Quote from: Fagcicle on December 13, 2015, 06:02:36 PM

Deci blocked me, so I can't send him my nudes.

Try again. And ew.

> says try again
> says ew to the material I would be sending

Your logic astounds me.

Deci blocked me, so I can't send him my nudes.

Suck my dick.

No, I don't believe so. I am curious, however, if there are bridges that have been burned behind the scenes, as Turkey pointed out Trump's Democratic background.

Since the topic is becoming more and more relevant to the current 2016 GOP race, I'll let our good friends at CNN explain what a brokered convention is. I'll do a TL;Dr at the end for the lazier ones.

Getting a Brokered Convention:

The Republican party will assign 2,472 delegates through a state-by-state series of caucuses and primaries between February and June. To win the nomination, a given candidate requires a simple majority, or 1,237, of the total. The states holding their contests before March 15 are required by party rules to dole out their delegates proportionately, meaning 51% of the vote translates to the same percentage of the state's allotted delegates.

To further complicate the matter, there is the party's so-called "Rule 40." This bylaw, added in 2012, states that any potential nominee must "demonstrate the support of a majority of the delegates from each of eight or more states." There are, as we approach the CNN debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday, a total of 14 candidates in the mix. No fewer than 10 can reasonably expect to win a noteworthy proportion of delegates as the race extends into spring.

For example, polls have shown Trump with a durable lead in Iowa -- he's up 13 points on Ted Cruz, his closest rival, according to Monday's CNN/ORC poll -- but even then, his total support in this sprawling field is only 33%. Multiple candidates could win a majority in eight or more states, or no one could. Either way, it adds up to chaos on the convention floor. (Interestingly, the rule essentially prevents a would-be outside savior, like Mitt Romney, from parachuting into the process late, as that person would obviously arrive without those eight state majorities.)

One Republican with a full grasp of the RNC rules reached out after the story first published to point out that the eight-state requirement in Rule 40 is technically temporary. The RNC will vote on a new rule at the convention in 2016 and could again change the number of states at that time.

Contested vs. Brokered:

Simply stated, if no candidate (and this goes for both parties) finishes the primary season with majority of delegates, the summer convention can be described as "contested." The last "contested" GOP primary came in 1976, when President Gerald Ford and an insurgent conservative named Ronald Reagan arrived at Kansas City's Kemper Arena short of a clinching total. Both campaigns sought to sway or romance their way to the necessary majority, which Ford would seal just before the first floor vote.

Because that initial ballot delivered Ford the nomination, the 1976 convention is not technically considered to have been "brokered."

For that, we have to look back more than 60 years, to the 1952 Democratic contest. Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver led the race after the last round of primary voting, but did not win the nomination after the first floor ballot. No one did. It was not until the third ballot that Adlai Stevenson, the reluctant home-state governor with the backroom backing of outgoing President Harry Truman, finally emerged with the nomination.

The most recent "brokered" convention for Republicans came four years earlier, in 1948, when they chose New York Gov. Thomas Dewey after three ballots.

Dewey, Stevenson and Ford all lost their general election contests.

Tl;Dr:

If no GOP candidate arrives to the convention with the support of 1,237 delegates and satisfying the current Rule 40, the contest becomes contested, with the candidates closest vying to win delegates who have yet to pledge support. If, after the first vote, a candidate is chosen, then it is classified as contested. If it goes to a second, third or more vote, it is a brokered convention - and becomes more complicated. Once it reaches a second vote, and is classified as brokered, all delegates are allowed to vote for any candidate on the ballot.

Important to note that in the past, candidates from a party who's convention was either contested or brokered did not win their respective general election - likely due to the fact that the party remained divided.

Chally, I've told you about five times that I'm done discussing the issue with you. Neither of us are changing the others beliefs, and I'm done wasting my breath.

If you want to act like you've somehow proved me wrong, go right ahead.

But honestly, what the fuck do giraffes sound like

Oh! I know this one!

A low bleeting sound. Like a sheep.

Palestine terrorist fires bombs from residential area.
Israel fires back directly into residential area, kills a bunch of civilians.
Palestine says Israel is committing war crimes.
Israel gets support of US and maybe one of our allies.

Rinse and repeat for decades.

Sure, Forge looks lovely.

Let me know when they release damn game modes to use with it.

If this were a religion of peace then these numbers should be 100% against suicide bombing. The fact that it is nowhere near that aside from Tunisia (and even then it's only 90%) is really damning.

Is this image using the same polling data as the one in the OP?

Just want to check before I start looking.

Should I be afraid?

Cause I'm really not.

I mean, I've been to a gay bar in Orlando.

Pretty much the same thing.

Quote from: Fagcicle on December 09, 2015, 02:02:05 PM

Maybe moving.

Do it.

No shame in paying rent in blowjobs

Ew

Quote from: Decimator Omega on December 08, 2015, 11:33:55 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on December 08, 2015, 11:33:02 PM

it's not vien

welcome

Then who is it?

tfw you know exactly who it is but you aren't going to tell

tfw same

Education Fight to Shit towards States

The Senate sent a bill to the president’s desk Wednesday that replaces much of the widely disliked No Child Left Behind Act and shifts more power over education to states and school districts.

The bill passed the chamber 85-12 on the heels of its passage in the House last week. After No Child Left Behind established a high watermark for federal involvement in education, the new bill slashes the federal role by historic proportions, experts say. The bill — which the president is scheduled to sign Thursday — would dump the current law’s intense focus on test scores and the well-intentioned but impossible goal of having all students reading and calculating at grade level.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (S.1177) allows states to set their own guidelines for rating schools and improving them, with federal oversight and restrictions. It was a victory for many Republicans and teachers unions, who were allied in their mission to undercut what they viewed as prescriptive, top-down regulation and intrusion into local schools.

The bill would “put education back in the hands of those who understand their needs best: parents, teachers, states and school boards,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday. “It’s conservative reform designed to help students succeed instead of helping Washington grow.”

Democrats see the bill as a chance to offload some of the aspects of NCLB that are unpopular with constituents, while maintaining their paramount goal of protecting poor and minority students, whose performance often lags their peers and who disproportionately attend the worst schools. The bill requires states to track performance of such students closely and intervene when schools are failing. Because of this, it earned the backing of the president and
overwhelming support from Senate Democrats.

Senate Republicans supported the bill, with the exception of a handful of conservatives including 2016 presidential candidates Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, who don’t think it walks back the federal role in education far enough.

The bill “unfortunately continues to propagate the large and ever-growing role of the federal government in our education system—the same federal government that sold us failed top-down standards like Common Core,” Cruz, who didn't vote, said in a statement Wednesday. “The American people expect the Republican majority to do better.” Fellow
2016 contenders Marco Rubio and Bernie Sanders also didn't cast votes. Paul voted against the bill.

The new bill bans future Education secretaries from pushing a Common Core-like set of academic standards and limits what the department can and can’t regulate. Dozens of waivers from No Child Left Behind granted by the Obama administration would be void starting in August 2016. States would have more than a year to shift to the new system, which would take hold starting in the 2017-18 school year.

But there will also be places for the Obama administration to leave an imprint, thanks to a streamlined regulatory process written into the bill that it will have a year to leverage. For example, the department could place broad parameters on when a group of students would be considered “consistently” low-performing, signaling a need for intervention.

Even before the bill was headed to the president, a swath of education, civil rights and business groups were already lining up ways to shape the law’s implementation. Since the bill returns power to states, advocates plan on waging state-by-state battles over education policy that were previously fought in Washington.

Advocates in D.C. have worked furiously over the last year to preserve strong federal protections in the bill for poor and minority students. But in the coming years, they’ll be “trying to make equity at the heart of education in states,” said Ryan Smith, executive director of The Education Trust-West, the California arm of the Washington-based education advocacy group.

“With all of this wonderful flexibility comes great responsibility” for states, said Cheryl Oldham, vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber is highlighting the need to continue to focus on minorities this week with a conference it is co-hosting with the NAACP on African-American student achievement.

One central issue for the Chamber will be making sure states continue to heavily weigh academic measures of students success — like test scores and graduation rates — when they rate schools. The new law allows states to also use some non-academic measures, such as student engagement, when evaluating schools.

That change in school rating metrics alone was a major legislative victory for teachers unions. Unions pushed all year to ditch No Child Left Behind’s embrace of testing, which they’ve dubbed a “test-and-punish” approach. Lawmakers ultimately settled on keeping a federal requirement that schools test students annually — but they gave states more leeway in how much test results matter. The law will also provide new funding to help states audit and get rid of excessive tests.

“You’ve had 15 years of test, test, test, test, test, test, test,” American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten said. “This is a vast improvement over what we have right now.”

And in another win, states will no longer have to evaluate teachers in a way that takes student outcomes — such as test scores — into account, a provision in the Obama administration’s waivers that unions opposed.
Now unions are making preparations of their own for the new law.

The National Education Association is pulling together a task force to begin planning how to educate teachers and organize in states.

The Obama administration, too, has begun positioning itself for an intense new phase — designing regulations to implement the law.

“We’re gearing up,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in an interview Saturday. Getting the law passed now is important to the Obama administration so it has “13 months to think about implementation,” he said. On Tuesday, Duncan was at Maryland’s National Harbor kickstarting outreach about the new law in a speech to educators.
Duncan is set to step down at the end of the year, so the dash to regulate the law will be the work of his successor, John King. And King will be operating in a different environment than Education secretaries did in the past because of the bill’s limit on the secretary’s power.

Senators celebrated the bill’s passage, but the next steps already loom on the horizon. Senate HELP Committee ranking member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) pledged Tuesday to keep close watch on implementation now that the work in Congress is done.

“We can’t just sign the bill and walk away,” Murray said. “We have to follow through and make sure they’re doing what we wanted to do with this law.”