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BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#87951: Dec 15th 2014 at 5:30:58 PM

honesty is a tough virtue. I don't see a lot of it in Republicans.
You don't see it in a lot of politicians, period.

GOP should support #ICan'tBreathe protests and push for police accountability, if they're really pushing for better government. I won't be holding my breath for it, though.

Koch is "socially liberal." But pushes economics because bad economic policy can ruin the country.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#87952: Dec 15th 2014 at 5:33:05 PM

Why do I have serious doubts about him being socially liberal?

Oh really when?
Morven Nemesis from Seattle, WA, USA Since: Jan, 2001
Nemesis
#87953: Dec 15th 2014 at 5:36:06 PM

I suspect it's really that he doesn't care about that part so much as paying zero taxes.

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ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#87954: Dec 15th 2014 at 5:53:46 PM

With the Supreme Court ruling, as stated in the article - The traffic stop and the subsequent consensual search of the car were therefore also reasonable. The owner of the car was asked by the cops if they could search, and granted them permission. Kind of a big mistake when you're carrying cocaine (or any other non-prescribed narcotic), but oh well.

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Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#87955: Dec 15th 2014 at 5:59:34 PM

I'd say having the stuff in the first place was a bigger mistake...

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#87956: Dec 15th 2014 at 6:44:56 PM

Remember, the Fourth and Fifth amendments protect actual criminals as well as innocent people. They have to.

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A procrastination in of itself
#87957: Dec 15th 2014 at 6:54:19 PM

It's not an unreasonable search when they grant permission for it. I'm actually surprised that police can only actually pull you over for actual legal violations, I figured that they are perfectly okay to pull you over just to dispense advise/alert you to something.

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Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#87958: Dec 15th 2014 at 6:58:32 PM

Yeah, i figured like stopping you on the street, they can do it for any reason whatsoever, it's what they do after they have your attention that has legal limitations.

Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#87959: Dec 15th 2014 at 7:27:19 PM

@fighteer- yea of course. But being a criminal is still more of a mistake than letting the police check your car. They might miss something in that case, but being a dealer in general mean running the risk of getting caught more or less every day.

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DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#87962: Dec 16th 2014 at 6:19:11 AM

[up] At least it was a word with multiple meanings. Better than that Mc Donalds "I'd hit that" campaign.

PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#87963: Dec 16th 2014 at 9:35:47 AM

The American Conservative: Daniel Larison essentially notes with the previous weekend's fiasco for the GOP, Ted Cruz has pretty much spent his political capital and any good will he had left. Basically career killing move it looks. Both liberals and most Republicans a like hate the guy.

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, to plug the fiscal hole created by his mega tax-cut, has been reduiced to drawing down on Obamacare funds to balance the state budget.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has announced the new Insure Tennessee plan, a Medicaid expansion plan that could gain approval from both federal officials and the Republican-dominated state legislature. There will be a special session in January focused on the new Medicaid expansion plan.

People need to get used to Elizabeth Warren not being some wunderkind being able to bridge a gap to the Tea Party. She may be Anti-Big Bank, but they're anti Bank Regulation, anti-Social safety net, anti-legal abortion and anti-same sex marriage.

Ted Cruz's fuck-up may have reignited the GOP internal civil war. (However this is Politico and Politico is shite.)

Sam Brownback may have won reelection, but he's essentially facing a nigh impossible to salvage budget, projected to inflate to 650 $million next fiscal year. He's planning to transfer money from most state funds (such as Highway repairs and early-childhood education) to the general state fund. He's also willing to kill his own tax policies. As well, he's cutting 3 percent of the state's contribution to the pension fund.

However, state Republicans are unwilling to kil their tax policy, desiring to reduce expenditures and the size of the Kansas state government before ever considering touching their tax policy.

edited 16th Dec '14 9:50:05 AM by PotatoesRock

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#87964: Dec 16th 2014 at 9:55:14 AM

So Kansas is on the way to bankruptcy?

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Professional Forum Ninja
#87965: Dec 16th 2014 at 10:03:47 AM

Harris County commissioners have unanimously approved a plan to use money confiscated from criminals to purchase body cameras for police.

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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#87966: Dec 16th 2014 at 10:08:32 AM

What's wrong with politico? It's not the first time i've heard bad things about them around here.

TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#87967: Dec 16th 2014 at 10:44:41 AM

So Kansas is on the way to bankruptcy?

And has been for some time. All through the year it seemed like every month their financial picture was getting grimmer and more alarming as the fact that supply side economics doesn't work was proven there yet again.

[up] Politico has something of a reputation for superficial and sometimes rather misleading reporting, writing more or less clickbait articles, supporting the Golden Mean Fallacy about how everyone is responsible for dysfunction in government, and chaos and dissent among the upper echelons of the organization. The most recent of which is that they got an editor from the NY Times to become their editor-in-chief and he promptly resigned after less than a year due to disagreement about where the organization was going, or something like that.

Also I believe a bunch of the founders are former Reagan staffers and such, which gets them regarded with suspicion by liberals.

edited 16th Dec '14 10:53:40 AM by TheWanderer

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Lost in Space
#87968: Dec 16th 2014 at 10:50:47 AM

For one thing, the Politico article seems to be overstating the divide between Democrats as part of an insistence on false equivalency between the two parties.

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PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#87969: Dec 16th 2014 at 11:03:42 AM

Also Politico is basically the magazine most at fault in recent years for feeding the "horserace" mentality of US politics. They view everything in an electoral lens.

It's also basically the magaizne for the Beltway, by the Beltway.

TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#87970: Dec 16th 2014 at 11:06:59 AM

Were they among the ones who tried pushing the horserace narrative and kept calling Obama Romney and even Obama McCain too close to call? I forget if they were one of the publications called to task for reporting that in an effort to increase sales, clicks and interest, instead of reporting that Obama had things fairly well in hand.

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tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#87971: Dec 16th 2014 at 11:10:26 AM

Jeb Bush tweeted this morning he will "actively explore" a run for president.

edited 16th Dec '14 11:10:54 AM by tclittle

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#87972: Dec 16th 2014 at 12:05:44 PM

South Dakota recently yanked a PSA campaign it was running on billboards around the state warning against the perils of “jerking” while driving.

I'd giggle about that, but sexual acts while driving is actually a really big problem that kills people, and it tends to happen more often in rural 'MURICA states that actually have roads isolated enough that dumbasses think they can get away with it. So yeah. This is a thing big enough to warrant PSA action on this end of the country.

Still less hilarious than McDonalds' "I'd hit that" but let's face it — nobody's gonna top that.

edited 16th Dec '14 12:07:32 PM by Pykrete

arcanephoenix Resident Bollywood Nerd from Bombay, India Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
Resident Bollywood Nerd
#87973: Dec 16th 2014 at 12:07:58 PM

People try to masturbate while driving?

That's given me a small smile, in a very bad day.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#87974: Dec 16th 2014 at 12:10:36 PM

People do worse while driving. Friend if mine had the unfortunate but hilarious experience of hitting a pothole while his lady friend was committing an act upon his person.

It's hilarious now but frankly I'm amazed he didn't put the car into a ditch after that.

Oh really when?
Gabrael from My musings Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
#87975: Dec 16th 2014 at 12:11:30 PM

personally, I would feel slighted if my partner were still capable of preforming such complex acts while I was doing something like that, but that's just me.tongue

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