Despite republican claims, there is no FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/there-is-no-fbi-investigation-of-hillary-clinton/22894/
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/there-is-no-fbi-investigation-of-hillary-clinton/22894/
Despite republican claims, there
Donald Trump is very, very rich. Sheldon Adelson is very, very rich. Money can
buy a "tell-all" book full of scandalous stories that aren't true.
See how that works?
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Being former agents doesn't mean anything. The
A Lesson From ‘Brexit’: On Immigration, Feelings Trump Facts
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/world/europe/brexit-economy-immigration-britain-european-union-democracy.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/world/europe/brexit-economy-immigration-britain-european-union-democracy.html
A
You don't even realize how you've contradicted yourself. First, the agents are
denouncing the book because they're nobly doing their duty to protect Hillary.
When that turns out not to work, all of a sudden they're denouncing the book
because she's bribed them.
You can't have it both ways,
Of course I get the point of your article. It isn't complicated. What you don't
get is that I was making a different point, one your article doesn't address
(and that would be accurate no matter what my "agenda"). As I said, go back and
reread the thread.
("We know your 'agenda.'" Hilarious.
Ollie, actually it's going to be uncomfortably close. You really don't want to
discourage any Hillary voters from turning out.
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Yep, pretty much...even with the usual 50% that don't cast a vote in the
Presidential
Just for the record (from the linked article):
Other progressive policies were adopted piecemeal, such as the $15 minimum
wage, which the committee accepted but without the amendment put forth by
Ellison that would have indexed the wage to inflation.
The panel did vote unanimously to back
Trump has won *primaries*, Mike. There was no Brexit primary. Winning primaries
is very different from winning a general election. Trump doesn't have any more
primaries to win. You can't say "He keeps winning" unless he wins the general
election.
Ollie's wrong to say it's a "done deal" for
You're saying the loyalty of the Secret Service to the First Family has to be
bought, either way. If that's the case, then it shouldn't be hard to figure a
former agent could be bought to be *disloyal*.
IOW, if you're going to paint the Secret Service, current and former, as
unethically
expatriate
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LOL Ann, being called a loser by an x-patriot, liberal or democrat is really
kind of a badge of honor.
"The average Social Security retirement benefit is about $1,300 per month
($1,328 in 2015), and the maximum at full retirement age is more than $2,600
per month ($2,663 in 2015), but the exact amount you’ll get every month depends
on how much you earned over your lifetime and how old you are
10.6 million people live on just Social Security:
USATODAY.com - Millions of Americans get by on Social Security alone
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/perfi/general/2005-08-15-getting-by-usat_x.htm
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/perfi/general/2005-08-15-getting-by-usat_x.htm
Fiorina and Christie are "suspending" (ending) their campaigns.
I imagine she'd expect you to answer that for yourself (if you even really
needed to ask the question): She's not the only one receiving big money.
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Hillary says we've got to get the big money out of politics.
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Re "Did she say how she thought they would do this? . . . Would cause a
gigantic ruckus."
(snip)
I think Bonnie is right about the principle though. (I've heard it mentioned
before.) The delegates who eventually choose
I know you didn't mean it snarkily! Just figured I'd short-circuit your
inadvertently passing it on.
As to over-the-top reaction, I've seen it spelled by right-wingers "DemocRAT
Party." So it isn't as if Dems are just being too sensitive...
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What's the point?
I was listening to Yank playwright Bonnie Greer today and she mentioned
something that really shook me: Trump has no chance of becoming President (no -
that bit didn't shake me!) because even if he wins every
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Uh-oh
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/01/29/official-some-clinton-emails-too-damaging-to-release.html#.VqwjkvUhTPc.email
You know, I'm actually more disturbed by the egregious typo in the subject
heading (are TMers illiterate?) than by its mention of MUM.
Obviously, the subject line was written by whoever at the "email4you" outfit
gathers the articles it sends FFL a couple times a week. I don't think it's a
Doug, I hate the spin and the misleading too. I just don't think this subject
heading really falls into that category when you take the article itself into
account, which focused so heavily on MUM as the source of the interest in
Sanders, as if MUM were the only thing that counted in Fairfield.
As of midnight:
AP projects Cruz beats Trump, 27.7% to 24.3%. Rubio is third with 23.1%.
Clinton and Sanders are neck-and-neck, with Clinton very slightly ahead.
O'Malley and Huckabee have suspended their campaigns.
In Iowa as a whole, Bernie's behind Hillary by only 3/10 of a percentage point
(49.6 to 49.9), according to the NYTimes this morning. Given the way delegates
are allocated, this likely means the two will end up with the same number of
Iowa delegates at the convention.
I did my two-week "flying block" at MIU/MUM in summer 1984 (I think it was).
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Surveying,
How many of you reading or writing here at FFL have been to Fairfield, Iowa?
As a meditator?
Otherwise, I am wanting to
Ollie, I agree that it's a witch hunt, but let's keep the facts straight: What
they've found *has* been very much front-page news, many times so far. The
media love witch hunts, and they've never been big Hillary fans.
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You know that didn't mean *over his face*, right?
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The moment I read that he was found with a pillow over his head, I thought oh
geeez, here we go.
From: "jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife]"
Not the point. The point is that some have been saying Sanders has exaggerated
his civil rights activism. This photo tends to support his claims. (It's
pro-Sanders, IOW, not anti-Sanders.)
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A lot of activists got
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(snip)
Also, looking at the early supposed TTC training script (unless it has been
doctored to provide a falsehood), I notice that the giving of the mantra should
be done in such a way as to make the initiate feel that they
Gee, Ollie, CNN isn't left-wing like MSNBC, but it's not right-wing like Fox
either. You'll hear both lefties and righties complaining about its "slant."
And it's much more accurate factually than Fox.
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The amount of money poured
It's almost prohibitively difficult, actually; it was designed to be. And it
can take years.
Those who are not originalists (don't know the term for them) don't
necessarily interpret the original wording in a way that is "clearly at odds
with the obvious reading." It's much more complicated
"Shyster lawyers"?? We're talking about the Supreme Court here. Since when do
"shyster lawyers" get to rule on interpretation of the Constitution?
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Re "Allowing for changing attitudes" :
You're making my case for me!
No, it was Supreme Court justices who ruled on Roe v. Wade, not "shyster
lawyers." Lawyers, shyster or otherwise, don't get to rule on anything. Only
judges or justices can do that.
And please don't tell me what I can and can't see. You don't have a clue.
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AP and Reuters covered it; the NY Times had articles from both agencies. Sorry!
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Arrests made as hundreds of elderly Americans protest at 2nd ‘Democracy
Spring’ sit-in
??? All NY Times stories have headlines.
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Was it in the headlines?
On 04/12/2016 06:36 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
AP and Reuters covered it; the NY Times had articles from both
I guess you don't know what AP and Reuters are. They're news agencies. If
either covers an important story, its report appears in hundreds of papers
across the country. Do a Google search for the Reuters headline:
Police Arrest 400 at U.S. Capitol in Protest of Money in Politics
And then
Be aware that "first cause" in Aquinas's thinking doesn't mean *temporal* first
cause but *ontological* first cause.
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The Cosmological arguments of Aquinas. Also discusses flaws and
counterarguments.
Aquinas basically
Not true. There are many openings in the wall around the Vatican. The biggest
is the opening that leads to the huge plaza in front of St. Peter's Basilica.
Thousands surge through it every time the pope is scheduled to appear; tourists
wander through all the time without having to go through
Nonsense. Vatican City isn't all behind St. Peter's. Look at a map sometime.
And there are guards at each point of entry to the White House as well. Of
course there are places you can't just come and go as you please, but the
Vatican isn't walled off from the rest of Rome the way Leeds claims.
Bernie sez Hillary would be a better president on her worst day than any of the
Republicans on their best day.
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On 04/30/2016 06:35 AM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@...
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Duh. It means Bernie wants his supporters to vote for Hillary if he doesn't get
the nomination.
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What does that even mean?
From: "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]"
To:
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That Hillary would be an even better Republican President than Bill? :-D
Funny how, if Bill is a Republican, he didn't campaign for McCain or Romney.
Hillary Clinton now paying trolls to attack people online
No, Hillary
I'm sorry you aren't able to grasp the distinction between defending a racist
cartoon (which I did not do) and supporting a nonracist political point (which
is what I did). It simply is not the case that all political criticisms of
Condi Rice are automatically racist. In fact, it's racist to
Your reading comprehension is getting worse and worse. I didn't defend the
cartoon, I said I understood why some might do so: because the *political*
point was valid. The political point had nothing to do with race. If Prissy in
GWTW and/or Condi had been white, the exact same point would have
No, Mike, I am NOT defending the cartoon. I said it was "disgraceful." As I
said, your reading comprehension is in the toilet.
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No Judy, my reading comprehension is just fine and you continue to defend the
cartoon by justifying
It doesn't fit. That's what Godwin's Law is about.
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If the shoe fits...
From: "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 4:16 PM
The problem is invoking "God's plan" as if you were in a position to know what
it is. Make your own personal judgments and take responsibility for them.
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So when anyone defends an innocent life they are playing God? Why have
Godwin's Law strikes again...Reductio ad Hitlerum.
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And Hitler could have made the same rationalization for what he did to his
victims.
From: "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]"
To:
You're playing God when you claim to know God's plan is for the fetus. Maybe
the plan is actually for the woman, to lead her to make a sensible and
compassionate decision about whether that fetus should be born under the
circumstances she faces.
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(snip)
A cartoon about Michelle being big and husky?How about the one with Condolezza
Rice crying *I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' tubes* while rocking ion a
chair with a rag tied around her head as if she were a slave
For you to suggest the cartoon was published in the New York Times or
Washington Post when you knew it wasn't was pretty low, Mike.
And I just got done saying myself that the accuracy of the caption wasn't
relevant.
I don't know what "sentiment" the cartoon was intended to evoke, and
Somebody should ask Salyavin about his sources. (If he won't tell you, I will.)
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Salyavin wrote:
Full details provided if you like but it's all in the archives here.
Ask him to provide the "full details." Again, if he doesn't, I will.
I think Doug should also tell us the source of the email he quotes (without
mentioning names).
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FWIW, the "RT" in the link below stands for "Russia Times." Rassmussen, the
poll the article cites as measuring Trump beating Hillary, leans conservative
and has a reputation for being inaccurate.
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A surprise
HuffPo is in the tank for Bernie, of course. And I know RT isn't Pravda nor
Izvestia. But it isn't the most reliable source of news and information, and it
isn't surprising that it would prefer Bernie over Clinton.
Also, so far nobody has been seriously attacking Bernie, whereas Clinton has
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On 05/04/2016 01:26 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
HuffPo is in the tank for Bernie, of course. And I know RT isn't Pravda nor
Izvestia. But it isn't the most reliable source of news and
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(snip)
Judy has consistently demonstrated that she is an idiot to the extent that I
never read her posts. She knows as well as I do where all this information
about King Tony comes from.
If Salyavin read my
Reformatted to (hopefully) make the two links clickable...
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(snip)
Judy has consistently demonstrated that she is an idiot to the extent
Not all that interesting. From the article:
Of the 126,000 Democratic voters taken off from the rolls in Brooklyn, Ryan
said 12,000 had moved out of borough, while 44,000 more had been placed in an
inactive file after mailings to their homes bounced back. An additional 70,000
were already
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(snip)
I always ask for evidence as I believe the only way we can find out whether
our cherished beliefs are real or not is by setting up tests for them, that's
the difference between science and religion.
So
I've got the links working now, I think.
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(snip)
I always ask for evidence as I believe the only way we can find out whether
our cherished beliefs are
Mike, there are two different issues here. One has to do with the actual
effects of the policies; the other has to do with the *intention* of the
policies. The first issue is very complex, and we could cite competing
statistics and so on at each other for weeks.
It's the second that I'm
So you think FBI agents should be free to sell information about its
investigations to the highest bidder, to people who have no security clearance?
Because if FBI agents were trusted not to blab, the agents wouldn't be
required to sign a nondisclosure agreement in the first place, now would
There's more to having a good moral compass than just being law-abiding, first
of all. There's more to morality than laws.
Second, you're drawing entirely unwarranted conclusions about what atheist
leaders would do and why. You're just making assumptions without any real facts
to back them
No, Mike, it's not true. It's a lie generated by a hateful mind with no
conscience.
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You may find it despicable but never the less it's true. The fact that it is
true, makes it particularly despicable.
From: "authfriend@...
It's what *you* are doing and D'Souza is doing. I'm not denying any historical
facts; I'm pointing out that your framing and interpretation of those facts is
seriously distorted.
This is particularly despicable:
a welfare system to tear black families apart, keep them in ghettos and
Eight years old, not four. Born 2008. Did you not read the article you linked
to?
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Remember John Edwards? His daughter from his affair in 2012 is now about 4
years old. She's learned it's OK to make a mistake. But one
So when you quoted him, you deliberately left out the "at least, not just" and
"We are also..." parts in an attempt to distort the context.
Typical.
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I've listened to the whole speech.
From: "authfriend@...
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Judy,
Good catch. I was just amazed how good looking the girl has become, in spite
of the history that created her.
You thought she'd be unattractive because she's the product of an adulterous
affair?
Words fail me.
Mike is just parroting what he picked up from a film by an exceedingly scummy
right-winger and convicted felon named Dinesh D'Souza:
‘Hillary’s America’ lacks historical truths
http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/jul/22/hillarys-america-lacks-historical-truths/
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LOL if you can't disprove the message, then attack the messenger.
Zilberman doesn't just shoot the messenger, he takes the film apart. What
facts are in it are already well known. D'Souza hasn't "exposed" anything but
his
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That is part of the con. When you get busted, you adamantly deny your
involvement and role in the con , and point a finger of accusation at the
person that busted you and say" it's their fault, not mine. Don't look at me,
look
This person sounds as though he or she is seriously stressed out...
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De-grading..
"Usually for most of us mere mortals it seems to be sort of a graduated
evolutionary process that allows for these higher vibrational values
Daily Caller Throws Another Temper Tantrum After Being Debunked by snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com/2016/07/28/daily-caller-throws-another-temper-tantrum-after-being-debunked-by-snopes-com/
Daily Caller Throws Another Temper Tantrum After Being Debunked by snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com/2016/07/28/daily-caller-throws-another-temper-tantrum-after-being-debunked-by-snopes-com/
Doug, FFL's About page says nothing to the effect that all topics have to be
somehow connected to spirituality. Rather, it says:
"Fairfield Life focuses on topics of interest to seekers (and finders) of
truth and liberation everywhere."
Or one could say that any discussion seeking the
I didn't see any name-calling or personal insults in this discussion either.
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I went though several back posts and didn't notice any personal insults. I
*usually* don't go there. Only one person, I can think of, that I'll
My experience of her on FFL was as I described, Doug.
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Needless character assassination here. Angela lives in FF, has had an
extraordinary life both here and starting in very early years as a German war
refugee. She
Don't you know how to use Yahoo search? She was here for some time in 2008.
She was something of a flake, to put it politely, making all kinds of strange
claims. Did you know World War III was being planned at the end of WWII,
according to "European historians"? She was asked which
FALSE: DNC Worker Seth Conrad Rich Gunned Down on the Way to Meet FBI
http://www.snopes.com/seth-conrad-rich#
http://www.snopes.com/seth-conrad-rich#
FALSE: DNC Worker Seth Conrad Rich Gunned Dow...
http://www.snopes.com/seth-conrad-rich# A conspiracy site latched on to the
tragic
I have to laugh and shake my head at this "commentary" because it sounds so
much like Trump's "Be afraid, be very afraid" speech at the convention--not so
much the specifics, but the "sky is falling" tone. I agree totally with Olllie;
it's the silliest kind of moodmaking. And when it comes from
Stop describing any and all criticism, no matter how mild, as "character
assassination," Doug. You've been the target of *real* character assassination;
you ought to know better than to use the term when it's not warranted.
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Opsie, Mike, your reading comprehension faded out again there.
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It's hard enough for chronic liars to keep up with their lies. Imagine keeping
up with them having dementia!
From: "'Rick Archer' rick@...
So many misstatements and lies in this piece...
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-Original Message-
From: League of Power
To: William
Sent: Mon, Aug 8, 2016 4:29 pm
Subject: Khizr Khan Praises Taliban Founder,
And most of the items on the list are not true.
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I am curious what world you live in? It seems we are citizens of the same
country, but yours is beset by failure, fear, disintegration, and boogeymen.
Mine is filled with
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray...on
the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their
reward. But http://biblehub.com/greek/1161.htm when
http://biblehub.com/greek/3752.htm you pray, http://biblehub.com/greek/4336.htm
go
Doug, there is no science that tells us someone who meditates will make a
better president than someone who doesn't. And while some who promote
meditation may find whether presidential candidates meditate of interest, it
can't be said to be a matter of "public interest." The vast majority of
Photograph of Hillary Clinton Slipping on Stairs Circulated as Proof of Poor
Health http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-slipping-on-stairs/
http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-slipping-on-stairs/
Photograph of Hillary Clinton Slipping on Stairs Circula...
This is the post of a person who only pays attention to right-wing news
sources--the "echo chamber," the folks afflicted with Clinton Derangement
Syndrome.
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. Whatever a two year old would assert. You guys really blew it
It's amusing to watch the right-wing Hillary-haters do their best to give the
impression that the Clinton Foundation is the Clintons' personal bank account,
when in fact it's a global charity that's doing hundreds of good works around
the world.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if there
As both of you know, I'm not a True Believer; I've pointed out problems with
Hillary myself.
However, as both of you also know, the crap Mike listed as being "all people
can talk about with Hillary" is no such thing--unless you include the people
who are debunking the crap. And of course she
This is a rare area of agreement between Mike and me. There's no reason a
presidential candidate should have a policy on meditation.
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Doug , Maharishi always used to say that meditation was a preparation for
activity.
Actually, it would be like candidates coming forward to show their tax returns,
each one filled out according to a different set of rules. (Just for instance,
not all meditation techniques by any means are "checked for effortlessness.")
In any case, it isn't what the vast majority of voters
Vikings Possibly Spread Smooth-Riding Horses Around the World
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/science/horses-gaits-ambling-vikings.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/science/horses-gaits-ambling-vikings.html
Vikings Possibly Spread Smooth-Riding Horses Arou...
Too many to list, but a couple examples: Khan did not call Trump's Muslim
immigration policy unconstitutional. He did not claim Trump had never read the
Constitution. His wife was silent at the convention not because she's
"subservient" to Islam but because she gets very emotional about her
Yes, John, I know what he's saying. Do you know what *I'm* saying?
The notion that only religious people have a moral compass is absurd. There
are plenty of atheists who are extremely moral, and plenty of deeply religious
people who are not (think of the Catholic Church's problems with
This idiot claims "atheists cannot be trusted with political power because they
have no 'moral high ground to stand on.'"
Are you really buying in to this bilge, John?
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The Drudge Report is featuring an article in the New York Post today that says
FBI agents were forced to sign forms not to *blab* about findings in the
Hillary e-mail case.
No, that's wrong. They signed forms *reminding*
And incompetence not just with regard to the fact of the plagiarism, but in the
way the campaign reacted to its discovery. They even tried to blame Hillary for
making it an issue, when in fact the Clinton campaign had wisely decided right
away that they were going to stay mum and ignore the
Mike, you aren't paying attention. You said there was "no such thing as an
Islamophobe," and that's wrong; that's what I'm responding to.
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It says a phobia is an intense fear of something that actually poses little or
no
John, you've been beguiled and seduced and misled by those seeking to gain
political advantage from criticizing the national debt. That's what I meant
when I said it was a *political* problem, not an economic problem.
The US isn't going to go bankrupt any more than it's going to annex other
You guys have absolutely no idea what I was talking about. Just amazing.
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Of course sidereal ascendant statistics would be even more relevant.
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