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Observer

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  1. You said the people voted conservatively in the Brexit vote. Stick to quoting articles. It's safer.
  2. Telling that you think Brexit is conservative. This was Magox's point a few posts back.
  3. I get that it's annoying. I fight it tooth and nail. But I don't have quite the same level of important documents flowing through my email. That this is not a big issue kills me.
  4. Ouch. And by the way, 58% of 25-34 year-olds voted Leave.................... SkyData. are they the "old" people. Another narrative wrong. The WWII "generation" didn't carry this vote. There are barely any of them left, and that is a shame, but it's also a mathmatical fact. I see two polls showing 56 and 58% of 25-49 voted stay. Link I see the SKy Data data too. Goes to show how crappy UK polling data is. If you look at the link, the trend is clear so I'd be surprised to see the 18-49 demo voted as Sky Data calculated.
  5. I am in Europe often and don't find your analysis reflective of the thinking. While some Europeans are surprised that Americans push kids to college fast and workplace faster, they believe there backpacking, as you say, is a really good way to open minds. The old voters in there UK voted Brexit mostly as a referendum on immigration. The right had a little momentum with Mitt to win the immigration dialog in the US but has now fallen into a racist pigeonhole behind Trump. The Brexit vote follows the same rationale. When all the old people die, these issues will self correct.
  6. Good points all around. I find the age discrepancy on Brexit interesting. The young voted REMAIN. I'm watching how this uncoils with great interest. You don't switch off a treaty, which makes me wonder if the current MPs will take action or force the electorate to vote them out and let their replacements do it.
  7. Hillary Clinton is smart. And a compulsive sold-her-soul to the highest bidder liar. Obama is smart too. That doesn't make them good leaders. The-rent-is-too-damn-high guy gives good speeches but I wouldn't vote for him.
  8. The next steps will be telling.
  9. Protection and its long successful history. Of course free trade hurts some, but it's the rising tide. Or at least was. Let's hope the UK regains its senses as it works out how to "exit." Or if it doesn't, let it be a lesson for others who think free trade is bad. A vote by the stupid for the stupid.
  10. The mob has many heads, few brains. Terrible day for free trade. Big win for the anti-immigrant blame-it-all-on-someone-else crowd.
  11. Once you have the interview, unless you screw the pooch, they approve you right then. You then have the global entry and TSA number to add to your reservations, and you get a card a few weeks later. You never need the card when passing through customs. You just need your passport. Entering the US is a fingerprint scan, an automated photo, and a few checkmarks on a screen. Takes less than 60 seconds at customs using a machine. The longest I've waited in line entering the US is 3 minutes. If you get a new passport (or run out of room for stamps!), you can transfer your global entry to the new passport. My wife and daughter scheduled their interviews on the same day, same time. Not a problem. The interview is about 5 minutes.
  12. Hell's 7th Circle has a lot of good actors.
  13. Cruz is a hardline idealist of his own idealogical mold, which garners a certain following but doesn't get anything done. Possessing zero personal and leadership skills makes him as Boehner said, "a miserable SOB."
  14. My neighbor won't mow his lawn. If I go into a rage, say the words the shooter said about pledging allegiance to ISIS, then trespass onto his property, mow his lawn, and take a steaming dump in the middle of the freshly cut grass, does that make me a terrorist? I doubt this guy had any agenda besides wanting to make himself feel that in the closing moments of his worthless existence, people (in a certain sect) might praise his beautiful idealism, when in fact he was just a social outcast who wasn't getting his allotment of p#$$y, or in his case, hairy man-ass. Maybe he really cared about advancing "the cause" or maybe he was just a guy who was around the rhetoric. I suspect the later but can't be more sure than anyone at this point. If I was going to go out in a murderous rampage, I'd want people to think I did for a better reason then that I was a big loser.
  15. Never been an argument in my mind. Ronaldo is a great player with a tremendously flashy game. Messi is the best player I can recall seeing. IF he's moving forward, you're basically screwed as a defender. And yeah, so Argentina is a bit better than the US. The US needed top defending and some luck to make it a game. They got neither, and look awful to boot. The goal in the 4th minute killed any chance for them to win a gritty match. And yeah, that free kick was pretty nice. It didn't matter who was in based on this performance but Wondo seems like a terrible choice. I'd have prefered to see more speed up top with Dempsey. The only chance they would have had was with an occasional counter with serious speed.
  16. Terrorism requires some political aim or agenda. Sometimes people kill just because they are nuckin' futs, like the Batman movie theater nutcase. That guy was just off the rails.
  17. As I hear it, it's 72 virgins, not 72 women. I suspect a Koran scholar can settle this but I don't feel like Googling it. I like the thought of the hetero terrorists sauntering into the afterlife budoir only to find it fiilled wall to wall with 72 dudes ready to host a sausage fest.
  18. No doubt. The Bulls took time to develop a chemistry and toughness to get through the East but time showed them to be the vastly better team.
  19. One candidate is bought and sold and the ultimate product of the political and socialist-policy driven system. The other is stupid and plays to people's anger at the system using hatred and sound bytes. Both are the result of a largely uninformed electorate. Do you want the grape or cherry Kool Aid?
  20. Yay, Secret Service agents will sell presidential secrets (or stories, who knows?) during the election. Another new low. Well done Mr. Byrne. Enjoy your small amount of cash and 15 minutes on Hannity and Rush.
  21. My point is that your qualifiers do more to discredit you than the actual tin hat story. I'm not saying I heard this from a credible source, but the Egyptian pyramids may be, as reported on suspect websites, alien testicles.
  22. Not easy but in that moment between inaction and action is choice. Harder for the addict to make the choice but it's always there. Well done--your kids and their kids thank you for it. I'm sure your body will too once it detoxes.
  23. All the campaigns must have this CYA memo on donor solicitation. You can't send an army of donation beggars out without a clear list of what to say and what's not.
  24. That's not a statement that rational people report on. You get that don't you?
  25. Jeeps serve a purpose. But if you commute to work like most people in anywhere but Alaska or through the Rocky mountains, they are the wrong car, and a crappy car that will break every other mile. And by the way, as a man, I WISH I lived somewhere where a Jeep made sense. But 99.9% of us don't. When I go on vacation, I try to find places where Jeeps are mandatory.
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