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Joementum posted:Good news, America! You can now trust your retirement savings are safe in the hands of Dick Morris. Hahaha. In the video description, it says 'Internationally renowned political insider, Dick Morris'.
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Pope Guilty posted:Close, it was actually "When Genocide Is Permissible". Slight change of meaning there. You are right. And the scumbag who wrote it said he never meant to suggest people should get hurt, once the shitstorm started. Me thinks the Times of Israel is going to crank up the editorial control over their blog section. I can't believe a piece with that title actually made it onto the website.
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Nancy got a little upset last night when Tom Marino (R-PA) criticized her record. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRyEqV4gvoc
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richardfun posted:The Times of Israel had a lovely blog post up on their website yesterday titled 'When is genocide permissible?' The Times of Israel is online only and was created 2 years ago. It has a blogs section that is similar to the Forbes sites thing - anyone can create one and presumably makes money off the number of hits (ad impressions) they drive just like Forbes sites. I imagine they're rethinking that setup now.
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hobbesmaster posted:The Times of Israel is online only and was created 2 years ago. It has a blogs section that is similar to the Forbes sites thing - anyone can create one and presumably makes money off the number of hits (ad impressions) they drive just like Forbes sites. I imagine they're rethinking that setup now. The author of that piece was the founder's son, sooooooooo
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I'm not American so sorry if this happens a lot but did one of your major parties just sue the sitting president for something that I've never even heard about in any major international news outlet 
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Aug 2, 2014 14:14
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I'm pretty sure you can't actually sue the President. Sovereign immunity or somesuch.
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Pope Guilty posted:The author of that piece was the founder's son, sooooooooo Nope, different newspaper.
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Xandu posted:Nope, different newspaper. Ah, whoops.
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DarkCrawler posted:I'm not American so sorry if this happens a lot but did one of your major parties just sue the sitting president for something that I've never even heard about in any major international news outlet Pope Guilty posted:I'm pretty sure you can't actually sue the President. Sovereign immunity or somesuch. There is executive privilege, and the Nixonian, "When the President does it, that means it is not illegal." But the larger problem for the House in this lawsuit is that courts have routinely rejected suits from members of Congress against administrations arguing that they don't have standing and that Congress shouldn't even need to sue the administration because it can just pass a law if it doesn't like what the President is doing. The closest to a successful suit from Congress against an administration is the Senate suit against Richard Nixon to produce the White House tapes, but a compromise was reached in that case, after the Saturday Night Massacre.
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Aug 2, 2014 14:27
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The Constitution was written such that the President was implicitly protected from civil/criminal proceedings while in office. The President is vested with the powers of an entire branch of government and the last thing the nation needs is for an entire branch of government to be disrupted by taking a single individual to court. An example of why it would be necessary to provide such temporary immunity to the President can be understood if you imagine a local, insular group of people who dislike the results of an election using trumped-up local charges to take the President to court and prevent him/her from doing their job and effectively nullifying the operations of the Executive branch. If Congress truly feels that the President is guilty of some high form of misconduct, they have a venue to address their grievances in the process of impeachment. GOP grandstanding is almost always dumb, but this is just... impressively so.
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Joementum posted:There is executive privilege, and the Nixonian, "When the President does it, that means it is not illegal." But the larger problem for the House in this lawsuit is that courts have routinely rejected suits from members of Congress against administrations arguing that they don't have standing and that Congress shouldn't even need to sue the administration because it can just pass a law if it doesn't like what the President is doing. The closest to a successful suit from Congress against an administration is the Senate suit against Richard Nixon to produce the White House tapes, but a compromise was reached in that case, after the Saturday Night Massacre. Attempting to force the turn over of evidence for an impeachment or trial proceeding is probably the only case a court would allow to proceed against the president.
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Joementum posted:Nancy got a little upset last night when Tom Marino (R-PA) criticized her record.
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I love this little exchange between Netanyahu and Obama(officials), if it's confirmed to be true -- Netanyahu tells the Obama administration "not to ever second guess me again" on Hamas. I detest everything Israel has done in this engagement in Gaza, but I personally find it funny that Netanyahu just doesn't care about his standing anymore because he can get away with it. the US is and will continue to be his ally, yet he still feels like telling administration officials to fall in line. Of course, I have no doubt the administration will stand firm...and continue to capitulate to Israel's grandstanding.
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zeroprime posted:The Constitution was written such that the President was implicitly protected from civil/criminal proceedings while in office. The President is vested with the powers of an entire branch of government and the last thing the nation needs is for an entire branch of government to be disrupted by taking a single individual to court. An example of why it would be necessary to provide such temporary immunity to the President can be understood if you imagine a local, insular group of people who dislike the results of an election using trumped-up local charges to take the President to court and prevent him/her from doing their job and effectively nullifying the operations of the Executive branch. The President is not immune to civil suits while in office, as Clinton discovered.
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:I love this little exchange between Netanyahu and Obama(officials), if it's confirmed to be true -- Netanyahu tells the Obama administration "not to ever second guess me again" on Hamas. It's loving dumb too because Hamas is held responsible for anything that happens, as if they have total control over Gazans. If it were to come out that some people who don't answer to Hamas broke the ceasefire there would be zero fucks given by the US or Israel. Until one side is wiped out this poo poo's never going to end though.
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Nearly nine years in Thailand tells me from the photo that this man is sextourist.jpg. EDIT: Hahaha, blind guess was 100% correct. Insert missionary joke.
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ReindeerF posted:Nearly nine years in Thailand tells me from the photo that this man is sextourist.jpg. Incredible. 
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Now that's a skill.
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ReindeerF posted:Nearly nine years in Thailand tells me from the photo that this man is sextourist.jpg.  I christen it the Rushdar.
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I should be fair. Dude could be a completely legitimate guy who just happened to have some bad opinions and so on and just looks exactly like a Patch Adams-style sex tourist. It is a pretty strong label to slap on someone. Still, it was the very first thing I thought of when I saw him.
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I want to go to Thailand because the food looked good on Andrew Zimmern's show and they have cheap sits but I don't want to be stereotyped as a sex tourist. Is this possible?
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Evil Fluffy posted:It's loving dumb too because Hamas is held responsible for anything that happens, as if they have total control over Gazans. If it were to come out that some people who don't answer to Hamas broke the ceasefire there would be zero fucks given by the US or Israel. Until one side is wiped out this poo poo's never going to end though. Are you implying that HAMAS might not be as bad as made out, that they are some mis-understood organization, totally aboard the cease fire and the true welfare of Palestinians in their heart?
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:I want to go to Thailand because the food looked good on Andrew Zimmern's show and they have cheap sits but I don't want to be stereotyped as a sex tourist. Is this possible? Do you look like a goon?
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DarkCrawler posted:I'm not American so sorry if this happens a lot but did one of your major parties just sue the sitting president for something that I've never even heard about in any major international news outlet The whole thing is basically the Republican leadership throwing a bone to the Tea Party Republicans, who wan't Obama impeached. Everyone know that actually trying to impeaching him will end badly for the Republicans.
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:I want to go to Thailand because the food looked good on Andrew Zimmern's show and they have cheap sits but I don't want to be stereotyped as a sex tourist. Is this possible? Look up Thai restaurants in your state/country. There's this one place I found recently that has amazing dishes that are amazingly spicy and delicious. 
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MariusLecter posted:Look up Thai restaurants in your state/country. There's this one place I found recently that has amazing dishes that are amazingly spicy and delicious. There are like eight Thai places near me I should try sometime. New things are scary 
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evilweasel posted:The President is not immune to civil suits while in office, as Clinton discovered. On the other hand, Nixon v. Fitzgerald states that the President does have absolute immunity to civil suits regarding actions taken in the capacity of the office; a finding that Clinton v. Jones explicitly declined to overturn insofar as that case was regarding actions taken outside that capacity. Technogeek fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Aug 2, 2014 |
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Thai food is amazing, and this is coming from a guy who otherwise could live on nothing but pizza and Pepsi Throwback
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Here is something I have been thinking about minimum wage. What prevents a company that operates in a state where the Min. Wage is higher than the federal rate to pay it's employees only the federal rate?
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BigRed0427 posted:Here is something I have been thinking about minimum wage. What prevents a company that operates in a state where the Min. Wage is higher than the federal rate to pay it's employees only the federal rate? It's literally illegal?
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BigRed0427 posted:Here is something I have been thinking about minimum wage. What prevents a company that operates in a state where the Min. Wage is higher than the federal rate to pay it's employees only the federal rate? The state law. Is this a trick question?
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BigRed0427 posted:Here is something I have been thinking about minimum wage. What prevents a company that operates in a state where the Min. Wage is higher than the federal rate to pay it's employees only the federal rate? The employer has to obey both laws and does so by paying the wage set up the state. Federal supremacy would only come into play if the state min. wage was lower at which point the employer has to pay the federal rate.
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MariusLecter posted:Look up Thai restaurants in your state/country. There's this one place I found recently that has amazing dishes that are amazingly spicy and delicious. My friend in Upstate NY (Saratoga Springs area) hasn't been able to find good thai food. He told them "I want it as hot as you can make it" which here in Austin where there are many many Thai places run by expats means "I want you to hurt me" but there apparently meant "warmish". BigRed0427 posted:Here is something I have been thinking about minimum wage. What prevents a company that operates in a state where the Min. Wage is higher than the federal rate to pay it's employees only the federal rate? 29 U.S. Code § 218(a): (a) No provision of this chapter or of any order thereunder shall excuse noncompliance with any Federal or State law or municipal ordinance establishing a minimum wage higher than the minimum wage established under this chapter or a maximum work week lower than the maximum workweek established under this chapter, and no provision of this chapter relating to the employment of child labor shall justify noncompliance with any Federal or State law or municipal ordinance establishing a higher standard than the standard established under this chapter. No provision of this chapter shall justify any employer in reducing a wage paid by him which is in excess of the applicable minimum wage under this chapter, or justify any employer in increasing hours of employment maintained by him which are shorter than the maximum hours applicable under this chapter.
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I've had a lot of Thai food. In fact, I lived in Hawaii where it's better than most places. The curry I had in Thailand was the most delicious but also simultaneously face-melting I've had and has yet to be rivaled anywhere I've been.
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Thai food is amazing and this is coming from a guy with a peanut recipe. My local place is one of two places near me that understand "can you make it hot?" is actually code for "I enjoy making terrible life choices."
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DarkCrawler posted:I'm not American so sorry if this happens a lot but did one of your major parties just sue the sitting president for something that I've never even heard about in any major international news outlet Oh wait hey, you're DarkCrawler, you're the one who gave me (and others) a crash course on the history of I/P conflict in the previous I/P threads; you're already familiar with the feeling of existential horror and sadness that comes from watching  
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Robviously posted:Thai food is amazing and this is coming from a guy with a peanut recipe. My local place is one of two places near me that understand "can you make it hot?" is actually code for "I enjoy making terrible life choices." Can you share your peanut recipe with us? I know this isn't GWS but
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Shifty Pony posted:My friend in Upstate NY (Saratoga Springs area) hasn't been able to find good thai food. He told them "I want it as hot as you can make it" which here in Austin where there are many many Thai places run by expats means "I want you to hurt me" but there apparently meant "warmish". Sukhothai on Lark Street in Albany is pretty good, and there's a surprisingly good Thai/Chinese place at the very northern end of Troy that I walk to sometimes. Thai Spice is the name. I don't know what they do in Saratoga, though.
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