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I'm not sure how you got from "anti-genocide" and "pro-palestinian" to "antisemitic." During the 60's, lots of conservatives looked at the anti-Vietnam-war protests and assumed the protesters were filthy, America-hating communists, since the communists were on the other side. That was just as wrong. They were protesting the war, not supporting communism.

BOROWITZ: Stormy Daniels not surprised Trump’s defense was small and didn’t last long

Trump-World is chock-full of wack-jobs. I didn't realize until 2015 or thereabouts just how many wack-jobs there are in the USA. Fortunately many of them wear identifying headgear.

Blah, blah,blah……

And that's what most conservatives will do. But thankfully, not all of them. Someday Trump will be a spent force. Hopefully in a matter of months.

I can't see Trump giving her another position, especially since she didn't complete her U-Turn with the requisite "Trump is the best choice for America!" She just said she couldn't support Biden, so she has to vote for Trump. Not really the same. Although, still very disappointing. I have several friends of the traditional Republican type who were very excited for her campaign. Looking forward to asking them what they think of her recent pronouncement.

I believe you are onto something there. Climate change seems to be a term used to soften and hide the true meaning. It is dishonest. Global warming is the driving force causing the so called climate change and it is better to state that right up front and not pussyfoot around it.

Simple. She's vying for a cabinet position.

As much so as conflating all Republicans as racist, sexist, misogynist or association with Hitler.

Walt Schneider's memorial will be held on Sunday June 30th at 12:30 at Our Place (the tavern right near the DZ). Let's all go celebrate Walt! Blue skies.

They are protesting the extreme collective punishment and the blatant attempt at ethnic cleansing being meted out by Israel at the moment. Most of them probably don't completely understand the history and what led up to it. But they do understand that it has gone too far.

Are you sure that the plasticine cutter is dangerous only for Russians? )) A strong worldview...

I will re-state my usual disclaimer. I do not independently research this case, I am not actively trying to solve it. I have my own reasons for being interested, so I follow along. I do throw in a few cents' worth about the logistics of parachuting, because that is something that I do know about. And none of this is personal argument for me, just interesting discussion. But... This is something where I have a fundamental disagreement with some people who do research, and are trying to solve the case. Some people want to take their opinion of a likely scenario, and move it into the realm of fact. I cannot follow this. Sure, taking a likely scenario and seeing where it leads is part of how research is done, and may well lead to some proof. But the likely scenario itself is not proof. If someone comes up with an ultimate solve, if any link in their chain is supposition and not fact, then their proof may go poof. My personal take is that there is so much about this case that we do not, can not, know for sure, and likely never will. If it has not been definitively solved by now it likely never will be. But I could be wrong about that as well, and it is certainly no reason to stop trying.

Live in your own cozy little world where everything is black or white. The world has no color and people are the same everywhere. I’m covering a security problem, but in response you can’t say anything reasonable or offer options on how to protect people from this flaw. You are an ordinary consumer and nothing more. All that will be left after you is a ridiculous digital footprint and memory for one generation. People who move sports will live in the minds and hearts for centuries.

Dude, you sounded like a new skydiver with a problem you were trying to figure out without enough tools. Just like everyone else, only every one of us has different problems. And awesome to get your A. You’ve got a lot more tools to work on problems, but you’ll get new problems, and you still won’t have the tools to solve them all. Just like all of us! Wendy P.

Three comments on this. One, as you said, having kids later in life will allow parents to be better parents - be around more, not have to move as often due to financial problems, not have to 'farm out' childrearing to others. Two, if everyone starts having kids later in life, the human race will naturally start evolving towards longer lifespans with a higher quality of life for those years. This is just simple evolution; if the successful reproducers are in their 40s, the people who die early, become morbidly obese or infertile in their 30's, and make deadly life decisions early on will not have offspring and will be removed from the gene pool. Three, this will tend to reduce population (going back to your earlier arguments) since statistically the later in life you have kids, the smaller (average) number of kids per woman. Partly due to the evolutionary pressure above, and partly (I think) because older people tend to make better decisions, and are better equipped to buy/use/understand birth control. Of course all of that requires you fight the idiocracy default.

If it's a whim? No. If it just might save their life, or solve a serious problem? Yes. When Hanne Gaby Odiele was 10, her parents took her for surgery to remove her testes - with her support. That officially transitioned her to female. She's now a supermodel. Genetically male, but phenotypically female. Cases like that are very rare. Countrywide there are fewer than 20 bottom surgeries on kids aged 13-17 a year, and most are like the above - dealing with someone who was born intersex, or repairing a serious Prader-scale problem. Puberty blockers are much more common, and allow the kid to wait until they are 18 to make the decision. 99.9% of the time they are a much better option.

Right and it is exactly the rule of government to protect society against the negative impact of weird cults.

Because if we are deeming people not old enough to have a drink or old enough to buy a cigarette, or old enough to elect who represents them, we shouldn't deem them old enough to decide who they want to spend the rest of their life with.

Kudos to Georgia GOP for doing the right thing! Georgia Republicans boot vice chairman after ruling he voted illegally The Georgia Republican Party voted overwhelmingly Friday to oust First Vice Chairman Brian K. Pritchard from his leadership position after a judge ruled he voted illegally nine times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence.

They will, by definition, slow those hundreds of more PPM of CO2 that we are seeing.

Biden does indeed have a perception problem. And many Americans do indeed seem to say I don't care if a man rapes a woman, just as long as I think I can make some more money. Not sure that is really the flex you want it to be though.....

A recent poll of MAGAs found that, when asked how they were doing in this economy, they said that they (personally) were doing fine. When asked about the economy without relating it to them personally, they said that the economy was bad. They know how the economy really is (based on personal experience) but are brainwashed into thinking that it is bad in general by the silo they choose to inhabit.

Right. Just after the SOTUA, I was flipping channels. Going past the local Fox station, they had a talking head bitching about Biden's border policy. He said something to the effect of Biden cancelled all 91 of Trump's exec orders on the border, and if he reinstated them, the crisis would be solved. As if Trumpty Dumpty himself hadn't torpedoed the bill that would have addressed many of the issues. The cognitive disconnect is incredible. And completely insane. And the fools lap it up.