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dirtbag

climber
Feb 13, 2016 - 11:57pm PT
^^^1. The Supreme Court.^^^^
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Feb 14, 2016 - 12:39am PT
Have you ever given a thought to the fact that the Western countries produce almost nothing, but employ a great number of office and service workers?

It is a solution to the occupational problem. The labour of these people is unnecessary, but it is impossible to let hundreds of millions stay at home and do nothing.

That is why ‘the USA economics’ is in many ways needed just to occupy the entire population of a country, solving the matters of being occupied, needed; establishing a reason for being.

All these citizens can afford not to think about world organisation, its history and its future, as they live a good life.

As soon as the level of life degrades, they will start to think about it, as nothing clears the mind up as well as an empty stomach.

They cannot be stopped being fed

And it is impossible not to stop feeding them.
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Feb 16, 2016 - 02:20pm PT
I tell ya, I get stuff from almost everyone. Here is the latest from Ben Carson;

I have some powerful news to share with you.
The New Hampshire results were pretty much what we expected. With the mass exodus of people from Massachusetts to this once conservative state, New Hampshire is no longer the state that Ronald Reagan carried.
That, combined with the fact that Democrats and Independents can vote in the New Hampshire primary, makes it a meaningless and unrepresentative primary in this race for the White House.
Of course, in Iowa, Ben Carson was sabotaged by the dirty lie that he was pulling out of the race.
Just before the voting commenced in the Iowa Caucus, the Cruz campaign decided to twist a CNN story about Ben Carson going to Florida after the caucus into a lie that Ben Carson was pulling out of the race.
In one caucus, an attempt was reportedly made to physically block an elderly Carson leader from telling the truth.
Even after Ben Carson made it abundantly clear that he was in the race until the end, Ted Cruz sent out a tweet indicating that Ben Carson was dropping out of the contest.
In fact, going into the Iowa Caucus, nearly 40,000 Iowa Republicans had pledged to vote for Ben Carson. Yet, on the night of the Caucus, Ben Carson received only 18,000 caucus votes.
Think about it.
Suppose you had pledged to vote for Ben Carson and then were informed that he had dropped out of the race. Why waste your vote for Ben Carson? Why not vote for what you believe to be the next best conservative in the race?
Apparently that is exactly what happened all across the state of Iowa.
As a result, instead of finishing in second or third place, Ben Carson finished in fourth place.
It was Washington, DC, politics at its very worst.
It must not happen again in South Carolina.
We have been in South Carolina since early 2014 and have more than 1,200 volunteers who have passed out hundreds of copies of my book, Ben Carson, Rx for America. We have worked South Carolina hard, but we need your immediate help.
Unfortunately and incredibly, there are already rumors that the Cruz campaign is once again saying that Carson is out and Carson supporters should not waste their vote by voting for him.
Whether these stories are true or not, I cannot yet confirm, but after the dirty trick they pulled in Iowa, I guess I should not be surprised.
That’s why we are going on the offensive in South Carolina.

Then, there is that pesky Marco Rubio


Friend,

We did it. At Saturday night's debate, we had the chance to prove something we knew all along: we have the momentum to not only win the Republican nomination, but also the White House this year.

A CBS News poll found that I was the standout winner in South Carolina Saturday night -- well ahead of Trump, ahead of Cruz, ahead of the rest of the pack.

But with just a few days remaining until the South Carolina Primary, I need to know I continue to have your support. With your support, we can continue to harness this momentum through Nevada, through Super Tuesday, and beyond.

We all know how critical this election will be. It's our last chance to move our nation back on track, and build a New American Century we can be proud to pass on to our children and our grandchildren.

It's all on the information superhighway!
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Feb 16, 2016 - 02:33pm PT
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Feb 16, 2016 - 03:53pm PT
Wow. I think Stahlbro may be on to something!
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Feb 16, 2016 - 04:23pm PT
Appologies to Granpa Munster. He did not deserve that.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Feb 18, 2016 - 10:11pm PT
it is possible that some people on this site are actually capable of reading something longer than a sound bite

so those of you may find the following online book educational:


http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia's_freedom.pdf


ISBN 978-5-459-01703-8
Unrestrained issuing of money backed by nothing has been the dream of bankers and moneylenders for centuries. This is the shortest way to world domination. Today this dream has become reality. All the world’s money stocks are tied to the dollar, which can be issued without restrictions. As a result of defeat in the Cold War Russia was deprived of a significant part of its sovereignty. The Russian rouble does not belong to the people anymore. The only way out of the dead end is to change the current form of the system of money-issuing.
By reading this book you will find out the answers to the following questions: What are the gold and currency reserves of Russia and why do they not belong to the Russian Government? Who was Stalin’s ‘Chubais’ and how did the leader of the USSR treat him? How are the deaths of American presidents connected to various types of identical American dollars? How did Benito Mussolini cooperate with the British intelligence service and what did it lead to? Why did the USSR refuse to enter the IMF and sign the Bretton Woods agreement? Who was knighted upon Stalin’s death and why? What constitution did Sakharov offer to his country?
The story of the Bank of England, the reasons for Joseph Stalin’s death, unknown snipers on the rooftops of Moscow in October 1993, the Central Bank of Russia independent from Russia — these are parts of one thing; the roots of one tree.
dirtbag

climber
Feb 19, 2016 - 05:32am PT
Answer: maybe when you post something other than conspiratorial fringy tomes written by loony tunes.

About the author:

Starikov is the leader of several political organizations, including the Union of Russian Citizens (Russian: Профсоюз Граждан России), founded on 25 April 2011, and the conservative Great Fatherland Party (Russian: Партия Великое Отечество), registered on 10 April 2013. He has championed a revisionist view of Joseph Stalin, portraying him as an effective leader and bulwark against western expansion.[3]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Starikov
Winemaker

Sport climber
Yakima, WA
Feb 19, 2016 - 05:55am PT
Nice one StahlBro.

Go to Google and type in 'Is Ted Cruz the' and look at the first hit. Hahahaha.

And still no denial, so it must be true. After all, some people say...........
Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Feb 19, 2016 - 06:31am PT
SPLC's Intelligence Report: Amid Year of Lethal Violence, Extremist Groups Expanded Ranks in 2015

February 17, 2016

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2016/02/17/splcs-intelligence-report-amid-year-lethal-violence-extremist-groups-expanded-ranks-2015

The number of extremist groups operating in the United States grew in 2015 – a year awash in deadly extremist violence and hateful rhetoric from mainstream political figures, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s annual census of hate groups and other extremist organizations.

The SPLC found that the number of hate groups operating in 2015 was 14 percent higher than in 2014. Antigovernment “Patriot” groups – armed militias and others animated by conspiracy theories – also grew 14 percent during the same period.

“While the number of extremist groups grew in 2015 after several years of declines, the real story was the deadly violence committed by extremists in city after city,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow at the SPLC and editor of the Intelligence Report. “Whether it was Charleston, San Bernardino or Colorado Springs, 2015 was clearly a year of deadly action for extremists.”

Hate groups increased from 784 groups in 2014 to 892 last year. Antigovernment “Patriot” groups grew from 874 in 2014 to 998.

This growth came amid a series of lethal terrorist attacks by extremists. In June, a white supremacist murdered nine black parishioners at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. In December, Islamist radicals killed 14 people at a work party in San Bernardino, California – just days after an anti-abortion extremist killed three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. These were just the worst of numerous other attacks and foiled extremist plots reviewed in this issue.

“After seeing the bloodshed that defined 2015, our politicians should have worked to defuse this anger and bring us together as a nation,” Potok said. “Unfortunately, the carnage did little to dissuade some political figures from spouting incendiary rhetoric about minorities. In fact, they frequently exploited the anger and polarization across the country for political gain.”


The demonization of Muslims, Latinos, immigrants and others became commonplace in 2015. Presidential candidate Donald Trump made headlines with a call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration and his description of Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers. He even cited a bogus “poll” by the Center for Security Policy that falsely claimed that a quarter of American Muslims support violent jihadists such as the members of the Islamic State.

The Center for Security Policy is one of two anti-Muslim groups listed as hate groups for the first time in this year’s report. The other is ACT! for America.

Other political figures launched their own verbal attacks against a host of targets to exploit the anger and fear of some Americans over the country’s changing demographics, immigration, the legalization of same-sex marriage, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and atrocities committed by Islamist terrorists. Economic pressure on white, working-class Americans has also contributed to the anger.

“Backlash,” a related report within this issue, explores the wave of violence and hatred directed at American Muslims in the wake of shrill attacks by major presidential candidates and recent jihadist massacres in Paris and San Bernardino.

These messages by mainstream political figures were often amplified by right-wing media outlets, adding to the sense of polarization and anger across the country – an atmosphere that may be unmatched since the political upheavals of 1968. With the new year beginning with armed militiamen seizing a federal wildlife refuge near Burns, Oregon, the extremist threat in the United States appears likely to get worse before it improves.

The hate groups listed in this report include neo-Nazis, white nationalists, neo-Confederates, racist skinheads, Klansmen and black separatists. Other hate groups on the list target LGBT people, Muslims or immigrants, and some specialize in producing racist music or propaganda denying the Holocaust.
crankster

Trad climber
No. Tahoe
Feb 19, 2016 - 06:36am PT
HermitMaster

Social climber
my abode
Feb 19, 2016 - 06:56am PT
Winemaker

Sport climber
Yakima, WA
Feb 19, 2016 - 04:21pm PT
From Thinkprogress.org regarding Cruz' latest ad in Nevada:

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/19/3751233/ted-cruz-public-lands-ad/

"In a controversial new TV ad aiming to sway conservative caucus-goers in Nevada but likely to backfire with mainstream voters, Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz (R-TX) vows to sell-off or give away the state’s national parks, national forests, national monuments, and other public lands.

“If you trust me with your vote,” says Cruz in the ad, “I will fight day and night to return fuThe Cruz ad, which is launching less than a week before the Republican caucuses in Nevada, echoes the views propagated by anti-government militant Cliven Bundy, who believes that Western states should seize control of all national public lands within their borders. Cliven Bundy and his sons Ryan and Ammon were indicted this week by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas for leading armed standoffs against the federal government in 2014 in Nevada and earlier this year at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.

The Cruz ad begins by criticizing the fact that approximately 85 percent of land in Nevada is publicly owned by U.S. taxpayers. These lands include the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on the Colorado River, Great Basin National Park, the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, and Basin and Range National Monument.

Cruz’s comments in the ad, which echo legislation he introduced in 2014, do not specify whether he would dispose of national public lands in Nevada by directly auctioning them off to mining, energy, timber and other private interests or by first transferring them to the control of the state government. If they were transferred to state control, the state government would likely have to sell off a large portion to raise the money needed to pay the costs of fighting wildfires and managing the remaining lands."


Thanks Ted. You certainly DON'T have my vote. At least Trump says this is a stupid idea.
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
Feb 19, 2016 - 05:06pm PT
Thanks Ted. You certainly DON'T have my vote. At least Trump says this is a stupid idea.

Cruz is scary nuts..... with more stupid ideas than your average republican.



Winemaker

Sport climber
Yakima, WA
Feb 19, 2016 - 05:36pm PT
Watch this if you dare. The Duck Dynasty dude going all religious for Ted. Man, these people are nuts.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

Escopeta

Trad climber
Idaho
Feb 19, 2016 - 05:46pm PT
Cruz is scary nuts..... with more stupid ideas than your average republican.

And that puts him in the running for the most stupid ideas worldwide.
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2016 - 07:02am PT
The Republican Nevada Caucus is today. FiveThirtyEight gives Trump a 64% chance of winning with Rubio at 25%. Carson and Kasich aren't even registering. I'm still holding out that Republicans are not as lizard brain as this but I am losing hope. Super Tuesday will be the big day.


Bill Gates brushed off Apple's defiance of the government's request to access the iPhone of the San Bernadino shooter describing it as just like any other government request for phone records or personal data. This is actually a more complex issue than has been presented and there are really 2 issues at stake. The first is should Apple have to turn over the data on the shooter's iPhone 5c (which they can actually hack) and the second is on should they create a backdoor into more advanced phones like the iPhone 5s and 6 which are fully designed to be unhackable, even by Apple.

Bernie Sanders' economic plans continue to raise questions among economists and assume that huge increases in government spending will drive large amounts of economic growth and employment. Even Paul Krugman has described them as "horrifying" and "voodoo."
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2016 - 07:27am PT
All the tech companies were happy to help until Snowden made it uncool. The issue before was that the government was collecting information without a warrant. The FBI has gone through all the hoops, demonstrated a need and gotten a warrant. Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
dirtbag

climber
Feb 23, 2016 - 07:38am PT
Obama is finally announcing a plan to close Guantanamo. Accomplishing this would be a nice wrap on a successful presidency.
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2016 - 07:39am PT
The information isn't permanently stored in the terminal and nowhere else. It is transferred to the company where it is stored and if they are served a warrant they must turn that data over so your example isn't really analogous.


dirt posted
Obama is finally announcing a plan to close Guantanamo. Accomplishing this would be a nice wrap on a successful presidency.

Yeah listening to this now. If he can even get us most of the way there I'll consider it a success. He's working against a Congress that will cut off its nose to spite its face so I don't have a lot of faith that it will actually happen this year.
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