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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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bambu-wisdom

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10560 on: March 01, 2019, 03:56:27 PM »



Or Bambi, who is a White Supremacist, but not a Republican (only because he's not from here).

If Black people are a race, Latino people are a race, Asian people are a race, then so are White people.
Bambi believes that all people are equal, but that White people-majority countries are the best to have.

Want Latino-majority country?
Cast eyes to Mexico, Central America, South America.

Want Black-majority country?
Cast eyes to Africa.

Want Asian-majority country?
Cast eyes to Asia anywhere, N S E or W.

White-majority countries...USA [just, but soon not to be, reportedly], Canada, Australia, Britain, much of western Europe.
Places that people from non-White majority countries are stampeding to get into/seek refuge/asylum in.

Simple really.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10562 on: March 01, 2019, 04:25:46 PM »



Or Bambi, who is a White Supremacist, but not a Republican (only because he's not from here).

If Black people are a race, Latino people are a race, Asian people are a race, then so are White people.
Bambi believes that all people are equal, but that White people-majority countries are the best to have.

Want Latino-majority country?
Cast eyes to Mexico, Central America, South America.

Want Black-majority country?
Cast eyes to Africa.

Want Asian-majority country?
Cast eyes to Asia anywhere, N S E or W.

White-majority countries...USA [just, but soon not to be, reportedly], Canada, Australia, Britain, much of western Europe.
Places that people from non-White majority countries are stampeding to get into/seek refuge/asylum in.

Simple really.

Latin people are not a race.

To the extent that the others are races (which is highly debatable), then white people are a race.

Bambi says that "Bambi believes that all people are equal."

Bambi's other claims bely that position. No news, however.

"White-majority countries...USA [just, but soon not to be, reportedly], Canada, Australia, Britain, much of western Europe.
Places that people from non-White majority countries are stampeding to get into/seek refuge/asylum in.

Simple really."

Which places in Western Europe do you have in mind that are not white majority pray tell!

Here's data for you - misleading, but data nonetheless. Next post for a big more data.
Asylum requests among OECD countries from 2007-2017:
https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/international-migration-outlook-2018_migr_outlook-2018-en#page323


Inflow of foreign population to selected OECD countries from 2007-2017


Outflow:
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« Reply #10563 on: March 01, 2019, 04:48:26 PM »

Top 10 countries with most refugees staying in them as of mid-2016 (million, rounded to hundred thousand) (number per 100k population in mid 2015):

10. Dem Rep of Congo (0.5) (2.14)
9. Germany (0.7) (3.1)
8. Jordan (0.7) (89.55)
7. Ethiopia ( 0.8 ) (7.24)
6. Uganda (0.9) (11.53)
5. Bangladesh (1.0) (1.46)
4. Iran (1.0) (12.53)
3. Lebanon (1.0) (200.91)
2. Pakistan (1.4) (8.33)
1. Turkey (2.8 ) (23.72)

France is 16th. The US?

18. United States (0.3) (0.84)

In the top 10 in terms of percentage of population, the only "majority white" countries by your standards, Bambi, are #9, Sweden and #10, Malta. Next are Montenegro and Norway, at #18 and #19.

Now, this is out of date - with 2016 and 2015 figures to be sure!

For example, as of this info, Colombia has under 300 refugees living in it and Bolivia under 800. Current estimates are that 1 million Venezuelans are refugees in Colombia - but Colombia, itself, had significant strife not all that long ago and Ecuador until recently had the highest refugee population in South America, 98% of them from Colombia.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10565 on: March 01, 2019, 07:04:35 PM »

(cough)
  In the North Central United States, no stranger to winter cold, February 2019 was especially brutal. Miles City, Montana, and Rapid City, South Dakota, shivered through their coldest February since record-keeping began. Rapid City had 20 days with subzero temperatures, the Weather Channel reported...   

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/01/weird-weather-february-records-heat-cold-rain-snow-climate-change/3027299002/

I'm in Rapid City.  We pretty much knew we were going to break all previous records around the 15th.  And the spouse was in Virginia about half the month, which proved to be the greatest timing in the annals of human travel.  A couple days there were so mild, she stayed at an unheated yurt on Airbnb, was quite comfortable.  I'll be out there next year, hoping to try the whole yurt adventure. 


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10566 on: March 01, 2019, 07:13:58 PM »

So much for global warming!!!
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10567 on: March 01, 2019, 08:04:07 PM »

(cough)
  In the North Central United States, no stranger to winter cold, February 2019 was especially brutal. Miles City, Montana, and Rapid City, South Dakota, shivered through their coldest February since record-keeping began. Rapid City had 20 days with subzero temperatures, the Weather Channel reported...   

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/01/weird-weather-february-records-heat-cold-rain-snow-climate-change/3027299002/

I'm in Rapid City.  We pretty much knew we were going to break all previous records around the 15th.  And the spouse was in Virginia about half the month, which proved to be the greatest timing in the annals of human travel.  A couple days there were so mild, she stayed at an unheated yurt on Airbnb, was quite comfortable.  I'll be out there next year, hoping to try the whole yurt adventure.

I remember the Whole Yurt catalog!
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10568 on: March 01, 2019, 08:09:25 PM »

heh

Yurt mileage may vary.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10569 on: March 01, 2019, 08:15:26 PM »

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa.


The Washington Post Issues Editor’s Note on Covington Coverage

by Tamar Auber  Mar 1st, 2019, 6:16 pm


The Washington Post has issued a lengthy Editor’s Note on their initial reporting of the incident between Native American activist Nathan Phillips and a group of students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky.

The note commented on the Post‘s initial report about the incident from January 19. Per the Post:

“Subsequent reporting, a student’s statement and additional video allow for a more complete assessment of what occurred, either contradicting or failing to confirm accounts provided in that story — including that Native American activist Nathan Phillips was prevented by one student from moving on, that his group had been taunted by the students in the lead-up to the encounter, and that the students were trying to instigate a conflict.”

“The high school student facing Phillips issued a statement contradicting his account; the bishop in Covington, Ky., apologized for the statement condemning the students; and an investigation conducted for the Diocese of Covington and Covington Catholic High School found the students’ accounts consistent with videos,” the note continued on.

The post then listed follow-up articles that dealt with the developments: “Viral standoff between a tribal elder and a high schooler is more complicated than it first seemed; Kentucky bishop apologizes to Covington Catholic students, says he expects their exoneration; Investigation finds no evidence of ‘racist or offensive statements’ in Mall incident.”

The Post also corrected a claim made in their reporting that Phillips was a Vietnam Veteran.

“Phillips said he served in the U.S. Marines but was never deployed to Vietnam,” the Post wrote.

They also deleted a tweet claiming that Phillips was a Vietnam Veteran.

The incident was put in the spotlight when video showing students from Covington Catholic High School — including one wearing a MAGA hat — appearing to taunt Phillips went viral.

Longer cuts of the video, however, showed the full context of the incident. The family of student Nicholas Sandmann has filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against the Post.



Obviously the lawsuit prompted the Post to mitigate possible liabilities by “ correcting” the facts.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10570 on: March 01, 2019, 08:17:19 PM »

heh

Yurt mileage may vary.
Well, as Michael Stipe noted, everybody yurts...  sometimes.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10571 on: March 01, 2019, 08:20:53 PM »

Donald Trump gets shot.down over Hanoi 50 years too late, and his lawyer shredded him as a liar, racist and felon in live broadcast testimony. Red's response?

SQUIRREL!
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10572 on: March 01, 2019, 08:22:41 PM »

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10573 on: March 01, 2019, 08:38:08 PM »

Donald Trump gets shot.down over Hanoi 50 years too late, and his lawyer shredded him as a liar, racist and felon in live broadcast testimony. Red's response?

SQUIRREL!

Pence's, as well....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mike-pence-its-time-for-congress-to-establish-the-space-force/2019/03/01/50820a58-3c4e-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html?utm_term=.7663e2cf8694



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« Reply #10574 on: March 01, 2019, 08:52:43 PM »

Joe  Biden brought to task by the Liberal Fascists:


On Thursday in Omaha, Nebraska, former Vice President Joe Biden said this about current Vice President Mike Pence: "The fact of the matter is it was followed on by a guy who's a decent guy, our vice president, who stood before this group of allies and leaders and said, 'I'm here on behalf of President Trump,' and there was dead silence. Dead silence."

Except that Biden referred to Pence a nice  guy." Which the liberal left -- especially on Twitter -- immediately seized. Cynthia Nixon, actress and unsuccessful candidate for governor in New York, tweeted this at Biden: "@JoeBiden you've just called America's most anti-LGBT elected leader 'a decent guy.' Please consider how this falls on the ears of our community."


Biden quickly responded to Nixon, offering an apology. "You're right, Cynthia," wrote Biden. "I was making a point in a foreign policy context, that under normal circumstances a Vice President wouldn't be given a silent reaction on the world stage," he said. "But there is nothing decent about being anti-LGBTQ rights, and that includes the Vice President."

 
Biden's decision to engage Nixon and to say sorry so quickly means just one thing. He is running for President
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