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    Quote Originally Posted by mickey View Post
    Greetings,

    The use of military to protect our borders?

    Isn't this guy part Apache? And to everything he said, isn't this guy part Apache?


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    Islam is growing in central America. Take a look !

    I don't have issues with many Muslims. I do have issues with some. The good ones fear the bad ones. So they seldom speak out.

    Call me a racist. I don't care. Neither do my Muslim friends.

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    So are some of you getting up to speed on your " I did not know that " history ? You don't know a lot ! It is not entirely your own fault but yes you do carry some blame.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon

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    Cute revelation by Sheree Wilson

    I always figured Chuck Norris didn't think about Chuck Norris facts, they thought about him.

    'Walker, Texas Ranger' star Sheree J. Wilson dishes on working with Chuck Norris
    By Stephanie Nolasco Published August 10, 2017 Fox News


    'Walker, Texas Ranger' cast poses in 1997. From left, American actors Noble Willingham (1931 - 2004) (as C.D. Parker), Sheree J. Wilson (as Alex Cahill), Chuck Norris (as Cordell 'Cord' Walker), and Clarence Gilyard Jr (as James 'Jimmy' Trivette). (Photo by CBS Photo Archvie/Getty Images) (2008 CBS WORLDWIDE INC.)

    Chuck Norris may be celebrated actor, martial arts champion, and beloved veteran of the Air Force, but to many young fans, the red-blooded American hero is an Internet sensation.

    In 2005, a series of jokes known as “Chuck Norris Facts” began to circulate on the Internet that focused on his heroism and superhero strength.





    However, the 77-year-old (whose real name is Carlos Ray Norris) wasn’t laughing — at first.

    “He didn’t know if they were just making fun of him at first,” Sheree J. Wilson, his co-star on “Walker, Texas Ranger,” told Fox News. “He was like, ‘What’s this about?' And it turned out to be the fact that people really admired him. Revered him. Like Chuck Norris doesn’t do push-ups, he pushes the earth down. Chuck Norris can cure cancer with a single tear. They’re just so funny.”

    Once Norris got in on the joke, he came to love the "facts."


    Sheree J. Wilson with former co-star Chuck Norris. (Courtesy of Sheree J. Wilson)

    “We had a ball just laughing, making up Chuck Norris jokes,” said the 58-year-old actress. “He can laugh at himself. He’s the real deal… He’s very familiar [with the memes]. I think somebody sent me a T-shirt that has 100 jokes about him on it. I am going to wear it the next time I see him.”

    Wilson’s lasting friendship Norris has endured since “Walker, Texas Ranger,” which ran from 1993 until 2001. They first met on the set of the film “Hellbound” in 1993, which was directed by sibling Aaron Norris.

    Wilson, who initially believed the movie was going to be shot in Chicago, was being relocated to Israel and she had to fly out in three weeks. But before then, casting director Mary Jo Slater recommended Wilson to CBS for the role of D.A. Alex Cahill, resulting in an audition. However, Wilson had no idea who else was starring in the series.



    “About five weeks of being in Israel, Chuck walks on the set and he looks like the cat that swallowed the canary,” she recalled. “He’s smiling at me, got his arms crossed, and laughing. He said, ‘You’re not going to believe this. Seems to me that they sent me these audition tapes for the top people for my TV series… Seems like they want this girl name Sheree Wilson to play the D.A.'

    "We had the biggest laugh. We left Israel on December 21 and by January we were in Texas filming. We had already worked together for three months, so we worked well together and it was seamless.”

    And Wilson insisted Norris is very much the iconic persona recognized by fans.

    “He is the real deal,” she said. “So when he says don’t cross that line or you might get kicked in the face, he means it. It happened on occasion with some amateur little guys that got too excited being in a scene with Chuck Norris. But he’s such a strong family man. He cares so much about children.

    "It started with the Kick Drugs Out of America program… He’s taken so many inner city kids off the streets, out of gangs, and turned their lives around. He’s a completely dedicated family man to his own family, as well as a much bigger, extended family… He cares about our vets, cares about our country. There’s no surprise about him except he has a great sense of humor as well.”

    And even though “Walker, Texas Ranger" came to an end 16 years ago, it lives on. Wilson pointed out it’s still on the air worldwide and fans are finding inspiration from it now more than ever.


    (Courtesy of Sheree J. Wilson)

    “There’s so many scary things happening right now in our world,” she said. “There’s a lot of terror and terrorists… People still want to know that the good guys are winning. And in our show, that was very clear. There are good guys and there are bad guys.

    "And the good guys always win and the bad guys will get kicked in the head... It’s just a little bit of hope for the good. And it’s good morals and values. That’s what our show is about… It has a massive appeal for just that, some moral fiber and hope in the world.”
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    This probably isn't the most appropriate place to post this...

    ...but still, maybe it is.

    EXCLUSIVE
    Chuck Norris Nearly Dies After Suffering TWO Heart Attacks In Just Minutes!
    The karate king stopped breathing in a near-death nightmare at a Nevada casino.
    By Radar Staff
    Posted on Aug 23, 2017 @ 7:31AM

    Chuck Norris stared death in the face — and was zapped back to life twice within minutes, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively!

    An insider close to the scary situation reveals to Radar the 77-year-old martial arts legend suffered two massive heart attacks in mid-July and endured a frantic 240-mile dash by ambulance and helicopter to get medical help that saved his life.

    “This would have easily killed most men half his age, but Chuck is still at the peak of physical fitness,” Radar’s informant dished.

    The terrifying ordeal began after the beloved martial arts king made an appearance at the United Fighting Arts Federation’s World Championships in Las Vegas on July 16.

    After the event, Chuck, his wife, Gena O’Kelley, and other family members broke up their nine-hour drive home to Chester, Calif., by stopping at the Tonopah Station Hotel and Casino in a remote area of Nevada on July 17.

    “Chuck’s wife checked the group into the hotel around 1:30 in the morning,” an employee at the hotel’s front desk told Radar. “He was on the casino floor a little while, and then went to his room.”

    Around 5:30 a.m., Chuck collapsed with chest pains while taking a shower!

    As shocked hotel guests watched, emergency responders rushed the ailing actor through the casino on a stretcher and into a waiting ambulance. But Chuck stopped breathing during a tense 100-mile, high-speed race to Mt. Grant General Hospital in Hawthorne, Nev.

    Medics jump-started his heart with a defibrillator, while his tearful wife helplessly looked on, sources said.

    After arriving at the hospital, the karate king suffered a second heart attack! Medical personnel stabilized him once again, and Chuck was flown to Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno on a trauma chopper, an eyewitness said.

    “It was touch and go. I was told his wife was allowed to ride in the med flight with him,” another source revealed. “Everything happened so fast that it felt like he died twice in 47 minutes! There was so much hysteria it’s impossible to know how long the ordeal lasted. People were watching the heart monitor — not the clock!”

    But true to his image as a superhuman action hero, Chuck — who starred with Bruce Lee in the 1972 classic Way of the Dragon — bounced back quickly and was released from the hospital within days.

    The source added: “Chuck trains all the time and knows he has to take great care of his body. He’s slowed down a bit, but considers this just a blip.”
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    CForce Water by Chuck Norris

    OCTOBER 25 2017 - 3:48PM
    Chuck Norris bottled water to be distributed by a Thornton company
    Damon Cronshaw



    Chuck Norris and his bottled water.

    If the wars of the 20th century were fought over oil, the wars of the 21st century will be fought over water.

    We reckon Chuck Norris understands this widely-held belief. This might be one reason why he’s selling bottled water.

    We reckon Jeff Dumbrell gets this concept, too. Jeff’s Thornton-based company Calais Industries has secured the distribution rights for Australia and New Zealand to sell CForce Water by Chuck Norris.

    Chuck starred in films like The Delta Force and Way of the Dragon and the TV series Walker, Texas Ranger.



    Calais Industries sells engineered materials to the mining industry, but the downturn in that sector led the company to seek new opportunities.

    They’ll be selling Chuck’s artesian water under a company called Calais Water Distribution, which will have its brand launch on Friday.

    Chuck’s water is sourced and bottled on his ranch in Navasota, Texas.

    “We were looking for a product to diversify. I was cruising on Facebook one day. I’m a big fan of Chuck Norris – I’ve been doing taekwondo for 20 years. I came across the fact that he does bottled water. Bottled water seems to be doing really well at the moment,” Jeff said.

    “So I thought, ‘hey why don’t we send an email to see if they’d be interested in anyone distributing in Australia for them’.”

    The email was sent in April.

    A week later, Jeff received a reply from the company’s vice president of sales, saying they didn’t have an Australian distributor.

    Discussions progressed, including a “heap of 2am phone calls”, and a deal was struck.

    “Chuck started bottling in February and releasing his water to the market,” Jeff said.

    And now, the first container of Chuck’s bottled water is on its way to the Hunter.

    Jeff is aiming to sell the water through supermarkets.

    Topics suggested to Jeff that he was one of those courageous species known as entrepreneurs – the type who sees a good opportunity and goes for it?

    “I think that’s a fancy word for people who can’t hold down a normal job,” Jeff joked, in self-deprecating fashion.

    “It’s a huge financial risk. We’re committing to a full container of water. You can imagine that’s quite expensive.”

    Topics dips its lid to Jeff and his company. As the coalmining sector declines, the Hunter Region needs more people like Jeff who are willing to have a crack at new industries.

    Mind you, it helps to have a brand ambassador like Chuck Norris.

    Chuck has agreed to sign 23 bottles for Jeff’s company. Anyone who buys a 12-pack of the water will have a chance to win one of these signed bottles.

    “His signature is highly valued in America,” Jeff said.

    If you think Chuck is all about profit, you’d be wrong. Last month, Chuck and his wife Gena donated 15,000 litres of their bottled water to victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas, through The Salvation Army.

    Geldof’s Insight

    The Property Council published an article on Tuesday about comments that Sir Bob Geldof made at a property conference.

    We only know this because Newcastle Herald journo Ian “Kirky” Kirkwood sent us a link to it, saying Geldof made some “very good points”.

    Here’s some comments from the humanitarian rocker, labelled in the article as a “highly-astute businessman with a net worth estimated to be around $100 million”.

    Geldof said property had “profound psychological implications” because it was “bound to the most intimate and personal aspects of people’s lives”.

    “Tread softly property dudes because you can tread on people’s dreams,” he said.

    “People invest all they have now and in the future – materially, financially and emotionally – into this one asset.”

    Geldof wondered why housing unaffordability could grip places like Australia, where there was “endless amounts of land”.

    If you cannot afford to buy a home, you are “deep in the centre of the problem” in our world.

    For “too long” there had been this “weird notion” that the economy and society were “somehow different and separate”.

    “They are not,” Geldof said.

    “Economic progress without social progress is a mean, dispirited, self-defeating, weak-willed thing.”

    The good economy and the good society go together, he said, adding that “there are whole economies that require a new politics”.

    “Business must be embedded in society or it has no function.”

    Topics agrees with Kirky that Geldof made good points.

    topics@theherald.com.au
    Can we get a cage match between CForce Water by Chuck Norris, Bruce Lea Tea and Seagal's Lightning Bolt drinks?
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    lawsuit

    I would NOT want to be sued by Chuck Norris.

    Chuck Norris sues for $10M over MRI chemical he says poisoned wife
    Associated Press Published 10:34 a.m. ET Nov. 2, 2017 | Updated 3:40 p.m. ET Nov. 2, 2017
    In a lawsuit, Chuck Norris says that a chemical used in MRIs poisoned his wife. Elizabeth Keatinge (@elizkeatinge) has more. Buzz60


    AP CHUCK NORRIS MRI LAWSUIT A ENT FILE USA TX
    (Photo: Tony Gutierrez, AP)

    SAN FRANCISCO – Action star Chuck Norris took on medical device manufacturers in a lawsuit filed in California on Wednesday alleging a chemical used in MRI imaging scans poisoned his wife.

    Gadolinium that doctors injected into Gena Norris to improve the clarity of her MRIs have left her weak and tired and with debilitating bouts of pain and a burning sensation, the suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court says.

    Gadolinium is a metal found in so-called contrast agents used in many MRIs. Studies have shown it is retained by organs such as the brain, bones and skin. The American College of Radiology said in a statement last year that gadolinium-based contrast agents have been used for diagnosis and treatment guidance in more than 300 million patients worldwide since the late, 1980s and provide “crucial, life-saving medical information.”

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in May it found no evidence that retained gadolinium was harmful. A European Union agency reached the same conclusion in July but still recommended suspending some gadolinium contrast agents as a precaution.

    The law firm representing the Norrises, Cutter Law, has filed numerous lawsuits in recent weeks on behalf of people who it also says are suffering from gadolinium poisoning.

    The Norris’ lawsuit acknowledges no official, publicly stated link between gadolinium and symptoms reported by people who believe the metal has affected their health. But that’s in part because blood and urine testing for gadolinium only became available recently and most doctors were not aware of any disease that was associated with gadolinium other than one that affects people with kidney problems, the lawsuit said.

    “One of the problems is this is a very misdiagnosed and underdiagnosed condition,” said Todd Walburg, an attorney for the Norrises.

    The lawsuit accuses several manufacturers of gadolinium contrast agents of knowing about their risks, but failing to warn consumers. It seeks more than $10 million in damages, saying the Norris’ have had to spend millions of dollars on treatment for Gena Norris.

    Chuck Norris starred in the TV series, Walker, Texas Ranger.
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    Gadolinium & Bruce Lee

    The Bruce Lee reference is weird.

    WHAT IS GADOLINIUM? CHUCK NORRIS CLAIMS IT POISONED HIS WIFE
    BY KATE SHERIDAN ON 11/7/17 AT 4:44 PM

    On Thursday, a law firm announced it was representing Chuck Norris in a suit three different companies for $10 million in damages. Norris and his wife, Gena, claim that she has gadolinium deposition disease from medical scans taken five years ago. But what is gadolinium? And how controversial is its use?

    Gadolinium is a chemical element—it's a heavy metal, and can be found on the periodic table as Gd—but we mostly associate it with medical scans. It's most often used as a contrast agent to make the scans turn out better. About 30 million people every year receive gadolinium, according to the American College of Radiology. As Bruce Lee noted in Forbes, these gadolinium-based contrast agents also include other chemicals, too, which are supposed to eliminate any toxic effects. (No, he's not that Bruce Lee; he is a professor of public health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, not a deceased martial artist.)

    Several such contrast agents are currently on the market in the United States. Norris is suing one in particular, Bracco. Bracco makes two contrast agents with gadolinium, according to the Food and Drug Administration. One was approved in the 1990s; the other was approved in 2004. The two have different chemical structures.

    A lively patient advocacy community has sprung up, including on social media, around gadolinium concerns. However, the FDA announced in May that it had reviewed scientific studies and identified "no harmful effects" associated with the contrast lingering in brain tissue. There is a small group of people with kidney failure that may develop some side effects after being exposed to gadolinium, the announcement noted.

    The agency promised a review of the evidence would continue and that there would be a public meeting on the issue—which happened on September 8, when the FDA's Medical Imaging Drugs Advisory Committee met. Among the people who testified at that meeting—Chuck and Gena Norris. A representative read a letter from them at the meeting, Medscape reported.


    Actor Chuck Norris and his wife Gena O Kelley attend U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's caucus night event at the Embassy Suites January 3, 2008 in Des Moines, Iowa. The couple is now suing MRI manufacturers and a company that produces gadolinium-based contrasts, alleging that the contrast is poisonous.
    CLIFF HAWKINS/GETTY IMAGES

    Ultimately, that committee agreed that there was insufficient evidence to support the idea that gadolinium could cause harm in people whose kidneys were functioning normally. But the group also agreed to that a warning about the potential for gadolinium-based contrast agents to stay in certain tissues longer than expected should be added to the contrast's label.

    The European Medicines Agency took three gadolinium-based contrasts off the market in July due to similar concerns, though the agency noted it was a precautionary measure and that there wasn't much evidence of a health risk.
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    Croatia: Chuck Norris Has His Own Café and Statue in Zagreb

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    Let's Go Places: Tough as Chuck | Toyota

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    Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos Cartoon Intro

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    This sounds hilarious

    Chuck Norris is Hosting a Chuck Norris Look-Alike Event in Texas
    BY JAKE ROSSEN JANUARY 24, 2019


    FRAZER HARRISON, GETTY IMAGES

    At the age of 78, Chuck Norris can look back on a remarkable career. He parlayed his aptitude in karate competitions into a successful film and television career, acting opposite Bruce Lee in 1972’s Return of the Dragon and starring for eight seasons on the CBS action series Walker, Texas Ranger. His Chuck Norris Action Jeans—which provide flexibility in the crotch to better execute kicks—have been a practical fashion statement for decades.

    Norris has now set his sights on another goal: He’d like to host the world’s biggest gathering of Chuck Norris look-alikes.

    According to KTXS, Norris will be hosting a 5K race event on May 4, 2019 in College Station, Texas, where participants are being invited to appear dressed as Norris. Those paying a $30 registration fee ($50 at the door) will get a “sweet belt buckle,” fake beard, and a “Chuck Norris style T-shirt” to assist in the look, though they can also show up with their own customized costume. After the race, prizes will be awarded for Best Male Chuck Norris Costume, Best Female Chuck Norris Costume, and Best Kid Chuck Norris Costume for attendees 12 and under.

    The objective is to set a world record for the greatest number of Norrises in one place, though it’s not clear if there is an existing record to beat. Norris also plans on greeting runners at the finish line. All proceeds will be split between Kickstart Kids, a nonprofit child assistance group that teaches empowerment through martial arts, and the Mercy Project, which seeks to create new economic opportunities for troubled communities in Ghana. These lofty goals may be too much for a single Norris, but a small fleet of them just may be able get the job done.

    [h/t KTXS]
    wait...Best Female Chuck Norris Costume?
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    HBD Chuck!

    Chuck Norris is celebrating his 80th birthday

    [IMG]https://media.graytvinc.com/images/810*455/CHUCK+NORRIS+16+9.jpg[/IMG]
    US actor and martial artist Chuck Norris, this year's special guest signals to the audience onstage during the opening gala of the 15th Shoe Box fundraising event in Papp Laszlo Sports Arena in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. The annual Christmas charity campaign was launched by the Hungarian Baptist Aid (HBAid) in 2004 to collect and distribute gifts donated by the public for underprivileged children during Advent. The organisation receives the labelled and boxed presents at nearly 300 designated collection points in the country. (Marton Monus/MTI via AP)

    Posted: Tue 10:49 AM, Mar 10, 2020 | Updated: Tue 12:05 PM, Mar 10, 2020

    (Gray News) - Actor Chuck Norris is celebrating his 80th birthday Tuesday.

    Born Carlos Ray Norris in 1940, he would get his nickname while serving in the Air Force as an 18-year-old.

    While stationed at the Osan Air Base in South Korea, he began studying martial arts. He left the service in 1962 and started working as a karate instructor. Norris was the first westerner ever to hold the rank of 8th-degree black belt in taekwondo.

    It was in 1972 when Norris got his big break in the martial arts film “The Way of the Dragon,” where he and Bruce Lee had their iconic fight scene in the Roman Colosseum.


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