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Spin Zone / Re: Your 4th Amendment Right........
« on: May 25, 2017, 07:35:50 AM »
The government likes to keep you frightened.  The media likes it too, sells cars and breakfast cereals.  Fact of the matter is you are far more lily to die of a plethora of mundane causes than be harmed by a terrorist. I say this having had a terrorist attack at my home institution.  Freedom is more important than security.

This is true but the problem with this line of argument (to support not discriminating against ideologies associated with terrorism) is your assumption that this rate will remain static.  As we saw pre WWII in Germany, very small problems can escalate and spread into all encompassing problems. If Islamic terrorism is not nipped in the bud, it will become much more widespread.

The second problem with your line of argument is that while the odds of being a direct victim of terrorism is very small, the attacks result in very significant social changes that do impact us all in a negative way, such as the creation of TSA as DJ points out.

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Spin Zone / Re: Have all the liberal/progressives left?
« on: May 24, 2017, 10:54:02 AM »
Liberals are always stunned when they realize that conservatives are not just old white guys but run the gambit of ethnic backgrounds including those who are considered non-white.   As always liberal premises are never close to reality.

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Spin Zone / Re: Seth Rich had contact with WikiLeaks prior to death
« on: May 24, 2017, 07:08:16 AM »
The whole Trump Russia narrative is there to delegitimize the presidency and to further slow down any implementation of the administration.

The Democrat propagandist media (95% of it) is staging a COUP, as I have said before.  It is purposeful undermining of the legitimate government of the United States, and they need to be held accountable for it. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Have all the liberal/progressives left?
« on: May 24, 2017, 07:00:13 AM »
My point remains. This site wasn't started as a conservative discussion forum, it just happened that the majority of regular posters here are more conservative minded. I want more people to post here in general, including more people with differing view points. Generally speaking, you're not likely to see people name calling here whereas if I posted over at DailyKos, I would likely be immediately insulted for daring to disagree with their narrative. But again, that's a known liberal site. PilotSpin wasn't started to be a conservative site.

My thoughts exactly.  Nobody mandates this site to be conservative leaning.  As a group, it seems, pilots/aircraft owners are more conservative by nature.  We are responsible individuals, we pay for things, and we accept being held accountable for our actions.  Plus we burn 100LL, and/or Jet A.  By contrast, many liberal/progressives (not all, mind you) blame everyone else for their circumstances, have a victim mentality, and often think the USA is a empire that enjoys taking advantage of others, and exploiting them. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Have all the liberal/progressives left?
« on: May 24, 2017, 05:29:01 AM »
My question remains: how many of you participate in discussions at DailyKos or other liberal controlled discussion sites?
The difference is that DailyKos is a known liberal site. PilotSpin is not a conservative nor a liberal site, it's just a site open to political discussions. As it happens, the majority of posters happen to be more conservative.

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Spin Zone / Re: Have all the liberal/progressives left?
« on: May 23, 2017, 11:37:00 AM »
Maybe they get tired of the fact that a vocal subgroup of conservatives would rather discuss their psycho-analysis of liberals (e.g. this entire thread being an example) than whatever point the liberals are trying make?
 ;)


Guess I hit too close to home, huh?
 ;)

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Spin Zone / Re: Cable News Ratings Upheaval
« on: May 23, 2017, 06:18:38 AM »
I would hope not. The Blaze is having issues right now, especially after the Tomi Lahren incident. CRTV may be the better option, or a new network altogether. I'm not a fan of Glenn Beck. I'm really not a huge fan of Sean Hannity either, for that matter.

I like Hannity more than Beck, although he certainly isn't my favorite.  Beck is a LOON. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Google Bias
« on: May 22, 2017, 02:35:25 PM »
Absent proof otherwise, why should I believe they are deliberately biased since there are simpler explanations? For example, the algorithms probably weight web pages by their popularity, and liberal web sites may simply have higher visit counts.
This is not necessarily addressed to you Jim, but it always astounds me how "proof" is required to cause suspicion of liberals, but idle wishful suspicions are regarded as "proof" of conservative wrongdoings.

Let me ask you a couple of questions:
1.  Do you think Google is technologically able to program in such bias?
2.  Do you think the honcho's at Google are above doing so?
3.  If "Google" is biased, which side do you think they lean towards?

My responses would be;
Yes
No
Liberal

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Spin Zone / Re: Trump speech in Saudi Arabia
« on: May 22, 2017, 05:50:56 AM »
Nice non-interventionist rhetoric.
Seems unlikely to be acted on, though.

Why do you say that?  The first step is recognizing, and identifying the problem in addition to admitting the problem.  For eight years Obama, nor any Democrat would admit that radical Islamic terrorism was the problem.  Appeasement only emboldens them.

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Spin Zone / Re: Trump speech in Saudi Arabia
« on: May 21, 2017, 04:27:20 PM »
I think that's a pretty ballsy speech, in a good way.

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It's a start.

The first lady also was not even asked to wear a head covering of any kind.

But there is still a long way to go

Melania is beautiful. 

Moochelle's hijab needed to cover her entire head. 

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Mark Steyn is the best conservative talk show host out there. 

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Spin Zone / Re: CNN Breaking News!!!
« on: May 18, 2017, 07:17:06 PM »
Totally agree.  He doesn't have the discipline to not respond, nor lash out.  His advisors need to reign him in.  He sometimes gives the story legs where it may have just died if he left it alone.  I do like a lot of the people he has around him.  Unlike Obama, he has qualified people from both inside, and outside government.  Obama just surrounded himself with lefty activists, academicians, and politicians.


And only the elites see it as a real problem.  The middle class folks in flyover country get a kick out of it. Trump does not play by the rules the rest of the DC insiders play by and he doesn't intend to.  Y'all want to think of him as a politician like all the others.  He is not that by any means.  You need to adjust your thinking.

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Spin Zone / Re: Roger Ailes dead at 77 - Former Fox news chief
« on: May 18, 2017, 09:43:38 AM »
At this point in our society, you cannot say much to people with whom you work.  I haven't complimented women in the workplace for decades.  I don't know what Ailes did, or didn't do to the women at Fox News.  There seemed to have been several allegations, and at least one law suit.  In my mind there must have been something there, or the gold diggers got damn lucky.  Who knows. 

I read a separate article recently on Fox News that has them floundering due to the recent leadership, and scheduling/host changes.  I gave up most of my cable channels a while back, as I wasn't watching much, and downgraded my service, so don't watch Fox anyway.  I get most of my info on the internet. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Russia meeting - what gives?
« on: May 17, 2017, 08:42:40 AM »
The lynchings will continue, get used to it. The left/media is throwing the biggest political tantrum I've ever seen.

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