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Had no idea there was anything voting-related today, gonna do my part and take lunch to vote here in Sugar Land, TX.
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Are goons really freaking out that a church would have a gym? The local catholic church has a basketball court that was converted to a small skate park...should I warn tweens and teens about the secret christian plot to infiltrate the secular past time?
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Nov 3, 2015 18:22
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Well, that was underwhelming. Just a ballot of a handful of propositions for municipal and park funding and such. Oh well, still did my part 
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Nov 3, 2015 21:19
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Chokes McGee posted:"And you are ballot 100." There is a sheet posted on the window of the entrance at my polling center, as of three hours ago 80 people had voted there.
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Nov 3, 2015 21:40
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Feel good story of the day -- Jeb!'s campaign apparently forgot to buy the domain for their new slogan, so an Austin, TX man who ran for a council seat in the early 2000s who also had (name) Can Fix It! as his campaign slogan bought it to show off his way better use of the slogan.
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Nov 3, 2015 22:55
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This is the best part of the article: quote:"I don't know how a five-year-old can tell a good guy from a bad guy but that's what she said she was told." Yes, that logic problem is the biggest thing to be concerned about in all of this.
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Nov 4, 2015 00:08
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SLOSifl posted:It's a good children's crayon drawing of a real watershed though, so to that point kudos. Yes, don't dump industrial waste into water that touches water that touches water that touches my mouth. Wait, is that what he was essentially trying to say? I watched it on my phone I I honestly thought it was like a three second looped clip.
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Nov 4, 2015 00:14
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Well, it's not much of a surprise to me but the HERO act is failing by a wide margin in Houston 
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Nov 4, 2015 03:24
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Joementum posted:Oh, it wasn't just "embezzlement". My mistake. Man, this country really does deserve to crash and burn. Voters are the dumbest motherfuckers.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:05
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Kentucky is going to lose the Medicaid expansion And Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:40
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FetusSlapper posted:Because just maybe, MAYBE, this time the Clintons haven't put their ducks in a row; the RNC is going for another Charlie Brown vs Lucy football kick attempt. The sad thing is, the issue with the CHAI sounds like a genuine concern but it's going to be overshadowed completely by it obviously being a play at Hilary's candidacy and liberal blinders completely ignoring it.
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Nov 4, 2015 07:07
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The government and technology:quote:Repeated crashes of a version of the Microsoft Outlook program in recent months stymied the State Department's ability to respond to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit demanding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's schedules, according to a new court filing. A FOIA request, already delayed for five years, is still unable to be fulfilled because of the impenetrable might that is Microsoft Outlook errors.
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Nov 5, 2015 07:08
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Alligator Horse posted:OpKKK release is here now http://pastebin.com/wbvP95wg So the culmination of the 'report' is...finding facebook pages. Anon strikes again!
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Nov 5, 2015 22:48
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This West Point lie isn't going to magically bring down Carson. Calm down, USPol.
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Nov 6, 2015 18:22
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zoux posted:His campaign has admitted he made it up. They can't just go back on it and say "media lies", the confirmation came from his own camp. Yeah, and he can claim that he mixed it up with another luncheon/meeting and go on about how his ROTC service changed his life and how he became a lauded surgeon and why the liberal media is distracting people with that instead of focusing on the economy and jobs and national security and stuff that matters. You know, the stuff that he and other republican candidates have been doing, him and Trump successfully railing against the liberal media.
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Nov 6, 2015 18:34
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gullah jack posted:I mean at least her story is plausible. Carson didn't even know how West Point works. Ok, now this is where the Carson story could get legs, because attacking Clinton's story would be really loving dumb when it could easily be countered with Carson's. Carson's, on its own, is nothing but it would be put in the spotlight if Clinton was attacked.
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Nov 6, 2015 18:51
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Luigi Thirty posted:The 18 year old who stabbed four people at UC Merced left behind a detailed plan. He did it because he was angry about being kicked out of a study group. His master plan was to zip cuff students in a classroom to desks, wait for the police, and spray petroleum jelly on the ground so they would slip and fall and he would take their guns and shoot everyone. Man, this story really gets me in the 'In my day...' old mentality (and I'm 31). You get kicked out of a study group...and your response is to stab people. Also apparently your favorite movie somehow was Home Alone because you've come up with dumbest loving plan to get your revenge.
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Nov 6, 2015 18:54
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Luigi Thirty posted:In other news, a woman was arrested at an Applebee's in Minnesota for smashing a mug in the face of a Muslim for speaking Muslim. To be fair, the article just says 'foreign language', so may not be bigoted against muslims, she could hate mexicans. 
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Nov 6, 2015 19:00
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I thought it was pretty much accepted that Obama administration trotted the youtube video out because the Benghazi attack was in direct contradiction to their claims of Al-Queda being weakened/beaten back. I'm not trying to give legitimacy to conservative conspiracy theories but Benghazi was a embarrassment to the claims the administration were making.
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Nov 6, 2015 21:08
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If the withdrawal of subsidies was really due to Obamacare, why does that fall on the university? And how does a university begin to follow up on 'some guy yelled something at me from a car'? e: Absurd Alhazred posted:They knew about this since June, but didn't tell students until just before (or right after) their subsidies were dropped, end of August/start of September. They were understandably pissed off. Several months are plenty of time for an administration to come up with a solution - which they did, as soon as they realized that grads are going to walk out on them. Ok, yeah, that's hosed. BetterToRuleInHell fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Nov 9, 2015 |
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Nov 9, 2015 18:17
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Dr. Tough posted:There's even a video of it: What the gently caress is this nonsense.
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Nov 9, 2015 18:55
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Joementum posted:This is the text of the Yale email, by the way: But now the students are calling for her resignation, which seems absurd.
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Nov 9, 2015 19:38
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Aliquid posted:Yes, but Yale is supposed to be a HOME. The poo poo coming from the Yale students makes me wonder how anyone can have any sympathy for them: quote:“[I]t’s not a home. It is no longer a safe space for me. And I find that incredibly depressing,” she says. “This was once a space that I was proud to be a part of because of the loving community.” quote:“Who the gently caress hired you?” she asked, arguing that Christakis should “step down” because being master is “not about creating an intellectual space,” but rather “creating a home.” This, along with the calls for resignation, are coming from the tamest email response to Halloween costume suggestions I've ever seen. e: To clarify, I understand the grievance with offensive costumes but the reaction of a opinion is what I'm talking about
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Nov 9, 2015 19:44
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The Mizzou protesters should get in touch with Ben Carson, he knows all about the deceitful media and how they have a agenda.
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Nov 11, 2015 19:07
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Let's take a look at the great optics of the Mizzou protesters:quote:“I personally am tired of hearing that First Amendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafe learning environment for myself and for other students here. I think that it’s important for us to create that distinction and create a space where we can all learn from one another and start to create a place of healing rather than a place where we are experiencing a lot of hate like we have in the past.” So says the student body vice president. How do you achieve the inclusive space for which where everyone can learn and heal together? By kicking out the white people, duh. Pretty loving obvious.
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Nov 12, 2015 20:30
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More Mizzou hijinks:quote:Katie Kull, an editor of the Columbia Missourian, tweeted a statement from the school saying that Janna Basler, the Director of Greek Life, was on leave and being investigated for her part in confronting Tim Tai as he tried to take pictures. That's five people so far (if I'm counting right) that have either resigned or have been removed from their position. e: removed as it doesn't relate BetterToRuleInHell fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Nov 12, 2015 |
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Nov 12, 2015 23:11
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Bernie Sander may soon have his past come back to haunt him like Carson -- -url=http://www.mediaite.com/online/bernie-sanders-classmates-say-man-in-civil-rights-sit-in-photo-isnt-him/]iconic photo of Sanders at a sit in civil rights protest may not be Sanders[/url]:quote:Sanders and his campaign have contended that the man standing up with a book in his right hand is the Democratic presidential candidate, and the University of Chicago archives still label it as such. But four of his former classmates told TIME Magazine that Sanders does not actually appear in the photo. Picture in question: 
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Nov 12, 2015 23:17
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Mayor Dave posted:In further campus protest news, students successfully got Claremont-McKenna's Dean of Students to resign for not supporting marginalized students enough: Since this is Claremont-McKenna, this feels appropriate (I had removed it earlier): quote:Students at a “safe space” at Claremont McKenna College in California shut down an Asian woman who was describing racial harassment by a black man, booing her when she declared, “black people can be racist.”
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Nov 13, 2015 00:28
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Peven Stan posted:Hey look! Another conservative using asian people as a cudgel. Nothing like dragging out a wealthy second generation foreign Chinese student with her head in the clouds as a victim of black savagery. Hahaha, what the gently caress is this. Mizzou hunger strike protester Jonathan Butler comes from a wealthy family too, how fast are you ready to condemn him and completely right off the Mizzou black protesters too?
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Nov 13, 2015 02:36
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Milk Malk posted:Black people live in a society fundamentally ingrained with the idea that they are an inferior and violent race. Everything in society, conscious or not, operates on the idea that black is worth less than white. This has an appreciable effect even in black communities, as studies have shown. Across all races, people are more likely to perceive a black person as threatening than a white person, in any context. This sort of bias manifests both economically and socially. You seem to be ignoring completely the video in the post you quoted.
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Nov 13, 2015 02:50
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Yet another college protest, this time at Amherst College:quote:1. President Martin must issue a statement of apology to students, alumni and former students, faculty, administration and staff who have been victims of several injustices including but not limited to our institutional legacy of white supremacy, colonialism, anti-black racism, anti-Latinx racism, anti-Native American racism, anti-Native/ indigenous racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Middle Eastern racism, heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma, and classism. Also include that marginalized communities and their allies should feel safe at Amherst College. How do you even begin to respond to this. This is just one of their many demands.
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Nov 13, 2015 21:36
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Fried Chicken posted:By sitting down and negotiating to a more reasonable compromise. How are you sitting in the USPOL thread and not seeing the value in making absurdly ideological demands because it shifts the Overton window in your direction even when you lose? I get what you're saying, but it's really hard to even approach a compromise when the person you're going to compromise starts off asking for a apology for everything ever that has happened. More college hijinks: quote:The University of Minnesota Student Assembly voted down a measure providing for an annual remembrance of the September 11th attacks over worries that it could stoke intolerance towards Muslims. Come on, man.
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Nov 13, 2015 22:22
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Artificer posted:How hosed are we if they side with the states? A report on Crooks&Liars lists 80% of TX clinics closing and the only clinic in MS closing as the result of the Supreme Court siding with the states. I'd imagine those rulings would start a chain reaction in other states to start enacting bullshit regulation on clinics to shut them down as well. Wouldn't that be something though, women's reproductive rights being destroyed under a democratic president.
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Nov 13, 2015 22:37
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Kro-Bar posted:At least 18 dead in a shooting in Paris. Which candidate will be the first one to use this as a reason to hawk gun ownership? You're thinking too small -- this will be revealed to be a ISIS plot/attack, churning the anti-immigration fervor up.
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Nov 13, 2015 22:40
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Fried Chicken posted:There is a France-Germany match at the stadium as well, so high profile target The president was at the stadium as well.
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Nov 13, 2015 22:42
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mdemone posted:I always find myself wondering how far they can go before they provoke a truly next-level response from the West. The US is not going to go to war with ISIS. Just today Obama himself said they are 'contained'. Obama does not want another war under his tenure.
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Nov 13, 2015 22:54
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I haven't seen it reported here in USPol yet (or may have missed it), but the recent Democratic debate pulled around 8.5 million viewers, which I believe is the smallest number of any debate so far (please correct me if I'm wrong). Also, a moderator of the debate met with each campaign beforehand that day to talk about the questions he'd be asking, due to the news of the Paris terrorist attack, which sounds like a weird thing for a moderator to do. Has any previous debate had moderator(s) discuss topics to the campaigns beforehand?
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Nov 16, 2015 01:04
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Joementum posted:A real life Boris Badinov! "Ok guys, we're not going to change any of our plans regarding ISIS, but somehow things are totally going to get better. Go team!"
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Nov 16, 2015 18:09
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Trabisnikof posted:Of course, most of the terrorists weren't refugees, but EU citizens, but why let facts get in the way of sending people to their deaths. You seem to be missing the fact that your point brings about a even worse right-wing conclusion -- muslim citizens cannot be trusted now if they can be radicalized.
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^^^^^ 3,000 US citizens couldn't cause it, but surely 130 killed in a different continent will be the tipping point for sure ^^^^^Luigi Thirty posted:My local mosque got a phone message from some nut saying he was going to firebomb it and shoot Muslim children along with several other Florida mosques so uhhhh I hope we're not headed for glorified pogroms here. I'm always mystified by these kneejerek reactions. I'm not trying to downplay a verbal threat such as that, but pogroms, seriously? I'm sure that will occur after the KKK finishes their nationwide killings of black college student protesters. BetterToRuleInHell fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Nov 16, 2015 |
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Nov 16, 2015 18:26
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