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Joementum posted:That seems completely plausible. An "I'm going to meet this person across town and need a security detail" kind of request. One other possibility: "We'd like a pair of jersey barriers for each of the north, south, and west entrances" is being counted as 6 requests.
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Radish posted:In regards to the Oklahoma thing it's a little different than you put there. CCF and Protect the Harvest suck, I'm not denying that. Also you are right on the two kids, I got that mixed up with another case where someone strangled his kid and then let the snake go to try and cover it up. >.< It's hosed up as hell and I hope the guy that used that lovely cage goes to prison for negligent homicide. If HSUS stuck to puppy mills, dog fighting, and CAFO-related stuff it would be okay with me, but they don't. I'm just bitter as gently caress about HSUS because they successfully lobbied USFWS to make it a felony for me to bring my animals across state lines for veterinary care. There is an ongoing federal court case about this and right now we have a preliminary injunction, thank goodness. This stuff has also made my work at the reptile rescue a lot harder because we have had four times as many owner surrenders of large snakes as usual because they can't be brought across state lines. It's pretty hard to place a 15ft snake with a new, responsible owner, especially now that we have to consider proximity to an in-state vet.
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STAC Goat posted:There's just something weird about these guys who run for major political office with the nicknames they had when they were kids. I had a nickname as a kid. We all did. I still have some old friends who call me by it. But somehow no one had to tell me to use my actual name once I started doing professional, adult poo poo. It's meant to make the politician seem friendlier. He's just like an old buddy of yours!
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I can totally respect disliking them for a reason like that and opposing them because of it. I just don't think we should be propagating right wing messaging from industries that are very much in the business of trying to get around animal cruelty laws and spend a lot of money to slander organizations that oppose them.
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Oct 23, 2015 23:49
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I agree with that but I do feel that their advertising is misleading. Many people think they are associated with local humane societies when that is not the case at all.
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STAC Goat posted:Does the South just embrace the gently caress out of childish nicknames and that's the problem? Yes, see The Palins for an example of it being electorally transmissible.
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I guess. I've seen a lot of their fliers and requests from money over the years and they are usually fairly upfront about their role as an activist organization. I think we are looking at this from similar points of views (don't be cruel to animals and don't take advantage of people that donate for that) but differing angles so I think it's cool.
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STAC Goat posted:There's just something weird about these guys who run for major political office with the nicknames they had when they were kids. I had a nickname as a kid. We all did. I still have some old friends who call me by it. But somehow no one had to tell me to use my actual name once I started doing professional, adult poo poo. Go on.... 
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Joementum posted:Go on.... When you've conquered Europe you can do whatever the drat hell you like. It's like how CEOs can get away with dressing like slobs.
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Oct 23, 2015 23:56
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Joementum posted:Go on.... Ike gets a pass for beating Hitler and being best bros with Zhukov.
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Joementum posted:Go on.... Fun fact: Dwight Eisenhower had Crohn's disease.
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Mitt Romney posted:Fun fact: Dwight Eisenhower had Crohn's disease. "Fun facts" may not actually be fun. 
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Mitt Romney posted:Fun fact: Dwight Eisenhower had Crohn's disease. He thought his first heart attack was a flare-up of his Crohn's, if I recall.
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I do admire the decision Mitt must have once made that "Willard" was too weird, so he should go by his middle name instead.
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I don't think these were posted, but the Washington Post's Ann Telnaes did some nice sketches of the Benghazi committee dustup yesterday:   Now if only there was an animated cartoon of these. I'd watch the poo poo out of that.
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Zwabu posted:I don't think these were posted, but the Washington Post's Ann Telnaes did some nice sketches of the Benghazi committee dustup yesterday: Telnas has done some sweet slightly animated GIFs. The political cartoon world just hasn't been the same since the end of Li'l Bush. 
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 The irony is so thick that Poe's law comes to mind.
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Zwabu posted:I don't think these were posted, but the Washington Post's Ann Telnaes did some nice sketches of the Benghazi committee dustup yesterday: Who does Hillary have a massive Einstein-like moustache in this comic? Is there something Bill isn't telling us?!?
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Joementum posted:Go on.... I'm bipartisan on both my dislike for childish nicknames on politicians and my willingness to mock their hair. That doesn't make Ike a bad politician and Bernie needed to be called "Doc Brown" a few hundred times to start brushing his hair. Its only fair I apply it on both sides. But you can still be a good politician with a bad name or hair cut. Both though? That's just a bad campaign manager or something. Come on, Trey. Pull it together.
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Remember the Indiana "religious freedom" bill earlier this year? Florida would like to raise the bar.quote:The bill states that “a health care facility,” “an ambulatory surgery center,” “a nursing home,” “an assisted living facility,” “a hospice … operated by a religious institution,” and any “health care provider” can refuse to treat a patient or administer a medication if doing so would be contrary to its “religious or moral convictions or policies.” The implications for women here are obvious: Pharmacists could refuse to provide birth control or Plan B; doctors could refuse to place IUDs; nurses could refuse to assist in medically necessary abortions. There are also provisions that would permit hospices and nursing homes to turn away gays as well.
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Joementum posted:I do admire the decision Mitt must have once made that "Willard" was too weird, so he should go by his middle name instead. Somehow Woodrow Wilson had the same idea.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Remember the Indiana "religious freedom" bill earlier this year? Florida would like to raise the bar.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Remember the Indiana "religious freedom" bill earlier this year? Florida would like to raise the bar. :florida: This should be interesting. Compared to Florida, Indiana is a tiny market, but sponsors and companies went ape poo poo saying if it went into law that they were out of the state for good and the bill very quickly got neutered Of course, I also have very little hope for Florida to ever do the right thing so who knows. Generally the business interests get priority over the evangelicals so this is just posturing
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pathetic little tramp posted:Isn't the debt limit like 10x as disastrous as a shutdown too?
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Thought this said guns and was like "wait that can't be right, this is America." Doctors can't ask you if you have guns in your home, but they CAN ask you if you have gays. "I'm sorry, but you've got AIDS. That means you must be gay. Sorry, but I am morally required to let you die as punishment for your sin of sodomy."
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so how did hillary's testimony go? any meaningful developments or is this just going to keep continuing indefinitely?
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STAC Goat posted:On the Five today Gutfeld said that he died a true hero doing the noblest bit of "God's work"... "killing radical Islamists." The dude was Master Sergeant Joshua Wheeler, a Delta Force operator and Army soldier since 1995. He had been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq 11 times. He likely knew more about the situation in Iraq and the fight against ISIL than Gutfield could ever loving imagine. It's honestly extremely loving insulting that that piece of poo poo would think that Wheeler's only mission in doing his job and supporting the Kurds was just the chance to shoot people.
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Epic High Five posted::florida: How many Gay retirees do you think are serviced by such organizations in FL? I'd be interested to see if it is enough to have the  Free Market! call them out on this poo poo; and/or how long it takes for it to hit the Supreme Court's desk.
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icantfindaname posted:so how did hillary's testimony go? any meaningful developments or is this just going to keep continuing indefinitely? Gowdy seems to want to press ahead but it's been universally acknowledged at this point that A) there was no substantially new information and B) Hillary came out of it looking like a freaking champion sooooooo
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Thump! posted:
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Thump! posted:
I mean, I think it says enough that Gutfeld's takeaway isn't that the soldier saved dozens of lives but rather that he might have taken a couple of people with him. Its straight up that. Beyond the racism and ignorance and false bravado and other ugliness. Killing people means more than saving people.
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AlternateNu posted:How many Gay retirees do you think are serviced by such organizations in FL? I'd be interested to see if it is enough to have the A good point! Maybe I should trust the invisible hand of the market that Adam Smith (D - WA) has talked about so much
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It's a good question actually, is Ben Gazi gazin' going to go on literally forever or will someone finally loving drop it?
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icantfindaname posted:so how did hillary's testimony go? any meaningful developments or is this just going to keep continuing indefinitely?  
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euphronius posted:The cia as using an embassy as Cover to spy??? That's ridiculous. The CIA was across town. There were several DSS agents that were providing security and they did everything that could have been reasonably expected... quote:Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent Scott Strickland secured Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith, an information management officer, in the main building's safe haven.[81][83] The rest of the agents left to retrieve their M4 carbines and tactical gear from another building. They tried to return to the main building but encountered armed attackers and retreated.[81] 
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STAC Goat posted:There's just something weird about these guys who run for major political office with the nicknames they had when they were kids. I had a nickname as a kid. We all did. I still have some old friends who call me by it. But somehow no one had to tell me to use my actual name once I started doing professional, adult poo poo. I find it highly unlikely that his childhood nickname would have been "Trey" and not "wienerhead".
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Partially because there's absolutely no reason for it to ever happen unless we go crazy and do it on purpose. It's like someone refusing to pay their electric bill when they live in a house made entirely out of hundred dollar bills. The debt ceiling issue is basically this but in real life: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NITBfc1EOBo
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Magugu posted:and Fred Durst was a master lyricist. Oh poo poo, I didn't know Assad was a goon.
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hobbesmaster posted:The CIA was across town. There were several DSS agents that were providing security and they did everything that could have been reasonably expected... The worst part is, even though there was exceptional heroism from the security present that day, seethingly partisan Republicans would rather belittle their work, and in effect pretend they weren't here, to make the stupidest pettiest point. Their point being that Hillary personally stopped the United States Space Marines (which is actually more like the unarmed foreign army corps of engineers, known for building walls and cleaning up bombing sites) from dropshipping in from their space stations and saving everyone's lives.
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They could have asked why, despite the CIA having a local presence, there was no reliable intelligence about the attack for days after it occurred. But that would point out that the CIA is a perpetual joke, rather than attacking Hillary, so I guess it's best not to mention.
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