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The way they deal with arrests is like they are tackling an angry rino.  I don't think cops should take needless risks but a lot of them won't risk a scratch if they can use 5 cops all armed with tasers to bring down an unarmed suspect.

Posted by: aShogunNamedMarcus

Posted by: chupacabra

Why do I always have to do your homework

- Shokin hasn't been vindicated.  He used his clout and appealed to the courts to investigate his firing.  So yes, there will be an investigation, but it hasn't taken place so nobody has been vindicated.
- Shokin did not have an open investigation into Burisma when he was fired.
- The investigation into Burisma that had been open previously was concerning their actions BEFORE Biden's son joined them.
- There was a large coalition that was aiming to have him fired that included the EU and the IMF.

- The DNC had about 140 servers in a server farm, not just "a server" as Trump believes.  
- If you want to hide evidence on a server you can just destroy it.  It's not a pot of gold.
- There is no evidence of a DNC server in the Ukraine.

"I tactically dismantled your argument"   Whaaaaaaaaaat?  You keep thinking that a physical server is of some importance here.  That one belief disqualifies anyone from discussing the topic logically.  If Putin kills me with a bowl of polonium soup and forensics take a sample to prove it, does it really matter where the bowl went afterward? Would any thinking person try to hide their crime by keeping the bowl, uncleaned, and then sending it somewhere to hide it instead of just washing it out and throwing it in the ocean?  You do know that the data it contains is not permanent right?  The only reason this conspiracy theory has legs is that it makes sense to Trump.  It makes sense to Trump because he is a moron.  Don't be a moron like Trump.  Use your brain.

What sort of timeframe are you talking about regarding Shokin? As for the server, I think you may be contradicting yourself compared to previous posts. I'd dig it up but I hate homework ;)

Shokin didn't prosecute anyone of note during his tenure, which is why the IMF and EU wanted him out.  Corruption is bad for the bottom line and he was not doing anything about it.  If there was no active investigation of Burisma by Shokin at the time he was fired, and if the investigation into Burisma previously was for actions that took place before Hunter Biden was hired, and the international community had made it clear that they wanted him fired, then it is pretty hard to say that Biden did it to protect Hunter.  To protect European investments in Ukraine maybe, but not Hunter.  It doesn't line up with the known facts.

As for the server I seem to recall defending the fact that Crowdstrike didn't need it and neither did the FBI since they contracted Crowdstrike to do the forensics.  I also seem to remember that it was the conspiracy crowd that claimed to have proof of the extraction because the "smoking gun" was the bit rate as which the info was extracted and the story was that it was too fast for it to be anything but a USB stick.  I have no idea where that info came from though.  I am guessing it was made up.

Posted by: tungsten

You trash my sources, but I don't even read what you type when start out with an ad hominem attack on the author.

LOL, ya right.  You read it and can't come up with anything to say because in the thousands of posts you have never been able to say one critical word about your socialist heroes.  I would love to comb through your many ad hominems to expose your hypocrisy but I have much better things to do.  Besides, he is virtually unknown (excluding maybe his family) so I don't think to say that nobody has heard of him is an ad hominem.  Hyperbole at worst.  Now that he is part of the Cooterpunch team though the sky is the limit.  ;)

Posted by: tungsten

Posted by: FLATCH

How can I even take that seriously? Moral standing.

Well... a bunch of stuff including the standard link to his favourite website

So a professor that nobody has ever heard of has sent a paper defending Cuba to the UN?

To be honest I don't think Cuba is terrible and the embargo was juvenile, but Cuba was also never a boy scout. The country has done a very admirable job of providing for its people, even during the embargo and I think other countries can learn from them, but you always seem so eager to ignore heavy-handedness on open society when it is by people you admire. Their record on freedom of speech and freedom of the press is terrible. That is how authoritarians keep control. Castro didn't rule as long as he did by letting people think what they want. Neither did Chavez or Maduro.

These are actual Cuban laws:

A provision regarding contempt for authority (desacato) penalizes anyone who "threatens, libels or slanders, defames, affronts (injuria) or in any other way insults (ultraje) or offends, with the spoken word or in writing, the dignity or decorum of an authority, public functionary, or his agents or auxiliaries." Penalties are from three months to one year in prison, plus a fine. If the person demonstrates contempt for the President of the Council of the State, the President of the National Assembly of Popular Power, the members of the Council of the State or the Council of Ministers, or the Deputies of the National Assembly of the Popular Power, the penalty is from one to three years in prison.[6]

Anyone who "publicly defames, denigrates, or scorns the Republic's institutions, the political, mass, or social organizations of the country, or the heroes or martyrs of the nation" is subject to from three months to one year in prison. This sweeping provision potentially outlaws mere expressions of dissatisfaction or disagreement with government policies or practices.[6]

Clandestine printing is a crime against public order and anyone who "produces, disseminates, or directs the circulation of publications without indicating the printer or the place where it was printed, or without following the established rules for the identification of the author or origin, or reproduces, stores, or transports" such publications, can be sentenced to from three months to one year in prison.

Posted by: FLATCH

Seems to me you spend a lot of time focusing on the negative and never the positive. Sure Canada may have some skeletons in the closet but I don’t think anywhere near the number that permanent members do.

Unless of course he is talking about Cuba, Russia, Venezuela, or Ghaddafi.

Posted by: tungsten

Cuba's the only country with enough moral standing to fill the seat.

Sure.

So is Merkel 20 years older than we think, or was Hitler still alive in the early '60s?

Posted by: aShogunNamedMarcus

Posted by: chupacabra

^^ This has been thoroughly debunked. The investigation wasn't even ongoing. Shokin was corrupt and lots of people called for him to be sacked.

Why are you rehashing old alt-right conspiracies? First Crowdstrike, and now this? Good timing if you want Trump to win I guess. But don't worry, Russiagate was a hoax. /s

Put simply, the chronology doesn’t work – the investigation into Burisma, where Hunter worked, was dormant by the time Shokin was pushed out. It would also represent a major historical anomaly. During Shokin’s 13 months in office, not one major figure was convicted. No oligarch. No politician. No ranking bureaucrat. It would appear unlikely he was in the middle of breaking the habit with the Bidens.

Yo dude. I think you're semi outdated on this one. Shokin's recently been basically vindicated of Bidens pressure by a new Ukrainian AG type appointee of some sort. What you're saying is sort of technically accurate in the past tense of whats been reported by the loonie left media.

Also, I believe you were using the Crowdstrike/DNC server argument against me for about a year before I tactically dismantled your argument, so how is that an Alt-Right talking point if you use when it suits you? And you never did answer why the DNC server ended up in the Ukraine.

Why do I always have to do your homework

- Shokin hasn't been vindicated.  He used his clout and appealed to the courts to investigate his firing.  So yes, there will be an investigation, but it hasn't taken place so nobody has been vindicated.
- Shokin did not have an open investigation into Burisma when he was fired.
- The investigation into Burisma that had been open previously was concerning their actions BEFORE Biden's son joined them.
- There was a large coalition that was aiming to have him fired that included the EU and the IMF.

- The DNC had about 140 servers in a server farm, not just "a server" as Trump believes.  
- If you want to hide evidence on a server you can just destroy it.  It's not a pot of gold.
- There is no evidence of a DNC server in the Ukraine.

"I tactically dismantled your argument"   Whaaaaaaaaaat?  You keep thinking that a physical server is of some importance here.  That one belief disqualifies anyone from discussing the topic logically.  If Putin kills me with a bowl of polonium soup and forensics take a sample to prove it, does it really matter where the bowl went afterward? Would any thinking person try to hide their crime by keeping the bowl, uncleaned, and then sending it somewhere to hide it instead of just washing it out and throwing it in the ocean?  You do know that the data it contains is not permanent right?  The only reason this conspiracy theory has legs is that it makes sense to Trump.  It makes sense to Trump because he is a moron.  Don't be a moron like Trump.  Use your brain.

Even the new batteries are not that bad for the cost.  At my cabin I have 2 golf cart batteries and once they are charged fully I can run pretty much all weekend on them with lights and a stereo.  In your home it is basically just a battery backup so you could skip the solar panels and get a charger, unless you are expecting the hydrocalypse.  You would just need an inverter, but those are not too costly either.

I grew up in Pender Harbour and multi-day outages were the norm.  We would just wrap the freezer in blankets and hope for the best.  I don't remember having to throw anything out.  Otherwise a little generator is a good bet.  You don't have to run it full time, just enough to keep the freezer cold.  A lot of them are pretty quiet.