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Apparently New York Times rustled Trump's jimmies with this. New England Patriots White House visit attendance when Obama was president and then Trump. lol.

your pony got hit by an Amtrack 20 miles back

04-20-2017 , 06:48 PM

#27077

dinopoker

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He seems to actively look for the best ways to be an embarrassment.

It's as though the public is a teenage girl and he's going out of his way to humiliate her in front of her friends for fun.

04-20-2017 , 07:02 PM

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Clovis8

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RV Life

Palin is hot; no shame in admitting it. It's why the GOP had her as VP candidate. This was her photo on the cover of Newsweek.

Stupidity is the least sexy trait possible.

04-20-2017 , 07:04 PM

#27079

master3004

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ligastar

your pony got intercepted

C'mon man, we're talking football here

04-20-2017 , 07:15 PM

#27080

RV Life

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Clovis8

Stupidity is the least sexy trait possible.

In a relationship? Sure.

If Palin was a 60 year old 250 lb woman, would she had been the VP nominee w/ McCain? I doubt it.

04-20-2017 , 07:17 PM

#27081

Clovis8

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RV Life

In a relationship? Sure.

If Palin was a 60 year old 250 lb woman, would she had been the VP nominee w/ McCain? I doubt it.

You are forgetting the right absolutely is orgasmically in love with stupidity. The dumber the better.

04-20-2017 , 07:18 PM

#27082

ScreaminAsian

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul D

Apparently New York Times rustled Trump's jimmies with this. New England Patriots White House visit attendance when Obama was president and then Trump. lol.

forget the attendance gap, compare the number of smiling faces

04-20-2017 , 07:50 PM

#27083

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https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/855156861380608000

04-20-2017 , 08:17 PM

#27084

True North

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Quote:

Originally Posted by wheatrich

Canada, what they've done to our dairy farm workers, it's a disgrace,' says Mr Trump.

Was wondering when he'd get around to insulting canada. He hadn't done that yet.

We all were hoping he forgot to start trade wars, but nope, he's back on that platform again.

Who wants prices of goods to skyrocket and salaries who aren't CEO's to go nowhere?

No worries, Trudeau just needs to be the last person to talk to him during trade negotiations and he'll be agreeing with us and saying he didn't realize it was that complicated in no time.

04-20-2017 , 08:29 PM

#27085

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Originally Posted by CalledDownLight

how is Australia only at 10% of 25-34 year olds? Would've guessed they were similar to the US, Canada, and the more educated European countries.

Yeah that is wildly wrong, a ton of people go to university here. You can see in the second table (here) that Australia is comparable to countries like the US and UK. Not sure what's up with that first table but the AUS data is junk.

04-20-2017 , 08:41 PM

#27086

OmgGlutten!

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So if Trumps policy on NK is that China is going to handle it and get a reward for doing so, does this create an opportunity for China and North Korea to create fake crisis that China solves?

04-20-2017 , 08:48 PM

#27087

wheatrich

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uh, that's what they're doing right now

04-20-2017 , 08:57 PM

#27088

ligastar

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THE EMPTINESS OF TRUMP’S “BUY AMERICAN” EXECUTIVE ORDER

http://www.newyorker.com/business/ad...xecutive-order

Quote:

When Donald Trump unveiled his latest executive order, titled “Buy American and Hire American,” he made only the barest effort to conceal the fact that the announcement was nearly entirely one of theatrics and not of substance. He held his talk in Kenosha, Wisconsin, at Snap-on Tools, a firm that buys Chinese and hires Chinese, Argentinian, Brazilian, and Swedish. Seventy per cent of Snap-on’s sales are in the U.S., but many of its plants are in other countries. There is nothing wrong with Snap-on putting its factories overseas, it just makes it an odd place to hold a Buy American announcement. It’s reminiscent of President Trump’s celebration of jobs at a Boeing plant while the company was laying off workers.

04-20-2017 , 08:59 PM

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Trump privately met with former Colombian presidents in Florida

Quote:

The White House initially declined to answer questions about the meeting, but later confirmed that Trump did meet with two former leaders, according to the report.

"They were there with a member from the club and briefly said hello when the president walked past them," spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. "There wasn't anything beyond a quick hello."

Following the meeting, however, Pastrana took to twitter to thank the U.S. president for the "cordial and very frank conversation" about issues in Colombia and the region.

Ha.

04-20-2017 , 09:09 PM

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hahahahahahahaahahhahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahhaha

04-20-2017 , 09:25 PM

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Here is the most updated data from the OECD website on percent of aged 25-64 population who have attained tertiary education by country (most of the countries' data pertains to 2015).

Country	Percent
Canada	55.2
Russia	54.3
Japan	49.5
Israel	48.8
Korea	45.5
United States	44.6
United Kingdom	43.5
Australia	42.9
Ireland	42.8
Finland	42.7
Norway	42.7
Switzerland	41.7
Luxembourg	39.8
Sweden	39.8
Iceland	38.8
Lithuania	38.7
Estonia	38.0
Denmark	37.1
Belgium	36.9
Netherlands	35.3
Spain	35.1
New Zealand	34.0
France	33.5
Latvia	31.6
Austria	30.6
Slovenia	30.2
Greece	29.1
Poland	27.7
Germany	27.6
Hungary	24.2
Costa Rica	23.1
Portugal	22.9
Saudi Arabia	22.7
Czech Republic	22.2
Colombia	21.6
Slovak Republic	21.1
Chile	21.1
Turkey	18.0
Italy	17.5
Mexico	16.3
South Africa	14.6
Brazil	14.3
China (People's Republic of)	9.7
Indonesia	8.3
India	(m)
Argentina	(m)

04-20-2017 , 09:28 PM

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Good job DHS, let's ship a kid off to a place he barely even remembers

Quote:

The Department of Homeland Security reversed itself Wednesday saying that a young man, identified by USA TODAY as the first DREAMer to be deported by the Trump administration, had valid protective status despite its earlier claim.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...tus/100647846/

04-20-2017 , 09:33 PM

#27093

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Quote:

Originally Posted by whosnext

Here is the most updated data from the OECD website on percent of aged 25-64 population who have attained tertiary education by country (most of the countries' data pertains to 2015).

Country	Percent
Canada	55.2
Russia	54.3
Japan	49.5
Israel	48.8
Korea	45.5
United States	44.6
United Kingdom	43.5
Australia	42.9
Ireland	42.8
Finland	42.7
Norway	42.7
Switzerland	41.7
Luxembourg	39.8
Sweden	39.8
Iceland	38.8
Lithuania	38.7
Estonia	38.0
Denmark	37.1
Belgium	36.9
Netherlands	35.3
Spain	35.1
New Zealand	34.0
France	33.5
Latvia	31.6
Austria	30.6
Slovenia	30.2
Greece	29.1
Poland	27.7
Germany	27.6
Hungary	24.2
Costa Rica	23.1
Portugal	22.9
Saudi Arabia	22.7
Czech Republic	22.2
Colombia	21.6
Slovak Republic	21.1
Chile	21.1
Turkey	18.0
Italy	17.5
Mexico	16.3
South Africa	14.6
Brazil	14.3
China (People's Republic of)	9.7
Indonesia	8.3
India	(m)
Argentina	(m)

i was looking too and found this on page 7 of this PDF

https://www.oecd.org/edu/Education-at-a-Glance-2014.pdf

04-20-2017 , 10:10 PM

#27094

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Liga, that last table is pretty worthless. "Upper secondary educstion" just translates to "high school" for the most part.

04-20-2017 , 10:20 PM

#27095

ligastar

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Quote:

Originally Posted by aoFrantic

Liga, that last table is pretty worthless. "Upper secondary educstion" just translates to "high school" for the most part.

yeah, not really worried about it. was doing a quick search and found it in a 500+ page PDF. then i saw that someone had already posted a graph on the subject and just threw my image into the post.

if you want to dig into the numbers, i included the link to the PDF.

earlier today was simply clearing up the fact that ymmv's 44th claim was 41 spots off.