Has anyone made a “Domo Arigato, Marco Rub-oto” joke yet?

equalityisasocialconstruct:

The gun violence is really getting out of control.

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has openly renounced Western-style democracy for the nationalist authoritarianism of Putin’s Russia. >>

I recall someone out there once stating that the Soviet Union did not actually collapse, but merely go to sleep. I laughed at the time but shoot, I think that might be true at this point.

“This obstacle is taxing him more than the US government.”

proudgayconservative:

kjank:

This a petition to hold the SWAT team members involved in a drug raid where one of their members threw a flash-bang into the crib of a toddler legally accountable for their actions. The little boy had his face severely burned, and a hole was ripped into his side by the flash-bang, and all because they were looking for a person who wasn’t even in the home at the time of the raid. It will just take a second, yes you have to enter some information but this is really important, this is police brutality at its finest and an innocent child was severely injured. There is more info here as well

https://www.change.org/petitions/city-of-atlanta-hold-the-swat-team-members-involved-in-the-drug-raid-in-the-phonesavanh-family-member-s-home-legally-accountable

I would like to mention that even if a child had NOT been present, a flash grenade in this situation was still unnecessary force, based on what they claim they were looking for in the house. 

In fact, a non-knock warrant was unnecessary based on their reports that they were looking for someone with a small amount of drugs based on an anonymous tip. 

Therefore the judge who signed this warrant needs to answer why he allowed this warrant to be issued as well. 

I tried going into the Iraq tag to see what everyone here was saying and I want to vomit.

I guess I take what’s going on in Iraq very personally because my dad fought there. In the Battle of Ramadi my dad won his Silver Star, but also watched friends die. He survived an IED ambush attack, but also watched friends die. My dad did a lot in that country, feed starving kids, helped plan infrastructure, ate with tribal leaders and received gifts from them, felt the graciousness from the local people. We go back and forth in my family about whether or not the US should’ve gotten involved at all, but my dad feels that real good was done for the people there. My dad is not a spiritual man, but he said there were buildings and villages you could walk into in Iraq and feel the overwhelming presence of evil. When he left, the presence was diminished, the good people of Iraq were praising his work. They were thankful.

My dad sacrificed years of his life for that country, some of his friends sacrificed their entire lives. There are buildings on our military base named after some of those fallen soldiers. To think that in a few short months all that work, blood, sweat, and sacrifice is almost for nothing, is heartbreaking. Regardless of whether or not the US should have gotten involved, we did. And I feel we still owe an obligation to the people of Iraq to keep them safe from those who would persecute them because of their religion, from those who would control them and destroy them with terror. I believe we should stand with Iraq to help them stay safe from outside invaders. There are incredible and good people in Iraq, there are incredible Americans who sacrificed everything for the good people of Iraq. We owe all those people what we can give them to keep them safe and preserve their freedom.

My online fitness/wellness/PE class assigned a discussion board on the health care system and ACA/Obamacare.

“Remember, it is possible to disagree without being disagreeable. Show the politicians that it is possible to debate the issues without being hostile. Netiquette is a must here.”

It’s boggling to me that the Obamacare law says that insurance companies can’t kick kids off their parents’ insurance plans until they turn 26, UNLESS you have Tricare, the government’s insurance plan for the military.  With Tricare, child dependents get excluded from the program as soon as they turn 21, unless they are full-time students and then the plan is extended to 23.

So the law is applied to all insurance companies, EXCEPT THEIR OWN.  That should be something fishy right there.

My mom and I were watching the news and she was also looking at housing floor plans but when the President came on the TV she said, “That’s terrible.  He’s an awful kitchen.”

“What makes a college student pull down [a statue of Lenin]? … What happened to Ukraine the last time the Russians took it? … [Stalin] killed between 6 and 8 million people in one year. Hitler wasn’t that efficient…. That’s why they did it. They know that the Soviet Union and Russia are a death machine.”