Everything posted by Asithappens
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Minnesota Teacher Racist AF
Cracker!
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Things you're a little bit embarrassed to admit
The song "Pressure Drop" was written by Toots Hibbert (of Toots and the Maytals), who also coined the term "reggae" (reggay).
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Minnesota Teacher Racist AF
I've been led to believe that the version "nigga" is entirely acceptable. I disagree, but that seems to be the prevailing sentiment. And yeah, this teacher needs a time out.
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Is there a replacement for FilmStruck yet?
Mr. Hulot's Holiday and The Lady Vanishes. Lots of good Hitchcock stuff.
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Donald Trump 2019
Like Lou Reed said: The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Twitter Shaming Backfires
Yeah. It most definitely was not "truly horrible".
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Another School Shooting
These two remind me of Starkweather and Fugate. Evil idiots.
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Donald Trump 2019
Except impeachment won't solve what ails us. The Senate won't convict.
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Donald Trump 2019
Maybe you can help me with this: how would moving forward with impeachment help solve this constitutional crisis?
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are there any anti-vaxxers here?
Are you new to Texas?
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Donald Trump 2019
Maybe you'll get measles before then and, who knows?
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are there any anti-vaxxers here?
Sorcery. Yeah, like evolution, right?
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Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran.
Like maple syrup, Canada's evil oozes over the United States.
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Rachel Held Evans dies
Yeah, um no, I'm not starting a new thread. Thanks anyways.
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Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran.
Good article in The New Yorker by Dexter Filkins. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/john-bolton-on-the-warpath
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Rachel Held Evans dies
No, it's not a serious theological question, imo. Asking for prayers, when done in a positive way, brings together a group of like-minded people, sharing concern, pain, and offering support to get people through this thing called life. How the hell can one then ask "how is that supposed to help"?
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The confluence of sports and politics: the WH visit
By choosing to frame the issue, even if partially, with the use of the word "honest". Imo, it's not an issue of honesty. It's diplomacy.
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The confluence of sports and politics: the WH visit
Rather than calling Cora "less than honest", or basically dishonest, I would say he's being diplomatic.
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Rachel Held Evans dies
Oh, the term "evangelical" still has a lot of meaning. Unfortunately, the meaning is bad.
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The confluence of sports and politics: the WH visit
You seem to be implying that making this a political thing is Cora's fault.
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Rachel Held Evans dies
That's why I'd rather not see her described as being "evangelical".
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Rachel Held Evans dies
Sorry to hear this. Christianity needs more like her.
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Israel
Not only that, but does anyone seriously/rationally think that even if the US somehow helped secure Palestinian sovereignty, that the Palestinians wouldn't turn on the US, probably with a vengeance? The Palestinians have killed their own and then blamed Israel. That is fucked up. There is value in protecting human life (something both sides of this conflict seem to miss at times).
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Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashes killing 157
In a quest to cut costs (and, it seems, to see how far idiocy can become a strategic objective) Boeing cut off the input from their own test pilots. Boeing Co. BA 0.18% limited the role of its own pilots in the final stages of developing the 737 MAX flight-control system implicated in two fatal crashes, departing from a longstanding practice of seeking their detailed input, people familiar with the matter said. As a result, Boeing test pilots and senior pilots involved in the MAX’s development didn’t receive detailed briefings about how fast or steeply the automated system known as MCAS could push down a plane’s nose, these people said. Nor were they informed that the system relied on a single sensor—rather than two—to verify the accuracy of incoming data about the angle of a plane’s nose, they added. Investigators have linked faulty sensor data to the flight-control system’s misfire, which led to crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that took 346 lives. https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeings-own-test-pilots-lacked-key-details-of-737-max-flight-control-system-11556877600?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=4
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The Robert Mueller Investigation
Well, if Laura says it then it must be true.