Someone enjoyed the snow in DC

Hmmm...What's missing from this Bernie Ad?

Can you tell me what it is? If no one knows the answer, I will answer it after 20 posts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=60&v=2nwRiuh1Cug

Trump vs. Cruz, Beck vs. Palin, Trump vs. Beck

The Republican party has gone full WWE. I'm really enjoying their version of "Hell in the Cell 2016"


http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/21/media/glenn-beck-donald-trump/index.html?iid=hp-toplead-dom

Sorry, I can't play with you right now. I'm responding to a thread in the GD Forum on DU.

Netflix: Making a Murderer -- My theory on the case (MAJOR SPOILER ALERT)

If you haven't watched the series, Making a Murderer on Netflix, stop reading now because I'm going to spoil it.

Okay?

Let's proceed. The key question in the case is not who killed Teresa Halbach, but where was she killed. Answering that solves the case. Where did the crime take place?

Eliminate crime scenes
We can clearly rule out Steve Avery's trailer and garage as possible crime scenes. None of Teresa's DNA was found at either site and no trace of cleaning liquids were also found. We can also rule out Teresa's car. Except for the one blood stain, there was no other evidence that she was killed in her car. Finally, we can rule out any area on the compound. With people coming and going, someone would have saw something or heard something.

By eliminating the above, we can also eliminate Brendan Dassey's role in the murder.

Crime scene was off the compound
Given the above, we can be sure that Teresa was killed outside of the compound.

Theory 1: She drove off the compound and Steve Avery was with her. He killed her off site, mutilated and burned her body. Then, drove the car back to his compound. This is very unlikely. Other people saw Steve at the compound, and we know that his then fiance called him from prison during this time. Steve was still on the property.

Theory 2: She drove off the compound alone. While on the road, her assailant made her stop. She either got out of her car willingly or was forced out. She was killed off site. Her body mutilated and burned. Who could make her stop? Who could make her get out of the car willingly? Her boyfriend? Her roommate? Her brother? All very unlikely. The only entity that could make her stop and get out of that car would be the Manitowoc County Sheriff's department.

This is my theory. Under the threat of paying a huge settlement to Steve Avery, the Sheriff's department kept his compound under constant surveillance. They saw Teresa pull into and out of that compound, and they pulled her over to talk to her about what she was doing on that property. Maybe they thought that she was on his legal team, who knows.

She gets out of that car, and something goes horribly wrong between Teresa and the deputy which winds up with her being killed. The Sheriffs then mutilate and incinerate her body. Drive her car onto the Avery lot. Plant bone fragments in the pit outside of Steve Avery's trailer. Plant the key in his room. Plant the spent shell in his garage, and smear the blood in her car.

The Sheriffs could do all of this because they committed the crime. The give away was Colburn's calling in her license plate to dispatch. He was looking at her car.

If Bernie could not convince his Senate colleagues to pass a Public Option with the ACA

Then how is he going to pass a Single Payer health care system through that same Senate.

In general, if you propose new social spending, you should also detail how you would pay for them

Be honest with the American people on how you would fund these programs. Just taxing the rich or cutting defense is often not enough to pay for these programs. Without discussing how you'd pay for them, you're just pandering to the masses. You're doing what Republicans do when they promise tax cuts without explaining what services they'd cut.

If a broad based social program is worth having, then it's worth having EVERYONE pay for it in some way.

If you want Single Payer, are you willing to impose a national sales tax to pay for it?

Because that's how European nations pay for their social services, through sales taxes. To get political support for this, you have to campaign for it and get a consensus of Americans to buy into the plan.

So, when does San Francisco get an NFL franchise?

I can't believe that the NFL is ignoring one of the biggest markets in the US.

First rule of Patriots Fight Club is...

Don't talk about the Patriots Fight Club.