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Look at his post. He first commends China for restricting travel and "containing" the virus and then scorns other countries for flying citizens out of China (though from what I read, at least some are quarantining them when they get home). He then says that reaction to AIDS/HIV was even worse. He even specifies: "Africans, drug-innoculators and male-homosexuals weren't targeted. No isolation. No immigration restrictions. Many died unnecessarily." (My bolding). I'm not sure how you get targeted for research and treatment as the meaning, when he clarifies what he meant in the next two sentences. I agree that treatment could have been more targeted (and should have started much earlier, and victims been treated much better), but that's not what was said and not what I (and my guess is, other people) are reacting to.

I went to several films at the Zurich Film Festival: Official Secrets - based on a true story. I found it interesting, but not a very remarkable film. The thing that Adam and I took away most is that rule of law seemed much stronger in the UK (at the time, at least - 2003) then we would have expected it to be in the US: [hide] The main character did several things, and we expected her to be disappeared, but that didn't seem to happen. [/hide] Zu Weit Weg - Really cute German kids' movie. A boy's village is about to be demolished, so his family moves to a nearby town, and he has to make new friends, join a new soccer team, etc. I found this movie sweet, but not sacchariney. It may be weird, but I also liked that there was no "bad guy", especially one that behaves badly just because they're the "bad guy". If you have a child in your life (10-13 years old or so) who is willing to watch a movie with subtitles, or who speaks German, I highly recommend it. Or if you just want to see a feel-good movie. Incitement - This is NOT a feel good movie, but is very worth watching. It exams the lead-up to the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin, the Israeli PM who signed the Oslo Accords, concentrating on the point of view of the assassin. To be clear, it is not ENDORSING the point of view of the assassin, rather it is condemnatory of all the people who helped create the environment and incited him into action. I cried at both the beginning and end of the movie. I also think that the conclusions and warnings it has are very applicable to what is going on in the US now, so recommend it even to people who don't know the history behind what happened. (Although I will say, there are a lot of cultural hints in the movie that I think added to my understanding, that I'm not sure a non-Israeli or someone who doesn't know about sects in Israeli and Jewish life may miss. On the other hand, I saw this movie with a friend who didn't know anything about this period of history or Israel in general, and she was also greatly affected by the movie.)

I saw this news story yesterday. I feel that the only startling thing was that it was actually news. In the article I read, they started listing other people (men, mainly, according to my memory) who started conversion therapy centers, and then came out as gay and asked for forgiveness for what they started.

Not saying that I believe this (or that I don't), but he's claiming that he didn't actually put the page together, and didn't know anything about the picture, and hadn't ever seen the yearbook. So yes, it would seem like he was promoting the practice. Plus the fact that he didn't even seem to know it wasn't him the first time it became public, makes me think that he's either lying now, or really prone to disturbing lapses of memory. I'm not really taking a stand on whether he should resign, but I will note that we have been talking for a while about this, and no one has mentioned the Lt Gov resigning? I find the lack of outrage about him (being accused of rape by two women) very disturbing.

One of the big differences is that in first, you said that they were wearing makeup to change skin color, and in the second, you said "dressed", which to me implies just wore clothes. If that's what you meant, one of your options on the third poll would be about the use of makeup, because that's literally "blackface". I also am not sure of your purpose of the poll. Are you trying to get a definitive answer, or just the temperature of the water cooler? I didn't answer your poll, but if it's not clear what my opinion is, I'm going to quote Winstonm in the APTT:

Adam and I recently went to the Zurich Film Festival, where we saw three movies: 1) Leave no Trace - This was really a moving film. It's about a father and daughter, who are living in the woods in the beginning of the movie. We get to know them throughout the movie, and really feel for them through their challenges. This is not a "feel good movie", I should warn people. It's also about PTSD and how it affects both the person and their relatives. Definitely worth seeing, in my opinion. 2) Puzzle - This one I wish that I had missed. I was expecting a quirky, entertaining movie (that's what the descriptions I read implied, I felt), but really, the main problems presented to the characters in this movie could have been solved if they just TALKED to each other. I understand that movies have to have problems to have a plot, but it really annoys me when the problems could be discussed with proper communication, and people don't seem interested in talking to each other. 3) Tel Aviv on Fire - This was the quite entertaining movie I was hoping for. It's about a guy who works on a serial TV show in Ramallah, and has to cross the border daily to get to work, and his relationship to the main guard, who wants the serial to go a specific direction. I quite enjoyed the movie, though I would have liked one character to receive more pushback about one of his actions (I don't want to spoil the movie by being more specific). In the end, I recommend either Leave no Trace or Tel Aviv on Fire, depending on what you're in the mood for.

The Democrats could keep questioning on this line of inquiry. I wonder why they didn't. (Or did they? I haven't seen that they did, but I didn't get to watch the hearing.)

So on one hand, there's a motto advocating putting a woman who has never been tried, let alone convicted of a crime, in jail, while on the other hand there's a motto advocating that people who haven't been tried nor convicted of a crime shouldn't be shot to death. And these are equivalent?

I notice you haven't addressed my post, nor AWM's from a while ago.

So no funding for schools, huh? Education for all is one of the main proven ways to improve society, everyone who wants their to be a better place should start by making our schools the best that they can be. And perhaps you don't care about the future of the country you live in, but a better education for all in that country would make you physically safer, by giving kids an alternative to robbing or hurting you for money.

And they won't be brave enough to respond, either.

Still waiting for Trump supporters to reply to AWM's question. I note that they've posted in the thread after, and replied to posts that were written later.

It is still possible that, if one of you happen to carry a gene that could be detrimental, that's it's recessive so that if the other one of you doesn't carry it, your children won't be affected even if it's passed on (they'd just perhaps need to be careful about partners, but maybe these things will be solved by then). The Orthodox (Jewish) community has a genetic problem, plus an interesting solution. The problem is that some genetic (recessive) diseases are more common among Ashkenazi Jews (and some among the Persian Jewish community) and so it is very important to get pretested before having kids. But if you happen to have a recessive gene and it gets known, it could make you much less marriageable. So in communities that rely on matchmaking anyway, the two people take an anonymous genetics test in HS, and get a PIN. When a couple starts dating, they can submit their PINs together, and it only tells them if BOTH have the markers (so that way there's mutually assured destruction preventing telling people about the other person, not that you're supposed to gossip anyway). Sorry for the digression. Good luck!

Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, I'm not a prolific BBO forums reader anymore. But I saw this on BBC, and thought that it was worth sharing: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-43205947/morse-code-shoes-send-toe-tapping-texts-at-mwc-2018

Adam and I saw it at the Zurich Film Festival. I agree that it was a really memorable film, and it was very true to itself. I don't think that it went in the way that a typical Hollywood movie would go, but I think that also might not make it work for other people's tastes. I really hesitate to recommend it in general but I don't really want to give away the ending and that's what I would need to do to expand on this.

I don't understand how a libertarian believes that everyone has the right to bodily control (including spreading that to their money - I guess money is part of your body?) but that right does not apply to women controlling who gets to use their body in order to live. For example, if I needed a kidney, and Anabell was the only one in the world who had a viable kidney, and without it I would die, I still don't have the right to her kidney. At least, I would think that libertarians would think that. Do you actually have a stand on abortion? In response to Adam, you said that "libertarians are divided". I would think that as a libertarian, it wouldn't matter what other libertarians think, that you would want to think logically and come to your own conclusions. I really have no clue why I'm even asking you about your views, but I am.

Let's simplify the math. Let's say that there are 100 million households in the US. That means that 1 million are part of the 1%. If 1 million households own stock, mathematically it is possible that 100% of stock-owning households are from the 1%. (It is also possible that 100% are from the 99%, I am making no claims either way). Therefore, your statement makes absolutely no mathematical sense. One cannot know what percentage of stock market advances accrue to the benefit of the 99% until one knows what percent of the stock market they make up. I would be beyond shocked if they make up 99% of the households investing in the stock market.

I forgot about that. I was BORN in a country boycotted by a few others, so getting a second passport would not help me enter one of those boycotting countries.

3 US passports or from different countries? Some of us are (quite legally!) citizens of multiple countries and therefore have multiple passports. But not three from the same country. With the US at least, when you get a new passport your old one is supposed to be voided. ETA: I was actually able to open the article (I usually can't open WP articles so I didn't before I posted) and see that it is three US passports. That seems rather strange.

I think that the first thing is that there isn't really an "American police" entity, unless one perhaps counts the FBI but they're not going to be involved in this. In cases like this, the states are more like different counties, and the police in California are not going to arrest her on a Virginia warrant unless VA makes a specific request for that, and for extradition, and that's not really going to happen for such a case. I don't think that the fact that the arrest warrant exists is proof of a conspiracy, but its publicity is almost surely because of the Howard Weinstein case. It doesn't mean that there's a conspiracy, but perhaps the VA police were like, hey, she still hasn't responded to this, so maybe if we go public we can get a response, and it will surely be carried in the newsmedia because she's been making the news lately.

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I wouldn't necessarily blame the greater focus on STEM, but more the insistent focus on testing. As Civics/Government is usually a 12th grade subject (at least in CA), it never got tested, and therefore not emphasized. As Zelandakh says, students from a rich educational background don't get shortchanged on this, because there is an AP Government test that ensures that they will get an education in Govt/Civics (and AP tests usually require critical reasoning, not just memorization of facts. I really hope that Common Core will help with this, with the greater emphasis on critical reasoning. All courses are supposed to support this, so even if students aren't taking a government course until 12th grade, hopefully they'll at least be experienced in critical reasoning and will be able to apply it in Civics/Govt class even if they're not tested on it by the state. As a side note, my Government class (and it was even labelled AP, and at an otherwise good public school) was rubbish. I studied for the exam anyway, and passed, but only two other students in the class of 30 did that. The teacher was terrible, and made no attempt to teach us. I complained to the principal and my sister reports that he was slightly better, but I do wonder if others had the same experience. But more details likely don't belong in this thread.

The same thing can happen for Jewish couples to. To divorce religiously, the man must give the woman a "get". I've heard of cases where the man basically extorts the wife for better terms by threatening to withhold a get, even if they are divorced in terms of civil law. What people do now is petition the court to include a ruling that the man must grant one as part of the terms of the divorce. (My main point is that divorce is an issue for other religions, too, not just Islam)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Perez (the newly elected DNC chair) I guess our next step is to argue about what "many" means. Feel free to do so, I won't respond.

I'm impressed that your ACBL club game has Latinos and African Americans. Mine doesn't.