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  1. On 10/12/2018 at 12:10 AM, mulletpelini said:

     I'm more optimistic at 0-5 now than I ever was with Riley, even when they were ranked #7 NUMBER FUCKING #7 less than 2 years ago going into Madison.  I knew that floor was gonna drop and when it did there was no escape, because I could see that facade from 300+ miles away.  

    Wow. 

    It's amazing the things humans will tell themselves to make themselves feel better.

  2. 10 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

     If her mom had told her she had a black ancestor, I wonder if she would have checked that box.

    Well, the box is African-American, not black, right?

    As far as I'm concerned, that box applies to Egyptians now in the US as citizens, as well as white (say, South Africans) Africans now US citizens. 

     

  3. 4 minutes ago, horncyclist said:
    10 minutes ago, Amobie said:
    The average american has twice the amount of native american blood as she does.  The Cherokee tribe doesn't recognize her claims.

    Quit lying. This is birtherism. it's a made up story to undermine a political opponent.

    I don't really see it as birtherism. Warren created this problem by making a pretty weak claim to being an Indian. 

    Obama didn't do anything like that.

  4. 6 minutes ago, Chrispy said:

    That sounds bogus at first blush, but maybe there are extenuating circumstances in his situation. Most tribes require 25% and I’m not sure that DNA testing reveals what tribe you belong to, unless it has evolved since I last took the test. 

    It is bogus. 

    Any tribe can issue a card for someone being 3/1,024 Indian but does it really mean anything? Mostly no.

    Those determinations aren't made on anything objectively related to lineage. 

  5. 5 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

    Here bankruptcy stuff is actually somewhat misleading and coming under fire as well. Here core premises that medical depth is the primary contributor to BR. The issue is that the methodology is full of holes.

     

    So essentially lets collect BR and then any that have medical bills included over 1 or 5k and put them in a category. Then run analysis to see if that is significant. Then claim the medical bills are the cause... There is big piece missing there. Say I have medical bills and credit card debt, then regardless of the proportion those are, if I meet the minimum threshold of medical bills I claim it as being caused by medical bills. Should have determined a tipping point % as well as a minimum $$ threshold.

    Interesting thing to study, methodology is shit.

    So you're assuming that none of the credit card debt is medical-related? Or was that addressed in the methodology? 

  6. 8 minutes ago, horncyclist said:

    Is there any evidence she used this to advance her academic career? 

    None that I've ever heard. 

    She chose to enter a pretty technical area of the law and has done very well at it. Good for her.

  7. I really don't think Warren has any realistic shot at winning the Big Job, but who knows?

    I'm really interested in seeing how the suburban/educated/female votes in the upcoming midterms. If they make a big statement against the GOP, then Warren may have a shot. But I won't believe that until I see it. And frankly I doubt that I'll see it come November.

    Same with the Castro bro. He has no chance at the Presidency. 

  8. 36 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Talk about Warren not having a shot to beat Trump is really silly when you consider all the voices saying Trump had no chance to beat Hillary in 2016. 

    Warren is everything Hillary should have been without the baggage.

    And yet Trump won. 

    As he would win against Warren, imo. Warren is no great shakes better than HRC.

  9. 1 minute ago, Fozzz said:

    haha holy shit, how fucking oblivious are you?  who do you think is committing that genocide?  

    And... the US should care about Yemen why? Because it's the moral thing to do? And it's not unanimous that what's happening in Yemen is a genocide.

    Rwanda? Cambodia? Darfur? The Yazidis? Rohingyas?

    It's all bad, no doubt. But that's not why the US should go to the mat. 

  10. 1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    So where is your proof that she "embellished" her Native American ancestry?  Do I need to provide a dictionary link defining "embellish" for you?

    Didn't EW say that she had a grandmother that was Indian? 

    The link above says that her Indian-ness didn't kick in until 6 to 10 generations ago. Wouldn't that be an embellishment? 

  11. Just now, Fozzz said:

    I’d rather us not materially support a genocide in Yemen, but I’d guess that’s something that wouldn’t find troubling. 

    You should start a thread on the Yemen issue rather than attempting to conflate it with SA. 

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