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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 03, 2017, 04:29:37 PM »

Does anyone think that staying committed to the agreement was bad? Why? What's the rationale for leaving?

If people want to buy certain kinds of products over others, for whatever reason, why should amyone care? That's their business.

What's so special about today's climate? What if tomorrow's is better?

So, we should reverse course on previous decisions on the basis that we might like the alternative better? Wouldn't it follow that we should continually be reversing ourselves? Because there are continually alternatives we might like better? I don't think this is a very practical suggestion.

Or..... we could stop pretending we can really control the thermostat if only we spend enough money and raise the price of energy enough. I know this is difficult to grasp -  but one alternative is to just live our lives.

So, it makes you feel good not to pursue what you believe to be a fruitless endeavor. It makes other people feel good to pursue what they believe is not a fruitless endeavor. What is the reason to exit the agreement?

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 03, 2017, 02:59:23 PM »

Does anyone think that staying committed to the agreement was bad? Why? What's the rationale for leaving?

If people want to buy certain kinds of products over others, for whatever reason, why should amyone care? That's their business.

What's so special about today's climate? What if tomorrow's is better?

So, we should reverse course on previous decisions on the basis that we might like the alternative better? Wouldn't it follow that we should continually be reversing ourselves? Because there are continually alternatives we might like better? I don't think this is a very practical suggestion.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Dogs

« on: June 03, 2017, 12:40:06 PM »

Oh, man. Haha.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 03, 2017, 10:09:13 AM »

Does anyone think that staying committed to the agreement was bad? Why? What's the rationale for leaving?

If people want to buy certain kinds of products over others, for whatever reason, why should amyone care? That's their business.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: LOL TRUMP

« on: June 02, 2017, 07:07:02 PM »

President Donald Trump is still looking for a new FBI director more than three weeks after he fired James Comey
...
While the department has compiled a long list of candidates for the White House, there has been no “clear framework or logic for who was interviewed and why,” said one of the sources.

Another of the three sources described the process as chaotic and said that in one interview, Trump spoke mostly about himself and seemed distracted.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSKBN18T2S8

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Joint Checking Accounts

« on: June 02, 2017, 06:13:25 PM »

I wonder what she spent that much money on.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Trump and Russia

« on: June 02, 2017, 03:50:49 PM »

https://twitter.com/DrDenaGrayson/status/870672194376015877

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Kansas State Football / Re: Corey Sutton

« on: June 02, 2017, 01:46:36 PM »

Jesus. Way to make yourself look like a shithead for no reason, Bill.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 02, 2017, 09:44:39 AM »

Supply and demand? Ha! That's preposterous!

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 02, 2017, 08:52:19 AM »

Just from the last couple pages....

Everything you said is stupid.  Shut up.

ksu and his merry band of dumbasses are worth responding to anymore

Of course, you're too goddamn obtuse to have a discussion with, so there's little point.

Fsd and ksuw are just miserable pieces of crap that contribute nothing to this world. When other people do proactive conscious things they laugh and mock because they want people to be as miserable as them. It's pretty simple. Luckily their kind is a dying breed. The younger generations contain less of their types.

You are one shitty little person.

KSUW and his wife scream at each other nightly over their overdrawn bank account while kids cry in the background.

Liberals are so mentally flaccid, their arguments so bankrupt, their hypocrisy so naked, that all they can muster is name calling in response. Sad.

Missed one:

Ksuw seems like the type of person that keeps the thermostat at 82 during the summer and his family hates him for it

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Joint Checking Accounts

« on: June 02, 2017, 08:45:09 AM »

Of course, she's legally entitled to something in virtue of being married. But she's only interested in "keeping things separate."

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 02, 2017, 08:33:04 AM »

FSD falls asleep every night in an old, dirty recliner in front of the TV while drinking a 12 pack of Milwaukee's Best.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 02, 2017, 08:30:34 AM »

KSUW and his wife scream at each other nightly over their overdrawn bank account while kids cry in the background.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Joint Checking Accounts

« on: June 02, 2017, 08:01:59 AM »

Why should she come out of this business relationship with no equity? Maybe some of her rent should count toward ownership of the house. To me, this sounds no less absurd than the idea that she'd be paying rent in the first place.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 01, 2017, 10:59:28 PM »

Worker at Cabela's: Most people prefer the striper lure to the blue fly lure.

FSD: That's rough ridin' stupid. Most people have never been fly fishing. Good grief.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 01, 2017, 10:08:48 PM »

I know facts aren't very important here, but saying that this is an issue only for liberals is a pretty big misrepresentation.

The fact that you seemingly believe a majority of people in any given state have ever even heard of the Paris accord shows how rough ridin' delusional and disconnected you are.

Good grief

Is this one less confusing for you?

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Kansas State Football / Re: Corey Sutton

« on: June 01, 2017, 09:21:11 PM »

https://twitter.com/CBSSportsDesk/status/870453155221430272

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency

« on: June 01, 2017, 09:19:00 PM »

I didn't catch the speech, but am certain this is a completely accurate synopsis.

“Therefore, in order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw,” Trump said.

He could have left it there, but he didn’t. This was to be a lengthy repudiation of environmentalists, and a paean to the coal miners and other hardhats whom the globalists had trampled on. It was a blowback to those who thought, when Trump declined to pull the United States of out of nafta, that the globalists inside his Administration—the Gary Cohns and Rex Tillersons—had neutered the nationalistic America Firsters. And, above all, the speech was a “screw you” to the world beyond America’s borders—to the Macrons and Merkels who had pleaded with the President in vain not to take this step.
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the Paris accord was described as the work of scheming foreigners, particularly the Europeans, and their domestic agents, the traitorous globalists. The agreement “handicaps the United States economy in order to win praise from the very foreign capitals and global activists that have long sought to gain wealth at our country’s expense,” Trump said. “The same nations asking us to stay in the agreement are the countries that have collectively cost America trillions of dollars through tough trade practices and, in many cases, lax contributions to our critical military alliance. You see what’s happening. It’s pretty obvious to those that want to keep an open mind.”

This was Trumpism in its full glory—the world as a conspiracy against its sole superpower, a country that accounts for a quarter of global G.D.P. and about forty per cent of global personal wealth.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/donald-trumps-screw-you-to-the-world

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Official NBA Thread

« on: June 01, 2017, 08:42:25 PM »

These teams are pretty damn good.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Trump and Russia

« on: June 01, 2017, 08:08:18 PM »

“There was serious consideration by the White House to unilaterally rescind the sanctions,” said Dan Fried, a veteran State Department official who served as chief U.S. coordinator for sanctions policy until he retired in late February. He said in the first few weeks of the administration, he received several “panicky” calls from U.S. government officials who told him they had been directed to develop a sanctions-lifting package and imploring him, “Please, my God, can’t you stop this?”

Fried said he grew so concerned that he contacted Capitol Hill allies — including Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., the ranking minority member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — to urge them to move quickly to pass legislation that would “codify” the sanctions in place, making it difficult for President Trump to remove them.

Tom Malinowski, who had just stepped down as President Obama’s assistant secretary of state for human rights, told Yahoo News he too joined the effort to lobby Congress after learning from former colleagues that the administration was developing a plan to lift sanctions — and possibly arrange a summit between Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin — as part of an effort to achieve a “grand bargain” with Moscow. “It would have been a win-win for Moscow,” said Malinowski, who only days before he left office announced his own round of sanctions against senior Russian officials for human rights abuses under a law known as the Magnitsky Act.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administrations-secret-efforts-ease-russia-sanctions-fell-short-231301145.html

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency

« on: June 01, 2017, 07:35:50 PM »

https://twitter.com/RobertIger/status/870413002893254656

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: TBT

« on: June 01, 2017, 07:15:24 PM »

We played against Hannah last year, right? And he maybe had a good game? Was that the one we lost?

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Kansas State Football / Re: Corey Sutton

« on: June 01, 2017, 06:56:16 PM »

 

https://twitter.com/ChrisDokish/status/870399814751576065

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Kansas State Football / Re: Corey Sutton

« on: June 01, 2017, 06:52:38 PM »

https://twitter.com/wingoz/status/870419842708496384
https://twitter.com/SBNation/status/870410855078215680

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: #Ranchihakku: super kawaii shokunin ranchi borogu (with bonus non-lunch content)

« on: June 01, 2017, 06:36:57 PM »

I'm not grossed out by it, but feel there is something embarrassing and/or shameful about the basic plastic bag.