The MSM applies a double standard.
When Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a slut, the MSM was outraged. President Barack Hussein Obama even got into the controversy, saying, "All decent folks can agree that the remarks that were made don't have any place in the public discourse." Isn't it rather ironic that Obama would use the words "decent folks?" In light of what Obama said about Limbaugh, how can he not disapprove and apologize for the actions of singer Cee Lo Green at his fundraising event on March 16, in Atlanta?
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26 - Zingzing
Apology readily accepted, clavos. Now you go back to getting on my tits because I do enjoy it so.
27 - Clavos
well, you do have nice ones, zing...
28 - Clavos
And Glenn, thanks for the kind words.
Maybe I'm mellowing out; I moved back aboard the boat and am living again full time on it. I much prefer life afloat to life ashore, so maybe that's why.
29 - S.T.M
I notice there's a Keith Barnes here. Couldn't be the legendary fullback Keith Barnes, one of the world's best-ever rugby league players, Balmain Tigers legend and Kangaroos skipper on the 1959 ARL tour of England????
Not only could could Barnes tackle blokes in half, bust through defensive line tackles and find open space, pass with a whip hand and get the ball down over the chalk with monotonous regularity, he could also boot goals from anywhere on the park. He kicked over 100 on the 1959 Kangaroos Tour.
Nah, getting the legendary Golden Boots Barnsey on here; that'd be too much to hope for, wouldn't it, on BC.
Wrong universe ...
30 - S.T.M
Go The Tiges!
31 - Dr Dreadful
Blimey, Stan, if he toured with the Kangaroos in '59 he must be in his 70s or even 80s by now. Is he even still alive?
32 - Keith Barnes
Sorry friend, wrong Barnes wrong country, not that old.
I live in the U.S.A. Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to be exact. You in Europe?
33 - Keith Barnes
According to wiki he was born in 1934-OUCH!
34 - Keith Barnes
I may have blundered onto the wrong website here, it's seems too right-wing for me to hang around in this chatroom for long.
35 - El Bicho
Keith Hussein Barnes, you'll see a mix of wings around here. whenever you think it's too one thing, it will soon be another, and then some other visitor will complain about that slant
36 - Keith Barnes
So it's like Pittsburgh, if you don't like the weather wait 10 minutes and it will change?
37 - Keith Barnes
Should I put "Hussein" in the middle of my name so I'll fit in better?
38 - STM
The other Keith Barnes asks: "You in Europe?"
Nah, sorry, I'm the Great Southern Land ... the big island continent, God's Own Country, on the other side of the Pacific. The clue might be in one of the animal names used in the above comments. You have a good namesake Keith.
And Doc, yes, I believe he is still alive.
Geez he could run that bloke, and he used to break the line by shimmying in towards the player trying to tackle him and then he'd be off. Draw and run. A master of the old in-and-away. Love it ...
He kicked old football style ... positioning the ball on a mound of sand, walking directly back and after the run up hitting the point of the ball with the toe of his boot (aka, a "toe-poker"). Not many blokes can do that and get the kind of strike rate he had between the big sticks.
Almost everyone does the around the corner kick now stolen from soccer ... even the good American football kickers (who I believe don't actually play the game but just come on every now and then and take a kick, the poor dears)
39 - Golden Boots
You young blokes should be ashamed of yourselves. Of course I'm still bloody alive.
If I catch that STM and that Doc bloke, they'll be in for a bloody good thrashing.
40 - Dr Hussein Dreadful
Almost everyone does the around the corner kick now stolen from soccer ... even the good American football kickers
Yes: the soccer-style kick, as I understand it, gives you better accuracy but you sacrifice range. Although some top-class goalkeepers, using the top-of-the-boot style, can kick almost the entire length of a 120-yard field in windy conditions (not that this helps their teammates much, but that's beside the point).
Barnes must have been one of that rare breed who could combine accuracy with distance using a small kicking surface.
The legendary New Orleans Saints kicker Tom Dempsey was born with half his right foot missing, so he had no option but to use the straight-on style, and he was damn good at it. He had a special shoe that basically turned his foot into a club.
The game-winning 63-yard field goal he kicked against Detroit in 1970 is still an NFL record. (It's been equalled twice, but on both occasions in Denver, which is at an elevation of about a mile. Dempsey remains the only player to manage it at sea level.)
41 - S.T.M
Doc.
Pretty bloody good at 63yd. That's exceptional. Some of the South Africans in the Super Rugby and Tri Nations tournaments can kick 55 metre goals on a good day from inside their own half, but it's always at altitude where the ball flies better, say Jo'berg, Bloemfontein or Pretoria, because there's less resistance at altitude - yes, that's not a myth. Defensive kicks for touch in general play also get some decent purchase.
But Keith's 101 goals on a Kangaroo tour, though, Doc. That's not bad. Especially on some of those cold, rainy and half dark wintry afternoons ooop north at Wigan and Hull and what have you, with sleet driving into your face and ice-cold winds boring right through you. And generally on churned up muddy fields, too. Some of those rugby league grounds in Yorkshire can get pretty damn cold, even in the stands where's there's at least a bit of protection.
And remember Doc, rugby and rugby league players are sometimes kicking goals at very acute angles. If a winger scores a try near the corner flag, the kicker takes the ball back as near or far as he likes but it must be directly in line with the spot where you touched down. Barnes regularly kicked goals from the sideline, on quite a few occasions converting his own tries.
Ah, can you tell footy season has started over here? Lol. The only problem is, I've moved to one of the heathen states where they only play Australian Football. Can't for the life of me work out what's going on there. 18 a side, huge oval-shaped ground, four goal posts at each end (and no cross bar) posts and men with no sleeves on their guernseys. Alien Football League for me. I suppose I'll get used to it though ... apparently you have to, or you don't have any mates.
Hope all's good with you Doc, and San Diego is being kind to you in the lousy circumstances the US finds itself in at the moment. I hope you've been able to make a quid. Cheers champ.
42 - Alternate Keith Barnes
I guess I'll have to log onto an ancestry site and see if we're related, though I doubt he has any relatives here in the states.
Though with pro athletes you never know, eh Golden Boots?
43 - Dr Hussein Dreadful
Thanks for the good wishes, Stan. Same to you, and hope that you get the hang of here's-this-cricket-pitch-but-none-of-us-feel-like-playing-cricket-what-shall-we-do-instead-ball.
I did land a job, but don't exactly know when (or if) I'll be starting. It's in law enforcement support so I'm currently going through their marathon background check process. Got a couple of other irons in the fire, so hopefully I'll be busy soon one way or another. In the meantime, enjoying being a househusband and collecting the dole!
44 - S.T.M
Doc: "It's in law enforcement support so I'm currently going through their marathon background check process"
Yes, sheriff, I AM from Scotland Yard. Oh, sorry, you checked? No, not that Scotland Yard; 15 Scotland Yard, Good Hard Wallop, Beans-on-Cheese, UPTHE M1, County of Plodshire, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, Almost part of Europe, The World.
Yes, sheriff, there are two Scotland Yards. Don't you yanks know anything??
The alternate Keith Barnes: Keith, I believe your namesake is originally from Wales (before he moved to NEW SOUTH Wales), so if you have any Welsh heritage, you could well be related somewhere along the line. In the meantime, hope you have fun killing some time with the fine BC lunatic crew. Cheers mate!