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81  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz vows to carry mattress around university on: September 09, 2014, 10:44:49 AM
An even better piece would be her wearing a sign around her neck with the persons name and picture, saying the guy raped her, that way everyone knows who the person is, if the school isn’t going to do anything she might as well let everyone know who did it .
82  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Billionaires Quietly Preparing for Market Plunge on: September 09, 2014, 10:38:58 AM
What is 'quiet' about this?  they have been running expensive shorts all year and are starting to get annoyed.  there is a difference between happily being out of equities and needing the market to drop.  it is pretty sad when you have to cheerlead retail. Collapsing time value, painful....extend or jawbone?  Dividend-payers can go sideways for a good long time, if they drift higher, even better, but not necessary.
83  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Casinos in Atlantic City close, 5,000 workers out of work on: September 05, 2014, 05:42:45 PM
I just got to the word 'inherited' and quit.If after six years of this idiot in office his buffers are still blaming Bush, there is no hope for them.
Low information is low information.
84  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Casinos in Atlantic City close, 5,000 workers out of work on: September 05, 2014, 04:53:20 PM
there are always large layoffs somewhere.  The question is whether it is the norm or the exception.....and politicians don't tell us about economy unless you are stupid enough to listen to them....economists do. Casinos going out of business doesn't break my heart.  Maybe people are finally realizing it is a losing proposition......a voluntary tax on the ignorant (usually poor).


Why the U.S. economy is outperforming many of its peers

(even-handed, positive and negative)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/03/why-the-u-s-economy-is-outperforming-many-of-its-peers/


85  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Obamacare Site Hacked on: September 05, 2014, 02:38:19 PM
Hacked back on 8 July...and they only realize it a week ago?

Pathetic.

After all the warnings, anyone that submits personal info (DOB, SSN, Address, income..etc) on that for shit website, deserves what they get. Hacked.
But you have to remember they are forced by law to sign up and give all their data regardless of how unsecure the site is. obama could have negotiated a delay in the rollout to avoid all the problems but he refused to negotiate, refused to compromise and demanded that Americans sign up and take the risk or be fined and punished by his law.
86  Other / Politics & Society / Re: ISIS Threatens Putin/Russia on: September 05, 2014, 12:26:09 PM
Well the good news is at least one country isn't going to stand for being threatened with violence and death and I have no doubt Russia and Chechnya would come together and destroy ISIS if these threats were acted upon.
87  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Casinos in Atlantic City close, 5,000 workers out of work on: September 04, 2014, 05:50:19 PM
Stock Market adjustment, then hopefully a return to Gold and Silver.Its gotta reset at some point soon.by the way....good time to invest in bitcoin and Silver.
How do they do that without a job?
88  Other / Politics & Society / Casinos in Atlantic City close, 5,000 workers out of work on: September 04, 2014, 05:35:11 PM
What next?


Atlantic City casino closures bring mass unemployment filing

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. –  Carrying identification documents and bitterness over their sudden joblessness, hundreds of ex-casino workers began filing for unemployment Wednesday morning, the first attendees at an assistance center that expects to process 5,000 newly laid-off workers over the next three days.

The session at the Atlantic City Convention Center came after a brutal weekend that saw two casinos, the Showboat and Revel, close. Officials from the state Department of Labor and the main casino workers' union, Local 54 of Unite-HERE, helped displaced workers file for unemployment and gave them information on signing up for health insurance and other benefits.

By mid-September, Atlantic City, which started the year with 12 casinos, will be down to eight, and almost 8,000 people will be out of work. Trump Plaza is closing Sept. 16, and the Atlantic Club shut down in January.

About 300 workers were lined up when the doors opened at 9 a.m.; by early afternoon more than 750 had been processed.


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/09/03/atlantic-city-casino-closures-bring-mass-unemployment-filing/
89  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Fed Gov't Autopsy Finds Michael Brown Not Shot in Back on: September 04, 2014, 03:40:22 PM
The DoJ has initiated an investigation of the entire Ferguson police force and it's history for civil rights violations (today's news).  Long overdue.    So much for Holder 'backing off'.
They also initiated a second investigation of gz because they didn't like the results of the first one, what does that tell you? And does that somehow change the results of the autonpsy? Does it somehow make the shooting a racist killing like the left has implied? Considering the jury tampering and evidence rigging the doj conducted in the NOLA case does that threat to investigate really mean that much? It seems that just like the NOLA case because the doj is using its power to drive the end rather than using the truth and letting the cards fall where they may. But that seems ok with you because you want the same thing as the doj regardless of what the truth is.
90  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What Happened to All The Money You Donated to Officer Wilson? on: September 04, 2014, 02:50:21 PM
Dr Baden's post-mortem examination found Brown was shot a total of six times, with four bullet wounds in his right arm and two in his head.

The final shot appears to have entered Brown's head at the top of the skull suggesting his head was bowed down at the time.

'This one here looks like his head was bent downward,' he said of the wound at the top of Brown's skull. 'It can be because he’s giving up, or because he’s charging forward at the officer.'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727568/Autopsy-reveals-Michael-Brown-shot-SIX-times-confrontation-police-officer.html


What concerns me about this conversation, is that it's been had, with quote supplied, many times already.

Thank you!
There is also an eyewitness who says MB was stumbling forward and going to the ground after being shot several times, and that is when the kill shot to the top of the head was delivered.  
91  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Islamic State 'beheads second US journalist' on: September 04, 2014, 02:35:05 PM
It's quite the clusterfuck when you look into it.

But I don't see Obama as having military adventurism in his hope chest. He may well be stuck with it, though. I hope he finds a good solution, although I'm not overly optimistic, because as I've mentioned before, I find his negotiation/diplomacy skills to be his weakest suit. I tend to believe he wants to steer the US towards a less intrusive foreign policy, but his timing just hasn't worked out. Events sometimes force policy.
92  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Islamic State 'beheads second US journalist' on: September 04, 2014, 01:47:33 PM
This is very sad. Unfortunately, this will keep happening until ISIS is stopped.

Or, when obama is no longer president.
This seems more like a protracted hostage situation, with 'no more air strikes' being the demand that if not fulfilled, leads to another dead hostage. This framing of the situation does target the president directly, but not because he is Obama: the president is the only person who can 'stop' the next murder.

There really is only one way any president should respond to this. In public anyway.
I doubt there are very many people in the middle east that believe that the US currently isn't meddling and playing games in each of these conflicts. If you were to speak to people from the area, the huge amount of paranoia would probably shock you. Even worse than the Russians. And they believe, rightly or wrongly, that Obama is just weaker and more devious, while believing that ISIS is controlled by the US through countries like SA and Qatar.
93  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Islamic State 'beheads second US journalist' on: September 04, 2014, 01:30:20 PM
Another US journalist (Steven Sotlof) killed by the IS. Appears to have been murdered by the same individual.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...156273317.html
Of all the things I've heard said about GWB, timid responses were not among them. I doubt anyone considered him overly cautious. He certainly believed in American military adventurism.

However, the basis of Obama's foreign policy seems to be that if it doesn't directly affect American interests, or American citizens, he really doesn't want to interfere too much. These people are essentially forcing him to address people getting murdered specifically because they are American. They are making it his business.
I'm not moved by it. If someone comes to the US, kills a journalist on our soil, films it, posts it, then leaves, we have a problem. But in this case, I can't help but see this as an occupational hazard. This is to say, I don't think it is reasonable to expect US foreign policy to be built around the idea that anyone with an American passport can traipse around the globe and dig into the most awful places, reporting on the most awful people and events, and whoever messes with said passport-holder, that's who we go to war with.
And you are atypical. This sort of thing has an impact on the president, even though I generally agree with the policy of moving away from military adventurism when at all rational. I may not like it, but it's also reality. The US isn't ready yet to take a less aggressive world view.
I can't see how military adventurism or aggressive world views tie into the current situation.

The air attacks against IS, that these murders are purportedly a response to, are neither adventurism nor the result of an aggressive world view. In fact our response in that region so far is markedly less aggressive than the last time we played air strikes/ground assault and assholes over there, so I really don't get what you mean.

That wasn't what I was saying. I was saying that Obama has a tendency to stay away from adventurism, which I support philosophically. What ISIS is doing is putting pressure on Obama to engage in Syria, which is probably a bad idea. I say that not because I in any way want to see any ISIS members survive...I hope they all get their asses killed...but rather it's a guarantee of long term military action that will almost inevitably end up with American troops in a shooting war in the midst of a civil war with Islamic terrorists...Iraq pt 2 if you will. It's very hard to stop mission cree, which Obama is seeing right now.
94  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Islamic State 'beheads second US journalist' on: September 04, 2014, 12:57:10 PM
Another US journalist (Steven Sotlof) killed by the IS. Appears to have been murdered by the same individual.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...156273317.html
Of all the things I've heard said about GWB, timid responses were not among them. I doubt anyone considered him overly cautious. He certainly believed in American military adventurism.

However, the basis of Obama's foreign policy seems to be that if it doesn't directly affect American interests, or American citizens, he really doesn't want to interfere too much. These people are essentially forcing him to address people getting murdered specifically because they are American. They are making it his business.
I'm not moved by it. If someone comes to the US, kills a journalist on our soil, films it, posts it, then leaves, we have a problem. But in this case, I can't help but see this as an occupational hazard. This is to say, I don't think it is reasonable to expect US foreign policy to be built around the idea that anyone with an American passport can traipse around the globe and dig into the most awful places, reporting on the most awful people and events, and whoever messes with said passport-holder, that's who we go to war with.
And you are atypical. This sort of thing has an impact on the president, even though I generally agree with the policy of moving away from military adventurism when at all rational. I may not like it, but it's also reality. The US isn't ready yet to take a less aggressive world view.
95  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NATO vs. RUSSIA? on: September 03, 2014, 04:23:15 PM
The entire world must now fear Putin since the US has an inept, incompetent FOOL as president. We do enjoy watching Putin piss in Obama's face, and get away with it. Vastly different than the job performance of John Kennedy, a great American Statesman!

Putin must know he is only guaranteed two more years of severe American weakness and an incompetent President. He MUST complete all his expansion invasions before then.
You love to tear the President down, but you have NEVER provided one single idea of what you or any other person could effectively do to stop Putin's aggression. Put up or shut up.
96  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NATO vs. RUSSIA? on: September 03, 2014, 04:16:08 PM
I thought it was regardless, because their nuclear deterrent from invasion was what they were giving up.  And if they were attacked using nukes, let's face reality - there wouldn't be much left anyway - either there OR here. That's why Russia can be bold with them - with a mad man at the helm in still nuclear Russia, just how much would we do?
97  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Islamic State 'beheads second US journalist' on: September 03, 2014, 04:09:46 PM
Another US journalist (Steven Sotlof) killed by the IS. Appears to have been murdered by the same individual.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...156273317.html
I got news for you the united states have been executing muslims since 9/11 with drones,now its up to you to choose which is more babaric,useing a missile to blow you to pieces or a beheading,which is very common,the syrians having been doing it so has the saudies,and its was done in lebanon.
Remember Obama had said the united states is at war with isil,which was like the death sentice on the american held hostages.
With our borders wide open for Mexican cartels and crooked officials to rake in the bucks off terrorists needing guidance and the ability of isis to recruit Americans inside the US it may be too late to kill them before they kill us. But rest assured, obama has another speech to tell us how safe we are, how much better off the world is now that he has healed the waters and saved America and the world. So before anything happens obama has a lot of nice smoke to blow up your ass and make you feel warm and fuzzy.
98  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Islamic State 'beheads second US journalist' on: September 03, 2014, 03:44:12 PM
In the last option for a do-over Romney won by about 6%, I wonder if that poll were taken today if Romney would win by double digits and if he did could we the people demand a real do-over by November 2014 with a transition by the end of that month.
99  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Islamic State 'beheads second US journalist' on: September 03, 2014, 03:37:18 PM
2 US journalists beheaded by the ISIS militants, who are fighting against the US. At the same time, Russian journalist Andrei Stenin was murdered by Right Sector extremists, who are supported by the US in Ukraine. I just hope that Obama condemns all these murders. Murder of journalists should be dealt with, whether they are done by the anti-US or the pro-US factions.
The left, of course, would rather talk about Ferguson, Michael Brown, and Darren Wilson, and ignore Obama's fecklessness. We don't send American troops back into that cesspool.  Obama pulled them out and gave up all the ground they had gained, now we do NOT ask them to go back and die some more for the same real estate and the same raghead assholes.
Why do you think it is necessary to always lie.  It was Bush and condie that gave all the ground back and you know it but continue to lie.  What is wrong with your brain that you keep spewing out what you know damn well are lies.  
In the meantime, obama has taken more than a year to even acknowledge isis existed and according to obama his military has no plan of action to propose because they are just as inept as obama and our intel team is even worse because they never figured out that isis could grow and become so violent. But according to todays presser its asads fault that isis was created because asad fed the terrorists and supplied them with arms and a means to grow. I don't think the state dept spokeswomans talking points author realized that blaming asad only points to the fact that Romney was right and obama was wrong.
100  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Islamic State 'beheads second US journalist' on: September 03, 2014, 03:30:04 PM
2 US journalists beheaded by the ISIS militants, who are fighting against the US. At the same time, Russian journalist Andrei Stenin was murdered by Right Sector extremists, who are supported by the US in Ukraine. I just hope that Obama condemns all these murders. Murder of journalists should be dealt with, whether they are done by the anti-US or the pro-US factions.
The left, of course, would rather talk about Ferguson, Michael Brown, and Darren Wilson, and ignore Obama's fecklessness. We don't send American troops back into that cesspool.  Obama pulled them out and gave up all the ground they had gained, now we do NOT ask them to go back and die some more for the same real estate and the same raghead assholes.
Yet another useful idiot that doesn't 'know  the difference between fact and fiction or the truth from a lie. It makes you wonder about the education system in this country when so many willfully ignorant people are running around who are totally incapable of absorbing facts regardless of how many times those facts are presented.
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