I am reminded of Harry Turtledove’s story “Islands in the Sea”, in which Christian and Muslim emissaries each try to convert a Bulgar Khan to their faith. The Khan recognized that realpolitik is driving him to align with one side or the other, but is a bit dismayed at having to choose between giving up polygamy and giving up alcohol. :eek:
I read that story I think. Didn’t he end up choosing Islam? If it had been me that’s what I would do, it would probably be easier to do secret drinking than secret sex.
To some extent - it’s difficult to do secret drunk off your gourd 
Depends on how well you can hold your liquor.
I’m curious about where all those “civilian volunteer guards” are now and why they’re not guarding the schools. You know the ones I’m talking about, those who showed up to “protect” military recruiters.
West Point accepted him posthumously. Trump will probably make him an honorary white person. I wonder if he had calves the size of winter melons?
I had no idea that there was a strictly American commandment. “Americans, thou shalt each own as many firearms as possible”. Must have missed that lesson in Sunday School.
I wonder if this commandment was followed by another: “And thou shalt not come crying to me about dead children”.
Immigrant?
Coral Springs city police claim the Broward County sheriffs who arrived on the scene hid behind their cars and didn’t go inside the school with them.
Oh, good grief.
So apparently both the FBI and local law enforcement got all kinds of warnings. For example:
Here is the full transcript:
Are those guys still doing that, or did they get their 5 minutes of attention?
I seem to recall that not going well.
Glenn Haab admits that he doctored the emails from CNN to make it look like they scripted his son’s questions at the gun control forum.
Your cite doesn’t say what you said it says (why do you do this?):
That’s the sub-headline from your link.
The following is in the text of the story:
You post a lot of great links, Rick, but you undermine your own credibility fairly often by posting things that are simply not contained in the stories you link to.
Right. That’s why he shopped it to FOX NEWS with the words omitted. Of course it was fucking intentional.
I’ll say it again: the story you linked to does not say what you said it did.
Do you contest that? Please show me where in the story you cited, it says what you claimed.
No, I think it does say that. Glenn Haab claims that he just accidentally “omitted some words”. The words were
I see that as grossly altering the meaning of those two sentences together.
But, if you are not dishonest, you forward an e-mail as-is. Why the fuck would you alter the content? There is literally no way for a forthright person to accidentally omit some words. Why those specific words, if his intent was not to misrepresent the meaning?
No, in this case, Rick is on point.
Then you aren’t reading the words in the article. Nowhere in the cite does it say what Rick claimed it said. In fact, it says the opposite: that it was not deliberate.
You’re free to read in whatever you want, but the words “admits that he doctored the emails from CNN to make it look like they scripted his son’s questions at the gun control forum” do not appear anywhere in the cite, nor is there anything written that supports that conclusion.
The article isn’t long; there aren’t that many words to quote, but there are none that align with what Rick claimed.
I concede that what Rick wrote is not in the article. He tends to summarize, and often gets it wrong. But the point is, Glenn Haab forwarded an altered (according to CNN) e-mail to Fox. Haab claims it was an accident, but I cannot see an accidental way for that to happen. You click “Fwd->”, you enter a recipient, you hit send: anything more than that is dishonest. Selectively deleting some of the sender’s words is dishonest and not “accidental”. In this case, Rick’s summary is good.