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I think we had a couple sex ed classes at some point but I don't remember what the teacher said or when it even was.
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bill maher thinks vaccines cause autism, is ugly af, and sucks
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:41 |
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Vox has some good articles today The brutal Spring Valley High School video shows what happens when you put cops in schools quote:Even after controlling for poverty, a report from the Justice Policy Institute found schools with school resource officers have nearly five times the rate of arrests for disorderly conduct as schools without school resource officers, even though the prevalence of school resource officers in schools has little relationship to reported crime rates. Obama and Boehner made one last budget deal. Heres what we know. quote:1 The White House and Congress have reportedly struck a deal to raise the debt ceiling and fund the government through March 2017 making it the last piece of budget policy in Barack Obama's presidency. The House science committee is worse than the Benghazi committee quote:In June, a scientist named Thomas Karl, along with colleagues, published a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Science called "Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus." It cast doubt on the global warming "pause" that has become the latest cause cιlθbre for climate change, er, doubters. quote:Here's the most pointed part of Johnson's letter:
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:43 |
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Bob Ojeda posted:Cruz cannot win a general election. There are republicans who can?
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:43 |
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All the news outlets reporting on this mention that the discussion bill has been posted online, but none of them provide a link. I can't find it on house.gov, and the majority leader's site is obviously filled with nonsense. Does anyone have a link to the bill itself? I want to read it.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:43 |
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:All the news outlets reporting on this mention that the discussion bill has been posted online, but none of them provide a link. I can't find it on house.gov, and the majority leader's site is obviously filled with nonsense. Does anyone have a link to the bill itself? I want to read it.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:47 |
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So the plan is to save Medicare and Social Security by taking money out of them and cutting benefits? Damnit Obama
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:48 |
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Thanks!
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:51 |
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Slaan posted:So the plan is to save Medicare and Social Security by taking money out of them and cutting benefits? I don't know, I think that's not a bad price to pay for taking the gun away during the election year. As people constantly brought up, one of the ways to disrupt what looks like a lock for Hillary is to have some kind of economic crisis. I'm quite content to know that such a crisis can't be instigated by the HFC in a fit of pique.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:53 |
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Slaan posted:So the plan is to save Medicare and Social Security by taking money out of them and cutting benefits? The Sequestration cuts are already in place, they're just keeping them; there's no cuts to Social Security.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:54 |
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Slaan posted:So the plan is to save Medicare and Social Security by taking money out of them and cutting benefits? This deal does not do that afaict and in fact helps ssdi.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:56 |
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What is with the auctioning of airwave spectrums? Does that generate a lot of revenue or is it more of a "get rid of government control" thing?
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I'm not sure if it's realistic but the first thing Hillary needs to do if elected is work to put a stop to this nonsense. Letting maniacs play chicken with the world economy in exchange for chipping away at the US's meager safety net is not sustainable.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:57 |
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There is a lot of spin on the deal to make it politically palatable but the main takeaway afaict is we just are going back to a pre tea party insanity status quo.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:57 |
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KiteAuraan posted:What is with the auctioning of airwave spectrums? Does that generate a lot of revenue or is it more of a "get rid of government control" thing? I think it's referring to the spectrum left open by broadcast tv going to digital. It's part of a move for more broadband access.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:57 |
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Slaan posted:So the plan is to save Medicare and Social Security by taking money out of them and cutting benefits? Well, the problem is that the SSDI fund is nearly broke, so we get an additional six years of funding for it by transferring funds from the Social Security trust fund. It's not an ideal solution, but the underlying problems with SSDI can't really be addressed with the HFC holding the government hostage every few months, so this is a way of kicking the can down the road. Hopefully a more sane Congress will be able to make permanent fixes to the problem. In a nutshell, thanks to the recession, a lot more people are going on SSDI to hold them over until their Social Security kicks in, which caused the SSDI money to deplete a lot faster than anticipated. If this is a temporary issue (lack of work for older, less healthy adults due to a slack economy) or a permanent shift in employment patterns (nobody's going to hire 58 year old when they can hire a 22 year old anymore), this deal gives Congress six years to figure out what to do. Or, more likely, six years to kick the can further down the road.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:57 |
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euphronius posted:There is a lot of spin on the deal to make it politically palatable but the main takeaway afaict is we just are going back to a pre tea party insanity status quo. I don't even think this positive a spin is accurate.. Some of the sequester cuts are going to stay in place.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:58 |
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:The Sequestration cuts are already in place, they're just keeping them; there's no cuts to Social Security. Ah, I read extend as more/extended cuts not length/extension of cuts, and the article was missing an important to/from. Given that Obama has made deals to cut benefits in the past, I read it that way.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:58 |
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Yeah it's a lot lot easier to get on ssdi when you are in your 50s so that may change Or you know they could just expand the payroll tax beyond its low income cap.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 14:59 |
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KiteAuraan posted:What is with the auctioning of airwave spectrums? Does that generate a lot of revenue or is it more of a "get rid of government control" thing? An open spectrum auction, properly designed, can be a great way efficiently and transparently allocate the spectrum to whoever values it the most. The revenue generation is nice, but it's secondary to the basic purpose of managing a limited but extremely important resource.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:00 |
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Raerlynn posted:I don't know, I think that's not a bad price to pay for taking the gun away during the election year. As people constantly brought up, one of the ways to disrupt what looks like a lock for Hillary is to have some kind of economic crisis. I'm quite content to know that such a crisis can't be instigated by the HFC in a fit of pique. Agreed. March 2017 is a very cool date assuming the first phase of Hillary's Presidency is less like Obama's and more like her Benghazi hearing.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:00 |
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Radish posted:I'm not sure if it's realistic but the first thing Hillary needs to do if elected is work to put a stop to this nonsense. Letting maniacs play chicken with the world economy in exchange for chipping away at the US's meager safety net is not sustainable. Without changing the constitution, there is isn't. Since budgeting is the realm of the House. To be clear, this is how the budgeting and government funding mechanism is /supposed/ to work. This wasn't Obama "negotiating with a hostage taker." It was the WH, and Congressional leaders hammering out a deal. Now, the debt ceiling is a dumb thing we should be rid of foreever.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:02 |
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Slaan posted:Ah, I read extend as more/extended cuts not length/extension of cuts, and the article was missing an important to/from. Given that Obama has made deals to cut benefits in the past, I read it that way. np, the NYT scared everyone yesterday with fearmongering
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:03 |
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I hope to see the HFC eating alive by their own base in the coming days
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:04 |
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:np, the NYT scared everyone yesterday with fearmongering Between that and the Hillary Clinton op ed yesterday I think I'll go back to reading USA Today myself.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:05 |
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Gravel Gravy posted:Between that and the Hillary Clinton op ed yesterday I think I'll go back to reading USA Today myself. Maureen Dowd is always salty about Hillary. -- Anyway, from PlumLine, here's the break down on what bothsides are getting in the budget deal. Also, don't take Ryan seriously when he says he hates this deal. He's just doing the dance. quote:What Democrats got:
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:06 |
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So a couple of years back, the Bush era tax cuts expired. I seem to recall there was a bit of consternation about this, but Republicans didn't really poo poo the bed as badly as they seem to be now. Am I remembering that correctly, or was there a huge blow up about that too? I know I ended up paying a little more in taxes, so I'm sure that most people ended up having to kick a little bit more in too. That'd make a very easy attack ad.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:06 |
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quote: a debt limit hike through March of 2017, meaning no more conservative-manufactured debt limit extortion through that date Hillary's first 100 days gonna be fun
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:09 |
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KiteAuraan posted:What is with the auctioning of airwave spectrums? Does that generate a lot of revenue or is it more of a "get rid of government control" thing? No, I think it is more that the FCC has a mandate to make the spectrum available in a way that serves the public interest and doesn't allow the government or companies to hoard it just because.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:11 |
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Remember when CARLY was the new shiny object? http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/27/politics/carly-fiorina-republican-debate/index.html
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:14 |
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Massasoit posted:My pediatrician on the other hand told me to be abstinent only. Or as he said it "penis in the pants" while wagging his finger. I'm imagining him saying this in a Borat-esque voice: "Naughty, naughty! Never gonna get this!"
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:18 |
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KiteAuraan posted:Have we always denied felons from getting SS benefits? Or is that something new put in there to gently caress them over further? I believe that it's been a thing stretching into the 90s at least I think. I remember some efforts to change the policy just recently.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:18 |
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SquadronROE posted:So a couple of years back, the Bush era tax cuts expired. I seem to recall there was a bit of consternation about this, but Republicans didn't really poo poo the bed as badly as they seem to be now. Not most people. It affected households worth over $400,000, income over $250,000, and capital gains and dividends to an extent closer to, but not quite, levels seen in the Clinton administration. There wasn't a big blow up over this consequently.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:27 |
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SquadronROE posted:So a couple of years back, the Bush era tax cuts expired. I seem to recall there was a bit of consternation about this, but Republicans didn't really poo poo the bed as badly as they seem to be now. If you noticed you were paying more in taxes, it was probably due to the fact that in 2011 and 2012 the amount you paid for Social Security was dropped from 6.2% to 4.2%, and that ended in 2013. drat, slow.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:29 |
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The wage tax "increase" was huge especially for independent contractors.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:32 |
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Remember when CARLY was the new shiny object? http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/27/politics/carly-fiorina-republican-debate/index.html It's amazing how short political memory is, it wasn't that long ago that there was a HUGE push by the right to get Carly include in the debate as to not seem like they were marginalizing the one woman running. Then they gushed and gushed about her serviceable debate performance which got her a few point and that was all it was going to be because Carly just isn't a good candidate and has no natural constituency. I mean their heart wasn't really in it this time like it was when they got burned by Palin but Carly is just the same dumb plan of trying to draw women in by running a woman that then doesn't speak to the issues that women tend to care about, especially not in a way they want to hear it.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:33 |
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Joementum posted:Fun bit of the deal: the Small House Rotunda will now be named the "Freedom Foyer". I hope everyone insists on pronouncing it in the french manor just to piss off the HFC.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:36 |
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China upset that the US is moving warships near their artificial islands. News reports are reporting it as breathlessly as possible, but from listening to Wang Yi's statement, it sounds like their attitude is "Hey watch it" instead of "GOD drat AMERICA!" http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/world/asia/south-china-sea-uss-lassen-spratly-islands.html
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:39 |
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His GOP House colleagues gave John Boehner a golf cart with the license plate "MR SPKR" as a gift today.
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# ? Oct 27, 2015 15:40 |
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Massasoit posted:I had very good sex ed in MA and they taught us how to use condoms. My health class (not sex ed) experience in CT circa 2002-2003 (7th or 8th grade) was so comprehensive that we even learned the difference between butt-safe condoms and those that weren't (but still better in a pinch than no condom at all).
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