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Norton
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Mar 29, 2016 - 07:00pm PT
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I know Dirtbag was being sarcastic.
I was following up with a question to whom he was responding to, that ok?
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Craig Fry
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So Cal.
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Mar 29, 2016 - 07:54pm PT
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I like Bill Maher and I enjoy all kinds of different comedic perspectives
Do you really have be so judgmental at comics that say what they want?
Can't you pick on the other 80% that are way worse.
What they say doesn't influence my reality, it's either funny or not
Let it go, look at every perspective, educate yourself to be able to discriminate
I like to be able to laugh at the unconventional
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HighDesertDJ
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 30, 2016 - 05:22am PT
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Craig posted Do you really have be so judgmental at comics that say what they want?
Can't you pick on the other 80% that are way worse.
Who is way worse than Maher on religion? Again, Maher doesn't just make exaggerated, edgy jokes on the issue he then turns to the camera and says "but seriously..." and makes earnest, long winded statements that are completely intolerant and obnoxious. Why apologize for or minimize the boorish behavior of someone just because you like some of the other things they say? You can enjoy his ideas or comedy and still criticize him. In fact, I would say that the only way to demonstrate ideological consistency is TO call people out for this behavior. It is exactly that sort of tribalism that stands in the way of authentically addressing a lot of the issues we have. I see pro-Sanders liberals invoking gender stereotypical criticisms against Clinton all they time. Should we really tolerate this behavior just because someone is on "our side" when it comes to partisan politics? This is exactly the kind of "but he says what he thinks!" that Trump supporters use to excuse their permissiveness for their candidate's statements.
Richmond, Ca. has started paying high-risk people to not commit murder and many other cities are looking at replicating the program.
RICHMOND, Calif. — The odds were good that Lonnie Holmes, 21, would be the next person to kill or be killed in this working-class suburb north of San Francisco.
Four of his cousins had died in shootings. He was a passenger in a car involved in a drive-by shooting, police said. And he was arrested for carrying a loaded gun.
But when Holmes was released from prison last year, officials in this city offered something unusual to try to keep him alive: money. They began paying Holmes as much as $1,000 a month not to commit another gun crime.
Cities across the country, beginning with the District of Columbia, are moving to copy Richmond’s controversial approach because early indications show it has helped reduce homicide rates.
Trump has declared he will no longer stick to his pledge not to run as a third party candidate if he loses his bid for the Republican nomination. Likewise, Kasich has stated that he will not support the nominee if it is someone he feels is harming the country.
Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday night that he no longer vowed to support the Republican nominee if it isn’t him, despite a loyalty pledge that all Republican primary candidates signed last year.
“No, I don’t anymore,” Mr. Trump said at a town hall forum on CNN when prompted by the moderator, Anderson Cooper. “No, we’ll see who it is.”
When Mr. Cooper pointed out that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Mr. Trump’s chief rival for the nomination, had walked up to the line but not crossed it in terms of saying he wouldn’t support the nominee, Mr. Trump replied, “He doesn’t have to support me.”
The senator — whose wife Mr. Trump threatened to “spill the beans” about after a “super PAC” formed to stop his candidacy ran an ad featuring an old photograph of his wife, Melania, a former model — stopped short of saying he wouldn’t support Mr. Trump. Instead, Mr. Cruz said that such a situation would not come to pass because he will be the nominee.
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio was more explicit, saying that if the nominee is someone who “is really hurting the country and dividing the country,” then he just wasn’t sure. Pressed by Mr. Cooper as to whether he was saying he thinks that is what Mr. Trump is doing, Mr. Kasich declined to elaborate.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Mar 30, 2016 - 07:30am PT
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Who is way worse than Maher on religion? Again, Maher doesn't just make exaggerated... -hddj
Who are you, the Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio of the Left? What a truly sad and embarrassing post and description particularly if in any way you represent leftist or liberal politics.
"about things that I have no knowledge of..." -hddj
That's right. You know nothing it seems outside of YOUR "media-centric" world. Either regarding Islamic religion or ME politics or Bill Maher.
Maher has interviewed Aayan Hirsi Ali to Jimmy Carter to Bernie Sanders on his show. All thoughtful and friendly and forward moving pieces. Have you watched any of them?
What about the afore videos I posted where Maher supports ex-muslims and reform-minded Muslims. Did you give enough of a damn to watch them. He's been concerned about and in support of these oppressed people for years.
Regarding the afore videos (which are representative of Maher's interests regarding religion and the Middle East), what did we hear from hddj ? Crickets. Not a peep. Why? How come? These videos and dozens more are proof in the pudding that Maher has a serious side, is concerned and fully on top of these important issues.
It's a real busy day for me otherwise figuratively speaking I love to hang out here and tear you a new as#@&%e or two. From what I see you really deserve it.
And I'm sure John M, with his high acumen, will jump in here any moment to add his two cents. (Yesterday calling Maher an as#@&%e in his post, then revising, then going on to say how he thinks differently now because he's a changed person, no longer a "pissed off human". lol)
"I know little of these things..." -hddj
Damn straight. That's for sure at least in this particular exchange.
Some would rather just post - and post and post and post - it seems rather than advance their understanding.
This place has grown excruciatingly boring in the last couple years largely because of silly people (silly political hacks?) like you.
Beta: Go to Twitter, hddj. Don't just check out the number of Maher's followers - that' pretty superficial granted - but more importantly WHO follows him.
Who are your (quality) followers, Hddj?
PS
I've never ever used this (apparently effective) grease monkey script here at ST - not once - but for the first time ever you are giving me second thoughts about doing so - particularly if I want to continue to participate, read quality posts in quality time from fellow liberals and not here such rampant bs from sam.e
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John M
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Mar 30, 2016 - 09:29am PT
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He is an as#@&%e dude. I am just trying to not use those words anymore. But a spade is still a spade, no matter what words I or anyone chooses to use to describe it.
change isn't black and white. It most often happens slowly.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 30, 2016 - 11:22am PT
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Bill Maher isn't a bigot because religious people follow him on twitter also: reasons
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HFCS I've generally been ignoring you but this got a good laugh. Thanks, buddy. Never stop posting.
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Mar 30, 2016 - 06:38pm PT
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If they don't reveal this to the media immediately, we will just have to assume the worst
And it is Cruz
Or Hillary
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Norton
Social climber
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Mar 30, 2016 - 06:47pm PT
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Or Hillary
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please help me understand how you figure Hillary's phone number would be associated with a Washington "brothel"?
thanks
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Mar 30, 2016 - 06:48pm PT
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We need to know now
Who is this person?
or the speculation will just go Werner!!
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Mar 30, 2016 - 08:17pm PT
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please help me understand how you figure Hillary's phone number would be associated with a Washington "brothel"?
They called her looking for Bill. Duh.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 31, 2016 - 05:19am PT
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MH posted It will be more than amusing if the Republican nomination is decided by the courts - especially if it is decided by the Supreme Court, as seems increasingly likely. Particularly if the decision is a 4-4 tie.
I'd guess this is unlikely. Any court decision would almost certainly revolve around the legality of private entities to organize as they wish and that's something you're not going to see a traditional partisan divide on.
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-35918844
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
The thing I love more than anything on this story is the fact that in a couple of the articles, the only reason any countries are interested in following up is to get any owed back taxes from the citizens that might have used the tax havens.
Because, as we know, the only reason for government to exist anymore is revenue generation. .Gov has gotta get their money!
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 4, 2016 - 08:30am PT
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Sanders supporters are losing their goddam minds because he picked up a couple of delegates in Nevada after the county elections which might "flip" Nevada to a Sanders "win." I find it particularly ironic that a group of people incensed about the "voice of the people" not counting in regards to superdelegates are so excited about having potentially gained an advantage based on party insiders voicing their opinions after election day.
SCOTUS just clarified their viewpoint on "1 person 1 vote" and ruled that people not eligible to vote can be used in calculating congressional districts.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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SCOTUS just clarified their viewpoint on "1 person 1 vote" and ruled that people not eligible to vote can be used in calculating congressional districts.
Bu-bu-bu-but I thought SCOTUS couldn't do anything because those mean Republicans aren't letting Obama put his favorite hard core liberal on the Court!
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Norton
Social climber
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well blah blah
it seems the Republicans have shot themselves in their own foot
this time by making it harder for the SC to overturn lower court decisions
5-3 is harder to get than 5-4 when you lose a reliable right wing Scalia
twice recently now 4-4 have allowed lower court's decisions to stand, great example just last week when unions won a major victory at the Supreme Court
can't see how McConnell figures President Hillary Clinton appointing a justice is any different than President Obama's, but then he doesn't seem to figure very good
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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McConnell is counting on stealing the election
so they have to dump Trump first
and then install a new Republican dupe because Cruz is unsuitable and called him a liar,
which will win with their election fraud system,
and he will appoint whoever Mitch decides will be able to carry the load of being a far right wing anti-constitutionalist liar like Scalia
Trump gives poor little Mitchy so new many problems that he has to deal with, why couldn't JEB! stick it out to the end, he would have been so easy to install as their hand maiden.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Norton repeat this 100 times and maybe you'll get it . . .
"Conservatives will NOT be better off with another liberal on SCOTUS, Conservatives will NOT be better off with another liberal on SCOTUS, . . ."
I don't meat to rag on you too badly as we all make mistakes, but this silly fantasy you've constructed that somehow the 4-4 split decisions we now have are hurting conservatives more than 5-4 decisions against them would is just 100% nonsense, it's not worth engaging in a debate.
I'm trying to help you understand this in a lighthearted way, but you're trying my patience.
I'll try one more time:
The conservatives lost a vote with Scalia's death and went from having a 5-4 majority (in most cases) to a 4-4 tie. They won't be helped by going from a 4-4 tie to a 4-5 loss.
This is not to say I support the Repub strategy of not giving Obama's nominee a hearing (I don't), but that's another matter.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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The black robes are suppressing freedom of speech by taking over mass media and oppressing any opposition.
Well, what goes around comes around. The liberals took over mass media
and screwed things up so now they get to see what it's like from the
other side. The Christmas mass attacks in Germany went largely unreported
according to my nephew who is living there. In Sweden the huge crime wave
being fueled by the muslim immigrants is almost completely unreported as
is the fact that the police do not even go into the muslim areas which is
the same as in France. People are getting pretty tired of that sh!t.
Off topic, Moosie, but The Economist published an interesting story about a
large study done about Europeans' views of other Europeans and life in other
countries and everybody seems to think Poland is the worst place to live in
Europe, even worse than Greece. At least in Greece it is warm, I guess.
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Norton
Social climber
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you don't get it, do you blah blah?
Two recent SC decisions went AGAINST your "conservatives"
including a biggie, a union 4-4 tie that does not overturn the lower court
do you not understand this, the morons in the Senate you vote for are screwing themselves, take some time, think on this, then more time
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