Politics

http://www.kabc.com/2017/11/16/leeann-tweeden-on-senator-al-franken/ Someone should tell Al Franken that the first rule of sexual harassment is no photographs. He does look like he is enjoying himself. The release of this photograph does have perfect comedic timing considering the current plethora of sexual harassment news stories. Just look at the expression on his face. Al is now asking for an ethics investigation on himself. A perfect punch line for the above photo. It should be the shortest ethics investigation in Senate history. Just show everyone on the committee the above photo and let them vote.

Would any one like to discuss this article in terms of their own countries problems. This has been Portugals answer to drugs since the Salazar regime finished. Would it work in America or the rest of the world? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

The epitome of hypocrisy. By that logic, how can anyone take your narrative seriously or Trump's. Trump makes derogatory statements about people EVERYDAY, yet nary a hint of admonishment. So what is it, derogatory good or derogatory bad? He's an insult to the 1st Amendment with his fake news nonsense and persecutes minorities by denying their right to protest peacefully. You fail constitutional law, horribly.

Not really. The Soviets had great scientists. The Soviets did not go to the moon because their chief-scientist responsible for the Russians' journey to the moon died. The first satellite was the Sputnik of the USSR. The first man that went to space was Yuri Gagarin of the USSR. The biggest atomic bomb on the planet was the Tsar bomb of the USSR. The first efficient supersonic fighter was from the USSR. At the beginning of cold war the Russians knocked over 9 American fighters for 1 Soviet. The first space station was from the USSR. Who overthrew the Berlin Wall was the USSR (Mikhail Gorbachev). What overthrew the USSR was its own economy. The Karl Marx's s…

A Tory MP on the Radio 4 news this morning was fielding questions regarding the size of the UK workforce to fill jobs such as primary school teachers, nursing and care assistant places after Brexit. It is thought that we will loose thousands of 'unskilled' workers from our workforce. He wasn't worried at all when this was pointed out to him as he has a plan.... his plan? - His plan, the Tory plan, and I use plan in a very vague sense here, is to get the mentally ill off of benefits and back to work to cover the problem of loosing 10's of thousands of potential employees. Although individuals suitability to work will be tested (again presumably as they have already gone…

I saw this headline (North Korea Paradox) on the NYT this morning and was reminded of a cartoon about Iran's nuclear program that ran about 10yrs ago. The cartoon was a picture of Uncle Sam wearing a king's crown sitting on a throne made of missiles telling former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was on his knees before the throne, with Uncle Sam saying "don't make the same mistake I made". If not for the military capability North Korea has built up there is a chance the U.S. would have removed their leadership long ago. Yet, if not for the military build up the U.S. may not have paid North Korea any mind. The pardox is that the very activities which are dr…

Some of Trump's tweets are well... Would we really rather have a president that hides behind closed doors and speaks only via a speech writer or a very strategic press secretary?

Recent news reports tell us of decades of sexual abuse and harassment by Harvey Weinstein. I'm sure the abuse we have heard about is simply the tip of the iceberg. My guess is the list of abused aspiring actresses is much larger. The reports we have heard so far often refer to rumors of abuse swirling around Weinstein throughout his decades of abuse. In addition there are reports that the news media has spiked stories about this subject. What I find absent in all of this is stories questioning the ethics of actresses who remained silent about their abusive and criminal encounters with Harvey Weinstein. How culpable are these women for the abuse of women that followe…

http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/04/black-lives-matter-students-shut-down-th So liberalism is dead. Long live the brownshirts of Black Lives Matter. Who needs that old white man's document, The Constitution of the United States", anyway.

This is not really a question about nuclear arms and their ethics in general but just ICBM's and the risks associated with them as highlighted in the .article. Do you think Russia and the US could agree to this even though N. Korea is developing them as a possible complication? Are they necessary? I think they are militarily pointless really because everybody knows where they are. I'm talking about the ones that are in silos.

part of this, is a what did he know, when did he know it thing, and being such, I am sure he knew something at some point that he pretended he didn't know, but please remember that is like Hilary saying she had nothing to do with the Uranium One deal. It basically means she was either an inept Secretary of State, and didn't know the Russians were getting control of a Canadian country that had control of a fifth of our Uranium. Either way she is wrong. But she has not done anything illegal until she is caught in a lie, made to congress or the FB

One hundred years ago, on the night of the 7-8 November, Bolsheviks stormed the Tsar's winter palace, and began the Russian revolution, which established the world's first communal socialist regime. Thhe death toll, over the last century, that can be directly traced to this event, numbers close to 100 million. More than the two World Wars combined with other major conflicts and murders and genocides of the 20th century. Way more than the deaths attributed to Fascist regimes. A lot of these deaths occurred under Stalin, with his mass starvation of Ukrainians, purges and executions of ethnic minorities, pacts with Hitler, invasion of Eastern Block countries, etc. But m…

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/donna-brazile-dnc-book/index.html I find it interesting that Donna Brazile would burn Hillary down in such a way after admitting to giving Hillary primary debate questions before Hillary's match up with Bernie . Perhaps she didn't know just how deep the Hillary rot ran in the Democratic party when she gave Hillary the questions. Maybe we would have President Sanders now if Hillary had any ethics. Here's Politico's take. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774

So with the Harvey Weinstein and now other predatory Hollywood stories, I feel like a specific topic rises that has never really been addressed. Hollywood and progressives like to make sex out to be this spur of the moment, no big deal, if it feels good do it routine. This can very easily lead to transactional sex for roles in films etc. If someone objectifies against the person doing this, the person doing the calling out is called a holy roller or preacher and that they're slut-shaming the person involved in this "transaction", because after all, it's just sex, if it feels good, do it. But when allegations like HW's arises, all the sudden transactional se…

The thesis here is that there is and has been only one economic system throughout all of human history, namely: free trade and enterprise. Differences between the various implementations has involved such things as regulation and control of free trade (and the funding of government). Capitalism would be an advanced free trade technology, a collection of free trade strategies, and not a form of government. Communism fails because it would replace free trade with....nothing.

Since the recent poll shows that 46% of all voters believe the media makes-up stories about Trump. Here is where the nearly one half of all voters may post what recent stories about Trump are (sometimes) made-up. Let's hear all about it. The media should not be allowed to get away with "made-up" stories about Trump. Any made-up stories folks? I think these 46% are NOT usually thinking about any specific news story as made-up, but rather a general belief: "Yeah I guess some of the stories are made-up" but only because Trump or his supporters make claims of fake news. Just voicing it or writing it, is enough to sew the seeds of doubt in anyone's mind.

First off I will provide the rules for brothels as: 1. They require condoms. 2. They accept any customer. 3. They must prove they are free of STDs regularly. (monthly) 4. Each person has their own prices and list of what they are willing to do. In 2003 Rhode Island, accidentally decriminalized prostitution. The effects of this were “caused both forcible rape offenses and gonorrhea incidence to decline for the overall population. Our synthetic control model finds 824 fewer reported rape offenses (31 percent decrease) and 1,035 fewer cases of female gonorrhea (39 percent decrease) from 2004 to 2009” http://www.nber.org/papers/w20281 This breaks down int…

I was in a Danbury, CT (USA) hospital the day Adam Lanza murdered all those people, kids, adults at Sandy Elementary School, CT December 2012. We were in lock-down. That was a mass-shooting that was, subsequently, not categorized as terrorism. All I know is that, if the man, Stephen Paddock, left a "manifesto", note or some such to be read in the hotel room or wherever, then the authorities know what we have not yet been told. I want to know his "reasons". I demand it, as we all should.

UC Berkeley recently cancelled their Freedom of Speech week which has led to criticism from various groups with some insisting, Milo Yiannopoulos specifically, they will proceed as planned with their events on and or near campus. The decision to cancel by campus officials wasn't a frivolous one in my opinion. When conservative writer Ben Shapiro appeared on campus the school spent about $600,000 on security blowing through its annual “demonstration fund” of $250,000. I don't think UC Berkeley should be forced to financially subsidize new media figures self aggrandizing promotion events. Ben Shapiro has a radio show Milo Yiannopoulos is a published author both have platfor…

Is it not the role of government to provide such services? Why is the onus on employers in the US? I find this bizarre.

The question on October 1 was: "Do you want Catalonia to become an independent state in the form of a republic?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independence_referendum,_2017 The organization was highly disturbed as Spain's constitutional tribunal declared the referendum unconstitutional. Judges and the Madrid government ordered the police and guardia civil to prevent it take place. Much of the process was undercover and disrupted (some videos on bbc.co.uk). Consequently, the results are not verified independently, only announced by the separatist Catalan government: 5,313,564 registered voters 2,262,424 votes 2,196,709 valid votes 2,020,144 yes 17…

Why is the hearse horse hoarse ? Spoiler It's because of the coffin

This is going to be a fairly long post about what I believe is the solution to health care in America. I’m going to touch on the scientific reasons, the economic reasons, and also discuss the emotion impact. I’m going to try and give goals for each of my positions, as well as explanations on how this position is going to achieve that goal. As a for the record thing I’m not getting anyone to review this before posting it so it likely will have spelling and grammar errors, and may not be as organized as it should be, and while you are welcome to criticize those parts my hope is that you will look past them and discuss the various points and how valid you feel like they are.…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/10/02/las-vegas-shooting/722191001/ http://www.jiveinthe415.com/2012/12/is-sensible-discussion-of-gun-control.html The argument, "fuck off, I like guns" was never valid as a reason but as excuses go it's right up there with "my dog ate my homework"...

In your opinion, what is Americas biggest problem? I have been asking this question for a couple days. The answers are very diverse. I am curious on what everyone in this community may have to say. I realize the question is broad, but I appreciate any thoughts you may have to offer.