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2 minutes ago, Tuco said:
Also keep in mind that he was talking to the President, on a cell phone, in a restaurant, in Ukraine. You have to wonder how many intelligence agencies have a recording of that conversation.
Yeah, I can just imagine the reaction in the (insert name of country here) surveillance van:
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1 minute ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:
Donald.
Fucking Mueller
So this would have been in the redacted portion and I guess Mueller felt that this was either more in line with his obstruction punt to congress or he felt that this bit of evidence did not rise to the level of criminal conspiracy.
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16 minutes ago, triplehorn said:
Fruit of the Roger Stone trial:
Trump continues to lie and obstruct justice to hide you know what.
...so Trump denied under oath, or Stone did?
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1 minute ago, David Dennison said:
That's where John Bolton would really help.
I feel wanting John Bolton to testify is like routing for OU when it might be beneficial to the Longhorns...seems like you should, but never , never do it.
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28 minutes ago, burntorangebongos said:
I think for folks like them who have made their money, that Fox's message of fear resonates. Fear the left because, they will take away what you have and redistribute it. Fear the brown people because they will replace you. Fear the other and you are smart for seeing this and getting ready to fight against it.
We don't have a common purpose like the space race or ensuring we create smart, well educated kids. So we are bereft of a purpose so this gets filled by self interest and protecting your own, even at the expense of others. And Fox tells you that it is OK because you worked hard and so fuck the weak and the newly arrived. Go ahead and close the door because the country is full. Isn't that what Trump said one time? The country is full.
Fuck, we have a lot of work to do to clean up the crazy notions and the dark forces that are feeding this drivel and appealing to our lizard brains.
This and a lot of people who have made their money consider themselves rich, but do not truly comprehend that they are they are being played by the really rich.
These guys also have a hard time telling the difference between patriotism and nationalism.
The old are especially vulnerable to this replacement message. The truth is, is that they are being replaced, but that is just part of getting old and being part of a society that is moving at a faster pace than when they were young coupled with the fact that they are moving slower while everything else is moving faster. They feel it more than the rest of us and lash out at parties that are not responsible.
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56 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
Can anyone point me to a comprehensive link detailing Trump's alleged violations of US law? I've been challenged by a Trumpkin to "name one law he has broken". I'm aware that this will obviously lead to "but he hasn't been convicted". I still need to review the master list to make the best case.
My general fatigue over emoluments violations, election code violations, and obstruction of justice clouds my mind.
Try www.dcreport.org .
They have an article almost daily on policy issues and a good archive of individual articles that tend to go to great lengths in their explanation of illegality.
There is no shortage of violations, so many in fact that we tend to forget about them for the violation de jour.
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1 hour ago, brown water said:
GoFundYourself Hoyt
Bootstraps, Hoyt...bootstraps.
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2 hours ago, HornsOverIthaca said:
CSB: I went to Wursfest back in 1999 on Halloween weekend. My costume was "Darth Brooks", a combination of Garth Brooks and Darth Maul. The costume was basically Darth Maul with a black cowboy hat, cowboy boots, and the little headphone mouthpiece thingy that Brooks always wore at concerts.
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3 minutes ago, AnTiM said:
All I know is what I have known for at least thirty , maybe 40 years. Trump is a crook, liar, and con artist. I could never trust anyone who has declared bankruptcy more than once. It baffles me that half the population can trust this sorry s.o.b.
If it were only that. Back in the day Trump had grand ideas and through sheer ballsyness and a considerable head start with money was able to get them past the startup stage, until he started pillaging them for his own lavish lifestyle. Alas, if not for his catastrophic severe narcissistic personality disorder, I would guess that enough of them would have worked to where he actually could have become a legitimate businessman.
His rep got a huge boost from The Apprentice. Just like poor people think Trump is what a rich person looks like and acts like, non-business people think what the interns did on the apprentice is what business people do. The allure of that show was galling to me. My wife, who speaks Norwegian, French and Arabic in addition to English, is a lifelong democrat, graduated from UT in architecture and had another degree from some University in Oslo and was a high profile executive for a huge construction company, loved that show, and by default I ended up watching some of it.
I was asked to leave the room on several occasions because I poo pooed on it. The fact that I held a BBA and MPA from UT as well as CPA licence and ran my own own business held no sway whatsoever.
The poor interns on The Apprentice had to be even more upset that their pricey MBA's were being tested on what I can only describe as glorified bake sales...but then again most of them had their own disorders (attention whores).
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Just now, bolverk said:
Flat out. No question. It was a racket.
Foghorn Lindsey: Ah doo declayha this is a trahvehsty the way these Demoncrats ahr treatin' ahr presidint!
Would love to see Foghorn Lindsey get owned by little chicken hawk.
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2 minutes ago, Red Five said:
I know there's no logic to any of this, but what is the point of harassing the whistleblower at this point? Like if the firefighters are all working on putting out the fire, and a few assholes are going "so where is the son of a bitch that called 911! Coward!!".
Because the whisletblower is a deep state swamp rat libtard that started all this and they are the problem , not our benevolent chosen one orange overlord.
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5 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
What the hell?!!!. Why does everything in America have to be like a used car lot?...it is a federal court house for fuck's sake.
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4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
For suicide/depression and addiction-related deaths, you are making a mistake to conflate external circumstances with the diseases in question in most instances.
As logical as it may seem, those diseases do not follow logic.
I am of the developing opinion that there is something about modern life that is more conducive to mental illness.
So long as we are in the politics thread with this, my unscientific observations:
There are newer threats that are vectoring through the population as a whole. New drugs, new stress, desk jobs, cell phones, HFCS, among others. Some of these are offset by improved health conditions, and in the case of women, offset entirely, possibly due to their more regular medical check ups. I would bet some of these threats are slipping through to the male population or females have been slower to adapt worse behavior or some are so new that they have not been documented reliably such that they could been observed in females as a whole.
As far as desperation goes, one contributing factor could be the access to information. Not that this would necessarily show up differently in males and females. Consider the glimpses we get of others lives through social media. In most cases its the best staged presentation of that persons life or pursuit. Where once we could work on something and get pretty good at it and be happy with our place relative to others on a local level and not know anything about it beyond our own experiences save for perhaps a few legendary types that gained national attention, now we have access to the seemingly endless number of participants who, if we look for them, will demonstrate to us our own perceived inadequacy. Logic is throw out the window as all we see is the superior end result which seemingly happens instantly without consideration for years of work, clever editing, or regard for starting circumstances. Hence we end up with a distorted view of our own self worth.
I call this the fishing show phenomenon.
This summer I was hunting around Youtube for some diet and exercise tweaks and came across this Dutch guy -Wim Hoff. The gist of his spiel was that modern western culture has deprived us certain threats and rewards such that our natural "feel goods" have become dormant. His solution was a combination of deep breathing/breath holding exercises(really more like hyperventilation) and cold water or ice immersion-not at the same time. I dabbled in it for a few days this last summer and it felt pretty awesome. I would do the deep breathing first on a given day, then take a walk in heat of the afternoon followed by a cold shower. The shower was invigorating but the breathing was incredible. I went from only being able to hold my breath for about 1:15 minutes on the first day to over 4:30 minutes by the 4th day. The notion with this stuff was to "wake up" the mind and body and restore it back towards a more natural state though "healthy" stress. It worked for me as far as I took it. Just thought I would share, seemed relevant somehow.
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My oldest is 31 today. Enjoy them while you can and especially before they turn 13.
I also have 11 and 13 yo boys at home. This year we skipped any candy or trick or treating and it has been sublime.
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1 minute ago, Bevo said:
I love New Orleans, but I don't think anyone who went to Tulane would call it safe.
My oldest son, who is 31 today, lives there. Heading in for a father son visit. I have been warned.
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6 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:
I was robbed at gunpoint in NO. Was there for a wedding (bride was from an old school NO family). Me and two friends were walking back to our hotel drunk when two guys robbed us. This was a few years after Katrina.
They actually caught at least one of the guys, he pled guilty and is spending quite a few years in jail. Or was anyway.
Heading to New Orleans this weekend, so this pistol whips close to home.
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3 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:
That was a good article. It stayed in its lanes, did not shy away from the tarnishing of the Trump brand, ridiculed DJ failures, celebrated his good fortune, and ultimately proved its thesis, while giving an accurate insight into what kind of business man Trump actually is....which is pretty bad, but in this case lucky due to being overridden twice by other heavier hitting business partners and once by the courts which sided with his partners. Of course, it is Forbes, which is a business publication.
For those of you that did not read the article, there is a section in it that supports the notion that Trump is an actual billionaire (almost) just based on his share of ownership in these two properties which provide his net worth with $900 million debt free. However, these two properties have apparently appreciated considerably since the 2016 election to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, due largely to the fact that they are controlled by others and to not bear the Trump brand.
Despite all that, one could come away from the article with a positive impression of Trump as a business person , despite the fact that he fought his ultimate success in these ventures tooth and nail. After all, he made the initial investment in the Manhattan property which he ultimately leveraged in a fire sale to his Chinese partners, and which ended up bringing him into his reluctant/forced investment into his most successful properties and he did eventually elect to participate with the with his chosen/forced business partners who ended up bringing the properties up in value.
However, things are never that simple. When you start with 400 million (prevent value) from your dad, lose your ass in casinos (which is almost impossible to do), and participate in Russian money laundering for years if not decades, then you tend to have farther to fall and might get lucky over and above being born into wealth.
The Dirty Money Money documentary was brought up farther down the thread. I watched it and noted Trumps tenacity at dealing with trying to get projects off the ground back in the 1980's when he was trying to make a name for himself. He was a grinder and not addled shell of his former self that we see today. That is not to say that what he did back then was ethical or even legal. Trump Tower was built on the back of shady mob concrete deals and stiffing Polish immigrants in the demolition phase of the contract and the casino deals were completed with sub contractor stiffing, bags of cash to gaming regulators, hanging out and doing business with a known drug trafficker, and skimming money for personal use.
Long before Trump was candidate for anything, his building construction behavior disqualified him for me. I own a construction business and have had some success in it and have even been able to collect from reluctant owners. On occasion, however I have run into guys like Trump. You can dot every "i" cross every "t" , file your claims, secure your interest, but at the end of the day, they can fight you for a long time because of their almost unlimited resources. For them it is a way of life and a way of doing business. the very nature of deal is that they have leverage and use it to their utmost advantage. To them, these are deals at the highest level. They make decisions and spend money, but otherwise have no skills or knowledge other than having a lot of money and the ability to ride out any bad decision they make. They have no consideration for the people that actually make the project. The architects, engineers, craftsmen, and competent suppliers are just a means to an end . People they will pay if everything goes right if they cater to their whims , but expendable if the unforeseen happens.
Believe it or not, most really rich people play by the rules even if those rules are heavily stacked in their favor. But not these type of cats. They are vile. The worst part of it is, is that they don't even do their own dirty work.
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16 hours ago, gmr548 said:
2,500-3,000 calories a week? Are you sure? Because that's 25 light beers a week. 4-5 bottles of wine a week. Etc, etc. Maybe it's not permanent liver damage heavy but it's pretty far to the right side of the bell curve in terms of alcohol consumption. It's also a full day or even day and a half worth of additional calories a week. That's a huge impact on weight/ health.
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Yes. Those were the numbers. Perhaps we took a "heavy" week, but if that were the case then the weight loss would have been even more impressive since the caloric reduction would have been less from alcohol reduction. As reported by me, my friend was getting a weight loss of 2 lbs/wk with a conscious calorie reduction of < 1lb/week.
As far the amount of alcohol. Below is what I did this week. It adds up. Friday was unusual. I went to my Dad's ranch and cut firewood and was just putting them back all afternoon. However, usually I will also drink on Sunday (3 craft beers or 1/2 bottle of wine) and not drink on Wed. For me perhaps my normal is ~2000 alcohol calories/wk. Not sure, I have never really kept track of it for more than a couple of weeks just to get an idea-but I am pretty consistent and it goes up when I go fishing at the coast etc.
I maintain a weight of 185LBS at 5'-11" and at that weight(and level of alcohol consumption) I have an ok six pack which is pretty good since I don't really target that area specifically. ( I mostly walk, rock climb, and do mobility exercises which I try to target extending my range of motion in my T spine, hips, and shoulders.) Just a few years ago, I drank less and had a slightly better diet and did more body weight exercises and was maintaining my weight at 170-175LBS and ended up with a 16-20 pack in the mid section. I never did a %fat scale or anything but at my lower weight I was probably at 10% BF or just slightly under and am now at ~15%. I am more interested now in getting back to the lower weight since I am trying to climb with my kids (11 and 13) who are nationally competitive rock climbers. The lower weight is only marginally helpful in the actual climbing, but its main benefit is injury prevention.
The math:
Friday 14 Bud Lights X 110 Cal each=1,540 CAL
Sat 1/2 bottle of red wine =318 CAL
SUN, MON, TUES No Booze
WED 4 Bud Lights X 110=440 CAL
Thursday 1/2 Bottle Red Wine=318 CAL
Total=2,616 CAL.
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1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:
That's not an insignificant amount of calories. Further, those are almost entirely calories from sugars/starches. Think of it this way. Replace "alcohol" with Snickers bars or sodas. If you were getting an extra 3,000 calories a week from sodas and/or candy bars....and you cut that out. The health benefits would be immediate and pronounced.
Sugar is sugar. Your body treats it the same way. Enzymes break it down to glucose or sucrose. Insulin levels spike to deal it from your pancrease. Dopamine and seratonin are produced. Glass of orange juice. Or a Coke. Over time, these will absolutely wreck your system.
Indeed. I know about all that stuff. The thing that impressed me was that it actually worked pretty quickly given his age and existing proximity to a pretty ideal body weight (ie those last few lbs that your body wants to hang onto.) My friend actually looked a little gaunt after the weight loss.
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20 hours ago, drt said:
Maybe, maybe not. Depends on how much you drink, how much you eat, how much you exercise and to what degree of intensity, and how your body reacts to all of the above.
Those are just huge amounts of empty calories, and I say that as a dad who just needs a beer some nights. You'd probably be best off cutting back on booze.
This. I, of course, have not tried it myself but I had a friend who went 2 months without drinking and lost ~15lbs. The encouraging parts of his weight loss were the facts that he is in his early 50s', was not grossly overweight(went from 182lbs to 167lbs at a height of 5'10"), changed nothing else about his lifestyle (i.e. did not exercise more or change his diet), and was not what I would call a heavy drinker (we did the math and calculated average calories /week from alcohol at 2500-3000)
He probably consumed fewer food only calories due to a lack of booze munchies but did not do so on purpose. He has since allowed himself one night a week for alcohol consumption and his weight has leveled out at 169lbs and has been there for ~2 months. He remarked about how much better his sleep has been which no doubt attributed to the weight loss.
Even at the most aggressive assumption level, the booze would only account from not even half of his weight loss from a caloric standpoint. His diet is generally pretty good, but he is not on any particular meal plan. He is fairly active and works out but, as I said did not change anything he was doing(on purpose) already except for the alcohol.
I am at 5'-11" 185LBS and also a moderate drinker, so this hits close to home. It thought I would share for those of you who might be
struggling
with a weight loss kick start.
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1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
The idea behind respecting the office is a difficult one. I have a relative who was very anti-Obama but he always stuck with respecting the office during the Obama adminstration and I thought that was nice. Of course, he had to make a point of telling you how much he hated Obama but wouldn't disrespect the office. eyeroll. Now he is upset that others are not following his example with Trump. I agree that it's a shame that many cannot show more respect to the POTUS office while Trump is there but Trump is the one to blame for that.
There is a false narrative that we as US citizens have to respect the office of POTUS. Citizens are not in the military so we are not bound to him as our Commander in Chief. The President should continually earn our respect and not automatically receive it because 50% (or less) of the public vote for him/her. And if the President wants to degrade the office and the country, then so be it.
...also these presidential show ups are usually staged for maximum value and minimum damage. I would guess there have been plenty of presidential appearances that were scratched due to possible crowd reaction during an unfavorably trending series of events in order to preserve the respect for the office and not to poke the bulldog , as it were. In this case there were either some tone deaf advisers or a presidential override,or both.
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32 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
"Show respect for the office" -- fuck that.
This is a man who has called ANYONE WHO DOESN'T BLINDLY SUPPORT HIM "human scum." How in the blue fuck am I supposed to show respect for that? And WHY should I show respect for that? He fucking called me "human scum." I will show him all the respect that is due to someone who declares the very people he took an oath to serve "human scum" - and that amount would be ZERO.
Every day that he is in office, this open sore of a nation that he has helped create festers even more, and the long-term prognosis gets even worse. Fuck him up his putrid ass.
If you want respect, you have to be a person worthy of respect....unless you are black.
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1 hour ago, NowThis said:
before everyone starts sizing their rings, the Nats are f'n hot right now and remind me of the TB squad which was primed for an upset. Of course this series ain't over/ Yogi
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