Random Politics & Religion #00

As a staunch liberal how could you not support cheating and lying it's the go to way of Hillary and her ilk.

Hillary is one of us that is why I support her. I see a lot of myself in Hillary.

I have no problem with promiscuity. Bang everyone all you want. Have orgies that would shame Caligula. Have a ball (or twelve). Hedonism gone wild.

It's the lying aspect of affairs that bother me.

You gave your word.

Admit you are unable to keep your word and end it.

Don't go behind the back of someone who trusts you.

But like I said, my feelings on the topic don't matter, it's not illegal, and turning a blind eye to those exposing people's personal information left and right is a dangerous precedent to set just because some people view their actions as immoral.

Oh I'm sure you do. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Am I the only one who thinks that just because an email is registered with AM, that doesn't mean the individual had an affair.

I'm not saying it's entirely insignificant, just that it really only shows you were considering an affair. I'm doubtful that in any long term relationship, the possibility of having an affair isn't entertained by a large number.

Why is this suppose to be some huge bombshell?

We must stop the hackers before they destroy us all !

Oh New York Post. *laugh track*

In about a minute to two total it was "So the topic at this hour is should there be a death penalty for having sex with children?"

Jared Fogle was an inspiration for what? To buy sandwiches?

Prime minister announces his resignation and paves way for general election, with 20 September predicted as most likely date for a poll

Seven months after he was elected on a promise to overturn austerity, the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has announced he is stepping down to pave the way for snap elections next month.

As the debt-crippled country received the first tranche of a punishing new €86bn (£61bn) bailout, Tsipras said on Thursday he felt “a moral obligation to place this deal in front of the people, to allow them to judge ... both what I have achieved, and my mistakes”.

The 41-year-old Greek leader is still popular with voters for having at least tried to stand up to the country’s creditors and his leftwing Syriza party is likely to be returned to power in the imminent general election, which government officials told Greek media was most likely to take place on 20 September.

The prime minister insisted in an address on public television that he was proud of his time in office and had got “a good deal for the country”, despite bringing it “close to the edge”. He added he was “shortly going to submit my resignation, and the resignation of my government, to the president”.

The prime minister will be replaced for the duration of the short campaign by the president of Greece’s supreme court, Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou – a vocal bailout opponent – as head of a caretaker government.

Tsipras won parliamentary backing for the tough bailout programme last week by a comfortable margin but suffered a major rebellion among members of his ruling Syriza party, nearly one-third of whose 149 MPs either voted against the deal or abstained.

The revolt by hardliners, angry at what they view as a betrayal of the party’s anti-austerity pledges, left Tsipras short of the 120 votes he would need – two-fifths of the 300-seat assembly – to survive a censure motion, leading to speculation he would call an early confidence vote.

He has now decided to skip that step, opting instead to go straight to the country in an attempt to silence the rebels and shore up public support for the three-year bailout programme, which entails a radical overhaul of the Greek economy and major reforms of health, welfare, pensions and taxation.

Government sources had long suggested an announcement on early elections was on the cards as soon as Athens had got the first instalment of the new package – Greece’s third in five years – and completed a critical €3.4bn debt repayment to the European Central Bank due on Thursday. 

Some analysts had speculated that the prime minister might wait until early October, by which time Greece’s creditors would have carried out their first review of the country’s reform progress and perhaps come to a decision about debt relief – a potential vote-winner for the prime minister.

But he appears to have calculated that it was better to go to the polls sooner rather than later, aiming to capitalise on his popularity before the effects of some of the harshest new bailout measures – including further pension cuts, VAT increases and a controversial “solidarity” tax on incomes – started to make themselves felt.

Under Greece’s complex constitutional laws, because Tsipras was elected less than a year ago, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos cannot immediately call an election when the prime minister resigns. Instead, he must first consult the other major parties to see if they could form a government – a near impossibility given the current make-up of the parliament.

At the end of a bruising seven months of negotiations with Greece’s international lenders that nearly resulted in the country defaulting on its mammoth debts and crashing out of the euro, the prime minister was eventually forced to sign up to a rescue package that many in his party view as an unforgivable U-turn.
Tsipras has insisted that accepting creditor demands for further tough reforms was the only way to ensure his country remains in the eurozone – which is what opinion polls show the overwhelming majority of the Greek population want.

Syriza is now likely to split, with a formal announcement thought to be imminent. The leader of the party’s dissident Left Platform, the former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, announced last week that he intended to form a new anti-bailout movement, accusing the government of capitulating to the “dictatorship of the eurozone”.

The prime minister’s closest aides had conceded on Thursday that the divisions within Syriza had to be dealt with one way or another. The energy minister, Panos Skourletis, told state broadcaster ERT: “The political landscape must clear up. We need to know whether the government has or does not have a majority.”
The party is now thought likely to call an extraordinary congress in September to resolve its internal differences.

Recent opinion polls have put support for Syriza at around 33-34%, making it by far the country’s most popular party – but not popular enough to govern without a coalition partner. No polls have been published late July, but Syriza insiders remain optimistic.

Dimitris Papadimoulis, a Syriza MEP, told Mega TV: “These elections ... will provide a stable governing solution. My feeling is that Syriza will have an absolute majority.”

The political uncertainty took its toll on markets, with Greek two-year bond yields jumping 78 basis points to 12.15% - well above the level considered sustainable - and the Greek stock market closing down 3.5%.

So Jared had a dealer right? I don't understand how when his "dealer" got busted he didn't you know, put that computer in the microwave or something. You know, flush the evidence, wipe the server, etc....

"Hey honey guess what? I just bought us all brand new laptops!"

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