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It begins?

Doom_Art posted...

tbh I'm not confident the GOP would put any consequences on Trump for it

This. Hopefully Mueller has some kind of kill-switch in place though.

The cruel irony is that both the modern Israelis and Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Israelites. The former are descended from those who left(either by choice or exile) and the latter those who stayed and eventually converted to Islam.
There's also the Versailles Treaty dimension to the issue too, because that thing messed up everything it touched on, but I digress.
This is a terrible development and represents a further degradation of modern Israel.

https://visitidaho.org/
Probably every state has one of these. Idaho probably can't afford to advertise, or Michigan just really wants New Englanders like me to visit.

Goku in Smash would definitely own. It's also probably more likely than playable Ridley.

It wouldn't surprise me if he did, honestly. Mueller's been following the trail, and is probably well within his immediate family(Don Jr. and Jared Kushner are probably dead-to-rights). He's getting increasingly desperate(and is also an idiot with idiot lawyers), so he's probably going to end up Saturday Night Massacre-ing it, except it will be even dumber and more transparent than when Nixon tried it. The likes of Jeff Flake and Ben Sasse will be livid, but nothing will happen until after mid-terms. Even then, there probably won't be enough votes to convict in the Senate.

I take a certain grim pleasure in seeing the president the FBI intentionally helped elect screw them over as hard as the rest of us.
With that said: https://twitter.com/abcpolitics/status/974833862462394370
Sounds like McCabe plans on going scorched-earth on Trump.

Does anyone like Jeff Flake?

Nope. Gutting welfare was a terrible mistake, and then there's everything else. We've had a run of mediocre-to-poor-to-terrible presidents of late.

This is troubling, but there's no evidence to suggest it was anything more than a lapse in judgment. We all make mistakes.

I have far too much left to do to go and die now. So yeah, it's scary to think about.

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

Keep in mind that these PA districts were so laughably gerrymandered in favor of Republicans that the PA Supreme Court declared the district map unconstitutional. The new districts drawn by the court will be used in November and are going to be much more equitable.

This district won't even exist in November, IIRC.
Looks like Lamb is going to pull it out though.

Capn Circus posted...

Looks like Lamb is only ahead by 95 votes, according to CNN.

It doesn't get much closer than that. Looks like there are still some votes left in Westmoreland. Razor-thin margin here.

Don't go counting chickens before they hatch. This is probably going to be close, and it's much too soon to say who has won.

Ex-Kefiroth posted...

It's gonna be a close one.

Watch for another group of house republicans to announce their retirements if this special election doesn't go their way

Yeah, definitely, this is a really red district, the GOP's struggles notwithstanding.
We'll find out real soon though, so there's that.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Steve Nick posted...

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Steve Nick posted...

Some people wanted him to sanction Russia for whatever reason. Trump said no.

He doesn't get to say no. The sanctions passed Congress nearly unanimously and were signed by his own hand. It's his constitutional duty to carry those sanctions out.

What you're saying is empirically false, as shown by the fact that he did say no, and nothing came of it.

The president has a constitutional obligation to faithfully uphold the duties of his office, and that includes implementing legislation that's passed Congress and been signed into law, regardless of whether or not he agrees with it. Trump and his party are trampling the Constitution because they aren't willing to actually prosecute his infractions, and you're perfectly okay with that?

Guess what: the only thing that can force Trump to carry out his duties is Congress, so this argument is purely academic. The president isn't supposed to ignore Congress, but he can if Congress lets him get away it(which this Congress will).

It's great for illegal stuff.

It's a distraction that gets air time because it's a sex scandal, and sex sells. And it can easily be reduced to a sound-bite and gossiped about endlessly. It's much better filler than talking about our gun control crisis, tariffs, Dreamers, or anything else that actually matters.

Something Ricked This Way Comes(already mentioned), Rest and Ricklaxation(the opening sequence alone makes it great), and Auto-Erotic Assimilation(Unity!)

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

IHeartRadiation posted...

There's very few reasons to take someone's head with you.

I'm going to leave it at that.

Yeah, having a severed head in your luggage is really damning. Like, only slightly less damning than a videotape of you actually severing aforementioned head. The Japanese justice system is going to ream him and we should let it.

Josh Gordon/Jarvis Landy/Corey Coleman looks like a pretty good receiving corp on paper. Certainly better than any Tyrod Taylor has thrown to in the past two years.
As a Bills fan, I'm happy Tyrod is going somewhere where I can still root for him. He may not be a world-beater, but he's a good quarterback and got a raw deal here. Hopefully we use all these draft picks we've been stockpiling to get a good quarterback, because I'll probably have an aneurysm if Sean McDermott tries to tell me Nathan Peterman gives us the best chance to win(again!)

It would be cool if it was Kanto+(think what BW2 did with Unova) and included both the Sevii Islands and Johto. Set it after USUM, have at least 300 or so pokemon obtainable pre-post game, have Kanto and Johto forms, etc. You could even have Gladion and Team Rainbow Rocket show up, and do something like Make Silver the Champion.
Basically, I'm down if they want to blend the old with the new and make an expanded region full of life. I'm not down for porting FR/LG and cludgy nonsense like Golbat not being able to evolve until you get the National Dex.

Mufflnz0rz posted...

Pretty sure this was the opposite of "generic" as far as MCU films go

The movie's genre could fall under comedy and nobody would bat an eye

Generic MCU is funny snark here and there. Thor 3 is all snark. Which is why I understand why some people don't like it, I'm fine with that, but generic is the last word I'd use to describe it.

Yeah, what struck me with Ragnarok is that it's funny. Really, genuinely, funny, without feeling forced. The entire sequence with Dr. Strange is a great example. Also Thor running into the Hulk the first time, or Jeff Goldblum(all of the Jeff Goldblum).
Apparently, a lot of the dialogue was ad-libbed, and it worked beautifully. If anything, I'd say the movie suffers a bit from Hela being a pretty generic antagonist, Cate Blanchett's performance notwithstanding.

I'm sure Jeff Flake and Mark Sanford are deeply concerned.
Just buckle up and enjoy the entirely senseless and damaging trade war.

The defense isn't what it used to be. Age is catching up to some of them, and the salary cap is bearing down on them too, IIRC. Good time for the Seahawks to reload.

Real talk: that dumb tree is hella dull.
Unless you have a power, then you kill him in five seconds.

Just picking up here in Southern Connecticut. Called out anyway: I was supposed to close, but screw that. Regional always drags its feet on closing stores.

I can recommend anything by Isaac Asimov. There are collections of short stories, the Foundation trilogy, and many more things I haven't read.

Nomadic View posted...

They supported socialist ideologies that he was peddling.

It's more that Hitler was blaming minorities, leftists and non-Germans for the country's problems while the SPD and KPD mostly fought each other and the conservatives chose to deliberately enable Hitler by making him Chancellor. The liberals twiddled their thumbs, per usual.

Ruvan22 posted...

Serious question from somebody that doesn't know a lot of legal details - can Trump issue a preemptive pardon? Something that would give him immunity from having the subpoena?

I'm not a legal expert, but I believe a pardon requires there to have been a crime to be issued. Furthermore, were Trump to pre-emptively pardon anyone Mueller has his hooks in, they would be unable to invoke the 5th to get out of testifying about their dealings(as they have already admitted guilt and been absolved of the consequences by accepting a presidential pardon), meaning they could be held in contempt if they refused to cooperate. And, of course, Trump can only pardon federal crimes: if one of the state attorney generals involved charged some one with something, Trump couldn't save them.

I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky right now. Recently, I've read a collection of Norse myths compiled by Neil Gaiman, A Shattered Peace by David Andelman(about the Versailles Peace Conference), and Close to Home, a materialist analysis of women's oppression by French feminist Christine Delphy.

s0nicfan posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Not all Islamic sects were/are against the depiction of Muhammad. The Mughals, for example, were very fond of depicting him.

I assume all of those sects were purged for heresy by the ones that are still around?

Not exactly, but the Ottomans ended up favoring more conservative schools in part to emphasize their status as the Caliphate, and never you Syrians, Kurds, Mesopotamians, Egyptians, etc. mind that the Turks are running the show. And, of course, the most influential sect in modern (Sunni) Islam is Saudi Wahabbism, which makes most 7th-century religions look forward-thinking.

Not all Islamic sects were/are against the depiction of Muhammad. The Mughals, for example, were very fond of depicting him.

Ok, we'll merge the Dakotas, because why not? Fold Idaho into Montana(we'll call it Montandaho), and partition Wyoming. Then let us merge Alabama and Mississippi, just so we can get Puerto Rico in. That probably won't actually make people care about it like they should though, but it's worth it shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huN376F3QTg&t=45s
For those who don't remember.
These games never scared me much, but the Forest Temple definitely has an eerie vibe to it.

It's funny, but the turnover stories are little more than chaff compared to his judicial appointments and other malfeasance.

Authoritarianism is on the rise once again. Liberal democracy has brought a crisis upon itself, and it will be we who suffer for it.

Reality is hard on them, and their ideology is driven by fear and suspicion.

If cops won't do their jobs, how can you expect people without training to? It's insane. The solution is to do as much as possible to remove guns from the equation, just like other countries have (successfully!) done.

Mikablu posted...

I care. I just don't have the money to get the expansion just yet.

You've got Cherryh though!
My first 2.0 game is still in its early stages. I border some marauders and Hegemonic Imperialists(they're Egalitarians like my Paxalus though, so relations aren't bad. Yet.) The entire sector is infested with amoebas, which complicates the building of good borders. I've lost two scientists to aforementioned marauders and the Dimensional Horror. I'm going to have Destroyers soon though, so that should take care of the amoeba problem. Haven't met anyone else yet, but the new border system leaves me constantly torn on where to build outposts.

I don't feel sorry for her one bit. That's what Dana Loesch went there to do. To incite anger against herself and the NRA, to attempt to make villains out the victims of a mass shooting that was abetted by the NRA's own political activities, so that they themselves could play the victim. So that they could muddy the waters. For that is all they and people like Dana Loesch ever do. Demonize the victims and the aggrieved.

Both the Cherryh patch and Apocalypse expansion are out.

AngelicTouch99 posted...

Vita_Aeterna posted...

TC doesn't want kids? Classic millenial.

Is that supposed to be a diss? Lol. Alot of us dont want kids, yeah

And even if we do, we probably can't afford to have kids.

I'm looking forward to it. We're getting a lot of cool stuff.
Also, way back when, just after Utopia, they did a Twitter poll on what the next major patch/expansion should focus on, between War, Diplomacy, and Body Pillows. War won. Perhaps Diplomacy is next? Body pillows though...

TheCyborgNinja posted...

Unless somebody is willing to change their mind, there's no point to discuss it other than sharing an opinion. What we get is people just attacking each other for "being wrong."

It's why I mostly just say my piece and move on.