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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5428773-pelosi-endorses-stock-trading-ban/ Crazy as she is so filthy rich now from all of her insider trading. mspart

Where he isn’t: On the SafeSport list. https://www.usawmembership.com/ineligible/interim_membership_suspension Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nobody but regime loyalists watches state TV in Iran. People here use satellite - we can access channels from all over the world. Some networks are encrypted, but satellite techs know how to unlock them too. This isn’t North Korea. People in Iran have been fighting for whatever scraps of freedom we can get for decades. Back in the day, the government used to raid homes, confiscate dishes and receivers. At one point, even owning a VCR was illegal - during Khomeini’s time. But people still used them in secret. When I was a kid, they raided our house. Took our movies and the VCR. I begged one of the agents to give back Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone - I’d borrowed it from someone. He gave it back. They played every single tape to check for "banned content". One was just a comedy play. I told him, "That’s just theater". He fast-forwarded… and boom, at the end there was a clip of a female Iranian singer from LA. He looked at me and said, "This is your theater? Yeah right…" A lot has changed since then. The regime had to back off because even the people who used to shame us for being 'too Westernized' turned out to have green cards and homes in the West.

Populations associated with border regions are all at risk of extreme violence. Iran, which executes more people than any country in the world after China, reportedly executed more than 50 Baluchis in 2006 alone. Just recently, the New York Times published an article citing local news media and witnesses who say that around 50 Afghan migrants were murdered and their bodies thrown into a river. Structural racism against non-Persians in Iran also means that Kurds saw the highest number of executions following the 2009 Green protests, even though the movement itself was Persian-led and Tehran-centered. According to Abbas Vali, professor of modern social and political theory at the department of sociology, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Iranian Kurdistan is treated as a security zone where “the logic of military rule” continues to this day. “It’s something engraved in the mindset of government officials,”continues Vali, “when they smell trouble, they first turn to the Kurds.” This violent racism has also led the government to systematically murder working-class Kurdish kolbers, or laborers who carry heavy goods on their back, many of whom are impoverished children from border town villages. Just in 2016, 42 kolber workers were directly shot dead, 30 were injured, and 22 drowned/died of hypothermia or other related causes.

Way to ruin another thread.

I'm joking. I thought that would get a reaction from the wingers (eg some comment about how it's a libtard car, I must have low testosterone, etc) but I guess I was wrong.

Seems like betting on the field might be the way to go...

I think we see Swiderski at 157lbs...

I’m on my seventh cars in six years, so not many miles haha

Which birds are the strong ones in Iran?

Mark Anthony Mcgowan would be my pick if he can stay on the mat. Diego sotelos to ability will keep him in every match as well and the training situation at Michigan will be a lot better.

Years ago I read this line in The Emperor by Kapuscinski - he was quoting an zoology book. It said something like: “In every chicken coop, the weaker birds get pecked by the stronger ones. There’s always a hierarchy. The top bird pecks everyone. The middle ones peck those below but respect those above. And at the bottom, there’s a miserable class that just gets pecked by everyone.” Maybe once in a while, it’s healthy for the birds doing all the pecking to feel a little peck themselves. Funny how just one little tap and suddenly the squawking begins!

Especially when your motto is "CNN the most trusted name in news."

I grew up thinking cars were only good for 100k miles. It never occurred to me that you could get anywhere near this much life out of 1. It runs great and is as tight as the new one. My first car was a Plymouth Horizons. It was such an awful car, but I put an Alpine stereo in it and a hyfonics amp and some 12" subs. I totaled it out at 45k.

That's what I have. It's my daily driver. My wife put most of the miles on it, then she bought another one and I took her old one. I also have a GMC with 95k and it's the biggest pos I've ever seen. I also have a 4runner that has been a great vehicle.

Had an F150 bought new drove it to ~175k.