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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#57451: Jul 1st 2013 at 12:11:25 PM

^^Pity that it's too small an issue to come up for a vote.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#57452: Jul 1st 2013 at 12:21:16 PM

[up][up]But Snowden never started any "activities aimed at inflicting damage on [Americans]".

edited 1st Jul '13 12:21:38 PM by Medinoc

"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
V
#57453: Jul 1st 2013 at 12:29:14 PM

[up] Putin is telling Snowden to stop leaking Information.

Keep Rolling On
deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#57454: Jul 1st 2013 at 1:02:09 PM

I guess Snowden will have to find somewhere else to go.

Also, I love that he actually said "No matter how strange it might sound coming from my lips."

GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#57455: Jul 1st 2013 at 2:53:48 PM

I think that basically means "we'll offer him asylum as long as he stops being an increasingly large walking diplomatic nightmare."

> possibility to allow Congress members to cast votes remotely

This would be a major improvement if implemented securely and properly.

GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#57456: Jul 1st 2013 at 3:01:38 PM

Also, a story highlighting the importance of downballot and local races: remember that politics isn't just about electing the President and Congress!

http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-obscure-county-election-that-could-change-the-planet-20130523

joeyjojo Happy New Year! from South Sydney: go the bunnies! Since: Jan, 2001
Happy New Year!
#57457: Jul 1st 2013 at 4:00:04 PM

@Bakey: Treyvon Martin a gang banger? Where's your evidence for this. Trust me, I know real bangers and Martin wasn't within lightyyears of them -Tricksterson
Apparently there are pictures of Martin with a gun or marijuana. This apparently makes you a gangbanger if you're black. If you're white it makes you a member of the Ron Paul Revolution. -Radical Taoist

Barkey never replied, but while I can't confirm it, allegedly he did have an extensive criminal record of assault, drug possession and theft. So while it's hearsay he's not getting called a gangbanger just because of the photos.

edited 1st Jul '13 4:00:53 PM by joeyjojo

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RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
scratching at .8, just hopin'
#57458: Jul 1st 2013 at 4:00:48 PM

[up] I'll believe it when I see corresponding evidence.

How to fight for voting rights post-Shelby County v. Holder. Very interesting: we can stonewall the voter disenfranchisement laws via lawsuits. Just because Section 5 is gone and the laws are no longer automatically checked doesn't mean that citizens can't force them to the point of review via private litigation.

Via Right Wing Watch: Phyllis Schafly is being a creep.

Speaking with a Bakersfield, California, talk radio host last week, Schlafly further explained this view, claiming that Latinos don’t “have any Republican inclinations at all” because “they’re running an illegitimacy rate that’s just about the same as the blacks are.”

She added that Latinos “come from a country where they have no experience with limited government. And the types of rights we have in the Bill of Rights, they don’t understand that at all, you can’t even talk to them about what the Republican principle is.”

edited 1st Jul '13 4:01:18 PM by RadicalTaoist

Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#57459: Jul 1st 2013 at 4:03:18 PM

You know, maybe they would get the Republicans more if the Republicans didn't constantly do everything possible to keep them out of the country.

Enkufka Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ from Bay of White fish Since: Dec, 2009
Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ
#57460: Jul 1st 2013 at 4:06:48 PM

@Joeyjoe: I have no clue where the frakk you got "history of assault, possession, and theft" from. This is from the wikipedia page on his shooting:

Martin had been suspended from school at the time of his death, his third disciplinary suspension of the year.[44] One suspension was for tardiness. Another suspension was for graffiti, when Martin was observed by a security camera in a restricted area of the school marking up a door with "W.T.F." When he was later searched by a Miami-Dade School Police Department officer, looking for the graffiti marker, the officer found several pieces of women's jewelry in his backpack, which Martin said were not his, stating a friend had given them to him. A screwdriver was also found, which was described by the school police investigator as a burglary tool. The jewelry was impounded and given to the police, but no evidence ever surfaced to indicate that the jewelry was stolen. Martin's third suspension involved a marijuana pipe, and an empty bag containing marijuana residue. Martin was not charged with any crime related to these incidents and did not have a juvenile record.[44][45][46][47][48] Judge Nelson ruled that the defense may have access to Martin's records, including the details of these suspensions, as well as access to Martin's social media sites,[49] but ruled they will not be admissible as evidence during the trial unless they can be shown to be relevant.[50]

Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen Fry
joeyjojo Happy New Year! from South Sydney: go the bunnies! Since: Jan, 2001
Happy New Year!
#57461: Jul 1st 2013 at 4:16:52 PM

Where they you go. He's clean. Mostly.

Barkey, say sorry.

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occono from Ireland. Since: Apr, 2009
#57462: Jul 1st 2013 at 4:19:38 PM

How to fight for voting rights post-Shelby County v. Holder. Very interesting: we can stonewall the voter disenfranchisement laws via lawsuits. Just because Section 5 is gone and the laws are no longer automatically checked doesn't mean that citizens can't force them to the point of review via private litigation.

Litigation takes time. Damage will be done.

Dumbo
midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#57463: Jul 1st 2013 at 4:40:09 PM

so basically schafly's position is "Latinos are dumb brutes from a backwards country so latinos are too stupid to comprehend glorious republican dogma correctly"

Yeah, I wonder why we dont vote for those assholes.

Morgikit Mikon :3 from War Drobe, Spare Oom Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#57465: Jul 1st 2013 at 4:49:29 PM

Come to think about it... I used to hand my jewellery (earrings, watch, medical bangle, cross pendant necklace) to my brother to shove into his gym bag when I had to take it all off to do gymnastics (medical bangles are great, but you don't want to be doing the asymmetric bars with them on). My theory was simple: his was less likely to be searched diligently for jewellery by an optimistic thief thanks to the nature of his socks. It'd sometimes take me hours to remember to get it all off him.

Did that make him a thief, then?

edited 1st Jul '13 4:51:26 PM by Euodiachloris

joeyjojo Happy New Year! from South Sydney: go the bunnies! Since: Jan, 2001
Happy New Year!
#57466: Jul 1st 2013 at 4:53:06 PM

[up][up] Don't forget it he had iced tea with him. No doubt to refresh himself after a long night committing crime.

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deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#57467: Jul 1st 2013 at 4:57:48 PM

[up][up] No, but, if he were a black guy in America, it would.

edited 1st Jul '13 4:58:07 PM by deathpigeon

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#57468: Jul 1st 2013 at 5:04:47 PM

GOP's latest attack against Hilary Clinton?

She's...too old.

What.

midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#57469: Jul 1st 2013 at 5:05:58 PM

yeah man. she's not new and hip to the G thang yo homie dawg wazzzup?

Morgikit Mikon :3 from War Drobe, Spare Oom Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Mikon :3
#57470: Jul 1st 2013 at 5:06:45 PM

Fuck them. I liked the Golden Girls.

RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
scratching at .8, just hopin'
#57471: Jul 1st 2013 at 5:08:00 PM

@ occono: Better than nothing. Besides, we need to get this lot on their back heel.

Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#57472: Jul 1st 2013 at 5:08:40 PM

Yes, because the Republican party is known for being connected to the youth of America.

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#57473: Jul 1st 2013 at 5:08:40 PM

I want Betty White to come out and verbally bitch slap the GOP.

[up]

But look, we got Marco Rubio! He's young! He's Hip! He's "With it" as you young types say!

edited 1st Jul '13 5:09:13 PM by Thorn14

joeyjojo Happy New Year! from South Sydney: go the bunnies! Since: Jan, 2001
Happy New Year!
#57474: Jul 1st 2013 at 5:10:03 PM

I don't know I would certainly appreciate more Youngblood in the Senate.

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Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#57475: Jul 1st 2013 at 5:17:49 PM

Where they you go. He's clean. Mostly.

Barkey, say sorry.

No.

Don't want to be treated like a walking stereotype? Don't dress like one and flash pictures of weed and guns. Don't act like a gangbanger if you aren't one and nobody will ever assume you are one. It's kind of like if living down here I wore knee-high white socks, shaved my head, wore a white wifebeater and khaki shorts pulled up, and had a thick mustache. Most regular folk would be immediately rather suspicious of me right off the bat for that. Doing shit like that is like saying "Hey look, be suspicious of me!"

In other news, I really want to like Tammy Duckworth after this. Too bad she's an Illinois senator who supports the Brady Campaign. Instead she just gets a courteous nod of respect for what she's gone through and for managing to still be rather bad ass despite me disagreeing with her politics.

edited 1st Jul '13 5:23:01 PM by Barkey


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