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Deadspin with some more on the Giants' meltdown yesterday. http://deadspin.com/the-giants-collapse-wa...-and-1730559241

Barring a special session, the Kentucky legislature won't meet until January (many state legislatures are part-time).

Davis's lawyers have filed suit in the sixth circuit over a variety of issues. The one that stands out to me is that they're attempting to limit Judge Bunning's ruling to only the couples that specifically sued, not all couples. http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/09/kim-dav...velopments.html She's also instructing her deputies to further alter the forms:

I wonder who would have standing to file that suit.

What policy positions of his do you support

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Sep 13, 2015 -> 01:03 PM) The Bears actually look like a pro club Refreshing change

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 05:12 PM) He was the only one with extremely well publicized money issues though. How much of a campaign staff do some of these other guys (graham etc) even have?

so do you have anything to add to the actual topic or?

well done

Second wc and the one game play in gives incentive to win the division over one of the wc slots anyway.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 11:32 PM) All I will say is this...for as much as some of you guys like to get on your high horses and lecture the rest of us about how morally deficient we are, we had a thread where one of our own posters was faced with losing his home. Of course, not one of you so much as touched it. Not an offer of advice, not any research, nothing. Now maybe some of you reached out privately to the poster, and if that is the case, well then I take back what I said. But many of the same folks that are telling the rest of us all how we should be living happen to be absent when the rubber hits the road. Possibly because people with actually relevant knowledge and expertise stepped up quickly. eta: still could have posted a "sorry to hear about that, let us know if there's any way we can help" though

Her lawyers are political activists who don't actually give a damn about her and should probably be disbarred.

I'd imagine more are going to start falling off soon. Trump's sucking all the oxygen out of the room and none of the lower-polling candidates can get any traction.

The US has taken in a little less than 1.5k Syrian refugees since 2011.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 02:14 PM) Except when you consider the fact that we have an incredibly stable neighbor to the north and we have a presidential candidate proposing creating a wall to prevent them illegally entering country. Sure but a lot of Europe is shockingly racist and xenophobic, even more so these days due to the global recession. I mean, you've got openly fascist and racist parties getting seats in government in Greece, controlling the government in Hungary, and getting 18% of the vote for President in France.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 02:13 PM) Potatoes started in the new world and went back to Europe! We'd still have our delicious fries mmm mm An Andean staple that helped lift all of those backwater, economically depressed and nearly perpetually famine-suffering northern European countries out of poverty! (hattip: 1493)

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 02:02 PM) Yeah, that list is not exclusive by any means. For a country of immigrants, we have always been pretty anti-immigrant. Until about the mid-19th century, the population that wasn't brought over in slavery was overwhelmingly British in origin. Once those uncivilized potato-eating Catholic Irish and Huns started migrating, though, we get the birth of nativist parties like the Know-Nothings.

I'm not sure what the relevance of a xenophobic article about rapes in Sweden being caused by 'multiculturalism' with a bunch of assumptions and random shots at feminism is.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 01:51 PM) Though it is the same history repeating itself. 19th century America was frought with all of the same anti-immigration, and anti-specific nationalities during their respective periods of heavy immigration. Two off of the top of my head would be the Chinese and the Irish. We didn't exactly cover ourselves in glory with Jewish refugees during the 1930's and 40's either.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 01:42 PM) Hungary is being the onlly smart country in this scenario, how come other Muslim Countries will not accept refugees?! Many are; there are something like 250 refugees for every 1000 citizens in Jordan right now. The refugees are mostly trying to pass through Hungary on their way to Germany, anyway.

While Syrian refugees currently make up the largest single source of refugees, the refugees are coming from not just the Middle East but also Sub-Saharan Africa and other Eastern European countries. Even those fleeing from Syrian and Iraq are not all Arabs and include many Kurds and other ethnic minorities facing widespread persecution. The UNHCR has statistics available on where refugees are coming from and where they are/where they try to go. One thing to keep in mind is that many Gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, are not signatories to the UN refugee agreements and aren't included in these statistics even if they have some number of refugees in the country on "work visas."

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 01:32 PM) However, because Social Security benefits go up faster than the rate of inflation under the idea that if the whole country becomes more wealthy senior citizens should share in those benefits, the benefit payout rate after that 20% cut will still be greater than it was in ~2007 (I'm not sure how it would compare to today, probably still higher than the current rate, but last time I ran the numbers personally was in the "privatize it!" debate from 2007). I think it's more based on the fact that seniors' living expenses grow faster than the economy as a whole, at least as long as health care costs climb faster than the economy. That was the argument I remember against the "chained-CPI" proposals a couple of years ago.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 01:22 PM) Oooh look, new Iphone! you want that apple stock in your 401k portfolio to rise, right?

FWIW this thread title does specifically mention "European" because that's the center of the ongoing refugee crisis, not the US.

FWIW, SS will still be around when we all retire unless we actively decide to abolish the program. It'll only be able to pay something like 80% of the benefits its supposed to starting somewhere around 2035-2040 if no changes are made, though.