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Hans Solo Wins 39th Woolly Worm Festival, Owned by Young Brothers From Boone, NC
According to Burleson, the forecast is as follows:
- Week 1 (begins December 21) – Normal temperatures with light snow.
- Weeks 2-4 – Below normal temperatures with accumulations of snow.
- Week 5-11 – Above normal temperatures with little or no snow.
- Weeks 12-13 – Average temperatures with light snow.
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I have company insurance. It changes almost every year and I have to accept that or find my own.
Are you on Obamacare?
I know my insurance kept rising even before Obamacare. I am no fan of it, but I think the health insurance industry as a whole is terribly broken.
It also could be that his group policy is having to adjust the provided coverage to comply with the minimum basic ACA guidelines. Even if redneckdevil isn't signing up thru an exchange his coverage could still be affected by the ACA. That is a typical reason for policies being cancelled.
Premium increases are still a major issue across the board.
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Holy Smoke is Clinton that far ahead, 78% vs 22 % ?
For heavens sake NO. As Pidesco mentioned, that's just the probability of either of them winning. The actual vote spread (according to 538) is more like 48.5% v. 43.3%. The gap started widening on Sept 26 and hasn't narrowed since them.
Clinton has flipped Ohio, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina and Nevada back into her column. Trump stands no chance of winning if that holds unless turnout numbers for the Dems go into the toilet.
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Fear is a powerful motivator but I won't be scared or shamed into voting for a candidate that I do not support. I dislike if you aren't with us then you are against us arguments. People may disagree but it's my vote so...
I do not support Trump either, the only good thing about him being elected will be all the butthurt and while that may be fun for a few days or months I doubt it would be worth it while we are eating old shoe soup with a side of people in a post apocalyptic wasteland
In other news, the Senate is getting ready to override Obama's veto on the 9/11 bill
Who are the families going to sue, I dont understand the objective? We know there was funding from Saudi Arabia but this was not official and was from Saudis who support Islamic extremism ...but its not from the Saudi government ? See below from the article
" The Saudi government denies any role in those attacks, and the 9/11 Commission found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials were involved. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, though. And there have long been suspicions that some of the hijackers received support during their time in the U.S. from individuals with possible connections to the Saudi Kingdom "
The bill isn't that long actually. Maybe actually reading it might answer your questions.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2040/text
Edit: And just to clarify- do not interpret anything in this post as an endorsement of the JASTA legislation.
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Passed unanimously? That doesn't sound right.
Bill passed unanimously in the Senate and by voice vote in the House. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sept11-saudi-idUSKCN11F27R
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(For those following all the empty gas/petrol stations in NC...)
We finally caught it and tanked up yesterday.
PS: It actually hasn't been that big of a deal.
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OK folks we have been discussing the election for over a year. We are down to less that 60 days until the election and early voting in the US begins today.Who has your vote? Please limit discussion of the current election thread. This is for polling only. Thanks!
No write-ins?
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...... Bernie can and will replace her as the runner-up candidate of the DNC.
I don't bring this up so much as wishful thinking it'll happen because I'm a cynic. However, I find it very interesting he had to remain rather concious of his word choice and he specifically chose to remain. Likewise, imagine if it were to actually happen. This would go down as the strangest, most dramatic election cycle in American history. Hands down.
Sanders wouldn't automatically become the replacement if Hillary steps down. According to the rules of the Democratic Party, the national committee is responsible for filling the position. Members of the DNC Leadership committee would each cast one vote at a special meeting and the winner is whoever gets a simple majority. So theoretically, Biden could be selected as the new candidate. (which would really frost Bernie's supporters). Stranger still is that unless Kaine were selected as the replacement (highly improbable), he would remain the VP candidate unless he chose to withdraw.
It's not a likely scenario in any case.
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...you want some weed ?
No thanks, you;ve had more than enough for both of us.
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The US has troops in Iraq right now. Clinton has changed her stance, not her mind. Increasingly, it looks like Clinton has at least some health issues, even if nothing more than fatigue. She does not have Trump's Energy. Course, his might owe to frenetic energy of the maddened mind. Don't know the ins and outs of her actual health any more than I know what kind of taxes Trump pays (or not). Do know what I see with my own eyeballs and there's something off with the woman. Never a doubt there's something off with Trump.
Yes but the USA didnt want to go back to Iraq, I dont blame them
The problem was the Al-Malaki government failed to take the advice of the US when they left Iraq and incorporate the Sunni minority in the new Iraqi government. The Iraq Sunni felt marginalized in the new Iraq and aligned with the Sunni fighters in Syria and basically ISIS was formed, ISIS went into Iraq as well as fighting Assad and routed and easily defeated the badly disciplined Iraq army
The USA must have felt a sense of responsibility and commitment and only intervened to prevent the massacre and slaughter of the Yadizs by ISIS
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/08/07/iraq-christian-villages-flee/13710265/
The USA operates in Iraq but its more involved in the airstrikes and has special forces and advisors
There are no " boots on the ground "
Soldiers of Task Force Spartan, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit would like to have a word with you. Well except for Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin, 27. Seems he was killed in a rocket attack at Fire Base Bell in Northern Iraq. The team fired more than 2000 rounds in 400+ attacks at ISIS positions. That sounds an awful lot like "combat" troops to me.
And the special forces units would seriously like to discuss exactly what your definition of "boots on the ground" is.
You're smoking WAY too much ganja.
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The thing with experience is that it's only really a plus if you like what they've done. In the case of Clinton I see a lot of people making the experience claim both for and against her
Let me guess....the people who claim she is unqualified are......Trump and GOP supporters ?
clinton has experience. is not same as being qualified. to once again mention the foreign policy blunders o' the obama administration would be a d
HA! Good Fun!
ps if kgambit or others wanna fight with bruce 'bout US foreign policy mistakes o' the last 8 years, so be it, but we has done the groundhog day shtick too many times for it to be funny.
Guys please lets not be worried about discussing US foreign policy, I am very comfortable having this debate yet again.
Some of you guys feel Obama failed or made several blunders, I know some but what exactly would you guys say are " failures of the US foreign policy " ...just make bullet points if you want so I get the general idea, because i can't be bothered to review the half dozen fruitless and previous incarnations of the foreign policy debates that exist on this board.
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HA! Good Fun!
Thats fine, I understand if you dont feel comfortable discussing this
You normally are prepared to debate points for days so I'm surprised you cant just list a few points that highlight the Obama blunders?
Because as GD stated quite clearly, the bullet point list has been done ad infinitum and you always dismiss the points raised out of hand. Why should anyone bother jumping thru that hoop again with you?
You know the definition of insanity Bruce? Repeating the same actions over and over again and expecting a different result.
PS: I'm surprised GD even bothered.
You mistaking the fact I dont agree with you with the fact I am ignoring your views
I stand by my view that Obama has taken the USA in the right direction on foreign policy, if you disagree then make your case
Nope sorry - that's not correct. I never expected you to agree with me and I never said you ignored my views. What I said was that you dismissed the facts and your reply at the time indicated that you hadn't even read some (if not all) of the links.
I made my case some time ago; you posted a reply, I replied to that and that was the extent of the "discussion". If you feel the need to rehash the same ground yet one more time, please feel free to do a search of past posts to find the appropriate posts. I am not going to waste time doing it because it isn't going to serve any useful purpose. .
FWIW any discussion of Obama's foreign policy record in this thread is irrelevant except to the extent that one expects Hillary to follow the same course. Most experts think she is much more of an interventionist (or "Hawk" if you prefer) than Obama. So if you are voting for her because you expect to get Obama 2.0 you might be seriously disappointed.*
Distancing herself from President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, potential 2016 U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said in an interview published on Sunday that the U.S. decision not to intervene early in the Syrian civil war was a “failure.”… http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/what-sort-of-foreign-policy-hawk-is-hillary-clinton
*Past policy stances are no guarantee of future decisions. But since we can't predict what crises might arise, past performance / decisions should matter and might be a reasonable predictor of future behaviors, right Bruce? Or is this another case where historical performance isn't important?
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The thing with experience is that it's only really a plus if you like what they've done. In the case of Clinton I see a lot of people making the experience claim both for and against her
Let me guess....the people who claim she is unqualified are......Trump and GOP supporters ?
clinton has experience. is not same as being qualified. to once again mention the foreign policy blunders o' the obama administration would be a d
HA! Good Fun!
ps if kgambit or others wanna fight with bruce 'bout US foreign policy mistakes o' the last 8 years, so be it, but we has done the groundhog day shtick too many times for it to be funny.
Guys please lets not be worried about discussing US foreign policy, I am very comfortable having this debate yet again.
Some of you guys feel Obama failed or made several blunders, I know some but what exactly would you guys say are " failures of the US foreign policy " ...just make bullet points if you want so I get the general idea, because i can't be bothered to review the half dozen fruitless and previous incarnations of the foreign policy debates that exist on this board.
fixed
HA! Good Fun!
Thats fine, I understand if you dont feel comfortable discussing this
You normally are prepared to debate points for days so I'm surprised you cant just list a few points that highlight the Obama blunders?
Because as GD stated quite clearly, the bullet point list has been done ad infinitum and you always dismiss the points raised out of hand. Why should anyone bother jumping thru that hoop again with you?
You know the definition of insanity Bruce? Repeating the same actions over and over again and expecting a different result.
PS: I'm surprised GD even bothered.
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@Gromnir - you know I get the deal about Trump's Tax returns, but to make this balanced how about Hillary turn over the transcripts of her speeches to Goldman-Sachs et al? Jeez they're just speeches, what could possibly be so damaging to her? *cough* Glass-Steagall *cough*
am with you on this. am not getting how the "goldman-sachs" response became the reflexive argument to counter trump's reluctance to provide tax returns. trump supporters wanna see transcripts? ok. fine. how on earth does that diminish the value and relevance o' trump's tax returns? why don't trump supporters wanna see his tax returns? got a businessman with no political experience running for President. so... tax returns.
HA! Good Fun!
I'm certainly not a Trump supporter. And I don't claim to speak for them so I have no idea why they don't want him to release the documents. Ask someone who supports him because I am NOT that guy.
I'm simply pointing out that there is a certain balance and relevance to having both candidates release the respective documents. I can not think of a single reason for either of them NOT to release those documents.
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I think it is a terrible misstep for Clinton to go full bore on the name calling. Trump is better at it than her.
Don't wrestle a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it!
Why is telling the truth not considered good etiquette?
Hmmm, maybe Hillary should try it sometime.
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By the way Bruce. Did you ever complete that little "homework" assignment I gave you? Learning about the creation of a company called Uranium One and Hillary Clinton's involvement in that?
No I didnt because it would be unfair to scrutinize either candidate's history in this way and then judge them on this type of past action
Things like the email scandal matter to me
And I am being balanced, I could post daily inconsistencies of things Trump says that are inaccurate but I only post the " big " things he says
Are you really saying that a candidate's past performance in business and/or government isn't pertinent in judging their qualifications for POTUS? Or is that just a convenient excuse that lets you sweep uncomfortable things under the rug?
Dont get mad with me because you think both candidates are worthless, all I'm saying is both people seem to have a history
But since you did ask, obviously Clinton has more experience in government. This is irrefutable
No you said (see the highlighted text) that past history wasn't a fair metric so it obviously doesn't matter except oh wait now apparently it does. So which is it Bruce?
PS: Shady got it.
@Gromnir - you know I get the deal about Trump's Tax returns, but to make this balanced how about Hillary turn over the transcripts of her speeches to Goldman-Sachs et al? Jeez they're just speeches, what could possibly be so damaging to her? *cough* Glass-Steagall *cough*
ps if kgambit or others wanna fight with bruce 'bout US foreign policy mistakes o' the last 8 years, so be it, but we has done the groundhog day shtick too many times for it to be funny.Actually GD brought up a single issue up as example of how her experience WAS relevant.
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By the way Bruce. Did you ever complete that little "homework" assignment I gave you? Learning about the creation of a company called Uranium One and Hillary Clinton's involvement in that?
No I didnt because it would be unfair to scrutinize either candidate's history in this way and then judge them on this type of past action
Things like the email scandal matter to me
And I am being balanced, I could post daily inconsistencies of things Trump says that are inaccurate but I only post the " big " things he says
Are you really saying that a candidate's past performance in business and/or government isn't pertinent in judging their qualifications for POTUS? Or is that just a convenient excuse that lets you sweep uncomfortable things under the rug?
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Psycho
The Birds
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Thing
Rosemary's Baby
Village of the Damned
The Fog
The Witchfinder General
Hellraiser
Night of the Living dead
Alien
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Shaun of the Dead
all should be on that list ...... (and probably several more as well)
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@ kgambit
GD would be a good candidate for the new ideological way of the future....but some of his views may be considered... " extreme "
That's for the voters to decide - not you.
(Wanted to add a smiley face here but Win 10 Edge would not let me - IE11 works just fine )
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We can't have another two party election; that's what gave us Trump and Hillary. So I nominate GD as a third party candidate.
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The Great Game Giveaway: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Edition
in Computer and Console
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You can also get the Case Blue DLC for free by registering and linking your Steam account.