StrangeSox

the police are asking people not to give away tactical information

Is the New York Post Edited by a Bigoted Drunk Who f***s Pigs?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 04:11 PM) so you're saying it's the will of the people that is stopping it Sort of. The Senate is anti-democratic by nature since it gives all arbitrary land masses equal representation and not all citizens equal representation. Right or wrong, that's the way it is, and it means that rural citizens, who are more likely to be pro-gun, are over-represented in the Senate. Then combine that with the fact that, while 90% of Americans may favor some expanded background checks, the 10% who oppose them really oppose them. Failure on this bill isn't make-or-break for most of that 90%.

Worst Deliberative Body In The World

Here's Chait making the argument that, of the battles to lay down on, this was the right one for red state democrats http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/...und-checks.html

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 01:26 PM) And now you hit the serious Q: what's the point of a 55-45 majority when it takes 60 votes to pass anything? Oh darn, the Democrats lost the Senate, now they'll never be able to pass background check legislation. Well if the idiot in charge would have done something about the filibuster, we wouldn't have so many reports of bills 'failing' with more than 50 votes. I place almost all of the blame for how dysfunctional the Senate is on Reid.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 12:47 PM) And the only way this is going to change is if the Democratic party steps up and makes this issue a liability for anyone who opposes background checks. Unless that results in political liabilities for the conservative Democrats. Not that the party shouldn't be doing this, just that it might come at legitimate political costs.

Honestly I think for a lot of them it's legitimate concerns about re-election. They know they'll get hammered from the right back home.

this was posted on Mitch Mcconnell's facebook wow good joke

The furnace broke and the pipes froze in our house while we were going through the final inspection process. Getting that dumbass real estate agent to even return our calls and tell us what was going on, let alone what had actually happened and a detailed explanation of what they were repairing was a nightmare.

because you made a general post criticizing people making jokes immediately after a post in which I made a joke? QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 01:18 PM) yeah, I'm going to say that's a really terrible idea and is going to lead to a lot of people, victims actually, having their lives picked apart by random internet morons. The "Saudi Suspect" has already had his name and personal information go through the wringer.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 11:12 AM) Yeah easy today for you guys to be cracking jokes. But where was everyone with this cautious approach yesterday. /shrugs Overall completely shameful and its not just the news. Its the people who read this garbage and parade around like it means something. Its the people who link to nonsense 4chan sites like they are more than modern day lynch mobs. We all are to blame for this. We all help perpetrate the fraud that the media has become. Recklessness for no reason. These are peoples lives and they just get thrown around like nothing. I've been b****ing about the NY Post, s***ty media coverage and the stupidity of this "internet sleuthing" from the beginning. I even specifically said it'd likely lead to exactly what it has lead to.

People exercising their 1st amendment rights get background checked http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/04/...ou-at-senators/

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 10:16 AM) just awful. It's really hard for me to put in perspective. I guess it would be similar to a tornado, but how do you begin to pick up the pieces in a small town when half the town is suddenly gone? And the main employer and public servants gone? Thoughts go out. Kinda like Joplin in that sense.

oh scalia http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/04...-rights-act.php

http://deadspin.com/the-boston-bombing-wit...dium=socialflow Hooray!

The nursing home is closer than the distance to the left field wall at US Cellular from home plate.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 09:39 AM) I'm not going to vouch for them and say it was a smart idea, but they obviously never anticipated this even in their wildest dreams. Suffice to say, there will be increased regulations on factories, especially on those that can, uhh, you know, explode. People use fertilizer to make bombs. That's what was used in teh first WTC attack and at OKC. The idea that an ammonium nitrate plant can violently explode isn't new. Hell, it's happened before in Texas.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 09:24 AM) People run a similar risk living right on a river too. Hell, there are literally all sorts of places people could live that are just as dangerous, if not moreso, than living next to this plant. I dunno, not many places are literally bombs waiting to explode if a small fire breaks out. Look at that video posted on the first page, those people are probably a good half mile away if not more and they were still rocked.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 08:33 AM) Most of Texas has no zoning laws. I'm speaking more for places that have real zoning laws even. If you pass a zoning ordinance, you can't make existing structures go back and change to fit the new law. They get grandfathered in until they make some material change to either the existing structure, or to their zoning. This is a good argument against that sort of stupidity then. Or do Texans not remember what the OKC bomb was?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 08:16 AM) Those kinds of things are all grandfathered in. Even if the law was passed, it doesn't change what was already there. I know Texas tends to have lax zoning laws, but building fertilizer factories in neighborhoods (or vice versa) is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard of.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 08:24 AM) So do people on the internets actually think these things were set shortly enough before they went off that there is film of them doing so? Then what's the deal with the 2nd blast down the course? Wouldn't planting them take a substantial amount of time, given that the bomber had to move between 2 sites? If it was caught by a typical high-end commercial security surveillance system, those usually DVR days if not weeks of video. The bombs were only a few hundred yards apart. They could have planted them at any time during the marathon.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 04:10 PM) http://gawker.com/5994892/your-guide-to-th...crowd+sleuthing

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 08:18 AM) Should they sue every single internet person and post who connected them as well? Most of those kind of posts when way further than the NY Post did. Random internet posts aren't a national 'news' organization though