How many terrorist attacks on the United States in the past 30 years were actually sponsored by Iran?

Digging into that a bit more:

Sure you do not need to speculate. You know but won't say that the timelines supports the store front windows being busted and bricks being thrown prior to tactics to disperse the crowd being employed.

I am not supporting the police arresting people who they did not see breaking the law. But you were complaining about the tactics being employed to disperse the crowd not the arrests. When you reach the point of property damage and assaulting police officers the crowd should be dispersed. Otherwise it continues to happen and your not able to arrest the perpetrators because of the crowd.

isnt it funny how all the best countries on this planet are located in scandi.

I was listening to an academic on this who had done research and just hearing something repeated even if it's being said it's not true, generally makes people more likely to believe it. I think the thesis was more that people are barely paying attention than just believing what they want. You hear "bowling green massacre" often enough and that's what you remember, not the varying discussion around it that you weren't paying close attention to.

It could be that the well thought out adjustment to make is what Trump has done. It's not the particular objectionable stories that get repeated, it's one simple phrase: "FAKE NEWS".

Agree completely

Birmingham Alabama issues resolution calling itself a Sanctuary City. It's impossible for Birmingham to be as much of a sanctuary city as some cities in California because of state laws like HB56, the Alabama anti-immigration law, but they're trying to make an effort. As big urban centers throughout the country make it known that they are open to immigration and even undocumented persons, will we see a big migration of immigrants to those so-called "sanctuary cities"?

http://www.wbrc.com/story/34390802/b...ity-resolution
The Governor, as you can imagine, was not pleased:
The Birmingham PD put out a statement as well with regards to the issue:

I'm not completely sold on this yet, but the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria might be up there. I'm trying to mention it as often as possible before we ignore it (or participate) when Turkey, Syria and Russia destroy it.

Without typing more right now I think hashtagging Bowling Green Massacre and making jokes isn't particularly effective. Hasgtagging Muslim Ban is effective because that's exactly what the Administration didn't want it to be perceived as to persuadable moderates.

not my words:

"State Department report finds Iran is top state sponsor of terror"

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/politi...ort-terrorism/

"On Iran, the report said that country "remained the foremost state sponsor of terrorism in 2015, providing a range of support, including financial, training, and equipment, to groups around the world.""

The sanctuary city stuff is so frustrating it's up there on the WAAF list. City cops don't want to enforce immigration laws. It makes their jobs harder and it makes the people less safe. And yet almost all the cops still support Trump and all the other Trumpers still want to defund sanctuary cities or firebomb them or something.

Obviously the left has different reasoning behind the policy, but the right so happily cuts off its nose to spite its face.

OTOH, preventing crime in the cities is just concern trolling and they want to beatify cops without really supporting them.

The pieces are coming together for a war in Iran.

lol

I still don't see how this is going to work. Who's going to invade? US soldiers who are currently in a 14 year war in Afghanistan and just getting out of Iraq? Who's going to lead the new government? Not the hardliners, and not the more liberal Iranians who might like Americans but are nationalists and would fight just as hard as the hardliners any invasion. You're going to either have a total war or an occupation, neither of which the US really has the chops for.

well thats sort of true in the sense that we establish hierarcies that tell us who is more respected and dominant than the next. that way we dont have to fight every day to determine who is higher ranked, we only need to fight it out once in a while when things are getting unclear. sounds like something that makes for a more productive living, yes.

None, right?

It goes back to Israel and Saudi Arabia. Iran supports Hezbollah and Hamas (Shia and Sunni).

"Terrorism" is way overused though and I wouldn't use the term at all, especially Hamas. A lot of this violence should be treated like other military conflict. Pretty much by definition, peace can never be made with terrorist groups, but it can be made with military opponents.

I hope not

The biggest terrorist threat to America right now is domestic white supremacist organizations and it's not even close.

Hezbollah and Hamas, neither are for peace.

very well said.
I thought exactly the same after watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqrahBJkKAs&t=1s
avout space exploration.
the girl used extrem sarcasm and this has to be one of the worst talks ever as she destroyed her own intention by using that sarcasm.
end result being tons of people turning of the video after 2mins and saying shes dumb and taking what she said at 1st level.
Then even stupider people coming in comment saying that sarcasm was obvious and video is adressed to intelligent people.

and here is the major flaw:
the people that got the sarcasm were already the convinced people.
only thing the fancy sarcasm did was to make the actual target(the average joe that you are trying to educate) flee and turn off the video.

thats the feeling of the people praising the sarcasm use,they are so smart they dont see they are the one missing the point.

tldr:you cannot assume you will be understood ,and looking how trump communicates like a 5 year old, opposition should adjust as I dont see anyone pro trump criticizing that language style,hence it works for them (keep the fancy stuff for your diaries)

As a Finn seeing that made me quite proud and happy. I often whine about my country being so boring and dull but I guess in the grand scheme of things boring is good. Idk if last year's statistics are in yet, but two years ago the entire Finnish police force fired 6 shots combined during the calendar year -- and five of those were warning shots. Our politics feel very non-serious too. Last time we came super close to electing this epic openly gay 60yo dude with a 25yo latin toyboy boyfriend for president (he seems like a great dude, I voted for him) and our politics mainly revolve around issues like whether stores should be allowed to sell liquor beyond 9PM.

Of course, we will probably be a part of Russia two years from now thanks to the orange führer, but for the time being I gotta say it's been a pleasure to live in a peaceful, boring country instead of a ****ed-up place like USA#1. If we somehow dodge WW3 I hereby promise to start appreciating my native country more.

Yes, this. IMO the bigger problem is Louis' point about differences in populations between the states or, more to the point, the fact that representation in the EC is horribly skewed.

Like, when Wyoming gets 1 EC vote for every 194K people living there while California gets 1 EC vote for every 705K people, you have a deeply flawed electoral system which conveniently no one on the right seems to want to change because of reasons which cannot be fathomed.

The Bowling Green thing is deadly serious, for sure. It's a good point that sarcasm doesn't translate well over text, but damn sometimes it's just so ridiculous the things they say that I find myself repeating them just out of the sheer absurdity of it all.

We only have about 12000 troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. There are probably 20k in the Gulf States. An invasion of Iran would use a lot of Saudi troops and they have 300k.

In a war Iran would be bombed for 3 weeks anyway, ground invasion or not.

The US doesn't have the chops for an occupation, but that hasn't stopped us in the past.

I don't believe this will happen though because of the threat of the people in the streets of America. The warhawks will look at the stability at home and see that war is untenable.

sigh


She flat out lied about it (there is no way to mistake what happened with a domestic massacre), but also restated the false equivalency about 'Obama's 6 month ban', AND she got in another shot at delegitimizing the media for not covering it.

Here's the key -- apologize for the "mistake" and call it day, leaving the other deceptions out there.