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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Depends if they were resurrected in America, have been around long enough, and have the intelligence to do so.
Likewise, it depends if they would be allowed since they're not "human beings", technically. Maybe they could, maybe they can't. A Vampire probably could, though.
Quest 64 threadHere's a link to a livestream.
Since then, very few challenging pieces of legislation have even reached the floor of the Senate, thanks to the GOP’s record-shattering reliance on the filibuster. In the last three sessions of Congress, Republicans have threatened to filibuster on 385 separate occasions—equaling, in five short years, the total number of filibuster threats to seize the Senate during the seven decades from the start of World War I until the end of Reagan administration. A recent study showed that post-2007, with Republicans in the minority, threatened or actual filibusters have affected 70 percent of major legislation. In the 1980s, that number was 27 percent. In the 1960s, it was 8 percent. “This level of obstruction is extremely unusual,” says Norman Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. “And the core of the problem is the GOP.” "
Stein is not among friends there, from what I know of the other people there and her. She's pretty liberal, the rest of them are some stripe of conservative.
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen Fry
Rocky Anderson is not conservative.
Fro Rocky's Wikipedia page.:
Anderson is actually pretty decent from what I can tell. He's too right economically for him to be my ideal candidate (then again so's Obama
) but unlike the current two he's an honest to God libertarian. Honestly I wouldn't mind a Rocky Anderson/Jill Stein matchup. It's better than Romney/Obama since I wouldn't have any major problems with either one winning.
edited 23rd Oct '12 6:29:20 PM by Kostya
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Nope
We have two whole way liberals
One fiscal conservative,social liberal
And one whole way conservative
But they all have a point about these Super-PACS and PACS.
Have to admit,Stein is not an impressive speaker,neither is Goode at least even though he's been a Virginia Rep. for a while.
Anderson and Johnson on the other hand I could definitely see going against Obama and Romney,and they'd beat out Romney.
Darn it where was King during the main debates?
Johnson wants to abolish the IRS and corporate tax? Seriously?
edited 23rd Oct '12 6:33:55 PM by terlwyth

@Trump....*head hits table* Whats next...will he one day say Obamas death certificate is falsified and he is still in hiding?
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