Barack Obama and Neil Gorsuch were in the same Harvard Law School class, graduating in 1991.
Wifey said “Let’s hear Liberal’s take.”
Chris Matthews and snarky young guy couldn’t wait to proclaim that Gorsuch seemed like a fine person and wouldn’t get a single Dem vote. Might not be able to get McConnell to pull switch either on filibuster break.
Of course I liked him saying he wanted to interpret law through the original intent of the Constitution, so I could why that would get Libs in a tizzy.
If that had been what you’d said, I’d have responded on those terms. I’d have begun by explaining to you that this isn’t a trial or Senate hearing (not yet, anyway) – we are merely assessing the available (not to mention extraordinary) evidence and, upon your specific request, evaluating whether or not there exist facts which lead us to a plausible motive. There do, and then some. That has been established, and you have had both the opportunity and the desire – but not, alas, the ability – to rebut it.
But it doesn’t matter, because the above wasn’t what you said. You said:
…Which, as we have discovered beyond the possibility of doubt, was a wormish little bit of intellectual dishonesty on your part. Because even you don’t believe it – in fact, as with the rapist-Clinton-has-a-black-child paragraph above, you peddle fact-free rumor and tendentious shit as often as any other creepy loser who watches Stefan Molyneux videos and follows Thernovich on Twitter (again, for the purpose of contradistinction, the present matter involves sources like case officers at the CIA and award-winning war correspondents of unblemished reputation).
And that’s that.
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Not accepting some political claims is only getting you smh’s wrath.
Not believing in Jesus will get you the wrath of God.
Peace.
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If you find this symbol ironic you’ll love the fact that 1 of the 3 Co chairs of the recent women’s March in Washington(the largest single day demonstration in US History) is an supporter of Sharia law and proponent of Saudi Arabian “Maternity Leave”. Meet Linda Sarsour 
You didn’t bring up anything new just that you consider CIA intelligence reports as extraordinary evidence.
This discussion has become “nuh uh!” vs “uh huh!”
Personally, the way he has shown connection to his family to the point where he’s handing the company off to them, I find it hard to believe that he’d sell out generations of his family (and thus handlers of his company) and his legacy for whatever weak motive you’ve concocted. He also has no life history of embezzling funds and has never been convicted of any crimes? At 70 I doubt he’ll magically turn to a life of crime.
I don’t have a timeline in front of me of these apparently rock solid reports, but what was stopping the CIA from investigating him prior to the election? If the evidence is so bullet proof why couldn’t they move in? I mean Barack Obama who despises Trump was the president then?
Whatever you do don’t read my old posts from 2012 on PWI!
Simple. You pay for maternity leave with the interest that should be made on the loans.
In all seriousness it’s insane that it appears she would rather have 10 weeks paid maternity leave subsidized by the state, than drive.
It is difficult for me, when we look at how graciously social benefits have been expanded for workers, to take people like this seriously. As if profit margins can get any thinner.
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This is a profound case of the gimmies. She’d exchange 10 wks. paid maternity leave for the right to be killed by her husband for shaming her family in virtually any arbitrary way.
As I said upthread to Loppar about or protest crowd in the US…
Bullshit. Just because the laws allow it does not mean that their families or communities do. And that is often more powerful then government. These girls extol their rights, they get cut off from their families. You can take the family out of the tribe, but you cannot take the tribe out of the family.
Now I am not saying there are women who do freely choose to where the hijab, I know one. It depends on the community, how large it is and how Westernized they have become. The one I know, is very modern and one of the nicest people I have ever met. But she is not common.
There are honor killings, female circumcision, and female oppression happening right under the flag. They have the legal right, but they may not have the actual freedom. There is a big difference between the two.
I applaud you for having an open mind. Honestly, I wouldn’t know this stuff if I wasn’t married to a teacher.
Truthfully, I love the kids. I come in and help from time to time and they are a hoot, but half of them don’t have a prayer in hell of making it. It’s not anything more than their family keeping them down. I wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it for myself.
My heart aches for them, but if their parents and family don’t give even the slightest fuck, all we can do is tell them it’s possible. But they won’t believe it.
I dare say one’s family and/or community virtually always has a more powerful impact on one’s social-type choices than does the government. But that sort of compulsion is of a qualitatively different type than governmental decree.
A statement true of many religious communities. But if an American woman–be she Muslim, Pentecostal, Hasidim, or what have you–allows her family and/or community to have that sort of control over her life, that too is a choice. There’s simply no reasonable way to draw an equivalence between that and government-mandated wearing of the hijab.
That’s nonsense bordering on racism. All of us are descendants of ‘tribalists’ if you go back far enough.
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Police? Shit that was their top military academies. That was West Point. Pakistan was complicit with Bin Laden.
Here’s the thing. Here’s what I have noticed. One member of SEAL Team 6 was killed and 2 were injured in a raid in Yemen this past weekend. This is significant in it’s lack of media reaction or reaction in general. The media freaking out about a 3 month travel ban in several countries as if the U.S. has never imposed a travel ban before, yet we have SEAL Team 6, one of our more elite units carrying out a major action in Yemen. Why Yemen? Yemen is known for it’s proxy war between the Saudis and Iranians, the U.S.'s role is one of… concern, worth keeping a pulse on.
What is one of our more elite Special Forces teams doing carrying out a mission in Yemen? They caught Bin Laden in Pakistan, in the neighborhood of their best military training facilities and the team went in took out Bin Laden, captured his family, killed all his henchmen and took reams and reams of intelligence from the compound without getting caught, without a single casualty.
Assuming they were not less competent then in previous missions they went into a very hot zone to take out some high level ‘Al Qaeda’ targets. I believe it was something like that. But I also believe it was a major understatement. I am curious what we are doing in Yemen with our special forces. That’s the real news. Something significant was present and was a danger. I suppose we may never know what actually was going on, but this action was significant. I just don’t know why. This is not America’s typical stomping ground.
Yeah, I don’t think you get it at all. You buying a narrative that isn’t true. Pentecostals or what ever other demographic you wish to compare them too are not even the same ballpark. Hell, it’s not even the same game.
These women, coming out of some of these communities from the ME, though they live in the U.S. are not free. By the letter or the law, sure, but not by any measure we can even imagine. The gender discrimination of communities say from Pakistan or Bangladesh or even certain parts of Egypt, they have no rights it doesn’t matter what piece of dirt they are standing on does not change their situation.
You spare these women no horror by being sanctimonious. A clitorectomy is one of the most horrific things I have ever seen and know that it happens right under our noses. These people who do such things do not deserve our protection, they deserve our condemnation and the full weight of our justice system. Thousands of these type of things happen in those communities in this country.
Wake up, these women are not free, they are slaves.
Until the day that no single woman is forced to were a hijab, or worse, it should not be acknowledged as anything more than a symbol of oppression. Cloaking it in the stars and stripes does not remove the horrific reality from millions of oppressed women. This is not the symbol you want to use to support U.S. Muslims who are actually free and patriotic.
That would be like coloring in a picture of an American slave in the Stars and Stripes. I see no difference.
I was wondering the same thing, considering Saudi Arabias war against the Houthis I can’t imagine the Saudis were too pleased with our strike against a Sunni target in the country. Definitely an interesting story to follow.
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This seems more like an issue with peer pressure/pressure exerted by cultural and familial expectations, etc.
In other words… they’re something endemic to virtually all cultures and those who are of that particular culture are generally blind to it. It requires someone looking from the outside to recognize things for what they are.
Those operations aren’t supposed to be news.
Yemen has been a problem for quite a while and publicized well enough, depending on what you read. Our strategic interest is to keep the bab-el-mandeb strait open to ship movements to and from from the Mediterranean sea to the Indian Ocean.
and if you want to see the headlines some media outlets are running:
Never want to see children killed but holy hell that’s your headline eh?
I don’t know why these are news-worthy.
Nothing – which, one assumes, is why they did it. This has been made clear to you multiple times over the course of the foregoing miserable tour of your dull-eyed disinterest in the fundamental security of the country that has succored you despite your devotion to its histrionic feminization and idiocratic debasement. Never mind your ludicrous but teh childrenz show he didn’t collude with teh spiez effort: if you can’t even get the most basic elements of the timeline straight, why are you fucking wasting my time by pretending to have an opinion about any of this at all? Again you tried and again you fell face-first to the pavement – this time with an assist from your own stupid affinity for the shameless peddling of tendentious horseshit on the flimsiest possible evidence. Now you’re literally submitting for discussion your admitted inability to understand basic shit like what happened when. Better luck next time.