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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly
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CrimsonRage posted...

Democrats did waste their 08-10 majority. Obama was way too concerned with being bipartisan and working with a party that had no interest in working with him ever.

Man, think of all the time that bill spent in committees and review compared to GOP efforts.

Like, if they were gonna pass a limpdick bill, the least they could have done is pass it quickly.
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Eh, this doesn't do much for me. Idk why.
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It sucks
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r4X0r posted...

Uhh, what he said is absolutely correct. Democrats didn't pass gun control when they had the authority to do it with no Republican votes because they didn't want to.

Yes. However, this is at odds with the common GOP refrain that Democrats will seek to undermine the second amendment any way they can when given power.
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/965009332042596352
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I meant the band. I have no fucking clue what you other weirdos are discussing
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SomeonesAlt posted...

Except unlike Clinton, he's incompetent and bungles any attempt to cover up or mitigate the situation.

Are we talking about the same Hillary Clinton?
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...I don't think we're discussing the same Steely Dan?
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Asking for a friend
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Mr_Biscuit posted...

why is this dude so bad at even pretending to be innocent

He has Hillary Clinton disease. I don't mean that as a deflection, just amused by how they share the same fatal flaw of compounding their own scandals.
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https://twitter.com/TimesNow/status/624522055392735232

Paul Van Ass fired
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https://www.ocregister.com/2018/02/16/investigation-usa-swimming-ignored-sexual-abuse-for-decades/

For decades the sexual abuse of young athletes by their coaches lingered just beneath the surface in American swimmings otherwise golden waters.

In 2005, USA Swimming president Ron Van Pool decided it was time to bring the issue to the surface.

Giving his annual State of Swimming address, Van Pool pushed for a more aggressive approach within the sport to taking on sexual abuse.

USA Swimming is frightfully behind the curve in this process and there are those who would have us continue to lag, Van Pool said.

The speech, however, didnt make much of an impression with Chuck Wielgus, then in his eighth year as USA Swimmings executive director.

There was nothing that struck me, Wielgus said later in deposition.

Van Pools warning certainly failed to spark a sense of urgency with Wielgus, the man in charge of the day-to-day operations of swimmings national governing body at its Colorado Springs headquarters, or those around him at USA Swimming.

Five years later, Wielgus was asked in a deposition if, in the wake of Van Pools speech, if USA Swimming had taken any steps to bring the organization up to speed on the sexual abuse issue?

No, said Wielgus, who died last April after a lengthy battle with colon cancer.

The moment and its sense of complacency is indicative of the failure of USA Swimming to effectively address sexual abuse revealed in thousands of pages of documents obtained by the Southern California News Group.

The two decades after Wielgus was hired at USA Swimming have been marked by record-shattering Olympic success and the organizations inability to check swimmings culture of sexual abuse, a failure that has resulted in hundreds of new young victims, SCNG has found.

USA Swimming repeatedly missed opportunities to overhaul a culture within American swimming where the sexual abuse of underage swimmers by their coaches and others in positions of power within the sport was commonplace and even accepted by top officials and coaches, according to the documents and interviews with sexual abuse survivors, former Olympians, USA Swimming officials, safe sport advocates and some of USA Swimmings leading financial benefactors.

The Southern California News Group investigation found:

Top USA Swimming executives, board members, top officials and coaches acknowledge in the documents that they were aware of sexually predatory coaches for years, in some cases even decades, but did not take action against them. In at least 11 cases either Wielgus or other top USA Swimming officials declined to pursue sexual abuse cases against high profile coaches even when presented with direct complaints, documents show. With some of the complaints, the decision not to pursue the case was made by Susan Woessner, USA Swimmings current director of Safe Sport.

For example, three U.S. Olympic team head coaches, and a USA Swimming vice president were told in the 1980s that a world-renowned coach has sexually abused a female swimmer beginning when she was 12. Wielgus was informed of allegations against the coach at least three times in recent years. But not only did USA Swimming not pursue a case against the coach, it allowed him to continue to have access to USA Swimming facilities, U.S. Olympic and national team events, and the Olympic Training Center. USA Swimming even awarded the club owned and operated by him more than $40,000 in grants. The coach was only banned after pleading guilty to sexual assault, more than a quarter-century after the abuse was first brought to the attention of the Olympic coaches.

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I didn't pay much attention to the 360/PS3 Gen, but how much better was it, really? What more was around back then? Ridge Racer?
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It wouldn't even have to be strictly racing, with all the stunt shit you could get up to
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I thought Motogp 17 was the last game before moving to Unreal?
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/374372-ex-cia-director-us-meddles-in-foreign-elections-for-a-good

Following a federal indictment of Russians accused of meddling in the U.S election, a former CIA director on Friday said the U.S. probably meddles in other countries elections, as well.

The Russian embassy flagged his comments.

When asked whether the U.S. interferes in other countries elections, James Woolsey said, Well, only for a very good cause in the interests of democracy." [Antifar's note: ]

Oh, probably, but it was for the good of the system in order to avoid communists taking over, he told Laura Ingraham on her Fox News show on Friday night.

Woolsey served as CIA director under former President Clinton.

His comments follow a federal indictment released on Friday that accused 13 Russian individuals and three Russian groups of attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election.

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I'm suing this topic for false advertising
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My dad used to have one, but I haven't ridden one on my own.

Anyways, there's no good reason why this game hasn't been done.
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GregShmedley posted...

Why is the goal (possibly) fewer people instead of zero?

There's not a country, province, or state on earth without violence; it's far more likely to see the second amendment repealed than 0 homicides.
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GregShmedley posted...

We ban the AR, an uptick in handgun shootings will happen (on top of handguns being the actual weapon of choice as is anyway). Ban handguns? Now shotguns are being used. Ban shotguns? Now knives or homemade bombs are being used

And almost certainly fewer people die as a result.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-14/now-arriving-at-america-s-airports-unions

During the first weeks of 2018, subcontracted service staff at Virginias Reagan National and Dulles International airports got a raise. So did baggage handlers, cabin cleaners, and wheelchair attendants at Bostons Logan airport, who also staged a 36-hour strike to defend their right to organize.

Soon, under laws passed last year, workers at other airports across the country, from Chicago to Los Angeles, will be getting wage bumps, too.

Airport employees have been mobilizing for higher pay and collective bargaining, gaining traction at a time when unions have been struggling. This month, passenger service workers at an American Airlines subsidiary, now represented by the Communications Workers of America, drew support from 81 members of Congress in their fight for a first-ever contract. Thousands of Uniteds catering workers petitioned last month to join the hospitality union Unite Here. And on Thursday, employees at New Yorks three major airportsNewark-Liberty, LaGuardia, and JFKwho a few years ago joined the Service Employees International Union, will testify before the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (which oversees the airports) in support of higher wages and better benefits.

In the bleak landscape of private sector union drives, airport employees have provided a rare bright patch. Over the past two years, 11,000 low-wage airport workers have won union recognition with SEIU. Since 2014, unions have helped secure rules requiring higher labor or safety standards for over 100,000 airport staff.

Organizers have found success at airports in large part because of local public officials. The U.S. Supreme Court has given municipalities greater authority to impose labor-related rules in workplaces they fund, such as airports, and the unions have used political pressure to encourage officials to do just that.

The politicians are crucial, said Luis Castillo, an airport security guard and a member of SEIUs bargaining committee at Denver International Airport. If we have to go directly to the politicians to put pressure on the companies we work for, that is one of the things that we can actually do.

Local officials and union organizers contend getting pay raises and more training for workers is a matter of travelers safety. Higher pay boosts employee retention and performance, according to a joint literature review released in October by the San Francisco International Airport and the University of California Berkeley Labor Center.

Any situation where you have high turnover, youre going to have people less aware, less prepared to deal with situations of emergency, said Broward County Commissioner Dale Holness, a Democrat whos championed proposals to require paid training and better wages for Fort Lauderdale airport staff.

Union critics claim safety is a red herring in the context of airports. The vast majority of the time, the employer is committed to a safe working environment, argued Michael Lotito, a lawyer and member of the labor and employment law litigation committee of the right-leaning U.S. Chamber of Commerce. There is no need to turn to a union.

Even where organizers havent won policy changes that directly open the door to unions, activists contend securing pay raises is a big first step. When airport wages rise, airlines have less motivation to cancel contracts with companies that become unionized, leveling the playing field, said Hector Figueroa, president of the SEIU local thats responsible for East Coast airports.

After the Port Authority required a pay hike for contractors at New York area airports, SEIU won union recognition within a couple years for 8,000 workers among the three facilities. SEIU then negotiated a contract that, while not increasing wages, set rules in areas like scheduling and safety.

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More people have died in car accidents than nuclear attacks
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If we outlaw nukes, only outlaws will have nukes
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https://www.salon.com/2018/02/17/how-about-you-join-the-army-if-you-want-to-shoot-guns/
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Every day
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GBA was the original SNES Classic Edition
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TheVipaGTS posted...

when people act like he acts on the net (including CE) people always push it off as a "Troll"..."oh he's just trolling for the jokes lol!"...Nah man they aren't all playing around.

It is in fact a stated tactic of white supremacists to couch their sincerely held beliefs in ironic humor.
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Let's rip off this band-aid instead of dancing around the subject: TC is suggesting, though he will not say it directly, that the prevalence of gay figure skaters is the result of rampant sexual abuse.

I do not agree with that assessment.
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I'd rather put my past in my behind
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

Are there specific coaches that have done things to warrant investigation?

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They are the only bid competing with the US/Canada/Mexico joint bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. They previously bid for the 2010 World Cup.
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Local news outlets regularly bastardize stories to downplay police wrongdoing
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We are talking about shitposting on Instagram, tho
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Professor McLogic: this means science is now illegal
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/964702913518977024
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Morning bump
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Or at least a game that combines both asphalt circuits like in Ride 2 with dirt/motocross tracks.

The Crew had motorcycles in one of its expansions, but there were only like 7 of them and cars were obviously the main focus of the game.
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Shuto-uke posted...

The administration has to stop encouraging these people to engage in these senseless acts of violence.

God knows I'm a Trump critic, but I think this is a bit much
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Wait, wait wait

how the fuck does anybody believe that identity politics didn't exist in 1998?
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Do not hold your breath
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Yeah, the all your base stuff, or something off YTMND
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BlkPopeIseem posted...

This article is poorly written. Fucking headache reading it.

Yeah, it kinda dances around what actually happened here; the actual shooting is only described in a quote from the police.
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Honestly, I think it's a useful concept to describe the core routine that just about any game has.
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Did you write that topic title on your own or is it taken from something in the article? Because indictments, by their nature, do not clear people of wrongdoing; the fact that X Y or Z people were not indicted today is not, in an ongoing investigation, proof that they will not be indicted in the future.

I'm a skeptic that anything from this will end up implicating Trump himself, but come on, dude. This is clickbait of the very sort you could typically be relied on to decry.
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Police then shot the student
http://www.wlox.com/story/37504096/identity-of-suspect-new-details-on-shooting-at-faith-city-mission-released

One man remains hospitalized tonight with non-life threatening injuries following an officer involved shooting [Antifar's note: JFC what a torturing of language] at Faith City Mission today.

What's normally a place of worship turned into a crime scene when a man entered Faith City Mission with a handgun.

"They said there was a gun in the building everyone started running all different ways," said Clay Murdock, a student at Faith City Mission.

Murdock said he tried to get as many people inside their sound room as possible.

"We're standing in there and everyone starts praying," said Murdock. "I went outside to see what was going on if I could get more people in there and right when as I went outside the guy was standing right in front of me with the pistol."

Murdock said he then ran outside.

Amarillo Police said the initial came in around 8:54 a.m. and indicated there was an armed suspect inside who had 100 to 150 people held hostage in the chapel.

Sergeant Brent Barbee said officers entered the building when they encountered an individual who had a handgun.

"The officers fired shots that struck the man," said Barbee. "After some additional investigation, they've learned that the man that the gun may have taken the firearm away from the original suspect in the call. The man who originally had the gun has been taken into custody."

That man taken into custody has been identified as 35-year-old Joshua Jones, who is an apparent regular at Faith City.

"He comes in here all the time, every day," said Murdock. "He sleeps right over there in that alleyway. He seemed like a nice enough guy."

Faith City Mission Outreach Director Raymond Gonzales echoed that statement, saying he's never noticed any odd behavior.

"Just yesterday I shook his hand and asked him how he was doing," said Gonzales. "He said 'I'm doing great.' It was a great day."

While Faith City Mission will be closed pending the investigation, they are confident that all trust will be restored.

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deupd_u posted...

I'm always bewildered at the liberal fantasy that there exists some sort of imaginary firearm "training" that will make people not want to kill others afterward.

Not every gun death is a meticulously planned out shooting. If we could reduce accidental deaths, accidental injuries, that would be a good thing
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https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/tpp-2-0-the-deal-without-the-us/

One year after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, the pact is back. The 11 remaining members expect to sign the final deal in March and hope to ratify it by 2019. Though significantly smaller since the United States pulled out, as measured by GDP and trade, the new Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is still a powerful pact in its own right.

In the first executive action of his presidency, Trump withdrew from the TPP, signaling to the world his commitment to his America First campaign promises. Since then, his administration has been seeking (with scant success) to promote bilateral trade deals, renegotiate existing trade deals, and impose trade restrictions to level the playing field for American businesses. Such actions have left the United States isolated on global trade, as the rest of the world has continued on with multilateral deals, notably the Japan-EU and EU-Mercosur agreements. The Trans-Pacific Partnership was meant to be the crowning jewel in a new age of global trade, writing the rules of the road for trade in the 21st century. Since Trumps reversal, that new age of global trade had been called into question.

But now the TPP is back and, barring a few bumps along the way, seems to have everyones commitment. So what is new about it, and what has stayed the same?
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When Trump withdrew from the TPP he also withdrew two of the most controversial provisions for which the United States had been advocating. One of the most ridiculed provisions in the TPP, the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provision, has been scaled back while a governments right to regulate its markets has been afforded increased protections. This was only possible after the United States withdrew from the deal: U.S. companies are the most frequent users of the measure, which allows companies to sue foreign governments over arduous regulations.

Another key provision the United States pushed for that has fallen to the side is the extension of copyright, or intellectual property, protections. Washington had negotiated for copyright to exist for the authors lifetime plus an additional 70 years. While this is standard in the United States, it is not in the other TPP members, and with Washington out of the deal, copyright lengths will be shorter.

The removal of these two provisions highlights what happens when the United States is not involved in regional affairs: the region moves on without it. The United States under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama was the prime advocate for the two heavily unpopular provisions. Under President Trump, the remaining 11 members of the TPP were able to cast off policies they considered harmful to their economies and governments.

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It's disingenuous to compare annual profits/donations to illiquid net worth.
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