Claeyt wrote:Well that's the question isn't it. Was there any actual classified material on it and did they actually break the law by setting it up. Like I said, if you compare it to the Petraeus case she'll end up with nothing against her. Either way it's pointless in arguing about it until the FBI determines anything this summer.
Dude, really? They said over a month and a half ago that there was top secret information in the emails going through her private email server. Releasing information that is top secret or above is a serious crime. The FBI only investigates criminal acts, if they are investigating her, it is a clear indication that they think she broke the law. They would have charged her by now except for one thing: A comment made by Obama in an interview by 60 Minutes. He claimed that Hillary's actions didn't pose a National Security issue. If he makes a comment like that, he's almost giving her a pardon. So, he's now made it very difficult for the FBI to proceed.
Claeyt wrote:Yes, there are people that want to kill Americans in the Middle-East. Yes they are theocratic terrorists and should be stopped. We've been fighting them for 50 years now and I don't doubt we'll be fighting them for at least 50 more. This is not ALL Muslims and it's not even a small minority of them. As Juda showed in another thread t's a puny fraction of a percent of Muslims who would kill themselves to kill others.
No... Judaism said that IF ONLY .0001% of Muslims are suicidal terrorists, that's still a dauntingly large number, enough people to launch some major attacks. He didn't claim that is a real percentage. He was using an illustration, which you seem to have a very difficult time with.
Claeyt wrote:We accepted 70,000 refugees last year and 85,000 from around the world this year. Why are you so afraid if we accept 10-15,000 Muslim refugees this year? Canada has already taken in 20,000. Europe has taken in millions. WE ARE FACING THE LARGEST REFUGEE CRISIS SINCE WWII. Where is your compassion for other people? How is it not American to help people in need who are fleeing war? We took in 10x as many refugees after the Vietnam war. I personally am embarrassed that my country didn't take in more people to help them.
I'm afraid due to the fact that the refugees are currently thoroughly vetted to be sure their backgrounds are benign and that those backgrounds are the truth. That takes time, money, and a lot of people. Just arbitrarily increasing the numbers of people being allowed into the country could overwhelm the system we have that is working fairly well right now. So far, only a few refugees have been arrested for terrorist activities. I'd like to see it stay that way. I certainly do feel sorry for the plight of those of those who are innocent, but I also don't want to be murdered at the airport when I go home for the holidays. Be embarrassed all you want, it's easy to do when you feel misguidedly safe.
Claeyt wrote:Then you are an uninformed fool and will be supporting the most racist, misogynistic and bigoted candidate we've had since George Wallace tried to roll Jim Crow back into the South.
Openly, maybe.

But certainly not the most.
Claeyt wrote:Immigration laws didn't change hundreds of years ago, they changed dramatically during the Cold War so as to favor White, Rich, and European immigrants. Why do our immigration laws make it easier for the rich to jump the line and come to this country? Why do our immigration laws criminalize people who come here to pick fruit? I agree that we need order to our immigration laws but we need to change them and the Republicans refuse to do anything on the subject except talk about a giant wall and mass deportations even if people have been here for 20 years and their kids are grown and citizens.
I didn't say they changed hundreds of years ago, I said they were different hundreds of years ago; we didn't really have any. Now, you've been harping on this point for several posts now, saying the same things over and over again, and I've been largely taking your works for truth since this is very tangential to the actual subject at hand. But I feel it's time to actually see if your words have any truth. Here's a nice article:
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-f ... fact-sheetIt explains that the US grants 480,000 visas to close family members of US citizens yearly, with that number often being a bit higher. There are 140,000 permanent employment visas available for people of extraordinary ability, artists, surgeons, scientists, and the like, and other temporary visas for touring bands, athletes, corporate employees needing to come here for some project or other, etc. Additionally, there are a number of visas for permanent immigrants for people from various countries, the total from any one country not to exceed 7% of the total, so that no one country or area dominates in any given year. There is also a diversity program that takes the countries that have sent less than 50k immigrants in the last 5 years and just awards visas to people in that country who want to immigrate. They have to meet only minimal qualifications to prove they can support themselves. It all seems exceedingly fair to me, and there is nothing here about rich people jumping any lines, though I see nothing wrong with great wealth being a qualification for a 'person of extraordinary ability', myself.
As for why our immigration laws 'criminalize people who come here to pick fruit', well, it's because they aren't coming here with visas! They're not applying and waiting their turn and working within the law. They're just crossing the border illegally and making it difficult for us to take in people who want to come here by legal means. We can only support so many extra people into this country each year and EVERYONE who comes here has to be accounted for. Having illegal people here means that people waiting to immigrate on actual visas, can't. It's selfish, it's immoral, it's illegal, and it's unfair. So again, if they want to come here, they must do it legally or not at all.
Claeyt wrote:Yes, that's what they are saying. David Duke literally said "Hi, I'm David Duke and I endorse Donald Trump for President" and then encouraged his supporters to help him.
Umm... have you even read what I've said twice now? Sure, David Duke said that, but what the Hell does that have to do with individual people working in minor capacities in Trump's campaign? I'm saying that, assuming this one woman isn't the only one in the entire campaign, these people are reading the same script every other Tom, *****, and Harry volunteering for Trump is reading and who they are or what they believe in makes no difference and should not. I mean, really, if you're going to discriminate about this, what's next? Religious affiliation? Employment status? Place of business? National Origin? What?
Claeyt wrote:When are you going to quit ***** dogs Tmeow? You don't have to keep ***** dogs just because Trump says that if you don't keep ***** dogs the country won't become great again.
Get. Help.
Claeyt wrote:The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has nothing to do with campaign volunteers.
It certainly does. That's not the issue. My question is, can someone's social activities legally be discriminated against or not? If not, then they aren't even allowed to ask about it when deciding whether to let someone volunteer.
Claeyt wrote:The point is that Trump does not denounce or say he will stop members of the KKK or readers of Stormfront from volunteering for him when they hold recruitment drives for him. ... By not rejecting them utterly and by not explaining how he does not want HIS message to encourage them he is failing morally and is not fit to be President of the United States.
He has said he doesn't accept their endorsement. There's not a lot else he can do. You think that the people interviewing volunteers for his campaign should ask everyone if they are a member of the KKK or if the read Stormfront and refuse them if they answer 'yes'? And that by not doing that, Trump is agreeing with the opinions of those groups?? Do the other political campaigns ask those questions? Is it even legal to ask those questions? I'm tired of doing all the research. If you want to argue about this, find out if such a question is even allowed or your entire argument is invalid.
Claeyt wrote:Again, she's the most proven competent candidate we have running even if we do disagree with some of her policies. Hell, even the Republicans who say Trump isn't fit to be president won't say she isn't fit to be president. That says something.
That mostly says they're concentrating on the nomination right now, not the presidency.
Claeyt wrote:No, I mean they SEEM presidential before they become president. They SEEM capable and reasonable and fit to be president. I think Hillary, Bernie, Kasich seem like they could do the job. Trump and increasingly Cruz do not seem like they could do the job without embarrassing our country tremendously.
I like how you decide who you think is fit to be president. They seem presidential.
Claeyt wrote:Again, she was a Senator and the Secretary of State. You don't get those jobs by being an incompetent boob like Trump.
Oh there have been plenty of incompetent boobs in governmental offices, even high ones. It's not a disqualifying trait by any means. I posit that Hillary is, indeed, one of them.