Thread: The Sumbitch Playground

To everybody on TD: Happy Holidays!


The Bears linebacker tore his ACL while celebrating a sack on Patriots backup Jimmy Garoppolo in the closing minutes of a 28-point loss.

HALLLLO. Anybody up for a climb?










The two climbers were so overcome with guilt over having left Francys that they vowed to return to Everest to give her a more dignified resting place. The were able to return in 2007, 9 years after her passing. She was wrapped in an American flag, and pushed out of view of other climbers. Francys was the first American woman to summit Mt. Everest without the use of bottled oxygen.











HAPPY NEW YEAR TEAKDOORKS!

^ Morbid ghoul.

This guy is pretty caj, EH?

30 WWII Facts That They Do Not Teach You At School

There is more to WWII than the history books at school are able to tell us, below are 30 facts that your history teacher never told you about!



Leonard Dawe, a crossword compiler for the Telegraph, used a number of D-Day operation code names as the answers to his puzzle in the months before D-Day. MI5 interrogated him only to discover that it was a random coincidence. - D-Day Crossword Panic 1944


Hitler visits the Eiffel Tower (Bundesarchiv)

The lift cables of the Eiffel Tower were cut by the French Resistance after Germany occupied France in June 1940. As a result, German soldiers had to climb to the top to fly the swastika flag. -





A radio belonging to a British POW was hidden so well that when the soldier visited the camp 62 years later, he found it right where he left it. - BBC One - Antiques Roadshow, Series 34, Remembrance Special, Antiques Roadshow Remembrance Special - POW Radio



“Caesar” gun of an 88 mm flak battery in action. Up to this picture being taken the gun had scored eleven hits which can be seen marked on its barrel.

On average it took 16,000 88mm anti-aircraft shells to bring down a bomber – The Guns At Last Light



Two Polish doctors discovered that the Nazis would not deport anyone to a concentration camp who tested positive for typhus for fear that the disease would spread. The two injected Jews and non-Jews in their city with a vaccine containing Dead Epidemic Typhus that would test positive but have no adverse effects, saving approximately 8,000 lives. – Dr. Eugene Lazowski | Jewish Virtual Library

To Be or Not To Be...Continued

Have you ever dreamed of seeing Mount Everest or fantasized about hiking through the peaks and valleys of the Himalayas? This video, by Teton Gravity Research, might be even better.



The aerial HD footage was shot from about 20,000 feet, giving the viewer an unprecedented look at this magnificent landscape - arguably a more awesome vantage point than what you'd have if you were hiking through it.

The video was shot with the GSS C520, which is one of the most advanced cameras in the world. The camera was attached to a helicopter and manned by a crew who were given supplemental oxygen to withstand such high altitudes. The helicopter and camera were able to capture some of the most high-resolution shots ever produced at this altitude. The top of the Himalayas has never looked better from the ground.

Source: Teton Gravity research

Originally Posted by kingwilly

meanwhile back to this thread.

Yet you kept it going

Originally Posted by wjblaney

Have you ever dreamed of seeing Mount Everest or fantasized about hiking through the peaks and valleys of the Himalayas?

Boiling up all that yellow snow for a nice cup of life saving tea..

Originally Posted by wjblaney

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There is more to WWII than the history books at school are able to tell us,

Read a book called operation mincemeat.

Originally Posted by Cujo

Read a book called operation mincemeat.

Used to study WWII as a hobby. For example, read Churchill's memoirs...6 volumes...from beginning to end, once, and partly thru a second time. The Brits had the best historians, I thought at the time. Then I started on the U.S. Civil War. Remember the Ken Burns series on PBS? It came with a companion volume that was very interesting. Read a bunch of non-fiction history of that conflict but can't say I completed a thorough study. My plan was to go from there back to the Revolutionary War. As an activist hippie, learning that there already was a revolution was an eye-opener.

If I can get back into it, I'll take you up on that.

I find this thread offensive.

Originally Posted by Black Heart

I find this thread offensive.

Don't open it then.

Originally Posted by Black Heart

I find this thread offensive.

Why, do you want your own playpen ?

It's called the dog house.

Originally Posted by Cujo

Originally Posted by Black Heart

I find this thread offensive.

Don't open it then.

Put a cork in it, puppy pounder.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Originally Posted by Black Heart

I find this thread offensive.

Why, do you want your own playpen ?

It's called the dog house.

OK, Mr. Be-banned everywhere but here.

The Candidates’ Positions On Marijuana Policy



Seeing as how it is 4/20, I thought today would be a good day to take a look at how all the remaining presidential candidates stand on the issue of marijuana policy. While mostly ignored by the media (and almost completely ignored in the debates), the issue is going to become a lot more important in the general election, as many states will have recreational legalization ballot initiatives to vote on. The issue is at least addressed by both Democrats on their campaign websites, but none of the Republicans have a single word about marijuana policy on theirs. This is likely a mistake on their part, since pro-marijuana voters are not as partisan as you might think — the issue cuts across party lines in a way that few other contentious issues do.

The tide is shifting so fast on the public’s view of marijuana that America could reach a real tipping point on the legalization debate during the next president’s term in office. So let’s take a look at what each of the candidates have had to say about the federal marijuana policies they would pursue as president.


Hillary Clinton

Both Democratic candidates, to their credit, have comprehensive plans to overhaul the failed federal War On Drugs. In both cases, this includes strong support for sentencing reform, treatment programs, drug courts, and other criminal justice reforms. Check out both campaign websites for much more detailed information on the candidate’s overall plans to reverse the excesses of the War On Drugs.

Hillary Clinton is specific about some non-marijuana War On Drugs policies that she would reform, most notably her call to get rid of the sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine. This has been a big problem (and has given millions longer sentences as a result), so it’s good to see her address it.

Hillary Clinton has three bullet points on her campaign website specifically dealing with marijuana (emphasis in original):

• Focus federal enforcement resources on violent crime, not simple marijuana possession. Marijuana arrests, including for simple possession, account for a huge number of drug arrests. Further, significant racial disparities exist in marijuana enforcement, with black men significantly more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than their white counterparts, even though usage rates are similar. Hillary believes we need an approach to marijuana that includes:
  
• Allowing states that have enacted marijuana laws to act as laboratories of democracy, as long as they adhere to certain federal priorities such as not selling to minors, preventing intoxicated driving, and keeping organized crime out of the industry.
  
• Rescheduling marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II substance. Hillary supports medical marijuana and would reschedule marijuana to advance research into its health benefits.

Hillary’s approach, not surprisingly, is an incremental one. Dial back federal law enforcement efforts, move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II to remove barriers to medical research, and continue to allow the states which have legalized recreational marijuana (four currently, but this number could grow in November’s election) to continue their legal experiment without overbearing federal involvement. Overall, Hillary is for continuing the policies of Barack Obama and for generally taking a “wait and see” approach to what the individual states are doing.


Bernie Sanders

Millions of lives have been destroyed because people are in jail for nonviolent crimes. For decades, we have been engaged in a failed “War on Drugs” with racially-biased mandatory minimums that punish people of color unfairly. It is an obscenity that we stigmatize so many young Americans with a criminal record for smoking marijuana, but not one major Wall Street executive has been prosecuted for causing the near collapse of our entire economy. This must change.

He also raises specific points that Clinton doesn’t mention:

In many cities all over our country, the incentives for policing are upside down. Departments are bringing in substantial sums of revenue by seizing the personal property of people who are suspected of criminal involvement. So-called civil asset forfeiture laws allow police to take property from people even before they are charged with a crime, much less convicted of one. Even worse, the system works in a way that makes it very difficult and expensive for an innocent person to get his or her property back. We must end programs that actually reward officials for seizing assets without a criminal conviction or other lawful mandate. Departments and officers should not profit off of such seizures.

Bernie also has three bullet points that specifically deal with marijuana policy on his website:

• We need to turn back from the failed “War on Drugs” and eliminate mandatory minimums which result in sentencing disparities between black and white people.
  
• We need to take marijuana off the federal government’s list of outlawed drugs.
  
• We need to allow people in states which legalize marijuana to be able to fully participate in the banking system and not be subject to federal prosecution for using pot.

source: The Candidates' Positions On Marijuana Policy