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  • bnw
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    You’re trying to move between the law and morality. They are not the same. So to stay on topic it is up to the politicians to make this type of action illegal.

    But that’s your topic and your frame, not mine.

    ;>)

    I’m saying it’s both. We need to put strong checks on capitalist powers while we suffer under its oppressive yoke. And we need to hold the private sector accountable for their actions, always, with or without proper checks in place. Their responsibilities don’t suddenly vanish because of laissez faire government. They still know they are hurting real human beings via their actions. They still know they should not do so. And we, as a nation, should always call them on it and hold them accountable — as we hold our elected official accountable.

    Both/and. The public and the private, not just the public.

    And, remember, those who identify as “gun advocates” typically take the other side when it comes to guns. They tell us we don’t need any more laws, regulations or checks on gun violence. That they won’t make any difference. People will just commit gun crimes anyway.

    Aren’t you being a bit inconsistent in your stance when we look at the two issues?

    Both/and. Personal responsibility. That includes business owners, financiers, corporate raiders and the like, along with the politicians who fail to stop their wrongdoing.

    No, because I’m not an ideologue. I think for myself. I’m fine with searching for a solution to what transpired with the Hostess travesty. There’s a greater whole involved than the making of a few people a lot of money. Theres right and theres wrong and for myself I know the difference.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Baton Rouge Police Fatal Shooting of Alton Sterling #48209
    bnw
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    How very sad. Two things Sterling did wrong according to what I read above. First, don’t resist arrest. Not complying immediately can be interpreted as resisting arrest. Common sense dictates that you comply and not escalate the situation. Second, immediately inform the officer that you are carrying a firearm. This is taught over and over in carry class. You have to do so by law I suppose in most states but the reason is to not escalate the situation. If in a car hand the officer your carry permit with your drivers license.

    tell that to philando. he did not resist arrest. he had his hands in the air. he informed the officer that he was carrying a firearm and had a conceal carry permit. he went to reach for his wallet after informing him of this, and the policeman still shot him.

    it’s about more than that. there’s a reason black people are targeted more than white people. not just in killings. but arrests. getting pulled over for no apparent reason other than the fact that they are black.

    i know law enforcement officers are under a great deal of stress. i empathize with the amount of shit they have to go through on a daily basis. but something has to change in the way do their job. innocent people are needlessly dying. and not just in cases where people are dying. cases where people are getting pulled over for no other reason than the color of their skin.

    I don’t know why they were pulled over. Perhaps a BOLO was out that the officer was looking into? Only the officer can say. I haven’t seen the beginning of the encounter but if true then the policeman has a lot of explaining to do.

    Judging from what was said by the woman in the car as well as what the officer is heard saying apparently the victims hands were the issue. Always keep your hands in full view of the officer and move slowly away from your body. Make sure you know what the officer wants you to do with your hands. On the dashboard? On and behind your head? On the door window frame? Then there’s whatever the woman was doing that the officer had to account for too. So much of this is common sense.

    I’ve heard police departments are getting training from Israeli security force personnel which I would think are at odds with what americans expect as law enforcement.

    he was pulled over for a minor traffic violation. that’s it. the woman said he was following the officer’s orders to the t.

    i think it’s highly possible this cop was suffering from ptsd. i also think that law enforcement needs to rethink their training. they serve and protect the citizens.

    Too early to know. But we do know they do not protect. That was settled by the US Supreme Court some time ago.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Baton Rouge Police Fatal Shooting of Alton Sterling #48208
    bnw
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    I want to re-stress the obvious fact that both men were legally carrying firearms and both were killed for it.

    The one guy was a felon with multiple offenses including a sex offense. So if he was carrying my bet is that he was doing so illegally.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    Yes it is all on the politicians. It is easy to see the new owners turned the company around to take their windfall profit. They screwed over people they owed money. It is a form of fraud or should be. That is up to the politicians. The politicians who remain easily bought. The value in the company is the product it produced. The company still exists making the same products so those creditors should be paid. Labor under contract should have some value stake in the business but again that is up to the politicians.

    It always starts with the politicians.

    I guess you and I will just never see things like this the same way. And not saying you believe this, cuz I don’t know, but most people on the right constantly tell us that government should get out of the way, leave business alone, let it do as it pleases. They want our gubmint to be laissez faire. But, at the same time, they’re the first people to blame government when it fails to stop private sector venality. Can’t have it both ways. Do they want the government in or out? If they say out, they can’t then blame it for failing to step in and stop fraud, abuse, exploitation, etc. etc.

    Another way to look at this: Rapists and murderers. Government can’t always prevent their actions. When it can’t, is that “all on the politicians,” or is that on the rapists and murderers? Moving over to the actions of business owners, financiers, hedge fund guys, corporate raiders and the like . . . . These are adults. They know right from wrong. They know when their actions hurt workers, their families, the communities and so on, but they still do these things. Shouldn’t they be held responsible for their own choices, and the consequences of those choices? Their own actions, and the repercussions? Is it really the fault of mommy and daddy gubmint for not preventing adults who should know better from doing these things?

    You’re trying to move between the law and morality. They are not the same. So to stay on topic it is up to the politicians to make this type of action illegal.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Baton Rouge Police Fatal Shooting of Alton Sterling #48199
    bnw
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    i know law enforcement officers are under a great deal of stress. i empathize with the amount of shit they have to go through on a daily basis. but something has to change in the way do their job…

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    Do you think the wrong kind of ‘qualities’ are being sought after
    by the folks that hire cops?

    Maybe the powers-that-hire have over-emphasized things like size and strength and military background and shooting ability, at the expense
    of…oh…diplomacy, etc.

    w
    v

    I’d test the officers in question for illegal steroids use.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Baton Rouge Police Fatal Shooting of Alton Sterling #48198
    bnw
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    How very sad. Two things Sterling did wrong according to what I read above. First, don’t resist arrest. Not complying immediately can be interpreted as resisting arrest. Common sense dictates that you comply and not escalate the situation. Second, immediately inform the officer that you are carrying a firearm. This is taught over and over in carry class. You have to do so by law I suppose in most states but the reason is to not escalate the situation. If in a car hand the officer your carry permit with your drivers license.

    tell that to philando. he did not resist arrest. he had his hands in the air. he informed the officer that he was carrying a firearm and had a conceal carry permit. he went to reach for his wallet after informing him of this, and the policeman still shot him.

    it’s about more than that. there’s a reason black people are targeted more than white people. not just in killings. but arrests. getting pulled over for no apparent reason other than the fact that they are black.

    i know law enforcement officers are under a great deal of stress. i empathize with the amount of shit they have to go through on a daily basis. but something has to change in the way do their job. innocent people are needlessly dying. and not just in cases where people are dying. cases where people are getting pulled over for no other reason than the color of their skin.

    I don’t know why they were pulled over. Perhaps a BOLO was out that the officer was looking into? Only the officer can say. I haven’t seen the beginning of the encounter but if true then the policeman has a lot of explaining to do.

    Judging from what was said by the woman in the car as well as what the officer is heard saying apparently the victims hands were the issue. Always keep your hands in full view of the officer and move slowly away from your body. Make sure you know what the officer wants you to do with your hands. On the dashboard? On and behind your head? On the door window frame? Then there’s whatever the woman was doing that the officer had to account for too. So much of this is common sense.

    I’ve heard police departments are getting training from Israeli security force personnel which I would think are at odds with what americans expect as law enforcement.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    Reminds me of the junk bonds equity stripping in the ’80s. This is what you get when politicians are easily bought.

    So it’s all on politicians and not on the capitalists actually doing this crap?

    To me, this is yet another one of those huge differences between left and right. We leftists are against corruption and the concentration of wealth, power in privilege across the board — in the private sphere and in the public. The right, OTOH, seems incapable of ever holding the private sector responsible for their own venality, instead placing all the blame on the public sector. It’s never their fault, apparently. It’s always the “gubmint’s.”

    In reality, it’s both/and. And it’s the capitalist system itself that encourages, incentivizes, enables and maximizes this. It’s capitalists who write our laws. It’s capitalists who control our government.

    Yes it is all on the politicians. It is easy to see the new owners turned the company around to take their windfall profit. They screwed over people they owed money. It is a form of fraud or should be. That is up to the politicians. The politicians who remain easily bought. The value in the company is the product it produced. The company still exists making the same products so those creditors should be paid. Labor under contract should have some value stake in the business but again that is up to the politicians.

    It always starts with the politicians.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Samatha Bee on Trump and GOP racism. #48184
    bnw
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    Forgetting the election for a moment…is there any
    hope for the diminishing or eradication of racism/jingoism/fundamental-superstition-ism ?

    I mean millions of amerikans are drenched from day-one
    in racism/jingoism/superstition. I mean, its not just in a few magazines
    laying around the house — they are drenched, inundated, surrounded and drowned in racism-jingoism-superstition.

    This is a common refrain from many of my clients:
    Q: How did you get involved in the Aryan Brotherhood?
    A: Oh, grand-daddy was in it, Daddy was in it, when i was eight years old
    i went to all the bar-b-ques and stuff….its just all Ive known. Its my family.

    How and why does ‘that’ happen?

    w
    v

    Look on the bright side. They know who their daddy is.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by bnw.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Samatha Bee on Trump and GOP racism. #48183
    bnw
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    All the money and the guy with the swastika tattoo on his neck.

    The LBJ movie, I think, is based on a stage play that debuted at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival 4 or 5 years ago. It began, iirc, with LBJ being sworn in after JFK’s assassination, and covered the civil rights story. MLK was a character in the play, too. The LBJ stuff is a completely different movie.

    I think that’s “Breaking Bad,” but am not sure. I’m one of the few people around who has never seen it.

    Ah Billy something else we have in common.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    Reminds me of the junk bonds equity stripping in the ’80s. This is what you get when politicians are easily bought.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Baton Rouge Police Fatal Shooting of Alton Sterling #48137
    bnw
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    How very sad. Two things Sterling did wrong according to what I read above. First, don’t resist arrest. Not complying immediately can be interpreted as resisting arrest. Common sense dictates that you comply and not escalate the situation. Second, immediately inform the officer that you are carrying a firearm. This is taught over and over in carry class. You have to do so by law I suppose in most states but the reason is to not escalate the situation. If in a car hand the officer your carry permit with your drivers license.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: oh no. rams reality tv series. #48120
    bnw
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    More distractions.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    BS. Trump employs common sense not emotion.

    Even if that is true, it is irrelevant.

    Racism is about policy, not “feelings.”

    And his policy proposals are racist. Clearly. Emphatically.

    Wrong again. His proposals are common sense. Keep beating that racist drum. But it isn’t effective. People want solutions to problems.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by bnw.
    • This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by bnw.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    Money is not fictional. Money has intrinsic value. Federal Reserve Notes are not money and are quite fictional. Printing the $1 bill costs just as much as printing the $100 bill.

    What do you mean by “money” then? It’s currency. And no currency has any intrinsic value other than what humans agree to. As in, it’s a fiction we agree to. Well, at least the rich and powerful agree to this, and then we go along with that.

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    Better trade deals. Bringing money back from abroad to create jobs here in the US. I’ve answered this many times.

    Come on, bnw. Even you have to admit that’s incredibly vague. What exactly does “better trade deals” mean? Specifically? And how will Trump bring money back here from abroad? Details, please. And what policy would he implement to turn that money into jobs?

    Seriously, you haven’t answered this. Nor has Trump. He’s far, far too vague about everything.

    Trump has answered these questions many times.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: garden pics #48114
    bnw
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    Impressive transformation from May to June. Also, an impressive display of firewood both in volume and organization.

    Thanks

    When firewood comes along
    You must stack it
    Before summer goes on too long
    You must stack it
    When splitting’s all been done
    You must stack it

    Now Stack It!
    In the shade
    Shape it up
    Get straight
    Go forward
    Move Ahead
    It’s not to late
    To Stack it
    Stack it Good!

    Devo?

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Juan Cole on Hillary and Snowden… #48113
    bnw
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    fart

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: FBI says no charges for Hildabeast #48110
    bnw
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    I hear the pressure may be on to remove Hillary’s security clearances. Not like that would prevent her from top clearances as President, but it is interesting to review the security clearances information at the Bureau of Diplomatic Security at the State Dept:

    Guideline K:
    Handling Protected Information

    33. The Concern. Deliberate or negligent failure to comply with rules and regulations for protecting classified or other sensitive information raises doubt about an individual’s trustworthiness, judgment, reliability, or willingness and ability to safeguard such information, and is a serious security concern.
    34. Conditions that could raise a security concern and may be disqualifying include:

    (a) deliberate or negligent disclosure of classified or other protected information to unauthorized persons, including but not limited to personal or business contacts, to the media, or to persons present at seminars, meetings, or conferences;
    (b) collecting or storing classified or other protected information in any unauthorized location;
    (c) loading, drafting, editing, modifying, storing, transmitting, or otherwise handling classified reports, data, or other information on any unapproved equipment including but not limited to any typewriter, word processor, or computer hardware, software, drive, system, gameboard, handheld, “palm” or pocket device or other adjunct equipment;
    (d) inappropriate efforts to obtain or view classified or other protected information outside one’s need to know;
    (e) copying classified or other protected information in a manner designed to conceal or remove classification or other document control markings;
    (f) viewing or downloading information from a secure system when the information is beyond the individual’s need to know;
    (g) any failure to comply with rules for the protection of classified or other sensitive information;
    (h) negligence or lax security habits that persist despite counseling by management;
    (i) failure to comply with rules or regulations that results in damage to the National Security, regardless of whether it was deliberate or negligent.

    35. Conditions that could mitigate security concerns include:

    (a) so much time has elapsed since the behavior, or it happened so infrequently or under such unusual circumstances that it is unlikely to recur or does not cast doubt on the individual’s current reliability, trustworthiness, or good judgment;
    (b) the individual responded favorably to counseling or remedial security training and now demonstrates a positive attitude toward the discharge of security responsibilities;
    (c) the security violations were due to improper or inadequate training.

    Well under Guideline K we know that Hildabeast has not complied with-

    33.
    34. a,b,c,e,g,h, probably i
    35. a,b

    Terribly pathetic record to be sure but there is no minimum ethical foundation required for president. She could fail every single part of Guideline K and still be president with the highest access supposedly to everything.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by bnw.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: FBI says no charges for Hildabeast #48109
    bnw
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    You don’t know shit about the topic at hand the safeguarding and managing access to federal documents especially sensitive or higher. But that will never stop you.

    Ease up, bnw. You’re making it personal again.

    Yes, I know about the topic at hand. And I’m guessing Comey knows a lot more than either of us. He didn’t think it amounted to anything illegal. I don’t either. I just see it as stupid, arrogant, reckless and negligent of Clinton. And if we jailed people for those things, not many Americans would be able to walk down the street. They’d be in jail, too.

    No I’m not making it personal. You made a BS claim and I called BS. You do not know the topic at hand. That much is abundantly clear.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: FBI says no charges for Hildabeast #48078
    bnw
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    You simply do not know the first thing about this topic. I do. My wife does too. Our friends and coworkers do as well. We’ve sat through the lectures. We’ve seen the degree to which even business sensitive files are managed/tracked. To think that peoples lives were put at risk and that SAP information was handled in that manner is incomprehensible. No one in such a position of trust including Hildabeast supporters can believe she got away with it. No one. The precedent set is incredible.

    I did Internet tech support for 15 years. Yeah, I know a lot about the topic.

    You don’t know shit about the topic at hand the safeguarding and managing access to federal documents especially sensitive or higher. But that will never stop you.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    Billy,

    What is really funny is that you of all people are concerned about the national debt!

    (Tried to respond multiple times over a half hour but keep getting 403 Forbidden message when quoting your post.)

    Unlike most people on the right, I actually favor paying for the government we use, as we use it. Most on the right prefer steep tax cuts, which create massive deficits and debt.

    I’d rather raise tax rates on the wealthy so we can balance the budget. Of course, that’s under our current system. I’ve also put forward ways to make it so we don’t need any taxation at all, and there is no debt.

    Money is a fiction. It’s an agreed upon fiction. Like capitalism, nation-states and religion. We could very easily agree to a different kind of fiction, one that benefits 100% of us, instead of just the 1%.

    But if we remain in our current fiction, yeah. I’d prefer we have no debt. Though it’s economic suicide to try to pay it down during a recession or a weak recovery. The time to do that is when the economy is doing well. The CBO, for instance, told Bush back in 2000/2001 that if he just left tax rates alone, we could pay off the entire debt by 2009. He cut rates for the rich twice — 2001 and 2003 — and doubled the debt instead.

    And I’m still waiting for you to tell us how Trump would bring back jobs.

    ;>)

    Money is not fictional. Money has intrinsic value. Federal Reserve Notes are not money and are quite fictional. Printing the $1 bill costs just as much as printing the $100 bill.

    Better trade deals. Bringing money back from abroad to create jobs here in the US. I’ve answered this many times.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    Thanks for the laugh!

    Um, well, can you elaborate a bit on that, bnw?

    It should be obvious. Just look what I quoted. You say unemployment is low. You believe the unemployment data. I don’t. When people compare it to other times it means nothing since the methodology was changed. Thats why I use Shadow Stats to get as close to an apple to apple stat as possible.

    The ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment Rate for May 2016 is 23.0%

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Trump Fights Racism yet the Leftists Lie and Cry Racism #48065
    bnw
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    Billy,

    What is really funny is that you of all people are concerned about the national debt!

    (Tried to respond multiple times over a half hour but keep getting 403 Forbidden message when quoting your post.)

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: Trump Fights Racism yet the Leftists Lie and Cry Racism #48063
    bnw
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    Interesting. So in a nation with an extremely high rate of unemployment, talking about the good ole USA here, you say-

    Trump wouldn’t have a problem with rich foreigners coming to this country since they can pay their way and can create and finance jobs for other US citizens?

    WELL DUH! It’s about the ECONOMY! JOBS. JOBS. JOBS. JOBS.

    Actually, our rate of unemployment is rather low (4.7%), if we’re comparing apples with apples, and not using a different metric for the past than we use today. It’s pretty low.

    Thanks for the laugh!

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: FBI says no charges for Hildabeast #48061
    bnw
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    BS. Deleting emails is destroying government property. Extreme carelessness is a criminal offense for we but not for she. That includes all who participated in the email scandal which includes Obama.

    This is kind of funny. In reality, no one in private life would be sent to jail for deleting emails. Or fined. Or even brought to trial. At worst, they’d be fired by their employer, and even that would be rare. Only government employees are held to such a standard — which, of course, has never been implemented for any previous SoS.

    I think some people are getting a bit carried away due to hatred of Clinton. They’re losing all perspective. And I say that as someone who doesn’t like her either.

    My perspective is fine. Deleting 30,000 emails by scrubbing all the servers and then lying her ass off about EVERYTHING regarding the emails isn’t funny.

    Anyone working with sensitive government documents including emails whether employed by the government directly or as a contractor is given the same talk about the proper care and handling . The State Department was not immune from that talk and the legal ramifications of noncompliance.

    You simply do not know the first thing about this topic. I do. My wife does too. Our friends and coworkers do as well. We’ve sat through the lectures. We’ve seen the degree to which even business sensitive files are managed/tracked. To think that peoples lives were put at risk and that SAP information was handled in that manner is incomprehensible. No one in such a position of trust including Hildabeast supporters can believe she got away with it. No one. The precedent set is incredible.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by bnw.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: 6 greatest Rams head coaches of all time #48034
    bnw
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    Martz was the greatest HC with Vermeil right there with him.

    And Mr. Ellenbogen had better learn that the Rams didn’t lose to the Patriots in SB36. The officials gave it to the Patriots. The Rams knew it at that time and to this very day.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    in reply to: FBI says no charges for Hildabeast #48033
    bnw
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    Extreme carelessness is Gross negligence look it up. If they charged Clinton they had to
    charge Obama and everyone else that knew about the server (the entire state dept.)

    Comey’speech explains why she wasn’t worth a spit as Sec. of State. Her emails were thoroughly compromised. And yet we hear the constant blather she is “experienced”, “qualified”, “paid her dues” etc. Yet her arrogance and incompetence are overlooked because she has a vagina? I’d like to think the long road of excuses has come to an end but the creativity within Clintonland is never ending.

    I wonder if a separate investigation regarding the emails and the Clinton Foundation remains ongoing?

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    Thank you for the numbers and such. The numbers suggest despite a smaller number of starts for Keenum that he has performed better than Stanton. AZ WRs are certainly far better than the Rams. Unless his level of competition was terrible I can’t see much of a case to put Stanton above Keenum. I suppose I’m saying if Keenum remains on the Rams he should be in line for at least what Stanton is getting providing this seasons starts don’t disappoint.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    So compared to Stanton how have the Rams compensated Keenum?

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    i think trump is an elitist. and a nationalist. and a xenophobe. it’s a form of racism i think.

    i don’t think he’d have a problem with rich mexicans and muslims and other minorities coming to this country. females. as long as they fit his elitist definition. he wouldn’t have a problem with them either.

    but poor immigrants. white or black. or any other ethnicity. he’d like to see them all go i’m sure.

    Interesting. So in a nation with an extremely high rate of unemployment, talking about the good ole USA here, you say-

    Trump wouldn’t have a problem with rich foreigners coming to this country since they can pay their way and can create and finance jobs for other US citizens?

    WELL DUH! It’s about the ECONOMY! JOBS. JOBS. JOBS. JOBS.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

    bnw
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    Trump has been out front in promoting women and minorities yet he’s constantly called a racist. Thats why.

    Oh, for chrissakes. He has said that the Mexicans coming here are the worst society has to offer. “When Mexico sends you its people, they’re not sending their best…They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”

    Never mind that Mexico isn’t “sending” anybody, that statement is appalling, and there is no way to get out of the fact that it is racist. And inflammatory.

    He wants to ban ALL Muslims from coming to the US. There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, and estimates are that 70,000 – 100,000 of them support ISIS. That is racist.

    So he employs some Latinos.

    That’s supposed to exonerate him from charges of racism?

    Hell, plenty of plantation owners employed black people after the Civil War.

    Mexico IS sending people across the border. The Mexican government wants the US$$$$ sent back to Mexico to prop up their economy.

    When the FBI states that they can’t vet these people then a timeout is justified until they can. Trump also asks why doesn’t the countries in that part of the world take in these refugees?

    Keep up with the racism stuff because it doesn’t work any more.

    You are not arguing that he isn’t racist.

    You are arguing that his racism is justifiable.

    BS. Trump employs common sense not emotion.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

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