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Wildcard Since: Jun, 2012
#51801: Mar 24th 2013 at 5:18:01 PM

@O:Riley: Not everything you don't like isn't a secret liberal war. Stop overreacting. I guess that is a pretty stupid thing to ask considering that kind of thing gives him money though. Ugh I wish people would stop taking him seriously, I mean much more so than now.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#51802: Mar 24th 2013 at 5:23:15 PM

Someone in the comments section is calling hypocrisy on liberals because Obama used the phrase "War on Women." Key difference, one is a problem that affects half the population in statistically significant ways, the other is a fantasy concocted to whip people up into a frenzy over nothing.

edited 24th Mar '13 5:23:26 PM by Kostya

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#51803: Mar 24th 2013 at 5:24:46 PM

[up]X12 Hold on, doesn't Paul's statement imply that it's a good thing Obama wasn't jailed (and thus made unable to become president)? Because I swear that suggesting that the US wouldn't be better of if Obama wasn't in the White House is a level one heresy under GOP rules.

edited 24th Mar '13 5:25:04 PM by Silasw

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#51804: Mar 24th 2013 at 5:25:36 PM

Not really. He's saying it's lucky for them, not that it's lucky for America or the Republican party.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#51805: Mar 24th 2013 at 5:38:20 PM

I'm not liking the Democrat's chances in the 2014 Senate Midterms.

The Democrats have to protect 21 Seats (3/4ths of which are in Red*

, Purple*, or Light Blue * states.

On top of that the incumbent Democrat Senators in the vulnerable states of Iowa, West Virginia, and Michigan are retiring.

And the only Red states the Democrats have a chance of winning are Maine and Georgia (and Kentucky if Ashley Judd decides to run).

edited 24th Mar '13 7:17:57 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
scratching at .8, just hopin'
#51806: Mar 24th 2013 at 5:53:30 PM

On the plus side, the Dems might pick up the House. What do the Governor's races look like? I remember that the Dems reported a net loss of gubernatorial elections in 2012.

Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#51807: Mar 24th 2013 at 7:00:12 PM

[up] The Dems prospects for the 2014 Gubernatorial Elections are looking good. The only areas of worry are Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois (if current Governor Patrick Quinn*

wins the Democratic nomination), and Massachusetts (if Scott Brown chooses to run).

Meanwhile the Republicans have to worry about a whole bunch of states. The most vulnerable being Michigan, Ohio, Arizona, Florida, Maine, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.

Rhode Island (whose Governor is Independent) is also a possible Democrat pickup.

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s seven-round limit on magazines sold in New York will be suspended “indefinitely” by a measure in his $136.5 billion budget set to be passed this week

Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#51808: Mar 24th 2013 at 7:03:14 PM

Unless the PA challenger is a colossal idiot the Democrats will retake the governorship in PA. Corbett's approval numbers are abysmal and he's made a lot of decisions that could easily be used against him.

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#51809: Mar 25th 2013 at 2:49:29 AM

Wait, do people actually say "Spring Eggs" ? Because while "Happy Holidays" made sense, calling Easter Eggs "Spring Eggs" sounds a lot like Freedom Fries to me.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#51811: Mar 25th 2013 at 4:07:51 AM

If you must remove the holiday connotations can't you at least say pysanki?

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#51812: Mar 25th 2013 at 6:56:03 AM

Yeah, Easter isn't like Christmas. There aren't three or four different holidays all at the same time, so it's a little silly. I mean, if you get the time off, while you aren't celebrating Easter, you're taking advantage of it, and Easter is pretty easy to skip.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#51813: Mar 25th 2013 at 6:59:34 AM

Personally, I have never understood the logic behind getting offended that someone would wish you Merry Christmas or Happy Easter. I have never felt any particular religious connotation of those holidays (aside from my wife dragging me to attend midnight mass every now and again), but maybe that's because I was raised in a secular household. At the same time, I've got no problem with wishing someone Happy Holidays or whatever. It just isn't a big deal one way or the other.

As a matter of public policy, though, a lot of people do take the religious connections seriously, and it is reasonable for the government not to appear to be advocating any particular religion, as per the First Amendment. The simple fact that many Christians get so pissed off about it is ample reason to enforce the restriction, in my opinion, because it tells me that they are using it to advance a religious agenda.

edited 25th Mar '13 7:57:41 AM by Fighteer

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Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#51814: Mar 25th 2013 at 9:24:46 AM

[up] Honestly, if you get time off for Christmas, regardless of your beliefs, you can probably accept a "Merry Christmas", because it's a specific day of the year that you get to spend at home. (This does not apply to all people, as many have to work on Christmas).

If we got Hanukkah off, I would probably say Happy Hanukkah because even though I'm not Jewish, I still get the time off. (This is just a what-if.) The War on Christmas is incredibly stupid from both sides because most people really, really don't care. Hell, in England, there was a vote or something to change Christmas to something else, and the Muslim group shot it down.

edited 25th Mar '13 9:26:23 AM by Zendervai

Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#51815: Mar 25th 2013 at 9:28:40 AM

Thats what confuses me most about the whole thing. As a not religious person, I couldnt give two shits about christmas or people posting billboard f0or or against christmas.

I do mind when people start screaming at some innocent convenience store clerk because company policy is to use happy Holidays to offend nobody and a christian takes it as a personal attack on his religion as though he's entitled to everyone following his holidays..

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#51816: Mar 25th 2013 at 10:01:23 AM

Christmas is a Federal Holiday. Pretty sure Easter isn't.

Of course, Easter falls on a Sunday, so there's that.

tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Never Trust
#51817: Mar 25th 2013 at 11:12:14 AM

[up]@Deviant Breaburn: Maine is Purple, not Red. Basically everything on, south or east of Rte 95 is Blue...ish, everything to the north and west is Red. The tepidness of the southeast's Blueitude is offset by it having the lion's share of the population.

edited 25th Mar '13 11:13:09 AM by tricksterson

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RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#51819: Mar 25th 2013 at 12:19:05 PM

[up]Worse, how are you to pay for the surveying when your nice, employment-generating mega corporations are trying to dodge the bills? tongue Oh, and you're trying to axe the surveyors and civil servants trying to process all this, anyway, as... you know: big government. tongue

Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#51821: Mar 25th 2013 at 1:47:41 PM

I only wish their economic agenda was as toxic as their social one. That's a much bigger concern in my mind.

If anything, it's even more so, seeing how it's put nearly half the fucking nation in poverty and all but enslaved half the third world. I'm sorry, but their social policy is rather laughably small fry in comparison.

[up] That...comes as a rather massive surprise. Here's hoping the House doesn't cock it up.

edited 25th Mar '13 1:50:14 PM by Pykrete

Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#51822: Mar 25th 2013 at 1:48:48 PM

[up][up] [tup]

Now we just need to do the same to oil.

But, question: Has this already passed the House or not?

edited 25th Mar '13 1:49:49 PM by Discar

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Lost in Space
#51823: Mar 25th 2013 at 1:49:26 PM

Indeed. The real tragedy in American politics is that we spend so much time worrying about gay marriage, abortion, Christmas, and bibles in front of courthouses that we are distracted from the far more crucial problems of economic inequality, racial inequality, and whether the planet will be fit for humans in 100 years.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#51824: Mar 25th 2013 at 1:50:54 PM

[up]

Which is exactly what big business wants.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#51825: Mar 25th 2013 at 1:51:53 PM

[up]X5 Now that is a smart move. Anyone in the House who votes against the Senate budget may well end up being painted as an out and out Wall Street shrill. It may not be fair, but it sure is smart.

edited 25th Mar '13 1:52:06 PM by Silasw

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