I hate to tell you, but an unborn child IS a child
I find it extremely funny that people who would do something as radical as change the definition of what a human being is have the gall to call themselves "conservatives". It's nothing but a goalpost shift via very weaselly wordplay.
Side note: My personal belief is that you do not have an abortion, even to save the life of the mother. You do not kill children for any reason whatsoever. I will not stand before God and tell him "I wanted my wife to live, so I killed my child to save her".
Perhaps you should talk to someone in obstetrics. In a lot of cases it's likely to be "I wanted to live by this rule so both my wife and doomed child were sacrificed for my political belief".
Dumbed down absolute rules are brutal - ask anyone from a totalitarian state. We have judges for a reason instead of an automatic penalty for every crime.
Yes. I gave an example of something fitting that. So did the cartoon linked by the other guy above. This time looks a lot like it at first glance and looks like lazy policing to hit performance targets instead of catching actual criminals but the details are what matters. If the suspected perpetrator gets onto the site without actively trying to find anything illegal then it is a fuckup and a waste of taxpayers money equivalent to planting drugs on people then arresting them. As an analogy, there's a big difference between posing as a drug dealer to catch potential buyers and planting drugs on people, just as there is a big difference between advertising porn in general and specifically directing people to child porn. How the "sting" is implemented will matter and since it's already lazy policing it just takes a bit more laziness to have a fucked up "sting" operations that is entrapment.
He's now surrounded by people with urgent messages of dire need
He's a casino boss, he's used to that. Watch him not care about people in dire need. He's now putting his kids in charge of things as if he was a Saudi King getting Princes to run things. I wonder how long it's going to take for all those rusted on Republicans to understand that Trump doesn't give a shit about the Republic and is far less a Republican than just about anyone who voted for him.
You haven't worked out that the wall is an obvious attention grabbing lie yet? Look at a map FFS! Talk to a bricklayer, builder, engineer, the guy down the hardware shop or anyone over fifty that's left their home town and has an idea of how long a mile is. It is a fantasy. It does not matter. It is not going to happen. He's already mentioned a fence to back out of the statement that he never intended to carry out despite his "mark my words".
The sad thing is it's probably true, and the even more pathetic thing is all those who came after who didn't fix the problem. Where it gets really ridiculous is when a government that hasn't been in power for twelve years gets blamed for a computer system. I've seen someone put on that pathetic act.
where the mainstream newsies were acting COMPLETELY as an arm of the Democratic Party
You are jumping to that conclusion because Rupert Murdoch doesn't like Donald Trump. Consider all the press for various Republicans before the primaries. Even tollbooth guy got a free ride without anyone pointing out why he was unfit for office.
Her next step would be military intervention in Syria
That step was taken long ago. The next step is to decide what to do in Syria next, and that's not an easy step since pulling out isn't so simple either.
I raise your Seagal for Christopher Lee, who said when asked to act out a the gasping sound from being knifed said "it's not a sound one forgets". He was a real soldier not a weekend gun nut anarchist. He could tell you that you need a squad to get things done and that a single guy against an army is called a practice target no matter how well armed the single guy is.
That's what Trump said. He also said that the election was rigged. Was he telling the truth?
He didn't think he was but like a stopped clock he managed to get it sort of right. Hillary won the popular vote, but the system is "rigged" so that places other than New York and Los Angeles have a say. The problem wasn't the electoral system but that so few people bothered to do their duty as citizens and vote. Would it have changed the result? Who knows? With enough people taking part there would be room for a third party.
He's unique amongst all the presidents of our lifetime
But compared to Royalty in the middle east he's par for the course. You stupid fuckers didn't even turn out to vote and ended up with a King. What's worse, apart from giving his little Princes government jobs it's still the same inbred Washington swamp from his chief of staff down.
There was evidence that it was a group effort so that "individuals" bit doesn't fit, but that still doesn't mean they worked for Putin even if that's the most likely case. It could have been a bunch of civilian criminals instead of military ones.
Not really. It only takes a download to fix just like with MS Windows. People are used to that on all platforms so I don't think mp3 made a difference one way or the other.
And he will not listen. Thiel is the good news here - that bad news:
Mr Trump said three of his five children — Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump — and his son-in-law Jared Kushner would help oversee the transition.
He wants to be a fucking King with his Princes running things just like in Saudi Arabia. It's not a new world, it's the old one that George Washington fought against.
Enjoy your new King Trump voters. Maybe he will throw you some crumbs but don't expect him to keep his word, he hasn't done it in the past so why start now?
When my teacher asked which country came the closest to the utopian society described by Thomas More
Wow - with a teacher missing the point so far doing well would be tricky and I admire you calling them out that way. The bit about drunks following string all the way home from the pub should have been enough to show the teacher that it was all about how the dream of a truly perfect society is shown as joke. I first read it one day when I had been planning to do silly things with ropes down waterfalls but the risk of being burnt to death getting to the waterfalls that day was a bit too high. It was the only book available and more entertaining than I expected.
From what I've heard the I.E.D's in use today are not in those books. They may be very simple but it's a relatively new way of making them. Go ask a vet if you don't already know how they are made. Scarily simple and they punch through vehicles like butter.
As I recall, The Anarchist Cookbook was full of such errors
I read a bit of it after I'd done around four chemistry subjects and the some of the errors were so stupid that they looked deliberate - "never do this" stuff instead of just plain ignorance.
It's the proverbial straw on a camel's back and one of many examples making up that huge pattern. All I'm really saying is watch what they do before listening to what they say. The politics claimed by the person doesn't really matter so much in these cases, it's what they actually do (eg. extra draconian rules instead of "freedom").
A bit of an aside, but personally I think the people who push for some sort of Utopia should read the original book of that name. It's a satire. The bit about never needing lawyers is a major clue, especially since it was written by a lawyer. A Utopia need perfect people. The Salem witch trials demonstrates what happens when a little Utopia finds a few people who are not perfect in their midst. One person's Utopia is another's nightmare, so it's hell for anyone who isn't perfect, such as every child ever born while they are still growing up.
I'm not suggesting it's the case with Thiel but it's also often the case that wealthy people pushing for a system with no oversight really just want to make sure that nobody is in the way when they are trying to scam a rube. Those are the fake "libertarians" to watch for, the ones that just want to pollute downstream and raise their middle finger at the poor people downstream that cannot afford to stop them. Their idea of "liberty" doesn't stop at your face, it involves punching anyone who is not strong enough to fight back while making it illegal for other to gang up on someone strong.
OK - so I didn't get to the end of the cartoon before replying and the two examples I gave fit the end of that. My point is still that the very lazy policing of entrapment is still being practiced at times and that line between getting the attention of criminals and enticing people into performing criminal acts that they may not have otherwise done is crossed on occasion. I'd prefer them to put some more effort into actually catching child rapists, which seems to be getting ignored to chase after those who look at porn instead.
Facts? Cases get thrown out due to obvious entrapment every now and again. It's not always like your cartoons. It's off the top of my head so don't use the excuse that it is an old case, but one of the most utterly ridiculous ones was from the Clinton era that ended up being described in a book as "Saddams Nuclear Triggers". It took months for FBI agents to convince a British industrial parts supplier to buy an item from one FBI agent and sell the same thing to another and claim that the supplier was supporting a nuclear bomb program that didn't exist in Iraq. The amoral pricks who set it up just wanted a high profile case so they could get promoted so they manufactured a fake crime and spent about a year going shopping for a patsy to frame for it, then months "grooming" their patsy before he agreed. It took years but in the end all charges were thrown out. It is well established as a FACT that real entrapment, unlike your comic, was the situation there and that there would have been no crime or attempt at one without the involvement of the agents. More recently a mentally ill person with no strong political or religious views was encouraged to get a bomb by FBI agents, once again with a very long "grooming" process, then provided with a bomb by FBI agents. That one is still going through the legal process so there may be more to it. It does happen and merely manufactures convictions instead of stopping crime.
You think being a Communist during the Red Scare is just like "having a difference of opinion on politics?"
In those cases back then - yes - frequently that's all it was and today we'd even call some of those people libertarians and a wide range of other labels depending on who they were. Even the Hollywood millionaire Charlie Chaplin was called a communist while he and a pile of others called communists by McCarthy etc were nothing but anti-fascists. Where the scare fell apart was when General Marshall of the Marshall Plan (and a lot of other things) was called a communist.
whether he ACTUALLY had 205 names of card-carrying Communists in his hand
If he really did, considering he did not reveal them to the authorities what does it make him? That is of course a moot point since he was just a liar stirring up a fuss to have a chance at the Presidency in a field of war heroes and others that had done something of note with their lives.
Yes there were real communists out there in a pile of different factions, even some sad cases who were as deluded about Stalin as FDR was at Yalta (Good old Uncle Joe? WTF?), but why would a handful of them in 1950 be a threat when masses of them in 1930 were not? McCarthy despite all his fuss didn't even find one!
Disgusted but not surprised - how about they put in the hard work of solving crimes instead of the quick way to promotion of enabling crimes and catching the people they have tempted? The primary target should be catching the people molesting the kids in the first place, but instead those get left alone as being too difficult.
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I find it extremely funny that people who would do something as radical as change the definition of what a human being is have the gall to call themselves "conservatives".
It's nothing but a goalpost shift via very weaselly wordplay.
Perhaps you should talk to someone in obstetrics. In a lot of cases it's likely to be "I wanted to live by this rule so both my wife and doomed child were sacrificed for my political belief".
Dumbed down absolute rules are brutal - ask anyone from a totalitarian state. We have judges for a reason instead of an automatic penalty for every crime.
Yes. I gave an example of something fitting that. So did the cartoon linked by the other guy above.
This time looks a lot like it at first glance and looks like lazy policing to hit performance targets instead of catching actual criminals but the details are what matters. If the suspected perpetrator gets onto the site without actively trying to find anything illegal then it is a fuckup and a waste of taxpayers money equivalent to planting drugs on people then arresting them. As an analogy, there's a big difference between posing as a drug dealer to catch potential buyers and planting drugs on people, just as there is a big difference between advertising porn in general and specifically directing people to child porn. How the "sting" is implemented will matter and since it's already lazy policing it just takes a bit more laziness to have a fucked up "sting" operations that is entrapment.
He's a casino boss, he's used to that. Watch him not care about people in dire need.
He's now putting his kids in charge of things as if he was a Saudi King getting Princes to run things.
I wonder how long it's going to take for all those rusted on Republicans to understand that Trump doesn't give a shit about the Republic and is far less a Republican than just about anyone who voted for him.
You haven't worked out that the wall is an obvious attention grabbing lie yet? Look at a map FFS! Talk to a bricklayer, builder, engineer, the guy down the hardware shop or anyone over fifty that's left their home town and has an idea of how long a mile is. It is a fantasy. It does not matter. It is not going to happen. He's already mentioned a fence to back out of the statement that he never intended to carry out despite his "mark my words".
The sad thing is it's probably true, and the even more pathetic thing is all those who came after who didn't fix the problem.
Where it gets really ridiculous is when a government that hasn't been in power for twelve years gets blamed for a computer system. I've seen someone put on that pathetic act.
You are jumping to that conclusion because Rupert Murdoch doesn't like Donald Trump. Consider all the press for various Republicans before the primaries. Even tollbooth guy got a free ride without anyone pointing out why he was unfit for office.
That step was taken long ago. The next step is to decide what to do in Syria next, and that's not an easy step since pulling out isn't so simple either.
I raise your Seagal for Christopher Lee, who said when asked to act out a the gasping sound from being knifed said "it's not a sound one forgets".
He was a real soldier not a weekend gun nut anarchist. He could tell you that you need a squad to get things done and that a single guy against an army is called a practice target no matter how well armed the single guy is.
FFS kids it took YEARS to get rid of Nixon after the shit hit the fan.
He didn't think he was but like a stopped clock he managed to get it sort of right.
Hillary won the popular vote, but the system is "rigged" so that places other than New York and Los Angeles have a say.
The problem wasn't the electoral system but that so few people bothered to do their duty as citizens and vote. Would it have changed the result? Who knows? With enough people taking part there would be room for a third party.
But compared to Royalty in the middle east he's par for the course.
You stupid fuckers didn't even turn out to vote and ended up with a King.
What's worse, apart from giving his little Princes government jobs it's still the same inbred Washington swamp from his chief of staff down.
There was evidence that it was a group effort so that "individuals" bit doesn't fit, but that still doesn't mean they worked for Putin even if that's the most likely case. It could have been a bunch of civilian criminals instead of military ones.
Not really. It only takes a download to fix just like with MS Windows. People are used to that on all platforms so I don't think mp3 made a difference one way or the other.
And he will not listen.
Thiel is the good news here - that bad news:
He wants to be a fucking King with his Princes running things just like in Saudi Arabia.
It's not a new world, it's the old one that George Washington fought against.
Enjoy your new King Trump voters. Maybe he will throw you some crumbs but don't expect him to keep his word, he hasn't done it in the past so why start now?
Wow - with a teacher missing the point so far doing well would be tricky and I admire you calling them out that way.
The bit about drunks following string all the way home from the pub should have been enough to show the teacher that it was all about how the dream of a truly perfect society is shown as joke. I first read it one day when I had been planning to do silly things with ropes down waterfalls but the risk of being burnt to death getting to the waterfalls that day was a bit too high. It was the only book available and more entertaining than I expected.
From what I've heard the I.E.D's in use today are not in those books. They may be very simple but it's a relatively new way of making them.
Go ask a vet if you don't already know how they are made. Scarily simple and they punch through vehicles like butter.
Since you guys just voted in Trump I thought you loved the idea of having a King telling you what to do again.
I read a bit of it after I'd done around four chemistry subjects and the some of the errors were so stupid that they looked deliberate - "never do this" stuff instead of just plain ignorance.
It's the proverbial straw on a camel's back and one of many examples making up that huge pattern.
All I'm really saying is watch what they do before listening to what they say. The politics claimed by the person doesn't really matter so much in these cases, it's what they actually do (eg. extra draconian rules instead of "freedom").
A bit of an aside, but personally I think the people who push for some sort of Utopia should read the original book of that name. It's a satire. The bit about never needing lawyers is a major clue, especially since it was written by a lawyer.
A Utopia need perfect people. The Salem witch trials demonstrates what happens when a little Utopia finds a few people who are not perfect in their midst. One person's Utopia is another's nightmare, so it's hell for anyone who isn't perfect, such as every child ever born while they are still growing up.
I'm not suggesting it's the case with Thiel but it's also often the case that wealthy people pushing for a system with no oversight really just want to make sure that nobody is in the way when they are trying to scam a rube. Those are the fake "libertarians" to watch for, the ones that just want to pollute downstream and raise their middle finger at the poor people downstream that cannot afford to stop them. Their idea of "liberty" doesn't stop at your face, it involves punching anyone who is not strong enough to fight back while making it illegal for other to gang up on someone strong.
OK - so I didn't get to the end of the cartoon before replying and the two examples I gave fit the end of that.
My point is still that the very lazy policing of entrapment is still being practiced at times and that line between getting the attention of criminals and enticing people into performing criminal acts that they may not have otherwise done is crossed on occasion.
I'd prefer them to put some more effort into actually catching child rapists, which seems to be getting ignored to chase after those who look at porn instead.
Facts? Cases get thrown out due to obvious entrapment every now and again. It's not always like your cartoons.
It's off the top of my head so don't use the excuse that it is an old case, but one of the most utterly ridiculous ones was from the Clinton era that ended up being described in a book as "Saddams Nuclear Triggers". It took months for FBI agents to convince a British industrial parts supplier to buy an item from one FBI agent and sell the same thing to another and claim that the supplier was supporting a nuclear bomb program that didn't exist in Iraq. The amoral pricks who set it up just wanted a high profile case so they could get promoted so they manufactured a fake crime and spent about a year going shopping for a patsy to frame for it, then months "grooming" their patsy before he agreed. It took years but in the end all charges were thrown out. It is well established as a FACT that real entrapment, unlike your comic, was the situation there and that there would have been no crime or attempt at one without the involvement of the agents.
More recently a mentally ill person with no strong political or religious views was encouraged to get a bomb by FBI agents, once again with a very long "grooming" process, then provided with a bomb by FBI agents. That one is still going through the legal process so there may be more to it.
It does happen and merely manufactures convictions instead of stopping crime.
In those cases back then - yes - frequently that's all it was and today we'd even call some of those people libertarians and a wide range of other labels depending on who they were. Even the Hollywood millionaire Charlie Chaplin was called a communist while he and a pile of others called communists by McCarthy etc were nothing but anti-fascists. Where the scare fell apart was when General Marshall of the Marshall Plan (and a lot of other things) was called a communist.
If he really did, considering he did not reveal them to the authorities what does it make him? That is of course a moot point since he was just a liar stirring up a fuss to have a chance at the Presidency in a field of war heroes and others that had done something of note with their lives.
Yes there were real communists out there in a pile of different factions, even some sad cases who were as deluded about Stalin as FDR was at Yalta (Good old Uncle Joe? WTF?), but why would a handful of them in 1950 be a threat when masses of them in 1930 were not? McCarthy despite all his fuss didn't even find one!
Disgusted but not surprised - how about they put in the hard work of solving crimes instead of the quick way to promotion of enabling crimes and catching the people they have tempted?
The primary target should be catching the people molesting the kids in the first place, but instead those get left alone as being too difficult.