reminded me of my favorite journalism ever, courtesy Shea Serrano: Spoiler My favorite example of someone shooting their shot in real life happened a couple of years ago. This was when I was teaching middle school, and it was either right before, after, or on Valentine’s Day. I was standing at my door between classes watching the students wander through the hallway and saying hello to each of my kids as they entered my class. While there, I saw a boy I would classify as kind of dorky but mostly very sweet. He had with him — and I’m remembering this story from a long time ago so maybe the details aren’t 100 percent accurate — some chocolates, a stuffed animal, and a rose. He intended to give them to a girl he liked. When the girl came walking down the hallway, he walked up to her, said something, and handed her the stuff. She said, “Oh, umm, no thanks,” and kept it moving. It was a pulverizing moment — or, at least I thought it’d been. I know I’d have been crushed by something like that. But the boy wasn’t. He turned around to leave, saw that I was staring right at him, then must’ve measured the hurt in my face because he took a second — and I will never forget this part for the rest of my life — he shrugged his shoulders, looked me right in my eyes, said, “Shooters shoot,” and then walked away. It was phenomenal. I couldn’t believe his resilience. He took a sledgehammer to the jaw and just shook it off. I knew right then that no matter what, he was going to be successful in life.
that's not what we are arguing. we are arguing what are the downsides and upsides to weakening human right protections in an effort to eliminate terrorist attacks.
In the grand scheme of human lives, terrorist attacks are essentially a non-issue. Certainly not worth entertaining the notion of infringing on human rights. To suggest otherwise demonstrates a profound lack of understanding of context and the data of terrorism.
He's a brilliant dude. More and more impressed with him every time I hear him speak. I can't wait to buy his book once it's less than $1 on amazon.
https://qz.com/552334/more-people-d...er-before-and-mostly-in-these-five-countries/ Since 2000, 61k terrorist attacks have killed more than 140k people. Worldwide. Every year 1.3 MILLION die in auto accidents. http://asirt.org/initiatives/informing-road-users/road-safety-facts/road-crash-statistics Quit freaking the fuck out over terrorism.
Should be interesting testimony Wednesday. Of course Repubs will be asking about leaks and unmasking.
WSB Handle now making claims Trumpcare extends/strengthens protections for preexisting conditions. Canned answer about how she would never do something to harm her sister, etc.
so he asked fbi director to back off that didn't work then went to the DNI and asked him to tell the fbi director to back off totally nothing to see here everybody
Found link on Facebook. Handel is so awful. Ended last segment by calling ossoff handpicked by pelosi, so he's obviously terrible. Was he? Even so, does that make him worse than her?
Sources familiar with briefing given to associates of the meeting? Am I getting the sourcing on this correctly?
If I didn't know there would be no way I'd think that was father and daughter unless it was in SEC country