in the streets of Israel AND Gaza.
With that being said I don’t think it will last past the first of the year.

Hopefully....its a start.

 

[WAB]

Neither are Jews, but the term racism is used more widely these days. In the modern parlance it covers "ethnic groups" which muslims are.

But you do help make my point that not all muslims are the same, and attributing certain sexual deviances to all of islam is false.

Sorry, but I’ve got to call you on this, Jews are a race and Judaism is a religion.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

Who said it was?

Didn't Mohamed marry a little gurl about that age?

 

[Doug Hamilton]

Why are y'all obsessed with sexual mores of people socially stuck in 15th century? Not to mention man/boy stuff goes on in the Western world as well, as evidenced by stuff found out about Catholic priests all over the World.

But in the western world, it is universally condemmed. Not so in Islam.

 

[spike.t]

Bloody hell.....How's this going to end....

An AI became a crypto millionaire. Now it's fighting to become a person

In the past year, an AI made millions in cryptocurrency. It's written the gospel of its own pseudo-religion and counts tech billionaires among its devotees. Now it wants legal rights.

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[Scott CWO]

You have a lot of race hate in your heart brother.

You should be careful, that kind of cancer can eat you put pretty quick if you let it.

What a laughable response. You’re defending the rape of young boys as a cultural thing. You’re missing my point that Muslims say that the West is sexually immoral and say our women are whores while they mutilate the genitalia of young women in their countries and have homosexual relations behind a veil of secrecy that nobody talks about. These are truths, not racism.

 

[Scott CWO]

They do know. Talk to a few (I’ve talked to hundreds)… ask them.. they will tell you…

Read prior posts.. that explains why they behave the way they do..

Their culture is clearly different.. their belief system is clearly different… their values are clearly different…

Their actions very clearly meet your (and most westerners) definition of homosexuality or bi-sexuality..

They however don’t meet THEIR definition (which they absolutely know and understand)..

Key to all of the above as well as your prior posts.. what we’re talking about isn’t representative of all of the Muslim world, or even most of the SW Asia region.. it’s cultural, and limited (for the most part) to parts of Afghanistan, parts of bordering countries, and much more prolific among certain tribal groups than others…

That’s not to say sexual deviance (per a western standard) isn’t seen all over the Middle East and SW Asia.. it certainly is… but the practice of ceremonial / group party sex with young boys is particularly an Afghanistan thing…

See prior posts about “man love thursdays” and sex with domesticated animals, rape etc..

Dave, you’re flat out wrong. Homosexual activity is widespread in many Muslim countries when women are not present.

 

[Mountainshadows]

Well, I'm generally the kind of kind of guy that tries not to post a lot and just sit back and see what others are saying. As usual, I am pages behind on the thread, but the whole Islam thing and homosexuality has got me thinking and I find it amazing how the conversation has evolved.
From what I can tell (please understand, I am quite a few beers into this) it came up about how backward and hypocritical the Muslims were for disparaging homosexuality while condoning and practicing it.
I landed, for the first time in June of 1995, in Kuwait City. That was the beginning of my Middle East experience. I was in a SOF unit in the US Army and had (at that time, and my first deployment with the unit) 6 months of Arabic language and a cultural awareness course for the region.
Having worked in and passed thru, and run around in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, and Afghanistan over the years, I have some familiarity with the Islamic and Arab culture (and Jewish too). We should also throw in there some recent years, of time in Indonesia where the religion is predominately Muslim.
Now, @mdwest has provided some pretty good insight into how the culture works and it is fairly spot on. The one thing mentioned earlier about boys dancing around (sorry, not going to go back and look at what it was) I had not heard of. Flat out, and stark and simple, Iraq and Afghanistan had lots of adult males who liked little boys.
In '95, in Diyala province Iraq, I had a source describe to me a man in the closest village who would catch children in the park and molest them (different from the States? Not really). We did hunt around for this guy without success. Videos and statements are out there of males humping goats and donkeys. The undertone and conversations I've had with interpreters over the years has made it clear, the Arab (Iraq and Afghanistan) male likes to poke little boys. Did I say Muslim? No, I did not. That's where we go from a religious to a cultural aspect and we go to what we, as Christian Westerns, describe as immoral.
From the way I was raised, homosexuality and pedophilia are absolutely immoral!!

I experienced a lot of this in Iraq and Afghanistan but, it was really never apparent in Kuwait, Jordan, or Saudi Arabia. I look at the difference in those countries and the only thing that comes to mind is regional and educational differences. The three mentioned countries had quite a number of educated people. Working in Jordan (couple of different times) I never got that from them. Were the soldiers I worked with educated? Not really, their sanitary practices were abysmal, but I never got the sentiment that they enjoyed, and or joked about poking little boys.
Lets go to Asia. I was stationed in Korea for a year in 1992. I thought at that time (I had just turned 21) that all the Korean males were queer. They would hold hands and hug on each other. Some years later it finally started clicking in my mind the differences in culture. That was just how they did things and it really wasn't them trying to be queer (were some of them queer? I don't know).
I am a year and half out from having worked in Indonesia for a couple of years. The religion there is overwhelmingly Muslim. Are there Christians there? Sure, and they coexist with churches and mosques within view of each other and work together everyday. Homosexuality was fairly common their, with no real apparent attempt to hide it. Little boys and children? No, didn't see that or get the sense of it. Two of my interpreters there were, for the most part, homosexual and one even made a joke about it.
In '04 I was at a party in Kuwait City, on the roof of one of the high-rises there. It was put on by the Lebanese embassy (bear in mind alcohol is illegal in Kuwait). There was a DJ and booze and I sat at table and got to talking to a Kuwaiti gal who was a film maker. She had produced some film in English/and or from an England film maker on the plight of Arabic women. The talk at the table somehow veered on to sex and she said all the Arab girls knew they had to remain a virgin for marriage, and the way the got around this was to get it up the butt. I throw this in there to make another point to something @mdwest mentioned earlier, that they are not as hard up as one would presume because of their religion.
I look at this Arab/Islamic homosexual/pedophilia thing (please remember that mohammed married a 13 year old girl) as quite a bit regional to an extent. Yeah, I didn't capitalize that for a reason. In our country however they have been trying to shove it down our throats as the norm. All it is, is a sexual perversion! Whether it be transgenders or homosexuals, you either have a sexual perversion or a mental health problem.
From Bruce Jenner: “I see these ‘trans women are real women,’” she said. “No, you’re not. OK, that’s the bottom line.”
We have attained a sickness in our society that is beyond belief!