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All of the I/P chat this forum needs is when people post "gently caress you Kirschen" every day after Jagger subjects us to his white hot desire to genocide Moslems.
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StandardVC10 posted:The Platonic ideal of an Australian rules football player? Mo_Steel posted:Let's chat about comedians with decent political beliefs. Lewis Black is a cool dude who says he's a socialist and is a funny person. His speech at the National Press Club is pretty worth watching. to the extent that he talks about politics, Louie C.K. has got some good beliefs. He is ignorant about the specifics of this and that (for instance, he literally carries kruggerands in his pocket believing that to be a good investment) but on the whole I can't find anything wrong with his views, though some tumblrites would probably find him to be "problematic" Homura and Sickle fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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Jun 30, 2014 01:35
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XyloJW posted:He looks the right age to have played Jesse Pinkman. Hm. Pages back but I'm amazed no one posted this but Aaron Paul auditioned for the role of Francis, one of Halsenberg's children and didn't get it. My familiarty with Belgium ends at In Bruges (one of my favorite movies) and the vast number of flemish lawyers that took financial regulation classes with me in law school. Any idea why belgian lawyers would take american financial regulation classes at a vastly higher rate than americans? They seriously made up a majority of the students in each class. Was it to buy our beer companies?
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Jul 1, 2014 17:43
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Barack Obama is Storm from the X-Men because he caused hurricane sandy to steal the election.
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Jul 1, 2014 20:50
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XyloJW posted:I learned something That kind of reminds me of the high school I went to. Its opening was delayed for several years because it was built a few miles from a toxic waste dump, and it earned the moniker "toxic high." The school district assured the community that there were no carcinogens in the soil, and they were probably right, and the district opened up the thoroughly failed attempt to open up a "global high school." (All of the signs were in the 9 most widely spoken world languages) If I ever develop cancer I won't blame it on high school, however, I'll blame it on ROTC. My school conducted most activities at a nuclear waste dump Superfund site in the Midwest.
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Jul 2, 2014 07:41
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I'm excited I'm going to bring my girlfriend to a mass murder/RICO/living-Chris-Muir's-fantasy trial. How is everyone's else week going now that nothing interesting is going on after SCOTUS end of term?Prosopagnosiac posted:So I think we all remember Brian Boyko and Dr Lessig's Mayday PAC and their laughable goal of raising 5 million by July 4th to get money out of politics. Well today the good professor did an AMA on Reddit with one Jack Abramoff. Xylo why wasn't Brian Boyko goldmined 
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Jul 3, 2014 05:01
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In honor of Maybe Post 1000 of this thread and of julyfour.us, here is an email I received this morning.mayone.us posted:Dear MoveOn member, Homura and Sickle fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Jul 4, 2014 |
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Jul 4, 2014 21:23
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Oh, so they changed the url to mayday.us now? Their Twitter handle is still @MayOneUs
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Jul 4, 2014 21:28
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:What's wrong with it It would break our legal system (more)
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Jul 5, 2014 12:22
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I heard they are pretty wasteful with money especially because of the way people earmark donations, but I don't really give enough of a poo poo to confirm or refute.
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Jul 6, 2014 06:27
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ReindeerF posted:They can read each other's languages the same, but the pronunciation is mostly different, if my understanding is correct (maybe not, don't know). Wife speaks Mandarin and can read Cantonese as well as traditional Japanese and Korean characters. Yeah plus Cantonese speakers generally write in standard Chinese, which has the grammar and flow of spoken Mandarin. I tried to learn Vietnamese. While the tones are very easy in Vietnamese, I gave up after concluding it is not physically possible for me to make some of the consonants in that language.
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Jul 16, 2014 02:34
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A Malaysian airlines flight has crashed in eastern Ukraine. So all of the news stories I hated in march are finally intersecting
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Jul 17, 2014 17:17
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Today I learned that Western Union is a bad money transfer service. And I also learned that Bank of America is somehow even worse than I thought. Death to capitalism?
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Jul 20, 2014 03:30
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Discendo Vox posted:It's a contested area, legally. I generally view it with intense suspicion because when it's done for political purposes(like in this case) it's a pretty massive circumvention of Congress. Imagine a Republican administration that decides hate crimes and financial embezzlement are a low priority for Justice Department attention. Executive oversight of the administrative apparatus is an area that wasn't countenanced in the original design of the constitution, and while it's necessary to some degree it's also a real weak spot in US constitutional structure and jurisprudence. Discendo Vox posted:Depends on the source of the power asserted in the executive order. Some are beyond congressional scope- although more crucially, congressional override of an executive order, any executive order, is very difficult to achieve in the current political climate. When it can occur, it requires a lot of whipping and generates heavy press-which is why Presidents like to use them to bait the opposing party. That's a lovely use of a legal power meant for routine administrative affairs. it's kind of funny to me that your legal views on executive power almost match john yoo's perfectly (when a democrat is in office).
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Jul 21, 2014 05:23
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zoux posted:
This movie has 4/10 on IMDB and 100% on rotten tomatoes. I wonder why there is such a disparity (no I don't I know why and so does everyone)
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Jul 24, 2014 18:00
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zoux posted:Again, the movie isn't in release yet so no one on IMDB who is voting has seen it unless they were at Sundance. yeah i'm aware it's because the trailer didn't open with "tw: white privilege"
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Jul 24, 2014 18:19
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I am a millennial and I don't even know what a job is but I promise you I'll change the world
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Jul 26, 2014 12:26
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Absurd Alhazred posted:People need to pronounce it as "boner" more often. "Well, if it isn't that Republican Boner again!" That's probably what they do when they're shooting the poo poo and talking about booze. I took civics when he ascended to Majority Leader, and my teacher was a former Republican congressman and colleague of his. He would punish students for pronouncing it "boner."
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Jul 27, 2014 00:46
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I thought plagiarism was their business model?
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Jul 27, 2014 01:39
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 apparently lowtax is reaping the benefits of democracy? (link redirects to mayone.us which redirects to mayday.us) this is the only forum ad i have ever clicked on.
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Jul 27, 2014 10:04
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:no one's ever complimented my posting before, and i aspire to be as great as swan oat one day I'm just curious, but in Westminster what would you say the proportion of Catholics amongst Vietnamese-Americans in that community is? I ask because my fiance's entire extended global family comes from the tiny minority of Vietnamese Catholics. First I'm curious if Catholics made up a disproportionate part of the refugees. Second, because I only ever hear about or deal with Viets that come from a Catholic/filial piety/even more patriarchal family background, and I'm kinda curious what the familial politics are like in Buddhist families. edit: quote:I don't think anyone would actually believe that D&D was full of Earnest Libertarian Discussions back in the day, or that one of the mods idealized Churchill. For a year we had a mod that idolized Nixon. If there are a good number of midterm toxxers can Joementum be given mod powers on election night? Homura and Sickle fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Jul 29, 2014 11:49
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The Warszawa posted:I've never actually been to California but I really want to go. Not sure whether to go to L.A. or the Bay Area. Haha, your description of Thai law school lunch politics was so on the nose I had assumed you went to Berkeley.
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Jul 29, 2014 22:41
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Joementum posted:Some of the best places to visit in CA are those that really shouldn't exist, but do because it's CA, like the Rosicrucian's in San Jose, or the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose (San Jose double special!), or the Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA, or the abandoned Nazi ranch in Santa Monica, or Hearst Castle. I'm quite fond of the International Art Museum near The Tenderloin, San Francisco. Presumably its newly opened sister museum, the H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Museum of Art in Los Angeles is similarly fun It is run by this Buddhist cult: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=764831296884579&set=vb.290838244283889&type=2&theater Someone else's trip report, which still applies except it's free now: http://sexistentialcrisis.com/2011/12/01/about-the-time-i-accidentally-visited-a-cult/
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Jul 30, 2014 01:18
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Best shawarma I've ever had was a restaurant called Ranoush at the Delmar Loop in St. Louis. They also have middle aged women belly dancing.
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Jul 30, 2014 01:47
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Buffalo wild wing's stock fell around 13% today. I am eating their wings to mark this somber occasion, and I do not understand how that chain isn't making money hand over fist.
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Jul 30, 2014 23:53
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Doctor Spaceman posted:We love deploying actual weapons against animals, to the point where we fought a war against Emus. Hahahaha I love that they vaguely used the wikipedia format for actual wars cafel posted:Holy poo poo, this is the funniest poo poo I've heard in long, long time. The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project is the best podcast I've listened to. The episode about a lovely Irish Poet, Patrick McMahon, is by far the highlight of its brief run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8fRp4i8gCY Song begins at about 1:50. edit:vvvvvv ahahahaha oh my god Homura and Sickle fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Aug 1, 2014 06:59
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ReindeerF posted:I can't believe I haven't seen The Guard mentioned. Ok, all time, who knows, but in the last 10 years it's one of the greatest movies made - and Calvary is right up there. I can't wait for the third film in the trilogy. I don't think I laughed so hard as I did at The Guard since maybe Oh Brother Where Art Thou or The Big Lebowski. It's amazing. Calvary's a different tone, but still brilliant. The Guard is a good movie, but it is still the output of the lesser McDonagh brother. In Bruges is my favorite film, and Seven Psychopaths is also fantastic. P.S. Four Lions is awesome, thank you for your title. 
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Aug 1, 2014 19:07
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Thanatosian posted:
That movie is the Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit's favorite film for some reason. He should probably recuse himself from any tobacco cases because of that
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Aug 1, 2014 19:50
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Thanatosian posted:Have you ever watched the movie? It's not really about smoking. And it is totally unsurprising that a judge would enjoy that movie. Yeah I saw it when it first came out, but it wasn't very memorable for me so I don't remember anything beyond "lobbying bad" and that scene where Champ Kind invades Panama
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Aug 1, 2014 19:59
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The Honorable Manuel Real is a good judge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Real quote:Real was noted for his judicial behavior in the 2000s. From 2001 to 2009, he had custody of disputed Filipino assets, which he had to account for in 2009. A federal appeals court panel then wrote "This curious statement plainly fails to account for all transactions involving the assets during the eight years they were held in the clerk of court's custody. It doesn't give the reader even a basic understanding of the path by which $33.8 million worth of assets deposited in September 2000 came to be worth $34.7 million today". http://judgepedia.org/Manuel_Real quote:In 2009, there were calls for the 85 year-old Real to retire his seat on the federal bench, citing his high rate of appellate reversals and dictatorial manner in the courtroom. According to the Los Angeles Times: "Judiciary analysts have calculated that Real's reversal rate in some years has been as high as 10 times the average for federal district judges." However, judicial misconduct overview agencies have found his behavior to lack the "willfulness" required for formal sanctions. I want to clerk for him
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Aug 6, 2014 00:11
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Aug 6, 2014 09:16
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Yeah it's a protest (suck it, obummer). it's the same reason why my middle name is Nineeleven.
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Aug 6, 2014 19:11
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SedanChair posted:BM's kickstarter has shat itself 3/4 of the way to its goal There's generally a rush in the final 3 days of Kickstarters so I assume it's gonna be fine. And a contribution from the Zionists or Qataris (whoever Brown Moses really answers to you know) could easily put him over the top if necessary. Meanwhile Star Citizen is nearing 50 million I think?
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Randler posted:85 percent sounds pretty lenient. Does a noticeable amount of people fail out of law school before the bar exam or are bar exam rates basically the rates for the whole legal education sector? I know that in California, at least, some of the way lower tier law schools make their worst students take what's known as the "Baby Bar" before they're allowed to take the state bar exam. The Baby Bar covers the first year of law school iirc, which is I guess a way to weed out the complete failures. The bar is not very good for keeping out lovely lawyers so I don't really know why they bother even doing it.
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Aug 12, 2014 01:32
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in a month i get to meet antonin scalia in his chambers. edit: dnd what sick liberal question should i ask him to make him change his mind edit: vv good point?? Homura and Sickle fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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Oct 9, 2014 07:05
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My Imaginary GF posted:Whats wrong with that? Many respectable professionals teach at UofC. a certain muslim kalifa taught constitutional law there, it's a sign of pure evil. also yeah gently caress uchig edit: efb
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Oct 10, 2014 02:08
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ReindeerF posted:Gay bars were always one of two reliable late night drinking places after 02:00 in Houston when you're supposed to legally stop serving. The other? Mexican bars. haha yeah gay men hate the idea of making out with (and/or loving) straight dudes
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Oct 10, 2014 06:02
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mooyashi posted:About to participate in some CIVIC DUTY heh yes on 68
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Oct 19, 2014 06:06
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zoux posted:Why is eripsas thread 4/5 is it legit funny or are we all just nodding and exchanging knowing smiles? Last night I saw that eripsa compared himself to jesus
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I heard that Brown Moses is a zionist plant edit: ohhhh we're posting things that AREN'T true sorry
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