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Good Citizen posted:As someone who got a degree from the actual largest university in the country, nope.
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ReindeerF posted:Ah, hadn't checked in forever - did Michigan or Ohio bounce back above Texas again or something? It seems like there are about 3-4 schools that occupy those spots. Arizona State has had that dubious honor for like 5 years now
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ReindeerF posted:Ah, hadn't checked in forever - did Michigan or Ohio bounce back above Texas again or something? It seems like there are about 3-4 schools that occupy those spots. Penn State has been the largest or second largest for several years in a row, alternating with Arizona State. UT Austin is a a good 10,000-25,000 students behind. Both Pennslyvania and Arizona are unusual in concentrating university enrollment so heavily.
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Install Windows posted:Penn State has been the largest or second largest for several years in a row, alternating with Arizona State. UT Austin is a a good 10,000-25,000 students behind. Penn State has the record if you add up all of their campuses. Arizona State has the most students concentrated on one campus. Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:You're all forgetting the University of Phoenix You can't make me count them
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Gen. Ripper posted:Wait, so Jones doesn't dogwhistle about the Actually Jones avoids using the word Zionist and never delves off into that particular area of nutbaggery. Why he doesn't I don't know, but it provides a shitload of fodder for the even more fringe groups to accuse him of being cointelpro. The rumor is that the guy whom owns Alex Jones company is a Zionist. Of course, they assert that without a shred of evidence. One curious note though, since were talking Alex Jones related conspiracies, is that Jones has basically said "Yeah, the Koch bros are Globalists, but they are one of the good ones, fighting for many of the same things we are".
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radical meme posted:Interesting article on how the Tea Party uses all of that money it solicits from listeners to talk radio. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. I keep saying it, but what passes for modern conservatism is basically just a scheme to part rubes from their money.
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Really though, how do I get in on this game? It seems so easy, I just need connections. How do I cultivate those connections?
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Shbobdb posted:Really though, how do I get in on this game? It seems so easy, I just need connections. How do I cultivate those connections? Be born with them.
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Cheekio posted:Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.), found to be exonerated for his threats against a reporter, as he had good reason to aggressively avoid questions about his campaign finance. I live in Grimms district and I hope the Feds nail him to a gently caress cross.
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Shageletic posted:This article needs to be reposted. Thank you for this. Definitely saving it.
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KomradeX posted:a gently caress cross. Kinky. Shbobd - grab your bootstraps and pull hard.
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KomradeX posted:I live in Grimms district and I hope the Feds nail him to a gently caress cross. Did you see Rachel Maddows show last night? If not, you should go look at it online. She had a segment about Grimm saying he won't resign and will keep fighting until he's exonerated. So the local Repugs have a problem on their hands and guess who they're contemplating in order to get rid of him... Vito loving Fossella! Since you're local, I doubt I have to say anything about the hilariousness of that 
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The filing deadline in Grimm's district was two weeks ago, so he's on the ballot even if he resigns today.
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Joementum posted:The filing deadline in Grimm's district was two weeks ago, so he's on the ballot even if he resigns today. Like Staten loving island would have changed their mind.
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Joementum posted:The filing deadline in Grimm's district was two weeks ago, so he's on the ballot even if he resigns today. Hahaha, they are truly stuck. Here's the link to Maddow's segment: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/indicted-congressman-puts-gop-in-grim-state-240381507951
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KomradeX posted:I live in Grimms district and I hope the Feds nail him to a gently caress cross. Shageletic posted:Per capita, Texans earn 80% of what New Yorkers do, even considering Buffalo. So if the supposedly prosperous Texas can't hurdle the very low bar set by my state, then it's beyond help. I kinda want to see it secede so that I can watch it become a combination of Libertopia, Iran, and- when Latinos and other minorities outnumber white people- apartheid South Africa.
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And, in case anyone is wondering, you can be in Congress and Federal prison at the same time, though it obviously causes logistical problems for floor votes. The last time this came up with Jim Trafficant in 2002, but the House can vote by a supermajority to expel a member, which they did 420-1 in that case. Gary Condit was the sole vote against expulsion.FAUXTON posted:Like Staten loving island would have changed their mind. As Weigel joked, Grimm is as close as Staten Island could get to electing a sleeveless t-shirt to Congress.
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Staten Island's only good cultural outputs are the Wu-Tang Clan and the movie Big Fan. Other than that, it can sink into the ocean. Or better yet, let New Jersey annex it. I won't mind.
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Joementum posted:And, in case anyone is wondering, you can be in Congress and Federal prison at the same time, though it obviously causes logistical problems for floor votes. The last time this came up with Jim Trafficant in 2002, but the House can vote by a supermajority to expel a member, which they did 420-1 in that case. Gary Condit was the sole vote against expulsion.
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Joementum posted:As Weigel joked, Grimm is as close as Staten Island could get to electing a sleeveless t-shirt to Congress. My familiarity with the denizens of Staten island extends to second-generation shitheelery slithering down to Florida, so please correct me if I am wrong: Staten Island is basically a slightly less Italian Jersey Shore? I was/still kind of am a rueful little bastard about these people with their accents that sounded like they had Downs Syndrome and persisted in their residence despite having nothing but complaints about everything plus da yumiddity. Never mind that it probably was a family friend from up there that stuffed ya muffla wit newspapah an cauwled it a fix, clearly it's the lack of a sufficiently dry heat.
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Fried Chicken posted:What was Condit's reason for voting against expulsion? Usually that kind of vote is crazy Uncle Ron's thing
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truavatar posted:They have a very nice Tibetan art museum as well! FAUXTON posted:My familiarity with the denizens of Staten island extends to second-generation shitheelery slithering down to Florida, so please correct me if I am wrong: Staten Island is basically a slightly less Italian Jersey Shore?
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ReindeerF posted:Gary "intern loving murder suspect later exonerated" Condit? If so, I would bet indignation over his treatment. You realize they caught the actual killer, right? And that he had tried to get 2 other women in an identical way, but only Levy was unable to get away. I know people like to point out stuff like Scarborough's intern dying in suspicious circumstances, but this is a serial rapist and attempted serial killer who actually did the deed.
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Alright, I'm about to knock all of you on your asses, so please hold on to something structurally sound or take a seat: How did Texas get Toyota to move their operations there? 40 million dollars. It's OK, though. The lack of corporate state tax and personal income tax will balance the budget, though. I've double checked it using Paul Ryan's excel spreadsheet.
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Phone posted:Alright, I'm about to knock all of you on your asses, so please hold on to something structurally sound or take a seat:
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Phone posted:Alright, I'm about to knock all of you on your asses, so please hold on to something structurally sound or take a seat: Really, that's all? Toyota's a bunch of suckers then.
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So, you may have noticed that the Obama administration is working to address inequities between how men and women are treated by society. Things like executive orders on the pay gap, support for social campaigns to help little girls, and today rolling out new guidelines to combat sexual assault in college campuses. And weak minded liberals you are, you probably think these are all good things. Fortunately, American Enterprise Institute is here to correct you on you misconceptions like "rape happens far to often" http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLytTJqkSQqtr7BqC1Jf4nv3g2yDfu7Xmd&v=lNsJ1DhqQ-s&feature=share&app=desktop That link was promoted by David Frum. Turns out being a "sane republican" doesn't pay that well, so he is desperately trying to climb back in the tent.
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Fried Chicken posted:What was Condit's reason for voting against expulsion? Usually that kind of vote is crazy Uncle Ron's thing Condit had already lost his primary and was a lame duck at the time, so I'm guessing he just didn't give a gently caress any more. Ron Paul stood on principle and refused to vote because Trafficant hadn't exhausted his appeals.
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Fried Chicken posted:So, you may have noticed that the Obama administration is working to address inequities between how men and women are treated by society. Things like executive orders on the pay gap, support for social campaigns to help little girls, and today rolling out new guidelines to combat sexual assault in college campuses. And weak minded liberals you are, you probably think these are all good things. Fortunately, American Enterprise Institute is here to correct you on you misconceptions like "rape happens far to often" This kind of stuff is like that Climate Change comic where the GOP guy is like "what if climate change isn't that bad and we made the environment better for nothing??". It's like oh no we spent some time and energy fighting against rape and gender inequality so now even though "it wasn't happening that often" it's still less rape and women get slightly more money for themselves and their families. How horrible!!!
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Fried Chicken posted:So, you may have noticed that the Obama administration is working to address inequities between how men and women are treated by society. Things like executive orders on the pay gap, support for social campaigns to help little girls, and today rolling out new guidelines to combat sexual assault in college campuses. And weak minded liberals you are, you probably think these are all good things. Fortunately, American Enterprise Institute is here to correct you on you misconceptions like "rape happens far to often" I love the 'argument' on that video. Those dastardly bastards fudged the numbers, they used poorly constructed surveys, they ignored official reports! Hey, you god drat kettle. You're black!
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ReindeerF posted:Gary "intern loving murder suspect later exonerated" Condit? If so, I would bet indignation over his treatment. Hey guys due process is only important when its people we like
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Y-Hat posted:Just to put things in perspective here, it's not just Buffalo that's poor- this includes all of the cities and towns in upstate New York that are shells of their former selves. I spent a year in Binghamton and it is a sorry sad sack of a city. It used to be the home of IBM, but when they left town it went downhill really fast. The downtown area has no grocery stores, and the only time it gets lively is when the drunk college students get drunk at the three bars in the area. I haven't been to Schenectady, but it also has the problem of losing a behemoth of a company (in their case it's GE). You'll get the same stories in many different parts of upstate. If you look at New York though, there is this tiny location somewhere with a huge population and a massive amount (at last four a few) of income. Texas has a large area of poor place (spatially) that are widely not as depressing because there wasn't a prior corporation that left. I would assume if you cut New York City from the population and income, Texas would wind up ahead. Realistically though, state dick waving contests are dumb because that means North Dakota gets brought into the discussion.
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Phone posted:Alright, I'm about to knock all of you on your asses, so please hold on to something structurally sound or take a seat: If your business relocating can be a feather in Perry's cap (or I guess now a lens cloth for his smart-person glasses?) there is a ton of money to be had moving to Texas. Of course that money comes at the expense of other businesses and residents already established and paying taxes in Texas but that doesn't make national news. It might just be a local thing in Austin due to the insane property value increases and continual school district fee jumps but I get the feeling people are getting increasingly hostile about the property tax exemptions given to businesses and commercial developments. I just hope it doesn't result in something incredibly stupid along the lines of CA's Prop 13.
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Y-Hat posted:Condolences. It's a shame that southwest Brooklyn has to be part of a district that includes Staten Island. Domenick Recchia sure is thanking Bloomberg for extended term limits now, huh? I'm actually from Buffalo, nothing like poking at your hometown. I'm well aware of how Buffalo, shrinking, old-fying, Buffalo, is now a magnet for most other parts of uptown New York. That's not a good sign.
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Fried Chicken posted:So, you may have noticed that the Obama administration is working to address inequities between how men and women are treated by society. Things like executive orders on the pay gap, support for social campaigns to help little girls, and today rolling out new guidelines to combat sexual assault in college campuses. And weak minded liberals you are, you probably think these are all good things. Fortunately, American Enterprise Institute is here to correct you on you misconceptions like "rape happens far to often" Ahahahahaha literally "Its cool guys, drunk sex or sex you were coerced into isn't rape or anything."
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Phone posted:Alright, I'm about to knock all of you on your asses, so please hold on to something structurally sound or take a seat: Oh, it's more than that. $40m from the enterprise fund, but also there's the advantageous tax situation for the executives who approved the plan. Re-quoting from the great Washington Monthly article posted earlier: quote:Texas has sales and property taxes that make its overall burden of taxation on low-wage families much heavier than the national average, while the state also taxes the middle class at rates as high or higher than in California. For instance, non-elderly Californians with family income in the middle 20 percent of the income distribution pay combined state and local taxes amounting to 8.2 percent of their income, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy; by contrast, their counterparts in Texas pay 8.6 percent. In addition to the grant from the Enterprise Fund, Toyota's executives get to live in a state where there is no personal income tax, and state revenues come from high corporate income taxes (which Toyota got the state to grant them a giant exemption from), property taxes that the rich are good at dodging by working the Basically, the state of Texas offered Toyota an opportunity to save money at the expense of their workforce and taxpayers in Texas, and Perry gets a feather to stick in his cap to further his national ambitions.
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Fried Chicken posted:http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/27/exclusive-kerry-warns-israel-could-become-an-apartheid-state.html I'm not that familiar with Mideast policy, what's wrong with the latter option?
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