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icantfindaname posted:It still has, in some places, semi-effective public sector unions protecting teachers and civil servants. Private sector unions are basically all dead and buried at this point, but the public sector ones still exist and warrant a nonstop crusade to completely destroy some of the last stable, pensioned jobs in the country The Film industry is the most unionized in the country, and one of America's biggest exports.
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LeeMajors posted:My point is that we have managed to make only marginal gains in worker wages, protections, and rights in spite of the asymptotic increase in production and profits. You're comparing a national context to a global context though.
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A Winner is Jew posted:Him being an ex-spy there's a travel restriction placed on him when he gets out right? Like he can't just hop on a plane to Israel and live the good life until he dies? If I remember right, Israel doesn't by and large give a poo poo about him anyway, absent fanatics like Kirschen. Didn't Kerry dangle the prospect of his release as an inducement towards a US-brokered ceasefire during the 2010 Gaza Clashes, only to have it be basically ignored?
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A Winner is Jew posted:Him being an ex-spy there's a travel restriction placed on him when he gets out right? Like he can't just hop on a plane to Israel and live the good life until he dies? He has to stay in the US for 5 years after his release, then he can go wherever he likes. Personally, I hope that Obama commutes his sentence to time served and let's him go on to Israel ASAP. Watching him live the big life here and be feted as a hero by admirers would turn my stomach.
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Is it normal to just lock up spies nowadays? I thought we gave em all the death penalty. Is this guy an exception because Israel?
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site posted:Is it normal to just lock up spies nowadays? I thought we gave em all the death penalty. Shooting spies out of hand is more a wartime thing. Generally you want to keep the other guy's spies on hand so you can exchange them for your own when they get caught, as was the common practice during the Cold War.
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JT Jag posted:I wonder what Walker's response would be if he was asked about quality of life in Wisconsin plummeting ever since he took office. "Gay marriage" But I'd be interested in how they are demonstrating a loss of QoL and causally linking it to Walker. Not that I don't believe you, I'd just like to see it for my own edification.
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site posted:Is it normal to just lock up spies nowadays? I thought we gave em all the death penalty. Foreign spies we just kick out or lock up until we have someone to exchange them for. Traitors are usually told that they're facing the death penalty but that we'll let them plead down to life without parole if they plead guilty and cooperate with intelligence agencies to help determine the extent of damage they've done and possibly expose other spies. Pollard is only getting out because he was sentenced under guidelines from the 1980's, these days he'd rot until he dies.
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hhhat posted:I wanna know what the left sign says "Scott Walker Lives Inside My Butt"
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site posted:Is it normal to just lock up spies nowadays? I thought we gave em all the death penalty. I don't think the US has executed a spy since the Rosenbergs.
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zoux posted:"Gay marriage"
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JT Jag posted:From what I can find, Madison has one of the highest qualities of life of any city in the US, but there's a mass exodus from the rest of the state for a multitude of reasons, including weather but also (relevant for this discussion) a lack of jobs and disagreement with the current gubernatorial administration. Links man, links!
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Jul 28, 2015 20:11
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mcmagic posted:30 years in jail is 30 years in jail. He's not a further danger to anyone. Who cares if he gets out. It's not about him, it's about sending a message to everyone else who works in the intelligence community. You can handle your foreign agents with counterintelligence. You can handle whistleblowers with robust oversight and aggressive internal affairs so thee is nothing to whistleblower on. But human greed is infinite, so you can't just pay your people well enough that they can't be bought. You need them to up the "risk" side of their "risk:reward" balance sheet.
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zoux posted:Links man, links! That said, the most recent state to state Census migration report seems to back it up.
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JT Jag posted:From what I can find, Madison has one of the highest qualities of life of any city in the US, but there's a mass exodus from the rest of the state for a multitude of reasons, including weather but also (relevant for this discussion) a lack of jobs and disagreement with the current gubernatorial administration. Madison is also a university town, and is facing a very uncertain future.
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Fried Chicken posted:It's not about him, it's about sending a message to everyone else who works in the intelligence community. People in the intelligence know that they won't be in for pleasantries if they are caught spying. 30 years in prison is plenty risk.
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mcmagic posted:People in the intelligence know that they won't be in for pleasantries if they are caught spying. 30 years in prison is plenty risk. 30 years in Leavenworth or an equivalent federal prison is poo poo to begin with, but I have to think that turning double agent against the US ranks really loving low on the prison pecking order as well.
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Radish posted:Walker is absolute scum and I had no idea he had such a prominent bald spot. Just wait till it spreads.
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Jul 28, 2015 20:34
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Bad cheesesteak orders were just the beginning...
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Jul 28, 2015 20:38
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I think it's hilarious that he couldn't even throw his own garbage away.
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How is this man going to function on a debate stage without a handler whispering directly into his ear? Can he even dress himself?
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lol jeez he's like a little kid or something a balding, gross-looking kid
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The Obama administration is about to announce that it will be running an experimental program to give Pell Grants to prisoners. Congress has banned such grants since 1994 but a loophole that Obama intends to use allows the President to grant them on a limited basis as part of experiments in education.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:The Obama administration is about to announce that it will be running an experimental program to give Pell Grants to prisoners. Congress has banned such grants since 1994 but a loophole that Obama intends to use allows the President to grant them on a limited basis as part of experiments in education.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Foreign spies we just kick out or lock up until we have someone to exchange them for. Traitors are usually told that they're facing the death penalty but that we'll let them plead down to life without parole if they plead guilty and cooperate with intelligence agencies to help determine the extent of damage they've done and possibly expose other spies. Pollard is only getting out because he was sentenced under guidelines from the 1980's, these days he'd rot until he dies. IIRC there wasn't any special guidelines, he plead guilty to get a lessor sentence but the sentencing judge got to see just what he handed over, told him to go gently caress himself and gave him life.
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mandatory lesbian posted:lol jeez he's like a little kid or something On the other hand, pandering through food based regionalism should be criminal.
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Voyager I posted:How is this man going to function on a debate stage without a handler whispering directly into his ear? Debatable unless someone identified as "Charles Koch" is the guy on the other end of his earwig.
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JT Jag posted:How long until someone declares this to be a gross overreach in executive power? It's Obama so I would be shocked if someone hasn't already said it since anything he's ever done has been a gross overreach in executive power.
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Voyager I posted:Can he even dress himself? Honestly? I'm not so sure.
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zoux posted:On the other hand, pandering through food based regionalism should be criminal. i happen to enjoy watching politicians eat corndogs, thank you very much
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Republicans are looking for a few good women.
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Romney's got binders full of them!  e: 
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zoux posted:What happened to the binders? They tried to get them in for a TV spot, but the Mainstream Media made it a three ring circus.
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mcmagic posted:There is literally no reason why Trump winning the presidency would be any worse than any other republican candidate. In fact it would probably be better. Agreed. And I'm 1000% serious. Everyone's talking about how Trump is a "joke" candidate and he's too "crazy" for the GOP, yet I see no reason that makes him any more of a joke than any other current Republican candidate. Hell, he's probably the only one in the lot who believes in evolution!
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Mr Interweb posted:Agreed. And I'm 1000% serious. Everyone's talking about how Trump is a "joke" candidate and he's too "crazy" for the GOP, yet I see no reason that makes him any more of a joke than any other current Republican candidate. Hell, he's probably the only one in the lot who believes in evolution!
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JT Jag posted:The majority of America thinks that Trump is a joke for the same exact reason that a plurality of the Republican party currently loves him: his buffoonish dumb rich dude persona and track record. Nate is calling him the Nickleback of candidates.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Nate is calling him the Nickleback of candidates.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Nate is calling him the Nickleback of candidates. If anything Cruz should be the Nickleback of candidates.
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