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The trial of the former CEO of Massey Energy Co. is set to begin. Massey was the company that had the WV mine explosion in 2010 that killed 29 people. The CEO faces up to 30 years in prison. His defense team includes the lawyer that got pervert frenchman DSK off of his sexual assault charges.
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A few updates on leadership races: - The Republican establishment is considering a motion that would force leadership candidates to resign other currently held leadership position. If accepted, and it looks like it will, the motion raises the stakes of the race, especially for candidates like Scalise. - Sessions (TX) and Ross (FL) have decide to challenge the sitting Whip, McHenry, for his position. Both cited a need to better represent the Republican Party's full spectrum, a move that might endear them to the Freedom Caucus. Nonetheless, both are considered long-shots. - With Gowdy's self-destructing candidacy, the Freedom Caucus is pushing for one of their own to serve a leadership position. Washington Post reports that they are afraid of being locked out from party decisions. - Boehner has either not been attending, or not been invited to, Peter Roksam's vague but menacingly secret meetings on "the future of the Party." Given Boehner's insistence that he would guide his transition out of office, this fact seems interesting.
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Sep 30, 2015 11:44
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Dalael posted:Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC chairwoman and How much shill could a  shill if a could shill shill?
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Sep 30, 2015 11:55
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Gravel Gravy posted:How much shill could a At least one shilling.
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Sep 30, 2015 11:56
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Jagchosis posted:The trial of the former CEO of Massey Energy Co. is set to begin. Massey was the company that had the WV mine explosion in 2010 that killed 29 people. The CEO faces up to 30 years in prison. His defense team includes the lawyer that got pervert frenchman DSK off of his sexual assault charges. Let me just make this quick for you quote:At 9 a.m. on Oct. 1, former coal baron Donald Leon Blankenship will stand before a judge at the Robert C. Byrd U.S. Courthouse in Charleston, West Virginia, for what promises to be a lengthy, complex, and historic criminal trial.
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Sep 30, 2015 12:40
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Grapplejack posted:Let me just make this quick for you You know a West Virginian jury might be salty about 30 dead miners, as much as USPOL likes to tout the corruption of the justice system
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Sep 30, 2015 12:46
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Will they be less salty after everyone they know who is even tangentially connected to them gets a bonus/raise/new job? The implicit threat of course being that they can just as easily lose those things.
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Sep 30, 2015 13:03
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Peztopiary posted:Will they be less salty after everyone they know who is even tangentially connected to them gets a bonus/raise/new job? The implicit threat of course being that they can just as easily lose those things. The company this piece of poo poo ran is already defunct
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Sep 30, 2015 13:04
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Grapplejack posted:Let me just make this quick for you Every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in West Virginia is named after Byrd, so I'm not sure it means much.
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Sep 30, 2015 13:18
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kaxman posted:Huh? Some neighbors of mine did this thing. It involved having a belt-clip microphone data recorder or something about their person while they were watching TV. It was entirely automated and they got paid to do it, they never mentioned having to do any keeping track themselves, just had to have the thing turned on for some number of hours in order to receive credit. This was in 2004 or so.
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Sep 30, 2015 13:22
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Bullfrog posted:Clinton/Sanders conspiracy theories tread dangerously close to tea-party "RINO" style politics. Some of the claims on that chart are an enormous stretch. But don't you see?! October 13th is National Yorkshire Pudding Day. People will be too busy making their puddings and feeling awful after eating English cuisine to be able to watch. November 14th is National Pickle Day. Hillary during her time as NY senator represented Syracuse, the Salt City. Big Salt... pickles.... need I say more?!?!?!! December 19th is National Hard Candy Day and National Oatmeal Muffin Day. How can people give Sanders a fair shake when they are reminded of the horrific foodstuffs forced upon them by their grandpa? January 17th is one week after National Cut Your Energy Costs Day. People will have permanently turned off all electronics in their house and will have no way to watch the debate!
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Sep 30, 2015 13:40
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I'm all for the RINO/DINO poo poo if it makes the Sanders camp as powerful as the Tea Party has been for the last 6 years.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:15
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So I guess Kim Davis got to meet the Pope? http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/30/444671535/kim-davis-and-pope-francis-reportedly-had-a-private-meeting-in-dc quote:Addressing reports that Pope Francis met privately with controversial Kentucky clerk Kim Davis during his U.S. visit, the Vatican isn't denying the meeting took place. Davis, who has refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, says she met the pope at the Vatican embassy in Washington.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:15
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Good for her! Getting to meet a man she thinks is going to Hell was surely a unique experience. She should do her drat job.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:18
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I love how their opinion of a person is almost directly related to the opinion they're espousing at the moment. X says thing I like? "They're the best person ever! They could do no wrong! They're the most Christian people around!" X says thing I hate? "They're the worst person ever! They always do wrong! Note how they aren't True Christians." They hate the Pope and consider him a heathen, but because he said that it's okay to refuse to do your job (while still expecting to keep said job) Kim's suddenly so proud to have met him.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:21
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kaxman posted:Huh? Some neighbors of mine did this thing. It involved having a belt-clip microphone data recorder or something about their person while they were watching TV. It was entirely automated and they got paid to do it, they never mentioned having to do any keeping track themselves, just had to have the thing turned on for some number of hours in order to receive credit. They only do this in the top markets, everywhere else they use the diary method. The media has fine tuned their self advertisement strategy entirely around convincing diary raters that they watched/listened more than they actually did, since the raters just fill out the diary on the last day and mail it back. It is quite fascinating.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:25
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Radbot posted:I'm all for the RINO/DINO poo poo if it makes the Sanders camp as powerful as the Tea Party has been for the last 6 years. For that to happen, lefties need to get into local politics more (including party politics) and be banked by rich fucks willing to primary anyone who doesn't toe the line. I don't see the second happening, and the first requires a level of effort most aren't willing to put in (including me).
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Sep 30, 2015 14:25
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Doctor Butts posted:So I guess Kim Davis got to meet the Pope? The pope had already said that Kim Davis is right, and should be allowed to continue violating the law.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:25
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Nonsense posted:The pope had already said that Kim Davis is right, and should be allowed to continue violating the law. He said conscientious objection was a right, which is an objectively true thing.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:31
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I thought he said she was a conscientious objector which doesn't necessarily imply you can not do your job and still get paid. Like I think she can object all she likes and by doing so removing herself from her position. If the Pope thinks that people should be able to do what she is doing then he's wrong on that.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:31
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Nonsense posted:The pope had already said that Kim Davis is right, and should be allowed to continue violating the law. Not exactly. He said no one should be forced to do something that goes against their conscience. And that I agree with. However, if your job requires you to do something that goes against your conscience, you need to quit.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:32
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Radbot posted:I'm all for the RINO/DINO poo poo if it makes the Sanders camp as powerful as the Tea Party has been for the last 6 years. They both involve believing powerful Jews are meddling in politics and the media to conspire against you, so hopefully some overlap will help! It's just good branding! Radish posted:I thought he said she was a conscientious objector which doesn't necessarily imply you can not do your job and still get paid. Yes, he said she was a conscientious objector, which is true. We put those people in jail a lot and they 100% have the right to be respected in their choices. The issue is she started stopping others from doing their job as part of her objection, a thing the pope never said was ok.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:34
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Doctor Butts posted:So I guess Kim Davis got to meet the Pope? I tend to doubt it, and suspect this is just another example of how the Liberty Counsel is full of pathologically dishonest fuckheads.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:35
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blue squares posted:Not exactly. He said no one should be forced to do something that goes against their conscience. And that I agree with. However, if your job requires you to do something that goes against your conscience, you need to quit. If she continues objecting and blabbing on TV they don't get issued and she continues being famous. If she quits they get issued and she is no longer famous. Hard choice.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:35
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Luigi Thirty posted:If she continues objecting and blabbing on TV they don't get issued and she continues being famous. They're being issued?
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Sep 30, 2015 14:35
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Yes this pope is better, but you're never going to have a truly progressive pope until you have a pope who comes in and basically renounces Catholicism.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:38
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Nonsense posted:The pope had already said that Kim Davis is right, and should be allowed to continue violating the law. That's not how I read the exchange, despite the reporting. It seemed much more of a general espousal of conscientious objection status and he pointed to historical violations of that right on the part of the Church. quote:Pope Francis:
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Sep 30, 2015 14:38
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Tatum Girlparts posted:They're being issued? Yeah, by her deputy clerks and without her name on them, which her scumbag lawyers have gone out of their way to imply means they're not reaaaally equal to honest, god-fearin' straight people marriage licenses.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:40
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I just can't believe the pope would spend 15 minutes with her.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:41
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I am okay jailing any objector in any situation. Get another job you refuse to do. Also President Obama is completely correct in every way about whistle-blowers.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:43
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Yeah, by her deputy clerks and without her name on them, which her scumbag lawyers have gone out of their way to imply means they're not reaaaally equal to honest, god-fearin' straight people marriage licenses. Her retard lawyer can imply whatever he wants, it's not true and the judge has been super clear that if she makes one little effort to gently caress with things she's going back to jail. She lost super hard and her buddies are lying, this isn't a hard thing man.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:44
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Is it a secret meeting if you talk/brag about it? Makes you think...
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Sep 30, 2015 14:57
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euphronius posted:I just can't believe the pope would spend 15 minutes with her. Who else is going to wash her feet?
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Sep 30, 2015 14:57
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McCarthy pulled a classic Kinsley gaffe this morning and admitted what this whole Benghazi probe is all about.
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Sep 30, 2015 15:06
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euphronius posted:I just can't believe the pope would spend 15 minutes with her.
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Sep 30, 2015 15:09
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Dalael posted:For those who may not understand what lovely trick DWS is pulling for This conspiracy theory is less believable than Atlantis in Bolivia. James Garfield posted:I don't live in New York but apparently the October 9 registration deadline that picture references is for 2015 municipal elections. Ok, now it goes from crazy to plain laughable.
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Sep 30, 2015 15:17
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Nonsense posted:Also President Obama is completely correct in every way about whistle-blowers. What did he say about whistle blowers?
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Sep 30, 2015 15:23
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Jagchosis posted:The trial of the former CEO of Massey Energy Co. is set to begin. Massey was the company that had the WV mine explosion in 2010 that killed 29 people. The CEO faces up to 30 years in prison. His defense team includes the lawyer that got pervert frenchman DSK off of his sexual assault charges. Oh, hey, I was just wondering what had happened with this. I hope they execute the fucker.
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Sep 30, 2015 15:26
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NY Times confirmed that Pope / Kim Davis actually happened. "Pope Francis met privately in Washington last week with Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who defied a court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a Vatican spokesman confirmed on Wednesday. " http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/county-clerk-kim-davis-who-denied-gay-couples-visited-pope.html
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Trey Gowdy will be retiring at the end of this term to go back to SC, which rather neatly explains why he didn't want a leadership position and said if he had one he'd only do it until January 2017 I wonder why he is stepping down then. I could see if Haley was expected to take a position in the new executive admin, but there are several long shot gambles to that
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