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February LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of February?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

9 23.08%

John Kelly

7 17.95%

Kellyanne Conway

1 2.56%

Rex Tillerson

3 7.69%

Jared Kushner

0 0%

Hope Hicks

4 10.26%

Gary Cohn

0 0%

Ryan Zinke

0 0%

Rod Rosenstein

13 33.33%

Write-in

2 5.13%

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02-23-2018 , 02:57 PM

#851

Max Cut

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Official GOP Missouri statement blames Soros for the ousting of their governor who was accused of blackmailing a woman with nude photos or some such thing.

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Trump considering letting Adelson pay for some of the US embassy being relocated to Jerusalem.

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I have a belly button!

02-23-2018 , 03:01 PM

#852

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul D

You made the claim the tests are easy to pass. That article didn't say that and cited the WADA. Your other claim about all athletes doing it is also dubious. The Russian doping has been state sponsored. I doubt athletes from all countries get that luxury and can afford the doping regimens themselves.

I recommend watching Icarus.

It's on Netflix

02-23-2018 , 05:02 PM

#853

Paul D

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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ingya-villages

Visual of the Rohingya ethnic cleansing.

02-23-2018 , 07:14 PM

#854

uDevil

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Don't give the teachers gun training, train the cops in math.

https://twitter.com/JohnAllenPaulos/...63995756089344

02-23-2018 , 08:23 PM

#855

amoeba

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I guess drawing guns will also open yourself up to police searches? Here's a hint, the people who actually bought guns probably has guns.

02-23-2018 , 08:27 PM

#856

ScreaminAsian

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i ain't never seen none of that math in the bible, better call the sheriff

02-23-2018 , 09:42 PM

#857

markksman

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WSJ paywall is ALIVE!

http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/02/aft...vidual-reader/

02-23-2018 , 09:58 PM

#858

markksman

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That was a good episode.

02-23-2018 , 11:05 PM

#859

ChrisV

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This bit holds the promise of a great episode to come:

Quote:

The ruling does give Murray and the other plaintiffs the opportunity to file an appeal within 30 days, but it also allows the defendants the ability to draft their own victory. Yes, Oliver, HBO and their attorneys will be writing the judge’s statement based on findings and facts that support the court’s rulings. This doesn’t happen often as the task is normally left up to the judge’s clerk.

02-23-2018 , 11:36 PM

#860

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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/sta...40209732702208

fixed

CPAC communication director Ian Walters said tonight at the Ronald Reagan dinner: “We elected Mike Steele as chairman because he was a black guy, that was the wrong thing to do. Because, well, he's black.”

Guests at tables apparently gasped in shock on learning that he's black.

02-24-2018 , 03:26 AM

#861

simplicitus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

I recommend watching Icarus.

It's on Netflix

Do not pretend to have an opinion on doping, particularly Russian doping, until you see Icarus. Also, it's nominated for an Oscar and well worth watching.

02-24-2018 , 01:37 PM

#862

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

At times, there's nothing more annoying than being the token American. Every time something stupid happens in America, people ask me about it. Needless to say, I have to explain a lot of **** to people.

I hate being put in a position where I have to explain the inexplicable. The people who ask me are students who are far younger and less aware of international affairs. The locals are pretty knowledgeable about this stuff sometimes moreso than the average American. It's the international students who are less aware and more curious. So I don't want to be rude. At the same time, adding some nuance instead of going "So, how about President Trump?" would be more pleasant.

02-24-2018 , 01:54 PM

#863

Loki

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study finds ecigs' vapor filled with fun stuff like lead from the coils

can't wait for all the ecig defenders to chime in with #NotAllCoils

02-24-2018 , 04:48 PM

#864

zikzak

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Well maybe you can start by linking to the story? Or we can just continue to roll with the nonstop onslaught of poorly sourced FUD against something that has helped millions of people permanently quit tobacco.

Since I don't have the article to read, let me take a wild guess: Poor quality control and questionable business practices from Chinese manufacturers has resulted in products being shipped that aren't as safe as they should be. From this we can conclude we should have common sense safety regulations which aren't really opposed by anybody who vapes we should cast any and all doubt on vaping with every piece of junk science and stupid anecdote possible, and we don't actually care about the achievable 10 fold reduction in health risks for addicts. Because being a dick is more fun than saving lives.

02-24-2018 , 04:58 PM

#865

Johnny Truant

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/heavy.c...lu-photos/amp/

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Dr. Timothy Jerrell Cunningham, 35, has been missing since Monday, February 12, and now his family is beside themselves with worry and grief. The bright and talented young man studied at Harvard and is a commander at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He left work feeling sick, and hasn’t been seen since. His family has said that certain communications they had with him before he disappeared left them worried.

02-24-2018 , 05:49 PM

#866

zikzak

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I read the e-cig study.

Sample size: 56
Results: Noisy AF
Potentially harmful metals detected: Slightly above EPA maximums
Pb levels compared to tobacco smoke: Lower

The horror!

02-24-2018 , 06:01 PM

#867

markksman

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https://mobile.twitter.com/AoDespair...79295328292869

02-24-2018 , 06:22 PM

#868

Max Cut

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lol You must have a limited vocabulary

02-24-2018 , 07:16 PM

#869

uDevil

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I was feeding chickens earlier when one flew up and bit my thumb. I'm a little conflicted by this gif, but still lol.

https://twitter.com/helenhousandi/st...73559527948288

02-24-2018 , 10:27 PM

#870

goofyballer

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The Atlantic: Ban the Olympics

I've watched and enjoyed the winter olympics a lot the past few weeks but at the same time I really can't argue with any of this:

Quote:

Nearly every time the Olympics come to a city, they remind us how little human life and dignity are worth compared to the hardware required to pull them off. In the run-up to the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, some 1.5 million Beijingers lost their homes, by one count. By then, one study estimated, some two million people had been forcibly moved in 20 years in order to make room for Olympic structures around the world. In Vancouver, the build-up to the Olympics led to a housing squeeze, which, in turn, caused homelessness to spike in the years leading up to the 2010 Winter Games there. On top of the construction deaths in the run-up to the Sochi Olympics, thousands were displaced as the city made room for stadiums and rinks that would be used a handful of times.

(not to mention Rio, in which the government spent tons of money it couldn't afford pretending like they'd ever see a social or financial return on it)

Quote:

The modern Olympics came out of a dove-tailing of two 19th-century fads: a fascination with all things ancient, and violent ethno-nationalism. It’s no surprise then that the Olympics became a forum for nationalism, a stage for countries to prove that they are the best in that most basic, animalistic way: physical strength. The infamous 1936 Olympics in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin—the Jesse Owens upset notwithstanding—were a way to legitimize his new, nationalist regime.

In the first years of the Cold War, Josef Stalin seized on the Olympics as a way to compete with the United States in yet another arena. “The Kremlin viewed athletics as a way of international recognition and legitimacy,” writes Erin Elizabeth Redihan in her book The Olympics and the Cold War, 1948–1968. “Stalin and his successors strove to create and maintain an all-encompassing national sports infrastructure that could compete with and hopefully eclipse the United States to meet two interrelated goals: to gain international acclaim and to win the Cold War on the playing field.”

And of course there's the Russian doping (and thus success) in the Sochi olympics that sent Putin's approval ratings sky-high and allowed him to start a nationalist quasi-war with Ukraine months later

Quote:

And what of the other side of the scale? What do the Olympics give us that you can’t glimpse at other championships and smaller-scale competitions? And can we really pretend that the chance to watch a sport few watch except at the Olympics—curling, weightlifting, the bobsled—is worth all the corruption, waste, and political ugliness? Do we really need our hockey games to be shadow wars? I don’t think we do.

02-24-2018 , 10:49 PM

#871

Trolly McTrollson

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Counterpoint: SHUSTAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

02-24-2018 , 11:02 PM

#872

grando1.0

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That gif is spectacular

02-24-2018 , 11:10 PM

#873

amoeba

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I would vote against any local politician that pushes forth an Olympics bid for a city. Colossal waste of money. Luckily, US governments still have a decent amount of fiscal oversight so that they likely aren't at risk of winning any bids in the near future.