Tacmars

Now we get to a personal favorite conspiracy, one first learned about it in our very own OpenForum more than a decade ago. Put yourself in the place of the person responsible for planning the New World Order's takeover. You'll need to bring lots of troops with you to police and subjugate the locals, but how will they know where to go? You can't just erect road signs with "FEMA Extermination CampGÇöNEXT LEFT" on them without inducing unnecessary panic. Then, all of a sudden, you get a cunning idea. What if you could put up road signs without anyone finding out?

Obviously your New World Order's army will drive on the other side of the road to the American sheeple (presumably an invading force comprised of the British, Indians, and Japanese). Since they'll be driving on the wrong side, roadside signage will be facing away from them. Wouldn't it be wild if we put secret tactical markings (TACMARS) on the backs of these signs? Those naive fools would drive around and see directions to the freeway or speed limit, never for a minute realizing that hiding just on the other side is a code that spells out where the nearest detention facility or mass grave site is.

Presumably the officer of the New World Order who came up with such a cunning plan was rewarded with a promotion, an even more menacing black uniform and an office with a better view. One would certainly hope so, because it's a much more plausible explanation for the presence of reflective stickers on the backs of road signs in some municipalities. It's certainly more convincing than the official reason, inventory markers, to individuals like this one, who use 'a little knowledge about the placement of these codes' to enliven boring trips across the Trans Canada highway at night.

--so. Is this a bad time to say that I've already picked out a name for my as-yet-unconceived first-born son? Phillip James.

I think I just out-Englished the new princeling. :x

Blech.....

Just thought I'd throw that out there.

I haz tattoo!
*happy*

http://arstechnica.com/features/2013/05/the-truth-is-out-there-six-nutty-conspiracy-theories-for-memorial-day/



Guess the Doom-Sayers with the signs - 'The End Is Near' - aren't that far from the truth.



DMC

Aww
What's up, pumpkin?

Hoo boy.

Still, best to take care of the bathroom now!

One of the local geek shops-- the bathroom has always been a little bit nasty? But it's gotten to the point that it's now as bad as a gas station bathroom. No idea how that happens, but. Ew. EW. EWEWEW.

It's the fascination with a dying institution being kept alive, like the Pope and the Catholic Church.


edit: It's also infused with a bit of nostalgia for how things were. Don't forget, Shakespeare even immortalized a lot of the British Royalty and it's a huge tradition that Americans just will not ever really understand.

Besides, America has its own irrelevant past kept alive, especially in the South and the pining for the Confederate Days.

I got so sick of bumper stickers announcing "The South is Going to do It Again !!" when I lived in Texas.

The only response really was "Do what again ? LOSE ??"

Its not "will do it again". Rather its "will rise again" [inspiring to former greatness is not a bad thing]. Many country's today are always aspiring to be as good or better than they are currently.

Doing building restoration over the summer. Working on the boys bathroom right now. Ewwwwwww!!!

The Royal Larva has a name:

George Alexander Louis

Sorry for taking so long guys- but that 90's buttan stole a good part of my time.

Actually, those bumper stickers and associated paraphernalia are nothing but racist calling cards.

End of Story.

Hmmm i have never had an issue with someone in this thread before. But if you so choose to pass off your comment as the only interpretation with a half hazard comment you are obviously biased and using a personal opinion rather then history/context clues/effort/etc.

Your probably part of the same lot that calls for all confederate flags that are protected by the U.S. government to be burned that honor the war dead. Missing the point that they are not banned because all they stand for is not racism.

As the U.S. does tend to ban things or force others to ban them if they deem them only instruments of hate. e.g. no Germans may have over X amount of reichsmark unless they are using them for historical purposes such as a museum or class.

Story continued?

How very disappointing.

I was hoping they'd call him "Joffrey"

e.g. no Germans may have over X amount of reichsmark unless they are using them for historical purposes such as a museum or class.

Eliana;

So. Without getting into all of the politics (let's avoid that?), I have two concerns:

One, 'The South Will Rise Again' is usually associated with a reactionary mindset hearkening back to the myth of the genteel, wondrous days when the white folk lived in plantation manors and the uppity brown folk were service and could get a whippin' or a hangin' if they spoke back. While being inspired is a wonderful thing, it's sort of like the manhole covers in Rome still having SPQR emblazoned on them -- the conditions of the past no longer exist, and yearning for those olden days doesn't equip you to blaze a new path.

Two, we would never be one to say that Texas won or lost the war-- but rather, that the South lost the war. For better or worse, wars are fought by the whole political units; while skirmishes or battles may have been won by Texan forces, I strongly suspect that if Texas sought to stand on its own following the collapse of Lee's army, it would have suffered greatly in the coming battles. Mind, I have no doubt that a dedicated core of militiamen would have given a good account of themselves -- but if the full weight of Northern industry and manpower were turned on Texas... Whether the price paid by the North was too high, well-- we can look back at it now and say what we like, but at the time, the North was willing to pay that price, and so no CSA exists today.

So. Yeah. Anyway. History. It's a thing.

I definitely believe that, as Americans, our orientation should be toward making the system work and culling those parts of it that don't, rather than scuttling it.

My calling out the racist bumper stickers has absolutely nothing to do with your ridiculous political interpretations of history. Nothing whatsoever.

I was born and grew up in rural Arkansas. I know these people. That was over 40 years ago, and absolutely nothing you say here is ever going to change my mind or affect it one iota.

hu?


http://i.imgur.com/5DszCDj.jpg

65 Million Reichsmark lying around in my flat, there must be at least another 1 Billion note somewhere that I couldn't find.

Apparently I am a public enemy and raving fascist....

I can deal with this argument rather well as it is not just a one liner.

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It is true many over time have grown to associate it with a "poor" mind set. But that is because we empower it so. Lincoln is not remembered for issuing Martial Law to prevent states from freely choosing which side to be with or using families as hostages to guarantee compliance from citys thought to be loyalist to the South. Because we choose to remember the good things about him rather than how he allowed conscripting the Irish straight off the boat and sending them South as fodder or drafting the poor white people to fight the war. All i was stressing is, if we empower something to be negative it will always be negative, and i hate just seeing things negative about Texas, as i do about if someone said something bad about Liverpool etc. It generates a reaction from to at least show both sides of a stereotype.

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Your suspicion is strongly founded and right to be so. Instead of sounding like a bleeding heart and making a counter point about if this was different etc. I am fine with this. As i was just using this as a point of why Texas can gather this sort of high power of itself. As the Op was poking fun at it.