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Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Don't forget that mean old Obama wants to make up new overtime rules that will kill the retail industry :cry: If managers can't work 90 hours a week for $25,000 a year, how can we expect to be successful!?

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Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Whatever that National Retail Federation thingy is they did a "study" showing that surveyed managers believe that being hourly with overtime instead of salaried makes them no better than the other retail peons or something. Also Obama is doing this to destroy the restaurant industry. God drat you Obama.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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I like how slacktivism has progressed from "do literally nothing" to "commit felonies against people who do things I don't like"

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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For the latest in fraternitas delenda est, a pledge may have gotten thrown over a bridge at Clemson because he couldn't afford to buy the fraternity McDonald's breakfast. And one of the people charged with his death is the son of a Democratic representative from Delaware.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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First Obummer wants to let the Iranian terrorists build nukes, now Big Gay wants to ban Christianity? What a week.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Grouchio posted:

So should I give up hope that good progressive changes to society, infrastructure and/or technology will come this century as the corporations bleed us dry? Or can we fight back?

We're all hosed.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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computer parts posted:

I'm still half convinced that the nonstop cynicism from Dems is a propaganda move from the GOP that is self sustaining.

Then again I know partisans on the right and they bitch just as much about the end times.

Maybe if they'd stop sending me 50 fundraising emails a day all named ALL HOPE IS LOST, IT'S OVER, OBAMACARE REPEALED, etc!!

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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The water in Flint is undrinkable because they source from the Flint River after the Emergency Financial Manager saved $12 million a year by breaking from Detroit's water system. The water is so bad GM can't even use it in their factory. The city wants to spend money upgrading the treatment plant to make it safe.

The Emergency Financial Planner says no, we're building a pipe to Lake Huron next year, too bad, drink it (and pay 8 times the price of Detroit's water even though he took them off Detroit's water because it was "too expensive") or buy bottled water, poors.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Depends if you're asking the German-American Bund or not.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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My Imaginary GF posted:

Joementum, how can Schwarzenager become President?

The 61st Amendment, so we've got a ways to go on that front.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Remember when it came out that some major school district paid mentally disabled janitors like $0.10 an hour because they should be proud to have a job?

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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When you believe that homosexuality is a choice, presumably.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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zoux posted:

The only thing that is not wrong with all government agencies/programs is funding. We need an It's a Wonderful Life Special Operations Team to kidnap conservatives while they sleep and put them in completely immersive VR simulations of the actual world they want to build and the end result of their policies so they can see what hell they would bring.

It's been done.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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But wait a minute. If there's one gun, how is anyone supposed to stop the guy with it if he's a bad guy? :confused:

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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One of Ted Cruz' campaign promises is abolishing the IRS? :psyduck:

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Bel Shazar posted:

Did you get extra credit for that? I feel like you should automatically pass the class after that chain of events.

My 12th grade English teacher was big on poetry. He said if any of us during the year had a poem published in any print magazine he'd give us an A automatically. I don't think anyone took him up on that.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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hobbesmaster posted:

A police officer attempted to stop corruption in the 60s NYPD narcotics unit. He was put on point on a high danger raid, as soon as the door was busted down all the other cops left him to be shot.

"Good cops" are probably more afraid of bad cops than you are.

Wasn't that an ~INSIDE JOB~ too? I remember reading that the cops that were "with him" didn't even accompany him to the door when the guys he was busting stuck a gun in his face and shot him.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Popular Thug Drink posted:

As a progressive who advocates for the poor, I think in the interest of fairness we need to place an extreme financial burden on the cop's family at a delicate moment in their lives.

I agree. It was her decision to marry a violent racist psychopathic murderer, now she must live with the consequences. If we just killed all cops at conception, none of this would happen.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Eurabia is under Sharia Law :ohdear:

quote:

Senate Bill 1067 would have allowed Idaho officials to use the federal government’s existing system to provide enforcement after tracking down deadbeat parents.

Because the federal system is tied to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, which includes agreements with the Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Family Maintenance agreed to by Muslim-majority countries such as Bosnia and Albania, Idaho lawmakers fear the influence of creeping Sharia law.

“There is no specific language in the bill that would protect the rights of those dealing with parentage, child support and support orders from a foreign country that would contradict our laws here, ” said Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll (R). “There are other countries listed in the treaty—France, Belgium— that have recognized Sharia courts as quasi-courts. So I just feel that you should be aware of those facts.”

With other Republicans agreeing, including Rep. Kathy Sims (R) who said, “We don’t need to invite foreign law in Idaho,” the House Judiciary and Rules Committee shot the bill down.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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hobbesmaster posted:

Sounds a bit complicated. Perhaps this International Atomic Energy Agency you are proposing should just continuously monitor a country's entire nuclear program from mining raw uranium to what isotopes are being created and how waste is disposed. These "IAEA inspectors" could report when they are denied access to facilities and then the UN Security Council could respond with sanctions until access is restored.

The only problem with this idea is that since you can't prove a negative a country could become so convinced that something must be there and is just being hidden really well from the inspectors!

The Iraq War is all Hans Blix's fault!

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Ask him what he thinks of the Second Vatican Council.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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One Bison dollar is worth five British pounds, so he needs to be on the $10.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Computerized voting is the future, but only on machines that run Windows Embedded 2002 with Remote Desktop enabled and your votes stored in an Access database with a 5-character password.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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An Angry Bug posted:

Nat Turner on everything.

I read this as Nat King Cole and I'm all for that too.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Salvor_Hardin posted:

Just implant a chip in every citizen with P2P payment capability along with a government debit account and eliminate physical currency.

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads,
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom.
Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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So Walmart closed five stores across the country and laid off 2,000 people for "plumbing issues". Apparently they were stores that were the most active in organizing for higher pay. Hmm. Shame about their plumbing.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Evil_Greven posted:

Uh, the stores were in mostly right-to-work states... are you quite certain?

One store was in California, two were in Texas, another in Utah, and the last in Oklahoma.

Any source on this?

One of the stores that closed was the scene of union organizing and Black Friday protests a few years ago, but the :supaburn: source I have is a Daily Kos article so...

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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usbombshell posted:

I live in Western PA and our Hispanic population is ~2%. People howl and wail about "dem illegals" on local radio and on comments on news articles. The Hispanic population is growing, because it started at effectively nil (and other demographics are leaving). We now have more Hispanic groceries and shops and greater variety in Latin American restaurants.

So what you're really saying is they're driving out good white folk and building shops for their kind and their kind only? :bahgawd:

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Radish posted:

Just offhand but it's really surprising a racist poo poo like Jeremy Clarkson would finally let it slip and physically assault a man because he got the wrong meal. It's almost like being a racist poo poo is indicative of being an awful person in general.

I think you mean that the PC Police finally got him fired for punching a guy as part of their campaign to ban automobiles because they cause global warming.

A thing that people think.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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McDowell posted:

Well if you have three part time 'C' jobs yes you would deserve the same wage as a trash collector or an EMT (CCC salaried jobs)

This way you address income inequality while rationalizing job hunting and income tax.

Do you also get paid in marbles?

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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I never thought I'd say this but I want MIGF back

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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joeburz posted:

school lunches have been bad forever. maybe we should spend money to subsidize student lunches? hmm nah

Only the finest chicken nuggets Sysco can deliver

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Why would Mike Huckabee run for president? What is happening? It? Is it happening?

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Accretionist posted:

My Jr. High served turkey sandwiches where the turkey was sometimes all gristle and collagen. It's left me reflexively assuming anything to improve school lunches is a good thing.

So here's what the latest trickery is. Schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program get extremely cheap or free agricultural surplus, but they can't do anything with it because they don't have the resources to actually cook anything. So Food Company X comes along and says "sell us your surplus and we'll sell you processed foods!" and so they sell the food to Aramark, who sells it to Tyson, who provide nutritional garbage in return at a 300% markup.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/opinion/sunday/school-lunches-and-the-food-industry.html?referrer=

quote:

The Agriculture Department doesn’t track spending to process the food, but school authorities do. The Michigan Department of Education, for example, gets free raw chicken worth $11.40 a case and sends it for processing into nuggets at $33.45 a case. The schools in San Bernardino, Calif., spend $14.75 to make French fries out of $5.95 worth of potatoes.

The money is ill spent. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has warned that sending food to be processed often means lower nutritional value and noted that “many schools continue to exceed the standards for fat, saturated fat and sodium.” A 2008 study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that by the time many healthier commodities reach students, “they have about the same nutritional value as junk foods.”

The schools actually sell all their cooking equipment so they can load up on junk like this.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Anime Curator posted:

Hey americans think carefully about which opportunistic imperialist scumbag masquerading as a member of your interest group you’ll choose next to lead your country!

On the recommendation of littlehulkster I voted for a Stalinist who believes that the collapse of the Soviet Union is the largest humanitarian disaster in history

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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VikingofRock posted:

I think mine was

Monday: hotdogs
Tuesday: tacos
Wednesday: hamburgers with chocolate milk
Thursday: sloppy joes, and burritos in a bag
Friday: pizza day! (The best day of the week)

gently caress you this song finally fell out of my head 10 years ago

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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SedanChair posted:

What's the difference between regular nachos and macho nachos, he asked with trepidation.

They're full of steroids and cocaine and they lock Miss Elizabeth in a closet

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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We did have things like chicken wraps but they were chicken fingers stuck inside a flaccid tortilla. For $1.75 you could get a basket of French fries. For $3 you could get a Papa John's pan pizza. We got Coke machines but they were always broken.

I will never get the taste of the "turkey gravy", watery turkey bits stuck in a disgusting yellow gravy-like substance, out of my mind.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Lotka Volterra posted:

Aren't large parts of the power grid already overseen by private entities?

I'm sure someone's angry about the existence of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

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Lotka Volterra posted:

It's socialism (!), so I can see why

Socialist bureaucrats trying to build electric plants and teach my farmers crop rotation, I've farmed this land since 1830 I know what I'm doing :bahgawd:

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