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  1. 7 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I always thought the postal services biggest money problem was that they are mandated to deliver extremely cheap mail, to the door for many, to cover 300m people.  Ask UPS or Fedex to do that for 50 cents and listen to their answer.

    It'a a combination of that plus the pension obligations that Lurch mentioned.  

    Postal Service is an unsustainable business model if you think about it.  Congress mandates a fixed level of service.  They're required to charge the same amount for an item whether it's going across town or to rural Idaho and to deliver six days per week.  Congress also sets the limits on what they can charge.  

    That being said, they turn a profit if you don't count the pension contributions, which are billions of dollars per year.

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  2. 5 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    LOL, bitch is getting lit the fuck up.  You can bet your ass on Hannity watching these proceedings rather closely.  

    He's already named in the Seth Rich lawsuit.  If it goes to trial, he'll have to testify.

  3. 10 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

    Has OKC lost every game since Melo's playoff guarantee?

    Yep.  Westbrook has been in the league 10 years and still, the last two minutes of a game is like kryptonite to him.  Still has no self awareness at all.  Right now they're the 6 seed but only a half game ahead of #8.  They've lost 3 in a row and their games left are murder.  I doubt they'll fall out of the playoffs but an #8 seed is likely.

  4. In another interview with his longtime atheist friend, Eugenio Scalfari, Pope Francis claims that Hell does not exist and that condemned souls just "disappear." This is a denial of the 2,000-year-old teaching of the Catholic Church about the reality of Hell and the eternal existence of the soul.

     

    The interview between Scalfari and the Pope was published March 28, 2018 in La Repubblica. The relevant section on Hell was translated by the highly respected web log, Rorate Caeli

     

    The interview is headlined, "The Pope: It is an honor to be called revolutionary." (Il Papa: “È un onore essere chiamato rivoluzionario.")

    Scalfari says to the Pope, "Your Holiness, in our previous meeting you told me that our species will disappear in a certain moment and that God, still out of his creative force, will create new species. You have never spoken to me about the souls who died in sin and will go to hell to suffer it for eternity. You have however spoken to me of good souls, admitted to the contemplation of God. But what about bad souls? Where are they punished?"

     

    Pope Francis says,  "They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls."

    https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/pope-francis-there-no-hell

  5. 56 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    To be fair to Obama, it was Bush who negotiated the exit timeline from Iraq. Yeah, you can criticize him for sticking with it and, of course, an argument can be made that the job wasn't done. But he wasn't the one who made the deal.

    The job will never be done in the Middle East.  It's like a game where every move is the wrong one.  

  6. 7 hours ago, TahoeHorn said:

    https://nypost.com/2018/03/28/roseanne-revival-is-a-wake-up-call-for-hollywood/

     

    Is this significant?  Culturally?  Politically?

    Did Roseanne draw 18MM because her comedy is good or for some other reason?

    FoxNews proved that there is a "niche market of half the population".  I think Roseanne has targeted that same "niche market".

    22 million watched Stormy Daniels on 60 Minutes.

    Let me know what the Roseanne's ratings are by the end of the season.

  7. What did the NRA do to make sure people committed of domestic violence (Lautenberg amendment) weren't able to buy guns?  Did they support laws that shared information between states?  Did they support a national database?

    Also, what was done to stop people on no fly lists from buying guns?  Did the NRA support any initiate that did that?

    If not, why not?

  8. 41 minutes ago, hpslugga said:

    You'll also notice there will be a complete 180 on Fox News' coverage (and the like) of such a walkout as well. They'll very likely inflate the number of participants, they'll cover it in as much detail as they can, and they'll proclaim how courageous, wise and brave these kids are.

    God help us if a kid is paddled for the abortion walkout like the one for gun control.

  9. 29 minutes ago, Longhorn94 said:

    i wonder what would happen if a guy with a gun killed an unborn baby and her Mama? does the Second Amendment win? or the Right to Life?

    My idea is to have a bill that both bans assault weapons and late term abortions. The meltdown on both sides would be epic.

  10. 7 hours ago, Mike "Wags" Wagner said:

    Yes, bad people are going to do bad things. When bad people are identified existing law should be followed to ensure they can't purchase guns. The last 2 mass shootings were text book failures of the government failing to report bad people through the proper channels. So yes, please tell me, what new laws should we pass, when the current ones aren't even fucking enforced.

    Which gun laws were broken in the last few shootings?

    I remember the Texas church shooter was thrown out of the Air Force for mental problems yet he legally bought an assault rifle.  The Orlando nightclub was on a no fly list and did the same.

  11. 1 hour ago, Mike "Wags" Wagner said:

    When has the left wanted to have an open an honest discussion about the FBI and Broward fuckups that lead to this shooting?

    When will the right admit that the NRA has gotten everything they've wanted yet we still keep having shootings?  

    The solution?  More of what the NRA wants.

  12. Donations to the NRA tripled after Parkland.  So, there are people who see a school shooting and their first reaction isn't to wonder how we can stop shootings but to donate to the NRA?  Hillary was right.

    (CNN)In the days and weeks following the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the National Rifle Association saw a significant spike in donations. 

    In fact, reports from the Federal Election Commission show donations to the NRA's Political Victory Fund tripled from January to February. 
    In January, the NRA collected almost $248,000 in individual contributions. In February, they collected more than $779,000.

  13. 10 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    How do you mean they don't trade like a real company? They pull in a ludicrous amount of revenue from AWS and are reaping tons of benefits from vertical integration. They're trying to double the headcount in AWS within the next couple of years for christsake! That's "big" "real" company shit right? Their revenue isn't venture capital and they're best in class for an entire commerce platform

    The companies they compete against are held to different profit standards than AMZN.  (Revenue is not profit.).

    AMZN trades like a tech company.  Only in tech can you spend $14B on something and a year later still have no announced strategy around it and have no investor blowback.

  14. 8 minutes ago, bernorange said:

    "sensible legislation"  - You probably don't realize it, but that's a very loaded way to characterize a proposal.  There is an implication that if you don't agree with it, you aren't sensible. That's a bullshit way to discuss anything.  I would much prefer to discuss "legislation" on it's merits and we can all form our own opinions on whether or not it is "sensible".  What legislation are you favoring/championing?

    Here's my idea:

    Have something similar to TSA pre check.  If you pass a thorough background check and an in person interview, you have a five year pass to buy assault rifles and high capacity magazines. You'd still be able to buy handguns and hunting type rifles without it but with your pre check like pass, you could buy whatever you want without any waiting period.

    That would keep the crazy people from buying an AR-15 at an Academy for one thing and no one's "rights" are taken away.

    I'd also like to see restrictions on high capacity magazines.  Assault rifles and what not are only a side issue.  The Virginia Tech shooter showed that you can do equivalent damage with handguns as long as you have the large magazines.  There are people alive today that are alive because a shooter had to reload.

    Sadly, the NRA won't even consider either of these.....

  15. As long as AMZN trades like a tech company and not a real company, then everything should be fine with their stock.  When and if Wall Street ever holds them to the same P&L standards of the competitors in their industries, they'll crash.  Otherwise, full speed ahead.

    Only in Silicon Valley are Elisabeth Holmes and Travis Kalanick considered legitimate CEO's.....

  16. Just now, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    The NRA has a very powerful media operation going on right now.

    Just youtube any firearm related instructional or review video and see what ads pop up...It's insane. 

    Yeah, if Russia wanted to fund a large group in America that promoted fear and civil unrest with a potential of armed rebellion, they wouldn't get better ROI than the NRA.  The NRA had armed protestors screaming at teenagers this weekend for God's sake.

  17. Just now, Anastasis said:

    I can really only speak for myself, but I 

    Is that right?  Planned Parenthood has an international presence.

    I wonder which organization gets more US public funding?

    Does PP take foreign money and use it for domestic lobbying like the NRA does?  Why is the NRA taking money from Russia in the first place?

  18. 1 hour ago, thrillhammer said:

    since access to both abortion and guns are constitutional rights, a valid comparison. let's go ahead and compare their two budgets.  in 2015  the nra paid wayne lapierre $5.1 million. planned parenthood paid cecile richards $524k.  nice.   if you wanted to compare their campaign contributions this won't end well for you.

    The NRA also takes in more foreign money than PP so there's that.

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