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41  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why is obama purging generals from the military? on: September 22, 2014, 04:21:59 PM
A coward hiding behind the rank and manipulating the laws and system for his own racial agenda. That's obama in a nut shell.

This fucker is public enemy #1.
Obama is still disallowing troops on the ground except for training Iraqis and absolutely no combat.  But the new general in charge does say that if the US is threatened, he will go back to the pres and ask again for ground troops.  I believe we are already threatened, and so is the whole damn world.  From where I sit, it looks as though Obama is doing everything he can to let ISIS win.  I know he promised no more troops in the middle east, but he promised a lot of things that he has reneged on.  Why doesn't he renege on this?
42  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why is obama purging generals from the military? on: September 22, 2014, 04:07:50 PM
They don't make enough to begin with and he is slashing raises?

I've received a lot of emails about officers who believe they might need to stage a coup and take over omaba by force.  I would trust the military over omaba.  I don't believe they would keep the authority, only long enough for us to get a good replacement.  Which doesn't mean Biden.  I hope, even with the sacking of top officers, the military will end up taking charge if necessary.
43  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Islam Quiz: How much do you know? on: September 22, 2014, 03:05:36 PM
17 right 2 wrong, 89% -  guessed at 1 (Sayyid common to Sunni/Shia or one or the other), reasoning that Sayyid Qutb arguably radical Islam's most influential scholar was Sunni.  His name is sometimes transliterated as Sayyed.
44  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz vows to carry mattress around university on: September 16, 2014, 05:02:54 PM
A little background info for you. In Texas at that time you were required to attend school until you passed the 8th grade or turned 18, whichever came first. High School was optional. They weren't required to send me to high school, so they didn't. I was needed more in the family business.

The family business was a salt mine in Grand Saline, TX. and I got to shovel salt all day every day excluding Sundays. I tried to get out numerous times but could not get a court to grant my request for minor emancipation and social services would not move me to another Foster home. Running away really was not an option, because there is not much to run away to from Grand Saline. So I shoved salt until my 18th birthday when I borrowed enough money from the minister at the church we went to every Sunday to buy a bus ticket to Dallas and left.
45  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz vows to carry mattress around university on: September 16, 2014, 04:56:22 PM
Once again I am, as a father, a husband, a brother, and a son, absolutely disgusted and terrified by the things that apparently some guys find tolerable.
I am, as a father, a husband, an uncle, a brother, and a son, absolutely amazed at the level of stupidity and naiveté continuing to be exhibited by young ladies in situations where their instincts should tell them to have their guard and radar up and functioning.
Honestly, just about all of them understand what it's like to fear violation. I think this is really why so many go to such great lengths to excuse this sort of thing when it happens.
He admits that forcing women to have sex with him is the only way in which he can get laid.
Au contraire. There is no fun in forced sex. All that crying, screaming and physical restraints. I just pay cash to get laid. Female escorts bring no emotional baggage to the table, or bed as the case may be; I don't have to listen to their problems, they listen to mine; and best of all, they can give most porn stars a run for their money in the sack. And all I have to do is give up a few hundred bucks. Not a bad investment, right?
Yeah, cause all those women who are "escorts"... they went into the sex trade willingly, eyes wide open.

It is nice to know that the ones you congregate with don't cry in front of you. That's the nice thing about emotional baggage for a sex worker: if the Johns don't see it, it doesn't exist.
Rather limited, puritanical perspective you have going there. Do you ever dine out or go out for drinks? Do you think all waitresses and bartenders went into their trade willingly? It's a job. They too are service workers and are paid well (at least when I tip them) to keep their emotional baggage away from their work and me.
The Puritanical worldview is the one that condemns sex work as fundamentally sexually immoral. I do no such thing. But I do despise you for taking advantage of emotionally badly-damaged young people. You do what ISIL does, congratulations.
I'm not taking advantage of emotionally badly damaged young people. The escorts I use are well educated, most are fluent in at least 3 languages and are excellent conversationalists. You must be hanging out with underage crack-whores to make such a generalized statement regarding sex workers.

As to your situation at age 13, I wish I could have been waiting tables.

Growing up, I was moved from Foster home to Foster home. Some were good, and some were horrible. I was moved to my last one at age 12. Husband and wife who owned a small business. I lived with them until I was 18.

I graduated 8th grade at age 13, and immediately went to work in their family business.
46  Other / Off-topic / Re: What generally characterizes an atheist? on: September 16, 2014, 04:33:54 PM
Another question on this, or another way to reword the OP (more folk may end up weighing in on this) is what characteristics stand out about atheists?


Is it intelligence?  Is it something else?


For example - I think (I would have to verify) that atheists are more likely to be found in the Democratic party than the Republican (and perhaps other) parties.



No, not intelligence.  But they may know how to get away with crime.
47  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Feds Developing Technology to Detect Obesity from Your Picture on: September 16, 2014, 04:32:54 PM
Why? 0bamacare gives them access to all of our medical records. I know .gov doesn't give a shit about saving money, but calculating this off medical records is a hell of a lot easier and more accurate than this camera mumbo jumbo.
48  Other / Off-topic / Re: What generally characterizes an atheist? on: September 16, 2014, 04:13:53 PM
I guess some athiests will look down on believers but the opposite is also true. Infact, I'd say it happens more the opposite.

I can agree on that, and the beleivers will look down on the athiest or judge them.    Just the same judgement I got from a staff member IMAO.
49  Other / Off-topic / Re: What generally characterizes an atheist? on: September 16, 2014, 02:43:17 PM
My road to belief led to the point that god did not exist.  If god doesn't exist, nothing matters.  Loving, striving, doing the right thing are all purposeless.  There is not enough in any one of them to keep going.  Also, if god doesn't exist, how did everything come to be?  Whatever rationale, god had to have come up with it.  Either evolution, the big bang, no matter what, someone had to have designed it.

Otherwise, why bother.  Let it all hang out.  Anything goes.  You only live once.
50  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Politicians with Dementia/Alzheimers on: September 16, 2014, 10:52:22 AM
Well if nobody expects you to do right by your constituency, outside of being as vocal and as fiery a right-wing lunatic you can be, no amount of pragmatism or good manners from the left will result in good governance.
As a matter of fact, I believe the same sort of thing Charlie Rangel does on this topic. If you want to date someone, it's probably best not to call her a fucking whore. Which is what Pelosi and Obama do quite often. You sow what you reap. Honestly, to not see that is to become totally partisan on your part. I don't particularly support either side, but I do know how to get stuff done. This horrible policy of demonizing the other party is well known to be an administrative failure, no matter how much you may disagree with one side or the other.
51  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Eve of 9/11 POTUS says he gonna get dem ISIL good on: September 15, 2014, 03:32:08 PM
The Dems were always critical of Bush and his "war on terror" because you can't bomb a tactic, which makes said war perpetual. Obama effectively declared war on ISIL which is pretty substantially different. That's not to say there won't be an enemy to fight when ISIL is gone, of course.
You would fit right in with 1984....Remember the Ministry of Truth? You could be a high official; you really got it down .
52  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz vows to carry mattress around university on: September 15, 2014, 02:32:26 PM
At Berkeley, Karasek said she remained worried that such ambiguity could be used to further hurt survivors and that requiring verbal consent would make it easier to “avoid the ‘he said, she said’ that college administrators try to make rape cases out to be.”
An estimated one in five women is sexually assaulted during college. Emma Sulkowicz says she was raped in her own bed. Photograph: Kristina Budelis for Guardian US Opinion We’ve come a long way in the last four decades on sexual assault, but this necessary shift to “yes means yes” will not be an easy one. (Let’s also not forget that it was just four years ago when male students from Yale University were caught on tape chanting “No means yes, yes means anal.”)
The feminist movement of the 70s shined a light on “date rape” – the most common kind of sexual assault that once went ignored is now widely-understood to be a pervasive problem. Twenty-one years ago, marital rape was still legal in some states, but now legislation decries the idea that marriage equals constant consent. Today, politicians and activists alike increasingly recognize that everything we did before is simply not enough: despite these shifts in policy and public perception, rape is still far too common – approximately one out of every five women is sexually assaulted in college.
And that’s just what’s reported, according to the White House. That’s just in America. That’s just in college.
When I spoke to Sulkowicz about her unofficial senior project – she calls it Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight – the brave 21-year-old said something I think most people who care about the issue of violence against women can relate to. “It’s going to be an endurance piece,” she said. In some ways, battling rape always has been.

so they are making a science out of saying yes or no to sex.
If people were to actually go along with this, it would finally legislate abstention. And probably no sex after marriage either. It's an impossible standard in the real world. Only an idiot would vote for it, so it has a reasonable chance to pass in California.
Women might be forced into actually having a rational conversation about sex. Or probably not, and vibrator stores would be swarmed.
53  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Politicians with Dementia/Alzheimers on: September 15, 2014, 01:18:09 PM
I don't think it's dementia. She's always been an idiot. I'm not saying the Republicans don't engage in similar inflamed rhetoric, but I have to laugh when Democrats use language like this...Obama included...then say they wonder why Republicans won't work with them.
54  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What influenced your political/religious views? on: September 12, 2014, 06:14:57 PM
Anyone who is a Christian, if they were born in the Middle East would be a Muslim. When it comes to religion people generally accept the religion they are taught without question. Those here who rail against Muslims, would be very good Muslims if they were born in the Middle East instead of in the West.
55  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Jihad in New Jersey on: September 12, 2014, 06:08:03 PM
"Its a cover up I tell you" the media wont report this AP story that appeared in papers from the LA Times to the NY Post, on CBS News, etc.  Its been on every major news channel here in Seattle of course.....but we didn't get the "cover up" memo. But Sana8410 accidentally happened upon the story by word of mouth from a neighbor.   Otherwise he could have turned on the square thingy in his living room or googled it on his computer to find tons of stories and enough pictures to make a thick scrapbook.
56  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Jihad in New Jersey on: September 12, 2014, 05:59:32 PM
Coming to a neighborhood near you, you just won't know when it hits because the media will cover it up because they wouldn't want to offend muslims. I don't care what the left says, wherever the religion of peace goes violence in the name of allah follows it. The ME has been at war for 14 centuries because the so called moderates do nothing to stop the "radical", nothing to stop the violence. And now the security of the US and the success of the "operation" against isis depends on those moderate muslims putting their boots on the ground.
"The media will cover it up"....as he posts a media story about it.  

 It is all over the media.  Google Ali Muhammed Brown and you get 18 million hits and an "images" page and articles from CBS, NY Post, LA Times, etc etc.    If the media reported it 24/7 we'd bitch he was being glorified and the media should shut up and not give him coverage.....which is exactly what should happen.  Throw him in a hole and toss away the key.

PS.  Domestic terrorism has been in the US since its inception....and exploded after the invention of dynamite (pun intended).  
57  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Jihad in New Jersey on: September 12, 2014, 05:54:29 PM
A New York radio personality is calling for increased attention to the June murder of a 19-year-old Livingston man, calling it evidence that “domestic terrorism is already here.”
58  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What is he doing in IRAQ? on: September 12, 2014, 05:53:34 PM
I'm not saying Obama is actually wrong - when I think he IS wrong, I DO say that. What I'm saying is that no matter what he says or does, idiots like you will SAY he's wrong, just because he's the one who says or does it. Do you understand yet, or do I have to dumb it down even more for you?
No it wasn't and you believed the lies Obama told you…

To the point you ridiculed those of us who said they needed to leave some troops there and Obama blew the agreement…

And Obama claimed victory…

Yes this is Obama's fault and now we're going back aren't we?

The ultimate admission of failure…

And you're still pissing on those who fought for all that…
59  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Dad slaughters his 5 children.... on: September 12, 2014, 05:09:15 PM
what a tragedy.  He dumped the bodies here in Alabama, in Wilcox county.  He told authorities that he thought the children were plotting to kill him.  Awful.The kids ranged in age from 1 to 8 years old. Their poor mother.  All five of her children. 
The poor mother?  She was such an unfit mother, he had full custody.  Wow......must have been a doozie, having an affair with the 19 year old neighbor and neglecting her children.   I'm sorry, but I don't have pity for her, any more than I have pity for the asshole father who killed them.
Don't think either of them was exactly a winner.  Killer dad reportedly made $70,000 a year and kept the kids in a trashy trailer.  Just goes to show...something. 
60  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What is he doing in IRAQ? on: September 12, 2014, 03:59:22 PM
"Liar of the year" strikes again.


NYT Baghdad bureau chief: The White House lied to Americans for years about what bad shape Iraq was in
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/351694.php
Via Ace, something to keep in mind tonight while The One is doing his johnny-on-the-spot shtick about fighting jihadism in Iraq. “Lie” is my word, not Tim Arango’s, but read his comment and tell me what’s more likely. That the vast American intelligence community was “ignorant” of how bad things were in a country where we’d spent eight years developing assets? Or that the White House had every reason to know how dangerous Iraq was becoming but chose to suppress that information because the truth was problematic?
Is “ignorant” really the best word to describe willful blindness to a politically inconvenient truth? Obama got elected promising to bring the troops home; the only way he could do that without major domestic headaches was to claim that Iraq didn’t need them anymore. So he did, the truth notwithstanding. Imagine how many low-information voters will watch tonight’s speech and wonder where this bolt-from-the-blue known as ISIS came from. Last they heard, Iraq was doing just fine.

You guys know better, though. I’ve linked it more than once before but it’s worth re-reading Peter Beinart’s post from a few months ago about Obama’s history of malign neglect in Iraq. He had one Iraq goal as president — to get out, come what may, just as he promised voters he would do in 2008. And he did it, even though that meant denying Iraq a small but potent residual American force that could have held Maliki’s sectarian impulses in check (which in turn would have made Iraq’s Sunnis less inclined to turn to ISIS) and would have been well positioned to smash ISIS once it crossed the border from Syria. Dexter Filkins of the New Yorker has written about this at length.
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“We used to restrain Maliki all the time,” Lieutenant General Michael Barbero, the deputy commander in Iraq until January, 2011, told me. “If Maliki was getting ready to send tanks to confront the Kurds, we would tell him and his officials, ‘We will physically block you from moving if you try to do that.’ ” Barbero was angry at the White House for not pushing harder for [a Status of Forces] agreement. “You just had this policy vacuum and this apathy,” he said. “Now we have no leverage in Iraq. Without any troops there, we’re just another group of guys.” There is no longer anyone who can serve as a referee, he said, adding, “Everything that has happened there was not just predictable—we predicted it.”
I did listen to his speech last night and when he said that about Isis, that they weren't Islamic…You talk about giving the opposition motivation…
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