Political news, yo.

[Uncle Mxy]

[Uncle Mxy]

Fuck, meant to post that in LOL@Dems.... oh well, it was news to me.

[Uncle Mxy]

This is political news waiting to happen, coming to MSU:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...cienceDaily%29

Each year 2.5 million children die worldwide because they do not receive life-saving vaccinations at the appropriate time. Now researchers are developing a fingerprint-based recognition method to track vaccination schedules for infants and toddlers, which will increase immunization coverage and save lives. This will also allow the authorities to better track their movements throughout their entire lives without their consent, without having to chip the children like you would a dog or cat.

Anything for the children!

[Uncle Mxy]

Am I the only one who thinks that assault policy doesn't belong in a school's hands?

http://www.chron.com/news/crime/arti...le-5787273.php

If I were raped, or otherwise the victim of an assault, I'd go to the real cops, not the campus cops.

I don't like the idea that universities, especially publicly-funded ones, have what amounts to their own court system for such things. With the Brendan Gibbons shit (the U-M kicker accused of rape but nothing happened until 4 years later), I don't think the victim should've had a choice of a "campus court" vs. the normal legal system. Either they press charges in the same system of criminal justice everyone else can use, or they don't. Whatever your opinion on the merits of the case, everything that went wrong with the handling of that case started when the victim went to U-M court instead of real court.

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/...lice_reco.html

And, unless there's some "consent app" where willing partners can constantly acknowledge their consent state as they're fucking...

I can see it now. "Please solve this CAPTCHA to prove that you are not drunk so your consent agreement for this 1 minute allotment of sex can be registered with the authorities."

[Uncle Mxy]

Here's Rick Snyder's campaign website just before the 2010 election:

http://web.archive.org/web/201010290...n.com/site-map

Nowhere in the site or the PDFs does it talk about:

a) the emergency manager law
b) taxing retirees
c) separating the DNR and DEQ

which were his biggest initiatives right after getting elected. He was way ahead in the polls at the get-go and didn't really have to specify anything to get elected. The only big thing he committed on beforehand that he did right away was repealing the MBT in favor of a flat corporate tax, but he made that sound like something that would be done without raising taxes, simply by cutting spending on some initiatives (the film subsidies were the particular hot button of the day).

Am I totally weird for liking to check out how politicians actually did on their campaign promises, seeing if they pass the "do what you say you will do" test??

[Fool]

If anything, there is a negative correlation between keeping campaign promises and being judged a success. At least in terms of the presidency.

[Uncle Mxy]

Positive correlation between our reactions to horrific images and liberal/conservative. I'm just waiting for politicians to hook themselves up to fMRIs...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...cienceDaily%29

[Glenn]

http://www.newscastic.com/news/two-p...ve-tv-2463853/

[Fool]

https://twitter.com/Eric_Haywood/sta...265856/photo/1

[Tahoe]

Political news or the SOTU.

We are doing AWESOME. So glad to HEAR that.