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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#55276: May 28th 2013 at 2:24:36 PM

RNC hires Hispanic initiative director

Another one? Didn't the last one quit and join the Democrats because he kept getting harassed in his own office?

edited 28th May '13 2:25:37 PM by Pykrete

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#55277: May 28th 2013 at 2:32:48 PM

[up]Is that what happened? I just heart it was because he thought the GOP was racist. I didn't think it was because of anything somebody did to him personally.

Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#55278: May 28th 2013 at 3:04:27 PM

I'm not clear on the details. I just remember their Hispanic Outreach guy resigning because he was fed up with them.

TairaMai rollin' on dubs from El Paso Tx Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Mu
rollin' on dubs
#55279: May 28th 2013 at 3:22:01 PM

Keep in mind that the Beltway GOP has a lot of people fed up with it. That's seperate from the republican parties in various states.

I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
Belian In honor of my 50lb pup from 42 Since: Jan, 2001
In honor of my 50lb pup
#55280: May 28th 2013 at 3:55:43 PM

[up][up]I remember an article linked here about the GOP Florida outreach guy quitting and turning Democrat. I also don't specifically remember any other recent articles along those lines. Is that what you are thinking about?

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Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#55282: May 28th 2013 at 4:41:02 PM

@Taira mai: not just the beltway GOP. The tea party and Pundit fringe has done more to drive off moderate republicans than the Beltway ever could.

TairaMai rollin' on dubs from El Paso Tx Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Mu
rollin' on dubs
#55283: May 28th 2013 at 5:49:21 PM

[up]"Moderate" as defined by Washington.

Funny:

I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#55284: May 28th 2013 at 5:56:54 PM

Not sure if funny-funny, definitely funny-weird and funny-curious.

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Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#55285: May 28th 2013 at 5:57:53 PM

Now look, a lot of people say we have an obligation to vote, and while I'm all for voting I don't recall reading about this obligation in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Having a voice means having the right to say nothing and mandatory voting would erode that right.

And I'm against that. You all might not be but to qoute John Kerry in America you have the "right to be stupid."

It's not an obligation in a legal sense, but I don't really give a shit about a person complaining about this country if they aren't using their rights to try and change it for what they think is the better.

You have the right to say nothing, yeah, but you lose the right(to me, not legally) to complain about how horribad this place is when you don't do fuck all to try and make it better. It's the same thing I say about bitching/whining. Don't do it unless you have a solution that you can offer to fix what you're bitching about. If you don't pay taxes, I don't care what you say about how our tax dollars are being spent. If you don't vote, then don't bitch about what people in office that you could have voted against are doing. It's why I was sick and tired of all the people bitching about Bush in office when they were Democrats who didn't vote at all when they could have voted for Kerry. I don't even like Bush, but they didn't even try to keep him from having a second term if they could have voted and did not.

Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#55286: May 28th 2013 at 5:58:27 PM

[up][up][up]

As opposed to what? if we're going by not-washington definitions (IE, a more worldly view), the democratic party is the conservative party, the republican party is the extreme far right and there is no liberals in washington, period.

edited 28th May '13 5:58:58 PM by Midgetsnowman

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#55287: May 28th 2013 at 6:00:21 PM

No socialists. Plenty of liberals.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#55288: May 28th 2013 at 6:24:05 PM

if we're going by not-washington definitions (IE, a more worldly view),

I think you mean "(IE, a more European and Canadian view)."

All 45 GOP senators signed a brief calling Obama's appointments an unconstitutional abuse of power.

Feds use Patriot Act to target virtual currency site in money laundering case

Supreme court gives inmates more leeway to challenge convictions

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Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#55289: May 28th 2013 at 6:25:09 PM

[up]

and blocking all appointments no matter what because obama totally isnt an abuse of power.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#55290: May 28th 2013 at 6:34:10 PM

[up][up] Who uses a different terminology? It usually goes like this: the anarchists don't count, then you have the communists of different brands, the socialists of different brands, the liberals of different brands, the conservatives, and the reactionary. And then there's the fascists, who are insanepatriots seeking to overcome class division for the sake of the nation.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#55291: May 28th 2013 at 6:39:05 PM

[up][up]

Technically their only talking about Obama's January 2012 recess appointments.

Governor Christie tops Obama in Jersey Shore arcade pigskin toss

Limbaugh Sees 'Master-Servant Relationship' Between Obama And Christie

edited 28th May '13 6:42:43 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#55292: May 28th 2013 at 6:40:27 PM

To be fair about that article regarding Liberty Reserve, I know for a fact Bitcoin is highly used as currency for all sorts of illegal shit, from things as benign as buying pot on the silkroad, all the way up to moving money around for terrorist groups and human trafficking.

deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#55293: May 28th 2013 at 6:42:56 PM

the anarchists don't count

I can't help but feel somewhat offended by this.

TairaMai rollin' on dubs from El Paso Tx Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Mu
rollin' on dubs
#55294: May 28th 2013 at 6:43:51 PM

[up]I'm with Barkey on this. See the Ohinternet article (NSFW) on Bitcoin.

The Mt.Gox site has been hacked repeatedly.

I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#55295: May 28th 2013 at 6:59:39 PM

The IRS’ approval ratings are free fallin’

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#55296: May 28th 2013 at 7:03:07 PM

I really wish they'd report both sides of this story. We don't need this right now.

deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#55297: May 28th 2013 at 7:03:24 PM

...I'm surprised. I'd expected the IRS's approval ratings to have always been low enough that it could never free fall. Like, in the single digits.

TairaMai rollin' on dubs from El Paso Tx Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Mu
rollin' on dubs
#55298: May 28th 2013 at 7:12:36 PM

[up]What side of the story? The IRS has too much power. Nixon used it and now some flunkies got some darn fool idea to do it again.

Fun fact, most "tea party" groups got under $15k US for their efforts, those Koch Brothers are stingy wink. If this was Bush the press would be all over this story.

NO President or administration should have this power. Some IRS people need to be fired. Presidents come and go, but Obstructive Bureaucrats live forever.

Lois Learner is like some lovechild of J. Edgar Hoover and Sir Humphries.

edited 28th May '13 7:15:30 PM by TairaMai

I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
DrTentacles Cephalopod Lothario from Land of the Deep Ones Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Cephalopod Lothario
#55299: May 28th 2013 at 7:15:24 PM

[up] And as for the fact that liberal groups were investigated equally strongly, and in fact, a liberal group was the only group that actually got turned down for tax exempt status?

Oh, and that blatantly political groups are trying to abuse tax exempt status in record number?

It's a manufactured outrage.

edited 28th May '13 7:17:21 PM by DrTentacles

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#55300: May 28th 2013 at 7:17:08 PM

Nixon isn't even the first time this has happened.

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