Odds are that 90% of those crying to defund the police are not tax payers. Mostly college aged kids and thugs. The other 10% are kooks and politicians pandering for votes.

Killing kids….!!!!!!!!?????????

KILLING KIDS SHOULD BE CALLED OUT AS THE DEPRAVITY IT CLEARLY IS!!!

his resignation if Hesbollah will stay out of regional conflicts… Good Luck with that, lol…

What does this really mean and why is Saad saying that. Hesbollah is the villian of this madness.

Let me get this straight, Hariri wants Hesbolllah to Stand Down to give SaudI another shot at defeating Assad sans Hesbollah….What are they putting in their hookahs theez days over there..???
& what would Russia do, just sit on their hands?

If Saad’s proposed scenario of Hesbollah staying out of regional conflicts were to cum to fruition. The biggest winner would be ISIS, AL Nursa & depending whether another Israeli invasion of Lebanon would constitute a regional conflict, Israel would get two wins.. Their Suni Proxy ISIS, ISL DAESH would be free to attack assad without fear of Hesbollah rooting them out of their rat holes to an unhappy ending, and their ISIS ISL & DASH rats can again give Saudis & Israelis a good return 4 their money, support & encouragemen!!

I don’T see Saad’s dream being a reality when he awakes from whatever drug, hypnosis or whatever mix the devil gave to Saad to paralyzethe his reason & mind…. Maybe we will know someday just as we now Know how Yassir Arafat. C was ushered off the Palestinian bully pulpit…

So every is searching for reasonable explanation of MBS actions these last weeks. The answer is MBS Has Gone Crackers. Gone around the twist after Syria project crashes and burns. He wants to lash out at Hezbollah but there’s no real purchase for him to attain any satisfaction from them. So he has chosen Saad to unleash his venom upon… There is a real news blackout on this facinting story in huge segments of the MSM…. NPR did both Sat. & Sun.’s Weekend Edition without nary a sylable of this prome story…. It just does not exist as an extremely curious event… The E.U. a parent released a condemnation as did Toot Toot Tillerson demanding that no country interfere to destabilize the patsy state.

And speaking of such, Hirari apparently made an interview, or wrote somewhere that he is willing to rescind

I guess attending the Yom Kippur meal this year is out of the question :/

Jewish criticism and fascination seem to point to an inescapable conclusion.
They have millennia to craft and polish their trade. Against such formidable opposition, it would seem that anyone not equally committed is foolhardy to resist.

Control + F “hindsight bias”
-> no results

It’s like how with serial killers, there’s always at least one neighbor who wants to appear on TV saying “I always knew there was something up with him!”.

Attitudes toward tatttoos changed years ago. Now they’re changing again. Many feel tattoos are ‘supposed to be’ an impulsive decision. It’s only a matter of time before ‘tattoo therapy’ becomes a phrase analogous to ‘retail therapy’ — something frivolous to do with an afternoon to cheer yourself up.

To include other themes from this thread, video games are different now too. There are probably more professional video gamers than pro sports athletes, for instance. I was a bit of a jock in high school (4 varsity letters) but my years of experience with MMORPGs and especially Second Life is the main reason why this 48 year old, poor and average-looking aspergers-diagnosed fossil mostly dates kinky and adventurous girls half his age, and thus knows all-too-much about tattoos.

Times (and attitudes) change. Tattoos, gamers, gender bending, nerds, losers, piercings, and such all have different connotations now than how they’re being used in this thread.

Oh BTW, I’m still a typical enough iSteve resder by attitude, demographics, and politics, but I also keep up with the times.

Sad to see so much misery the 911 putsch seems to continue radiating out… A tip of the hat to JE.. His always incisive comments keep us thinking….. No pablum here………….

Reading LL's post makes me believe Whiskey may be correct in his theories.

"Linda" is neither white nor female.

IQ tests are generally controversial and disliked because certain minority groups tend to score lower than average on them. Cultural bias or whatever, doesn't matter in this discussion why. However, it's been an observed fact for a long time. Specifically Native American, Hispanics, and African Americans tend to score lower on IQ tests.

So bottom on your list is D.C. What are the demographics of D.C.?

50.7% African American
38.5% White

Bottom state is Mississippi.

37.3% African American (The largest percentage of any state in the US.)
59.1% White

Top state is Massachusetts.

7.8% African American
84.1% White

I think it is safe to conclude that this study can be determined to be unconsciously racist.

"So a people who dabbled in high mathematics and gravity when most Europeans were convinced that the Earth was flat could not even invent a candle!"

Glad you say "most." That the earth was spherical was a common theory in Europe, just as there are different ideas today about phenomena.
What amazes me about Europeans is the extraordinary rapidity with which they took off. Clocks and watches all of the sudden in the 1200s were some of the earliest manifestations, and certainly contact with other parts of the world inspired them. But why didn't other cultures invent these things? They were on the track. Religion inspires in the beginning but when it decays it is a hindrance to material progress. While I don't like to blame the Church entirely (many Churchmen were of a scientific bent), it's a fact that the Reformation, around 1550, coincided with scientific advancement. I'm not sure when Europe couldn't invent candles, but by the 1500s they invented automatons, mechanical "toys", and electrically. I saw two automatons (male and female) made in the 1700s playing a harpsichords in a museum in Switzerland. I bring up the automatons because they were a surprise and so startling. By the 19th century, Edison and Tesla had the means to light up the planet. It's weird how so suddenly they took off and took technology to such heights.
No one denies "Arabic numerals"; the Indian zero, Persian algebra (yes); but they lapsed, they didn't take it anywhere–I don't know what happened but perhaps education was just not as democratically spread out as in those European countries that advanced rapidly. Islam and Hinduism became more and more fatalisitic. Perhaps every culture lapses eventually, but the explosion of technology for 500 years out of Europe after 1500, dwarfs anything in recorded history, in the sense of material transformation of a technical, scientific nature.
This does not take anything away from other cultures–you could never develop aeronautics with arabic numerals and the hindu zero, and Chinese gun powder. But if, after 1500, they had never come into contact with any Europeans or Americans, what would they be doing today?