(02-04-2019, 06:38 AM)Fry Guy Wrote: Some girls get raped sometimes. True. There is no excuse for raping someone. True. So far this is nothing that anyone has said anything in opposition to AND has Fuck All to do with the Covington 16 year olds.
The question about what she was wearing and doing IS necessary and only someone very, very stupid does not get why. Nothing to do with blame but, if there is someone targeting ladies to sexually assault, getting an idea of what occurred to profile rapists and pre-empt them, is helpful in stopping the next attack. There was a spate of mickey-finning about 15 years ago. You know what reduced that considerably? Working out what the rapists were doing to warn younger ladies. Was it successful? Yes. Was it blaming the victim or helping future potential victims? Was knowing what the ladies were or were not doing valuable in these instances? Nod slowly if you get it. So really none of this has fuck all to do with the Covington Kids and you were getting triggered over fuck all, true or false?

Now if you'll both hold your breath waiting for that to happen. Thanks! 

(03-01-2019, 09:41 AM)Maggot Wrote: two media outlets, two different takes.

First the Wall street journal:

The American economy is a tremendous engine of prosperity when politicians get out of the way, and for proof look no further than Thursday’s report on fourth-quarter growth. It’s clearer than ever that business investment has rescued the U.S. economy by shifting into a higher gear. Tax reform and deregulation, take a bow.
Growth in the fourth quarter came in higher than expected at 2.6% after a December financial-market scare, and the internals were better than the top line. Consumer spending declined a bit but was still strong. Growth from government spending was negligible—so much for claims of a deficit-led boom in “demand.”

The best news was business investment, which contributed 0.69-percentage points to GDP growth. This is even better than it looks because housing subtracted 0.14. Housing has now been flat or worse for most of the last two years, but that may be a silver lining.

This means the expansion isn’t marked now by ever-rising housing prices, which means growth hasn’t been driven by unsustainable home building. If interest rates don’t keep rising, and assuming the labor market stays strong, the housing market should return to modest growth


Next John Harwood at CNBC:

Trump and GOP promised economic growth much better than Obama's. That's not what happened
President Donald Trump's central claim about his economic policies officially crashed into reality on Thursday.
Throughout the 2016 campaign and since, the president and his party have vowed to kick-start tepid Obama-era economic growth. Specifically, they insisted tax cuts and deregulation would return growth to its post-World War II average of 3 percent — a level, candidate Trump said derisively, that President Barack Obama became "the first president in modern history" never to reach in a single year.
New government data on Thursday morning show that Trump, too, has failed to reach the 3 percent promised land, according to one major metric. [url=https://www.bea.gov/news/2019/initial-gross-domestic-product-4^th-quarter-and-annual-2018]The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis[/url] measured 2018 growth at 2.9 percent, matching the peak Obama enjoyed in 2015.


More media mayhem Bias.

(03-13-2019, 12:43 PM)Duchess Wrote:   Kinda like when you refer to Democrats as the violent left, that oldie but goodie.

(03-13-2019, 08:12 PM)MirahM Wrote: He forgot "victim" as the word to describe the republicans and the president and his family.

Maggot Wrote:

Duchess Wrote:  Kinda like when you refer to Democrats as the violent left, that oldie but goodie.

That's what most people agree on though because they are the violent left, happens just about every day. Knocking the hats off people that wear MAGA hats, punching a conservative handing out pamphlets on a college campus, creating fake racial crimes that start riots. The list goes on.