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Pretty cool. Some don't exactly "explain" college football, but are really neat observations. http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/8/20/6030683/25-maps-that-explain-college-football

Why Rick Perry Will be Convicted Obligatory: consider the source, consider the source, consider the source http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/why-rick-perry-will-be-co_b_5686664.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

Oops.

Fascist.

Umm...no surprise I guess. I want single-payer healthcare but also eliminate corporate taxes. So...label me. Go for it. I'd still say that I'd fit way better in with the Liberal Party of Canada, or the Liberal Democrats of Great Britain...both considered centrist parties.

A pretty good article detailing how those not in the oil industry are struggling with the inflation. http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2014/07/the_dark_side_of_the_boom_oil_is_doing_great_things_for_some_in_texas_but_not_for_everyone.php

Rumor is they'll build a soccer stadium for Chivas USA (soon to be rebranded to L.A. FC or something thought). Would be funny if that happened but not a football stadium.

This thread is bound to turn out well.

This could be like a soccer thing with promotion and relegation.... right? right???? Please???

I'm certain you've got good reason to believe this. And by good reason I mean just pure unadulterated hate for the President. I bet you think he's signed like infinitely more executive orders than any other president too, right? Here's your pardon count so far: http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/presidential-pardons-1789-present.html Most Presidents like to save it until the 11th hour, but Obama will still have a ways to go if he wants to catch his predecessors. Not to mention, what JWP would be pardoned for isn't 1/10th as horrible as what Scooter Libby was pardoned for.

All sorts of people were bashing JWP for being a corrupt SOB, and then you came along to troll and say "yeah I hate him too but I expect you guys to call me a racist for that".

Right. Which is why myself, a white liberal, created a thread about a corrupt Democrat.

Conservatives these days think being labeled a racist is worse than actually being a racist.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/john-wiley-price-commissioner-indicted-267549761.html Corruption charges. Good. I voted against him in the primaries when I could, but I've since moved.

I blame Bush.

Iran just got rid of a ton of enriched uranium. So there's that I guess...

Jesus Christ.

Welp. Here we go.

Read that this morning too. Shit is cray. What a screwed up guy.

Not usually. The average EPL goals per game is 2.8 I think. This world cup was kinda weird, the group stage was out of control only for the knockout stages to really settle down and see teams play a little more conservatively. All in all it was a pretty great cup though. MLS still in full swing, EPL is back in a month. Soccer never sleeps.

Military spending is great when it's necessary. World War II was probably the closest this country has ever come to socialism and it helped bring us out of the depression. Stimulus package wasn't technically a part of any budget. But overall, deficit spending is down every year since.

Address the fact that in order to make it bi-partisan about 1/3rd of that was tax cuts? (and still no Republicans voted for it because they of course are against anything Obama is for) And a plurality of it was emergency funding for states who have balanced budget amendments so they wouldn't cut emergency services and education. Or address that a good chunk was for unemployment benefits so people could, ya know, keep their mortgages and not compound the problems we already had? When the economy collapses and the private sector can't spend money, the government has to, and that's exactly what happened. The problem with the AR&R Act was that it wasn't large enough when you're talking about a 13 trillion dollar economy.

Jesus. It's like pointless to even try with you.

The 2009 fiscal budget is passed in 2008, before he was elected. But you knew this.

Like pretty much none of those things are actual facts though. They're really just a bunch of right-wing talking points strewn together. I mean, you sort of have a point about the deficit, but Obama has actually cut the deficit since 2010.