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13th March 2018, 06:41 PM | #721 |
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13th March 2018, 10:15 PM | #723 |
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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14th March 2018, 01:20 AM | #724 |
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By all indications, this thread's about to blow up!
CNN has their say You probably can't get decent odds on any of these guys. |
14th March 2018, 01:33 AM | #725 |
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Trump fires people to change the new-cycle. There won't be mass-firings, because that would be a waste of media ammunition.
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14th March 2018, 03:57 AM | #726 |
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14th March 2018, 03:59 AM | #727 |
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What about the tillerson, Kelly, Mattis suicide pact? With Tillerson gone, will Kelly and Mattis both resign?
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14th March 2018, 04:16 AM | #728 |
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14th March 2018, 04:31 AM | #729 |
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14th March 2018, 04:34 AM | #730 |
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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14th March 2018, 05:23 AM | #731 |
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14th March 2018, 05:25 AM | #732 |
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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago |
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14th March 2018, 05:39 AM | #733 |
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14th March 2018, 05:56 AM | #734 |
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Maybe this will end up being the prime mover for BC to leave?
First on CNN: Emails show Ben, Candy Carson selected $31,000 dining set https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/polit...set/index.html |
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14th March 2018, 06:01 AM | #735 |
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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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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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14th March 2018, 07:12 AM | #742 |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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14th March 2018, 08:01 AM | #743 |
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As of this past Sunday; microwave #1 microwave #2 stove clock coffee maker three clocks in bedroom two clocks in bathrooms three clocks on three indoor/outdoor thermometers two blood pressure monitors central HVAC thermostat my watch both cars There's probably others which I have overlooked and will notice sometime in an indeterminate future when I wonder why I'm suddenly running an hour behind somehow. Our phone system would also have needed to be adjusted, but a while back, for some reason which is a complete mystery to me, it decided it was going to keep itself on GMT regardless of how I tried to convince it to stay in the same time zone as the rest of the house. I fear some sort of Anglophile virus, which isn't beyond the realm of the possible, since it's made by Panasonic, and those Japs are notorious Anglophiles. The cable boxes, smartphones, tablets, computers, etc. have all managed to update themselves appropriately, but I'm keeping a close eye on them, just in case that Anglophile virus manages to jump over. |
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14th March 2018, 08:31 AM | #745 |
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14th March 2018, 09:36 AM | #746 |
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14th March 2018, 11:42 AM | #750 |
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14th March 2018, 11:49 AM | #752 |
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In a normal administration, Zinke and Pruitt would have been gone because they had become a embarrassment. Aside from the petty ante corruption, they were too blatent and attracting too much attention to what they are doing. You need to keep a low profile when you are screwing the public.
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14th March 2018, 12:28 PM | #753 |
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Do you think Donny can set clocks by himself if he is the last one left standing?
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14th March 2018, 03:29 PM | #755 |
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Sure we do. Been around for decades. And if I wanted to replace my perfectly serviceable alarm clocks and watches with significantly more expensive models which might not even include the features I prefer then I could have them too. I expect that there are also microwaves, coffee makers, stoves, etc. with that capability which can be also be obtained. I also expect that the cost difference would be prohibitive on our budget. Not least because the ones we have work just fine for their intended purpose. Especially compared to the relatively minor inconvenience of resetting them twice a year or after the rare, occasional power outage. Not ready to replace my cars, for much the same reasons. Out of curiosity, Are all of your kitchen appliances which have clocks equipped to keep their times updated by radio signal? Every single clock in your house? All your watches? Your thermostat? |
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14th March 2018, 05:23 PM | #756 |
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You do, it's called WWVB. And while we have in (mainland) Europe the DCF77 signal, I don't think I have a single clock that uses it. My computers keep their time on NTP, my cell phone on the phone network time, my HD recorder on the Teletext time of the TV channel, I have to adjust the time myself on my bedroom alarm clock, and the clock on my oven has been blinking now for a couple of years since the last outage because I really don't see the sense why an oven would need a clock.
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14th March 2018, 05:28 PM | #757 |
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No but for the position of CIA boss, he found the perfect match: the illegitimate love child of Klaus Barbie:
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward - Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so - William of Conches, c1150 |
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