Posted on 09/12/2020 8:13:51 PM PDT by ransomnote
Please tell me what that all means. I R ignorant.
ThanQ you
Wow, Chuck got Q’ed!
I asked for this list last night here.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3883527/posts?page=118#118
Yeah Q!
Quote regarding “Mr. Ryan” is from the movie “The Hunt for Red October”
The movie, “The Hunt for Red October”, Sean Connery is the Russian commander and is defecting to the US with a new technology sub. The Russians, of course, don’t want the US to get that sub, so they have sent their own sub to sink it.
The captain of the other Russian ship fires a torpedo towards the Red October, and Connery commands the helmsman, an American that has boarded, to turn into the torpedo and run full speed ahead.
The trick is that the torpedo is set to arm itself at a distance selected by the captain of the ship that fired it, and he sets that distance far enough that if the Red October can close the distance fast enough, it will contact the torpedo before it arms itself.
He is successful. but he warns that the next torpedo will not have the safety set the same way - that the torpedo will be armed the second it is launched.
The last line of Q’s post is a direct line from that movie, and being a movie geek, I recognized it and continued the dialogue. :)
Mr. ryan is Jack Ryan. It’s a quote from the movie The Hunt For Red October
Correct - I failed to point that out. Jack Ryan is the American author that is sitting in the helmsman’s seat on the Red October. Most of the Russian crew has been put on life boats and are being rescued by a US ship as this is going on beneath the water’s surface.
The USS Dallas is also down there, but its captain is on the Red October with a couple of others that boarded her.
The idea that you can defeat your opponent through superior usage of the battlefield.
Looks like that is exactly what the Feds have been doing. Re: the funding, doubt that is being left on the table. "You can't expect a big explosion from three little bags of explosives, give it time, it'll work." Miller Force Ten from Navarone
Upthread, these two links to canada fires was posted by greeneyes:
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-map
https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/fire/
How is it that Canada has fewer fires than the US?
Antifa doesn’t have passports?
I ERRED (pronounced F#*&ED UP)...
My post #387 is in error. Thanks to Kallisti for setting me straight.
President Trump Holds Campaign Rally in Las Vegas, NV 9/13/20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_onNfrHKUI
SLIDE: East Indian Company. That’s interesting information about Bengal-I had not read that before.
I did read that the Brits were supportive of the South during the Civil War-they really didn’t want their “free trade” stopped. Cheap cotton etc for their sweat shops. Plus the powers that be in the world, always wanted the USA broken up.
Later they decided to form the EU to try to be a counterweight. Now we have enough unassimilated foreigners to balkanize the USA. That would make them happy wouldn’t it?
Bloody Brits—a name well earned I guess.
That was interesting. Thanks.
https://twitter.com/QueenVicToriouz/status/1304794909564710912
Video at link. WARNING: lots of bad words.
Mayor of London sings a song. Parody.
My late father always referred to them as “the godless English.”
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