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Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
DIR By: Sportster
Date: September 20, 2015, 8:04 pm
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> No serious inconsistency, other than the First Amendment...
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You're an idiot....
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
DIR By: Pekin
Date: September 20, 2015, 8:05 pm
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The freedom of religion thing gets in the way of your argument
Jes. Being forced to convert, pay higher taxes or be killed is
not just a separation of church and state thing. Geez...
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
DIR By: Jes Beard
Date: September 20, 2015, 8:07 pm
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> You're an idiot....
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Without arguing my intelligence, could you point out two or
three of those serious inconsistency which you seem to think
exist?
I am betting that the problem is that you not only do not
understand and are unfamiliar with Sharia law, but that you also
do not understand and are unfamiliar with the U.S. Constitution.
Please show me that I am wrong.
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
DIR By: Jes Beard
Date: September 20, 2015, 8:08 pm
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> The freedom of religion thing gets in the way of your argument
Jes. Being forced to convert, pay higher taxes or be killed is
not just a separation of church and state thing. Geez...
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Actually, that is ALL that it is and Sharia law does not force
conversion. ISIL does, but Sharia law does not.
#Post#: 244131--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
DIR By: packrat
Date: September 21, 2015, 12:19 am
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Mark's Market Blog
9-20-15: The Fed flounders.
by Mark Lawrence
The market broke out of its flag formation upwards, and also
broke through the 1990 level on its fourth try. Very bullish.
Then the very next day it dropped back down. Not at all bullish.
Apparently the market is just as uncertain about what to do next
as Yellen is. In most ways this has been a very slow week.
S&P 500 March 28 2014 to September 18 2015
She didn't. Ms.Janet decided a rate increase will wait until the
labor market is better, inflation is closer to 2% and the global
economy isn't falling apart. Said Ms.Janet, "The Committee
continues to see the risks to the outlook for economic activity
and the labor market as nearly balanced, but is monitoring
developments abroad ... This assessment will take into account a
wide range of information, including measures of labor market
conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation
expectations, and readings on financial and international
developments." So we're going to continue to have artificially
low interest rates driving up asset prices and profits on Wall
Street until, well, until we don't. There are Fed meetings in
October and December, but few expect the Fed to raise rates at
those meetings, not after this week. The Fed was conceived in a
set of secret meetings at Jekyll Island to allow banks to
manipulate the money supply and guarantee their profits; the
resulting FrankenFed was ushered through congress by Preston
Bush. Now, 102 year later, apparently the Fed is redefining
their job to include the entire world economy. Excellent. In
this country it's considered axiomatic on Wall Street, "Never
fight the Fed." The Fed has apparently taken this to heart and
will now be, as it deems necessary or even desirable, fighting
the Chinese, Japanese and European central banks. 'Cause, you
know, our guys are smarter. Meanwhile many here in the US are
losing confidence in the Fed, thinking they're wishy-washy and
aren't dependable.
Greece voted today. A few months ago they stunned the world by
electing a far-left party, Syriza. This time the votes were
close to split between Syriza and a conservative party New
Democracy, but election rules give Syriza a large advantage.
Syriza is expected to find a partner and form a government
quickly. The Greek people just want an end to their seven year
long economic nightmare and will vote for pretty much anyone who
promises them a solution. Bad news Greek dudes: no one has a
solution.
A couple weeks ago I talked about the coming dollar short
squeeze. This year Mexico sold €1.5 billion worth of 100 year
euro denominated loans for 4.2%. Who buys garbage like this?
Will there even be a Mexico in 100 years? Petrobras, Brazil's
state oil company, sold $2.5 billion in 100 year dollar
denominated debt at 6.85%. Just a few months later S&P and
Moody's had both cut both Brazil and Petrobras to junk; now
those same bonds are trading under 70¢ on the dollar. Those
greedy or dumb enough to buy them are in the middle of taking a
quick icy-cold bath, and by no means do I think the damage is
mostly done. Of course Wall Street vulture funds will step in at
some point and buy up these bonds for 10¢ on the dollar, then
their great-grandchildren will be haunting these countries in
the courts for, well, 100 years. Or more. According to the Bank
for International Settlements $9.6 trillion in US dollar
denominated debt had been issued by non-bank borrowers by the
end of the 1st quarter, reaching a record 17% of world GDP. This
number is even higher if you include euro denominated debt.
Nothing is happening right now, but this is like the ubiquitous
picture of the burning fuse in 60s cowboy movies - there's a big
explosion coming.
China seemingly stopped supporting their stock market this week
and it promptly renewed it's journey downwards. One highly
regarded chinese analyst calculates that China has spend $239
billion propping up their markets in the last 45 days - the cost
of buying Amazon.com share by share, spent on a complete waste
of money trying to overcome the law of gravity, or, as they say
on Wall Street, catch a falling knife. This represents roughly
5% of their foreign reserves, blown in 45 days. That $3.6
trillion in rainy day savings could evaporate stunningly quickly
if they're going to burn through it like this. And, make no
mistake, if there's a threat to the communist party or the
political stability of china, they won't hesitate to burn
through it, start wars, round up dissidents en mass, clamp down
on markets and news, whatever it takes.
73 house democrats sent a letter to Obama telling him we need to
take in 100,000 syrian refugees. Wow. I so disagree. Arabs had
six children per woman for several generations; now they're so
over populated they're constantly at war over oil, economics,
religion, and a couple other things I don't think I understand.
Europe's solution to this is to take in a million of the violent
uneducated breeders - this religion has as it's very
recognizable logo a crescent moon with a star visible in the
middle, showing a profound lack of understanding of basic shapes
like spheres. I think it highly noteworthy that in February of
this year ISIL announced their plan to flood Europe with syrian
and iraqi refugees. Germany says they will take in 800,000 this
year, and 500,000 immigrants a year for the next 20. That's
because Germany already has a shortage of labor and is projected
to lose 12 million people in the next 20 years. The idea that
you can take in random immigrants and convert them into hard
working Germans is, imho, speculative at best. Brussels says all
of Europe must take in huge numbers of refugees and is working
on a quota system. Of course most of the rest of Europe has very
high and persistent unemployment and a bunch of unskilled people
is precisely what they don't want or need. One of the most
important points of Europe is no borders, but fences are going
up now at record rates. Europe is in trouble.
For the record, the little arab kid who brought a clock to
school, was brought to the police station for questioning, and
then invited to the White House (at no time was he arrested): he
took a 70's era Radio Shack alarm clock, pulled out the guts and
put them into a cheap chinese pencil case sold on ebay. In the
pictures you can see the "M" on the circuit board meaning
"Micronta," radio shack's house brand. The idea that this means
the kid is a great inventor / scientist and needs to go to MIT
is not even wrong.
Interesting product: Eagle eyes sunglasses are made of the same
stuff NASA uses in space suit visors - polarized, blue blockers,
water repellent and anti-fogging, hard to scratch. They're very
strange to wear: blue is almost gone from your world. The sky is
blue-green-grey, white gets replaced by a yellowish egg shell,
plants are yellow green. On the other hand you feel like you can
count blades of grass at 30 feet - your vision gets extremely
sharp. People have three color cones, we'll call them red green
and blue. The blue light scatters most easily because of water
in the atmosphere - that's why the sky is blue, scattered blue
light, and that's why sunsets are red, only the red light can
make it through that much atmosphere. Eliminating the blue light
eliminates most of the scattering. Curiously eagles have four
kinds of cones, including one that sees into near ultra violet,
so eagle eyes are kind of the opposite of these glasses. I'm
slowly getting used to the color aberrations and coming to
appreciate the sharpened vision.
#Post#: 244206--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
DIR By: otto105
Date: September 21, 2015, 3:15 pm
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davepbart
Has scott walker made the door yet? I give him less than a week
with the latest round of polling.
Bust that scottie.
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
DIR By: Jackiejokeman
Date: September 21, 2015, 4:02 pm
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Where the tax dollars go :
I was standing in line at WalMart and a Spanish only speaking
lady was in front of me ,
WalMart brought over an interpreter to help her understand.
She had two kids in the cart and one was about 10 month's old,
she was also pregnant. I don't have any problems with that.
However, she paid for her items with an EBT food card.
And I do have problem with that.
That's 3 kids and there's more on the way ... you'll pick up
the tab.
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT ?
#Post#: 244221--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
DIR By: chifaninva
Date: September 21, 2015, 4:38 pm
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Yes, it is a great country. Unfortunately, quite a few take
advantage of the system. I don't know this lady's plight, I'm
all for helping out, but helping everyone is getting harder and
harder..
#Post#: 244223--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
DIR By: chifaninva
Date: September 21, 2015, 4:43 pm
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I saw a headline at yahoo, something about "Emmy ratings
down"... Who gives a fuck.. Does anyone really care? The Emmys?
Not a lot of people care about liberal hollywood..
#Post#: 244231--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc.
DIR By: davep
Date: September 21, 2015, 5:12 pm
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Well Wisconsin lost it's only chance to have someone worthwhile
come out onto the National stage. At least he can stay and try
to make Wisconsin a state where even Homo can thrive. The
National loss is Homo's gain.
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