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JT Jag posted:The President's party tends to win Senate seats during Presidential elections, and lose them on off-year elections. I would just straight-up put it that Presidential elections favor Democrats and off-years favor Republicans. It's a question of turnout, and low turnout literally always plays out as "octogenarians with nothing better to do decide the election". That effect is way more powerful than the party currently in power. The recent counterexample was 2006 I guess, but that was after Bush's fall from favor had begun in earnest, with Iraq turning to poo poo, Afghanistan forgotten, and a failed attempt to privatize social security, and basically just presaged the 2008 Democratic blowout. Still though Democrats are probably boned in 2018, there's basically no pickups for Democrats there and a lot of chances to lose a seat. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Dec 10, 2015 |
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Gail Wynand posted:Wow, women must go to the bathroom totally differently than I thought. I mean honestly who doesn't enjoy a good pants-down peepee? But that's just taking it too far. It gets chilly in bathrooms.
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In Flint, Mich., there’s so much lead in children’s blood that a state of emergency is declared (What's up with the passive voice, WaPo?)
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Oracle posted:Yeah, the emergency manager that Governor Snyder appointed decided to use the Flint River (notorious for the last 100+ years for being heavily polluted due to industrial runoff from the automotive industry) as the source of drinking water for the city instead of Lake Huron from a Detroit water company. Cue businesses in Flint paying extra money to relink to the Detroit water because the Flint River water was so corrosive it was loving up their machinery. Yeah, it's literal cartoon-villain stuff. They literally knew it was a problem and did it anyway. The federal EPA actually told MDEQ back in February that they needed a corrosion control plan and that they were likely to have a lead problem and they just kept on trucking. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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Shageletic posted:One of the articles I posted last page stated that the majority of black people in Michigan are now under Emergency Manager supervision, i.e. any idiot willing to take a two day lobbying seminar. As a kid I used to love playing the Flint scenario in SimCity 2000 because it was real easy and then you have a sweet city to dick around with. Flint is high-crime but you can bulldoze all the parks and build police stations instead since they're both 3x3 footprints. I think I would make a good emergency manager. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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Oracle posted:This is getting way long and I'm getting We didn't "allow" the emergency manager thing to happen, though. We actually voted it down in 2012 but Snyder just passed it again a week later (this time with funding for something-or-other attached so that it couldn't be subject to another referendum). Republicans have an iron grip on all three branches of government in the state. Whatcha gonna do? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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Hollismason posted:Oh hey GOP lawmakers have figure out a way to make it illegal (sort of ) to have an abortion. By requiring any person having a abortion to have the remains cremated or buried. If they fail to comply it's a misdemeanor. The Onion did it first.
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I hope he comes home from booking only to find Bill Murray with muddy feet up on his couch polishing off the last of his good Scotch.
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Joementum posted:Somewhat problematic. Elizabeth Warren is a Bernie supporter!? 
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