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Maybe that. Maybe I should be more generic and say there's a 0.00% chance this story played out like the CNN anchor lady said it did. Maybe guns, maybe random or paid sexytime gone bad, maybe drugs, who knows, but like "stopped at random motel, went to my car, got mugged, dragged back to my room, just so happens we're all armed and decide to shoot it out over the briefcase" isn't what happened.

She is 69 years old driving cross country. A drug deal where everybody comes armed seems pretty unlikely too.

07-02-2015 , 10:35 AM

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makes a lot more sense to feel bad for Sterling than Trump, I mean the stuff Sterling said was in (what he thought was) the privacy of his own home rather than, like, a public announcement

I thought he asked his mistress specifically to tape their calls

07-02-2015 , 10:38 AM

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Apropos of nothing and maybe better fit for the gun control thread, but for me this is much more a 'gullible media' story.

I mean...wat:

I mean uh, so, we're supposed to believe:

1. former CNN anchor and her hubby are just "exhausted" for some reason so they go to a motel, due to "exhaustion"
2. Random robber confronts lady with gun, brings her BACK to her room. Who the **** does that, dragging a lady around at gun point? Precisely no one.
3. Random robber randomly grabs a random briefcase. What is this, Let's Make a Deal? You can have our wallets, my jewelry, or you can trade it all in for the Mystery Briefcase?
4. With stolen thing in hand, robber THEN turns around and opens fire, because like most robbers, once you have your stolen goods, now you're going to shoot up the joint? Yeah, that's what most robbers do?
5. Turns out hubby and anchor are in fact heavily armed in their motel room. Curiously despite exhaustion, lady is retrieving stuff from the car, husband is showering, and you know despite all this tiredness they had the wherewithal to arm themselves in their motel room. Seems like a very exhausted couple here.
6. Gun fight erupts

Now of course this is a big victory for guns, and a tremendous FU to gun grabbers, look how this nice armed man shot up the mean motel robber. But whatever, I couldn't give two ****s about that debate.

My point here: There is a 0.00% chance CNN anchor and husband aren't involved in the drug trade. Anyone incredulously reporting this story as like some random acts of violence at a motel are insulting their audience.

Maybe it mostly went down like that, except dude just shot the robber in the back as he was leaving. And being connected, they were coached to say the robber shot first so as to remove any chance of a messy trial.

Aside, I used to have such a huge crush on Lynne Russell back in the day. Met her on the MARTA during the democratic convention in '88. She was even hotter in person.

07-02-2015 , 10:51 AM

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I mean, absent everything I'm super rooting for trump on the debate stage for maximum LOLS, and of course if he's on the stage someone less crazy isn't.

This. He needs to be encouraged at every turn. Kind of like riling up someone else's yippy dog is not only fun, but the right thing to do.

07-02-2015 , 10:55 AM

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Plus, the husband was just getting out of the shower, so, like, presumably he's naked. How did he get to his gun while an armed man was standing there? Did he have it on him to begin with? Who the hell is that paranoid that they carry their gun into the shower with them?

Um, what do you think your rectum is for?!?

07-02-2015 , 10:57 AM

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Suzzer the Lake of the Ozarks is flooding. They will probably make the entire lake a no wake zone. So many businesses rely on this weekend to stay afloat (cwidt?) they are pushing to wait as long as possible to announce.
Thought about posting pics but they would be the whitest of white people problems.

07-02-2015 , 11:31 AM

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A woman pledged to cancel a planned abortion if pro-life advocates can raise $1 million for her baby.

The unidentified woman launched a website where she detailed her plans to abort her 7-week pregnancy, and called on pro-life advocates to step in and donate.

“On July 7th I will start accepting donations on this page. I will accept donations for 72 hours, the same amount of time this state currently requires a woman to wait after a consultation with a doctor until she can have an abortion,” the 26-year-old wrote.

“If one million dollars is raised in those 72 hours then I'll have the baby, give it up for adoption and every cent of that one million dollars will be put in a trust fund for the child, which he or she will have access to when they turn 21.”

http://www.prolifeantiwoman.com/

07-02-2015 , 12:40 PM

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France has suspended two soldiers accused of sexually abusing two children in Burkina Faso. The soldiers reportedly filmed themselves abusing one of the victims, a five-year-old girl. The suspension of the French soldiers comes weeks after it emerged the U.N. failed to investigate allegations of sexual exploitation of children by French troops in the Central African Republic. Even after the exploitation was brought to the attention of senior U.N. officials, the U.N. never reported it to French authorities — nor did it do anything to immediately stop the abuse. A forthcoming report by the U.N.’s Office of Internal Oversight Services says peacekeepers frequently engage in "transactional sex," forcing impoverished citizens to perform sexual acts in exchange for food and medication.

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The incident apparently came to light after her father discovered the footage.

Source. Rape/molest children, put it on film, and just get suspended instead of going to jail. Am I missing something? Amy's guest said sexual abuse by peacekeepers is rampant due to the fact the investigations aren't in the hands of the local authorities (but instead the UN itself, who apparently prefers to sweep child molestation under the rug).

07-02-2015 , 12:42 PM

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http://www.vox.com/2015/7/1/8877903/...rimination-law

what I hear in my head:

07-02-2015 , 01:02 PM

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http://www.opposingviews.com/i/socie...aised-her-baby

In this country we don't negotiate with terrists.

07-02-2015 , 01:22 PM

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In this country we don't negotiate with terrists.

A baby's life is on the line.

07-02-2015 , 01:35 PM

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Would be the ultimate troll by the Kochs to drop a milly on this and then make sure her kid knows the whole deal when xe's older.

07-02-2015 , 03:19 PM

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Would be the ultimate troll by the Kochs to drop a milly on this and then make sure her kid knows the whole deal when xe's older.

Koch bros will be in cryogenic freezer at that point.

07-03-2015 , 12:53 AM

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But here, I think, is what is surprising about Clarence Thomas. First, he’s a Supreme Court justice who has managed in his jurisprudence to incorporate rather than repudiate some of his early commitments to Black Nationalism and Black Power; I think it’s fair to say no other Supreme Court justice has ever done that.

And, second, Thomas is a constitutional originalist, and a rather radical one at that. Unlike any other justice — not Scalia, not Roberts, not Alito — Thomas wants to restore the Constitution to the meaning it had in 1789.

How Thomas has been able to marry an incredibly bleak vision of the black past, a vision rooted in black nationalism, to a document that is not only the fountainhead of that past but is also, on his account, the source of an alternative black future — not, as Thurgood Marshall and other liberal constitutionalists would have it, because it is a “living Constitution,” but precisely because it is dead — that is the basic puzzle of Clarence Thomas and what makes him, I think, more interesting than many of us realized.

07-03-2015 , 09:47 AM

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Why being wrong is just as important as being right

07-03-2015 , 10:17 AM

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I have a question. Other than bad press, what are the consequences of American businesses using foreign vendors who practice unethical business? I'm thinking of sweat shops and or child labor conditions in 3rd world countries where Nikes get made or w/e. I understand the jurisdiction concerns, but I'd there more that can be done? If so, what are some options?

07-03-2015 , 11:15 AM

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So I'm applying for jobs outside the union world and it seems a bit odd. For instance, one job I'm applying for hasn't actually contacted me in person but over the last 2 weeks they've sent me a job questionnaire (name a time you did something great, best accomplishment, how would you handle xyz type stuff) and just yesterday they sent me a link to a background check to be completed by '7/5/2015 at 1:22pm'.

07-03-2015 , 01:34 PM

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Welcome to the world of the mysterious job seeking process that used to be talking to a guy for five minutes and getting some polite "call me back" or "you're hired."

07-03-2015 , 03:09 PM

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Basically none.

07-03-2015 , 03:15 PM

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Real Sports did a heartbreaking segment on kids in India who spend all day sewing soccer balls. One of the kids dream was to own a soccer ball some day.

After some big scandal the major manufacturers came up with some kind of oversight process to certify the balls "child labor free". But of course having no incentive to really maintain it - the child labor started creeping back in. But the stamps stayed on the balls, so Americans didn't have to feel guilty.

07-03-2015 , 03:19 PM

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There's gotta be something that can be done. We hold Americans accountable for taking advantage of ridiculous age of consent laws abroad, could we not hold American businesses accountable for utilizing (for example) underaged employees anroad?

07-03-2015 , 03:32 PM

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Sure if anyone gave a ****. And no US company is directly hiring child labor. Nor I would imagine are their direct subcontractors. It's probably like 5 contractors down the chain.

Frontline did a thing on cel tower crews - who work under incredibly aggressive deadlines and are tempted to cut safety corners all the time - with predictably deadly results. The guys that actually do the work are like 5 contractors removed from the big cel companies. So it's almost impossible to sue say AT&T - even though it's their pressure and deliberate lack of oversight that ultimately leads to all the corner cutting. The tiny company that actually does the work just dissolves and goes bankrupt if something bad happens.

07-03-2015 , 03:33 PM

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We could, but we won't. The moral outrage over child labor is small and shallow. You're going to need one hell of a marketing campaign to make enough people care.