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03-29-2017 , 05:32 PM

#22801

dinopoker

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TrollyWantACracker

No way they are banning piss.

ICWUDT

03-29-2017 , 05:55 PM

#22802

stinkubus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

It's 2017 no American citizen should have to deal with this just to feed their children:

It's no wonder we killed all the Buffalo. Every kid in America who played that game did the same thing.

03-29-2017 , 06:13 PM

#22803

kerowo

lolcat

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 37,183

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

I watch a lot of Alaska shows - people definitely rely on hunting up there.

Why do I have to pay for people to go hunting in Alaska?

03-29-2017 , 06:17 PM

#22804

iron81

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Originally Posted by th14

just part of Trump's secret plan to defeat ISIS, nothing to see here

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/statu...05025973219330

I guess we deserve that.

03-29-2017 , 06:28 PM

#22805

microbet

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Russia supporting the Taliban does seem a bit bizarre. What's their interest in that? Sewing discord to prevent American drilling for natural gas and Chinese pipelines? Russian mafia heroin trafficing?

03-29-2017 , 06:31 PM

#22806

Nicholasp27

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Seems like Democrats need to counter by hiring 26 year olds out of law school

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...geships-236626

The right is just so much better at playing the game than the left

Partly (mostly?) because they care more about winning the game than how they affect people, nature, etc

03-29-2017 , 06:40 PM

#22807

markksman

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Originally Posted by microbet

Putin hates terrorists just like everyone else. No way he supports the taliban UNLESS the taliban are not terrorists!

03-29-2017 , 06:51 PM

#22808

markksman

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Has to be fake news

03-29-2017 , 06:52 PM

#22809

microbet

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I think it's the Taliban supplying heroin to the Russian mafia, the Russian mafia selling it and giving money to the Russian government and the Russian government providing arms to the Taliban.

I'm not ruling out Chinese natural gas pipelines being involved somehow though.

03-29-2017 , 06:54 PM

#22810

Rex Ingram

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

What's bad for US is good for Russia.

03-29-2017 , 06:54 PM

#22811

microbet

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Trump's economy wrecking could cut the production of greenhouse gases.

03-29-2017 , 07:01 PM

#22812

microbet

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Originally Posted by Rex Ingram

What's bad for US is good for Russia.

How is it bad for the US in any way that Russia would care about? You think Russia cares if 14 American soldiers are killed there last year? They are going to break our economy by spending money in Afghanistan?* Continued conflict in Afghanistan keeps American troops there and that's not really where Russia wants them in the contest for global influence. Otoh, it may keep the US from effectively extracting resources (natural gas) from Afghanistan in markets that compete directly with Russia.

*We've spent a lot. More than The Marshall Plan. That goes with some caveats, but it's still a lot. http://www.politifact.com/punditfact...post-wwii-eur/

03-29-2017 , 07:07 PM

#22813

ScreaminAsian

For President

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03-29-2017 , 07:17 PM

#22814

superleeds

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

I've seen a few Alaska shows and the residents all seem like drunk, gun-toting dickheads who cash in gov't checks and pretend to be rugged frontiersmen.

Yeah these are the only ones I've seen too

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03-29-2017 , 07:18 PM

#22815

JonnyA

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Originally Posted by microbet

If Afghanistan goes bad enough, Trump might be dumb enough to send lots of US troops back there (he's got to be itching for a war to boost his public support). That would cripple US pretty badly, and also divert Trump attention from Russia's real aims.

03-29-2017 , 07:21 PM

#22816

markksman

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https://mobile.twitter.com/USATODAY/...26897196908546

03-29-2017 , 07:21 PM

#22817

zikzak

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Originally Posted by microbet

Of course Lake Tahoe is awesome. Did anyone say it wasn't?

Meh, it's OK I suppose.

03-29-2017 , 07:46 PM

#22818

watevs

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http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-director...lection-576417

Obama officials blocked Comey from writing an op-ed saying that Russia was tampering

03-29-2017 , 07:48 PM

#22819

Rex Ingram

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

If the Taliban grows stronger, more US soldiers will die and US will drain more resources there. Instability and growth of radicals in Afghanistan and the middle east is helpful to Russia. And will help it to project military power in other nations

03-29-2017 , 07:55 PM

#22820

Rex Ingram

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Quote:

Originally Posted by watevs

http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-director...lection-576417

Obama officials blocked Comey from writing an op-ed saying that Russia was tampering

That's ****ing insane

03-29-2017 , 08:02 PM

#22821

microbet

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I don't think Russia cares a bit about hurting the US per se. If it's not making some Russian money, it doesn't matter. I think the same is largely true the other way around though a little less so.

03-29-2017 , 08:08 PM

#22822

master3004

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Quote:

Originally Posted by watevs

http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-director...lection-576417

Obama officials blocked Comey from writing an op-ed saying that Russia was tampering

That administration will look back some day and realize they ****ed up big time with the "must appear fair at all costs" look they took on during the campaign. Like everyone has said, the Dems are **** at playing in the mud

03-29-2017 , 08:09 PM

#22823

Huehuecoyotl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by watevs

http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-director...lection-576417

Obama officials blocked Comey from writing an op-ed saying that Russia was tampering

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03-29-2017 , 08:10 PM

#22824

AllTheCheese

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Sigh. You might have thought Nikki Haley was a "reasonable choice" for UN ambassador, but nah, she's out of the fever swamps like the rest of them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/w...l-corrupt.html

Quote:

She cited what she called a “ridiculously biased report attacking Israel,” and criticized the Security Council for holding monthly meetings about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (The council also discusses Yemen every month and Syria three times a month.)

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Perhaps the most uncomfortable moment of Ms. Haley’s speech on Wednesday came when she tried to defend Mr. Trump’s travel ban. She insisted that it was not meant to exclude Muslims, but to strengthen vetting procedures for asylum seekers. At one point, she cited this month’s London terrorist attack as a justification for the travel ban. The audience murmured audibly; the London assailant was a native-born Briton.

03-29-2017 , 08:18 PM

#22825

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EPA director Scott Pruitt signed an order denying the agency's own proposal to ban chlorpyrifos, according to a Wednesday afternoon press release. "We need to provide regulatory certainty to the thousands of American farms that rely on chlorpyrifos, while still protecting human health and the environment,” Pruitt said in written statement. “By reversing the previous Administration’s steps to ban one of the most widely used pesticides in the world, we are returning to using sound science in decision-making – rather than predetermined results.”

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Major studies from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the University of California-Davis, and Columbia University have found strong evidence that low doses of chlorpyrifos inhibits kids' brain development, including when exposure occurs in the womb, with effects ranging from lower IQ to higher rates of autism. Several studies—examples here,here, and here—have found it in the urine of kids who live near treated fields. In 2000, the EPA banned most home uses of the chemical, citing risks to children.

Stephanie Engel, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina and a co-author of the Mount Sinai paper, says the evidence that chlorpyrifos exposure causes harm is "compelling"—and is "much stronger" even than the case against BPA (bisphenol A), the controversial plastic additive. She says babies and fetuses are particularly susceptible to damage from chlorpyrifos because they metabolize toxic chemicals more slowly than adults do. And "many adults" are susceptible, too, because they lack a gene that allows for metabolizing the chemical efficiently, Engel adds.

Quote:

In an analysis of the risks posed by chlorpyrifos released in November 2016, the EPA crunched data on residues found in food and compared them to the levels at which the chemical can harm the most vulnerable populations: kids and women of child-bearing age. The results (found on page 23 of the EPA doc) are startling.

It ranges from 6000% higher for adults to 14000% for infants

http://m.motherjones.com/environment...ging-pesticide

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