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I hate the idea of regulating the internet floating around, it's completely absurd. As for certain online activities flagged, that's a different subject, but there are obvious issues with this and it probably happens already anyway. I just can't think of another way to preemptively stop an attack from a homegrown subject (which they nearly all are) short of banning an entire group from the country and waiting a couple decades.

Couldn't have said it better.

WTF do we even do? Seriously... I don't believe the travel ban would accomplish much fighting homegrown terror, although you can argue limiting immigration/refugees will have long term impacts. At this point I'm fine with the travel ban, but skeptical on how much it would do. I am fully supportive of targeted surveillance of online activities related to extremeism, but yes my initial reaction is to reject that due to a slippery slope argument. Some of you, I know, are vehemently against this. So to you...what do we do to fight extremists with a social security number? At least most are coming around to calling it what is is...radical ISLAMIC terror. Being a rational person, I of course know it's a tiny percentage of an entire religion, but fair or not the Islam community needs to lead the charge rooting this out.

Alright this is one of your better ones.

Pretty much any Kyle Orton picture floating around the internet.

Still holds the record for most receiving yards in a single playoff game. 1/2/99 against Miami 9 catches 240 yards

Self-accountability works both ways, it's the only point I am trying to make. Lacking in it is far from a leftist only condition.

That's complete ignorance of the situation. Coal carries more expensive upfront costs to start an operation and then is less efficient after the fact relative to Natural Gas. Political issues have sped the demise, but the market is coal's worst enemy. Coal has a place in metal works, but as a source for electrical production it's dead and those jobs won't come back. You can blame the Obama administration all you want, but doesn't change the fact that you have to find a different path. Being laid off was the best thing that ever happened to me, in hindsight of course. If I sat around pointing fingres I would have remained in my lousy situation. This administration fanning the flames by blaming the former administration and promising a resurgence in jobs of the past does a great disservice to those they are misleading.

Kathy is an idiot and was never funny. She deserves everything she is getting and more. But the self-accountability argument towards the "left" is what I'm taking issue with. The prevailing argument is the left still doesn't understand that disenfranchised America has rejected it for not caring about them. Coal as an example, is dying due to economic factors. As a rational human being, I would say a coal miner should recognize that and take personal responsibility to retrain (state/federal governments are providing avenues for this) and not blame people politically and lobby an administration to boost coal jobs. Yet this is usually glossed over when we speak of personal accountability, which is largely morphing into a buzz phrase fighting entitlements. Case in point...both sides like to play the blame game rather than looking into the mirror.

I would like LABillzFan's treatise on the self-accountability of coal miners.

I was born in 88 so I don't really have anything to fall back on. And people criticize my cynicism? Ya, you know where to put that. I don't really get excited for a new season anymore, but still go to the games. I hope when they are eventually good it wakes up the fire again I had as a teenager, but since the music city miracle I've graduated middle school, graduated high school, graduated college, started my career, moved away, moved back for a better job, and now am almost married. Hard to blame me for rolling my eyes when I hear "we're close."

Cleveland looked surprisingly flat, but I expect them to play a better game Sunday. You can't give Durant all that space or he will rip them apart.

lol "it ends today". Very melodramatic.

I've been layed off due to lack of work, I really do feel for the people. States are upping efforts to retrain. You can't pretend it's going to go back to what is was. There will continue to be global investment in clean energy and we have some of the best in that industry. I personally hate that we refuse to lead, but the disenfranchised have spoken. Notice there isn't the "personal responsibility" lecture going on.

Any conversation about coal is hilarious. You don't need a single talking point on environmental issues. More expensive + less efficient = RIP.

The way I understand, Jon is already dead and being kept alive until his role is fulfilled.

I expect most major characters to be killed off before the end. I'm having trouble even coming up with someone I'd expect to survive.

I wasn't against the "ban", but I think you could objectively say it was rolled out poorly. The backlash is still backlash against Trump, which at this point it is what it is. I'm not in favor of completely closing the country to refugees, but if you are traveling to one of these hotbeds in the ME, that obviously needs to raise some damn red flags. Most will probably hate this solution, but I want surveillance. We don't know the extent of which it's already happening, but it didn't seem long for the Manchester bombers online history to be dragged up. How was this guy not picked up? Spare me rights on this. The issue I take, which I've mentioned elsewhere, is turning any of this into an anti refugee/anti immigration conversation. The trend is homegrown. The stricture immigration/refugee conversation deserves it's day, but it's not as pressing as the homegrown terrorist issue. The first argument could me to stop the source and go back to the points above. Sure, this would help, but wouldn't solve the problems completely. I do believe this is also contrary to our country's larger values. So they here and are defecting and their sons/daughters are defecting. I think you need to both fight and install preventative measures. They are defecting online for the most part. Yes, it's an unpopular opinion with small government people, but targeted surveillance of online activity followed by arrests. You are getting to government cencored content at this point, which I'm struggling with, but frankly can't get past. It would be more effective. I mentioned in another thread preventative measures. Google had an idea: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2016/09/googles-clever-plan-stop-aspiring-isis-recruits/amp/ It's a start.

I did in fact renew for a 9th season. I'm a glutton for punishment. My crew has thinned considerably. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep going. It doesn't really even have to do with the product anymore, just getting harder to go through the motions.

There is this crazy scenario where BOTH the murder and Russian collusion are both BS. More pot meet kettle from people standing on one of the poles.

We were talking about my post about the analogy of the firearm manufacturer to facebook. It was four sentences....BUT a single sentence can in fact be a paragraph for the record. You seem to be out for zingers today, but keep missing the mark.

You just said you don't care to read second paragraphs, but then still offer opinions. You must be a liberal.

Time is on my side old man winter.

The fact you thought that was really what I was saying is pretty embarrassing for you. I even added the second paragraph to explain the analogy. I don't think you read this thread.

I'm far from idealistic. If you can't see the parallels between complaining that facebook is in business despite knowing the potential negative side effects from being in business and firearm manufacturers... well then you're just a moron. Unless you missed the point that it was an analogy, in which case you're still a moron.