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Just as Lincoln's phony emancipation didn't change things, just as separate but equal didn't change things, just as Brown v Board of Education didn't change things, just as all the civil rights acts didn't change things, more band aids won't change things.

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After years of criticism that it wasn’t taking harassment seriously, Twitter is planning to roll out some of its strongest tools yet to combat abusive content on the platform...

Good luck with, eh?

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Twitter is dead, and today exists as little more than a Sharia-compliant echo of its erstwhile self. If Twitter were in the emergency room, we’d be well past the CPR and defibrillator stages and waiting on transport to the morgue. Twitter didn’t just die this month — or even when they started facing massive pressure from shareholder lawsuits and scathing stock analyst reports.

The company attempted to find a buyer in October, a common move for a failing organization, only to see big names like Google, Disney and Salesforce.com all turn away. CEO Jack Dorsey and his motley crew of censors have been left trying to figure out how to keep the lights on...It’s pretty straightforward. When a social network starts playing politics and clamping down on free speech, it dies. I can think of no exception in the history of social networking.

http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/12/21/twitter-isnt-just-dead-rigor-mortis/

"Racist white supremacist" nails it.

As for me, I'm just a . . .

Seal Meat: Veal of the Ocean?

Modern Farmer
By Dan Nosowitz on November 17, 2014

“The meat is pretty much not like much else you’ve ever eaten,” says Perrin, chef/owner of The Mallard Cottage, a restaurant on the forefront of the new Newfoundland cuisine....to Perrin, [seal meat is] a sustainable, indigenous product that’s an important part of his culture and also pretty damn delicious.

...the seals hunted are still typically the young, which Perrin calls “the veal of the sea.” It’s the same basic idea as using lamb or suckling pig: before the animal really starts to move around, it has little muscle tone and a lot of fat, which makes it enviable from a culinary point of view.

"Last year we had a couple chefs down from Montreal and other parts of Canada and we did a seven-course menu of seal, all done differently, including dessert,” he says.

Perrin thinks of the actions of the Humane Society and PETA as a little bit craven; to him, this is a non-endangered, very common local product, one that’s unique to his region and that he really likes to work with. "In a PR campaign, what are you going to use? A cow, or a seal pup with big dark eyes looking back at you?” Perrin sees seal as a superficial campaign issue for animal rights groups, a way to use cute pictures to secure more money, when he’s just trying to cook his food in a respectful way.

An all time winner

Trump is doomed.

The US isn't going to be destroyed by a loon like Trump.

46.% now favor the impeachment of Trump.

The visit will be postponed until sometime between late August and the end of September, according to a report from The Guardian. That will mean that it can be held while Parliament is in recess – and MPs are not around to embarrass the President by objecting to him.

Mr Trump will head to the UK on a short visit between a Sunday and a Thursday, according to the report. It's unlikely that he'll spend much time in London because of the huge protests that are expected to greet him.

As much as I feel Der Trump is kind of a dimwit with ADHD spectral symptoms, I would hate like hell to drive him out of a complete term. Itd **** up the markets and turn us into a real loser and could possibly give the retinue in waiting a complete turn around in govt and promote some kind of Constitutional Crisis. Adam Liptak was giving his opinion re: that possibility which could become a self fullfilling certainty were he leading up to impeachment or resignation.

As much as I hate to say, we have to brace up the moron and let his term finish to maintain the govt as we know it.
&5% of nations who undergo Constitutional crises, completely abandon their original constitutions within a year after the events.
Look at the Arab Spring, its pretty much a total wipeout and many of the nations are now worse off.

I like the Constitution. I just wish Herr Trump would read it or have someone who knows it try to 'splain what its about. Hes claiming his words of his EO's to be Constitutionally sound and he is flat wrong.
He is also flat wrong about the oversite by a Judiciary.(meaning the executive brqnch judiciary committee as well as the Judiciary itself)

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Torture them ISIS pervs until they spill every last bit of info they got in them. Then just cap the sorry sumbitches.

Ummmmm, that's one of the things that got German and Japanese war criminals hung.

At what US torture site around the world would you suggest the gallows should operate for US war criminals?

"Racist white supremacist" nails it.

Starving the trolls

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After years of criticism that it wasn’t taking harassment seriously, Twitter is planning to roll out some of its strongest tools yet to combat abusive content on the platform by virtually putting Twitter trolls in dark, soundproof room.

The company announced several improvements in a blog post Tuesday that it says will help make Twitter a safer place — including shutting down sock-puppet accounts created by users who have been previously suspended or banned, removing abusive tweets in search results, and collapsing “low quality” replies.

TP

That worked well!

And while Mr. Obama liked policy option papers that were three to six single-spaced pages, council staff members are now being told to keep papers to a single page, with lots of graphics and maps.

“The president likes maps,” one official said.

Poor Republicans. Traumatized by two terms of Obama they're now stuck having to defend this weirdo. It's going to get old. Real fast. Dancing to the highly syncopated pipings of a tweeting huckster. SAD.