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Joementum posted:Obama finally seems to be taking the suggestion of the progressive base. Gee why'd he pick that topic I wonder.
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Joementum posted:Obama finally seems to be taking the suggestion of the progressive base. Does that child-sized person have a five o'clock shadow? 
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Mar 23, 2015 20:39
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How are u posted:Does that child-sized person have a five o'clock shadow? I imagine he's sitting in a wheelchair. Since it's a presentation on spinal research.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:41
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How are u posted:Does that child-sized person have a five o'clock shadow? He's 18, 4'10", and was born with scoliosis, a severe curvature of the spine.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:41
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How are u posted:Does that child-sized person have a five o'clock shadow? Ompa loompa doopity do, hello mr president I have a story for you carbon fiber intertwined spine, how much trouble could be saved if you had had this on time they never wanted to negotiate with... you. Pulling the rug is just what Republicans... do. Budgetary concession is just anal penetration, how about NO did you think about think about think about think about future negotiations la la la la la la la
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Mar 23, 2015 20:45
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Joementum posted:He's 18, 4'10", and was born with scoliosis, a severe curvature of the spine. I'm surprised he's only 18, really. Dude looks like he could be 30.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:47
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The Warszawa posted:That's a highly regionalized statement even if you accept the premise that immigrants and first-generation Americans are either equally subsumed or proportionally less of the country or the validity of the plural possessive pronoun. Compare the prevalence of Anglo-Saxon culture in Connecticut versus Florida versus California. Alright please tell me how our culture is not a Anglo culture, seriously I would like to know because while WASPs may largley no longer exist the literature that WASPs brought forth and brought over still dominates our culture.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:47
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Quote of the day, “Well he’s got, you know, a hurdle that nobody else seems to have at this moment,. It’s a hurdle and somebody could certainly look at it very seriously. He was born in Canada … if you know … and when we all studied our history lessons … you’re supposed to be born in this country, so I just don’t know how the courts would rule on it. But it’s an additional hurdle that he has that no one else seems to have." ~ Donald Trump, on Ted Cruz.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:48
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Joementum posted:He's 18, 4'10", and was born with scoliosis, a severe curvature of the spine. Well that makes sense. Hope we can find a way to help him walk some day.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:49
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Joementum posted:Quote of the day, “Well he’s got, you know, a hurdle that nobody else seems to have at this moment,. It’s a hurdle and somebody could certainly look at it very seriously. He was born in Canada … if you know … and when we all studied our history lessons … you’re supposed to be born in this country, so I just don’t know how the courts would rule on it. But it’s an additional hurdle that he has that no one else seems to have." ~ Donald Trump, on Ted Cruz. Hearing the right slam on Cruz for not being born in the US would be beautiful. Doubt it'll get as nasty as it should though.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:50
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Joementum posted:Quote of the day, “Well he’s got, you know, a hurdle that nobody else seems to have at this moment,. It’s a hurdle and somebody could certainly look at it very seriously. He was born in Canada … if you know … and when we all studied our history lessons … you’re supposed to be born in this country, so I just don’t know how the courts would rule on it. But it’s an additional hurdle that he has that no one else seems to have." ~ Donald Trump, on Ted Cruz. Oh yeah thats the stuff, please catch on
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Mar 23, 2015 20:51
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Mitch McConnell has been pushing to undercut Obama's EPA and climate maneuvers, such as his open letter to governors instruction them to defy or nullify the federal initiatives. He's moving further along with it as a way to undercut the U.S. Position in global climate talks. And if the U.S. Can't get acceptable terms obviously we aren't going to go with them, which is normal, but on the issue of climate deals if the U.S. doesn't do it the deal pretty much doesn't happen - why work on your stuff if the major polluters don't join in. Well WaPo has an interview going into more depth about McConnell's actions and probability of success. They give him good odds of keeping things steady for the international fossil fuels market and doing nothing for climate change http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-actually-work/
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Mar 23, 2015 20:53
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At 5:30pm the US Senate will vote on the confirmation of William Doyle to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner. This apparently couldn't be accomplished by unanimous consent.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:59
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GOP position: "yeah gently caress that clean air poo poo lets stick our heads in rolling coal exhaust"
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Mar 23, 2015 20:59
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Joementum posted:At 5:30pm the US Senate will vote on the confirmation of William Doyle to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner. Wake up people, this is the shadow leader of the US government who oversees Maritime Law.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:00
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Joementum posted:Obama finally seems to be taking the suggestion of the progressive base. that guys real short, or obama is real tall
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Mar 23, 2015 21:03
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hobbesmaster posted:Which is unsurprising considering the victim didn't want to talk to police and it was several years ago. The WaPo was rather unambiguous about their stance here: Charlottesville police make clear that Rolling Stone story is a complete crock
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Mar 23, 2015 21:04
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Joementum posted:He's 18, 4'10", and was born with scoliosis, a severe curvature of the spine. ah, so real short, got you
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Mar 23, 2015 21:04
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Fried Chicken posted:The WaPo was rather unambiguous about their stance here: Charlottesville police make clear that Rolling Stone story is a complete crock So we're going with she made the whole thing up?
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Mar 23, 2015 21:05
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House of Cards is a celebration of Anglopolitics and the American Two Tory system.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:05
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Crowsbeak posted:Alright please tell me how our culture is not a Anglo culture, seriously I would like to know because while WASPs may largley no longer exist the literature that WASPs brought forth and brought over still dominates our culture. Nah, the WASPs definitely still exist but I think the disconnect here is that you're assuming the dominant culture is necessarily "our" culture - the culture to which everyone belongs. That non-dominant cultural groups have to learn to navigate the dominant culture and will consume the dominant culture (because that group has the resources to put their cultural product into the marketplace) does not induct them into that culture. The other potential disconnect is that I disagree with the idea that the dominant culture necessarily has a greater stake in or right to the nation, which is an idea that definitely flourished in the first half/three-quarters of the twentieth century but I think we can agree has been put to rest. Just as a curiosity: other than Shakespeare and the Bible - which I am really opposed to calling an Anglo-Saxon cultural work given the history of the book - what literature did the WASPs bring forth that still dominates? I think the cultural firmament is a lot more diverse now. Granted, trying to teach a unified cultural identity that is implicitly (or explicitly) Anglo/more broadly European is something that has been done (see, e.g., "the Canon"), but we should probably dispense with the idea that that's based on a preexisting shared identity as opposed to an attempt to assert one.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:05
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Joementum posted:At 5:30pm the US Senate will vote on the confirmation of William Doyle to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner. They used to be more important than they are now. They've been gutted of a lot of their regulatory power like a lot of agencies. But they're still regulators, and that's always going to be a pretend fight at least.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:06
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zoux posted:Wake up people, this is the shadow leader of the US government who oversees Maritime Law.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:08
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Ted Cruz's new campaign website lookin' good http://www.tedcruz.com/
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Mar 23, 2015 21:10
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Fried Chicken posted:Not all that recent, it was Corporation of Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v Amos in 1987 that upheld section 702 of the Civil Rights act of 1964 which allows limited exemption for religious grounds I meant this one, actually...  http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/0...me-court-rules/
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Mar 23, 2015 21:10
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FCKGW posted:Ted Cruz's new campaign website lookin' good It's kinda shameful that whoever sat on that name for so long had to resort to some website building tool and still only managed to produce that.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:12
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zoux posted:So we're going with she made the whole thing up? quote:To recap the main points of Longo’s press conference: The police investigation, which featured hundreds of hours of interviews, found no evidence that Jackie was sexually assaulted in the Phi Kappa Psi house on the night of Sept. 28, 2012. “We are not able to conclude to any substantive degree that an incident that is consistent with facts contained in that article occurred at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house, or any other fraternity house, for that matter,” said the chief. The case is suspended, though not closed, said Longo. In their investigation, Charlottesville police found essentially what The Post had reported: The friends cited in the Rolling Stone article told a different story of events on that night than what Rolling Stone had reported. “A lot of time and energy went into tracking down people,” said Longo, who made clear that the department’s failure to corroborate the allegations in the Rolling Story doesn’t mean that nothing traumatic happened to Jackie that night.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:14
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Ok, good.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:15
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zoux posted:Ok, good. The Washington Post article is far meaner than the quote from the police indicate. The cops basically said "All we could find is rumor and what we could nail down was inconsistent with the rolling stone story so we have no idea what happened if anything."
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Mar 23, 2015 21:18
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hobbesmaster posted:The Washington Post article is far meaner than the quote from the police indicate. The cops basically said "All we could find is rumor and what we could nail down was inconsistent with the rolling stone story so we have no idea what happened if anything." The Washington Post article is about the Rolling Stone story, not Jackie. Even if something else traumatic happened to her, it doesn't do much for the Rolling Stone story.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:20
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The Warszawa posted:Just as a curiosity: other than Shakespeare and the Bible - which I am really opposed to calling an Anglo-Saxon cultural work given the history of the book - what literature did the WASPs bring forth that still dominates? I think the cultural firmament is a lot more diverse now. Could just be my New England upbringing, but I think the curriculum is still heavy on Early American literature: Irving, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Poe, Dickinson, Twain, etc.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:20
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Joementum posted:Could just be my New England upbringing, but I think the curriculum is still heavy on Early American literature, Irving, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Poe, Dickinson, Twain, etc. Outside of New England it is pretty drastically curtailed, or was for me - Poe I'll give you, but I'm hesitant to call Twain a WASP (however, I'm not intimately acquainted with his biography and ancestry). I also had a big ol' Great Books/the Canon requirement in college, but it was filled with a lot of Greeks and Italians and Spaniards, so I'm likewise hesitant to call that "Anglo".
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Mar 23, 2015 21:23
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FEMA has come out and said it will not provide emergency funding to Governors who promote climate change denial:quote:The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making it tougher for governors to deny man-made climate change. Starting next year, the agency will approve disaster preparedness funds only for states whose governors approve hazard mitigation plans that address climate change. http://insideclimatenews.org/news/18032015/fema-states-no-climate-planning-no-money
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Mar 23, 2015 21:23
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SoundCloud Mashup of the Day, Imagine Ted Cruz.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:25
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CommieGIR posted:FEMA has come out and said it will not provide emergency funding to Governors who promote climate change denial: Obama used his dark magics to summon a hurricane!!!!
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Mar 23, 2015 21:33
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Mar 23, 2015 21:34
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That's kind of lovely. Don't punish the people of a state because they have an rear end in a top hat idiot governor.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:35
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Hot Stuff is taken 
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Mar 23, 2015 21:35
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CommieGIR posted:FEMA has come out and said it will not provide emergency funding to Governors who promote climate change denial: That could be pretty big given that all of the gulf coast governors basically do so. But I doubt it will stick. They'll hold their ground, say it's politically motivated (and rightfully so because it kinda is), and in the end get their money when they're wrecked by nature.
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CommieGIR posted:FEMA has come out and said it will not provide emergency funding to Governors who promote climate change denial: The only problem here is that I dont think any of the Climate Change Denial GOP set actually care if their state ends up a shambled hellhole or not, denying their state funds doesn't hurt them. Something something declared income, then they acknowledge climate change.
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