America has gone shit bat crazy at the moment. Trump is getting rid of anything Obama did. Even the good stuff.

What most Trump supporters don't seem to realize is that when net neutrality laws were made it also came with a big bunch of money to providers to get our out of date systems up to modern standards. Now they don't have the rules but still get to keep the money they get from the government.

America is becoming a very strange place with the way its society is evolving. 
Things like this will be happening more and more and there is nothing that can be done about it.
Just a couple of days ago there was another school shooting in Kentucky.

The biggest problem we have is the NRA. They have way too much influence on government.
The truth is, if all the laws that are on the books were enforced? things would be better. But the NRA fights every effort to enforce laws like background checks and waiting periods.

I have a lot of guns. Mostly from inheritance, but I still won't give up my guns for anyone. I do have them all registered, even my assault weapons.

We have also helped a lot of gay friends learn how to arm themselves and use them for protection.

they are both racist…

but hey people have different opinions... some of those are wrong of course.

in the end i never used dove products and i do not plan to start now.

in the past i loved to eat white mill biscuit... a brand owned by barilla... and after their homophobic view i just stopped buying any barilla products or other brands owned by the same people.

A follow up to a prediction I made in one of my top news stories.

Today, January 21 2018, the Turkish government invaded Syria - not to fight ISIS - but to fight Kurdish forces who are in theory their ally against ISIS.  While the USA has been arming both the Turks and the Kurds it is undecided whether the USA will try to get Turkey to stop.

We will probably never know the true answer to these questions.

Ten years is a very harsh sentence!! He could have gotten off easier if he had robbed a bank!

Just keep safe.  :hug:

I'm so glad that he's getting his comeuppance. He's an utter pervert and awful human for what he did to those women.

Also, NBC is learning its lesson from the Lauer Scandal:

http://popculture.com/tv-shows/2017/12/09/matt-lauer-nbc-harassment-training/

It's not just British people.  A lot of whites don't find redheaded males attractive, but love redheaded women.

@raphjd:

To play college sports, you have to be an amateur.     Amateurs can't get paid for playing.

The Olympics used to be that way, but other countries started cheating, so we joined in.

Yes.. and the concept is that some STUDENTS at a university play on a football team.. like in high school.
That is a farce.  College football players are at those universities to play football.  Same for basketball and baseball.

What blows my mind is how a college football coach is paid $75,000,000 over 10 years.  A more appropriate salary would be $750,000 over 10 years.     ($7.5 million per year vs $75 thousand a year).  
I won't mention my academic prowess because nobody would believe me anyway.. suffice it to say that I never got a salary even as good as a stinking cop gets.. and all a cop needs is a high school diploma or GED.

Hopefully a pot of gold is in my future though.. we shall see.

Take a look at what the military pays..
Why are police paid so much more than the military?
https://www.goarmy.com/benefits/money/basic-pay-active-duty-soldiers.html

My own observations:

People developing dementia can hide the symptoms for years.  Everyone forgets things.  Everyone does something weird once in a while.  There's something called Paramnesia where you 'remember' things that haven't actually happened (there's an example of an American President who recounted the plot of a movie he was in as something he had done in real life to a group of veterans.)

It's when things collapse that people get diagnosed.  I work with people who on most occassions can pass; unless you know that the little boy they are looking for is in his 50s, that they aren't allowed to keep money in their room as they look for their purse, that this is the third time in an hour that you've had the exact same conversation with them.

People can die in very short times after dementia affects their mind.  What ever is causing the damage to the parts of the brain involved in memory, emotion, and thought can also damage the parts of the brain involved in breathing, swallowing, and body temperature regulation.

There is no good death from the point of view of the loved ones.

Whenever there is a coup, the party performing it will deny it is a coup.

But technically it's always a coup, independently of the intentions of the ones performing it.

So the question is: Is this a coup for better or for worse?

@raphjd:

If he wants to express his religious views to students, under UK law, he could do that at a religious school.

Oh didn't know that! In that regard UK schools are the same as Mexican ones.

Still, considering what's going on, it is a snowball of accusations: one part goes: 'He offended me because I'm xx', then the accused part goes: 'They're after me because I'm a yy' and it goes on and on.

Original Beiber was such a girly boy.  It was kinda creepy watching gay guys drool over him/her.

I haven't really paid attention to him, but he definitely fuckable, at least for a while, though.

This is so sadddd. Especially will and grace is back.  I miss her.

That is crazy to me. I'm sorry about your experience.

I mean …. hate the game not the player.

That is soooooo crazy !!!!!!