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Jorroh

climber
Feb 12, 2016 - 02:36pm PT
"The proliferation of laws specifying crimes without a mens rea"

So stuff like Insider trading, bond market fraud etc... As we all know the prisons are just stuffed to the rafters with those sorts of offenders.
Norton

Social climber
Feb 12, 2016 - 02:48pm PT

I don't understand why Pyro worships Trump.

HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2016 - 03:22pm PT
Jim Gilmore has ended his presidential bid. I am grateful that he stayed in until today just so that if Fiorina or Christie are possessed to run again people can say "Christie, whose last presidential bid was shorter than Jim Gilmore's..."
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2016 - 03:29pm PT
I love that someone serially deletes their posts from this thread.
dirtbag

climber
Feb 12, 2016 - 03:45pm PT
Hmmm...who this time? Or did someone get axed?
Larry Nelson

Social climber
Feb 12, 2016 - 04:02pm PT
Crankster,
If your sofa looked like Hillary, you'd donate it to Goodwill.
dirtbag

climber
Feb 12, 2016 - 04:13pm PT
Well, gee guys, how do you expect women to look after walking the Earth after 69 years? Swimsuit models?

Maybe I'll toss my old sofa-looking grandmother to the curb.
crankster

Trad climber
No. Tahoe
Feb 12, 2016 - 04:20pm PT
Larry, been a misogynist long?

Here's something for you Hillary-haters to drool over. Your likely candidate:

rottingjohnny

Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
Feb 12, 2016 - 04:46pm PT
those are the new slim line depends Donald is sporting...You can't tell he's wearing them...
crankster

Trad climber
No. Tahoe
Feb 12, 2016 - 04:53pm PT
And Ted Cruz rocks the crossfit, no question. He's one buff 45 year-old.

Larry, since you value appearance in determining the next leader of the free world, which Republican candidate are you supporting and what physical attribute of their's helped you make that decision? (sorry, Fiorina is out of the race).

wilbeer

Mountain climber
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Feb 12, 2016 - 05:47pm PT
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wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Feb 12, 2016 - 06:22pm PT




Carpet Bombing........free.
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Feb 12, 2016 - 08:58pm PT
YES!

There is some science behind why Cruz's face gives so many of us "the creeps!

There are many important issues to discuss this election season, but neurologist Dr. Richard Cytowic recently highlighted a new one: Ted Cruz’s face. Let’s hear him out.

The Texas senator has garnered some unsavory comparisons: Grandpa Munster is a typical one; Kevin from The Office is another. And recently, Cytowic attempted in a Psychology Today post to figure out what, exactly, it is about the Texas senator’s face that so many people apparently find off-putting. (The post was published last month but gained a second life over the weekend after being picked up by Raw Story.

Cytowic, who declares himself “not a Democrat,” argues that Cruz’s face sends subtle facial cues that go against what he’s saying, which complicates the very thing we are trained to do from birth: figure people out. We scan every face we see to make an instant judgment of trust, an instinctual swipe right/left we do in order to figure out whether a person is dangerous or worth our time. Facial cues — eyebrows curling, nose flaring, forehead wrinkling, lip licking — help clue us into the mind behind the face.

But in Cruz’s case, Cytowic writes, his facial downfall comes in the form of his smile, or lack thereof. In a typical smile, the corners of the mouth turn up; this causes a chain reaction that makes the corners of the eyes contract, creating crow’s feet. But Cruz’s face doesn’t seem to do that, according to Cytowic: The smile doesn’t quite reach his eyes, which can be perceived as insincerity.

Another facial-oddity characteristic Cytowic points out is just north of the missing crow’s feet on Cruz’s face: the downward bend of the outside of his eyebrows. Try doing this yourself — it’s not easy to have the inner corners of your eyebrows bend up while the outer corners swerve down. “Downturned expressions usually signal disagreeableness or disgust,” Cytowic writes.

In other words, Cruz could accidentally be sending cues at rallies that he’s not a fan of his voters, which isn’t exactly the message he wants to convey. “He may well be unaware that the message of his body language is incongruent with his words,” Cytowic continues.
https://www.yahoo.com/health/health-a-neurologist-has-tried-to-pinpoint-what-184741522.html
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Feb 12, 2016 - 09:32pm PT
She looked like a tired potato pancake. Sorry, but her appearance was worse than Tricky Dick's sweaty brow back in the day.

The sad thing is that we have evaluations like this, in which women are judged on nothing but physical appearance, while men get a pass.

Bernie can't seem to dress himself, but that is not commented upon.

I don't know why women put up with this....
Larry Nelson

Social climber
Feb 12, 2016 - 10:18pm PT
Crankster.
The true definition of a misogynist is a man who hates women, as much as women hate each other.
You can laugh at that, or you can choose to be offended

I agree with Dingus that Americans do vote on appearance. It started with maybe Roosevelt hiding his wheelchair. continued in the Kennedy Nixon debates.
The radio audience thought Nixon won, the TV audience thought Kennedy won.
This was years before the narcissistic baby Boomers came to power with a culture of instant gratification, short attention spans, the disdain for age and the compulsive glorification of youth,

Chris Christie has certainly been the butt of many jokes. Trump's hair, Cruz's devilish look, Fiorina's face, Bernie's red face and wildly waving arms.

I don't take any of this that seriously. I'll throw out opinions, or philosophy to be challenged. Sometimes humor that falls flat to a hard core partisan. Mostly my comment was on American culture.

Democrats thought Bush was a puppet. Republicans think Obama's a puppet.
If the next one is a puppet, let's give America what it really wants.
An entertainer. A Kardashian.
Hell the federal bureaucracy runs under it's own massive momentum no matter who is in office anyhow.
I say this all tongue in cheek and I have no idea who I will vote for, except we don't need anymore Bushes or Clintons.

Cheers
crankster

Trad climber
No. Tahoe
Feb 13, 2016 - 06:09am PT
we don't need anymore Bushes or Clintons.

Larry, what's in a name, really? I'm not a Jeb fan, but he'd be an improvement over W, imo. Tell me, did you suffer much under Bill Clinton's 8 years of peace & prosperity? If you look at al the candidates running, yes, we do need Hillary.


Forum Bully, potatohead, take you desultory ignorance elsewhere. HDDJ is trying to have one political thread that doesn't degenerate into the silliness that you two bring to it while trolling like pesky gnats.

dirtbag

climber
Feb 13, 2016 - 06:58am PT
I agree we don't need any bushes or clintons. That was one of the reasons I voted for Obama in 2008.


But we also don't need any more trumps, cruzes, Rubios, or kasiches. We really, really don't need that.

So, Clinton.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
Feb 13, 2016 - 06:15pm PT
crankster...that wasn't a voluntary posting from me...Honestly...! A giant cigarette smoking duck invaded my mind and computer and forced me to say bad words with crank prefixes...
Stewart

Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.
Feb 13, 2016 - 10:28pm PT
For those of us who want an in-depth insight into what makes PotatoHead's mind operate, he was kind enough to share with us his favourite website on another thread (the Ready for Bernie one).

The website is smoloko.com and it alerts us to the "fact" that the world is being controlled by Zionists, along with their Illuminati (& other) allies.

I encourage you to check this website out for yourselves & keep it in mind that this is the kind of "information" that passes for deep thought in the minds of more than a few Trump supporters.
John M

climber
Feb 13, 2016 - 10:44pm PT
I am wondering. What are your, say, five most important issues? For me (in no particular order),

* reducing national debt

* universal healthcare

* reducing the size and influence of the military complex ( this would need to be done slowly with a lot of benefits to those leaving the service, plus good benefits for those important to the service to stay)

* tax code reform, including ways to boost the middle class.

* political gerrymandering reform

* campaign finance reform

boosting our manufacturing.. not with military spending, but some other way. I don't know how. Its going to take someone more knowledgeable to figure this one out. but we need to create incentives to keep manufacture here in the states. If Japan can have a booming auto industry and pay its employees 35 dollars an hour ( including benefits) then we should be able to do the same.

...

I know.. more then 5

( how do you make those squares moosegenius ? )
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