Comments by "Colonel K" (@Paladin1873) on "Today I Found Out" channel.

  1. My wife checks the ingredients on everything before she buys it. Oreo cookies still contain palm oil which is high in saturated fats. I used to eat both Oreos and Sunshine Hydrox. They are pretty much the samw, but I prefer the Oreo.
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  2. Governments hurting people??? That's inconceivable!
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  3.  Juanito G  I once read that Napoleon picked the tallest men to serve in his army. When fitted with a shako and plume as headgear, they looked like giants. Unfortunately, so many tall Frenchmen were killed during the Napoleonic wars that the average height of Frenchmen shrunk several inches.
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  4.  @devinewolfe1906  Perhaps you should try reading it before condemning it.
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  5.  @darksteelmenace595  Evil is easy to spot if you have a basic moral code. I agree that standing up to it is hard. Most people will capitulate, ignore it, or try to get along, all in the vain hope that it has been satiated. Or as John Stuart Mill wrote "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."
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  6.  @sarpbakrsoy8125  It was meant as dark humor - a small consolation that the enemy won't eat you after they kill you.
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  7. Space, the final legal frontier.
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  8. In this current era of chronic victim-hood being seen as a sign of nobility, it is wise to remember Roosevelt's words, and give a man "no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have".
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  9.  @Markle2k  My impression is this incentive is effective on a small percentage of the prisoners, but was not suitable for all. That leaves a large segment of the prison population in need of encouragement to make something better of themselves. There's usually a way to motivate people to do this, but finding out what works best for each one can be difficult. There will always be a few who are rotten to the core, but they can be segregated from the rest. I suspect that few people outside the system are interested in prisoner reform. If so, then we're just releasing ticking time bombs back on the streets after an arbitrary period of detention.
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  10. One version of the story claims that while Jackson was caning his assailant, he also verbally castigated him, expressing his disgust for anyone who couldn't even properly load a firearm.
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  11. In the 1970s my Dad was negotiating the purchase of an airplane from a man who had been Colonel Sander's personal pilot. During their discussions he said the Colonel was always a gentleman, but he held great contempt for the people he had sold his company to, always referring to them as thieves. Your story appears to dovetail with his.
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  12. Regarding the infamous photo from the Vietnam War, it should be noted that this napalm attack was not conducted by American forces, but by a South Vietnamese aircraft, and thankfully the young girl did survive. As for the ethical issue, I would like to know exactly which weapons kill and maim most humanely. Lastly, as kids we would pour gasoline into a Styrofoam cup and the cup would melt into a goo, which was an ersatz form of napalm.
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  13. The sugar myth may be partially a result chocolate candy, which typically contains enough caffeine to give a person a mild energy burst.
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  14. That's the most amazing story of survival I've ever heard, and I've heard some astounding ones.
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  15. No, it's Jack Benny. There is a photo of Wright reading his book, Gadsby. At the time of its publication he was white-bearded and in his 60s. A Google search of both personalities reveals the same Benny publicity photo being used to describe both men, hence the understandable confusion. However, a close examination of the photo shows Benny wearing a more modern suit, dating the photo to sometime around the 1940s or 50s. Wright died in 1939 at the age of 67. Jack Benny would have been 45 at the time.
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  16. What a sad macabre story. It's hard to believe nobody in Tennessee had a rifle powerful enough to kill her. By 1916 modern high velocity smokeless ammunition was commonplace. The US Army had adopted the 30'06 a decade earlier, and while somewhat light by elephant gun standards, it was certainly capable of doing the job quickly and efficiently if the bullet was placed in her brain. With large animals it is the penetration of the projectile to a vital organ rather than the size that matters most. During this time period the famous African big game hunter, W. D. M. Bell, had repeatedly proven this point by using the slightly less powerful 7mm Mauser rifle firing a full metal jacket bullet.
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  17. "Octopi" used to be the most accepted plural form of "octopus". The times, they are a changin'
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  18. I remember an animated Chevron commercial from 1977 where dinosaurs are shown being turned into oil. At the end of it, as a car drives away, a dinosaur pops its head out of the gas tank filler neck and makes a comical dinosaur sound. Thanks to the magic of the internet I found a link to the ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0B0t_4MTuM
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  19. This video was really over the top.
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  20. In pop culture I guess this is what you'd call hitting rock bottom.
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  21. How can I enjoy such a tragic story?
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  22. Presidio is pronounced prah-sid-e-o.
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  23. I can't speak for the counter interrogation training our aircrews received at the time, but Scharff's methods are nothing new. Our own WWII Air Intelligence interrogators, many of them German and Austrian natives, were taught to use very similar techniques. I find it hard to believe all this was forgotten after the war and had to be reinvented decades later. Somebody is blowing smoke.
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  24. Simon, have you ever seen a pig on the back of another pig? Guess what they're doing. Perhaps piggyback has more than one meaning.
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  25. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, it would appear music artists don't care for flatter. Hmm, the logic paradigm fails here.
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  26. Excellent overview. Though the US government did not actually ban silencers (the correct legal term), they did place a $200 tax on the transfer, which would have been a king's ransom in 1934. Thanks to inflation this is no longer the case. One of the reasons the tax was introduced was due to a belief that many people would resort to poaching during the Great Depression. The tax was seen as a way to deter poachers from using silencers. Such is the way the politician's and the government bureaucrat's minds function.
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  27. Eugene Stoner did not scale down the AR10 to create the AR15. That work was done by Leroy James "Jim" Sullivan. Other than that, good job.
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  28.  @hokutoulrik7345  A good friend of mine was a Minuteman launch officer when War Games was released and he was royally pissed by that scene, not because of any authenticity in the launch sequence, but because of the notion that any launch officer would refuse to fire his missiles. As he put it, "Everyone you ever loved has just been killed and you're just going to sit there and do nothing? Bullshi--, you're going to kill the enemy!" I can't speak to how accurate the launch procedures were portrayed, but I shared his sentiment.
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  29.  @marks1638  This is news to me. You'll have to provide me with a source I can research. In the meantime, I'll pass this along to him for comment.
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  30.  @marks1638  I received a response this morning from my friend and have entered it verbatim: I was in missiles in the early 80s. There were no such exercises. The very idea is stupid. Imagine what would happen if the effort to isolate the missiles was unsuccessful and the researchers were unaware and a missile was launched? Once a missile is launched it cannot be recalled, diverted, or destroyed. I can imagine the congressional hearings in the rubble of DC. "General, can you tell this assembly why you thought it was a good idea to play "Russian Roulette" with ICBMs?" BTW, we were issued S&W Model 10s for alerts, not to coerce your crewmate to turn keys but to help ensure that no one compromises classified documents, processes or equipment.
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  31.  @marks1638  There were a couple of real world incidents where crews came close to launching. On my first duty assignment I shared an office with a captain who was a launch officer in one of these incidents. In neither case did anyone receive authorization to launch. Outside of a training environment, which does not involve any real missiles, I have never heard of anyone ever being ordered to launch a nuke, either by mistake or on purpose. I've known a good number of SAC crew members, both missile and B-52. They have spoken very freely with me of their work and nobody ever hinted at a story like this. It does not pass any rational test of common sense. Somebody has a foggy memory of events or has been BSing you. There is no cover-up.
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  32.  @marks1638  Quite true. I've spent years trying to run down rumors, only to discover the truth behind most of them was quite pedestrian, but not always. Once in a while you find a jewel.
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  33. Well, yeah, after we did the initial landscaping.
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  34.  @sertaki  I think he was being facetious, as was I. To look at Hiroshima today and compare it with Detroit, one would conclude the latter had been nuked and never recovered.
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  35. I wanna be a space cowboy.
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  36. With regard to the overloaded Gettysburg battlefield rifles, it should be noted that most Union soldiers had only limited firearms training. Misfires were common due to the unreliability of percussion caps and black powder. In the din of battle they could not discern one shot from another. You do not notice the recoil because you are focused on the target and staying alive. There is even one recorded police shootout where an officer reinserted empty cases in his revolver. Confusion reigns for those who do not train to win.
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  37.  @susim4503  You were not objectively clear. Local weather is what constitutes global temperature. They are not inseparable, so what do you mean by average global temperature? How is that derived? I have asked a very basic question, but nobody has yet provided a concise answer. How do we know what global temperature is best for the Earth? What extremes in temperature are considered allowable, and for how long? I, for one, would love to live someplace where winters and summers are mild, where rainfall and sunshine are just right (whatever that means). No such place exists, or if it does, it isn't for very long. The world is full of extreme climate variations. If we favor one, does that not adversely affect the others? One might as well say I wish to live in a safe environment, or I wish to have a successful, fulfilling life. Fine, now tell me what that means.
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  38. "¡Ay, caramba! I guess I should stop complaining about the USA's soft-on-crime legal system.
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  39. What a delightful Christmas time tale - not!
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  40.  @IvanBaturaChannel  There are at least three international treaties regarding drug trafficking: the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 (as amended in 1972), the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971, and the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988. Each treaty builds on the previous one. Noriega violated them through his engagement in illicit drug smuggling into the USA. This provided Bush with one of his justifications for the invasion. It has been contested by those opposed to the invasion that the UN treaties grant no invasion powers or even international law enforcement powers to its signatories. This in itself is an indictment of the UN. What is the point of a treaty if there is no way to enforce it? If one party cheats, what is the aggrieved party to do? It can impose trade and travel restrictions with a country or seize its foreign assets, but this has very limited effect as Iran has demonstrated. When all else fails, invade if you can get away with it. Otherwise, accept that you are essentially powerless to act in your own best interests. To answer your question, can invasion be considered an act of self-defense, I say yes. Israel did this in 1967, which is why they survived and won the war they knew was coming. If Putin invades Ukraine, he will use the same argument. It will be a lie, but, hey, he's PutIn.
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  41. They won't touch meat but they'll fling cow dung with their hands?
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  42.  @zafarsyed6437  Thanks.
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  43. Retarded, crippled, idiot, moron, cretin, etc. are just words. Shunning or banning their use and replacing them with terms such as mentally challenged, otherly-abled, and other nonsensical phrases may make the censors feel better, but it does nothing to solve these very real conditions; it merely sweeps them under the table.
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  44. I hear the tardigrade sauce is pretty good on fish.
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  45. It sounds like the husband really smoked her ass.
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  46. Beautiful story - a combination Zorro and Friar Tuck.
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  47. Even as a kid I found the sound cringe-worthy because it conjured up an image of my fingernails being ripped off. It still does.
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  48. Why are there any thumbs down on this video?
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  49. There is an episode of the 1950s TV series "Navy Log" which recounts in detail the ordeal of Lt Koelsch, and the Navy's efforts to learn the truth. You can view it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkN3CN9y4kI
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  50. Our rural mailbox sat near the highway and was periodically knocked over by passing vehicles. Eventually the flag was destroyed and the post was snapped off at the base. I affixed a new flag I had made out of scrap plastic and remounted the post in a couple of concrete blocks. I pounded bent angle iron into the ground in front and to the sides of the blocks. That was the last time anyone tried to knock over the box with their vehicle.
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