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I figure to be maybe supplying my new army soo....
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Originally Posted by clu
history of the middle east
1200 white fundies invade arab fundies
1400 ottoman empire
1920 ottoman empire defeated and state of Palestine or whatnot
1967 Israeli six day war
of course this is only (not all) fundie wars, and not wars for natural resources. so we have 800 years of fundies fighting fundies. it seems to me the problem might be fundies. this is only relevant in light of abu dhabi gay bar arrest
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hey asslips, why did you avoid mentioning how islam was spread from the arabian peninsula?
apologist / sympathizer
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NYT says this Stephen Paddock guy was self-raised single-mother blah blah, made several wise real estate purchases in the mid-80s, after apparently getting an accouting degree and "wanting to end up where the money is." He didn't like his IRS wages so he bounced. It is an interesting sentiment as the article implies the choice in profession seems to have been very specific. I hope they can track this guy's online habits cuz it looks like a conscientious (?) right-winger who doesn't like some aspect of some system - ala Unabomber.
at the moment I will guess self-radicalized RW, perfect gentlemen, health problems, or maybe he's really nuts like Charles Whitman brain tumor
Who Was Stephen Paddock? The Mystery of a Nondescript ‘Numbers Guy’
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The son of a bank robber and a secretary, Mr. Paddock grew up lower middle class in Southern California in the 1960s. From an early age, he focused on gaining complete control over his life and not having to rely on anyone. He cycled through a series of jobs he thought would make him rich, Eric Paddock said.
***8220;He went to work for the I.R.S. because he thought that***8217;s where the money was, but it turned out the money wasn***8217;t there,***8221; the younger Mr. Paddock said. ***8220;He went to the aerospace industry but the money wasn***8217;t there either. He went to real estate and that***8217;s where the money was.***8221;
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Mr. Paddock spent his 20s and 30s trying to escape the unpredictability of poverty. He worked nights at an airport while going to the California State University, Northridge, his brother Eric said, and then at jobs with the Internal Revenue Service and as an auditor of defense contracts. But it was real estate that ultimately lifted Mr. Paddock to financial freedom.
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VeteranXX Contributor
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and then he snapped. it happens I hear
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defense budget auditing
DOD, HUD Defrauded Taxpayers Of $21 Trillion From 1998 To 2015
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Last year, a Reuters article brought renewed scrutiny to the budgeting practices of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), specifically the U.S. Army, after it was revealed that the department had ***8220;lost***8221; $6.5 trillion in 2015 due to ***8220;wrongful budget adjustments.***8221; Nearly half of that massive sum, $2.8 trillion, was lost in just one quarter. Reuters noted that the Army ***8220;lacked the receipts and invoices to support those numbers [the adjustments] or simply made them up***8221; in order to ***8220;create an illusion that its books are balanced.***8221;
Officially, the DOD has acknowledged that its financial statements for 2015 were ***8220;materially misstated.***8221; However, this was hardly the first time the department had been caught falsifying its accounting or the first time the department had mishandled massive sums of taxpayer money.
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The report, which examined in great detail the budgets of both the DOD and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), found that between 1998 and 2015 these two departments alone lost over $21 trillion in taxpayer funds. The funds lost were a direct result of ***8220;unsupported journal voucher adjustments***8221; made to the departments***8217; budgets.
According to the Office of the Comptroller, ***8220;unsupported journal voucher adjustments***8221; are defined as ***8220;summary-level accounting adjustments made when balances between systems cannot be reconciled. Often these journal vouchers are unsupported, meaning they lack supporting documentation to justify the adjustment [receipts, etc.] or are not tied to specific accounting transactions.***8221; The report notes that, in both the private and public sectors, the presence of such adjustments is considered ***8220;a red flag***8221; for potential fraud.
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VeteranXX Contributor
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that motive?
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Originally Posted by Osiris
Im very aware of the stats. I just cant fathom the resistance to banning semi automatic rifles. Why not bring the amount of people murdered down? If 2% less people die a year from guns isnt that a good thing? You can still go shoot your glock or whatever.
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because semi auto rifles are not the weapon of choice for gun crimes. So if you're talking about making a dent in the number of people murdered, wouldn't it make sense to go at the weapon most used.
How about if we ban ball bats, they are used in murders, a small percentage, but still...
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Originally Posted by buize
ITS UNRAVELING BROS
DELETE THIS THREAD QUICK
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Why don't they just look at video. This isn't a dollar store, its a premier vegas hotel, thet has cameras everywhere but the rooms. I find it hard to believe there isn't some kind of video of who came and went to his room
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Originally Posted by JuggerNaught
Why don't they just look at video. This isn't a dollar store, its a premier vegas hotel, thet has cameras everywhere but the rooms. I find it hard to believe there isn't some kind of video of who came and went to his room
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Most vegas hotels do not have cameras in the hallways, including Mandalay Bay
Few Vegas casinos have hotel surveillance The Mercury News
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REEEEEEEEEEEXV
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most corporate hotel/resorts like hilton, sheraton etc dont want cameras in certain areas because then they are held liable
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Haven't seen that video before.
Interesting, clear shots of his room windows and yet no Muzzle flash.
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pics of muzzles in room? Might be effective flash suppressors
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Originally Posted by SuperTrap
pics of muzzles in room? Might be effective flash suppressors
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Haven't seen any on the photos released, but then again we've only seen a few guns and those might not have even been used.
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Whiny BitchX Contributor
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Bring a hooker to the room, "Please ignore the guns..."
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VeteranXX Contributor
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Sounds to me like he knew how this was going to end. Got a really good room, hooker, sent the gf home with $100k, had a nice meal, then went to work
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VeteranXX Contributor
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Originally Posted by Gouge
Haven't seen that video before.
Interesting, clear shots of his room windows and yet no Muzzle flash.
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Just because camera recording didn't pick up on it doesn't mean it didn't come from there. He continually kept training his camera that way implying he could see something from there
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VeteranXX
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Originally Posted by JuggerNaught
Sounds to me like he knew how this was going to end. Got a really good room, hooker, sent the gf home with $100k, had a nice meal, then went to work
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the police say they have evidence he planned to leave alive
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VeteranXX Contributor
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He knew the odds were stacked against his living. I don't know how he couldn't
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