Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[iam416]

AlabamAlum's harassment of service industry workers is long and storied. From his refusal to tip over the most imaginary sleights to outright abuse of room cleaners, it's quite clear that he harbors some sort of hateful grudge against the menial members of society. That also explains his undying hatred of Dr. Strangelove.

[AlabamAlum]

it was an accident! I love the working people.

Again, from her POV, it had to be scary. She enters a guy's suite. He turns, looks at her, picks up a glass, and slams it on the floor, shattering it and sending shards of glass to every corner of the room. It still makes me laugh.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Well this is a fine mess...

[Da Geezer]

Justice Department preparing charges against Julian Assange. It's hard for me to figure out why Putin ordered Trump to do this.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/20/politics/julian-assange-wikileaks-us-charges/

[The Oracle]

Can't do anything right.

[THE_WIZARD_]

fuckin' Trump

[Wild Hoss]

I ran that through my SEC! filter and got "casino" as "Keno parlor", "suite" as "motel with kitchenette ", "bourbon" as "can of Busch Light", and "maid" as...well, nevermind the maid.

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[crashcourse]

It almost became inevitable toward the end of the 3rd quarter. Then it was just a matter of watching a slow motion plane crash. Your decades long support of K-State surely prepared you for such a debacle, but still. It made me feel so warm inside thinking of your frustration that I started writing out a check to you. Then I remembered my first principles: "Fuck over AA at every turn, and if not him, Crashcourse." So I stopped.

Hi!

bet you paid the second place guy

when you guys cut it from 20 to 10 to end the 4th I knew we were toast

just didn't expect it to be the old guys coming off the bench that did it

[entropy]

Justice Department preparing charges against Julian Assange. It's hard for me to figure out why Putin ordered Trump to do this.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/20/politi...ks-us-charges/

Not sure how I feel about this... govt needs a level of secrecy, but exposing bad acts is fine by me.


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[The Oracle]

Not sure how I feel about this... govt needs a level of secrecy, but exposing bad acts is fine by me.


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Definitely gray area. No doubt in my mind the clown show will eff it up tho.

[Whitley]

Have to wonder if this has anything to do with the Republicans being hacked same time DNC was. If Russia had anything on Republicans (and no one knows), this would be a smart move by the Republicans to take out the WikiLeaks founder as a preventive move, so if anything came out it would seem to be tainted.

[Da Geezer]

Not sure how I feel about this... govt needs a level of secrecy, but exposing bad acts is fine by me.

Yup. It is the same as with Snowden. I mostly like to know things that our rulers are trying to keep from us, but receiving and publishing classified material is a crime.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Not a single member of Congress that represents a district along the Mexican border supports Trump's $1.4 billion request to begin construction on The Wall.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/border-lawmakers-balk-at-donald-trumps-wall-request-1492802294

[Da Geezer]

From the Saturday WSJ: regarding why college students react so strongly to speech with which they disagree

But if risk-averse child-rearing is the source of the problem, why aren’t heterosexual white male students demanding “safe spaces”? They had the same kind of parents as the outraged young women who claim to be under lethal assault from the patriarchy. And they are the targets of a pervasive discourse that portrays them as the root of all evil. Unlike any other group on a college campus, they are stigmatized with impunity, blamed for everything from “rape culture” to racial oppression.

and goes on to conclude:

Campus intolerance is at root not a psychological phenomenon but an ideological one. At its center is a worldview that sees Western culture as endemically racist and sexist. The overriding goal of the educational establishment is to teach young people within the ever-growing list of official victim classifications to view themselves as existentially oppressed. One outcome of that teaching is the forceful silencing of contrarian speech.

probably paywalled:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/those-snowflakes-have-chilling-effects-even-beyond-the-campus-1492800913

[entropy]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democrats-nebraska.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FClinton%2C%20Hillary%20Rodham&action=click&contentCollection=politics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection&referer=https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/hillary-rodham-clinton?inline=nyt-per

Internal debate for Dems... are they the party of the worker or the progressive party? Which matters more?


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