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On March 07 2017 07:37 LegalLord wrote:
I'll give the following example for how I interpret left-wing bias against right-wing folk: political correctness.

I think I've established that I give few fucks about PC. One example more unique to me could be my use of "the Ukraine" to mock a genuinely stupid nationalistic idiocy. I think the same can be said for most of the more mainstream PC complaints.

But damn. The way conservatives turn PC into a deep, systemic issue that is destroying America because no one can talk about anything and the media is killing discourse... well sorry, but I'm simply not on board. It's not nearly that bad.

And same goes for right-wing accusations of biased, unfair media. I see it's true but the issue is overblown for political convenience.

On March 07 2017 07:34 GreenHorizons wrote:

No, we don't have to take the word of a Democratic party PR guy. That's a choice you're making because it fits your interpretation. Cheating isn't fair, even if they get someone desperate to work for them to say that it was (with no evidence of his claim).

On March 07 2017 04:16 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Apparently, Khizr Khan is having his travel privileges "reviewed". We hear about these things every day now, but it's particularly interesting because of his anti-Trump speech during the DNC.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/khizr-khan-forced-to-cancel-toronto-trip-after-being-told-his-travel-privileges-are-being-reviewed/

On March 07 2017 07:45 Ghostcom wrote:


If this is the best criticism people can come up with I think it is time to step back from making public statements. This is so dumb that I'm frankly baffled that you even link it.

EDIT: The synopsis by Kyle Griffin that is. The interview is fine.

On March 07 2017 07:49 kwizach wrote:

But we do have to take into account what the chief strategist of the Sanders campaign said, because he's the one with knowledge of his own e-mails and of how Brazile treated the Sanders campaign -- not you, since you know absolutely nothing about what went on inside the campaign. We could also listen to the press secretary of the Sanders campaign, who defended her as "even handed". You are the one who's trying to ignore evidence that doesn't fit the narrative you're trying to push -- the Sanders campaign clearly described Brazile as "fair", no matter how much you're trying to ignore it.

Anyway, since all of your accusations (including this one) have repeatedly been addressed in the thread, I'll wait until you present one actual piece of evidence indicating the DNC actively undermined the Sanders campaign. Until then, you're not fooling anyone.

On March 07 2017 07:45 Ghostcom wrote:


If this is the best criticism people can come up with I think it is time to step back from making public statements. This is so dumb that I'm frankly baffled that you even link it.

EDIT: The synopsis by Kyle Griffin that is. The interview is fine.

On March 07 2017 07:32 Ayaz2810 wrote:



I'm slightly worried that this could devolve into violence rather than just drama. Some of the comments I've been reading over at Breitbart make me wonder if that could be a possibility. There are a number of crazy people out there who will be with Trump no matter what happens.

On March 07 2017 08:01 GreenHorizons wrote:


You and Democrats like you can dwell on your "rightness" all the way into political obscurity. Just be aware that you all could have resolved this instead of losing to the least liked candidate in history.

Arctic sea ice could vanish in summers this century even if governments achieve a core target for limiting global warming set by almost 200 countries, scientists have said.

The ice has been shrinking steadily in recent decades, damaging the livelihoods of indigenous people and wildlife, such as polar bears, while opening the region to more shipping and oil and gas exploration.

Under the 2015 Paris agreement, governments set a goal of limiting the rise in average world temperatures to well below 2C (35.6F) above pre-industrial times, with an aspiration of just 1.5C.

“The 2C target may be insufficient to prevent an ice-free Arctic,” James Screen and Daniel Williamson of Exeter University wrote in the Nature Climate Change journal after a review of ice projections.

A 2C rise would still mean a 39% risk that ice would disappear in the Arctic Ocean in summers, they said. Ice was virtually certain to survive, however, with just 1.5C of warming.

They estimated a 73% probability that the ice would disappear in summers unless governments made deeper cuts in emissions. The scientists estimated temperatures would rise 3C on current trends.

This month the extent of Arctic sea ice is rivalling 2016 and 2015 as the smallest for the time of year since satellite records began in the late 1970s. The ice reaches a winter maximum in March and a summer minimum in September.

“In less than 40 years, we have almost halved the summer sea ice cover,” said Tor Eldevik a professor at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research at the University of Bergen in Norway, who was not involved in the study.

He predicted sea ice would vanish in the Arctic Ocean in about 40 years on current trends.

Scientists define an ice-free Arctic Ocean as one with less than 386,000 sq miles (1m sq km) of ice because they say some will linger in bays, such as off northern Greenland, even after the ocean is ice-free.

Donald Trump said during the 2016 presidential election campaign that he would cancel the Paris agreement and instead promote the domestic fossil-fuel industry. He has since said he has an “open mind” on the subject.

On March 07 2017 08:01 GreenHorizons wrote:


You and Democrats like you can dwell on your "rightness" all the way into political obscurity. Just be aware that you all could have resolved this instead of losing to the least liked candidate in history.

On March 07 2017 08:29 Shield wrote:


To be the least liked candidate means to have less votes than any candidate. Clinton has more votes than Trump. By definition, she cannot be the least liked candidate. She's not perfect either. Anything else is just talk.

On March 07 2017 08:13 xDaunt wrote:
The GOP has finally released a draft of Obamacare Lite.

On March 07 2017 08:40 On_Slaught wrote:


As someone who works in the healthcare industry and who will be going to law school next year it looks like I will have a lot of reading to do tomorrow.

Do we have any idea of what the actual odds of this thing being passed are as is? We know that some Republicans are already against it and see it as creating another entitlement program.

On March 07 2017 08:40 On_Slaught wrote:


As someone who works in the healthcare industry and who will be going to law school next year it looks like I will have a lot of reading to do tomorrow.

Do we have any idea of what the actual odds of this thing being passed are as is? We know that some Republicans are already against it and see it as creating another entitlement program.

On March 07 2017 08:22 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Say goodbye to all the coastal cities and say hello to perhaps a Billion refugees.



Source

On March 07 2017 08:43 xDaunt wrote:


Eww, don't do it!

On March 07 2017 08:40 On_Slaught wrote:


As someone who works in the healthcare industry and who will be going to law school next year it looks like I will have a lot of reading to do tomorrow.

Do we have any idea of what the actual odds of this thing being passed are as is? We know that some Republicans are already against it and see it as creating another entitlement program.

On March 07 2017 07:32 Ayaz2810 wrote:



I'm slightly worried that this could devolve into violence rather than just drama. Some of the comments I've been reading over at Breitbart make me wonder if that could be a possibility. There are a number of crazy people out there who will be with Trump no matter what happens.