Yes, because most people drive from home to work and then from work back home. No running errands, going to gym, picking kids up, dropping kids off, grabbing groceries, going out for dinner...
You THINK free trade has been great for America. But free trade with China has only been free in one direction. It SEEMED to be working, but in reality, the US has been racking up the debts nationally, regionally, and personally. If not for debt spending, the US economy would be stagnant or shrinking.
That's exactly NOT what has been shown to be happening. There is no positive feedback loop with water. In fact, the exact OPPOSITE happens. Thunderstorms form when a surface temperature threshold is passed. They move MASSIVE amounts of heat from the surface to the upper atmosphere, where there is NO CO2. That heat is then radiated out into space. Thunderstorms are like an air conditioner unit for our atmosphere, keeping heat from building up past a specific threshold. There is no runaway warming.
Science: CO2 absorbs infrared
Not Science: because CO2 absorbs infrared, adding it to our atmosphere will increase the temperature of our atmosphere, which will cause more water to evaporate, which will also absorb more infrared, which will further increase the temperature of our atmosphere, creating a runaway greenhouse effect OMG we're going to destroy the planet!
I'm sure that "vast majority of murderers never re-offend" is a comforting statistic for the victims of the small minority who do re-offend.
Care to give some statistics on just how "vast" that majority is? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/o...
Here's a Canadian study that found a 0.3% repeat murder rate over a 10 year period: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/resea...
And here's an article from the UK:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Newsflash for you AC: ISIS has been defeated.
Also, you want to talk about "Provoking people like Trump does", yet didn't North Korea just acquiesce and agree to meet with Trump in order to negotiate nuclear disarmament?
Nobody said "we need to torture people to win because that is what the enemy would do". We have merely stated that waterboarding is an effective way of getting someone to talk "without" having to resort to torture.
Waterboarding by the CIA was something that helped terrorists. Our doing it gave a powerful recruiting tool to terrorist organizations: it allowed them to show that the U.S. are not the good guys. This was a stupid stupid thing to do, and we should object to her being Director because we should not reward people for doing stupid things in their job.
Oh yes, it was the waterboarding that led to ISIS and Al Qaeda believing the US was evil. It had nothing to do with brainwashing, fanaticism, extremist religious leaders, or any of that.
By the way, you know the number one fact that's used by terrorists to prove America is evil, is America's acceptance and tolerance of homosexuality, right?
AC said waterboarding does no physical harm. He didn't say it has no effect. By "no physical harm" he means exactly that...no wounds, no scars, no physical "damage". As to why you would waterboard someone 83 times, that has to do with an iterative process of information gathering and information verification.
1. Is waterboarding torture?
2. Has waterboarding ever extracted useful information?
3. What great harm does waterboarding do to those performing it? Please provide some factual info, not just your opinion
How do you sell your soul? Who do you sell it to? What's it worth? If I sell my humanity, am I no longer human? If I sold my humanity, and am no longer human, wouldn't that then make me different from them, or are you saying they're not human either? Could I sell my humanity yet still be different from them?
Your linked article is wrong. The US didn't invade Iraq for oil. Iraqi oil was already flowing on the world market, and under the UN Food For Oil scam, it was flowing at a discounted price. The real reason for the invasion is because Iraq is directly next door to Iran. Here's a map: http://atlantislsc.com/map-of-...
US invades Afghanistan and Iraq in response to 9/11. Now US military is on both sides of Iran, the world's largest sponsor of Islamic terrorism. Coincidence?
He went to a legal reseller and went through the process of obtaining a gun legally versus buying a black market gun. If the only barrier to being able to obtain a gun relies on the buyer willfully telling the truth about their mental and criminal history, then that's a failed security implementation, and there SHOULD be new laws enacted to fix this.
You're confusing illegal purchase due to technicality versus black market illegal. The fact is, he went through the legal process to legally buy the gun, and that's how he obtained it. The fact that he lied on the form doesn't change the fact that he purchased it through a legitimate dealer. This is where mandatory reporting of mental illness and criminal activity to the NICS system would help. It removes the ability of the buyer to lie on the form and get a gun when they shouldn't be able to.
I don't want to lose my right to a gun just because I used some anti-depressants. Or because I at one point was suffering depression and decided to ask for outside help. Mental health already has a bad stigma. Not all mental health issues deserve a loss of constitutional rights just as not everyone suffering mental illness need be locked in a padded cell in a straight jacket.
Sure, not everyone who suffers mental illness is a risk to others. But there should definitely be a barrier to anyone with a history of mental illness being able to buy a gun without additional verification and followup being performed.
Fact: the rifle was purchased legally because he passed a background check.
Fact: in 2016 he was taken to a mental health facility for examination. The mental health facility did not report this to the feds' NICS system. Had they done so, it would have shown up on his background check, and he would not have been able to buy the gun.
Fact: The NRA has been advocating making it mandatory for states to report criminal and mental health records to the federal government.
You have to connect the dots...
From the NY Times article: "The businessman, Carter Page, met with one of the three Russians who were eventually charged...The court documents say that Mr. Page, who founded an investment company in New York called Global Energy Capital, provided documents about the energy business to one of the Russians....To record their conversations, the F.B.I. inserted a listening device into binders that were passed to the Russian intelligence operatives during an energy conference".
From the Reuters article: "According to prosecutors, in April 2012, Sporyshev met an undercover FBI employee posing as an analyst at a New York energy firm...In 2013, the FBI employee began providing Sporyshev with the binders containing purported industry analysis he wrote, supporting documents, and “covertly placed recording devices,” ".
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Yes, because most people drive from home to work and then from work back home. No running errands, going to gym, picking kids up, dropping kids off, grabbing groceries, going out for dinner...
You THINK free trade has been great for America. But free trade with China has only been free in one direction. It SEEMED to be working, but in reality, the US has been racking up the debts nationally, regionally, and personally. If not for debt spending, the US economy would be stagnant or shrinking.
That's exactly NOT what has been shown to be happening. There is no positive feedback loop with water. In fact, the exact OPPOSITE happens. Thunderstorms form when a surface temperature threshold is passed. They move MASSIVE amounts of heat from the surface to the upper atmosphere, where there is NO CO2. That heat is then radiated out into space. Thunderstorms are like an air conditioner unit for our atmosphere, keeping heat from building up past a specific threshold. There is no runaway warming.
Science: CO2 absorbs infrared Not Science: because CO2 absorbs infrared, adding it to our atmosphere will increase the temperature of our atmosphere, which will cause more water to evaporate, which will also absorb more infrared, which will further increase the temperature of our atmosphere, creating a runaway greenhouse effect OMG we're going to destroy the planet!
I'm sure that "vast majority of murderers never re-offend" is a comforting statistic for the victims of the small minority who do re-offend.
Care to give some statistics on just how "vast" that majority is? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/o...
Here's a Canadian study that found a 0.3% repeat murder rate over a 10 year period: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/resea...
And here's an article from the UK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Newsflash for you AC: ISIS has been defeated.
Also, you want to talk about "Provoking people like Trump does", yet didn't North Korea just acquiesce and agree to meet with Trump in order to negotiate nuclear disarmament?
Nobody said "we need to torture people to win because that is what the enemy would do". We have merely stated that waterboarding is an effective way of getting someone to talk "without" having to resort to torture.
Did I say it was ALWAYS the number one fact? Way to construct a strawman and knock it down convincingly.
Waterboarding by the CIA was something that helped terrorists. Our doing it gave a powerful recruiting tool to terrorist organizations: it allowed them to show that the U.S. are not the good guys. This was a stupid stupid thing to do, and we should object to her being Director because we should not reward people for doing stupid things in their job.
Oh yes, it was the waterboarding that led to ISIS and Al Qaeda believing the US was evil. It had nothing to do with brainwashing, fanaticism, extremist religious leaders, or any of that.
By the way, you know the number one fact that's used by terrorists to prove America is evil, is America's acceptance and tolerance of homosexuality, right?
AC said waterboarding does no physical harm. He didn't say it has no effect. By "no physical harm" he means exactly that...no wounds, no scars, no physical "damage". As to why you would waterboard someone 83 times, that has to do with an iterative process of information gathering and information verification.
Well it does cut down on the number of repeat offenders
1. Is waterboarding torture?
2. Has waterboarding ever extracted useful information?
3. What great harm does waterboarding do to those performing it? Please provide some factual info, not just your opinion
How do you sell your soul? Who do you sell it to? What's it worth? If I sell my humanity, am I no longer human? If I sold my humanity, and am no longer human, wouldn't that then make me different from them, or are you saying they're not human either? Could I sell my humanity yet still be different from them?
The good news is they only need to pay her 72% of what they normally pay the CIA director. That 28% savings can help fund the wall. Double win!
Your linked article is wrong. The US didn't invade Iraq for oil. Iraqi oil was already flowing on the world market, and under the UN Food For Oil scam, it was flowing at a discounted price. The real reason for the invasion is because Iraq is directly next door to Iran. Here's a map: http://atlantislsc.com/map-of-...
US invades Afghanistan and Iraq in response to 9/11. Now US military is on both sides of Iran, the world's largest sponsor of Islamic terrorism. Coincidence?
There's no mystery step required in your list. Remove 3, and switch the order of 4 and 5.
He went to a legal reseller and went through the process of obtaining a gun legally versus buying a black market gun. If the only barrier to being able to obtain a gun relies on the buyer willfully telling the truth about their mental and criminal history, then that's a failed security implementation, and there SHOULD be new laws enacted to fix this.
You're confusing illegal purchase due to technicality versus black market illegal. The fact is, he went through the legal process to legally buy the gun, and that's how he obtained it. The fact that he lied on the form doesn't change the fact that he purchased it through a legitimate dealer. This is where mandatory reporting of mental illness and criminal activity to the NICS system would help. It removes the ability of the buyer to lie on the form and get a gun when they shouldn't be able to.
AT&T is still a telephone provider, and thus a common carrier.
I don't want to lose my right to a gun just because I used some anti-depressants. Or because I at one point was suffering depression and decided to ask for outside help. Mental health already has a bad stigma. Not all mental health issues deserve a loss of constitutional rights just as not everyone suffering mental illness need be locked in a padded cell in a straight jacket.
Sure, not everyone who suffers mental illness is a risk to others. But there should definitely be a barrier to anyone with a history of mental illness being able to buy a gun without additional verification and followup being performed.
Fact: the rifle was purchased legally because he passed a background check.
Fact: in 2016 he was taken to a mental health facility for examination. The mental health facility did not report this to the feds' NICS system. Had they done so, it would have shown up on his background check, and he would not have been able to buy the gun.
Fact: The NRA has been advocating making it mandatory for states to report criminal and mental health records to the federal government.
using uTorrent to download questionable files from unknown sources, or downloading the questionable files themselves?
https://www.pastemagazine.com/...
and here we are. But let's give them a bit more time, maybe they'll be right some day...
You have to connect the dots...
From the NY Times article: "The businessman, Carter Page, met with one of the three Russians who were eventually charged...The court documents say that Mr. Page, who founded an investment company in New York called Global Energy Capital, provided documents about the energy business to one of the Russians....To record their conversations, the F.B.I. inserted a listening device into binders that were passed to the Russian intelligence operatives during an energy conference".
From the Reuters article: "According to prosecutors, in April 2012, Sporyshev met an undercover FBI employee posing as an analyst at a New York energy firm...In 2013, the FBI employee began providing Sporyshev with the binders containing purported industry analysis he wrote, supporting documents, and “covertly placed recording devices,” ".
I love it, someone has modded my comment down. Way to try and bury the truth, you partisan hacks!