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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 16, 2015 - 06:02pm PT
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One of Herr Braun's later models. Der RundfunkUhrSpeiler.
I'm not supposed to tell, but there is a cuckoo clock coming. Hence his study of Amerikan cuckoos.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Sep 16, 2015 - 06:07pm PT
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Braun was a test tube baby...? Never would have guessed...?
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WBraun
climber
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Sep 16, 2015 - 06:10pm PT
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sycorax
Yeah I did run cross country all 4 years in high school.
I hated cross country.
I was a sprinter, high hurdles and High jump.
I ran against Lynn Swan in the hurdles who went on to be all pro wide-out for the Steelers and is in Hall of Fame now.
Coach made me do cross country to stay in shape for track and field season.
I wish I had weighed more and I would have done football instead.
Wide-out wide receiver .....
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Sep 16, 2015 - 10:50pm PT
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Get that kid out of that stupid school. It's obvious he's the only one there with any brains.
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dirtbag
climber
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Sep 17, 2015 - 07:35am PT
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Thank god Texas schools are now safe from home-made clocks.
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monolith
climber
state of being
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Sep 17, 2015 - 11:41am PT
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Adventurer
Mountain climber
Virginia
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Sep 17, 2015 - 12:26pm PT
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In 1942 our national paranoia over everyone and everything Japanese led to the forced internment of thousands of Japanese people residing in the US. Some of them had been here for decades.
Who knows what our present day paranoia over Muslims will lead to if we don't put a stop to all this knee jerk over reaction soon.
It's only a free country if your race, national origin, religion, or ethnic group is not on the latest national sh.. list.
Disgusting!
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dirtbag
climber
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Sep 17, 2015 - 12:55pm PT
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True, but I'd still do her.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 17, 2015 - 01:07pm PT
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When I was in 8th grade, I won the Illinois state science fair. And the principal made me get a haircut!
In high school in Moraga Ca, I got busted for setting off a navy rescue flare/smoke bomb. Calls into yet another principals office, I had to clean the locker and replace my friend's books and those in several adjacent lockers.
Today they would execute me for either of those stunts!
Reactionary much Ward? They can treat that.
Though Werner is right about Obama he should probably be imprisoned anyway, so we can all feel safer...
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peladob
Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
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Sep 17, 2015 - 02:25pm PT
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I'd be suing the f*#k out of that school, police department, and city.
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Redwood City
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Sep 17, 2015 - 02:51pm PT
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I'd be pleasantly surprised if he didn't sue . Having someone else give you money when you are wronged doesn't have to be the go to way to be made whole.
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Gene
climber
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Sep 17, 2015 - 03:09pm PT
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He'd be better advised not to sue, but instead ride the wave of goodwill he's receiving as far as he can.
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mtnyoung
Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
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Sep 17, 2015 - 08:34pm PT
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He'd be better advised not to sue, but instead ride the wave of goodwill he's receiving as far as he can.
Excellent comment, great insight.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Sep 18, 2015 - 09:48am PT
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Seems pretty ridiculous to most of us, but perhaps there's at least a little bit of another side of the story.
In an interview late Wednesday with MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Ahmed said he was pulled out of class at MacArthur High School by his principal and five police officers and taken to a room where he was questioned for about an hour and a half.
He said he asked the adults if he could call his parents.
"They told me 'No, you can't call your parents,'" Ahmed said. "'You're in the middle of an interrogation at the moment.' They asked me a couple of times, 'Is it a bomb?' and I answered a couple of times, 'It's a clock.'" It sounds to me like his answer was evasive (perhaps unintentionally so, but how would the officers know that?). Something could be both a bomb and a clock, and clocks are parts of some bombs (the good ol' time bomb!).
He could have just said "no, it's not a bomb," but according to his own statements, he didn't do that.
I'm not suggesting that the kid did anything wrong, and the school administrators and police were probably acting like total dipshits, but Ahmed perhaps could have shut the whole thing down by simply saying it wasn't a bomb, and for whatever reason, he didn't do that.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Sep 18, 2015 - 09:55am PT
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Im a teacher, I don't care what the kids name was, this would have freaked me out.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Sep 18, 2015 - 09:56am PT
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It sounds to me like his answer was evasive (perhaps unintentionally so, but how would the officers know that?). Something could be both a bomb and a clock, and clocks are parts of some bombs (the good ol' time bomb!).
He could have just said "no, it's not a bomb," but according to his own statements, he didn't do that.
I'm not suggesting that the kid did anything wrong, and the school administrators and police were probably acting like total dipshits, but Ahmed perhaps could have shut the whole thing down by simply saying it wasn't a bomb, and for whatever reason, he didn't do that.
Then you are just as stupid as the cops.
You are saying that you would depend upon the word of a suspected terrorist, as to whether a bomb was a bomb?????
You wouldn't have the bomb squad make a determination?
(assuming, as a professional police officer, you don't have the training to know that for a bomb to be a bomb, it needs to have explosives)
Why was the bomb squad not deployed? Was it because they knew it wasn't a bomb???????
Of course, you'd also support the torture of this AMERICAN child, because this is EXACTLY the ticking bomb scenario that is always used to justify torture.
Was this illegal interrogation recorded? What did he actually say? You are trying to take his words spoken to the press as some sort of evidence against him. Pathetic and cowardly.
But what do you expect from someone who would torture a child???
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dirtbag
climber
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Sep 18, 2015 - 09:57am PT
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I disagree, blah. Nothing he said would've made them second guess their prejudices and stop the dipshits from taking him in.
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