Posts made by Frederick

@aadam101:

Maybe you don't care but Trump does.  He said so himself.  It's obvious he is hiding something…..that's what HE said.

Trump's tax returns have been audited every year for decades.  Obviously if there was something wrong, it would have been found.  It has not.  The audits are still going on.  He said he would gladly release all his returns when the audits are over, but only a fool would release their tax returns while they are being audited.  In fact, any lawyer or accountant working on Trump's finances would quit if their client released their tax returns while an audit was going on.

Is that so hard for you to understand?

@aadam101:

So you think you should only get government subsidies if you promise not to exercise your first amendment rights?  Once again, I urge you to move to North Korea.  You would really like it there.

Here's a crazy idea Einstein.  Government subsidies should only be given to organizations that need a subsidy.  I doubt very much that Donald Trump is receiving welfare or food stamps.  I'm sure Obama has applied for them though.

@cteavin:

@aadam101:

@cteavin:

@aadam101:

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@cteavin:

Trump will never do that.  His own wife spit all over Americans when she worked here illegally.

What are you saying Trump will never do? It's not clear to me from the context.

Trying to figure out his his context is like trying to figure out what someone ate for dinner by smelling their farts.

I just found this out today.. and was flabbergasted!  The US government gives BILLIONS to the NFL?  WHY?  Do they need it?  Do those players raking in $20 million a year need money for ramen noodles?

Here's an idea.. they don't stand for the national anthem?  Fine.. cut off their subsidies!

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/30/news/companies/nfl-taxpayers/index.html

@cteavin:

http://www.steelers.com/news/article-4/A-letter-to-Steelers-Nation/cf1816b3-85f9-4b11-bcfb-1012940b641d

The Steeler's president issued an explanation/apology saying that the action of not walking onto the pitch was misunderstood. Not participating was supposed to be the teams not taking a stand on the knee issue.

Thoughts? Should we take him at his word?

Sounds to me like he realized he made a huge mistake and is trying to walk it back by not accepting responsibility.

Of course YOU are correct.  The Steeler's president is being a weasel.

@aadam101:

Here are some of Trumps statements on Executive Orders.

“You know, it’s supposed to be negotiated. You’re supposed to cajole, get people in a room, you have Republicans, Democrats, you’re supposed to get together and pass a law. [Obama] doesn’t want to do that because it’s too much work. So he doesn’t want to work too hard. He wants to go back and play golf.”“The country wasn’t based on executive orders,” said Trump at a town hall in South Carolina in February 2016.

“Right now, Obama goes around signing executive orders. He can’t even get along with the Democrats, and he goes around signing all these executive orders. It’s a basic disaster. You can’t do it.”

“The problem with Washington, they don’t make deals. It’s all gridlock. And then you have a president that signs executive orders because he can’t get anything done. I’ll get everybody together.”

“He doesn’t work the system. That is why he signs executive orders all the time because he can’t get his own people to go along.”

“Right now, we have an executive-order president. He just keeps signing.”

“Why is @BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?”

“I hate what Obama does with gun legislation. He doesn't talk to anybody. He goes out and signs executive orders. In theory you're supposed to the old fashioned way, get everybody into a room and get something people agree on.”

“I don't think [Obama] even tries anymore. I think he just signs executive actions.”

“Nobody wants to listen to [Obama], including the Democrats, so he just goes around signing executive orders.”

Exactly.  That is why executive orders are a LAST resort for Trump.. while they were the FIRST resort for Obama. 
Congress failed to come up with ANY healthcare legislation, so Trump has to do it himself.  Trump has said the legislature should do it, not an executive order.. but since the legislature didn't do it and there is no more time, Trump has to do it.

Nobody with a brain cares if Trump releases his returns. 
It is not required.
We do know that one year he paid over $35 million in taxes.  How much income tax have you paid, if any, in your entire life?

It is surprising that even though he didn't cave in to the pressure to release his returns, he STILL won the election by a massive landslide.  I forget how many.. but Trump won well over 90% of the counties.  The only places he lost were the corrupt city centers which are also the #1 hot spots for crime.

@cteavin:

So is affirmative action still a thing? I learned recently about the point system in the SAT scores. (sigh – What happened to pulling yourself up by the bootstraps?) Anyway, it sounds like the fix to your problem in employment is to eliminate the affirmative action policies.

As for the NFL, perhaps most of the black protesters are boycotting because they, themselves have seen black people getting shot by cops first hand; or they feel racism because the media covers cop on black violence but not cop on white.

The rest of the people who are protesting are, in my opinion, reacting to Trump and doing what they see as politically smart in the short-term: Everyone has begun to kneel, so I should kneel, too. Mistake. Big mistake. That just leads to people in pink hats feeling smart but looking like pussies.

I think what you feel from your experiences, that is the discrimination you as a white person have personally experienced is different than the bigotry the average black person feels and that both blacks and whites are mischaracterizing what happens to them as racist. To cure a cancer you have to know exactly what kind it is. Applying a general cureall will end up killing the patient. So it is with social problems. Identifying exactly where the problems are is the key to removing the dis-ease. Would you agree?

It used to be that black people were treated like garbage by the police in the USA.  But, after several decades of struggling, and marching.. there is finally equality between blacks and whites!  Yes!  Now White people are also treated like garbage by the police.

@cteavin:

@aadam101:

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@cteavin:

Take the non-tax payers out of the system – no more illegal immigrants eating up services.

This would put us all in danger.  Do you really want immigrants running around with contagious diseases?  We will all be sick…..

I want to cut ILLEGAL immigration to zero. Honestly, I'm not pro-wall, but not against the government building one, either. (I always thought a workers exchange program would protect the peoples crossing the border, something like they had in the 50's.) So what I mean is that illegal immigrants should not have access to health care unless they pay for it. If some US citizens get sick, that might incentivize voters to push for stricter border control.

My father's family immigrated to the US from Portugal between the 50's and 60's. Once one member was in, the whole family, all 13 brothers and sisters, their wives and children, were allowed it. I love my family but I recognize that they took advantage of a great kindness extended by the US as those older aunts and uncles needed a lot of medical care when they came over – a lot. Because of SSI, Medical, Medicaid their health care was all free. These people were in the US legally, so if you tack on the illegals the cost to tax payers grows even more.

In my families case, every single child (all of my cousins) pay taxes. A good many started their own companies, too. But illegal immigrants don't pay anything into the system, so they should be excluded, cold-hearted as that may sound.

@Frederik, I work at an international high school in Japan. Once a year they take our second year students (eleventh grade US) abroad. The students used to be taken to Los Angeles. A few years back, a few of the girls snuck out of the hotel and somehow got booze. The next morning they had their first hangover. Japan being Japan, they took them to the hospital for an IV and to double check that they were okay. The hospital didn't  recognize the Japanese health insurance and demanded 5000USD up front to even see them.

The teachers paid the money (and were later reimbursed through Japanese health care) and the fees took all that money.

The board of education canceled all school trips to the US, permanently. If schools go there now, they are private.

Good for them!  There was a similar incident a year ago involving school trips to Washington DC.    I forget the circumstances, but they decided to stop doing school trips to Washington DC.

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I don't think moonbats understand the word "ILLEGAL".   Moonbats want to allow people do to illegal stuff.

Well.. Congress failed on healthcare again, so that's it right?

WRONG!

President Trump is going to put his OWN healthcare plan in place which is good for one year with an Executive Order!  :cheers:

That will tie madam101's ovaries in a knot.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/27/news/economy/trump-executive-order-health-care/index.html

@cteavin:

There are a few interesting roads out from your post.

1. Slaves were bred for strength and stamina, so a large portion of that 13% is (cough, cough) genetically superior for most sports. In a competitive market, it makes sense that a certain group would dominate.

It is unfair that the SAT's add and subtract points based on race. Racist? We'd have to state exactly how we're defining that term.

2. Are people suddenly on their knee to protest police violence or are they on their knee to indirectly protest Trump? It feels like the latter, at least from what's happened this past weekend – and sheep follow.

3. I know you're not suggesting affirmative action in sports but it would be interesting to see how that would play out. As it is already, a person of color who holds a job or place in university simultaneously earned it and was given it as charity. You can't square that circle. Sport is one of the few areas where black people earned their position (to the exclusion of whites).

That is sort of the point I was trying to make. 
Blacks are more suited to play football, and their overwhelming dominance of the game reflects that… and yet.. the reason I see for the going down on one knee is racism.  Seems to me that they should be the last group of people bitching about racism.

In my case.. I won't even mention my academic and mental prowess, because nobody would believe it anyway.  Let's just say I'm reeely smaert.  So.. I got a fantastic job with a fantastic salary, etc.. right?  WRONG!  I got screwed over and ever again.  In two instances, I took tests for government jobs.  One federal, one county level.  On both tests, I did extremely well - scoring 98% on the federal test and 99% on the county test.  However  that only got me 99 out of 100 points..  to get an interview for the job, you had to score at least 124 points.  Even if I got a 100% perfect score, I still would not have ever gotten an interview.  They didn't mention it BEFORE the examination.. but veterans got a 20 point bonus,  certain minorities got a 20 point bonus, and handicapped people got a 20 point bonus.  So, a black, veteran in a wheelchair only had to score 60 on the exam to get an interview.  But forget about getting all 3 bonuses.. lets just consider one.  If someone qualified for any of those 3 bonuses, that would give them 20 points.  Even THAT person would not get an interview.. because even with a perfect 100% score they would still only have 120 points.. 4 short of the minimum.  So, you had to qualify for at LEAST 2 of the 3 bonuses.

It infuriates me that a genius is not even considered for a job that is given to a moron because of their skin color, etc.

I have to add one more thing to that.  In the private sector, they take a look at resumes.  I was completely honest with my resumes.. which prevented me from getting a job.  In a pile of resumes, my truth could not compete with the lies of other people.  They blatantly put down degrees which they did not have, and experience they did not have, and even family members that they did not have.  The businesses do NOT check resumes.  I know they don't because my university does not realease a transcript unless the former student (me) makes a specific request for each business and pays a $50 fee for each transcript request.  Not one business ever requested my transcripts.. nor do they request anybody else's transcript.

@cteavin:

The real issue is that no one is fixing the health care system. For some people charging $99 for a $8 case of water is "price gouging" yet charging $800 for an $8 bag of saline is "healthcare". How to fix it:

Get the lobbyists out of Washingon by draining the swamp.
Don't make health insurance a for-profit business. Treat it like a utility.
Incentive doctors and hospitals for healthy patients. The profit is in keeping them sick and pill-addicted.
Take the non-tax payers out of the system – no more illegal immigrants eating up services.

The Republican Party doesn't want the Federal government involved in health care, nor for it to be a right; the Democratic Party sees the federal government as the great protector and demands people get free healthcare even when The People haven't earned it. There's a compromise between the two where the Federal government fixes the prices the pharmaceutical companies charge by purchasing their services in bulk and giving the citizens the option to join or not join with their premiums being lower the longer they're in the program. Join when you're 65, get rapped. Join when your 21, by the time your 65 your premiums will not go up much because you've paid into the system.

Geeze, send me to Washington, already.

A couple of years ago, my father had a 1 hour procedure followed by a 2 day hospital stay.  The bill for it was $78,000.  $28,000 of that was the surgeon's fee… apparently he get's paid $28,000 an hour.  For anesthesia.. a 1 liter bag of IV sedation was used.  I looked up the price on that 1 liter.. and it was $500... however.. I looked at the itemized bill, and the insurance company was billed $5000 for that liter of anesthesia..not $500.

@aadam101:

I'm simply agreeing with what the Republicans want for America.  They want ObamaCare.  They LOVE it.

As usual, you post misinformation and lies. 
None of the republican senators like Obamacare.  48 of the 52 of them were prepared to vote to repeal and replace it.  They need 50.  The 4 who  are hold outs want to wait until next year to deal with it.

To be absolutely blunt, this is what happened:
John McCain has always been an idiot.  The only reason he got anywhere is because his daddy was a Navy Admiral.  McCain nearly destroyed an aircraft carrier, and in the process killed 131 people and severely wounded over 160 more.  He then did his best service to the country by becoming a prisoner of war. 
Even though Trump supported McCain in 2008 against Obama, and gave him a huge pile of money, in 2016 Trump said that McCain was no war hero.  Which is true. 
Because of that McCain hates Trump with a passion, and would do absolutely anything to screw Trump, including jeopardizing the entire republican party and the entire county.. just because he has a personal grudge against Trump.
For the past 7 years, McCain has been promising to repeal and replace Obamacare - and won re-election for another 6 year term in the 2016 election.  But then.. Trump won the presidency.. and suddenly, McCain has done everything possible to prevent Obamacare from being repealed and replaced.  What an asshole.  McCain is also extremely short-sighted, because from now on, McCain's legacy will be that of being the one that fucked healthcare for everybody.

@aadam101:

Republicans have once again shown us how much they love ObamaCare.  They lied to the American people for 7 years.  They never had any intention on repealing it.  ObamaCare is the best they can do for a healthcare plan.  There is nothing better except single payer and they aren't going to allow that…...yet.

What is better is government to stop forcing people to purchase healthcare that millions of them don't want nor need. 
Thank the democraps for that.  There is no way to provide healthcare to the entire country without millions of people getting screwed. 
Obamacare is, just what the Supreme Court said it was.. another tax.

Aadam101.. since you love Communism so much, why not move to North Korea?

In Nov. 2013, a perfect 20 year old that was liked by quite a few people committed suicide.  Here is a gallery of his pictures.  Supposedly he did it because he was being harassed.  I don't believe that is enough to cause him to commit suicide, especially since he had so many people that liked him.  https://www.google.com/search?q=frank+wolf+suicide+francis&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiy5frIxMbWAhWBQCYKHXS6Dy8QsAQILw&biw=1536&bih=798

Today I was watching some performers on Chaturbate, and noticed a guy who is so attractive and perfect that he does not even look real.  He is extremely nice.. but.. I noticed something.  There are certain facial clues that are classic indicators that someone is using meth.  It seems that meth is quite popular in Europe.  The long term effects of meth are quite destructive and deadly.
It pains me to see someone so perfect, with so much potential, snuff out their future.

I have one theory about this.  When someone is so close to being perfect, they can't deal with not being perfect.  Something that would not bother an average person at all, can become a life changing crisis to someone who is perfect.

In my case, my mental functions are extremely good.  However today I could not remember the last name of someone I lived with for about a year!  That caused me a great deal of anxiety.. until a few hours later while looking through a list of names… his name popped into my head.  It was not a name I had found in the lists I was looking at, but just looking at names triggered his name to pop into my memory. 
I suppose that I might become suicidal if I lost my mental sharpness and memory retention.

When Facebook was in it's infancy, they were desperate to get as many users as possible.
To do that, they had very few rules.  Their TOS, terms of service allowed things that they no longer allow.

To get a Facebook account, you have to agree to their TOS.
HOWEVER, whenever they change their TOS, that voids the previous TOS, and users must AGREE to the NEW TOS.

Where in life can you have a contract or agreement.. that one side changes in the future without the consent of the other party?

Also, Facebook has rules against virtually everything.  They selectively enforce these rules when they want to eliminate someone.

Beyond all that.. they also have done things which are illegal - such as asking for FULL social security numbers.  Only government institutions and financial institutions have the right to even request that information.  I personally have gotten email from Facebook demanding my social security number as a form of identification.

If anybody doesn't believe that Facebook makes a fortune out of selling it's user's personal information to government agencies, telemarketers, investigation services, and advertisers, then that person is ignorant and naive.

How many users to you think Facebook would have if they clearly informed it's users that "we may sell your personal information to government agencies, telemarketers, investigation services, and advertisers"?

13% of the US population is black.  Therefore, 13% of the NFL should be black.   87% of the population is not black.  Therefore for every black player in the NFL, there should be 8.7 players who are not black to be racially fair.   Let's make a visual out of that…
B for black
X for not black
An NFL football team has a roster of 53 players of which 13% of them should be black.  That is actually 6.89 players, but for simplicity, we will say that a team should have 7 black players to be racially fair.  That looks like this:
BBBBBBBXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
But.. that is not the case.. 70% of NFL teams are black.. that looks like this:
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
That is 37 of the 53 players being black.. 70%
That means that to be racially fair, 30 of the average 37 black players would need to be fired….
30 out of 37 being fired is 81%

So.. for the NFL to be racially unbiased, they would have to fire 81% of the black players!

With that in mind.. how on earth can the NFL players drop to one knee and complain about racism?  
So, to solve racism in the NFL, 81% of the black players need to be fired.  Hmmm....
But of course, one must consider the fans.. Since 70% of the players are black, surely 70% of the fans must be black?  No.. 83% of the fans are white.. which means that LESS than 17% of the fans are black.  There must be some asian and hispanic fans also.

Finally, there are 70% / 13% or 5.37 times as many black players as there should be.  
This is extremely racist in favor of black players.  There SHOULD be 7.  That means if their was white racism to the same extreme as there IS black racism in the NFL, then there would be less than 2 black players per roster of 53!  
Only 11 of the 53 players on a team are on the field at any time.. therefore.. you would almost never see a black person playing football!
As it stand now, the only white players you see are typically the kicker and the quarterback.

Racism goes both ways.  If someone says they are NOT racist, then that person must also say that 81% of the black players should be fired to be racially fair.

https://football.realgm.com/wiretap/37130/Blacks-Represent-70-Percent-Of-NFL-Players-Fan-Base-83-Percent-White

Bill Gates is one of the biggest douche bags of all time.. but he did something I like for the first time. 
He has forsaken the Microsoft Iphone X for an Android phone.

I guess even Bill thought that over $1000 for a stupid phone was too expensive!  He can't afford it!

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/26/technology/bill-gates-android-phone/index.html

@cteavin:

(cough, cough) First amendment remedies and a shovel. (cough, cough)

Maybe do with her what they do with some dogs to train them not to shit where they should not..  shove her face into the shit.

@cteavin:

@Frederick:

@cteavin:

A single Moonbat thinks so.  
 
It had to be a trans person. Why couldn't it be a real woman?

"Brain damage". Yeah, that sounds about right.

There are "legitimate" trans people who are born anatomically ambiguous, or have dysfunctional testes, etc.  Those people were born that way and I have complete sympathy with their condition and wish them the best in dealing with it.  
HOWEVER.. there are also people such as Bruce Jenner and a LOT of other people are are 100% "male" and just decide they want to be a female.  More specifically.. there are many men who decide to become a woman so that they can make money in prostitution.   Again, I don't have anything against escorts.. but changing one's gender to become sexually marketable is a big problem.  In fact, those transgendered prostitutes almost never have their penises removed.   From my observations.. that type of transgendered person gives "real" transgendered people a bad name.   The "fake" trans are very often extremely malicious, violent, suicidal, homicidal, negative, monsters.

There's a language game going on (you alluded to it when you correctly said "kneeling now means standing") where people are trying to redefine terms to fit an agenda. Trans is one.

I agree that body dysmorphia might be a real biological condition. My heart goes out to men and women to decide that they have to mutilate thier bodies to feel comfortable. But the queer movement has decided that sex is not gender, sex is a choice, and other nonsense. In front of that backdrop the mentally unstable and ill have come out in droves. Bruce Jenner is one – and people were expected to applaude.
 
From what I've seen, there are a lot of men and women who are psychologically fucked up from growing up in an environment where gay = sin, their parents are unaccepting, hiding a part of themselves. My personal feeling is those environments cause a psychological effect whereby men don't feel they're men, women don't feel like women. Whatever the real cause, many of these people are mentally unsound.

Being trans and having brain damage so I take a shit in front of someone's house... Enough with the excuses. Own up to being a bad person.

Yes.. and if that person is so brain damaged and fucked up in the head that they are trans.. put that person away in an asylum or at least order that person to keep the hell away from children.   Can you imagine this?  "There is a brain damaged psycho taking a shit in broad daylight on the lawn in front of my kids!"   and the police would respond "Well, there is nothing we can do about that.. it's a civil matter.. you will have to contact an attorney and pay a $4500 non-refundable retainer.."      I think I would solve the problem by purchasing a slingshot or at least a jet stream hose attachment and give it to the kids.  Take video of the person taking a shit.. send it to her employer if she has one.. and family… and neighbors.