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Post by prozyan on Jan 18, 2018 20:40:57 GMT -5
Simple answer? Shoes. Or he guessed his height on his driver's license and was actually measured by his physician. How tall am I? Well, tall is relative, but I'm 5'3 to 5'6, depending on what I am wearing and who is doing the measuring. Again, what possible motivation would a highly decorated Admiral who has served two administrations have for lying about something as trivial as height and weight? Or maybe, just maybe, it isn't a big deal no matter how much people try to make it out to be? ETA: On the photo evidence of height, both Michelle Obama and Melania Trump are 5"11. Yet in the photo, Michelle Obama appears to be taller, despite the fact Melania Trump is obviously wearing heels. There is a concept called forced perspective that pretty much invalidated anecdotal photographic evidence when there is not scale chart apparent.
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Post by prozyan on Jan 17, 2018 23:05:59 GMT -5
It is nice to know that being fat is now the, ahem, biggest of Trump's problems and deficiencies.
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Post by prozyan on Jan 12, 2018 16:07:50 GMT -5
Maybe Trump made a deal with the Night Mother ala King Taravangian.....
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Post by prozyan on Jan 11, 2018 18:19:17 GMT -5
What the fuck is a Black Noogler?
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Post by prozyan on Jan 5, 2018 10:22:08 GMT -5
I honestly had no idea. I haven't seen a full service station in probably two decades. Everything here in the Southwest has been self pump for decades.
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Post by prozyan on Dec 18, 2017 18:53:46 GMT -5
Schools are more like prisons these days. Locally, this young lady was recently suspended for violating the dress code. This was during a "spirit week" where students could bring a dollar to donate to Red Cross and in return dress up as a daily "theme". She was dress coded because her outfit was "too revealing". This is a public photo that appeared in the local newspaper. You can read about it here:
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Post by prozyan on Dec 12, 2017 18:24:13 GMT -5
Which is terrible considering Trump doesn't write all the tweets himself.
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Post by prozyan on Dec 11, 2017 21:35:06 GMT -5
That is an opinion piece and while it is well written by an "expert" I could refute with an equally well written opposition opinion written by an "expert". In the end they are just opinions. You hold to one, I hold to the other. Fair enough. China wants two things: Stability along it's southern border and a reduction of US military forces on the Korean peninsula. NK developing into a full nuclear power does not further either of those goals.
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Post by prozyan on Dec 11, 2017 19:08:51 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure of this as well. That said, I don't doubt that if NK continues to escalate that China won't give the "ok" to the US to strike. China doesn't particularly want a nuclear NK either.
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Post by prozyan on Dec 11, 2017 5:47:35 GMT -5
Trump gets a lot of crap for his infantile tweets, but NK is really the escalator here. They are literally defying the entire international community and continue to fire off test ICBM's like it is their own personal firework display.
I don't know what is going to happen, but any armed conflict will have to occur before NK develops reliable nuclear weapons. China will allow conventional intervention despite having a mutual defense treaty, especially since NK is ignoring China's calls to back off, but there is no way China would allow any sort of nuclear conflict to arise without retaliation. Once NK has reliable nuclear weapons and the ability to deliver those warheads the option for a conventional armed conflict basically disappears.
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Post by prozyan on Dec 8, 2017 16:28:19 GMT -5
I mean, what he's saying enforces a particular stereotype on what constitutes being a "real man," no? I can get behind that his statement is enforcing a certain stereotype, but I still think it is a stretch to evolve that into "If you don't get hurt or hurt other people you aren't a real man".
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Post by prozyan on Dec 8, 2017 16:21:59 GMT -5
I'm thinking if the kid were truly that bright and insightful his spelling might be a tad better. Intelligence and spelling do not necessarily go together. Indeed even good writing and spelling don't necessarily go together. I understand F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example, was a notoriously poor speller. True and point well made. I'm still going to stick with the opinion that this letter is the result of mom's urging much more than any actual true thought from the child.
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Post by prozyan on Dec 8, 2017 1:41:26 GMT -5
So I should now make threats of violence?
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Post by prozyan on Dec 7, 2017 15:15:30 GMT -5
The GOP response is easy to predict: "Moore denied his accusations and nothing was ever proven. Franken resigned over accusations before he could be investigated. What is he hiding?"
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Post by prozyan on Dec 7, 2017 15:13:23 GMT -5
I'm thinking if the kid were truly that bright and insightful his spelling might be a tad better.
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