I prefered Bernie of all those running in 2016. That was until the video of him cucking to those BLM bitches.

@raphjd: Mentalism is the practice of using the way people naturally act and manipulation. Most magic requires manipulation.  Usually this comes in using distraction tactics. yes.. but as I will explain tomorrow.. this has nothing to do with magic.. but everything to do with manipulation.  I will add a little more information though.. In the real life situation I will refer to, it was not 99 out of 100 being eliminated (99%) but 1584 out of 1600 being eliminated (which is still 99%).  This will make more sense tomorrow…

@JohnAllenson: Under Canadian Law. 14 year olds are capable of consenting to having sex with older people - providing there is no relationship where the older person can exploit the younger one:  his teacher, his hockey coach, his boss, his doctor, his landlord (or the parents landlord.) If Kevin Spacey had asked Anthony Rapp to have sex it would have been legal under Canadian law.  They were acquaintances.  Grabbing someone, throwing them on a bed, then jumping on top of them without their prior knowledge AND consent is assault no matter what the age. Hearsay. It's possible Spacey did that but he doesn't remember it and was a drunkard at the time. Memory doesn't work like videotape. Our memories change over time. We add details, change perspectives, layer on feelings and meanings. This is one of the reasons I can not give credence to someone coming forward 30 years later to say X did Y, especially in a culture where we trust the victim first and try the alleged perpetrator without a trial. This way of conducting a trial creates a positive feedback loop for the purported victim that encourages abuse with no consequence. Here are the facts as we know them: Many people say Spacey is a dirty old man. There are plenty of images of Spacey dating younger men. One man said he picked him up and threw him on a bed and that was it. A woman came forward and said Spacey had a reputation. That's it. Unless you have a video of him doing something then he's just another person who likes people much younger than him who may or may not be lecherous. Neither is a crime. And if there were incontrovertible proof of Spacey picking up this young man there is still no crime, the statute of limitations has run out, so what is it people are expecting he do? If Spacey apologizes it should be to Rapp himself, as in, it should be a private affair. What people want is a public apology because the mob is angry and wants blood wherever it can get it. That mentality is wrong and we shouldn't encourage it.

I am somewhat awed by your answering my questions without the slightest trace of irony.  Thanks, and you tread carefully, now!

@cteavin: http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/31/media/russia-facebook-violence/index.html These types of articles are multiplying. The investigation seems to me, in part, about not accepting responsibility for 1) blindly believing, 2) not having critical thinking skills, 3) being unwilling to admit the US is not (insert superlative) enough to chose the best candidates, 4) losing. What I have yet to hear/read is someone saying something along the lines of  "I should have checked that story my friend forwarded me on FB", or "Dammit, I should have known better" or even "Trump voters need to learn how to fact-check". Instead, "Russia made them do it" is all we're hearing. No. People made a choice because they're irrational. They're irrational because we don't value education and expect good teachers to work at retail wages while cutting funding for education programs and focusing on tests rather than the practical. In short, the US is getting what it refuses to pay for: An uneducated public without critical thinking skills. Thoughts? It's strange that almost all the "fake news" was attacking Trump.. yet the left is complaining that "fake news" cost Hillary the election.  Just what fake news was posted about Hillary?  There is so much REAL shit that Hillary did that why would someone bother to make anything up?

Someone is devulging

Is anyone surprised?

Well, let's elaborate a bit on the picture, catalonya has always been autonomous to a degree, since this social rift has millenia, centuries and centuries, however during Franco depotism the region (state) suffered a lot of repression in terms of language etc… had to that mix a spanish central government which inherits Franco ideology and has not a solid standing (3 elections to form it and no majority), had to that silence from the government for several decades over this matter, had to that the fact catalonya is supporting almost solo the debt of more than half of spain... and finally sprinkle in top of the cake the fact rajoy is a fucking bastard that ordered police brutality on people voting... Yes it's secessionist all the countries divides are by norm inconstitucional, what is that point worth aniway in the matter? This either goes slowly and calm down noone does nothing, either goes smart and catalonya destroys it's economy and makes Spain go bankrupt forcing the EU to make it solve the issue or get expelled, either goes really bad and some groups start agitating things and they get civil war. Any of those things are not that far fetched seen the history of the place.

Because the truth of the matter is , he was already established in Russia .

Speaker of the house. And the president need to be in jail.

@Frederick: Manafort is accused of money laundering $18 million.  Just to make a point, let's assume that Manafort will be convicted of that… so what?  those crimes were committed BEFORE Manafort joined the Trump team!   Let me re-emphasize this.. the implication is that Trump's campaign was funded in part by the money laundering of Manafort... however, the charges against Manafort's money laundering specify a time period BEFORE Manafort was working on Trump's campaign.. Therefore.. it's impossible that whatever money was generated was done so for Trump's campaign. You are an avid reader of news articles, to your credit.  Surely you are aware of the copious reporting and analysis on the potential for a "Manafort Flip," where Mueller's investigation gathers evidence of his earlier wrongdoings as leverage to cut a deal for juicy testimony on all the (must we use "alleged", lol?) Russian collusion: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mueller-flipping-manafort-article-1.3598880 …and a great quote from https://abovethelaw.com/2017/10/this-31-page-manafort-indictment-feels-like-flip-bait/ "If somebody had told Paul Manafort, “You’re going to run the Trump campaign for a couple of months, get humiliated and replaced by Steve Bannon, then have your whole life picked through by a former director of the FBI while the president pretends to barely know who you are,” I’m sure he would have given the job a hard pass."   :cheesy2:

@Frederick: Manafort was Trump's campaign manager who resigned months before the election.  Trump barely knew the man. Um, Manny and Trump traveled in the same influence-peddling circles for decades, but of course, I'm sure this group never took the time to kick around ways to back-deal and grease the skids for each other. "Manafort and political strategist and informal Trump adviser Roger J. Stone Jr. co-founded the Washington, D.C.-lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly in the early 1980s." https://www.yahoo.com/news/brief-history-manaforts-relationship-trump-180905991.html @Frederick: By the way… the murder case I sometimes refer to involves a chief of staff.  For those who don't know, a "chief of staff" is someone who is empowered to perform the actions and speak for the person they are chief of staff for.   It's kind of like having a substitute teacher or guest host on Johnny Carson.  Anyway, in that murder case, a government official charged an (innocent) man with a crime that he was convicted for, and that charge resulted in the falsely accused man being sentenced to life in prison with NO chance of parole!   Now, here comes the crazy part.  The father of the murder victim THANKED the DEFENSE attorney after the conviction.  This is where it gets really crazy.. the best friend of the defense attorney was the chief of staff of that government official at the time of the murder!!  That has got to be the biggest, most outrageous conflict of interest in the history of the planet! Please tell me this is a Halloween prank of yours.  Boo, it's the International Murder Case – endlessly invoked, causing threads to be diverted, offering the same fragments of details that never coalesce into a proper account. It's a triple-decker "nothing burger," as far as the topics on this P&D board are concerned.  Should we get out a timer to see when this murky non-starter will raise its head again?

@flozen: Hard to believe such a bitchin' song only hit #28 on the BillBoard charts in 1986, lol… That song only hit #28?  WTF?  I checked.. and you are correct, but I also looked at what songs were #1 through #27.  In 1986, there were more great songs in one year than in the past 17 years or more (since 2000). On Facebook, I used to attach music video links to about 1/3 of my posts.

@raphjd: I'm a "gun nut" and belong to a shooting club here in the UK.    In the US I owned guns.   I fully support the 2nd Amendment. All that said, everyone knows (should know) that I'm pissed about the that the insanity loophole hasn't been fixed even after The Long Island Railroad shooting.    Colin Ferguson was legally declared a nutter in New York state, but he was able to go to Virgina to get his guns. During Clinton, we had some sensible gun control laws that got fucked up because they were too specific to certain guns, rather than the types of guns they were banning.    As an example, they banned the TEC-9 and for extremely good reasons.   The problem was, the maker stopped making the now banned TEC-9 and started making the TEC-10 which was perfectly legal, even though it was virtually identical.    Instead of banning ALL guns that could easily be converted into SMGs, they only banned a few specific guns and not the type of gun. No one has a legit reason to personally own an SMG (as well as many other types).    I'm in favor of well-regulated gun clubs owning them, or as in the UK, you can personally own a gun, but it must be kept at a gun club. Here's a few videos to wonder about… Apparently, this 9 year old girl's parents felt it was necessary for their lil sweetie to have an uzi to play with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNIiQ68QyqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAkdkLUEaKI Oh those crazy kooky KIDS! Halloween version…  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uNoO9xmFHw&feature=youtu.be&t=39

Let's not forget that Obama made it so we can't sue companies that conspire with the US government to do warrantless wiretaps on US citizens. As for this case, I hate it when the government makes it so people can't sue for wrongdoing. The same thing for software companies.    In most of the world, software/gaming companies are protected under the AS IS/No Guarantees rule.  In the UK, it would have to qualify under the wanton and egregious exception in order to be able to sue them. In the UK, doctors, clinics, and hospitals (all medical professionals and businesses) are also under the wanton and egregious exception.  You need 3 independent specialists to confirm that it was "wanton and egregious".  Obviously, that will be extremely rare because they don't want it done to them.    "Collusion" is the word that comes to mind.

I support free speech, but I also support the other "rights". I don't have a problem removing people from the immediate area to prevent the face to face harassment or blocking the entrances.  Across the street doesn't bother me.