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@Viva_Mexico, one word: airplanes!

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Undocumented people canā€™t fly internationally.
The man got voted-in on a promise to build a wall. Whether it works or not doesnā€™t matter. Itā€™s the will of the people.

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Worked pretty good for Israelā€¦

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has Burning Man jumped the shark?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/business/burning-man-tickets.html

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iā€™m not actually curious enought to look up their metrics on those points spreads but no way is michelle obama that far up there, imho. :wink:

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not really new but itā€™s news to me. lmao

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As disturbing and creepy as the Arizona bill isā€¦this is far more
frightening.
It appears as if the Feds have an even more egregious desire for DNA.
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FBI plotting to keep DNA of ENTIRE population on file to create ā€˜nation of suspectsā€™

FBI plotting to keep DNA of ENTIRE population on file to create ā€˜nation of suspectsā€™ - Daily Star

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Your statement isnā€™t supported by the statistical data.

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I think thereā€™s room for reclarification :sweat_smile: like, how much more is ā€˜moreā€™? :wink:

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But, as you can see, there are far fewer people ā€œstarvingā€ these days than in previous decades, despite the huge increase in global population. So there is no interpretation of ā€œmoreā€ that would be correct.

Despite what many people would have you believe, the world today is a better place than it has ever been in (recorded) history.

It is also worth noting that the periods of mass famine almost always correlate with the existence of a Socialist/Communist dictatorship. Ironically, it is modern socialists who would have you believe that the world is starving and that it is all our (the Western Capitalist Nations) fault. This couldnā€™t be further from the truth. The success of Western Capitalist Nations correlates so directly with the dramatic reduction in starvation across the planet, that causation seems quite obvious.

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Without getting into a debate, that chart is labeled as famine deaths. That is not the same as starving, or under nourished. Sorry I canā€™t find the exact source, but I got the fact from the book, ā€œDirt: the Erosion of Civilizationsā€ by David Montgomery.

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Indeed there are likely other stats out there which can be interpreted differently. Makes for interesting discussionā€¦

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Ehhhhā€¦ Famines/starvation & extinctions existed long before those did. :grin: :fork_and_knife: :heart:

:joy: like @oleskool830 says, ā€œonward through the fog!ā€

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:evergreen_tree:

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I was referring to the data in the chart, which speaks for itself if you look closely at the information provided above each column.

Theyā€™ll need to add the numbers from Venezuela to that chart eventually.

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:blush: ā€¦and I was being me. :wave: Sorry. Usually my emoji-bukkake takes care of diplomatic snafus. :wink:

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interesting developments in this story

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/02/21/us/ap-us-financer-teenage-girls.html

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/02/22/us/politics/ap-us-financier-teenage-girls-white-house.html

Is this the other NFL owners getting even with Kraft???

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Pink slime is back in hamburgers

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Damn, you beat me to it, just posted the same robert kraft article.

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where is the metoo movement? Feminist activist thrown in jail for 1 month for having a dangerous breast! the land of the free

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