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The Donald for President
http://www.c-span.org/video/?326473-1/donald-trump-presidential-campaign-announcement The clown car is filling up
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Jeb's Tweet
Good God Almighty! It's like this Republican primary is being held in a different, time, space, and dimension from the one in which I live. https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/699706718419345408
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The Fallacy Of Capitalism
The biggest unicorn and rainbows myth is this notion that current day capitalism is good for people. An economic system that does not factor the single most important line item in a societal ledger: SUSTAINABILITY This undeniable truth will eventually be learned but it will be too late for many.…
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Biggest Tax Scam Ever
…brought to you by the US Congress, in bed with corporatism. This has been going on for years, yet only now with corporations flaunting their actions, is it now getting this kind of public attention. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-biggest-tax-scam-ever-20140827 Some of America's top corporations are parking…
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Scalia dead
http://m.mysanantonio.com/news/us-world/article/Senior-Associate-Justice-Antonin-Scalia-found-6828930.php
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Humans and Neanderthals...got a little in us ?
A new study has shown that humans interbred with Neanderthals approximately 100,000 years ago, between 40,000 and 50,000 years earlier than first thought. The new study, published in the journal Nature, reports that genetic analysis of the remains of a Neanderthal woman detected residual DNA from Homo sapiens, a sign of…
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Cancer
I sit out here at the parents house waiting for it to claim the life of my stepfather. They say the end is any minute. I type away on an iPhone with nearly a fully drained battery and I had the thought that I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I'm somewhat filled with regret that I didn't spend more time with him. You…
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No to increased taxes
Why should I pay for all this extra stuff Bernie and Hillary want to do? I am a self made man. I went into the Marine Corps at 19. I earned my GI Bill and used that to better myself in my late 20's when I went back to school. I took a bus for 6 hours to get from school to work, slept a few hours and repeated that process…
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The Cold War, Part 2 ... Putin Rising
Well, it's officially on. Even if no one else really wants to play. Russians warned if they go abroad, US might snatch them US secret services are actively 'hunting' and jailing Russians in revenge for the annexation of Crimea – or so a warning by the Russian Foreign Ministry says. It's not your typical travel advisory.…
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Women being shamed to vote for Hillary
How do all the women here feel about a special place in Hell if you don't vote for Hillary? http://fortune.com/2016/02/07/gloria-steinem-madeleine-albright/ Video here. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/us/politics/gloria-steinem-madeleine-albright-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders.html?referer=https://www.google.com/
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"The Crash of 2016", An emerging reality or an overblown scenario?
I must confess to not having yet read the book that prompted me to ask what you all think about this subject but I have talked to others about it and read various accounts (most of which so far have not impressed me much) that predict something similar: Is America headed for a major economic crash in the near future?…
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Justice Scalia found dead.
Wow - this shocked me. Didn't see this coming. Found dead at a resort when he didn't show for breakfast. 79 years old. No matter your politics - he was a brilliant man who was liked by his peers and leaves behind a wife and children. There are implications of course, but right now it's a jolting piece of breaking news and…
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Hillary
I don't see Hillary thread so I decided to make one. I don't want it to be a strictly smear thread, not my intention. Hoping it can be a good discussion, I know there are a couple Clinton supporters here. But Check out this video for who's running her campaign. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S03y_B-GvSg
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DNC rolls back Obama ban
I wonder which candidate this will benefit. I hope Obama makes some sort of public statement regarding this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-allowing-donations-from-federal-lobbyists-and-pacs/2016/02/12/22b1c38c-d196-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html
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2016 Moving Train Tour
What shows are Train "regulars" attending??
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Huge Explosion at Japanese Nuclear Plant
This looks bad: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219 Japan quake: Huge explosion at Fukushima nuclear plant A massive explosion has struck a Japanese nuclear power plant after Friday's devastating earthquake. A huge pall of smoke was seen coming from the plant at Fukushima and several workers were injured.…
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A Few Words in Defense of Baby Boomers
Because I started a thread that pretty much morphed into a bash on Baby Boomers, I feel a bit of an obligation to say a few words in defense of my generation. I get it that younger generations have issues with us boomers. In fact, I was the first person on that thread to disparage my own generation. But as much as it might…
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Trolls
https://youtu.be/6Zxy_dScjsM Sound like anyone you've encountered? If so, glean some insight from the video. I know that when I see certain screen names "participating" in a thread I've opened, I back out of that thread immediately.
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An Open Letter to Pearl Jam: Get off the sidelines and join the political revolution!
Dear Ed, Stone, Jeff, Mike, Matt, and Boom - If there was any doubt about the potential for a real political revolution in this country, the Iowa voters erased that doubt last night. Their message to the political establishment was what Dylan sang back in 1965: Your old road is rapidly fading; please get out of the new one…
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Why is it that change so often is mostly supported by the young?
I would think it's the other way around. The older I get, the more I desire to see positive and healthy changes in the world, both environmentally, socially, politically and culturally. Young people generally get what I'm saying here (look at how many young folks are Bernie fans or who participated in the Occupy movement,…
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Senator wants to be sworn in on the Quran. Unamarican?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-12-01-muslim-lawmaker_x.htm Newly elected Muslim lawmaker under fire Posted 12/1/2006 6:58 AM ET E-mail | Save | Print | Reprints & Permissions | Subscribe to stories like this Enlarge By Tim Dillon, USA TODAY Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison has caused a stir after choosing to…
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Museums Banning Selfie Sticks
I was just reading an article in the Winnipeg Free Press that the Canadian Museum of Human Rights has banned selfie-sticks. And it goes on to say that many museums around the world (mostly prominent ones) are doing/have done the same. Some complain that it's too harsh. The museums say it could damage technology in use at…
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I need ideas for leading distance mentorships
I was wondering if you could help me think of ways that we can build friendships or understanding among high-school-aged folks when there are big walls that weren't even built by the orangutrump. I'm moving to Somaliland in a few months, which is an unrecognized nation-state of Somalia with Islamic traditions as law (to…
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What if Humans Aren’t the Most Intelligent Creatures on the Planet?
Doesn't seem like a far fetched idea to me at all. What do you think? (Too long to post the whole article, see link) http://upliftconnect.com/humans-arent-intelligent-creatures-planet/ What if Humans Aren’t the Most Intelligent Creatures on the Planet? Paul Watson Asks us to Redefine Intelligence Cetologists observe,…
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British Pilot Roger Gower Killed by Elephant Poachers
This is the second murder in two weeks of brave souls working to protect African wildlife. Gower was shot down Friday while tracking poachers and last week Sebinyenzi Bavukirahe Yacinthe, a 40 year old ranger protecting the Virunga National Park was murdered by poachers. Paul Watson summed up the situation well here: "Big…
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2016 Candidate Matchmaker
http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2016/politics/election-candidate-matchmaker/ I got O'Malley I think my answer to Obamacare pushed Sanders to 3rd.
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Refugee crisis
I think the west should be doing more. What does everyone else think?