Diego Ricardo

Chris Low says otherwise. What’s your source?

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Well this seems different to me. She converted years ago and was only on the FBI radar for weeks.

They stopped someone who was planning to do something anyway. How do you arrest someone before they blow something up? Need to gather evidence. She went and bought the supplies wearing a dang burka.

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I've come to read anything as "FBI Informant tip" as basically FBI directed entrapment where they're playing the "degree removed" angle on entrapment.

Maybe I'm wrong but a lot of stories that come out like this end up seeming much more dubious w/r/t the FBI's role in the matter. The cynic in me would say that the FBI has only ever stopped the terrorists they've created. But I'm a self-identified cynic. I don't think it's wrong to be cynical of law enforcement though. We need them but we shouldn't trust them implicitly.

The fact we need the FBI to entrap our crazies seems like a mental health failure. I doubt those screws went loose because of the honeypot.

This is just me, our law enforcement should not contrive situations that make a person criminal. This is just a step of technology away - that we’re rapidly heading towards - from being Minority Report style precrime arrests.

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I can fix her!

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Handcuff to Treadmill?

Aaron needs a good friend or family to get him and let him know it ain’t over even if it may not be what it was before.

People just say whatever.

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You want Yellen back?

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I’m not a finance guy but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. I can’t really tell the substantive difference between the two. They seem to be playing the same can kicking game because our fundamental government function and revenue demands are incongruent.

Americans want the government to do many things but not pay for it. So we create debt to fund it instead. I’ve said it many times recently: there will be a reckoning and it will come down to cut the government to the bone or pay more taxes. I think pay more taxes is going to win. The 50 year fantasy we’ve lived under is coming to an end.

Apple has some family device management updates this fall that ought to be substantial.

As with everything, you have to take a blended multi-pronged approach to content filtering: at your gateway in home, on the device, etc.

Reads to me like the decision has been made and media have found out.

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So Iran doesnt control the Strait

Lol @ hamas bros

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Is living in your "my political party can do no wrong" mind palace leading to lower prices for you? If so, I need to learn your ways.

There are two ways out of the debt problem:

Drastically reduce all government functions but maintain current taxation. So essentially, you get nothing and they take money from you.

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We drastically increase taxation to maintain current levels of government functions. So essentially, you have more money taken but we get to keep things that people now expect as table stakes in any retirement plan, infrastructure capacity, education, welfare, etc.


Seeing how we consistently decide to reduce taxes but trim around the edges on government functions over the last 50 years, I got to assume we want the functions but think we can pay nothing for it. The days of that are coming to the end.