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Not even in the top 5! With guys like Pierce, Harding, Hoover, Johnson, & Nixon blocking the way that is a tough summit to reach. I'd imagine the patriot act would trump all, given your libertarian inclinations.
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I thought W. Bush would be your most hated president of all time.
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The Heartland Institute? The guys who defend whatever they are paid to defend?
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Basically the US doesn't seem to want to make up its mind. Are you guys a nation a or a federation of nations? If you picked one things would be simpler.
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I'm waiting for NRA's white hot outrage.
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For real? Never heard that one. Still I can see abandoning historical symbols because they have been appropriated by folks I'd rather not be associated with That one wasn't appropriated, though. It always symbolized what it symbolizes today. If you have ever read a single word I have written here on that subject you would realize how wrong that notion is. IS NOT EQUAL TO The one on the left fought in a war he didn't start under that flag. Which by the way was not the flag of the country that started the war over their "peculiar institution". The one on the right wants to start a war because he never bothered to read a history book about the flags they wave around. Or maybe they did. That would be even worse. Of course a guy wearing the uniform on the left started the thing on the right so there is that. As far as whether they have been appropriated I'll let Robert E Lee speak for himself on the subject of what should be done with his flag: "I think it wisest not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered." He wrote that in a letter in 1865. Sounds like good advice for someone who wanted to honor historical figures. Follow their wishes. It was originally the flag of the army fighting a war for the right to own slaves. It was later, during that same war, used as a component of the flag flown by the confederate states, in a design explicitly created to represent the confederacy and its belief in slavery and white supremacy.
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For real? Never heard that one. Still I can see abandoning historical symbols because they have been appropriated by folks I'd rather not be associated with That one wasn't appropriated, though. It always symbolized what it symbolizes today.
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Hey guys, I just want to point out that Guard Dog clearly stated that DNA evidence was a gay thing. It no longer is, but it was. Gay thing. Forgive, like GD says above, but never forget.
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It's a bad photocopy, but I don't think it's photoshop.
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Lying, dishonest site would be more accurate.
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Trump isn't stirring the pot or delivering ultimatums. He's going on about whatever his attention was drawn to, deliberately or accidentally, before a new squirrel goes by for him to stare at. He is specifically a fool.
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Fraankly, I'd put this whole heritage thing squarely on American culture. The thing where you lot feel the need to specify, for example, that you are a quarter german, 1/8 african, 4/19 martian, 7/5 teletubby, and 2/3 lebanese sounds really stupid to me. More importantly it's also kinda subreptitiously racist and openly nazi in spirit.
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SUCH POSTMODERN NEO-MARXISM REEEEEEEEEE OK, hypothetical question. I just posted an article that categorically states Donald Trump accepted a huge back channel bribe from Saudi Arabia to not make a big deal over that reporter. But the article was from Mother Jones. Do you believe it? Or that Hillary Clinton not only ordered the hit on Vince Foster, she actually shot him herself then put the pistol in his dead hand. But the source is The Blaze. Do you believe it? The question isn't for me, but regardless of the obviously dubious sources, the first article seems a lot more believable than the second. "What, Saudi Arabia paid the US money to make something go away? Why, how preposterous!" Is a thought that never crossed anyone's mind,
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Apparently that meme is being replaced:
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Wait, I just discovered Kavanaugh claimed a devil's triangle is a drinking game. I'm confused, is openly lying a requirement to join the Supreme Court or is it an exclusionary factor?
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Grado is about to release their first bluetooth headphones: https://gradolabs.com/headphones/wireless/item/74-gw100 If I bought bluetooth headphones this is what I'd get.
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That video card is almost as long as your monitor. Edit: Also I just saw the video in post your specs with all the fancy lights. What is it that allows the lights to reflect what's happening in game?
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That shrug was awesome. https://giant.gfycat.com/AthleticEnviousAfricanbushviper.mp4
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It all the depends on whether the senate flips when the midterms come around. It's not too likely, but it's currently looking like Trump is doing his best to make it as likely as possible.
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While it's not exactly the same, the president firing the guy who can fire the special investigator that is investigating the president, because he refuses to do said firing is, pretty much, how Nixon got impeached. Cool sentence.
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Following the Watergate script seems insanely stupid but, given that this is Trump, it's not that surprising. Besides, Trump has been consequence free so far, so why would that change now.
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News has already come around that Rosenstein was summoned to the WH, but that he refuses to resign. May be speculation, I don't know.
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That still doesn't hold up to the very first claim that the income was cut in half the day she got sick. The only way that makes sense to me (without more information because it could be a type of work situation I just haven't encountered) would be if the person was something like an independent contractor who only gets paid for work completed. But in my experience, work-for-hire contractors aren't paid employees getting insurance, nor would they be eligible for FMLA. So I don't disagree that there might be more information not being let on in the story, even if some of the story does match things I know of or have experienced during employment in the US (and even then there are some state specific stuff that I'd never see unless I worked in that state). I got the impression that their income got cut in half because she lost her job. (two wages)/2 = (1 wage) Meanwhile, stuff just got real: https://twitter.com/statuses/1044236144223899648 Rosenstein is apparently about to get fired.
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Who doesn't have severance in their contract? It's a standard.The story claims her insurance went up, so I understand it wasn't tied to her work as then she would lost it not got an increase. Her COBRA insurance went up that is a type of insurance that exists specifically to cover people who are out of a job. So she lost her work insurance when she got fired, which forced her to go on COBRA, which immediately went up to ridiculous monthly payments. This destroyed their savings.