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Brutal dictator's warning for NFL superstar Brett Favre
http://www.wnd.com ^ | July 23, 2015 | World Net Daily

Posted on 07/24/2015 8:35:01 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

NFL quarterback Brett Favre was met with a wave of criticism after he failed to clap enthusiastically enough at the 2015 ESPY awards ceremony when transgender Bruce Jenner was given an award for “Courage” because of his efforts to become a woman named “Caitlyn.”

Mocking the media campaign against Favre, historian Paul Kengor has made a comparison to the Soviet Union under dictator Joseph Stalin, where dissidents where told, “Never be the first one to stop clapping.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brettfavre; brucejenner; jenner
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To: UCANSEE2

Well they all get a trophy for participating /s


41 posted on 07/24/2015 9:45:18 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: wardaddy

*wink*

I was prepared to opine that Mr. Kengor, whose writing I admire (I’m on the waiting list at the library to get his book) was exaggerating if he’d compared anyone (other than another mass-murdering dictator) to Stalin ... but he didn’t.


42 posted on 07/24/2015 9:46:06 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: notdownwidems

I got a copy years ago, like app 15, the handwriting was already on the wall.


43 posted on 07/24/2015 9:46:20 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: NKP_Vet
He (Kengor) concluded, “If I were a liberal, it would bother me.”

I disagree. If it bothers you, you can't be a liberal.

A logical impossibility.

44 posted on 07/24/2015 9:46:54 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: Tax-chick

You write concisely

Unlike me

Too much loud music drugs and Hunter Thompson in my youth many many years ago

But I manage


45 posted on 07/24/2015 10:04:41 AM PDT by wardaddy (Mark Levin.....I love him...but he is ignorant of Dixie)
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To: wardaddy

It’s a big Internet with room for a diversity of communication styles.


46 posted on 07/24/2015 10:06:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: DuncanWaring; All
It was the tigers that got churned into butter.

That's right! Thanks for the memories.
47 posted on 07/24/2015 10:41:35 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: UCANSEE2

48 posted on 07/24/2015 10:54:32 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.Buy into it,)
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To: Tax-chick
Talk about uniform fail...

And yes...the uniforms DID look like that...they just never figured it out.

49 posted on 07/24/2015 11:14:37 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.Buy into it,)
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To: rlmorel

Someone came up with that. Someone manufactured it. Insane.


50 posted on 07/24/2015 11:16:32 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Tax-chick
Columbian Woman's Cycling Team are not ashamed of their uniforms!

LOL...apparently designed by one of the team...and she was doubling down on it!

51 posted on 07/24/2015 11:28:49 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.Buy into it,)
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To: All

52 posted on 07/24/2015 11:33:17 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Tax-chick; wardaddy; dfwgator; Buckeye McFrog; Yogafist; b4its2late; UCANSEE2
Actually, the scene is from "The Gulag Archipelago" where Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn describes (quite sardonically, I might add) this whole scene (for the benefit of anyone who has never read the original scene. It takes place at some local communist party function during Stalin's era. It makes for preposterous and astonishing reading:

At the conclusion of the conference, a tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for. Of course, everyone stood up (just as everyone had leaped to his feet during the conference at every mention of his name). ... For three minutes, four minutes, five minutes, the stormy applause, rising to an ovation, continued. But palms were getting sore and raised arms were already aching. And the older people were panting from exhaustion. It was becoming insufferably silly even to those who really adored Stalin.

However, who would dare to be the first to stop? … After all, NKVD men were standing in the hall applauding and watching to see who would quit first! And in the obscure, small hall, unknown to the leader, the applause went on – six, seven, eight minutes! They were done for! Their goose was cooked! They couldn’t stop now till they collapsed with heart attacks! At the rear of the hall, which was crowded, they could of course cheat a bit, clap less frequently, less vigorously, not so eagerly – but up there with the presidium where everyone could see them?

The director of the local paper factory, an independent and strong-minded man, stood with the presidium. Aware of all the falsity and all the impossibility of the situation, he still kept on applauding! Nine minutes! Ten! In anguish he watched the secretary of the District Party Committee, but the latter dared not stop. Insanity! To the last man! With make-believe enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope, the district leaders were just going to go on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out of the hall on stretchers! And even then those who were left would not falter…

Then, after eleven minutes, the director of the paper factory assumed a businesslike expression and sat down in his seat. And, oh, a miracle took place! Where had the universal, uninhibited, indescribable enthusiasm gone? To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down. They had been saved!

The squirrel had been smart enough to jump off his revolving wheel. That, however, was how they discovered who the independent people were. And that was how they went about eliminating them. That same night the factory director was arrested. They easily pasted ten years on him on the pretext of something quite different. But after he had signed Form 206, the final document of the interrogation, his interrogator reminded him: “Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”

53 posted on 07/24/2015 11:39:20 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.Buy into it,)
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To: rlmorel

In fact, they had to ring a bell during Stalin’s speeches to alert everyone that it was ok to stop applauding.


54 posted on 07/24/2015 11:42:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Sure sounds like one of Obunghole’s addresses.

Oh, wait...his kool-aid drinking audience would keep on clapping no matter what...


55 posted on 07/24/2015 12:14:43 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.Buy into it,)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Work Work Work...Hello Boys!


56 posted on 07/24/2015 1:18:21 PM PDT by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: Shady
We Must Do Something! Harrumph!

Work, Work, Work

57 posted on 07/24/2015 2:01:12 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: dfwgator

By the way, that’s a great piece of info I never knew...there is something innately even creepier about that.


58 posted on 07/25/2015 4:48:53 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.Buy into it,)
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