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TBeats posted:Serious question: Why can't the budget just call for like a 1% spending cut to every single department instead of picking and choosing? That's kinda sorta what sequestration did, and it's dumb. Some departments can more or less downsize projects or missions in a logical way using a generic cut. Others are already running at more or less minimum possible funding without major poo poo getting hosed up. I'm not bored enough and/or currently read up on it all enough to post in depth analysis, though.
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TBeats posted:Serious question: Why can't the budget just call for like a x% spending cut to every single department instead of picking and choosing? Not all spending is discretionary
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:Flipping through channels at my parents house, and Fox is definitely spinning the reporter thing as a positive. I'm not gonna link fuckin huffington post but they went around asking Rs about it and most of them were spinning it as positive. Vaping fucktard Duncan hunter tweeted some joke about the dude deserving it, some other guy said he could sympathize cause he feels like punching reporters sometimes, etc
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May 26, 2017 01:03
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psydude posted:Only part of Wisconsin I've been in is Ft. McCoy and it is indeed in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, the bulk of the state's population is in the Southeast corner centered around Milwaukee and to the west in Madison. The Chicago metro area basically ends in southern WI so they kind of just bleed into each other.
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May 26, 2017 01:04
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DoktorLoken posted:You say that, but WI actually is fairly populated. It's not Nebraska or North Dakota, but I could see that kind of attitude being prevalent in rural areas. Same can be said for a lot of places though. I grew up south of Chicago in Cornfieldia. At one point I lived 8 miles from the nearest town, and it had 1000~ people. The closest place with more than 10,000 people was at least a 30 minute drive. Illinois might be one of the more populous states, but there's a whole lot of nothing in those state lines. And Wisconsin is both smaller in population and land area. Scaled proportionally, it's just as lovely as Illinois.
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May 26, 2017 01:09
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May 26, 2017 01:14
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:Same can be said for a lot of places though. I grew up south of Chicago in Cornfieldia. At one point I lived 8 miles from the nearest town, and it had 1000~ people. The closest place with more than 10,000 people was at least a 30 minute drive. Illinois might be one of the more populous states, but there's a whole lot of nothing in those state lines. On the contrary, Illinois is unpopulated and flat; driving from Chicago to St. Louis is awful. The bulk of Wisconsin outside of the populated area is littered with lots of nice small towns in an area with tons of rolling hills, forests, etc. It's actually a pretty beautiful state which is why we're basically weekend vacation land for Chicago.
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May 26, 2017 01:23
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DoktorLoken posted:On the contrary, Illinois is unpopulated and flat; driving from Chicago to St. Louis is awful. The bulk of Wisconsin outside of the populated area is littered with lots of nice small towns in an area with tons of rolling hills, forests, etc. It's actually a pretty beautiful state which is why we're basically weekend vacation land for Chicago. As a Chicagoan, I can say that this dude has it dead to rights.
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May 26, 2017 01:37
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Southern Illinois is beautiful. Once you're south of Mt. Vernon, it's rolling hills and places the ice didn't scrape flat. But you have to be heading to Kentucky on I-24, or south of St. Louis down I-57. The Wabash Valley is nice also, but that's more western Indiana. The rest of Illinois sucks balls and has small dying towns scattered everywhere. Enough comparing midwest shitholes. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...n-poppy-plants/ "I guess you're here for the opium." CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 01:53 on May 26, 2017 |
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May 26, 2017 01:47
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I think we can all agree Kansas might as well be post apocalyptic America
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May 26, 2017 01:54
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Kansas, Nebraska, and eastern Wyoming/Colorado are horrible.
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May 26, 2017 02:09
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:Southern Illinois is beautiful. Once you're south of Mt. Vernon, it's rolling hills and places the ice didn't scrape flat. But you have to be heading to Kentucky on I-24, or south of St. Louis down I-57. The Wabash Valley is nice also, but that's more western Indiana. I want to know how many pods those cops ate to decide 1.5 acres was worth 1/8th of Afghanistan's entire crop. (Total weight of uprooted wet plants + soil) * street price of heroin?
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May 26, 2017 02:10
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shame on an IGA posted:I want to know how many pods those cops ate to decide 1.5 acres was worth 1/8th of Afghanistan's entire crop. I imagine being able to cut out middlemen and not having to smuggle it all the way around the world would raise its value significantly.
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May 26, 2017 02:12
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That guy probably would have gotten away with it if he didn't lead off with "here bout my drugs, I guess?" Who in the gently caress in backwoods Carolinas would even know what opium looks like. Dude was seriously lacking some confidence in holding his farming job.
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May 26, 2017 02:19
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:That guy probably would have gotten away with it if he didn't lead off with "here bout my drugs, I guess?" I bet they were there for the fighting chickens and dogs. Bound to happen at that point.
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May 26, 2017 02:21
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Chicagoan here. The rest of Illinois is a wet fart.
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May 26, 2017 02:33
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Yeah. Not exactly laying low and building a small drug empire when you're actively participating in other stupid poo poo. I'd love to see bodycam footage of that discussion though.
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May 26, 2017 02:33
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Illinoisan here. Chicago is also a wet fart, but it styles itself as a "rugged and bohemian" wet fart
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May 26, 2017 02:36
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shyduck posted:Have a palate cleanser: The only person who didn't want a 3rd Obama term was Obama (both?). Poor dude was an attractive 50-something with black hair when he got elected. Look what we did to him. 
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May 26, 2017 02:43
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The only good part of Illinois outside of Chicago are the 24 hour bars in East Saint Louis, that's your gauge for quality there.
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:Yeah. Not exactly laying low and building a small drug empire when you're actively participating in other stupid poo poo. There was no drug empire, if he personally converted every poppy in that garden to heroin and sold it by the gram he would have made at best a few hundred thousand. More likely he was scraping the opium and selling it for a fraction of that, he was just a petty criminal with some cockfighting on the side. Law enforcement just makes poo poo up when it comes to values of drug busts 
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May 26, 2017 03:21
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Quist looks like he's gonna lose MTAL special election. Joke's on me for ever having hope. Nothing matters. 
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shame on an IGA posted:I want to know how many pods those cops ate to decide 1.5 acres was worth 1/8th of Afghanistan's entire crop. (Total weight of uprooted wet plants + soil) * street price of heroin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i_XfgdNUUk also if you haven't watched The Guard go and do it immediately.
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May 26, 2017 03:41
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Does anyone have links/sources for the hosed up security clearance forms from Trump's people? I want to show a buddy who worked doing clearances, but didn't save the links.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Quist looks like he's gonna lose MTAL special election. he was going to lose that election before his opponent superslamed a guy
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Proud Christian Mom posted:he was going to lose that election before his opponent superslamed a guy Yeah, I know. Still, he seemed like a decent enough guy that I was hopeful for a brief moment. After having family living in Billings and knowing a guy that was a rancher in Bozeman, he seemed the kind of candidate that might do well with people who would otherwise normally vote GOP. Oh well, on to the next one.
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A Bad Poster posted:The only good part of Illinois outside of Chicago are the 24 hour bars in East Saint Louis, that's your gauge for quality there. i lived in Decatur for a year and a half and I will never go back ever
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Handsome Ralph posted:Quist looks like he's gonna lose MTAL special election. If he loses by less than 5% that's close enough to give the GOP something to worry about. In 2016 it went red by 16 points.
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If conservative voters are really so far gone as to vote in a millionaire psychopath that assaults reporters the day before the election, where the gently caress does that leave us as a democracy? Is there a constructive path forward that sane-minded Americans can take or is it all just a slow descent into division and violence from here?
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Cugel the Clever posted:If conservative voters are really so far gone as to vote in a millionaire psychopath that assaults reporters the day before the election, where the gently caress does that leave us as a democracy? Is there a constructive path forward that sane-minded Americans can take or is it all just a slow descent into division and violence from here? Over 65% of the votes were cast before he attacked a reporter.
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Cugel the Clever posted:If conservative voters are really so far gone as to vote in a millionaire psychopath that assaults reporters the day before the election, where the gently caress does that leave us as a democracy? Is there a constructive path forward that sane-minded Americans can take or is it all just a slow descent into division and violence from here? serious post: there's hope thanks to demographic shifts but it isnt going to be near as quick as what people think and never discount the Democrats ability to shoot themselves in the foot like they just did over the 8 past years non-serious serious post: hope the GOP gets its way on healthcare and a sudden epidemic wipes out a large portion of their voter base, the old and stupid
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FIDEL CASHFLOW posted:i lived in Decatur for a year and a half and I will never go back ever Whenever we used to drive places as a kid, Decatur was our measuring stick for "well, at least now we're only a couple of hours from civilization."
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loving hell, does everyone live in Illinois at some point? Champaign to Kankakee, the great corn abyss.
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May 26, 2017 04:38
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Have you guys hoping the GOP tank healthcare ever been around poor sick people? Cuz they'll def die. Like alot of people. Millions even.
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May 26, 2017 04:40
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Have you guys hoping the GOP tank healthcare ever been around poor sick people? Cuz they'll def die. Like alot of people. Millions even. lol they dont even have healthcare now
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Have you guys hoping the GOP tank healthcare ever been around poor sick people? Cuz they'll def die. Like alot of people. Millions even. Yeah, and they're the same people saying that they hate Obamacare but love the ACA.
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May 26, 2017 04:44
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Yeah. Probably. Because darkest timeline and all. Just a bunch of noseless people falling over dead from simple things. Gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day.
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May 26, 2017 04:45
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Well I don't want them dead because their tax dollars and the tax dollars of their Lord's pay my goddman welfare!
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Have you guys hoping the GOP tank healthcare ever been around poor sick people? Cuz they'll def die. Like alot of people. Millions even. Historical numbers suggest that lack of access to healthcare kills about 1%/yr of people in that group. AHCA is something like 7 9/11s. Annually.
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Cugel the Clever posted:If conservative voters are really so far gone as to vote in a millionaire psychopath that assaults reporters the day before the election, where the gently caress does that leave us as a democracy? Is there a constructive path forward that sane-minded Americans can take or is it all just a slow descent into division and violence from here? America is a violent and brutal nation. Always has been. Most of our founding fathers literally owned other humans, and were not unfamiliar with killing. Aaron Burr was the sitting Vice President when he killed Alexander Hamilton. Andrew Jackson liked nothing more than to step outside, and had killed a man in a duel before he became our 7th President. He then went on to ignore the Supreme Court and instigate something that we still refer to, not inaccurately, as "The Trail of Tears." Preston Brooks' constituents re-elected him after he beat Senator Charles Sumner unconscious with a cane, leaving wounds that required three years of recuperation. (He was aided and abetted by Laurence Keitt, who brandished a pistol in the Senate chambers to keep onlookers from coming to Sumner's aid, and Henry Edmundson, who had previously been arrested by the Sergeant at Arms for assaulting another Senator.) We might try to he better than our bloody legacy, but it is always there, below the surface.
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