....lybob
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Why is there a distinction between bathrooms and locker rooms?
If the left truly believe there is no harm in allowing a boy to enter a woman's bathroom, why do they not extend the policy to include locker rooms?
Most women's bathrooms have stalls which give privacy and I guess the assumption is they will be dressed when they use the sink - most locker rooms you dress, undress and use showers in the presence of others.
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Yep. That's why I suggested building islands adjacent to the ones China is building.
I also saw this article today. China's had its eyes on Australia for awhile for the natural resources.
Actually that article said nothing of the sort - it said China was pissed at Australia for disputing China's China sea claims - also China said mean things about Australia and made vague threats.
As for Australia they have very abundant mineral resources and they were doing great business with China when China was growing at double digit rates, China's slow down has hurt Australia's economy.
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Apparently sovereign citizen nuts think they have an unfettered right of travel and are free from the requirements of driver license, insurance, car registration, inspection and such
also they think they have the right to protect their property with whatever level of vigor or means necessary and do not regard law enforcement as a special case.
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Black and a sovereign citizen nut, that's a combination that will always be lethal.
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You're right, and what's more is that with robotic assembly lines you have a need for higher skilled employees. Instead of low-skilled people working the line, you now need programmers, engineers, and maintenance technicians. In addition, robots consistently perform one complete function (on average) approximately every 60 seconds with no breaks, and are able to perform tasks that are potentially dangerous, if not lethal, to humans.
Way too many people buy into the "robots are putting people out of work" BS - all that's really happening is they're creating a demand for higher skilled (and higher paid) labor while helping to reduce on-the-job injuries. It's a win-win.
The machinery need to replace 100 workers probably needs 4-5 workers to maintain and program - why would you replace labor with machines if you need as much labor to maintain the machines
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You've obviously missed this gem in Trump's assessment of his net worth. Can't make this schit up.
I feel like I'm worth 5 billion today.
What do you have against mark-to-market accounting?
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What choice did the west give Putin? Since Clinton tore up the Malta deal in the 90s, NATO has been encroaching on Russian borders for almost 30 years. This accelerated (as you know) under 44 and with the deployment of the missile defense systems throughout Europe. The west forced Putin's hand, or broke the camel's back depending on how you wish to phrase it, when it financed (with $5b US) and backed the coup which ousted the pro-Russian (yet, democratically elected) government and supported in its place literal neo-nazis who may or may not (but definitely did) start the coup by massacring 22 people in Odessa in February of '14.
The western media won't touch that story, because they can't, but there's ample concrete evidence in the form of leaked transcripts, voice recordings and emails that prove this beyond any reasonable doubt.
Had Putin sat on his hands, he would have had a new NATO member a mere 6 hour drive from Moscow, lost their Black Sea bases, and had the Baltic flanked by NATO members in Turkey and the Ukraine. It would have been a strategic nightmare for Russia. Viewed in that light it's much more accurate to describe Putin's actions in the Ukraine as a stabilizing measure in a geo-political sense. It blocked Ukraine from joining NATO, removed a neo-fascist government that had been brutalizing its way to power (backed by western money and training), and prevented a powder keg from being created just hours from the capital of the world's second largest nuclear power.
The full on Russian invasion never happened -- and never was going to happen. Russia wants strategic balance restored, and they are certainly willing to fight for it, but it's clear from their actions in the Ukraine that global domination isn't their end game.
(A lot of first hand evidence can be found in this doc here, source the information presented rather than relying on the doc itself:
)The U.S., Russia, China and others have been engaging in a zero sum war for (resources, power, influence)- no direct shooting so far thankfully but every other avenue is open - The Ukraine coup is part of this and in some ways it was brilliant because Russia was !@#$ed either way ,on the other hand is !@#$ing with a country that can effectively end civilization really that smart, Russia can't really win the game but they could kick over the board anytime they want to - another thing it was part of a foreign policy that pushed Russia and China closer together and while it was always Zbigniew Brzezinski dream to ring fence China and Russia until China invaded Russia for resources, what we have now is a Russia China relationship that is closest it's been since the 1950s.
Separately China and Russia have a lot of problems but together they are a hell of a foe, Putin is trying pretty hard to peel off any European country it can from a U.S. directed agenda and China going to treat the China Sea the same way Israel treats the West Bank .
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Putin's also been perhaps the most stabilizing geopolitical force in the world for the past 18 months... which is kind of terrifying in terms of what it says about the state of the west these days. Not sure what the end game is for Vlad yet, but he certainly has one.
The End game for Vlad is what it's always been a strong Russia who's regional interests are respected and who's voice is listened to in global matters.
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California likely has the most lenient medical cannabis qualification criteria in the country. Jim, you shouldn't assume the process is the same everywhere. It is not.
In NY the names of doctors able to qualify patients for cannabis are not even known to the public. Patients must be referred to these cannabis doctors by their existing doctor. It is not at all easy to qualify in many states.
How would the average 12 year old know that someone they would see smoking cannabis had a prescription to use it? They may see Uncle Jim smoking pot in his car and assume he is bad, like they said in 6th grade Science class.
Hey Bob where exactly do you want the country to move on the issue? I for one would be happy if on he federal level they knocked it down from a schedule 1 drug to a schedule 3 or 4 drug
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Twitter..........I will never ever ever use it. Yeah, yeah, yeah I know there are probably great accounts that are worth following but it's like giving every !@#$ing dumbass a stage, a podium and a microphone. No thanks. This place is bad enough.
If you're not using it then it's not really giving every !@#$ing dumbass a stage, a podium and a microphone
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Seeing we've already determined that free doesn't exist how do you propose paying for this?
by selling eyes, livers, and kidneys from Trump voters or anyone who has a "don't tread on me" flag to the Chinese elite - also I heard spleen is an Asian delicacy and I'm pretty sure we know where the mother load is.
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"...and I want a pony, and a rocket ship, and a lightsaber, and a puppy, and an invisibility cloak..."
What you should want is titanium gold alloy ankles to replace those chalk ones but you've been very bad so you're getting a bag of wood pellets.
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How is this possible ? Gives zero !@#$s, not even trying
Well it's a true statement, Tim Kaine's governing of NJ was dreadful, he provide no leadership, did no work, it was like he wasn't even there.
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TRUMPS IMMUNITY: The point here is not that Trump is guaranteed to win. Clinton maintains a large advertising and organizational advantage over Trump. But she has already dumped $50 million in unanswered advertising on his head, with little movement in the polls.
Plus: What scandal can Clinton use to dissuade his voters from crawling over broken glass and going to the polls this fall? Divorce? Hes had two. Bankruptcy? Four. DUI? He doesnt drink and besides, he has a chauffeur. He gave money to a crooked politician? Yes, and her name is Clinton.
Note to the DNC: Stop blaming Russia. . . . . . . . . . . YOU WROTE THE E-MAILS ! ! !
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Agreed, also stop blaming Manning and Snowden, the way to stop being exposed for doing disgusting and disgraceful things isn't better cyber security it's to stop doing disgusting and disgraceful things.
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Isn't Foles a statue? I think we are building our offense around mobile QBs
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I'd eliminate summer vacations from public schools (two week vacation every season) add an hour a day but eliminate homework, and make high-school 5years - this would add the equivalent of four years of education.
create a free online university
payoff existing student converting them to a 2% loan
offer 2% student loans
provide free tuition and text books for careers deemed in need, contingent on maintaining a B average - this would include trades schools
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Please move this thread to PPP
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You mean invest time, effort & money into a real organization?
yeppers
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I believe this stems from a root misunderstanding between Tom and the Giants troll.
Tom stated many times that he was the plane crash into the Pentagon on 911.
Somehow it got twisted in their back and forth and the Giant troll believed that Tom said he saw rockets fired into it.
****, for all I know Tom might have said something like that in a frustrated sarcastic response to him.
Anyway, the Giant Troll has oft repeated that ridiculous assertion.
While Tom definitely has the mass to cause the damage can he really generate the velocity needed given that his ankles are made out of chalk .
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I have not a clue, I'm not in tune with the Green Party. I gave them a glance over because I see a certain amount of liberals looking into it. On paper, I'm aligned with much of their platform, but again, until they get some serious politicians behind them, I'm not taking them too seriously.
Ideally I'd love to see a legitimate 3rd/4th party option, but I don't think our political system will allow it to happen.
The problem with the Green party is they only gear up for presidential elections - if they want to be relevant they have to do the hard work of getting Greens elected to school boards and city councilmen, then to state positions, then to congress and governors, then make a run at president.
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I don't know how you type when you're stroking Ted Cruz's dick with one hand and fondling his balls with the other, I'd figure you're using voice recognition soft-ware but I'm surprised it can understand your muffled words with your head so far up a fictionalized Reagan's colon.
Why are you so homophobic?
What part is homophobic?
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Why would a far left nutbag like you heckle the kind SJW that is Eric Holder? I thought he was your hero!
I don't know how you type when you're stroking Ted Cruz's dick with one hand and fondling his balls with the other, I'd figure you're using voice recognition soft-ware but I'm surprised it can understand your muffled words with your head so far up a fictionalized Reagan's colon.
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JA was a fake libertarian too? I didn't know that.
I've only seen a few true libertarians most are unwilling to give up America's superpower status
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Eric Holder is scheduled to speak and I'd boo and heckle him unmercifully
Eric Holder has long insisted that he tried really hard when he was attorney general to make criminal cases against big banks in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis. His excuse, which he made again just last month, was that Justice Department prosecutors didn’t have enough evidence to bring charges.
Many critics have long suspected that was bull ****, and that Holder, for a combination of political, self-serving, and craven reasons, held his department back.
A new, thoroughly-documented report from the House Financial Services Committee supports that theory. It recounts how career prosecutors in 2012 wanted to criminally charge the global bank HSBC for facilitating money laundering for Mexican drug lords and terrorist groups. But Holder said no.
When asked on June 8 why his Justice Department did not equally apply the criminal laws to financial institutions in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis, Holder told the platform drafting panel of the Democratic National Committee that it was laboring under a “misperception.”
He told the panel: “The question you need to ask yourself is, if we could have made those cases, do you think we would not have? Do you think that these very aggressive U.S. attorneys I was proud to serve with would have not brought these cases if they had the ability?”
The report — the result of a three-year investigation — shows that aggressive attorneys did want to prosecute HSBC, but Holder overruled them.
The Johnson Thread
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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There are all kinds of religious beliefs we make illegal and punishable - We don't let Christian scientists withhold medical treatment from their children, Polygamy is illegal regardless of your religious beliefs, Being Rastafarian does not allow you to smoke weed legally, you can't stone your children no matter how disrespectful they are and no matter how much my God Cthulhu needs human sacrifices they remain a legal no no.