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Fried Chicken posted:Colbert will be replacing Letterman Wow, how long can that last? Colbert is literally an imp, I don't know if he can just toe a network line every night.
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duz posted:I'm just surprised by how crappy the paintings look. Those ones that leaked from his hacked email account seemed less melty-face than these. This seems really petty to be honest. The guy's got more artistic talent than I do, that's for sure.
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I just wanted to chime in after reading the last few pages and say that Angus King is the most balling name I've heard in at least a month. He sounds like a fast-food superhero.
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Indeed, also see anything by any number of painters. I don't find anything wrong with the practice, just pointing out that someone did get sued for it recently and some people on this forum cheered (never mind the Zimmerman situation). Talmonis posted:This seems really petty to be honest. The guy's got more artistic talent than I do, that's for sure. So I should provide constructive criticism only? I said that these look worse than his previously leaked ones, maybe these were done before those. I don't know, which is why it was surprising to me. edit: ColoradoCleric posted:Maybe the Pastel Paintings from Past Presidents thread? That'd be an good photoshop phriday at the very least. duz fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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Why don't we take the art chat to Creative Convention? Maybe the Pastel Paintings from Past Presidents thread?
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SedanChair posted:Wow, how long can that last? Colbert is literally an imp, I don't know if he can just toe a network line every night.
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Eulogistics posted:I just wanted to chime in after reading the last few pages and say that Angus King is the most balling name I've heard in at least a month. He sounds like a fast-food superhero. The best name in US politics is still Butch Otter, Governor of Idaho.
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dinoputz posted:Just for yuks, I googled the guy's name to see what else he's been up to, and I just now found out he's been known to write for WorldNetDaily. I know I shouldn't be surprised or anything, but now I'm wondering whether his book cover shows up in this forum so often because of the ridiculousness of the subject matter, of if it's considered topical to GOP rebuilding because of his bizarre politics. Somebody posted it yospos forever ago, but there's some feral youths and around blacks never relax poo poo in his books. Dude is definitely a racist, nerd shitlord.
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Joementum posted:The best name in US politics is still Butch Otter, Governor of Idaho. He's still a fuckwad.
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zoux posted:Who's behind Vox? Korg, I think.
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Nonsense posted:Goons poo poo on multi-million dollar projects that look amazing and unique, but don't you dare criticize King George's art talent! Come on man, there's plenty to criticize about W's reign of terror. Why bother making GBS threads on him being an amateur painter? It just seems petty. Really, being smug about anyone's lack of artistic talent is pretty dickish to me. Well, unless it's funny that is.
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DemeaninDemon posted:He's still a fuckwad. Everyone's a fuckwad.
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Someone equated Bush's paintings with Zimmerman's, and the concept is the same but the execution is way different. Bush's paintings are imperfect and look like a painting done by an amateur. Zimmerman's paintings look like a Photoshop filter on a jpg with some hacky bullshit scrawled on it and carefully screenprinted onto a canvas. Both of them are lazy as gently caress, but Bush's paintings actually show effort. Also, Bush didn't gun down an unarmed teenager in Florida.
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The crack researchers at the WSJ have made a discovery: the Mississippi Senate candidate who can't remember how many League of the South rallies he's spoken at is kind of a racist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSbRKeDb-6E
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Phone posted:Also, Bush didn't gun down an unarmed teenager in Florida. Let's be fair, the world would be a far better place if that was the worst thing he did.
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Joementum posted:The crack researchers at the WSJ have made a discovery: the Mississippi Senate candidate who can't remember how many League of the South rallies he's spoken at is kind of a racist. Our first clue that he was a Republican from Mississippi.
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I did the math, Ryan's budget requires a 4.3% growth rate consistently for 10 years to work*. Last time the US held that kind of rate for multiple years was under Kennedy. * To balance the budget, if it works it still kills thousands by cutting seniors' health care by 46%.
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shrike82 posted:It drives me nuts that Ryan is held up as a economic/budgetary savant by Republicans. Anyone who is a economic or budgetary savant is already not a Republican.
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Fojar38 posted:I refuse to defend the Iraq War but I think you'd have to be pretty ballsy to argue that removing Saddam Hussein from power wasn't an objectively good thing. 9 out of 10 child brides agree with you! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10753645/Iraq-ready-to-legalise-childhood-marriage.html
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shrike82 posted:It drives me nuts that Ryan is held up as a economic/budgetary savant by Republicans. I like to think he's the only one who actually comes up with anything other than "loving OBAMA!"
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Keep in mind that block-granting Medicaid is straight up gonna kill thousands of old people. It's legislative mass murder. Paul Ryan don't care, Paul Ryan's got his, nobody in Paul Ryan's family is on Medicaid (any more). Can we elaborate on how this is so, in small words that people can remember? The older folks on my Facebook (goddamn they have a lot of free time!) should probably be agitating about this but they haven't been exposed to any clarity yet.
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Joementum posted:Introduced into Congress this month: H.R. 4142: the No Welfare for Weed Act of 2014. That's some mighty fine quality States Rights right there!
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:I did the math, Ryan's budget requires a 4.3% growth rate consistently for 10 years to work*. Last time the US held that kind of rate for multiple years was under Kennedy. I assume this is assuming an average tax rate, or did you weigh sectors by tax burden, figure out their growth, and then aggregate that for the average growth figure? Like if the growth is concentrated in middle class incomes you'll see a burst in tax revenues but if the growth was in companies that have reduced their tax burden to zero you won't, so you need middle class incomes need to grow faster to "compensate" for the fact that the growth those companies had won't be reflected in tax revenues, and then integrate these various growth rates to find the necessary average annual growth rate to make this work Basically, can you post your work? Is like to see how you did it so I can do it in the future 
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Fried Chicken posted:Money I don't know. Writers they basically grabbed all the young "wonk" types they could, like Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias. Matt Tabbi I think went to First Look, but he might have gone to vox. Basically the fallout of Bezos buying the WaPo led to a lot of number crunching contributors going off and doing their own thing because they didn't hew to the new company line on policy He did. I miss his RS pieces already 
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:I did the math, Ryan's budget requires a 4.3% growth rate consistently for 10 years to work*. Last time the US held that kind of rate for multiple years was under Kennedy. Does he make up his own rate of growth based on some nonsense model that his office has produced, or has the plan been rated by the CBO presumably using the same model and assumptions that White House budget proposals use?
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Joementum posted:Introduced into Congress this month: H.R. 4142: the No Welfare for Weed Act of 2014. So since buying marijuana with EBT is already illegal, the only change is that stores that sell marijuana products can't sell other products and accept EBT, even if they are otherwise legitimate. Are there even any dispensaries that this would affect? Way to swing for the fences, Mr. Gosar.
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Only 12 Republicans voted against the Ryan budget, but three of them (Broun, Gingrey, and Kingston) are running for Senate in Georgia. Here's the NYT graphic for the vote: http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/house/2/177
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Joementum posted:Introduced into Congress this month: H.R. 4142: the No Welfare for Weed Act of 2014. Don't foodstuffs have to specifically be approved to be purchasable with EBT/WIC? I know products in the grocery store are labeled "WIC" for compatibility with that and it's been a while since I was on food stamps (back when it was food stamps), but I'm almost certain that there are all manner of foods/non-foods you can't get with them. Can you get any kind of OTC medicine with EBT?
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mdemone posted:Can we elaborate on how this is so, in small words that people can remember? The older folks on my Facebook (goddamn they have a lot of free time!) should probably be agitating about this but they haven't been exposed to any clarity yet. Well, there are two big ways it will happen. The first is that the block grant is designed to be cheaper than the projected growth rate in Medicaid costs. In other words, Medicaid will pay less for everything. The second is that "block granting" means that all the federal rules on how Medicaid money has to be spent -- for example, "Medicaid must cover nursing facility care" -- would go away. So Medicaid would be paying for significantly fewer things, and what specific things Medicaid would cover would be dictated by the states. As part of all the rules going away, all the federal rules giving people rights under Medicaid would go away -- all the rules that protect patients and allow them to contest denials and so forth, all gone. Theoretically state regulation could fill that gap, but in a lot of states that won't happen, or won't happen adequately -- the federal rules exist for a reason, they're necessary. Most Medicaid funding is tied up in long-term health care costs -- nursing homes, assisted living facilities, etc. -- so those would likely be the first cuts to be made. If you have a family member or relative in a Medicaid-funded nursing home bed, under the Ryan budget, that relative is likely either moving into your house or getting abandoned on the street. Think of the savings! Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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Eulogistics posted:Don't foodstuffs have to specifically be approved to be purchasable with EBT/WIC? I know products in the grocery store are labeled "WIC" for compatibility with that and it's been a while since I was on food stamps (back when it was food stamps), but I'm almost certain that there are all manner of foods/non-foods you can't get with them. Can you get any kind of OTC medicine with EBT? I believe WIC only applies to specific selected items, but EBT applies to anything classified as "food", and its not cooked or otherwise "prepared". Although I could be wrong.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Think of the savings! Thanks for that, I'm well enough armed now to at least play at being an information traffic cop when the topic arises.
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