Posts by Danielle
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Although dismissing someone outright as an idiot because of their accent or geographical location isn't my style.
Yeah, sorry. That wasn't really meant to be a swipe at you. Your post just allowed me a jumping-off point for aimless musing. :)
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Yee haw!
I feel very sorry for all the progressive people I know in southern states. It must be tiring.
ETA: I mean, tiring to be outnumbered by idiots two to one where they live, and then dismissed outright *as* idiots by people who live anywhere else.
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reinvigorated the Confederacy
This is where I note that the recent survey in which 18% of conservatives believed Obama to actually *be the Antichrist* was taken in... New Jersey. This is not solely a 'Confederacy' problem (although they certainly have some great background context to work with).
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This is a weird argument. OK, the little douchebags are whining, and it's admittedly annoying, but I don't get why some of you are so intent on them being punished twice. As Kyle says, they're not getting the usual access to diversion, and they're being prosecuted. What purpose would another university-based punishment serve, in this instance?
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I have a deep, deep love for this piece on the rally: White America's Inconvenience Tantrum, Part IV: The 9/12 Project—Building a Bridge to Nowhere with Fractions of Sense. It is long, analytical, righteously peeved, and hilarious. With photos.
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I know several Londoners who frequently moan that there's nothing to do in London.
Get the fuck outta here!
(I am being incredulous, not urging you to leave. In case the tone was unclear.)
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I feel as though it says something about us as a country that a discussion about morals has morphed into a discussion about pies. Mmmmm, delicious pies. I'm now trying to work out when I can next go to Oamaru...
ETA: I'm using this edit button whether I need to or not!
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More teabagger footage to add grist to the 'deeply, deeply weird and crazy' mill:
The bit about the czars towards the end is... cringeworthy.
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So you are saying that WWII soldiers got a welfare state as a reward?
YesBut... Rob already showed you that they didn't. The welfare state was instituted long before World War II, and leftists all over the world had been agitating for those benefits since the 19th century. Don't make us break out the historical science, yo.
Obama has changed things
Rescinding the global gag rule and passing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act are reasonably big deals to me. (Chicks might dig Obama a little more than Brickley does, I'm thinking.)
I'm wondering if New Zealanders actually do believe in 'everyone having a fair go' any more. Perhaps lefties are just nostalgic for those egalitarian ideals, but I might be the last gasp of that in my own age cohort, and a lot of voters are younger than I am. (OTOH, I might just be mentally crushed by a relentless onslaught of Your Views-ism.)
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Is anyone else mentally adding '... and it feels so good' to the title of this post? No? I swear, PAS gives me the worst earworms.