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http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-explosion-rocks-naacp-building-in-colorado-20150106-story.html I'll be damned. Has this been covered already here?
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Cigar Aficionado posted:Everyone over 30 remembers Bush II (and young people don't vote/vote more D than R anyway), and Jeb will basically be defending his brother's (long) legacy as well as his own. That is a basically impossible endeavour. Especially when the alternative is the now rosy, sepia tone perfect 1990s of the Clinton years. Yeah, I don't have any numbers but the impression I get is definitely that people think the last time Hillary lived in the White House was a golden age. It's the kind of gut-level feeling that's very difficult to fight against, and the more aging Republicans try to bring up the B. Clinton administration (and they will), the more they'll feed that feeling.
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Grouchio posted:http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-explosion-rocks-naacp-building-in-colorado-20150106-story.html That lone wolf? Yeah, we wished he gets the mental health hope he deserves.
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Aliquid posted:That lone wolf? Yeah, we wished he gets the mental health hope he deserves. Obviously a crazy person. Who knows what ideology, if any, motivated him to bomb the NAACP 
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Aliquid posted:That lone wolf? Yeah, we wished he gets the mental health hope he deserves. I honestly can't wait for the GOP to start getting death threats so often that they can't focus on anything else. It'll never happen, but... God, they deserve it.
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A Terrible Person posted:I honestly can't wait for the GOP to start getting death threats so often that they can't focus on anything else. As long as they don't go communist that is.
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uncurable mlady posted:There isn't really a "youth vote", I'm not sure what any politician has to gain by pandering to people who don't even show the gently caress up. There might be if they weren't ignored.
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In other NAACP news, they requested a new grand jury in the Michael Brown case.quote:Lawyers and other experts who analyzed grand jury transcripts for the fund raised concerns about the decision to allow a witness to provide false testimony, erroneous legal instructions to grand jurors, and "preferential treatment of Mr. Wilson by the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office," said Sherrilyn Ifill, the fund's president.
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Grouchio posted:http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-explosion-rocks-naacp-building-in-colorado-20150106-story.html quote:He may be driving a 2000 or older-model dirty white pick-up truck with paneling, a dark-colored bed liner, an open tailgate and a missing or covered license plate.
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Jan 7, 2015 09:48
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In case you didn't see it yet: Its so perfectly Joe.
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Jan 7, 2015 10:30
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Relentlessboredomm posted:In case you didn't see it yet: The Day of Awkward Kissing 
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Is the Vice President using the scent glands in his face to mark that young woman? 
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effectual posted:There might be if they weren't ignored. They wouldn't be if they voted in the percentages of the elderly. My generation doesn't turn out, so we get tuned out. It's sad but absolutely understandable.
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PostNouveau posted:The Day of Awkward Kissing The way his skin-color and hairline work together makes him look like Donkey Kong. Also that bombing story should be much bigger news than it currently is. I hope it blows up today. edit: Nope, 12 people dead in Paris because of Islamic terrorism, non-Islamic terrorism that doesn't actually kill anyone won't be making the news here, even if it did actually happen in this country. It did at least make Drudgereport, even if only as a one linker in the middle of the page. Cliff Racer fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Jan 7, 2015 |
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Tubgoat posted:Is the Vice President using the scent glands in his face to mark that young woman? Biden strikes me as more of a dog person than a cat person
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Stanos posted:A lone wolf, a distressed individual, a personal failed by the mental health system. Why can't white people take responsibility for their own actions? Why don't those race baiters O'Reilly and Limbaugh ever talking about the problem of violence in the white community?
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Here is a gift for all of you: The Joe Biden Random Compliment Generator
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PostNouveau posted:The Day of Awkward Kissing Request thread title change to: US Pol January - It's a sexual congress now.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:In case you didn't see it yet: This is beyond loving awkward. C'mon, Joe.
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Cigar Aficionado posted:The only way Bush beats Hillary is if Obama's Presidency ends like Dubya's, with the economy crashing into the ocean. Jeb has Dubya's record to contend with, as well as his own 25+ years in the public eye. A mild recession is still better than Dubya's scorched earth economy, which fair or not is going to be what Jeb will be anchored with. Everyone over 30 remembers Bush II (and young people don't vote/vote more D than R anyway), and Jeb will basically be defending his brother's (long) legacy as well as his own. That is a basically impossible endeavour. Especially when the alternative is the now rosy, sepia tone perfect 1990s of the Clinton years. Actually, GWB's popularity (like many other presidents) has improved since he left office. I also think Jeb Bush will be able to focus on his tenure as governor coupled with playing into the disgruntlement of conservatives with the Obama presidency. Clinton/the Dems might try to tie Jeb to GWB, but also remember that GWB's tenure was mostly economically prosperous. The devil of timing left the poo poo on Obama's tenure while leaving GWB's relatively unscathed. Now in terms of foreign policy Clinton might try to hammer home GWB's blunders but I think Jeb and the GOP as a whole is a lot less chickenhawkish now than they were under GWB/Cheney, so Jeb might be able to readily admit those mistakes, promise to keep us out of foreign issues to appeal to the cost-cutters/libertarians and call it a day. Never underestimate how short-sighted Americans are. EDIT: Also I'm going to repost this article since I don't think we have a US Housing thread (or at least the first two pages of D&D didn't). It seems like housing has fallen by the wayside in terms of political news these days... there's still the rise of renting, the rise of rent costs, but I was unaware that there was such deterioration, so widespread and at such a simultaneous pace. And finally, 538 did an article on a recent economics gathering with several papers/findings that were interesting, such as: quote:... Economists have a long-standing debate about whether the EITC encourages people to work only until a point — the point where they can maximize its benefit — or work even beyond that threshold. Chetty was interested in whether being aware of the program made people more likely to exploit it, but found it didn’t... quote:In theory, the government could help spur entrepreneurship by making it less risky, perhaps by providing the equivalent of unemployment benefits for failed entrepreneurs. But while that would almost certainly encourage more people to start businesses, it’s less clear whether those businesses would succeed. After all, maybe the reason people are reluctant to become entrepreneurs is because they wouldn’t be very good at it... Antoinette Schoar and her coauthors tried to answer that question by taking advantage of a policy change in France that allowed unemployed people to start businesses without sacrificing their jobless benefits. Predictably, the number of startups jumped. Less predictably, those new businesses did just as well as those started before the policy change. The policy didn’t have much of an effect on overall employment: The new businesses created lots of jobs, but mostly at the expense of jobs elsewhere in the economy. Importantly, though, those new jobs were better paying and the new companies were more productive, meaning the change made the overall economy more efficient. Amergin fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Jan 7, 2015 |
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Amergin posted:Actually, GWB's popularity (like many other presidents) has improved since he left office. Hey our greatest political oracle predicted it. 
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Rygar201 posted:They wouldn't be if they voted in the percentages of the elderly. My generation doesn't turn out, so we get tuned out. It's sad but absolutely understandable. And it's not even a recent thing - Boomers voted less often as 18-29 year olds than Millenials do now.
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Apparently Ted Cruz met with mega funder Sheldon Anderson at the Capital Grille yesterday. Which isn't so much the news as is the fact that Dick Cheney was also there and may have been involved in setting it up, as Anderson has previously publicly dismissed Cruz and his chances
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Do you mean Sheldon Adelson or is there another mega rich sheldon I don't know about.
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Do you mean Adelson or is there another mega donor named Sheldon? Also, the Capitol Grille in Austin?
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I meant Adelson (a name the phone ap doesn't like) and the Capitol Grille as in the restaurant inside the capital building in Washington DC. Also, apparently the man rides a rascal to get around
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Sharkie posted:Obviously a crazy person. Who knows what ideology, if any, motivated him to bomb the NAACP I can't wait for the investigation to come to the conclusion that it wasn't racially motivated.
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Stanos posted:A lone wolf, a distressed individual, a personal failed by the mental health system. Why can't white people take responsibility for their own actions? Boston bombing proved Caucasians aren't white when they do something bad  Your moved LIEberal
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Fried Chicken posted:I meant Adelson (a name the phone ap doesn't like) and the Capitol Grille as in the restaurant inside the capital building in Washington DC. I was just wondering because Cruz was in Austin on Monday.
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Phone posted:I can't wait for the investigation to come to the conclusion that it wasn't racially motivated. The FBI spokesperson is refusing to say if race was a factor, so we are already half way there
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Fried Chicken posted:Apparently Ted Cruz met with mega funder Sheldon Anderson at the Capital Grille yesterday. Which isn't so much the news as is the fact that Dick Cheney was also there and may have been involved in setting it up, as Anderson has previously publicly dismissed Cruz and his chances I thought dark pacts happen in shady basements and tunnels under graveyards.
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Fried Chicken posted:The FBI spokesperson is refusing to say if race was a factor, so we are already half way there At this point I'm honestly sure that anything short of literally getting caught in a klan outfit or openly sieg hail ing will be called not racist. (hell even if they did that you'd still have people) edit: He was crazy(not an excuse for the guy who shot 2 cops but it'll work here),it was because they were democrats etc
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chitoryu12 posted:This all just makes the white race as a whole look bad, you know. Surely this isn't what Fred Rogers would've wanted.
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SirKibbles posted:At this point I'm honestly sure that anything short of literally getting caught in a klan outfit or openly sieg hail ing will be called not racist. (hell even if they did that you'd still have people) Reminder that the literal neonazi who shot up a Jewish center is not regarded as a racial attack because by chance all those he killed where Christian. Or that schmuck Elliot Rogers who wrote an anti women manifesto, tried to shoot up a sorority, but ended up killing more men than women so apparently he wasn't driven by misogyny
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Tender Bender posted:Surely this isn't what Fred Rogers would've wanted. We need to resurrect Fred Rogers and Carl Sagan to shame our country.
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Then there was that guy who shot up a Gurdwara because he thought they were Muslims. White right wing terrorists are exceptionally bad at hitting their intended targets.
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Fried Chicken posted:Reminder that the literal neonazi who shot up a Jewish center is not regarded as a racial attack because by chance all those he killed where Christian. Or that schmuck Elliot Rogers who wrote an anti women manifesto, tried to shoot up a sorority, but ended up killing more men than women so apparently he wasn't driven by misogyny Or the guy that crashed a plane into a government building as a political protest but that wasn't terrorism because he was white.
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Or the two in LV who shot and killed two cops, draped their bodies in Gadsden flag and a manifesto with swastikas on it, but they were democrats because they "got kicked out of the Bundy ranch".
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Amergin posted:Actually, GWB's popularity (like many other presidents) has improved since he left office. Yeah, but not by all that much and mostly because he basically vanished into a secure location and hasn't been heard of since. The more anyone talks about him the more that'll go plummeting down. Fried Chicken posted:The FBI spokesperson is refusing to say if race was a factor, so we are already half way there ...as they should, at this point in time.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:In case you didn't see it yet: So perfect Joe is him channeling his inner Bill Clinton? That girl looks uncomfortable as hell and he looks like the typical creepy old guy that gets banned from going near schools.
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