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  1. 23 minutes ago, pops said:

    So, a few rich people paid to get a few kids into a few universities at probably no expense to anyone, but maybe a few other rich kids that ended up at Duke or Harvard or whatever. 

    My give a fuck meter hasn't even hit zero. But go FBI, I guess. 

     

    Seeing a lot of these takes.  I guess this is why we're usually pretty soft on white collar criminals. I mean, after all, who gives a fuck. Doesn't affect me and mine.

  2. FWIW, Patrick Moore is not the Co-Founder of Greenpeace. He once sailed on a Greenpeace ship in 1971. Since then, he has spent 30 years as a lobbyist for the timber, mining, and chemical industries.

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  3. 13 minutes ago, Lat22 said:

    So people from Hollywood used their status and privelige to get their kids into the right college? That’s rich. I won’t go cloak. 

    Lori Laughlin may have committed fraud, and your mind goes to the Cloak room?

    That's kinda weird.

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  4. 1 hour ago, texifornia said:

    I don't think this board is prepared for the game when our all-new defensive line, linebackers and corners have their worst, most rock-stupid headless-chicken game. It's going to happen and it's going to suuuuuuck.

    Why would we not be prepared? We've done it for 10 straight years.

  5. 32 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    How would you classify "Jews will not replace us"?

    I have no problem with speech like that remaining protected. What's funny about the whole thing though, is that conservatives will say things like "let the market decide how to handle bigots," and "people who espouse hate speech will not be taken seriously anyway so its not really harming anyone."

     

    Image result for duncan hunter racist ad

  6. 23 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Compared to the rest of the poor in the world they're all a bunch of Rockafellers. We have the best poor people in the world.  You wanna see poor, visit the "informal housing" in South Africa.

    I'm going to use your post to target this line of thought. The notion that poverty and income inequality can be satiated or dismissed by looking at the availability of consumer products and relative comparisons to other nations and other eras in history:

    Let's start with Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations:

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    A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-laborer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into without extreme bad conduct.

    See! Why should a laborer complain about his squalid existence? After all, no one has ever had access to the goods he can now acquire. Also, have you seen how things are in Africa?

    All of this comes from this article I just read ( here.)  I'm sure many will have objections to his anti-capitalist position, and others will outright dismiss due to the author himself, but there are some interesting points:

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    Specifically, as the scholars Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer reported in their 2015 book $2.00 a Day, the number of American households subsisting on almost no cash income at all doubled in the decade-and-a-half following welfare reform. Edin and Shaefer counted 1.5 million households surviving on less than $2 a day in 2011. They did not count how many of those households had color televisions because you can’t eat a color television.

    You can’t even really sell one for cash because the reason they are so common even in the poorest households is that TVs have become incredibly cheap. That’s the story that allows this alternate narrative of American prosperity to keep reproducing itself. Over the last several decades, thanks to regular advancements in technology and supply chain logistics, capitalism has indeed made it possible for many more Americans, including the poor and especially the middle class, to afford what once seemed like luxuries.

     

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    Yet still, despite the dirt cheap vacuums and flat-screen TVs, something seems wrong. People keep complaining about “income inequality” and writing books about how grindingly difficult it is for an alarmingly large number of Americans to get by.

    Conservatives seem to have noticed that their primary argument—why do you feel so poor when you have such a large TV?—has had trouble making inroads among people who actually experience life in the United States and who don’t work within the think tank–lobbying firm–Council of Economic Advisers circuit. They’ve noticed, too, that while TVs, for example, are quite cheap, things essential to live—and things essential to “get ahead” in the United States—are only becoming more expensive.

    The American Enterprise Institute even produced a chart illustrating the problem. It shows the prices of things like new cars, clothing, toys, and TVs staying steady or dramatically falling relative to the inflation rate, while food, housing, child care, and—especially—medical care skyrocket in price. If you want an explanation of why non-wealthy Americans feel so stretched thin even in a time of supposed abundance, there it is. They can afford to get their kids toys but not bachelor’s degrees.

     

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  7. 1 hour ago, sushihorn said:

    Yeah, that was the other thing that made it look like a political ploy.  When prosecutors make shit up for maximum publicity but then the charge is something much more mundane, it's usually a PR operation rather than a law enforcement one.

    Serious question: Did the prosecutors ever allege Kraft was part of the trafficking?

  8. 5 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

    Very hard to get special ed kids out. Tons of laws protecting them. Can only be away from services for a max of 10 days per year. Also, if their behavior was a result of their disability, they can’t be sent to an alternative school in most cases. If it’s a learning disability, it’s easy. If the kid has an emotionally disturbed label....good luck.

    Not that this is the better way, but in my state, kids are arrested, detained, and criminally charged all the time for assaults on teachers in special ed classes. Shit, I represented a kid charged with Felony ADW for motioning towards his special ed teacher with a folded metal coat-hanger. 

  9. Just now, NowThis said:

    his racist base is split regarding Jews.  A small percentage are the Nazi/Aryan Nation type who are whites only; others are western white cultural chauvinists who are Judeo-Christian white supremacists and include Jews , mainly via Israel - as a forward stabbing spear - against the Mooozlims, including Jews into their "good list".  Us vs. them, but Jews are in the "us". 

    No, I get it. I just find it hilarious that someone would accuse the Dems of being the party of Hitler when actual Nazis march in support of Trump.

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  10. On 2/12/2019 at 10:40 AM, DaysOff said:
    On 2/12/2019 at 4:32 AM, Cajun said:
    Pretty good.  Fucking American government and our lobby apparatus.
    Another point of view....
     

    Don't confuse the American far left with fact. They're too busy being anti-Semitic. The party of Hitler. They should just own it and embrace it.

    LOL. Trump's base marches in public chanting "Jews will not replace us."

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