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Badger of Basra posted:Is this really true? How does a Hispanic Democrat in San Antonio not at the very least learn Spanish if they don't speak it natively? He has been trying to learn lately. Some parents, even if they personally learned it as a second language, will try to get their kids to speak English as a first language so they fit in better in the majority English-speaking professional world. It certainly hasn't stopped him being elected.
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crowfeathers posted:Some parents, even if they personally learned it as a second language, will try to get their kids to speak English as a first language so they fit in better in the majority English-speaking professional world. I know that this is true but I think its sad and if Texas, I live here by the way, would pull its head out of its rear end it would embrace the teaching of spanish as a second language as mandatory in the schools and all Texas would profit from it. It's almost become a necessity now from a business perspective so why not embrace it.
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radical meme posted:I know that this is true but I think its sad and if Texas, I live here by the way, would pull its head out of its rear end it would embrace the teaching of spanish as a second language as mandatory in the schools and all Texas would profit from it. It's almost become a necessity now from a business perspective so why not embrace it. Texas does in fact require a few years of a second language in order to graduate. It doesn't have to be Spanish, but in practice it usually is.
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StarMagician posted:Texas does in fact require a few years of a second language in order to graduate. It doesn't have to be Spanish, but in practice it usually is. Yep, it's a split between Spanish, French, German, and Latin, but of those Spanish has the most potential AP credit so for linguistics people it's the most attractive.
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Yeah, you have to take it in school, but usually that means highschool; the result is lots of people who sort of know the language but can't speak it fluently in the way you'd need to if you were going to actually give a speech or campaign using it. Por ejemplo, puedo hablar un poco espanol pero es muy dificil.
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crowfeathers posted:Por ejemplo, puedo hablar un poco espanol pero es muy dificil. Perdón, pero el pengüino a cuadros está en mi cuarto de baño.  And that's the only high school Spanish I remember. High school language courses are basically worthless except to encourage continuation in college.
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Hey Dan of Cedar Rapids, what do you think of Ted Cruz?quote:”He is making a name for himself right now. His notoriety among Republicans is good, mostly. Some may disagree he did defund it, because there’s some argument about that. We see a lot of these politicians coming up through the ranks, going off to Washington and just like Star Trek, remember the Borg? They’re flying along and then the Borg gets them and they went talking one way and now they come back and they’re marching like everybody else. Cruz is talking the way we feel.” So Cruz is basically Captain Janeway. Got it!
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Oct 27, 2013 18:23
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Wait, so who's Q in the above scenario (since it was Q that introduced Picard and company to the Borg)?
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ThirdPartyView posted:Wait, so who's Q in the above scenario (since it was Q that introduced Picard and company to the Borg)? Reagan.
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quote:Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Sunday he's still mulling a race president in 2016. OK, keep us posted on any of that, should it develop, Bobbdy.
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Joementum posted:OK, keep us posted on any of that, should it develop, Bobbdy. But there's literally nothing about it online. The only mention is that blip from Jindal's interview this morning. It has no website, it's nowhere be be found on the RGA's site, there's no press release announcing it. It doesn't exist. I guess we've reached the point where it's so widely understood that these sort of programs are just 12th-generation blurry photocopies of the same poo poo that was in 1994's "Contract For America" that even the people promoting it can't be bothered to fill in the details. Everyone knows it's just blah blah enterprise credits blah health savings accounts blah excellence blah blah repeal job-killing regulation blah, so why not just give it a name and be done with it? In 2014 he'll be talking about his "Secure The Future" plan and in 2015 he'll introduce his "Forward America" platform and no one will bother to check if there are any details because everyone knows its just the same poo poo over and over and over.
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Joementum posted:OK, keep us posted on any of that, should it develop, Bobbdy. Presumably "America Next" is step two of the RGA's much more popular "Me First" program.
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Scott Walker will never be elected president purely because his face looks like he has fetal alcohol syndrome.
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Joementum posted:Hey Dan of Cedar Rapids, what do you think of Ted Cruz?   The dream race.
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Dumb question but which comes first the Republican or Democratic primaries?
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Orange_Lazarus posted:Dumb question but which comes first the Republican or Democratic primaries? It is possible, in theory, for them to be out of sync and that happens in maybe one state each cycle, but for the most part they will happen at the same time.
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Thanks. For some reason I remember McCain already being decided while Hillary and Obama were still going at it back in 2008. I guess the D primaries just lasted longer that round.
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Orange_Lazarus posted:Thanks. For some reason I remember McCain already being decided while Hillary and Obama were still going at it back in 2008. I guess the D primaries just lasted longer that round. Republican primaries were still going on, it's just that they didn't matter because McCain already had it sewn up, so there was no coverage in the media.
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Correct. That said, the Democratic primaries are structured in such a way that they have a better chance of lasting longer. Republicans give each state three "superdelegates", usually the state party chairman and two people he picks. Democrats give all of their nationally elected officials a vote in the nomination contest, meaning that (in 2008 for example) there were 4,233 voting Democratic delegates compared to the 2,380 voting delegates at the RNC. This means that the threshold a Democratic candidate needs to reach in order to lock in the nomination is significantly higher than that for a Republican. Usually this doesn't matter because by the end of Super Tuesday it's obvious who is going to win, but if there are two strong competitors, as there was in 2008, it will cause the primary to stretch on.
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Joementum posted:Correct. That said, the Democratic primaries are structured in such a way that they have a better chance of lasting longer. Republicans give each state three "superdelegates", usually the state party chairman and two people he picks. Democrats give all of their nationally elected officials a vote in the nomination contest, meaning that (in 2008 for example) there were 4,233 voting Democratic delegates compared to the 2,380 voting delegates at the RNC. This means that the threshold a Democratic candidate needs to reach in order to lock in the nomination is significantly higher than that for a Republican. Speaking of this, I remember hearing that the RNC was going to change delegate selection up given how miserable the 2012 primary process was for them. Do we know exactly what they've changed yet? Did they completely get rid of caucuses given the Ron Paul shenanigans? Has Florida tried jumping the line yet again? I think the DNC still has the same system from 2008 without any major changes but I could be wrong there.
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I have not had bromance relations with that Democrat, Mister Obama:Chris Christie posted:The potential Republican 2016 presidential candidate made a point to clear up the misconception in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer published Sunday, discussing the approaching one-year anniversary of the storm.
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There's a link to a longer description in the OP, but the Republican rules change is that delegates are now bound based on the first round of caucus votes, rather than the last round at the state convention.
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Oct 28, 2013 15:19
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Sir Tonk posted:
Warren would win by 20 points solely due to the terrible optics of Cruz talking down to a sweet old lady in every debate.
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nachos posted:Warren would win by 20 points solely due to the terrible optics of Cruz talking down to a sweet old lady in every debate. Think Warren v. Brown on a national stage. I can see Cruz latching onto that BS story about Warren's heritage that Brown spent the last months of the campaign flogging desperately.
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Alter Ego posted:Think Warren v. Brown on a national stage. I can see Cruz latching onto that BS story about Warren's heritage that Brown spent the last months of the campaign flogging desperately. Cruz would just be touchy about the term 'native American' but for the wrong reasons
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Alter Ego posted:Think Warren v. Brown on a national stage. I can see Cruz latching onto that BS story about Warren's heritage that Brown spent the last months of the campaign flogging desperately. This is an interesting point though--if Warren were elected, would she be the first Native American president? That's a ceiling that's needed to be broken for quite some time.
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Charles Curtis was Vice President for Hoover back in the 30s.
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Looks like Joe Biden's up to his old tricks:quote:Rachel Maddow MSNBC @maddow 13m
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I want to see Chris Christie debate against Ted Cruz so bad.
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xbilkis posted:Looks like Joe Biden's up to his old tricks: Turns out Rand Paul's eugenics speech at Liberty University was largely cribbed from the wikipedia entry on Gattaca. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMpXAknykeg
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comes along bort posted:Turns out Rand Paul's eugenics speech at Liberty University was largely cribbed from the wikipedia entry on Gattaca. Wikipedia posted:In "the not-too-distant future", liberal eugenics is common and DNA plays the primary role in determining social class. Vincent Freeman is conceived and born without the aid of this technology. He has a high probability of developing mental disorders, is myopic, has a heart defect, and his projected life expectancy is only 30.2 years. Rand Paul posted:In the movie Gattaca, in "the not-too-distant future," eugenics is common and DNA plays the primary role in determining your social class. Vincent Freeman is conceived, though, and born the old-fashioned way, without the aid of genetic selection. It turns out he's very near-sighted, he has a heart defect, his projected lifespan is only 30.2 years. Wikipedia posted:Due to frequent screening, Vincent faces genetic discrimination and prejudice. The only way he can achieve his dream of becoming an astronaut is to become a "borrowed ladder", a person who impersonates a "valid" with a superior genetic profile.[2] He assumes the identity of Jerome Eugene Morrow, a former swimming star with a genetic profile "second to none", who had been injured in a car accident, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Vincent "buys" Jerome's identity and uses his "valid" DNA in blood, hair, tissue, and urine samples to pass screening. Rand Paul posted:Due to frequent screenings, Vincent faces genetic discrimination and prejudice. The only way he can achieve his dream of being an astronaut is he has to become what's called a "borrowed ladder." He has to steal, or impersonate, the DNA from a "valid" person, someone with acceptable gene DNA. He assumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, a world-class swimming star whose genetic profile is said to be secondary to none. He's been paralyzed, paralyzed, so Jerome (sic) buys his identity and uses his DNA -- his blood, his hair, his tissue, his urine -- to pass the screenings that happen on a daily basis. Almost as funny as regurgitating the Wikipedia plot "summary" is what Paul chose to modify, saying Vincent doesn't just impersonate but "steal" the other guy's DNA. Of course the Pauls know just how fleet of foot DNA thieves can be.
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Orange_Lazarus posted:
And he's a RINO for shaking hands with that Muslim.  Rand Paul and his Eugenics plagiarism speech at Liberty University makes me wish 2016 was closer. If this is the kind of thing he's saying now trying to help out the Cooch eight days before he loses the election, imagine what the 2015-2016 primary debates are going to be like?
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Kay Hagan just outed a secret pledge amongst every female Democrat in the Senate to support Hillary Clinton in 2016, which puts the expected hold on Gillibrand's potential candidacy and throws some wrenches into people trying to draft Elizabeth Warren.
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jeffersonlives posted:Kay Hagan just outed a secret pledge amongst every female Democrat in the Senate to support Hillary Clinton in 2016, which puts the expected hold on Gillibrand's potential candidacy and throws some wrenches into people trying to draft Elizabeth Warren. I seriously think people need to stop pushing for Warren, even jokingly, as a Presidential candidate. Leave her in the loving Senate, that place is a shithole, and it's a near better sight with her and Bernie there, than not.
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You forgot that it also stops Klobucharmentum dead in its tracks. She's visited Iowa several times already this year!
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I don't want any Presidents West of the Mississippi. I demand the smuggest New Englander, it's time to piss off the conservative fatherland.
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Nonsense posted:I seriously think people need to stop pushing for Warren, even jokingly, as a Presidential candidate. Leave her in the loving Senate, that place is a shithole, and it's a near better sight with her and Bernie there, than not. Plus, I'm so goddamn tired of special elections in MA 
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Nonsense posted:I seriously think people need to stop pushing for Warren, even jokingly, as a Presidential candidate. Leave her in the loving Senate, that place is a shithole, and it's a near better sight with her and Bernie there, than not. While most of it is just starry-eyed dreaming, there could be legitimate value to a Warren- or Bernie-led primary challenge from the left, in that by doing so Hillary (or Biden, in the unlikely event Hillary didn't run or he prevailed over her) might thereby shift the overall Democratic platform a step or two in that direction, all the while not jeopardizing their standing in the Senate.
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jeffersonlives posted:Kay Hagan just outed a secret pledge amongst every female Democrat in the Senate to support Hillary Clinton in 2016, which puts the expected hold on Gillibrand's potential candidacy and throws some wrenches into people trying to draft Elizabeth Warren. Yeah, were really boned either way, Warren is lucky to be a senator and Hillary is going to be literally more DLC garbage.
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