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Alter Ego posted:Didn't give the cops the right to shoot him. Sure it did. If someone commits a crime they are very likely to be in a heightened state of aggression and even though the officer might not have known about the incident, Brown did so he probably thought the stop was related - this explains why he would charge Wilson and fracture his eye socket. He thought he was about to get busted for the strongarm so that's why he lashed out.
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Can someone tell me more about Charles Blow? I've seen him do some pretty good OP/EDs for the NYT on the issue of race, particularly when some Fox News host shoots his mouth.
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Unzip and Attack posted:Sure it did. If someone commits a crime they are very likely to be in a heightened state of aggression and even though the officer might not have known about the incident, Brown did so he probably thought the stop was related - this explains why he would charge Wilson and fracture his eye socket. He thought he was about to get busted for the strongarm so that's why he lashed out. Is this a serious post? Someone help me I cannot tell.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Can someone tell me more about Charles Blow? I've seen him do some pretty good OP/EDs for the NYT on the issue of race, particularly when some Fox News host shoots his mouth.
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Aug 29, 2014 00:56
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icantfindaname posted:If there really was no way to work for them without being in the workforce corporation then that should be considered illegal under right to work laws IMO, although of course the courts would never rule that way. I think I know the answer to this but: does Right To Work only address the employee's right to opt out of unions or other private entity-entity contracts like that, but is completely absent on addressing the employee's rights when the employer is not willing to offer anything except going through a private entity-entity contract? aka. Employers can get around unions through RTW by offering to hire directly, but at the same time they are free to refuse employment to anyone who won't go through a staffing agency. So the employee's "right" only ever exists if the employer is willing to hire around the private entity they're contracted with.
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Aug 29, 2014 01:03
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You have a right to not work there. 
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Boon posted:Is this a serious post? Someone help me I cannot tell. I'm rather confused myself.
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Bhaal posted:I was being a little glib. They had direct hires for management and other positions, but if you were on the phones you had to go through that agency. People on the phones COULD get hired on either through promotion or by staying with them for a couple years and the right endorsements. But that was like a giant carrot that they paraded around the rare times when it actually got used, and was frequently referenced and alluded to when they needed overtime or whatever above and beyond thing out of people. Pretty much right to work laws address one thing and one thing only, and that thing is crippling private sector unions. That's it. Workforce companies that happen to operate exactly like unions except they're controlled by the company don't count, no.
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Aug 29, 2014 01:34
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Any one posted this yet? NYTs today had a chart showing CBO medicare cost projections since 06 and how much they have fallen in the last eight years. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/upshot/medicare-not-such-a-budget-buster-anymore.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0
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BrandorKP posted:Any one posted this yet? NYTs today had a chart showing CBO medicare cost projections since 06 and how much they have fallen in the last eight years. For some reason the words "post factual America" keep floating into my head and I get this uncomfortable feeling.
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Aug 29, 2014 01:49
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BrandorKP posted:Any one posted this yet? NYTs today had a chart showing CBO medicare cost projections since 06 and how much they have fallen in the last eight years. Look at Obamacare, slashing and burning Medicare.
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Aug 29, 2014 02:26
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Kalman posted:http://projectvote.org/images/publications/Felon%20Voting/POLICY-PAPER-FELON-RESTORATION-MARCH-2014.pdf is more or less what you're looking for, I think. Exactly. Thank you Kalman. That is all.
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Aug 29, 2014 02:33
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/28/nation-distracted-by-presidents-tan-suit/ So the President wore a tan suit today. It's kind of a big deal
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Stultus Maximus posted:Look at Obamacare, slashing and burning Medicare. This is what they're going to say, isn't it.
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StandardVC10 posted:This is what they're going to say, isn't it. They already are. It's been a line for a couple years now.
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Vox Explains the tan suit http://www.vox.com/2014/8/28/6079963/the-obama-suit-backlash-is-a-promising-sign-of-gender-equality
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I swear, Obama looks a little more like the super-villain Republicans portray him as every day. Washington D.C. is sucking the soul out of that man.
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Rygar201 posted:Vox Explains the tan suit I'm not sure I entirely trust the Vox staff on suit jacket recommendations. 
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Joementum posted:I'm not sure I entirely trust the Vox staff on suit jacket recommendations. violet windowpane, oh MY  A friend of mine is getting married outside of DC soon and we're doing tan suits, he texted me today lamenting that he should have never told the president about his plans.
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radical meme posted:The Bundy Clan continues to provide comic relief and fodder for late night tv hosts. So why is this guy not in prison yet?
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Mercury_Storm posted:So why is this guy not in prison yet? Cuz he's a Patriot!! 
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Mercury_Storm posted:So why is this guy not in prison yet? Rygar201 posted:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/28/nation-distracted-by-presidents-tan-suit/
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Mercury_Storm posted:So why is this guy not in prison yet? Because he's holed up in a heavily armed compound with dozens of fellow nutjobs and the Feds don't want another Ruby Ridge or Waco. For reference, Waco was when a similar band of far right wingers breaking federal law holed up in a compound and ~80 of them, including their children who they had with them (must protect from evil liberal influence), died when their compound caught fire in the gunfight with the police
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quote:"They're trying to make my child a criminal – and any other child a criminal – for simply having something, and that is not right," Bundy said. Wow, even big ol' tough cowboy Bundy plays the victim card and whines? Disappointing.
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beatlegs posted:Wow, even big ol' tough cowboy Bundy plays the victim card and whines? Disappointing. You haven't figured it out already? American conservatives are literally the whiniest people on the face of the earth
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icantfindaname posted:You haven't figured it out already? American conservatives are literally the whiniest people on the face of the earth Especially the libertarian wing. They're a bunch of whiny assfucks. Obama's wearing a tan suit as a signal to his allies in the Middle East. He's telling them what color US Troops will wear when they invade so they'll know what to look for.
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Joementum posted:I'm not sure I entirely trust the Vox staff on suit jacket recommendations. I feel so drat bad for the Onion. How can they stay in business when reality is this insistent on loving with their business model?
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I am looking forward to The Onion launching a Vox parody. America desperately needs it.
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Swan Oat posted:I am looking forward to The Onion launching a Vox parody. America desperately needs it. Given the lag between Buzzfeed becoming the latest outfit to ruin American media and the Onion launching Clickhole you may have to wait a while. I personally am more than willing to let them take their time because Clickhole is genius.
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:NLRB is on the way to making this illegal I would like to know more about this.
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Aug 29, 2014 08:22
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Fashion sense and some issues with Ezra Klein aside, what's so bad about Vox? I like how their articles break down the details and their summary articles are good for passing to friends when they ask me to explain current events to them because they haven't been paying attention at all.
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Kilty Monroe posted:Fashion sense and some issues with Ezra Klein aside, what's so bad about Vox? I like how their articles break down the details and their summary articles are good for passing to friends when they ask me to explain current events to them because they haven't been paying attention at all. I don't know, honestly. I was really excited about Vox when it launched, but I can't even make myself go to the site much anymore. I wish I had a valid criticism, but I simply don't like it. I can't even dislike it enough to formulate a reasonable response as to why it is so horrible, which may be a big part of the problem.
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Kilty Monroe posted:Fashion sense and some issues with Ezra Klein aside, what's so bad about Vox? I like how their articles break down the details and their summary articles are good for passing to friends when they ask me to explain current events to them because they haven't been paying attention at all. Matty Yglesias is often a bit of a tool. His ideas of how libraries should operate being one example. Because of course poor communities have easy, free access to e-books and high-speed internet. Also "let's generate good jobs by making them pay shittily!" And he justifies the deaths of the Bangladeshi Workers in a really hosed-up way. Neeksy fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Aug 29, 2014 |
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I'm not prepared to say that Matt Y. is 100% an enormous tool, but you can buy candles depicting him as Patron Saint of Serious People and Tough Decisions at your local bodega.
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Pohl posted:I don't know, honestly. I was really excited about Vox when it launched, but I can't even make myself go to the site much anymore. I wish I had a valid criticism, but I simply don't like it. I can't even dislike it enough to formulate a reasonable response as to why it is so horrible, which may be a big part of the problem. For fucks sake, Vox is not horrible. It's a great modern news site that dilutes news stories down to their bare bones. It's not in depth coverage but it covers the high points as they see them. What the gently caress do you want from a modern news source? They have everything a young person needs to know about the story at hand and without much editorial bullshit. Just gently caress off if you can't recommend Vox to your friends. What the gently caress are you going to tell them to read, National Review, The Nation? It's a great news site for low attention span readers and that includes about 90% of the U.S.
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radical meme posted:For fucks sake, Vox is not horrible. It's a great modern news site that dilutes news stories down to their bare bones. It's not in depth coverage but it covers the high points as they see them. What the gently caress do you want from a modern news source? They have everything a young person needs to know about the story at hand and without much editorial bullshit. Just gently caress off if you can't recommend Vox to your friends. What the gently caress are you going to tell them to read, National Review, The Nation? It's a great news site for low attention span readers and that includes about 90% of the U.S. Ok Matt, we get it.
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Yeah I don't "read Vox" per se but most of the articles that have been put in front of me from Vox have been pretty good. It's sort of the opposite of the argument against democracy -- the best argument FOR Vox is a 5 minute conversation with your average person.
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I've found the content at Vox to be pretty good. I also am a huge sucker for their map posts. The site is being built around getting people to visit it almost exclusively through articles shared on social media - it doesn't even have its own search engine and the front page is just a jumble of a bunch of unrelated topics. It's also being exclusively sponsored by GE at the moment and we'll have to see what they do to pay for the site when that ends.Neeksy posted:Matty Yglesias is often a bit of a tool. His ideas of how libraries should operate being one example. Because of course poor communities have easy, free access to e-books and high-speed internet. It's sort of interesting that all these online outlets seem to wind up with their own Libertarian. Yglesias at Vox, Moody at Yahoo!, Weigel at Slate, Barro at The Upshot, Friedersdorf at the online version of The Atlantic, and Greenwald, of course. I'm probably missing a few more obvious ones.
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Pope Guilty posted:I would like to know more about this. http://online.wsj.com/articles/nlrb-case-tests-who-employs-contract-workers-1409183483 quote:Just a month after a controversial decision involving employees of McDonald's Corp. franchisees, businesses are bracing for a new action by federal labor regulators that could lower the barriers between companies and the contract workers they use.
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Joementum posted:It's sort of interesting that all these online outlets seem to wind up with their own Libertarian. Yglesias at Vox, Moody at Yahoo!, Weigel at Slate, Barro at The Upshot, Friedersdorf at the online version of The Atlantic, and Greenwald, of course. I'm probably missing a few more obvious ones.
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