Florida State Seminoles

[Jungle Rat]

I should have won last year.

[hedge]

I bet I would recognize less than 5% of the names that have won any Nobel peace prize outside of literature and even the ones I recognize I wouldn't have any idea what half of them won it for...

[Jungle Rat]

That's because you're an idiot

[bluetick]

Nobel Prize = Heisman Trophy

Not a bad analogy. Both give out an annual award, even in years when the pickings are slim. Anybody old enough to remember Pat Sullivan's win over Ed Marinaro? The DAC could have just skipped a selection that year altogether.

Unless Laura Ingraham trots out a do-gooder with better numbers, then you gotta say Obama was the beneficiary of a down year. It's not like BHO beat out Gandhi (fun fact: the Mahatma was never awarded the Nobel Peace Prize). There's no Woodson-over-Peyton robbery here.

[eCat]

BLM still doing god's work in Houston I see.

Based on what I've seen from twitter, Shaun King is just the leader they deserve.

[bluetick]

Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump
Cryin Chuck told his favorite lie when he used his standard sound bite that I “slammed the table & walked out of the room. He had a temper tantrum.” Because I knew he would say that, and after Nancy said no to proper Border Security, I politely said bye-bye and left, no slamming!
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Good. Lord.

[hedge]

I knew you were going to post that...

[eCat]

welcome to the new world of progressives

I believe we are officially at the stage of have and have nots.

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He’s Mayor Robin Hood.

Burnishing his progressive credentials, Mayor Bill de Blasio portrayed himself as a protector of the working class on Thursday — while proposing a redistribution of wealth — in his sixth State of the City address.
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“Brothers and sisters, there’s plenty of money in the world. There’s plenty of money in this city. It’s just in the wrong hands,” said de Blasio, who owns two homes and collects $258,750 a year as mayor.

“You haven’t been paid what you deserve for all the hard work. You haven’t been given the time you deserve. You’re not living the life you deserve. And here is the cold, hard truth: It’s no accident. It’s an agenda,” he continued, blaming Republican presidential administrations from Reagan to Trump.

The mayor proposed initiatives to level the playing field between the haves and have-nots — such as seizing buildings from bad landlords, expanding the Department of Consumer Affairs to include “worker protection” and offering medical care to 300,000 undocumented immigrants.

But critics pointed out the mayor’s corporate handouts.

“I thought there was something a little contradictory when he talks about having a city with a whole lot of money where workers don’t get their fair share and how we’re going to start to be more fair and more equitable,” Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. said.

“The irony there is that you’re giving $3 billion away to Amazon [in city and state subsidies],” Diaz continued, adding that he supports the online retail giant’s plans to build a headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, but not the financial incentives offered to it.

Hizzoner also promised to confiscate land from scofflaw landlords and turn the seized properties over to nonprofits under a newly created Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants.

“When the city’s worst landlords cheat their tenants, we will take their buildings away from them,” he said in the 67-minute speech at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side.

“If fines and penalties don’t cut it, we will seize buildings and put them into the hands of a nonprofit that will treat tenants with the respect they deserve.”

The details were not announced, but the plan is modeled on the Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s Third Party Transfer program, which forecloses on properties that have fallen into serious disrepair or are behind on taxes.

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[sardis]

One candidacy has already started and ended...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/presid ... es-evolved

[eCat]

I have not evolved.

I don't want a federal marriage act

but I want the definition of marriage to stay as it has been for thousands of years - between a man and a woman

and I'm really not interested in hearing how my views are not in align with America today

but to the point, yep, she's probably done, not that I felt she had a shot anyways. Breaking with Clinton isn't going to be enough to get the Democratic nod

Cortez and Beto I'm certain are ahead of Gabbard as nominees

[crashcourse]

I don't care about the marriage aspect of it

I do care about the dna aspect of identifying sexes

male or female based on your dna period

[hedge]

I tend to agree but at the same time, it's just not an issue I'm going to spend a whole lot of time worrying about. I really just don't care. If somebody wants to think they're a male or a female (or whatever), why should I care? At the very most, all I can muster is a shrug of my shoulders. I can't understand why this is such a big issue to anybody outside the people who are identifying themselves as whatever. How many people are we really talking about here? It can't be more than a small fraction of one percent of the population. It's just not that big of a deal...

[eCat]

this identity stuff is going to tough to support because once a person identifies as a different gender, then why can't they identify as a different race?

Then that opens up all kinds of shitstorms

[sardis]

Wish you'd identify with Mel Stottlemyre

[eCat]

googling Mel Stottlemeyer

[eCat]

that's cold

well, he's cold too.....now

[hedge]

this identity stuff is going to tough to support because once a person identifies as a different gender, then why can't they identify as a different race?

Then that opens up all kinds of shitstorms

Irregardless, it's still such a minuscule issue (gender identity, racial identity, animal identity, whatever else you can think of) I can't see how it could make anybody's top 10 of things they really need to worry about, much less open any kind of shitstorm. The vast majority of people just accept what they're born as and deal with it. Always have, always will. If some tiny percentage of people want to be something else, why should I care? You might as well get upset about those people who like to dress up like furry animals. And yes, I'm sure you've watched furry animal porn....

[eCat]

this identity stuff is going to tough to support because once a person identifies as a different gender, then why can't they identify as a different race?

Then that opens up all kinds of shitstorms

Irregardless, it's still such a minuscule issue (gender identity, racial identity, animal identity, whatever else you can think of) I can't see how it could make anybody's top 10 of things they really need to worry about, much less open any kind of shitstorm. The vast majority of people just accept what they're born as and deal with it. Always have, always will. If some tiny percentage of people want to be something else, why should I care? You might as well get upset about those people who like to dress up like furry animals. And yes, I'm sure you've watched furry animal porn....

lets flip it around then, why should our government care? Why are there laws about bathrooms in North Carolina? Seems like that was a shit storm.

[hedge]

I agree that there shouldn't have to be bathroom laws, anybody should be able to use any bathroom that's open, it's ridiculous that you have to make a law for that, it's only because puritanical religious prudes have made it a law that there HAVE to be separate bathrooms that it's an issue, that's the real shitshow...

[BigRedMan]

I leave it up to personal choice / responsibility.

If someone wants to identify as man / woman / meat popsicle / gender fluid / whatever - As long as they receive no extra benefits or special treatment, then I have no issue. The minute they get special bathrooms funded by my tax dollars, then hell NO. If a local business wants to spend the extra money to build 10 extra bathrooms, then by all means, proceed.

Now if I see a transgender woman go into a bathroom and I don't want myself or my child to follow - that is my personal choice. And the person can get the fuck over it. I have not allowed my child to go into public bathrooms if I have seen meth heads go in or some other shady shit. I've always been aware of my surroundings and try to make the best judgement. Call it bigoted or racist, don't really care. If you look / smell like someone I don't want to be around, guess the fuck what??? I am not going to be around you.