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originally posted by: hellobruce
originally posted by: Murgatroid
What is YOUR source for your silly claims?
Hold on, I am not the one making silly claims - you are, using a known hoaxer as well!
originally posted by: Violater1
originally posted by: hellobruce
originally posted by: Murgatroid
What is YOUR source for your silly claims?
Hold on, I am not the one making silly claims - you are, using a known hoaxer as well!
I checked out Murgatroid's links and read them! Did you?
nalysis: False. The older of the two messages above is a viral version of an article that appeared on the political news and opinion website WorldNetDaily.com on August 4, 2010. As you can see by viewing the "Editor's Note" that replaced the article a few days later, WND admitted that the court cases in question were incorrectly described as pertaining to Obama's Constitutional eligibility: Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly described a series of cases for which Elena Kagan represented the government as eligibility cases. Those cases, in fact, were a series of unrelated disputes pending before the Supreme Court and the references have been removed from this report.
Supreme Court dockets were unrelated to Obama citizenship or eligibility Indeed, the references had to be removed the WND article because the fact-checking site Snopes.com delved into the details of each of the specific filings (dockets cited above) and found that not one of them had anything to do with Obama's status as a natural-born U.S. citizen. The majority of the filings not only predated Obama's presidency, in fact, but named George W. Bush as the original defendant. The Supreme Court dockets list Elena Kagan as Obama's attorney of record because it was her job as U.S. Solicitor General to represent the administration in court. Period.
None of which, sad to say, stopped the grammatically-challenged author of a subsequent message (example #2 above) from repeating the disproven claims and bluntly stating "Snopes lied," when in fact the contrary is true: Snopes got it exactly right, yet again. A note on George Soros Some variants of these viral texts allege, without proof or evidence, that Snopes.com is financially backed by hedge fund tycoon and liberal philanthropist George Soros. This, too, is false. Snopes.com is entirely self-supporting via advertising.
Again, here are some of the links, and I encourage others to read them and deny ignorance.
originally posted by: Murgatroid
a reply to: hellobruce
Hate to be the one to break it to yah...
You've fallen for the most monumental hoax in all of history.
Your citations make that painfully obvious.
originally posted by: AlphaHawk
Gotta laugh at the religious zealots claiming that others have been lied to.
On topic, why would anyone, let alone giants use rounded stones for an axe??
Pretty moronic, if that was an axe, it would be flint and be razor sharp.
originally posted by: schadenfreude
a reply to: skunkape23
I didn't take the time to weigh it, but honestly it felt like between 5-7 pounds.
I should've took side shots, it hadn't occurred to me, sorry.
originally posted by: TKDRL
a reply to: UnmitigatedDisaster
The mallet I swing all day nailing floors with weights more than that lol. Those nephilim must have been real weaklings.
that's exactly why I callled bs on this at the beginning.
oriI'm only nally posted by: UnmitigatedDisaster
originally posted by: TKDRL
a reply to: UnmitigatedDisaster
The mallet I swing all day nailing floors with weights more than that lol. Those nephilim must have been real weaklings.
Right? I was just using a 13lb deadblow mallet on a project last night. I'm 5'11" I am descendant from a god!
originally posted by: hellobruce
urbanlegends.about.com...
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Where did you hear that?
The Internet.
And you believed it?
Yeah. They can't put anything on the Internet that isn't true.
Where did you hear that?
The Internet.
Even to this day almost all the akharas (Combat training Gymnasiums) use heavy stone maces for training for the simple reason that it combines weight and maneuverability training. Cadets were given 5 kg stone maces and were taught to maneuver without breaking movement, and when the cadet would become well versed at combat maneuvers it would be switched with a heavier weight to go up to 35 then 45 kg to a point that the combatant could swing a heavy mace the whole day.
The simple result would remain that if a combatant has the practice to handle a heavy mace over extended time he would very easily manage even the heavy swords that weighed 7 to 10 kg without exhaustion.
Stones for clubs were carefully selected. People making the clubs were choosing stones that do not break easily, like quartz and granite. Many club heads were also made from colorful stones. Creek and river beds were a common source for ready-made smooth surface stones. Club heads generally weigh between two to eight pounds.
Cadets were given 5 kg stone maces and were taught to maneuver without breaking movement, and when the cadet would become well versed at combat maneuvers it would be switched with a heavier weight to go up to 35 then 45 kg to a point that the combatant could swing a heavy mace the whole day.
The simple result would remain that if a combatant has the practice to handle a heavy mace over extended time he would very easily manage even the heavy swords that weighed 7 to 10 kg without exhaustion.