US Politics Mega-thread - Page 2149

On August 04 2015 00:30 ticklishmusic wrote:


It's a very pretty "kill 2 birds with 1 stone" scenario, but what on earth is going to make Iran do x in exchange for y? Like, do we straight up say "hey, if we knock out this laundry list of organizations destabilizing the mideast, we'll give you a usb with plans for a nuclear bomb?

A wildfire raging through the foothills and canyons of Northern California's coastal mountains roared into its sixth day on Monday, leaving at least two dozen homes in ruins and displacing thousands of residents after the fire more that doubled in size on Sunday.

The blaze, which has scorched about 93 square miles east of Lower Lake, a town about 110 miles north of San Francisco, was the fiercest of 20 large fires being battled by 9,000 firefighters across the state, officials said.

Capt. Don Camp of California's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said containment of the fire in the Lower Lake area was at 12 percent Monday morning after being stuck at 5 percent for days.

"This is a very fast-moving wildfire," said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention, or Cal Fire, on Sunday.

A separate blaze that killed a U.S. forest ranger on Thursday near the Oregon border has also expanded, but remains a fraction of the size of the Rocky fire, which erupted in Lake County on Wednesday and has proved the most destructive.

Cal Fire officials “are calling the behavior of this fire unprecedented,” Jason Shanley, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, told the Sacramento Bee. “It is jaw-dropping to see some of the things it is doing" in wind that is causing flames “to go in all different directions.”

Some 20,000 acres of scrub oak and brush ravaged by the Rocky fire over a five-hour period on Saturday night represented "unprecedented growth in that short amount of time," Berlant said. By Sunday evening, the blaze had blackened another 7,000 acres along the rugged eastern flanks of California's Northern Coast Ranges, officials said.

But in a small sign of optimism on Monday morning, firefighters were aided by lower temperatures and higher humidity, which allowed for the slight increase in the fire's containment.

On August 03 2015 23:32 always_winter wrote:


It's actually responses like this which make intellectual discussion on a gaming forum a fool's errand. Khomeini has distributed a 416-page manifesto outlining his political ideology; the Iranian equivalent of the Monroe Doctrine or Roosevelt Corollary. There's nothing empty about that rhetoric. Read the damn thing instead of regurgitating idealism from an administration you admire.

Guess what? I admire it, too. I think Obama is one of the most intelligent presidents in recent memory. The Iran Deal is a gross intellectual misstep riddled with misplaced idealism.

Oh, and I want Bernie to win, too. He won't. Such blind idealism has no place in this world, my friend. Time to wake up.

“He might have the reputation of being the people’s candidate, but when your candidacy is effectively bankrolled by the multi-hundred-dollar donation of a fourth-grade teacher, it’s clear who’s really pulling the strings,” said political analyst Peter Mathews, who noted that when a check arrives with a handwritten note that says “Behind you 100 percent, Bernie!” it comes with certain expectations.

On August 04 2015 05:10 always_winter wrote:


Weirdly outta place is sorta my thing.

#feelthebern Bernie '16

Edit:

For the record the one-liner was on point. Bomb Iran easily best Beach Boys remix. Shit's fire. Wouldn't expect anything less from Bernie, Jr. himself. Stay classy.

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On August 04 2015 04:48 GreenHorizons wrote:


lol.

You still never provided a viable alternative. Which only further proved my point. The slights and insults seemed weirdly out of place.


Clutz at least came up with something, although, it's the only idea I've heard of that would have even less support in congress and would spark even wilder accusations than the Huckabee "Jews to the furnace" crap.

The deal ain't perfect but it's critics still don't have a better alternative.

On August 04 2015 05:42 GreenHorizons wrote:


That is totally nonsensical.

Think I'm just going to avoid engaging with you. A weird part of me feels like you're Jonny trying a new trolling technique.

On August 04 2015 07:24 Danglars wrote:
Humor doesn't cross all political divides.

Dems trying really hard to throw the election.

On August 04 2015 09:40 GreenHorizons wrote:


lol yeah, the Dems are the one's throwing it.

Presumably you've seen the heads up between the Rep. leading candidate where Hillary wallops him and Bernie beat's him by 20%

On August 04 2015 10:19 whatisthisasheep wrote:

Dems are blowing their load to soon. They are climaxing during foreplay while being unable to penetrate the silent majority's orifice. Hillary peaked 2 months ago and is now in her refractory period, Trump has steadily became more erect over the last 2 months and continues to throb.

Law enforcement officials from the Washington area and across the country said Monday that there has been a recent increase in shootings in several major cities but that they haven’t pinpointed what’s causing the spike in violence.

Officials from several cities, including the District, St. Louis, Chicago and Baltimore, met at the Newseum in the District to discuss the trend and possible solutions to the violence. They were joined by criminology professors, attorneys and others.

“We had this meeting as an urgent summit because we felt a sense of urgency because people are dying,” D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said at a news conference after the summit. “We have not seen what we’re seeing right now in decades.” ...

On August 04 2015 07:12 GreenHorizons wrote:
Is this real life?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaZGaJrd3x8