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Good Citizen
Aug 12, 2008

trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump

CommieGIR posted:

So Boehner invited BiBi to speak at congress? Kinda creepy...

If he brings props again then it'll be worth it

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My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

CommieGIR posted:

So Boehner invited BiBi to speak at congress? Kinda creepy...

Hows it creepy? Bibi and Boehner have similar views with regards to an iranian nuclear agreement.

Kerry warned Iran that they accept the deal while there's a Democratic Congress, or they have to win Bibi over with their terms.

Iran preferred to reject the deal. Now, a boy from humble beginnings in Ohio must demonstrate the error of the mullah's ways. Will John be able to save the world from nuclear proliferation? Coming from America in 2015, it's A Speakership to Remember: Wartime Bump

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Good Citizen posted:

If he brings props again then it'll be worth it

Bomb Chart!

Good Citizen
Aug 12, 2008

trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump

CommieGIR posted:

Bomb Chart!

Never forget

http://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/netanyahu-warn-world/1/

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


DemeaninDemon posted:



Indeed, Congressman Douche, indeed.

You don't get a monsoon rain this year, your horrible heat island has destroyed the clouds and blighted the mountains. Also your sports teams suck Phoenix.

Dubstep Jesus
Jun 27, 2012

by exmarx

PupsOfWar posted:

pictured: Atlanta, Georgia, c. 2021

:negative:

apropos to nothing
Sep 5, 2003

Nintendo Kid posted:

The Seattle city council only has 9 members. It's hard to be useless in a group that small so I don't think it's accurate to say she is. I strongly suspect the allegations of being "useless" come from people that have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the Seattle city council typically operates. Especially since the King County government is plenty powerful in its own right

It's also pretty telling to me that those articles try to make the fact that Sawant works closely with her constituency and gives them credit when she succeeds into a criticism. I get the point to a degree; the fact that she does so is going to put her at odds with other council members which can create conflict and division in the council and in local politics, but her supporters elected her for that very reason. Like, it seems pretty ridiculous to criticize a politician for working closely with the people that elected them and not collaborating with their political enemies. She has been doing exactly what she has always been doing/what she campaigned on. I would imagine that the author and many others who oppose her tactics imagine that as a socialist she should just be a "super liberal" democrat instead of a political enemy to democrats and a threat to democratic control over the city. I'm sure there are legit criticisms you could levy against her and her time in office but I'm not seeing any from either of those articles.

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747

DemeaninDemon posted:

You know how many holes the Earth has? Imagine the gang bang possibilities.

http://gdb.rferl.org/81FF8A8E-1E37-4F04-8DB5-725160A1F392_mw800_s.jpg :quagmire:

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

KiteAuraan posted:

You don't get a monsoon rain this year, your horrible heat island has destroyed the clouds and blighted the mountains. Also your sports teams suck Phoenix.

The D-Backs get a pass because the man who turned a bird into a poof of feathers with a single pitch went into the Hall of Fame as one.

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

DemeaninDemon posted:

The D-Backs get a pass because the man who turned a bird into a poof of feathers with a single pitch went into the Hall of Fame as one.

Are you trying to say he went into the Hall of Fame as a poof of feathers? Why did you add the last two words to your sentence there?

long-ass nips Diane
Dec 13, 2010

Breathe.

Chadderbox posted:

Are you trying to say he went into the Hall of Fame as a poof of feathers? Why did you add the last two words to your sentence there?

Randy Johnson went into the Hall of Fame as an Arizona Diamondback.

Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

The Highest Judge of Paradise
Shiki Eiki
YAMAXANADU

Joementum posted:

Quote of the night, “But unlike my favorite coach in high school, who happened to be black, he has been more divisive — when I had a coach that brought us together as a team like never before. I thought this president would do that. He has divided more than united, so that’s been heartbreaking.” ~ Louie Gohmert, on President Obama.

Is this son of a bitch reading off the plot for "Remember the Titans"?

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

In case people missed Ted Cruz's stellar State of the Union response: http://www.politico.com//story/2015/01/ted-cruz-response-youtube-state-union-114434.html

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

ComradeCosmobot posted:

You laugh, but those trading cards actually were a thing. My brother found a set when we were cleaning up at my parents' place over the holidays. I'd been meaning to post these in the D&D pics thread, but I forgot about it.







Way back but on a trip back home in Mass I found a pile of these in a comic shop for .25 each. I bought the lot of em as xmas gifts for my coworkers in the south. The most malcontent liberal dude I worked with got a Dick Cheney card :getin:

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

I know we don't like to talk about actual news in this thread and prefer to wring our hands over the coming destruction of the country at the hands of the GOP but House leadership yanked the fetal pain bill.

quote:

But what is surprising is the Republican backlash to the legislation, particularly after these laws have garnered easy support at the state level.

Reps. Renee Elmers (R-N.C.) and Jackie Walorski (R-IN) pulled their names from the bill on Wednesday, Politico reported, after the bill authors refused to change the exemption for rape victims to seek a report from a legal enforcement agency prior to the procedure. Opposition to the bill grew through the course of the day, culminating in House leadership canceling the Thursday vote late on Wednesday evening.

According to Politico, "Ellmers raised the concerns during a closed-door meeting at the GOP retreat" in Pennsylvania last week.

The Justice Department estimates that the majority of rape victims do not report their rapes to law enforcement, meaning this particular clause could be a hurdle to women seeking later term abortions.

Now they're moving on to a law that would prevent the use of tax payer funds to pay for abortions, which I already thought was law and probably doesn't really happen.

Not that post-20 week abortions happen a lot, they make up less than one percent of abortion procedures.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Quote of the morning, “I’m going to need your help to find a way out of this definitional problem with rape." ~ Lindsey Graham

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

zoux posted:

I know we don't like to talk about actual news in this thread and prefer to wring our hands over the coming destruction of the country at the hands of the GOP but House leadership yanked the fetal pain bill.


Now they're moving on to a law that would prevent the use of tax payer funds to pay for abortions, which I already thought was law and probably doesn't really happen.

Not that post-20 week abortions happen a lot, they make up less than one percent of abortion procedures.

Stupid laws like this make it easier to run out the clock.

Ha ha! Too late you have to be a mommy now. Don't worry though we'll make sure the baby daddy gets involved!

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

DemeaninDemon posted:

Stupid laws like this make it easier to run out the clock.

Ha ha! Too late you have to be a mommy now. Don't worry though we'll make sure the baby daddy gets involved!

Again from a practical consideration it doesn't really matter, it's an ideological law. Republicans can't really do what they want to do, which is ban abortion, so they just ban this certain kind of abortion that rarely happens to make them feel better but the D's aren't going to let that happen because "Slippery slope!!!!" But again, a 20 week ban isn't going to send human waves of women on quests for dangerous abortions in the backs of conversion vans. I mean, yeah it's a bad law based on misrepresented science, but as a practical consideration, it would affect very very few people.

Unrelated

Warcabbit
Apr 26, 2008

Wedge Regret
I found a sealed deck of Desert Storm playing cards the other month. The one with all the people on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most-wanted_Iraqi_playing_cards

The 20 week laws are also unconstitutional according to Roe vs Wade, so they're all actually attempts to knock it all down again.

LorneReams
Jun 27, 2003
I'm bizarre

Joementum posted:

Quote of the morning, “I’m going to need your help to find a way out of this definitional problem with rape." ~ Lindsey Graham

Reset the clock!

Tibeerius
Feb 22, 2007

Warcabbit posted:

I found a sealed deck of Desert Storm playing cards the other month. The one with all the people on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most-wanted_Iraqi_playing_cards
Those are from the 2003 invasion, not 1991's Desert Storm.

But yeah, those Desert Storm trading cards are pretty hosed up, in retrospect. I would like to go back in time and scold 10-year-old me for thinking any part of Desert Storm was a cool, exciting adventure.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Warcabbit posted:

I found a sealed deck of Desert Storm playing cards the other month. The one with all the people on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most-wanted_Iraqi_playing_cards

The 20 week laws are also unconstitutional according to Roe vs Wade, so they're all actually attempts to knock it all down again.

Are they? I thought that the 20 week thing was enshrined in a court ruling somewhere.

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx
Abortion restrictions are attempts to circumvent Roe v Wade in order to shut the whole thing down. An end date sets up the need for a start date. Then that makes a window for baby murder. Add in some lengthy, unnecessary, and expensive requirements and it's feasible that hypothetical pregnant lady can't become unpregnant in time.

Do note that paying more money makes all of the restrictions kind of easy to deal with.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

Best part about that bill getting dropped

Today is anti choice March on Washington where they claim to have 500,000 people.

They were planning on ending it with the passage of the bill and now they don't get that.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

Meet Save the 1





On Terra Firma
Feb 12, 2008

an elephant stepping on a fetus is a hell of a way to have an abortion. they should take a stand and make a law against that too.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Why is that elephant crushing that baby's head?

Lotta violent imagery vs. babies in those pro life bumperstickers.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

It is from this org

http://www.savethe1.com

They want no abortion exceptions include life of mother

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

zoux posted:

Why is that elephant crushing that baby's head?

Lotta violent imagery vs. babies in those pro life bumperstickers.

My favorite are the fake gore ones. Like showing mangled fetuses that actually were miscarriages or stillborns.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Honestly the "no abortion even in cases of rape" is a more consistent pro-life philosophy than the one that permits exceptions. I mean it's wrong and bad, but at least it's internally valid.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
guess the races involved

quote:

According to the Hillsborough Sheriff’s Office, 62-year-old Clarence Daniels was entering Walmart with his legally concealed firearm to buy coffee creamer on Tuesday when he was spotted by 43-year-old vigilante Michael Foster.

Foster, who is white, had observed Daniels conceal the weapon under his coat before he came into the store. When Daniels crossed the threshold, Foster tackled him and placed him in a chokehold, Hillsborough Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Larry McKinnon explained.

“He’s got a gun!” Foster reportedly exclaimed.

“I have a permit!” Daniels repeatedly shouted back.

After a struggle, the men were separated. Deputies later arrived and Foster was charged with battery.

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

zoux posted:

Honestly the "no abortion even in cases of rape" is a more consistent pro-life philosophy than the one that permits exceptions. I mean it's wrong and bad, but at least it's internally valid.

What human philosophy is ever consistent though?

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Conceived from Incest/Rape. :catstare:

Wow, these people don't really value their own rights very much....

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

computer parts posted:

What human philosophy is ever consistent though?

That's a pretty glaring contradiction.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

Very classy of you



quote:

Today—the forty-second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision—the Pro-Life Action League sent an special care package to every abortion clinic in the United States.

Inside: a picture of Naresh Patel, the Oklahoma abortionist arrested last month, along with a pair of plastic handcuffs and a signed note from me reading, “Could you be next? If you want to get out of the abortion business, give me a call.” I also included my cell phone number.

turn it up TURN ME ON
Mar 19, 2012

In the Grim Darkness of the Future, there is only war.

...and delicious ice cream.
I, for one, am looking forward to the bomb chart coming out again. I need to know how close Iran is to a bomb now, and that chart seems to most accurately portray it.

Dingleberry Jones
Jun 2, 2008
If I'm posting a new thread, it means there is a thread already posted and I failed at using the forum search correctly

Zeitgueist posted:

UCIrvine, probably. Yeah a ton of poo poo is named after KKK members all over the county, they were central to the early days, not a sideshow.

Robert C. Byrd has almost everything named after him in West Virginia.

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Very classy of you



Cell phone number huh? Here come the dick pics!!!!

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

DemeaninDemon posted:

Cell phone number huh? Here come the dick pics!!!!

Considering the number of female OB/GYN that support abortion, it may be more vagina pics.


SquadronROE posted:

I, for one, am looking forward to the bomb chart coming out again. I need to know how close Iran is to a bomb now, and that chart seems to most accurately portray it.

We need this update. For the sake of humanity. How close until they get the bomb :ohdear:

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