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Title IX prosecutions wreck lives? How do they do that, criminal prosecutions?

People get kicked out of college and have the reasons marked in their transcript.

Large fines for refusing to bake a cake? You need to read up on that. The bakers got a small fine for violating the law

The Oregon bakers were fined $135000 by the Oregon Labor Commissioner, as Snopes itself explains. Are you illiterate or are you a liar?

The BOLI Final Order awards $60,000 in damages to Laurel Bowman-Cryer and $75,000 in damages to Rachel Bowman-Cryer for emotional suffering stemming directly from unlawful discrimination. The amounts are damages related to the harm suffered by the Complainants, not fines or civil penalties which are punitive in nature.

In many states, I believe over half, it's legal to discriminate against someone based on sexual orientation.

Good! I hope we can make it legal to discriminate against gays and lesbians in all states again. And I say that as a gay man. These laws are useless and harmful to the very people they ostensibly protect. They amount to politicians and straight progressives taking credit for things that gay men and women fought hard for themselves without any help from the people who now pretend to stand up for us. People like the Clintons and Obama only "evolved" once it served their purposes, and make no mistake about it: when it serves their purposes, they would send us back to psychiatric institutions, labor camps, or prisons, just like progressives and socialists did throughout much of the 20th century. Fuck these hypocrites.

I'd call the War on Drugs to be the biggest unnecessary life-wrecker, and that's something your typical liberal or progressive would like to see go away.

These are people who want to tax sugar, tightly regulate everything from food to taxis, and micromanage sexual relationships, yet somehow you think that they are going to "legalize drugs"? And what exactly have liberal and progressive politicians actually done on drug legalization? Next to nothing, not just because they like to control everybody's lives, but also because they are in bed with lawyers, pharmaceutical companies, doctors, and police unions. Liberals and progressives are as inconsistent and hypocritical on the War on Drugs as they are on anything else: they claim they favor beneficial and just outcomes, but the policies they actually support and implement cause harm and promote injustice.

...they used a die.

Toddlers killed more people with guns than terrorists did last year.

this disguise has been done before. link: http://www.snopes.com/crime/wa...

That student thing has been debunked: http://www.snopes.com/emory-st...

PROTIP: Most stories about over sensitive special snowflakes are lies.

http://www.snopes.com/politics...

What she ACTUALLY said is true though, not some ignorant line. You can see Russia from some islands in Alaska. However, I can't see how that would have any effect on Palin's ability to negotiate with Russia as she was being asked.

After the IRS started requiring social security numbers to claim children dependents on tax returns, about 7 million of them vanished. In this case, it appears that the move was justified. http://www.snopes.com/business...

All users will be assigned Social Security Numbers for standardized interaction with all systems. Thank you for your compliance with this exciting and mandatory efficiency initiative.

FTFY - That "problem" got fixed in 1987 when the IRS required Social Security Numbers to claim children dependents on tax returns. Your tax dollars at work.

http://www.snopes.com/business/taxes/dependents.asp

> Can anyone tell me why temporarily banning Muslim immigration from conflict areas is a bad idea?

Because it would prove that ISIS is right - their narrative is a "clash of civilizations" and the west is against muslims.

Now if you are one of those westerners who believes in the "clash of civilizations" tripe, then I've just wasted my time treating you like a cogent thinker.

Meanwhile, more people are killed by toddlers with guns than by muslim terrorists each year, including 2015 which was the highest level of muslim terrorist killings in the US before or after 2001.

I remember the controversy about the WingDings TrueType font that Microsoft made. It had a bunch of random little pictograms, and as this was long before Unicode support was common, it had the pictures mapped to random characters.

Someone noticed that if you typed "NYC" and then changed the font to WingDings the result was a skull-and-crossbones, a Star of David, and a hand making a thumbs-up gesture. So obviously, this was a shorthand way of saying: death to Jews in New York City is a good thing. And obviously, this was done on purpose by some black-hearted person at Microsoft.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/wingdings.asp

The moral of the story: no matter what you do, someone will find a way to get upset by it.

That reminds me of an old engineering joke:

Ford, whose electrical engineers couldnâ(TM)t solve some problems they were having with a gigantic generator, called Steinmetz in to the plant. Upon arriving, Steinmetz rejected all assistance and asked only for a notebook, pencil and cot. According to Scott, Steinmetz listened to the generator and scribbled computations on the notepad for two straight days and nights. On the second night, he asked for a ladder, climbed up the generator and made a chalk mark on its side. Then he told Fordâ(TM)s skeptical engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace sixteen windings from the field coil. They did, and the generator performed to perfection.

Henry Ford was thrilled until he got an invoice from General Electric in the amount of $10,000. Ford acknowledged Steinmetzâ(TM)s success but balked at the figure. He asked for an itemized bill.

Steinmetz, Scott wrote, responded personally to Fordâ(TM)s request with the following:

Making chalk mark on generator $1.

Knowing where to make mark $9,999.

Ford paid the bill.

* http://www.snopes.com/business...
* http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...

It's all about disarming victims.

I'd say it's all about responsible gun ownership. Toddlers shot themselves or others on a weekly basis in 2015. And here's another parent shot in the back by her son. It's pretty dumb.

Which, for me, invalidates at least some aspects of the model. Like the mathematician who "proved" that bumblebees could not fly. Except that they can.

http://www.snopes.com/science/bumblebees.asp

The current 3.5" HDD geometry was adopted for historic reasons --- its size inherited from the PC floppy disk.

The form factor of 3.5" floppy drives was decided during the early planning stage of the Great Data Railroad. You can place exactly 16 3.54" (90mm) bare floppy discs side by side within the standard railroad gauge of 4 feet 8.5 inches. For the original 1982 HP single sided format of ~280kB this yields roughly ~4.3mB along every 3.5" of railroad track, or 137 rows along the floor of a a standard 40-foot railroad boxcar without the use of stacking. Thus ~600MB was the capacity of a original single density data railroad car, though it was only only ~1mm in height.

While the floppy disc made data railroads possible, media stacking made them practical. A cylinder of bare floppy media ~10 feet high is roughly 3048 discs, so your standard railroad boxcar held ~1.8TB of floppy storage, in 1982! With an average rail speed of 18mph a single boxcar passes every ~1.5 seconds, which is ~1.2T terabytes or 9200 gigabits per second! By 1998 floppy media storage density had improved ~714-fold, yielding transfer rates of 6568800Gb/s or ~821 TB/s.

So why was floppy data railroad ultimately limited to this 'arbitrary' ~821 TB/s? Northern rail gauge of the US railway based on the English rail system which were based on tramways which used the same jigs used to build wagons whose wheel base was determined by ancient ruts that were left by Roman chariots which were sized to accommodate the width of two horses' asses. As not-quite debunked here.

So the short story is, any chain of decisions regarding technology leads back to some horse's ass.

http://www.factcheck.org/2013/...
http://www.snopes.com/politics...

No, there is not a $20 medical tax on your new fishing pole. Odds are you are lying. That was a seller error applied to a few errors that went viral. You are lying when you said it happened to you. You heard about it on some conservative talk show that does no fact checking, and repeat the lies.

Pick a more believable lie next time.

It's Swell!

Did they ban your pointy knives yet? You're not safe until there are no pointy knives. Or blunt objects. Better ban those bats, pipes, and bits of lumber.

And fits!

Did they ban your pointy knives yet? You're not safe until there are no pointy knives. Or blunt objects. Better ban those bats, pipes, and bits of lumber.

Michigan just banned sodomy despite the fact that have a whackton of real and devastating problems that are costing people their lives.

This is false.

They went so far as to produce fraudulent footage of planned parenthood just so they could open an investigation.

This is false. People said inconvenient things for PP.

It has been demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt, repeatedly, that they they lied and cheated in order to accomplish what they wanted

This is true! Also, unclear on the concept of an undercover expose (with the accent mark; thanks for being there when I need you, Unicode).

Women are now dying because of various medical issues that would have been trivially prevented by Planned Parenthood, because they either didn't have, or didn't know they had, options.

You could mean two things with this, and both things are false. First, if you're referring to the much ballyhoo'd mammograms, it would be helpful here to mention that PP doesn't perform them anyway, and never has. Second, if you're referring to women somehow not being aware of the fact that abortions exist, and need to be counselled on it's existence, then that simply stretches credulity.

*yawn* Lets see above post was on wackjobs, nice to see you (as a wackjob) decided to chime in.

Michigan issue - Here is the snopes 'mostly false'
http://www.snopes.com/michigan...

I won't go into the war on women statement is just a talking point so commenting on it means nothing.

Fraudulent Footage - Not sure what you mean is fraudulent about it (unless you are calling most investigative journalism fraudulent). Snopes again has a good write up on it. They show it as mixed. Short videos were obviously edited for impact. Long videos show some of the same things but are obviously not as impactful being spaced out over 2 1/2 hours of conversation.
http://www.snopes.com/pp-baby-...

Communism is a great idea... I can't even see an ideal world where Communism would be a great idea. Maybe a world where there were no humans but now you are into the Pixie Dust type solutions (wouldn't it just be great if pixie dust just solved all our problems...).

Speaking (or writing) as an agnostic I would say that rabid atheists (such as you in case you missed the point here) are about on the same level as evangelical Christians. Both believe their positions based on dogma. So, neither tend to have discussions that are anything but talking points and emotional appeals. Neither really care about those that their positions hurt. Not actively evil just kind of sad.

*yawn* Lets see above post was on wackjobs, nice to see you (as a wackjob) decided to chime in.

Michigan issue - Here is the snopes 'mostly false'
http://www.snopes.com/michigan...

I won't go into the war on women statement is just a talking point so commenting on it means nothing.

Fraudulent Footage - Not sure what you mean is fraudulent about it (unless you are calling most investigative journalism fraudulent). Snopes again has a good write up on it. They show it as mixed. Short videos were obviously edited for impact. Long videos show some of the same things but are obviously not as impactful being spaced out over 2 1/2 hours of conversation.
http://www.snopes.com/pp-baby-...

Communism is a great idea... I can't even see an ideal world where Communism would be a great idea. Maybe a world where there were no humans but now you are into the Pixie Dust type solutions (wouldn't it just be great if pixie dust just solved all our problems...).

Speaking (or writing) as an agnostic I would say that rabid atheists (such as you in case you missed the point here) are about on the same level as evangelical Christians. Both believe their positions based on dogma. So, neither tend to have discussions that are anything but talking points and emotional appeals. Neither really care about those that their positions hurt. Not actively evil just kind of sad.

Solar PV has essentially zero maintenance cost once installed.

"Essentially zero" turns out to be non-zero, and the lag and lead costs of each maintenance event are multiplied by the number of installations. Now "essentially zero" becomes "essentially millions".

Plus, with the benefit of the power being produced where it is actually used, you eliminate the cost of building and maintaining the vast majority of infrastructure that would be required for a central plant.

Except you still need that infrastructure to provide baseband power. If you generate enough solar to power the whole world 24/7, you need power storage, which is *also* cheaper centralized, and so you need a way to get power from all these spread out generation facilities to a storage facility. If you over-generate power, you're losing it and wasting effort building, installing, and maintaining solar panels; to reduce this cost, you need an infrastructure to move that power back and forth between generation cites--rooftops.

It turns out we already have that infrastructure, so the point on building it is moot. You still have to account for maintenance: is maintaining infrastructure cheaper or more expensive than installing and maintaining incrementally more overgeneration and storage facilities at every single individual home (because you absolutely need that infrastructure if even one home doesn't generate their own power)?

The land in question is already being used for something else: housing

Doesn't look like it to me.

Maybe you should try applying reading comprehension above the level of a brain-damaged retard. I suggest you learn to read white space; this may help when someone compares and contrasts two separate options by putting one in one paragraph and one in another paragraph. If that fails, you can always go back and use the grouped information to identify boundaries from their context."

You've done neither of these, but instead read a discussion comparing two different things in two different paragraphs each starting with a different name for the thing being described as if the attributes of each thing applied to one thing. For example:

Ducks are fowl. They like to fly, they eat fish, and they can swim in water.

Pigs are swine. They wallow in mud and eat god damn anything. Oddly enough, they can also swim.

Your response: "God dammit! Ducks don't wallow in mud; they swim on lakes!"

Go back to first grade and ask them to teach you to read. Really read. I understand they may need to bring in an army of special education professionals, but reading will change your life.

You're producing *at* the point of use.

This wide-area installation is not producing at the point of use, unless they need a huge amount of power.

No, that's explaining the difference between pissing in your cornflakes and pissing in the ocean.

When the statement, "When you spread it out", was made, you were describing pissing in little droplets all over the ocean, instead of pissing in one place.

Yeah, just like they did in Dearborn, MI. The more of this reactionary drivel I read, the less I believe it.

>Probably has more to do with international trade being halted since December

You know international trade is not halted, yet you said it anyway. That makes you a liar.

LOLZ, as of this moment there is less than 10 cargo ships operating on the entire planet, the rest are moored. You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences, and they are already here. How about them train profits last month huh? No biggy on those 100 wally worlds shut down this week either huh? Your lack of perception does not make me a liar, just makes you fit right in on the bus load of retards.

http://www.snopes.com/cargo-sh...

You should take the pills the psychiatrist prescribes.

http://www.marinetraffic.com/

You should probably get rid of those rose colored glasses.

Read the Snopes article to which I linked which explains how that website only shows coastal traffic and so it doesn't give any information on shipping out at sea.

Our family business has been importing goods from Europe without interruption. We had a shipment arrive from Ireland yesterday. You are not showing good judgement in what and who you believe.

I take into account a lot of factors and read between the lines as we all know that media sources are doing a lot of BS'ing, profit loss in the train based shipping industry over the last month does appear to support cargo shipping has a serious problem that ultimately reflects on health of the world economy and there have been interviews with people in that industry that capitulate truth to the fact international shipping has fallen just short of halted as they would have to operate at a loss, oil industry has also taken notice and stopped gouging as much but at $20 a barrel the cost of fuel should be lower than it is, Wal-Marts in the hundreds closing is not a good sign at all either. Federal reserve closure of the NYC location and moved over to Chicago could likely be to cut costs to continue to present the illusion of a healthy economy by buying up stock when the NYSE/NASDAC starts to tank. Doctored figures on the actual unemployment rates. Pretty sure by the looks of the over all picture will be shown in the trucking industry next. Being that there is federal law that dictates the money in your account that is in the bank belongs to them in the event of a financial meltdown of the banking industry (again), the money belongs to the bank. Based upon what we saw in Greece, knowing there really isn't anywhere for the federal reserve system to kick the can this time, I myself would not trust the banks with the money. Sure, even the president stated that those who have stated the economy is in bad shape are full of it, but how often have you seen the government be honest about pretty much any situation days. There is too much real data to reference publicly available to support that the president is one that is full of it. It is also understood that it is an election year and the economy does experience an element of uncertainty during this process but this appears to be a bit more than just an element.

You've gone off the deep end. Start swimming the other way.

Can't float the economy on smoke and mirrors, that bottom line thing always gets in the way. The mind control doesn't seem to have any effect on it when the people are financially sunk, the banksters already ran with the gold and stuck us all with a big fat dinner check to the tune of about 20 trillion playing on the paper. But you know what? I'll leave you to your fantasy smoking Rockefeller's and Rothschild's Khazarian mafia sausage, you seem to be quite content with it, go make a big deposit.

>Probably has more to do with international trade being halted since December

You know international trade is not halted, yet you said it anyway. That makes you a liar.

LOLZ, as of this moment there is less than 10 cargo ships operating on the entire planet, the rest are moored. You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences, and they are already here. How about them train profits last month huh? No biggy on those 100 wally worlds shut down this week either huh? Your lack of perception does not make me a liar, just makes you fit right in on the bus load of retards.

http://www.snopes.com/cargo-sh...

You should take the pills the psychiatrist prescribes.

http://www.marinetraffic.com/

You should probably get rid of those rose colored glasses.

Read the Snopes article to which I linked which explains how that website only shows coastal traffic and so it doesn't give any information on shipping out at sea.

Our family business has been importing goods from Europe without interruption. We had a shipment arrive from Ireland yesterday. You are not showing good judgement in what and who you believe.

I take into account a lot of factors and read between the lines as we all know that media sources are doing a lot of BS'ing, profit loss in the train based shipping industry over the last month does appear to support cargo shipping has a serious problem that ultimately reflects on health of the world economy and there have been interviews with people in that industry that capitulate truth to the fact international shipping has fallen just short of halted as they would have to operate at a loss, oil industry has also taken notice and stopped gouging as much but at $20 a barrel the cost of fuel should be lower than it is, Wal-Marts in the hundreds closing is not a good sign at all either. Federal reserve closure of the NYC location and moved over to Chicago could likely be to cut costs to continue to present the illusion of a healthy economy by buying up stock when the NYSE/NASDAC starts to tank. Doctored figures on the actual unemployment rates. Pretty sure by the looks of the over all picture will be shown in the trucking industry next. Being that there is federal law that dictates the money in your account that is in the bank belongs to them in the event of a financial meltdown of the banking industry (again), the money belongs to the bank. Based upon what we saw in Greece, knowing there really isn't anywhere for the federal reserve system to kick the can this time, I myself would not trust the banks with the money. Sure, even the president stated that those who have stated the economy is in bad shape are full of it, but how often have you seen the government be honest about pretty much any situation days. There is too much real data to reference publicly available to support that the president is one that is full of it. It is also understood that it is an election year and the economy does experience an element of uncertainty during this process but this appears to be a bit more than just an element.

You've gone off the deep end. Start swimming the other way.

>Probably has more to do with international trade being halted since December

You know international trade is not halted, yet you said it anyway. That makes you a liar.

LOLZ, as of this moment there is less than 10 cargo ships operating on the entire planet, the rest are moored. You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences, and they are already here. How about them train profits last month huh? No biggy on those 100 wally worlds shut down this week either huh? Your lack of perception does not make me a liar, just makes you fit right in on the bus load of retards.

http://www.snopes.com/cargo-sh...

You should take the pills the psychiatrist prescribes.

http://www.marinetraffic.com/

You should probably get rid of those rose colored glasses.

Read the Snopes article to which I linked which explains how that website only shows coastal traffic and so it doesn't give any information on shipping out at sea.

Our family business has been importing goods from Europe without interruption. We had a shipment arrive from Ireland yesterday. You are not showing good judgement in what and who you believe.

I take into account a lot of factors and read between the lines as we all know that media sources are doing a lot of BS'ing, profit loss in the train based shipping industry over the last month does appear to support cargo shipping has a serious problem that ultimately reflects on health of the world economy and there have been interviews with people in that industry that capitulate truth to the fact international shipping has fallen just short of halted as they would have to operate at a loss, oil industry has also taken notice and stopped gouging as much but at $20 a barrel the cost of fuel should be lower than it is, Wal-Marts in the hundreds closing is not a good sign at all either. Federal reserve closure of the NYC location and moved over to Chicago could likely be to cut costs to continue to present the illusion of a healthy economy by buying up stock when the NYSE/NASDAC starts to tank. Doctored figures on the actual unemployment rates. Pretty sure by the looks of the over all picture will be shown in the trucking industry next. Being that there is federal law that dictates the money in your account that is in the bank belongs to them in the event of a financial meltdown of the banking industry (again), the money belongs to the bank. Based upon what we saw in Greece, knowing there really isn't anywhere for the federal reserve system to kick the can this time, I myself would not trust the banks with the money. Sure, even the president stated that those who have stated the economy is in bad shape are full of it, but how often have you seen the government be honest about pretty much any situation days. There is too much real data to reference publicly available to support that the president is one that is full of it. It is also understood that it is an election year and the economy does experience an element of uncertainty during this process but this appears to be a bit more than just an element.

>Probably has more to do with international trade being halted since December

You know international trade is not halted, yet you said it anyway. That makes you a liar.

LOLZ, as of this moment there is less than 10 cargo ships operating on the entire planet, the rest are moored. You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences, and they are already here. How about them train profits last month huh? No biggy on those 100 wally worlds shut down this week either huh? Your lack of perception does not make me a liar, just makes you fit right in on the bus load of retards.

http://www.snopes.com/cargo-sh...

You should take the pills the psychiatrist prescribes.

http://www.marinetraffic.com/

You should probably get rid of those rose colored glasses.

Read the Snopes article to which I linked which explains how that website only shows coastal traffic and so it doesn't give any information on shipping out at sea.

Our family business has been importing goods from Europe without interruption. We had a shipment arrive from Ireland yesterday. You are not showing good judgement in what and who you believe.
 

>Probably has more to do with international trade being halted since December

You know international trade is not halted, yet you said it anyway. That makes you a liar.

LOLZ, as of this moment there is less than 10 cargo ships operating on the entire planet, the rest are moored. You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences, and they are already here. How about them train profits last month huh? No biggy on those 100 wally worlds shut down this week either huh? Your lack of perception does not make me a liar, just makes you fit right in on the bus load of retards.

http://www.snopes.com/cargo-sh...

You should take the pills the psychiatrist prescribes.

http://www.marinetraffic.com/

You should probably get rid of those rose colored glasses.

>Probably has more to do with international trade being halted since December

You know international trade is not halted, yet you said it anyway. That makes you a liar.

LOLZ, as of this moment there is less than 10 cargo ships operating on the entire planet, the rest are moored. You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences, and they are already here. How about them train profits last month huh? No biggy on those 100 wally worlds shut down this week either huh? Your lack of perception does not make me a liar, just makes you fit right in on the bus load of retards.

http://www.snopes.com/cargo-sh...

You should take the pills the psychiatrist prescribes.

I started reading the "study" you base your entire argument on and it seemed to be a suspicious jumble of cherry-picked facts, and thus more of a political polemic with an axe to grind than an objective scientific study so I did a search to find out more about the authors and discovered that either you were purposely misleading people here or you were misled yourself.

For example, Snopes highlights many of the flaws with the non-peer reviewed paper you cite as a "study":

Claim: A 2007 Harvard University study proved that areas with higher rates of gun ownership have lower crime rates.

FALSE

WHAT'S TRUE: Gun rights advocates Gary Mauser and Don Kates jointly authored a 2007 paper in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy arguing that higher rates of gun ownership correlated with lower crime rates.

WHAT'S FALSE: The paper in question was not peer-reviewed, it didn't constitute a study, and it misrepresented separate research to draw shaky, unsupported conclusions.

[...] Of primary importance is the subsequent, widely misapplied label of the word "study" with reference to the 2007 item in question. The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy describes itself as "one of the most widely circulated student-edited law reviews and the nation's leading forum for conservative and libertarian legal scholarship." Papers published in that journal are (while perhaps competitively sourced) in no way equivalent to peer-reviewed research published in a credible science-related journals as "studies." Use of the term "study" to refer that 2007 article dishonestly suggested that the assertions made by its authors were gathered and vetted under more rigorous study conditions, which didn't appear to be the case.

[...] In short, the purported 2007 Harvard "study" with "astonishing" findings was in fact a polemic paper penned by two well-known gun rights activists. Its findings were neither peer-reviewed nor subject to academic scrutiny of any sort prior to its appearance, and the publication that carried it was a self-identified ideology-based editorial outlet edited by Harvard students.

I speak Tagalog.
The Ewoks do not speak Tagalog, but the cadence and some of the phonemes are similar.
Ang mga Ewok di nagsasalita sa Tagalog.

I have not verified the DVD special feature source but this seems a likelier explanation. http://message.snopes.com/prin...

Yeah, but we developed a pen that could write in space while the Russians just used a pencil. So I guess both sides overcomplicate things.

(It's a joke. Yes, I know that NASA didn't spend billions of dollars developing a space pen.)

Hmm, do you have a link to that? I know it's not a routinely accepted vaccine, but I think part of that is because it's new and it's hard to measure HPV infection status.

Here's a better link and article: http://www.snopes.com/doctors-...

That said, I still don't know a doctor that *does* recommend it. My father-in-law certainly does not; he generally recommends most vaccines but does not see the risk of the HPV "vaccines" as worth it given what the "vaccines" do, which is atypical of a vaccine.

"I would rather see Sanders run as an independent in the general election"

If he does he will split the democratic vote and hand the election to the republicans.
Likewise if Trump runs as independent. That would hand the election to the Democrats.

The DNC and RNC cannot afford to allow the possibility of these guys being independent candidates. If that happens it will be the death knell of the tenure of those currently at the controls.

Trump is narcissistic enough to switch to an independent ticket in a heartbeat. Sanders is unlikely to (although he should).

The reality is that _all_ political parties have "use by" dates and need to be forcibly dismantled past that point because they end up serving the interests of the party elite, rather than the party membership. Usually once the members realise and shift their votes/alliegance it's long past that point.

ObHumor: "Trump" is northern british slang for a loud & wet fart, which from this side of the Atlantic is about right for his political input.
ObHistory: http://www.snopes.com/1998-tru...

It turns out that the assertion about blunt objects being used in more murders than guns isn't true.

And regarding suicide vs homicide, the paper I cited above gave a 2.7 times greater risk for homicide, not suicide, as a result of gun ownership in the home.

I think you have to look at the statistics cited by the gun proponents with a more jaundiced eye. All the ones I've seen in this discussion seem to have been discredited.

Well, statistics of 1 is not really statistics, anything can happen.

But let me give you a more numeric anecdotal story. An old farmer died of prostate cancer few years ago, and he told me that almost every farmer in the region that he had known had died of prostate cancer too. We are talking about 20-30 people.

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/c...

So normalized data shows 15% chance, but for older farmers based on that farmer's testimony, it's about 80% if you ignore heart disease deaths.

So yes, I believe we'll kill ourselves with the chemicals we produce and spray on ourselves. Anecdotal evidence shows that too. But studies? Which company would fund long term studies into cancer rates of their products? And which government would do that? They don't even acknowledge that Agent Orange fucked up Vietnam.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
http://www.snopes.com/photos/m...

So we have a News Paper Reporter, reporting on what someone said in public, being reported by yet an other Internet Journalist; Yeah that's going to be accurate.

Mostly true.

Even if it's only 310, that doesn't really change the argument.

From the way this pig is squealing, Center for Medical Progress must be causing him lots of pain.

I wonder if this swine has the balls to Google "racist roots of Planned Parenthood" Nothing like a rich, sheltered, white woman calling black children "undesirables" and working really hard to make sure they're never born...

Or maybe you're completely wrong.

The Snopes website did an analysis of the tax implications and control issues. They also elicited additional comments from a Facebook representative. http://www.snopes.com/2015/12/...

Snopes has a good write-up of the state of things around this:
http://www.snopes.com/2015/11/...

Uh, no. The claim is anybody was trying to force consumers to get a prescription to purchase supplements is bogus. http://www.snopes.com/politics...

maybe move inland and hope for good TV coverage of the drowning masses at the beach.

Al Gore, of all people, undercut this particular aspect of his own scare-mongering, when he bought an ocean-front villa for himself. A real nice one too, I hear...

But then, the "recovering politician" was never much about practicing, what he preaches.

NASA spent something like 1.2 billion dollars on a pen that can write in space when the Russians just used pencils.

No, NASA did not spend billions on a pen and neither the Russians nor NASA use pencils in space. Broken pencil leads (actually graphite) would be a hazard and not permitted on spaceflights. NASA never spent a penny on developing a pen that would work in space.

This is the advantage of a centrally-managed economy. This type of economic system is more efficient, resistant to fraud, and is much more agile than having a huge, lumbering military-industrial complex.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH.... Efficient and resistant to fraud? Best laugh I've had all day.

This is why China will eat the US's lunch in a just a few years.

Yeah, having 5X the population and low labor costs has nothing to do with China's success... [/sarcasm]

I'm not familiar with these 'Obamaphones' you speak of. Perhaps you mean the Dubyaphone ?

No need. It sold just fine in Mexico.

(p.s. the Spanish word for "nova" is nova )

Use of terms "master and slave" in reference to disk drives considered politically unacceptable: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp (Nov 2003)

It is reasonable to not to offend unneedfully, but it is also reasonable not to look for the chance take offence when offence is not intended.

IRONY; AC CAPTCHA for this post is "persons"

Oh, and when I get in a cab at a hotel and pay cash, there's no effective record of where I go and when. No stupid phone apps tracking me and modeling my behavior for future marketing purposes. The less data that exists about anyone the better.

Actually, the cabs in Vegas keep a log of every trip they make including time, starting and ending location. No joke. Now if you pay cash they don't have your name, per se, so it'll take a little more work to figure out who you are, but with cab IDs being highly visible and hotel security cameras everywhere, it won't be that difficult.

Wow, you must think those cab marketing departments really want to know exactly who some random person that takes a cab and pays cash.

A cab company would probably have better luck deploying their own stingray network and tracking your cell phone than getting casino to part with their security footage for marketing purposes of another company. Perhaps the OP should say the cab company has no *practically traceable* record of where you go...

And yes you might as well remove your tin foil hat in a casino as it is impossible to hide from their marketing department. It goes without saying if they can pump oxygen in to their casinos, who knows what else they can do ;^) ;^p

The China pedestrians story was complete and utter cobblers, packaged up by the foreign media to make you feel superior about yourselves. Congratulations on taking it hook, like and sinker.

http://m.snopes.com/chinese-dr...

Wrong, most are Democrats. And piss off with that "cisgender/not cisgender" crap, that's too lopsided to even be a worthwhile metric.
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