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nittany ramModeratorSo you never got a witness to confess on the stand that they were the real perpetrator and your client was innocent?
But that happens all the time on tv and in movies!
Maybe you just haven’t lucked into one of those situations yet.
Yeah, Perry Mason did that EVERY week.
Frankly, I think wv is just lazy…
nittany ramModeratorStudy says extreme protests can be effective…
Study Says “Extreme” Protest Isn’t Popular (But It Can Still Be Effective)
nittany ramModeratorYeah, well when he dies he gets to go straight to Heaven. Where are YOU gonna go when you die, Mr Atheist.
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vI’ll be in Hell, I suppose.
I’ll save you a seat.
nittany ramModeratorI was all prepared to react to whatever insensitive and racist rant that spewed out of Robertson’s mouth by openly wishing for his death, but that was the kindest thing he has ever said.
Still wish he would die though.
Because he didn’t “turn on” Trump; he just disagrees with him on the way he’s handling this one particular issue. Robertson is still fully on board the Trump train, and will throw his full support behind his re-election.
June 3, 2020 at 7:00 am in reply to: Police v. Demonstrators Protesting Killing of George Floyd #115771nittany ramModeratorWatch this. Really? Now? https://t.co/NIIPAKvbiE
— Kevin Folta (@kevinfolta) June 3, 2020
nittany ramModeratorHere's a side-by-side comparison of what CBC News Network aired this afternoon and the original video clip.
I'll let you be the judge about whether the final 5 seconds that @CBCNews omitted from its broadcast showed events that had public interest value. pic.twitter.com/MpwVhHaVUI
— Luke LeBrun (@_llebrun) May 31, 2020
nittany ramModerator— Kathleen Hefferon, PhD (@KHefferon) June 1, 2020
nittany ramModeratorDeaths from COVID19 May be massively underestimated…
According to the CDC, so far this year, Florida has had 1,762 deaths from #COVID and 5,185 from pneumonia.
Average pneumonia deaths in Florida from 2013-2018 for the same time period are 918.
Probably just a coincidence, yeah?
— Kellen Squire (@SquireForYou) May 27, 2020
nittany ramModeratorOur future home is looking 😍🤩
–@SoFiStadiumvia: @RamsNFL | #LARams 🐏🏈💛💙 pic.twitter.com/iymaRb4HCp
— Rams Nation (@RamsNationLAX) May 28, 2020
nittany ramModeratornittany ramModeratorThat is still one of my all time favorite Rams games.
nittany ramModeratorSo sorry, Jack. Pets are part of the family, and we love them as such. Not many things hurt more than having to put one down, but it sounds like you did the right thing.
Take care.
nittany ramModeratorP.S. (to WV) IMO the reason people didn’t vote for Sanders has nothing to do with corporate influence or capitalism. It has to do with fear the voters had of “he’s going to take away my stuff”. And that may be my entire point above.
I think the reason people think that has everything to do with the propaganda our corporate overlords have been promoting since the Red Scare. How many deaths in East Asia and Central America can be attributed to protecting US corporate interests from socialist governments that had had enough of their exploitation?
I wouldn’t call Eisenhower a “corporate overlord” or even a tool of them-whoever they are-but he was so concerned about the “red scare”-as you call it-that he began protecting the US interests in south east asia. It was an honest but misguided attempt at preventing the fall of a strategic part of the world to communism. ( can you say China) It had squat to do with “corporate overlords”. Hồ Chí Minh was not a socialist and we did not have any corporate interest in S/E Asia. Our interest was simply to protect an area that provided us with military access close to China.
And even if your corporate warlord notion is correct the questions are: Why are people so vulnerable to the propaganda?. Why aren’t you ? How come I’m not. Why do some have the ability to critically analyze issues while others don’t. How did we become a country of minions ? To me that is at the core of these issues-not- we are all at the mercy of “corporate warlords”. The latter is a simple response because we can use that to answer anything we dislike about our country. The former is a very, very complicated social issue .
Well, I won’t disagree that there was a misguided but benevolent motive behind stopping the “spread of communism”. But that wasn’t the driving force.
That simple fact that our biggest rivals (Soviet Union and USSR) were Communist was also a reason.
However, the main reason why capitalists hate communism was because they believed it was a threat to their pocket books. That was especially true in this hemisphere. It had little to do with liberating the poor souls bound to the communist yoke, (that’s the message, not the motivation) and a lot to do with protecting a fruit company. We killed a bunch of people to protect a fruit company.
I agree that the question of why some of us see this while most don’t is complicated. It involves are sorts of psychological, social, cultural etc reasons that would be interesting to research and talk about.
nittany ramModeratorP.S. (to WV) IMO the reason people didn’t vote for Sanders has nothing to do with corporate influence or capitalism. It has to do with fear the voters had of “he’s going to take away my stuff”. And that may be my entire point above.
I think the reason people think that has everything to do with the propaganda our corporate overlords have been promoting since the Red Scare. How many deaths in East Asia and Central America can be attributed to protecting US corporate interests from socialist governments that had had enough of their exploitation?
nittany ramModeratorAs a follow up to W’s question, who are your favorite presidents/premiers/heads of state/etc of other countries?
Here are mine…
Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand
Sanna Marin, Finland
Katrin Jakobsdottir, IcelandThey are all extremely progressive, and all have spearheaded huge social and environmental reforms. Gawd, to live in a country where they value the environment and social justice…
nittany ramModeratorFDR.
May 20, 2020 at 8:39 pm in reply to: the one-shot tweets thread (diff'rent stuff, funny angry interesting) #115134nittany ramModeratorA good explanation why antibody testing for Covid-19 is and will always be problematic. Even when an antibody test has a high sensitivity and specificity, positive results will be unreliable in a disease with a relatively low prevalence like Covid-19.
I wrote out an explanation, with a spreadsheet that can be downloaded and edited: https://t.co/osty4at54O
— Moebius Stripper (@moebius_strip) May 20, 2020
nittany ramModeratorI don’t think you can separate Americans from the media stew they grow up in. Their ignorance, apathy, and short attention spans are deliberately cultivated and exploited.
And I don’t think there was a time in American history where that wasn’t true. It may be worse now, but the powers-that-be have been massaging the message since the beginning. Part of it is that many people today realize that things are not always what they are told, but to them the lies are only coming from the group they don’t identify with. They cling to and vehemently defend the propaganda that fits their own word view, and dismiss out of hand any alternatives as fake news.
nittany ramModeratorI’m sure many people see me as a cynic because of my bleak outlook about the future, but I think I’m just being realistic. There was a recent study that showed that no matter what steps individual people take, it won’t halt climate change. We, as individual citizens, can do nothing about it. It’s like trying to bail out the Atlantic with a bucket. The climate crisis is a product of our corporate system, and it requires a reform of that system to halt it. It’s funny how the system has always put the onus on individual people to change their habits to stop climate change, but it’s a system issue. Only the corporatocracy can change it.
Thus my cynical (realistic) outlook.
nittany ramModeratorA good friend of our family recently died of COVID-19 in a nursing home in Philadelphia. He and his wife had been my parent’s best friends since I was in my teens. Our families vacationed together in the Outer Banks every summer. He was a kind and fun-loving man. He was suffering from Alzheimer’s and had been living with his son’s family, but he started experiencing “Korean War” flashbacks accompanied by a lot of screaming. He was frightening his son’s small children, and not knowing what else to do, they put him in a nursing home. I had not seen him in years, but from what I have heard, Alzheimer’s had taken the man I used to know. He no longer existed. What was left was a frightened, tormented, shell of his former self who didn’t know where he was and didn’t recognize anyone around him. Perhaps this is one case where COVID-19 was a blessing.
nittany ramModeratorCongrats, Gramps.
nittany ramModeratorThe new helmet is starting to grow on me…a little
nittany ramModeratorThe most iconic helmet in the history of football is no more.
I agree with Ag, though – it could have been worse.
nittany ramModerator@JoelGHodgson pic.twitter.com/iz9NaBKQz3
— Jessica Ward (@Jessica1187) May 11, 2020
nittany ramModeratorHow can the interests of sociopaths be represented if they can’t hold public office?
nittany ramModeratorI must say, I’m rather intrigued by this Basil of which you speak.
nittany ramModeratorAnd I figured…it’s prolly because John Denver LEFT West Virginia to go live in Aspen.
Well, in all fairness, Aspen has everything that West Virginia has except black lung.
nittany ramModerator“Almost Heaven, Westylvania…”
Is your allegiance with the Hatfields or the McCoys?
nittany ramModeratorWell…that sounds a little sketchy to me. How many forests are being cleared for organic farming? I mean….
If organic farming was to become the standard of practice throughout the world, then a lot more land would be required to yield the same amount of food that is currently produced. Since practically all the land on earth that is suitable for farming is already being farmed, that means more forests would have to be cleared to support organic.
Instead of looking at farming as organic vs conventional vs industrial, etc, we need to incorporate the best practices of all types of farming to come up with the most environmentally friendly form and understand that some types of farming may not work everywhere.
nittany ramModeratorOrganic farming also contributes more to climate change on a per acre basis than conventional farming does.
Why?
“Organic practices can reduce climate pollution produced directly from farming – which would be fantastic if they didn’t also require more land to produce the same amount of food.
Clearing additional grasslands or forests to grow enough food to make up for that difference would release far more greenhouse gas than the practices initially reduce, a new study in Nature Communications finds.
Other recent research has also concluded that organic farming produces more climate pollution than conventional practices when the additional land required is taken into account.“
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