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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Jul 12, 2019 12:50 am

Doesn't the Terminator 'die' at the end of every film?

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Postby MR25 » Fri Jul 12, 2019 7:29 am

In the first one he gets crushed in machinery by Sara Connor.

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Fri Jul 12, 2019 8:27 am

in the second one he melts himself

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Postby eddy » Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:20 am

Jeffrey Epstein allegedly hired private investigators and engaged in a campaign of intimidation against accusers in Florida

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/12/us/jeffe ... index.html

he needs to burn

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:38 am

I've had the 7/8+3/4 rhythm of the Terminator theme stuck in my head now.

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Postby eddy » Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:40 am

Pres Trump just told reporters that @SecretaryAcosta is resigning. @POTUS says Acosta called him this morning, and it's Acosta's decision.

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Postby count2infinity » Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:38 am

Another one bites the dust.

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Postby Troy Loney » Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:43 am

I'm only a little bit through it, but the Skullduggery podcast has a reporter on that was on the Epstein case a decade ago, she's was a reporter in Mexico I believe. Mexican government officials were working with trafficers at the time to funnel girls from their orphanages into the grip of people like Epstein. She had some connection to Epstein and talked to him at the time, and he told this woman that these girls were extorting him with sex.

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Postby count2infinity » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:20 am

Thought for sure #15 was the diabetus guy.

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Postby dodint » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:29 am

47 is Toby Flenderson.

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:59 am

She had some connection to Epstein and talked to him at the time, and he told this woman that these girls were extorting him with sex.
The girls were extorting him?

There is apparently some (very slight) possibility that Epstein's money comes in no small part from blackmailing investment bankers from places like the dearly departed Bear Stearns. He has so far refused to divulge the sources of his income, which I believe should be part of his bail proceedings.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Jul 12, 2019 1:05 pm

Thought this was an interesting read.

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/ ... ons-please
They are not alone. Contemporary culture trusts feelings over facts, rewards heated emotion — tears or anger — and rejects medium cool. The effect on journalism is unmistakable. And a lot of the blame can be placed on those all-too-common twin devils: television and the internet.

From the earliest days of television, journalists understood the power of an image to overwhelm objectivity. That’s why Cronkite and others worked hard to present the news without emotional cues: no raised eyebrows, head-shaking, or wide-eyed incredulity. They presented the news simply, expecting this would counteract that gut-level response all humans have to striking images.

It didn’t work for long. As television began to overtake newspapers, images trumped words, viewing overpowered reading. In the 1980s TV news actually became profitable, which increased pressure on electronic journalism to highlight emotional images that delivered viewers.
But emotions can be like an addiction. The only way to hold a viewer’s attention is to continually ratchet up the emotional stakes. It’s not enough to connect passionately to a picture or a video clip; the audience also expects a fierce attachment to news anchors and reporters — they want to see journalists emote, which is embraced as a more reliable truth than the facts and figures being reported.

Media analysts refer to this as the “post-literate” society, where words matter less and images are our main “language,” the most effective way for humans to communicate.

In a way, we’ve been here before: Call it “pre-literate” America, at the beginnings of mass communication more than century ago. Back then, vast sections of the populace, from rural areas to immigrant-swelled cities, had at best a basic grasp of reading. In that culture, “yellow journalism” thrived. Newspapers relied on simple sentences, bold headlines and lots of big photos. The Hearst and Pulitzer chains competed for emotion-driven stories like crime sprees and sex scandals. Their papers were often aligned with a political party (Pulitzer the Democrats, Hearst the Republicans) and each accused the other of exaggeration and sensationalism — in other words, “fake news.”

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Postby Gaucho » Fri Jul 12, 2019 1:39 pm

It's a thing called Article 2. Nobody ever mentions Article 2. It gives me all of these rights at a level that nobody has ever seen before.

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Postby Trip McNeely » Fri Jul 12, 2019 2:51 pm

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-envir ... c-for-bees

Won’t affect us all all....bees aren’t important to farming and the ecosystem

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Postby Trip McNeely » Fri Jul 12, 2019 2:57 pm

Also this makes a lot of sense in regards to what Epstein was doing

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019 ... doing.html

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Postby PrinceOfRossTownship » Fri Jul 12, 2019 5:30 pm

I just got an email from the Post-Gazette telling me that I have to subscribe if I want to keep commenting on their crappy articles. Good luck with that. The real fun is replying to them on Facebook.

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Postby Kaiser » Fri Jul 12, 2019 5:30 pm

Reading the migrant camp inspector's reports, well done America.

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Postby shmenguin » Fri Jul 12, 2019 5:38 pm

Reading the migrant camp inspector's reports, well done America.
But they are crIminals, after all. What’s the problem?

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Postby Troy Loney » Fri Jul 12, 2019 6:06 pm

Yeah, this either just proves that the government is inept or that there is an immigration crisis caused by the democrats.

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Jul 12, 2019 7:37 pm

There is evidence that Epstein wired $350,000 to 2 potential fact witnesses against him 8 months ago. Timing coincides with the start of the Miami Herald investigation into the Acosta plea deal.

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