Random Politics & Religion #00

Actually they all have in common one thing:

All the mass shooters were either depressed suffered some anxiety issues etc. And taking SSRI drugs.

I'll look past racism when the country stops being racist. I understand it's difficult for someone who doesn't have to face discrimination to understand but try walking a mile in another man's shoes.

Or failing that, go blackface for a week. A month. A year.

Think of the material you'd get!

Fun fact, Nazis killed the use of the Swastika. Before then it was a commonly used symbol.

Swastika

Finnish Air Force used it as part of their flag until only recently. (2005)


Training Air Wing, Finnish Air Force

Lots of pre-WWII buildings have Swastikas on them. Is this news all the sudden?

No, just trying to tell people about a Jewish Family's reaction to the Indian Swastika in the late 1950s.

None.

A 2,500 manifesto that apparently was posted by Dylann Roof Storm reveals his obsession against Jews, Hispanics and East Asians, as well as the American flag.

Storm, why has pleaded guilty the murders of nine blacks in a Charleston, S.C. church last week, wrote his rant on the Last Rhodesian website, which originally was registered in his name, according to The New York Times.

The only thing differentiating Roof from Hitler seems to be a moustache.

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One photo of Roof has a clear reference to Hitler. He is shown at a beach with the number “1488.” a code used by White supremacists. The number 14 refers to a 14-word slogan: We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children” and is apparently inspired by an 88-word passage in Mein Kampf.

The digits “88” have at least two meanings. The letter “H” is the eighth letter in the alphabet, and two of the letters together, which would be 88, are the initials for Heil Hitler.

1 Iceland 1.148
2 Denmark 1.150
3 Austria 1.198
4 New Zealand 1.221
5 Switzerland 1.275
6 Finland 1.277
7 Canada 1.287
8 Japan 1.322
9 Australia 1.329
10 Czech Republic 1.341
11 Portugal 1.344
12 Ireland 1.354
13 Sweden 1.360
14 Belgium 1.368
15 Slovenia 1.378
16 Germany 1.379
17 Norway 1.393
18 Bhutan 1.416
19 Poland 1.430
20 Netherlands 1.432
21 Spain 1.451
22 Hungary 1.463
23 Slovakia 1.478
24 Singapore 1.490
25 Mauritius 1.503
26 Romania 1.542
27 Croatia 1.550
28 Malaysia 1.561
29 Chile 1.563
30 Qatar 1.568
31 Botswana 1.597
32 Bulgaria 1.607
33 Kuwait 1.626
34 Costa Rica 1.654
35 Taiwan 1.657
36 Italy 1.669
37 Lithuania 1.674
38 Estonia 1.677
39 United Kingdom 1.685
40 Latvia 1.695
41 Laos 1.700
42 South Korea 1.701
43 Mongolia 1.706
44 Uruguay 1.721
45 France 1.742
46 Indonesia 1.768
46 Serbia 1.768
48 Namibia 1.784
49 Senegal 1.805
49 United Arab Emirates 1.805
51 Malawi 1.814
52 Albania 1.821
53 Bosnia & Herzegovina 1.839
54 Ghana 1.840
55 Zambia 1.846
56 Vietnam 1.848
57 Montenegro 1.854
58 Timor-Leste 1.860
59 Sierra Leone 1.864
60 Argentina 1.865
61 Greece 1.878
62 Nepal 1.882
63 Lesotho 1.891
64 Panama 1.903
64 Tanzania 1.903
66 Gabon 1.904
67 Madagascar 1.911
68 Cyprus 1.924
69 Kosovo 1.938
70 Moldova 1.942
71 Jordan 1.944
71 Togo 1.944
71 Macedonia 1.944
74 Nicaragua 1.947
74 Oman 1.947
76 Tunisia 1.952
77 Benin 1.958
78 Liberia 1.963
79 Georgia 1.973
80 Mozambique 1.976
81 Equatorial Guinea 1.987
82 Cuba 1.988
83 Burkina Faso 1.994
84 Bangladesh 1.997
84 Ecuador 1.997
86 Morocco 2.002
87 Kazakhstan 2.008
88 Angola 2.020
89 Paraguay 2.023
90 Bolivia 2.025
91 Armenia 2.028
92 Guyana 2.029
92 Peru 2.029
94 United States 2.038
95 Saudi Arabia 2.042

Safest places to visit in the world listed in order until we get to U.S. and the country below it:

VT shooter:

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday that he had "summoned immediately" the US ambassador over a report that American spies eavesdropped on millions of calls made by French citizens.

Laurent Fabius told reporters as he arrived for an EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg, that a meeting would take place "this morning" at the ministry in Paris.

In an interview on French radio station Europe 1, Interior Minister Manuel Valls described as “shocking” the revelations in Le Monde newspaper that the US National Security Agency had secretly recorded millions of phone calls made by French citizens.

The spy agency taped 70.3 million phone calls in France over a 30-day period between December 10 and January 8 this year, Le Monde reported in its online version, citing documents from former US security contractor Edward Snowden.

According to the paper, the NSA automatically picked up communications from certain phone numbers in France and recorded text messages under a programme code-named "US-985D."

Le Monde said the documents gave grounds to believe that the NSA targeted not only people suspected of being involved in terrorism but also high-profile individuals from the world of business or politics.

US authorities declined comment to the French daily on the "classified" documents.

The Le Monde article followed similar revelations by German weekly Der Spiegel that US agents had hacked into the email account of former Mexican president Felipe Calderon.

Mexican authorities have said they will be seeking answers from US officials "as soon as possible" following the allegations.

Snowden, who has taken refuge in Russia, is wanted in the United States for espionage and other charges after leaking details of the NSA's worldwide snooping activities.

Just putting this here for safe keeping, I'm sure it'll be useful soon.

Anesthesiologist trashes patient during surgery while under, then has to pay for it!

America, where if you hurt someone's feels you need to pay up. Fork over that money liberals, I'm getting in line for my payout..

In addition to their vicious commentary, the doctors discussed avoiding the man after the colonoscopy, instructing an assistant to lie to him, and then placed a false diagnosis on his chart.

How can people vote for such a supporter of racism... Did you hear, she even told a black church group that "all lives matter"?

If she gets elected it will no doubt be PROOF positive of our racism.

You know if I really sit back for a second, I almost feel bad because she is so misunderstood.

Bolded is sort of important.

Make fun of the "feels" aspect all you want, but what was done was unprofessional, against the rules, and unquestionably malpractice. The first two are questionable for legal recourse, though she certainly should lose her job (edit: in my opinion, though I suppose I could poll the physicians in my building and see how they feel abou it).

The last, however, is sort of important, and is a good way to try to lose your license completely depending how damaging your actions were to your patient.

The jury awarded the man $100,000 for defamation — $50,000 each for the comments about the man having syphilis and tuberculosis

Malpractice is one thing, but this isn't really "defamation"... Hence my tongue in cheek comment.

I'm basically fine with that, as a "moron tax". You can mock this guy's feels all you like, but idiocy in medical professionals needs to be exposed and punished harshly. These people are literally making life or death decisions, dozens every day, and anything that filters out the people too stupid to keep a semblance of professionalism is fine with me.

I'm basically fine with that, as a "moron tax". You can mock this guy's feels all you like, but idiocy in medical professionals needs to be exposed and punished harshly. These people are literally making life or death decisions, dozens every day, and anything that filters out the people too stupid to keep a semblance of professionalism is fine with me.

Yeah, I'm not sure whether I would defend the guy or not. A part of me says that professionalism is of course important, but the other part of me knows that hospital doctors use humor sometimes to take their minds off of the terrible things that they have to deal with on a regular basis.

El. Oh. El.

Suddenly the cacophony of "LA LA LA LA LA" I'm hearing from Dems with their fingers in their ears is getting a lot louder.