Posts made by viscous

@Frederick:

The reason was not that Flynn did anything wrong regarding Russia, but Flynn lied to vice-president Pence.

It's touching that you still believe this, because on the very day you posted this, reports came out that Flynn asked for immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony to House and Senate intelligence committees (and they both denied him). But you keep at it!

Speaking from the USA in our defense, please remember:

1. Trump lost the popular vote, to another candidate who was herself unpopular. If not for the anachronism of the Electoral College, Clinton would be President. (I didn't vote for her either, FWIW).

2. Trump is deeply unpopular in the USA - his approval ratings are in the mid- to upper 30% range - very low for a new president.

The calls for impeachment are not because Trump's opponents are sore losers. Trump has been in clear violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution since the day he took office, just from what we know from publically available information of Trump's business dealings. As law professor and ACLU National Legal Director David Cole explained:

But the Constitution subjects the president to a conflict-of-interest law: the so-called “emoluments” clause. That clause provides that no federal officeholder may, absent express approval by Congress, accept “any present, Emolument,…of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” It is designed to ensure that federal officials, from the president on down, serve only the interest of the American public, and are not compromised by foreign influence. In 1787, Charles Pinckney of South Carolina proposed the provision at the Constitutional Convention, urging “the necessity of preserving foreign Ministers & other officers of the US independent of external influence.”1 At the Virginia convention to ratify the Constitution, Edmund Jennings Randolph explained that the clause was “provided to prevent corruption.”2

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and later:

But public records establish that his organization is involved in deals and contracts around the globe. Many of those ventures stand to gain from the actions of foreign governments or their agents—including investments involving foreign state-owned companies, government contracts or permits, lease agreements, or even overnight stays or events held at Trump hotels, golf courses, or other properties.

The single largest tenant of Trump Tower is the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a wholly state-owned company. Trump’s major business partner in the Philippines was named by President Rodrigo Duterte as special envoy to the United States. Trump has ongoing business projects throughout the world, including in Argentina and the nation of Georgia. He receives millions of dollars in licensing revenue from a Trump hotel in Panama. And then, of course, there is Russia, where Trump has long had extensive business dealings, and where government officials were recently overheard by our intelligence agencies celebrating Trump’s election, after a campaign in which Russia hacked and then leaked confidential e-mails from the Democratic National Committee, among other Democratic organizations, in order to boost Trump’s chances.

For my part, I don't know why I'd want to give this information to the Federal government. They've done enough illegal snooping (i.e. without probable cause) already, without my handing this stuff to them too.

Maybe President ("Who knew health care could be so complicated") Trump will get bored or frustrated and just resign? He's already way behind on appointments to senior government positions, because who knew governing the nation was so complicated? It seems farfetched, but a Trump presidency seemed farfetched, too.

According to that Jan. 20 NYT article (Jan 19 version at hxxps://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html), there were perfectly valid, and scary, reasons for some of these investigations of Trump's associates to take place (the Jan. 20 version may be available through your public library's website in the USA -  ProQuest Newsstand, Infotrac Newstand, and many other services carry it).

Excerpt 1:

The F.B.I. investigation into Mr. Manafort began last spring, and was an outgrowth of a criminal investigation into his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine and for the country’s former president, Viktor F. Yanukovych. In August, The Times reported that Mr. Manafort’s name had surfaced in a secret ledger that showed he had been paid millions in undisclosed cash payments. The Associated Press has reported that his work for Ukraine included a secret lobbying effort in Washington aimed at influencing American news organizations and government officials.

Excerpt 2:

Mr. [Roger] Stone, a longtime friend of Mr. Trump’s, said in a speech in Florida last summer that he had communicated with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that published the hacked Democratic emails. During the speech, Mr. Stone predicted further leaks of documents, a prediction that came true within weeks.

So I can finally agree with Trump - let's by all means have a full airing of what these investigators did and exactly what they found.

OT to rawr: I use CookieCuller (for Firefox) to clear all unwanted cookies and BetterPrivacy to clear all LSO cookies before I come to sites like this. Is that enough?

There's been semi-serious speculation that Trump might resign before his term is up. He may just get bored or frustrated with all the work. And he's now subject to all kinds of rules that he would never tolerate in his private business, and it's showing.

Also, there was a good discussion of Trump's past and present relationships with the press in today's NY Times. He himself used to be the leaker when he was promoting himself to the New York tabloids (I loved the part about the fake accents, which I quoted in bold below).

From the article:

His anger is compounded by his belief that he should still be able to plant and steer stories. That was a lot easier to do when he was running a close-knit real estate and branding business with an aggressive legal team that demanded that nearly everyone in his orbit sign nondisclosure agreements.

And a bit later, on why this is so hard to do:

To some extent, the clash with the press was inevitable. Mr. Trump may be noisier and more confrontational than many of his predecessors, but he is being force-fed lessons all presidents eventually learn — that the iron triangle of the Washington press corps, West Wing staff and federal bureaucracy is simply too powerful to bully.

Reporters back in New York, however, knew that the president’s call for an end to “sources” — meaning anonymous sources leaking damaging details of his campaign’s relationship with Russian officials — did not jibe with his onetime role as a no-fingerprints gossipmonger, trumpeting his business dealings and romantic life in late-night phone calls.

“I’m against the people that make up stories and make up sources,” Mr. Trump said. “They shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name. Let their name be put out there. Let their name be put out.”

“He used to be the one leaking!” Ms. Stasi pointed out on Friday from her office at The Daily News, where she is a columnist. “He was leaking about himself. He would call up with fake accents and pretend it wasn’t him. He would tell us 100 times: ‘Now listen, I’m going to tell you something, but it didn’t come from me.’”

Mr. Trump, who taunted his blind-quoted critics on Friday — “Let ’em say it to my face!” — hid his own identity to push self-promoting stories in the 1980s, posing as his own public-relations man under the fake names John Miller and John Barron.

^^Emphasis mine.

@raphjd:

I am living in the UK because of illegals getting priority in the immigration queue over my now husband who went the legal route.  I moved to the UK the legal way.

Everyone: I joined this site 10 years ago, and raphjd was living in the UK then, so I really wonder if this is some new problem. As Donald J. Trump would say, in defense of his non-payment of taxes, screwing his contractors and dodging the draft: "that's smart, because I got away with it."  If raphjd and his husband didn't just come to the US illegally, doesn't that suggest he's not that bright??

But let's continue:

@raphjd:

Anyone ranting about European immigrants taking land from the native Americans, need to show that not once did native Americans take lands from anyone else. (emphasis mine)

Here raphjd is fall-on-his-own-face-stupid, because we likewise we could say: "Anyone ranting about Germany taking land from France / Poland / Austria / etc. during WWII needs to show that not once did  France, Poland, Austria, etc. take lands from anyone else." (Maybe raphjd considers WWII Germany justified in it's expansion, considering that whole Austro-Hungarian Empire thing…)

But, seriously, we need to be a little considerate of raphjd. I have it on very good authority (but I'm not supposed to say this) that raphjd is only posting crap like this because his dog thinks he's an imbecile. When we have a site where an admin is also a troll, perhaps we should just ignore all his posts? (And wish the best for his poor dog, of course).

 forum spamming; personal attacks ad no value to threads.

You could sign your uploads in the torrent description if you want people to see your username.

There used to be an option to show your username and let people see your upload / download activity, but that ended for good reason - during a period years ago when there were mass lawsuits. It led to some funny situations, however, such as when a user claiming to be director Joe Gage went around saying people should stop "stealing my property" when he himself was downloading films from Jet Set and other studios and had over a terabyte of downloads.

I vaguely remember hearing that Trump is a teetotaler, but don't quote me on that, and I don't think it's too important.

What we do know is that he's a thin-skinned, emotionally stunted narcissist who needs constant adoration from others - that's why he wants to get back on the campaign trail. That's also a key reason why countless deputy secretary, assistant secretary and under secretary positions remain unfilled - Trump can't abide anyone who's ever criticized him.

From this article  (hxxps://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/us/politics/trump-candidates-top-posts.html?_r=0):
"That does not even begin to cover the rest of the more than 4,000 appointments that a president typically makes. In some cases, the Trump administration is even going in reverse. A senior political appointee at the housing department, who had already started the job, was fired this past week and marched out of the building when someone discovered his previous statements critical of Mr. Trump."

@kalayaan:

We have it here 

Norway Version S01E01-06
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=bab8e8c2c07b13d0a57fbd37772cac4022fdd3ca48703608
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=ef805b5a093c42fca57fbd37772cac40a82aa8406dcdc5a0

I'm getting to be a fan of Scandinavian Noir, and I have the Norwegian version with the "machine translated" English subtitles, which are pretty bad and offputting IMO (https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=ef805b5a093c42fca57fbd37772cac40a82aa8406dcdc5a0 ). I assume the version from the UK DVD release has proper English subtitles (https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=bab8e8c2c07b13d0a57fbd37772cac4022fdd3ca48703608&filelist=1#xfilelist )?

I posted a couple of collections similar to this a while ago, but they eventually got deleted as different studios were banned and unbanned (this was before the site started honoring DMCA takedown requests). Maybe I'll post some again. You might also like this:
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=2a23f4eb617916b542fccc738f1cb52d450335e126b7f56c

Also, the defunct French studio Lagrange used to make stuff like this:
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/browse.php?c62=1&c29=1&c43=1&c44=1&c50=1&c7=1&c48=1&c5=1&c32=1&c12=1&c33=1&c53=1&c57=1&c35=1&c58=1&c54=1&c38=1&c39=1&c45=1&c1=1&c41=1&c42=1&c28=1&search=Lagrange&incldead=1&inname=1&infn=1&orderby=added&sort=desc

After "Clinton News Network," I don't need to take you seriously. It's just another corporate news outlet.

And if I were you I would really not sleep in the same room with, or turn my back on, my dog. He's waiting and watching.

@raphjd:

I trust Brietbart more than i do the traditional news outlets, like Clinton News Network.

raphjd, I'm sincerely sorry to tell you this, but your dog thinks you're an imbecile.

@amicusets:

The stupidity that the SJWs of the gay community espouses just astounds me…

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/10/17/the-advocate-peter-thiel-cant-be-gay-because-hes-a-conservative/

This headline from the above-referenced Breitbart article is what's truly stupid: "The Advocate: Peter Thiel Can’t Be Gay Because He’s a Conservative."

Ummm, that's not "The Advocate" saying that. It's an op-ed, or opinion piece, and is clearly labeled "commentary," by someone who appears to have written all of three commentaries for that magazine. I know the half-wits at Breitbart don't make such brainy, vaguely sissified distinctions, but please learn the difference between news and opinion before tilting at the windmill of theSJWsofthegaycommunity…

Also - I hope this isn't too obvious - with a 60 GB folder it's very possible some people didn't want all the files. They would show up as leechers, even though they're not downloading anymore.

@raphjd:

Are you sickened by the idea of not all gays being part of the hive mind?    I honesty think that's what the problem is.

How you got from someone criticizing two rabidly anti-gay right wingers to "hive mind" is beyond me. Be careful not to sprain yourself making such extreme logical leaps.

@moonmonday:

There are so many logical flaws with this pathetic excuse for an argument that it would be too time-consuming to point them all out. It's more like the whole article – and any referenced media -- is laughably flimsy and a sad attempt to be inflammatory for clickbait. Try again. Or better yet, don't.

Logic is a liberal plot, just like what Donald Rumsfeld disdainfully called "the reality based community." Reality has a liberal bias.

For my part, beast775 had me at "Santorum"…wonderful, wonderful Santorum...tasty Santorum…  :puke:
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=santorum&defid=942955 )

NOTE:  made link live

I don't see anything wrong. In fact, this all looks great to me. Screw post-Christmas dieting, I'm gonna get me some ice cream right now!

Additionally, this should be made freeleech:
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=0118f518b32bbe3c42fccc738f1cb52dd0a244df9ff0cccb