Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted December 21, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 21, 2015 That should help with my illness, TBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SiMania Posted December 23, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 23, 2015 The US Federal Government has ended its ban on medical marijuana.  Congress quietly ends federal government's ban on medical marijuana  http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-medical-pot-20141216-story.html That article is from 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mayor-of-cologne-says-women-should-have-code-of-conduct-to-prevent-future-assault-a6798186.html  Immigrant-blaming vs victim-blaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted January 5, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted January 5, 2016 As far as victim blaming goes, I don't think there is anything wrong in principle with "best practice" to try and minimise stuff like this happening. It's all well and good to say, "don't tell women how to behave, tell men not to rape" but if simply telling men not to rape worked, we wouldn't have a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Victim blaming rape culture apologist  The problem with best practices is that if a woman or man gets raped and they haven't adhered to these best practices, or missed one of them, then the inference is that they could have done something or done more to prevent their attack, and that is just wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 As far as victim blaming goes, I don't think there is anything wrong in principle with "best practice" to try and minimise stuff like this happening. It's all well and good to say, "don't tell women how to behave, tell men not to rape" but if simply telling men not to rape worked, we wouldn't have a problem. Â Especially if we're telling them not to rape in a language they don't even speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Â Israeli TV reporter stabbed demonstrating 'knife-proof' vest http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35249191 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undefeated Steak Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 "Paris police shot dead a knife-wielding man who tried to enter a police station shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great) and who may have been wearing a suicide belt, official and union sources said." Â http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-shooting-idUSKBN0UL1A620160107?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted January 7, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted January 7, 2016 Nah, that can't be right. Terrorists have no religion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 On the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted January 7, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted January 7, 2016 On the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks too Jesus, has it been a year already?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 The Freedom Kids give us The Donald Trump Jam. Â http://www.itv.com/news/2016-01-14/donald-trump-jam-presidential-hopeful-enlists-child-cheerleaders-for-bizarre-anthem/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted January 19, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted January 19, 2016 I thought we had a general politics thread here, but it seems to have disappeared. Anyhow, the polling industry report into the failure at the last election has finally come out, following from some other investigations. Â The main conclusion is that most of the suggested causes (people changing their mind at the last minute, people lying about who they'll vote for, people overestimating their likelihood to actually vote) had no major effect. The real problem was that the attempts to get a representative sample (both by the original selection and the weighting) failed and that they simply interviewed too many Labour supporters and too few Tories. Â That's backed up by two recent reports. One was an opinion poll in the last few weeks where they asked people, among other things, who they voted for in the last election and got Labour and Conservatives neck and neck on 35%, which shows it's still unrepresentative. Another is the recent publication of a social attitudes survey which involves picking a genuinely random group and going back to them over and over again for several months and repeatedly asking them to take part even if they are initially unavailable or unwilling to do so. Â In that case, the results from the first attempt to contact people showed Labour ahead when asking people who they voted for last May. Only once they'd got everyone in the random sample to respond (other than the few who flat out refused to take part) did they get the correct result of the Tories seven percentage points ahead. One theory there is that Conservative supporters are more likely to be out at work in the day and/or out spending money in the evenings than Labour supporters and thus less likely to answer the phone the first time you call them. Â The big problem is that people who are willing to take part in a political opinion poll are very unrepresentative of the general voting population, particularly among younger people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted January 19, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted January 19, 2016 One theory there is that Conservative supporters are more likely to be out at work in the day and/or out spending money in the evenings than Labour supporters and thus less likely to answer the phone the first time you call them. Â Â I saw this, it was quoted by some cunt on my facebook essentially saying this is proof that all Labour voters are dole scum & the Tories are the party of the strivers. Brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members waters44 Posted January 19, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted January 19, 2016 Whoever came up with that theory certainly wants you to think that way to be fair! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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