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Hooray! Michigan is the first state in the country to approve the use of ... police drones. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/drone360/2015/03/11/michigan-approves-police-drone/#.VSV6n5O7gg quote:After getting authorization from from the Federal Aviation Administration, the Michigan State Police represents the first law enforcement agency in the United States that can use drones in every corner of the state.
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Karnegal posted:Well to be fair, when someone described Rand's hair as "dry macaroni glued to his skull" it was the funniest thing I'd heard today. Somebody needs to make a portrait of Rand using kindergarten-level craft supplies like this. Fingerpaint, macaroni, buttons and yarn, the works.
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Apr 10, 2015 06:25
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I think it's not mutually exclusive to think that A. the police officer's wife should be able to have her baby regardless of what her spouse did. B. It's hosed up that we're not doing these humanitarian initiatives for literally everyone else, and/or that access to healthcare should not be tied to one's job in the first place.
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Apr 10, 2015 06:27
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Nintendo Kid posted:The point of the crabs in a bucket metaphor is that people should be smarter than crabs. I'd hope we're smarter, because we sure aren't tastier.
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Apr 10, 2015 06:30
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gradenko_2000 posted:I think it's not mutually exclusive to think that I give it a, "imo nice albeit nepotistic," and figure that whether the nepotism's of greater disutility than than the niceness's of utility is wholly dependent on contextual variables we don't have access to. whydirt posted:I'd hope we're smarter, because we sure aren't tastier. Hey now, cannibals say that humans taste like pork and chicken.
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Apr 10, 2015 06:33
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whydirt posted:I'd hope we're smarter, because we sure aren't tastier. Hey! Long pork is delicious 
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Apr 10, 2015 06:42
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Craaaab people, craaaab people.
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Apr 10, 2015 06:46
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Joementum posted:Please do not ask Ted Cruz about events prior to 1970. Yes, let's ignore Mr. Interweb posting the same thing several pages prior. This isn't the first time you've stolen my glory, Joementum. 
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Apr 10, 2015 06:50
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Hey! Long pork is delicious Never much cared for it. Equine Don posted:Craaaab people, craaaab people. Incidentally, this is the best mantra for if you find yourself scared in a horror film. Tension instantly gone.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Hey! Long pork is delicious read this as "Huey Long pork is delicious"
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Quidam Viator posted:The idea is that if each crab, instead of panicking and trying to be on top, worked together to create a unified crab initiative, that they could all be theoretically pulled out of the bucket through unity. That would require many things: the ability for the crab to overcome the natural pressures of the danger it feels, the artificial threats created by the crabmonger, and the contagious panic of the other crabs. this is me with my cable company/internets provider
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Apr 10, 2015 08:51
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Roll Call remembers Senator Dan Coats (R-IN) who announced his retirement recently. He was very concerned about massages, the invasion of Canada, and being in the right room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6DLnnO2RVE
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Apr 10, 2015 13:03
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John Boehner's entitlement reform pitch... in 10 gifs.
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Apr 10, 2015 14:07
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Whoa this Hillary Campaign movie looks to be the spine tingling thriller of the summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4wOIwq49gw
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Apr 10, 2015 14:19
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Small Frozen Thing posted:You're weird. Weird and lovable, that's QV.
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Apr 10, 2015 14:33
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Y'all know you can make threads here in DnD right? You won't get water boarded by Dick Cheney. The policeman fired for murdering someone -> family loses benefits debate would make a decent little thread.
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Apr 10, 2015 14:49
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Quote of the morning, "Watch the ceilings with those cameras. You ruin my woodwork you ruin my day." ~ Donald Trump, to reporters aboard his private jet.
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Apr 10, 2015 14:59
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JT Jag posted:The wife isn't being punished, her husband is. It was his coverage, and he did something bad, so keeping to the same standards others are held to, he should lose it when he gets fired. The wife is a victim of her husband's ill-considered actions, not from the system operating fairly. Good luck to her in finding a new insurance plan that is not dependent on her husband, who is a murderer. If universal health insurance was a thing, this wouldn't be a problem. This is the most concise summary of this viewpoint and I fail to see how people can disagree with it
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Apr 10, 2015 15:19
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UIApplication posted:This is the most concise summary of this viewpoint and I fail to see how people can disagree with it Also gently caress the baby when it is born, imo. Sins of the father and all.
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Apr 10, 2015 15:23
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Trabisnikof posted:I'm kinda curious, what exactly is the positive action that the crabs are supposed to take instead of fighting to the top of the bucket?
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Apr 10, 2015 15:25
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Jesus Christ you idiots the crab bucket is a metaphor, you aren't supposed to take it literally.
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Apr 10, 2015 15:27
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Joementum posted:John Boehner's entitlement reform pitch... in 10 gifs. Today is also the anniversary of the start of the Titanic's maiden voyage. Much like the Titanic, death is certain for many of us plebs
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Apr 10, 2015 15:27
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Joementum posted:Quote of the morning, "Watch the ceilings with those cameras. You ruin my woodwork you ruin my day." ~ Donald Trump, to reporters aboard his private jet. I too can relate to people ruining the woodwork on my private jet. The people's candidate.
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USPol April: Baby-killing gays, pregnant women on murderer's health insurance and bucket crabs need not apply.
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Apr 10, 2015 15:29
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Joementum posted:Quote of the morning, "Watch the ceilings with those cameras. You ruin my woodwork you ruin my day." ~ Donald Trump, to reporters aboard his private jet. This should be posted every time Trump has something to say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQWAsWmBRF4
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Apr 10, 2015 15:30
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Ralepozozaxe posted:People always talk about how smart and how good at debate Ted Cruz is, but take him out of his comfort zone and he's all "and and and". Cruz is an appellate lawyer. They're typically very, very smart people.But they focus on one set of narrow issues at a time. Oral arguments in front of courts of appeals give you months and months to prepare for a twenty to thirty minute argument. It's a difficult thing to be very good at. But you don't often walk into your argument on whether punitive damages are legally permissible, and have to field questions about foreign policy. I know some people who worked with him at the texas solicitor General office; he is apparently smart about crafting always arguments. None of this means he is qualified for president or good at real debate and issues. But given months to prepare for a narrow topic, he is apparently one of the best.
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Apr 10, 2015 15:37
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zoux posted:Also gently caress the baby when it is born, imo. Sins of the father and all. They could put up a gofundme for COBRA and have what they need to continue insurance in a day almost assuredly. That baby's kind of screwed though with the major loss of income and parent in prison, regardless of a little hospital debt.
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Apr 10, 2015 16:00
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zoux posted:Sins of the father and all. This is explicitly unconstitutional.
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Apr 10, 2015 16:01
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Equine Don posted:Craaaab people, craaaab people. CRAB BATTLE
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Apr 10, 2015 16:12
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Gotta admit it's pretty hilarious that liberals are using "sins of the father" in reference to a fetus
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Cruz is an appellate lawyer. They're typically very, very smart people.But they focus on one set of narrow issues at a time. Oral arguments in front of courts of appeals give you months and months to prepare for a twenty to thirty minute argument. It's a difficult thing to be very good at. Cruz was a literal champion debater in college, which I think is responsible for more of the "Ted Cruz will crush his enemies, see them driven before him on the debate stage, hear the lamentations of their women" thing than his law career. It's a vastly more extemporaneous thing than any kind of real-world legal practice is. But both competetive debate and Law are about procedural wrangling, thoroughness, consistency, etc. Whereas a televised poltiical debate is theatre. It is about giving good soundbites and Seeming Cool. Is cruz good at that? probably not, at least when he's dealing with a more general audience than his own base.
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Radbot posted:Gotta admit it's pretty hilarious that liberals are using "sins of the father" in reference to a fetus That's pretty obviously sarcasm.
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Unzip and Attack posted:I'd also like someone to answer this question: if the police department sets up a college fund for the kid and funnels public money into it, would objecting to that be "punishing" the wife? If so, why is an extension of healthcare benefits ok but not the college fund? What about a special pension for the wife if the officer goes to jail? How about extending the healthcare coverage until he's 1? Or 10? Where does "empathy" end and undeserved privilege begin? (I realize this is a hypothetical) The difference is that everything you're listing is something being gifted, while what the issue was about is extending what she already has, is immediately in need of, and had been expecting to be able to use. If the police department upgraded her healthcare plan after her husband's arrest, this would be a very different discusssion.
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Joementum posted:John Boehner's entitlement reform pitch... in 10 gifs. Boehner posted:It is an important step to begin to right the ship and secure fair winds and calm seas for our children and grandchildren – the future kings and queens of the world. Is this the 1%er version of the 14 words?
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Apr 10, 2015 16:25
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The answer is because we're human beings and can judge things on a case by case basis, not robots who shut down when faced with logic problems like "If one month benefits ok, why not four years of college?" Yes it's a double standard but in this case it's benefiting an innocent party and compensating for a huge flaw in our society (that the wife of a criminal can lose her health coverage because her husband committed a crime). At the very least it's a loving terrible hill to die on, so I guess it makes sense that so many people who vote Democrat are choosing to do that.
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UIApplication posted:This is the most concise summary of this viewpoint and I fail to see how people can disagree with it I completely agree that the wife and child are victims of the husband! However, the state helping out victims is actually a good thing for it to do, and not a bad thing. I wish it could help more victims out, but I'd rather it help some victims than none at all
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greatn posted:They could put up a gofundme for COBRA and have what they need to continue insurance in a day almost assuredly. That baby's kind of screwed though with the major loss of income and parent in prison, regardless of a little hospital debt. If only there were another option 
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Obama is visiting the ancestral homeland of his former rival John McCain today.
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So we have a man, canal Panama. Does he have a plan?
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