Can't have a week without some fish talk.ONe of the biggest alligator gar(fresh water fish) ever caught by a guy who fishes exclusively for them. Estimated 250 lbs.
Posted on 07/15/2018 4:48:44 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Both are probably frantically searching for “get out of jail cards” which should be harder to find all the time.
Thank you for multiple spacing! Not that your post was any longer than normal, it just took longer going that distance! ;)
A bit of history
The north Adriatic coast today has Italy bordering Slovenia and then Croatia. During the Roman times a number of Roman emperors came from these coastal areas of what is now Slovenia and Croatia
Starting with the acceptance of the Nicene Creed are 325 AD Catholicism became the major religion.
After the fall of the Roman Empire ~550-600 we ended up with Constantinople as the major ROMAN/Catholic kingdom. This is where "Greek" or Eastern Catholics come from. The parts of the Old Roman empire closest to Rome (Slovenia and Croatia) remained Catholic. The parts closer to Constantinople became Greek Orthodox and use the Greek alphabet
With the fall of Constantinople around 1453 you start to see the Ottoman Turks bring their version of Mahamedism to Europe. What today is Bosnia is mostly the remnants of Turks who settles in this area and or the dependents of those who where converted to Islam by the Sword.
More recently - WWII - The Croats who like the Slovenians always wished to be in charge of their own destiny cooperated with the Nazis and fought with the Greek Orthodox Serbians. The most recent war between these two was in the 1990s
We’re speaking about the information on Strzok found on this thread:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3670891/posts?page=48#48
I missed this exchange:
Thanks! You too! You’re contributions also help!
Well, scrolling down is easy-peasy. I very much like the extra whitespace—makes it much easier to read, so all together, a quicker read.
The Propaganda machine at work. These tanks all belong to us as the Iraqi General said in plain sight for everyone to see
Do not for a minute assume these people do not know - they know and knowingly LIE to create and attitude in the public. Gobbles and Tokyo Rose may be better know propaganda minsters but the MSM with just a small handful of exceptions are these same people - they may even be related
As you say, at one time they were all the same people. The language is still basically the same... but they are separated by religion as you said.
In October of 1995 I went TDY to Bosnia as part of IFOR.
A Croat that worked for the US Army told me why everyone (Croats and Serbs) hated Bosnian Muslims.
He said they were Croats or Serbs that became Muslim to curry favor with the Ottoman overlords. In other words, turncoats, traitors and especially brown-nosing suck-ups. They caused a lot of trouble over the centuries and were always turning in Christian nationalists to the Ottomans, who then imprisoned, beat, tortured and often executed them.
He hated them with a deep, burning passion.
Of course, everyone I met there hated the other two groups that way, too.
Oh, I see, you are talking about the Democrats
Ha! Bosnian is Serbian for democrat!
Sen. Sullivan was great!
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-sullivan-putin-understands-power-1277321795685
Chuck Todd out did himself today... He thinks Trump conspired with 'the Russians' by asking them to release Hillary's emails - in a large 'thousands of citizens Trump rally'....
Chuck - YOU are such a fool.
Chuck, YOU should have packed up your fellow elites (during the campaign) for a 'focus group' caravan out into flyover. This insulting type trip you elitists do to study the natives the 'deplorables' would have shown that ALL OF US IN FLYOVER WERE SAYING THE SAME THING... IMPLORING imploring RUSSIANS, BRITS, ISRAELIS OR EVEN LONE HACKERS TO RELEASE THE CLINTON EMAILS.
I SAID it too. Right here on FreeRepublic.
Many of us suggested Russians or Israelis or some hacker should release Hillary's emails.
It was our way of saying that OUR INTELLIGENCE SERVICES were incompetent... that everyone in the world had them except American intelligence... (We didn't KNOW back then that our 'intelligence services' weren't stupid - that they were corrupt instead). NOW I'm sure our 'intelligence had all the dirt on the Clinton Crime Group - and they they destroyed it.
So, Chuck Todd - go back in the FreeRepublic archives and you'll find we were ALL saying what Trump was saying. We knew every enemy of the United States had Hillary's emails...except our incompetent 'intelligence'... we wanted the truth to come out... Does that bother you Chuck Todd?
We weren't 'colluding' with the Russians we were mocking our corrupt thugs and pleading for someone with the TRUTH to put the truth out. Something our 'press' used to do... something our 'intelligence' people used to care about...
So go back and look Chuck Todd... all of us were saying the same damn thing...
Can't have a week without some fish talk.ONe of the biggest alligator gar(fresh water fish) ever caught by a guy who fishes exclusively for them. Estimated 250 lbs.
I went this morning. My 138th kayak voyage was as always a success
My flyrod “the Blue Gill Slayer” let me down. I caught nothing.
RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA.
Now, even with OANN, anyone who dismisses “RUSSIA” will be cited as a liar, a kook, a mental case, etc.
STUPID Republicans.
Great essay, Alas Babylon!
(jk)
Nice fish!
The Sunday political talk shows for 11/15/18
Below the FreeRepublic Sunday talk show thread link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3671015/posts?page=2
The major talking points of the day
Even with a Supreme Court nominee last week, most of this Sunday’s political talk shows discussed tomorrow’s scheduled meeting between Putin and Trump.
Very little discussion about nut job Peter Strzok even though he snarled at us for ten hours in front of congress last week.
Highlight of Fox News Sunday:
Chris Coons, MY Senator, makes an appearance. Jon Huntsman Jr. discusses the upcoming meeting between Putin and Trump.
Link to Fox News Sunday Below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZdGc8WxBj4
Highlight of Meet the Press:
A new face on the scene, Sen. Dan Sullivan, does a very good job. Huntsman kind of mediocre.
Link to Meet the Press show below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUP-G7oPCbg
Highlight of Face the Nation
Trey Gowdy says Russia DID probe our elections but Trump is innocent
Below the link to Face the Nation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkp0BFpigMk
Highlight of This Week with George Stephanopolous
Reporting directly from Helsinki, This Week features none other than genius Donna Brazille telling Trump how to handle things.
Link to This Week below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWPvMJCrSyU
Highlight of State of the Union
Scuttlebutt is guest John Bolton was pulled from this show because, according to Trump, CNN is fake news.
Link to This Week below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxzRLJvKGj8
Regular Fox News show with very good guests and top notch hostess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_TIQt1IURU
I would remind that I do Fishtalk with every post.
When I saw a post downthread-”nice fish”, I thought it was a compliment on a prior post of mine.
;)
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