My uterus is safe!!!!!
Washington, Oregon, and Colorado all just legalised marijuana.
Richard Mourdock, that idiot who said if a woman got pregnant because of rape, God intended it, is the projected loser.Where do the Republicans find these people?
Why is Florida so slow?
Washington, Oregon, and Colorado all just legalised marijuana.
Also I am sad the emergency manager provision seems to be passing in Michigan. But glad that the 2/3 vote for a tax hike and popular vote to build bridges ones are failing.
How does a president with 50% approval ratings squeak by, but a Congress with approval ratings below 10% goes unchallenged? Sounds backwards.
Also I am sad the emergency manager provision seems to be passing in Michigan. But glad that the 2/3 vote for a tax hike and popular vote to build bridges ones are failing.
Have to admit I voted yes on all of those. I can see the reasons for disagreement on the first, but why the last two?
How does a president with 50% approval ratings squeak by, but a Congress with approval ratings below 10% goes unchallenged? Sounds backwards.
This right here! I was surprised at the amount of Republicans taking house seats still.
How does a president with 50% approval ratings squeak by, but a Congress with approval ratings below 10% goes unchallenged? Sounds backwards.Gerrymandering works better at the local level.
Those liberals with their facts!
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God, it feels almost like America is figuring out how to be a proper fucking country.
I, too, am perplexed that you could get close to a 50% for Romney. He hates women, gays and immigrants, and that should cover at least 60% of the voting population. His stance on the middle east should make anyone with an arab or iranian background avoid him, anyone who's ever needed any kind of welfare should be running... Is 49% of the voting population of the US either white, rich, male bigots, or are there really that many stupid folk?
How does a president with 50% approval ratings squeak by, but a Congress with approval ratings below 10% goes unchallenged? Sounds backwards.Gerrymandering works better at the local level.
Super proud to live in a state (Maryland) that passed gay marriage and a Dream act! :-D
My favorite was "return control of our schools to the community" (does he even know what a local school board is?)
And, with republican backing (read: money) he sent out a whole stack of incredibly slick mailers full of emotional, button pushing gobbledeygook.
you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
Republicans Lose Supermajority in Texas House
AUSTIN, Texas - Republicans have lost their 102-member supermajority in the Texas House, opening the door for Democrats to slow or block the majority's conservative agenda.
Democrats have won more than 50 seats in the 150-member lower chamber of the Legislature. That means Republicans can no longer suspend the rules to push through legislation over the objections of minority Democrats.
Last year, Republicans had enough lawmakers to form a quorum without any Democrat showing up for work.
Democratic leaders have said they will use their increased strength to block conservative bills and demand compromise on public education and health care issues.
Republican lawmakers point out that they remain the majority party and will continue to demand less government spending and lower taxes.
Can somebody please enlighten me as to why voter ID is a bad thing? I was under the impression that it was just to help prevent things like double voting and other types of fraud...It appeared to be a hurry-up solution in search of a problem. Double voting and fraud committed by voters by all accounts is miniscule. Voter ID may not be a bad thing in the long term, but to me the issue was the unseemly haste to put it into effect before this election that was so suspicious.
Can somebody please enlighten me as to why voter ID is a bad thing? I was under the impression that it was just to help prevent things like double voting and other types of fraud...
...or hunting mosquitoes with a bazooka. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKlkD-D20OI)
You were still asked for an ID at the poll.....
Nikolai- To get a sense of the candidates/parties, you can take a quiz at ISideWith.com. They include all 4 of the "third"-party candidates from this election so you get pretty comprehensive results. There's a lot of questions on a range of social, economic, and military issues.
You vote for a third party is not thrown out if you live in a state which has no chance of swinging
Can somebody please enlighten me as to why voter ID is a bad thing? I was under the impression that it was just to help prevent things like double voting and other types of fraud...That is the thoroughly disingenuous excuse. For the real story read up on things like "literacy tests", poll taxes, and other disenfranchisement techniques used during the Jim Crow era (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement_after_Reconstruction_era). Australian had similar laws.
Mitt's concession speech was actually pretty thoughtful and well said.
Insincere as all getout, but you can't have everything...
[...]Most people I have spoken to have the feeling that we, the world, dodged a bullet there. We're already afraid of the next election.
http://globescan.com/commentary-and-analysis/press-releases/press-releases-2012/245-global-poll-obama-overwhelmingly-preferred-to-romney.html. I don't know whether the rest of the world laughs at us for almost electing Romney. I suspect they grimace instead.
Buzz= Oregon
Woody= Texas
Pretty much how that's going down. :P
The quiz suggested that I vote for Stein, but Obama got my vote because, well.....as much as I hate to think so, any vote for a third party might as well be a vote thrown out the window at this point. :-\You were still asked for an ID at the poll.....
I wasn't.....granted, they did the signature thing but yeah. No ID.
With our transferrable-vote system, tactical voting is a way of life. It is common for the person the voters disliked least to get elected rather than the one who gets the largest share of the votes in the first round. This is supposed to discourage extremism, because would-be MPs have to pick up "second preferences" from people who voted for someone else in the first round. I don't have to bother though, because I live in an district where the Coalition could put up dead wombats and they would get elected.
Mitt Romney just lost the election -- and now, he's about to become the first former candidate ever to be charged with violating federal ethics law.
United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) are preparing to launch an official lawsuit against Romney for hiding between 15.3 to 111.5 million dollars from the auto industry bailout in his wife Anne’s “blind” trust to conceal the gain and reduce taxes on it.
"The American people have a right to know about Gov. Romney’s potential conflicts of interest, such as the profits his family made from the auto rescue,” the groups said in their official complaint. “It’s time for Gov. Romney to disclose or divest.”
It’s time to expose just how unscrupulous Romney is about making his fortune off the misfortunes of others. Please, support UAW and CREW by calling on Romney to reveal exactly how much he made and continues to make off the auto bailout!
PETITION TO MITT ROMNEY: It’s time to come clean. We demand to know how much money you hid in your wife’s supposed blind trust, and how much you continue to make thanks to the gutting of the auto industry.
Raising tax rates, as some have proposed, will slow down our economy, hurt small businesses and destroy more than 700,000 jobs. Instead of going over the "fiscal cliff," let's focus together on pro-growth tax & entitlement reform to build a stronger, healthier economy.
And yet, one-note Boehner still sings:Quote from: from John Boehner's facebookRaising tax rates, as some have proposed, will slow down our economy, hurt small businesses and destroy more than 700,000 jobs. Instead of going over the "fiscal cliff," let's focus together on pro-growth tax & entitlement reform to build a stronger, healthier economy.
Sheriff Joe would just arrest them for being illegal aliens.Who would consider arresting an international election observer? (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83108.html)
Liberals are so sick, uneducated and have been brainwashed by there own so called honest Democrats in the school system for the passed 30 years they don't even know that it was the Republican party that freed the slaves in the Civil War and fought for women's right's. They don't even know that Dr. Martin Luther King as well as the large Majority of African Americans were Republicans at the time because they knew that it was the Republican party that fought for and respected them and they also knew that it was a democratic group that formed the KKK against them and it was The Democratic party that wanted to repress blacks and minorities from the work place and the education system and has actually succeeded to a far extent which is why today unemployment is at a record high especially among minorities. Liberals have become totally brainwashed by Democrats into believing that Republicans were racist and against them when in fact is was completely the other way around what a shame. Obama has not done a single thing for minorities except continue to repress them and they have become to brainwashed to see it. Obama is and always will be only interested in his own personal political agenda at any cost. He is not the kind of President America needed to make things right for all the people. He knew that he would be able to use race and brainwashed Liberals like the bunch of puppets that they are to gain what he needed and is now laughing behind there backs just like the sudden phony tears he now uses with applause LMAO. I simply do not bother debating with Liberals, it's like talking to dead wood. Now here's the fun part, can't wait to see how many of them here get pissed off because I just taught them a bit of History facts which they will refuse to believe and try to get me to respond to them. LMFAO AT THEM ALL
I'm not really sure how I feel about this... It's hard. I'm not about to jump up and protect these kids from the consequences of their hateful, stupid and very public words, but I'm not about to high-five Jezebel for calling teenagers' principals to alert them to their online behavior. Am I alone here, or does that make sense to anyone else?Nope. I'm not sure either. That's why I wanted some input. On the one hand I don't want to protect idiots from the consequences of their free speech. On the other hand; stupid kids need education not punishment.
I mean, it´s good to get involved! No denying that someone should call people out on spouting this kind of racist bullshit, but I´d respect it more if their respective social environment could do that. And if they live in an environment where it´s A-ok to call someone a racial slur then it´s probably too late and no amount of internet-hate will right this.
That's the thing. You can grow up and know your parents are terrible racists, and not become one. It is clearly possible, or how have we gotten here today?
YOU ARE JUST ASHAMED THE PUBLIC FOUND OUT.
their apologists trot out excuses such as "You don't know that they're racist, they might just be ignorant!"
Also not convinced that canceling her health insurance is a proportionate response.Connecting health care to employment is just a bad idea all round.
That's the thing. You can grow up and know your parents are terrible racists, and not become one. It is clearly possible, or how have we gotten here today?
It's not about how far we've come or how things have changed since our parents were children, it's about how much farther we have to go. (And sometimes, kids don't realize that their parents are racist and then they act in the same way as their parents, not really knowing why what they're doing is wrong.)
The GOP nomination is pretty much a comic book villain organization, no joke. They are House Harkonen.Mitt = Vladimir?