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Ugh. I was watching my local channel 7 news and they ran a segment that was indistinguishable from something you'd see on Fox. This "congressional reporter" got a hold of some stupid report by a Republican who found $100 billion in "government waste" and said she wasn't able to find a single person who could defend the things in it (you know, the typical high-lariously useless sounding projects that conservatives love to tout like $5 million on mating habits of fruit flies and such). It was so Fox News-y that they even had lovely stock music playing in the background signifying how shady and wasteful the government is. The "reporter" ends the segment by saying that the "American people shouldn't expect answers any time soon".
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Edmund Lava posted:I think I saw the same report. It mentioned 30k to fund research into senior dating habits. You know the population with the largest increase in STDs over the last decade. Can't think how that would be helpful. Yup, that was the one! Mitt Romney posted:This is the author of that "report". That sounds about right.
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Dec 1, 2015 14:01
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Have any of you read the New New Deal, by Michael Grunwald? I'm like 50 pages in and it's pretty drat interesting.AlternateNu posted:I'm trying to find the Pew article I read earlier in the year, but I believe it fell something like the most liberal branch was the Navy with a 48%/52% Lib/Con split and the worst was the Army with a 35%/65% split with the Air Force not far behind. Marines were surprisingly liberal mainly because there is a comparatively high percentage of minorities but still fell way behind the Navy. Yup, the Army figure coincides pretty well with a poll from the Military Times I saw a couple of months back as well. A former good friend of mine since high school was in the army for a few years (stationed in either Louisiana or Alabama...or both I guess?) and said that the base had right-wing radio and Fox News playing all the time. Depressing, but made sense.
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Dec 1, 2015 23:48
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zoux posted:Well, looks like Trump was right about the 9/11 videos and we were all fools. Not sure if it was already covered, but the guy in that video himself says that Trump is full of poo poo.  But this is truly an amazing conspiracy theory, even by Republican standards. Supposedly THOUSANDS of MUSLIMS were cheering in New Jersey after 9/11, and yet we cannot find a single source corroborating this claim. One of Trump's idiot advisers tried to defend him by saying that we didn't have camera phones at the time (We had tons of footage of 9/11 but whatever) Now even if that was the case, if what Trump is claiming is in fact correct, presumably he didn't see these people celebrate up close and personal. He says he saw it on T.V. or whatever. So if that's the case, that means someone somewhere must have recorded such a thing, so why is that footage not been discovered yet? But here's the biggest hole in Trump's claim. So again, supposedly THOUSANDS AND THOUSAND OF MUSLIMS were celebrating after 9/11 in New Jersey, and for some strange inexplicable reason, every single major right-wing, conservative, pro-Republican news outlet in the entire country decided to ignore it? Man, the liberal media runs loving deep, don't it?
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Dec 2, 2015 00:21
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Holy poo poo, this was still on? I thought it ended 15 years ago. What time slot has it been airing?
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Dec 2, 2015 02:14
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ComradeCosmobot posted:
This must be an issue of conservative word play at work here, cause don't right-wingers constantly bitch about birth control pills? That was one of the reasons they went after Sandra Fluke so hard.
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Dec 2, 2015 02:25
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Don't conservatives say that birth control pills are abortificents? I swear I heard someone like Santorum say that. And many others as well.
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Dec 2, 2015 02:30
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Hmm. So he thinks they're harmful but has no abortion related objections to birth control pills? So what do conservatives consider abortificents? I might have been confusing it with birth control pills but I swear I've seen them use the term to describe something related to birth control.
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there wolf posted:Plan B. If you want give them the benefit of the doubt, they might be confusing it with Mifepristone which is an abortifacient but can be used to halt ovulation before fertilization the same way Plan B does. But this is the group that when the whole Sandra Fluke thing went down, had an alarming number of members who seemed to think that regular birth control pills was only taken when you had sex... Basically the narrative in pro-life circles is that all emergency contraceptive has the potential to block implantation (there is no evidence of this) and is therefore killing babies. Wait, I'm confused. If the pill (Plan B) blocks implantation, then there's no baby that starts to get formed, so how is it killing babies? I mean, this is before the process starts, so if they don't have any abortion related issues with regular birth control pills, what's the distinction? Fried Chicken posted:So we take a bath on a deal that hobbles our strategic position, all because they don't want to put a 5 cents/gal tax on gas and face the wrath of a group organized about an idea someone came up with in high school Middle school, actually: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/qzl2j5/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-grover-norquist-s-taxpayer-protection-pledge Mr Interweb fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Dec 2, 2015 |
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Okay, so if I have this right: - regular birth control pills prevent the sperm and egg combining to form a zygote, which is (grudgingly) supposed to be okay by pro-life folk. - Plan B supposed to (or at least the pro-life folk claim it) stop the zygote from implanting in the uterus, which is NOT okay with the pro-life folk? If so, then one question I have: I could be wrong here, but doesn't failed implantation happen quite often, naturally?
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Dec 2, 2015 06:25
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Wait, we're JUST finding out what the ethnicity of he shooters were? Didn't this happen in the morning?
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Dec 3, 2015 09:06
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Aerox posted:HOW IS JEB! SO BAD AT THIS!?!??! Holy poo poo Where is this from? edit: Oh it's fake. Boo :/ Mr Interweb fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Dec 6, 2015 |
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Dec 6, 2015 08:19
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BonoMan posted:He said that, but people didn't boo... they cheered: Okay that makes more sense. I thought it was a little strange to see a Republican audience react negatively to someone doing harm to Hillary (or any woman really).
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Dec 6, 2015 08:29
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Man, watching this video is such a reminder at how horrible the Democrats were in the 90s. Supporting the idea that violent video games lead to murder, the de-regulation binge, all the lovely pieces of "tough on crime" legislation, welfare "reform" with Bill adding insult to injury saying the "era of big government is over". Not only that, but it's cause of the Clintons (and the Gores) that Power Rangers had to tone down its rock soundtrack because they complained that it sounded too "aggressive". 
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Dec 15, 2015 11:28
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FetusSlapper posted:I wanted Reagan to win when I was 6 because I thought the name "Mondale" sounded like some kind of nerd. I want to say Alex P Keaton may have influenced me as well. When I was in 2nd grade, I supported H.W. over Clinton cause the word "Republican" sounded nicer than Democrat.
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Dec 15, 2015 12:34
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So I was reading an article that mentioned how the new spending bill extended solar and wind tax credits, which is good. However, it also said that solar penetration in the U.S. is less than half a loving percent?! How the hell is it so low? Haven't we had solar for decades now? 
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Dec 18, 2015 23:51
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fishmech posted:The US produces assloads of energy. That 0.4% of total US electricity production is still 16.37 billion kilowatthours. And wind is far more popular and productive. So solar's actually doing pretty good then?
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Dec 19, 2015 00:17
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Can I get some suggestions on books dealing with corporate corruption?
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Dec 24, 2015 14:42
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Does anyone know where one can find monthly job losses/gains by state?
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Dec 29, 2015 01:52
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Stereotype posted:I googled "monthly job losses/gains by state" I saw that too, but I need something that can give me parameters for dates and such.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:09
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quote:@KateAronoff: Prosecutor McGinty says Rice should have known better before playing in the park, because he "looked older"  This guy deserves a major beatdown.
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Berke Negri posted:That the vilerat movie is not actually about the people who died but quasi-fictional American soldiers* who didn't do anything is pretty fitting. Seriously? I mean, I guess I shouldn't be surprised but still...Epic High Five posted:If they thought it wasn't a lovely, forgettable movie they'd be releasing it in July Eh...that movie about the dude who bragged about shooting black people during Katrina was also released around this time and made bank. And we also had that new alien movie that came out two weeks ago which is doing pretty well too.
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