NoPC Forums http://www.nopc.info/forum NoPC is a community of conservative and libertarian thought, where often any and all discussions can be had. en Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:30:26 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.nopc.info/forum/images/misc/rss.jpg NoPC Forums http://www.nopc.info/forum Is a BIG War About to Break Out In the Middle East? http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44227&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:56:27 GMT Ominous headlines have been increasing... *ISRAELI FACILITIES IN N AMERICA, WORLD ON HIGH ALERT...... Ominous headlines have been increasing...


ISRAELI FACILITIES IN N AMERICA, WORLD ON HIGH ALERT...

Iran warns world of coming 'great event'...

Developing Missile 'That Could Reach America'...

Launchs small satellite into orbit...

SPLIT OVER STRIKE!

An Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilites--a necessity for their survival--will almost certainly draw in the US and almost certainly many other NATO countries as oil routes get disrupted and violence spreads throught the Gulf states and beyond.

Iran is rumored to have an army of terrorists seeded throughout many nations ready to strike at NATO and Israeli targets.

Such a war will DWARF anything we've seen in the Middle East since at LEAST 1973, and might exceed that in its destructive potential.

Oil will soar, the costs of war will cause already deeply indebted economies to spiral downward....this isn't going to be pretty, people.

I don't see a way out of it. NOT to do it now, to allow the Iranians their nukes and their increasingly sophisticated delivery systems, will spell wholesale destruction and mass death over large parts of the Middle East.

We're trapped....

I feel it in my bones, and it's a very unpleasant sensation: a HUGE, bloody and unpredictable was is about to break over the world.

Maybe the Mahdi is coming, like the Iranian Twelvers say....



 ]]> The Middle East polaris http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44227 the big stick finds a home http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44226&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:01:18 GMT some what dated. the USS Iowa has left pack rat fleet headed for her new home in LA. a stop in Richmond for repairs. Image:... some what dated. the USS Iowa has left pack rat fleet headed for her new home in LA. a stop in Richmond for repairs.







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I made a contribution to the state of Iowa a fews years back. guess it paid off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWN1We_7qlk ]]> General Discussion namvet http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44226 Gallup state numbers predict huge Obama loss http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44225&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:29:26 GMT http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/gallup-state-numbers-predict-huge-obama-loss/352881 Image:... http://campaign2012.washingtonexamin...ma-loss/352881



http://www.gallup.com/poll/152372/Ob...Job%20Approval ]]> Political free for all Lazarus http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44225 A new American citizen... http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44222&goto=newpost Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:04:11 GMT My brother-in-law and his wife (mostly his wife) just had a baby today (their second). Image:... My brother-in-law and his wife (mostly his wife) just had a baby today (their second).



Ask me no questions: I will tell you no lies.
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]]> General Discussion Lazarus http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44222 <![CDATA["The Birther's Victory in Atlanta... "]]> http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44220&goto=newpost Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:06:06 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hxx3...&feature=share ]]> Political free for all Lazarus http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44220 Broken Window Theory.... http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44219&goto=newpost Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:06:17 GMT A major factor in determining individual behavior is social norms, internalized rules about the appropriate way to act in a certain situation. Humans... A major factor in determining individual behavior is social norms, internalized rules about the appropriate way to act in a certain situation. Humans constantly monitor other people and their environment in order to determine what the correct norms are for the given situation. They also monitor others to make sure that the others act in an acceptable way. In other words, people do as others do and the group makes sure that the rules are followed. However, when there are no people around, as is often the case in an anonymous, urban environment, the monitoring of or by others does not work. In such an environment, criminals are much more likely to get away with robberies, thefts, and vandalism. When there are few or no other people around, individuals are forced to look for other clues—called signals—as to what the social norms allow them to do and how great is the risk of getting caught violating those norms. An ordered and clean environment sends the signal that this is a place which is monitored and people here conform to the common norms of non-criminal behavior; a disordered environment which is littered, vandalized, and not maintained sends the opposite signal: this is a place where people do as they please and get away with it without being detected. Therefore, as people tend to act the way they think others act, they are more likely to act "disorderly" in the disordered environment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

Your thoughts on our anonymous environment? ]]> General Discussion Lazarus http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44219 Justices Rein In Police On GPS Trackers http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44216&goto=newpost Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:56:40 GMT *Justices Rein In Police On GPS Trackers* By JESS BRAVIN WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police violated the Constitution when they... Justices Rein In Police On GPS Trackers

By JESS BRAVIN

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police violated the Constitution when they attached a Global Positioning System tracker to a suspect's vehicle without a valid search warrant, voting unanimously in one of the first major cases to test privacy rights in the digital era.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...800873358.html

I know it was discussed before in another thread, but now the Court has ruled 9-0 in favor of the government needing a warrant to tag and track a suspect's vehicle. ]]> Stories in the News Lazarus http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44216 Are you better off now than you were $4 trillion ago? http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44213&goto=newpost Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:11:08 GMT Image: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/380530_306969509334739_195768000454891_984081_987634915_n.jpg ]]> Political free for all Lazarus http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44213 <![CDATA[And then there's still the matter of NBC]]> http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44212&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:09:03 GMT http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=30563 Look who is going to court. :cool: http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=30563

Look who is going to court. :cool: ]]> Political free for all Lazarus http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44212 <![CDATA[Dems propose 'Reasonable Profits Board']]> http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44211&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:23:57 GMT Dems propose 'Reasonable Profits Board' to regulate oil company profits


By Pete Kasperowicz - 01/19/12 10:20 AM ET


Six House Democrats, led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), want to set up a "Reasonable Profits Board" to control gas profits.
The Democrats, worried about higher gas prices, want to set up a board that would apply a "windfall profit tax" as high as 100 percent on the sale of oil and gas, according to their legislation. The bill provides no specific guidance for how the board would determine what constitutes a reasonable profit.



The Gas Price Spike Act, H.R. 3784, would apply a windfall tax on the sale of oil and gas that ranges from 50 percent to 100 percent on all surplus earnings exceeding "a reasonable profit." It would set up a Reasonable Profits Board made up of three presidential nominees that will serve three-year terms. Unlike other bills setting up advisory boards, the Reasonable Profits Board would not be made up of any nominees from Congress.







The bill would also seem to exclude industry representatives from the board, as it says members "shall have no financial interests in any of the businesses for which reasonable profits are determined by the Board."

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-actio...ompany-profits


Is it reasonable that the federal and state governments individually "earn" more profit on every gallon of gasoline sold than the company that produces and sells gasoline? ]]> Political free for all wendy http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44211 <![CDATA[Explosion! Gingrich's 2nd Wife Unloads]]> http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44210&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:42:58 GMT DRUDGE HEADLINES - NOW --------------------------- *Gingrich Lacks Moral Character to Be President, Ex-Wife Says... *Bitter Marianne Gingrich... DRUDGE HEADLINES - NOW
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*Gingrich Lacks Moral Character to Be President, Ex-Wife Says...
*Bitter Marianne Gingrich Unloads, Claims Newt Wanted Open Marriage...
*ABC DEBATES 'ETHICS' OF AIRING BEFORE PRIMARY...
*NYT: Disagreement over timing of broadcast...
*Greta Van Susteren: 'I would hold it until after the polls close'...
*GINGRICH DAUGHTERS: 'The failure of a marriage is terrible and emotional experience'...
*Adviser: Marianne 'very bitter'...
*'YOU NEED TO SHARE ME'

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Say bye bye to Newt.
He's a nasty arrogant fellow anyway.
Gets what he has sown. ]]> Political free for all wwworkingguy http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44210 Iran Continues to Troll The US... http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44209&goto=newpost Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:02:05 GMT *Iran Agrees to Return the U.S. Stealth Drone in Toy Form* Image:... Iran Agrees to Return the U.S. Stealth Drone in Toy Form




...On Tuesday, Iranian Radio Payam reported that a local company is manufacturing a toy version of the stealth drone one eightieth of its size that will be shipped to the White House.

..."There will be a special ceremony on Feb. 1 marking the 34th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran," reads the report.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/globa...oy-form/47505/



...At least one model — a pink one — has been reserved for President Obama.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...Ai5P_blog.html


The one gets a pink one! :laff: ]]> The Middle East THE Gypsy http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44209 Happy Lee-Jackson Day ! http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44208&goto=newpost Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:44:04 GMT Allow me to wish y'all all the best on this joyous holiday,when we celebrate two GREAT Americans !

'Specially you Obs.....as I read about your hero's great achievment at Cold Harbor......;) ]]> General Discussion Bassman http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44208 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44205&goto=newpost Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:56:32 GMT I finished the novel last week, and just got back from the theatre after seeing the film. Both are amazing, and most highly recommended. I finished the novel last week, and just got back from the theatre after seeing the film. Both are amazing, and most highly recommended. ]]> Sports and Entertainment DougRich http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44205 How Compatible Is Patriotism With Post-60s Progressivism? http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44203&goto=newpost Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:54:00 GMT Nothing pisses libs off more than the simple matter-of-fact statement that, after the massive ideological re-alignments of the 1960s, what we... Nothing pisses libs off more than the simple matter-of-fact statement that, after the massive ideological re-alignments of the 1960s, what we currently call 'liberalism' is really a generic, watered-down expression of the New Leftism that was at the heart of the anti-war movement. That the sense of allegiance and love known as patriotism was explicitily and loudly rejected by that generation of the left and all who followed in their footsteps. How do I know this? Because the former president of the Students for a Democratic Society [SDS], Todd Gitlin, tells us so without a hint of embarrassment, and he found himself at the centre of all the radical chaos of the 1960s. He now teaches dewy-eyed young 'journalists' at the Columbia Journalism School:rotflmao:.

Here are the quotes, and it is significant, embedded in an article on Gitlin from 'Discover the Networks'. He seems confident enough to feel free to speak for his entire generation:

In a 2003 article titled "Varieties of Patriotism," Gitlin reflected upon the decades he had spent harboring the belief that America was ultimately unworthy of his respect or allegiance. "For a large bloc of Americans my age and younger," he wrote, "too young to remember World War II -- the generation for whom 'the war' meant Vietnam and possibly always would, to the end of our days -- the case against patriotism was not an abstraction. There was a powerful experience underlying it: as powerful an eruption of our feelings as the experience of patriotism is supposed to be for patriots. Indeed, it could be said that in the course of our political history we experienced a very odd turn about: The most powerful public emotion in our lives was rejecting patriotism. Coming of age in the era of the Vietnam War, then, was the perceived cause of what Gitlin described, on another occasion, as his persistent sense of "estrangement," "shame," and "anger at being attached to a nation."

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/i...asp?indid=2210

Remember this next time you listen to anyone on MSNBC or read someone in the New York Times. ]]> Political free for all polaris http://www.nopc.info/forum/showthread.php?t=44203