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It's great that Trump argues the thing he's done for "the blacks" (and I'm assuming he's not talking about a white family in OH) is bring down black unemployment, when it's like 100% correlated with white unemployment.

From what I can tell more about 90%. Still, not something I'd thought about much, and it's always nice to learn something. An article I read noted that for some reason the correlation is actually a bit less strong under a dem presidency, for some reason.

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08-12-2018 , 05:58 PM

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ecriture d'adulte

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Originally Posted by FlyWf

I ****ing know, she misspoke in an effort to make the point I just explained! It was a gaffe, a stumble, a mistake. Not a betrayal of deep ignorance.

I literally explained the point she was trying to make lol and it was still too complicated for you.

Yes I know she’s supposed to just pivot to wage growth talking point when asked anything about the economy. She somehow tripped over a really really low hurdle.

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How far in econ did you get on the way to whatever bull**** quant degree your parents bought you? Introduction to Macro, maybe?

Just so your general potshots improve, ive never taken any college Econ or any quant classes ever. My only degrees are in pure math and I never did anything related to financial mathematics until I started working. Pretty standard for where I work.

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I'm smarter than your boss, *****.

My boss has a was on his country’s IMO team. Also wrote some pretty good papers on SU(5) GUTs before he left physics for finance if you wanna judge for yourself!

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08-13-2018 , 12:49 AM

#6153

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-o...laura-ingraham

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Ingraham tried to claim her anti-immigration rant had nothing to do with race, which, sure Jan. After all, it was endorsed by none other than former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, who called it “one of the most important (truthful) monologues in the history of the MSM.”

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“Wow. She just came right out and said it, in a scripted commentary, straight at the camera, knowing her mic was on,” offered a dumbfounded Oliver. “No ‘economic anxiety,’ no ‘some of them are good people,’ just ‘I don’t want people who don’t look like this here.’ You almost want to give her credit for honesty there, and then deduct twice as much credit because she’s just being honest about how racist she is.”

08-13-2018 , 01:00 AM

#6154

suzzer99

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This will be perfectly normal in a few months. Ingraham just nudged the Overton window.

I'm waiting for "Why is it wrong to be racist? [X minority] is proud of their race. Why can't I be? When did 'racist' become such bad word?" from semi-normal sources to know the snowball is really rolling downhill.

08-14-2018 , 04:12 PM

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The sign of a healthy, vibrant democracy: Drug companies are suing states (and mostly losing) to stop their drugs from being used in executions

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The latest of these legal fights has unfolded in Nebraska, where state officials have been preparing to execute Carey Dean Moore, 60, who was sentenced to death for killing two Omaha cabdrivers in 1979. Moore’s execution, scheduled for Tuesday morning, would be Nebraska’s first-ever lethal injection and the country’s first execution using the powerful opioid fentanyl.

The drug company Fresenius Kabi filed a federal lawsuit last week seeking to block Nebraska from using what the company says it believes are two of its drugs to execute Moore. The company said it took no position on the death penalty but “opposes the use of its products for this purpose and therefore does not sell certain drugs to correctional facilities.”

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A federal judge ruled against the drug company Friday, and a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit affirmed that ruling on Monday. A spokesman for the company said it will not seek further appeals, likely clearing the way for Nebraska to carry out the execution.

The execution happened this morning.

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The cases both have echoes of an effort last year by McKesson, the drug distributor, which went to court to stop Arkansas from using a drug the company said state officials had obtained under false pretenses. A state judge initially prohibited officials from using the drug, but Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge (R) successfully appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court to have that order stayed. The state went on to carry out four executions in eight days.

08-14-2018 , 06:53 PM

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Hey guys, checking in from REAL AMERICA on how they're doing with the whole tolerance thing

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“Heads up parents of 5th thru 7th grade girls,” the woman, Jamie Crenshaw, posted in Achille ISD Parents Group. “The transgender is already using the girls bathroom. We have been told how the school has gone above and beyond to make sure he has his own restroom yet he is still using the girls. REALLY . . . Looks like it’s gonna be a long year.

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The post has since been deleted, but the group reposted an image of it for the sake of transparency. Other images of comments, from adults outside of the district, also emerged on Facebook about the preteen girl. Some of them dehumanized her, calling her “this thing” and a “half baked maggot.”

“Why are parents letting their kids be transgender?” said one post. “Parents and Churches need to shut this down, the Bible says God created man, and woman . . . not any transgender bs,” said another. “Hell with new laws and new rules, this is what our future is if WE don’t stop it.”

Others made disturbing threats of violence:

“If he wants to be a female make him a female. A good sharp knife will do the job really quick.”

“Just tell the kids to kick a– in the bathroom and it won’t want to come back!!”

Oklahoma school district cancels classes Monday and Tuesday after transgender student receives threats

08-14-2018 , 07:03 PM

#6157

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In junior high I wanted to die if someone pointed out my high-water jeans (never to be worn again of course). Imagine what that poor kid is going through.

08-14-2018 , 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

In junior high I wanted to die if someone pointed out my high-water jeans (never to be worn again of course). Imagine what that poor kid is going through.

08-14-2018 , 09:14 PM

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Hey guys, checking in from REAL AMERICA on how they're doing with the whole tolerance thing

Oklahoma school district cancels classes Monday and Tuesday after transgender student receives threats

Monsters. Remember when we were kids and we thought adults were a thing?

08-15-2018 , 01:33 PM

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master3004

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These ****ing old white people

08-15-2018 , 02:40 PM

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vids not loading for me at work, Cliffs?

08-15-2018 , 04:02 PM

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08-15-2018 , 04:11 PM

#6163

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WWYD is the best kind of X-country safari

08-15-2018 , 07:20 PM

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Hey guys, checking in from REAL AMERICA on how they're doing with the whole tolerance thing

Oklahoma school district cancels classes Monday and Tuesday after transgender student receives threats

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Ohio is one of several states that requires a court order granting a legal name change before a school can adjust its records.

So on June 18, Elliott and his parents, Kylen and Stephanie Leigh, went to court to make his name change official, appearing in front of Judge Joseph Kirby at the Warren County Probate courthouse in Lebanon, Ohio. They expected the hearing to be a formality, but Kirby’s questions and commentary quickly turned to gendered toilets and Caitlyn Jenner, according to court transcripts.

Four days later, Kirby denied Elliott’s name change. In the three-page decision, he referred to Elliott as “she” and “her” because using his preferred pronouns made it “difficult to read,” Kirby wrote in a footnote.

The judge issued denials for two transgender 14-year-olds the same afternoon.

They sued:

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On Monday, Kirby issued a written response to the lawsuit, stating that he “holds no bias against those that are transgender” and that his two decades on the bench have taught him that “children do not always know what is best for them during childhood.”

Hmm, bold claim there! Meanwhile, it sure looks like this judge specifically seeks these cases out in order to shut them down:

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Kirby also said that “this Court” had granted multiple name changes for adults and children based on their transgender status. However, the Warren County chief bailiff told The Washington Post that the reference was not to Kirby’s individual caseload but to all judges in the courthouse.

Between January and May 2018, the Warren County Common Pleas Court reviewed 36 name change applications, 10 of them submitted by transgender adolescents and adults. Kirby was assigned all but one of the transgender name change cases — and none of the non-transgender applications — according to the court filing. Kirby denied all of the transgender name change requests except one that had been heard by a magistrate judge, according to court documents.

08-16-2018 , 10:43 AM

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We use this thread almost exclusively for the negativity of the Trump era, and while this story has nothing to do with Trump or his supporters per se, it does take place in Trump country (The vast red wasteland of northern California.) It gave me a bit of a nice pleasant feeling I don't get often enough these days.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oc...8ix?li=BBnb7Kz

08-16-2018 , 11:47 AM

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Damn it, Master. I almost don’t want to post this now, but meanwhile nearby:

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.sacbe...e216770160.htm

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The Sacramento City Unified School District is investigating two of its students for allegedly posting a video with racist slurs in it on Instagram, Superintendent Jorge Aguilar wrote in a statement Wednesday.

A blurry, nine-second screengrab of the video was shared Tuesday on Facebook by Black Lives Matter Sacramento, and shows a male and a female teen wearing blackface or black masks. In one scene, a male voice says “I don’t think this bird likes n------.” In the second scene, he says “Hi, n-----,” as a female laugh is heard.

08-16-2018 , 03:31 PM

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Infuriating

08-16-2018 , 03:37 PM

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I read a WaPo story on that earlier and I'm not entirely sure if that's fair. Here's the story:

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Book Christian Academy has been educating children in the Orlando suburbs since 1971, the school’s administrator Sue Book told The Washington Post.

And at no point in those 47 years has any boy been allowed to have long hair in class.

“I still have the same rules I always had,” Book said. “The girls wear skirts, the boys wear trousers, hair above their ears and off their collars.”

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Book said the family was given a copy of the parent handbook when they enrolled, which spells out as plain as day: “All boys hair must be a tapered cut, off the collar and ears. There are to be no dreads, Mohawks, designs, unnatural color, or unnatural designs.”

Stanley said he’d never seen the book before Monday, on what was supposed to be C.J.’s first day of first grade.

“Or else I’d have never put my son through this embarrassment,” he said.

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As it happens, Sue Book holds much the same philosophy. She said the vast majority of her students are black, but she never actually did the math before this week. “Even when the census people came from Atlanta,” she said. “I don’t care what color they are.”

I'm sure this psycho Christian lady sucks for plenty of other reasons, but this doesn't seem (I should note that this story does rely plenty on this woman's claims without particularly digging into them, re: whether all the other kids have short hair, whether the "vast majority" of other students are actually black) like a case of anti-black discrimination.

08-16-2018 , 03:49 PM

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They might wanna remove this (white) kid's picture from their Web site if that's the case

08-16-2018 , 03:50 PM

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Actually it looks like they did exactly that once the story went viral

08-16-2018 , 03:51 PM

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Also accetable

08-16-2018 , 03:51 PM

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Now that is an excellent rebuttal! Namath doing more work ITT than the ****ing Washington Post.

08-16-2018 , 04:16 PM

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I'm sort of curious how both parent and school managed to go through the process of enrolling the kid without the issue ever coming up. More so the school. Nobody reads those handbook things.

08-16-2018 , 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by All-In Flynn

I'm sort of curious how both parent and school managed to go through the process of enrolling the kid without the issue ever coming up. More so the school. Nobody reads those handbook things.

I'm pretty sure the idea is to sign 'em up, wait for the check to clear and then worry about the rules.