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6 hours ago, sblfilms said:

You misunderstood me. AIPAC is not driven by Christian Zionists, the pro-Israel sentiment of politicians is driven by Christian Zionism. Omar is saying that the GOP is pro-Israel because of Jew moneyhats from AIPAC and that is plainly untrue.

Why can't it be both? Sheldon Adelson obviously thinks his contributions are making a difference -- he wouldn't be spending tens of millions of dollars otherwise. 

good night sweet prince 

Hm this decision didn’t go how I expected. 

I find it funny that warren takes a DNA test that concludes there is “strong evidence” that she has a Native ancestor, and after the GOP spin machine gets done the message becomes 1/1024th native. What a world. 

27 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

The involuntary nature of the contract alone is enough.

Life is involuntary tho 

1 minute ago, sblfilms said:

This does not exist, all social contract ideas fall apart with the most minimal of examination.

But why

14 hours ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

You say that, but what’s to stop the CIA from sprinkling your DNA all over a crime scene, and then *BAM* now you're a murdering, child rapist, that just tried to assassonate the President? 

 

Nothing, that’s what. 

GOOD point. But if CIA had a beef with me I’m pretty sure they’d just grab a toothbrush out of my garbage or something.

1 minute ago, Anathema- said:

 

What at matters isn’t as much what happened as how you handle it now. Keeping things on the DL and hoping it never comes out is excusable as a private citizen, but as a public figure Northam lost points right off the bat for not being forthright. But even then there was time to respond, he could have said a few things that would have varied from “not great but let it ride” to truly inclusive and inspiring but he did neither. 

  

It’s all but too late now but this guy has it right, I think, for what should be reasonably expected:

 

 

To me this response would be valid if he actually had been a member of the KKK rather than just wearing it as joke costume for Halloween or whatever. He made a bad joke 35 years ago, I don't think that means he should lose his career. Unless there's something I haven't heard, I don't really think a bad joke 35 years ago necessitates a "road to Damascus" moment.

Here’s the article about the twins results, if anyone cares: 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-marketplace-1.4980976

31 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Tests with twins have shown that these kinds of tests tend to be pretty garbage. Identical twins will show as wildly different backgrounds, etc. Basically it's a crapshoot and the companies know it.

There was a CBC article and on this and I dunno, I disagree with that conclusion.  The results were fairly similar (though admittedly they weren’t identical). Most importantly I’d say there wasn’t really any contradictory results — neither sisters results necessarily pointed to a different background (like if only one sister had 20% native American DNA while the other twin had 20% African DNA). The differences were that, like one sister had 5% polish DNA and the other sister had a greater portion of Eastern European DNA.

The CBC tried to make this out to be a scandal as if the DNA company was just throwing darts at a dart board. I’m like, excuse me isn’t Poland in Eastern Europe? I pretty much drew the opposite conclusion. The results were similar enough to qualify as an interesting and worthwhile feature, IMO.

12 minutes ago, CayceG said:

Anyone that takes one of these tests is an absolute sucker and they deserve what's coming.

But “what’s coming?” I’m not really planning on killing or raping anyone.

Ok that’s weird 

Strip clubs are legal in Montreal but I don’t think they’re legal in Saskatchewan where I live 

7 hours ago, PaladinSolo said:

A much bigger problem for them is that millennials aren't buying their motorcycles, leaving them with a slowly dwindling market of boomers.

Is this really true? When I took a motorcycle safety course five or six years ago, out of the ~30 people in the course (almost all of whom were “millennials”) me and this West African dude were the only ones that weren’t planning on buying a Harley. 

I wouldn't go as far as @sblfilms but I did originally say the story seems fishy and I'm sticking to that. You're right that this isn't CSI but at the same time we can look at the story and make some inferences. 

Edit: Personally,  I don't think the "I'm kicking my own ass" explanation covers it, I think he did get assaulted but the background likely involves something that he, for some reason, doesn't want to admit to. Or I could be completely wrong and it did go down as he said it, but I personally find it unlikely. 

2 hours ago, Chris- said:

 

Man, she's not that hot. Standard strip club-level attractiveness. 

I guess I should be going to strip clubs then. I don't think they're legal here though on second thought. 

God damn I'd buy whatever she's selling. 

2 hours ago, SFLUFAN said:

Star of "Empire" TV series attacked in Chicago hate crime

Sources directly connected to Jussie tell TMZ, the actor arrived in Chicago from New York late Monday, and at around 2 AM he was hungry and went to a Subway. We're told when shortly after he walked out on his way home, someone yelled, "Aren't you that f***ot 'Empire' n*****?" 

 

The 2 men -- both white and wearing ski masks -- viciously attacked Jussie as he fought back, but they beat him badly and fractured a rib. They put a rope around his neck, poured bleach on him and as they left they yelled, "This is MAGA country." 

This story seems fishy. 

13 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

If only. At most this is a slight restriction beyond what Casey (the actual guiding case for abortion law in the US) allows.

Speaking of not reading the article.

4 minutes ago, Chairslinger said:

If one were to look at things in a vacuum, you could argue this just means the effective reversal of Hellerstedt.

  

In the big picture, though, it would signal(yet again) this new conservative court's eagerness to overturn precedent and just how hostile they are to reproductive rights.

 

Remember that any shrewd or piece of Roe/Casey remaining probably rests on John Robert's concern for institutionalism and his legacy and yada yada. If Robert's is willing to kill Hellerstedt so perfunctorily, a decision his own court made 3 years ago, I don't think it bodes well for whatever motivations he has that might save Roe.

Yes, this seems to be what the author was suggesting. 

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Lawyers representing a Louisiana abortion clinic and at least two physicians filed an application in the Supreme Court on Monday asking the court to halt a Louisiana law that is identical to a Texas law the justices struck down in 2016.

 

The court is almost certain to deny this application in a 5-4 vote — possibly as soon as tonight. When it does so, it will effectively mark the end of Roe v. Wade.

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The case is June Medical Services v. Gee.

 

Gee involves a Louisiana law requiring “a physician performing or inducing an abortion” to “have active admitting privileges at a hospital that is located not further than thirty miles from the location at which the abortion is performed or induced and that provides obstetrical or gynecological health care services.” If that law sounds familiar, that’s because it is identical, almost word-for-word, to a Texas law that the Supreme Court struck down in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.

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With Roe‘s demise now almost certainly inevitable, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the Louisiana law — apparently because they felt confident that such open defiance of the Supreme Court would not be reversed.

 

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Should the Supreme Court deny a stay in the Gee case, moreover, anti-abortion judges will know exactly what that means. It will be a clear signal that they can emulate the Fifth Circuit and openly defy Supreme Court decisions protecting a right to abortion.

https://thinkprogress.org/supreme-court-may-kill-roe-v-this-week-a014778b1db9/

What do you guys think? Is the situation as dire as this article is making it out to be? 

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Thus, a queer female East Indian Harvard grad with a Ph.D. and E.D. position is considered more oppressed than the unemployed third son of a white Appalachian coal miner.

No. No one thinks that. And if she had any understanding of intersectionality, she’d know that. But she dismissed intersectionality already in the first paragraph as jargon “used to signal wokeness.”

Thats the beginning of the article and it just goes on like that. She’s arguing against a caricature. 

Congratulations, you found a blog article written by someone just as confused as you are. 

11 minutes ago, Jose said:

 

I dont get why support for her would anger you more than Warren, Biden, or Gillibrand.

She was a career prosecutor, basically the tip of the spear of the shitty justice system. 

12 minutes ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

Hmmm

I’m sure Canadian mining companies have an interest in deposing Maduro.

9 minutes ago, Jwheel86 said:

Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. That's the entire game. Any discussion of demographics needs to be in the context of those 3 states. If we can't secure 3 for 3, we lose. Running up the score in parts of the country that don't matter serves no purpose. 

So. Can Bernie secure those states?