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I think we should look into splitting the head of state/head of government like they do in the UK and the Commonwealth. That way, we could elect Biden to the figure head role he's so good at while letting the president get on with running the government. Biden for King '16
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My Imaginary GF posted:There are several interesting ways to muck around on this. For anyone who sends an absentee ballot form, you mail it in for them/you oops it. For close elections, you mail it in for them and if they're not a likely yourteam voter, you oops the mailing in so they don't receive a ballot in time and contest their physical ballot during counting. How is this remotely legal? Shouldn't the form to request an absentee ballot go to the county registrar or whatever office handles the voter rolls? I can see parties mailing forms to voters, but collecting completed forms? Shady as gently caress.
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Oct 13, 2014 16:54
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Sex ed was a low drama event in my recollection. Mostly memorization or anatomical names for the quiz. Recently however, in my beautiful state, sex ed has become a huge deal because it mentions anal sex and some other things adults are uncomfortable with. http://www.cds.hawaii.edu/ponochoices/faq/ The Christians are crawling out of tge woodwork. http://www.stopp.org/article.php?id=12560
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Oct 14, 2014 15:51
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Cheekio posted:I thought only half of adults were uncomfortable with anal sex. If only they'd just relax a little.
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Oct 14, 2014 17:04
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Khisanth Magus posted:I more have a problem with the fact that I actually don't enjoy the smell of weed burning(better than cigarettes, but what isn't) and the college kids across the hall at my old condo building would regularly have the hallway smelling strongly of it. I don't know what it is, but I've always like the smell of second hand smoke. It's the residual funk that clings to clothes and walls that bothers me. I don't know why those are different.
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Oct 14, 2014 23:10
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Amergin posted:South Carolina sex ed was had in the bathroom at the local Waffle House. North Carolina otoh... 
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Oct 15, 2014 01:28
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Swan Oat posted:Here's a real cool NYT piece about US soldiers exposed to Iran war-era chemical weapons after we invaded Iraq. In news that may surprise you, this was handled in an extremely lovely way! I saw this first on facebook by an army friend saying "see libs? It was there all along!"
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Oct 15, 2014 16:38
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Ok sweater vests are R, hoodies are D. Can I get a ruling on cardigans? I'm thinking lean D depending on the amount of irony with which you wear them.
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Oct 15, 2014 22:24
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Chamale posted:Wikileaks revealed this information years ago, but at that time the Republicans weren't dumb enough to touch it. Saddam did have weapons of mass destruction, because the US gave them to him, and the military actively covered it up after finding them because Bush thought it would be embarrassing to announce finding those stockpiled weapons. Ctrl-f "yellowcake" 0 results. Huh, sorry about that guys. *uninvades*
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Oct 16, 2014 17:25
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Is this an appropriate thread to ask why the hell the stock market has dropped 1000 points this week?
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Oct 16, 2014 18:34
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InequalityGodzilla posted:I actually had a thought that a suicide bomber with ebola could be pretty effective. It spreads through bodily fluids and blowing yourself into chunky salsa is a pretty good way to spread your fluids around... If I could blow myself, I'd be much less likely to want to kill myself.
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Oct 16, 2014 23:07
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Chantilly Say posted:Oh, boy! A whole third! 3/5ths too optimistic?
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Oct 17, 2014 18:52
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smg77 posted:I hope Obama finally learned his lesson on negotiating over the debt ceiling. The shutdown ended up making the Republicans look worse than the president. Made them look so bad they're likely to take both houses of congress.
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Oct 19, 2014 16:39
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My Imaginary GF posted:You seem to think the F-35 is a defense project. Its not. Its a politically acceptable national jobs program. On a serious note for a second, is there a study about the multiplier effect of defense spending vs other projects in terms of benefit to the economy? My first hypothesis would be that there would be some benefit to the need to stick to domestic vendors vs outsourced foreign goods and services....?
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Oct 23, 2014 21:14
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Zeroisanumber posted:Reagan also nominated Robert Bork to SCOTUS, and Bork was a frothing religious lunatic. Bork wasn't offered the seat just for his religiosity: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/bork-nixon-offered-me-scotus-seat-for-firing-archibald-cox
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Oct 23, 2014 21:23
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I don't agree with the author. "It wasn’t the KKK that wrote the slave codes. It wasn’t the armed vigilantes who conceived of convict leasing, postemancipation. It wasn’t hooded men who purposefully left black people out of New Deal legislation" It was in fact the Klan doing those things. The Klan *were* the respectable members of society. In some places, you practically had to be in the klan to get anywhere in the local white society. That we think of the klan as redneck yokels only speaks to the success of anti-klan forces to de-legitimatize the klan.
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Oct 23, 2014 22:43
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Luigi Thirty posted:As a Florida resident, I firmly believe that the only reason to own a handgun is because you're afraid of minorities. ...and how many guns?
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Oct 25, 2014 00:00
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Shageletic posted:I'm at least six pages behind, but this sentence is breath-taking. Keeping someone out of the fire and brimstone of Christian hell is the most compassion act a person can do.
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Oct 25, 2014 01:32
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GreyPowerVan posted:http://whnt.com/2014/10/23/what-you-need-to-know-about-getting-alabamas-new-star-i-d/ I found the application form: 
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Oct 26, 2014 00:41
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comes along bort posted:They weren't expecting the extent and depth of the white backlash to the civil rights (and to a much lesser extent labor) movement, how thoroughly and easily Republicans took advantage of it, and have been afraid of rocking the boat too hard ever since. This and Reagan. Reagan peeled off lots of white democrats and murdered unions. It's a tightrope for establishment democrats to hang on to waning constituencies while expanding the tent to minority ethnic groups.
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twodot posted:The government will definitely not confiscate your car if your license expires or is suspended, They definitely will if you're operating with a suspended license, and the registration and safety items are often a reason for police to initiate contact with poor people. Cops don't call them warrant wagons for nothing. Not just cars either. You can spot the people of probation because they're the ones most conspicuously riding their bikes with lights and helmets.
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