Moderators: eCat, hedge, Cletus
I just a letter from TSA informing me I'm on the no-fly list.Professor Tiger wrote:Attention FBI, DOJ, BATF: I don't own any guns either. Never have. Guns are racist, unsustainable for the environment, and indicate toxic masculinity. I can't stand the things. They are icky.
Correct. Those 18 school shootings included..aTm wrote:Politics has infested all kinds of information. For instance, every news organization was saying this is the 18th school shooting so far this year. The insinuation being (as Cletus did a few posts up) that there is one of these every other day, when that simply is false. Its bad enough that we have 2 or whatever in a month and a half, but they have to say there have been 18 by including incidents close to schools, suicides, accidental discharges where nobody got hurt, pellet gun incidents, etc in order to make the number big. What reason is there to do that other than sway the political viewpoint?
The Leftist claim of "18 school shootings this year" is a pure deception, intended to make a real problem look far bigger than it actually is.Jan 3, East Olive Elementary, St. Johns, Mich. Man committed suicide in parking lot. No other injuries. (We found the building was not being used as a school, as East Olive had been shut down more than six months earlier.)
Jan. 10, Grayson College, Denison, Texas. Student unintentionally fired a bullet from gun legally possessed by an instructor that struck a wall. No injuries.
Jan. 10, Coronado Elementary, Sierra Vista, Ariz. Student committed suicide in bathroom. No other injuries.
Jan. 10, California State University, San Bernardino, CA.Gunshots, most likely fired from off campus, hit a campus building window. No injuries.
Jan. 25, Murphy High, Mobile, Ala. Student fired into the air outside school after argument in school. No injuries.
Jan. 26, Dearborn High, Dearborn, Mich. Individual ejected from game for fighting was shot at in parking lot. No injuries.
Feb. 1, Salvador B. Castro Middle, Los Angeles. Student unintentionally fires gun in classroom, wounds two students.
Feb. 5, Oxon Hill High, Oxon Hill, Md. Student wounded in parking lot during apparent robbery.
Feb. 5, Harmony Learning K-12, Maplewood, Minn. Student pressed trigger on school liaison officer’s gun. No injuries.
Feb. 8, Metropolitan High, New York, N.Y. Student fired gun into floor in classroom. No injuries.
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/sta ... r-2018-an/
What do you want to bet that this "study" considered the owners of gun stores as "gun owners"? I've never visited a gun store, since I hate guns, but I bet the one owner of a typical gun store "owns" hundreds of guns. For that matter, what do you want to bet that "study" in hedge's article considers the CEO's of Browning, Remington (RIP), Colt, Glock, H&K, etc. as "gun owners," each of whom "owns" tens of thousands of guns? All those situations could definitely arrive at the absurd claim that 3% of Americans own half the guns, which mathematically demands that the average gun owner owns 15+ guns.hedge wrote:According to this article, 3% of Americans own half the guns. Not that it matters, but it does kinda put the lie to your claim of a "huge" number of Americans wanting to own guns...
https://qz.com/1095899/gun-ownership-in ... ee-charts/
Special counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for allegedly meddling in the 2016 presidential election, charging them with conspiracy to defraud the United States, the Department of Justice announced Friday.
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"The defendants allegedly conducted what they called information warfare against the United States, with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general," Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said.
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Beginning as early as 2014, the Russian organization Internet Research Agency began operations to interfere with the US political system, including the 2016 elections, according to the indictment.
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Russians posted "derogatory information about a number of candidates," and by mid-2016 they supported Trump and disparaged Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. They bought ads and communicated with "unwitting" people tied to Trump campaign and others to coordinate political activities.
Rosenstein said Friday that the indictment does not contain any allegations that any Americans knowingly participated in the activity.
"There is no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity," he said. "There is no allegation in the indictment that the charge conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election."
That rates a five star ROFLMAO with an oak leaf cluster. Are you sure that's not from The Onion?Russians posted "derogatory information about a number of candidates," and by mid-2016 they supported Trump and disparaged Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
If so, this is just getting funnier and funnier. After a year and tens of millions of dollars, the mighty Mueller has finally managed to find evidence that the Russians tried to influence our election. Wow. Maybe tomorrow, Mueller will posthumously indict Saddam Hussein for gassing his own people, or Khalid Muhammad for planning 9-11.Robert Mueller just made it impossible for Trump to call the special counsel probe a 'total hoax'
(CNN) On Friday afternoon, the Justice Department announced that special counsel Robert Mueller had indicted 13 Russian nationals for their roles in attempted meddling in the 2016 election.... The point is this: The indictments of a baker's dozen of Russians gives us a very clear window into not only the depth and breadth of the Mueller investigation, but also makes crystal clear what the Russians wanted in the 2016 election and the elaborate measures they undertook to make it happen.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16/politics ... index.html
That’s fucking rich. You could fertilize Death Valley with that much bullshit.Professor Tiger wrote:The fact that the Russians tried to influence our election has never been in dispute!
O the mouth on you.DooKSucks wrote:That’s fucking rich. You could fertilize Death Valley with that much bullshit.Professor Tiger wrote:The fact that the Russians tried to influence our election has never been in dispute!
by Professor Tiger
Fri Apr 28, 2017 1:28 pm
Forum: The Something Forum
Topic: Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread
The doc's on Flynn are missing? Maybe they were accidentally wiped from a server with bleachbit, and are therefore unrecoverable. Or maybe the the hard drive was accidentally destroyed and disposed of. But however the records were lost, it was an accident. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Maybe there is ambiguity in the term "meddling" in that poll. Some may have interpreted that to mean "successfully affected the outcome" while others interpreted it to mean "attempted to affect the outcome." The 28%ers are probably in the former category. It depends on what the word "is" is.
I don't know anybody who doesn't believe that the Russians tried to influence the election. I also don't know anyone who believes they succeeded in influencing the election.
Revise and resubmit.by Professor Tiger
Thu Nov 02, 2017 8:23 am
Forum: The Goat Pen
Topic: Florida State Seminoles
For starters, Russian attempts to meddle in US elections have happened long before Trump:
Over the course of 11 presidential elections between the end of World War II and the fall of the Soviet Union, we identified three secret attempts to influence an election.
• 1960: Through his ambassador to the United States, Mikhail Menshikov, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev offered Adlai Stevenson help from a secret propaganda campaign. However, Stevenson declined the offer. He lost in the Democratic primary to John F. Kennedy.
• 1968: The Soviet Union’s ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Dobrynin, offered to secretly fund Hubert Humphrey’s campaign against Richard Nixon. Humphrey declined the bribe.
• 1976: Fearing that anti-communist Democrat Henry "Scoop" Jackson stood a good chance at winning in the wake of Nixon’s resignation, the KGB began a smear campaign. Soviet spies forged FBI paperwork to make it appear Jackson was secretly gay and sent the fake reports to newspapers around the United States during the election and for years after.
They've been meddling in European elections since the '60's too, where Trump was never an issue. They will still be meddling with US elections when Chelsea runs.
