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Raskolnikov38 posted:Calendar says it's still August. On average, he's on time for the past two months.
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Evil Fluffy posted:If this happens I expect to see the GOP take voter disenfranchisement to a whole new level. What better excpet to shutdown voting locations in poor/minority areas than blame any such 'accidents' on a government shutdown? Because white people don't like government shutdowns either, and voting locations are handled by the state governments.
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Aug 30, 2014 18:31
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SirKibbles posted:I don't understand how people who actively want government to be reduced just military and the judiciary and everything else being left up to private industry are not considered totally bonkers in the 21st century. Similar motivations to the EU members, I imagine.
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Sep 3, 2014 02:36
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zoux posted:
This linked article is basically a modern "Modest Proposal".
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Sep 3, 2014 22:13
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Pornographic Memory posted:He makes a good point, if we let gays marry, then what can we do if somebody wanted to marry their transgendered same sex sibling who was also their child and a minor? Then we have All You Zombies and that means Heinlein was right.
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Sep 3, 2014 22:18
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Pohl posted:I think liberal states never bothered to ban them, because who the gently caress marries their 1st cousin? If anything, that map shows the places where it was a problem that needed fixed. Or it's predominantly an East Coast thing because ya'll are crazy.
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Sep 3, 2014 22:30
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Didn't stop them last time, or the time before for that matter. When you come from a position of conservatism being infallible, and its practitioners only fail by applying it inconsistently/inadequately, it makes sense that trying again, but harder this time you guys, just might work! Except that the people who broke ranks to vote for the debt ceiling/et all have done so consistently.
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Sep 3, 2014 23:29
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Where is the bubble that's going to cause the next recession?
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Sep 4, 2014 03:36
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:The Web 2.0 thing was already addressed but housing prices shot back up quite a bit with out a corresponding increase in wages while most jobs added since the recession officially ended have been minimum wage types. In the sort of non-recovery for the non-rich housing prices should've at least stayed stagnant if not continued to fall a while longer and not gone up at all. They've "shot up" but not nearly to the extent of the housing crisis:  quote:The student loan bubble is helping to prop up the banks and when it pops will probably require another several hundred billion bailout of said banks since its into the trillions IIRC. Banks have absolutely nothing to do with Student Loans ever since the ACA passed. Nonsense posted:NBC is easily one of the most in trouble broadcast news & broadcast networks. I have no real idea beyond GE/Comcast (I don't know who runs NBC News tv department) keeping the lights on. NBC (the network) actually posted better ratings than Fox last year. The only network that's not in trouble right now is CBS.
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Sep 4, 2014 14:21
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An Angry Bug posted:What in the world does healthcare have to do with student loans? It was a rider. quote:The reform package includes,[21]
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Sep 4, 2014 15:14
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:That is only for Federally subsidized loans (you can also get unsubsidized). That doesn't mean people aren't taking out loans from banks as well, as there are limits on the federal sub/unsub loans you can take out. As far as I can tell it applies to all federal loans. Either way, federal loans still make up 75% of loans created today.
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Sep 4, 2014 16:38
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ReindeerF posted:That looks like the kind of place you might actually be able to do some real hiking, so you will find approximately no yuppies there I'm guessing. Maybe if you stick a lone Uber driver, a Williams-Sonoma and a quinoa stand in the foothills. It's about an hour's drive from El Paso, so remote-ish but not out in the middle of nowhere.
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Sep 5, 2014 04:05
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:
Before the ACA passed the banks had absolutely no assets at risk either (they just managed the federal loans, all of them were insured by the US Government).
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Sep 5, 2014 04:24
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:My understanding was that the US Govt. only partially insured some of the loans and the majority weren't insured due to bank shenanigans to get people 'qualified' a la the housing bubble mortgage underwriting mess. Here you go. Choice graph:  (Direct loans are those that aren't subsidized by the Feds but are directly administered by them) e: Here is a direct article on the subsidization program itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Family_Education_Loan_Program quote:In 2007-08, FFEL served 6.5 million students and parents, lending a total of $54.7 billion in new loans (or 80% of all new federal student loans). Since 1965, 60 million Americans have used FFEL loans to pay for education expenses. e2: I should also mention that there are two different definitions of "subsidized" here. "Subsidized loans" refers to the government paying interest on that loan for when you're in school (so effectively, just ignoring the interest). Subsidizing the banks means that the banks are being paid to manage a loan. computer parts fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Sep 5, 2014 |
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Sep 5, 2014 04:59
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ReidRansom posted:Ugh, Ted Cruz is speaking here in Bryan today. I'm half tempted to take a late lunch and go listen, but I doubt I would find it as satisfying as actually having lunch since he probably wouldn't give a real answer to any question I might ask if I had the opportunity to do so. Huh, Wendy Davis was just here the other day too.
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Sep 5, 2014 14:41
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Hodgepodge posted:Weird question here, but circa 2001, was it common for universities to not accept federal student loans, or some types of them? Nonfederal loans were ~12-13% of all loans around 2001 so that seems unlikely. http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/student_loans.pdf Oh and for reference today: quote:– Nonfederal education loans, which are not part of the student aid system, grew from an estimated $10.5 billion (in 2012 dollars) https://trends.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/student-aid-2013-full-report-140108.pdf computer parts fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Sep 5, 2014 |
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Sep 5, 2014 15:15
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eNeMeE posted:How about unlawful assembly? They're assembled with the purpose of shooting people, and have caused a disturbance and prevented officers of the law from completing their duties. The Federal government doesn't have a law against unlawful assembly as far as I can tell.
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Sep 6, 2014 03:52
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Joementum posted:WOMP WAHHH Technically if the Republicans take the Senate because of the order that will be hurting future efforts.
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Sep 6, 2014 15:01
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Mr Interweb posted:I used to think that Dems losing the senate wouldn't have much of an overall impact in terms of legislation getting passed, but a major reason for that is cause Harry Reid shut that poo poo down pretty much every time. Without Reid getting in the way, I have this bad feeling Obama will be far more open to acquiescing to GOP demands. There's still the filibuster, and they might be wary on ditching that since it's likely that they'll lose control of the Senate in 2016.
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Sep 6, 2014 18:55
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JT Jag posted:If they win the Senate but can't convict, would you really put it past them to start impeaching various federal officials willy nilly just so they can say "(x person) was impeached on (ridiculous charges)" in campaign ads? I think Roberts might go rogue in a situation like that since he has to preside over all of those.
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Sep 6, 2014 21:46
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Mr Interweb posted:Yeah, but he (and his minions) still talk about how he dreams of a grand bargain that he'll be remembered for passing in his second term. No they don't.
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Sep 7, 2014 05:00
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Samurai Sanders posted:Has any politician outside of Honolulu actually gone out himself and smashed homeless people's poo poo with a sledgehammer? To me, that has still not been topped as far as active hatred of the homeless by politicians. I seem to remember the city council in Portland changing the benches so that you couldn't lay on them anymore. But that's not really the same thing.
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Sep 8, 2014 03:40
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Nintendo Kid posted:A lot of the countries you probably think are so great either still have mandated "peacetime" conscription for everyone, or only stopped it within the past few years. And ever since the two wars are ending/winding down the military has turned away a lot of people it would've accepted during the surge et all.
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Sep 8, 2014 14:25
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zoux posted:I'm sure that Rush and co. will be reporting this as a regular thing that happens all the time and white people should be very scared. I wonder if he'll include the new Ray Rice video as an example of this.
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Sep 8, 2014 15:26
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Shifty Pony posted:Around Austin there probably isn't a 4-lane/4-lane intersection with a median that doesn't have panhandlers at it. The law, as I understand it, is that the city can't do anything about it because the medians belong to TXDOT and TXDOT has a billion other things they need to spend the money they don't have on. The city leadership has certainly tried because in many ways Austin's political class ceases to be liberal the instant it might negatively affect them in any way. The last time I went to Austin we stopped at a light and some homeless guys came up and started washing our car. We of course felt obliged to pay them for the service (it was pretty clever if nothing else).
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Sep 8, 2014 21:43
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BrandorKP posted:Auto manufacture isn't clear cut any more. For example Hyundai, Toyota, Mercedes Benz, and even BMW all make cars in the US that are then exported. And GM / Ford have factories overseas to make cars for import to the US markets. There are even Toyota plants in Kentucky!
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Sep 9, 2014 20:00
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Martout posted:What the gently caress, he's not even going to catch that much flak for this is he? Probably because most of your non-white ethnic minorities can't vote.
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Sep 10, 2014 03:13
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Alter Ego posted:Has anyone pointed out to Cruz that SNL was making fun of political campaigns long before Citizens United? In fairness that's not really an argument if you believe that the "fix" to the problem is heavy handed.
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Sep 10, 2014 17:50
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All media you will ever consume will be biased in some manner or form, which is why it's usually best to get media from several different sources. This is, incidentally, why people who don't care that much will not be very informed.
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Sep 10, 2014 22:40
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JT Jag posted:Make federal elections (both midterms and presidential) national holidays. Make voting mandatory, any registered voter who fails to vote without an excuse is levied a small fine. Or you could just have a long period of voting. Which is the status quo now!
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Sep 10, 2014 22:56
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Trabisnikof posted:Early voting isn't always as easy as voting. Besides... If Texas can somehow make it easier than regular voting the rest of you shouldn't have any problem. e: Granted, I wish it was open earlier (I think it's just the last week before Election day you can do it now).
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Sep 10, 2014 23:01
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Badger of Basra posted:This, but also, gently caress A&M. 
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Sep 10, 2014 23:04
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Badger of Basra posted:I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. Is this another one of your dumb Traditions? Money sign, duh.
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Sep 10, 2014 23:08
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Luigi Thirty posted:My high school was one of the top 10 football teams in the country for the 4 years I was there, then all the coaches got fired because they were all covering up for one of the coaches that liked to bone students, including the principal who said he'd take care of it and never reported it and school cop who threatened to arrest someone for false accusations when she then reported it to him, whoops. You went to high school at Penn State?
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Sep 10, 2014 23:28
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Trabisnikof posted:
Or maybe Marx's definitions are a tad outdated in a service oriented economy.
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Sep 11, 2014 00:04
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Have the bourgeois ceased owning the means of production? The means of production have changed.
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Sep 11, 2014 00:09
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Zeitgueist posted:You see Marx's basic criticisms of capitalism are irrelevant now because the specifics of the economy have changed and this is important because *looose wet fart*. I didn't say irrelevant, I said slightly outdated. Much like his views on the "Asian means of production" are outdated and/or racist.
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Sep 11, 2014 00:12
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I don't know if this has been posted yet but Bush's Press secretary wrote down whatever he could on 9/11 and is/was tweeting it. Choice quote: quote:Bush to VP: "We're at war...We're going to take care of this. When we find out who did this, they're not going [to] like me as President." quote:Bush also told VP - and I quote - "We're at war Dick and we're going to find out who did this and we're going to kick their rear end." computer parts fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Sep 13, 2014 |
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Sep 13, 2014 15:18
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Ganon posted:None of the appeals court vacancies even have nominees yet so there's no stalling to do for the rest of this congress. There's plenty of district court nominees out of committee that can be voted on this year though. So conservative that a Democrat isn't nominating them.
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Mantis42 posted:I think that was mostly because he fired MacArthur for being a dipshit. His post-Presidency approval ratings were way higher. Korea was also not a popular war at the time.
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