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12901  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell on: September 02, 2014, 11:48:06 AM
Book Description
Publication Date: August 19, 2014
Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. In Dark Winter, author John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer tells the truth about ominous changes taking place in the climate and the Sun. Casey's research into the Sun's activity, which began almost a decade ago, resulted in the discovery of a solar cycle that is now reversing from its global warming phase to that of dangerous global cooling for the next thirty years or more. This new cold climate will dramatically impact the world's citizens. In Dark Winter, he provides evidence of the following: • The end of global warming • The beginning of a solar hibernation, a historic reduction in the energy output of the Sun • A long-term drop in the Earth's temperatures • The start of the next climate change to decades of dangerously cold weather • The high probability of record earthquakes and volcanic eruptions A sobering look at the Earth's future, Dark Winter predicts worldwide, crop-destroying cold; food shortages and riots in the United States and abroad; significant global loss of life; and social, political, and economic upheaval.

Solar physicists have been talking about this possibility for decades, and a couple years ago issued a warning that was pretty serious.

Casey didn't have anything to do with this that I am aware of.  It's just the question of whether or not we are headed into another Little Ice Age.
12902  Other / Politics & Society / Re: A new religion: Shitlam on: September 02, 2014, 04:35:29 AM
Islam is a false religion, yet there are a billion of those vermin who think otherwise.  Shows how much rank stupidity there is in the world.  Unfortunately, jihadists are the true Muslims.  Islam was violent from the beginning.  They have never known peace, don't want it and shouldn't get anything but war.  Read anything by Robert Spencer if you think otherwise.  Fully documented
This deserves an answer.  I believe my take on the matter is that religions were/art sort of "groups of cultural traditions" which maximize survival possibilities.  Hence, they say things like no pork, maximize baby production so as to get the most footsoldiers and farmers, etc.  In most such groups there are sections that call for and justify war and actions of war.  These lie latent until conditions require they be focused on, then they are.

The existence of such things in religions of today is expected because they survived to today.

I do not think these comments refute yours, maybe they stand alongside of yours.  Regardless, I have worked with various guys who grew up in the Muslim tradition, no idea if they took the stuff seriously - I suspect no more than most of us do ours.  They were stand up guys.
12903  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The Latin Americanization of U.S. Police Forces on: September 02, 2014, 12:45:13 AM
A Warning
Appropriate subtitle - Racist divide is necessary for Police Militarization. US will become Latin America

The article is written from someone who fled Latin America to USA in the 80's after watching the rise of police militarization into mafia like violent gangs......

I call out to all white Americans, to unite with suppressed minorities who are incarcerated daily, killed in the streets, and who hold little political power against these militarized police forces. It is in their utmost interest to understand that, just as in Latin America, when the white peoples, the mestizos of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, stood aside as indigenous peoples were massacred, subjugation for all is certain once militarized monsters awaken, learn to walk, and find their own developmental path.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/27/the-latin-americanization-of-u-s-police-forces/

Yes, I ripped the whole damn thing as I thought it was needed in full. Tip him w/ a click if you'd like.
[/quote]Well, that is quite interesting.

However right now, this pre existing trend of police militarization has a racially divisive element which has a clear and distinct name:

Barack Hussain Obama.

I do not see the trend as being irreversible, and I do not see this writer condemning the original source of many of these racially divisive policies, and that is Obama.  We've seen him do it with Zimmerman.  Then his lackies, like Sharpton, come running in. 

So I don't buy the guy's script as written.
12904  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Obamacare in review on: September 02, 2014, 12:33:09 AM
All I know is this will be one more tax I have to pay since I'm younger and don't need health insurance. My health insurance is the supplements I purchase on a monthly basis here: http://www.drdavidwilliams.com/. One aspect of the ACA is to tap the young and healthy to pay into an already broken system. I'm surprised to see a cheerleader for this on a forum dedicated to the disruptive tech known as Bitcoin.

Well, one part of those tax revenues will be to pay for the propaganda efforts and collect lying statistics then advertize them.  Basically tell everyone a pack of lies as they squeeze services down.  Then you have 800 numbers that you can never get through, and runarounds like in the VA system.  And waiting lists.  

But don't worry.  It will create a new, larger dependent class and then they can drum roll scary stuff like the "Republicans are going to take your heath care away".  And that's all this thing has ever been about.  Buying votes.  With printed money.
12905  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Obamacare in review on: September 02, 2014, 12:25:11 AM
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You can't just give everybody in America $1 million dollars and say "everybody gets a Lamborghini" - it doesn't work that way.  Roll Eyes
Yes, you most certainly can give them all $1M dollars.

Whether those dollars will even buy a hamburger at that point is another question.



What I mean was you can offer to give out everything for free by printing money left and right.  Obama promised everything under the sun.  Good luck getting it even if you want it.  It would be damn near impossible to get 20 million hand crafted cars with the caliber of a Lamborghini even if the government said "we'll foot the bill".

Just because they say everybody gets free healthcare doesn't mean 50K new primary care physicians pop up on the surface of the Earth.

Had our "Harvard educated" POTUS actually learned even a "smidgeon" of science he would have know about the concept of "rate limiting step".

What makes you think docs are part of the plan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIktqjfsB_0

Oh I know we're not because nobody wants to pay for their healthcare.  So far this year I have been paid 21% of my co-pays by inpatients.  That's right - 79% of people I sent the bill to and they have chosen not to pay despite them signing a contract with their insurance company stating they would pay.  I could take them to court but it's not forth it anymore.  I took a Fukitol and will be quitting medicine... let the noctors have fun  Roll Eyes
Not a bad idea to go concierge medicine,  cash or bitcoin only.  At least for some specialties. 
12906  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. on: September 01, 2014, 09:52:21 PM
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The science is settled then.  Cheesy Grin Cheesy


WHAT?  IT'S NOT SCARY?  I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY SCARY!!!!   Like....



“...My friends, the coming nightmare is close.  A bad sea, rising higher and higher.  It will drown those who sit in their houses, and use coal to power their air conditioning.  Their SUVs will not outrun these floods.  The Earth is like a great battery, that stores the heat from the carbon pollution.  And where is the heat stored?"

“In the deep!”
“The oceans!”
“Way, way down, man!”

“Yes, science tell us the Great Warming yet to come is waiting, lurking deep in the oceans.  If the temperatures had been rising the last five decades, some of that energy would have dissipated, going into space.  But instead the Earth is storing it up.  More energy than millions of hydrogen bombs.  Suddenly - very soon, the tipping point will come.  Like from a coiled spring that energy will burst forth.  Upon those who caused it.  Upon those who would not listen."

He smirked, as he said “The Deniers, and their anti-science.”  He looked at another blond girl, this one in the middle row.  “The Deniers say that stable temperatures since the 1980s means the Earth isn’t warming.  What do you say to fools like that?  What do you say to those who claim that almost fifty years of level temperatures means no warming?"

“Tards, dude!  Tards!”
“Hang them from the nearest tree!”
“Jail.  Jail the damn Deniers!
“Shoot them all!”

“Yes."

He looked down in sorrow and pity, as the snow fell faster.

 “These fools will regret the day they unleash the storms, the droughts, and the floods.  Mark my words.  The people of the world will call for new Nuremberg Trials for these despicable enemies of the Earth.”

“Here will be the edge of the sweltering sea, two hundred miles inland.  Here will be the lifeless, stinking waters of death.  Here will be dead fish that once schooled and played.  They will be bloated stinking carcasses, floating in such numbers the water can’t be seen.  Mixed with cattle, dogs and human remains.  Even the fish from the deep.  They will float serenely up in death.  Fish that for a billion years never saw sun light.  From the natural darkness of the depths, to the new darkness wrought by humans.”


(excerpt, Makers of the Moon)
12907  Bitcoin / Meetups / Re: San Antonio Bitcoin Meetup on: September 01, 2014, 09:47:44 PM
Great meetup, more than expected.  Grin
Very interesting.
12908  Other / Politics & Society / Re: A new religion: Shitlam on: September 01, 2014, 09:35:52 PM
I'll applaud your rational view, WHEN AND ONLY WHEN I SEE A FATWA AGAINST EVERY LAST MEMBER OF ISIS AND BOKO HARAM, declared by prominent members of the Islamic clergy.

Until then, every last Muslim owns these creeps.


There have been plenty of muslim leaders/scholars denouncing ISIS:

http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/news/id_9262/Muslim-scholars-denounce-Islamic-State,-Israel-at-press-conference.html

The Imams Council of the Michigan Muslim Community Council (MMCC) condemned the continuing atrocities committed against religious minorities across Iraq and Syria by the Islamic State.

http://iqra.ca/2014/manitoba-muslims-denounce-isis/

We, the undersigned Muslim leaders in Winnipeg, unconditionally declare the actions of ISIS against the Iraqi Christians and Yazidis an affront to our faith, and we forcefully condemn any attempts by ISIS to associate their heinous crimes to Islam and to our prophetic tradition.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/08/02/Indonesian-Muslim-Leaders-Condemn-ISIS-The-Public-Have-to-be-Critical

More Muslims are speaking out against the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIS. Two Muslim leaders in Indonesia condemned the group and those who support it, while the Supreme Religious Authority in Iraq asked the world to help the country fight the jihadists.

http://www.freep.com/article/20140825/NEWS05/308250218/Muslim-Detroit-ISIS-criminals

Muslim leaders gathered Monday on the steps of Dearborn City Hall to strongly condemn ISIS, saying the militant group in Iraq and Syria doesn’t represent Islam or Muslims.
Let's SEE THAT FATWA or your linkies a bunch of crybabies!



lol no crybabies here Smiley

Leading British Muslims issue fatwa condemning terror group:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/isis-terror-threat-leading-british-muslims-issue-fatwa-condemning-terror-group-9702042.html

"Muslim leaders have issued a fatwa condemning Islamic extremist group Isis, and have said that British jihadis are “betraying their own societies” by getting involved in the conflicts in Iraq and Syria.

The fatwa represents the British Muslim community’s strongest denunciation of Isis yet, calling the extremist group “heretical” and “an oppressive and tyrannical group.”




YES!!!! Thank you British Muslims!!!!
12909  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Obamacare in review on: September 01, 2014, 09:33:05 PM
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You can't just give everybody in America $1 million dollars and say "everybody gets a Lamborghini" - it doesn't work that way.  Roll Eyes
Yes, you most certainly can give them all $1M dollars.

Whether those dollars will even buy a hamburger at that point is another question.



What I mean was you can offer to give out everything for free by printing money left and right.  Obama promised everything under the sun.  Good luck getting it even if you want it.  It would be damn near impossible to get 20 million hand crafted cars with the caliber of a Lamborghini even if the government said "we'll foot the bill".

Just because they say everybody gets free healthcare doesn't mean 50K new primary care physicians pop up on the surface of the Earth.

Had our "Harvard educated" POTUS actually learned even a "smidgeon" of science he would have know about the concept of "rate limiting step".

What makes you think docs are part of the plan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIktqjfsB_0
12910  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 9 year old girl kills bloke stone dead with full auto machine gun on: September 01, 2014, 09:27:34 PM
It all boils down to a person this young not having the strength to handle such a weapon, let alone an automatic one. As soon as the trigger is pulled the gun just starts spraying upwards or sideways and certainly no young girl could handle it. A .22 cal is the only gun this person should've been allowed to practice on. This is just common sense.
this is correct.  It's not just the full auto, but the short, pistol like Uzi which doesn't have full support like a rifle.

This is not complicated.  Would you let a 9 year old shoot a Dirty Harry 44 Magnum?  Nope.

A 45 Auto?  Not I.

A 357 Magnum?  Nope.

Any fully auto is one more step in difficulty that these three.

This would be like taking a beginning student pilot and putting him in a Citation Jet, instead of a Cessna 150.


12911  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Obamacare in review on: September 01, 2014, 04:48:24 AM
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You can't just give everybody in America $1 million dollars and say "everybody gets a Lamborghini" - it doesn't work that way.  Roll Eyes
Yes, you most certainly can give them all $1M dollars.

Whether those dollars will even buy a hamburger at that point is another question.

12912  Other / Politics & Society / Re: us is such idiot to hasten the demise of $ on: September 01, 2014, 02:12:43 AM
according to ron paul, the sanctions on russian is an idiot move.  What the fuck is the us thinking?  Fucking idiots.  Russian holds a shit load of us dollars and all they would have to do is dump their dollar holdings and go buy oil via another currency with the middle east.  What fucking arrogance is the us to think that it is so fucking indispensable to the russian economy as to think that if it applies sanctions that russia would just have to fold its tail between its legs and bend to the us's will? 

Pure fucking arrogance.  Maybe in the old days, US dollar wielded that kind of power.  But, the demise of the dollar is coming and then what the fuckk are the idiots in US going to do?  Fucking arrogance.

here is the quote from ron paul:

The US government's decision to apply more sanctions on Russia is a grave mistake and will only escalate an already tense situation, ultimately harming the US economy itself. While the effect of sanctions on the dollar may not be appreciated in the short term, in the long run these sanctions are just another step toward the dollar's eventual demise as the world's reserve currency.
 
Not only is the US sanctioning Russian banks and companies, but it also is trying to strong-arm European banks into enacting harsh sanctions against Russia as well. Given the amount of business that European banks do with Russia, European sanctions could hurt Europe at least as much as Russia. At the same time the US expects cooperation from European banks, it is also prosecuting those same banks and fining them billions of dollars for violating existing US sanctions. It is not difficult to imagine that European banks will increasingly become fed up with having to act as the US government's unpaid policemen, while having to pay billions of dollars in fines every time they engage in business that Washington doesn't like.
 
European banks are already cutting ties with American citizens and businesses due to the stringent compliance required by recently-passed laws such as FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act). In the IRS's quest to suck in as much tax dollars as possible from around the world, the agency has made Americans into the pariahs of the international financial system. As the burdens the US government places on European banks grow heavier, it should be expected that more and more European banks will reduce their exposure to the United States and to the dollar, eventually leaving the US isolated. Attempting to isolate Russia, the US actually isolates itself.
 
Another effect of sanctions is that Russia will grow closer to its BRICS (Brazil/Russia/India/China/South Africa) allies. These countries count over 40 percent of the world's population, have a combined economic output almost equal to the US and EU, and have significant natural resources at their disposal. Russia is one of the world's largest oil producers and supplies Europe with a large percent of its natural gas. Brazil has the second-largest industrial sector in the Americas and is the world's largest exporter of ethanol. China is rich in mineral resources and is the world's largest food producer. Already Russia and China are signing agreements to conduct their bilateral trade with their own national currencies rather than with the dollar, a trend which, if it spreads, will continue to erode the dollar's position in international trade. Perhaps more importantly, China, Russia, and South Africa together produce nearly 40 percent of the world's gold, which could play a role if the BRICS countries decide to establish a gold-backed currency to challenge the dollar.
 
US policymakers fail to realize that the United States is not the global hegemon it was after World War II. They fail to understand that their overbearing actions toward other countries, even those considered friends, have severely eroded any good will that might previously have existed. And they fail to appreciate that more than 70 years of devaluing the dollar has put the rest of the world on edge. There is a reason the euro was created, a reason that China is moving to internationalize its currency, and a reason that other countries around the world seek to negotiate monetary and trade compacts. The rest of the world is tired of subsidizing the United States government's enormous debts, and tired of producing and exporting trillions of dollars of goods to the US, only to receive increasingly worthless dollars in return.
 
The US government has always relied on the cooperation of other countries to maintain the dollar's preeminent position. But international patience is wearing thin, especially as the carrot-and-stick approach of recent decades has become all stick and no carrot. If President Obama and his successors continue with their heavy-handed approach of levying sanctions against every country that does something US policymakers don’t like, it will only lead to more countries shunning the dollar and accelerating the dollar's slide into irrelevance.
 
There are some errors in Ron Paul's statement.

For example, he suggests that Russia may find the dollar somewhat flawed as a way to hold value.  But look at the Ruple - 1/38 what it was worth in 1993 today.  That's why other nations preferred to get $ in trade, the $ held it's value better than the Ruple. 

And the Yuan is a out and out rigged currency.

Other nations are printing money as fast or faster as we are, granted with a few exceptions here and there.

Now Paul mixes these errors in with some talk of US banks trying to get compliance from other banks regarding deposits of US Citizens, but he neglects to mention the beneficial reasons for that - that's US citizens hold other countries currencies.  Those countries might revolt against the heavy handed policy of the US Government, but what do the people of the US care?  We'd just move more money to foreign accounts.

What Paul has not done is to prove up that the US currency slides into irrelevance faster than the other G20 currencies.  And so what if it or they all do? 

We'd just go bitcoin.  Let me know when Ron Paul "gets it." 

12913  Other / Politics & Society / Re: California Passes First-Ever Bill to Define Sexual Consent on College Campuses on: August 31, 2014, 10:33:34 PM
This will all be hearsay. How will schools know if she said yes or no? Will they take her word for it? What if the accused claims she said yes, but she denies saying yes? Who do you believe? How will they justify whom to believe?

I wouldn't be surprised if they found the accused to be guilty. This is one way California is making it so that college campuses don't have any false-rape allegations. They will only get rape cases.
Right.  It creates a judicial system outside of the judicial system.  Of course now we have a civilian police force - the TSA - outside of the normal police and military.  And we've got a do-anything-we-want judiciary - ran by Eric Holder - that operates outside the normal law.

Got a feeling this isn't going to end well.
12914  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Undocumented immigrants are civil, NOT CRIMINAL matters on: August 31, 2014, 10:29:59 PM
I've been undocumented most of my life, nobody has ever told me I was a criminal.
I'm changing country quite often, and I guess it helps when I show my passport with lots of stamps. And if I'm working in countries where I don't have any right to work, I make it difficult to prove I'm working or that I'm earning money.
If you are working in a country where you do not have the right to work then you are not only breaking the law but are also robbing the rest of the hard working people of the country blind. You are creating more supply of a labor force then what there should be. You are not paying the same taxes that other hard working citizens in the country are.

This is correct, but I do not have the same rights. And I'm not costing anything to the taxpayers, as I don't have any right to health insurance nor a pension. All that while I do pay VAT or sales tax with anything I buy. I travel a lot, and I see that countries which offer the most to their citizens have the largest budget deficits. They're all failing, and their failure makes me happy. Anyway, I'm currently staying in a little country where there's no income tax. I don't have the right to work nor a residency permit, but I have no doubt I'm useful to that country, giving more than I receive. This is what really matters.

Let's forget the citizenship issues, and focus on this giving/receiving question. I suggest anyone receiving more than he gives be sent to forced labour. I'll remain free.
You are likely paying less in income taxes then what you should be paying. You probably aren't paying anything in income taxes. You are also consuming public resources (like local government services) that is provided to the people by the government.

I'm not using any local government service. Not at all.
A month ago, I was in a city where there was some fireworks, and I've watched. That's about it. Oh, well, I remember I've used a public bathroom a while ago. That's it, nothing else.

This is not the norm for illegals. The majority of illegal immigrants add to crime, creating a burden to the local police. If you have ever driven your car then you have contributed to wear and tear on the roads but have not paid your fair share in taxes to cover these costs. If you have children then they are using the school system of which you are not paying for via taxes.
No the majority do not.  But the majority of prisoners in our state prison are illegals, virtually all Mexican.
12915  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists on: August 31, 2014, 08:14:57 PM


University Of Iowa Professors Dress As Robots To Protest “Sexist,” “Homophobic” Pink Locker Room…


....

You know the thing about professors at universities is that they think nobody will talk back to them because the kids have to suck up to them in the grading system.

A lot of them need to be told to shut the fuck up.
12916  Other / Politics & Society / Re: ISIS - things are about to get a little bit rocky on: August 31, 2014, 08:12:29 PM
ISIS needs to be removed. New coalition is building up, air strikes by US are in place, so, hopefully we get rid of them
The essence of this entire matter (it seems to me) is that ISIS has became total butchers.

What matters is that we - or someone - must deal with the THEM as they are NOW.

Trying to trace things back and assign blame on the US or any other group is ridiculous.

Each man in that organization who has engaged in these murders is himself responsible for what he's done.
12917  Other / Politics & Society / Re: ISIS - things are about to get a little bit rocky on: August 31, 2014, 01:23:37 AM
Turns out in war the most difficult exercise is to guess what the enemy will do next or what is it up to.
What's US idea about supporting ISIS? Could be many things... or just a bunch of retards who jumped of the handle.

This is nonsense.  Many times, a country might support insurgents who turn out to be different than what was perceived, or who morph into something different than what they originally were.  This is nothing new.

To reverse reality and project the US helping the diabolical ISIS from the beginning is a stretch. I dislike Obama and think he is incompetant, but this is too much.



Unfortunately. It is not nonsense. Obama is a puppet. He has about as much power as a gnat when it come to the Military Industrial Complex and the Global Corporate Fascist Financial Dictatorship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjXbuj7BPI

Evidence to back the claims made in video: http://scgnews.com/the-covert-origins-of-isis

I looked at your links before pronouncing bullshit.

You've taken a spin on events that suits your preconceptions, and stand on those grounds.  But those are not the only interpretations of cause and effect.   

100% true and verifiable. You are not salvageable. You are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. You are in love with your captors.
No, I don't think you even understand what I am saying.

It's not that you don't have some facts that are "verifiable."

It's that in attempting to actually understand history, even the best efforts often err.  But this is particularly pronounced when dealing with short time frames like 1-10 years.

The attributions of cause and effect are flawed.  Describing events is relatively easy.  Attributing cause and effect is something different.

Remember all the spin that "Katrina was caused by Bush?"  (through some intricate chain of logic relating to Bush being Anti-Kyoto or such).

You are comparing apples to tinfoil hats. Big difference.

Well, I was trying to pick a particularly ridiculous one.

But for every erroneous chain of causality that is asserted going backwards, there is a blunder committed going forward.

Seems to me we have an example of both here.
12918  Other / Politics & Society / Re: ISIS - things are about to get a little bit rocky on: August 30, 2014, 09:02:48 PM
Turns out in war the most difficult exercise is to guess what the enemy will do next or what is it up to.
What's US idea about supporting ISIS? Could be many things... or just a bunch of retards who jumped of the handle.

This is nonsense.  Many times, a country might support insurgents who turn out to be different than what was perceived, or who morph into something different than what they originally were.  This is nothing new.

To reverse reality and project the US helping the diabolical ISIS from the beginning is a stretch. I dislike Obama and think he is incompetant, but this is too much.



Unfortunately. It is not nonsense. Obama is a puppet. He has about as much power as a gnat when it come to the Military Industrial Complex and the Global Corporate Fascist Financial Dictatorship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjXbuj7BPI

Evidence to back the claims made in video: http://scgnews.com/the-covert-origins-of-isis

I looked at your links before pronouncing bullshit.

You've taken a spin on events that suits your preconceptions, and stand on those grounds.  But those are not the only interpretations of cause and effect.   

100% true and verifiable. You are not salvageable. You are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. You are in love with your captors.
No, I don't think you even understand what I am saying.

It's not that you don't have some facts that are "verifiable."

It's that in attempting to actually understand history, even the best efforts often err.  But this is particularly pronounced when dealing with short time frames like 1-10 years.

The attributions of cause and effect are flawed.  Describing events is relatively easy.  Attributing cause and effect is something different.

Remember all the spin that "Katrina was caused by Bush?"  (through some intricate chain of logic relating to Bush being Anti-Kyoto or such).
12919  Other / Politics & Society / Re: ISIS - things are about to get a little bit rocky on: August 30, 2014, 07:23:44 PM
Turns out in war the most difficult exercise is to guess what the enemy will do next or what is it up to.
What's US idea about supporting ISIS? Could be many things... or just a bunch of retards who jumped of the handle.

This is nonsense.  Many times, a country might support insurgents who turn out to be different than what was perceived, or who morph into something different than what they originally were.  This is nothing new.

To reverse reality and project the US helping the diabolical ISIS from the beginning is a stretch. I dislike Obama and think he is incompetant, but this is too much.



Unfortunately. It is not nonsense. Obama is a puppet. He has about as much power as a gnat when it come to the Military Industrial Complex and the Global Corporate Fascist Financial Dictatorship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjXbuj7BPI

Evidence to back the claims made in video: http://scgnews.com/the-covert-origins-of-isis

I looked at your links before pronouncing bullshit.

You've taken a spin on events that suits your preconceptions, and stand on those grounds.  But those are not the only interpretations of cause and effect.   
12920  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Obamacare in review on: August 30, 2014, 07:17:13 PM
Since the Nixon presidency each American president has attempted to create a path to insure all Americans. Until the Obama administration, all failed at this goal. In 2010 President Obama, with the support of a democratic congress, passed The Affordable Care Act (Initially known by its opponents as Obamacare) into law.

Although the passage was a historic accomplishment....

You know, I have a relative who is paid to write this exact kind of pro-Obama socialist crap.  He gets pretty good money for it, too.  But it all reads false, like all propaganda.
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