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#227 Oct 10 2015 at 11:20 PM Rating: Decent
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Pretty awesome that you got to witness that.


Two things:

1. If you listen to the actual oral arguments, you know there was a crazy dude that jumped up between question one and two. Two things about that: First, that guy was right in front of me. There was a chair with an 8x10 printout that said "reserved." When they sat that guy, he was crazy looking and it was partway into oral arguments (like 30 minutes in). I would almost think that he was sat there intentionally to make the anti-same sex marriage side seem crazy. Seriously, when the guy jumped up and started screaming, he almost knocked me out of my chair and you could hear him for almost 10 minutes after his interruption. He really didn't do the anti-animus arguments any favors.

2. It was amazing witnessing the justices in action. I would never have expected the calm and relaxed environment. Thomas spent a good portion reclined so that you couldn't see his face, staring at the ceiling. There was also a good chunk of time where he was deep in conversation with Breyer. It was obvious that Breyer asked some questions for him through the process. Disappointing to see that Thomas was only quiet because he got others to do his job.

Seriously, though, I loved being there. I am a total nerd and SCOTUS oral arguments were amazing, and I would totally be there again, even for a boring case.
#228 Oct 12 2015 at 8:02 AM Rating: Good
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#229 Oct 13 2015 at 8:08 AM Rating: Good
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Democratic Debate tonight. CNN is setting an extra podium to the side in case Biden shows up. Much like every other debate, don't expect much actual content. Probably a Trump rant or two. Starts during Flash and Agents of SHIELD, so pretty much ensuring no one will actually watch it.

Also, apparently Paul Ryan is now not conservative enough.

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#230 Oct 13 2015 at 9:07 AM Rating: Excellent
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Holy hell, what would make these fools happy?
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#231 Oct 13 2015 at 10:25 AM Rating: Good
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Starts during Flash and Agents of SHIELD, so pretty much ensuring no one will actually watch it.
I'd be more content watching a snail crawl than watching either of those shows.
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#232 Oct 13 2015 at 10:26 AM Rating: Good
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Starts during Flash and Agents of SHIELD, so pretty much ensuring no one will actually watch it.
I'd be more content watching a spoon rust in a pail of fresh water than watching either of those shows.
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#233 Oct 13 2015 at 11:23 AM Rating: Good
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If you're trying to hint at not liking those shows you should just say it and not be so subtle about it. Not everyone can pick up on those cues.
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#234 Oct 13 2015 at 11:36 AM Rating: Good
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If you're trying to hint at not liking those shows you should just say it and not be so subtle about it. Not everyone can pick up on those cues.
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#235 Oct 13 2015 at 2:50 PM Rating: Excellent
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Holy ****, what would make these fools happy?


Have you seen the film 'Blade Runner'?
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#236 Oct 13 2015 at 2:51 PM Rating: Good
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To be fair, for some of them its more Handmaid's Tale. Did they ever make a film of that book? I ask because all conservatives are illiterate.
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#237 Oct 13 2015 at 4:17 PM Rating: Excellent
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I ask because all conservatives are illiterate.

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#238 Oct 13 2015 at 5:26 PM Rating: Good
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That should be "fer the Devil" you illiterate hillbilly
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#239 Oct 14 2015 at 7:27 AM Rating: Good
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There's probably a niche market for Bible audiobooks, but I imagine that'd first require finding someone who would be willing to read all of it and then finding people willing to listen to all of it.
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#240 Oct 14 2015 at 4:30 PM Rating: Default
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I know that the Left loves to redefine things to make themselves look better, and the old "all the racists left our party and joined the GOP!" claim is a classic example of this, but it's just not true. The racists simply changed their methodology. They realized that overt discrimination against people of color wasn't working anymore, so they switched to a more covert method of preventing their success by trapping them into entitlement conditions.

I assume you've never actually looked at historical electoral maps, particularly those around the 1950s and 1960s. It's no doubt just a wacky coincidence that the same band of states who were the only ones to vote for Stevenson in 1952 & 1956 were, in 1964, the only ones to vote for Goldwater. All the Democrats in those states just suddenly had an epiphany about how awesome Goldwater was, completely unrelated to the Civil Rights Act, and changed their party affiliation on a lark.


Gee. I can't imagine how federal action to end segregation and Jim Crow laws which disenfranchised blacks in the south might result in a shift of political party votes from the party that had been using those systems to maintain power to the party that had been fighting against them for the better part of a century. You're right! It must have been that the GOP became racists, and then suddenly, despite the tools of racial control having been dismantled, this magically allowed them to rise to power.

Or. The much more logical explanation could be that once the racist tools were removed, the Dems could no longer maintain power in the south. Nah! That's just crazy!

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Not embarrassment at all. Just a better understanding of the history of the issue. Here's an interesting read on the subject. Sure dismiss it because it's National Review, if you want. Um... It's not like liberal sources are going to talk about this. They'd much prefer to stay silent and let the myth makers just spread the false assumption about some kind of party switch up on race. Here's a relevant section:

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If the parties had in some meaningful way flipped on civil rights, one would expect that to show up in the electoral results in the years following the Democrats’ 1964 about-face on the issue. Nothing of the sort happened: Of the 21 Democratic senators who opposed the 1964 act, only one would ever change parties. Nor did the segregationist constituencies that elected these Democrats throw them out in favor of Republicans: The remaining 20 continued to be elected as Democrats or were replaced by Democrats. It was, on average, nearly a quarter of a century before those seats went Republican. If southern rednecks ditched the Democrats because of a civil-rights law passed in 1964, it is strange that they waited until the late 1980s and early 1990s to do so. They say things move slower in the South — but not that slow.

Republicans did begin to win some southern House seats, and in many cases segregationist Democrats were thrown out by southern voters in favor of civil-rights Republicans. One of the loudest Democratic segregationists in the House was Texas’s John Dowdy, a bitter and buffoonish opponent of the 1964 reforms, which he declared “would set up a despot in the attorney general’s office with a large corps of enforcers under him; and his will and his oppressive action would be brought to bear upon citizens, just as Hitler’s minions coerced and subjugated the German people. I would say this — I believe this would be agreed to by most people: that, if we had a Hitler in the United States, the first thing he would want would be a bill of this nature.” (Who says political rhetoric has been debased in the past 40 years?) Dowdy was thrown out in 1966 in favor of a Republican with a very respectable record on civil rights, a little-known figure by the name of George H. W. Bush.


But hey. Let's not let some facts get in the way of a good myth.
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#241 Oct 14 2015 at 4:49 PM Rating: Excellent
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gbaji wrote:
Gee. I can't imagine how federal action to end segregation and Jim Crow laws which disenfranchised blacks in the south might result in a shift of political party votes from the party that had been using those systems to maintain power to the party that had been fighting against them for the better part of a century

Your argument is that, following the Civil Rights Act, all the blacks exercised their voting rights to start voting Republican and flipped the states?

Well, that's... interesting.
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#242 Oct 14 2015 at 7:14 PM Rating: Decent
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Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Gee. I can't imagine how federal action to end segregation and Jim Crow laws which disenfranchised blacks in the south might result in a shift of political party votes from the party that had been using those systems to maintain power to the party that had been fighting against them for the better part of a century

Your argument is that, following the Civil Rights Act, all the blacks exercised their voting rights to start voting Republican and flipped the states?


No. I'm saying that as the principles of civil rights became more prevalent in the South, and as the principles of segregation became less acceptable, the voters tended away from the party that supported segregation and to the party that supported civil rights. You do understand that while the angry white racist railing against change is a great visual to evoke, the reality is that the change he most railed against was his fellow whites adopting civil rights positions. Those are the views that changed, and those are the voters who shifted to the GOP.

The southern white vote became less racist, and thus they voted for the less racist party (that's the GOP in case you're still confused).

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Well, that's... interesting.


Yes, it is. And if you actually study the pattern of states flipping from Dem to GOP during the time period in question, you'll see that the deep south states where not the first southern states to flip. They were the last. It was younger southern white voters who moved to the GOP first, while the older ones clung to the Democratic party instead. It was the newer migrants to the area following an upswing in post war prosperity in the south who voted GOP, while the locals continued to vote for the Dems. This pattern is overwhelming. And honestly, it has far less to do with race as it did with economics. But one can argue strongly that to whatever degree race did have an impact on white votes in the south, it overwhelmingly was the result of white voters adopting the ideals of civil rights and thus voting for the party that actually supported civil rights rather than the party that opposed it for as long as they could, and then only adopted it if they could use it to push a more socialist economic platform along the way.

The one irony in the whole thing is that blacks voted majority for the Dems even while the Dems were openly in support of segregation and Jim Crow, and continue to do so now. There's some interesting analyses for this, but that's pretty much an entire topic itself.
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No. I'm saying that as the principles of civil rights became more prevalent in the South, and as the principles of segregation became less acceptable, the voters tended away from the party that supported segregation and to the party that supported civil rights

Oooohhhh... so your argument is that the white man was somehow held down in Alabama by racist Democratic policies. And, when freed of those policies (somehow via the CRA?) he started voting Republican while the black community flocked to the segregationist platform.

That's... slightly less interesting and maybe a little more insane.
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And if you actually study the pattern of states flipping from Dem to GOP during the time period in question, you'll see that the deep south states where not the first southern states to flip.

The Civil Rights Act passed in July 1964. Here's the 1964 electoral map from November of that same year.

Yeah, totally late to the GOP party, those guys Smiley: laugh

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#244 Oct 14 2015 at 8:27 PM Rating: Decent
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No. I'm saying that as the principles of civil rights became more prevalent in the South, and as the principles of segregation became less acceptable, the voters tended away from the party that supported segregation and to the party that supported civil rights

Oooohhhh... so your argument is that the white man was somehow held down in Alabama by racist Democratic policies. And, when freed of those policies (somehow via the CRA?) he started voting Republican while the black community flocked to the segregationist platform.


Um... No. WTF? I'm saying that after WW2, the makeup in the south changed dramatically as economic prosperity brought more people into the area, making segregation less popular among whites over time. In the 50s and 60s, this tipped the conflict over and the electorate moved away from the party that had previously maintained power via support for segregation and Jim Crow, to the party that was against those things.

You really have no clue how the civil rights period went, do you? I suppose you think that it was 100% about black folks marching and singing "we shall overcome", to an entirely racist pro-segregation white crowd, and nothing changed opinion wise before or since? That's... insane. The reality is that white opinions about segregation had been changing in the south for a couple decades. The folks holding things up were the old guard, mostly old white Democrats, who held political power and resisted change.

The voters moved to the GOP because the GOP wasn't the party of racists. The idea that the percentage of white racists in the south never changed, and they all just moved to the GOP, and that's why they started winning in the south is just plain wrong. It's nonsensical. The voters changed from a majority that supported segregation and thus running on a segregation platform was the route to power (ie: the Democrats), to a non-segregation platform (actually an economic platform that really didn't have anything to do with race at all).

The point you and many liberals just can't seem to get through your heads is that race ceased to be a winning platform issue in the south like 50 years ago. The GOP has *never* run on that platform, vague claims of coded messages and "southern strategies" aside. Voters moved to the GOP because the GOP was *not* the party of racism. I'm just not sure how many different ways I can say this.

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And if you actually study the pattern of states flipping from Dem to GOP during the time period in question, you'll see that the deep south states where not the first southern states to flip.

The Civil Rights Act passed in July 1964. Here's the 1964 electoral map from November of that same year.


You're cherry picking one year and one election and missing the broader pattern. In that one year it's possible that racists in the south, in a last gasp effort to hold power, and thinking that Goldwater was a racist himself, voted for him on what was otherwise a weak platform. But that's the outlier. It's not reflected in the congressional races. And it's not reflected in the 1968 presidential election, nor those after that point. The pattern was that the peripheral south states went GOP first, and the deep south states last.

I'm looking at the pattern over time. You're looking at one election. That's not enough to see a pattern. Go look at the same map for the previous 5 elections and the 5 after that. Then you'll see a different pattern.
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#245 Oct 14 2015 at 10:18 PM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:
The folks holding things up were the old guard, mostly old white Democrats, who held political power and resisted change.
You know what you call an old white guy in a position of political power who resists change? A conservative.

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The voters moved to the GOP because the GOP wasn't the party of racists. The idea that the percentage of white racists in the south never changed, and they all just moved to the GOP, and that's why they started winning in the south is just plain wrong.
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You really have no clue how the civil rights period went, do you?

This would be a lot more stinging if you could form an actual argument.
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The voters moved to the GOP because the GOP wasn't the party of racists.

In 1964, after the passage of the CRA by Johnson, the deep south went Republican. In 1968, they all voted for segregationist George Wallace. So your argument is NOW that all the poor oppressed anti-racists were forced to vote Democratic until 1964, then they were freed of their shackles to vote non-racist Republican -- for one cycle then they all voted for the segregationist. then they went back to non-racist Republicans (except for regional son, Jimmy Carter, who couldn't even hold the south for two cycles).
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You're cherry picking one year and one election and missing the broader pattern.

You're cherry picking the year most likely to show a response to Civil Rights legislation! How UNFAIR!

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Go read some more right wing blogs, Gbaji. It'll make you feel better.

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In non-Gbaji is insane political news, another Republican House member has spoken out saying that the Benghazi hearing is political and designed to take down Clinton. This is after a former GOP staffer on the committee said he was fired for not going after Clinton hard enough.

Not to congratulate my own powers of prediction but...
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Are you arguing that we should just ignore anything Clinton does because of who she is? What exactly does she have to do before you'll agree that maybe an investigation is justified?
No, I'm saying, factually, that the GOP will trip over their own dicks in the mad rush to be the one who sticks it to her. As history has proven.


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#248 Oct 15 2015 at 7:24 AM Rating: Good
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The point you and many liberals just can't seem to get through your heads is that race ceased to be a winning platform issue in the south like 50 years ago.
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Former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert will plea guilty to evading federal banking reporting laws in a deal entered today. It's reported that the feds are requiring a one year prison term as part of the plea bargain plus whatever other fine or restitution is included.
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And Ben Carson's medical license is being revoked?

Jeb Bush's campaign is cutting back, whatever that means in context.
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