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  • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
    I explored this in another thread a while back where we discussed the fact that some US parents kick kids out of home for being gay, and that this sort of mistreatment of children is tolerated in the US under some sort of insane belief that parents have some sort of right to raise their children however they like with minimal concern for the welfare of the child;....
    Wow. Word vomit.
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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    • Because my personal situation was again used earlier to imply that I am asking to raise the minimum wage - for the second or third time, I have never called for a raising of the minimum wage. I have never worked full time at federal minimum wage and I understand the economic cases against such a wage, which are exacerberated by out of control automation. Please do not attribute motivations to me that do not exist.
      "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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      • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
        No, I'm still in the thread, Shirlock. It amazes me how hard you work at being wrong.
        Sherlock

        I got to correct the spelling nazi!

        I'm always still in trouble again

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        • Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
          Sherlock

          I got to correct the spelling nazi!
          Ya know, earlier, I spelled pedantic incorrectly -- I typed pendantic -- and I was REALLY tempted to leave it misspelled so you could ... you know, pedant!

          I loves ya brudder.
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
            No, I'm still in the thread, Shirlock. It amazes me how hard you work at being wrong.
            He seems to be accusing you of leaving the discussion, not the thread.

            Yes, he's still wrong.
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            • Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
              He seems to be accusing you of leaving the discussion, not the thread.

              Yes, he's still wrong.
              His initial assessment, however, was that I ran "exactly like Teal did". Obviously, that's not true. But, yeah, you're right.
              Last edited by Cow Poke; 07-08-2017, 12:13 PM.
              The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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              • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                I was referring to the numerous commands given in the NT, where your God makes clear what he thinks you should be doing.

                If you still have problems doing the right thing even in spite of your religious book telling you to, I have zero problem with the government helping you to.
                God wants us to do the right thing out of love, not because the Government makes us. And the government making employers pay $15/hour as minimum wage is not helping anyone. It hurts the employers, the employees and the consumers.

                The employers have to either cut down on employees, or their hours to remain profitable, or raise their prices to make up the difference. The consumer either ends up with an inferior product or a very expensive product. The employee either ends up making near the same or less because of hours being cut, or finding out he is now in an economy where everything is more expensive and his buying power still remains the same as before.

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                • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                  No, I'm still in the thread, Shirlock. It amazes me how hard you work at being wrong.
                  From my perspective, you made a terrible argument, I explained how you're wrong, you made a few meaningless statements because that's all you had left and said you were leaving me and my argument, then when I accused you of hypocrisy you returned to the discussion with me to argue over something pedantic. If you want to prove yourself correct, you make good arguments and you don't say you're leaving twice. If you want to be dishonest, you can address an issue that has no relation to the topic and refuse to acknowledge or reinforce your bogus opinion having been shown to be incorrect. This tangent really shouldn't have gone on this long but you clearly find it more important.

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                  • Originally posted by Psychic Missile View Post
                    From my perspective...
                    If there's something of substance you'd like to discuss, PM, I'm obviously still here. If you want to continue your pathetic derail, count me out.

                    Thanks
                    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                    • Why The $15 Minimum Wage Will Cost California 400,000 Jobs



                      This, as opposed to companies voluntarily increasing wages due to incentives in the new Tax Plan.
                      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                      • Wage increases...

                        • AT&T said it will give $1,000 bonuses to "more than 200,000 AT&T U.S. employees" and fulfill a $1 billion capital investment pledge as soon as the bill becomes law.
                        • Fifth-Third Bancorp told Axios' Dan Primack that it will raise the minimum wage of its workforce to $15 per hour. It said 3,000 of its employees currently make less than $15 per hour. When asked why, given the $1.5 billion it made last year in profit, they had no comment.
                        • Wells Fargo will reportedly increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour. The San Francisco-based bank also plans to allocate $400 million in donations to community and nonprofit organizations in 2018.




                        Again, not because somebody held a gun to their heads, or "legislated", but because they were incentivized by Trump's tax reform.
                        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                        • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                          Wage increases...

                          • AT&T said it will give $1,000 bonuses to "more than 200,000 AT&T U.S. employees" and fulfill a $1 billion capital investment pledge as soon as the bill becomes law.
                          • Fifth-Third Bancorp told Axios' Dan Primack that it will raise the minimum wage of its workforce to $15 per hour. It said 3,000 of its employees currently make less than $15 per hour. When asked why, given the $1.5 billion it made last year in profit, they had no comment.
                          • Wells Fargo will reportedly increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour. The San Francisco-based bank also plans to allocate $400 million in donations to community and nonprofit organizations in 2018.




                          Again, not because somebody held a gun to their heads, or "legislated", but because they were incentivized by Trump's tax reform.
                          You're falling for their lies. AT&T Credits Trump for Bonus Its Union Already Negotiated. The AT&T bonus had been negotiated and announced weeks before the tax bill passed.

                          A lot of companies find it convenient to lie to the gullible for PR purposes. There's been some good investigative reporting into past tax reductions and they pretty consistently found that what the companies said in public they would do with the money turned out to be lies.
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                          • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                            You're falling for their lies. AT&T Credits Trump for Bonus Its Union Already Negotiated. The AT&T bonus had been negotiated and announced weeks before the tax bill passed.
                            SHOCKING that politics was involved. WHO KNEW!

                            A lot of companies find it convenient to lie to the gullible for PR purposes. There's been some good investigative reporting into past tax reductions and they pretty consistently found that what the companies said in public they would do with the money turned out to be lies.
                            I can always count on you to be fair and balanced.
                            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                            • Just spotted today in the headlines:
                              Hundreds of metro AT&T employees laid off just before Christmas:

                              "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                              "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                              "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                              • ATT is a huge company that's constantly changing. I hated DirecTV, so I switched to ATT, and lo and behold, ATT bought DirecTV.

                                Here's some more news....



                                The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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