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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
He doesn't have to. "You would prefer to torch the Fifth Amendment and give the government free license to indefinitely detain US citizens without charge to pass your budget a few days faster?" would have sufficed. Wonderfully. To all parties.
I mean goddamn, that's like a prime way to get free points with paranoid Republicans. And I know this because the reps and senators here...wait for it...got free points with paranoid Republicans by doing that.
edited 5th Nov '12 8:14:48 PM by Pykrete
Australia is one of the two developed countries to reject Kyoto. I'm not particularly happy about that.
This morning the poster was torn off.
A little after that someone gratified "Romney/Ryan will save America" on where the poster once was.
Them when I came back from schools the sign now read, "Romney/Ryan will save 1% of America".
Now someone has Whitewashed the original graffiti and has rewritten "Romney/Ryan will save America".
The upright side of me sighs at how bad the political discourse has gotten.
The trollish side of me is entertained by these shenanigans.
Newt: Bill Clinton ‘collecting IOUs’ for 2016
Old rivalries die hard.
House Speaker Boehner will hang tough on taxes if Obama wins.
edited 5th Nov '12 8:56:19 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Interesting article
about how demographics are slowly etching the Republicans out of the presidency and analyzes the whys.
It's not from a circle-jerk website like Daily Kos, either, but from Politico.
edited 5th Nov '12 9:24:31 PM by Completion
Then wait sixteen hours.
I'm cautiously optimistic.
EDIT: Unnamed top Bush official on his party: “We’re in a demographic boa constrictor and it gets tighter every single election.”
Bush tried to fix that with an attempt at immigration reform in 2004/2005 before his party turned on him.
edited 5th Nov '12 9:50:24 PM by Completion
BBC poll shows that most of the world wants Obama to win.
The only country among those polled that favours Romney is Pakistan.
Also, if you go to Nate Silver's blog
now, you'll notice that he's changed his prediction for Florida; it's going blue now.
edited 5th Nov '12 10:04:09 PM by BestOf
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.CCN's interactive election map
. Click once on a swing state to turn it blue, click again to make it red.
Go ahead and see what happens if you take the default CNN Electoral Map and mark Ohio and Florida as blue, which is how Nate Silver suggests they'll probably go. Just those two states and Obama has won the election.
edited 5th Nov '12 10:22:12 PM by BestOf
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.

So I have a Romney-Ryan campaign sign near my house. It looked like this
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This morning the poster was torn off.
A little after that someone gratified "Romney/Ryan will save America" on where the poster once was.
Them when I came back from schools the sign now read, "Romney/Ryan will save 1% of America".
Now someone has Whitewashed the original graffiti and has rewritten "Romney/Ryan will save America".
edited 5th Nov '12 8:19:39 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016