basically anything you can possibly imagine

I can imagine quite a lot.
Ironic you phrased it that way. There's a current debate about Acrocorinth, ritual prostitution and how much of the story is true, imagined or exaggerated for propaganda by.....wait for it....the christian church. To have an ingroup you much have an outgroup.
'Me and my fellow christians might be a tender flock of sexually repressed blowhard homophobes and sinister virgins, but at least we ain't like those polytheist ----- in Rome or Korinth! amirite?!'

As demonstrated in the comments, in Oxford's essay, and in the "mistakes" of the committee for the Revised Standard Version of 1946, who is now credited with inventing christian homophobia out of thin air during the Eisenhower administration: It says whatever they want it to say. It says as much as they think they can get away with.

As designed, the intent of the coup was to restore the country to constitutional law as quickly as possible

That doesn't explain why Schnieder was murdered (in a failed kidnapping orchestrated by the CIA). If it was always about "restoring Constitutional rule" why kill the one guy everyone agrees was acting honorably and defending the Constitution? And why would it be necessary to carry out the assassination before Allende even took office? It's almost like Nixon and Kissinger were planning on Allende's removal before he was sworn into office.

The attacks on Allende were preemptive strikes. He could not be allowed to succeed. Nixon's order was to "make the economy scream". All this nonsense about 'Constitutional rule' is post hoc justification.

I will trust Douglas Macgregor's estimates more than anything out of Ukraine or the lying Pentagon spokesman

Three days after the war began, he said "The battle in eastern Ukraine is really almost over," and predicted "If [Ukraine] don't surrender in the next 24 hours, I suspect Russia will ultimately annihilate them." Macgregor said he believed Russia should be allowed to seize whatever parts of Ukraine it wanted. In his second appearance, he revised his prediction: "The first five days Russian forces I think frankly were too gentle. They've now corrected that. So, I would say another 10 days this should be completely over...

In a strong field your declaration of trust in Macgregor is the dumbest thing you've ever said.

The caracano rifle is a late game gun you get in Red Dead Redemption II, a game set in 1899.
One bullet killed Kennedy, headshot. One bullet ricochet and hit James Tague. One bullet left.
The magic bullet was fired from a 70 year old rifle with a defective scope. It hit a moving target through heavy foliage at 80 yards, JFK's neck. The magic bullet then went through the seat (the car was repaired before any forensic exam was done so we dont know for sure) hit Connelly in the back and came out his abdomen where it turned, shattered his wrist and was found on a stretcher at Parkland hospital.

You have to believe this. If you dont believe this then you must believe there was a fourth bullet and a second shooter.
You dont have to believe Paul Landis, and probably shouldn't. He was out drinking until 6 in the morning with the rest of the Secret Service.

Mr Baluchi has tried three similar voyages before, all of which ended in Coast Guard intervention.
In 2021, he was arrested after being rescued while trying to ride from Florida to New York after drifting 30 miles south of his departure point.

Traveling due north he drifted 30 miles south. Slight design flaw.
Only one way to Carnegie Hall!
He's like those French and Italian Renaissance men who glued on feathers and flung themselves (or sometimes peasants) from the church belfry.
It's a free country, the Coast Guard should just point him east and get out of his way.
Godspeed Capt. Baluchi

The program is under 4 billion a year, but we'll get a cool moon base for our money. A steal at twice the price.
The Justice Dept spends that much on toner and post-it notes.
It's slightly more than we give Pakistan every year and all we get out of that is Pakistan.

I want to believe the Saudis are making a bad invest and fundamentally misunderstand sport and its' influence in Western society. Admittedly this may be wish-thinking. I think they believe buying these players -- almost all of them are captains/co-captains of their national sides and clubs -- will mean they get those player's fans, twitter followers, sponsors and good-will. They say as much in the article: He will bring in a lot of fans to Al Hilal. I think the whole of Brazil will support us now.

I could be wrong, (judging by Citah and Newcastle lickspittles I am wrong) but I don't think it works like that. The shirt comes first. I know among Liverpool fans no one gives a single ---- about Hendo or Fabinho anymore. One day of shock and confusion, but once the check clears they are dead to us. Thanks for the silverware, now bring on Endo and Szoboszlai and buy Arthur (please buy Arthur). Salah is god-like to us, if he honors his contract and leaves in the summer for a big transfer fee we'll wish him on his way and probably build a statue of him outside the Anfield Road end. If he leaves now, 3 games into the season with the window closing, his memory will be forever poisoned. Neither now nor next summer or 2 years from now, no Liverpool supporter will watch a single minute of him playing in the Saudi Pro League. The unavoidable fact that they are greedy, murdering, religious lunatic scumbags will only sharpen.

Citah can have their titles, they'll be reminded of how they got them from the terraces every Saturday and that will have to be enough. As for me, and I think most club supporters across all the major leagues, I'd rather see our stadium burned to the ground than handed over to a Saudi Prince-ling.

The money they are throwing at players looks like typos. Benzema, a 35 year old striker, is making 215 million a year. N'Golo Kante who missed most of last season after tearing all three ligaments in his knee got his salary quadrupled to 110 million a year. They took Fabinho and Henderson from Liverpool. Hendo, at 33 and only able to play once a month, will make more money this season than in his entire career.
If they manage to buy their way into Champions League football the sport will be ruined.

On a positive note, Saudi-owned Newcastle United got absolutely skint by ------------------ and a 10-man Liverpool side on Sunday. Money can't buy class.
YNWA

Wagner Group Retirement Plan

Maybe this is it? Prigozhin would be capable of rigging a flight manifest. He has a few billion dollars and control over a large chunk of Africa. As everyone has pointed out, including Prigozhin, he was on borrowed time.
It just seems strange Putin would kill him now with Niger on fire. And do it very publicly, in a way that makes him the only suspect, but makes no public statement or effort to confirm the body.
Plus, 'leaked' footage of a plane falling from the sky within hours. Seems like a put-up job.

Made in Kamra, Pakistan Aeronautical Complex
Half the airframe is, then it is shipped to China for for final assembly.
You make a decent prop trainer that looks suspiciously like a 1960's Cessna.

you are a hendoooooo
Aww, does this mean we can't be friends? Sadface.
You're my favorite parasite.
No, ringworm is my favorite parasite. You're my second favorite parasite.
Wait. Ringworm, then rats with the plague, then you.

Why would I type something snarky about the Jews?
Because you're a bigot.

Ummm we build our own jets, dumbo.
Like what? The JF-17 is assembled in China with Russian engines because you dont have the machining capability. The JL-8 trainer is wholly assembled in China with reverse engineered Garrett engines. I assume the patent infringements bring you great "shame" considering how important copyright protection is to you.

Venting against Pakistan when it has nothing to do with the topic of this thread. But typical for a hindoo
Wrong again, Copernicus. Scotch-Irish atheist.
Feel free to use any opportunity to make moral judgments about my culture, who should be ashamed, who shouldn't and whatnot, but no whining when I choose to throw rocks at your glass shanty in response.

To find a new place to poo without a toilet.
Fair enough, there are no toilets on the moon. Fear not, the space faring nations will work it out and you can read about it on the internet.

I thought Oppenheimer was a genius???
But OK... if you think a monkey is a genius
Oppenheimer? WTF are you on about? A Pavlovian response to having gone too long without typing something snarky about the Jews?

I don't even know what you are trying to say....
No, I dont imagine you would.
Look, I'm not necessarily calling your 'country' a cargo cult as an insult. Some scribbled lines on a map drawn by middle management at the East India Company, such as it is. I'm merely recognizing the obvious.
You know you can't build and maintain 50 year old fighter jets on your own. And you need those jets or your 'inferior' "monkey" neighbors will roll you up (again(for the fourth time)). And no one wants a nuclear exchange in Asia, it's bad for business.

So Pakistan gets to be the world's open air prison for the most despicable terrorists -- who live there under a sort of house arrest with their VHS porn, three "wives" and ISI handler. In exchange we dangle enough military cargo for you to keep tying together bamboo bi-planes.
We'd prefer to (and often do) just unalive these less-than-humans but drone strikes play poorly politically. Can't throw them in a hole with sodium lights and loud bossa nova blaring 24/7, either. We'd like to (and often do) but there are legal principles to consider and its seems too icky for television.
Praise allah for Pakistan! A home you would only wish on your worst enemy. Exporter of knited fabric, soccer balls and religious hatred. Always eager to smooth out another dirt runway if someone will show 'em how to rebuild a turbine. But you're never going to get the Beyond The Horizon radar or any of the avionics that make the planes useful in the first place. We're dumb, but we aren't that dumb, and neither are the Chinese.
Personally, I think it is a bad deal for us. Too much carrot, not enough stick. I'd prefer we sink our lot in with India. Wait on you two to kick off again, and go in there with four tank divisions and a carrier group and turn the place into a casino.

Obviously a butthurt hiphop lover
Meh. I prefer jam bands and live music. But like everyone else of my generation, I put plenty of miles on The Chronic and All Eyes On Me in my younger days. You dont need to be a "lover" of hip hop to acknowledge K Dot is a genius or that hip hop and jazz have a global cultural impact unrivaled by any art-form Pakistan has ever produced. Bested by "monkeys", shameful.

Speaking of being bested...India is going to the moon. You're making paper mache BTH avionics and listening to 70 year old pirated Brazilian elevator jingles. Your frustration is palpable and likely the main source of the filthy racism.

Now THIS is real music. Always liked bossa nova.

Sounds an awful lot like American Jazz. Oh wait,

Bossa Nova began on the tropical beaches of Rio de Janeiro in the late 1950s, when a small group of mainly middle-class students, artists and musicians came together to create a new sound. Bossa Nova was a soft samba based on traditional Brazilian music and rhythms, American jazz, and a new style of Portuguese lyrics.

On a related note, while living under the yoke of what is essentially a dictatorial cargo cult, have you found it hard to get access to all the American pop culture you obviously consume? If we looked at your save files how much piracy would we find? You being such a staunch supporter of copyright laws and all...

Zuckerberg is at -160, he opened at -440. The delusional Musk fanboys will drive the price even lower.
I hope they fight. This one is worth a trip to Vegas.
Zuck regularly completes Murph crossfit workouts --one mile run, 100 pushups, 200 pullups, 300 squats and another mile run. He trains jiu-jitsu under Dave Camarillo. Musk is shaped like an onion sack and has never been in a fist fight in his life.

This is better than an underdog senior quarterback at home. It's better than Saban against the spread.
Axe: "What's your level of certainty?"
Dollar Bill: "I am not uncertain."

The coach takes off the best striker during extra time and brings on a 42yo DM. That's Pete Carroll levels of bonehead. It's the World Cup, it's not important that everyone gets to play.
Skying a penalty and laughing about it?! Not sure what to think about that. Never seen it happen.

Fine, let's take him at his word. He believes himself and his co-conspirators are modern day versions of John Adams. We'll ignore for the moment they made no list of grievances and the despot they were overthrowing had not yet taken power.

We the undersigned...mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. Victory or high treason were the only possibilities the Founders allowed themselves.

The putsch failed. The scaffold awaits.

Not sure we can blame this one on Wall St.
SportsCenter is trash. They let all the talent go and replaced them with annoying clowns. Stephen A. Smith gets 13 million a year to rake his finger nails across a chalkboard. Troy Aikman has a 90 million dollar deal. Olberman, Robin Roberts, Kilborn and Scott are all gone.
They seem to be paying the NBA, MLB and NFL to provide those leagues with growth instead of looking outside the 'big 3' for their own growth. 2.2 billion for Monday Night Football?!? ESPN deserves to fail.
They let the USA Network out bid them on The Champions League. That's several billion eyes they could have brought in. The best EPL coverage is on NBC. They could steal Rebeca Lowe and Peter Drury for a song. I saw the guys from Men in Blazers on a freggin Twitch stream the other day, they could get them both for half of what Smith gets paid. Instead they set up a remote from the NFL combine. And do 6 hours of content a day on the personal lives of retired quarterbacks.

To the point that drivers got out of their cars and yelled at me for what I did.
Yeah, it is very common for police here to be out of uniform and try to make eye contact with drivers as they enter crosswalks on red. If they make eye contact and you dont stop you get a big ticket. I'm fine with that. I'm fine with them doing something similar to bring attention to bicycles.

My basic point is that not all roads are suitable for bicycles, even some that are legal to ride on. It seems like my little stretch of Hwy 1 has a death per month. It is dangerous as hell in a car with blind curves and hilltop mergers, no shoulder, a bridge that has been under construction for years. On any given day you will pass at least 5 bikes. Madness. Stupidity. Hubris.
They may have right of way, that will be something their family can take up with an insurance company.

That's mostly a strawman argument.
Not in this case. It's a two lane hwy with 65mph speed limit. There are no crosswalks. No sidewalk.

I suppose pedestrians shouldn't be crossing the streets IN MARKED CROSSWALKS
^^that's a strawman^^ idiot

So when the plate comes back as not in the system the immediate response inst to double check you called the numbers in wrong, the assumption is they must be committing some crime.

It's a cop strolling through a hotel parking lot looking for out of state people to harass. No car has been stolen, there has been no disruption at the hotel. Probably followed them right on their bumper for a while trying to ----- them. That's how they do it in Texas. The plate not coming back was all the provocation they needed to go full ham.

Tucumcari, NM and Erick, OK. Those are the places you stop and fill up or sleep for the night. Never stay in Texas for one minute longer that you have to, never stop or spend money there. Any out of state plate will be pulled over, they will just make ---- up if they need to.

I don't understand why Clinton treated Russia as a parhiah, really unfortunate.

Clinton had 23 meetings with Yeltsin/Putin. He put them in the G7. He gave them 1.6 billion to house and feed their troops in the Balkins. Russian soldiers joined NATO peacekeepers on the ground in Bosnia. He passed the NATO-Russia Founding Act through a Republican Senate that gave Russia a voice in NATO.

When the Ukrainians find your bot farm I hope they put your pinched little head on a spike.

what exactly, you think is nonsense

That a civilization capable of FTL travel could visit Earth and have their presence disclosed or hidden against their will. If they wanted us to know they were here, we would know it. And if they didnt want us to know we wouldn't have the slightest clue.
The prospect that a couple guys in the Pentagon can cover up or expose them is nonsense.

quietly disarm any and every nuclear weapon out of shame
That's a nice thought but probably a bit a wish-thinking. I think their would be a population >0 plotting an insurgency, putting on war paint and dancing around Little Big Horn.

I also think it would be the beginning of the end for racism and nationalism. We'd all be equally inferior to our new flat mates and see ourselves for the first time as "Earthlings".