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something else not getting enough coverage is the defeat of Isis in Raqqa.

it's great to see them eat **** but it also makes you wonder what's in store for Syria and Assad. everyone's hands are dirty and no real issues have been resolved. instead they have been worsened. the long-term outlook is not good.
 
everysingletime said:
Donald Trump is an alien.
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The republican congresswoman being abducted makes so much sense now
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:lol: Y'know, I'm more than sure that Washington has always had corrupt dealings, but Trump is so incompetent and sloppy it's the first time we've gotten to see this much of it.
 
whywesteppin said:
Correct.

Like the time Comrade Rusty started recounting how he had won over Miss Lahren... I can't share the whole conversation but here is some of it:

NT EXCLUSIVE

I did try and canvas her. She was registered Republican though. I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out grocery shopping. She wanted to get some groceries. I said, “I’ll show you where they have some nice kale.”

...

Yeah, that’s her. With the blonde hair. I better use some butter biscuits just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to snow bunnies — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet.
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Deep Cover report: My time among the Kale Gang

Another ultimate frisbee game and another conversation in the kale gang, Cent. Cal. chapter locker room. All the men and masc identifying players on the coed team were having our post game birch sap waters and icing down our knees and ankles with Icelandic glacial ice. The conversation turned to human sexuality and most of it was boring, man hating talk about consent but there is one bit of audio that I captured:



Behold, fellow coalies, This man is representing all libbies. The next time a ****tard lectures you about consent, remind him that he has a plastic vagina, which he dreams of seeing penetrated by a plashty penis.
 
rexanglorum said:
Deep Cover report: My time among the Kale Gang

Another ultimate frisbee game and another conversation in the kale gang, Cent. Cal. chapter locker room. All the men and masc identifying players on the coed team were having our post game birch sap waters and icing down our knees and ankles with Icelandic glacial ice. The conversation turned to human sexuality and most of it was boring, man hating talk about consent but there is one bit of audio that I captured:



Behold, fellow coalies, This man is representing all libbies. The next time a ****tard lectures you about consent, remind him that he has a plastic vagina, which he dreams of seeing penetrated by a plashty penis.
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Bruh you crossed the line, you didn't have to air me out like this..
 
rexanglorum said:
Deep Cover report: My time among the Kale Gang

Another ultimate frisbee game and another conversation in the kale gang, Cent. Cal. chapter locker room. All the men and masc identifying players on the coed team were having our post game birch sap waters and icing down our knees and ankles with Icelandic glacial ice. The conversation turned to human sexuality and most of it was boring, man hating talk about consent but there is one bit of audio that I captured:



Behold, fellow coalies, This man is representing all libbies. The next time a ****tard lectures you about consent, remind him that he has a plastic vagina, which he dreams of seeing penetrated by a plashty penis.
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me hovering over the rep button as i watched the video:

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At the last COAL GANG retreat Rex showed us proper load techniques for the coal powered generator. Crowd went wild. Belgium showed us how the remaining PAPA Vlad Muskets are still protecting us from OBUMMER. Crowd went wild. NOSKEY AND WHYWESTEPPIN brought the house down with their locker room session. The highlight of the retreat was a special appearance via satellites from COAL GANG's undercover agent RustyShackleford RustyShackleford . Rusty told us how Tomi CHANGED his life and how Kale is dead and Coal is poppin in Nevada.
 
aepps20 said:
At the last COAL GANG retreat Rex showed us proper load techniques for the coal powered generator. Crowd went wild. Belgium showed us how the remaining PAPA Vlad Muskets are still protecting us from OBUMMER. Crowd went wild. NOSKEY AND WHYWESTEPPIN brought the house down with their locker room session. The highlight of the retreat was a special appearance via satellites from COAL GANG's undercover agent RustyShackleford RustyShackleford . Rusty told us how Tomi CHANGED his life and how Kale is dead and Coal is poppin in Nevada.
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don't be humble, aepps20. the best moment of the retreat, by far, (and I don't say this lightly) was your reading of your collection of love poems to Betsy Bae. not a single dry eye that night.
 
whywesteppin said:
don't be humble, aepps20. the best moment of the retreat, by far, (and I don't say this lightly) was your reading of your collection of love poems to Betsy Bae. not a single dry eye that night.
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Not a dry eye in the house. So many fans had their orange face paint smeared.

There were some other noteworthy moments. The new under secretary of transportation was not able to make it (globalist, DC metro police arrested him. We'll have to wait for next year to hear his presentation about how the Taino and Arawaks were actually Vikings who got blown off course). Luckily the new under sec. had sent us a pretaped video when he said "as long as you're covered in coal dust, no one care about the color of your skin because they can't see it, b"

The finale was epic, not as touching as letters to Betsy, but still grand. When the lights went down, Amazing grace is being played and those men, dressed as ghosts, silently walked down the walk ways. So many coal powered feels.
 
whywesteppin said:
don't be humble, aepps20. the best moment of the retreat, by far, (and I don't say this lightly) was your reading of your collection of love poems to Betsy Bae. not a single dry eye that night.
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I'm very glad you enjoyed them. Here is my favorite.

Oh BETSY Bae oh BETSY Bae. You turn sunny days gray. EVERY DAY I'm happy to have u in my life, hopefully one DAY you'll be my wife.
 
one america news is such a clown network. They have an hour long special with their “evidence” disproving that white privelege exists. They talkin bout if Asians are more privileged than whites. They gathered all video clips of black commentators and “experts” who say black people are to blame and play victims.
 
The Catalonia crisis in Spain is set to become a lot worse. Spain is set to impose direct rule over the region and strip them of many parts of their autonomy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/21/catalonai-crisis-spain-rajoy-direct-rule
Catalonia crisis escalates as Spain set to impose direct rule within days
Spanish prime minister says Catalan government’s powers will be returned to Madrid, as tensions rise between supporters and opponents of independence
Spain was plunged into political crisis on Saturday after the prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, announced that he was stripping Catalonia of its autonomy and imposing direct rule from Madrid in an attempt to crush the regional leadership’s move to secede.

The decision, which prompted anger across Catalonia, has escalated Spain’s deepest constitutional crisis since the restoration of democracy in 1977. Observers say the move could resurrect the spectre of Basque nationalism, and have repercussions across a Europe facing the rise of separatist movements.

After an emergency cabinet meeting on Saturday morning, Rajoy said he was invoking article 155 of the constitution to “restore the rule of law, coexistence and the economic recovery and to ensure that elections could be held in normal circumstances”. The speaker of the Catalan parliament, Carme Forcadell, called the measures a “de facto coup d’etat”.

Pending almost certain approval in the senate on Friday, direct rule will be imposed next weekend. Citing the Catalan government’s “conscious and systematic rebellion and disobedience”, Rajoy said Carles Puigdemont’s government would be stripped of its powers and its functions would be assumed by the relevant ministries in Madrid.

The Catalan president will not be empowered to call elections, which Rajoy said he hoped would be held within six months. “We are not ending Catalan autonomy but we are relieving of their duties those who have acted outside the law,” he said.

Rajoy did not go into details of how article 155 would be applied but a government statement said: “A series of measures will be introduced regarding sensitive issues such as security and public order, financial management, taxation, the budget and telecommunications.”

In an address on Catalan television on Saturday night Puigdemont, speaking in Catalan, Spanish and English, described the move as the worst attack on Catalonia’s institutions since General Franco’s dictatorship between 1939 and 1975, under which regional autonomy was dissolved.

He said: “We cannot accept these attacks. Those who have scorned the Catalans now want to govern us. I will ask parliament to decide how to respond to these attacks on democracy and to act accordingly.”

Over recent years the Catalan government has been creating the structures of a parallel state in readiness for independence. It has expanded the inland revenue department, as well as other parts of the regional administration, and established “embassies” in a number of foreign capitals. Under article 155, it is likely that all of this will be dismantled.

The Catalan vice-president, Oriol Junqueras, accused the government of “totalitarianism” and a spokesman for the leftwing Podemos party, Pablo Echenique, said that Rajoy wanted to “humiliate” Catalonia. Echenique tweeted: “The most corrupt party in Europe, which has 8.5% of the vote in Catalonia and is going to govern it. A terrible day for any democrat.”

Barcelona’s mayor, Ada Colau, called the move “an attack on everyone’s rights and freedoms”.

Rajoy has the support of most of the opposition, King Felipe and the EU, whose leaders gave him their backing at Friday’s Council of Europe meeting.

On Friday Felipe, who already faces criticism for his apparently partisan support of the government over the illegal Catalan referendum, said: “Spain has to confront the unacceptable attempt at secession by a part of the national territory.”

Recent government actions – the police violence aimed at thwarting the independence referendum, jailing the leaders of the two main pro-independence organisations, the threat to imprison the popular Catalan chief of police, and now article 155 – all serve to reinforce the secessionists’ narrative of repression and colonisation by an anti-Catalan Spanish regime.

Nevertheless, Rajoy put the blame on Puigdemont, saying he lacked the stature to deal with the situation. “This would probably never have happened if a different person with similar ideas had been in charge. But this is what happens when you put yourself in the hands of radicals,” he said, a reference to the anti-capitalist CUP party that props up the centre-right Catalan government.

While Rajoy insists that article 155 does not imply suspending autonomy, this is not how the move will be seen in Catalonia and 450,000 people took to the streets of Barcelona on Saturday to demonstrate against direct rule.

Puigdemont and other members of his government attended the rally amid fears that the hitherto peaceful movement could turn violent. Direct rule is a recipe for civil disobedience and hugely increases the scope for conflict. The thousands of Spanish civil guards and national police drafted in for the referendum are still stationed in Catalonia.

The deadline for Puigdemont to clarify whether he had declared independence passed last Thursday. The Catalan president declined to answer yes or no and threatened to issue a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) if the government invoked article 155. Spain’s attorney general said that if Puigdemont declared UDI he would be charged with “rebellion”, a charge that carries a maximum 30-year sentence.

Puigdemont says Catalonia has earned the moral right to declare UDI after some 90% voted yes to independence in the unofficial referendum. However, only 43% of voters turned out, roughly equivalent to the percentage of Catalans who favour independence, according to opinion polls. There is still time for Puigdemont to call an election, in which case article 155 would be suspended, so long as he also disavows UDI.

A poll published in El Periódico newspaper on Saturday showed there is 68% support for fresh elections. However, his PdeCAT party has not benefited from the independence push and continues to slump in opinion polls. Junqueras said: “We’re not here to hold elections again just so we can have the same mandate we’ve already got.”

Article 155 has never been invoked and the decision could trigger the unravelling of the 1978 constitution that established the 17 autonomous communities that make up Spain. The constitution was devised specifically to accommodate Basque and Catalan national aspirations.

The other 15 communities – including some that have no historic identity – were effectively invented to avoid the impression that the Catalans and Basques were getting special treatment. Many now believe that this federation of 17 regionsis obsolete and that the constitution needs an overhaul.

As well as the friction between Barcelona and Madrid, the atmosphere within Catalonia is also becoming fraught, with growing tension between supporters and opponents of independence, with tolerance of opposing views giving way to acrimony and many people reporting they have fallen out with friends and family over the issue.

Like Brexit for Britain, the independence drive has begun to resemble a collective act of economic self-harm, with big firms moving their headquarters out of the region as instability puts the brake on investment and business confidence. The association of small businesses reports that 1,300 have moved their legal HQ out of Catalonia. Tourism, which accounts for 400,000 jobs, is down by around 20% – a loss to the region of more than €1bn – and one Barcelona restaurant owner said the industry was facing “an economic tsunami”.

Rajoy, whose government was only last week encouraging firms to leave, ended Saturday’s press conference with an appeal to businesses to stay in Catalonia.

Barely two weeks ago, tens of thousands of secessionists gathered outside the Catalan parliament to hear Puigdemont declare independence, only to suspend it seven seconds later.
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http://www.bbc (link gets edited to media for some reason) .com/news/world-europe-41710873
Catalonia independence: Puigdemont 'will not accept' Rajoy plan
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Reports say that Spain's interior ministry is preparing take control of Catalonia's Mossos d'Esquadra police force and remove its commander Josep Lluís Trapero, who is already facing sedition charges.

The government is also considering taking control of Catalonia's public broadcaster TV3, El País newspaper reported.



Something tells me that this will be an utter disaster for all parties involved :smh:
 
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And in other news:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-f...ew-harassment-settlement-report-idUSKBN1CQ0U0
Fox signed O'Reilly again knowing of new harassment settlement: report
Bill O‘Reilly, the Fox News commentator forced to resign in April, agreed to a $32 million sexual harassment settlement in January, and the network’s parent knew about the deal when it gave him a new contract the next month, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

The previously undisclosed agreement, at least the sixth involving O‘Reilly or the company related to harassment charges against him, was “extraordinarily large” for such cases, according to the newspaper, which cited two people “briefed on the matter” as its sources.

Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (FOXA.O) acknowledged that it had been aware of O‘Reilly’s settlement with Lis Wiehl, a former Fox News legal analyst, when it signed a contract extension with “The O‘Reilly Factor” host in February.


The company “was informed by Mr. O‘Reilly that he had settled the matter personally, on financial terms that he and Ms. Wiehl had agreed were confidential and not disclosed to the company,” 21st Century Fox said in a statement emailed by spokesman Nathaniel Brown.

The Times report was strongly disputed by O‘Reilly spokesman Mark Fabiani, who called it a malicious smear aimed at harming the conservative talk show host’s career.

“In its latest diatribe against Bill O‘Reilly, the Times printed leaked information provided by anonymous sources that is out of context, false, defamatory, and obviously designed to embarrass Bill O‘Reilly and to keep him from competing in the marketplace,” Fabiani said in a statement emailed to Reuters.


Wiehl could not be immediately reached for comment. But Fabiani provided Reuters with a copy of what he said was an affidavit from her, saying she had settled her differences with both O‘Reilly and Fox News, and had no claims against either one of them.

“At the end of 2016, I hired counsel who prepared a draft complaint asserting claims against Bill O‘Reilly,” the notarized document said. “We have since resolved all of our issues. I would no longer make the allegations contained in the draft complaint.”

According to the Times, top executives of 21st Century Fox, including Rupert Murdoch and his two sons, Lachlan and James, decided in January to retain O‘Reilly despite being made aware of the fresh complaints, the Times reported. The next month, the company gave O‘Reilly a contract extension worth $25 million a year.

The disclosures follow allegations reported earlier this month by The New York Times and The New Yorker that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted a number of women in incidents dating back to the 1980s. Reuters was unable to independently confirm any of the allegations, and Weinstein, 65, has denied having non-consensual sex with anyone.

The allegations have set off a wave of anger and soul-searching over the issue of sexual harassment and abuse. Millions of women across the world have been sharing their experiences in an online campaign using the hashtag #MeToo on Twitter and with rolling posts on Facebook.

Twenty-First Century Fox said on Saturday it had added language to the new contract related to harassment, stipulating that O‘Reilly faced dismissal if fresh allegations emerged or new information about existing allegations came to light.

In April, after advertisers began to flee O‘Reilly’s show, the company parted ways with O‘Reilly, ending the popular commentator’s two-decade Fox News career.

In its statement on Saturday, 21st Century said it acted in April “based on the terms of this contract,” referring to the deal signed in February.

The Times reported on April 1 Fox or O‘Reilly had paid five women a total of $13 million to settle harassment claims, before news of the sixth deal emerged. The women either worked for the host or appeared as guests on his program, the paper reported.


O‘Reilly said in a statement at the time that he had settled only to spare his children from the controversy.

“The O‘Reilly Factor” was the top-rated show on Fox News. According to ad-tracking firm Kantar Media, it brought in $147.13 million in advertising revenue in 2016.

O‘Reilly’s exit followed the departure of former Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes. He was forced to resign in July after being accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women, including former anchor Gretchen Carlson. Ailes, who died in May, had repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

“21st Century Fox has taken concerted action to transform Fox News,” the company said on Saturday. Those steps include “installing new leadership, overhauling management and on-air talent, expanding training, and increasing the channels through which employees can report harassment or discrimination.”
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Belgium said:
The Catalonia crisis in Spain is set to become a lot worse. Spain is set to impose direct rule over the region and strip them of many parts of their autonomy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/21/catalonai-crisis-spain-rajoy-direct-rule
Catalonia crisis escalates as Spain set to impose direct rule within days
Spanish prime minister says Catalan government’s powers will be returned to Madrid, as tensions rise between supporters and opponents of independence


http://www.bbc (link gets edited to media for some reason) .com/news/world-europe-41710873
Catalonia independence: Puigdemont 'will not accept' Rajoy plan
Excerpts:
Reports say that Spain's interior ministry is preparing take control of Catalonia's Mossos d'Esquadra police force and remove its commander Josep Lluís Trapero, who is already facing sedition charges.

The government is also considering taking control of Catalonia's public broadcaster TV3, El País newspaper reported.



Something tells me that this will be an utter disaster for all parties involved :smh:
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Franco would be so proud if he were alive to see this...
 
Gonna watch this Atlanta mayoral debate tomorrow night. Any Atlantans decided yet? If so, who and why? I haven't done enough research yet but will be doing it over the coming days.
 
aepps20 said:
I'm very glad you enjoyed them. Here is my favorite.

Oh BETSY Bae oh BETSY Bae. You turn sunny days gray. EVERY DAY I'm happy to have u in my life, hopefully one DAY you'll be my wife.
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it's not a good look to tear up in the club but dammit I don't care. I'm so happy for you.
 
The EU has rolled out a nice new initiative earlier this week. I just got a reply from our social security agency about my application for the new EU Disabillity Card. I should have it in about a month.
http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1139
To help people with disabilities travel more easily between EU countries, the EU is developing a system of mutual recognition based on an EU Disability Card.

Currently, there is no mutual recognition of disability status between EU Member States: this makes things difficult for persons with disabilities travelling to other EU countries. For instance their national disability cards might not be recognised.

The EU Disability Card will ensure an equal access to certain specific benefits, mainly in the areas of culture, leisure, sport and transport. The Card will be mutually recognised between EU countries participating in the system, on a voluntary basis.

A pilot has been launched in February 2016, and will kick-start the Card in a first group of eight EU countries:
Belgium
Cyprus
Estonia
Finland
Italy
Malta
Slovenia
Romania

The countries were selected following a 2015 call for proposals to support national projects on a mutually recognised European Disability Card and associated benefits. The results of the Call are available to the public.

This pilot was prepared with a dedicated Project Working Group currently composed of 17 Member States and civil society organisations. This group is a sub-section of the High Level Group on Disability.

The Card does not change national eligibility criteria or rules. Member States retain their discretion to decide who is eligible to receive the Card, using the national definition of disability, and to determine the issuing procedure.
 
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