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Obama submits his budget to Congress. Congress will not even give it a formal hearing

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/republica...id=sm_fb_msnbc

Because, you know, Obama refuses to work with Congress orsomething

Well with 75% of the $4.1 trillion being mandatory by law IE fixed, we're talking about $1 trillion in discretionary spending. Of that $1 trillion we're talking about increasing spending about $200 billion or so. When compared to a $15 trillion GDP not that much really. IIRC the budget has a $10 a barell tax on oil. Yeah the Repubs should follow protocol, both sides should have an opportunity to spout their talking points and then pass some kind of spending resolution that Obama will sign no what it is.

02-11-2016 , 11:37 AM

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Paul D

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...sted/80219266/

Cliven Bundy arrested.

02-11-2016 , 11:44 AM

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Gravity waves detected. Einstein still the undefeated final boss of physics.

02-11-2016 , 12:04 PM

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Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca pleads guilty in lying to investigators in prison abuse investigation. He'll probably get probation, but could do a little time.

He was a pretty big deal. LA Sheriff dept has 10,000 sworn officers.

02-11-2016 , 12:14 PM

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Don't you ever talk about Einstein, son. Best in the game 100 years and running.

02-11-2016 , 12:33 PM

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Didn't Einstein learn from Planck?

02-11-2016 , 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Gravity waves detected. Einstein still the undefeated final boss of physics.

WOWOWOWOW!!! that is ****ing cool!!! i'm a rank amateur, but i love this stuff.

quick npr blurb

02-11-2016 , 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Gravity waves detected. Einstein still the undefeated final boss of physics.

It could be the first objective evidence that TRUMP is resonating.

02-11-2016 , 05:02 PM

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A majority (53.1 percent) of workers earning less than $12.16 per hour—the bottom 30 percent of wage earners—earn so little on the job that they must rely on public assistance to make ends meet.

http://www.epi.org/publication/a-maj...ake-ends-meet/

02-11-2016 , 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul D

Didn't Einstein learn from Planck?

Sorry, I can't hear you over all the vibrations in spacetime.

02-11-2016 , 06:03 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by uDevil

It could be the first objective evidence that TRUMP is resonating.

02-11-2016 , 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

http://www.epi.org/publication/a-maj...ake-ends-meet/

EPI funded by labor unions

Even though funded by labor unions, I think the point is valid. HRC will do what exactly to attempt to move this in the way that helps people get higher pay? She seems to be the only candidate that really hasn't gone on the record as stating what she wants to do. It just seems like she states she feels there pain and will fight for them. TRUMP at least boasts he'll be "the greatest job creator in history" which is a promise. Bernie is pretty clear, Jeb 4% growth forever. HRC?

02-11-2016 , 06:24 PM

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TRUMP had also said wages are too high so I wouldn't expect much from him there.

02-11-2016 , 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Gravitational waves detected. Einstein still the undefeated final boss of physics.

fyp

/nerdnitting

02-11-2016 , 07:13 PM

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Congressman flat out vapes in a Congressional hearing:

http://gawker.com/oh-my-god-a-u-s-co...lat-1758511544

02-11-2016 , 08:04 PM

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Interesting article about state police usage of fishtailing maneuver on cars in high speed chases

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One state agency in particular, the Georgia State Patrol, empowered by its vague, unrestrictive PIT maneuver policy, has been using the PIT at high speeds. Yet responsibility for the deaths of innocent passengers has been placed completely on the drivers whose cars were “pitted.” Thanquarius Calhoun, just 21 years old when he was caught speeding and decided to flee, received a life sentence for the death of his friend Marion Shore.

They hit his car, sent it careening off the freeway in an incredibly scary crash, and gave the driver a life sentence for his passenger that they killed.

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Since Georgia began using the PIT maneuver in 1998, at least 28 people have been killed and 296 injured in PIT-related pursuits, the vast majority of them riding in the fleeing vehicle. That number certainly understates the problem because data is either partially or entirely missing for eight of those years. The data I was able to collect was pieced together from open records requests, courts exhibits and depositions, and Georgia State Patrol reports. As far as I can determine, the agency has performed more than 1,100 PIT maneuvers since 1998, and 2015 had the largest annual number yet, with 155 performed. Roughly 20 percent of Georgia State Patrol pursuits involve a PIT maneuver, and the agency has never punished an officer for using it inappropriately.

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On the morning of August 17, 2004, 21-year-old Katie Sharp was driving her parents’ Nissan Pathfinder from Pennsylvania to her home in Holly Hill, Florida. In the car with Sharp was her boyfriend, 17-year-old Garrett Gabe. They were heading southbound on I-95 in South Carolina when she was caught speeding by Colleton County sheriff’s deputies. Sharp was doing 86 in a 70-mph zone. Perhaps because she had initially taken the car without her parents’ permission, or perhaps because she had run out of gas earlier that morning and had been chewed out by a police officer who saw her on the side of the road, or perhaps because her license had recently been suspended due to traffic violations, Sharp failed to stop when the sirens came on. Instead, she sped forward toward home, where her parents and young child were waiting for her.

...“They won’t get past my two, trust me,” a Georgia State Patrol dispatcher told a South Carolina dispatcher as the chase crossed state lines. They didn’t. Georgia took over the chase, and the 75-mile pursuit ended just 53 seconds after Trooper William Scott Fisher joined it.

Fisher saw Sharp driving erratically and dangerously at very high speeds. Hoping to save innocent bystanders, he later said, he pitted her SUV, which was traveling at 107 mph. The vehicle spun off the highway, clockwise, hurtling 400 feet over an embankment and into a tree. Both Katie Sharp and Garrett Gabe were killed. “The trooper executed his training. He acted properly,” said a Georgia State Patrol spokesperson. “It was a long, dangerous chase, and we felt we needed to stop it before some innocent bystander got killed.” Of course, an innocent bystander named Garrett Gabe did get killed. He just happened to be inside the car.

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Trooper Fisher didn’t even know why he was chasing Sharp. In a deposition, he said he assumed she had committed some serious crime or felony because she was being chased across state lines. In reality, the crime that started the chase was a simple moving violation. Fisher said, “I absolutely wanted to end the pursuit to save innocent people on the road that day. The way she was driving with total disregard, the way she was traveling, I thought she was going to kill somebody. I thought there was a certain death fixing to occur.” Instead, it was Fisher’s PIT maneuver that resulted in the deaths of two people, one of whom was utterly innocent. The other was guilty of speeding. “I just don’t think it’s right,” Charles Sharp, Katie’s father and a former police officer, told me. “He was judge, jury, and executioner in less than two miles.”

Many states have a maximum speed at which the maneuver can be performed (50mph or lower), and correspondingly have lower death totals, but Georgia gives no ****s.

02-11-2016 , 09:18 PM

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Just found out that I have been a Canadian citizen for almost 7 years. Go ahead, elect TRUMP, idgaf. I got an escape route.

02-11-2016 , 09:40 PM

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02-11-2016 , 09:51 PM

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After so many gallons of maple syrup you get Canadian citizenship

02-11-2016 , 10:08 PM

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A 2009 law retroactively restored my mother's Canadian citizenship, making me a first generation born-abroad, and thus also a citizen.

02-11-2016 , 11:10 PM

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You mean anchor baby?

02-11-2016 , 11:14 PM

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That was my brother.

02-11-2016 , 11:23 PM

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Rafael? Is that you?

02-11-2016 , 11:43 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by goofyballer

Interesting article about state police usage of fishtailing maneuver on cars in high speed chases

They hit his car, sent it careening off the freeway in an incredibly scary crash, and gave the driver a life sentence for his passenger that they killed.

Lol @ this. Goofy ghana goofy.