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DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#47526: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:23:44 PM

Dennis Kucinich debuts as a Fox News contributor

Hell has frozen over.

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Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#47527: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:27:48 PM

edit: NVM, misread something or other.

edited 17th Jan '13 8:28:42 PM by Discar

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#47528: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:31:22 PM

[up][up] Ooooh a Fox News Liberal that actually is such.,...And whaddya' know a sketchier one at that to.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#47529: Jan 17th 2013 at 8:36:46 PM

That's actually a good idea on the part of Fox... that man ain't exactly the most credible guy on the American left. Just feeds into their "liberals are out of touch crackpots" message pretty well cause they found one.

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The Wanderer
#47531: Jan 17th 2013 at 9:02:53 PM

@Age checks for M rated games: Every Gamestop in my area does it.

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#47532: Jan 17th 2013 at 9:11:02 PM

Cross posting from elsewhere and regarding the constant refrain regarding the second amendment's purpose as a barrier against tyranny, but I wonder what data there might be regarding how men and women in uniform would react to obvious, excessive, and unlawful overreach of executive power? Because, while contemporary statistics might not be the greatest way to determine permanent policy, I think knowing where our military would actually stand should factor into how we best arm ourselves against them.

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NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#47533: Jan 17th 2013 at 9:20:41 PM

Florida Governor Rick Scott is calling for expanded early voting days
The audacity of this amazes me. Rick Scott was the one who restricted early voting in the first place. Now that he's pissed off basically everyone (a recent poll showed that Charlie Crist, former Republican governor who went independent after losing the Republican senate primary to Marco Rubio in 2010 and officially registered as a Democrat this December, has higher approval ratings than Scott, despite having not been in office since 2010!), he's reversing course as hard as possible. Does he really think that that's going to change anyone's mind about him?

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Baff Since: Jul, 2011
#47534: Jan 17th 2013 at 9:31:07 PM

Kucinich in fox news?

Good news per once it seems.

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#47535: Jan 17th 2013 at 10:48:03 PM

[up][up]Well, it might. And if voting days do get increased because of this, it's a net positive for democracy in spite of Scott's appalling hypocrisy.

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#47537: Jan 18th 2013 at 12:30:05 AM

A 2016 Christie nomination is only possible if, A, he manages to stake out a powerful position in New Hampshire and become the leader of the Moderate Republicans (tm), B, he doesn't face a splintering of the moderates due to another middle-of-the-road challenger (cf. Rubio), and C, the Tea Party becomes a fragmented circus like in 2012. Also, Christie may have to pick up an Etch-A-Sketch, and if he does that, he becomes Romney 2.0 and loses the election proper.

Now, if Christie can survive the primary without compromising his principles (because the Tea Party has spun even further into the Realm of Insanity), he has a good shot at the gold; the idea that there's one Republican who hasn't gone insane will endear him to the independent voters.

In that respect, he's kind of like Ron Paul; someone who could carry the election for the Republicans but probably won't survive the primary.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#47538: Jan 18th 2013 at 12:54:16 AM

Black conservatives launch effort to scrap part of Voting Rights Act

.......My head hurts.

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Lascoden ... from Missouri, USA Since: Nov, 2012
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#47539: Jan 18th 2013 at 12:59:11 AM

[up]I say it's Kostya's fault, for mentioning it earlier. Just had to give them ideas. tongue

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DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#47540: Jan 18th 2013 at 1:13:22 AM

Dammit Koysta!

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Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#47541: Jan 18th 2013 at 1:22:14 AM

Huh... call me daft, but... isn't "well, I'm going to support the party line, even if it disenfranchises me and my whole demographic of millions, just because it's right for the country" just a little... I don't know... SODDING NUTS? <steams> Why flaming have a democracy, then? tongue

Seriously: what's wrong with people?

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#47542: Jan 18th 2013 at 2:24:04 AM

[up]Why not scrap democracy alltogether and make a republican dictator?

-.-

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#47543: Jan 18th 2013 at 2:28:40 AM

[up]

This happens.

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edited 18th Jan '13 2:28:54 AM by Achaemenid

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DevilTakeMe Coin Operator from Wild Wasteland Since: Jan, 2010
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#47544: Jan 18th 2013 at 3:03:21 AM

(Well, the US has never really been a democracy. The US is better described as a democratically-elected constitutional republic. But that's getting technical or being pedantic... whichever.)

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deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#47545: Jan 18th 2013 at 4:03:42 AM

The US is a Representative Democracy. Not as awesome as Direct Democracy, but still better than most forms of government.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#47546: Jan 18th 2013 at 4:23:47 AM

@Half a page up: God fucking dammit! Why do I have to be right!?!

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#47547: Jan 18th 2013 at 5:27:58 AM

Dammit, Slate...when you're trying to bash the NRA, do not attack their actions when, in fact, they're in the right this time.

http://tinyurl.com/b4as6j5

Three out of the four laws mentioned in the article are, in fact, in violation of the Fifth Amendment. (The gun checks act is something the NRA shouldn't be blocking, of course; knee-jerk stupidity at its finest.) The NRA is most certainly protecting the rights of alleged criminals to carry firearms, emphasis on "alleged." As much as I hate to say it, and as much as they're Accidentally Accurate at best..."Go, NRA!"

edited 18th Jan '13 5:33:24 AM by Ramidel

NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#47548: Jan 18th 2013 at 5:58:01 AM

I'm not sure how you get that. The four laws in questions are: 1) blocking weapons sales to people on the terrorist watch list, 2) giving judges the authority to, when issuing temporary restraining orders, have the recipient's guns confiscated for the duration of the order, which can be no more than a week, 3) require background checks for all gun sales (which is presumably the one you're okay with), and 4) seize guns involved in drug offenses.

The most questionable one in my mind is blocking sales to people on the terrorist watch list, since I don't know what the process for getting added to that is, but people affected by the law could challenge their placement on the list, so I don't think that violates due process (assuming that's the part of the Fifth Amendment you're referring to). The restraining order one involves a court order by a judge, so due process is involved by default. The one about drug offenses is no different than police seizing anything else involved in any other crime, which they're already allowed to do, so I'm not sure what the concern is.

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#47549: Jan 18th 2013 at 6:07:34 AM

For Christie to win the nomination, he'd have to get the backing of the big money donors that Romney catered to in 2012. Unless he manages to put on a very convincing performance at the straw polls, the GOP's wealthy sponsors will be looking elsewhere.

[up] I too see nothing violating due process in any of those laws.

edited 18th Jan '13 6:08:03 AM by Fighteer

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#47550: Jan 18th 2013 at 6:40:01 AM

nevermind all the legislation that the NRA had pushed through to nueter the Alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives bureau eh?

you know, the people who are hypotheticaly supposed to deal with criminals owning guns.

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