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SedanChair posted:And conveniently, he's a Magical Negro. What?  I don't remember Steven King being one of the writers, is he uncredited or something?
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Gravel Gravy posted:We're all American Idiots. I miss the days when Green Day made good music. That would be before 96 for you youngins.  Also, the first half of the 90's had Deathrow records in it's heyday which musically was loving magic on the level that the million dollar quartet recordings were in the 50's.
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down with slavery posted:That's fine, but MA is not seven times as expensive as TN. If you want to talk about downtown boston versus bumfuck nowhere, that's fine. But there's no reason to go crazy making insane claims. My wife and I are considered "rich" by the government and no, not it's not that much. We also live in Orange County so our housing costs alone are above 2k a month so even if that 90K income was after taxes that would only leave us 2k a month for food, cars, school loans, utilities, etc., and we don't even have kids. That being said, I have and will continue to vote to increase my taxes because everyone always seems to forget the line about "general welfare" being about not letting families starve, go to failing schools, or getting bankrupt from medical bills.
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Apr 5, 2014 19:41
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Chris Christie posted:Ideally, no, but more people like Ginsburg, Sotamayor, and Kagan could mean tipping the 5-4 balance when it comes to the second amendment. And the 5-4 balance already is against property rights (Kennedy joined the majority in Kelo). The former 3 don't have resumes any more impressive than the latter when it comes to bad decisions and pissing on civil liberties. Now, I hope you understand that I'm saying this as a gun owning democrat (that loves the poo poo out of trap shooting), but really shut the gently caress up about the god drat second amendment.   No one is going to take your loving guns while Hillary is in office if she wins in 2016.*e:*Provided you're not committing felonies or things like that. A Winner is Jew fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Apr 7, 2014 |
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FAUXTON posted:What if it turns out he is now or later becomes a convicted felon and his guns have to legally be taken? I just added the felony clause. But yeah, unless you want to own military grade weaponry like fully automatic rifles or explosives or something you're 100% free from getting really restrictive gun laws passed where you live because the NRA will stop at nothing to keep the gun manufacturers making money... provided like 1000 kids do get shot up in a school on a single day.
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Whiskey Sours posted:Boom, you just got trifectaed, America! Once again The Onion proves that reality is beyond satire.
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Apr 9, 2014 20:32
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paragon1 posted:If Huckabee didn't want people putting their hands on him then he would stop dressing like a whore. At least he doesn't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you oval office.
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Apr 15, 2014 18:29
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made of bees posted:I didn't even realize Phyllis Schafly was still alive, I associate her with Religious Right stuff from the 70s and 80s. I'm pretty sure a phylactery is a prerequisite for being that cartoonishly evil. See Cheney, Dick and Scalia, Antonin for other examples.
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ReidRansom posted:"I spent $x on tax preparation and lowered my tax bill by >$x as a result, and for some reason feel the need to whine about it anyway because I'm a giant baby who hates the government that against all logic gave me a job for so many years in which I oversaw the mismanagement of hundreds of billions to even trillions dollars in war profiteering contracts given to my already wealthy and super-wealthy friends and facilitated the torture of thousands and the death of hundreds of thousands over at best questionable intelligence while myself and the select few who directly profited from that wholesale death and destruction will not only never be held accountable, but will also bitch about paying only a fraction of my war profiteering back to the nation." - Donald Rumsfeld  FTFYReindeerF posted:I agree, and said as much, but people shouldn't defend our absurd tax code just because someone they don't like is criticizing it accurately. And while our tax code is insane, gently caress Rumsfeld forever.
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Apr 15, 2014 23:00
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VitalSigns posted:What posters have already said with regard to extensions applies here too. Taxes are actually due quarterly, not annually. If you haven't paid at least 90% of your total tax bill (or 100% of last year's amount) by January 15th you get slapped with interest and penalties as well (sane for missing the other quarterly deadlines) When I first got my quarterly inheritance checks I was blow away with the fact that even though I took out the proper amount through work I still ended up owing over $2k to the IRS and almost $500 to the state and all the interest that's added onto it since the trust that distributes everything was never setup to auto-pay taxes like my work does. The one easy trick to get around this was to have additional lump sum payments taken out of every check and so now I'm usually +/- $500 total to the IRS and state combined every year which isn't a big deal. The first time my wife and I joint filed she got pissed about it because when she was single she always got a huge refund until I showed her just how much I get (she knew I had a trust when we married, but had no idea on how much) and while we don't count it as regular income since it gets deposited into an investment account with a stupidly good return it made making major purchase like a house and wedding literally just writing a check as opposed to massive loans that all of our friends had to take out and now it's just accumulating interest and returns for our retirement fund that we really don't have to ever worry about. Really, the problem is that most people are just loving stupid and/or lazy when it comes to money and that just because you're rich doesn't magically exempt you from being stupid and/or lazy when it comes to money.
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Apr 16, 2014 05:37
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zoux posted:Marrying a woman who makes enough money so I don't have to work is like my number one life aspiration.  I'm already married to her, and it's only a year an a half until she gets her MBA and this happens. Livin the dream 
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Apr 16, 2014 16:45
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pangstrom posted:A trust fund and a (future) sugar momma--truly, a winner is you. Oh I'll still work because when the economy was poo poo I went through a few 3-6 month stretches of being unemployed and I got super bored after the first month and gently caress that. It just means that I don't have to always chase the high paying and high stress with high travel jobs at huge firms in my industry which will be really goddamn nice for a change since I'm already pretty burned out from it and can instead go back to working at small firms which I greatly prefer. And since the wife and I are DINK's for life we've already already agreed to live off her income after she graduates and mine will be for vacations and fun poo poo. zoux posted:Well we are liberals Speak for yourself, I'm a socialist. 
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Gravel Gravy posted:HITLER! It's Hitler right? Close, it was FDR (who was America's Hitler) since he not only collected taxes to fund the government, he used government for central planned things like the TVA, WPA, and NRA.
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The Warszawa posted:"There are no men like me. Only me." - William Jaimeson Clinton So would that make Hillary Cersei, or Brienne? And if Hillary is Cersei, would that make Chelsea Myrcella as the first born daughter or Joffrey as first born? A Winner is Jew fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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Apr 17, 2014 18:07
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Saagonsa posted:So who's the politician who shits everywhere while on their period? Cheney 
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Apr 17, 2014 20:47
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FAUXTON posted:JFK Jr. is Joffrey. Actually if we're looking for someone who's first born, an entitled piece of poo poo, has no idea how the world works, is a sadistic rear end hole, hates everyone he is suppose to serve, doesn't listen to the more intelligent people around him but instead openly mocks and antagonizes them, and who everyone wants to kill if they could get away with it I'd look no further than the junior senator from Texas.
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Ofaloaf posted:It's at the periphery of a nearby college town's pull, so it's got a mix of stodgy conservatives and well-educated liberals, both sorts tending to be middle class. There's some subdivisions, but they're older, more-varied sorts, so I dunno how that'll work out. See if you can't network with the local college (student union or something like that) to get a solid ground game canvasing thing going. That's probably the best bet both to raise your electability chances and get the most return on your campaign budget.
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Apr 23, 2014 00:48
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SedanChair posted:Then they're not good until they change those views. "Is nice to me or certain others" does not equal "good." I grew up in a fairly racist household (my grandfather had this proudly displayed, in southern CA and not the south) and as much as I try subconsciously I'll do some pretty racist poo poo when I don't actively keep it in check. Consciously I'm fine but I've been trying to shake my racist upbringing for the last 15 years and honestly its just way too ingrained for it to disappear completely.
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Who What Now posted:Oh please let Mighty Mom Jeans Mitt run for president again. I will sell my soul for this to happen. 2016 is shaping up to be fantastic since along with the potential for Mitt we also have Rand, Cruz, Santorum, Perry, and Rubio. Now all we need is the Cain Train, Sky Admiral Bachmann, and Leader (possibly) of the civilizing forces and the GOP nuthouse will be in full swing.
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e:f,b twiceSpatula City posted:At this point I'm ready to totally give up the gun control fight because there's more important fish to fry, and it'd probably take an entire school being shot to death in a school shooting for even a single NRA member to start to reconsider their positions. It would take 1,000 dead kids. Teachers don't count. And for argument's sake, let's say it's a situation where 999 people die and the 1,000th person is just the school shooter blowing his brains out, that seems more like an isolated incident that shouldn't really impact everyone's rights, you know.
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Magres posted:I don't even care that he's going to make money off it, the fact that someone with that much money has actually suffered any consequences for being a racist piece of poo poo makes me happy. I figured he would get fined and scolded and nothing else. The fact that the NBA is forcibly kicking him to the curb is great. Yeah, the NBA post "I know where the bodies are buried" David Stern has been fantastic from a management standpoint.
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Fried Chicken posted:Which is exactly what is happening. Today Charles pierce reported about the militias and oath keepers splintering because the oath keepers ran like hell after getting a "tip from a credible high ranking DoJ source" that Holder was sending an armed drone to strike their group. The militias are not pleases that they ran, and their leader said he has "swear by the white skin on my rear end" that the oath keepers won't be allowed back At this rate I see the deescalation tactic as an overall win. Oath Keepers were mostly just dumb/borded as gently caress military/ex-military that listen to too much AM radio after Obama got elected when the crazy was pushed to 11 and on paper at least really swelled the numbers of the crazy militias who are the die-hard white separatist poo poo lords looking to get martyred by the government. The fact that the DOJ trolled them into splintering is a bigger victory than just arresting Bundy with no casualties so once again Holder proves why he's been the best AG this countries ever had.
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Paul MaudDib posted:Yeah, in the end I suppose I'm willing to trade a couple weeks of armed groups taking over Hicksville, Nevada if it contributes to long-term bad blood between the various militia groups and the real perps eventually get the jail cell that's coming to them. This is absolutely the case. Even though  has backed away from the story because to the surprise of no one Bundy is a racist gently caress, outside of that there isn't a whole lot of negative news about the militias so any action against them would probably be reported as government overreach by Hannity and his ilk and proof that Obama is the evil socialist/communist/atheist/muslim/gay/arab they always accuse him of being. Let the militias get some nationally reported negative press while they set up their own little libertariantopia pissing the locals off so nationally they're vilified and any locals won't come to their defense after the fact once the go in and kick his rear end.Also, the intel that the alphabet soup agencies are collecting on these clowns has to be really impressive with not just who's in the militias, but also their gun/money suppliers and hate group connections so once that starts to dry up is also when they'll roll in and shut them down.
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Nessus posted:Does the goat man count as concealed or open posting? Obviously open. 
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Benagain posted:Eh the whole world's hosed one way or another soon and I'm living in a relatively earthquake free zone next to the world's largest body of fresh water, which means I get to be drafted and fight Canadians (or possibly rebellious Wisconsinites) in the upcoming water wars. Which hey, free meals! I live in one of the most geographically unstable areas on the planet where access to fresh water is a huge issue to anyone not completely loving idiotic. I'm banking on the sweet sweet embrace of sinking into arizona bay in the future. poo poo, I'm like a liberal version of one of those rapture assholes aren't I? 
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I know the standard rule is to never read the comments but seriously, read the comments. quote:All polls are quackery. And, oh how the media love their polls. You can prove or disprove any issue you want. All you have to do is pay for a poll to be taken or more simply look for a poll online that supports your point of view. There are polls for everything out there and polls that cover both sides of every issue. It is media pablum fed to the public to satisfy their voracious appetite for information. Maybe someone, some hero will come along and unskew them. quote:What this tells me -- especially that last graph -- is that support or distaste for Obama is affecting support or distaste for interracial relations. If you notice, the trend in race relations was largely positive until Obama became president. Rather than Obama's presidency propelling us to a post-racist environment, the Obama presidency is promoting racism. Obama is the real racist. quote:That wide partisan divide is not too surprising in light of other polls conducted this past year, which also suggested that Democrats and Republican have increasingly separate realities about race.  Oh, and this Onion article.
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Mons Hubris posted:But the NBA does have a provision for that in its Constitution and Bylaws???? Paragraph 13 of the NBA's rules explicitly states that NBA owners have the right, by three-fourths vote, to revoke ownership if an owner “fails to fulfill” a “contractual obligation” in “such a way as to affect the [NBA] or its members adversely.” So if 23 of the 30 owners want him gone they can force it, and last count I know there were confirmed 22 owners in favor or removing him with only 2 against. The only questions is if their vote for removal is legal, but given that in the same rules racial or prejudiced statements are punishable by huge fines that have already been levied against him it's not exactly an uphill battle to make.
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May 1, 2014 17:25
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Shifty Pony posted:The speculation is the players threatened to strike in the middle of playoffs if they didn't strip him of the team. Not speculation. It was confirmed by every member of the Warriors who the Clippers are currently playing against in the playoffs that they planned to go through warm-ups, the anthem, and then at tip-off just walk off court in protest if they weren't satisfied with how Silver reacted to the situation. It was rumored that every other team playing that night would do the same thing, but it's only been confirmed that one team would absolutely follow through with it.
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May 1, 2014 17:58
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zoux posted:Someone needs to explain to these guys that Red Dawn is not how it would go down. Like seriously, how do they think a shooting war with the US Government ends? The fact that the US Government hasn't just dropped a few drone strikes on these chuckle fucks and then gone to lunch is all the proof you need that the government isn't some tyrannical entity out to enslave or oppress them.
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Magres posted:Any idea what happened from '96 to 2000 to get the number to drop so much? Like the 2008 spike is obvious, the sudden drop in the Clinton era is way more interesting, and I was too young to be at all politically aware at that point, unless 12 year olds somehow count now.  Oklahoma City Bombing was in 95, and after it was widely reported that McVeigh and Nichols were heavy into the militia movement a lot of people realized that it wasn't just going shooting in the woods with fatigues and casual racism anymore.
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zoux posted:Off topic but is Piketty's Capital going to tell me anything I don't already know or is it just going to make me Real Mad? The second one. That books way more useful as a long term argument assist tool since he's a virtually unimpeachable expert on the subject (god knows they'll try), but if you've been smart enough to already realize that the system as it is currently fucks anyone that hasn't already gotten theirs it won't really teach you anything new.
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zoux posted:Economics makes me feel dumb as hell. I struggled with it (and stats) in school in ways that I haven't in any other class and one time I tried to read Das Kapital on my own and I just couldn't grasp it For me it's English (I'm literally Ralph Wiggum), but I'm basically autistic when it comes to math, or learning and understanding anything I'm interested in as long as it's not in a scholastic setting. I mean my father in-law is a MBA/JD, my brother in-law is a PhD, and my wife is doing her MBA and yet with only "some college" they usually consult me with regards to math or engineering.
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Talmonis posted:Holy poo poo, that's fantastic. I love these people for what they're doing. They're truly doing the lords work here. The lord of hell's work. 
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May 1, 2014 22:24
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Munkeymon posted:Wanna put up an atheist "statue" that's just a sign saying "This statue represents the existence of God" or some such. Atheists should erect a statue of John Scopes. That would probably piss off way more people than even the church of satan statue would.
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:It's like a hydra...of Satan. Hail Hydra! Hail Satan!
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May 1, 2014 23:05
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Spoilers Below posted:I would love to see one on the scale of the King of Kings statue. When it was literally struck by lightning and burned down, we got a brief glimpse of what it might look like... You would think that after god literally destroyed their first idol they would get the message... but nope.
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May 1, 2014 23:16
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Luigi Thirty posted:So he's going to ban Christianity, kill all the pigs in the world, and cause hyperinflation? Wait, since when did Obama become Jesus?
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May 2, 2014 00:53
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Nessus posted:Making people exhausted might be a helpful side benefit if it keeps them from voting in 2014. But the real purpose is to help keep the base from deciding they're RINOs and then losing their job, I reckon. Yeah, the GOP base requires all of it's elected officials to say 3 dog whistles and a Benghazi at every prayer or risk excommunication.
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Tharizdun posted:Right, even McCain admits that Obama isn't a Muslim, he's a good person Lets not start sucking his dick just yet.
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SedanChair posted:At least they're not trying to use their kids as human shields yet. Wait, is there a better term than "human shields" for when you want the other guys to shoot them? Palestinian Teens? 
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