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  200,000 evacuated last night in Northern California.

  by compound complex in

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  where a few of us here on the forum live is in an emergency situation.

  the main spillway on oroville dam -- the tallest dam in the usa -- is damaged.

  the emergency spillway, never used before in the 48 years the dam has operated, is eroding.. major confusion and panic occurred when the order went out sunday, late afternoon: this is not a drill!.

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  Village Idiot

  Thank you CoCo and be careful. I live in Southern California but it feels like it's much closer.
  
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  Trump Voters, Is This What You Voted For?

  by Village Idiot in

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  all that talk about hillary clinton's unsecured e-mails?

  read the following:.

  "deagazio posted additional photos from the weekend, including one of his dining companions kissing trump on the cheek, a selfie with white house strategist steve bannon and another selfie identifying a man named rick who he says is responsible for carrying the nuclear “football,” which allows the president to authorize a nuclear attack while away from the white house.. "“this is rick,” wrote deagazio.

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  I originally posted this thread regarding the gross lack of security that one of his staff members did when he identified the man with the "football" duty. That is a totally unacceptable thing for any of his staff to do and should have gotten him fired immediately. It appears that Trump won't do that.
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  Trump Voters, Is This What You Voted For?

  by Village Idiot in

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  all that talk about hillary clinton's unsecured e-mails?

  read the following:.

  "deagazio posted additional photos from the weekend, including one of his dining companions kissing trump on the cheek, a selfie with white house strategist steve bannon and another selfie identifying a man named rick who he says is responsible for carrying the nuclear “football,” which allows the president to authorize a nuclear attack while away from the white house.. "“this is rick,” wrote deagazio.

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  Village Idiot

  Village Idiot,

  So why did the middle not choose to vote for a third party? Trump made it clear early on what type of person he was. If both choices were unacceptable they should have not voted for either of them. I myself voted third party.

  Simon,

  Why should they? They didn't want Clinton and what she was promising so they voted for the next best thing.
  

  Trump was not the next best thing. For all their defects the Libertarian and Green Party candidates were better than either Trump or Hillary.
  
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  Trump Voters, Is This What You Voted For?

  by Village Idiot in

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  all that talk about hillary clinton's unsecured e-mails?

  read the following:.

  "deagazio posted additional photos from the weekend, including one of his dining companions kissing trump on the cheek, a selfie with white house strategist steve bannon and another selfie identifying a man named rick who he says is responsible for carrying the nuclear “football,” which allows the president to authorize a nuclear attack while away from the white house.. "“this is rick,” wrote deagazio.

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  Village Idiot

  Neverendingjourney, only some of Trump voters were White Nationalists and assorted racists. I think the issue is more complex.

  It was Trump's bombastic personality that attracted more authoritarians than would otherwise vote, therefore inflating their numbers in the election.
  
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  Trump Voters, Is This What You Voted For?

  by Village Idiot in

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  all that talk about hillary clinton's unsecured e-mails?

  read the following:.

  "deagazio posted additional photos from the weekend, including one of his dining companions kissing trump on the cheek, a selfie with white house strategist steve bannon and another selfie identifying a man named rick who he says is responsible for carrying the nuclear “football,” which allows the president to authorize a nuclear attack while away from the white house.. "“this is rick,” wrote deagazio.

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  Village Idiot

  Simon,
  

  Trump won because the left lost the middle...
  

  So why did the middle not choose to vote for a third party? Trump made it clear early on what type of person he was. If both choices were unacceptable they should have not voted for either of them. I myself voted third party.
  
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  Trump Voters, Is This What You Voted For?

  by Village Idiot in

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  all that talk about hillary clinton's unsecured e-mails?

  read the following:.

  "deagazio posted additional photos from the weekend, including one of his dining companions kissing trump on the cheek, a selfie with white house strategist steve bannon and another selfie identifying a man named rick who he says is responsible for carrying the nuclear “football,” which allows the president to authorize a nuclear attack while away from the white house.. "“this is rick,” wrote deagazio.

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  Village Idiot

  All that talk about Hillary Clinton's unsecured e-mails? Read the following:

  "DeAgazio posted additional photos from the weekend, including one of his dining companions kissing Trump on the cheek, a selfie with White House strategist Steve Bannon and another selfie identifying a man named Rick who he says is responsible for carrying the nuclear “football,” which allows the president to authorize a nuclear attack while away from the White House.
  

  "“This is Rick,” wrote DeAgazio. “He carries the ‘football’ The nuclear football (also known as the atomic football, the President’s emergency satchel, the Presidential Emergency Satchel, the button, the black box, or just the football) is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed command centers, such as the White House Situation Room. It functions as a mobile hub in the strategic defense system of the United States. It is held by an aide-de-camp. and Rick is the Man.”"

  You should have known that this man is a moron.!
  
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  Old Watchtower Literature

  by biblexaminer in

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  somewhere, somewhen, a dubb died.... waiting for the end no doubt.

  when they died, they left their precious watchtower literature to somebody else, another dubb.. and that dubb also waiting for the end, living some austere life as they hovered over their precious and aging watchtower library, eventually died.. and again.

  and again.. eventually, the last dubb to die left their bound 'salvation' to the congregation, who put it on a shelf, never to be read again.. and that's where i came in.. watchtower bound volume originals from the 1800's and others.. very old.. the watchtower .

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  Village Idiot

  I'll have to find a place to put this collection of paleotheology (not a word BTW)

  Well then it should be a word and a most excellent one! I never would have thought of it before! If you ever want to give them up let me know.
  
  
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  Map: Clinton Archipelago vs Trumpland

  by Simon in

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  great visualization of the voting difference from the election!.

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  https://www.inverse.com/article/25635-map-remakes-us-trumpland-clinton-archipelago.

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  Simon,

  It still looks a lot healthier than the Clinton Archipelago. One looks like a country, the other looks like slim pickings.
  

  You're not taking into account the population density of those 'archipelagos'. The large pro-Trumpian locations are mostly the least dense in population density. One outweighs the other by three million votes.
  
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  Moral High Ground

  by Spoletta in

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  it seems that the other threads about trump's policies are veering off into endless ideological theories about how much better we are than islam.

  does anyone think there is a chance that islam can be changed in the same manner that christianity has over the centuries?

  with the inflow of ideas from western countries into the middle east, will people gradually want to move away from sharia law to something less patriarchal and cruel?

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  In the year 1600 Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake for having different beliefs than the Catholic Church. The Jesuits had a most elaborate form of torture techniques that would make waterboarding seem uninspired from a psychopath's point of view. That is the kind of thing that ISIS has been doing.

  Now we have a liberal pope. So why exactly is it that Islam won't be able to change? Yes, a liberal Islam would contradict what their holy scriptures have to say but the same thing applies to Liberal Christians who'd rather ignore the Old Testament.
  
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  Map: Clinton Archipelago vs Trumpland

  by Simon in

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  great visualization of the voting difference from the election!.

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  https://www.inverse.com/article/25635-map-remakes-us-trumpland-clinton-archipelago.

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  Village Idiot

  That Trumpland map looks like it's suffering from some sort of wasting disease.