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Asithappens

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  1. Yeah, um no, I'm not starting a new thread. Thanks anyways.
  2. Good article in The New Yorker by Dexter Filkins. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/john-bolton-on-the-warpath
  3. No, it's not a serious theological question, imo. Asking for prayers, when done in a positive way, brings together a group of like-minded people, sharing concern, pain, and offering support to get people through this thing called life. How the hell can one then ask "how is that supposed to help"?
  4. By choosing to frame the issue, even if partially, with the use of the word "honest". Imo, it's not an issue of honesty. It's diplomacy.
  5. Rather than calling Cora "less than honest", or basically dishonest, I would say he's being diplomatic.
  6. Oh, the term "evangelical" still has a lot of meaning. Unfortunately, the meaning is bad.
  7. You seem to be implying that making this a political thing is Cora's fault.
  8. That's why I'd rather not see her described as being "evangelical".
  9. Sorry to hear this. Christianity needs more like her.
  10. Not only that, but does anyone seriously/rationally think that even if the US somehow helped secure Palestinian sovereignty, that the Palestinians wouldn't turn on the US, probably with a vengeance? The Palestinians have killed their own and then blamed Israel. That is fucked up. There is value in protecting human life (something both sides of this conflict seem to miss at times).
  11. In a quest to cut costs (and, it seems, to see how far idiocy can become a strategic objective) Boeing cut off the input from their own test pilots. Boeing Co. BA 0.18% limited the role of its own pilots in the final stages of developing the 737 MAX flight-control system implicated in two fatal crashes, departing from a longstanding practice of seeking their detailed input, people familiar with the matter said. As a result, Boeing test pilots and senior pilots involved in the MAX’s development didn’t receive detailed briefings about how fast or steeply the automated system known as MCAS could push down a plane’s nose, these people said. Nor were they informed that the system relied on a single sensor—rather than two—to verify the accuracy of incoming data about the angle of a plane’s nose, they added. Investigators have linked faulty sensor data to the flight-control system’s misfire, which led to crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that took 346 lives. https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeings-own-test-pilots-lacked-key-details-of-737-max-flight-control-system-11556877600?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=4
  12. Well, if Laura says it then it must be true.
  13. Probably right, but I can see the "loyalty" being to the party and not to the person (or so the argument would go). I can see some (countless???) members of Congress supporting Trump b/c they would be supporting the party.
  14. Let me respond to that statement by running it through the GOP/Conservative Automated Response Bot: "The guy who was shot by the cop was black. What part of that don't you understand? Murica."
  15. Maybe, except that there's a good argument that Semenya is a man. Undescended testicles and all that. The doctor at the time of delivery (from what I've read) told the family that the child was more boy that girl (hermaphrodite; now called intersex) but for some reason the family with the female route. Strange case, that's for sure.
  16. That Mueller conducted a thorough investigation and found sufficient evidence of wrongs to pursue an indictment, whether that would break precedent or not. Mueller bailed. He left the hard work to a Congress that he (Mueller) knows won't act.
  17. Don't know what that has to do with any of this. It certainly wasn't Maher's take on the matter, imo.
  18. Bill Maher was pretty critical of Mueller on his last show. Maher was mostly correct, imo.
  19. That ship is reportedly owned by the Scientologists. Oh, the irony. It burns. It would burn more if they were Christian Scientists, but the burn is there nonetheless.
  20. You just answered your own question.
  21. Caster Semenya just an athletic arbitration case. The highest court in sports has ruled that the regulations adopted by track and field's international governing body regarding women with high levels of testosterone are discriminatory but necessary to ensure fair competition in female athletics. Bottom line seems to be that she was born more a boy than a girl.
  22. Yes, they are not exactly the same but there are some commonalities. A lot of things in common.
  23. You can't fix stupid.
  24. I was wondering where Aaron Persky landed his next judging gig after he was thrown out of office in the Peninsula.
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