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https://twitter.com/Hegelbon/status/961968298467450880
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I always assumed the spanish thing is more about rights than anything else. Like, they can't show ESPN/Fox clips in English for some reason.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVmlsKvVMAASfYH.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVmb3j-X0AEYhCr.jpg
https://twitter.com/BronzeHammer/status/961379697564225538
https://twitter.com/barry/status/961399915506294786

And here I thought his crowning moment was when he tweeted about running over Hillary Clinton in a monster truck
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Where does abortion and marijuana fall on the "likes white people vs. likes minorities" spectrum?

Like, I'll be the first to say that there's a lot more overlap between the two major parties than either is willing to admit, but this is an oversimplification
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Yeah, I've bought Forza car packs and such
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Where is the school district?
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I lol'd
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KillerKhan420 posted...

They can work together, but don't fool yourself into thinking your wife won't get hit on at work by someone. That's life, now whether you can trust her is another story.

Is there something you want to share with us?
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Watchin' moguls, baby
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Ahem, they're called Olympic Athletes from Russia, thank you.
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COVxy posted...

Antifar posted...

median household income is 103k

Median is much lower, that's the mean.

No, that's median for SF
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andel posted...

either. a single adult in san fran making 100k can live with some luxury but is far from rich or wealthy

But they sure as hell aren't "lower middle class" in a city where the median household income is 103k
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Is this individual, or family?
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Not all leftists are statists. Leftists are opposed to the consolidation of private power in the hands of the wealthy, and while many view the state as the natural counterbalance, there are alternate theories on how best to keep wealth from concentrating in the hands of the few. Syndicalists and anarchists, for example, posit non-state means of public control.
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What was in the story
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https://www.abqjournal.com/1131063/unm-suspending-davie-in-the-wake-of-outside-investigation.html

The University of New Mexico announced Thursday it is suspending head football coach Bob Davie for 30 days in the wake of a new report from an outside investigator.

A Chicago law firm hired by UNM says it could not conclude that football coaches or staff has obstructed with criminal investigations or misconduct cases involving players based on its review of three incidents, according to newly released documents.

But the firm is recommending leadership take strong action to ensure that the University does not and will not in any aspect of the Universitys program, including athletics tolerate sexual harassment, sexual assault, physical abuse or other prohibited misconduct against its students. It is also urging greater oversight of the athletic department and other units with respect to their handling of incidents of alleged misconduct following its recent probe, according to the report it filed with UNM last month.

Hogan Marren Babbo & Roses recommendations include an annual review of the universitys handling of student-athletic misconduct cases and leadership that set(s) a stronger tone and commitment to compliance that student-athletes will be treated like and held to the same expectations and standards of conduct as other University students, the report said.

UNM hired the firm last November on the heels of an earlier investigation by retired federal judge Bruce Black after which he had recommended further review of certain issues. Hogan Marren specifically investigated alleged physical abuse of football players and alleged interference with and improper involvement by the football program into police and/or University investigations of sexual and physical assault by football players.

Hogan Marren never interviewed head football coach Bob Davie, according to the report. But his name appeared numerous times in its final report.

That includes the firms examination of one case in which a female student had reported to UNM Police that a football player had raped her.

Witnesses told Black that Davie had held an all team meeting in which he told the players to get some dirt on this whore,' according to Hogan Marrens report. The firm said it was not able to independently confirm Davies actual comments, as players and coaches it contacted said they werent at the meeting or didnt remember Davie using those words or remembered only hearing they needed to protect their teammate and provide information to Davie.

However, its report states that Bob Davie personally met with a UNM police officer along with a player the coach said had information related to the investigation into the other player. The player showed police video of the female student possibly posted after the alleged incident.

Coach Davie argued that the video, which showed the student making comments about breaking up with someone but did not mention (the accused player) undermined the female students credibility by showing she was seeking revenge and continued to advocate on the (accused players) behalf with the officer, the report states.

The alleged victim also later complained to a student advocate that football players talking about the rape case had said Davie was going to take care of it. In following up, the Office of Equal Opportunity spoke to UNMPD who expressed concerns Davie was interfering with the investigation. One officer confirmed that Coach Davie admitted he had spoken to the players about the case and produced two players who had found a (redacted word) video of the alleged victim.

An OEO investigator wrote a memo about the concerns but the report says an investigation was never opened into possible interference.

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https://twitter.com/LarryWebsite/status/961491036517359616
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Tezlok posted...

It's one thing to say some actual judge can decide. But you can't give that power to random people.

I mean, this is literally how our justice system operates
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Shmashed posted...

The stock market falling doesn't mean the economy is falling.

Correct; the stock market is not the economy.

Sativa_Rose posted...

Apparently someone at the intercept thinks that these "market watchers" are like all-knowing sages who only speak truth and wisdom about the markets (often times they are actually just clueless fools)

Congratulations on not getting to the second sentence

Now, when analysts say that the Dow Jones industrial average went up or down for this or that reason, they are often just guessing.

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https://theintercept.com/2018/02/08/stock-market-crash-jobs-report-wages/

...Market watchers have said flat-out that the crash was triggered by a new jobs report released Friday that showed that wages, nearly a decade into the recovery, might finally be starting to rise.

Now, when analysts say that the Dow Jones industrial average went up or down for this or that reason, they are often just guessing. What specifically moves a body as complex as the stock market is in some ways unknowable, but it is useful to explore the cause being ascribed to last weeks crash rising wages apart from its implications for the market. What it says about the way our economy is structured is much more profound.

Start with the suggestion, which seems odd on its face, that the market crashed because wages were seen to be rising. Anybody outside the financial system would immediately see wages going up as a good thing. After all, its what every politician in every party says they want to see happen. But for market analysts, its a bad thing, because it is said to be a signal that inflation is around the corner.

Concern about inflation was most glaring on Friday, when stocks tanked after the January jobs report revealed the strongest wage gains since 2009, reported CNN Money. The immediate catalyst was the jobs report, which showed the strong United States economy might finally be translating into rising wages for American workers a sign that higher inflation could be around the corner, offered The New York Times.

And if inflation is coming, then the Federal Reserve is likely to raise interest rates to slow down the economy and cool off the inflation. When the Fed raises interest rates, bonds become more attractive, so people move money from stocks to bonds and the stock market dives. It becomes harder to borrow, so businesses and homeowners have less capital to throw around. Profits get squeezed by high-interest payments. And as interest rates rise, the value of older bonds, which pay out a lower interest rate, goes down. So people are losing money all over the place. All because wages started to go up.

Everything in the structure of the economy, then, is geared toward making sure that wages never rise. And for nearly half a century, this task has been accomplished. Wages havent budged since the 1970s.

Capitalisms reserve army has its ranks bolstered by a mechanism known as the inflation target or the inflation objective. The Fed currently sets the target at 2 percent, meaning that it doesnt want to see inflation higher or lower than that. What it really means is that it doesnt want to see inflation higher than that, as the economy hasnt hit the 2 percent target in years.

But the target itself has meaning, since any little sign of wage growth is taken to mean that inflation is around the bend, so the Fed taps the brakes to keep everything under that target. When the Fed hits the brakes, people lose their jobs. Thats not an unfortunate side effect of tighter monetary policy it is the intended effect. But the 2 percent target, argue people who want to see real full employment, is too low. The Fed is throwing people out of work unnecessarily or, at least, for no sound economic reason.
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In plain English, Yellen said that the decision the Fed made in 2012 before she was Fed chair may have been the right one at the time, but evidence since then suggests the rate could be set higher. Wage growth since the recession has been anemic and labor share of corporate income is still nowhere where it needs to be, Jordan Haedtler, campaign manager of Fed Up, told The Intercept. If the Fed announced that it was willing to tolerate a higher inflation target or even adopt a wage target, maybe investors would treat the recent modest uptick in wages as the good news that it is, rather than panicking.

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Tezlok posted...

So I can know I am not a racist but someone can think I am, hunt down my home, break in and murder me for being a racist when j am not

Nobody is allowed to break into your home and murder you
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Questionmarktarius posted...

https://www.climate-policy-watcher.org/ecological-footprints/hothouse-earth.html

What relevance do you believe this to have to the topic at hand?
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Axiom posted...

In 2017, Rebel Media hired as its British correspondent convicted criminal[22] and far-right activist[23] Tommy Robinson, founder of the avowedly anti-Islamic English Defence League.[24][25]

Tommy Robinson being the host for this video
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Viewtiful Joe
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Blue_Dream87 posted...

Who gave this guy power?

Donald Trump
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Horungen posted...

What would environment people have said during the ice age - which was NATURAL?

Imagine the meltdown.

Same as now, really:
"This is all your fault, therefore you have to sacrifice your livelihood and liberty for your own good."

You are not as dumb as you are pretending to be in this post.
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Skipped ahead to like 2:50, saw him use the classic Ben Shapiro move of repeatedly interrupting someone and then saying "ah she won't talk, look at this!" He then accuses her of being a fascist because she doesn't want to be filmed.

Does the camera ever pan out to give us a better sense of crowd size, or is this like 50 people?
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A_Good_Boy posted...

Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100? In the year 2018? I mean it's fairly arrogant for us to think that we know exactly what it should be in 2100."

It's not arrogance to say "all things considered, we'd rather Miami not flood every week."
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All Trump is saying in that Tweet is that it's wrong that the stock market isn't aligned with the interests of workers (the "good news" he's referring to are reports of higher wages. To which I say: congratulations on becoming a Marxist, Donnie.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/08/ed-crane-cato-institute-sexual-harassment-398989

Three former employees of the famed Cato Institute say they were sexually harassed by Ed Crane, the 73-year-old co-founder and president emeritus of the think tank and one of the most recognizable figures in the libertarian movement.

One former employee said Crane asked her to take off her bra. Another said he compared her breasts to pornographic images on his computer. A third said he sent her an email on breast augmentation. Crane also settled an additional sexual harassment claim by a former employee in 2012, her lawyer confirmed to POLITICO.

Crane, who served as president and CEO of the libertarian think tank for more than 30 years before becoming president emeritus after a dispute with Cato shareholders Charles and David Koch, denied several of the incidents or said he didnt recall them before ending a brief interview. He declined to comment on whether he was involved in a legal settlement in 2012.

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This is ridiculous, Crane said, when confronted with the complaints. He added that he had a stroke last year, which affected his memory.

But former Cato employees, including the three women who say Crane harassed them, and five other men and women, described an atmosphere in which Crane the undisputed boss of the think tank felt little hesitation about bringing up sexual topics with female employees.

Crane settled a sexual harassment dispute with then-Director of External Affairs Carey Lafferty in 2012 after he allegedly made unwanted sexual comments, according to two people who say Lafferty told them about the legal battle and one person who heard about the settlement directly from Crane.

One former Cato employee during the late 1990s recalled visiting Cranes office on multiple occasions and finding him viewing pornography on his computer. On one occasion, Crane told the employee she resembled a woman in one of the pictures and on another occasion told her he would like to see how her breasts measured up to the images on his screen.

A former research assistant said that shortly after she started working at Cato in 2003, when she was 23 years old, she received a forwarded email from Crane about breast augmentation. Crane added a note to the email suggesting she was not in need of the breast enhancement services, the former research assistant said.

Another former Cato employee recalled having lunch with Crane after leaving her job at the organization for another Washington employer in 2004. During the lunch, she said, Crane told her she should go to the bathroom and take her bra off.
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Former employees say Catos libertarian ideals extended to the workplace. A 1999 book on sexual harassment published as a Cato Institute book encouraged women to find avenues for dealing with sexual harassment that didnt involve reporting incidents to management or using the legal system.

Libertarians would believe in the right to ask to proposition someone and the right for someone to say no, said Cinda Jones, a former Cato head of marketing who left the organization in 2001.

Under Crane, Cato liked to hire beautiful young people, Jones added. Everybody was above-average ... I was flattered to be picked. Jones emphasized she never experienced any inappropriate behavior while working at Cato and had a positive experience there.

Even some of the women who say they were offended by Cranes behavior, said they had initially been thrilled to have been hired by the premier libertarian organization at a young age.

Working at Cato, if youre a young libertarian, is an enormous privilege, said the former research assistant who said she received an email from Crane about breast augmentation in 2003. People just sort of thought, Well Im a libertarian, Ed owns the place, I kind of believe in his right to run it the way he wants to.

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Darmik posted...

I thought he said the stock market falling was a big mistake

That's not what he said
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In the U.S., conservative ideals of "small government" and "the free market" have, in the past 40 years or so, come packaged with undertones of racism and nationalism. Reagan's talk of "welfare queens," Nixon's talk of "law and order" and etc. were pitched at whites who felt that the civil rights era had stepped too far.

The alt-right doesn't particularly care about Marco Rubio's founding fathers slashfic, or Rand Paul's tax plan; they just want the nationalism. Alt-righters say the quiet parts loud.
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This topic has aged like milk
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/business/stock-market-activity.html
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Bio1590 posted...

...does...does he realize that people actually compete for these spots and they're not just handed out?

Hard to say whether he is ignorant or merely pretending to be so
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Sativa_Rose posted...

I don't get why Nazis would be holocaust deniers. You'd think they'd be holocaust supporters if they really loved Hitler so much.

From what I've seen from this guy, it's a weird logic where the Holocaust din't happen, but "the darn Jews' attempts to push the myth that it did is why we need one now."
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Actually I think NBC is ditching the tape delay (finally)
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I don't know what they expected the known holocaust denier to do on their show
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Good for him.
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/07/in-olympics-lets-focus-on-winner-race-not-race-winner.html

The Olympics start tomorrow. Figure skating! Bobsleigh! International politics! Russian doping! A chance to tell everyone about how the Olympics is a global con that leaves host cities in crippling debt! Whatever your hobby horse, theres plenty to get excited about right now. With that in mind, lets check in on what Fox News is talking about:

Unless its changed overnight, the motto of the Olympics, since 1894, has been Faster, Higher, Stronger. It appears the U.S. Olympic Committee would like to change that to Darker, Gayer, Different.

Jesus.

This post, written by Fox News executive editor John Moody under the headline In Olympics, lets focus on the winner of the racenot the race of the winner, starts with Moody complaining about how a USOC recently official lauded the diversity of the U.S. Olympic delegation. It quickly spirals into a hysterical, hypothetical-riddled screed about right-wingers favorite target: political correctness.

Complaining that every team isnt a rainbow of political correctness defeats the purpose of sports, which is competition.

No one is making that complaint, man.

Insisting that sports bow to political correctness by assigning teams quotas for race, religion or sexuality is like saying that professional basketball goals will be worth four points if achieved by a minority in that sport white guys, for instance instead of the two or three points awarded to black players, who make up 81 percent of the NBA. Any plans to fix that disparity? Didnt think so.

Huh?

At the Olympic level, not everyone is a winner. Not everyone gets a little plastic trophy to take home.

Ah, always good to spice things up with a classic trophies are making America soft now take.

Also the VP of the US is in Winter Olympics meltdown mode
https://splinternews.com/mike-pence-is-having-a-full-blown-meltdown-over-being-c-1822837382
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You don't need DLC (After Dark is nice though), but you'll probably want mods to keep it fresh after a while
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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

So he was in the administration, did some bad shit, is no longer in the administration.

He did bad shit, bad shit was known about when they hired him, and they defended him right up until he resigned
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Wait what? The government re-opened?

Yes, for three weeks (as of January 22). Democrats in the Senate have approved now a bill that will keep it open now for another year at least. They still have not gotten what they want with regards to immigration
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The rhetoric at the time was that if nothing was done regarding immigration and DACA, Democrats could just shut the government down again when the funding came up in just a few weeks time.

It may surprise you to learn that Democrats have not grown a spine

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/us/politics/budget-deal-trump.html?mtrref=t.co

Senate leaders struck a far-reaching bipartisan agreement on Wednesday that would add hundreds of billions of dollars to military and domestic programs over the next two years while raising the federal debt limit, moving to end the cycle of fiscal showdowns that have roiled the Capitol.

The accord between Senators Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, and Chuck Schumer of New York, his Democratic counterpart, would raise strict caps on military and domestic spending that were imposed in 2011 as part of a deal with President Barack Obama that was once seen as a key triumph for Republicans in Congress.

The deal would raise the spending caps by about $300 billion over two years. The limit on military spending would be increased by $80 billion in the current fiscal year and $85 billion in the next year, which begins Oct. 1. The limit on nondefense spending would increase by $63 billion this year and $68 billion next year.

But the accord was not without dramatics, and its passage in the House is not a foregone conclusion. As proof of that, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, took the House floor on Wednesday morning in opposition, protesting that the deal did nothing to bring lawmakers closer to protecting young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. She then delivered a record-breaking speech that tied up the House for the entire day and into the night.

The budget agreement, coming a day after President Trump threatened to shut down the government, would effectively negate Mr. Trumps demands to broadly reorder government with deep cuts to nondefense programs like environmental protection, foreign aid and health research that were to offset large increases in military spending. Mr. Trump is to release his second budget request on Monday, but the deal championed by the top congressional leaders from his own party amounts to an unequivocal rebuke of many of the budgetary demands he has put forth.
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If the deal passes on Thursday, lawmakers would then put together a long-term spending package over the coming weeks that would fund the government through September, granting a measure of peace to Washington as attention turns to the midterm elections in November. Heading into the midterm elections, it would also enable lawmakers to go home and claim success at delivering funding for pressing needs, like fighting the opioid epidemic.

By setting overall spending levels through September 2019, the deal would ease passage of spending legislation in the next fiscal year, as well.

The agreement will cause federal budget deficits to grow even larger, on top of the effects of the sweeping tax overhaul that lawmakers approved in December. But because the deal gives long-sought victories to both parties, the deficit effect appears to be of little concern. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin both quickly embraced it.

From the increase in domestic spending, Mr. Schumer said the deal includes $20 billion for infrastructure, $6 billion for the opioid crisis and mental health, $5.8 billion for child care and $4 billion for veterans hospitals and clinics. In addition, the deal includes almost $90 billion in disaster relief in response to last years hurricanes and wildfires.

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In a normal presidency this would be a month long scandal. It'll be out of the news cycle by Valentine's Day
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Depends on when, where, and who you're asking
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Down Joes
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Capn Circus posted...

and it's only up from here.

I'm not sure that's a safe assumption
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What do you make of the corruption at the Baltimore Police Department detailed during the ongoing trial involving its Gun Trace Task Force?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/convicted-baltimore-police-detective-testifies -that-he-stole-money-with-slain-detective-sean-suiter/2018/02/05/403a9ec2-0acb-11e8-8890-372e2047c935_story.html?utm_term=.8e7740bc3c5d
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