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3001
« on: January 22, 2015, 05:28:19 PM »
I don't agree with democracy,
Stopped reading there
You made it that far?
3002
« on: January 22, 2015, 05:26:19 PM »
Already did it.
3003
« on: January 22, 2015, 04:28:24 PM »
I'm traveling to the US in a week and a half to go see my girlfriend again.
Nice, where do you fly to/through? I always enjoy hearing about people's flight paths.
3004
« on: January 22, 2015, 04:15:38 PM »
Just learned a few days ago that all I have to pay for college is room and board. Pretty sweet.
Shit, that's a pleasant surprise. Scholarship?
Yep, I'm pretty excited about it. Going to save me a bunch in student loans.
That's awesome. School is so much easier to focus on when you don't have that hanging over your head.
3005
« on: January 22, 2015, 04:15:03 PM »
FWIW: I have a fossil wallet that I've had since I was 17 and I haven't had a single problem with it.
Fossil is 10/10 in my book.
3006
« on: January 22, 2015, 04:13:38 PM »
Just learned a few days ago that all I have to pay for college is room and board. Pretty sweet.
Shit, that's a pleasant surprise. Scholarship?
3007
« on: January 22, 2015, 04:05:29 PM »
I have a girlfriend, going to see her tomorrow night 
*brofist*
Don't ever do that again.
*fist* ...wait
3008
« on: January 22, 2015, 04:04:46 PM »
I'm still a deadbeat.
Exciting, no?
Points for being consistent.
3009
« on: January 22, 2015, 03:59:37 PM »
Umm...
hold on...
I'll think of something...
I got a haircut.
There's few better feelings than something as simple as a fresh haircut.
3010
« on: January 22, 2015, 03:56:04 PM »
I have a girlfriend, going to see her tomorrow night
*brofist*
3011
« on: January 22, 2015, 03:51:56 PM »
Tell us what cool/fun/exciting stuff is going on in your life
For softball, I just got picked up by a upper division coed team after trying out for them last week. First team I've ever had to try out for, and first upper division team I've ever played for. I get to use all my fancy bats I've acquired, too. Now I just need to get my Eastons broken in...
3012
« on: January 22, 2015, 01:56:26 PM »
I always liked him back on b.net. Is he just an alt of someone who is still around?
3013
« on: January 22, 2015, 01:51:52 PM »
Manual transmissions are outdated, IMO
3014
« on: January 22, 2015, 01:49:29 PM »
What are we supposed to be discussing here?
3015
« on: January 22, 2015, 01:04:05 PM »
ok, i lol'd
3016
« on: January 22, 2015, 01:02:28 PM »
...why would you even want that on a cake? :s
I'm not sure it's even a wedding cake. I think it's just a regular cake. Not that it really makes it any better.
3017
« on: January 22, 2015, 12:28:01 PM »
You need a life first
Wow. Such burn.
3018
« on: January 22, 2015, 12:18:35 PM »
 The Jaguar F Type. Starts under $70k? yes please.
3019
« on: January 22, 2015, 11:55:59 AM »
http://kfor.com/2015/01/22/man-takes-legal-action-after-baker-refuses-to-make-anti-gay-cake/A man is taking legal action after a baker in Denver refused to make an anti-gay cake.
At the Azucar Bakery in Denver, love is spread one stroke at a time. But even love has its limits.
So when a still-unidentified customer came into her shop about a year ago asking to have a gay slur written on a Bible-shaped cake, owner Marjorie Silva said she felt she had to draw the line.
Now she’s facing legal action.
“I just want to make cake for happy people,” Silva said. “I’m Christian. I support Christians. We make a lot of Christian cakes. But this just wasn’t right.”
The customer came into Silva’s shop in March of 2014, just months after the conclusion of a very similar incident that took place inside a Lakewood bakery in December of 2013.
In a decision that was eventually upheld by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a judge ruled that Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips broke discrimination laws when he refused to make a cake for Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig, a gay Colorado couple who had attempted to purchase the baked good for their Massachusetts wedding in July of 2012.
Flash forward almost two years, and Silva found herself dealing with a man she described as “very pushy and disruptive,” asking her to bake a cake with an anti-gay message she won’t fully repeat to this day.
Silva said she told the customer she would make the cake with a blank Bible page so that he could write whatever he wanted inside. She said she even offered to give the man an instrument to write the words himself.
He declined, Silva said, and instead told the baker she “needed to talk to an attorney about this.” Some people, man...
3020
« on: January 22, 2015, 11:10:04 AM »
While this is true, funding is a real problem.
I'm always sceptical of that claim since Bush expanded the Dept. of Education's funding by 165pc. I'm sure you know more about the U.S. education system than I do, and we both agree that something ought to be done, but I think the structure of it should be looked at first before any funding alterations are made.
Indeed. Pouring more money into a broken system will only lead to more problems/abuse
3021
« on: January 22, 2015, 11:06:56 AM »
Don't get me started on election reform...
Let's!I think we should fucking kill the people who want the electoral college voting system, first. Online voting is something we don't need until later.
I'm inclined to agree. The Electoral College has served its purpose, and it's time for it to go.
the fucking electoral college needs to go first of all. Popular vote should win straight up. And I'm sick and tired of the "waaah voting needs to be easier, voting requirements are racist"
Things like voter ID aren't necessarily racist, but it does make it more difficult for the elderly and poor to vote, and minorities make up a lot of the latter group. Voter ID laws are wholly unnecessary and the timing at which these laws are [attempted to be] passed is usually close to an election in order to keep people out of the polls.
3022
« on: January 22, 2015, 11:04:32 AM »
3. Fund the educational system a lot more... More funds =/= better education.
While this is true, funding is a real problem. Throwing money at schools wont necessarily fix them, but more and better-structured funding [along with ousting rigged school boards] would. I feel bad for states who adopted the lottery to pay for schools. In most cases, what actually happened is the state just supplemented taxpayer dollars with lottery dollars - not adding lottery revenue to existing education funding.
3023
« on: January 22, 2015, 10:54:15 AM »
Don't get me started on election reform...
Let's! I think we should fucking kill the people who want the electoral college voting system, first. Online voting is something we don't need until later.
I'm inclined to agree. The Electoral College has served its purpose, and it's time for it to go.
3024
« on: January 22, 2015, 10:51:29 AM »
What Haidt found is that conservatives understand liberals’ moral values better than liberals understand where conservatives are coming from
He's not wrong. I usually DON'T understand where conservatives are coming from. With the exception of fiscal philosophy, a lot of it doesn't make sense and I have trouble following the reasoning behind their position. Keep in mind that most of my experience with conservatives is the "god, guns, and country" type social conservative, not just simply someone who is a registered "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" Republican. There's very little of that middle ground in my area.
3025
« on: January 22, 2015, 10:47:29 AM »
But let me present a complementary, more practical explanation: If you’re a conservative who lives in a major metropolitan area or who simply reads the New York Times, you get used to being outnumbered by liberals. Liberals, by contrast, get used to being surrounded by other liberals, both in person and in culture and the media. As a result, liberals speak their minds freely, often in ways that are harshly condemnatory of conservatives and their stands on issues. As a conservative, you can defend your values against friends and acquaintances who essentially just called you stupid and evil or you can keep quiet. Cry more Mr P, voicing opinions freely on this board is healthy.
And do I stop you from doing so?
Or do I just kick some of your worst bait threads into the flood now and then?
buh..buh...MODBIAS
3026
« on: January 22, 2015, 10:36:15 AM »
That's nice, dear.
3027
« on: January 22, 2015, 10:34:51 AM »
Spoiler I could have sworn this was originally in the flood
Don't worry, it was.
Ah ok. I didn't think I would be such a blatant asshole in Serious.
3028
« on: January 22, 2015, 10:26:15 AM »
I don't think raising it from $7.25 to even $8 is pricing labor out of the market. $8 still isn't a livable wage for most parts of the US.
That doesn't make it any less of a wrong-headed approach to policy.
I don't disagree that raising the minimum wage isn't the fix. But it's certainly a better band-aid than what we're doing now...which I'm not really sure is anything.
3029
« on: January 22, 2015, 10:23:26 AM »
I don't know about you, but if I hadn't gotten a raise, even for just cost of living adjustment, in 6 years I would be pretty upset.
So expand the EITC, don't price labour out of the market.
I don't think raising it from $7.25 to even $8 is pricing labor out of the market. $8 still isn't a livable wage for most parts of the US.
3030
« on: January 22, 2015, 10:19:07 AM »
Official State of the [only] union [that matters] thread...
how is that not nationalist?
It's poking fun at "MURICA #1"
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