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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#51826: Mar 25th 2013 at 1:52:49 PM

@Discar: No, it will first need to be reconciled with the House budget by the Conference Comittee.

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More like giant cherries
#51827: Mar 25th 2013 at 1:55:40 PM

What's ironic is that Big Buisness is actually in favor of gay marriage, due to legal and economic reasons.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#51829: Mar 25th 2013 at 2:16:18 PM

No, (mainly) for political and religious crimes. And he should know better than me on this.

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
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#51830: Mar 25th 2013 at 2:21:05 PM

Well...sorta. The blasphemy was the excuse the Pharisees ultimately used to drum up enough of a riot to get Jesus executed, and they tried to pin sedition on him too (which actually didn't stick — neither Pilate nor Herod saw him as a threat or even all that inflammatory, certainly not as much of one as the Pharisees themselves), but they didn't really care all that much about him until he did the whole table-flipping thing and hit the Pharisees in the wallet.

edited 25th Mar '13 2:28:19 PM by Pykrete

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DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#51832: Mar 25th 2013 at 3:53:54 PM
RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
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#51833: Mar 25th 2013 at 4:08:38 PM

You're certain that South Dakota's gone unless the GOP primary turns out their equivalent to an Akin or a Mourdock?

Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#51834: Mar 25th 2013 at 6:31:30 PM

Even then, they have a fair chance. South Dakota is...one of those states.

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#51835: Mar 25th 2013 at 7:37:05 PM

I forget, is whatsherface Colbert running for house or for senate?

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#51836: Mar 25th 2013 at 7:52:30 PM

[up] House, so as to fill a seat that's opening up because the guy whose seat it is, is taking a seat for a guy in the senate.

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DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
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#51837: Mar 25th 2013 at 10:18:06 PM

[up]

And from the looks of it she'll be running against Mark 'Wounded Warrior' Sanford.

More than 70 lawmakers are asking the Obama administration to take the gray wolf off the endangered species list.

Connecticut state senators on Tuesday admonished the National Rifle Association for robocalls to residents of Newtown, Connecticut, the site of last year's deadly mass shooting that left 20 schoolchildren and six educators dead.

New panel to advise EPA on ‘fracking’

Governor Chris Christie announces government takeover of 13,700-student Camden school district

Obama: 'The time has come' to move immigration reform in Congress

You're certain that South Dakota's gone unless the GOP primary turns out their equivalent to an Akin or a Mourdock?

I'll answer that question with a quote from the article:

"South Dakota voters overwhelmingly rejected the Democratic agenda by 20 points in 2012 and is a prime pick up opportunity for Republicans regardless of whose name Democrats put on the ballot," said Brad Dayspring, communications director for the NRSC.

edited 25th Mar '13 10:18:58 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#51838: Mar 25th 2013 at 10:21:48 PM

The Dems really need to start working on their midterm game for the House elections... cause holding the Senate just seems to be numerically impossible at this point. Way too many Senators retiring or in conservative states that only went Blue on the anti-Bush wave of 06-08.

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#51839: Mar 25th 2013 at 10:36:36 PM

I wonder if the Republicans will attack Christie again over a BIG GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER of a local school district.

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#51841: Mar 25th 2013 at 11:27:02 PM

Maryland link may need a tinyurl.

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#51842: Mar 25th 2013 at 11:40:45 PM

[up]

Fixed.

Kansas Senate advances bill with tax break for private fitness businesses

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Wildcard Since: Jun, 2012
#51843: Mar 26th 2013 at 6:06:44 AM

Any reasonable possibility of a third party victory a few years from now? I know that it is usually a pipe-dream for even the most well supported groups but I don't know it seems like there was a lot of dissatisfaction on both ends this time. Maybe the third parties are just to extreme to get the majority to vote for them.

edited 26th Mar '13 6:07:11 AM by Wildcard

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#51844: Mar 26th 2013 at 6:07:14 AM

[up][up]

What a good idea.

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#51845: Mar 26th 2013 at 6:48:13 AM

[up][up] The electoral system makes it nearly impossible. Even if one of the major parties has a full-on schism, its remnants will form a new major party.

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#51846: Mar 26th 2013 at 6:51:47 AM

[up][up][up]It's less about the third parties themselves and more about the voting system we use. First past the post voting (ie, "first person to get 50%+1 votes wins") encourages tactical voting (that is, balancing "how much do I like this candidate" and "how likely is this person to win" instead of just voting for whoever you like most), which screws third party candidates. Third parties aren't going to get any significant presence on the national level until we change our voting system — which isn't going to happen because no one cares enough to make it happen.

edited 26th Mar '13 6:52:01 AM by NativeJovian

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#51847: Mar 26th 2013 at 7:00:04 AM

[up]And a lot of politicians care enough to make sure it doesn't happen.

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Sledgesaul Since: Oct, 2011
#51848: Mar 26th 2013 at 11:20:05 AM

I foresee a Republican victory in 2014.

Because the Democrats suck that much

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#51849: Mar 26th 2013 at 11:23:14 AM

The numbers are simply too slanted against them in the Senate and the House is too effectively gerrymandered. Plus their turn out rate is usually lackluster during the midterms.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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scratching at .8, just hopin'
#51850: Mar 26th 2013 at 11:40:46 AM

Yeah, this is six years after the first Obama wave. It's hard to defend all those massive gains unless a ton of uber loonies run for office.

Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.

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