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Right Angle: Backstage (11-17-2020)
If this is your first episode of Right Angle Backstage as a new Member, you’re in for something special.
49 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage (11-17-2020)”
Hi Gentlemen. I have been watching for a long time and recently joined. Boy Bill you are really a great salesman.
Steve, the awakening with a burning throat thing can be a sign of laryngoesophageal reflux, often caused by eating late or alcohol, and can not only chemically burn your throat with stomach acids, but make you actually more susceptible to respiratory infections.
WOW! nice when your military strategic objective is Unconditional Surrender, and you can show some measure of power to the defeated to help them come to grips with their current (or eventual) defeat.
It may be a while before the Islamic ideologues and other leftists see something equivalent, however, and suffer a similar feeling of helplessness and hopelessness to continue their fight.
Maybe time to host on Rumble instead of YouTube. So many conservative videos just won’t play for me on YouTube
This election takes the 20 years I spent from 1993 to 2013 in the Navy and makes me say “for what?” I wasted 20 years of my life. I gave up a dream of starting a business, I missed many many of my kids birthdays, ball games, school events, vacations, anniversaries, and holidays to serve my country! To “…support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same…” to find out it was a farce! The joke was on me and that piece of paper is not worth $#!T because no one follows it and no one cares. I feel robbed, I feel hurt, I feel taken advantage of, I feel cheated.
First, thank you for your 20 years of self sacrifice and public service.
Second, I believe it was worth it.
Now we, both civilians and servicemen, must stand side-by-side to defend both our Constitution and the liberties it is designed to protect from the domestic threats that beat upon its walls.
For all the self-deprecating humor I love these backstage sessions. It makes the price of the membership worthwhile just in itself.
Isn’t the Inclusiveness and Diversity Committee and oxymoron? (Yes, we have one of those at work, too.)
If Democrats learn of microbes too dumb and lazy to have evolved over 2.5B years, they’ll make sure that somehow the microbes get to vote.
Won’t play for me either. Gives me error quote error occurred try again later”. Every time I try to access it.
I, as a naval officer (CWO3), had the privilege of re-enlisting a fine young man on board the BB-63 while standing at the plaque recognizing the surrender site. It was a very moving experience. You could feel the presents of all the past by just standing in that location.
We must not allow microbial abortion…
The jocularity on Backstage is just too darn funny…BTW Steve and Bill I have a friend whose father was an Army filmogropher. He was filming on that wonderful day on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Harbor.
Rumble… hmmm… is that why my spacebar stopped working as a character and acted like a ‘start the Rumble video’ special key? I also inadvertently got into full screen video mode while trying to type my comment, don’t know what keystroke got me there…
Thank God my keyboard is now de-Rumbled…
Should politicians have their rights ?
They are the only natural class of thieves in the USA.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
You can of course get all of the works that are in the Harvard Classics set on archive.org.
About 2 months ago I went and listened to all Backstage episodes. I’m still recovering.
Actually I’ve bookmarked some to listen to again. I have laughed out loud to a quite a few.
When I did that, I mentioned that in this site. Scott commented “To boldly go where no one has gone before” I laughed at that one.
As Bill might say, it’s what happens outside the frame that is really important. We, the member comments, are definitely outside the frame.
Except that couple-a times we did covid Zoom…
The problem with buying encyclopedias by the month is by the time you’ve got the whole set, they are outdated! I’ve got a complete set that was given to me in the 80’s that I can’t get rid of. They don’t even burn well!
I’ve got one better for you! At one time in the 70’s, I belonged to an 8-track a month club! Most of the ones I have that still work are pirated copies!
Taqiya
In Islam, Taqiya or Taqiyya is a dissimulation or denial of religious belief and practice in the face of persecution. It is often used in a fashion similar to the deception used in war.
I still say it’s chalupa.
I see that you are committed to stuffing your tortillas with cheese.
There comes a time when one must take a stand. A taco stand.
I hear that one must obtain a permit (a.k.a. unjustifiable taxation) in many jurisdictions to possess a taco stand.
Permeets? We don’ need no steenkeeng permeets!
Taqirya.
I had understood it to refer to any form of lying or deception as being permitted by the “Islamic Ideology” if it advanced the cause of Islam and Islamic conquest/ conversion.
Yes. I believe that you and I are stating similar definitions. As I understand it, taqiyya is permitted deception that is intended to protect adherents of Islam from persecution until the time said adherents (zealots?) gain a large enough population to force the submission of all kafir in the host society. This is an art of ideological war that, in the case of Islam, eventually leads to violence and terror.
Graphene belts are all the rage on comet Bennu.
It’s chalupa.
Are we sure Lil Wayne’s “gun” wasn’t just a Pop-Tart?
And if Steve is medicated enough, isn’t he craving Pop-Tarts right about now?
Nope. Pop-Tart belonged to Corn-Pop.
China’s gonna love those NASA people.
And these people are taking the Prime Directive to the absurd extremes TNG did.
Yes, because the CCP is going to cancel their Mars mission after they receive that strongly-worded letter from the UN.
What, no Zamfir?
Does Steve need an Abe Vigoda-like web site to keep us abreast of his mortality status?
Good one!
New members, don’t listen to those schmoes in the video – Backstage is awesome!
Haven’t read “Downfall” but based on Mac’s success at Inchon and cutting through the PLAN like a hot knife through butter, I think an invasion of Japan would have been completely successful. Extremely expensive and the Russians would have likely invaded resulting in a North and South Japan but Japan would have fallen completely,
North Japan is now Sakhalin Island Russia.
30min! THat’s what I’m talking about.
Ah, back in the summer of 93 I knocked on doors selling encyclopedias. Good times!
If you’re wondering what happened to encycllopedia salesmen when the interwebs came along, they became telemarketers. Seriously. When Britannica went down in the late 90s Dan Snyder (owner of the Washington Redskins) hired them to sell long distance cellular plans & phones
Decorative books —
Had a friend/roommate back in Texas in ’70s. We were in Safeway one day and they had an encyclopedia promotion. First volume (volume five or whatever) for ten cents or some such. Then you could buy the rest at whatever bucks per volume.
Well, our apartment had some built-in bookcases. So, he bought ten copies of volume five to put on the shelf. Because they looked nice. (They did, too.)
Hotels do this.If you see books in the lobby, they’re probably just old law books bought at pennies for the nice leather covers. Some are even cut off to fit the shelf if too large.
Good luck moving forward during these uncertain times. There is a reset coming but if what I glimpsed is correct it won’t work out well for those dependent on power structures.