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Just had this posted to me by an old mate...frightening, horrible, disturbing, hard to believe.... https://anightatthegarden.com/ from the link..... “As chilling and disorienting to watch as the most inventive full-length horror movie.” –The New Yorker “In a scant six minutes of archival footage, director Marshall Curry delivers an emotional wallop.” –NPR “In the current climate of intolerance, this footage is especially chilling.” –The New York Times “A taut, dramatic seven-minute film.” –The Washington Post “Eerily relevant.” –Rolling Stone “Strictly remarkable.” –Los Angeles Times In 1939, 20,000 Americans ral…

I wasn't aware of this, but apparently the number of inmates scheduled for the death penalty has decreased by 13 ( almost a quarter ) since D Trump assumed power, after a 17 year hiatus. No other president in over 10 years has allowed the execution of so many inmates. D Higgs was executed by lethal injection in Indiana, for ordering the killing of three women. Higgs, a black man, was sentenced to death, even though he didn't actually kill the women; the other man, who did the killing, got a life sentence. Trump administration carries out 13th and final execution (msn.com) Seems this president is even more blood-thirsty than we thought

Let's not forget what started America down this dark path that led to a coup attempt; a Presidential candidate fearmongering about immigration. They spoke of "come back legally" (and then broke the law) but somehow making it easier to immigrate legally wasn't considered a legitimate option. One thing that always struck me as odd about America's usual opposition to making it easier to come legally was the notion that they'd "take our jobs." (Which they can do anyway.) A: Whatever happened to the idea that one isn't owed a job? B: Why not just raise and/or better enforce the minimum wage, then? If they can afford to hire migrants at highe…

💢 This poem was created by me sometime back but is very much relevant even today. I have posted it here below. It is about a Governance Model which is perhaps better than the existing ones including Capitalism Socialism etc and bring Betterment to Humanity and improve Democracy. We can discuss it out and improve it further as we see fit. I may not rewrite the poetry but can modify the Model as required. 💢 India of my dreams ! I dream of the India that stands for GOOD and eliminates EVIL A Haven for all Creative People with peaceful pursuits A Nursery of Humanity which brings out World Winners. Whe…

Geraldo Riviera went to Brooklyn Law School and says Trump's acquittal is as inevitable as the impeachment itself because what he said was covered under the first amendment. If both that and expressions of love are covered under the first amendment, by what standard do we distinguish which we get to discriminate against? Again, this is meant only for those who opposed that baker's right to discriminate and supported Facebook and Twitter's right to.

Trump spent one hour on the phone with GA sec of state, with lawyers, and Mark Meadows. This was after 18 attempts by Trump to talk with Raffensperger. Trump has a complete list of the lies that were thrown out of over 50 courts in front of him on the call. That is why it sounds like he "knows" something. First listen to the short 5-minute Youtube and if you have the stomach for it, you can listen to the full one hour of insanity. Audio: Trump berates Ga. secretary of state, urges him to ‘find’ votes - YouTube Now buckle up for one hour of insanity! Full Phone Call: Trump Pressures Georgia Secretary of State To Recount Election Votes | NBC News - YouTub…

The FiveThirtyEight model is currently giving Biden an ~87% chance of winning. My own model gives Biden a ~74% chance of winning, details below. I ran 1,000,000 simulations Monte Carlo style, where the outcomes in each state are independent of one another. I split states into five categories: 1) Safe Republican - Assigned a probability of 1 to vote Republican 2) Safe Democrat - Assigned a probability of 0 to vote Republican 3) Won by Trump in 2016 but leans Democrat (Maine 2, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin) - Assigned a probability of 0.4 to vote Republican 4) Won by Trump in 2016 and leans Republican (Florida, Iowa, Ohio) - Assigned a probability o…

Hong Kong is the most expensive city in the world, at least as far as rent goes. Certainly more expensive than Shanghai or Beijing. Presumably, in addition to comparably close proximity to the rest of east Asia, it has much to offer that mainland China doesn't, like freedom of speech, or democracy, or (relatively) cleaner air. But the former two are in doubt, as China enacts more and more restrictions on them. Evidently, they aren't getting their money's worth anymore. There are an estimated 17 million housing units vacant in the USA. That's already more than the number of people who live in Hong Kong. Why can't the USA offer transportation of the …

From http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/100641-trump-protestors/?p=957919 I think it would be more accurate to say that your caricature of Sharia might not be compatible with our constitution and separation of church and state, but even that would be a stretch I will copy this rather than rewriting it, from another thread So Sharia is not "compatible with our constitution and separation of church and state" in the same way that wearing a yarmulke is not, wearing a cross necklace is not, not eating meat on Friday is not (if people still do that) or avoiding pork is not, or avoiding getting a tattoo or eating shellfish is not (if people actually avoid the things…

Take a look at this red/blue map of the 2020 US election. Click on any state and it gives you a breakdown of the red and blue counties of each state. Notice how the wide-open spaces are overwhelmingly red and population centers are overwhelmingly blue. If you click on a blue state you will see most of the counties are red. Population centers are blue. Why is this? Is it true that "blue" policies are generally more popular in the US than "red" policies? election map red blue - Bing The "traveling salesman jokes" are about a city-slicker, conman, salesman (Trump) who travels across the nation taking advantage of the local country bumpkins, especially farmers…

Have you ever had your opinions dismissed out of hand, on other webforums, by people who invoke the other things you've gotten wrong as justification for dismissing them out of hand? Have you ever noticed that a majority of people on these sites either made, or failed to distance themselves from, a comparable number of incorrect statements, and ignore your comparisons of these to the things you yourself got wrong? I feel reminded of this by recent political trends. The right spent the late 90s howling at the moon over Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, yet lets Trump get away with something similar. A majority of Republican voters let them…

For the record, I say this as someone who believes China needs to be called out more on its disproportionate role in foreign overfishing, in ozone depletion, etc... yet finds it odd that people deflect criticism of American greenhouse gas emissions by comparing them to total Chinese greenhouse gas emissions, instead of per-capita ones. Why is it that the total country's emissions matter more than the per capita emissions? Wouldn't it be more meaningful to compare the USA to, let's say, a randomly selected region of China containing a comparable number of people to the USA? For that matter, China's "one-child policy;" though implemented more for economic reason…

I don't have any objection to lawsuits against Facebook for antitrust violations, but shouldn't Wal-Mart be first?

On other sites, back when I didn't value honesty as much, I used to have a nasty habit of throwing various things associated with leftism (cannabis culture, criticism of capitalism, etc...) under the bus to see if people respect a non-liberal anti-theist more than a liberal one. It seems not to have worked. As if to drive the point home, religious-but-otherwise-leftist colleagues of mine IRL seem to get (relatively) more respect than centrist anti-theists. Over the years my disagreements with the rest of the left have increased for real anyway, yet I regret trying to throw it under the bus more than ever before. As if on cue, it's now down to a few…

Based on data available today 11-23-2020 with 98% popular votes counted. Please check my math: 🙂 Biden 79.8 M Trump 73.8 M Total 153.6 M (million votes counted already) Total votes already counted as 98% (153.6/98 = 1.57) x 2 = 3.13 million votes yet to be counted. So Biden gets 51.95% (79.8/153.6) of the remaining 3.1 million votes to be counted (0.5195 x 3.1 = 1.61) and Trump gets 48.05% of the remaining 3.1 million votes (0.4805 x 3.1 = 1.49). So based on current proportions in the popular vote, Biden should have a final total of 79.8 + 1.61 = 81.4 and for Trump 73.8 + 1.5 = 75.3 Final vote tally estimate: Biden 81.4 m…

Having read the constitution and finding it kind of open to interpretation how the pardon power works, I'm no closer to finding a good answer for this. Can a President pardon themselves? Is one question. Can the next President revoke that pardon? Is another. Obviously we are only talking about pardons of federal charges. Can Trump even pardon himself for a federal charge that has not been formally filed yet? If so, where does it end? Why shouldn't every president end their time with giving themselves a pardon for any federal crimes they may have committed while in office? It all seems so confusing to me. If it is the presidential office gi…

How does the political compass work? So I gone to the political compass web site to see how Biden compares to Obama and it is saying Biden is bit more to the left than than Obama and bit more libertarian. https://politicalcompass.org/images/uscandidates2008.png But looking at this it is also saying Ronald Reagar is more to right than Trump but two or three points more libertarian than Trump. https://i.imgflip.com/3wuzn9.jpg But the other web site is showing Bush more the right than Trump. So how does this political compass work? It seems broken down where libertarian at the bottom and dictatorship at the top and right and …

I find this highly disquieting: This all came about because Linick wanted to probe some possibly dubious behaviour by Pompeo. I suppose my main question is: Should an administration be allowed to control its oversight mechanisms?

I've never actually seen one, but have heard of them … You know those YouTube videos where they get two old men to fight while they film it ? You kind of feel sorry and embarrassed for both of them. One is angry ( or mad ) and has no respect for anyone, while the other is a nice grandfatherly type but is beginning to mix up his words. Kudos to the moderator for trying to keep the angry disrespectful one under control.

The Trump Administration seems to be getting quite explicit lately about something that's been in the air for quite a while. The man himself and some of his officials seem to be taking the anti-scientific discourse up a notch. Very worrying news coming from the US these days. I thought I'd never see the day: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/14/opinions/another-day-another-trump-outrage-on-climate-and-science-oreskes/index.html?fbclid=IwAR38oXn2xJLdp5rjnPZHeAsQtNSkkptKuZy_C3Sd3LJ5c2Usyv08TAzySQ8 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/trump-biden-climate-change-fires.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage&fbclid=IwAR38oXn2xJLdp5rjnPZ…

Hi, How did the designer design this form!? Compare this image with the Shi'a-Hadith[1400 years ago]: ".... Who the Dajjal[Anti-Christ] is!? - Be aware that he is one-eyed that doesn't have the left-eye and his right eye is on his forehead and is shining such as the star of the morning! And along him there is a smoked mount and behind of him there is a white mount that seems be foods and he claims that he is god and all people should be his followers...." Who and why/how designed this image!?!!

What else do you call a gross act of negligence that results in the deaths of others? Even up to 200,000 deaths? "Bob, I always wanted to downplay it. I still want to downplay it." Later Trump claimed to have "up-played it in action" and "downplayed" it in speech. He put a ban from China, but it was porous and the virus got to the US anyhow, also it arrived in the US from Europe. So what always mattered was Trump's choice of action AFTER the virus was already here. That is where he "choked." His constant downplaying caused people to not wear masks nor practice any social distancing. "During the town hall, Mr. Trump also repeated his claim that the vir…

8 are dead and many others are injured. The assailant has been identified as Robert Bowers. He reported was armed with an AR-15 styled rifle (of course) and target Jewish people. Robert Bowers was an active poster on the “alt-right” version of Twitter, Gab. He is known to have post anti-Semitic hate speech via Gab. As usual (it ridiculous mass shooting have become this common) discussion regarding this shooting with include gun control but is it time to also start having discussions about hate speech?

Overshadowed by the election, but Puerto Rico voted to hold a Statehood Referendum. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/524590-puerto-rico-votes-in-favor-of-us-statehood Ways to go naturally, but bit of additional positive news.

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