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OT arrest after attack
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Post 31 made on Sunday March 26, 2017 at 16:05
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On March 25, 2017 at 20:40, FP Crazy said...
And we are heading down that same road again. Shuffle the deck, deal a new hand but the game is the same

Lewis Black has a great bit about how the same assholes that caused the dot com bubble, caused the housing bubble, and then we were letting them start a second dot com bubble.
Civil War reenactment is LARPing for people with no imagination.

Post 32 made on Sunday March 26, 2017 at 16:33
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On March 25, 2017 at 18:01, Dean Roddey said...
The Big Short is a great movie. Both educational and entertaining. Though, for a much more in-depth look at that era, see the four part NPR documentary:

[Link: pbs.org]

It's very good, and involves a lot of the folks who were involved. Movies are not generally a good way to get the facts, since they have to condense things so much. Lots of things get skipped over, multiple characters get condensed into one, and so forth.

I found an app called Overdrive that links to my county library card. The Big Short was available as an audiobook. Lots of detail there, including a very interesting epilogue.
There is no truth anymore. Only assertions. The internet world has no interest in truth, only vindication for preconceived assumptions.
Post 33 made on Sunday March 26, 2017 at 21:08
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On March 26, 2017 at 15:05, Mac Burks (39) said...
Its getting harder and harder to pretend that the United States is the good guys. I usually have to polish off a case of E&J 1/2 pints before i believe it.

Ya, ya, ya Mac. We know. We know you hate America, you bring it up every chance you get.
Post 34 made on Sunday March 26, 2017 at 21:35
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On March 26, 2017 at 21:08, Ranger Home said...
Ya, ya, ya Mac. We know. We know you hate America, you bring it up every chance you get.

Just having the two of you so actively involved in our democracy makes the end of my weekend! :)
"There's a big difference between winging it and seeing what happens. Now let's see what happens." ~MacGruber
Post 35 made on Sunday March 26, 2017 at 22:09
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On March 26, 2017 at 15:05, Mac Burks (39) said...
You have terrorists and then you have TERRORists... Both are usually just pissed off mother f'rs who are tired of watching or even just hearing about people like them being murdered by the military forces that are owned by the oil industry and weapons manufacturers.

If i walked down your street and killed one of your neighbors my guess is that your response would be to run inside and get your gun and come after me.

See where i am going with this? I know that most of you get it but for those that dont...i just explained why the "terrorists" want to chop your head off on youtube. Someone just like you did the same or worse to their aunt or child.

The reason most of you don't patrol the streets at night with your shotguns is that you have jobs and families and things that make your life worth living. Same goes for london born Muslims or American Born Timothy Mcveigh or the countless rednecks who make the news because they killed a Hindu thinking he was Muslim. If you feel like you have nothing to lose and you have people around you always talking about how one group is the reason your life sucks then guess what happens?

As far as making the arrest after an attack. Uh...thats generally how a first world nation operates. You don't just start rounding people up because you think they are guilty....oh wait...oh yeas we do. We did it during the world wars and we do it today. Its getting harder and harder to pretend that the United States is the good guys. I usually have to polish off a case of E&J 1/2 pints before i believe it.

And the point you're making go along with my comment about government leaders having their heads up their asses- they were in control of the Middle East, but they clearly didn't, and still don't, truly understand the mindset of the people.

If people decide it's time to go huntin' Arabs, it will partly be on the head of education- if they teach anything about the Middle East, it probably involves something like "They have most of the World's oil, they wear robes and talk funny".

FWIW, when I was in school, we had a bunch of Middle Eastern students, all male. I don't remember a single one of them interacting with anyone outside of their group. It can't be a language thing, because they took the same classes as everyone else and they were always in English. They chose not to interact. This was 1975-1979 which, I'm sure, had everything to do with any bad feelings they may have had but in order for people to understand each other, we need to talk.
My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
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