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BigRed0427 posted:Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation? That or death due to something stuck up his rear end. Please use only used flared based butt stuff.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Maybe hate/anger keep some people alive? Strom Thurmond died at the age of 101 years. Reagan died at like 95 despite some 25 years of Alzheimer's taking it's toll. Kissinger is still alive. Scalia is alive despite being an angry blimp screaming WBC-style incoherent hatred in all directions (okay he looks to have lost some weight over the past several years and now resembles a mean Grandpa Munster) so I don't think there's much doubt as to whether burning hatred keeps a corpse's heart beating.
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Aug 4, 2014 19:10
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Fried Chicken posted:He's been the figure for gun control for 30 years, how much worse can it get? Do not question the Reagan Administration, when it comes to this. For everything bad that's happened the past thirty years, there's a member of the administration with a poo poo-eating grin. But I guess it'll be interesting to see how the Saint Reagan crowd will take the criticism.
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Aug 4, 2014 19:12
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Fried Chicken posted:http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/08/cias-amazon-built-cloud-just-went-live/90407/ CIA doing some massive power grabs lately (spying on Senate etc.) Makes it easier to pull an Snowden or a Manning now that's it's all linked too. CIA ever done poo poo positive? Like with the FBI you get them loving with drug lords and the Klan but everything with the CIA is like funding death squads,coups,spying on civil rights activists/anti war protesters.
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Aug 4, 2014 19:14
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ufarn posted:Larry Speakes. Wait, you are blaming Brady for what his replacement did? Seriously? Wow, zoux was right.
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Aug 4, 2014 19:16
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I'm a loving oracle.
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Fried Chicken posted:http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/08/cias-amazon-built-cloud-just-went-live/90407/ That's not what you appear to think it means. Having a secure government-only version of AWS doesn't mean they'll all start pooling their data there and communicating better. Granted, it makes that easier, but so would any sane IT infrastructure (hello IRS, do you remember me from more than six months ago? no? wtf?). As an example, both Netflix and Amazon use AWS to serve on-demand video, but you could hardly claim they've merged into a hive mind - in fact, they're direct competitors.
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Fried Chicken posted:Wait, you are blaming Brady for what his replacement did? Seriously?
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SirKibbles posted:CIA doing some massive power grabs lately (spying on Senate etc.) Makes it easier to pull an Snowden or a Manning now that's it's all linked too. CIA ever done poo poo positive? Like with the FBI you get them loving with drug lords and the Klan but everything with the CIA is like funding death squads,coups,spying on civil rights activists/anti war protesters. Yes, the CIA has done tons of positive poo poo, most clearly in informing policymakers about the state of the world so they can make more informed and rational decisions. Not all policymakers have given a poo poo about reality, but the CIA's view of Vietnam, for example, was a million times more realistic than Army intelligence's perpetual just-a-few-more-bodies-and-we'll-win viewpoint. Also the CIA's U2 program was a major major deal in de-escalating fears about Soviet nuclear capabilities, informing about missiles going to Cuba, and otherwise giving insight into what was going on in the world. When it comes to covert action, the CIA has ended up on the wrong side of history pretty often, but 1) a true success would basically mean we don't ever hear about it, and 2) they pretty much have followed the orders of the presidents at the time. Some of our presidents have been awful people, but it's not like the CIA was going off torturing people against Carter's wishes, they were doing it at Bush's orders. That doesn't make it right by any means, but it's a difference about where our disgust should predominantly lie. berzerker fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Aug 4, 2014 |
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Aug 4, 2014 19:18
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Fried Chicken posted:You know how post 2009 elections, the newly GOP controlled states went HAM shuttering abortion clinics by adding a ton of bullshit regulations in the name of "safety", like requiring those doctors to have hospital admitting privileges? I would kinda think most of the damage is done in the states where the clinics have been shuttered. Like once they're forced to shut down, even if the law gets overturned, I can't imagine it'll be easy to re-open them with the "pro-life" folks fighting you through the zoning commission or whatever.
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SirKibbles posted:CIA doing some massive power grabs lately (spying on Senate etc.) Makes it easier to pull an Snowden or a Manning now that's it's all linked too. CIA ever done poo poo positive? Like with the FBI you get them loving with drug lords and the Klan but everything with the CIA is like funding death squads,coups,spying on civil rights activists/anti war protesters. By it's very nature, the success of great intelligence operations looks like an event from completely unrelated causes, so we have no way of knowing. That's a big part of why the CIA does terrible poo poo that blows up in our faces. Gotta justify that funding, can't point to your successes because it looks like you had nothing to do with it, so they come up with bigger and flashier things that they can point to. Which them go to poo poo because "big" "flashy" and "attributable" is the opposite of what they do so you end up with scenarios like Iran
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ufarn posted:Sure, if you read my post the wrong way. So what's the right way to read your post, because that's the only way it has anything to do with James Brady.
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Aug 4, 2014 19:22
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Munkeymon posted:That's not what you appear to think it means. Having a secure government-only version of AWS doesn't mean they'll all start pooling their data there and communicating better. Granted, it makes that easier, but so would any sane IT infrastructure (hello IRS, do you remember me from more than six months ago? no? wtf?). But the unified data pooling and communications has been the goal since the Patriot Act passed. This is a huge step to that, like you said.
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Aug 4, 2014 19:25
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Fried Chicken posted:So what's the right way to read your post, because that's the only way it has anything to do with James Brady. I think maybe when the dude wikipedia'ed James Brady he stopped at the "former Reagan press sec" line and didn't get to the "gun control" part.
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SirKibbles posted:CIA ever done poo poo positive? https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ Other than that, I don't know.
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Aug 4, 2014 19:31
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Fried Chicken posted:But the unified data pooling and communications has been the goal since the Patriot Act passed. This is a huge step to that, like you said. And now they have to overcome bureaucratic inertia which, if I remember my physics correctly, is the second most powerful force known to man after compound interest.
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Aug 4, 2014 19:39
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duz posted:https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ Argo was a decent movie. But as others have said, it's only when the CIA fucks up that we actually know about what they do, and people always remember fuckups way longer than successes.
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Aug 4, 2014 19:46
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Chris McDaniel is announcing his legal challenge to Thad Cochran beating him today and his staff is working overtime to  up their press releases.quote:The first draft of the press release according to the Daily Caller said that "Thad Cochran lost Republican votes in the runoff, but made up the difference with black democrat votes." That line was changed to "Thad Cochran lost Republican votes in the runoff and made up for the difference with Democrat votes." While one state over... quote:"This is a part of the war on whites that’s being launched by the Democratic Party. And the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else," [Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL)] told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham. "It's part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things. Well that’s not true." So John Roberts' post-racial United States is going well.
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Aug 4, 2014 19:55
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Fried Chicken posted:Actuary tables for black men are significantly worse than white. Looking at race on tables like this conflates socio-economic effects on health. He has the best health care in the country. He'll be around for a while.
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Aug 4, 2014 20:06
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Joementum posted:Chris McDaniel is announcing his legal challenge to Thad Cochran beating him today and his staff is working overtime to It's like Birth of a Nation, but real this time, guys.
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Aug 4, 2014 20:11
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Ron Jeremy posted:Looking at race on tables like this conflates socio-economic effects on health. He has the best health care in the country. He'll be around for a while. I mean, yes, part of it is SES, but part of it is literally that black people in the US don't live as long even after controlling for SES. Structural discrimination in society, including social discrimination, appears to have a health impact. (Which makes sense, given stress is a known negative factor for health and being discriminated against is a stressful experience.). As an example, one study correlated increased blood pressure to experience of workplace discrimination. So Thomas might outlive normal expectancy, but he's still more at risk than Scalia. (Which is too bad since, of the right wing of the court, he's the one I have the most respect for, even if the most disagreement.)
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Aug 4, 2014 20:32
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The same team of doctors that have kept Cheney alive will also go to work on the conservative SCOTUS Justices. I wouldn't be surprised if Thomas and Scalia see 150.
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Aug 4, 2014 20:36
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zoux posted:The same team of doctors that have kept Cheney alive will also go to work on the conservative SCOTUS Justices. I wouldn't be surprised if Thomas and Scalia see 150.
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zoux posted:The same team of doctors that have kept Cheney alive will also go to work on the conservative SCOTUS Justices. I wouldn't be surprised if Thomas and Scalia see 150. Apparently you don't need a pulse to shoot someone in the face. Dick Cheney is like a edited: better source material Pythagoras a trois fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Aug 4, 2014 |
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Aug 4, 2014 20:45
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Rip Clarence Thomas (b 2/23/1948, d. 1/22/2Xwhatever-year-a-Republcan-is-sworn-in-again.)
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http://gawker.com/gop-house-report-on-benghazi-concludes-there-is-no-beng-1615741728 GOP House Report on Benghazi Concludes There Is No Benghazi Scandal So now what?
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Flaggy posted:http://gawker.com/gop-house-report-on-benghazi-concludes-there-is-no-beng-1615741728 GOP House Report on Benghazi Concludes There Is No Benghazi Scandal Well I assume the GOP will now make a public and sincere apology for pursuing such an inane line of inquiry in the first place.
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Flaggy posted:http://gawker.com/gop-house-report-on-benghazi-concludes-there-is-no-beng-1615741728 GOP House Report on Benghazi Concludes There Is No Benghazi Scandal The other committees and hearings keep digging
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"My fellow Americans, today we lost one of the greatest jurists in American history. Justice Thomas was respected by his peers and all who knew him. As to his replacement, it seems like there's only one African-American with the necessary qualifications...*puts on robe* ahahahahahahahaha" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk-2ulMuD6M&t=130s
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Aug 4, 2014 20:52
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SedanChair posted:"My fellow Americans, today we lost one of the greatest jurists in American history. Justice Thomas was respected by his peers and all who knew him. As to his replacement, it seems like there's only one African-American with the necessary qualifications...*puts on robe* ahahahahahahahaha"
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Aug 4, 2014 20:53
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JT Jag posted:I want post-presidency Supreme Justice Obama so bad. You don't even loving know. How can a man serve on the Supreme Court when he himself is unconstitutional?
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Aug 4, 2014 20:54
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zoux posted:How can a man serve on the Supreme Court when he himself is unconstitutional?
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JT Jag posted:I want post-presidency Supreme Justice Obama so bad. You don't even loving know. We already have John Roberts on the court though. 
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The other issue is that Arabic has a letter that is basically a stop, a few sounds that exist in literally no other language, and way more K sounds than English. Arabic is really, really different from Germanic and Romance languages and just doesn't lend itself well to Roman characters. IPA for all. 
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SedanChair posted:"My fellow Americans, today we lost one of the greatest jurists in American history. Justice Thomas was respected by his peers and all who knew him. As to his replacement, it seems like there's only one African-American with the necessary qualifications...*puts on robe* ahahahahahahahaha" Please tell me there's an audiobook of Herzog reading the bible or at least revelations.
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JT Jag posted:I want post-presidency Supreme Justice Obama so bad. You don't even loving know. I get the feeling that Obama and Sotomayor would be BFF's that would take hijink packed road trips to see Whitesocks/Yankee games.  They would also keep putting whoopee cushions on Alito's and Robert's chairs.
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JT Jag posted:Nothing in the Constitution about Kenyans serving on the Supreme Court!! I can't express how funny I found this.
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The idea of Obama getting a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court after his Presidency makes me think longingly of the Freeper tears that would flow. It's not without precedent, after all...
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Alter Ego posted:The idea of Obama getting a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court after his Presidency makes me think longingly of the Freeper tears that would flow. The irony of someone that they continue to claim is out to destroy America put into place with the power they think he has now would, I think, make Freeper minds implode.
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