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FrozenKemp, on Sep 18 2019 - 21:38, said:
Or an attitude that you meatbots can go fight your own stinking war!
Speaking of Martha Wells:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/weve-got-the-exclusive-cover-reveal-and-opening-lines-o-1838069621
Edited by Shrike58, Sep 19 2019 - 12:18.
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Shrike58, on Sep 19 2019 - 04:15, said:
Or an attitude that you meatbots can go fight your own stinking war!
Even they're tired of fighting for oil!
Also, AZ's McSally has a primary challenger that wants to annex Mexico.
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godofdun, on Sep 19 2019 - 10:42, said:
Even they're tired of fighting for oil!
Also, AZ's McSally has a primary challenger that wants to annex Mexico.
That would have been a great idea... about 170 years ago.
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godofdun, on Sep 19 2019 - 13:29, said:
Maybe that's the time that he thinks of when he hears "make America great again"?
Maybe he thinks that if we annex Mexico, then there will be no more illegal Mexican immigrants. Illegal immigration solved. *mic drop*
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cipher12, on Sep 19 2019 - 17:23, said:
Imagine the IQ needed to realize that if we just annex our way down to Panama, we would have a giant moat to keep illegals out.
In other news, Colt is halting production of the AR-15 for civilian use.
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Mermaid_Witch, on Sep 19 2019 - 17:52, said:
Imagine the IQ needed to realize that if we just annex our way down to Panama, we would have a giant moat to keep illegals out.
In other news, Colt is halting production of the AR-15 for civilian use.
Appears to be market forces, nothing to do with "ermagerd evil rifles" handwringing.
Military and law enforcement eat up Colt's capacity, and there are other manufactures also supplying the civilian market with clones.
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Last week's reading:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674987640/ref=nosim/librarythin06-20
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1603444246/ref=nosim/librarythin06-20
The first is the sort of book that gives international relations/political science a bad name in that if you've been following the story over time it's not telling you too much new.
The second satisfied my curiosity about what the war was like for the U.S. Army's glider infantry. I also get a vibe from the "author" (this was basically a dictated memoir) that while the 327th Glider Infantry may now be celebrated as the "Bastogne Bulldogs" it might also have suffered from more than its share of Regular Army chicken-$#!+; the author was certainly not impressed with the level of leadership that his regiment's chain of command provided.
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So this could get messy...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/us/politics/intelligence-whistle-blower-complaint-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/opinion/trump-whistleblower.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/20/what-may-finally-ensnare-trump/
Edited by KilljoyCutter, Sep 20 2019 - 19:59.
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KilljoyCutter, on Sep 20 2019 - 10:24, said:
It'll get messy, but it won't "ensnare" Trump. He wasn't lying when he said he could kill a person* on fifth avenue and get away with it. The republicans have hitched their train so tightly to the Trump locomotive that they won't be able to disconnect even if they wanted to. For better or worse, Trump IS the republican party now, and until he's out of office they will protect him with the singleminded fury of a Grizzly bear protecting its cub.
*cute 12 year old white girl with affluent parents
Edited by Mermaid_Witch, Sep 20 2019 - 16:53.
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Shrike58, on Sep 20 2019 - 06:24, said:
Last week's reading:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674987640/ref=nosim/librarythin06-20
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1603444246/ref=nosim/librarythin06-20
The first is the sort of book that gives international relations/political science a bad name in that if you've been following the story over time it's not telling you too much new.
The second satisfied my curiosity about what the war was like for the U.S. Army's glider infantry. I also get a vibe from the "author" (this was basically a dictated memoir) that while the 327th Glider Infantry may now be celebrated as the "Bastogne Bulldogs" it might also have suffered from more than its share of Regular Army chicken-$#!+; the author was certainly not impressed with the level of leadership that his regiment's chain of command provided.
Shrike58, on Sep 20 2019 - 06:24, said:
Last week's reading:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674987640/ref=nosim/librarythin06-20
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1603444246/ref=nosim/librarythin06-20
The first is the sort of book that gives international relations/political science a bad name in that if you've been following the story over time it's not telling you too much new.
The second satisfied my curiosity about what the war was like for the U.S. Army's glider infantry. I also get a vibe from the "author" (this was basically a dictated memoir) that while the 327th Glider Infantry may now be celebrated as the "Bastogne Bulldogs" it might also have suffered from more than its share of Regular Army chicken-$#!+; the author was certainly not impressed with the level of leadership that his regiment's chain of command provided.
I'm curious, what's the cliffnotes version on why the first book gives IR/polisci a bad name? Debating if it's my speed, got a long flight coming up.
Major
Fact vs hype on voter suppression:
Sanders can't help getting it wrong when trying to sell his pet program:
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden on eight separate occasions.
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KilljoyCutter, on Sep 20 2019 - 13:07, said:
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden on eight separate occasions.
If only it would amount to anything... alas it probably wont.
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KilljoyCutter, on Sep 20 2019 - 15:07, said:
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden on eight separate occasions.
Weeeeeell I'm just a Canadian but I don't think that's legal 
Well, does it break any laws, anyway?
Edited by FrozenKemp, Sep 20 2019 - 22:24.
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FrozenKemp, on Sep 20 2019 - 16:23, said:
Weeeeeell I'm just a Canadian but I don't think that's legal
Well, does it break any laws, anyway?
Who cares if it's legal? The republicans will make it legal. Like I said earlier, they've hitched onto the Trump train and they're still deluding themselves into thinking this is a good thing. The only thing this will do is cause the republicans to circle the wagon even harder. It would literally take Donald Trump murdering the Senate Majority Leader's granddaughter on live television for the repubs to maybe start thinking they should abandon him as a lost cause. And even then, it wouldn't be a sure thing.
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