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Why is there No-vember LC thread yet? Why is there No-vember LC thread yet?

11-04-2014 , 03:14 AM
I for one know that, when I get shot in the back six times by police officers, it's because I first lunged at them, then turned and ran away.

lol utah
11-04-2014 , 07:46 AM
These people that are getting shot are very indecisive, lunge at cops, run away, turn around and charge at cops...
11-04-2014 , 09:09 AM



Poll station wasn't as busy as I thought it would be.
11-04-2014 , 09:51 AM
The panic a few years ago over China's alleged stranglehold on production of rare earth elements (forum catnip: promoted by Krugman!) turned out to be totally unfounded
11-04-2014 , 11:03 AM
LOOOOOOOL

http://pinkzones.com/
11-04-2014 , 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by bobman0330
The panic a few years ago over China's alleged stranglehold on production of rare earth elements (forum catnip: promoted by Krugman!) turned out to be totally unfounded
Obviously they were really moving rare earths from one warehouse to another.
11-04-2014 , 12:11 PM
in and out in 10 mins. prolly 12-15 other people at my polling location. Crist/Sheldon/YesOn2! couldn't bring myself to vote against Putnam, guy's prolly gonna be governor in a few years.
11-04-2014 , 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by ikestoys
You need to get on some more up-to-date chain email distribution lists, man. Google says this was hot back in August!
11-04-2014 , 12:34 PM
Serious voting irregularities at my polling place today as they were staffed, just like every other year, by bunch of deaf, blind and senile octogenarians who can't hear me clearly state my name and address the first 7 times and can't find said name address on a 14pt alphabetized and numbered printout even with the aid of (no joke) and old-school Sherlock Holmes style magnifying glass.
11-04-2014 , 01:03 PM
Had around a 15 minute wait at my polling place this AM. At another polling place now and it, anecdotally, appears slightly higher turnout for a midterm.
11-04-2014 , 02:07 PM
It's European Unions all the way down
11-04-2014 , 04:04 PM
http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/11/04...president-ever

So in the above linked video, Ben Stein (at about the 3:00 mark) says that Obama is the most racist president in the history of America, which is comical enough. Even more comical is this thread I came across on the Hannity forums today. In it you will learn that, not only is Ben Stein correct, but slavery in the United States had nothing to do with racism (that being the explanation some give as to how Obama is more racist than the 12 presidents that were slave owners at some time in their life). Figured some of you would enjoy reading it for the laughs.

http://forums.hannity.com/showthread...tein-called-it
11-04-2014 , 04:10 PM
unchained did it
11-05-2014 , 12:47 AM
So I'm sitting here pounding bourbon and eating my kids Halloween candy.

Who the **** decided to call these tiny little snickers "fun size"??? Wtf is "fun" about a microscopic hint of what a candy bar should be??
11-05-2014 , 12:48 AM
Btw almond snickers is pretty elite.
11-05-2014 , 12:53 AM
That is correct
11-05-2014 , 12:54 AM
Why the **** do they still make milk duds and more importantly why do *******s still ****ing buy them???
11-05-2014 , 02:02 AM
Tried some butterfinger cups a little while back. Quite tasty.

Got some MnMs today, candy corn and pumpkin spice. The former is just white chocolate MnMs, the latter just tastes like regular ass MnMs.

And don't lie, the best part of eating a candy bar is opening it. Fun Size means you get to open THREE candy bars for the price of one candy bar's calories!
11-05-2014 , 02:15 AM
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Originally Posted by MidyMat



Poll station wasn't as busy as I thought it would be.
Only after seeing this did it occur to me how much of the country would be insanely tilted by the sticker they give us here.

11-05-2014 , 02:24 AM
God ****ing damn it, we passed the soda tax in SF 53-47. $0.02 tax per ounce. Awful.

Liberaltopia, love it or leave it. California did pass prop 47 making drug offenses misdemeanors which is awesome.
11-05-2014 , 03:23 AM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
God ****ing damn it, we passed the soda tax in SF 53-47. $0.02 tax per ounce. Awful.

Liberaltopia, love it or leave it. California did pass prop 47 making drug offenses misdemeanors which is awesome.
Concur on all counts.
11-05-2014 , 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
"Heroin and cocaine as misdemeanors?": I love how the author finds this to be such a self-evident argument against the proposition that they needn't elaborate. Come on, guys, being caught with some cocaine totally deserves a lifetime felony record, it's just common sense.
Article could have been written as a news article. It contains no argument that isn't just direct quotation from a police officer.

I do think Prop 47 might have bitten off more than it could chew by conflating drug possession and property crimes. (Edit: I see it passed, so wasn't a problem I guess). I'd probably be in favour of reduced penalties for both, but the two are in very different categories. Property crimes are nonserious crimes, drug possession is not a crime at all.

I was going to say I liked this bit of the article, but "liked" is the wrong word:

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“It also undermines the laws against sex crimes because it would reduce the penalty for possession of drugs used to facilitate date rape to just a simple misdemeanor.”
This instantly marks this "Shelley Zimmerman" as either ******ed or dishonest (or both). How the **** can anyone quote that as a persuasive argument? God it tilts me so hard. Like:

- "Date rape drugs" are not a thing. (Other than obviously alcohol). Why they keep being discussed like they are a thing is beyond me.

- Even if they were a thing, they would represent a tiny minority of drug possession arrests.

- Even if you insist that date rape drugs are a thing, the vast majority of the above tiny minority, if that makes sense, would nonetheless not be intending to use them to rape someone.

Is it actually even possible that Zimmerman doesn't know all this? Like I'm not sure which possibility is worse: that she does know this and is just lying because she likes imprisoning people for nonviolent drug offences, or that she has somehow managed to spend an entire career in the police force and not figure out basic facts about drug crimes.
11-05-2014 , 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
God ****ing damn it, we passed the soda tax in SF 53-47. $0.02 tax per ounce. Awful.

Liberaltopia, love it or leave it. California did pass prop 47 making drug offenses misdemeanors which is awesome.
Even cocaine and heroin???
11-05-2014 , 08:37 AM
Also, I had no idea marijuana was up for legalisation in Alaska and it's apparently passed? That's pretty awesome. I was in Montana earlier this year and some locals told me they think weed will be legal there soon. A bit similar to Alaska - red state but kind of frontier-ish, where personal freedoms tend to get respected a bit more. I think in those kind of places that idealise independence and are big into hunting and whatnot, they instinctively understand the idea that people should make their own decisions about how to run their lives.

      
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