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High Fructose Corn Spirit
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Aug 24, 2015 - 09:18am PT
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"People are so disgusted with Washington, what he sez, is refreshing. Pretty unreal." -jd
Yep, "pretty unreal" and yet there's some reality to it.
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Hey Crankster,
were Biden to enter the race (with a possible Biden Warren ticket to follow) would you vote Biden over Clinton?
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Aug 24, 2015 - 09:31am PT
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They should keep Obama another 4 years.
agreed. The learning curve for the job, is prolly around 1 or 2 Trillion wasted.
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Aug 24, 2015 - 10:30am PT
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Learning curve? To read a teleprompter?
Granted the puppet before the current one couldn't even do that.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 24, 2015 - 11:34am PT
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Boise, ID or the fricken Bakken, variously
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Aug 24, 2015 - 11:35am PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 24, 2015 - 11:40am PT
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Isn't adolphin' a verb?
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Aug 24, 2015 - 02:01pm PT
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Trump is 100% insane. Money addicts are worse than drug addicts, and Trump is about the worst.
Here is a story about Trump and what he calls "The World's Greatest Golf Course".
The Trumpelstiltskin Scottish Sand Swindle Scheme
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 24, 2015 - 05:26pm PT
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In the overall scheme of thing people ready for Donald....just aren't ready.
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Dave Davis
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 24, 2015 - 05:54pm PT
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Check out the latest issue of Rolling Stone. Matt Taibi (my favorite political writer) has a most perceptive and sometimes hilarious article on the Donald and the whole Republican Clown Car.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Aug 24, 2015 - 07:11pm PT
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The gop's 'lowest-common-denominator' 2016 Primary Tour is selling out to record crowds. By the time the election rolls around they'll be sponsoring workshops and townhall meetings with topics like:
* How to form a militia (and not shoot yourself)
* How to detect and report an anchor baby with your iPhone (with the new $19.95 add-on to your NRA app)
* Trapping socialists: punji or deadfall?
* Building a border fence around your own damn yard
* Traditional Marriage and Ashley Madison: Where's the line?
* Gay family members: Was it something I ate? A virus? (It's not your fault)
* Help! I'm being relocated to San Francisco: A straight christian's survival guide
* I think I may be gay: Next steps in regaining your virile masculinity
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 25, 2015 - 08:41am PT
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Anybody have relatives who are mentioned here?
A Brief Timeline of U.S. Policy on Immigration and Naturalization
1790 Congress adopts uniform rules so that any free white person could apply for citizenship after two years of residency.
1798 Alien and Sedition Acts required 14 years of residency before citizenship and provided for the deportation of "dangerous" aliens. Changed to five-year residency in 1800.
1819 First significant federal legislation on immigration. Includes reporting of immigration and rules for passengers from US ports bound for Europe
1846 Irish of all classes emigrate to the United States as a result of the potato famine.
1857 Dred Scott decision declared free Africans non-citizens.
1864 Contract Labor Law allowed recruiting of foreign labor.
1868 African Americans gained citizenship with 14th Amendment.
1875 Henderson v. Mayor of New York decision declared all state laws governing immigration unconstitutional; Congress must regulate "foreign commerce." Charity workers, burdened with helping immigrants, petition Congress to exercise authority and regulate immigration. Congress prohibits convicts and prostitutes from entering the country.
1880 The U.S. population is 50,155,783. More than 5.2 million immigrants enter the country between 1880 and 1890.
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. First federal immigration law suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years and barred Chinese in U.S. from citizenship. Also barred convicts, lunatics, and others unable to care for themselves from entering. Head tax placed on immigrants.
1885 Contract Labor Law. Unlawful to import unskilled aliens from overseas as laborers. Regulations did not pertain to those crossing land borders.
1888 For the first time since 1798, provisions are adopted for expulsion of aliens.
1889 Jane Addams founds Hull-House on Chicago's Near West Side.
1890 Foreign-born in US were 15% of population (14% in Vermont); more arriving from southern and eastern Europe ("new immigrants") than northern and western ("old immigrants"). Jacob Riis publishes "How the Other Half Lives."
1891 Bureau of Immigration established under the Treasury Department. More classes of aliens restricted including those who were monetarily assisted by others for their passage. Steamship companies were ordered to return ineligible immigrants to countries of origin.
1892 Ellis Island opened to screen immigrants entering on east coast. (Angel Island screened those on west coast.) Ellis Island officials reported that women traveling alone must be met by a man, or they were immediately deported.
1902 Chinese Exclusion Act renewed indefinitely.
1903 Anarchists, epileptics, polygamists, and beggars ruled inadmissible.
1905 Construction of Angel Island Immigration Station began in the area known as China Cove. Surrounded by public controversy from its inception, the station was finally put into operation in 1910. Although it was billed as the "Ellis Island of the West", within the Immigration Service it was known as "The Guardian of the Western Gate" and was designed control the flow of Chinese into the country, who were officially not welcome with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
1906 Procedural safeguards enacted for naturalization. Knowledge of English becomes a basic requirement.
1907 Head tax is raised. People with physical or mental defects, tuberculosis, and children unaccompanied by a parent are added to the exclusion list. Japan agreed to limit emigrants to US in return for elimination of segregating Japanese students in San Francisco schools.
1910 Dillingham Report from Congress assumed inferiority of "new immigrants" from southern and eastern Europe and suggested a literacy test to restrict their entry. (William P. Dillingham was a Senator from Vermont.)
1917 Immigration Act provided for literacy tests for those over 16 and established an "Asiatic Barred Zone," which barred all immigrants from Asia.
1921 Quota Act of 1921 limited immigrants to 3% of each nationality present in the US in 1910. This cut southern and eastern European immigrants to less than 1/4 of those in US before WW I. Asians still barred; no limits on western hemisphere. Non-quota category established: wives, children of citizens, learned professionals, and domestic servants not counted in quotas.
1922 Japanese made ineligible for citizenship.
1924 Quotas changed to 2% of each nationality based on numbers in US in 1890. Based on surnames (many anglicized at Ellis Island) and not the census figures, 82% of all immigrants allowed in the country came from western and northern Europe, 16% from southern and eastern Europe, 2% from the rest of the world. As no distinctions were made between refugees and immigrants, this limited Jewish emigres during 1930s and 40s.
Despite protests from many native people, Native Americans made citizens of the United States. Border Patrol established.
1929 The annual quotas of the 1924 Act are made permanent.
1940 Provided for finger printing and registering of all aliens.
1943 In the name of unity among the Allies, the Chinese Exclusion Laws were repealed, and China's quota was set at a token 105 immigrants annually. Basis of the Bracero Program established with importation of agricultural workers from North, South, and Central America.
1946 Procedures adopted to facilitate immigration of foreign-born wives, finace(e)s, husbands, and children of US armed forces personnel.
1948 Displaced Persons Act allowed 205,000 refugees over two years; gave priority to Baltic States refugees; admitted as quota immigrants. Technical provisions discriminated against Catholics and Jews; those were dropped in 1953, and 205,000 refugees were accepted as non-quota immigrants.
1950 The grounds for exclusion and deportation are expanded. All aliens required to report their addresses annually.
1952 Immigration and Nationality Act eliminated race as a bar to immigration or citizenship. Japan's quota was set at 185 annually. China's stayed at 105; other Asian countries were given 100 a piece. Northern and western Europe's quota was placed at 85% of all immigrants. Tighter restrictions were placed on immigrants coming from British colonies in order to stem the tide of black West Indians entering under Britain's generous quota. Non-quota class enlarged to include husbands of American women.
1953 The 1948 refugee law expanded to admit 200,000 above the existing limit
1965 Hart-Celler Act abolished national origins quotas, establishing separate ceilings for the eastern (170,000) and western (120,000) hemispheres (combined in 1978). Categories of preference based on family ties, critical skills, artistic excellence, and refugee status.
1978 Separate ceilings for Western and Eastern hemispheric immigration combined into a worldwide limit of 290,000.
1980 The Refugee Act removes refugees as a preference category; reduces worldwide ceiling for immigration to 270,000.
1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act provided for amnesty for many illegal aliens and sanctions for employers hiring illegals.
1989 A bill gives permanent status to non-immigrant registered nurses who have lived in US for at least three years and met established certification standards.
1990 Immigration Act of 1990 limited unskilled workers to 10,000/year; skilled labor requirements and immediate family reunification major goals. Continued to promote nuclear family model. Foreign-born in US was 7%.
2001 USA Patriot Act amended the Immigration and Nationality Act to broaden the scope of aliens ineligible for admission or deportable due to terrorist activities to include an alien who: (1) is a representative of a political, social, or similar group whose political endorsement of terrorist acts undermines U.S. antiterrorist efforts; (2) has used a position of prominence to endorse terrorist activity, or to persuade others to support such activity in a way that undermines U.S. antiterrorist efforts (or the child or spouse of such an alien under specified circumstances); or (3) has been associated with a terrorist organization and intends to engage in threatening activities while in the United States.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Aug 25, 2015 - 09:00am PT
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Funny stuff, zBrown and Skully. Thanks for the laughs.
That Trumpelstilskin article is really good.
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jstan
climber
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Aug 25, 2015 - 09:26am PT
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Since the big War we have changed news reporting from an essential part of running a republic into "infotainment". Trump has extended this to the point of making elections themselves into "electainment." This is all so, so, Romanesque.
But one thing we can't call Trump is stupid. He sees us for what we are and has freed himself to sell apples during the primary and switch to oranges during the election, without missing a beat. I think the label stupid rests a little closer to home.
And in this free for Trump period any slime he puts on his chief rival, unelectable though Bush most probably is, Bush will never be able to clean it off. The first thing a person hears is the thing that person remembers. Bush is frankly down for the count. So we owe Trump for that, assuredly.
It may be time for the republicans, now as in 1932, to declare they just don't have a candidate.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Aug 25, 2015 - 10:42am PT
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protected by two oceans and Canada!
There, I fixed it for you.
%^)
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 25, 2015 - 11:31am PT
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As a country, we are circling the drain. I think people actually bought into the "American exceptionalism" bullsh#t. We were LUCKY. Giant pool of natural resources, protected by two oceans, only manufacturing center left standing after WWII.
I rather suspect that if this is true, it's because we've given up on "american exceptionalism," and tried to be like everyone else. That said, I can't imagine why any sentient being would vote for Chump. His vacuous rhetoric makes the other candidates' empty promises seem specific and serious.
John
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Aug 25, 2015 - 11:41am PT
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We foolishly squandered our exceptionalism
and squandered the future by diverting our treasury from society and into the pockets of the rich.
We were great when we built this nation, we don't build our nation anymore, we just tear it apart and sell off any part of it for a buck.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Aug 25, 2015 - 11:58am PT
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I can't imagine why any sentient being would vote for Chump.
Because he is the Republican ID laid bare. The perfect embodiment of the GOP base voters...loud, belligerent, moronic, unapologetic, xenophobic clowns.
He has traction because he will stand up and say all the nasty little things those base voters actually believe, but were for so long only conveyed by their candidates via dog-whistle sh#t like Regan announcing in Philadelphia Mississippi, the entire "birther" nonsense, and the "welfare queens in cadillacs and strapping young bucks buying t-bone steaks with their foodstamps" narratives. T-Rump will just stand there and say it, and when people incredulously point out that he is either xenophobic or insane, he doubles down or tosses out non-sequiturs. The base rubes are too stupid to notice or too small-minded to care.
Build a party based on throwing red meat to the rubes, eventually the inmates take over the asylum. They don't need and haven't had a coherent policy agenda for about two decades now, it's just tribal resentment politics. The so-called "conservative" party who spend like drunken sailors, just don't raise the revenue to pay for it, nor spend it on anything that benefits the vast majority of the population (although defense contractors make out just fine). The only thing they are out to "converse" is white male privilege and the 1% raking off all the productivity and income gains leaving a hollowed-out middle class and sinking nation in their wake.
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