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Ha, you need to get up to speed on this. The judge is completely on the prosecution’s side so far. She’s already had one of her rulings overruled unanimously by an appeals court before the trial has even started.

The basic answer is that they were forbidden to use scientific methods, particularly autopsies, to develop theories as to how the human body was built and how it worked. So their level of “science” for many hundreds of years was more or less witchcraft, which resulted in the mumbo-jumbo of “balance” and “energy flow” and “forces” (not the measurable F=mA forces) and so on.

Along this path they invented what is derisively called “magical thinking”, the idea that however a thing looks or acts, that’s what it’s made of, and those properties transfer directly upon consumption. That’s how we get silliness like rhino horns for you-know-what, eating the heart of a lion for bravery and strength, ginger root that’s shaped like a person being extra special, etc.

I don’t know if that explains bear claws, but that’s my answer to your question.

in order to GIVE whitey

Many here have been saying much the same thing for quite some time as the George Zimmerman Show Trial has unfolded: one of the goals of the prosecution is to discredit Florida’s Stand Your Ground law in order to whitey less of a chance to shoot black career criminals and “get away with it”.

In all seriousness, my back of the envelope calculations say that I could get at least that many number of “viewers” standing on an overpass of one of the 4-lane highways in Silicon Valley during one of the commute hours.

I think it’s quite likely as well that I could make a sign that, glanced at for even a second or two at 65 MPH, would be more memorable and informative than whatever half-baked propaganda was being drooled onto the MSNBC microphone.

Colorado is sliding back to Mexico too. I landed in Denver for the first time a few years ago, asked the taxi driver what the good local food was, and he told me he knew a good taco place. That doesn’t mean that it’s so infested that tacos are in fact the good local food, it means that the illegals there are right off the boat and refuse to assimilate, as usual. Also, any place where illegals are selling tamales out of a cooler from the back of a truck in a supermarket parking lot is about as infested as it gets.

Well all right, I’ll read a little more since you went to the trouble.

- “America’s failed immigration system” should be “America’s failure to enforce immigration laws”
- “the status quo makes a mockery of the rule of law”, yep you’re GD right it does. The solution is to enforce the existing laws. (I am already beginning to suspect that most of his “problems” will be similarly solvable.)
- “the idea that illegals that become citizens will by themselves tip the political balance of the country toward Democrats” is but one of many problems. Doubling or tripling unemployment and welfare payouts is easily provable.
- the “short leap” based on a false premise

Ok I’ve had enough.

The first sentence is all I need to know. “Immigrants” instead of “illegal immigrants” is the oldest and most used lie in the discussion.

Hey what do you know, a huge deliberate lie by the author:

“In a live chat with The Guardian on Monday, Snowden suggested that he believed all government spying was wrong.”

I suppose you could twist it that way if you deliberately start quoting immediately after this part:

“I did not reveal any US operations against legitimate military targets. I pointed out where the NSA has hacked civilian infrastructure such as universities, hospitals, and private businesses because it is dangerous. These nakedly, aggressively criminal acts are wrong no matter the target.”

Indeed. It’s obvious that this story was written before the chat and not changed afterward. Snowden addressed the $200K salary issue, “why HK and China?”, and “are you a spy?”, which have been what a lot of people have been hanging their hats on.

Yah but voting smart has been hurting just as much, and for far longer. :-(

just posted (not by me) on a site where they’re bearish on everything all the time:

“Finally, the three charts below show Gold, GDX and GDXJ. Ain’t nobody happy (expect the bears) on these charts. The miners, including the juniors, are showing signs of pausing their decline and they are certainly close to the short stop line. But there are no buy signals in gold or the miners. Yet anyway.”

http://slopeofhope.com/2013/06/weekly-charts-greece-was-the-word.html

Looks like the HFT’s “start swinging wildly just before the 2:15 announcement” algorithm is off by a day or two.

“No way in hell”

I look forward to the transparent lies he will ultimately use to explain how that left plenty of room.

I’d bet big money that it’s another schizophrenic off his medications.

Give it a minute — it’s animated over a couple of months.

She must be doing pretty good to think that it's limited to "low-wage hourly workers". $5300 per year averages out to $441 per month. Even someone grossing $100,000 per year would blanch at a car payment coming out of nowhere.

For a "low-wage hourly worker", that $441 per month isn't "a real burden", it's an easily provable impossibility.

Many have made that the foundation of their opinion — “he lied about his salary, which means we can’t trust him on anything!” That’s going to undercut that foundation pretty completely; the rebuttal that Greenwald couldn’t have made a mistake is far less likely.

Richard Nixon's head: "I happen to know a place where the Constitution doesn't mean squat!"

Students Suspended Over Using Nerf Gun Brought to School for Lesson on Probability (June 7, 2013)

http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/07/students-suspended-over-using-nerf-gun-b

Nerf toy causes lockdown at Long Island school

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/20590152/elmont-high-school-under-lock-down

The same lie that Pew used — “foreign countries”.

“Hello Edward, what color is the building you’re in? What kind of view do you have from your window?”

Careful — that’s not relative to the NY close, which was about 1626. It opened at 1618 on NY Globex at 6 PM last night.

There were meetings in both Pittsbugh and London in 2009, and brietbart.com thought saying “G20” was good enough.

I learned all I needed to know about GOP House Leadership when they wailed to the heavens about the “grave consequences” of the FBI searching Representative William Jefferson’s office for what turned out to be proof of his bribery.

Oops, these would be London G20 meetings, not Pittsburgh. A rare instance of black-letter journalistic malpractice over at The Blaze.

It looks to me that this would be another case of not using the system as advertised. The 2009 G20 Meeting was in Pittsburgh. It looks like either Obama/NSA was pretending that they think that the leaders of the top 20 economic powers of the world are terrorists or that they were communicating to terrorists, or it’s another simple case of Big Brother.

Oops, there’s John Candy. He would have been great in “A Confederacy of Dunces”, which was being made when he died.

Only a passing mention of SCTV and no mention of anybody from the show at all. A number of great people came out of that show as well; some of Rick Moranis’s stuff is still hilarious, and the “Count Floyd” stuff still holds up too.

Maybe it was bad timing, but now it’s out there. I just bought a copy; I hope it helps in whatever little bit it can with the defense.

Don’t forget there should be some men, D’Glester Hardunkichud for example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODZzSOelss

Iran “negotiates” the same way. Slow-walk the other side the whole time, then hand over one little sheet of paper or make some lie-filled speech to show “good faith”, repeat.

Beg pardon, that was “Dinner: Impossible”, the one where the guy has to cook for two hundred people on short notice, or he’s in the desert, etc., not “Kitchen Impossible” on HGTV where a different guy remodels your kitchen. Not to be confused with his new show “Restaurant: Impossible” where he goes around to bad restaurants and yells at everybody who works there.

Turns out he made up a lot of stuff about his history and got fired BTW:

“Robert Irvine had recently admitted that he lied about being Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. He also claimed that he was discovered by Prince Charles, while Irvine was a chef on a Royal Navy Vessel. Irvine said that he had worked as a traveling chef for Prince Charles and Princess Diana, he also said he had worked for several presidents including Clinton, Bush, and Regan. It has been found that many of these things were lies or exaggerated.”

http://voices.yahoo.com/food-network-host-robert-irvine-let-go-1264857.html?cat=4

The Kitchen Impossible guy stiffed employees at least one of his restaurants the same way a couple of years ago. Maybe they’re spreading themselves a little thin, maybe they are the “my way or the highway” in every respect of their lives.

Nobody would be able to get themselves up to 900-plus pounds without help from somebody with this kind of pathology.

Second thread today on people minding their own business and having their accounts emptied by mistake. I think there are an even dozen ways that official directives or “mistakes” can empty your account, in addition to honest private-sector thievery.

Mambo dogface to the banana patch?

I would be thinking more along the lines of The Andromeda Strain.

Yeah on the computer but the box of pizza crusts and a couple of empty Red Bull cans in the wastebasket made him think twice.

They could do that and call it MSCBS.

Well to be fair he has to start wasting money in this way if he really believes that global warming will leave NYC underwater in 20 years.

Michael Moore and Glenn Beck are on the same page on this, dunno if that makes your day or not.

By the third word of the article, “challenges”, I knew I’d need to find a barf bag. What’s the matter with those lawmakers who stay “preoccupied” with Obama’s dereliction of duty, probably being on a conference call with his Vegas ground team while the Ambassador was being dragged to his death?

Ha, that’s been going on for three days on The Five. I think even Bolling was a little dicey on Monday. Strange days indeed when I agree with Bechel and no one else.

As another poster said on another thread, what kind of Bizarro World are we living in when we find ourselves wondering if an American citizen guy try to sneak into Putin’s Russia for political asylum because he thinks he might be assassinated by the USA.

I think “turnkey tyranny” was exactly the phrase Snowden used as well.

Strange bedfellows here. Ellsburg, Rush Limbaugh, and Mark Levin have all said in the past couple of days that Obama and his mob are in the process of a coup de etat.

I know that varies by locality. In that HGTV show, it was a four-month flip.

It’s always dicey trying to ride the “volatility” of a system that’s starting to go out of control, which they all are now. I tried one of my very-high-percentage day-trades the other day and it just about blew up in my face.

without a SSN.

The big hurdle is your SSN. No financial institution is going to do anything for you with a SSN.