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[connor_in]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Iceland is on pace to virtually eliminate Down syndrome through abortion. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CBSNOA?src=hash">#CBSNOA</a> learns more, tonight at 10pm ET/PT <a href="https://t.co/EB6BKgQFN3">https://t.co/EB6BKgQFN3</a> <a href="https://t.co/SOKU7oe6a3">pic.twitter.com/SOKU7oe6a3</a></p>— CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/897254042178650113">August 15, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Iceland isn't actually eliminating Down Syndrome. They're just killing everybody that has it. Big difference. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Downsyndrome?src=hash">#Downsyndrome</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/abortion?src=hash">#abortion</a> <a href="https://t.co/gAONIzqRXW">https://t.co/gAONIzqRXW</a></p>— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatriciaHeaton/status/897290974262472704">August 15, 2017</a></blockquote>
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EUGENICS: Patricia Heaton BLASTS CBS for report on Iceland eliminating Down syndrome via abortion – twitchy.com

 

[NorthDakota]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Iceland is on pace to virtually eliminate Down syndrome through abortion. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CBSNOA?src=hash">#CBSNOA</a> learns more, tonight at 10pm ET/PT <a href="https://t.co/EB6BKgQFN3">https://t.co/EB6BKgQFN3</a> <a href="https://t.co/SOKU7oe6a3">pic.twitter.com/SOKU7oe6a3</a></p>— CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/897254042178650113">August 15, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Iceland isn't actually eliminating Down Syndrome. They're just killing everybody that has it. Big difference. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Downsyndrome?src=hash">#Downsyndrome</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/abortion?src=hash">#abortion</a> <a href="https://t.co/gAONIzqRXW">https://t.co/gAONIzqRXW</a></p>— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatriciaHeaton/status/897290974262472704">August 15, 2017</a></blockquote>
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EUGENICS: Patricia Heaton BLASTS CBS for report on Iceland eliminating Down syndrome via abortion – twitchy.com

Savages. Good God.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Savages. Good God.

Seeing quite a few people on Twitter applauding this and frothing at the mouth about Confederate statues. The cognitive dissonance is too much for me.

 

[Domina Nostra]

Seeing quite a few people on Twitter applauding this and frothing at the mouth about Confederate statues. The cognitive dissonance is too much for me.

It's evil and insane ("We love diabled people, but kill them all when they are babies, please.")

The other cognitive dissonance that is insane to me is this:

- Sniper shooting of multiple cops at a Dalls BLM event: lone wolf, tells us nothing about movement, or country
- Shooter at Republican softball game: lone wolf, tells us nothing about movement, or country
- Muslim acts of terrorism: lone wolves, tells us nothing about movement, or country
- Murder of protester at tiny white supremacist rally: teaching moment that reveals racism of conservatives and proves country is still racist and President supports Nazis.

It's just like before WWI, the most pointless waste of blood the world has ever seen. One deranged anarchist killed heir to throne, world runs into war.

You can't let lone, deranged, lawless, idiots create national policy!!!

 

[IrishSteelhead]

LOL:

 

[Whiskeyjack]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Oh god the Martin Shkreli jury selection transcript is just too good <a href="https://t.co/3aGGkzoWgY">https://t.co/3aGGkzoWgY</a> <a href="https://t.co/N22ImLJYRN">pic.twitter.com/N22ImLJYRN</a></p>— Jack (@LahartJack) <a href="https://twitter.com/LahartJack/status/897897698933710849">August 16, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[NorthDakota]

Lol and he disrespected the Wu Tang Clan lmao lmao lmao

 

[zelezo vlk]

the court: The question is, have you heard anything that would affect your ability to decide this case with an open mind. Can you do that?

juror no. 144: I don’t think I can because he kind of looks like a dick.

the court: You are Juror Number 144 and we will excuse you.

L O friggin' L

 

[ACamp1900]

the court: The question is, have you heard anything that would affect your ability to decide this case with an open mind. Can you do that?

juror no. 144: I don’t think I can because he kind of looks like a dick.

the court: You are Juror Number 144 and we will excuse you.


L O friggin' L

Can you imagine being the judge or bailiff,... how do you not at least crack a smile at some of these...?

 

[connor_in]

 

[greyhammer90]

Can you imagine being the judge or bailiff,... how do you not at least crack a smile at some of these...?

Literally drowning in ellipsises.

 

[connor_in]

Literally... drowning... in... ellipsises...

...FIFY...

 

[Legacy]

Ann Coulter to join Milo Yiannopoulos’ ‘Free Speech Week,’ Steve Bannon unconfirmed (The Daily Californian)

Conservative author Ann Coulter will join Milo Yiannopoulos during his “Free Speech Week” at UC Berkeley next month.

Yiannopoulos, a controversial right-wing speaker, was invited back to campus by a campus conservative newspaper, the Berkeley Patriot. This comes after his previous event, hosted by Berkeley College Republicans, was canceled Feb. 1 because of the violent protest that erupted on Sproul Plaza. Coulter, who was also invited to speak on campus by BCR in April, will be visiting campus as well after her event was postponed and eventually canceled because of security disagreements between BCR and the campus administration.

Although The Chronicle of Higher Education first reported that Yiannopoulos, Coulter and Steve Bannon were all invited to speak in September, campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof said the campus was only aware that Yiannopoulos and Coulter have been confirmed. Beyond that, the campus was unaware of other speakers being confirmed.

 

[wizards8507]

 

[Black Irish]

When you can't tell the difference between actual PC nonsense and a parody of it....

 

[Whiskeyjack]

From this recent study:

 

[wizards8507]

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[wizards8507]

As I mentioned in another thread, I've been reading Charles Murray's Coming Apart and I made note of this passage from Alexis de Tocqueville on the nature of religiosity in America.

Thus, while the law permits the Americans to do what they please, religion prevents them from conceiving, and forbids them to commit, what is rash or unjust. Religion in America takes no direct part in the government of society, but it must be regarded as the first of their political institutions; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it. Indeed, it is in this same point of view that the inhabitants of the United States themselves look upon religious belief. I do not know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion—for who can search the human heart?—but I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society… The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

It's a great testament to this board that I could have posted this in five different threads (Culture, Politics, Theology, Trump Presidency, or What Are You Reading?). Reps to the whole board.

 

[Legacy]

From this recent study:

2017 Distressed Community Index

The Distressed Communities Index (DCI) is a tool for measuring the vitality of U.S. communities. This 2017 report examines place-based disparities in the American economic experience and assesses the relationship between them and a host of other important factors, such as health outcomes, public assistance spending, demographics, and
educational attainment. Much has been written about how the gains of the current economic
expansion have mostly accrued to individuals at the top of the socioeconomic ladder. Importantly, this
phenomenon extends to communities as well. And the link between individual fates and those of their communities
is tightening as Americans are now less geographically mobile than at any point in modern history. America’s elite zip codes are home to a spectacular degree of growth and prosperity— hubs of innovation and progress
seemingly immune to the concerns over automation, globalization, or lack of upward mobility that pervade national
headlines. However, outside of those top communities, economic wellbeing is often tenuous at best. And, at
worst, millions of Americans are stuck in places where what little economic stability exists is quickly eroding
beneath their feet.

The DCI can be used to measure economic well-being at multiple geographic scales. In this report,
we calculate distress scores at the zip code, city, county, and congressional district levels.
The seven component metrics of the DCI are:
-No high school diploma
Percent of the population 25 years and
older without a high school diploma or
equivalent
-Housing vacancy rate
Percent of habitable housing that is
unoccupied, excluding properties
that are for seasonal, recreational, or
occasional use
-Adults not working
Percent of the prime-age population
(ages 25-64) not currently in work
-Poverty rate
Percent of the population whose
household income falls below the
poverty line
- Median income ratio
A geography’s median income
expressed as a percentage of its state’s
median income
-Change in employment
Percent change in the number of jobs
from 2011 to 20151
-Change in business establishments
Percent change in the number of
business establishments from 2011
to 20152

Key Findings
• Residents of the average distressed
county die nearly five years sooner than
their neighbors in prosperous counties.
• Mortality rates are more than 25 percent
higher in distressed counties than in
prosperous ones. Mortality rates from
cancers, pregnancy complications,
suicides, and violence are even more
elevated.
• Mortality rates from mental and
substance abuse disorders are 64 percent
higher in distressed counties than
prosperous ones, with major clusters
in Appalachia and Native American
communities where rates exceed four or
five times the national average.
• Women’s health deteriorates rapidly on
key risk factors such as obesity, diabetes,
and physical activity as exposure to
distress increases.
• Distressed zip codes are home to over 30
million fewer people than prosperous zip
codes overall but contain three times as
many people receiving SNAP benefits.
• Individuals with disabilities are
significantly less likely to work when
they live in more economically distressed
communities.
• Twice as much Medicaid spending flows to distressed counties, which tend to be
rural, per capita as to prosperous ones.

Community economic conditions are strongly linked to individual health outcomes. Struggling to find work or
pay the bills can take a heavy physical and psychological toll. Matching
comprehensive county-level health data to distress scores calculated at the
county level lays bare massive disparities in physical well-being that parallel those in economic well-being. If health data
were available at the finer-grained zip code level, the disparities documented here would likely widen even further.
People living in better off communities tend to exercise more and live healthier lifestyles. They are less likely to engage
in high-risk activities such as smoking. They are more likely to be optimistic— and for good reason. They live longer,
are less likely to die a preventable death, and suffer from fewer mental health and substance abuse disorders. In less
advantaged corners of the country, diseases of desperation have set in alongside economic distress.
The human toll of economic distress incurs a costly burden on society as a whole, too. In the short term, the social
costs of distress manifest themselves in things like higher benefits outlays, greater healthcare spending, and lower
tax intakes. In the long-term, sustained exposure to economic distress can
erode hard and soft skills and reduce an individual’s capacity to contribute productively to the economy.
What is more, the strains that distress puts on families and communities can also corrode social capital—the
invisible set of norms that enable markets and society in general to function. Distress further perpetuates
itself by undermining localities’ ability to educate and empower the next generation. In short, distress not only
impacts individual health and vitality, but it also weighs down productivity and growth economy-wide.
1. Residents of distressed counties live much shorter lives than those in prosperous areas. When it comes to life expectancy, county borders can matter as much as national ones. Residents of the average
distressed county die nearly five years sooner than their neighbors in the average prosperous one.13 At 80 years
of age, life expectancy in prosperous counties matches that of the European Union as a whole, while life expectancy
in distressed counties most closely matches Romania.14 The two measures, life expectancy and distress scores, are
highly correlated at the county level (-0.71). A 10-point increase in a county’s
distress score is associated with a loss of 0.6 years of life, all else equal. Threequarters
of the counties comprising the top 10 percent for longevity in the United States rank as prosperous on the
DCI. Meanwhile, only three of those 313 counties are considered distressed. Male life expectancy drops especially
precipitously as the distress level of a county rises. Men in the average distressed county live only to the age
of 72.5—a full 5.4 years less than their peers in prosperous zip codes. Women residing in prosperous counties, for
their part, can expect to live to 82.0 on average; their peers in distressed
counties to only 78.1. To put these figures into context, female life expectancy in prosperous counties is similar to that in Denmark, which ranks fifth on the UN’s Human Development Index (HDI), but in distressed counties it is more in line with El Salvador, which ranks 117th. For men, life expectancy in prosperous countiesvis comparable to that in Finland, which ranks 23rd on the HDI, and in distressed counties to Colombia or Turkey, which rank 71st and 95th, respectively.

 

[connor_in]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">South Park hilariously destroys victimhood culture and identity politics in new parody ad [VIDEO] <a href="https://t.co/oUldbyvD4C">pic.twitter.com/oUldbyvD4C</a></p>— ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (@_AndreaUrbanFoX) <a href="https://twitter.com/_AndreaUrbanFoX/status/913060351696130049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[wizards8507]

South Park savage as always. But those "heritage" tests always confuse me. Are there really people out there who don't know their lineage? I know with absolute certainty that three of my grandparents were 100% French and one of them was 100% Portuguese. My wife knows with absolute certainty that all four of her grandparents were 100% German. We can both trace our families back to Europe and it's not that hard.

Which makes my kids 50% German, 37.5% French, and 12.5% Portuguese. With a Portuguese last name.

 

[ACamp1900]

South Park savage as always. But those "heritage" tests always confuse me. Are there really people out there who don't know their lineage? I know with absolute certainty that three of my grandparents were 100% French and one of them was 100% Portuguese. My wife knows with absolute certainty that all four of her grandparents were 100% German. We can both trace our families back to Europe and it's not that hard.

I think a lot of people really don't know... also you're not certain where your tree extends beyond the last few generations, families migrate.

I do have beef with those tests tho. My Aunt and cousin (Dad's side) both took the same test about a year apart from each other. My Aunt got hers back and it was all over the map, very little Scottish/British, mostly Eastern European and Swedish (we were like wtf!?). My cousin then had hers done and it came back completely different and more in line with our understanding (even with her parent from the other side). The two could not have been more different, and had next to no overlap at all.

 

[Old Man Mike]

I am almost certain that most people don't know. If people think that most do, their isolation bubble score should be way up there in that area. Even "poor" West Virginian-types, who felt they were "all-English" would find lots of Native American or, horrors, Irish in their past. My family "could" know, since I did the historical work, along with a push from a cousin. Frankly few of the next generation bother to quiet down for a few minutes and read anything that we found. If you ask them, and they respond, they say "Irish!" .... and then there's the adopted kids.

 

[Bluto]

South Park savage as always. But those "heritage" tests always confuse me. Are there really people out there who don't know their lineage? I know with absolute certainty that three of my grandparents were 100% French and one of them was 100% Portuguese. My wife knows with absolute certainty that all four of her grandparents were 100% German. We can both trace our families back to Europe and it's not that hard.

Which makes my kids 50% German, 37.5% French, and 12.5% Portuguese. With a Portuguese last name.

The Moors conquered what are now Portugal and Southern France. There's a good chance some of your ancestors might have been North African and gulp...Muslim.

 

[wizards8507]

The Moors conquered what are now Portugal and Southern France. There's a good chance some of your ancestors might have been North African and gulp...Muslim.

1. If you're an Amrican, you need don't go back that far. You stop when you get to a country that's not America.

2. Islam isn't heritable.

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[NorthDakota]

South Park savage as always. But those "heritage" tests always confuse me. Are there really people out there who don't know their lineage? I know with absolute certainty that three of my grandparents were 100% French and one of them was 100% Portuguese. My wife knows with absolute certainty that all four of her grandparents were 100% German. We can both trace our families back to Europe and it's not that hard.

Which makes my kids 50% German, 37.5% French, and 12.5% Portuguese. With a Portuguese last name.

Your children have been blessed. Catholic Germans or those douchey Lutheran ones?

 

[wizards8507]

Your children have been blessed. Catholic Germans or those douchey Lutheran ones?

50% Catholic, 25% Lutheran, 25% Nazi.

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[ACamp1900]

The Moors conquered what are now Portugal and Southern France. There's a good chance some of your ancestors might have been North African and gulp...Muslim.

 

[NorthDakota]

50% Catholic, 25% Lutheran, 25% Nazi.

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Is it bad if the Lutheran chunk bothers me more than the Nazi Occult-ish thing?

 

[ACamp1900]

Is it bad if the Lutheran chunk bothers me more than the Nazi Occult-ish thing?

Yes