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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Puget Sound
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The Imbecile-in-Chief denies that 3000 people died in Puerto Rico, because that many people didn't die during the actual hurricane event.
FEMA has very little to do with mitigating the actual weather event. They come in afterwards. The fact that so many people died afterwards only increases the possibility that FEMA did a less than stellar job. |
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To survive election season on a skeptics forum, one must understand Hymie-the-Robot.
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Schrödinger's cat
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Malmesbury, UK
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"If you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things" - Terry Pratchett |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Sacramento
Posts: 42,577
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That was the one thing that kept me from supporting Term Limits, but now the craven behavior of the GOP congress in failing to carry out their basic duty of acting as a check to Presendential power has convinced me that we can afford a little greed a lot more then seeing our system of check balances go down the tubes because you want a lifelong career as a Congressman. I think we need to take away that option.
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Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert Heinlein. |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Nov 2010
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Featherless biped
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Aporia
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'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.' - Richard Feynman |
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Not a doctor.
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Texas
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Other (please write in)
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NeverLand
Posts: 15,023
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Quote:
Republicans made a deal with the Devil, but its the rest of us that are paying the price. |
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As cultural anthropologists have always said "human culture" = "human nature". You might as well put a fish on the moon to test how it "swims naturally" without the "influence of water". -Earthborn |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 19,266
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Science is self-correcting. Woo is self-contradicting. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2011
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#2450 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Sacramento
Posts: 42,577
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Several news sources reporting that Manafort and Mueller are nearing a plea deal.
If Manafort rats out,the meltdown is going to incredible .... |
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Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert Heinlein. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2016
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#2452 |
Fiend God
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: In the details
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#2453 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Sacramento
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And it's not like I am going to put 100% trust in the Democratic party,either.
I could easily see the Dems,in power, becoming just as power hungry and ruthless as the GOP. Power corrupts,end of story. Yes, I will vote democratic this November as an emergency measure, but ,frankly, I have no love for either of the major parties. |
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Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert Heinlein. |
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#2454 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Great Northwet
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Cum catapultae proscribeantur tum soli proscripti catapultas habeant. |
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Grammar Resistance Leader
TLA Dictator Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Pattaya, Thailand
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Ha! Foolmewunz has just been added to the list of people who aren't complete idiots. Hokulele It's not that liberals have become less tolerant. It's that conservatives have become more intolerable. |
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Fiend God
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: In the details
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#2457 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 10,647
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Trump tweets:
"John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people. He told them to wait out the Trump Administration! Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? BAD!" lol |
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts ~ Bertrand Russell I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. |
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#2458 |
post-pre-born
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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Neoclinus blanchardi
Join Date: Jul 2001
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What? No... Back in December of 2015, I noticed that out of the 333 and a third million American people one could possibly elect as President of the United State, only Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump represented the best of the best, the top of the top. At that moment, I tuned out, turned off, and dropped in. Basically, I cancelled all my newspaper and magazine subscriptions, hauled all the televisions and radios in my house off to the dump to be squashed into a small cube, and then retired to a WWII bomb shelter three stories underground. Occasionally, I'll pop out of ground for an orange fruit and check these forums for the latest news, which does not surprise by the way. P.S. Have the Russians taken back Alaska yet? |
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Becoming Beth
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Central Vale of Humility
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Over the course of the past century there have been times when the Dems had control of both the Executive and Legislative branches, and times when the GOP has. Given the established track record of the two, if I were to be compelled to choose one or the other, there is no question in my mind that the Dems would do less harm to the country. |
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." |
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Penultimate Amazing
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts ~ Bertrand Russell I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Crazy Little Green Dragon
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2001
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Philosopher
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Master Poster
Join Date: Aug 2012
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"come on. Judas is meeting us at midnight with the getaway donkeys" |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 19,052
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Trump Retweeted
Lou Dobbs More #FakeNews- The Hurricane Maria death tolls have been inflated & President @realDonaldTrump was right to call out organizations who threw out science and statistics to try to discredit his administration. #MAGA #TrumpTrain #Dobbs |
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#2468 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 19,052
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Trump Tweets
"John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people. He told them to wait out the Trump Administration! Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? BAD!" |
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#2469 |
Maledictorian
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 6,830
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Trump's own Government Accountability Office criticized FEMA's work in Puerto Rico:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gao-rep...n-puerto-rico/ |
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Opinion is divided on the subject. All the others say it is; I say it isn’t. |
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#2470 |
Lackey
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Location: South East, UK
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jan 2006
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts ~ Bertrand Russell I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. |
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#2472 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Alexandria, VA Home to the Deep State.
Posts: 17,631
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Minor quibble, GAO is Congress's watchdog agency. The president appoints the head of it who also serves as the Comptroller General of the United States but can only choose from a list of candidates Congress presents him. OPM does the care and feeding of employees but they work for Congress.
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#2473 |
Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 19,266
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Surprising. I have not heard the T-word on the news since about Tuesday. Even less about the release of Woodward's book. But I think they took care of most of that discussion last week.
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#2474 |
Philosopher
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Mineral Bluff, GA
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Compulsion, or carefully crafted tactic?
Witnessed and distilled by Roy Cohn, refined by Roger Stone, handed down to Donald Trump. Admittedly, I can see how, over time, a tactic of continual lying and reflexive attacking of “enemies” can become internalized. To historians it may prove to be an interesting case of a tactic morphing into a pathology. We’ll see what happens! ![]() |
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“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that...I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” - President Donald J. Trump, January 20, 2017. "And it's, frankly, disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write. And people should look into it." - President Donald J. Trump, October 11, 2017. |
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#2475 |
Maledictorian
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 6,830
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The Roy Cohn strategy only works if you aren't under the microscope.
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Trust me, I know what I'm doing. - Sledgehammer I'm Mary Poppin's Y'all! - Yondu We are Groot - Groot |
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#2477 |
Uncritical "thinker"
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: UK
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Cohn and Stone would have had to have had a Tardis to persuade Trump to have been so petty and vindictive all his life.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a6795131.html I do think that the attacks on the NFL might in part be due to the battle between the NFL and USFL where Trump didn't win. |
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OECD healthcare spending Expenditure on healthcare http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm link is 2015 data (2013 Data below): UK 8.5% of GDP of which 83.3% is public expenditure - 7.1% of GDP is public spending US 16.4% of GDP of which 48.2% is public expenditure - 7.9% of GDP is public spending |
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#2478 |
Graduate Poster
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 1,524
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So is this the end of the beginning?
Now that "brave man" manafort is taking a plea. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/paul...dlines_bsq_hed |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Dec 2010
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I don't trust atoms. They make up everything. |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Nov 2006
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