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Which one of these is not like the others?Rip wrote:When you question someone being in Trump's inner circle today, you make it far easier for the moron that questions someone being in the next POTUS inner circle that is Muslim, Jewish, or Scientologist.
Bernie better be careful what he wishes for.“Millions of people voted for him on the belief that he would keep his word,” Sanders said on the Senate floor, referring to Trump’s promises during the election campaign.
I almost added Pastafarian so that Scientology wouldn't feel alone.Kurth wrote:Which one of these is not like the others?Rip wrote:When you question someone being in Trump's inner circle today, you make it far easier for the moron that questions someone being in the next POTUS inner circle that is Muslim, Jewish, or Scientologist.
Jews are also a race, IIRC.Kurth wrote:Which one of these is not like the others?Rip wrote:When you question someone being in Trump's inner circle today, you make it far easier for the moron that questions someone being in the next POTUS inner circle that is Muslim, Jewish, or Scientologist.
I think he liked running for president a whole lot more than he's going to like being president.gilraen wrote:Is he going to be complaining about the debate questions for the next 4 years?
It'll be interesting because being president pits Trump's boundless narcissism against Trump's corrupt greed.Kraken wrote:I think he liked running for president a whole lot more than he's going to like being president.gilraen wrote:Is he going to be complaining about the debate questions for the next 4 years?
That's an interesting can of worms. I saw this article from JPost the other day and thought it was a pretty nice summary of where things stand on the issue:Unagi wrote:Jews are also a race, IIRC.Kurth wrote:Which one of these is not like the others?Rip wrote:When you question someone being in Trump's inner circle today, you make it far easier for the moron that questions someone being in the next POTUS inner circle that is Muslim, Jewish, or Scientologist.
The belief that Jews constitute a religious, rather than ethnic or racial group in the US and other Western countries is widespread.
“Jewish” was never a category for race in the US Census, Ostrer notes, even though genetic studies “would seem to refute this...
Jewishness at a genetic level can be characterized as a tapestry with the threads represented as shared segments of DNA and no single thread required for composition of the tapestry,” he writes.
Genetic analysis of Jews have high stakes, since being Jewish not only decides who belongs to the family and can take part in Jewish life and earn Israeli citizenship but also “touches on the heart of Zionist claims for a Jewish homeland in Israel.”
Several races, but I still don't see a box on the Jewish race box on the census form.Unagi wrote:Jews are also a race, IIRC.Kurth wrote:Which one of these is not like the others?Rip wrote:When you question someone being in Trump's inner circle today, you make it far easier for the moron that questions someone being in the next POTUS inner circle that is Muslim, Jewish, or Scientologist.
Ostrer said that his Jewish HapMap Project in New York City has so far shown “in exquisite detail what had been conjectured for a century. Jewish populations from the major Jewish Diaspora groups – Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Mizrahi – form a distinctive population cluster that is closely related to Semitic and European populations. Within this larger Jewish cluster, each of the Jewish populations formed its own subcluster.”
A high degree of mixing of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Italian and Syrian Jews caused them to become more closely related to each other than they were to Middle Eastern, Iraqi and Iranian Jews. This genetic split seemed to have occurred about 2,500 years ago.
The author uses his observations to refute theories that Ashkenazi Jews are descendants of converted Khazars, a semi-nomadic people living in medieval Eurasia who welcomed Jews to their midst. He also reports that in addition to southern Europeans, the closest genetic neighbors to most Jewish groups were the Palestinians, Israeli Beduin and Druse. “The genetic clusters formed by each of these non-Jewish Middle Eastern groups reflects their own histories of marrying within the group,” he said.
The issue of “Jewish intelligence” that seems to come up every time members of the “Chosen People” are awarded Nobel Prizes continues to be debated. There are those who contend there is a genetic basis for IQ and those who claim it comes from studiousness, from Torah learning and from the fact that Jews were held back by discrimination from joining the top ranks of the arts and sciences but rushed in after emancipation.
“Breeding, selection and education may all have contributed to Jewish intellectual accomplishment, but so, too, did being in the right place at the right time,” and showing that they were worthy of emancipation by excelling.
The belief that Jews constitute a religious, rather than ethnic or racial group in the US and other Western countries is widespread.
“Jewish” was never a category for race in the US Census, Ostrer notes, even though genetic studies “would seem to refute this...
Jewishness at a genetic level can be characterized as a tapestry with the threads represented as shared segments of DNA and no single thread required for composition of the tapestry,” he writes.
I thought I read yesterday he's indicated that the intelligence community is going to experience some budgetary adjustments real soon because they're too focused on politics. I'm not a historian, but I'm pretty sure when a governmental leader comes into office and threatens to start dismantling the intelligence community that's not a good sign.Chaz wrote:- Let's just put "intelligence" in quotes all the time, because I'm such a big fan that I like to de-legitimize it by using scare quotes. He loves "intelligence", but only from secret sources that only he knows about.
psst...they are called "leprechauns" and are the only foreign ethnic group exempt from his xenophobic wrath.Chaz wrote:He loves "intelligence", but only from secret sources that only he knows about.
The healthcare thing is still number one, according to Pence (and Nightly Business Reports and PBS News hour) and their projections don't make me happy. Investor speculation is that TrumpCare (RepubliCare?) will be ObamaCare revisited to put more money in the pockets of Pharma and InsuranceCos at the expense of insured and that exchanges will become more a la carte, as chosen by InsuranceCos, resulting in less overall coverages for the same money. However, DJT, himself, said rather than doing this, it would be better to let ObamaCare collapse of its own unfunded weight.malchior wrote:Are we still waiting to hear about the Russian hacking stuff that only he knows about? That was next after asking the head clown to cooperate to dismantle healthcare coverage, right?
The senate especially stands to lose from Trump/Flynn/Bannon withholding information or crippling intelligence efforts, and I don't think they'll stand for it.gilraen wrote:Since Trump doesn't really listen to intelligence briefings and just makes up his own shit as he goes along, maybe CIA will just start hiding stuff from him and making sure that the military is in the loop, so the generals can serve as a buffer between this psycho administration and the rest of the world.
I'm more referring to the fact he said he knows more than anyone else and would tell us on Tuesday or Wednesday. And then punted on Tuesday because the CIA meeting was moved to Friday. Except it was scheduled for Friday all along in the first place. And that would logically indicate that he was just going to pass along the CIA information instead of stuff only he knew. But logic be damned - because Trump.LordMortis wrote:And if you will insist on pressing Trump over Russian hacking, you will get "why aren't you asking about Clinton being fed debate questions." I think it's safe to say there will be no POTUS (public?) acknowledgement of "hacking the election" in any of its alleged forms. It will eventually become something akin to his Private Email Server.
WTF? Why repeat what he says if you don't think it's true. The press gets his announcements also, they don't need to Trump to forward his claims to them. What an idiot.Chaz wrote:- "I don't agree with Assange, I just repeat what he says and it's up to you to figure out if it's true or not."
Brietbart fear will keep the majority of the House of Representatives from impeaching him, don't ya think? Pretty sure it's already kept quite a few from saying anything negative.... how on earth an Impeachment rises from that, I don't know.hepcat wrote:We've got about a year of this to endure until the impeachment and subsequent imprisonment.
Solid bet. Unfortunately he is going to be too good at this and who knows where that road leads.Smoove_B wrote:Oh, I don't think it will happen for a while. I'm still betting on the полезные дураки theory.
hepcat wrote:We've got about a year of this to endure until the impeachment and subsequent imprisonment.
He already is breaking one of his biggest campaign promises and is trying to get congress to pay for his erection...I mean the wall. Not Mexico.Rip wrote:hepcat wrote:We've got about a year of this to endure until the impeachment and subsequent imprisonment.
You wish. Trump will be around for the full eight.
Actually it does make me right. I didn't say he would fulfill his promises, only that he would win.hepcat wrote:He already is breaking one of his biggest campaign promises and is trying to get congress to pay for his erection...I mean the wall. Not Mexico.Rip wrote:hepcat wrote:We've got about a year of this to endure until the impeachment and subsequent imprisonment.
You wish. Trump will be around for the full eight.
Wise up, buddy. You got scammed.
I can't wait to see you try to excuse every lie you swallowed as they fall left and right. Trump's winning doesn't make you right. It just makes you a rube.
The three things that make American great?Rip wrote:I have very little expectations from Trump beyond not pushing for major gun control, open borders, or some crazy crap against Israel like the current anti-semitic administration. Until he does one of those I don't really care what he does or fails to do.
Again?