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A procrastination in of itself
#100576: Sep 11th 2015 at 11:52:14 PM

I'm glad he ordered it expanded instead of shut down, it's a victory for no one when I good program is shut down instead of expanded to include those it was discriminating against.

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#100577: Sep 12th 2015 at 12:07:38 AM

What a surprisingly happy ending?

Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#100578: Sep 12th 2015 at 5:10:16 AM

There must be something vile and wretched in some part of this story. Good things aren't supposed to happen in law and politics.

The released prisoners are going to be rounded up and used as part of a secret zombie soldier project thing, or something like that.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#100579: Sep 12th 2015 at 5:11:43 AM

[up] That or they're going to rape and murder people or do something to explain why they were thrown in prison in the first place.

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Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#100580: Sep 12th 2015 at 5:39:06 AM

I'm surprisingly cool with it, as long as it stays for non-violent offenders only, cause at some point in the future, you know someone will have the bright idea to want to expand it to the violent ones.

edited 12th Sep '15 5:48:32 AM by Skycobra51

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ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#100581: Sep 12th 2015 at 6:26:50 AM

So of that 2K initially presented by Louisiana as replacements for Planned Parenthood, only about 1% of them could actually fill the role? Yeah, pretty sure the Judge is going to put the kibosh on that one.

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Keybreak (Long Runner)
#100582: Sep 12th 2015 at 7:19:27 AM

I saw a book at the library called Separate is NEVER Equal.

It was about racial segregation, but with a title like that you'd think it applied to every quality, like sex.

And every facility, like schools, prisons, bathrooms...

So people need to make up their minds! Is segregation always bad? Or are there actual viable instances where you should separate people?

You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stay
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#100583: Sep 12th 2015 at 7:24:55 AM

Depends on the purpose of the segregation.

Oh really when?
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#100584: Sep 12th 2015 at 7:26:19 AM

I'd argue that on average, we segregate too much not too little.

Keybreak (Long Runner)
#100585: Sep 12th 2015 at 7:28:07 AM

"Depends" is the worst answer in the world right after "Because I said so".

Oh well...about Planned Parenthood, I wouldn't want to shut them down, just fine them for whatever illegal thing they did and make them do what they advertise.

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#100586: Sep 12th 2015 at 7:28:24 AM

One of the fundamental issues with segregation policies is that they are not "equal" by any objective definition. Facilities and institutions for racial and ethnic minorities are uniformly inferior to facilities for the majority. In any event, the main rationale for segregation is that blacks and whites are too different to coexist, which is ... insane.

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Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#100587: Sep 12th 2015 at 7:30:41 AM

[up] How about segregation in terms of academic streaming?

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Keybreak (Long Runner)
#100588: Sep 12th 2015 at 7:40:54 AM

According to Bill Nye there's only one "race". What we see is just color and genetics.

But intelligence? I think that there probably are different levels of that. But unfortunately in life you can't level up at your own pace once you've gotten into the next "intelligence bracket."

Why can't school be like an MMO where experience is based on work and not just how many years you've been in the place!

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Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#100589: Sep 12th 2015 at 7:50:47 AM

MMO still give out 'welfare epix' to keep everyone current and able to do content, things have changed since the days of being locked out of current content because you couldn't gear up in previous content because no one would run it with you.

Also stuff like World Of Warcraft is very segregated with Horde vs Alliance and the massive imbalances in Racials. To the point where the Horde feel like second class citizens recently and do not pvp much at all anymore at all and the alliance were dealing with 3 hour queues for their quick and easy wins.

edited 12th Sep '15 8:17:33 AM by Memers

BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#100590: Sep 12th 2015 at 8:19:35 AM

Fiorina shoots back at Trump by taking over his jibe.

Carly Fiorina has a message for Donald Trump: Yes, "look at this face." The former Hewlett-Packard CEO kicked off her speech Friday night to the National Federation of Republican Women in Phoenix by offering a clear rebuttal of Trump's recently quoted comments on her in which he criticized her looks. "Ladies, look at this face," Fiorina said, to strong applause. "This is the face of a 61-year-old woman. I am proud of every year and every wrinkle."

Fiorina didn't call out Trump by name on Friday night, but her remarks were tailored to the receptive, women-dominated crowd. "Look at all of your faces," Fiorina said, according to video posted online. "The face of leadership. The face of leadership in our party, the party of women's suffrage. The face of leadership in your communities, in your businesses, in your places of work and worship. Ladies, note to Democrat Party: We are not a special interest group, we are the majority of the nation."

Fiorina's comments were in light of remarks Trump made in a Rolling Stone profile published this week when he reacted to seeing her appear on TV. "Look at that face!" Trump said. "Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president." He has since explained the remarks by saying he was talking about Fiorina's persona, not her looks, and that he made comments about women "as an entertainer."

The only woman running in the GOP field, Fiorina has made an effort to speak to women to counter-balance Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and the Democrats' calls of a "war on women" by the Repubilcan Party. In fact, Clinton was the only candidate Fiorina called out by name on Friday.

"I have met more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton, but I didn't do photo ops, I did business. And charity. And policy work," Fiorina said, saying a leader must understand and navigate the world.

She also noted that a leader must understand technology. "And no, Mrs. Clinton, you do not wipe a server with a towel," she said.

Friday night, Fiorina delivered a speech full of her usual talking points but tailored to her audience. Calling out Democratic messaging, she said women care about a range of issues, just like men do. "I personally am so tired of hearing about women's issues. Every issue is a woman's issue," Fiorina said.

But she also drew anecdotes from her own biography, rising through the ranks of Hewlett-Packard and facing sexism along the way. She also recounted being asked on national television whether a woman in the Oval Office might be affected by her hormones. "So ladies, let's just think. Can we think of a single instance in which a man's judgment was clouded by his hormones?" she quipped, to roaring applause.

She continued: "I am not asking for your vote and your support because I am a woman. I am asking for your vote and your support because I am the most qualified candidate to win this job and to do this job."

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#100591: Sep 12th 2015 at 8:23:21 AM

Also on the Planned Parenthood thing, my understanding is no illegal activity took place; it's just another one of those Acorn Takedown style videos that misrepresent a conversation through clever editing.

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#100592: Sep 12th 2015 at 8:39:42 AM

...I absolutely loved that speech. Fiorina just became the first candidate to really catch my eye this election. I hope she wins the GOP primaries.

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Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#100593: Sep 12th 2015 at 9:58:46 AM

[up][up][up]I really don't think hormones are an issue when your 60.tongue

I wonder how Trump will respond...never mind, I can guess. At least there's one person willing to take onTrump.

[up][up]Or people seeing the video and jumping to a conclusion. Editing usually need not apply.

edited 12th Sep '15 10:05:34 AM by Skycobra51

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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#100594: Sep 12th 2015 at 10:03:49 AM

Fiorina's just as much of a huckster as Carson, if not more so (at least Carson was successful in his non-political field).

Frankly that's why i'm mad Trump went after her, it legitimizes her place in the race, which previously was relegated to "look at me! I'm a woman who's not Hillary Clinton!"

Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#100595: Sep 12th 2015 at 10:12:20 AM

[up]So she's a woman canidate, who's not Clinton, so what. Don't see what's so special 'bout that.

edited 12th Sep '15 10:17:33 AM by Skycobra51

Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#100596: Sep 12th 2015 at 10:16:42 AM

[up] That's pretty much all she is.

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SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#100597: Sep 12th 2015 at 11:50:17 AM

Let us not forget that she believes removing the Confederate flag from governmental grounds is "removing history."

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#100598: Sep 12th 2015 at 11:59:42 AM

She's still better than quite a few candidates in the GOP field. I don't want her to die at first sight like I do for, say, Cruz.

ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#100599: Sep 12th 2015 at 3:12:41 PM

That was a fairly convincing speech, though calling the Republican party the party of woman's suffrage miiiiiiight be a stretch? If they did anything for women's suffrage, that was an older, much less extreme version of the GOP.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#100600: Sep 12th 2015 at 3:15:13 PM

The GOP still likes to pull that card and the whole Republicans freed the slaves bit to divert attention from the fact that most of their modern policies are deliberate and malicious attempts to make sure minorities and women are treated as less than people.

Oh really when?

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