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The Disturbing History of the Suburbs
StormsingerYou have to kind of worry about someone who shows no signs of any knowledge of the events of the last fifty years. Or is -so- partisan that they'll deny them all. Either way it's a bad sign.
In the name to help Americans we get another Democrat program to keep the black man down.
Even after Republicans ended Democratic controlled slavery. Democrats still find ways to oppress.
Democrat policies have done more to hurt the black man than any other cause.
Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a reputation as a friend of black people, yet he signed laws that promoted racial segregation throughout the United States.
When will you sifters learn... Democrats are the enslaving party.
Shannon Sharpe on Trump, NFL and Protest
StormsingerI truly don't believe this has anything to do with patriotism. That's just the cover for raw racism. Saying they're disrespecting the flag and vets is more acceptable (even to racists) than coming right out and calling them "uppity". Not even Trump has managed normalize racism quite that far...yet.
My hat is well and truly off to Shannon Sharpe.
Never heard of the guy before watching this, but who knew sports pundits could be so eloquent and thoughtful?
OTOH, I find America's hyper-patriotism deeply weird.
Don't get me wrong, I love both my country of birth and my adopted home, but that's because of the people that live there and the places I've been to. The idea that someone who has a problem with some serious issues in a country is not a patriot is just alien to me.
"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
- James A. Baldwin
Pastor Jim Bakker Helps You Stay Alive During the Apocalypse
StormsingerConman's gotta con.
When's the Right Time for Black People to Protest?
Stormsinger"They are hurting themselves. Racists are turning their backs against them."
FTFY
Lawn Bubble
StormsingerI had to think back a bit...it's been a few decades since I spent any time on a lawn of zoysia. But once I thought a bit more carefully, it does seem that zoysia changes it's texture with the season. Over the winter (and dry times) it gets tough and spiky, like walking on a bed of nails. But during the (limited) times when it's fresh and green, it is pretty soft. I think you can tell which season sticks in my memory.
On the bubble or on the zoysia? Based on my limited reading zoysia is really soft.
Samantha Bee - Is There Any Hope For The Left?
StormsingerThe DNC felt that a Trump victory was a lesser threat to their owners than a Sanders victory would have been. Problem solved.
That's why I didn't say "cheated him out of a win".
While I think he could have won the primary given a fair shot, there's no way to be sure...what we are sure of is the DNC broke it's own rules to ensure he didn't get that fair shot.
He was absolutely cheated out of his fair shot.
And actually, I think you're wrong about the numbers too. Even with all the underhandedness (after the fact rule changes, targeted voter purging, etc) Sanders still came really close, and there's little question that he would have done better against Trump. He wouldn't have energized Trump's base 1/4 as much as her nomination did.
Clinton may have had more ardent supporters where it mattered for the primary, in the DNC and primary voting booths, but she also had FAR more ardent detractors in the general public that translated into votes for Trump, and a criminal investigation it was certain would reemerge at the last minute....things they completely ignored, which is why she (and we all) lost.
Lawn Bubble
StormsingerWhat in the world is that kind of turf? The only grass I'm familiar with that -might- form a dense enough root mass to do that would be zoysia. And you wouldn't want to be walking around on that in bare feet.
Liberal Redneck - Transgender Patriots and the GOP
StormsingerNeither do they want bigots and assholes hanging around...but look who's still here.
American don't want freaks in the military or anywhere else.
If you want to be a freak -be like everyone else, Step out Friday/Saturday and get your freak on and show up Monday like the rest of , normal.
Adam Ruins Everything - Real Reason Hospitals Are So Costly
StormsingerI find that claim a bit hard to swallow. Changing the way tests are -billed- doesn't require any change in way samples are prepped. What I suspect really happened was that the lab saw an opportunity to charge multiple times for work that was only done once.
I worked in a doctors office for awhile... and I asked one of the doctors about the costs. He told me pretty much what they say in this video, but there was another thing. Labs used to run a panel of tests for one set price. But insurance companies wanted each test separated out into their own billing. It made a single test cost something like a dollar less than the panel of tests.
The problem being the majority of the work was in prepping the sample for the tests. Separating it out made it so the labs had to add that prep work cost to each test. Since most doctors usually order several tests, it drove the cost way up.
Hilarious Redneck LARP fight
StormsingerWhite trash gonna trash...
Join the Jaeger Uprising
StormsingerI'm just shocked they found suckers to fund this sequel...Pacific Rim ranks high among my list of worst films ever.
Gorilla dancing to Maniac
StormsingerGotta say, I think the killed version was much more interesting. Longer, and less annoying without the soundtrack.
Here's how the American diet has changed the last 52 years
StormsingerI'm normally a big fan of Occam's Razor, but this is one of those questions that demonstrate why it's a rule-of-thumb, rather than a law. As the study that @transmorpher linked to shows, there appears to be a serious degree of homeostasis in the human metabolism. In short, the simple explanations just don't explain the observations.
Now what is the average caloric expenditure for the "average American" over the same period? I bet that in addition to the average caloric consumption going up 800/day, the average caloric expenditure went down due to a lot less people working in physical jobs now compared to 50 years ago...
It seems calories-in/calories-out would be a much simpler explanation for the "obesity epidemic" compared to eating high/low fat high/low carbs etc. etc.
Pace Picante Commercial (1994)
StormsingerGet a rope!
James Comey Testifies, Says Trump Lied: A Closer Look
StormsingerOf course they do. The problem is that neither of those descriptions fit Trump, and even if they did, he's a fucking sociopath. The rest of us exist solely so he can harvest resources (primarily money and adoration) from us.
It's not just that. Doesn't every even moderately educated or moderately intelligent person in any western democracy know that it's inappropriate, unethical, or even possibly illegal for a head of state to interfere with the justice system for personal gain.