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Ambitious! They're also launching one of Elon Musks cars. I suppose one might ask why, but it does make sense to test with a payload, and the car would be cheap compared to most sattelites for sure. Plus heck of a marketing.

That's unrealistic, a maga chud wouldn't be talking to a girl, let alone have one in his home. He's a Trump supporter so that's most propably his wife. You confused him with Bernie supporter. Rofl at both of you XD (and yes I was a Bernie supporter and I find that part funny too)

I'd like to see the Democratic rebuttal and the original now.

The memo is now out: http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180129/106822/HMTG-115-IG00-20180129-SD001.pdf May take a while to load since obviously traffic. edit: The page seems to have crashed, but Axios has a loadout available: https://www.axios.com/read-nunes-memo-fbi-doj-fisa-mueller-7fb8bcb7-1f18-4294-aa95-628d2f67bcdf.html

Aaand Trump has authorized the release of the memo. There's apparently no WH based redactions, which is what Axios may have been talking about. It'll take a bit for the thing to actually be released, so, no link just yet.

The reason why I said the origional is that even though Nunes claims that the edits are minor and inconsequential, it's still good to know what the edits are. Also, word has been leaking from the WH that some think it may be a dud or just otherwise not up to the hype that's been generated. https://www.axios.com/release-memo-trump-fbi-mueller-wray-nunes-55bd411a-a313-416d-bf48-0e759789f478.html Also2, the Axios bit says that he wants to release with no redactions (things like FBI agent names and other stuff that could cause problems for the Intel community if released), but I've read elsewhere that they are doing some redactions. editwhiletyping: And apparently a spokesperson for Paul Ryan said that he supports releasing the Democrat memo? Wonder what changed his mind.

Doesn't Bali have that erupting volcano (forget the name atm, A something) that has been belching ash (a massive problem for aircraft) for some time now? Not saying you shouldn't, just that you do have to take into account volcanoes which are belching ash at the time you take the vacation.

Bartimaeus was just poking at the logic I guess. Anyways, looks like Trump is going to release it regardless. Actually Trumps opposition to releasing the one the Dems produced makes me think that one should be releaed too. I agree, all three of them should be released, the original that the intel commitee approved, the one Nunes edited (the one Trump is actually releasing), and the Democratic rebuttal one. Transparency for all, right? Okay. Sounds like it was just people at the WH thinking to themselves whether he was going to then.

And on top of all that, the WH is concerned that FBI director Chris Wray may resign in protest if the memo is released. I don't know if he made a direct statement to them saying that he will do so or if they're just thinking to themselves that he might resign in protest. So, whatever is in the memo, the drama is guaranteed to not die down for a while.

Comey did do a bunch of dumb things, I'd agree with that. As for the memo, it appears that Trump has said outright that he views it as a way to discredit the Mueller investigation, which is a total red flag to me that the memo shouldn't be released. It's pretty damn obvious that they're playing politics with it. Still, like most anybody, I'm dang curious as to what the whole memo is and what they're making a big deal about.

Since always?

Actually, google says it's prietpraat and it's Dutch or something.

He was responding to HoonDing that it wasn't some liberal far-left wing thingy. Also, are you guys spelling prietprat correctly? It doesn't show up in wikipedia.

If it is owned by Republicans, it's pretty neutral, though sometimes it seems like they have a slightly Democrat bent. They do cater to both sides with opinion pieces.

I agree here, if you're not in the union, it doesn't make sense that you'd have to pay dues (membership fee) for it.

I find it slightly funny that Muslims are extremely iconoclast about their messiah and yet they often name their kids after him, including alternate spellings. What's an Ozil?

That's not dissimilar from a neo-nazi or white supremacist converting to Judaism, right? heh. I know they're trying to disassociate from the neo-nazi stuff, but being far right wing and stuff, the analogy is certainly apt.

well, as to intelligent design, it is easy to forget just how large the galaxy is. tv and movie notions o' traveling the galaxy is soooooooo misleading. our planet and solar system might seem improbable, but such ain't the case on galactic or universal scale. there is literal hundreds o' billions o' stars in the milky way galaxy alone. many solar systems similar to ours is pretty much a mathematical certainty given just how many solar systems there is in this galaxy and beyond. converse, one can also observe how the size o' the universe might simple be part o' intelligent design. einstein suggested God doesn't play dice with the universe, although he were not speaking in favor o' intelligence behind the design when he made the remark 'bout dice. HA! Good Fun! It's also due to the 'sample size of one' effect, the setup is favorable for life, thus we are here, but it's the only place we know of so far with life (including simple forms of life). I suspect that once we find places with life on them elsewhere, we'll find that the Solar System isn't so unique in terms of supporting life. Of course, the Solar System will always feel special to us because it's our home. Still, if we were to look for places that could have life, it does make sense to look for systems that look similar to ours, but we shouldn't look only at those places.

lol hurlshot. Anyhow, in a bit of entertaining news, the bipartisan group of Senators that helped end the shutdown did a method with passing around a 'talking stick' and at one point one senator got a little overeager with it and tossed it towards another Senator, but the other person missed the catch and the stick hit a shelf in Susan Collins office (which they were using as a meeting place) and chipped a glass elephant statue she had. They switched to a ball. Nobody was hurt though (feelings or physically) and by all accounts had fun and laughed about the meeting. https://www.vox.com/2018/1/22/16921452/senators-talking-stick-shutdown https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/22/politics/susan-collins-bipartisan-talks-congress-shutdown-talking-stick/index.html In Trump investigation news, AG Sessions got interviewed by Mueller last week. It's going deep into the inner circle. Wonder when Mueller will interview the deep inner circle, that is, Trump's family.

Sharp_one is still on probation? I thought he would have been off probation by now from whatever it was that he got on probation for. Also, Ivanka Trump 2020 implies she'd be running against her father, which isn't going to happen. Theres plenty of other women aiming to run in 2020 anyhow.

That is still double posting. Then the definition of 'double posting' has certainly lost much of it's meaning. Like so many other things I suppose. At the rate society is losing it's ability to intelligently communicate I wager than in a few generations a large portion of it will be dumbed down to the point where they'll effectively just be grunting at each other all the time. They won't even be smart enough to vote for Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. Concepts like liking money, plants needing electrolytes, and batin' will be beyond them. If you want to split hairs over the definition.... Though yeah, the quote system is clunky and it's sometimes easier to just make a new post instead of copying and pasting a quote, especially large ones.

*pokes mal's double post* heh. edit: Lol your edit mal.

That photo is still worth a chuckle though.

I've accidentially double posted a few times when editing, but not many. Anyways, my point above was that I've read that often times communism tries to take control of supply and demand to great fail, at least the hardcore communism Soviet Russia tried. Even freaking basic biology in cells relies on supply and demand.

people weren’t starving in East Germany though. Or in Yugoslavia. He's obviously being tongue-in-cheek and is referring to when Mao attempted to do collective farming and ended up causing a massive famine. Also, as for the earlier analogy, the communist country ends up allocating too many ovens and very few oven mitts.