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JJLehto ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
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Well, tonight is the night the GOP gets rewarded for their taking the Supreme Court hostage.
Trump is to announce his pick in around 30 minutes, and (dangerous to say this!) if things go as expected....his pick will be either Tom Hardiman or Neil Gorsuch, with the latter having the edge. From all I read both are firmly conservative but in the normal realm...doesn't seem we're looking at Clarence Thomas/Robert Bork here. Gorsuch also has immaculate credentials and a good personality (unlike Scalia). Seems there's no ideological reason for the Dems to fight it....especially since that'd risk the filibuster and we're super f**ked down the road then. Democrats were screwed out of the chance to tilt the court in their favor BUT technically things will remain as before. 5-4 conservative with 3 hardliners and 2 moderates. Especially as Roberts has become quite centrist over time. The balance from pre Scalia to post wont be altered so guess the GOP has succeeded ![]() |
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SteveG ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20617 |
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This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State.
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npjnpj ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: December 05 2007 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 2720 |
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One thought about Trump's visit to the queen is: is it just a pussy thing or does he do corgies too?
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npjnpj ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: December 05 2007 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 2720 |
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@BaldFriede: Thanks, it works now, as you said.
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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They'll meet at their annual Bilderberg and Illuminati meetings.
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BaldFriede ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: June 02 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10266 |
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No, the ":" is missing in the web address. Just remove the "http//" and the link works. Edited by BaldFriede - January 31 2017 at 10:46 |
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npjnpj ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: December 05 2007 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 2720 |
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I now get a 404-error on those petitions links. Some evil play's afoot.
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BaldFriede ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: June 02 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10266 |
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There have occasionally been threats by Bavaria to leave the Federal Republic of Germany, especially when Franz Josef Strauss was still alive. Nothing ever came of it. The "Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft" (meaning "Munich Laughing- and Shooting Society"; the name is an untranslatable wordplay with "Wach- und Schließgesellschaft" meaning "security company" or literally "guarding and locking company"), a highly influential group of political cabaret in Germany (another one was the "Berliner Stachelschweine" meaning "Berlin Porcupines", both had regular TV-shows and occasionally worked together), at one time (in 1971) had a program called "Der Abfall Bayerns" ("The Secession of Bavaria"). For those of you who understand German here is a little excerpt from it, a song about smuggling goods into Bavaria that are forbidden or not available in seceded Bavaria: |
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npjnpj ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: December 05 2007 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 2720 |
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Why not let one monarch meet another?
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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Yeah why not, the protests that will dog his every step will be hilarious. Alternatively: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/171928
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Gamemako ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 31 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1184 |
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Appose? Typo, or genuine belief in comparative equivalence? //EDIT: Or maybe they believe Donald Trump is affixing their viewpoint to something? ![]() Edited by Gamemako - January 31 2017 at 09:48 |
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Hail Eris!
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Flight123 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 01 2010 Location: Sohar, Oman Status: Offline Points: 1399 |
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Looks like I have been 'sodded', thank you very much! No, don't want to see him here.
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Matthew _Gill ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 07 2012 Location: Wakefield Status: Offline Points: 347 |
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Sod the liberals, let him in
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progaardvark ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Crossover/Symphonic/RPI Teams Joined: June 14 2007 Location: Sea of Peas Status: Offline Points: 53964 |
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Something I don't think is getting enough press are Russia's ties to various secession movements in the United States. A rather compelling KQED article about Yes California published in December should have received more attention than it has.
I'm not entirely sure that the Rogue POTUS Staff Twitter account is legit, but one of the posts in reference to secession was rather alarming. See: https://twitter.com/RoguePOTUSStaff/status/825509928781623296 It seems rather doubtful to me that a succession movement could succeed in the U.S., particularly in light of this article in New York Magazine it sounds almost impossible: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/is-california-really-going-to-secede.html But, imagine the political ramifications of such a thing actually happening.
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i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
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npjnpj ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: December 05 2007 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 2720 |
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Ah, it's beginning to make sense now. Thanks.
![]() And what about the guy who was prevented fron entering the USA two or three days ago because records show that he stole a car on a previous visit (I'm not making this up). It didn't make any difference that at the time he 1) wasn't in the country, and 2) he was six xears old. He was still turned back. How ...?, I mean .... what?, .... words fail me. |
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BaldJean ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: May 28 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10387 |
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fake news: three year old Iran boy robs bank with shotgun
alternative facts: Iran has weapons of mass destruction Edited by BaldJean - January 31 2017 at 02:34 |
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![]() A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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npjnpj ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: December 05 2007 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 2720 |
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Sorry, yeah, I realise that. It wasn't a shot at what you were saying in any way. I just sort of made an association to this Spiegel article and went off on one.
On an entirely different note: could someone explain to me the difference between fake news and alternative facts? They seem to be the same, except one of them is Trump-approved, and the other one isn't. Edited by npjnpj - January 31 2017 at 02:25 |
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BaldJean ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: May 28 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10387 |
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I did not mention Kermani because he is a celebrity. I mentioned him because he is as unsuspicious of involvement in terrorist activities as can be. all his writings and speeches are proof of that
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![]() A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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npjnpj ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: December 05 2007 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 2720 |
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OK, I've calmed down now.
So, Sally Yates: 'Betrayal of the defense department' my arse. She was doing her job. Totalitarian state scare tactics. 'Nuff said. As for Nawid Kermani and others: The German Spiegel ran an incredibly annoying article on all the celebrities who would not be allowed into the USA any more. I don't give a crap about these celebrities (be they rappers, celebrity authors, or politicians, the poor lambs); I'm more concerned about the faceless normal people who are now summarily branded terrorists and have been uprooted from their daily existance. McCarthy, anyone? Edited by npjnpj - January 31 2017 at 01:26 |
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BaldJean ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: May 28 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10387 |
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just to show you what absurd results Trump's entry ban can have: Navid Kermani, an author who holds both German and Iranian citizenship, has won several awards for his literary and academic work, among them the Peace Prize of the German Booksellers' Association, and once even was suggested to become the new Federal President of Germany by the German Green Party, would not be allowed to enter the USA.
Friede and I have often listened to his extremely insightful comments on matters such as the Near East conflict or Iranian politics on the radio. but Trump would not want to have an intellectual like him to enter anyway. "he thinks too much. such men are dangerous" Edited by BaldJean - January 31 2017 at 01:12 |
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