Oh my god that hijab Barbie makes me so mad. The Barbie that was just released that has a hijab is based on Ibtihaj Muhammad, who represented the US in the Rio Olympics as a fencer and won bronze. Real nice Garrison.

An article about the doll, if anyone is interested: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/14/564122224/barbie-heads-into-new-ground-with-hijab-sporting-doll

OK, for anyone who missed what grandma is referencing, Mattel is making a barbie doll to honor fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, the first US woman to compete at the Olympics wearing a hijab. She won a bronze medal at Rio. She loved barbies growing up and used to sew little hijabs for her dolls.

But grandma can't have that because something something SHAKIRA LAW!!!!111!!

I've seen this before.

5 years ago in rural Kentucky, a 5-year old accidentally shot and killed his 2-year old sister with his "My First Rifle" .22. And then their grandma said that "It was God's will. It was her time to go, I guess. I just know she's in heaven right now and I know she's in good hands with the Lord."

It was basically Tinder for fundies.

You got a notification every time a woman somewhere in the country entered an abortion clinic, and then you swiped right to pray for them. 1 swipe = 1 prayer. I assume Apple took it down because it's a weird invasion of privacy rather than mere political disagreement.

Also, it's still on the Google Play store, despite Google apparently being part of the librul censorship conspiracy.

Judging from their protests at what are being taught in schools (that Islam exists for example), it does really seem that they think that if a subject is being taught in school then it means that the pupils instantly become mindless slaves of that subject.

Looking at the article Ben drew this for (it was a paid commission), apparently it's because Amazon took down negative reviews for "What Happened."

However, there's a much simpler reason for this: The reviews weren't actual reviews. Book reviews are supposed to be about, you know...the book. What Amazon removed was a bunch of BENGHAZI EMAILS SHOE rants from people who hadn't bought the book and had nothing to say about its quality (except perhaps that it's bad because Hillary wrote it and everything Hillary has ever done in her life, without exception, is evil).

Also, I wonder how Ben Garrison would feel if he knew the dirty liberal censors at Amazon self-published a book by...what was that author's name again, oh, right: Ben Garrison.

From Amazon book's listing:

>This is the story of an Arizona Tribal police officer who stumbles onto one of the of the biggest cases in the history of the Southwest. He is a member of an elite group within the Native American communities known as The Shadow Wolves. What comes with his discovery is the uncovering of massive corruption in places where he once had placed his total trust.

>Shadow Wolves is a book of fiction based on reality. Both author’s have worked with, confronted, and seen the power of the Deep State and the manner in which many federal government agencies willfully violate the Constitution and the laws of the land in service to special interests.

>The 2016 election has for the first time made many American citizens aware that the Deep State is very real; that the mainstream media is a fake news media offering a false narrative designed by the secret intelligence world in service to special interests.

>The fight for America’s soul is taking place far from Washington, D.C. This is a story of one small group of patriots fighting the good fight.

What a world we live in.

Fun fact: the national average gas price in July 2008 was hovering near $4.12, which is higher than it's ever been since Obama took office. Of course, it was ridiculously cheaper 10 years ago, but it's not like it's risen to its most dramatic point in history ever since Obama took office. source

Even a magnitude 8 mega-colossal eruption (like the Yellowstone Caldera exploding) would not stop global warming:

The level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would not be affected by the volcanic eruption, and warming would resume where it left off once the stratospheric dust settled out in a decade.

1. Einstein never said that shit. The earliest known instance of it is from 1981.

2. Even if Einstein did say that, he wasn't a psychologist making his opinion on the matter fairly meaningless.

3. The real definition of insanity is mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct her/his affairs due to psychosis, or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior.

To be fair, hitler was only 56 when he committed suicided, meanwhile trump is 69. I am not sure when the photo of hitler was taken or how old he was but he conceivably was younger than that. Not a good comparison.

Though I think hitler at his oldest was far better looking than trump even in 1988.

Edit: Seems that photo was taken in 1933. http://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler/images-videos/Adolf-Hitler-1933/126694

So Hitler at the time was 44 years old.

According to this it would get you a little less than 150 miles but that's not including the cost of leveling land which in my opinion would be the majority of the cost. I doubt 1.6 billion would be enough for even 50 miles in real life, and that's assuming we aren't talking about the part of the border that's on a mountain range.

Not too mention a wall does fuck all.

>Caramel color level IV

Response

>The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment used 29 micrograms as the cut off point because that’s the level they determined poses a one in 100,000 risk of cancer—that is, no more than one excess cancer case per 100,000 people who are exposed to that amount daily for a lifetime. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/01/caramel-color-the-health-risk-that-may-be-in-your-soda/index.htm

>No Pumpkin ingredients

Your point being what?

>Made with monsanto milk

Yep, because blaming GMOs is an easy way to get people on your side.

>Toxic dose of sugar

50grams is a lot of sugar. But you would have to consume that every day for the risk to increase http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/28/sugar-consumption.aspx

>Artificial flavors made from substances like petroleum

This is sort of true.

>Natural flavors that can be made from anything found on earth.

What...

>Pesticide Residue

This might be a problem. If the beans were never processed properly.

Not quite. The pledge was on denuclearisation and ending the war in the future, from what I can tell: >The leaders of North and South Korea have committed themselves to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and pledged to bring a formal end to the Korean War, 65 years after hostilities ceased.

>In a remarkable day-long summit that weighed heavy with symbolism, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong Un embraced, planted a tree and talked alone for more than 30 minutes.

>Then they signed the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification on the Korean Peninsula, which commits the two countries to denuclearization and talks to bring a formal end to conflict. It was a startling conclusion to the first meeting between leaders of the two countries in 10 years.

...

>The pledge to end the Korean war faces major hurdles -- any final peace deal must also involve China and the US, both of whom were participants in the original conflict that began in 1950 when the North Korean People's Army invaded the South. Although an armistice was signed in 1953, no formal peace treaty was ever concluded, and technically, the peninsula remains at war.

Source

Not that the declaration isn't significant, of course.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/propaganda

>information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

Propaganda doesn't have to come from the government. Propaganda doesn't even need to be political at all. Every single commercial you see on TV is propaganda. If it's promoting a particular viewpoint, it's propaganda.

I recognize that username... have you heard of The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer? I think you'd like it. He made the book and two postscripts available for free through the University of Manitoba website. It's a must read for anyone who scrolls through /r/forwardsfromgrandma and wonders what the hell is going on in conservative grandma's head. So basically, it backs up what you're saying, but in book form.

And unrelated to the OP, but possibly of interest to you- Altemeyer mentions at one point in the book (page 63) that homophobia and authoritarianism go together. And with all the people running around claiming that Republicans must secretly be self-loathing gay men? (Because let's blame LGBT people for all our own problems, amiright?) It's worth reading the original study that sparked that stereotype.

Setting aside the small sample size, if you look at what's really in it, 1) they took homophobia to mean literally terrified of gay and bi men. 2) The homophobic group of men was just as attracted to women as the control group of straight men. They were just also attracted to men. But because science journalists at the time believed bisexual men don't real, the stereotype has become homophobes = gay. When in reality, they're (using the current definition of homophobic, not the one in the study) most likely just authoritarian assholes with a small chance of being a bi or gay guy who's so far closeted to himself that he's in Narnia.

So for anyone else reading and wondering, that's why things like blind patriotism, sexism and homophobia often go together. The common thread is authoritarianism, which can often go together with religion, but not always.

#AuthoritarianismFunFacts

I like how Ben "The Terror of Tel Aviv" Garrison claims to "skewer both Republicans and Democrats", and yet pretty fucking clearly prefers Republicans.

Shit like this has managed to ruin the actually valid criticism of the two-party system for me. Every time someone says "Both parties are bad," regardless of reasoning, I immediately just assume they're a Republican in denial.

I had just the image sent to me but was somewhat dismayed to find out that it's real. The reviewers on Amazon UK seemed to like it more than the American users.

From the Amazon UK reviews:

Five Stars:

> Makes life easier . Thankyou

Four stars:

> Bit of fun

Five stars:

> Super product and a great price, it's doing the job!

I guess parents who don't have enough empathy to think that their kids deserve some semblance of privacy.

The app's Google Play page for the quote:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redcurb.Online4Life

And source on the controversy from the app getting taken down (couldn't find a source covering it that wasn't right-wing trash):

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/apple-censored-pro-life-group-by-dropping-app-activists-say

edit: It sure sounds like they're tracking women, but I really don't intend to download it to find out.

>the person is also in a state of mind that mutilating their genitals makes good sense.

No, the person is suffering from a condition where the gender of the Brain does not match the gender of the Body... this is not a state of mind, this is a physical mismatch.

The only viable treatment is GRS... in all it's various forms and degrees.

>And trans people aren't hated and vilified

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/vilify

You just posted something that matched the fucking definition of Vilify to a fucking "T"... well done, you just vilified Trans people.

the best part is according to recent data

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/45-of-americans-pay-no-federal-income-tax-2016-02-24

45% of Americans don't pay taxes. So unless you make over 55k, you get all of it back. Yet conservatives are convinced a portion of their Wal-Mart paycheck gets direct deposited into an illegal alien's food stamp account.

I believe you're talking about a "dilation and extraction" which has been given the politically motivated name of "partial-birth abortion." There's a lot of misinformation about this and it's not the "I have a perfectly healthy baby but I don't want it so let's kill it before it's all the way out," that it's been portrayed as.

Here's an older NPR article about it. Wiki

Immigrants pay into social security etc. but aren't eligible for benefits. They're the ones working to pay for citizens' welfare. '

Edit 1: See this meta-study by the conservative Cato Institute: https://tinyurl.com/ychsxndm

It will walk you through the explanation of how immigrants have a positive impact on the economy, and reduce the federal deficit by paying far more in taxes than they use in benefits. Note, however, that immigrants have a negative impact on the budgets of many states and localities. Even so, they still have a positive effect, reducing the deficit, when you combine all local, state, and federal budgets.

Edit 2 Then there's the cost of immigrant detention to consider. See this study by the GAO (link to full article is at the bottom of the page): https://tinyurl.com/ybryb5hb

Instead of permitting immigrants to contribute positively to the economy, the tax payer has to foot the enormous bill of actively preventing them from doing so - over $45,000 per year per immigrant.

Which is to say, the tax payer is stuck footing the enormous bill of fulfilling the sadistic desires of millions of Americans - to make folks born elsewhere as miserable as possible, out of apparent hatred for total strangers. You're the welfare bum. We're paying for you to get off on the pain of others.

It's called Daily Art on the Play Store. You get daily notifications of famous art pieces with the history, artist info, and a synopsis of the piece. It's free, so it's more than worth it!

yeah, but that's a chart for debt, not deficit. though grandma's chart neglects to reflect how even the deficit was reigned in under obama after the peak of the recession. grandma's "average" isn't useful, just takes credit away from fixing an abrupt disaster relatively quickly. this is sort of a throwback to when republicans were blaming obama for the economy and the iraq/afghanistan wars the day of his inauguration.

there are so many things wrong with this I don't even know where to start, but I think it's important to point out, at the very least, that "organized society" (whatever that means, but imprecise language is a good way of identifying an idiot) not only predated european arrival in the new world broadly but was also only possible, especially in the south, because of large-scale economic exploitation.

all those white dudes you venerate were motivated to engage in revolutionary activity in the late 1700s were motivated by economic self interest, not liberatory high-mindedness, and that self-interested was predicated on the maintenance of a system that made them a ton of money via - you guessed it - slave labor.

its incredible to see people attempt to detach the slave owning southern land barons who founded the united states from the socioeconomic system they represented and actively attempted to sustain

if you're interested in the actual history of the united states and the changes its economic system underwent in the colonial era, you should engage with academic literature instead of reddit

https://www.amazon.com/Forced-Founders-Revolution-Published-University/dp/0807847844

this is a good place to start

not only that, but even a magnitude 8 mega-colossal eruption (like the Yellowstone Caldera) would stop global warming:

The level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would not be affected by the volcanic eruption, and warming would resume where it left off once the stratospheric dust settled out in a decade.

It really depends on the specific year, from what I can tell.

From this link:

In World War II, desertion rates reached 6.3 percent of the armed forces in 1944, and during the American reverses at the Battle of the Bulge, the army executed one American soldier, Private Ernie Slovik, for desertion in the face of the enemy as an example to other troops. Desertion rates dropped to 4.5 percent in 1945. During the Korean War, the use of short‐term service and the rotation system helped keep desertion rates down to 1.4 percent of the armed forces in fiscal year (FY) 1951 and to 2.2 percent or 31,041 in FY 1953.

The divisive Vietnam War generated the highest percentage of wartime desertion since the Civil War. From 13,177 cases—or 1.6 percent of the armed forces—in FY 1965, the annual desertion statistics mounted to 2.9 percent in FY 1968, 4.2 percent in FY 1969, 5.2 percent in FY 1970, and 7.4 percent (79,027 incidents of desertion) in FY 1971. Like the draft resisters from this same war, many deserters sought sanctuary in Canada, Mexico, or Sweden. In 1974, the Defense Department reported that between 1 July 1966 and 31 December 1973, there had been 503,926 incidents of desertion in all services during the Vietnam War.

Pretty much does. At least the stereotype which is well earned. Conservatives are notorious for not caring about others until it affects them personally such as Nancy Reagan being against gay rights until her daughter came out as gay and a million other examples.

Sorbo just said the core of your philosophy which is selfishness.

Liberals tend to want people to have the opportunity to have a fair shot at success, conservatives want everyone pitted against each other without any unity.

He's also completely wrong:

"According to the USGS, with 50 - 60 volcanoes active on the Earth at any one time, it would take about 11,700 extra volcanoes like Hawaii's Kilauea to scale up volcanic emissions of CO2 to match what humans do"

https://www.wunderground.com/climate/volcanoes.asp?MR=1

You can buy one on Amazon by the way, if you feel like being a spy.

Don't know how you'd hide one in a bathroom stall though, since they need a power cable and video cable that leads to a DVR to work. It's just a camera sensor, it can't record.

Both are words, recognized by every authoritative dictionary of the English language.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/ironical

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

Notwithstanding that, Ted Nugent is still an idiot.

Here’s a recent one

Another one

These are just 2 of many examples.

Here's a wayback link to not give these guys any hits or ad revenue.

I hope I did it right, anyway. If I didn't can someone please let me know and I'll delete the comment? Thanks.

The KKK was founded in 1865 and according to this that was the same time that the Deomcratic party moved away from conservative to more liberal views. So if they were founded by Democrats, they were founded by the last remaining conservative ones. The party behind them doesn't even really matter, it's the delusional hyper-conservative views that make them bad.

If we're going to play the "roots game", the suffix trans means "across" or "changing thoroughly", and phobia means "irrational fear of". According to your "words are math" approach to definitions (rather than an actual dictionary definition), "transphobia" means "irrational fear of change", not "fear of transsexuals". Unsurprisingly, any of these definitions seem like something you might have.

If anything Reagan is one of the most deserving people on here, his AIDS response resulted in the death of a lot more than 50 people.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/reagan-administration-response-to-aids-crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/11/nancy-ronald-reagan-aids-crisis-first-lady-legacy

Domald Tromp Pounded In The Butt By The Handsome Russian T-Rex Who Also Peed On His Butt And Then Blackmailed Him With The Videos Of His Butt Getting Peed On

I'd hedge some bets and say your grandma's email might have been hacked. I've seen some similar behavior from hacked accounts in the past.

Tell her to change her password, maybe go over there and help her with a virus scan or something, check HaveIBeenPwned for her email and such. The works.

I knew I'd read about how Reagan popularized the idea of "welfare queens", and when I was looking to see if what I read was credible, I found this article: The Truth Behind The Lies Of The Original 'Welfare Queen' from NPR.

I guess Slate reporter Josh Levin did a ton of research on the woman that sparked the "welfare queen" trope ("The Welfare Queen"), Linda Taylor.

From the first source (which quotes the second):

> "What's clear, though, is that Linda Taylor's larger-than-life example created an indelible, inaccurate impression of public aid recipients," Levin writes. "Linda Taylor showed that it was possible for a dedicated criminal to steal a healthy chunk of welfare money. Her case did not prove that, as a group, public aid recipients were fur-laden thieves bleeding the American economy dry."

Here ya go

Using Reddit Enhancement Suite.

Once you've installed it, you can click a small tag icon next to a users name, and it gives you the option to tag them. It's essentially a customised flair only you can see for them.

It also tracks vote weights for users. So I've upvoted you, it shows your vote weight as (+1), and if I were to downvote another comment by you, it would go back to (0).

When you tag someone, it saves the URL of the comment you tagged them from, and you can use that for context to remember why you've tagged someone.

I tend to use it for people in subs like /r/ukpolitics, and /r/worldnews, to let me know who not to bother replying to, if I've had experiences of them spouting shite in the past.

I saw a study a few years ago that linked the show 16 and pregnant to increased searches for birth control. NPR has a piece about the effect the show had on lowering teen birth rates.

This meme is better known under the name why you shouldn't make a meme based on short-term volatility (6 month chart). The market has largely recovered from the massive crash that happened in august although it might not be for another month until it fully recovers. Regardless it was caused by crashing stocks and faulty data in CHINA, not by any action done by Obama.

That's one meaning of primitive, but it's not the only one by far. The use of "primitive" to mean "of an earlier stage of development" (and by connotation, less developed), or "uncivilized", is pretty standard.

Can you explain your concept of razor-thin margins in fast food, because here are McDonalds' financial sheets for the last 5 years. 10.9 billion of income in 2013! Razor-thin though.

Walmart employs 1.4 million people, not 2 million (per Google). Not all of them earn less than $15/hr, so you wouldn't have to give them all the raise.

Walmart earned about $120 billion dollars in 2014, not $16 billion.

The average work week at Walmart is 34 hours (Google again),not 40. That way, they don't have to provide full-time benefits.

Even if you assume that all employees are getting the raise, that's an additional $14.7 billion. That still puts them at well over the $100 billion profit line.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=computer

>computer (n.) Look up computer at Dictionary.com 1640s, "one who calculates," agent noun from compute (v.). Meaning "calculating machine" (of any type) is from 1897; in modern use, "programmable digital electronic computer" (1945 under this name; theoretical from 1937, as Turing machine). ENIAC (1946) usually is considered the first. Computer literacy is recorded from 1970; an attempt to establish computerate (adjective, on model of literate) in this sense in the early 1980s didn't catch on. Computerese "the jargon of programmers" is from 1960, as are computerize and computerization.

Im guessing that you've never been put in that position yourself. But if you were, my bet is that you'd do what the majority of humans do, and have always done. You gather up your family and you RUN. You may think you are noble, valiant and the kind of person to 'do the right thing' - but what you think you'd do is the exact opposite of what most people do in the actual circumstances. It's not cowardly, it's not weak. It's what people do to survive.

Good article explaining why the people who stay and fight are usually the ones with nothing left to live for:

https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-the-refugees-stay-to-fight-for-their-country

Well if you think that fetus are human, and you assume an average of about 324,000 per year it starts to sound like genocide, Reddit in general has a problem where people assume anyone who disagrees has malicious intent. It’s possible to disagree and not assume the other person is evil.

I thought the word "naked" was "maked" until I was like 13 and read the word in this book. Got all excited that I found a misspelling... until I kept reading it. Felt pretty dumb.

What in the world are you rambling about? Who told you such nonsense, and why are you parroting it?

>By definition mental illness makes it so you cannot live a normal life.

By whose definition? What is a "normal life?"

"Mental Illness" is defined as "a wide range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior." All of them certainly affect one's life in one way or another, but many (most?) are quite minor and can be controlled or lived with in various ways.

This kind of nonsense you're spewing only further stigmatizes those with mental health troubles. That would be most of the world, by the way, but people don't like to admit it because of the neverending stream of negativity towards the mentally ill like your comment.

Capitalism is not equivalent to free markets, not by a lot.

And judging by the crap you spew I am pretty convinced you are a ridiculously uneducated Trump troll who thinks he can fake a political philosophy he has absolutely no concept of.

Liberalism is rejection of tradition and authoritarianism and political belief in liberty.

See basically any reputable source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberal

Attributed by Jim Marrs in the William Lewis film One Nation Under Siege (2008); no published occurrence of this has been located prior to The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy : How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America (2010) by Jim Marrs

I'm sorry... I'm trying to remember, but the Cold War is my thing :/ I know that some of it was just the style of the day (white people in paintings because... well, it's Europe). But I know that there was a lot of symbolism in classic paintings. I'll see if I can find you a guide.

Okay, this may give you a decent overview though it's Wikipedia. This might also get you started. We're way out of my depth on art, though.

White can often represent purity, but I'm thinking that would have more to do with the appearance of the patrons who paid for the art.

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(And, for the record, hospital bills are the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the US)

I think that's right.

Checking on google ngram for "an hereditary" v. "a hereditary" shows that "a hereditary " passed "an" in the 1930s but both are still used. Might be a US v UK thing?

what I find extremely ironic is the fact that I got banned from the person who posted this's instagram account when I called them out for making a post that stated that all liberals should kill themselves

He called LaFollette "A skunk who ought to be hanged" source

I can't find a source for the quote about Debs but he was very much against any sort of dissent against the war. The recent praise for him really disgusts me, he was a fanatical supporter for the war.

FUN FACT:

Before his infamous art, David Dees used to illustrate Childrens Home Video Covers and Books:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140701230036/http://www.deesillustration.com/artwork.asp?item=233&cat=kids

oh snap do we have a constitutional brawl on our hands? If only there was a game that taught us about things from the perspective of the constitutionally conservative..oh wait there "is"

If you're using a rom like Cyanogenmod that supports the Xposed framework, the GravityBox module has a slightly more compact network speed indicator.

Everybody's correct. It's kind of regional, too. In Arizona, I always heard and saw sherbert, but here in Michigan it's sherbet. I tried looking for a pronunciation map, but no joy. I'm curious how it's distributed, though; I'm guessing it's similar to the soda/pop distribution. Whatever you call it, it's supposed to be non-dairy, different from sorbet, and yummy.

I think there are several issues at play here.

1. Georgia uses the federal auction house, which is healthcare.gov. Anything else is not official. $600 / month is what a 67 year old man would pay for a plan that covers 60% of total expenses (Bronze level) with a yearly cap on how much you pay total. I'm gonna guess you're fairly young and in decent health (otherwise you would have had difficulty even getting a healthcare plan before), so a $600/month plan should not be happening for you.

2. The Marketplace does care about your expenses. Assuming you keep track of your receipts, all business expenses can be deducted from your income. Your adjusted gross income (mainly your total income minus your expenses and other things that the IRS won't count as "real" income) is what is used for calculating financial assistance. From what it sounds like, your business is losing money, so your AGI should be very low, and you should qualify for a subsidized individual account.

I highly recommend you contact the support line at the marketplace at

https://www.healthcare.gov/contact-us/

To be fair, while there are numerous exemptions as you mentioned, it's not that easy to get approved for the religious one. You have to establish that you're a member of a religious sect that, continuously since 1950, has indicated a religious objection to any form of insurance, including Social Security and Medicare. And once you take the exemption, you're forever barred from Social Security and Medicare benefits (since you've indicated an objection to those).

So that's probably not the best exemption to go under (considering that virtually all of the recognized sects existing since 1950 are Mennonite-related, including the Amish). Not to say that there aren't other exemptions that are easy to claim (the list is here: https://www.healthcare.gov/exemptions/), but the religious one is essentially pointless for most people who are merely philosophically opposed to the Affordable Care Act.

Link to the article. It links to the archived version to ensure these morons don't get any extra views.

I had the poster in my room in 1976. The Keep On Trucking Poster that is. It was at a time when truckers and CD radios were prominent in pop culture. The font and design was reminiscent of dying hippie culture, which by 1976 was being replaced by more a disco culture.

https://tinyurl.com/y358h3gt

>“Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.”

This was from Cantor's OpEd in NYT a few days ago. I can't find it anywhere else, but I feel like the NYT editorial board wouldn't publish the quote if it was completely baseless.

EDIT: Second Source on the quote It definitely originated with something he told Cantor. Unfortunately, all we have is Cantor's statement on the exchange, and no real context.

You mean the proposal nobody was sure was going to get remotely close to cover college tuition?

watch the first five minutes or so of this

https://archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares-Episode1BabyItsColdOutside

I think this has some good info about it, but I am on my phone. If not I'll type you up a nice, thorough replay this evening

Low of 28 degrees in Orlando on January 18 of this year. Although you're right that recent freezes have been rare, that's the only one in the past two winters that I can find.

And even ignoring the fantastically ignorant statement that it only exists in context of "white power", the fact that your definition of racism is different from a more commonly used (and not just in vernacular) meaning ( i.e. something like http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/racism ) doesn't mean that there is no relatively large scale enactment of this type of bigotry outside positions of political power.

My parents worship the ground that Dave Ramsey walks on, i was forced to sit in on a few of his online work shops back in middle school. I'm still convinced that Ramsey and his Total Money Makeover bullshit is what convinced my parents to refuse to help pay for my college while simultaneously making me ineligible for financial aid due to them making six figures.

Also, Dave Ramsey's apparently a Christian but has never heard of Matthew 19:24. "It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

These are all over ebay.

>The only detail is that they are Trump Collectors items. They are not gold currency. These are 1" x 2". They come in a protective plastic case. They are 24K Gold Electroplated. They are not solid gold. They are not Gold Currency at all. They are collectors items.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/164228026994

Even better than the "gold bullion" Trump bar is the "Authentic $100 President Donald Trump Authentic 24kt Gold Plated Commemorative Bank Note" available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Commemorative-Collectors-Aizics-Mint/dp/B01KBSWUDK

It's $2.63, 80% off regular price! The reviews and questions are worth looking at!

Legal immigrants are obviously stimulating to the economy. But your own source points out that tax contributions from illegals would greatly increase should they properly register, which isn’t the evil gauntlet that it’s made out to be. Assimilation isn’t the problem either; it really comes back to their massive robbery of the country’s economy when they send piles of money to other nations. I would love to see more hard workers, but it’s a logistical and economic nightmare by comparison when they refuse to register.

• Anti-intellectualism in American life
• Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States: A Short, Scathing Essay from 1980

The use of eagles is very common amongst fascists. You're right, the Romans did it quite a bit, so does the States, so did Mussolini, so did the Nazis.

Look at the Nuremberg Laws. Look at blood quantum laws. They both use "blood descendance" as the criteria for determination of rights and the humanity of a person. This is fascist and not actually how descendance or family has developed.

>> Lebensraum = Manifest Destiny > >Tell that to a Polish person.

That isn't a refutal, what do you mean? Both Lebensraum and Manifest Destiny are settler colonialist beliefs/policies that are based upon private property and use extreme prejudice and violence to enforce a segregated order of oppression.

>> The US is literally fascist. > >You're taking the fasces on the rostrum too literal, dude.

No I'm not, I'm going by this - http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

Funny, I remember this being a thing in the 80s:

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Blah blah blah. "The money supply!!!"

Do me a favor and google fractional reserve banking, and find out what percentage banks are required to hold back for lending, then tell me who's printing dollars.

And then, parse "too much money chasing too few goods" not just in terms of money supply, but also in terms of commodity supply.

Gee whiz, it sure looks like the money printer was already on high and productivity took the biggest hit we've ever seen in the global pandemic, but what do I know? I've just read The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton and have heard of the Broken Window Fallacy.

Coming from the same place as this claim: 1/4 gay men in America have had over 1000 sex partners. Source: http://www.amazon.com/Homosexualities-Study-Diversity-Among-Women/dp/0671251503

I seriously doubt the validity of this website

Was it?

William barr's FBI? That one? The William barr who is the son of Donald barr?

>Barr did write a book called “Space Relations: A Slightly Gothic Interplanetary Tale” — a science fiction novel that was published in 1973. Like most works of science fiction, it certainly contains elements that could reasonably be described as “bizarre,” as the meme puts it. “Men in their 40s having sex with teenage girls” is not the primary content of the novel, but intergalactic slavery, including sex slavery, plays a prominent role in the book’s plot,

I know it's probably a stretch that bizarro Fred Flintstone's father would be an open pedophile, but I feel in the case of our politicians, a little bad rumor means a large bad lie is hidden somewhere.

Snopes tries really hard to disprove all the edges of this, but makes sure to cut any of the obvious links between the 2. It's funny how snipes couldn't maintain their integrity with all the political pressure from the previous administration

Ah, yes. That's a few more dead than the Brussels bombing. I don't recall seeing it on the main news.

https://theintercept.com/2016/03/22/families-were-blown-up-scenes-from-a-saudi-led-bombing-in-yemen/

It's cold as hell in Ben's particular desolate corner of Montana, and since the rest of the world might as well not exist for him that means it's cold everywhere.

Not believing in something is a belief...? I don't think you've thought that one through.

Oh, and Agnosticism is a lack of KNOWLEDGE, not belief. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/agnosticism

:edit: this post made with the belief that you might not be a troll.... rather than a lack of belief in you being a troll. Spot the difference.

>Anger management works for some violent people. This isn’t a sexuality. It’s a VIOLENT PERVERSION.

Erm, what?

"Paedophile: someone who is sexually interested in children"

There is nothing mentioning violence in that definition. You are building a straw man and then arguing against it.

>There’s something wrong with their brains, often trauma induced, that makes them want to HURT CHILDREN for their own pleasure.

Because you can't have sex with a child without hurting them...

>If they don’t seek help to get rid of the need to fuck children then they should be despised on every level.

But they shouldn't be despised for seeking help. We also need to understand that NOBODY can change who they're attracted to. A paedophile will ALWAYS be attracted to children. There is no changing that. We just need to teach them not to act on it.

>They want to “pleasure” children.

No, they want to pleasure themselves. That's what sexual attraction means.

>In order to do that they have to abuse the power they have from being adults to coerce children into thinking it’s okay to be touched and fucked by someone old enough to be their parent.

Again, another straw man.

A paedophile is a person attracted to children. That is all it means. You CANNOT change a person's attraction. It just isn't possible (as gay conversion therapy shows). Instead we need to teach paedophiles that their EMOTIONS and their ATTRACTIONS aren't wrong but actually acting on them would be. We need to accept people that can admit to themselves that they are paedophiles and offer them help with their mental condition.

>The London police force was created in 1829 by an act introduced in Parliament by the home secretary, Sir Robert Peel (hence the nicknames “bobbies” and “peelers” for policemen).

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/70767/bobby

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literally the only support i can find for those statistics is from an article on a heavily biased website that cites a study by a shady non-profit made up of one person, an economist/journalist for fox news who has a lengthy controversy section on wikipedia that mostly concerns his academic integrity

there are reliable figures for shootings in general from the oecd, though, and they point to america still being an outlier - the closest country to america is finland, with 33 shootings to america's 66, though only 3 of those were intentional compared to 36 of america's

Putting your money in a passive target retirement fund still has a turnover of 25%. That means each year 25% the value of your retirement is sold then rebought. At a tax of 0.5% on the sell. Then a tax of 0.5% on the rebuy you're looking at a general 'expense' of .25%. ie, 1% of 25%.

You can plug that (.25% expense) into any of the popular 401k fee calculators out there. Here is one example assuming max contribution for 40 years. The math is the same even if it's a smaller contribution, the largest effect is time. You're out ~300k in potential savings.

The government doesn't get that $300k though. "This much extra would need to be saved to offset": $1221. After 40 years that is $48,840 the government would get. 49k/300k = 16% or close to 1/6th. So each dollar the government gets, you lose 6*.

*I use 5 because bond's are taxed lower, although in younger ages you're heavier stocks.

No passive fund? You're extra screwed.

>According to William Harding, an analyst with Morningstar, the average turnover ratio for managed domestic stock funds is 130%.

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>Doc: Tell me, Future Boy, who's President of the United States in 1985?

>Marty: Ronald Reagan.

>Doc: Ronald Reagan? The actor? [rolls his eyes] Ha! Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady?

>Marty: Whoa, wait. Doc!

>Doc: And Jack Benny is Secretary of the Treasury!

I saw this on here. The comment section is not much better. https://disqus.com/home/channel/newsforeveryone/discussion/channel-newsforeveryone/op_help_i_dont_understand_what_the_nfl_players_are_protesting/

Thank God I was born in a time when a wise one decided to dream big and go, "what if we designed a Big Wheel to do sick-ass drifts?"

Selfishness is the core value of libertarianism. Hell, Ayn Rand wrote a book titled the Virtue Of Selfishness.

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