All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!

[ZombieHavoc]

We're up to 5 dead now at the elementary, no children so far.

7 crime scenes and at least 6 children air-lifted already.

And here we are, arguing whether Sessions will takeover for Moore (he can't, that was debunked months ago).

How many dead children is it gonna take for people to do something?

Well, I just read it in an article WP posted today...so, my bad.

And I'm all for melting down all the guns, so I don't know.

[BeastieRunner]

Well, I just read it in an article WP posted today...so, my bad.

And I'm all for melting down all the guns, so I don't know.

Oh, I wasn't referencing posters ... I was looking at the media and it's virtually not there.

Another mass shooting, at a school no less, and crickets.

Just another day in America.

[Carabas]

How many dead children is it gonna take for people to do something?

It should be abundantly clear by now that triple digits per incident is not going to be enough.

[Kevinroc]

Senate GOP tax bill will include repeal of ObamaCare mandate

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3...macare-mandate

[Dalak]

Senate GOP tax bill will include repeal of ObamaCare mandate

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3...macare-mandate

Lets see if McCain comes out against this, since it certainly isn't being brought up in the way he said he could vote for it.

[The Question]

We're up to 5 dead now at the elementary, no children so far.

7 crime scenes and at least 6 children air-lifted already.

And here we are, arguing whether Sessions will takeover for Moore (he can't, that was debunked months ago).

How many dead children is it gonna take for people to do something?

People are doing something. They're getting smoked. The only thing that matters to the power structure is money. Profit from guns, profit from oil, profit from pharmaceuticals and health care. America is full of consumers that slave for a system designed to exploit them. The victims of mass shootings, the sacrificial lambs of a manufactured war on terrorism, the ever increasing opiate addiction of the populace are nothing more than collateral damage to the people who run the business of America.

[PaulBullion]

Louis Gomert had a chart:





Very disappointed that he missed the very important way Pizzagate and the death of Vince Foster is related to all this.

[Kevinroc]

Why does the chart list Obama on his own multiple times?

[The Question]

Fate of Empires

Glubb's summary at the end of the essay:
(a) We do not learn from history because our studies are brief and prejudiced.

(b) In a surprising manner, 250 years emerges as the average length of national greatness.

(c) This average has not varied for 3,000 years. Does it represent ten generations?

(d) The stages of the rise and fall of great nations seem to be:

The Age of Pioneers (outburst)
The Age of Conquests
The Age of Commerce
The Age of Affuence
The Age of Intellect
The Age of Decadence.

Decadence is marked by:

Defensiveness
Pessimism
Materialism
Frivolity
An infux of foreigners
The Welfare State
A weakening of religion.

(f) Decadence is due to:
Too long a period of wealth and power
Selfshness
Love of money
The loss of a sense of duty.

(g) The life histories of great states are amazingly similar, and are due to internal factors.

(h) Their falls are diverse, because they are largely the result of external causes.

(i) History should be taught as the history of the human race, though of course with emphasis on the history of the student’s own country.


AMERICA IS NOT IMMUNE.

[PaulBullion]

Why does the chart list Obama on his own multiple times?

The Obama State department is also on there twice.

Because Obama was actually twins, and he created two State Departments. He fooled us all.

[BeastieRunner]

Senate GOP tax bill will include repeal of ObamaCare mandate

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3...macare-mandate

Attempt #71!

Lets see if McCain comes out against this, since it certainly isn't being brought up in the way he said he could vote for it.

I think he's frying bigger fish right now since the Tax bill looks dead.

McCain threatens to block nominees over Army waiver report.

And what's he doing today?

I'm speaking on the Senate floor on my opposition to the nomination of Steven Bradbury to be General Counsel of DOT - watch: https://www.c-span.org/video/?437335-2/us-sen

People are doing something. They're getting smoked. The only thing that matters to the power structure is money. Profit from guns, profit from oil, profit from pharmaceuticals and health care. America is full of consumers that slave for a system designed to exploit them. The victims of mass shootings, the sacrificial lambs of a manufactured war on terrorism, the ever increasing opiate addiction of the populace are nothing more than collateral damage to the people who run the business of America.

That's not doing anything ... except accepting the outcome and dying.

[PaulBullion]

Why does the chart list Obama on his own multiple times?

Don't you think there should be a line between "Hillary Clinton Emails" and "Hillary Clinton Secret Server"?

Evidently, all E-Mails were hand processed by Loretta Lynch before being put on the server.

[Old Man Ollie 1962]

Fate of Empires

Glubb's summary at the end of the essay:
(a) We do not learn from history because our studies are brief and prejudiced.

(b) In a surprising manner, 250 years emerges as the average length of national greatness.

(c) This average has not varied for 3,000 years. Does it represent ten generations?

(d) The stages of the rise and fall of great nations seem to be:

The Age of Pioneers (outburst)
The Age of Conquests
The Age of Commerce
The Age of Affuence
The Age of Intellect
The Age of Decadence.

Decadence is marked by:

Defensiveness
Pessimism
Materialism
Frivolity
An infux of foreigners
The Welfare State
A weakening of religion.

(f) Decadence is due to:
Too long a period of wealth and power
Selfshness
Love of money
The loss of a sense of duty.

(g) The life histories of great states are amazingly similar, and are due to internal factors.

(h) Their falls are diverse, because they are largely the result of external causes.

(i) History should be taught as the history of the human race, though of course with emphasis on the history of the student’s own country.


AMERICA IS NOT IMMUNE.

Empires fall. That's a fact. When I consider how this one started, I shall shed no tears, sir. Let the chickens come home to roost.

[wjowski]

Fate of Empires

Glubb's summary at the end of the essay:
(a) We do not learn from history because our studies are brief and prejudiced.

(b) In a surprising manner, 250 years emerges as the average length of national greatness.

(c) This average has not varied for 3,000 years. Does it represent ten generations?

(d) The stages of the rise and fall of great nations seem to be:

The Age of Pioneers (outburst)
The Age of Conquests
The Age of Commerce
The Age of Affuence
The Age of Intellect
The Age of Decadence.

Decadence is marked by:

Defensiveness
Pessimism
Materialism
Frivolity
An infux of foreigners
The Welfare State
A weakening of religion.

(f) Decadence is due to:
Too long a period of wealth and power
Selfshness
Love of money
The loss of a sense of duty.

(g) The life histories of great states are amazingly similar, and are due to internal factors.

(h) Their falls are diverse, because they are largely the result of external causes.

(i) History should be taught as the history of the human race, though of course with emphasis on the history of the student’s own country.


AMERICA IS NOT IMMUNE.

What angry grandaddy's facebook feed did you swipe that pile of crap from?

[BeastieRunner]

What angry grandaddy's facebook feed did you swipe that pile of crap from?

Steve Bannon's.