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by hga 10y ago
And now she'll be charged with filing a false police report: http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/woman-faces-criminal-charges... As the son of a Cajun, I don't think Louisiana is a good place to try such a s
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by hga 10y ago
You sure continuing our mostly cold civil war isn't an option in the middle? What would spark the bloody and violent civil war? Seriously, me and mine are prepared for one and continuously upping our preparations (note, those hold as
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by hga 10y ago
Just for now: Obviously I disagree with the "out of bounds" analysis, and something has prompted Americans to buy arms at unprecedented rates, and for years with few breaks, more each month than the same month in the previous ye
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by hga 10y ago
Many states have automatic recount policies or laws if an election is too close, and that can kick in for positions other than president, and obviously every Federal House seat was up for election. That might cover Michigan, but it would n
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by hga 10y ago
People were horrible to that woman. Do you suppose that might just have happened because she's a horrible person? If you remember the 1990s, do you remember Billy Dale? Waco? Gary Aldrich (and if you do, was enforcing a no no-pan r
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by hga 10y ago
In the 1990s, Hillary Clinton got the shit kicked out of her by that same corrupt establishment for (a) trying to fix healthcare, and (b) being a woman and having an IQ over 140. Incompetently trying to fix healthcare. Let's not fo
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by hga 10y ago
That's pretty much the whole point, or at least that you have to assume that any other report from the organization could be equally inaccurate. Or worse. Or better; what it says is that their editorial process is fatally flawed.
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by hga 10y ago
Trump's position was the "Intel, not Infosys" one, where people like you wouldn't likely see a change, except possibly for joeclark77's point about entry level jobs.
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by hga 10y ago
Errr, I'm referring to this FCC policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine a rather brutal tactic by Truman that I've read Eisenhower used as well. Zapping it allowed for frankly "unbalance
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by hga 10y ago
Yow. And that article, with a wild guess for the figure, is 2 days old. Just did a search, and the LA Times says the official figure is now 4,362,087 and may change ( http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la
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by hga 10y ago
In other words, you see the resources being used in "targeting a specific population" as essentially infinite, not to mention that the extraction of them is without serious problems. That's simply not the world I see myself
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by hga 10y ago
And one response I have to that, developed from this conversation, is that this election is a turnout anomaly because the GOPe sabotaged the GOTV effort for Trump ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12932865 for a bit mor
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by hga 10y ago
One strong suggestion, don't fall prey to the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect ( http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel... ). Once you realize a source is sufficiently wrong , completely remove it fr
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by hga 10y ago
One other thing to factor in: the GOPe brazenly sabotaged the GOTV effort for Trump. I doubt we would be discussing the "he lost the popular vote" trope if they'd just run their normal one, even a post 2010 normal one (Miche
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by hga 10y ago
E.g. the coal miners who voted for Trump because he promised them their jobs back. At least I think, it will difficult to return coal to its former "glory" with the current energy landscape (e.g. cheap and plenty oil as well as c
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by hga 10y ago
OK, I suppose if I'm dismissing it because it's rare, it's due to our disparate histories, I'm much older, the first election I watched closely having come of political age intellectually was Nixon v. McGovern in 1972, a
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by hga 10y ago
At my age of near 56, I have found pretty much nothing in my mental toolbox to be more useful than a well honed BS meter, be it ordering things on Amazon or wading through our political swamps.
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The problem is, it's anything but tangential. It flows directly from the French Revolution, and became a big thing in the US in the cultural '60s, which extended into the calendar '70s, the idea that the menu of solutions
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by hga 10y ago
Heh, you're very welcome, and note that with an anodyne user ID like yours it took more for me to notice you, and, yeah, civility helps, and the lack of it is a key to understanding the changes in the US, which go back ... 100 years, m
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by hga 10y ago
As for access to voting, I think we could benefit from electronic or more mail-in. Those, however, allow for vote buying and coercion, so I utterly oppose them.
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by hga 10y ago
You're ignoring the case where resource A is finite, or relatively so, health care, especially in the US where the Federal government controls the number of new doctors and hospital beds and requires emergency room care for all is a gr
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by hga 10y ago
In particular, if you attack (verbally or physically), shame, fire, riot against those whose opinion you want to change, I can't imagine you'll achieve much. When it comes to the disemploying and physical violence, I assure you
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by hga 10y ago
Yeah, but Fayetteville, which I have the most familiarity with (my father did his first year or two of college there, and it's close to Joplin) is not Little Rock, and we're also talking about the early-mid '70s, not the earl
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by hga 10y ago
"tea party rabble"? Thanks for sharing that with us. But he ran strongly to the right of the GOPe on: Immigration The Muslim subset of that Globalism The Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA) Political Correctness Related, respect fo
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by hga 10y ago
and his team reaching out to Dimon on day one makes a complete mockery of 'anti-establishment expectations from his supporters You don't suppose that might be a lie designed to sabotage him starting out the gates, or that Dimon&
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by hga 10y ago
As explained in a letter to the editor in The Wall Street Journal , a tax deductible bribe, the way the scam works is that someone at the trading firm violates the wall between the front and back offices. They place equal and opposite t
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by hga 10y ago
Don't know who Steven Mnuchin is. "Establishment Authorities", and I should emphasize I'm talking about "Authorities", not, for example, the ever more loathed GOPe(stablishment), on the Right who haven't e
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by hga 10y ago
Why? What have they done? Hired an explicitly politically biased person to do their political "debunking", see the item mdpopescu linked to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12930881 With of course the pred
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by hga 10y ago
Are you saying you dismiss Snopes as being left-biased, therefore the matter over whether "Hillary Clinton was fired with prejudice" is still not resolved? Yes. As for the rest, I believe the evidence I've seen that this wa
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by hga 10y ago
The man who completely called it wrong WRT to Trump in the primaries, and I seem to remember seeing a Tweet where he called both the final election and the World Series wrong (and the latter domain is where he first made his bones)? I'

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