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And I can tell you that we won't hear the end of it here in rance, with all the organiations about memories playing the centenary card for the whole war.

Still this pointless slaughter is a lesson of history to not forget. Including the lesson it gives about concluding a proper peace...

He's cutting Education funding anyway, right? So Carson won't be able to do anything.

hS, silver lining (which is probably toxic metals)

Trump looks like he's going to appoint Ben Carson as Secretary of Education. A Young Earth Creationist.

Hooray.

A poem-- in remembrance.

The third one, Moscow and its hinterlands, is the personal estates of the House of Putin, and is technically subject to the (no longer extant) government of the Russian Federation.

China, now... those tulou are brilliant. :D I'm doing that. And I think I'm going to give them Mongolian tech and make them a high-tech Socialist state, too, with assembly factories in each megatulou that make everything you could ever need. After all, monarchy--republic--communist--properly socialist is a reasonable trajectory.

It probably means they don't have a central government, which also means their borders are a bit... amorphous. And that some of them probably go bad. What was that ultra-crowded one-building city called? Somewhere in the far east, it's gone now.

hS

I try my best to stay away from biased news sources (biased either way), but after the Brexit referendum campaign, believe me when I say I know how much it sucks to be misled by the people who are supposed to be on your side. I don't honestly know that a single true thing was said by either campaign over Brexit.

Though partly that's because it was all 'predict what will happen if we leave the EU', which we still don't know for sure. Cases where the misleading is about what someone did or didn't do are much worse, because the evidence exists - which means sources which say something misleading either didn't research it (which is bad) or are just lying (which is really bad).

hS

(*is still technically a soldier*)
What's the price of a mile?

98 years ago, on this day, at this time, one of the stupidest and most pointless events in human history ended.

The First World War didn't need to happen. It wasn't a war against people who wanted to destroy a way of life - it was a fight between empires who had no obvious differences other than geography.

It plucked the flower of a generation from across Europe, and crushed it in the mud beneath the steel tripod of a machine gun, in an effort to achieve victory for victory's sake alone.

It was unutterably, unforgivably wasteful and stupid, and on this day I wear a poppy to say: I remember, and this must never happen again.

Here dead we lie
Because we did not choose
To live and shame the land
From which we sprung.

Life, to be sure,
Is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is,
And we were young.
-A. E. Houseman

hS

... the man who said she shouldn't be prosecuted is the same man who a) was a registered Republican for most of his life, and donated to the McCain and Romney campaigns, and b) was quite happy to open a second investigation after already stating they shouldn't prosecute, and have it run right up to the day before the election.

If James Comey was being bribed, threatened, or persuaded into getting Hillary Clinton off, then he did a spectacularly bad job.

hS

Leonard Cohen: Canadian singer dead aged 82 (BBC).

When there are grounds for prosecution, yet the relevant authorities decide not to prosecute — for example, because they estimate that the case cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Not every decision not to prosecute is corrupt.

"A woman who didn't do the things you think she did lost to a man who did do all the things you're pretending he didn't."

Let me make something absolutely clear, son. Trump is a vile disgrace, and I would argue that his VP, while outwardly sane, is worse; Pence's record as Governor of Indiana implies he has lifelong beliefs in the kind of deranged rhetoric Trump picked up for political expediency over the course of this divine punishment for mankind's hubris election campaign. They are both people who have espoused the most repugnant ideologies possible.

Republicans voted for that.

Couch it in whatever language you want, that maybe they weren't all bigots, that some, you assume, are good people. The fact remains that they had a choice between two people (well, two people and piddling your vote up the wall), one of whom was a centrist and one of whom was a fascist, and they picked the fascist. Regardless of the reasons, they looked at the vicious, hatemongering bigot and, clothespegs on their noses or not, put a cross against his name. A cross which some of his more vocal supporters now consider themselves free to set on fire on a black family's lawn.

There's a rule of thumb when it comes to victories, and it's this: look at who's celebrating. We'll exclude Donald from this, as it wouldn't be fair, but let's have a looksie at one of the people leading the parades. You may have heard of David Duke and his fellow pointy ghosts. He's all but dancing in the streets. Trump's campaign put the bubbling cesspool of white nationalism back in the mainstream and they're not going away any time soon.

Nigel Farage is celebrating; indeed, in a jubilant interview on Spanish radio he was joking about Trump sexually assaulting Theresa May (Britain's current Prime Minister, if you don't know) when first they meet. Nigel Farage is an isolationist garbage-spewer and his party, UKIP, is the socially acceptable face of the far-right in Britain. They are racists to a man. They were Brexit's chief cheerleaders and, to sell it to the populace, produced a poster of queueing brown people (the white faces in the original picture were, and I swear I'm not making this up, Photoshopped out) with the enormous caption "BREAKING POINT" accompanying it, echoing a piece of Nazi propaganda from the Thirties.

And finally, Trump's biggest fans are celebrating. And they're celebrating like this:-



And like this:-



And like this (found attached to someone's car in North Carolina):-



And like this:-



Do you understand now why your argument comes across as specious apologism for a truly indefensible man? Or are you okay with that, because you think you won't be affected by the madness about to befall the United States?

Because let me tell you something: I'm a trans woman. I'm three thousand miles away. And I'm terrified. Why the poxy hell aren't you?

We both know the answer. It's just not one you like.

...I can use xkcd, And RationalWiki. And other actual scientific bodies.

If you reject actual science in favour of YouTube conspiracy theorists, I see no reason to entertain any of your other views, regardless of their merit.

And of course an HTML fail rears its ugly head. There are two links: one to the NPV homepage, and one to a YoouTube video. The second link is at the words "this video".

[A] lot of Democrat supporters pretend that some of their positions are the only right ones when they aren't.

And on that, we agree: there is room for disagreement.

And actually, you and I agree more than you think. Even since childhood, I saw the ridiculousness of the Electoral College. The function for which it was designed (the people would choose worthy electors, who would use their independent judgment to choose a President) has never, if ever, come to pass, and most of the arguments for keeping it are BS. However, it doesn't take a Political Science major to see that there's no way that Congress will make any headway towards eliminating the Electoral College.

Fortunately, there's hope. A movement called National Popular Vote (NPV) is halfway to its goal of eliminating the Electoral College by basically exploiting a loophole, so to speak, in the Constitution. NPV seeks to have enough states pass legislation that would award their electors to the winner of the popular vote. Currently, 11 states, controlling 165 electoral votes total, are on board with this proposal. (It takes 270 to elect a President).


However, this is where I stop applauding our similarities. I do not believe that the example you give, climate change, is as clear-cut as you believe. It is incontrovertible that the climate has been warming over the past 200 years (by a total of about one degree Celsius, if I am not misled). However, it is not as clear-cut that DISASTER IS ON THE HORIZON! Check out this video by Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and an emeritus professor at MIT.

And inb4 "This channel is affiliated with conservative talking head Dennis Prager": Check the sources that Lindzen quotes. This isn't some political hack with an axe to grind.

Yes, it was Director Comey who first recommended that Clinton not be prosecuted. However, the final decision on whether to prosecute belongs to the Attorney General (who is the head of the Justice Department), not the head of the FBI.

So in my haste (the post was made at 11:16 PM New York time), I wrongly truncated the facts.

The point that I wanted to make was that even though there were possible grounds for a prosecution, it appeared that the fix was in to ensure that Clinton would get away scot-free.

Lapis' being momentarily upset was because Ami referred to Violet as "Vi", so Lapis thought that she was referring to Violet Parr, a canon character whom Sarah knew and ALSO addressed as "Vi". And given that Lapis is strongly against canon characters and agents knowing each other...

Looking again at the Wiki, Rose's rebellion was indeed 5,750 years ago. Both this and the latter error have now been rectified in the mission proper.

This has a demographic breakdown of the popular vote, at least. Not sure how it'd translate to electoral votes, but hey! 55% Clinton among millenials isn't bad.