StrangeSox

It's amazing what teams or people will do if you just reach out to them. When someone I know got married a few years back, he sent an email to James Cornelison asking if he would sing. Showed up and did the ceremony pro bono.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 5, 2017 -> 11:08 AM) Because Japan isn't as quick to pull the trigger. China would wipe them out without a second thought. It's better to anger a more democratic nation that will try to work things out. Yeah, I don't see Japan pulling the trigger more quickly than SK or the US would, and any actual attack on Japan would almost definitely bring a swift response from the US. Japan spending maybe 5% of what the US does on their military is probably negligible in the grand scheme of things. V V China's view on it is a good point.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Sep 5, 2017 -> 11:00 AM) Lmao this is insane rambling that has no basis in reality. Cartoon villainy. So which part has no basis in reality? That Trump ran on and continues to promote anit-immigrant ideas? He kicked off his campaign by ranting about Mexicans, claimed a judge with Mexican heritage is unqualified*, and one of the main themes of his whole campaign is that dumb ass wall. And just a few weeks ago, he came out in support of a proposal to cut legal immigration by 50%. That House Republicans blocked the DREAM act in 2012? That's just basic legislative history. Boehner, who was then the leader in the House, flatly refused to bring the bill up for a vote and never offered any sort of alternative. That liberals don't actually control Congress or any branch of the Federal government? Democrats haven't controlled the House since January 2011 and haven't controlled the Senate since January 2015. Whether or not they want to work with Trump isn't particularly relevant since it's up to the GOP what bills will actually get voted on. Trump has also not offered any actual policy (lol, of course he hasn't on this or any other issue, really) for anyone to work with him on, anyway. QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Sep 5, 2017 -> 11:09 AM) You know, I'm ok exploiting their status in an effort to give them full citizenship. That I don't mind. Maybe it's a little dirty and perhaps he's playing chicken with them as collateral a bit risky, but the ultimate goal is laudable. He wants to give them permanent status, and the only way to do that is by forcing the issue. If DACA stays then people keep thinking they've done something and lack motivation to actually solve it. Where is the evidence that the Trump administration wants these people to have permanent legal status? Everything he's said and done for the last 2+ years now seems to be the exact opposite of that. Sessions' statements today and Trump's press release both highlight the harm done to Americans by undocumented immigrants. Neither made a plea for compassion towards them or for reform to give them legal status; in fact, it was the opposite. Trying to say that "liberals don't control the government" is insane rambling with no basis in reality and then immediately following it up with a claim that Trump actually wants immigrant friendly policy is some pretty top tier trolling, I'll give you that.

I don't know if it goes back to this, but Japan had a pretty brutal colonial rule over Korea for the first half of the 20th century.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Sep 5, 2017 -> 10:52 AM) This is a move to force an actual solution. Congress can either keep #resisting or solve this, but I'm not hopeful. Liberals hate Trump so much they'd rather march these 800,000 kids into a volcano than work with him on anything at all. This is a move by a deeply anti-immigrant administration to harm immigrants. They know that the Republican-controlled Congress won't actually do anything. Liberals do not control Congress and do not actually have the power to force this issue to come to a vote. When they did control the Senate, they passed a bill that was blocked by Republicans. You'll see that the common theme here is Republicans harming immigrants and doing nothing to solve this problem because a large portion of their base is fully behind the "DEPORT THEM ALL NOW" "BUILD THE WALL" nonsense. Seriously, how do you look at the strongest Republican control of Congress in decades and still manage to whine about liberals?

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Sep 5, 2017 -> 10:34 AM) DACA is anti-humanitarian trash whether it's an EO or law. You can't "b-b-b-but Republicans" your way out of this, the Democratic proposals from the start have been flawed. If there isn't a clear path to citizenship built directly into a bill it's not a solution. Unless your solution is to deport them all, which is both a bad idea and impossible. Giving people uplifting labels like "Dreamers" is a cheap marketing tactic that should know better than to fall for. All they have to dream about is constant two year deferrals that they hope to ride and ride forever. How can DACA not be interpreted as a move exploiting children and teenagers statelessness? "Oh we're not gonna kick you out the country--for now", yeah...what compassion. DACA was the most that could be done within the confines of an EO. It was an improvement over their previous status and what is their future status, which is zero protections and possible deportation at any time. How is granting that whatever protections he could exploitation, but rescinding those protections isn't? How isn't DACA the more compassionate policy than pre-DACA and what we'll have next March? The DREAM act of 2012 contained a path to citizenship. It was passed by Republicans and Democrats in the Senate in 2012, but the Republican leadership in the House refused to take it up. That's not "b-b-b-but Republicansing" my way out of anything, that's what actually happened. You were wrong when you said that Democrats had "8 years," and you're wrong again now.

A bipartisan group in the Senate passed a DREAM act that would have made DACA law. House Republicans blocked it. I'm not sure why you keep trying to blame Democrats for that. Obama issued the DACA EO since that was the most he could do without the cooperation of the House.

Now it's Florida that's largely the target, and it could be another record setting hurricane. I think they'll know more accurately what to expect after the latest round of simulations tonight

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Sep 3, 2017 -> 10:10 PM) DACA is garbage. Glad to see it go. The solution to the illegal immigration problem is a path to citizenship, not renewable two-year visas and constant deferrals. Make them citizens now. All 800,000 of them. The Democrats had 8 years to figure out how to fix this and they never did, just more crap policies like DACA that ensured the illegal immigration problem would remain unsolved. Now that there's a 6 month clock ticking its time for the sensible solution that has been readily apparent to everyone paying attention the last couple decades to finally be implemented: Everyone currently here gets to stay here, but after that is done there's no more illegal crossings. No more sanctuary cities or any of this other trash legislation that is specifically designed to keep these people in legal limbo. Democrats haven't controlled the House since 2010 or the Senate since 2014. A bipartisan coalition attempted immigration reform at one point, but it was blocked by Republicans in the House after it had passed the Senate. DACA was the best Obama could do without Congressional support. If DACA is garbage and you're glad to see it go, you're saying you're glad that hundreds of thousands are now facing deportation because there's zero chance this Congress and especially this President does anything to protect them. Hell, it was only a couple of weeks ago that Trump was proposing we slash legal immigration by 50%, and DHS via ICE and CBP had greatly stepped up some pretty disgusting (imo) deportation tactics coupled with the DOJ threatening to withhold resources from "sanctuary cities." The idea that this will result in any sort of legal status within the next six months does not seem to be based on anything in reality. The federal government is currently run by people deeply antagonistic to immigrants and who have promised to deport as many of them as possible.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 2, 2017 -> 12:51 AM) This is legitimately terrifying. Latest models have it hitting the Carolinas, but it's still ten days out

Mr. Kelly cannot stop Mr. Trump from binge-watching Fox News, which aides describe as the president’s primary source of information gathering. But Mr. Trump does not have a web browser on his phone, and does not use a laptop, so he was dependent on aides like Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist, to hand-deliver printouts of articles from conservative media outlets. Now Mr. Kelly has thinned out his package of printouts so much that Mr. Trump plaintively asked a friend recently where The Daily Caller and Breitbart were.

Quebec offers blankets, beds and hydro crews to Texas in wake of Hurricane Harvey Texas Secretary of State says no need for now, asks for prayers instead http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/que...arvey-1.4267387

Mueller Has Early Draft of Trump Letter Giving Reasons for Firing Comey no details on what exactly the letter says yet, though

Trump Attorneys Lay Out Arguments Against Obstruction-of-Justice Probe to Mueller In meetings and memos, lawyers argue president didn’t obstruct justice by firing former FBI Chief Comey

huh Manafort Notes From Russian Meet Contain Cryptic Reference to 'Donations'

Harvey also looks like it was more of a "1000 year flood" event rather than "500 year flood" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital...ented-in-scale/

It's 15 days out and I guess anything beyond 10 days in hurricane/tropical storm models gets pretty wonky, but we could be in for either Round 2 in Houston or a major hurricane hitting the east coast as we're still trying to clean up and wait for the waters to go down after Harvey.

trump is going to end DACA

25 minutes of previously unreleased footage from the white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville. https://sub.media/video/charlottesville-redux/ "very fine people"

what percentage of a team's revenue comes from ticket sales/concessions versus broadcast/advertising deals?

Lead, arsenic & other toxic & carcinogenic elements may be leaching from two dozen Superfund sites in Houston area. A chemical plant exploded early this morning, too.

Wells Fargo: There were nearly 70 percent more potentially fake accounts opened than originally thought Give Wells Fargo the Corporate Death Penalty The bank is a serial corporate criminal that has screwed over millions of Americans. Here's what the government should do about it.

Legal challenge to Arpaio pardon begins

Houston’s ‘Wild West’ growth How the city's development may have contributed to devastating flooding Interesting article that goes into Houston's lack of zoning and how the booming construction there doesn't really take into account how to deal with large storms and potential flooding. The article doesn't touch on this aspect, but that same sort of unplanned rapid expansion contributes to the inability to properly and safely evacuate the area as well.