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TheFlyingBoat

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  1. Scooter Libbey got his pardon. I'll be damned
  2. I can't believe an official party Twitter would do that. Jesus Christ they're full of shit.
  3. Why is the Democratic Party full of gigantic pussies?
  4. Because Onboard can't read and is the political equivalent of aggy "No differences in psychopathology were found between major party affiliations."
  5. This about comports with my expectations. Clinton was personally sleazy and was a sexual predator though his administration was relatively clean despite a good number of attempts by Republicans to nail him for something. H.W. was the only honest Republican we elected President since Eisenhower. Carter was a naive, but honest guy of humble origins with his peanut farm (which he divested of, unlike Trump). Ford was there for 2 years and his job was to run out the clock and not make matters worse. Reagan helped bring the Cold War to its end but was also the dirtiest president (other than Nixon) in modern history with huge scandals like Iran-Contra. Bush was probably a fine character himself, though definitely not cut out to be President of the United States, and the gang he brought with him were largely morally bankrupt, terrible human beings. Obama was supremely decent and a good steward of the office. Fox News can whine all they want, but Obama was incredibly clean in the context of American politics.
  6. Thanks for the advice! What was special about the National Palace Museum that made you wish you saw it? And what make Raohe better than Gongguan in your opinion?
  7. For the numbnuts here:
  8. Going to be there in early June. Going to be primarily in Taipei. Where should I go, what should I do, and where should I eat? I don't think there is any better source than the Shaggy Surly brain trust.
  9. Good. Glad he pulled his head out of his ass once.
  10. Imo the three worst scandals in American history go: Watergate Iran-Contra Teapot Dome I choose to leave bad administration out of it, otherwise the Bush response to 9/11 would probably own half of the top 10 if not more. From the PATRIOT Act to the bogus casus belli for the Iraq War to paying journalists to support the message to outing Plame because of her husband publishing pieces the administration didn't like and so much more. Hell the more I think about it the more I think I can get 10 things in the top 20 that could be summed up as "The Cheney Files".
  11. Man can't we just get errbody and call it a day? Do we need more Kate?
  12. For #12 I would like to point out for like 5 days Satya was optimistic. What I'm hearing is calculator.
  13. I mean thankfully Brown has done a pretty good job of being Governor so CA is actually running a surplus and has run one for the past 5 years now (though an accounting error with MediCal almost broke the streak, but higher revenues saved the day) so at least CA pays for all the expenditures and has a healthy rainy day fund for when shit hits the fan in the next year or two (estimated to be almost 20 billion at the end of this FY). Agreed that Prop 13 is dumb as fuck.
  14. You're telling me a pocket passer track star is deceptively athletic? This dude has to be white right? The only misplaced euphemism they're missing is gym rat. How the hell is a track star deceptively athletic? I'm pretty sure a track star is just athletic, no deception.
  15. Maybe he should run for Governor. It's not like you can be more backwards than a Republican in the South/Texas/Plains States.
  16. I'm saying you're not a financial genius if you literally could not beat the market. That should be pretty self-evident to anyone with a brain. Now Trump did become President, kudos to him, that is something very difficult to do, but that has nothing to do with your claims about his financial acumen. He's actually a pretty shit executive but am incredible promoter if you look at the math.
  17. He started with more than a million. He was given a million dollars and then many million more in inheritance. It's also unclear due to the range of estimations of his net worth whether or not he would have been better off taking all the money his dad gave him and just putting it ab index fund. Most estimates by people that aren't Trump sycophants say that his net worth is certainly below the line where that would not be true. If he had just put his money in the S&P 500 index fund he'd be richer today. He is no financial whiz
  18. Bob Armstrong is still great and everything else is decent. Not the best tex mex but it is truly Austin
  19. The word play here is incredible
  20. This if limited to high profile cases where you have serious SIGINT but you can't release that evidence because then the Russians know how you got em I'm fine with it. If you're going after random shit not as cool with it. Imo only use it for cases against foreign actors and those that aid them against the US. Everything you do the old fashioned way or not at all.
  21. Fuck yeah : https://nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/politics/fbi-raids-office-of-trumps-longtime-lawyer-michael-cohen.html
  22. Just guessing... it's Notre Dame and us?
  23. Google definitely has the most data on you and the most scary data. We literally search for the stuff we are too scared to ask about on a routine basis in addition for us putting our life into email without regard to privacy. Most people will be a little hesitant to post some things on Facebook, but have no worries about putting far more sensitive stuff through Gmail. Then there are the files we host on drive, the photos we use Google photos to organize, etc. Google is a lot more professional so I'm less worried about a CA like thing occurring and I guess I've kind of just accepted the NSA will have all of my data and that my only goal is to reduce the number of companies and persons that are not Facebook or Google that have significant access to my data. Google and Facebook provide enough value to me that I'm largely ok with them having my data and would be more ok if they could get their shit together.
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