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If he's done something illegal then impeachment absolutely IS the answer. If you let him get away with it he'll do worse next time or another president will, and I'd say the same regardless of what president it was. At the same time as that we should find better candidates. The two should happen in parallel.

The rep should be forum specific. Just because someone gets lots of likes in the General skydiving forum doesn't mean they should be listened to in the Tandem Instructors one, for example.

Its the standard. Yet, I'm able to handle it, so I'm not going to have to block him to continue here.

Ya, they do that so you guys can only rep whore so many points off each other per day. At least a third of some peoples' reps here are from lame one liners, or copy/pasting jokes that they didn't even make up themselves - and it diminishes the value of the system, effectively rendering it useless. I mean this is a skydiving website first, but most of the rep points are coming from a sociopolitical sub-forum designed to keep that type of content from polluting the rest of the community. If a newbie came here for skydiving tips, how do they know if the poster's positive rep was earned by posting reliable skydiving info rather then by jacking-off a bunch of biased circle-jerk points? I can see having the ability to up-vote political content, but it shouldn't be part of the runny tally for one's rep if it's not a political website in the first place. Also, if someone is posting unreliable and possibly dangerous skydiving content, the community should be able mark it as such by down-voting it, which I know is a feature of this forum's interface.

well that was helpful

Parrothead Vol, Thanks for the post. Right after this happened I emailed Marla and asked her if they told her the last suspect was LD. She confirmed the FBI had told her that. (I also asked her what specifically about LD caught the FBI's attention and she didn't know). I feel like we've gone around and around this already. Robert has his own opinions and he's entitled to have them. I don't think you're going to change his mind no matter what you post.

Clinton’s loss cannot be attributed to the fact that she was a woman, but because she ran a poor campaign. Clinton’s loss had little to do with her being a woman. She was the wrong woman. It was Clinton who called millions of people in this country “deplorables.” It was Clinton who stated that coal miners would be put out of work. The country will be ready for a woman president when she presents herself as someone with sound policy and a vision for the future of our country, not because it’s time to elect a woman as president.

I've found that by not engaging, I don't have to ignore by key; I even see rushmc's posts when they show up. But I haven't answered one (or generally read one) in a long, long, time. Just not worth my time. But Turtle, you doubt from the right, from a place where (most likely, based on what I know about where you at least used to live) nearly everyone thinks that liberals are wrong unless proven right, and conservatives are right unless proven wrong. Lots of others here on DZ.com doubt from the left, as I generally do. One of my brothers is more liberal than I am, the other more conservative - but only the more conservative one could really be considered middle of the road, and maybe that's only because none of the three of us is as liberal as our parents. Some folks just double down in all cases, like rushmc and that guy who posts incredibly long unreadable diatribes on the left. What looks like the middle of the road can be shaped by where all the people, or at least all the people you care about, are. Kind of like how used to be done about minorities by just about any majority: "I don't like grinches, but that Natter is a good guy." Wendy P.

There can be ZERO doubt, given the facts in front of every living human, that Trump is an idiot, a garbage human being, a racist, and a lifetime criminal. He is destroying the American democracy. He has now directed the DOJ to give a special prosecutor powers to start a criminal Investigation into those at DOJ who found out Russia was helping Trump. They were doing their job. This is NOT the country I swore an oath to. Our current "leadership" hurts me to my core. This is the behavior that creates civil disobedience. Revolutions. Collapses of great nations. #ThanksPutin

Doubt?

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Odd how they change at the same time administrations do. You aren't fooling anyone.

I just can't anymore. I had to ignore Turtle. It was so nice while he was on whatever sabbatical he took; I forgot how much of a troll he is. I won't feed it anymore. I backed him into a corner with the Biden thing and he simply moved on to trolling others because he has no substance to his remarks - it's simply spreading propaganda and trolling, plain and simple. Join me in boycotting Trollspeed!

Uh, Syria had been a Soviet/Russian client state for more than half a century. Russia has had a naval base in Syria since 1971. So I'm not sure you know what you are talking about.

Hillary Clinton in a new interview appeared to float a conspiracy theory that the Russians are “grooming” Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard to be a third-party candidate in 2020, while claiming 2016 Green Party nominee Jill Stein is "also" a Russian asset. Pretty serious accusation. "That’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she’s also a Russian asset." Seems like she is floating a conspiracy theory to further some political agenda. At least she didn't accuse her of operating a pedophile ring out of a pizzeria.

So then replying to all three of you I guess I should say that religion CAN be a good foundation of morality and culture. There is nothing you can't accomplish just by raising your children right in a secular world but for many people a church is the center of their family and community. I went to a non-denominational non-theistic church when I was younger (I believe it would now be called a Unitarian Universalist church), I recall more readings from secular authors than I did anything relating to Christianity. There was NEVER prayer in the sense of bowing your head and hoping an invisible magic man was there because there was never any message saying that you were supposed to believe in the magic man, much less pledge your soul at penalty of hellfire.