If anyone is going to make a political statement here, if you want to act like an adult, you are required to link to your source.  Your source must be a person or company in the news publishing business for at least 50 years. LOL, dictating terms. Anyway, you have to realize that mainstream media don't always report on events, especially if it makes their political side look bad. The Chicago kidnapping, for the first few hours, was only news on "alt-news" sites.  The local FOX station picked it up when the press conference was called.  It took 3 days before the mainstream media fully picked it up.  The liberal media hoped the story would die. Despite the kidnappers admitting they did it for hate reasons (which is why they were charged with several hate crimes, except anti white hate), the liberal media kept claiming that it was not a hate crime.

@bostonpolar: @Dene: As I said it was in response to your comment re: violence - you said a few men get hit and i said so that discounts women?? THAT was my point - I have said to you 100x - it was IN CONTEXT _As a gay man who was physically and emotionally abused by his male partner for many years, I want to say I wish when it comes to domestic violence that raphjd would just shut the fuck-up with his utterly willful-Ignorance and Stupidity on this subject. But he obviously lacks the empathy to do so. And NO, I will not discuss this further._ . . . How pathetic.  You flame me, then say you refuse to discuss the topic.  Technically, you are spamming based on your own words. Hmm, so you must be a woman then, because my "willful-ignorance" on the subject is that domestic violence is not a gendered issue.      Only ignorant anti male sexist ass clowns say it is.

@aadam101: This is America.  We don't follow what happens in the rest of the world.  I never heard of this. Middle Americans and those who purport isolationism are usually willfully unaware of the outside world. Foreigners often find it shocking how little Americans know about the outside world and the US itself. A foreigner is more likely to understand the US better than an American. This has gotten so bad that schools are now teaching students how to pass an immigration exam since immigrants understand The basics of US government better than US citizens. The whole THAAD thing is the Chinese trying to quell any possibility of deterrence to its claim to the waterways in the region. They see THAAD as a precursor to disrupting Chinese "Manifest Destiny". THAAD only shoots down medium range ballistic missiles and has become paramount with the increasing hostility of NK. You would think it would be an understood to place these kind of deterrents in place when your neighbor has lined your border with artillery. China will not directly stand against the US. The US and the Euro group are its primary trading partner and a weakening US economy weakens all other economies. Without those 2 groups China would fall into economic collapse. Obama devastated Russia economically with ease and with how unhinged Trump is, he could economically neuter China if they oppose him. They are trying to be careful but realize that The Euro group would have no  choice but to boycott China if Trump rails against them. With the rise of populism it isn't far fetched to think.

@mhorndisk: Wow that's ridiculous that you can associate Trump with Satan and Pedophilia because they are headlines. WOW. Wow I can't believe you are basically insinuating that Trump is somehow raping babies. Don't try to act like that's not what you're saying. You're absolutely ridiculous. Once again, the level of irony in your posts is through the roof, And the level of introspection is non-existent. Next, tell us all about how Hillary is running a child sex slave ring out of a pizza parlor. Amazing.

Marriage: A religious- or cultural-based union between two or more people for the purposes of creating a family unit. A government- or society-sanctioned union between two or more people for the purposes of creating a family unit, where various rights and benefits are bestowed upon the party that would not otherwise be available to single people. Gay marriage: Either of the above, where the parties involved are of the same gender. Although for the purposes of the securing of rights, the second definition is the only one that's applicable. Due to the way that most mainstream religions systematically persecute LGBT people, basing marriage on religion is fundamentally problematic for us, and since atheism and agnosticism is much stronger among LGBT people than among heteros, we're only concerned about 1) the rights that are conferred to married couples and 2) the societal validation of LGBT relationships, both of which are extremely important to our moving forward as a socially accepted group.

@strangeloop: Your degree in "debate judging" is absolutely irrelevant to the topic at hand.  You being a "debate judge" has less than zero bearing on your claim that Frederick's substitutes opinion for fact.  In fact, it makes your claim look weak as fuck, because it's a blatant and classic appeal to authority fallacy.  Surely as a "debate judge" you should know that. I haven't claimed to have a degree in anything. My degrees are not germane to the topic, so I haven't discussed them. The fallacy is "appeal to inappropriate authority, like quoting Carl Sagan in his discussions on theology, when he was an astrophysicist, or claiming to understand how debate works, when your degree is in statistics. Then you'd be a fool.  Anyone on the internet can claim to have a PhD.  I mean, I do, but you have no way of knowing that I'm telling the truth.  That is why credentials are completely irrelevant doubly so on the internet, even more than they already are in real life.  Accept an argument because it makes sense, not because someone claims to be an expert on it. I prefer to go by the maxim, "trust, but verify." And which of us are you calling the liar? Me, in which case you're committing an ad hominem fallacy, or yourself, in which case, there's no further value in discussing this with you. lol you must really be new to the internet. More ad hominem attacks? Nope, there is no further value in discussing anything with you, as all you're going to do is troll. Good day.

@hornyeboy: @beep: Face it, we thought 45 was crazy LONG before the 3rd debate. Well that's the understatement of the century. Most people have known he's an unhinged nutjob since the last millennia. It was further solidified after 9/11 when he gloated that he had the tallest tower in New York again. For every faus pax that Trump has made.. Hillary has made 100.

Old news… Clinton is a stupid cunt.

@Frederick: I meant to reply to brianbozo's comment, but he got so off-topic that I started a new topic to keep things clear. First of all, about General Flynn "resigning".  It is unclear whether he resigned or was fired.  If he had not resigned he would have been fired by Trump.  The reason was not that Flynn did anything wrong regarding Russia, but Flynn lied to vice-president Pence.  That is too much of a liability to worry about.  So.. it was "bye Felicia" for Flynn.    I'm not thrilled with Sessions nor Gorsuch either. Regarding Hillary Clinton as being a criminal.  Slippery Hillary is the most hated woman in the world.  Yes, there are a lot of people who love her, but she is without a doubt the most hated woman.  She's had a lifetime of corruption in which she has skillfully slipped through the cracks much like her husband "Slick Willie".    However, if I ever committed  a major crime, I would love to have Hillary as my lawyer because she is an expert at evading justice. "brianbozo"? Really.. c'mon - stop attacking the poster just because he isn't a carbon copy of you Also - you stated you want to stick to a topic then derail your own in to another tangent attacking Hillary - kinda defeats the purpose. "most hated woman" "A lot of people love her" - same could be said for many people - including Obama.. including Trump.. they are polarising people like so few, in recent time.. Also - it seems a bit weird to me - If the republicans actually had solid evidence on Hillary you think she'd actually be free ?

@Frederick: Trump's adversaries are happy to undermine and cripple the USA just so they can attack Trump lmao what? where? Imagine if the president was as conservative as Obama was liberal.  THAT would shake things up. Except for the fact that Obama was objectively, mathematically, demonstrably, one of the most moderate presidents we've ever had.

@wohdin: Friendly reminder that the Trump administration is going to do everything in their power to gerrymander the entire country into the ground in order to eliminate any sort of remaining shreds of that pesky "democracy" that the right so despises. That is sort of true… but not in the way you stated it. Historically, the democrats have gone to extreme lengths to justify absurd gerrymandering, usually by promoting minority groups. The corrupt gerrymandering is already in place. Trump will work to eliminate these bizarre gerrymandered districts - which is a form of "gerrymandering" itself.  How dare Trump make things fair!  Darn him anyway!    :cry2:

@rawr: Sorry. Just being honest. You can't lie under oath. This story is blowing up right now so I'll just link the original article. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-spoke-twice-with-russian-ambassador-during-trumps-presidential-campaign-justice-officials-say/2017/03/01/77205eda-feac-11e6-99b4-9e613afeb09f_story.html The context doesn't matter. If you lie under oath to congress, you should go to jail. That's also the law… That's where you go when you do that... I wonder where he will end up? This will be interesting to see how corrupt the US government has become... I'm not wild about Sessions nor Goruch, however, ever since Bill Clinton emphatically lied under oath, it is virtually impossible to prosecute any high ranking public official with perjury.  The conclusion of Watergate is that nobody, not even the president is above the law.  The conclusion of Bill Clinton's presidency is that the president (and other high ranking public officials such as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) ARE above the law.  Cest la vie!

Obama isn't your average liberal.  He's not one of the people with his face covered setting fire to a building while people are in to prevent "wrong speak". You still haven't explained why liberals love illegals, while ridiculing those who went the legal route.  We've seen that here.

@inkball: @raphjd: Liberals do themselves no favors by constant flaming of anyone who they deem "wrong think/speak".    They can't discuss whatever topic it is, they just do personal attacks.   If it's in person, then liberals get extremely violent. Raphjd, I never flamed or personally attacked anyone. Meanwhile, jojojojo3 calls me "shit" and "stupid butt slutt." This is a clear violation of your own rules against name calling. As hmmfer mentions, this entire thread was created to stigmatize and attack liberals. In the future, please use the REPORT button on the specific post so I can find it/them. I disagree about calling you "shit".  He was comparing you to Santorum, whom he said is shit.  He was saying you both are equally intolerant, just on opposite sides. I do agree with about "stupid butt slut".  That is uncalled for and he was given a warning for that. As for this thread, it may be about insulting liberals, but look how many we have that are nothing more than flaming non liberals.  We have one thread that says that anyone who is a conservative (more like anyone who isn't far left) is a racist because of guilt by association.

WOW, who would have thunk it.  A liberal with no argument, just personal attacks. You proved my point about liberals refusing to have any discussion.  THANK!!!! :cheers:

Also, face it: Hillary won the vote by a large margin. Trump won the Republican gerrymandering.

@aadam101: I assume she is coming forward with this information in the hopes that someone offers her a job.  I hope she gets one.  I don't think she did anything that bad.  It's not like she was trying to hurt black people.  She was helping them. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/26/rachel-dolezal-white-woman-who-identifies-as-black-now-jobless-may-soon-be-homeless.html A little racist humor.. don't hate me! Rachel Dolezal got the idea that to officially be black, she had to apply for food stamps.

I too put tape over my camera's, but not so much to avoid my government that has laws against such surveillance. I do it because the US only has few direct allies. Every other country in the world and hacker is vying to access out computers.

Leaked or not on purpose, Trump certainly didn't lose out from the overhyped 2005 returns…  unless some huge lies or something were exposed it's hard to say who dropped it in her mailbox lel