http://blog.angryasianman.com/2012/0...s-in-pete.html
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She should contact Stabenow's people, I bet they'd find a role for her.
Theoretically, the Republican war on women is political news these days.
But at the end of the day, white women cast a majority of their votes for Republican presidential candidates.
So, Republicans can bitchslap women all they want and still get their vote.
It's the American way.
In the category of "stuff that should be political news":
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/op...stem.html?_r=1Quote:
“The truth is that government officials have deliberately engineered the system to assure that the jury trial system established by the Constitution is seldom used,” said Timothy Lynch, director of the criminal justice project at the libertarian Cato Institute. In other words: the system is rigged.
In the race to incarcerate, politicians champion stiff sentences for nearly all crimes, including harsh mandatory minimum sentences and three-strikes laws; the result is a dramatic power shift, from judges to prosecutors.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1978 that threatening someone with life imprisonment for a minor crime in an effort to induce him to forfeit a jury trial did not violate his Sixth Amendment right to trial. Thirteen years later, in Harmelin v. Michigan, the court ruled that life imprisonment for a first-time drug offense did not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
I've been sending that article to a ton of people. I'd love for that to happen. Jails are a multi-billion dollar industry in this country and we waste so much state money on them (yes, waste). I'd love for this to happen and see some great tangible consequences (like de-criminalizing possession for example).
The DoD couldn't deal with The Avengers:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012...gers-military/
This is the kind of letter I want to write to elected officials:
http://deadspin.com/5941348/they-won...-supporting-it
I had a meeting with a Republican that I'll likely be voting for.
Will Tahoe die of shock? Will mercury think I'm a traitor? Will anyone care? :)
That's great.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uncle Mxy
Denying a passport by forcing people to fill out impossible forms:
http://papersplease.org/wp/2012/09/24/