...because growing food in a tropical country is so hard that they need to ask for it.

Admiring the time and effort you put into your blog and detailed information you offer!.

Oh you definitely can post 2 snaps in 2 days, actually you can post as much as you like as long as you're following the 10% self promotion rule.

Here is rule #2:

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She?...anyway, the world is not a left handed one. We adapt, even excel in many cases, but we don't ask the world to change for us.

As long as there is Islam, there will be Islamic terrorism. Abrahamic religions were created to conquer and control, not to be peaceful and charitable. If you think otherwise, read their religious books, and go ask their priests how it makes sense to build expensive luxurious churches with money that could help enormously to save the lives of poor children.

Religion is the single biggest obstacle to the progress of humankind. Nothing else comes even close. Without religion, we'd be centuries ahead.

I remember dreams from years back, as in from when I was six, seven years old. Always been a strong dreamer, even picking up described surrounding sounds and incorporate them into my dreams. Don't ask me how, but it happens. Dreams that have their own storylines and going back for many years, like a tv series, are kind of red line going through my nocturnal life. My psychologist says it is not really usual to have dreams extend over periods of years and come to think of it: what if we remember dreams or parts of it in a seperate part of the brain, or with their own neural bindings? I guess it's not, but explain to me why those dreams are persistent, well remembered and really clear happenings while dreaming? The only difference between the real world and my dreamworld is sound. I never hear people speak and what I say in my dreams is more thought than actually said. Efficiency?

I am capable of lucid dreaming, which helped me understand reality and ban the idea of nightmares. As soon as you are in control of your dream, there is no such thing as a nightmare. Lucid dreaming helped me overcome certain fears and taught me that I am the master of my reality.

Researching sleep and dreaming is good, but I do not think it is okay to check in on someone else's dreams. You step into another world, one that is not created by you and thus not compliant with yours. I would be bothered if someone tries to enter and trample my most personal of all things being human: thoughts and dreams. That's where I hate science and see it as short coming and especially very rude. But I am wandering too much off topic now.

Monday morning babbling. :-)

I have trouble with this only being on Vice, I need a secondary source that isn't a blog and more importantly isn't heavily leaning in a direction. I'm not saying I can't imagine this being true, I'm just saying that I need more sources that I trust.

Always good to keep up with the CIA blog.

Can this integrate with any site? even custom? I ask because my blog will use Live Blog from Mandeeps.com. a module for the DNN CMS platform.

I'm just fixing to get my blog back up, so this could be a nice way to involve the community. Better than running ads and trying to spam-drive folks over to it.

So you're telling me the US military can cut another 41 million dollars of rampant spending, not unlike frivolous camo, or superfluous training unrelated to warfare? That your best comparison is to point to other rampant spending in the military? When was the last time you spent time on a base, and seen first hand just what reduced, or moved budgets look like? And you are asking the military to eat up 220 million potential medical costs because? (edit, sorry, I used estimate of potential costs using numbers I already quoted, "showed that the direct medical costs (surgery and hormones) could be nearly $1 billion dollars over 10 years. Meanwhile, the lost time due to service members not being deployable or taking special leave could drive the total cost to anywhere from $1.9 billion to $3.7 billion over 10 years." but that's from the hill )

And you're telling me that it is best to allow a pre-existing condition, that whose best treatment is extensive surgery alongside therapy to reduce anxiety, and depression (which already come with their own costs towards troops) for active service?

Nothing I have read has convinced me this is a bad policy. And that is part of the reason why I spend any time on this site, to come across those specific arguments.

What bait? That it is about appeasement to racists? That the numbers are obviously lowballed, if even you look at wikipedia, that states that the most recent estimates are ""with midrange figures of 2,450 in active duty and 1,510 in reserves." Or the other bait that it is about race, religion, or sexual orientation, when, I am quoting a human rights org, ""Being transgender does not imply any specific sexual orientation. Therefore, transgender people may identify as straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc."

Or is it about the bait on the trans issue? That it is immediately framed as a matter of bigots, even when the main type of arguments against transgender inclusion is primarily about financing medical costs.

For a majority of transgender persons, simply living a stable life requires extensive medical treatment and clinical assistance. ^72 Necessary care normally includes “ongoing psychotherapy and counseling sessions, periodic hormone treatment, long-term electrolysis sessions, periodic outpatient body-countering procedures, and other medically necessary procedures to effectuate and maintain the transition from one sex to another.” ^73 Required hormone therapy may range from infrequent to weekly or even daily depending on one’s physical composition. ^74 Hormone treatments further regulate a range of physiological functions, including one’s “mood, eating, and sleeping.” ^75 Without such therapeutic intervention, transgender personnel can suffer extensive psychological trauma that not only interferes with their well-being, but also the well-being of co-workers or people in close physical proximity. ^76

Of significance to military service, especially in deployed areas or field training settings, hormone treatments can, and frequently do, result in significant complications. For example, estrogen therapy has resulted in the increased risk of thromboembolic disease, myocardial infarction, breast cancer, abnormal liver function, and fertility problems. ^77 Testosterone therapy likewise results in the increased risk of strokes and heart attacks, abnormal liver function, renal disease, endometrial cancer, and osteoporosis. ^78

Costs of accommodating the unique needs of transgender servicemembers under a repealed DADT would be monumental, especially considering the price tag accompanying gender reassignment surgery. The costs of hormone therapy, simply in preparation for the operation, can range from $300 to $2,400 per year, ^79 while surgery on just the genitals costs approximately $15,000. ^80 More extensive work on the genitalia, face, and chest may exceed $50,000, solely for those procedures, ^81 exclusive of the psychotherapy required to acclimate to the demands of this tremendous transition. These costs also do not contemplate corrective surgery, which is often required for procedures of this sensitive nature, especially the construction of a prosthetic penis in a female-to-male conversion and treatment for urinary tract infections.^82

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From STRAIGHT TALK: THE IMPLICATIONS OF REPEALING “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” AND THE RATIONALE FOR PRESERVING ASPECTS OF THE CURRENT POLICY, starts on pg. 207.

As people who are backing this policy, are talking about how it is not about the right to fight for the country, but whether or not is cost effective to train a soldier who comes with X medical bills, particularly if they need to fight in active deployment, where the timeline of medical transitio...

McCain dying? Pshaw. McCain will never die, not so long as Al Qaeda rules a new caliphate in Syria, not so long as Ukrainian Nazis slake their thirst for Russian blood, and not so long as you don't ask too closely how he earned the nickname 'Wet Start Johnny' aboard the Forrestal. At least, not until Chuck Keating tells him to, and he's dead already.

Gonna have to ask Putin on that one.

I don't care if I have to pay more! I don't want to pay for the smelly n****/s****/c****/p****/**** who doesn't put enough money in and wants to take advantage of the system!

I would, however, like to ask Mr. Trump to not give up on his campaign promises and help out his base. When we get tax cuts due to healthcare issues it's obviously very different than when the lazy-ass, do-nothing ******s do.

Edit: I never know what's the correct number of asterisks

Been there, done that, left the country twice.

People still light candles and pray to Chavez. There are even people who pray to dead criminals.

Faith is the best thing you can ever ask for. Once you get it, you can do literally anything you want, and it will be OK.

This goes back to my point about Democracy. The majority of people don't want to have to think, it hurts their head. They'd much rather be told what's true and what's not, and follow the charismatic leader who tells them that.

I find it funny how preachers often say that skepticism is easy but faith is hard. I guess that's a way to massage people's egos so they're happy to follow like sheep.

Edit: I hate it when whitespace matters. That's why I don't like python.

Yeah, I'm sure Trump's crack science teams are working day in and day out to put the teeth in "watchdog" agencies like the EPA. Because who would side with tire fire tycoons over the kids, right? Give me a fucking break. "Study" my ass.

I try to phrase it differently when I hear people say they are lactose intolerant. I ask if they are lactose intolerant like most people, or if they are allergic to dairy.

Latest update from the CIA blog: "Trump is still terrible".

Sure seems like it turned Comey's testimony into a nothing burger when he had to tell the truth because he thought there might have been recordings to contradict his perjury.

Thank you for the ideas! I did events years ago and it didn't bring in anything: no money, no commissions, just some laughs and good food here and there. Also: I do not like masses of people, takes up too much of my energy and focus. The solution to that is a workshop area of my own. Which I arranged a month ago and will be starting to use by the end of June. :-) On the planning are big canvasses, both for showcasing and commerce. A gallery-owner advised me years ago to work into that direction, because he (and others) see a museum quality in the works. Well, to be honoust, I prefer having my work in a museum and then see what happens. That's also how I work: I plan things years ahead, but not really pinpointing exact. A global direction or goal and then working towards it. Having a workshop is a big step for me and certainly for the works. This work is not really plannable or scalable, since I do not strive for commercial succes, the money is a tool to help me on the road to artistic, creative en technical succes. I like making money from it, but invest a lot right back into it, since reaching a certain aristic level requires a continuety, in my case an availability of time and space, which is covered better and better with the years. It grows slowly, the sideshow of commerce, fame and approaching something completely subjective in an objective manner. What goes fast is skills, form, size and subjects, the things that really count to me.

Since I have started painting graffiti 30 plus years ago, I already realised I took up a task for many years to master. The more I master, the more tasks lie ahead to complete. I see painting as a lifelong quest where you can define your own path, just like in life, but with a clearer set of goals. A certain skill level, a certain style, objects, name it, all can and will be goals. That's how I roll: the better I become, the better the business will be. I do not like running around behind people's asses to beg for commissions. For now it is becoming more the other way around, people ask me for the works. :-)

Great share. Number 4 is my issue. I know it takes baby steps to build a blog and nothing grows overnight. But it just seems like the select few others eventually find the right formula and know something the rest of us don't. It's frustrating.

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I know you’ve been waiting an entire lifetime to use that sentence, but this article’s source is the Gatestone Institute, who give the cause of hard-core, mindless, mouth-foaming, rabid Islamophobia a bad name. Emanating as it does from the belching, sulfurous dark pit at the heart of anti-Muslim hate in the United States, if I were you I’d treat this link with all the respect it deserves. If /u/GeoLeo was my bot, I’d treat it posting this link as a dealbreaking, major problem. Gravitating to sensationalism and jingoism is one thing, running primary source hate is another.

Bigotry exists, but it is not nearly as prevalent nor as institutional as some people are screaming.

Some people are idiots. That said, how can you be so sure you know exactly how prevalent and institutional bigotry is? Because some people are idiots? Bad answer.

The last one that I saw was real was the Charleston church shooting.

That’s astonishing. As in a controversial belief. I will grant you the majority of the hate crimes you see on right wing websites are fake, in the about the same way that wrong numbers are never busy.

This, however, is an argument from ignorance. You don’t know about it, so it’s not happening. Spot a flaw in this argument? Is it that only the Mother Emmanuel Massacre counts as a hate crime? Because saying that was the last “real” one is fucking nuts.

What leads me to belive most of them are false is where they are happening.

I have nothing good to say about this reasoning.

Not in red counties where all those “racists” live

I can’t even begin to keep track of where the ignorance of the people you’re describing as hate crime hoaxers leaves off and where your deep misunderstanding of how bigotry works takes over. I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon. People in my neighborhood would go to nicer parts of town to commit their crimes. By your logic here, my neighborhood would’ve been the worst in town, instead of the Norman-Rockwell-gone-slumming unpretentious community it was.

Deporting illegals or building a wall to keep them out isn’t about anyone’s race, it’s about being here illegally.

For you, maybe. For Trump, if we’re to take him at his word, it’s very much a bigoted thing. I’m right there with you that it’s possible to enforce immigration law without specifically doing so for reasons of ugly, nativist bigotry. Let’s not pretend, you and me though, that it never is. Because that’s obviously not true.

But “racism” is of course the favored byword of the talking heads who live in expensive gated communities and send their kids to private schools.

The Muslim ban is a Muslim ban. You can navel gaze all you want about how Trump ran on banning Muslims because he wanted to stick it to people that think they’re better than you, but the unpleasant fact is he did it because he’s an ignorant, moronic, bigoted fuckwit. One whose petty hatreds, unthinking bigotry, and love of hearing his own voice pretty much let the cat out of the bag about his unconstitutional Muslim ban.

It’s called the Big Lie.

You mean like “there hasn’t been a hate crime since Charleston?”

And people that lack critical thinking skills will conflate race, religion, legal status and swallow the shit that the MSM feeds them.

I’ve got whatever rational detachment it takes not to get suckered by the mindset you’re talking about here. Can you admit there’s something ugly underneath nativism?

Turning violent because it offends you or even might offend you is the exact wrong play.

Point well taken. I’m sure Milo Yiannopoulos only foments riots at his appearances to get that kind of response. Court victories aren’t only more satisfying, they’re more effective.

Mocking laughter is much more effective.

To a point. Until the bigots get out of hand. Beyond that, people need to die. You might need a March to the Sea. Or a D-Day. Or whatever.

No one has the right to not be offended.

Agreed. One reason ...

Could you ask for a more perfect bookend to Obama’s blood-soaked neocon abortion of a presidency

Oh get off your high horse, wouldya? Could you ask for a more idealistic naiveté about how the world works?

If you think Obama was a "blood-soaked necon" boy, do I have some bad news for you about presidents past and present.

Remember "We Like Ike" Eisenhower? Korean War.

How about FDR aka Saint Roosevelt of Our Church of The New Deal? Developed the A-bomb.

How about Truman The Trustworthy? He dropped 2 of them.

Going all the way back to Gen. Washington (The Perfect) who quelled the Whiskey Rebellion by riding at the head of an army with 13,000 militiamen. Over enforcing a tax. Nobody died because the insurgents all went home before the arrival of the army but had they not they would have probably been forced to fight and (given their numbers) died.

There is simply no way to explain damned if you do/damned if you don't choices POTUS has to confront to anybody still living cushioned Berkley sophomore life. Out in the world of geopolitics on 7 billion people scale, decisions lead to deaths. Always. The only question is how many and for how long.