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#1104386
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Oh hell no.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/03/trump-dreamers-immigration-daca-immigrants-242301

President Donald Trump has decided to end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children, according to two sources familiar with his thinking. Senior White House aides huddled Sunday afternoon to discuss the rollout of a decision likely to ignite a political firestorm — and fulfill one of the president’s core campaign promises.

Trump has wrestled for months with whether to do away with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA. He has faced strong warnings from members of his own party not to scrap the program and struggled with his own misgivings about targeting minors for deportation.

Conversations with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who argued that Congress — rather than the executive branch — is responsible for writing immigration law, helped persuade the president to terminate the program, the two sources said, though White House aides caution that — as with everything in the Trump White House — nothing is set in stone until an official announcement has been made.

In a nod to reservations held by many lawmakers, the White House plans to delay the enforcement of the president’s decision for six months, giving Congress a window to act, according to one White House official. But a senior White House aide said that chief of staff John Kelly, who has been running the West Wing policy process on the issue, “thinks Congress should’ve gotten its act together a lot longer ago.”

Trump is expected to announce his decision on Tuesday, and the White House informed House Speaker Paul Ryan of the president’s decision on Sunday morning, according to a source close to the administration. Ryan had said during a radio interview on Friday that he didn’t think the president should terminate DACA, and that Congress should act on the issue.

Post
#1104274
Topic
Ranking the Star Wars films
Time

MalàStrana said:

Imperial Slug said:

  1. Star Wars / Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  2. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
  3. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
  4. Rogue One
  5. Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi
  6. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith
  7. Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones
  8. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

I’ve fixed the titles (I’ll never understand why people use the numbers only for I-II-III whereas V-VI-VII have one since their original theatrical release…).

No you didn’t. The official legal names are Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. That’s how they are officially registered. The episode numbers for the prequels is a Lucas thing.

Post
#1104078
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

darth_ender said:

yhwx said:

Police Video Continues To Confirm What Everybody Already Knows:

https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/903253019059421185

Cobb County, Georgia police officer Greg Abbott to nervous white woman at traffic stop: “We only kill black people.”

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/903251850270576641/pu/pl/TbhkWjMJMmHYKSqp.m3u8

Unfortunately, the H-bomb kills all:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-nuclear/north-korea-says-it-has-developed-advanced-hydrogen-bomb-ready-for-icbm-idUSKCN1BD0VW

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Sunday it has developed an advanced hydrogen bomb that possesses “great destructive power” as U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talked by phone about the “escalating” nuclear crisis.

The report by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency comes amid heightened regional tension following Pyongyang’s two tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) in July that potentially could fly about 10,000 km (6,200 miles), putting many parts of the mainland United States within range.

Under third-generation leader Kim Jong Un, North Korea has been pursuing a nuclear device small and light enough to fit on a long-range ballistic missile, without affecting its range and making it capable of surviving re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.

North Korea, which carries out its nuclear and missile programs in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions and sanctions, “recently succeeded” in making a more advanced hydrogen bomb, KCNA said.

“The H-bomb, the explosive power of which is adjustable from tens kiloton to hundreds kiloton, is a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack according to strategic goals,” KCNA said.

“All components of the H-bomb were homemade and all the processes … were put on the Juche basis, thus enabling the country to produce powerful nuclear weapons as many as it wants,” KCNA quoted Kim as saying.

Juche is North Korea’s homegrown ideology of self-reliance that is a mix of Marxism and extreme nationalism preached by state founder Kim Il Sung, the current leader’s grandfather. It says its weapons programs are needed to counter U.S. aggression.

Kim Jong Un, who visited the country’s nuclear weapons institute, “watched an H-bomb to be loaded into new ICBM” and “set forth tasks to be fulfilled in the research into nukes,” KCNA said.

You forgot the rest of the quote that revealed it wasn’t likely an actual H-bomb.

Whoops. Sorry, that was not intentional. It’s been fixed.

Post
#1104053
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Police Video Continues To Confirm What Everybody Already Knows:

https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/903253019059421185

Cobb County, Georgia police officer Greg Abbott to nervous white woman at traffic stop: “We only kill black people.”

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/903251850270576641/pu/pl/TbhkWjMJMmHYKSqp.m3u8

Unfortunately, the H-bomb kills all:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-nuclear/north-korea-says-it-has-developed-advanced-hydrogen-bomb-ready-for-icbm-idUSKCN1BD0VW

JEDIT: The quote I originally put here was inaccurate. As a result of this, I have remove it and now retract this part of my post. We regret the error.

Post
#1104050
Topic
The Index Thread for Franchises, General Human Endeavors, and Other Discussion Threads
Time

Update, Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 10:05 P.M. EDT:

So many threads added you won’t believe it. Here’s a list:

  • Drugs, ranked,
  • Legality, fan-edits, and more. Legality, fan-edits, and repercussions,
  • The all-purpose ART thread!,
  • Terrible DVD/Blu-ray Cover Art,
  • The “Best Thread” Thread,
  • The “Worst Thread” Thread,
  • The Great American Solar Eclipse, 2017,
  • Anyone here know anything about smart phones?(was: Anyone here know anything about cell phones?),
  • The Best/Worst Hairstyle Thread,
  • Need a refresher on in jokes.,
  • Safe Space Thread For Millenials,
  • DuracellEnergizer’s Guide to the Multiverse (Was “DuracellEnergizer’s Guide to the Infinite Timelines Beyond”),
  • Are you male or female?,
  • BioShock!!! (1, 2 and Infinite and SPOILERS),
  • Mixing up Move quotes,
  • The Official TV’s Frink 74,321 OT.com Posts Countdown Thread,
  • Online Stallin,
  • Online Stalin.,
  • Threads and/or Parts of Threads I Approve Of,
  • Speedtest.net Easy way to test your internet speed.(Please read 1st post),
  • Where are you from?,
  • meme,
  • Movies generally considered “bad” that you like.,
  • Prayer requests, Anyone?,
  • E oe oy ea (“y” aoe oo!),
  • Th Cnsnnts Nly Thrd,
  • Rankin’ Bass/Rankin Bass,
  • October Horror Movie Challenge,
  • big black dick,
  • What’s the deal with swagmasta69?,
  • What’s the deal with 9/11?,
  • Miniyhwx thread,
  • Mini-Frinks, unite!,
  • Mini-Fos, unite!,
  • Lord of the Rings: Extended Editions Actually Suck?,
  • Reasons why I am a Sock,
  • Real life friends here?,
  • OFFICIAL MLB THREAD,
  • Your favourite actors & actresses,
  • Hulk Hogan or Hot Dog?,
  • Did your penis flake?,
  • Politics, and
  • Tea Mender E Turns
Post
#1104040
Topic
Drugs, ranked
Time

Possessed said:

yhwx said:

Possessed said:

I don’t like cookies.

Monster.

Says the guy who doesn’t like cats.

Cats are cute. I just don’t like being around them.

In fact, I might tolerate cats better than dogs. I don’t like when the dogs bark at me, even though that’s all they know how to do to express their ecstasy at seeing a human.

But I don’t really like pets.