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CubaLibre
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Is there anyone who doesn't already know and believe this?
I don't think this is conspiratorial at all, if Iraq has proved anything it's that the US military is grossly incompetent. They probably can't find half their tapes.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:51 am |
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The right hand knows not what the left does, except there's two million hands.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 6:25 am |
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The military is such an important gay rights (and really any political issue that can conceivably have a military dimension) battleground because it's the one place where people can say that it's so important that "rights" have to take a backseat to what's efficient or effective. Real "merit."
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:06 am |
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The entire equation of socialism with tyranny continues to utterly boggle me. Most of these people aren't actually libertarians - they're Republicans. They like socialized schools and socialized highways and socialized police and socialized medical care for the elderly. The willful blindness is just astounding.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:14 am |
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| dark steve wrote: |
| CubaLibre wrote: |
| The entire equation of socialism with tyranny continues to utterly boggle me. Most of these people aren't actually libertarians - they're Republicans. They like socialized schools and socialized highways and socialized police and socialized medical care for the elderly. The willful blindness is just astounding. |
well it's all tyranny, they just don't like anybody else's
which is not a unique irony, but |
Well, exactly. The question is never "is socialism bad?" but always "is this particular form of socialism bad in the circumstances?" The second question precludes using the label socialism as if it were a dirty word without further elucidation. But of course that's exactly what they do.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:11 pm |
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| Mr. Mechanical wrote: |
| It does subtly mislead, though. It paints a picture that it's all this one guy who's doing everything when it's really him and like 200 other people that he's appointed and such to help him make decisions. |
There may or may not be subtle media distortions around this point, but generally everybody knows this. It's irrelevant if someone Obama appointed is coming up with that crazy nonsense; he appointed him. That's the whole purpose of accountability: shit rolls uphill. If Presidents don't want to be publically considered solely responsible for the actions of thousands of federal employees, they're more than welcome to give all their administrative power back.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:13 pm |
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Also, this study is awesome but it's sort of self-explanatory, isn't it? Kids who say they don't "see" race don't find parties that play on racial stereotypes offensive. Why should they? It's entirely circular. I mean I guess the idea is that the pictures are supposed to be so offensive that anyone should find them offensive, but that's putting the cart before the horse.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:03 pm |
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Don't get me wrong, I'm incredibly anti-"colorblindness" and consider it a tool to perpetuate racism, which still exists today on a grand scale. It's just that the study isn't going to convince anyone. It's a study of perceptions, but those perceptions can only be compared to the exact same set of available perceptions. People who have a "colorblind" perception find the photos non-racist. The study tries to make the photos outrageous enough that they are "objectively" racist but that fails; ultimately the study's conclusions are based on the fact that the studiers have a non-colorblind perception. In other words they already think colorblindness is racist. They happen to be correct, but that doesn't mean there's anything scientific about the study.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:43 pm |
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Well, the idea that as an abstract constituency homosexuals wouldn't be worth catering to, because they make such a tiny percentage of the vote. But, if every single one of them sent a petition, it would be a very powerful message that they were a 100% cohesive and active voting bloc, which most blocs are not. No politician would turn down 3 million votes without any counter-message from a larger and mutually exclusive bloc.
This is, uh, apart from the point that the whole god damned thing is ridiculous.
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| Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 2:51 pm |
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| “The goal of this legislation is just to make a statement for the sanctity of human life,” State Senator Todd Lamb, the majority floor leader, said in an interview after the vote. “Maybe someday these babies will grow up to be police officers and arrest bad people, or will find a cure for cancer.” |
I actually laughed at this. Maybe, man! Maybe.
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 12:53 am |
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Yeah, no one gives a fuck about crim rights. It's partly because people in general are "law-and-order types" and that they think "criminals" "deserve" what they get, but mostly I think it's just because it's invisible to the majority. They simply have no interactions with the system; all they want to know is that the people who go there stay there.
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:00 pm |
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Civil commitment sucks too.
But he's right that this isn't unprecedented. Then again, nothing is.
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 11:40 pm |
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Finger inside the trigger guard, very bad trigger discipline. Maybe he should join the NRA.
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 12:48 am |
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| Talbain wrote: |
| Oh politicians. When will you realize you're being recorded when you speak? |
3:1 punitive:compensatory cap is already tort reform. I mean, I have no idea if it was already that way when he got into office, but what he seems to be saying is that "torts are partially reformed and it seems to be working," so.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 1:19 am |
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It's handled state by state, so you'd have to look for Alabama tort reform in particular.
http://www.atra.org/states/AL
Tort reform is total bullshit so I'm too lazy to look up dates and whatnot vis a vis this guy's political claims, but it's at least possible that he's not a hypocrite, just stupid.
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 7:02 pm |
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In the medium term, NK would lose any forseeable war but not first without leveling Seoul and causing hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties. And that's not even counting what they might do with their bomb. Basically, war against NK is impossible, which is why they continue to extort food aid and other favors from the West.
China, as a quasi-captialist society and up and coming world power, I think isn't too happy with Kim Jong-il in place. It just knows that the Dear Leader has the entire army under his thumb and that any forcible regime change would mean accepting refugees. One of the most convincing explanations for the attack on the Cheonan is that it's KJI placating the right-wing hardliners in his military and trying to groom his son for the job. Don't be surprised if we all just wait around for KJI to kick the bucket and then China pushes his heir aside to install a more pliable and Western-friendly regime.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:50 am |
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| Dark Age Iron Savior wrote: |
| I've seen different nuanced takes on that, so I'm not too sure whether it really screws the Miranda rights deal up (even more than however you may feel about it now) or whether it's more a loophole closing thing. |
What loophole? The only loopholes are on the side of not applying the right.
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| I'd feel better if knew why it was a 5-4 vote... |
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Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing the decision for the court's conservatives
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court's newest member, wrote a strongly worded dissent for the court's liberals |
That's why.
It doesn't really matter though, in practice Miranda is a joke already.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:30 am |
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Dracko American evangelicals hate Jews and love Israel, it's very complicated.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:02 am |
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| Dracko wrote: |
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| Dracko American evangelicals hate Jews and love Israel, it's very complicated. |
they just hate a-rabs more, right? |
Now that's there too, but the phenomenon existed before 9/11. It's eschatological - evangelicals think that by the Jews ruling the entire holy land as dictated in the bible it will spark armageddon and the second coming. The first part's probably true, but not for the reasons they think.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:54 am |
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| The particularly perverse part (from within the religion's own ontology) is the implication that prophecy needs to be coaxed into occurring, meaning that God's presumed omnipotence doesn't work without human manipulation of what belongs to Caesar, which is deeply cynical re: faith even presuming that one finds value in end-times prophecy. It's doctrinal Doublespeak. |
Isn't this the same doublespeak applied to every promise from an omnipotence in a world of free will? Why bad things happen to good people, and all that.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 6:03 am |
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I don't see how that's analytically different from a god who can redeem your soul if only you reach out and ask for it. If he's so loving and so omnipotent, why shouldn't he just redeem me anyway?
Back on the topic of Israel, it's hilarious the kind of political logic that hardcore pro-Israel proponents (invariably conservative) use to insist on Israel's sole ownership of the region. By the same reasoning, shouldn't we return the entire United States to the Indians?
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 5:54 am |
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| Cuba read Milton and be done with it. |
Never done, never done.
But I didn't just read Milton, I wrote a pretty good paper about it.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:24 pm |
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ok now im scared
edit: he has a bible and a rosary some one save us from these people!!! |
I've seen this picture like a dozen times and only just now noticed the rosary. That makes it even weirder - is this guy Catholic? That's out of profile. Or is he part of some weird fundamentalist Protestant cult that uses rosaries? That'd be even creepier.
I refuse to refer to Burma as Myanmar.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:50 am |
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| Toto wrote: |
| rosary isn't necessarily religous. it's cultural in the middle east, even with people who do not believe in god. even i play with a rosary sometimes. |
Yeah - it's not "cultural" for THAT guy. Hanging over his Bible.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:15 am |
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Criminal prosecution of corporations is a sham enterprise, part and parcel of the way we treat corporations in every other facet of the legal system.
This is some crazy shit. I refuse to allow Glenn Beck and his craven ilk to claim the word "radical"; we should call them as they are: reactionaries. Same with "radical" Islam, which is actually reactionary Islam.
He's also right about the NEA of the 30s, for all the wrong reasons. It's infuriating how these Tea Party assholes delegitimate the very valid criticisms of turn of the century Progressives and utopianism by their immense and seemingly unavoidable stupidity. While simultaneously championing half the Progressive causes (like Prohibition) without even realizing it. This is seriously the most ill-considered political movement in American history.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:58 pm |
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I was about to say, supporters of the law won't see that as anything other than a huge victory. I mean, clearly it was the purpose of the law in the first place. It's doing exactly what it's supposed to do.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:17 pm |
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Nicholas Sparks gives it 5 Cormac McCarthies out of 5.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:11 pm |
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But most weird indie-type flicks don't make money. A futures market would ask people to anticipate the quality of a movie based on... who knows, just a couple sentences of concept maybe. I don't see that leading to good movies.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:13 am |
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The way that guy casually capitulates to theocracy is pretty gross.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:10 am |
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True genius will always shine through crude attempts to fashion it into propaganda.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 7:35 pm |
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Watch it there, Adi. Swimmy is a hardcore Austrian.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:03 am |
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Terrible control on that automatic. Maybe she should choose a lower caliber.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:11 pm |
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From the way it's described in the article, it doesn't sound like "code" at all, but rather a stylistic layer of meaning, of which there were already an incalculable amount.
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| Maybe this is just an easter egg Plato left to really impart how his views were just Pythagoras-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off |
Tulpa :(
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 3:02 pm |
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urrrgh but did anyone else feel a serious late 80s/early 90s aesthetic time loop everyone looked like full house what is going on there oh god |
Flyover country is like Eastern Europe, it's always about ten years behind.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:39 pm |
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| "How can I possibly marginalize these ideas that reflect my dominant cultural ideology?" he says, in effect. |
Easily: because they are bad ideas. It's a teacher's responsibility to tell the truth. The real problem is that he thinks the students' ideas (however much not their own they may be) are correct.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:27 pm |
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You should see the way they mill these people through the courts, it's horrific.
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