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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
New Mexico considering bills of Gay Marriage.
I'm a skeptic of my home state getting anything, we are after all America's Kitty Litter box, but this push really looks like it will stick one way or the other.
There has been a suicide bombing at the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey. A guard is reported to be dead and the bomber is suspected to be from DHKP-C, a Marxist Leninist terror group. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21293598
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/europe/turkey-embassy-explosion/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
This is an article about the backfire effect, which is closely related to confirmation bias and willful skewing of truths in debates. It's a damn good read and I find it highly relevant for this thread. Achaemenid posted this in the Gun Thread a while back.
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/
I think we're all guilty of having done this at some point either online or offline.
Yeah, my bad. It was definitely someone in the Gun Thread, though.
edited 1st Feb '13 11:18:14 AM by Aprilla
Remember the contraception bill?
The White House changed it. Now, religious employers are exempt
from providing contraception coverage insurance for employees.
edited 1st Feb '13 12:39:31 PM by Serocco
In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.So churches pass the buck to Allstate. Whoopee.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Obama polls surprisingly well.
EDIT: Senator Stacey Campfield is bugnuts batshit bonkers.
edited 1st Feb '13 2:32:03 PM by RadicalTaoist
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Scott Brown says he will not run for Senate in the special election to succeed John Kerry
Holy Plot Twist, Batman!
Without Brown the Republicans don't have a chance to win the Massachusetts Senate seat.
So the real fight will be in the Democratic Primary between Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch.
Ed Koch, New York City's colorful longtime former mayor, dies
Former New York City mayors David Dinkins
, Rudy Giuliani
, and current mayor Micheal Bloomberg
talk about there experiences with Koch.
edited 1st Feb '13 4:22:11 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Secret Service chief Mark Sullivan to retire after 30 years with agency
WE LOST ANOTHER ONE!
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016I can't think of anyone that really likes him, I'm curious why nobody's been able to unseat him yet.
Fight smart, not fair.Regarding immigration and Texas' blue-shift, I think I can see it leading to a direct reversal of the polarity flip from the '60s, when Democrats shed their conservative wing and became the liberal party, and Republicans the conservative party.
Latinos are politically relatively conservative, except on that pesky immigration issue, but if Republicans are forced to back immigration to take the Latino vote, they'll also alienate the Angry White Male demographic. This sounds like the very definition of a coalition reshuffle.

Unemployment up to 7.9%, but the economy added 175kjobs.
Appeal court : California anti- paparazzi law appears constitutional.
Fixed a link.
edited 1st Feb '13 9:07:34 AM by tclittle
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."