Calax
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I do think that it's a touch funny that right now the state of North Carolina's Republican governor is using the justification "We're asking the Federal courts to clarify the law"... while other parts of his party are saying that that sort of action is "Legislating from the bench" (see Kansas)
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I haven't heard of anyone asking or suggesting Hastert get a pass. I'd lock that b-----d in a cell with a man twice his size that would teach him a new meaning to the word "rape".
Actually Hastert is another example of the libertarian argument that we need to keep the government small and weak. Look at the human garbage that gets collected there. It's a good idea to keep the amount of power they are able to wield small.
Just another reason to hate Tom Delay, and a reminder that most people who claim to be, "In touch with God" are just worthless frauds.
And he's also the same person who was saying "Feds are ready to indite!" on Hillary.
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I haven't heard of anyone asking or suggesting Hastert get a pass. I'd lock that b-----d in a cell with a man twice his size that would teach him a new meaning to the word "rape".
Actually Hastert is another example of the libertarian argument that we need to keep the government small and weak. Look at the human garbage that gets collected there. It's a good idea to keep the amount of power they are able to wield small.
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@Calax, I made Hillary the CFO in my example only to differentiate her position from the President. In other words, the error did not originate at the top.
She is definitely guilty of violating the Federal Records Act of 2009. She has admitted as much. This is not a criminal offense so much as a procedural one. The remedy would probably dismissal as SecState. But she was alrady long gone so the remedy is "don't let it happen again" to the State Department. Now the hullabaloo is about her violating (unwittingly) the Espionage Act on 1917 and US Code Title 18 Part I, Chapter 37, sub paragraph 793 about transmitting classified information from an unsecured server. Those would be criminal acts. Espionage thing is a Rush Limbaugh pipe dream. It would take so real mental gymnastics to make that work. The other might have some teeth to it.
For the record I don't think she will or should be indicted but to my thinking her actions and more importantly her effort to cover it up rather than just say "this was an unintentional mistake" means she does not have the character to be President. People will forgive and overlook an honest mistake. But lying and demonizing all the while denying what is obviously true only makes her look worse... if that was possible.
Right, and you (to a lesser extent than others) are trying to have her prosecuted under a rule set that was devised and kept on the books when Stealing a Horse was a justifiably hangable offense. When women couldn't vote and renting a room at a hotel as a married couple (when you're not) meant you were married.
This whole "She's a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, criminal!" schtick is getting stupid. Yes, she broke the law, technically, but in the same way you or I do when we drive down the freeway, or roll through a stop sign at 2 mph. And yes, That was sensative information that could have been used (we think, maybe) to kill somebody. But then when you roll through a stop sign, that's also putting other people at risk, theoretically. And when you speed you put yourself and others at risk. The only reason people are reacting so significantly to this is because of 25 year smear campaign that's been ramped up recently.
Before this, she was being accused of deliberately ignoring Benghazi and "committing Treason!".
That's why I really don't give two flying ****s about how she's so "Criminal". Because you *******s (not you specifically GD, but others in the thread) have been screaming your heads off about her being criminal for so long, and for such stupid reasons, that it's laughable.
Again, I remind you, this is the long term product of a smear campaign run by a group of people who were asking for leniency for their former leader... who raped boys. And they want to have Hillary metaphorically lynched for her "treason" while asking that Dennis Hastert be taken easy on because of his former political position and accomplishments...
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You have some reading to catch up on!
This is from a few pages back, but I thought that this matter was already noted.Bruce, let me pose a serious question to you. It is pretty much settled that Hillary Clinton used a private e-mail server to conduct State Dept. business. Even she admits that. The dispute is if she sent classified information that was later compromised. But put that aside for the moment. Have you wondered WHY she used a private server rather than the government's secure server? Why do that? Why even invite a problem that way? She is not stupid. She knows what server is for what.
Have you at least wondered about that? I believe I know the answer but I'd like to hear from you first.
They specifically used a private email server because they couldn't get authorization to use mobile phones with the one provided by the government (as had been afforded to previous SecState, Rice). Clinton preferred to use her phone for most correspondence, thus wouldn't have been able to perform the tasks that were required of her as SecState as effectively, without the phones being allowed as a part of their normal process.
Basically, that thing she's holding in her hand? That's the private email server's reason for existing.
My point is that she set up the email because of the sercurity apparatus failure to provide for her the same functionalities and equipment that her predecessor had. The State Department wouldn't allow blackberries to access the secure server ANYMORE.
What I'm seeing in this argument is basically people yelling at Joe Biden for having a Man sized safe in his office with redacted contained within, even though his predecessor had it. Because the NSA decided it could be a security breech.
And now her political opponents are wanting her to be punished for something she probably didn't even realize was illegal, while begging the DoJ to provide leniency for a child molester.
Realistically, your question about the CFO/CEO coverup isn't quite the anology I'd use. From the wording I'd guess it was more akin to the CFO doing something that would get the SEC involved (using your analogy here), and the CEO being unaware of it until the SEC showed up asking questions. I mean, by law at my job I can't allow certain items to be left out in the open due to the fact that it's a bunch of credit card info. Technically if a cop shows up, I'm not even allowed to give out a customers information because of privacy issues without a subpoena. If my coworker does that, the CEO isn't going to loose his job over that. The local manager might, and his boss in the extreme, but beyond that it's not going to take down the entire chain of command over that person.
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Bruce, let me pose a serious question to you. It is pretty much settled that Hillary Clinton used a private e-mail server to conduct State Dept. business. Even she admits that. The dispute is if she sent classified information that was later compromised. But put that aside for the moment. Have you wondered WHY she used a private server rather than the government's secure server? Why do that? Why even invite a problem that way? She is not stupid. She knows what server is for what.
Have you at least wondered about that? I believe I know the answer but I'd like to hear from you first.
This is from a few pages back, but I thought that this matter was already noted.
They specifically used a private email server because they couldn't get authorization to use mobile phones with the one provided by the government (as had been afforded to previous SecState, Rice). Clinton preferred to use her phone for most correspondence, thus wouldn't have been able to perform the tasks that were required of her as SecState as effectively, without the phones being allowed as a part of their normal process.
Basically, that thing she's holding in her hand? That's the private email server's reason for existing.
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Been trying to think up a character for tomorrows PnP session, we're starting Tyranny of Dragons, a D&D5ed campaign, and I've got no ****ing ideas. My brain is completely empty of any ideas. Nothing at all, not even a hint of a good base for a character is hiding itself there. I can't even think of an appealing class or race and work from there. I'm to invested in the ones I've got going already.
Jim Darkmagic? (sorry, the 2014 Pax dnd games were Tyranny of Dragons)
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And Cruz is out after losing Indiana.
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Hunting for property for me and an annoying kitty to rent up in Ames again. Effective friday I'm the ABM there (assistant branch manager) and I'm probably gonna be the BM within two months. Timing sucks because ALL of ames property turns over on august 31'st so most students already have their apartments worked out.
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Expect to see more of me. It's been 2 years, but I have a PC again. Dell XPS 8900, on sale and open box. Still need to get speakers and I think I'll get a new monitor, but I'm very excited.
We gonna coop Fear3 again?
Also grandmother survived her surgery in the best of shape (that could be expected anyway given she's 91)
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Grandma's going into surgery tomorrow to repair her hip.
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Two things, one good one bad.
Good: I'm officially kicked to Assistant Branch Manager back in ames as of next friday. That puts me another dollar up and off revenue management (so I get paid out based on how the branch is performing, not me personally).
Bad news: Grandma broke a hip. She's 91 this year, and broke her hip today. She's going into surgery now (From what I hear second hand) but as my mom put it "This is usually a death sentence".
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Looks like the promotion is about two weeks out. And I'll be working back in ames next friday (temporarily)
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Okay thanks GD ..monosyllable responses always clear things up I find
Technically that's not monosllablic... Neither has two syllables.
So... Went up to visit my friends back in ames. Ended up stopping at a rest stop between Des Moines and Ames... and spent 15 minutes talking to a guy about his Ferrari 458 that he was driving between Texas and Minnisota. Apparently those things don't have any form of cruise control.
Did get me thinking about getting my credential and just working as a history teacher instead of busting my ass in customer service for another 30 years. But I don't know where to start to get the credential, or how to pay for that given I'd have to give up my current income to do it.
The car in question.
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*checks username* huh... I was 19 when I started, not 20...
Oh well, I still won the fan fiction competition.
And now I'm working 50+ hours a week at a middling job, with bad tendons in my ankles. God I hope this promotion freaking shows up already.
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Since it's Calax's birthday, I decided to boot up New Vegas and not kill him - as a sort of digital birthday present..
Also working on a dreadully boring project on elementary schoolers use of history.
Worst part is that I'm hitting the big 3 0. And that I started on this board when I was 20.
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Old thread here: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/83632-what-you-did-today-thread/
This is a common story for our neighborhood. Can't even rent a car because they're backed up from the last hailstorm that wasn't half this bad. And our local rental branches have all their cars busted up too.
Speaking as a member of the rental car industry. They'll probably be renting what damaged fleet they can until they get new stuff in. Fun fact I learned today. Over the course of 2015, Hertz purchased about 350k cars to add to their fleet. 250k were sold off (either through auction, or lease end, or the few dealerships scattered across the country).
Right now the boss is happy because he's wayyy over on revenue targets due to the recalls going on. and I'm just praying to either find a new job or transfer to a less "you have no life" job to have less stress. (I'm working 50 hours a week and I don't work well with those I'm working with)
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I picture Oby as Anna Chapman, but blonde and is working indirectly in pro-Kremlin propaganda through Putin's hidden subsidiaries.
This conviction will not be budged until further proof has been presented.
Oby is one of the Soviet characters from Command And Conquer Red Alert
Probably Premier Romanov from the second iteration... or Peter Stormare from the third.
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In other political news, Hastert (former Speaker of the House) is being arrested and accused of molesting four boys.
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You're delusional kid.
Most of what you say above is straight out of lala land. The most simple to refute is I am no fan of the NRA, very rarely watch FoxNews, and have never in my entire life said 'Red Good'. I'm not sure if I've ever even mentioned the NRA on this forum,, but I've stated many a time (even recently) my stance to at least some degree on the other two.
Also, if 'every person [you] talk to when the subject does come up, is ashamed to be affiliated with the Donald.', you obviously haven't spoken to too many people, as folks who are proud to be affiliated with him are pretty common.
In regards to the rest, I'm not going to waste my time. You clearly won't drink if you're lead to water.
Source? There's "Many" people who are happy to be affiliated with Benito Mussolini, but most italians are ashamed of the fact he existed. Again, just because you happened to read on a propaganda site that "Trump is awesome" doesn't make it true (or that background checks will make the government take your gunz away).
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So technically then, we're all criminals no? It's illegal to go past the speed limit, but we do it. Thus we're criminals. Your attitude that somehow she's guilty of something that nobody has indited her for, or provided concrete proof beyond "yeah, this thing is something that happened" with vague projections from the conservatives as to the illegality of it all. From the rumblings we're hearing, the reason for anything she may have done is because, the State Department as an apparatus failed at it's job of supporting it's boss.
The democratic race will only get interesting if Sanders starts publicly and vehemently calling out the DNC and Hillary for rigging the election, as well as calling her out for the criminal that she is.
It can also become interesting if Sanders continues to run for President even if he doesn't get the nomination.
An independent Sanders, along with an independent Trump, together with the two party stooges, all running for President, would make a really interesting election. As well as very probably see the end of the ~160 year duopoly on the White House, something the U.S. desperately needs, and a whole helluva lot of people want.
I don't see Sanders doing it though. Wish he would, and I've no doubt most of his supporters do too, but I don't think he has the balls. Hope I'm wrong.
I find you adorable in how tightly you stick to the extreme right's story.
"Hillary is a criminal!" Cried the right, "where's the charges?" asked everyone else.
"The wall will work!" cried the right, "But how will it be paid for and what laws will we have to suspend to build it?" asked everyone else
"The election is rigged!" Cried the right, "Ok, then how is Trump the GOP frontrunner, and Sanders still in range to take the election from Hillary?" asked everyone else.
You can rationalize a lot of things, but I sincerely doubt that Hillary being a "criminal" will every come to pass. And for a constitutionalist, you seem to ignore "Innocent until Proven Guilty" being a tenant of the Constitution (as established in Coffin v United States), and just blithely run around declaring guilt without evidence (beyond the rhetoric that has been spouted by those on the right since they realized Hillary was the presumptive nominee in last May)
Calling Hillary criminal is not exclusively the purview of 'the right'. Saying elections are rigged is not exclusively the purview of 'the right'. 'Far', 'moderate', or 'close'. In fact, people on both sides of your polarized world do both, especially in regards to the latter.
'Criminal' has more meanings than just those in regards to illegality. Insofar as those particular meanings go however, being a criminal is not reliant on being convicted in a court of law that one is such, in fact the most successful criminals usually never even see a court of law.
Your comments on the wall are strawman bunk as well as fly in the face of reality.
Insofar as 'innocent until proven guilty'. That applies to legal prosecution, and I'm all for it, Hillary is no exception. However, a fundamental problem is that she hasn't been (and more than likely won't be) indicted. She isn't any kind of notable exception. There's an entire class of 'above the law' people out there, that get away with all sorts of things all the time if you haven't noticed. And if you really haven't noticed, your head is very deep in that sand.
Unpolarize yourself, expand your vocabulary, and get your facts straight.
Respectfully, you're the one who needs to wake up a bit. You act like Sanders hasn't caused any waves politically in this campaign and that everything is rigged for Hillary. And yet over the course of her campaign she's been forced to skew much further left than she'd want to try to keep the demographics that she was winning, while Sander's has done nothing but gain momentum. Meanwhile the republican side wishes it was Rigged because every person I talk to when the subject does come up, is ashamed to be affiliated with the Donald.
The reason I turn you into a stereotype (which to a degree you are) is because you slavishly adhere to the NRA and general republican talking points in a way that makes it incredibly easy. If you ever really vocalized a political opinion beyond "Red good, blue bad, guns good!" we might be getting somewhere, but as it stands you've yet to get away with the easily stereotyped talking points found on Fox News and in WoD's posting history.
You want to be taken seriously? Fine, provide credible evidence to 9/11 being an inside job, or Benghazi being Clinton's "Fault, or that she's a criminal who's committed treason. Back up your talk with more than just a talking points memo or somebody else saying something. Find the in context quote, do some work.
And before you ask, I do, just when I actually want to be serious about a topic with somebody who has something to say.
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The democratic race will only get interesting if Sanders starts publicly and vehemently calling out the DNC and Hillary for rigging the election, as well as calling her out for the criminal that she is.
It can also become interesting if Sanders continues to run for President even if he doesn't get the nomination.
An independent Sanders, along with an independent Trump, together with the two party stooges, all running for President, would make a really interesting election. As well as very probably see the end of the ~160 year duopoly on the White House, something the U.S. desperately needs, and a whole helluva lot of people want.
I don't see Sanders doing it though. Wish he would, and I've no doubt most of his supporters do too, but I don't think he has the balls. Hope I'm wrong.
I find you adorable in how tightly you stick to the extreme right's story.
"Hillary is a criminal!" Cried the right, "where's the charges?" asked everyone else.
"The wall will work!" cried the right, "But how will it be paid for and what laws will we have to suspend to build it?" asked everyone else
"The election is rigged!" Cried the right, "Ok, then how is Trump the GOP frontrunner, and Sanders still in range to take the election from Hillary?" asked everyone else.
You can rationalize a lot of things, but I sincerely doubt that Hillary being a "criminal" will every come to pass. And for a constitutionalist, you seem to ignore "Innocent until Proven Guilty" being a tenant of the Constitution (as established in Coffin v United States), and just blithely run around declaring guilt without evidence (beyond the rhetoric that has been spouted by those on the right since they realized Hillary was the presumptive nominee in last May)
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What You Did Today
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Going back to Cali at the end of the month to visit with the nuclear fam for about 2 days before the extended family reunions in Yosemitie.