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PhilippAchtel posted:That's his response to that line of reasoning? Truly the intellect needed to rise to supreme court justice is dizzying. Scalia's actually really smart when it comes to twisting somewhat existing legal framework to further his right wing agenda... which just makes him more of a piece of poo poo and using his own words against him that much more fun.
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karlor posted:Where did Scalia get pyramids from? I read the full text and still don't understand what he's talking about. Texas > Illegal Aliens > Aliens > Pyramids > Tradition > 5-4 decision
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Fried Chicken posted:Hey, guess which violent, unhinged, murderous psychopath has decided Obama is to blame for everything and decided it would be a good idea to rant about this to a newspaper. Go on, guess You know George if I had to make a list of people whose lives didn't matter, yours would probably be on it.
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Tobermory posted:In context, it's also that everyone's arguing about Pleasant Grove City v. Summum. Summum is a weird UFO religion that wanted to put a privately-funded pyramid in a city park in Pleasant Grove. The city said no. Summum sued, on the grounds that the park already contained the Ten Commandments, so that favoring some religious monuments and blocking others counted as the government discriminating between religions. SCOTUS unanimously ruled against Summum basically on the grounds that permanent monuments are different from transient public speech. Thanks. I saw that case mentioned in the text but misread the summary so I thought it was only about the ten commandments.
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Nintendo Kid posted:One of the people arguing said Confederate stuff was tradition, scalia says "well pyramids were a tradition too". Scalia plays a lot of Civ V and we all know the Egyptians always go Tradition for the bonus toward pyramid construction.
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I hope the SCOTUS gives 'em the plates. I'm always for assholes being given the ability to properly convey they are assholes in a more open manner.
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Fried Chicken posted:Hey, guess which violent, unhinged, murderous psychopath has decided Obama is to blame for everything and decided it would be a good idea to rant about this to a newspaper. Go on, guess Did I win?
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Prester John posted:Having read Twain extensively i can say that he was certainly not a WASP in attitude. To the Person sitting in Darkness is basically an incredibly damning indictment of the imperial politics of the day, and The War Prayer reads like it was written about Iraq. To say nothing of the fact that Twain was about as open about his Atheism as he could get away with. Twain is the best American author for all of these reasons and more. Letters From Earth is one of the most entertaining take downs of Christianity I've ever read.
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SubponticatePoster posted:Uh, Dick Cheney? Dick Cheney is more "Deliberately Evil" than "Unhinged", I would say.
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Well, that's interesting. The 2016
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saintonan posted:Because regardless of politics, disaster preparedness is a thing, and in many cases significantly mitigates non-Katrina-scale disasters. Disaster preparedness funding is far, far more efficient than disaster relief funding. The point is these states are refusing to prepare for disasters; so giving them money to do something they are not doing seems somewhat pointless doesn't it?
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Geoff Peterson posted:That's actually not entirely fair- Are you counting the half dozen odd states that celebrate r.e.lee's birthday the same day?
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Ron Jeremy posted:Are you counting the half dozen odd states that celebrate r.e.lee's birthday the same day? I am not. TX, TN, SC, NC, MS, LA, KY, GA, FL I would note that most of the states I was surprised were not on that list are among the states who celebrate Lee's birthday though.
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Geoff Peterson posted:I am not. I spy with my little eye one state which didn't secede
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SubponticatePoster posted:Uh, Dick Cheney? I don't think Dick Cheney is the kind of man to compare himself to Anne Frank Kennedy's comments to a congressional panel have people trying to read the tea leaves on the ACA ruling. Make of it what you will
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Fried Chicken posted:I don't think Dick Cheney is the kind of man to compare himself to Anne Frank I didn't want that health insurance anyway.
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Fried Chicken posted:Hey, guess which violent, unhinged, murderous psychopath has decided Obama is to blame for everything and decided it would be a good idea to rant about this to a newspaper. Go on, guess I was gonna guess Ted Nugent. Keep trying to gently caress that right-wing popularity chicken Zimmerman. Ralepozozaxe fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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I guess his money for his patriot
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DemeaninDemon posted:New plates in Texas: W33DLRD
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evilweasel posted:The funds at issue are disaster preparedness funds, not the disaster relief funds (which, to be fair, I also garbled). What's the likelihood of this becoming the next "coercion via federal funds" test case so Roberts can greenlight states outlawing the term "projected rise in sea level" while being funded by the feds in order to account for the effects of a projected rise in sea level? FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I spy with my little eye one state which didn't secede It wasn't for a lack of trying on the confederacy's part though.
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Firing squads are now a legal method of execution in Utah if the state is unable to obtain the drugs used for lethal injections. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6c1b55094e2744dc912abbdebd762f90/governor-signs-law-making-utah-only-state-firing-squad
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FlamingLiberal posted:Firing squads are now a legal method of execution in Utah if the state is unable to obtain the drugs used for lethal injections. Not much of a surprise, considering the last time they executed a guy by firing squad was 2010.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Firing squads are now a legal method of execution in Utah if the state is unable to obtain the drugs used for lethal injections. how could you not post the picture. 
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Ralepozozaxe posted:how could you not post the picture. In no way does that look like a cruel and/or unusual apparatus for administering a cruel and/or unusual punishment.
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If the process for the execution doesn't involve blind fold, a cigarette and a brick wall, what's the point?
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Fried Chicken posted:Hey, guess which violent, unhinged, murderous psychopath has decided Obama is to blame for everything and decided it would be a good idea to rant about this to a newspaper. Go on, guess What are you buzzfeed now? Keep SA clean of clickbait posts!
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FAUXTON posted:In no way does that look like a cruel and/or unusual apparatus for administering a cruel and/or unusual punishment. People in Utah have actively requested to die by it rather than by lethal injection.
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:What are you buzzfeed now? Keep SA clean of clickbait posts! You'll never guess who got in trouble with the law after straight up murdering a teenager and getting away with it legally!
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Phone posted:You'll never guess who got in trouble with the law after straight up murdering a teenager and getting away with it legally! Well that could be anyone.
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FAUXTON posted:In no way does that look like a cruel and/or unusual apparatus for administering a cruel and/or unusual punishment.
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Phone posted:You'll never guess who got in trouble with the law after straight up murdering a teenager and getting away with it legally! Kennedy? Is it a Kennedy? Maybe a Joe? How about a Bill, or a Ted? Like really, everyone gets one dead girl in politics.
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Have a Randly Balko article that will leave you pissed off: How elections affect police shootings
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Fried Chicken posted:Have a Randly Balko article that will leave you pissed off: How elections affect police shootings I am reading an article which seems to not understand Albuquerque politics very well, given how incredibly segregated the rich are from the poor there. There's a saying I read in a New Mexico Op/Ed page once: "Thank God for Louisiana; if it weren't for them, WE'D have the most corrupt state in the Union." So yeah, Albuquerque is a pretty bad town. EDIT: Left unstated in the article is the main reason Chávez is no longer mayor: In 2009 he overturned the mayoral term limits HE signed into law, and was summarily voted out for his efforts. He then ran to replace now-Senator Martin Heinrich in the House and lost in the primary to Heinrich's replacement, Michelle Lujan Grisham. It wasn't all bad though, Chávez is now a senior advisor for Ready for Hillary. ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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So does Obama's Chief of Staff saying "Israel cannot maintain military control of another people indefinitely" a big deal? Because that just happened.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:So does Obama's Chief of Staff saying "Israel cannot maintain military control of another people indefinitely" a big deal? Because that just happened. Perhaps it's a sign that the Democrats are convinced that they are going to lose the presidency in 2016 and have just decided to treat the remaining months like a long Festivus celebration...
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Tobermory posted:There's a lot of weird stuff in there: BNG HT4J 7 characters it counts!
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Nintendo Kid posted:People in Utah have actively requested to die by it rather than by lethal injection. I'd rather be shot than deal with the potential of a botched lethal injection. Plus, guns are cool. There's tons of ways to humanely and quickly kill someone that are superior to lethal injection. The problem is that virtually all of them are messy and we tend to want to sanitize the murder of our fellow human beings as much as possible to make it easier to stomach. Which is why we choose to use a relatively complex chemical cocktail that could leave the victim in agony if administered improperly but looks like the person just going to sleep rather than going for something instantaneous like mechanical decapitation that forces people to deal with the reality of murder by creating disgusting remains that need to be disposed of. Maybe if we were forced to actually acknowledge what we were doing, we'd do it a little less.
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A gas chamber that uses argon or a similar noble gas with active removal of carbon dioxide kills people within minutes and knocks them out within seconds, without causing the feeling and panic of suffocation by more normal means. Doubly so if you simply sedate the person first before placing them in. It also avoids all sorts of messy stuff, and does not require a medical doctor to safely administer it (outside of the optional sedation before placement in the chamber). You might ask: why don't we do that then? Well all the states that cared enough about killing painlessly to do so got a step ahead and just banned execution. And all the states that didn't care didn't see a reason not to keep up lethal injection.
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Bobby Digital posted:W33DLRD BNRHTLR
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