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3DHS / What should Gary Johnson have said?
« on: October 01, 2016, 08:15:01 PM »
Gary Johnson, the Libertarian, was asked if he could name  a political leader of some other country whose views he admired as a Libertarian.

Then he was ridiculed for not being able to name a single one. I think he should have been prepared to name at least a couple, since he is after all running as a world leader.

Can any of YOU name a world leader for Johnson to admire?

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3DHS / Sex change operation?
« on: September 30, 2016, 02:51:46 PM »
    Imagine a woman who showed up [to a presidential debate] unprepared, sniffling like a coke addict and interrupting her opponent 70 times. Let’s further imagine that she had 5 kids by 3 men, was a repeated adulterer, had multiple bankruptcies, paid zero federal taxes and rooted for the housing crisis in which many thousands of families lost their homes. Wait… there’s more: she has never held any elected office in her life.” -Michelle Vitali

Wonder how long this imaginary woman would last if she were to seek political office, much less try to hold one. And to become a presidential candidate — Well, perhaps on another planet. How sad, and what does it say about our country that a man like Trump would be able to rise up to the political level he has reached (there’s only one step higher) and yet Hillary would be and is relentlessly scrutinized as she has been?  The hypocrisy is out of the park.

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3DHS / Japanese wrestler finally wind the 2016 championshio
« on: September 24, 2016, 04:39:11 PM »
After the Samoans defeated the Japanese, there was al least one Hawaiian, and then came several Mongolians.
No Japanese had won the championship until 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotosh%C5%8Dgiku_Kazuhiro

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3DHS / The value of suffering
« on: September 23, 2016, 01:59:44 PM »
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3DHS / First, apologize to the Tower
« on: September 18, 2016, 05:29:57 PM »

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3DHS / When a crackpot runs for president
« on: September 18, 2016, 01:31:50 PM »
I’m wary of grand conclusions about false equivalence from 30,000 feet. But at the grass roots of a campaign, I think we can do better at signaling that one side is a clown.

There are crackpots who believe that the earth is flat, and they don’t deserve to be quoted without explaining that this is an, er, outlying view, and the same goes for a crackpot who has argued that climate change is a Chinese-made hoax, who has called for barring Muslims and who has said that he will build a border wall and that Mexico will pay for it.

We owe it to our readers to signal when we’re writing about a crackpot. Even if he’s a presidential candidate. No, especially when he’s a presidential candidate.

There frankly has been a degree of unreality to some of the campaign discussion: Partly because Hillary Clinton’s narrative is one of a slippery, dishonest candidate, the discussion disproportionately revolves around that theme. Yes, Clinton has been disingenuous and legalistic in her explanations of emails. Meanwhile, Trump is a mythomaniac who appears to have systematically cheated customers of Trump University.

Clinton’s finances are a minefield, which we know because she has released 39 years of tax returns; Trump would be the first major party nominee since Gerald Ford not to release his tax return (even Ford released a tax summary). And every serious analyst knows that Trump is telling a whopper when he gleefully promises to build a $25 billion wall that Mexico will pay for.

Then there’s the question of foundations. Yes, Clinton created conflicts of interest with the family foundation and didn’t fully disclose donors as promised. But the Trump Foundation flat out broke the law by making a political contribution.
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It’s also worth avoiding moral equivalence about the work of the two foundations: The Clinton Foundation saves lives around the world from AIDS and malnutrition, while the Trump Foundation used its resources to buy — yes! — a large painting of Trump, as a gift for Trump (that may violate I.R.S. rules as well).

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The latest dust-up has been health care. Neither candidate has been very open about health, but Clinton has produced much more detailed medical records than Trump, and an actuarial firm told The Washington Post Fact Checker that Clinton has a 5.9 percent chance of dying by the end of a second term in office, while Trump would have a 8.4 percent chance.

So I wonder if journalistic efforts at fairness don’t risk normalizing Trump, without fully acknowledging what an abnormal candidate he is. Historically we in the news media have sometimes fallen into the traps of glib narratives or false equivalencies, and we should try hard to ensure that doesn’t happen again.

We should be guard dogs, not lap dogs, and when the public sees Trump as more honest than Clinton, something has gone wrong.

For my part, I’ve never met a national politician as ill informed, as deceptive, as evasive and as vacuous as Trump. He’s not normal. And somehow that is what our barks need to convey.

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Trump wrote a check personally from his Foundation to Pam Bondi, Florida's Attorney General. Then Bondi decided that Trump's bogus "university" was not worth investigating.

http://fortune.com/2016/09/12/trump-foundation-bondi-florida-ag/

There is your proof.
This has been all over the news.
It is illegal for foundations to contribute to politicians.
Trump was fined, and paid the fine. Or at least said he would.

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3DHS / Ein Gott, Ein Volk, Ein Reich!
« on: September 15, 2016, 01:42:10 PM »
We’re all equal and we all come from same Creator,” Trump said. “There’s a biblical verse that I’ve often read and I want to repeat it again because I think it is so important to what we’re trying to achieve right now for our country. It’s from 1 John: 4: No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.”

“So true,” Trump said. “So True.”

“Imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working together as one people, under one God, saluting one flag,” Trump concluded, apparently anticipating a future in which every American, regardless of religion, is required to worship Jesus Christ.\
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3DHS / Kaepernick Started something, it appears.
« on: September 14, 2016, 12:51:17 PM »
 Any way you look at it, not standing for the national anthem is a peaceful and nonviolent act. But uppity ni&&ers still piss off guys like CU4.

LEONARD PITTS, JR.

lpitts@miamiherald.com
   
     
It keeps getting bigger.

One might have expected last month’s protest by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, his refusal to stand for the national anthem, to have blown over by now. Instead, it has caught fire. Sunday, members of the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs all staged protests of their own. This was in addition to earlier protests by soccer star Megan Rapinoe and members of the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks. There have even been reports of the phenomenon spreading to high school and college games.
PITTS

All of this in support of Kaepernick, who said, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” Apparently, he’s struck a nerve.

For the record, yes, I do stand when the anthem is played. But I don’t do it for America. America breaks my heart on a daily basis.
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Fans speak out on Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand during the national anthem

Sports fans were interviewed regarding 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand during the national anthem at an NFL preseason game. The interviews were done at Sports Station in Modesto, Calif., on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016.
Ron Agostini & Marijke Rowland The Modesto Bee
 

So, I stand for what America is supposed to be, what America could be if it ever took seriously its founding principles, including that “self-evident” truth about equality. But America has yet to do that, and Kaepernick is hardly the first person to notice.

On the last night of his life, Martin Luther King said: “All we say to America is, be true to what you said on paper.”

In a poem, Langston Hughes complained: “America never was America to me.”

Kaepernick is not even the first athlete to snub the rituals of American patriotism. “I cannot stand and sing the anthem,” a baseball player once wrote. “I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world.” The man’s name was Jackie Robinson.

Point being, I have no quarrel with Kaepernick.

Others, do. The internet is awash in videos of his burning jersey. Wayne Newton said on Fox that if Kaepernick doesn’t like it here, “Get the hell out.” Various memes juxtapose his image with those of wounded and dead military personnel. And Tucker Carlson and Rush Limbaugh have suggested Kaepernick has no right to protest racism because he’s wealthy — as if wealth provides some magic protection from getting pulled over for DWB.
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Arian Foster talks about why he's kneeling during National Anthem

Miami Dolphins running back Arian Foster talks to the media on Mon., Sept. 12, 2016 about why he decided to kneel down during the National Anthem in Sunday's season-opening game against the Seattle Seahawks.
Matias J. Ocner Miami Herald
 

It does not. Indeed, the very fact that Kaepernick feels estranged from a country that has afforded him material success should induce thoughtful observers to wonder how that could be. Instead, we get lectures from blowhards on how rich and ungrateful Kaepernick is.

The thing is, people like them get indignant when anger over racial oppression expresses itself in street violence. Now we see they also get indignant when it expresses itself peacefully.

Which suggests their complaint is less about the form of protest than the fact of protest. Apparently, those who live with injustice are expected to quietly grin and bear it so the likes of Carlson and Limbaugh are not troubled by uncomfortable truths.

That’s not going to happen.

Ultimately, American protest is not just a right, nor even an obligation. No, it is an act of faith, an expression of the belief that a country founded on that great, self-evident truth can do — and be — better. That’s the faith that has undergirded African-American struggle for centuries, the thing that has allowed us to support a country that would not support us, defend a country that would not defend us, love a country that did not love us.

And it is the reason people affronted by the form — and fact — of Kaepernick’s protest have framed the issue exactly wrong. This is not about whether Kaepernick will stand up for America.

No, this is about whether America will finally stand up for him.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article101688282.html#storylink=cpy

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3DHS / Republicans Defund Dark Matter Research
« on: September 11, 2016, 01:13:46 PM »
Republicans Defund Dark Matter Research
September 11, 2016 by Andrew Hall 3 Comments
There’s too much blackness in the universe! – Republican Senator

Washington DC – In a special session of Congress, Republicans ended all federal funding for dark matter research. The move comes as a direct result of the #AllMatterMatters movement.

“Black lives matter BUT all lives matter when you think hard about it,” stated Mississippi Representative Andrew Canard. “I don’t see how we can tolerate funding scientific research that discriminates against every other type of matter except for the dark type. It’s racist.”

Scientists exploring the nature of dark matter are perplexed and frustrated. Many within the scientific community were aware of the growing Republican rage against dark matter research and had been trying to educate politicians. “Dark matter refers to the hypothetical substance that we can’t detect but we see its gravitational effects throughout the universe, but they didn’t want to hear that,” an anonymous source reported.

The #AllMatterMatters movement on social media exploded with jubilation once the news broke. Confused Twitter users ranted on how baby killing would no longer be funded by the government. Many attempted to point out that dark matter research isn’t conducted by Planned Parenthood. However, that message was lost in a wave of lightly veiled racist tweets celebrating the death of what some called “Obama physics.”

With the recent victory over dark matter research, Republicans are clamoring to take on the dark energy lobby.

“Dark energy threatens everything good in America. Oil prices are at an all-time low. Gasoline is cheap. Why would we threaten this all and possibly wake Cthulhu from his slumber?” stated Representative Canard. “What we need to do right now is make a wall with Mexico to keep the illegals out and make sure the wall between our world and the demonic is as strong as ever.”

Scientists have given up trying to explain “science ‘n stuff” to the willfully ignorant. Instead, dark energy researchers are mounting a public relations campaign to sway the general public to their side of the debate.

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3DHS / Land of the Free and Home of the ... Mute?
« on: September 09, 2016, 10:22:58 AM »


So the ratbag right reasoning is this: You can protest because of all the brave soldiers who fought for your freedom. And to honor them. you should simply get with the program and stop complaining!

This is America, where we show our patriotism by standing up and listening to some celebrity sing the first verse of the National Anthem before we spend four hours watching beer and car commercials and listening to moronic sports commentators spout inane facts & figures and yes, watch a total of 60 severely interrupted minutes of mutantly large men with numbers on their backs butt heads and fiddle with a ball that will not bounce predictably.

If you do not stand, it will ruin the thrill for everyone.

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