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14th August 2017, 04:28 PM | #2121 |
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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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14th August 2017, 04:54 PM | #2124 |
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And Franklin Graham blames the Chrlottesville city council for the riots..and Satan, of course:
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What a phony. He is like Donnie in another way;He would be nowhere without Daddy's money and fame... |
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14th August 2017, 05:22 PM | #2125 |
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I feel, that in order to play the victim card, one must be able to emotionally invest people in their plight.
If I can get you to feel what I'm feeling, then you might feel victimized too. (At least that's how I do it when I decide playing the victim card is the best possible route for me.) I don't know how Mr. Graham can get people to be emotionally invested in his plight. |
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14th August 2017, 06:16 PM | #2126 |
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Shameful.
When Franklin's father could already in segregated 1953 say "we [whites] have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride." Billy Graham knew to stand up to white supremacists, knowing they are of Satan. |
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14th August 2017, 08:16 PM | #2127 |
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14th August 2017, 08:43 PM | #2129 |
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Wow. Even now Trump can sometimes genuinely shock me. After hugely obvious shilly shallying about condemning the ideology of a white racist criminal he now says that a convicted white racist criminal doesn't deserve to serve his sentence because his racist crimes were "patriotic". What sort of conclusion is the world supposed to draw from this? |
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14th August 2017, 11:46 PM | #2132 |
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An interesting article but the problem is that for a large minority (maybe even a majority) of Americans, and for sure almost all of the GOP, Donald Trump is exactly the kind of President they want to represent their view of what it is to be American.
The fact that the same "real" (rural, Conservative, Christian and, of course, white) American model has been in play at least since Sarah Palin burst into the public arena (and probably far longer) indicates to me that this is part of the core GOP message and not some kind of Trump-inspired aberration. |
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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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What definition of hairdressing are we using ? Do we include simple barbers who offer a "number two all over" service, or to be classed as a hairdresser do they also have to offer styling and other services such as colouring and straightening ?
edited to add..... In the US at least, the " Hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists" industry workforce seems to be overwhelmingly female. https://datausa.io/profile/soc/395012/#age_gender |
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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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“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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We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr And no, Cuba is not a brutal and corrupt dictatorship, and it's definitely less so than Sweden. - dann |
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15th August 2017, 03:53 AM | #2141 |
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The fool is alienating everyone but his base, but we already knew that he would.
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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Is there any particular reason why President Trump is so in love with Senator Luther Strange at the moment (apart from the Senator's imminent appearance on Fox & Friends) ? There have been several name-checks in the last couple of days. Might he be joining the administration to replace Kelly, McMaster or Sessions ?
nevermind He's running to replace Sessions in the senate..... |
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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15th August 2017, 03:58 AM | #2144 |
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Birtherism is back baby! What a racist scumbag.
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If Trump wanted his condemnation of racism, hatred and so forth seem at least a little bit sincere he might not want to retweet something from an alt-right agitator shortly after. Moreover he retweeted an cartoon image showing a train hitting a person with the CNN logo superimposed over his head days after a far-right terrorist intentionally rammed protesters with a car. Although it's quite possible that Trump didn't consider the potential connotation between the image and this terrorist attack it at least shows that he doesn't hesitate to personally push violent political rhetoric days after after someone died due to political violence. |
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The things to remember are:
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OECD healthcare spending Public/Compulsory Expenditure on healthcare https://data.oecd.org/chart/60Tt Every year since 1990 the US Public healthcare spending has been greater than the UK as a proportion of GDP. More US Tax goes to healthcare than the UK |
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We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr And no, Cuba is not a brutal and corrupt dictatorship, and it's definitely less so than Sweden. - dann |
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SCOTT PAUL IS WEAK ON JOBS AND REALLY ONLY WANTS TO SEND ALL AMERICAS MANUFACTURING PLANTS TO MEXICO AND CHINA!!! SAD! |
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We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr And no, Cuba is not a brutal and corrupt dictatorship, and it's definitely less so than Sweden. - dann |
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15th August 2017, 09:07 AM | #2157 |
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As usual Trump doesn't know how to deal with people and can't get the results he wants.
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Trump and the Republicans, in a nutshell...
Stumbled across this article in my news browsing. It was about 2 former Trump workers who had an affair. The woman got pregnant and is now a single mom, the father (who is married to someone else) is basically taking no interest in the child. I thought it summed up Trump and the Republicans perfectly. It has everything... https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...le-mom/536892/ - The woman supported Trump because she was against foreign interventions. Like many, she swallowed Trump's lies, ignoring the fact that he supported the Iraq invasion. - They had an affair, even though he was married (so much for "family values") - The father suggested an abortion, illustrating how the republicans are hypocrites (given the fact that they fought so hard to get an anti-abortionist on the supreme court.) - The father claims (though his lawyers) that he wants to support the child, but at this point it just seems to be empty promises - The woman regularly gets labeled a "homewrecker", ignoring the fact that the father was more to blame (reflective of the sexism inherent in the republican party) - And now, the woman is essentially "kicked to the curb", now that she is no longer of use to Trump or the republicans. Few of her former campaign workers have made any attempt to contact or support her. Like I said... Trump and the republicans in a nutshell... lies, sexism, hypocrisy, and empty rhetoric. |
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