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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#54651: May 15th 2013 at 5:10:41 PM

[up]60s?

edit: Worst page topper ever...

edited 15th May '13 5:10:56 PM by Kostya

Mars444 Since: May, 2013
#54652: May 15th 2013 at 5:14:30 PM

But it's not sexy enough as voting to repeal the PPACA for the... 37th time.

RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
scratching at .8, just hopin'
#54653: May 15th 2013 at 6:09:18 PM

Interesting. Very. Is it just me or are progressive causes going really hard on the "have an app and a site ready to help at all times" tactic?

Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#54654: May 15th 2013 at 6:19:59 PM

Well, considering how much technology still seems to confuse conservatives..

I do love how within 3 posts the comments turn to some guy railing agasinst "radical leftist" george soros and demanding an app that lets him boycott soros. Another pster pointed out he could use the buycott app to do so, and he started screaming at her.

edited 15th May '13 6:24:26 PM by Midgetsnowman

RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
scratching at .8, just hopin'
#54655: May 15th 2013 at 6:27:28 PM

It's about everything. Skeptical Science put out an app that lets you identify, research, and respond to any climate change denial argument in seconds, linked to peer review research and everything. I see a lot of smartphone guerrilla warfare in the progressive activist playbook.

Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#54656: May 15th 2013 at 6:28:24 PM

Well, to be fair stuff like Obama's campaign vs romney's shows how far behind on the tech curve the republicans are.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#54657: May 15th 2013 at 6:53:58 PM

Didn't one of Romney's sites or apps crash on election day?

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#54658: May 15th 2013 at 6:54:54 PM

It was their monuitoring software they had designed so they'd know what districts to ramp up get out the vote efforts in.

It apparently wasnt stress tested well enough, and so when they flipped it live on election day, the whole system was nonfunctional.

edited 15th May '13 6:55:24 PM by Midgetsnowman

MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#54659: May 15th 2013 at 7:23:34 PM

Question: What would it take to disillusion a majority of the Republican voters into defecting to the Democrat side and/or other non-Republican parties?

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#54660: May 15th 2013 at 7:25:50 PM

That Hate Map is interesting. It doesn't look like my area really has that much stuff but I can't zoom in close enough to be sure. There does seem to be a very faint blue when I search cripple but that's it.

I am a bit curious about why the western portion of the map is more barren compared to the eastern.

[up]The GOP would probably have to do something monumentally stupid like nominate an explicit Nazi or segregationist to a major position.

edited 15th May '13 7:26:51 PM by Kostya

Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#54661: May 15th 2013 at 7:28:30 PM

I'd guess because in general, that side of the country is more sparsely populated

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#54662: May 15th 2013 at 7:29:44 PM

That's a possibility.

Another thing I noticed. Maybe I just didn't look hard enough but it looks like Maine is relatively clean. Most of the other states have a few major areas but Maine only has two minor ones from what I see.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#54664: May 15th 2013 at 9:09:31 PM

Hillary Clinton’s Approval Rating Ticked Up A Point During Benghazi Hearings

Devils advocate: That's well within the uncertainty of poll numbers.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#54665: May 15th 2013 at 9:30:18 PM

Still that means, at the very worst, that she went down like 2-3 points.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#54667: May 15th 2013 at 10:36:56 PM

Not unless Issa gives me proof that Holder ordered some bad things.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
terlwyth Since: Oct, 2010
#54668: May 15th 2013 at 10:42:12 PM

Nah! What do they have on Holder? Rumsfeld was practically on Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew/Dick Cheney levels of corrupt if I recall correctly.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#54669: May 15th 2013 at 10:54:56 PM

House GOP knocks healthcare reform in 'Arrested Development' spoof

Dammit I laughed.

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terlwyth Since: Oct, 2010
#54670: May 15th 2013 at 11:20:56 PM

[up] I didn't,I suppose I should give 'em credit for even getting that far.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#54671: May 15th 2013 at 11:49:32 PM

Holder has aggressively fought Republican voter suppression efforts, no surprise they want him gone.

But isn't the IRS under the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department?

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#54672: May 16th 2013 at 12:42:22 AM

[up]

Yes, but Holder's problem is unrelated to the IRS thing.

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors from The Associated Press

Needless to say, this is sort of a spit in the The First Amendment's face, and has caused quite an uproar in the world of Journalism.

edited 16th May '13 12:46:22 AM by DeviantBraeburn

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CaptainKatsura Decoy from    Poland    Since: Jul, 2011
Decoy
#54673: May 16th 2013 at 1:09:05 AM

Speaking of labor unions, they shouldn't be powerful, but average. In Poland we have already to put up with nonsense of overprivilidged groups like teachers and miners who moan about not getting enough money, while they earn more than average worker here. There should be a balance between employers and employees.

My President is Funny Valentine.
GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#54675: May 16th 2013 at 5:52:56 AM

Still that means, at the very worst, that she went down like 2-3 points.

No, technically, it means that there's a 67% chance that her actual approval rating changed within the range of ticking down by about 2 to 3

Speaking of labor unions, they shouldn't be powerful, but average. In Poland we have already to put up with nonsense of overprivilidged groups like teachers and miners who moan about not getting enough money, while they earn more than average worker here. There should be a balance between employers and employees.

Except in the U.S., teachers get paid rather crappily. I don't know about miners' pay, though I would imagine that healthcare costs should ideally be pretty substantial (since the work is pretty grueling and dangerous) and while I've not seen data I would venture a guess that they aren't paid well for this.


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